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



Also a circular bronze buckle. Both were found on Coquet Isle 

 in the lighthouse keeper's garden, and are figured in the 

 Catalogue of Saxon Antiquities on page 74. 



After the suppression of Tynemouth Priory, the following 

 particulars are entered in the Minister's Accounts, 31 Hen. VIII. 



f f Thomas Bennett, Chaplain, answers for xxs.'] 



for the farm of Cokett Island, situate in the sea 

 opposite to Warkworth Castle, containing four 

 acres of pasture, with buildings and a chapel, and 

 also with a tenement, barn, and three selions of 

 The arable land in Axely to the same Isle pertaining. 



Island Farm | leased to the said Chaplain, who is bound to £ s. d. 

 OF ■{ Rent. ■{ keep the same in repair at his own expense, and [- 15 4 8 

 CoKETT I to dwell there, performing divine service daily, 



receiving only the pension granted to him by 

 the King. And for xL received from the heirs 

 of the Earl of Northumberland issuing oat of 

 i I Warkworth Castle, for the support of a Chaplain 



(^ l^in the aforesaid Island, by ancient grant.^^ J 



Besides the pension from the Earl of Northumberland, of 

 £ 1 per annum, the chaplain held a tenement called Donkayne 

 Rigge, in the tenure of Edw. Fenwick of Eothley, he had 

 also a tenement in Woodhorn Seaton [North Seaton] a garden 

 in Woodhorn, a cottage in Meresf en, a cottage in ' Wisto' or 

 Westow, and a water milP^ in Ellington, etc. Bennet would 

 seem to have continued to farm the island from the Crown. 



With the site of Tynemouth Priory it was granted by 

 Edw. VI. to the Earl of Warwick, afterwards Dudley, Duke 

 of Northumberland.^' 



Subsequently it became the resort of the lawbreakers and 

 the unruly. In 1569 Eowland Forster, captain of Wark, on 

 examination admits or states that "he had in his house at Wark 

 about two years past, before the going of the soldiers to New- 

 haven, one Thomas, a Scotts man, and then the said Thomas did 

 take in hand to coyne hard heddes, the which he cowld not bring 

 to any perfection then, and required me to get him a place of 

 more secretness to work more at liberty. . . . before I had got 

 hym another place one Barber, a soldier of Barwick, which was 

 acquaynted with the said Thomas before, did bring one Arthur 

 in the night time to my house to the said Thomas, and said he 

 could skill in the same art, and they both did there put in use to 



3' Gibson's Tynemouth, Vol. i.. p. 229. 



38 Gibson, Vol. i., pp. 238-4. Vol. ii., cIxtI. 



33 Mackenzie, Vol. u., p, 121. 



