Greenhaugh And Tarset : Selected Sources And Surveys

1. The Laing Charters/Deeds relating to the Liberty of Tynedale

Set out below is a deed relating to North Tynedale included amongst a large collection of deeds assembled by the Scottish scholar-antiquarian David Laing and bequeathed to the University of Edinburgh. The majority of the Northumberland deeds deal with lay estates in the Glendale area. The documents were edited and published in chronological sequence by Anderson (Calendar of the Laing Charters, Edinburgh, 1889). The 71 deeds relating to Northumberland up to 1500 were subsequently calendared again by Macdonald (Archaeologia Aeliana 4th ser., 28 (1950), 115-131), whose reading is followed here. References to both calendars are given.  The document relates to one half or moiety, of the former Comyn manor of tarset

Laing Charter no. 49; Macdonald 1950, no. 29

3 October 1360.  Indentures (in Norman French) between Sir David de Strabolgy, Earl of Athol, on the one part, and William del Strothre, Mayor of Newcastle upon Tyne, on the other part, whereby the Earl assigns and establishes the said William as his steward to lease all the lands and holdings which he had or might have in the county of Northumberland and the franchise of Tyndale (danz le Comtee de Northumbr' et las fraunchise de Tyndale), to hold and use the said office according to the force and effect of an indenture between the parties (dated at Newcastle, 9 August, 32nd year of Edward III, 1359), by which the Earl wills and grants, for himself and his heirs, that all things contained in the said Indenture shall be held to the end of the term comprised in the same, without challenge by either party (sans chalenge ou debate de lune partie ou de lautre), and the Earl grants that the said William and his heirs shall have and hold to him, his heirs and assignees, from the feast of St. Michael last, to the feast of St. Martin next to come, and from the feast of St. Martin to the end of five years complete, the lands and holdings, pastures and fisheries (pescheries) 'en demeyn et en seruice', that is, in Tyndale, Kelderhayes, the 'motte' of Kelder, 'Bowes come les Belles', Waynehopside with the park of Waynehope, Poltirernet, and the 'motte' of Emelhope, to hold for five years, rendering each year a rose at the Nativity of St. John the Baptist (une rose a la Natiuite Seint Johan le Baptiste, 24 June), for all services, etc.  And if the said lands, holdings, etc., or any part of them be destroyed by war with the Scots (soient destruits per une gere Descoce) during the said term of five years, the said William and his heirs and assignees shall hold them after the term aforesaid, until they levy the full value of the destruction and disturbance made (tanquils eient leuez au pleyne a la valiance de las destructione et destourbance faitz), according to what the lords (les seigneurs) may have from the common right, and by reason may do or ought to pay to their tenants in like case, having regard to the yearly extent, made between the Earl and the said William, amounting to £13 (tresze livres) a year.  With clause of warrandice by the Earl.

Witnesses:  John de Coupland, Henry del Strothre, then sheriff of Northumberland, Robert de Angretoun, William de Hepescotes, William de Presfen, Nicholas Bagot.

Dated at Newcastle upon Tyne, the Sunday next after the feast of St. Michael (3 October) 1360.

2. Inquisition Post Mortem of Henry Percy, Earl\of Northumberland, 19th June , 4 Edward IV (1464) (reproduced extensively in Hartshorne 1858, 260)

The Earl was killed fighting on the losing Lancastrian side at the battle of Towton, on Palm Sunday, 1461. As a result his lands were forfeited to the victorious Yorkist king, Edward IV. It was found that:

The Earl forfeited to the king, among other estates held in his demesne as of fee, on the day of his death, within the liberty of Tindale, where the king's writ did not run, certain lands and tenements called Talbot's lands, with the appurtenances, viz.

