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Freeholders. 



Having' traced the descent of the manor, let us take up 

 that of the freeholders. 



Arnold's Estate. — The Rev. J. Hodgson's collection contains 

 notes taken from records at York of a petition addressed to the 

 'Council in the North,' dated at York, 5th June 1611. Robt. 

 Arnold, the orator to the council, stated that one Edward Arnold 

 died possessed of a copyhold messuage and appurtenance in 

 Amble, in which he was succeeded by his eldest son, John 

 Arnold, who died without issue (leaving a widow, Janet, who 

 remarried Robt. Howey) ; after whose death his brother and 

 heir Thos. Arnold succeeded, and he was followed by his son 

 Thomas, who was father to Robert Arnold, the orator. The 

 latter, in his prayer, asserted that he had been admitted tenant, 

 " but the writings of the premises being in ye hands of Edward 

 Patterson of Togston, who pretended a right by virtue of said 

 writings to said premises to your orator's disadvantage as much 

 as £40. He therefore prayeth judgment of equity." 



Robert Smith, of the age of 78 years, deposed — "that he 

 did well knowe John Arnolde of Ambell, and that the said 

 John Arnolde died seized of a tenement in Amble, now in 

 the tenure or occupation of Robert Arnolde of Birlinge,'^ or 

 his assigns ; and he did knowe Thomas Arnolde, brother to 

 the said John Arnolde, and that the said Thomas had a sonne 

 whose name was* Thomas, and that the said Robert Arnolde, 

 is son and heir of the said Thomas the younger; and he 

 dothe further sale upon his oath that he doth well remember 

 that the Prior of the Monastery of Tynemouth was in displeasure 

 with the said John Arnolde— and the said John did goe to 



London, and at his return went to the Prior and did 



with him, and the Prior would not grant him a Coppy of 

 the said tenement in Ambell, untill he was content to give 

 so many nobles as there were dores about his house, and 



there were found xiiij dores, and giving satisfaction 



to the Prior, he had his Coppie according to custom. And 

 he doth further sale upon his oath that Janet Howey, wife 



of Howey, who was before wife of John Arnold at 



the time of his death, gave charge to Patterson to 



marry one Ai-nolde, sister of Arnolde, because 



8rtid she, that tenement doth of right belong to the Arnoldes, 

 12 A defendant in the suit of 1616. 



