Amble and Hauxley. By J. C. Hodgson. 257 



qnestion that that was the bonnder or march-stone dividing her 

 Maties gronnd of Amble from the Earl's grounds of Birling, and said 

 that the bonnder went from that stone to the Beacon Hill on the 

 east side of Cockett, where was another stone, and from said stone 

 where deponent then stood to another stone on south-west of Cockett, 

 near Gloster Yeat. That he has heard that the tenants of Amble have 

 taken the goods of the tenants of Birling in the time of one, Roger 

 Wadrington, gent., in a place called Salt-goats, and impounded them 

 about 36 years ago, and he himself knows that one Wm. Wharrier did 

 replevy the goods so impounded. That the river Cockett from the 

 stone near Halsey dicke nooke southwards is called Weeles nooke, and 

 that those who have had fishing there from his Ma^es progenitors have 

 had, time out of mind, as well the fishing in Weeles nooke, compassing 

 the ground called Salt-goats, as in the sea near that place, and have 

 dried their nets at Salt-goats, or on the sea sands adjoining the 

 bounders, at their pleasure. And he has known Bullocke, Murton, 

 Vernham, Gibson, Wetherell, and the Fynches severally to have the 

 fishing in succession, and to dry their nets as aforesaid these 40 years 

 past, and further that the Earl of Northumberland has had the fishing 

 on the north side of the river from Beacon Hill to stone near Gloster 

 Yeat. That river Cockett has worn away much of the gronnd of 

 Amble upon south side of said river, and has laid it on the ground 

 called Salt-goats, and that within his remembrance a fourth part of 

 the ground, now called Salt-goats, has been cast up by the river, 

 being worn away from the south side belonging to the town of Amble. 



John Clarke of Amble, labourer, aged 68, deposed — that when he was 

 8 or 9 years old, and dwelling in Hauxley, within a mile of Salt-goats, 

 his grandmother (formerly servant to Lady Percy) having occasion to 

 ride that way, and this deponent and others being with her when 

 they came to Salt-goats, she told them that she had often about 

 St. Ellen day ridden the bounds with her lady between Amble and 

 Birling, and she then caused one Leonard Clarke, his kinsman, to 

 take this deponent from his horse (he riding with his grandmother) 

 and to seat him on a stone near Halsey dike noake, on the north 

 side of Salt-goats, and she then told him, that was the March-stone 

 between Amble and Birling, and that he should ever remember this. 

 That when one John Wooddrington was bailiff of Amble, about 50 

 years since, and after him Roger Wooddrington, his son, in both their 

 times the tenants of Amble impounded the goods of the tenants of 

 Birling for trespassing in Salt-goats, and the tenants of Birling did 

 replevy them, the matter being agreed by the bailiff of Amble and 

 the Earl of Northumberland's bailiff. Further that the tenants of 

 Amble did impound goods of tenants of Birling for eating and 

 depasturing in Salt-goats, when Robt. Wooddrington (one of the now 

 Commissioners for the defendants) was bailiff of Amble, and the 

 tenants of Birling did then loose^ the goods by replevy : the matter 

 Free or deliver. 



