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to every of their tenements. That parcage paid for his beasts by each 

 tenant of Amble was Id. a day and 2d. a night. That he has known the 

 tenants of Birling to sell the whinnes growing upon Salt-goats to the towns- 

 men of Hauxley ; some years 10 fothers at the least, other years less,which 

 whinnes said townsmen have carried through Amble without any opposi- 

 tion from the tenants there. 



John Conper of Birling, butcher, aged about 50, deposed — that he was 

 pounder of Birling 24 years ago, and is so again now. By command of 

 farmers of Birling has often impounded goods of Smith, Hudson, Gierke 

 and others of Amble for trespassing on Salt-goats, and always had Id. 

 parcage 'for every several man's beasts' of Amble before delivering them. 



Edmnnd Finch of Warkworth, gent., aged about 45, deposed — that he 

 hath seen nags and geese of tenants of Amble driven to the pound-fold by 

 John Cowper and Edmund Dytchborne, pounders of Birling, at sundry 

 times ; which was (as he supposes) for coming upon great pasture ground 

 and not upon Salt-goats.* 



Under a writ issued out of the Court of Exchequer 13th June 

 1616, further depositions were taken at Warkworth 23rd October 

 1616, before Francis Kadcliffe, esq., Eobert Delavel, esq., Robert 

 Widdrington, and Henry Whitehead sitting as Commissioners. 



Henry Johnson of Morrick, yeoman, aged about 75, deposed — that the 

 defendants [John Wharrier, Thomas Davye, Robert Arnold, Hugh Elder, 

 Walter Wharyer, and Thomas Elder] hold their several tenements with 

 appurtenances [at Birling] by lease or copy of court roll (as their pre- 

 decessors did) from the Earl of Northumberland, but what acres any of 

 said tenements do contain, he knows not. Knows Salt-goats likewise on 

 north of river which adjoins great pasture [of Birling] without partition 

 between, and has been accounted ever since he can remember (at least 

 60 years) part of said pasture as parcel of township of Birling. That he 

 had sometime a farm-hold in Amble himself and his cattle have divers 

 times been impounded at Birling for coming upon Salt-goats : from time to 

 time he loosed his cattle of the pounder then and paid parcage for them. 



Nicholas Johnson of Nether Buston, yeoman, aged about 60, deposed — 

 that he was sometime himself a tenant in Amble, and then paid parcage 

 20 times at least to the pynder of Birling for loosing his cattle impounded 

 for escapes made on to Salt-goats from Amble. The tenants of Birling did 

 from time to time justify this to be lawful both in their lord's right and 

 their own. 



William Knox of Birling, labourer, aged 60, deposed — that about 25 years 

 ago he was both herdsmen and pynder of Birling for 12 or 13 years 

 together, and then he, very often 6 times in a week, took beasts, horses, 

 and geese of tenants of Amble on the Salt-goats, and impounded them at 



* Public Record Office — Exchequer Depositions, 13 James I., 1615, 

 Michaelmas Term, No. 4. 



