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account of his fame, supported by the interest of many, asserted a 

 claim that he had a ri^jht to the manor of Hauxley." Widdrington is 

 accused of seeking to kill the prior, and of having seized and put to 

 torture some Augustine friars who were returning from Tynemouth, 

 thinking they were monks of the priory. 



Lady Mary Percy, wife of Lord Percy, and sister to Henry, Duke of 

 Lancaster, aided the Prior, who was her confessor, by sending him a 

 certain knight named Thomas Colvill, who had distinguished himself in 

 action in France. She supplemented her champion by sending for sale 

 all her jewels (because she had no great abundance of gold.) In the 

 hearing of the action between Widdrington and the prior, Colvill " rose up 

 in the midst of the pleadings and declared his readiness to fight in the 

 cause of the prior : all were strack with astonishment at his miexpected 

 appearance and his boldness, and no one dared encounter him to try 



if the cause of the adversary was just : his enemies being out 



of heart, the prior obtained the termination that he wished to the cause 

 above mentioned."''' 



Sometime after the prior [de la Mere] was elected abbot of 

 St. Albaus, and rose to the favour of Edward the Black Prince, 

 whose ear he obtained, and "related to him the difficulty of the 

 aforesaid law-suit, and the threats and malice of the aforesaid 

 Gerald." The first time Widdrington appeared in the presence, 

 the prince roughly rebuked him, but after he had hastened 

 home to his native country and given satisfaction to the Abbot, 

 he obtained the pardon which he sought, and in other respects 

 became dear and acceptable to the prince.'^ 



In 1480 the prior and convent charged the village and 

 territory of Hawkysla with an annuity or pension of £10 per 

 annum, to Nicholas Boston, who had recently resigned the 

 priorship.^® 



In 1539 Tynemouth Priory surrendered, and its possessions 

 passed to the Crown. The Ministers' Accounts include details 

 of both townships. 



'"^ Gibson, Vol. ii., p. 45. 



'* Cott. MSS. Claud, E. iv., fo. 236, quoted Gibson's Tynemouth, Vol. ii., 

 p. 46. 



'« Gibson, I. p. 184. 



