Amble and Hauxley. By J. C. Hodgson. 263 



to Horsley and Lawson recompense, and digging the ground 

 within the territories of Amble, in which any Pit, for getting 

 of coals, shall hereafter happen to be sunk or wrought ; 

 they also reserved the 24 quarters of Barley or Bigge 

 Winchester measure to be paid annually at the manor house 

 of Amble, at the feast of the Purification." 



The manor was, of course, conveyed subject to the rights 

 and privileges of the copyholders, who, in 1630, were 

 described as, sometime, 









£ S. D. 



Eobt. Hudson holding- 



lands of 



the yearly value of 



1 6 4 



Hugh Hodgson 



do. 



do. 



19 4 



llobt. Smith 



do. 



do. 



113 



Roger Smith 



do. 



do. 



1 3 7 



Robt. Patterson 



do. 



do. 



19 11 



John Clark 



do. 



do. 



19 1 



Robt. Widdringtou 



do. 



do. 



1 1 3 



Robt. Taylor 



do. 



do. 



1 11 



Robt. Bullock 



do. 



do. 



9 9 



Cuth. Hall 



do. 



do. 



2 8 





£9 4 1 



Lawson and Horsley would seem to have forthwith sold 

 the land out in parcels in many cases to the ancient copy- 

 holders, for in 1663 we find the following freeholders. 

 Nicholas Lewen rated at £40 



Robert Widdrington, esq. „ 30 



Edw. Cook „ 30 



Wm. Smith „ 10 



Edw. Browell „ 10 



John Taylor „ 10 



Wm. Reed „ 10 



And F. Radcliffe, esq. for Amble Hall-corn. 



Annual Value of whole township 140 



When the Hewitts conveyed their interest in Amble in 

 1630, they expressly reserved the mines and the Hall-corn- 

 rent, and presumably the old manor house, or at any rate 

 the partial use of it. 



In the Royalist Composition Papers is recorded the sale 

 of Sir Wm. Fenwick's estates of Heron's Close and Espley, 

 near Morpeth, "and the house known as Amble Hall, with 

 the lands appertaining to the same, and the Salt Panns, 



