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hall,*'' and Togston, and in the following year sold it to Mr Jas. 

 Dand of Hauxley, who devised the eastern half of New-hall, 

 with Gloster-Hill, to his eldest sou, Mr Eobt. Dand of 

 Lesbury Field-house, and the western half and the onstead 

 with Togston Hall to his second son, Mr James Dand of 

 Togston Hall. And with their respective representatives the 

 New-hall remaius. 



Smith's Estate. The Smiths bave held laud here continuously 

 from the reign of Elizabeth. In 1602 we have the following 

 curious account of the estate of Koger Smith. It contains a 

 payment for cleansing his house, and an allowance to his wife 

 in the 'visitation,''*' indicating that he had died from some 

 pestilence or epidemic. 



A true and perfect inventory of all the goods and chattells yt Roger 

 Smith, late of Ambell, etc., praysed by these fowpr men vid. William 

 Taylor, John Gierke, Thomas Hudson, and Robert Hudson, 24th July 1602. 



li. s. d. 

 Imprimis twoo oxen valued to ... xj. 



Item three kine and two calves ... iiij. 



Item on browne mayre upraised ... xx. 



Item on pott or caldron and an almrye xxj. 



Item ij. pannes ij quishyones and sixe peeces of 



pouter ... ... viij. 



Item ij. lynen sheatles, ij sheatles and a 



hardin sheatle 

 Item fower boolles of wheate and a keninge 

 Item twoo boolles and a keninge of hjgge 

 Item seuen boolles of oottes 



Sum 



*® The New-hall was a long house a little east of present onstead, 

 and faced south. It was advertised in Newcastle Journal, 18th January 

 1752. " To be let the convenient dwelling house called the New 

 Hall, in the pai'ish of Warkworth, wherein are six fire rooms, beside 

 garrets, two of which rooms are pannelled, and three of them hung 

 with neat paper; also a stable, cow-house, and very good gardens, 

 and with or without ground and grass or hay for horses and cows. — 

 Enquire of Mr John Cook of Togston." 



To be let the mansion house of New-hall consisting of breakfast and 

 dining rooms, three bed chambers with ceiled garrets, kitchen, three stalled 

 stable and garden, pleasantly situated on the banks of the Coquet within 

 one mile of Warkworth, and very convenient for sea bathing. — Newcastle 

 Courant, 15th April 1797. 



■*'' The plague was in Newcastle in 1597. — Brand, Vol. ii. p. 449. 





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