NORTHUMBERLAND.
Inquisition.
Newcastle upon Tyne, the castle.
15 April 1437. [
Rodes].
Jurors:
William
Hardyng
;
John
Heron
;
William
Heron
;
Robert
Elryngton
;
Thomas
Reyde
;
William
Buticom
;
John
Reyde
;
Richard
Cuttour
;
Thomas
Lyghton
;
Robert
Newton
;
Robert
Fenwyk
;
Robert
Langwath
; and
John
Elyson
.
He held the following castle and manor to him and the heirs male of his body by a fine levied three weeks from Easter 1378 [CP 25/1/181/14, no. 3], between
Gilbert
Umfravile, earl of
Angus
, querent
, and
John
de
Haburgh, clerk
, and
John
de
Pykeworth, clerk, deforciants
. By this fine the earl recognised that the castle and manor belonged by right to John and John, as that which they had by his grant. They granted him the castle and manor to him and the heirs of his body, to hold of the king and his heirs by due service, successive remainders to the following and the heirs male of their bodies, to hold as above:
Robert
de
Umfravile, chevalier
, the late earl’s brother;
Thomas
Umfravile
, Robert’s brother;
Thomas
Umfravile
, son of Joan, daughter of
Adam
de
Rodom
;
Robert
Umfravile
, son of the same Joan; with a final remainder to the late earl’s right heirs.
By virtue of this fine the late earl was seised of the castle and manor in demesne as of fee tail and he died thus seised without heir of his body. After his death, and because
Robert
de
Umfravile, chevalier
, his brother, died before the earl, without an heir male of his body,
Thomas
Umfravile
was seised of the castle and manor by virtue of the remainder. He died thus seised without heir male of his body. After his death,
Thomas
Umfravile
, son of Joan, daughter of
Adam
de
Rodom
, was seised by virtue of the remainder. He had issue, Gilbert, and died thus seised. Afterwards, Gilbert was seised as his son and heir male and by virtue of the fine. Gilbert died thus seised without an heir male of his body, and after his death
Robert
Umfravile
, son of Joan, who is the
Robert
Umfravile
named in the writ, was seised by virtue of the remainder. He died thus seised without heir male of his body.
After his death by virtue of the fine the castle and manor should remain to
Walter
Tailboys
, aged 40 years and more, kin and heir of the late earl, viz., son of
Walter
Tailboys
, son of Eleanor, daughter of Elizabeth, sister of the late earl.
Harbottle, the castle, and Otterburn, the manor, held of the king
as 1/4 knight’s fee. The castle is worth nothing yearly. In the manor, there is a manorial site, with a
hall, 3 chambers, a chapel, 3 stables, a cook-house and a buttery in a tower, worth nothing yearly; 200 messuages and 200 tofts, worth nothing yearly because they cannot be demised at farm because of the war which existed between the kingdom of England and the Scots at the time of his death, which is still continuing; 20 cottages, worth nothing yearly because of the war, as above; 1,000 a. arable, likewise worth nothing yearly because it cannot be demised to farm because of the war; 300 a. wood, worth nothing yearly, as above; 2,000 a. meadow, worth nothing yearly because of the war, as above;
various pastures, viz., Redeshed, containing 200 a., Lumsdon Law, containing 500 a., Ramshope, containing 500 a., Spithope, containing 1,000 a., Cottonshope, containing 2,000 a., Akensyd, containing 300 a., Burdhope, containing 2,000 a., Thillez, containing 2000 a., Kellyburn, containing 5,000 a., Earlside, containing 3,000 a., two pastures lying together called Chattlehope and Bateinghope, containing 5,000 a., three pastures called Ridlees, Wilkwood and Wharmore, containing 6,000 a., Dudlees, containing 100 a., all in the march of Scotland, which cannot be demised at farm because of the war, as above, worth nothing yearly;
119s. 8 1/2d., 9lb pepper and 9lb cumin, in peacetime, from various free tenants holding tenements from the lord of the manor in the march of England near Scotland, payable at the two feasts of St Cuthbert
equally, but rendering nothing since his death because of the war, as above, except their aid with their lord in custody of the valley of Redesdale, where the said castle and manor are located, against wolves and thieves; advowson of the church of Elsdon, truly worth 20 marks yearly in peacetime; advowson of the abbey of nuns of Holystone, which can pay out £10 yearly during in peacetime; and various liberties and all lands and tenements within the bounds of the manor, known as within the liberty of Redesdale, viz.: 2 yearly views of frankpledge, held after Easter and after Michaelmas; a court held every 3 weeks; a twice-yearly court called ‘Forstercourt’; cognizance of pleas of the crown and all other pleas occurring within the liberty, to be pleaded before the justices of the lord of the manor, with the profits of the same; return and execution of all royal writs by the lord’s bailiffs; chattels of fugitives and felons and damages, year and waste of the lands of the same; custody of prisoners and delivery of the same at the lord’s will; execution of everything belonging to the office of sheriff and the crown by the lord’s own ministers; ‘wayf’, ‘infangthefe’ and ‘outfangthefe'; free chase; amends for breaches of the assize of bread and ale within the liberty; a weekly market at Harbottle on Tuesdays and a yearly fair there at the Nativity of Mary; a weekly market at Elsdon on Sundays and a yearly fair there at the Assumption; gallows, tumbrel, pillory and toll in the same markets and fairs; with no sheriff or other royal bailiff to enter the liberty to execute any office, except in default of the lord’s bailiffs; the king’s justices in eyre in Northumberland to deliver to the bailiff of the liberty all articles of the crown belonging to the liberty to be pleaded before the justices of the lord of the liberty, with the profits of the same, all these liberties and franchises having been allowed to the lord of the liberty in the time of
Edward I and
Edward
III
, by title of prescription [PQW, pp. 593–4, 600], worth 20s. yearly in peacetime, but now nothing because of the war, as above.
Date of death and heirs as [696](#CIPM-DOC-24-696).