Amble and Hauxley. By J. C. Hodgson. 283 



After RadclifEe Oolliery was sunk in 1837, a lawsuit arose, 

 brought by Mr Dand, the owner of the land, against Mr 

 Kingscote, the lessee of the royalty, which was argued in 

 the Court of Exchequer before Mr Baron Park, who, 29th 

 January 1840, gave judgment for the plaintiff. The case 

 Dand v. Kingscote is yet quoted in the text books as an authority 

 to show that though royalty owners have the right to enter 

 and carry away the coal, they must make their way to the 

 nearest public road, and have not the right to capriciously 

 make a rail or other road to suit their own purposes. 



Fishery. Since printing the account on page 112, the 

 writer's attention has been drawn to the Newcastle Journal 

 of 21st January 1776, whicli contains a very wordy notice 

 by whicli James Crawford of North Shields advertises that 

 the partnership in a salmon fishery, adjacent to Warkworth, 

 which, for some considerable time, had subsided between 

 himself and Zaohariah Tyzack, late of the Glass House, 

 near Newcastle, and then of Warkworth, has been dissolved 

 after the accounts had been submitted to arbitration. He 

 thanks those "well wishers who had hitherto given preference 

 to his goods in the Salmon manufactory, and solaced himself 

 in the hope of its continuance."*^ 



The Widdringtons, Taylors, and Smiths are said to have, 

 at one time, kept fishing boats at Amble, and to have 

 conveyed their rights to the Duke of Northumberland. 



The Ancient Farms. A detailed account of the way in 

 which the old system of rating was based on the ancient 

 * farm ' will be found in an affidavit made by Mr. M. H. 

 Dand in the Morpeth school suit, printed iu Appendix I. 

 In 1794 the township of Amble rebuilt 24 yards of Warkworth 

 Churchyard wall, being its proportion at the rate of 2 yards 

 for each of its 14 farms. 



*^ This notice has been pointed out to me by the kindness of Mr 

 W. W. Tomlinson of Whitley, who also sends the following note from 

 the Newcastle Journal of 2nd November 1771. " Warkworth, October 

 27th, Early on Friday morning, the 25th inst., the house of Mr 

 Zacb. Tyzack, the proprietor of the fishery here, was broken into," 



