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VOL. CXXXI.

THE

PUBLICATIONS

SUKTEES SOCIETY

ESTABLISHED IN THE YEAK M.DCCC.XXXIV.

FOK THE YEAR M.OZJ.XYIII.

I'HI'lEHEAl) ANM SON, I'RrNTKKS, LEEDS AND LONDON.

NORTHUMBRIAN DOCUMENTS

SEVENTEENTH and EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES,

COMPRISING

THE KEGISTER OF THE ESTATES OF ROMAN CATHOLICS IN NORTHUMBERLAND

AND THE

CORRESPONDENCE OF MILES STAPYLTON.

Ptiblisi}fli for tf)c ^ociEtg fag

ANDREWS & CO.. SADLEK STREET, DURHAM. LONDON : BERNARD QUARITCH, 15, PICCADILLY. 191f:^.

At a Meeting of the Council of the Surtees Society, held in Durham Castle, on Tuesday, December 7th, 1915, the Rev. Henry Gee^ D.D., in the Chair,

It was resolved, that a Series of Northumbrian Docu- ments of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, com- prising the Register of the Estates of Roman Catholics in Northumberland and the Correspondence of Miles Stapylton, should be edited by Mr. J. C. Hodgson.

Henry Gee, Secretary.

CONTENTS

Preface

I. — Register of Estates of Roman Catholics in North- umberland IN the Eighteenth Century.

Registers or Certificates of: —

Page xiii

I.	Sir Nicholas Shirebume, barl	. April 12, 1717		3
II.	Gilbert Errington, gent..	April 10, 1717		5
III.	Robert Wilson, gent.	April 15, 1717		5
IV.	John Heslop, yeoman	April 17, 1717		5
V.	Mary Errington, widow	April 23, 1717		6
VI.	Comitess of Derwentwater .	no date		6
VII.	Hon. Arthur Radcliffe	April 15, 1717		7
VIII.	Winifred Cotes ....	April 16, 1717		7
IX.	William Sanderson, gent. .	April 8, 1717		9
X.	James Fenwick, gent.	April 18, 1 71 7		9
XI.	John Lawson, esq. .	April 17, 1 71 7		10
XII.	Sir Henry Lawson, bart.	April 16, 1 71 7		10
XIII.	Anthony Errington, gent. .	April 18, 1717		II
XIV.	Thomas Drew, gent.	April 18, 1 71 7		12
XV.	Ralph Brandling, esq. .	no date		12
XVI.	Roger Fenwick, gent.	no date		13
XVII.	Margaret Charlton, widow ,	no date		13
XVIII.	William Riddell, gent. .	no date		14
XIX.	Charles Colling-vvood, gent. .	no date		15
XX.	George Riddell, gent.	no date		16
XXI.	Hon. Anne Widdrington, widow no date		16
XXII.	Margaret Brown, widow	no date		17
XXIII.	Dame Isabella Swinburne,
	widow	no date		18
XXIV.	Dame Mary Swinburne .	no date		19
XXV.	William Ord, esq.	no date		20
XXVI.	Jane Camaby, widow	April 17, 1717		20
XXVII.	Mary Errington, widow	April 17, 1717		21
XXVIII.	Cuthbert Lambert, gent.	April 17, 1 71 7		21
XXIX.	Alexander Rutherford, yeomaii no date		23
XXX.	John Gascoigne, esq.	no date		23
XXXI.	Mary Stapylton, widow.	no date		24
XXXII.	Nicholas Stapylton, esq.	no date		25
XXXIII.	Gregory Errington, gent.	no date		26

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XXXIV.	Hon. Catherine Colliiigwood
	widow	no date
XXXV.	Dorothy Hankui, vv'idov\	April 19, 1717
XXXVI.	Margaret Han kin, spinster	April 19, 1 71 7
XXXVII.	James Selby, gent. .	April 19, 1 71 7
iCXXVIII.	Thomas Wilham Selby, esq.	March 29, 171 7
XXXIX.	George Rutherford, gent.	no date
XL.	John Clavering, esq.	no date
XLI.	Edward Haggei'ston, esq.	no date
XLII.	Hon. Henry Widdrington	no dale
XLIII.	Hon. Ehzabeth Widdrington widow ....	no date
XLIV.	John Colhngwood, esq. .	no date
XLV.	Edward Riddell, esq.	no date
XLVI.	Thomas Gibson, gent. .	April 18, 1717
XLVII.	Mary Gibson, widow	March 18, 17 16-7
XLVIII.	Matthew Leadbitter, yeoman April 18,1717
XLIX.	Nicholas Leadbitter, yeomar	I Apiil 18, 1717
L.	John Heron, yeoman	April 18, 171 7
LI.	Robert Spoor, blacksmith	April 18, 171 7
LII.	Francis Carnaby, gent. .	April 20, 1 71 7
LIII.	Thomas Kirsop, yeoman	April 18, 1 71 7
LIV.	Barbary Jefferson, widovv	Apr-il 18, 1 71 7
LV.	Thomas Lawes, yeoman	April 18, 1 71 7
LVI.	Joseph Stiidholme, blacksmi	h April 18, 17 1 7
LVII.	Christopher Dickenson, tann	er April 18, 1717
LVIII.	Lady Mary Radcliffe	April 19, 1 71 7
LIX.	Francis Reed, yeoman .	April 20, 1 71 7
LX.	Catherine Selby, widow	no date
LXI.	Anne Thornton, widow .	no date
LXII.	John Mackay, gent., anc Margaret, his wife .	i April 20, 1 71 7
LXIII.	Richard Hodgson, gent.	no date
LXIV.	William Errington, esq.	April 20, 1 71 7
LXV.	Robert Widdrington, gent.	April 15, 1717
LXVI.	John Newton	April 19, 1 71 7
LXVII.	Edward Widdrington, genl.	April 19, 1 71 7
LXVIII.	Lady Catherine Radcliffe	no date
LXIX.	Lady Elizabeth Radchffe	no date
LXX.	Mary Phillips, widow	no date
LXXI.	John Talbot, gent. .	no date
LXXII.	William Hardwick, gent.	no date
LXXIII.	Robert Colhngwood, gent.	no date
LXXIV.	Lancelot Ord, esq., and Mar} his wife ....	no date
LXXV.	Richard CaiT, gent. .	September 27, 1717
LXXVI.	John Potts, gent.	no date
LXXVII.	Edward Horsle}^ Widdrinj,
	ton, esq	no date

