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



Birling, and caused said tenants to pay Id. and ^d. parcage a piece before 

 he woald deliver them out of poundfold.* 



Arable remained in the Crown until 25th September 1628 ; 

 it was by Charles I. granted to Edward Ditchfield, citizen 

 and Salter, John Highlord, citizen and skinner, Humphrey 

 Clark, citizen and dyer, and Francis Mosse, citizen and 

 scrivener of London, for the purposes of sale, to hold of 

 the King, as of the manor of East Greenwich by fealty, on 

 free socage, at the yearly rent of £9 4s. Id. The particulars 

 of the grant were as follows: — 



" The township of Ambell, with lands in the tenure of divers 

 persons at the lord's will, of the yearly value of 13s. 6d. ; twenty-four 

 quarters and four bushels of barley,® annually paid by 14 tenants 

 (that is to say 1 quarter and 6 bushels by each tenant) valued at 

 £6 2s. 6d. per annum; a cottage worth 12d. yearly; all the fines 

 of assize of bread and ale payable by the tenants there, amounting 

 to 6s. yearly ; the pannage of swine payable by 14 tenants there, 

 viz. by every tenant Id. ; all that Manor house or site in the street 

 of Ambell, then or late in the tenure of Robert Bullock, worth 3s 4d. 

 per annum ; the site of a salt pan there worth 4s. per annum ; the 

 coal mines there valued at 41s. per annum ; a coney garth worth 

 10s. per annum ; the whole being worth £25 2s. 6d. per annum."'' 



The grantees, 8th March 1629, conveyed the same to Sir 

 Wm. Hewitt, Knight, and Thomas Hewitt, esq., his eldest 

 son, who seem to have speculated in lands in adjoining 

 townships. 



The Hewitts, 23rd November 1630, in consideration of 

 £119 3s., convey their Amble purchase to Henry Lawson of 

 Newcastle, merchant, and Henry Horsley of Milburn Grange, 

 gent., but reserved "all Mynes of Coales within the territories 

 of Amble, with suflB.cient way leave and stay leave to and 

 from the Mynes, with liberty of digging Pit or Pits, yielding 



^ Public Record Office — Exchequer Depositions, 14 James I., 1616, 

 Michaelmas Term, No. 30. 



_* 1580, Musters of Middle Marches. — Tynemouthshire. " The inhabitants 



of Hauxley and Amble are so 'exacted' by the Queen's officers, 



they are ready to give up their holdings. . . . The tenants in Amble and 

 Hauxley were accustomed to pay partly money and partly corn. At the 

 'Auditt' the custom is, the price of the rent corn is delayed till the auditt 

 twelfemoneth after, and then of curtesie of th' officers yt ys set at a grote 

 a bowll under the price of the markett at Newcastell." — Border Papers, 

 1894, page 23. 



' Gibson's Tynemouth, Vol. i., p. 248. 



