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endowinp; the chapel of St. Egid (St. Giles) of Charleton with 50 acres of 

 land. [Tate's Hist, of Alnwick, ii., p. 18.] According to the Inquisition 

 of Bishop Barnes in 1575, there were chapels at North and South Charlton 

 (lb. II., p. 114.) Of South Charlton, Parson and White say (ii., p. 389) 

 " Carlisle says there are here the rniris of a chapel, but we find no such 

 relics." (1828.) At the Meeting, Mr Fawcus said that recently bones had 

 been ploughed up on the site of the old churchyard at South Charlton. 



(F.) Ahley Walls. 



The site of the Monastery (Alnwick Abbey) with all the demesne lands, 

 Heckley Grange, and Hefford Lawe Tower, and pasture were in 1550 

 granted to Sir Ralph Sadleyr. Not long afterwards they came into the 

 possession of Sir John Forster, a distinguished Border warrior and 

 Warden of the Marches. Tn 1573, Queen Elizabeth, in consideration of 

 his services to the State in the late Rebellion, granted to him and his 

 heirs for ever, along with other estates, the land and pasture called the 

 Abbey Walls, adjacent to Ellyngham Moor, at a rent of 10s. annually. 

 (Tate, ubi snp. ii., p. 30.) 



(Gr.) Obsolete Vill of Brentehallfeilde. 



John de Clyiforthe, lord of Ellingham, in 1347, relieved Alnwick 

 Abbey of the homage and fealty due to him, on account of one-half 

 carucate of land (50 acres) in the vill and territory of Ellingham, which 

 was called the vill of Brentehall field, and which the Abbey possessed by 

 gift of Adam of Ellingham, who formerly held it, by homage and fealty 

 to him. (Tate, ubi snp. n., p. 9.) In the original, the gift is one-half 

 carucate land, with the pertinents (grazing privileges) in the vill and 

 territory of Alienghame, which is called the "vill of Brentehallfeilde," — a 

 village of that name having probably once stood on it. The witnesses are — 

 John de Lucre, Robert de Tughalle, Henry de Swinnowe, Alexander de 

 Preston, John Bell of Preston, Hugh Taylor of Doxford, Roger Fayrpage 

 of Alengharae, and many others. Given at Alengehame on the Wednesday 

 next after the feast of St. John Baptist, A.n. 1347. (lb. Appendix, p. xix.) 

 This land can be traced after the Dissohition of the Monastery. In the 

 Ministers' Accounts of 31 and 32 Henry VIII. (1539-40), there is entered 

 among tlie possessions of Alnwick Abbey : " Thomas Grey and others, the 

 farm of a parcel of land called Burthall, between Charlton and Newstede, 

 lying waste." (lb. a., p. 26.) 



(H.) Ellingham. 



The history of the barony of Ellingham, like most of those north of the 

 Coquet untouched by Hodgson's great work, requires to be re-written. 

 At present there is not opportunity to authenticate what is said of it in 

 Mac kenzie's Hist, of Northumberland, vol. i., p. 424, which is adopted here 

 for convenience. It was granted to the Grenvilles in the time of Henry 

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