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LXXVIII. Richard Pepper, gent. .

LXXIX. Edward Errington, gent.

LXXX. George Sanderson, gent.

LXXXI. Edward Charlton . .

L XXXI I. Wmiam Potts, gent.

LXXXIII. Helena Fairfax, spinster

LXXXIV. Catherine Hayles, spinster

LXXXV. Lady Mary RadcIifEe .

LXXXVI. George Errington, esq. .

LXXXVII. Edward Charlton, gent.

LXXXVIII. Ralph Widdrington, esq.

LXXXI X. Dame Catherine Shireburne

XC. Sir Camaby Haggerston, bart.

XCI. Elizabeth Shafto, widow

XCII. Sir John Swinburne, bart.

XCIII. Gilbert Errington, gent..

XCIV. John Talbot, esq.

XCV. Sir Edward Gascoigne, bart

XCVI. Mary Selby, widow . .

XCVII. Elinor Thirlwall, gentlewoman

XCVIII. Ralph Clavering, esq.

XCIX. Elizabeth Ord, spinster .

C. Richard Ellis, gent. .

CI. Jasper Gibson, gent. .

CII. Philip Jefferson, chirurgeon

CHI. Anne Gibson, widow

CIV. Thomas Brandling, gent.

CV. Francis Brandling, gent.

CVI. Elizabeth Leadbitter, widow

CVH. William Charlton, gent.

CVIII. Mary Charlton, widow .

CIX. Catherine Fenwick, spinster

ex. Francis Wray, yeoman .

CXI. George Ridley, yeoman

CXII. Arthur Burdett, gent. .

CXIII. Thomas Jefferson, tanner

CXIV. Robert Dickinson, yeoman

CXV. Edward Wilson, gent.

CXVI. Richard Ord, gent. . .

CXVH. Ralph Clavering, esq.

CXVIII. Sir John Swinburne, bart.

CXIX. Sir Jolm Lawson, bart.

CXX. Dame Elizabeth Lawson,

widow ....

CXXI. John Stapleton alias Errington

CXXII. Henry Lawson

CXXIII. Sir Henry Lawson, bart.

CXXIV. Gilbert Talbot, esq. . .

August 3, 1717 . September 27, 1717 September 27. 171 7

no date

no date December 27, 1717

no date April 17, 1718

no date March 10, 1719-20

no date November i, 1722

no date

no date November 11, 1723 January 3, 1723

no date January 4, 1723-4 January 2, 1723-4 January 2, 1723-4 January 2, 1723-4 January 2, 1723-4

no date

no date January 2, 1723-4 January 2, 1723-4 January 2, 1723-4 January 2, 1723-4 January 2, 1723-4 January 2, 1723-4

no date January 2, 1723-4 January 3, 1723-4 March 23, 1723-4 February 25,1724-3

no date

no date October 22, 1726

October 22, 1726 December 11, 1735

no date December 31, 1739

no date

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CXXVI.

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CXXVIII.

CXXIX.

CXXX.

CXXXI.

CXXXII.

CXXXIII.

C XXXIV.

CXXXV.

C XXXVI.

CXXXVII.

CXXXVIII.

CXXXIX.

CXL.

CXLI.

CXLII.

CXLIII.

CXLIV.

CXLV.

CXLVI.

CXLVII.

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William Kirsop, gent. William Kirsop, gent. Ralph Brandling, esq. Thomas Mitchell, gent. . Ralph Clavering, esq. Thomas Stapleton otherivise

Errington, esq. . Winifred Stapleton alias

Errington, widow Thomas Riddell, esq. Charles Brandling, esq. . Sir Thomas Haggerston, bar William Archdeacon, esq. John Errington, esq. Miles Stapleton, esq. Thomas Riddell, esq., and

Elizabeth Margaret, his

wife .... Sir Edward Swinburne, bar William Charlton, esq. John Lawson, esq. Sir Caniaby Haggerston, bart William Hodgson, esq. Edward Charlton, esq. Thomas Harvey, gent. Thomas Riddell, esq. Jasper Gibson, esq. . Anne Fawcett Walter Astley, gent. . Mary Collingwood, wife o:

Luke Collingwood, gent James Pentland . Ralph Brandling, esq. . Anne Thornton, widow . John Clavering, esq. Walter Astley, gent. Edward Haggerston, esq. George Smith. Anne Haggerston, widow John Haggerston Catherine Riddell, spinster Countess of Derwentwater John Clavering, gent. Lancelot Ord, esq., and

Mary, his wife .

no date

August 31, 1750

December 31, 1750

no date

na date

no date

no date December 22, 1760

no date

no date April 25, 1770 November 4, 1768

no date

no date September 16, 1786

no date September 30, 17S7 April 18, 1 71 7 April 20, 1 71 7

26, 27.

