Memorandum – Nicholas Walton – 9 Apr 1736

[annotated in pencil:] C Grey    Kipper Linn                 9 April 1736



We whose Names are hereunto Subscribed Met together at Newlands and Whittingstall in Order to Meet and Observe John Fenwick Esqr of Bywell and other Freeholders (Joyning upon the said Whittingstall Common) Riding their Boundery pursuant to an Appointment made by the said John Fenwick Esqr. We proceeded from Whittingstall to Apparly Burn where we Expected to have Met the said John Fenwick Esqr and others but they not being come to that place We Supposed the Company to be at Mr Bowtfloer at Apperly and there upon dispatched two Messengers one after the other to acquaint them that We were ready to Ride the Boundery of Newlands and Whittingstall, and that We desired they might be present, and in Answer thereto Mr Bowtfloer one of the s[ai]d Freeholders said they would not Come from his House till ab[ou]t one or two of the Clock (it being then ab[ou]t ten a Clock in the Morning) and that they intended riding their East Boundery first. So that We supposed they could not be at the Place where We joyned upon them till late in the Afternoon. 



Upon which We begun at Apperly Burn where it Comes out of New Park and Rid along the said Burn Edge, to the Hasaks or the Kipperlin hedge, where we Cutt up two peices of Earth or Turf, and from thence proceeded along the said Hedge to a Thorn in a Hedge of an Intack at Kipperlin House, where we pulled down the said Hedge and rid through it close by the Doors of the said House from thence thro[ough] the Stack Garth & another Intack West thereof and so to the Common From thence along the Hedges of Kepperlin to Cary burn head, and so down an Old Lane Extending Northw[ar]ds to the No[rth] West Corner of Kipper Linn Hedges where we also Cut up another Turf on the Edge of a Letch called Shorty Croft Syke. From thence along the said Letch to an old Dyke Cast, and along the said Dyke Cast to a High Road, and so on Cross the High Road NorthWest to Teut Thorne where is a heap of Stones & where We also Cut up a Turf. From thence So[uth]West up a High Road or old Lane to Coaleburn and up the S[ai]d Burn South to Syker <Hill> where We Cut up a Turf and proceeded no farther that part of the Common being Boundered on the South by Fairle May Inclosed Lands belonging John Fenwick Esqr After We had ended at the above Place we went thro[ugh] Some Common Inclosed belonging to the Sd Mr Fenwick and begun at the Corner of a Stone Wall called Fairlmay Garth where we Cutt up a Turf and proceeded So[uth] West along a Road Side to Backwort Letch and up the said Letch South to Unthank Hedges From thence East a Long the said Hedges to Mountryall & thence South to a Gate called Minnikins Gate and so along Unthank Hedge to Shottly Church Lane Gate. Thence down a Green Way SouthEast to the Black Dyke and so down the said Dyke to Walkershank head & so on a Little Way down a Runner to a Stone Wall within the Manor of Newlands on

Walkershank off which Stone Wall We pulled off a Stone and from thence proceeded down the said Letch called Mereburn hill it falls into Derwent: In riding of which Boundery we met with no Opposition or Discharge from any Body Save two Tenants of Mr Stevensons of Byreside who discharged us from riding within Walkershank: Witness our hands the Ninth day of April 1736



Nicho[las] Walton   Hugh Boag   Receivers

Robt Johnson  	 Abraham Bunting  Bailiffs



Tenants [Those without a mark indicator signed their names]

John Ellison  his mark X		Josiah Jewitt        Will. Leighton

William Brown  his mark X	Robt Seurtees  his mark X    William Green

Thos  Phillipson  		John Hedley	Henry Oxley

Luke  Hall  his mark O  John  Oxley  his mark O	Thos Sureties

John Reneson		Henry   Oxley   his mark O

George  Renoldson	his mark [a zig zag]   Thos Humele

George   Wilkinson   his mark O  William  Taylor his mark V

Thos  Wilkinson  his mark +   George Willis       

John   Willie  his mark: [a reversed E]