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the out-boands of Amble, and willed this deponent to remember, 

 adding that march stone on north side of Salt-goats was " seated 

 neare about full sea marke uppon the checke of the water of Cockett 

 as a marche-scone," and further saying, " when I ame dead and rotten 

 yow may saye of a truth that when St. Cnthberte's springe put upp 

 at the height, you shall finde the salte watter and tyde to choke 

 and come nere the saide stone." That he remembered one Edmunde 

 Dichborne, late of Birling, pinder there, bringing beasts of Birling 

 to water to a part of Cockett called Dirticroke, close under Beacon 

 Hill, and after drinking they went over the river to ground called 

 the Beakon to feed, Dichborne following them. That he has seen 

 a copy of a grant of the fishings of Willsriocke {inter alia) from 

 Edward VI. to Sir Ralph Sadler, knight, and Lawrence Wynnyngton, 

 gent. Knows that Thos. Profitt, etc., have fished in Wilsenooke, and 

 dried their nets upon poles on Salt-goats without interruption, and 

 this had been done time out of mind, till in April 1615 one Thos. 

 Lewen of Warkworth and others came and violently threw down said 

 poles ; further says that the salmon fishing above and below the 

 crossings of the river belongs to the Earl of Northumberland, as of 

 the manor of Warkworth. That the river has wasted from Amble 

 and laid to Salt-goats as much land as a " man cane fling at towe 

 tymes with a stone." 



John Wilkinson of Over Buston, yeoman, aged 70, deposed — that there 

 is no hedge to divide fields of Birling from Salt-goats : there is a 

 mention' of an old dike betwixt the said places, but whether that 

 were the ancient hedge for dividing said grounds he knows not. 

 Does not know of any parcage paid by tenants of Amble to tenants 

 of Birling for the eating of said ground called Salt-goats. That 

 Salt-goats has been occupied by tenants of Birling, as part of their 

 great pasture ground, this 50 years. 



Christopher Elder of Warkworth, yeoman (and freeholder) aged 75, 

 deposed — that bounders extend from Amble Beacon to Brenkborne Hill, 

 and so to Gloster Yeate, but whether the bounder goeth up Cockett or over 

 Cockett he knows not. That about 30 years ago the tenants of Amble 

 impounded goods of tenants of Birling for depasturing in Salt-goats. In 

 his remembrance the Cockett river has washed more than 2 ' yards ' of 

 Amble ground and laid it to Salt-goats. That about 30 years since 

 he saw the horses of Robt. Smith of Amble taken and distrained on 

 Salt-goats, but whether said goods just trespassed in Birling field 

 he knows not, there being no hedge between ; parcage was paid for 

 said horses, but he knows not how much. That about 60 years ago 

 every of the tenants mentioned in interrogatory [i.e. Wharrier, Davy, 

 Arnold, Elder, Wharrier and Elder] had in the great pasture ground 

 and Salt-goats 8 beast gates to a tenement. That he never knew 

 tenants of Amble to impound cattle of Birling coming upon Salt-goats, 

 but once about 30 years ago, which the tenants of Birling did then 

 ' loose ' by replevy, but he knows no more of the matter. As long 



