112 Amble and Hauxley. By J. C. Hodgson. 



Tynemouth Priory. Under what circumstances they were re- 

 annexed to the rectory of Warkworth does not appear, but with 

 that rectory they formed part of the endowment of the see of 

 Carlisle. The Bishop of Carlisle was used to let his tythes out 

 to farm ; the Ridleys of Blagdon were the farmers for a con- 

 siderable period. In 1842 the small tythes of the township 

 belonging to the vicarage of Warkworth, were commuted for 

 £84 4s 3d per annum, and the great tythes for £104 12s 7d. 

 The landowners at that time were — 



Hauxley Hall and lands — the Messrs Widdrington 392 

 Hauxley Cottage and laud— Jas. Dand, Esq. 146 



Bondicar — Miss Ann Rochester 114 



Hauxley Fields — The Countess of Newborough 94 



Acres 748 

 The Bishop of Carlisle afterwards transferred his tythes to the 

 Ecclesiastical Commissioners. After the cutting off of Amble for 

 ail ecclesiastical parish or district church in 1869, the great 

 tythes of Hauxley were by the Commissioners assigned to the 

 minister or vicar of Amble as part of his stipend. 



The Fishery. — A portion of the possessions of Tynemouth 

 Priory in Hauxley was a fishing of four cobles : this passed to 

 the Crown at the Dissolution, and with the lands was afterwards 

 granted out. ''These grants do not include the Crown rights to 

 land between high and low water mark, which the Queen's 

 subjects have right to use as a common highway by boats at high 

 water, and by carriages and on foot at low water; but they have 

 no right to advance above high water mark at ordinary tides." 

 The salmon or stell fishery belongs to the Duke of Northumber- 

 land, whose rights are set forth in I Vic, chap, xxvii., where it 

 is stated that his Amble stell fishery extends from a place opposite 

 to "the grey stone of Helsey on the north, to the pan [elm] 

 bush near Bondicar burn-mouth on the south." This includes 

 the whole of the shores of both townships. The Duke's ancestors 

 would seem to have purchased fisheries from various individuals. 

 The Well Nuke Fishery in the water of Coquet and the sea 

 adjoining, parcel of the dissolved monastery of Tynemouth, was 

 conveyed in 1 638 by Sir Francis Brandling** and George Wrey to 

 ^* In 1634 there were proceedings in the Court of High Commission, 

 Durham, respecting the fishery in which the serv^ants of Sir Francis 

 Brandling and Mr George Wrey were concerned. — 34, Snrtees' Soc, 

 p. 103. 



