328 High Buston. By J. C. Hodgson. 



taken at the death of Heury de Percy, le Piere, (the father), 

 the Jury say that there is an annual rent of 5s. each year to be 

 received out of the vili of Over Botilston at the feasts of 

 Pentecost and Martinmas, and a certain annual rent of 40s. to 

 be received each year froua the vills of ' Overbotilston ' and 

 * Toggesdon."'' 



In the Muster Roll, taken by Sir Cuthbert Radcliffe, Constable 

 of the King's Castle of Alnwick, etc., in 1538, there presented 

 themselves from Upper Buston the following:^* 



Eu. Buston belonging to Warkworth. 

 Thomas Wyllson. Wyllme Ayburwyke. 



John Wyllson. Robt. Wyllson. 



WiLLME HePPOYLL. Ed. WyLLSON. 



John Wyllson. John Boyer. 



Ed. Dawson. Thomas Buston. 



John Wyllson. Willme Buston. 



Able men wanttjng both horse and harnes. 



In 1552, Over-boston was one of seven 'towns' whose duty 

 it was to furnish 10 men to keep the ni^ht watch from Hitch- 

 croft [near Shilbottle] to Rugley." And in 1586 Buston was 

 one of the towns ' spoiled in time of peace' by the Scots.'** 



In the 16tb century we have an extraordinarily full account 

 of the township given in Clarkson's Survey of the Percy estates 

 made in 1567.'' The surveyor reports that the Lordship of 

 Warkworth is holden by the heirs of John Fitz-Robert, 

 [Clavering ob. 1332], etc., etc. 



Free Tenants From the same John, Brian Boose and Ralph Buston, 

 held the moiety of the foresaid vill of Over Buston, 

 by the service of the 4th part of one knight's fee. And 

 now William Bednell and Thomas Buston hold the 

 foresaid moiety of Buston, aforesaid, by homage fealty 

 and suit of the Court of Warkworth, of three seven parts 



of three, and pay by the year. At the feast xiij*'. \d. 



viz. the aforesaid Wm. Bednell, vs. vd., and the said 

 Thomas Buston, vijs. viijd. 



*^ Arch. 2Ei\. vol. iii., p. Ill, corrected by Dr Hardy's attested copy 

 of inquisition. 



" Arch. ^1. vol. lY., p. 163. 



^* Nicolson's Border Laws, p. 197. 



16 Border Club, p. 67. 



1' From the original at Alnwick Castle, by Lord Percy's kind permission. 



