Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Percy Bailiff's Rolls of the Fifteenth Century
The nucleus of the Northumberland estate was, and still is, the barony of Alnwick, which, with its dependent manors of Alnwick, Alnmouth, Alnham, Bilton, Cawledge Park, Charlton, Chatton, Denwick, Lesbury, Longhoughton, Swinhoe, and Tuggal, was purchased by Henry de Percy from Anthony Bek, Bishop of Durham, 19th November 1309, having previously belonged to the Vesci family. The charter is printed in the Percy Chartulary, p. The sale was confirmed by Act of Parliament in the following year.
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