April April May May May June June June June June June June October 9,

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27. ^7. ^7. 27. -7. 27.

1717 1717 1717 1717 1717 1717 1717 1717

1717 1717 1717 1717 1717

October 14, 171 7

II.— The Correspondence of Miles Stapylton

/'age 98 98 98

99 100

102 102 103 104

105

108 no

no

113 1x6 118 119 120 121 123 123 125 126 126

127 127 127 128 128 128 129 129 129 130 130 130 131

131

Introduction . . 134

Pedigree of Stapylton of Durham and of Thornton Watlass, to face 134

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6, 1 665 24, [1665] November 15, 1665 November 22, 1663

From Richard. Neile to Miles Slapylton July 22,1665

From Miles Stapylton to Miss Elizabeth

Fenwick August

From Cuthbert Carr to Anthony Byerley August From John Dunn to Miles Stapylton From Robert Colthirst to the same From George Milbourne and George

Myddleton to Bp. Cosin . . . November 2, 1665 From William Linton to Miles Stapylton November 21, 1665 From Mrs. Frances Gerard to Bp. Cosin November 3, [1665] From the same to [Miles Stapylton] . November 22, 1665 Pedigree of Dr. John Cosin, Bishop oi Durham . . . . lo fa From Mrs. Frances Gerard to Miles

Stapylton November 29, 1665

Pedigree of Descendants of Frances Cosin to face 146

December 13, 1665 January 3, 1665-6

[1665-6] . January 10, 1665-6 January 18, 1665-6 February 3, 1665-6 February 8, 1665-6 . February 12, 1665-6 . February 21, [1665-6] February 26, 1665-6 March 11, 1665-6 March 17, 1665-6 21, 1665-6 29, 1666

March March

2, 1666 13, 1666

From Thomas Man to Miles Stapylton

From William Marshall to the same

From the same to the same .

From William Blakiston to the same .

From Henry Delaval to the same

From William Marshall to the same .

From Thomas Man to the same .

From William Marshall to the same .

From Henry Delaval to Bp. Cosin .

From John Dunn to Miles Stapylton .

From Edward Kirlewe to the same .

From Mrs. Frances Gerard to the same

From John Brabant to the same.

From Sir Gilbert Gerard to the same Pedigree of Gerard of Fiskerton and Brafferton

From William Mai^shall to Miles Stapylton April From Samuel Rush to the same , . April

From Dame Catherine Fenwick to the

same [November 6, 1666]

From Miss Elizabeth Fenwick to the

same May 14, 1667

Pedigree of Fenwick of Fenwick, Wallington, and Meldon . From Miss Elizabeth Fenwick to Miles

Stapylton July

From Bp. Cosin to the same . . . February From Edward Arden to the same . Februarj^ From Bp. Cosin to Miles Stapylton and

Richard Neile March 12, 1667-8

From William Flower to Miles Stapylton May 4, 166S

From Bp. Cosin to the same . . . September 19, 1668 From the same to the same . . . December 8, 1668 From the same to the same . . . December 17, 1668 From the same to the same . . . December 17, 1668 From the same to the same . . . February 16, 1668-9 From the same to the same . . .. March 2, 1668-9

to f

tnf

5, 1667 . 13, 1667-8 25, 1667-S

I 'age 135

136 137 138 139

141 142

143

144

144 14.5

147 149

150 151 153 154 155 155 157 158 159 160 161 162 ace 162 164 166

167

168 168

171 173

177 179 182 r86

189

195 196 200

March 4, 1668-9 June 18, 1669

November 11, 1669 July 5, 1670

October 22, 1670

Cosin

November 1, 1670 February 2, 1 670-1 March 18, 1 670-1

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From Edward Arden to the same From the same to the same . From Bp. Cosin to Miles StapyUoi From the sanie to the same . From the same to the same . Pedigree of Descendants of Elizabeth From Bp. Cosin to Miles Stapylton From the same to the same . From the same to the same . From the same to the same . From the same to the same . From the same to the same . From the same to the same . From the same to the same . From the same to the same . From Sir Gilbert Gerard to the same From Bp. Cosin to the same . From the same to the same . From the same to the same . From the same to the same . From the same to the same . From Sir William Dugdale to the same From Dr. William Sancroft to Dean

Sudbury January 18, 1672-3

From Robert Stapylton to Miles

Stapylton March 11, 1672-3

From Lord Arlington to Dean Sudbury April 7,1673 From William Flower to Miles Stapylton December 23, 1673 From the same to the same . . . February 10, 1673-4

From William Blakiston to the same February 26

From Ralph Mylott to the same From M.F. to her father, Miles Stapylton From Dame Olivia Vavasour to Miles

Stapylton

From the same to the same . From Mrs. Frances Hutton to the same From Mrs. Ursula Pepys to the same . From the same to the same .

