High Budon. By J. C. Hodgson. 339 



He also obtained a moiety of Learcliild, and of the Beanley 

 tithe through his wife, who was Phillis, daughter and co-heiress 

 of John Story^^ of Learchild and Alnwick. 



He took part in the Election of 1 826, and was pilloried in the 

 election ballads— ' Three to One, not Fair,' beginning 

 " Pushed for a Vote the BelHtes must be, 

 Since three times to Buston they've sent ;" 

 and another entitled 'Neutrality Broken,' beginning 

 " Oh Tommy ! Oh Tommy ! thou last of fifteen 



Of B ns of B- n, so noble and lean." 



alluding to the fifteen generations of Bustons of High Buston. 



At his death in 1839, he was succeeded by his eldest and only 

 surviving son, Eoger Buston, who died in 1876 ; after which his 

 trustees sold the ancient heritage of his family, with Wooden, 

 to Sir Wm. Armstrong, who therewith effected an exchange with 

 the Duke of Northumberland for lands near Eothbury. And so 

 passed from it the lands of the most ancient yeoman family in 

 this district. 



Forster's Portion. 

 The three farms'^ held by Wm. Bednel in 1567 as free tenant, 

 passed into the hands of the now extinct local family of White- 



^^ 1668. Mr John Storey, proprietor of the Beanley tithes. Rental 

 £20. — Book of Rates, Hodgson's Hist. Northd. 



1660. Fergus Story of Beanley was one of the mounted volunteers at 

 the muster at Bokenfield Moor. — Proc. Soc. of Antiq. of Newcastle, 1892, 

 p. 163. 



1722. Fergus Storey voted for Beanley. — Poll Book. His wife was 

 Dorothy Proctor of Shawdon. 



John Storey, eldest son of Fergus Storey of Harehope, married Jane, 

 daughter of Alexander Young of Newham. The marriage settlement was 

 dated 2nd March 1718.— Hodgson MS8. 



1748 and 1774. John Storey of Alnwick voted for Learchild. Poll Book. 



1787, 11 Jany. Thos. Boston of Buston, married to Miss Phillis Storey, 

 youngest daughter of John Storey of Alnwick. — Newcastle Chronicle. 



1826. Thos. Buston of Buston, voted for Beanley, and Roger Buston 

 for Learchild. — Poll Book. 



^^ Probably the lands referred to in an inquisition taken at Newcastle, 

 10th February, 7 Edw. VI., before Christopher Mitford, the escheator : 

 the jury then found that one Baxter had died 7th February, 24 Henry 

 Vlll., seized of a third part of certain messuages and lands in Over 

 Buston and Nether Buston, Broderwicke, Woodhorn, etc., and that 

 Matthew Baxter, his son and heir, was now 22 years of age and upwards. — 



Hodgson M8S., ' M ' p. 160. 



