Amhle and Hauxley. By J. C. Hodgson. 278 



Cook's Estate : — was in 1 663 rated at £30, or -^-ths of the 

 township ; it was designated Amble West-hall or New-hall, 

 by the latter it is now known. In 1630 Henry Lawson and 

 Henry Horsley purchased lands in Amble from Sir Wm. 

 Hewitt, and in 1632 they made a declaration that they had 

 purchased the estate in trust for Edward Wilson. In 1649 

 Henry Horsley and Edward Wilson released the estate to 

 Catherine Wilson, spinster, who seems shortly afterwards to 

 have married John Thompson, and with him, in 1652, 

 conveyed to Edward Cook.^^ 



Calamy tells us that the Rev. John Thompson was, after 

 the passing of the act of Uniformity, ejected from his rectory 

 of Bothal, taken "in tlio bishopric and imprisoned in the 

 common gaol at Durham for his nonconformity. And his 

 imprisonment brought him into a dropsy, of which he died. 

 He was a man of learning, and a man of peace and an 

 excellent preacher: congregational in his judgment but 

 moderate." The Eev. John Hodgson^^ quotes Brand for 

 saying ' that after being cast out of Bothal he came to 

 Newcastle, married a great fortune, and kept his coach.' 



This identification is supported by a notice that in 1650 

 Catherine Wilson of Pegs worth conveyed a messuage and 

 lands, at Old Moor, to John Thompson-^ of l^othal, clerk, who, 

 with Catherine his wife, in 1652, sold them to Wm. Lawson 

 of Longhirst.^^ If then the two John Thompsons are identical, 

 his marriage with the heiress must have taken place during 



^' 12th July 1720. Mr John Lewin of Bamburgh and Mrs Ann Muschamp 

 married. — Eglingham Reg. 



1701. John Lewin of Birling and Elizabeth Forster of > 

 High Buston, mar. ( Warkworth 



1707. Eobt. Tarner of Acklington Park and Barbara C Register. 

 Lewin of Hauxley, mar. ^ 



January 7th 1705-6. Wm. Revely of Hartlepool, mariner~) 

 [afterwards of Alnmouth] and Ana Lewins of Alnmouth, I 

 mar. ' Lesbury 



l7th June 1715. Thos. Lewins of Birling Field House i Register. 

 and Elizabeth Valentine, daughter of Mr Edw. Valentine 

 of Wooden, mar. J 



^* Schedule of deeds in B,ev. John Hodgson's collection. 



23 Hodgson, Part ii., Vol. ii., p. 148. 



2^ Hodgson, Part ii., Vol. ii., p. 172. 



2» Ibid. 



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