Total: 1676.5d, (£6 19s. 8d.)
(castle, Harbottle, Otterburn, )
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
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
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.
