Amhle and Hduxley. By J. C. Hodgson. 89 



Feudal History. 



Amongst the endowments given to the Priory of Tyne 

 mouth — when in 1090 it was refounded by Robert Mowbray,'^ 

 the Norman Earl of Northumberland, and affiliated to the 

 great Benedictine Abbey of 8t. Albans — were the great 

 tithes of Amble: this grant was confirmed by King Henrj' I. 

 The gift of both the manors would seem to have quickly 

 followed,'' for, some 20 years after, an apportionment of the 

 revenues was made, and Amble and Coquet Island were award- 

 ed to St. Albans. Abbot Richard of St. Albans, who died 1119, 

 relieved the monks of Tynemouth from claims by the parent 

 abbey on payment of a yearly rent of 3'>8.. the abbot of St. Albans 

 reserving to his house Ambell, Coquet Island, etc.^ In Richard 

 1st confirmation charter, granted shortly before his departure 

 for Palestine,- Amble and Hauxley are expressly named, as also 

 in King John's charter of 1204. In the taxation of 1292,'' 

 Amble is one of the 10 manors possessed by the prior of 

 Tynemouth, to whom it brought in £5 5s. per aunum, but 

 immediately afterwards the abbot of the mother house^" was 

 called upon to show by what warrant he claimed amercement 

 of the men of Ambelle and Hauckeswelle, with wreck of the 

 sea and free-warren there. 



The Assize Rolls^' of 40 Hen. III., contain a notice that 

 Ralph, son of Henry of Amble, and William Prill of Amble, 

 finding a chest at Hadston, cast up by the sea, from it took 

 much goods, value unknown, and carried the same into the 

 liberty of Tynemouth [i.e. to Amble.] 



In the 24th year of Edward I. [1295] on the 'Collection of a 

 Subsidy of an eleventh ' is preserved the names of the tenants 

 of the Pi'iory of Tynemouth. '- 



^ Gibson, i., pp. 27-40. 



" Amble and Hauxley, members of the Barony de Vescy, were held of 

 it in socage by the Prior of Tynemouth. Testa de Nevill, pp. 209, 

 218. 



'' Gibson, i., p. 42. 



8 lb., I., p. 61. 



9 lb., I., pp. 117, 118. 



'" Quo Warranto, Hodgson, Part in.. Vol. i., p. 140, and Gibson, i., p. 114. 

 " Assize Rolls of Northumberland (Surtees' Society) 40, Henry III. 

 7, Edward I., p. 78. 



'^ Quoted Gibson's Tynemouth, Vol. ii., pp. xci., xciii, 

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