Landowning in NORTHUMBERLANb 133 



Will. Fitz Simon, 20 acres there at 40d. rent. 



Evelred, 20a. there, 40d. rent. 



Gilbert de Hedley, 40a. in Shotley, 12d. rent. 



Henry Fitz Eanulph, 56a., Shotley, 2d. rent. 



Ranulph de Morlay, 40a., Shotley, half a mark. 



Eoger de Whitchester, 40a., Heddon-on-Wall, 40d. rent. 



Eobert de Whitchester, 40a. land in Heddon, at 15d. rent." 



And as instances of special service may also be quoted: — 



"Earl Patric held in cap. of the King. Beneley, Hiddes- 

 ley, Edlingham, Lemmington, Brampton, Wyton, Shipley, 

 Harup, Stanton, Horsley, Windgates, and Eitton by inborough 

 and out borough service between England and Scotland." 



" Will, de Callaley held Calleley and Yetlington in cap. 

 of the King in Drengage and SOs. rent and doing Truncage 

 (viz. carry wood) to Bamburgh Castle, he ought to pay 

 taillage with King's tenants and Demesne and owes Herriot 

 and Merohatt."* 



From the Black Book of the Exchequer the following 

 return is extracted (time Henry III.) from Spearman's 

 MSS. : — 



"Acknowledgment of Lands of Walter de Bolbec, 4 knights' 

 fees and ^ of old F. of which Gilbert de Bolam holds 2^, 

 Hugh de Craw-den. Will, filias Boius I.O.F., Ota de Insula 

 1^ N.F., Eiginald son or Wimand ^ a fee, John Moral 

 and Gospatrick each ^rd, Wibert de Slaley 1. Total of 

 the fees of Bolbec 5 knights' fees." 



These holdings, under the great barons, would appear to 

 have been the origin of the smaller estates, such holdings 

 having gradually, as the services were converted into annual 

 money payments, become freehold, and in very many instances 

 are held as separate estates at this time, or, where merged 

 into larger properties, preserve their own individuality as 

 townships; and it is also a curious fact that many of these 

 properties still pay the annual charges for castle guard, fee 



* Calleley estate pays a qait rent of £1 6s. lOd. to Bamburgh 

 Castle, in conditions of sale 1877. 