March 23, 1670-1
June	10, 1671
June	13. 1671
June	15, 1671
June	20, 1671
June	29, 1671
July	4. 1671
J"iy	4, 1671
October	19, 1671
November	2, 1671
November	7. 1671
January 2, 1671-2

June

II, 1672

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undated undated undated undated undated

Page 204 206 208 209 212 to face 212

215 218 220 223 225 229 231 234 237 239 240 241

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PREFACE

This volume of Northumbrian Documents of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries was intended primarily to make accessible a series of documents preserved at the Moot Hall at Newcastle, in the custody of the Clerk of the Peace of Northumberland, dealing with the landed estates of Roman Catholics from the beginning of the reign of George I and extending to the year 1787. Abstracts of these registers or certificates, as printed in Part I, will be found to contain matter interesting to genealogists, to topographical writers, and to students of contemporary economical conditions.

Part II comprises a series of Letters from the collections of the late Dr. Greenwell — ^whose death a year ago, though not unantici- pated, makes a great loss to the Surtees Society — which originally formed part of the official and family correspondence of Miles Stapylton, auditor, commissioner, and librarian of Dr. John Cosin, Bishop of Durham.

The Editor offers his grateful thanks to Mr. C. D. Forster, Clerk of the Peace of Northumberland, for permitting the abstracts of the registers to be made, for giving access to other documents in his official custody, and for the facilities given him for collating the proofs with the original documents. He is also under great obligations to Mr. William Brown and Mr. H. M. Wood for reading the proofs and for welcome emendation to the same.

INTRODUCTION

The certificates abstracted in the following pages were enrolled in Quarter Sessions by Roman Catholic landowners in obedience to the last of the penal laws enacted by Parliament, which for so many generations disfigured the Statute Book,

The word persecution is susceptible of many shades of meaning. It is defined in the New English Dictionary as " the action of perse- cuting or pursuing with enmity and malignit}^; especiall}^ the infliction of death, torture, or penalties for adherence to a religious behef or opinion as such, with a view to the repression or extir- pation of it."

If such had been the object of Parliament in making the penal laws, these certificates or registers would never have been drawn up, for there would have been no Roman Cathohc landowners left.

It may be affirmed that the Enghsh nation has never been given to persecution for religion, although individuals, ecclesiastics, and laymen, individually may not have been guiltless. The elements of intolerance latent in every breast have been headed off on politics, in which region the party temporarily in power has not always been over scrupulous in exacting vengeance on its opponents.

It may also be asserted that the Church of England has never been a persecuting church, although it must be admitted that its policy in excluding Nonconformists from the universities of Oxford and Cambridge was as illiberal as it was shortsighted. As a recent writer has appositely pointed out, the national church as established under the Reformation Settlement " suited the genius of the English people, expressed their good sense and distaste for extremes, and remains still the most tolerant ecclesiastical system in the world."*

If James II had listened to the wise counsels of Pope Innocent the Eleventh — who recommended him to exercise prudence and moderation! — the penal laws tlien in force would, almost certainly, have been repealed, and the Statutes imposing civil incapacities would have been suspended if not repealed. The self-will of that

* Bishop Hensou, in Edinburgh Revie.iv for January, 1918. t Macau lay, History of England, vol. i, pp. 463-466.

monarch led him to insult the Church of England and to attempt, by an unlawful extension of the prerogative, not only to redress the admitted inequalities of his co-religionists, but to attempt to place them in a dominating position to which neither political experience, learning, nor numbers entitled them. The Spanish Court was perfectly informed by its ambassador in London to the effect that " the English laws against Popery might seem severe, [but] they were so much mitigated by the prudence and humanity of the government that they caused no annoyance to quiet people."*

In the Church of England there has always been an influential section which has regarded the Latin Church Avith admiration and affection, although it was not until the nineteenth centiu}' had run the greater part of its course that that party was emboldened, hat in hand, to supplicate the Papacy to " recognise " the orders of the church for which they took upon themselves to speak. A study of the Royalist Composition Papers and of the Roman Catholic Registers— which may be regarded as their sequel — ^will suggest that in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the relations between Roman Catholics and Protestants were always amicable and often cordial. Intermarriage was not infrequent, and such events could not have taken place without social intercourse, nor were Roman Catholic landowners disqualified from taking leases of tithes from ecclesiastical corporations. Bearing well-known and honoured names, and very generally entitled to bear coat-armour, they lived in peace and amity with their Protestant neighbours, who never failed them in accepting — when requested to do so — the burdensome office of a trustee or executor; and at the end they were buried with their fathers, not infrequently in the chancel of the parish church, attended by the deference never withheld from men of established position of weU-conducted life.

If this i-eading of the history of the seventeenth century be correct, and the conclusions be accepted, then it follows that the irksome restraint under which Roman Catholic landowners laboured was imposed on them not for their religion but for their devotion to the banished House of Stuart, and it raises the inference that the recorded prosecutions were not for ecclesiastical but for political reasons. This view is supported by the preamble of the Act of Parliament, i George I, cap Iv, which Act ordered the setting

* Macaulay, History of England, vol. iii, p. 224. The Spanish ambassador personally had little reason to love the English, for the London mob liad insulted and injured lum.

