Amble and Hauxley. By J. C. Hodgson. 281 



Bullock of Amble, sp., aged 70. The freehold was carried to 

 the Fawcus family through the marriage of Dorothy Bullock 

 with John Fawcus of Hope-house, by whose descendant it 

 was sold to Taylor of Alnwick, who laid out the garden, etc., 

 for the site of Greenfield Terrace. Miss Taylor devised the 

 old grey slated mansion house to Mr Hall of Bewick, its 

 present owner. The house was used as the Poor-house for 

 the township before the formation of the Poor Law Union. 



Hudson's Estate. Eobt. Hudson and Hugh Hodgson were 

 petitioners in the suit of 1615 : their names appear as 

 copyholders in 1630, as holding lands of the annual value 

 of £l 68. 4d., and 19s. 4d. respectively, and a conveyance 

 was enrolled in Chancery, 10th June 1631, from Sir Wm 

 Hewitt to John Hudson and Thos. Patterson of a tenement 

 in Amble. Neither name appears in the rate book of 1663, 

 but the family held on to a fragment of what once was theirs, 

 for the strongly built, westward facing house, with red tiled 

 roof, which causes the main street of Amble to deflect to the 

 south, bears on the massive head over the low browed 

 doorway these letters 



H. 

 R M. 



1749. 



And in 1774 Ralph Htidson of Amble voted for freehold 



there, and the last of the family, a female, 'Tihby' Hudson, 



divested herself of it to John Turner, who voted as a 

 freeholder in 1826. 



The Tythes — of Amble township are, under the Tythe 

 Commutation Act, commuted for rent charges of £40 8s. lOd. 

 per annum to the vicar of Warkworth, in lieu of small tythes ; 

 and of £170 19a. 6d. to the Bishop of Carlisle, as rector in 

 lieu of corn tythes. The bishop's estates being transferred 

 to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, the latter, under the 

 Local Claims Act, have appropriated the corn-tythe-commu- 

 tation in part payment of the stipend of the minister of 

 the Ecclesiastical District or parish of Amble, whose vicar 

 accordingly draws it. 



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