102 Amhle and Hauxleij. By J. C. Hodgson. 



his wife, whom he made sole executrix. The executrix having 

 renounced the probate, letters of administration with will 

 annexed, were granted, 27th February 1798, to Joseph Cook 

 and David Latimer Tinling, tlie liusbands of the co-heiresses. 

 As has been said above, a chancery suit ensued ; it ended in 

 the dismemberment of the estates, larire portions of which were 

 advertised to be sold by auction at the White Swan, Alnwick, 

 9th October 1807. Amble Moor-House was purchased by 

 Edwards Werge ; a field in Hauxley by .... Rochester, owner 



of Bondicar ; Guyzance by ; and Bondgate Hall, 



Alnwick [ultimately] by John Carr, then of Manchester. 



A stone pillar in the midst of the south park in front of 

 Hauxley Hall bears the following inscription. — 

 This Portion 

 of the Hauxley Property 



was redeemed 



To its Hereditary Course 



By the Zeal and Exertions 



of the E,ev. Jos. Cook 



of Newton Hall, 



Through the Medium 



of a Suit 

 In the Court of Chancery ; 

 Commenced January 1798: 

 Terminated May 1809.*^ 

 The Newcastle Courant of 26th April 1800 contains an 

 advertisement of the mansion house to be let. "In the 

 gardens are a vinery, peach house, with hot walls well clothed 

 with fruit trees, a considerable part of which is also covered 

 with glass." 



The two co-heiresses who succeeded to the shattered estate 

 were descended respectively from two of the daughters of 

 Robert Widdrington and Sarah Punshon. The Newcastle 

 Courant of January 1762 records the marriage, at Alnwick, of 

 "Captain Teasdale of General Lambton's Regiment, to Miss 



** Somewhat unfortunately the site of this pillar is not of the more 

 ancient Widdrington inheritance (almost the whole of which lay to the 

 north of the town street) but in the land purchased about the middle 

 of 18th century from the Kirton family. Of the old mansion of the 

 Widdringtons there are remains in a cottagje of a window with massive 

 pionldings, and a head with the date 1600. 