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up of the register of the estates of Roman Catholics. In so many words it states that the re-enactment of the penal laws was directly due to the Rebellion of 1715:

" \Vhereas the Papists within this Kingdom, notwnthstanding the tender regard that hath been shown them for many years last past, by omitting to put into execution the many penal law^s which (on occasion of the many just provocations they have given, and horrid designs they have framed for the destruction of this Kingdom and the extirpation of the Protestant Religion), have been made against them, and notwithstanding thej^ have enjoyed and do still enjoy the protection and benefit of the Government, as w^ell as the rest of His Majesty's subjects, have not only all or the greatest part of them been concerned in stirring up and supporting the late un- natural Rebellion for the dethroning and murthering his most Sacred Majesty, for destroying our present happy Establishment, for setting a Popish Pretender upon the Throne of this Kingdom, for the destruction of the Protestant Religion, and the cruel mur- thering and massacring its professors, by which the 5^ have brought a vast expense upon this nation : and whereas it manifestly appears by their beha\'iour that they take themselves to be obliged by the principles they profess to be enemies to his Majesty, and to the present happ}^ establishment, and watch for all opportunities of fomenting and stirring up new rebellions and disturbances within the Kingdom, and of inviting foreigners to invade it : and forasmuch as it is highly reasonable that they should contribute a large share to all such extraordinary expenses as are, or shall be brought upon this Kingdom by their treachery and instigation: and to the end that by paying largely to the late great expenses by them brought upon this nation the^^ may be deterred, if possible, from the like offences for the future, and that this nation may have the benefit of his Majesty's gracious condescension in giving his interest in the two third parts of all his Papists' estates which are already forfeited to him by law, for the use of the public, either by seizing the said two third parts of their estates for the public service, or by laying some tax or charge upon their estates in lieu thereof, in such propor- tion and in such manner as shall be determined to be reasonable in Parliament."

The Act provides that all Roman Catholic landowners, in Quarter Sessions of the county in which their lands are situated (or in certain other Courts), shall register their names, lands, and

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tenements, the names of the tenants, or those in possession of the said lands, the yearly rents thereof, particulars of leases, fines paid on renewal of such leases, etc. The certificates were to be brought to the Clerk of the Peace either by the lando\\Tier in person, or by others to whom he had given a Power of Attorney, and enrolled in Court in parchment books to be subscribed by him or them, and laid up with the records of the county or shire.

In the custody of the Clerk of the Peace of Northumberland, two sets of registers are preserved, viz., (i) the original paper certifi- cates, signed by the landoMTiers, accompanied b}^ a Power of Attorney to other persons to appear in Court, and (2) the enrolment or fair cop5^ written on parchment signed by one of the persons to whom the Power of Attorney had been gi^'en, and numbered in the order in which they were enrolled.

Neither of these sets is quite perfect, but the gaps can be made good from the contemporary^ copies sent up from time to time to the Commissioners in London, which copies are now deposited in the Public Record Office.

The series at the Moot Hall in Newcastle do not comprise the registers enrolled by landowners within the boroughs of Newcastle- upon-Tyne and Berwick-upon-Tweed, nor yet for Bedlingtonshire, Islandshire, or Norhamshire, which, until 1844, were within the county palatine of Durham. The original certificates from these places have disappeared, and the abstracts are made from the Public Record Office copies.

REGISTER OF

ESTATES OF ROMAN CATHOLICS

IN NORTHUMBERLAND.

REGISTER OF ESTATES of ROMAN CATHOLICS IN NORTHUMBERLAND

IN THE Eighteenth Century.

I. — Register of the estates of Sir Nicholas Shireburne* of Stonyhurst in the county Palatine of Lancaster, BART., dated 12 April, 1717.

A tenement or farm at Cartington in possession 01 widow Hogg, Isack Bolham, and John Buddell, let at 2/li.

A tenement or farm in Snifter let to same at qoli.

Another tenement or farm at Snifter let to John Detchen at 26li.

Another tenement or farm there let to George Lawson at 8li. i6s.

Another tenement or farm there let to Ralph Prat at 8li. 16s.

Another tenement or farm there let to Robert Gray at 8li. 16s.

Another tenement or farm there let to John Lawson at 6li. ys. 6d.

Another tenement or farm there let to Edwin Gibbons and others at Sli. i6s. od.

Another tenement or farm there let to Thomas Maughling at I OS. 0^.

* Sir Cuthbert Radcliffe of Dilstoii, knight, succeeded to the castle and manor of Cartington through his mother Anne, daughter and sole heir of Sir John Cartington, the last heir male of that very ancient house. By a family arrangement the property was given in marriage with Mary, one of the daughters of Sir Francis Radcliffe, first baronet, to Roger Widdrington, a younger son of Edward Widdrington of Swinburn Castle; the marriage settlement being dated i8th November, 1601. He was succeeded by his son, Sir Edward Widdrington, created a baronet 8th August, 1642, who raised a regiment of horse in the service of Charles I, and whose estate was seques- tered. He died in exile 13th July, 1671, aged 57, and was buried in the Capuchin church at Bruges. His wife, Christian Stuart, grand-daughter of [Francis], Earl of Bothwell, as a widow, resided in York, and made her will 17th February, 1678-9, in which she mentions her daughter Dame j\Iary Charl- ton, her daughter Catherme Hamond, her son-in-law Gervase Hamond, her grand-children Mary Charlton, Christian Talbot, Catherine Charlton, and John Talbot. Dame Christian Widdrington was buried at St. Maurice's, York, and her will was proved 8th December, 1684.

