Report of Meetings for 1891. Dy Dr J. Hardy. 273 



in trust to Sir Regfinald Carnabie, who died in that year, leaving 

 three daughters co-heiresses, of whom the second, Ursula Carnabie, became 

 wife of Edward Widdrington, Esq.: their son Sir Henry Widdrington, 

 Knight, of Widdrington Castle, devised 2nd Oct. 1623, the manor of North 

 Charlton to Elizabeth Widdrington his daughter. On the 1st Oct. 1633 

 Sir William Widdrington conveyed the manor of North Charlton to Sir 

 Charles Howard and Dorothy his wife, and on 26th June, 1663, William 

 Howard, Esq., and Dame Dorothy Howard conveyed to Edward and 

 Christopher Musgrave, who as Trustees, 20th Aug. 1669 conveyed to 

 William Charlton, who with others 25th Mar. 1676, conveyed to Sir 

 Francis Eadcliff, who with Thomas Selby, Esq., 1st April 1681, conveyed 

 to Joseph Atkinson in trust for Matthew Jeffreyson and Timothy Robson, 

 which Timothy and the heirs and wife of Jeffreyson conveyed, 28th Angt. 

 1695, to Jabez Cay, M.D., and Jonathan Hutchinson, [M.P. for Berwick 

 1702-1711.] 



Dr Jabez Cay by his will left his moiety of North Charlton (22nd May 

 1702) to John Cay of tiie Laygate [South Shields], in the county of 

 Durham, gent. Mary Hutchinson widow of the said Jonathan, and his 

 principal Creditors conveyed his moiety, 27th Dec. 1711, to the said Mr 

 John Cay, who settled, 17th March 1726, North Charlton upon his eldest 

 son, Robert Cay, (on his marriage with Elizabeth Hall), who made over 

 North Charlton in fee to his eldest son, 18th Nov. 1749, John Cay of the 

 Middle Temple, who die^l 15th May 1782, and was succeeded 15th May 

 1782, by Robert Cay his only son, by Frances Hodshon of Lintz, his wife, 

 who died 31st March 1810, and left the estate by will to John Cay his 

 eldest son, by Elizabeth Liddell, wife of the said Robert Hodshon Cay. 



The Cays, originally of the Guild or fraternity of Brewers and Bakers, 

 Newcastle, have had several men of noted ability in their family. Dr 

 Jabez Cay was in advance of his age, and wrote on philosophical and 

 chemical subjects. 



Mr Robert Cay conducted a large business in manufacturing Salt on the 

 Northumberland coast, and also at South Shields. He lived at " the 

 Laygate." He was a great friend and correspondent of the Rev. John 

 Horsley, and appears to have been much mixed up with the preparation of 

 his "Britannia Romana." His brother John was judge of the Marshalsea, 

 and wrote an abridgement of " The Statutes at Large," of which his son 

 Henry Boult Cay published a second edition. 



John Cay of the Middle Temple was the first of the family who lived in 

 Edinburgh. His eldest son John was " Lockhart's friend Cay" of Sir 

 Walter Scott's Life, afterwards Sheriff of Linlithgowshire, and a friend of 

 Sir Walter himself. John Cay of the Middle Temple and his son John 

 seem to have lived a good deal at Charlton Hall, dividing their time 

 between that place and^ Edinburgh. 



Mr Robert Dundas Cay, W.S., Edinburgh, who died in 1888, representa- 

 tive of a secondary branch of the family, was Registrar of the Supreme 

 Court, Hong Kong. 



