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NRO 324/W1/28

Deposition – Robert Armstrong – 28 Nov 1757

Robert Armstrong of the Herbert Law, Alston, gentleman, 70, said in 1732 he rode the boundary with Sir Walter Blackett (Hardrigg-Long Cross- Blue Snab – Standing Stone in Millstone Bottom- etc)…At the time he lived in Coalcleugh in Allendale and was steward to Sir Walter Blackett there and had been employed as a steward by the Blackett family since 1717.. He said that at the corner of the new Millstones enclosure made by Mr Whitfield, his brother John Armstrong and others pulled down the fen

NRO 324/W1/28

Deposition – Henry French – 28 Nov 1757

Henry French, 60 and upwards, carpenter, of Planetree House, Whitfield. He said that there had been no dispute about Hareshaws, Thackshaws and Millstones Fell being in Whitfield Liberty, ‘until sometime after a rich groove or lead mine was discovered in the Manor of Hexham at a place called Grisslee Raw and then he heard that Mr Blackett now Sir Walter Blackett claimed the said ground called Hareshaws, Thackshaws and Millstone Fell to be parcel of and lie within the Manor of Hexham.’….. Re

NRO 324/W1/28

Deposition – Thomas Dawson – 28 Nov 1757

Thomas Dawson, 63, born at Whitewalls in Whitfield manor. His father farmed there and his mother after his father’s death. He was present at the Whitfield boundary riding by Mr Utrick Whitfield, son of Mathew Whitfield Esq., then Lord of the Manor of Whitfield. Saith ‘that the riding of the boundary was very public and notorious and believes that there were about three hundred people collected together, some out of curiosity and others upon other accounts….He said that Whitfield tenants

NRO 324/W1/28

Deposition – Nicholas Lee – 28 Nov 1757

Nicholas Lee, 62, Mason, lived at Whitelees in the parish of Kirkhaugh from childhood. In 1728 he leased Millstones farm for 21 years, but disposed of his interest after 3 years. During his time there he enclosed with a hedge a considerable part of Millstones Common with permission.

NRO 324/W1/28

Deposition – Robert Wilkinson – 28 Nov 1757

Robert Wilkinson, 67, of Dufton in Westmorland, said his father was hired as a herd by Thomas Errington of Corbygate and Ralph Whitfield of Newshield who had taken the Millstones farm as a grazing farm. It had a very large stock he believes to the amount of 1100, and the neighbours complained that Errington and Whitfield kept too large a stock of sheep upon the said Commons for their farm. In the summer they counted their stock of sheep and did this between Hareshaws, Sandiford and the Long C

NRO 324/W1/28

Deposition – Mary Pattison – 28 Nov 1757

Mary Pattison, 59, widow, was born in Allendale but lived from the age of 16 with her father at the Millstones Tenement. She said that some Allendale tenants got peat near Knights Cleugh, but only she believed with the permission of Squire Whitfield. Peat which was cast without permission was set on fire by a servant of Squire Whitfield, and she remembered seeing it burn for several days. Squire Whitfield would not refuse permission if asked to cast peats or to take ling for thatching. She us

NRO 324/W1/28

Deposition – John Hetherington – 28 Nov 1757

John Hetherington, 58, of the Hope in Whitfield, lived at the charge of the parish at a house in Whitfield and is maintained by the parish and has nothing of his own there. In about 1717, his father took a farm at Whitewalls in Whitfield. He remembered the riding of the boundary of Whitfield about 40 years ago by Mr Utrick Whitfield, eldest son of Mathew Whitfield Esq. Saith ‘he rode a little Galloway and was able to ride through several of the mosses but others he was obliged to lead throu

NRO 324/W1/28

Deposition – Mathew Martin – 28 Nov 1757

Mathew Martin, aged 100 years and upwards, of White Ouston in Whitfield Parish, who had given up his farm to his sons and now lived with them as a lodger, remembered the peats of Allendale tenants being burnt, and the impounding of an Allendale tenant’s sheep, after which ‘they were never again troubled’ with them. MM had been hired to plough a new Hawkuplee inclosure north of Powstile Burn about sixty years ago (1690s). He was with Mathew Whitfield, Lord of the Manor about 25 years a

NRO 324/W1/28

Deposition – John Robinson – 28 Nov 1757

John Robinson, 63 and upwards, of Woodmas Walls in the West Allen, had lived at the Hope in Whitfield ‘and hath lived there from his birth till Mayday gone two years since’. He knew the places called Hareshaws, Thackshaws and Millstones Fell, but did not particularly know the name of Thackshaws until about 24 or 25 years ago when Sir Walter Blackett rode his boundary, but that to his knowledge they were always reputed to be within the Manor of Whitfield, and he never heard any claim to the c

NRO 324/W1/28

Deposition – John Maughan – 28 Nov 1757

John Maughan, 67, of Upper Houses in Whitfield, born at Greystones where his father farmed and he farmed after him. Described Whitfield boundary, and driving cattle and horses in summer to graze on Hareshaws. He remembered waifs and strays being impounded and released only when the owners had negotiated with Squire Whitfield. ‘About six or seven years ago, he this examinant was Overseer of the Highways in Parmently Quarter and the Roads from Leadgate to Long Cross being presented for bein