274 Report of Meetings for 1891. By Dr J. Hardy. 



One of the Cay family was mother of the distingaished scientist, 

 Professor James Clerk Maxwell, F.R.S., etc., who died in 1879. 



The old Cays were noted Nonconformists in Newcastle. 



In the Life of Ambrose Barnes, p. 198, Ann Jeffreyson and Barbara Cay 

 adventured their " man It lofts' to be places of assembly for Dissenters. 

 This is the same Mrs Jeffreyson whose husband was part owner of North 

 Charlton. Aug;. 4, 1699, Robert Cay was informed against as a Dissenter, 

 (p. 409). 



Thoresby the Antiquary, in his Diary, under date May 19th, 1703, was 

 at Newcastle, when he inquires " for Mr John Cay, brother to my late 

 ingenious friend and kind benefactor, Dr Jabez Cay, whose death was a 

 public loss, as well as to me in particular." Dr Jabez Cay was the 

 son-in-law of Dr Gilpin, the author of " Daeraonologia Sacra." In Sept. 

 1726, John Cay was one of the Trustees of the Chapel for Protestant 

 Dissenters at Hanover Square, Newcastle, (p. 473). 



It will suffice for the present for the genealogy of the Cay family to 

 refer to Burke's " Landed Gentry." 



(D.) Crosses at North Charlton. 



Mr Cay, W.S., Edinburgh, writes me of date April 3, 1889 : " North 

 Charlton was probably a market town at some very remote period, as 

 there was once a cross in the village. I remember the steps on which 

 it stood ; possibly they are there still." 



Barony Court, 29th Oct. 1685, held at North Charlton. " We find that 

 there wants a paire of stocks within this Manner ; we therefore desire 

 that the Lords of this Manner will be pleased to give wood and iron 

 towards the making of the same, which the Lords grant to doe. We 

 thereupon ox'der that the several Farmers and Cottagers shall severally 

 contribute to the making up of the same, and place them at the Cross in 

 North Charlton, and that they shall be set up at or before St. Andrew's 

 Day next upon paine of v. shillings one farthing." 



Extract from the only Court Roll preserved. 



Survey of 20th Jan. 1578: "Eustace Horsley, Eden Ogle and John 

 Gibbieson houlds their lands of this Lordship, viz. one tenement with a 

 Garth against the Cross on the South Row between John Shollec and 

 Cuthbert Forster with certain landes in the Feild as the Quarters lyeth 

 by Knight's service, viz. by the 50th parte of a Knight's fee." From (i 

 Copy in possession of Mr W. T. Hindmarsh, Alnwick. 



A Crossehill is noticed in one of the parcels of land, 213 acres, east of 

 the Street, otherwise called " Anwicke or Barwicke way." Armor's 

 Crosse was in another plot, " half of the over ground on the North side of 

 the towns," of 61 acres and odds. " Hobbey Mill " was in the same plot. 



(E.) North and South Charlton Chapels. 

 Abotit 1250, Richard, abbot of Alnwick Abbey, occurs in a charter 



