Brotherwick. By J. C. Hodgson. 105 



S. M. Novi Mon. ut faciant fossatum unum pro certa et perpetua 

 divisa inter grangiam de Strattona et villam de Brotherwyk, 

 a siketo ex occidentali parte de Brotherwyk usque ad le 

 Grenegate. Ita quod quicquid terrae vol pasturae continetur 

 in occidentali parte praedicti fossati, dedi, remisi, et quietuni 

 clamavi, de me et her., m. praedictis monachis in perpetuum. 

 In cujus, etc' 



The history of the manor during the thirteenth and fourteenth 

 centuries shall be briefly sketched here, and may be more 

 fully elucidated from the notices mostly gathered by Dr Hardy 

 from Inquisition and other Eolls, etc., and printed in the 

 Appendix. 



It may be observed that, besides Brotherwick, there were 

 other lands in Nortluimberland held by 'falconry.'^ In the 

 thirteenth century William the falconer was the one small 

 freeholder in Lesbury,* in which parish is the township of 

 Uawkhill; and at Glanton were lands held by same tenure.^ 



The de Hanvills continued to hold the manor until 1275, 

 though in 1251 it would seem to have been held by Alice, 

 daughter of Eichard le Masle. The Assize Roll" of 1255 

 records that Brotherwick was charged with costs ' for not 

 making pursuit after certain evil doers, and the same roll 

 contains record of a suit in which Richard de Houton and 

 William de Malle had unjustly disseized William Hanvil of 



^ Note by Dr Hardy. 



Falconry was greatly in vogue, in the age of the crusades, annong 

 Mahometans, as well as Christians. Between Richard I. and Saladin in 

 1192, ' the exchange of Noiway hawks and Arabian horses softened the 

 asperity of religious war.' Andronicus the younger, emperor of the East, 

 in 1325 ' maintained a thousand hounds, a thousand hawks, and a thousand 

 huntsmen.' Charles VI. of France dispatched in 1396, by way of Hungary, 

 a cast of Norwegian hawks to Bajazet, the Turkish sultan, to appease 

 his wrath. The French prisoners admired the magnificence of the 

 Ottoman, whose hunting and hawking equipage was composed of 7000 

 huntsmen and 7000 falconers. When Mahomet II. succeeded in 1451 to 

 Amurath II., as the leader of the Turks, 'the expenses of luxury were 

 applied to those of ambition, and an useless train of 7000 falconers 

 were either dismissed from his service or enlisted isi liis troops.' — 

 Gibbon, xt., 149, 367, 453, 455, xii., 187. 



■* New History of Northumberland^ Bateson, Vol. ii., p. 414??. 



* Hodgson, Part iii.. Vol. i., p. 223 



8 Assize Rolls, Northumberland, 40 Henry III., pp. 122, 13, 38. 

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