Amble and Uauxley. Dy J. C. Hodgson. Ill 



In 1769 William Hall married Dorothy Cresswell,^' in the direct 

 line of the ancient family of Cresswell of Cresswell. From Ann 

 Hall, who in 1758 married Thos. Pallister, is descended the 

 Rev. Marcus Dods, the eminent Presbyterian divine, and his 

 brother the late Mr Thos. Pallister Dods of Hexham, land agent. 

 William, the eldest son of William^^ and Dorothy Hall, became 

 head cashier in the Bank of England, whose notes bore his 

 signature. Another son, John Hall, Capt. E,.N., died in 1877, 

 aged 92 : one of his daughters is wife to Sir William Gray, the 

 well-known Hartlepool shipbuilder. Henry, another son, suc- 

 ceeded to the tenancy of the farm, and died in 1861. 



There were in the township 10 ' ancient farms, '®^ on which 

 by the old system of rating the church rate was levied until 1835, 

 and the customary wages of the parish clerk and sexton until 

 1842. In 1794, when the parish churchyard wall at Wark- 

 worth was rebuilt in sections, township by township, for every 

 ' farm ' two yards — Hauxley rebuilt 20 yards at the south side. 

 In 1826 the ancient farms^* were held as follows : — 



Mr Robert Huggup [tenant of Hauxley Hall] 4| farms. 

 Mr Hall of Bondicar [tenant] - - 3^ 



James Dand, Esq. [own lands] - - 2 



10 farms. 



The fee farm rent above-mentioned was aleo collected by the 

 ancient farm. 



Tythes. — It will be remembered that in the 11th century the 

 great tythes of Hauxley as well as Amble were possessed by 



**' 1731. Jos. Hall of Bondicar and Frances Huntly of Biriing, mar. 



1758. Thos. Pallister of Shilbottle, par. and Ann Hall of Bondicar, mar. 



1769, Jaly 14. Wm. Hall and Dorothy Cresswell, both of this parish, 

 mar. — Warkworth Reg. 



1726. W.Hall of ' Haxley, overseer for highways. — Churchwarden' s Book. 



1728. William Hall of Bondicar had acquired a burgage in Warkworth 

 from John Collingwood. — Warkworth Court Rolls. 



1751. Jos. Hall of ' Haxley,' churchwarden. — Churchwarden's Book. 



^"^ William Hall of Bondicar died 2nd Mny 1795, aged 62 years. Dorothy, 

 his wife, died 10th Dec. 1793, aged 49 years. Their son Henry Hall of 

 Bondicar died I7th Oct. 1861, aged 92 years. — ML Warkivorth. 



^•* See Mr F. W. Dendy's admirable paper on " The Ancient Farms of 

 Northumberland." — Arch. ^l.,Vol. xvi., p. 121. 



'* Warkworth Churchwardens' and Parish Clerk's Books, 



