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



Collyery, Coney-warren, Fishing, and Rent-corn belonging to 

 Amble Hall, with a farmhold at Newton-by-the-Sea, Fen wick's 

 Close near Alnwick, etc., which the Trustees had, 27th May 

 1652, contracted to sell to Geo. Clarkson, esq., and Sam. 

 Foxley, esq.® 



Before 1663, the Hall-corn rent, and probably the minerals, 

 had vested in Francis Eadcliffe. 



This Hall-corn Barley, an appurtenant to the manor, was 

 then and long after paid in kind on the site of the manor 

 house, on the Feast of the Purification, by the occupiers of 

 the 14 ancient farms in the township, at the rate of 1 quarter 

 and 6 bushels per farm, making in all 24 quarters and 4 

 bushels. It was, by old custom, poured down on a great 

 sheet, and then measured up by the nominee of the rent owners, 

 until about beginning of this century when the arrangement 

 was arrived at, that the persons liable, should each, at his 

 convenience, deliver his proportion or pay its value at the 

 average market price. 



The part taken by the Radcliffes in the Rebellion of 1712 

 is so well known that it need not here be recapitulated. 



" Treason doth never prosper. What's the reason ? 

 For if it prosper, none dare call it treason." 



In 1716 the Hon. Wm. Radcliffe, uncle to James, Earl 

 of Derwentwater, deceased, was seized in fee of the manor 

 of Amble, etc., which, in 1719, he conveyed to Ralph Radcliffe 

 of London, merchant, apparently in trust, for he continued 

 to receive the profits of the manor until his death in 1732. 



By a commission, under the great seal, an inquisition was 

 taken, 4th November 1742, at Morpeth, whether Wm. Radcliffe 

 late of Amble, esq., was dead, and whether he died without 

 leaving an heir, and what manors, lands, etc., he had at his death. 

 The jury say that Wm. Radcliffe died at Rome, 6th November 

 1732, without any heir; that he was seized of the manor 

 or township of Amble of 32 old bolls, and 4 bushels or 98 

 new bolls of bigg, payable at Candlemas by the tenants of 

 Amble— of free warren or coney garth of Amble and Hauxley 

 of the smith's shop Amble, and the colliery or coal mine in 

 Amble and Hauxley, of the site of the salt pits or salt pans 

 in Amble, of 4 farms in Amble called the Hopehouse, and 



^ Royalist Composition Papers, Series i., Vol. 26, No. 257. 



