Brotherwick. By J. C. Hodgson. 107 



for the next hundred and fifty years, is only lifted by a 

 notice that, in 1443, the chaplain of Warkworth Castle was 

 a certain John Brotherwyk, who had for his stipend £4 

 per annum.' 



About the year 1567 an elaborate survey of the estates of 

 the Earl of Northumberland was made ; the portion relating 

 to Brotherwick is quoted in Earl Percy's paper on the 

 Ancient Farms of Northumherland}^^ 



John Turpin held a copyhold farm of 16 acres 2 roods, with 

 * the scite of a old mantion house in old tyme,' at the rent 

 of 16s. 8d., with a fine upon admittance of £3 6s. 8d. Thomas 

 Hodgson held a freehold estate of 7 acres, 3 roods, 20 poles, 

 out of which he paid a rent "to the firmar of Bamburgh 8s. 

 Nothing paid to the lord because it is held ' iu elemosina,' 

 being part of the possessions of the church of Bamburgh. "^^ 

 William Beadnell held a freehold estate of 12 acres, out of 

 which he paid a rent of 10s.; and Thomas Hodgson held a 

 copyhold? of 15 acres 1 rood, whose rent was 168. 8d. 



The remainder of the township was doubtless held by the 

 tenants in common. The surveyor records that Hugh Finch, 

 the keeper of Warkworth park, complained that a certain 

 tenement or farm in Brotherwick, a perquisite or parcell of 

 the keepership, after the death of Geo. Carr of Lesbury, the 

 late keeper, had, with other farms and tenements, held by 

 Geo. Carr, been obtained by Robert Carr on a 21 years 

 lease. George Carr's very interesting will, dated 1559, is 

 printed in the new History of Northumberland.^- 



No mill at that time existed in the township, but the 

 tenants were ' throwne to grynde ' their corn at the lord's 

 two water mills in Warkworth park : this suggests that since 

 1341, when a mill is expressly mentioned, there may have 

 been a readjustment or enlargement of the boundaries of the 

 park, so as to include the site of the ancient mill. 



9 Border Holds, Bates, p. 424. 



10 Arch. ^1., Vol. xvii., p. 7. 



'^ This connection with Bamburgh seems to have eluded observation, 

 but in 1334 Henry de Brotherwyk was one of the bailiffs of Bamburghj 

 and his name may be found as attesting witness to charters of the 

 period.— Hist, of Northd., Bateson, Vol. i., pp. 126, 128, 129, 140. 



*^ History of Northumberland, Bateson, Vol. ii., p. 431, 



