272 Amhle and Hauxley. By J. C. Hodgson. 



took a lease in Birling under the Earl of Northumberland 

 and was living in 1701. Thomas Lewin, mentioned in a 

 lease as son of John, married, in 1715, Elizabeth Valentine 

 of Birling North Field, who died in child-birth of a son 

 Edward, in 1718. The latter, mentioned in a lease as son 

 of Thomas, married in 1740, Elizabeth Robinson. Thomas 

 Lewen died r2th May 1749, leaving a will dated 20th January 

 1747, and three daughters, another daughter Ann, being born 

 six months after his death. The latter, in 1772, married Geo. 

 Ord of Low Buston, to whom she had three daughters, who, in 

 1825, with John Readhead, who had married one of them, 

 joined their surviving aunts in claiming the Low Hall and 

 Amble Hope, which they claimed had not been sold, but 

 mortgaged by Lewin, their alleged ancestor, to RadclifEe ; 

 which mortgage they professed themselves ready to pay off 

 and discharge. Even if their pedigree can be accepted, they 

 do not seem to have shown the affinity of their ancestor, 

 John Lewin of Birling with Nicholas or Thomas Lewin of 

 Amble.^i 



Widdeington's Estate : — in 1630 was a copyhold of the yearly 

 rent of £l Is 3d : and in 1663 a freehold rated at £30, or Aths 

 of the rateable value of the township. It was again augmented 

 by purchases, until it contained perhaps 280 acres. Transmitted 

 in the same way as the lands in Hauxley until 1807, all of it, 

 save some 24 acres, was then sold by auction, and purchased by 

 Edwards Werge. The latter sold off in parcels about 10 

 acres lying near the Coquet ; these in 1842 were owned by Doug- 

 las, Richardson, and Shanks : and have from their proximity to 

 the village of Amble proved the most valuable portion of the 

 estate. 



*^ 11th November 1639. Bond of marriage, John Lewin and Martha 



Armorer, parish of Warkworth. 



20th March 1683. Lylias, daughter of John Lewins of Warkworth, 



gent., christened at Alemonth. — Longhoughton Register. 



9th April 1697. Bond of marriage, Thomas Lewin of Acton, gent., 



and Ann Nesbit, sp., he — Felton ; she — Warkworth parish. 

 7th Sept. 1669. Mr Francis Lewins of Adderston, bnr. N 

 27th Sept. 1716. Mrs Eliz. Lewins of Bambro., bnr. I ji h h 

 9th Dec. 1719. Mr Nicholas Lewins of Bambro., bur. > '^™ ^'^^ 

 30th April 1721. John, son of Mr John Lewins of I ^^^* 



Bambro., bap. ^ 



