High Buston. By J. C. Hodgson. 



329 



After most 

 ship, follows 

 particulars of 



The Weste ende of 

 the North Rawe. 



Mr Bednelrs ten- 

 ants paye yearely 

 to the Greave of 

 Bustou, v.s. 



Free Tenants. 



Free Tenant. 



Free Tenant, 



The easto ende of 

 the Southe Rawe. 



Robt. Wilson son 

 of Thos. 



Stinte of Cattail 

 which ill severall 

 every tenant may 

 kepe vj oxen, ij 

 kyen, and of the 

 more iiij kyen, 

 and xj shope. 



Fine Liiijs. 



Robert, son of 

 Roger Wilson. 



Fine iijl. xijs. 



minutely describing the boundaries of the town- 

 an account of the names of the tenants, with 

 their holdings, in Latin, which may be translated : 



Roger Buston holds there a tenement, with a 

 garden and a croft, adjacent to the said tenement, 



containing by estimation, and two husband 



lands with pertinents, parcel of the possession of AVm. vijs. viijrf. 

 Bednell, of Alnwick, and pays yearly to the said Win. 



Bednell and pays nothing here to the 



lord, because he owes in the borough of Warkworth 

 among the free tenants 



Win. Earsden holds there a tenement with garden, and 

 with a croft, and two husband lands with pertinents, in 

 the possession of the foresaid Wm. Bednell, and pays by 



the year to the said William and nothing 



here to the lord for the foresaid caases. 



Thomas Byers holds there a tenement with a garden, 

 and with a croft, and two husband lands with pertineaits, 



in the possession of the said Wm. Bednel 



nothing here to the lord for the reason aforesaid. 



Thomas Buston holds here free, one tenement, with 

 garden and croft, and two husband lands with pertinents, 

 viz. with the 8th part of the foresaid Vill of Overbuston, 

 and pays to the lord here nothing for the reason 

 aforesaid. 



Thomas Wilson took of the lord there a tenement with 

 a garden and croft, containing by estimation ^ acre, and 

 two husband lands with the pertinents, comprising 38 

 acres of arable land, meadow, and pasture, by estimation 

 pertaining to the same messuage, with all its pertinents, 

 by Copy of Court, whose date is the 18th day of the 

 month of January, in the 5th year of Elizabeth the xviijs. 

 Queen, to hold to himself and his assigns, at the will of 

 the lord, according to the custom of the Honour of 

 Cockermouth, for the services due and accustomed and 

 rent by the year at Martinmas and Pentecost, in equal 

 portions, as at the foot of this paper, and makes a fine at 

 the top. 



Roger Wilson took from the lord there one messuage 

 or tenement, with a garden and croft, containing by 

 estimate i acre, a close in the west part of the ville, 

 containing i an acre and two husband lands, consisting 

 of 28 acres of arable land, of meadow and pasture, by xviiji-. 

 estimate belonging to the same messuage with pertinents, 

 by Copy of date aforesaid, and pays by the year, as is 

 evident at the foot, and a fine at the top. 



