Holdings
He held the following in demesne as of fee tail to himself and the heirs male of his
body.
Woodhorn, the manor, held of the king
in chief as
1/20 knight’s fee. The site of the manor is waste and worth nothing yearly. In the manor there are 240 a. land,
meadow, and pasture in ‘le Cunungre’, ?‘Scileslate’, ‘Chynefen’, ‘les Thre Acres’,
‘le Waynway’, ‘Esthedland’, ‘Beslemore’, ‘Crenkylmore’, ‘Litilmore’, ‘Potermere’,
‘les Halmers’, ‘Lechsyd’, ‘Melderleth’, ‘Brounmore cum Lesleighse’, ‘le Southhedland’, ‘le Parke’, ‘les Parkdyk’, ‘Lambepetmer’, and ‘Meytesmedowe’, each acre worth 1d. yearly; 22 husbandlands in bondage, each worth 3s. yearly; 32 cottages, of which 16 are waste and worth nothing yearly, and 16 are worth 2s. 8d.
yearly; various free tenants in
North Seaton, who hold two parts of the vill in drengage, paying 42s. yearly to the manor and doing suit to the manor court; free tenants who hold a fishery in the water of
Wansbeck, paying 2s. 2d. yearly to the
manor; a free tenant in
Hirst who pays 18s. yearly to the manor for 3 husbandlands; a free tenant who pays 2s. yearly for a tenement called ‘Barnardland’; a free tenant who pays 2s. yearly for a tenement called ‘Baumburghcrofte’; and a grange, for
which the
prior of
Tynemouth
pays 1d. yearly.
He held the following in demesne as of fee tail to himself and the heirs of his body.
He held the following in demesne as of fee.
Newbiggin-by-the-Sea, the vill, port, and lordship, held of the king
by annual
fee
farm of £10 6s. The vill is worth nothing yearly. In the vill, port and lordship there is a rent called ‘Burghferme’, worth 26s. 8d. yearly; a toll with ‘le Prisfysshe’, worth
40s. yearly; and perquisites of court, worth 6s. 8d. yearly.
Great Swinburne, the manor and
vill, annual value £4 and no more because of the desolation of the country, held of
James
Strangwysse, esquire
,
service unknown.
East Chevington, ½ vill, annual value 40s., held of
Henry, earl of Northumberland
,
service unknown.
Cresswell, 2 husbandlands, annual value 6s. 8d., held of
John, lord Welles
,
service unknown.
Ellington, 3 waste husbandlands and a cottage, annual value 5s., held of
John, lord Welles
,
service unknown.
East or
West Denton, 10 marks rent issuing from the vill [
tenure and service not specified].
Garrett Lee, a waste vill, annual value 10s. and no more because of the desolation of the country, held of
Roger
Thornton
,
service unknown.
Longhorsley, 2 husbandlands, annual value 3s. 4d., held of
John
Horslee
,
service
unknown.
Capheaton, a capital messuage and a third of all the demesne land, annual value
10s., held of
William
Swynburn, chevalier
,
service unknown.
Newton-on-the-Moor, 3 waste husbandlands, of no annual value because of the desolation of the country, held of
John
Hastynges
,
service unknown.
Gunnerton, 2 husbandlands, annual value 3s. 4d., held of
John
Fenwyk
,
service
unknown.
Shotton, 2 waste husbandlands, of no annual value because of the destruction caused by the Scots and the desolation of the country, held of
Ralph
Gray
,
service
unknown.
Old Moor, a tenement and 12 a. arable, annual value 6d., held of
John
Bertram, chevalier
,
service
unknown.
Linton, the vill, annual value 20s., held of
Henry, lord Scrope
[
service not specified].
Jesmond, a moiety of 40 a. land, annual value 20d., held of the king
as
1/20 knight’s fee.
?
Bradford (
Braford), a moiety of 20s. annual rent issuing from the vill [
service and tenure not specified].
Cowpen, a moiety of 5 messuages, 100 a. arable, and 20 a. meadow, annual value
5s. and no more because of the desolation of the country, held of
Ralph
Gray
,
service
unknown.
‘South’ Weetslade, a moiety of 3 messuages, 70 a. arable, and 6 a. meadow, annual
value 3s. 4d., held of
Ralph, baron Greystoke
, of his manor of
Morpeth, in
socage.
Shotton, a moiety of a messuage, 15a. arable, and 1 a. meadow, annual value 12d., held of
Roger
Wodderyngton
,
service
unknown.
North Horsley, a moiety of a husbandland and a cottage, annual value 2s. 6d., held of
Ralph, baron Greystoke
,
service
unknown.
Broomley, a moiety of 2 messuages, 40 a. arable, and 8 a. meadow, annual value 5s.,
held of
Ralph, earl of Westmorland
, of his manor of
Bywell,
service
unknown.
Little Whittington, ½ manor, waste and of no annual value because of the desolation of the country, held of
Ralph
Gray
, of his manor of
Bolam,
service
unknown.
Aydon, a moiety of 2 messuages, 40 a. land, and 8 a. meadow, annual value 5s., held of
Ralph
Gray
, of his manor of
Bolam,
service
unknown.
He held the following in demesne as of free tenement feoffed jointly with Margaret, his
wife, who survives, for the term of their lives, by grant of
Thomas
de
Aldmore
and Reynold (
Raynaldus) de
Clifton, chaplain
. In the deed, dated 25 July 1403 at
Widdrington, and shown to the jurors, the premises were described as all the grantors’
lands, tenements, rents, and services in
Shotton,
Plessey, and
Blagdon.
annual value £10, held of the
baron of Greystoke
,
service
unknown.
He held the following [
estate not specified].
Colwell, the manor and
vill, annual value £4 and no more because of the destruction
of the Scots and the devastation of the country, held of
James
Strangwysse
,
service
unknown.
Little Swinburne, 2 husbandlands, of no annual value for the above reason, held of
John
Middelton
,
service
unknown.