Sir Edward Widdrington, having survived his son, was succeeded in Cartington by his eldest daughter, Mary, wife of Sir Edward Charlton of Hesleyside, who was created a baronet 6th March, 1645-6. Sir Edward Charlton was buried in the Cartington porch of Rothbury church on the 20th Jan., 1674-5, leaving issue four daughters and co-heiresses, viz. Elizabeth, wifeof her cousin, W^illiam Charlton ; Christian, wifeof John Talbot; Catherine, wife of Sir Nicholas Shireburn of Stoneyhurst in Lancashire, created a baronet 4th February, 1685-6; and Mary, wifeof Ralph Hardwickof London, described as merchant, cf. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries oj N^js^castle, 3 ser., vol. viii, pp. 21-34. *

A farm of tythe of Netherton in the parish of Alwenton let to Ralph Potts and William Buddie at 30/^'.

A tenement or farm in Alwenton called New Hall let to Christopher Bolham at i6li.

A tenement or farm there called Sheep-banks and let to John Alder at 15/i.

A tenement or farm at Park-head in the said pari^-h of Alwenton let to Luke Clennell, esq., at los. 0^.

Another tenement or farm there let to Robert Storrer at 15s. 0^.

Thomas Selby, esq., for tithes, the yearly rack rent ili. 15s.

Two tenements or farms called Windyhaugh and Dungo Burn in the parish of Alwenton let to Alexander Potts at 65/^.

A tenement or farm called Bygate Hall let to Andrew Henderson and George Potts at 62li.

A tenement or farm in Alwenton parish called Lunges-know let to R bert Rutherford at ^ili.

A tenement or farm called Burdhope in Elsden parish let to Thomas Riddell at lyli.

A tenement or farm called Fetherwood in Elsden parish let to Thomas Story at 21 li.

A tenement or farm called Cottenshope and Mile-Quarter in Elsden parish let to Ralph Heme and Mark Headley at 115/?.

A cdttage at Snifter let to Thomas Nichols [. . .]

Of all which (except some lands holden by lease of the Duke of Somerset) the said Sir Nicholas Shireburne is seised in fee simple, but subject to the following outgoing Rents: —

To the Duke of Somerset for Newhall and Sheepbanks, 24/^'.; to the said Duke of Somerset for lands in Snifter, holden by lease for 21 years, 12/1. 17s. id. yearly; a Crown, or viscountall-rent ys.; to the parson of Rothburyfor Snifter tithe hay, 19s. 6d.; to the said parson of Rothbury for other customary rents for lands in Snitter, 5/z. 6s. 8d.; paid yearly at Rothburyfor assoigne pennys, 2s. 8d.; paid yearly to Mrs. Howard for fee-farm rents for Windy-haugh, Dungo Burne, Cottenshope and Burdhope, loli. i6s. ; paid yearly to the parson of Alwenton, 2li. 15s.; paid yearly to the Crown a certain rent due out of Alwenton rectory, 7/7. 5s.; payable to the Widows Almhouse at Cartington, 6li.

Power of Attorney, 9 April, 1717, to Ford Gray of Alnwick, gent., and Edward Ward of Morpeth, gent., or either of them, to sign certificate.

Enrolled 2 May, 1717.

II. — Register of the estate of Gilbert Errington* of Hexham, GENT., dated lo April, 1717.

All that hamlet or grange called Portgate in the parish of St. John Lee let on a lease to George Jopling and Thomas Cooke by lease for nine years beginning i May, 1715, at boli. a year, "for which noe fine is paid."

Power of Attorney, 23 April, 1717, to John Aynsley of Hexham, gent., Edward Ward of Morpeth, gent., and Thomas Marr of Morpeth, gent., or one of them, to sign certificate.

Enrolled i May, 1717.

III. — Register of the estate of Robert WiLSONf of Morpeth, GENT., dated 15 April, 1717.

A messuage with mault-kill, &c., in Newgate Street, Morpeth, let to Faith Wilson, widow, at the rent of 6li.

Power of Attorney, 11 April, 1717, to Edward Ward of Morpeth, gent., Nicholas Stephenson of Morpeth, gent., and Robert Wid- rington of Plasey, or one of them to sign certificate.

Enrolled i May, 1717.

IV. — Register of the estate of John Heslopp| of Glanton, yeoman, dated 17 April, 1717.

A messuage, in Glanton, in possession of said John Heslop at the yearly value of i2li., chargeable with a fee-farm to the King of 20S. a year, and a rent-charge to John Clavering of Callalee of ■Lli. i8s.

Power of Attorney, 15 April, 1717, to Ford Grey of Alnwick, gent., and Edward Ward of Morpeth, gent., or either of them, to sign certificate.

Enrolled 3 May, 1717.

