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



Depositions were taken in the following April before Lancelot 

 Errington,Cuthbert Hearon, George Chambers and others, sitting 

 as eommissioners at Newburn. 



From the evidence of Edward Gray of Newcastle, draper, aged 

 58 — John Lewen of Warkworth, gent., aged 23 — Bryan Calvert 

 of Seghill, aged 52— John Mills of Warkworth, aged 47, and 

 others ; it appears that Eobert Brandling, esq., as Sherili' of 

 Northumberland in 1631, by reason of an inquisition, seized to 

 his Majesty's use, several messuages and lands in Amble belong- 

 ing to the plaintiff at the value of £5 per annum. That about 

 August 1636 the defendants Thomas Carnaby, Thomas Urwen, 

 John Finch, and E.obert Mitford, "took and drove away 12 oxen 

 and 14 milk kine of complainant, the said oxen being yolked to 2 

 wains loaden with plaintiff's corn, and carrying the same home : 

 the said oxen and kine were at that time worth £104." "That the 

 said oxen seized were employed about complainant's husbandry 

 at harvest time, and said kine served paitly for maintenance 

 of his family, and that for want of them he had no milk for his 

 family." That at the time of the seizure complainant had divers 

 other goods in Northumberland — ' 80 horses and mares at the 

 least, and a good stock of sheep and young beasts to the value 

 of £600,' which Sir Wm. Carnaby might as well have seized upon 

 as upon oxen and kine above mentioned. That the Sheriff had 

 so acted out of malice. That for want of the oxen 320 threaves 

 of oats stood forth till after Martinmas, and a third part was 

 spoiled : that plaintiff could not sow a third part of corn he had 

 intended that year : was forced to sow all his hard corn upon 3 

 tilths instead of 4, by reason of which so many thistles sprang 

 up as to choke most of it : that plaintiff' was ' dampnified ' by 

 reason of want of oxen, and land wanting ploughing £40, and 

 by want of said kine £25."^' 



There remains at Durham a declaration filed in 1642, of the 

 accounts of John Lewyn, Thomas Lewyn, and Henry Lewyn, 

 sons and executors of the last will and testament of Thomas 

 Lewyn, gent., late of Wariiworth, in the * Dyoces ' of Durham, 

 deceased, made upon the administering of the goods, chattels, 

 and credits of the said deceased as followeth &c. [the amount 

 of Inventory is £333 16s.] The will itself does not appear 

 to be filed at Durham. 



" Public Record Office Exchequer Depositions, 14 Chas. I., 1637-8, 

 Easter Term, No. 31. 



