106 Brutherwick. By J. C. Hodgson. 



his free tenemeut in Riplington, etc. The latter paid a fine 

 of half a mark, for license to agree with William Male in 

 the plea of assize of Mort Ancestor' ; they were to have a 

 cyrograph.' Gilbert, the bailiff of Brother wick, was a witness 

 or party to the suit. There was also an appeal to the County 

 Court, where William de Hanvil appeared and proved his 

 right to his ' native and fugitive ' William, son of Hamon 

 de Brotherwyk. 



In 1296 the following appear in the 



Lay Subsidy Roll, 24 Edw. I. 

 Brothirwike. 

 Summa bonorum Rogeri fil Osberti 116 nnde regi 1 11^ 

 Rogeri Campion 16 4 „ 2 4| 



„ Henrici Molendinarii 12 8 „ 12 



Summa huins ville 60s. 6d., ande dno. regi 5s. 6d. 



To the Hanvills succeeded John de Wanton, who acquired 

 the manor in 1332, holding by sergeancy, and paying 6s. 6d. 

 to the castle of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. In 1341 his son, 

 Grilbert, held of the king in chief, by sergeancy, a messuage 

 with 80 acres of land, called the manor of Brotherwick, and 

 also a water corn mill there. Six years later William Darrayne 

 paid a fine to the king for acquiring the manor from 

 Gilbert de Wanton without a license.^ 



After this period the dates are confused: in 1361 Richard 

 of Buston held lands here, and before 1375 the manor had 

 come into the possession of Donald de Heselrig and Joanna 

 his wife. Donald died on the Sunday after Easter in 1385, 

 and Joanna's will, made at Yoi-k, 1st December 1400, has 

 been printed by the Surtees' Society in their volume of 

 York Wills. 



The darkness, which shrouds the history of Brotherwick 



' AssiZR Mc)RT d'Ance.stoR; a writ lying where one's father [or near 

 kinsman] died possessed of lands, etc., and after his death a strano-er 

 gets possession of them. — New World nf Words, Phillips, 1706. 



GniiiROQRAPEiiUM ; a handwriting; a bond or bill under one's hand; 

 also a term used hy onr English Saxons for a public deed of gift or 

 conveyance made anfchentic by the subscription and crosses of the 

 witnesses which were present. — Ibid. 



^ cf. LawRon MS., The Pour Parts of Northumberland ; and The 5th 

 Part of Northumberland, 10 Eliz., 1568. 