* Gilbert Errington, second son of Richard Errington of Beukley and Portgate, received Portgate under his father's will dated nth July, 1670; he was also brother and heir of Edward Errington of Beukley, who died circa 1721. Dying unmarried, he was buried at St. John Lee, 31st December, 1725, and by a death-bed will made two days before, he gave Portgate to his sister's son, Edward Widdrington of Colt-park and Ritton Whitehouse. c/. pedigree of Errington of Portgate, new History of Northumberland, vol. iv, P- 213.

t He may have been an unidentified member of a family of Wilson coming from the neighbourhood of Shap in Westmorland, and seated at Hepscot in the parish of Morpeth, from 1667, and also at Ulgham, until the nineteenth century.

X On the ist May, 1721, John Heslop and Mary his wife, by indentures, declared the uses of a fine of lands in Glanton, which lands the said John Heslop, then residing at Hebburn in the adjoining parish of Chillingham, on the 6th December, 1738, mortgaged to Edward Gallon of Alnwick, gent. He had further dealings with the property on, the 30th October, 1753.

v.— Register of the estate of Mary Errington of New Elvett

IN OR NEAR THE CITY OF DuRHAM, WIDOW OF LaNCELOTT

Errington* late of the same place, dated 17 April, 1717.

A rent -charge or yearly payment of 50/i., payable out of the manor of Denton, and a tenement in Lemington, late in possession of John Rogers, esq., claimed under deeds dated 24 September, 1702, whereby Mark Errington, Gilbert Mabbot, William Collingwood, and Thomas Peirson granted to Lancelott Errington for his life, and for the life of such wife as he should have at his death. And I the said Mary having survived the said Lancelot do claim the said rent under the said deeds.

Power of Attorney, 23 April, 1717, to Nicholas Stephenson of Morpeth, gent., and Andrew Fenwick of Morpeth, tanner, or either of them, to sign certificate.

Enrolled i May, 1717.

VI.^Register of the estate of Anna Maria Radcliffe,! widow

AND RELICT OF JaMES, LATE EaRL OF DaRWENTWATER.

[No date.] A rent-charge of i,oooli. a year settled on me, by way of jointure, before my marriage, out of the barony of Langley, Whiitingstall alias Quittingstall, Newlands, Dilston alias Develston, Aydon Shields, Warke, Elrington, and Meldon; and out of messuages, &c., in Spinleston, Utchester, Throckley, Coastley, Midleton-hall, East Thorneton alias Thornton East, West wood and Thornbrough, Neither Warden, Haydon-bridge, B}^vell St. Andrew, Bywell St. Peter, Corbridge, Newton-hall, Hexham, Symonburne, Haltwhistle alias Holtwhistle, Kirkehaugh, Knaresdale, Wiiitfeild, Bolam, Balmbrough, Newburne, Woller, Ovingham, and Slaley; also the advowson of the church of Symondburne. I am also entitled to an equitable interest in a term of 200 years limited of the said

* Lancelot Errington was son of Mark Errington of East Denton, who was eldest surviving son and heir of that Lancelot Errington of Denton, whose " distressed widow," Margaret Errington, 12th February, 1651, peti- tioned the Committee for Compounding that she and her poor children were destitute of all manner of maintenance. Her said eldest son, Mark Errington, was in the guardianship of Gilbert Mabbot of Westminster, and his father's property comprised the manor of East Denton, a messuage in Lemington-on- Tyne, and a moiety of the coal mines in Denton. The lady mentioned in the text may have been the ' Mrs. Mary Errington, a papist,' who was buried at St. Oswald's, Durham, 15th April, 1729. c/.Welford, Royalist Compositions , pp. 192-194.

t Anna Maria, widow of James, third Earl of Derwentwater, who was attainted, and daughter of Sir John Webb of Canford, Dorset, baronet, was married loth July, 1712. Dying at Brussels 30th August, 1723, aged 30, she was buried at St. RIonica's Convent at Louvain.

A selection of her accounts and a series of letters which passed to and from her agents are pruited from the collections of the Rev. Thomas Stephens in Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle, 3 ser. , vols, vi, vii, and viii. cf. Welford, Royalist Compositions , p. 313.

premises to the Right Honble. Richard, Earl of Scarborough, and John Radchffe, which commenced at the death of the said James, Earl of Darvventwater, for the better raising the said rent-charge of i,oooli. a year.

Power of Attorney, 28 March, 1717, to John Aynsley of Hexham, gent., Thomas Ilderton of Hexham, gent., and Charles Busby of Dilston, gent., or either of them.

Enrolled i May, 1717.

VII. — Register of the estate of The Hon. Arthur Radclyffe* of Capheaton, ESQ., dated 15 April, 1717.

A rent-charge of 300/?. a year out of messuages in Corbridge, two third parts of Newton-hall, Sewing Sheels, Blackabume, messuages in Alnwick, a moiety of Buteland, a moiety of Broomeupp, and a moiety of the Steele, a moiety of Hind- haugh, a moiety of a farmhold called Fellin, a moiety of Stidley-hill in the parish of Corsenside; and all the messuages and lands in Lee-houses, Spittle, Newbiggin, Woolley, East WTiitleys, West Whitleys, Lesbury and Kirk Whelpington, and the water corn mill of Wooley; the rectories of Kirk Whelpington, Harburne alias Hartburne Grange and Midford, and all gleab lands, &c., the corn tythes of Broxfield, Lurbittle, and Whinnetly. Which said rent-charge of 300//. a year is secured to me by inden- tures of lease and release dated 23 and 24 March, 1691; the release being quadrupartite between Francis, Earl of Darwentwater, of the ist part; Edward, Lord Viscount Radclyffe and Langley, of the 2nd part; the Honble. Francis Radclyffe, Thomas Radcliffe, William Radclyffe, and me the said Arthur Radclyffe, younger sons of the said earl, of the 3rd part ; and Sir John Lawson, bart., and Francis Tunstall, esq., of the 4th part; and which said rent- charge is all the real estate belonging to me in Northumberland.

