Eej>ort of Meetings for 1891. By l)r J. Hardy. 279 



has it) without multure, after the first man whom they may find having 

 corn grouud ; but if tliese lands were demised to farm, their tenants 

 should grind at the Abbey Mill, if they so please; but if at his mill of 

 Brunton, they should give reasonable multure, waiting their turn to 

 grind; it is noted that the aforesaid lands are measured with a perch of 

 7^ feet, (pp. 7, 8). Tate's Hist, of Alnwick, ii., pp. 7, 8, translated from 

 the Charters. 



The witnesses are Robert Fitz Eobert, Hugh de Morwyke, Roger Fitz 

 Ralph (the owner of North Charlton), Walter de Burowdone, David his 

 brother, John Viscount (Newton by the Sea), William de Turberville 

 (Steward of Wra. de Vescy), William de Roke, Simon de Lucre (who also 

 confers land on the Abbey), Thomas de Warantham, Peter Herange 

 (Howick), William de Wlchester (Outchester), John, son of Waldeve or 

 Walden of Edlingham, and many others. (Appendix, p. xvi.) 



At the Dissolution 1539-40, the rents of the possessions of the Abbey in 

 Preston, in lands and tenements, were reckoned at 40s. (Tate, ii., 

 p. 27.) 



P.S. — Page 27-i, D. John Cay, W.S., While this is passing through the 

 press, the death of the head of the Cay family, who recently became a 

 member of the B.N.C., is announced. "At 10 Alva Street, P]dinburgh, 

 on 28th May [1892], John Cay, W.8., solicitor to the Post Office, eldest 

 son of the late John Cay, of North Charlton, Northumberland, Sheriff of 

 Linlithgow." — Scotsman, May 20, 1892. 



Morpeth for Hartburn, Wallington, Whalton, etc. 



The second Meeting of the season was on June 24th at 

 Morpeth, making a circuit of the valley of the Wansbeck by 

 Mitford and Hartburn, Scots Gap, Cunibo and Wallington, 

 returning by South Middleton, Corridge, Bolam, Whalton, 

 Edington and Grubion, to the place of outset, which on this 

 occasion was the Newcastle Hotel. There was much delay in 

 starting owing to the crush occasioned by the turnout of the 

 County Volunteers and the Newcastle Race Holidays, but at 

 length carriages were at our service. Twenty-five attended, and 

 the day was favourable. Till past Mitford, the route taken by 

 the Club, Aug. 25, 1880, was followed (see Club's Hist. vol. ix., 

 pp. 254-266) passing through well cultivated ground to near 

 Newton Underwood, where the culture of cereals and green 

 crops had begun to cease, the fields becoming gradually absorbed 

 in pasture, which increased as the journey proceeded; the 

 dividing hedgerows having been uprooted, and the timber trees 



