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and in his last two years these were sold very extensively. 

 This was put a stop to in Mary's reign, but the purchasers were 

 allowed to retain the lands and houses which they had got 

 possession of ; and so very much of the old chantry property had 

 passed into lay hands even before Elizabeth came to the throne. 

 The records of the foundations of chantries and of their spoliation 

 are very meagre and imperfect, and therefore my inability to find 

 any account of this one is no evidence of its non-existence. The 

 will of Luke Ogle of Eglingham, gentleman, dated 5th July 1596, 

 in which he says that the heirs of Henry Collingwood of Ingram 

 owe him £5 for the tythe corn of Reveley and £7 14s. for 

 a gerson of the said tythe, shows that the Ogles had before then 

 acquired the ownership of that tythe. ^*^ And how could they have 

 acquired it, unless it had been, as I suggest, the endowment of a 

 chantry confiscated for the King's benefit, and sold to them, 

 as these were at that time 1 Some little further corroboration of 

 this opinion is afforded by the fact that one moiety of the 

 Manor of Reaveley was during part of the 14th and 15th 

 centuries in possession of the Grey family, who were relatives of 

 the Percies, and that Sir Thos. Grey in 1422 and Sir Ralph Grey 

 in 1463 were beheaded for conspiracies in conjunction with the 

 Percies. The appropriating of a portion of the tithes of a living 

 to endow a chantry could not, I think, be done without the 

 consent of the Patron ; and as the Vescies, Lucies, Umfravilles, 

 and Percies were in succession the Patrons while the endowment 

 of chantries was prevalent, the consent of one of them must have 

 been obtained. The fact that the tithe of that small farm, 

 the Clinch, which is a part of the Manor of Fawdon (a Manor 

 that for 700 years has been an appendage of Alnwick Barony), 

 was also alienated from the Rectory, revises a sti'ong suspicion 

 that the Patron upon the request of his friend, the proprietor of 

 the moiety of Reaveley, for permission to assign his tithe to a 

 chantry chapel at Ingram, not only consented, but promoted the 

 design by appropriating that of the Clinch to the same purpose. 

 These are only presumptive evidences, but, if correct, explain 

 difficulties that are otherwise unaccountable. 



1*^ Wills and Inventories, p. 161. Surtees Society's publications, No. 

 112.— Ed. 



