General Notes

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JAMES LAWSON, ESQUIRE.  Merchant-adventurer of Newcastle of Mele St.,Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Merchant. Sheriff 1523, Mayor 1529 and 1540. OnApril 8 1522 purchased of William Wardle, Merchant, a house andhorse-mill in the Meal Market, Newcastle. Had apprentices George Bertram8, Henry 8, Charles Gofton 9, Henry 8, and Richard Ball 1540. Purchasedfrom the Crown the lands etc. of the
dissolved Monastery of Nesham. Patent dated 1st October (? September) 32Henry VIII 1540.

Was the Kings farmer and collector at Nesham 33 and 34 Henry VIII . Wasseized of lands etc. in
Milburne and the Manor of West Matsen. Purchased the Manor of Byker 6July 1543 and the
house in which he resided in Mele St. by deed dated 3 December 35 HenryVIII. By
deed dated April 19 1544 he settles the Manor of Byker and West Matsen onhis eldest son
Edmund and estates in Nesham, Cockfield, Little Burdon, Dynshall etc. onhis younger sons and the
heirs male begotten of their bodies with remainder to his own rightheirs. Died 24
February 1 Edward VI 1547, Inq. p.m. 4 February 2 Edward VI. He marriedAlicia, daughter of
George Bertram of Westgate, Newcastle, squire, (her will is dated 14November 1547)