jBrotherwick. By J. C. Hodgson. 109 



William Fenwick was succeeded at Nunriding by his son, 

 " Mr Robert Fenwick of Nunriding, who was a gentleman 

 of good estate and name in this county," and the hearty and 

 constant friend of Ralph Wicklif, the Commonwealth and 

 silenced rector of Whalton.^^ He married Isabel, daughter 

 of Robert Widdrington, and, dying 1693, was succeeded by 

 his son, John Fenwick, who married Jane Tatham, the heiress 

 of Burrow-hall, in Tunstal, Lancashire, which, henceforth, 

 was the chief seat of the family. Their eldest son was Robt. 

 Fenwick, born 1688, and sometime M.P. for the town of 

 Lancaster : he became king's sergeant of the court of the 

 duchy of Lancaster, and attorney-general and sergeant of the 

 county palatine. The names of Mrs Barbara Bonner and 

 Robt. Fenwick, esq., at London, appear as free tenants in 

 Brotherwick in 1710, and in 1731-38 the owner is entered as 

 'Thos. Fenwick, esq., at London, late Mrs Barbara Bonner.'^^ 

 With Fenwick's descendants the estate remained as an 

 undivided third until 1862, when it was sold by Thos. Fenwick 

 of Burrow-hall to the Duke of Northumberland, the owner 

 of the other two thirds and of the manor.^° 



*^ Calamy Continuation, p. 657. 



19 Call Rolls. 



Matthew Bonner was vicar of Warkworth 1668-1680. He gave a 

 bond of marriage, 8th July 1668, with Barbara Bonner. Query if 

 same person ? 



'" Besides Nunriding and Brotherwick these Fenwioks owned Barnhill, 

 in the chapelry of Brainshaugh, and the Newcastle Journal of 

 October 1746 contains the following advertisement. — " To be let against 

 May day next, lying at Barnhill and Brodridge, near Warkworth, Two 

 very convenient farms, consisting of arable, meadow, and pasture 

 ground. The premises are well enclosed and watered, and the houses 

 in good repair, Barnhill is tithe free. To be let likewise, against 

 the time aforesaid, two farms at Buckstraw, near Nunriding, in the 

 parish of Midford. Whoever inclines to take the said farms, or any 

 one of them, may apply to Mr Oarr, at Nunriding, who is properly 

 authorised to let the same." And the Newcastle Courant of 19th 

 December 1801 advertises — " The principal part of the Oak, Ash, etc., 

 growing upon the several estates of Thos. Fenwick, esq. — Font Green, 

 Woodhouses, Langshaws, Langshaw Mill, Backsgreen, Nunriding, and 

 Coalhouses, near Morpeth, Barnhills, Landriggs, and Brotherwick, near 

 Warkworth. For particulars apply to Mr Tate, at Barnhill ; Messrs 

 Dowbiggin & Baldwin, Solicitors, Lancaster." 