• the manor of Walwykgrange
• the towns and lordships of Hawden, Charleton, Overthornburn and Netherthornburn (Thorneyburn),
• 28 messuages, 1000 acres of land, 300 acres of meadow, 3000 acres of pasture, 200 acres of wood, 200 acres of turbary (peat diggings) and 2000 acres of moor in Walwykgrange, Hawden, Charleton, Overthornburn, Netherthornburn, the Syde, Grayside, Langhalgh, Close Hill, Bullishil, Newton, Sundaysight, Highmore. Emlopp, Smallhall, Stokhall (Stokoe), Bromehouse, Carne, Hedestede, Dunstede, Yatehouse, Grenehalgh, Grenestede, Cariteth, Tresset (Tarset), Tresset Park (Tarset Park), Barnes, Yarowe and Sydewode with appurtenances.

which said premises were held by the Earl of Northumberland of Henry Earl of Essex and Isabella his wife, as in the right of the said Isabella, as of their manor and lordship of the liberty of Tindale.

In 1472, these lands, along with the other honours, title and estates of the deceased 3rd Earl, were restored to the Percies, in the person of Henry, eldest son of the former Earl.

3. Survey of Debateable and Border Land, taken A D 1604, ed. R.P. Sanderson (1604 Survey, 54)

Freeholders in Upper North Tynedale

4. Minutes of the Court Baron for the Manor of Charlton Yate held on the 7th-10th October 1605 (Aln Cas C XII; reproduced in NCH XV (1940), 248-49)

Inquiry as to the heirs of customary tenants who have died

The jury finds that John Dodde is son and heir to George Dodde to a tenement called Brunt banck. Cuthbert Dodds called John’s Cuddye is dead who held a tenement in Grenhalghe.  Margaret Dodde and Hannah Dodde are his father’s sisters.

Names of free tenants

Edward Charleton gentleman

The heirs ofThomas Kirshoppe of Newbrough

William Charleton

Admissions of tenants according to the custom

Gren Halgh: John Dodde, Hector Dodde, in right of his wife, Edwarde Dodde, George Dodde admitted at this court.

Bruntbank: John Dodde, James Dodde, Roland Dodde, John Dodde otherwise called Jennett’s son

Division of the open grazing lands among the families or graynes of the manor

• Sandie Mylburne of Yatehouse and a number of other Milburns for themselves and the rest of their Grayne took by grant of the Earl’s commissioners the waste  land called Hemloppe Burne Graynes (Emblehope).
• Michael Hunter of Water Head and the rest vof the Hunter grayne took the waste ground at Hawkuppested (? Hawkhopehead).
• Edward Charleton of Hesleyside for his house and the Charletons of Shitlington, Cuthbert Charleton of Bellingham and Gilbert Charleton of Boughthyll for them and their houses, Jasper Charleton of Hawcuppe for his house and the Charletons of Snabdauge, William Charleton of Charlton Yate for the Charletons of Caryteth and the Bower, have taken the waste grounds of Lystenstone hyll.  The parting of the high lands among those that are of the name of Charleton in two halves by Matthew Charlton of Ellingham, Gilbert Charleton of Boughthyll, Christopher Charleton of Hetherington and John Charleton of the Bower by the consents of all the rest of the Charletons.  (The bounds are set out in full).

Presentment of the names of those who sold wood out of the manor

• A presentment made by Gilbert Charleton of Bought Hill of theie names which carried or sold or gave any of the woods lying in the highland of Tyndale belonging to the Earl.  (List of names).

Presentment of the names of those who permitted persons not of the manor to graze sheep on their lands

• Edward Charleton of Hesleyside hath brought in Margaret, countess of Bothwell, with a flock of sheep and a sort of neet with the consent of all the rest of the Charletons.
• John Charleton of Reedsmouth hath brought in one Archie Roger, Scotishman, without the consent of any with a flock of sheep and ‘one hundred nowte’.
• William Charleton of Bogleholl hath brought in one George Niyou of Callaly with a flock of sheep and one hundred nowte.

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• The whole Quest sayeth that as concerning the cutting of wood which we have of my Lord before this present day for our rent paying, it has ever been at our own pleasure and from this day we ordain that no manner of person shall sell bark or cut any kind of wood to any sort or other or yet to themselves to cut but to their own use under the pain of 14s to the owner
• Item we find that James Dodd, otherwise Pluck of Bruntbank, is cast in two bloods and a fray – cometh in the Lord’s will.
• John Dodd, otherwise Jaffrey’s Jake of Bruntbank, is cast for wrongous mowing 3s 4d.