Power of Attorney, 23 April, 1717, appointing John Aynsley of Hexham, Edward Ward, and Thomas Marr of Morpeth, gents., or one of them, to sign the register.

Enrolled 5 May, 1717.

VIII. — Register of the estate of Winifred CoTEsf of Alnwick, dated 16 April, 1717.

A moiety of Grinston-letch in Alnwick town-fields whicli she holds in fee ; and the other moiety of the same which she leases from John Clavering of Callalee, esq.

* Arthur Radcliffe, fifth son of Francis, first Earl of Derwentwater, was born on the 20th February, 1663-4. Under his father's will he took ;{i,ooo, and under the family settlement mentioned in the text a liberal annuity. During the latter part of his life he resided with the Swinburnesof Capheaton, and dying there, unmarried, he was buried at Dilston 15th January, 1728-9. cf. Radcliffe pedigree, new History of Northumberland, vol. x, p. 280.

t Winifred Cotes, widow of John Cotes, was, one of the four children of

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A moiety of four rigs or sellions in a close called High Freeland which she holds in fee ; and the other moiety of the same which she leases from the said John Clavering, esq.

Two closes called Standley-flatts held of the Duke and Duchess of Somerset. All of which are sub-let to Ralph Wake at th-^ rent of 2$li. A moiety of Allerburn Close, of Willow Close, and Dow Meadow, which she holds in fee. Four rigs in Goose-know-close held of the Duke and Duchess of Somerset. Pasture-close near Allerburn, and closes called the Croft, Midding Steeds, &c.; a house, bam, byar, stack-garth; all (or part of which) are sublet to Robert Oliver at a rent of 15^^'. A moiety of twelve acres of free- hold land at Aledike, and seven acres of leasehold land then let to William Brown at the rent of yli.

Gorbett-haugh held by lease of Duke and Duchess of Somerset and sublet to William Walker at the rent of i6s. 8i. Two rigs and three butts of meadow in Dove-coat croft held of Duke and Duchess of Somerset ; now in her own occupation and worth about 2li. 6s. 8^. per annum.

She pays for all lands held of the Duke and Duchess of Somerset yli. 6s. 8d. yearly and a fine of $2li. She is justly owing the sum of ^ooli.

Power of Attorney, 30 April, 1717, to Richard Grieve, gent., to sign certificate.

Enrolled 2 May, 1717.

Edward Strother of Alnwick. Her two brothers, William and Edward, died in their father's life-time, and her sister Anne was wife of Francis Dunn. Winifred Strother was married before the 13th Maj-, 1693, on which date she had dealings with a farm in Prendwick called Hasleton-rig, of which her father had taken a conveyance gth October, 1669, by way of mortgage. Winifred Cotes was buried in Alnwick churchyard ist December, 1743, leaving issue a son and daughter, John and Winifred Cotes.

The latter became the second wife of William Hardwick, articles before marriage 4th October, 1746, after whose death at Hexham in the 20th of March, 1757, she returned to Alnwick, and was buried there on the 5th February, 1769, as " Mrs. Winifred Hardwick of Bondgate, widow, heretofore Cotes." See Register No. lxxii.

John Cotes, the son, baptised at Alnwick 14th April, 1700, was educated at Douay where, after ordination, he taught philosophy for two years. He returned to England in 1730, and served at Hardwick until 1737, when he removed to Nether Witton, retiring to Witton Shields in 1773. Under the description of John Cotes of Nether Witton, gentleman, he conveyed by lease and release, dated respectively gth and loth July, 1773, to Miles Stapleton of Clints, Yorkshire, esq., all his real property in Alnwick, comprising a messuage on the north side of Bondgate, Allerburn Close, Dunns Close, Low Aledike Close, Grindstone Letch Close, Goose Know Close, Willy Close, and High Freeland Close, in trust for himself for life, and after his decease to the use of John Stapleton, infant son and heir apparent of the said Miles Stapleton, whom Mr. Cotes declared to be his "nearest of kin." In July, 1797, John Stapleton, being of full age, joined with his father and conveyed to his younger brother, Thomas Stapleton, described as of Richmond, Yorkshire.

The Rev. John Cotes died at Thropton, and was buried at Rothbury on the loth July, 1794, at the reputed age of 94 years.

Mrs. Cotes 's certificate is verv contused.

IX. — Register of the estate of William Sanderson* of Heley, GENT., dated 8 April, 1717.

A capital messuage at Heley with lands, &c., let to Michael Bell at 75/z. los. ; a messuage and lands there let to George Langlands at 47/z.; a messuage and lands there let to John Newton at i2li.; a messuage and lands there let to William Currey at gli. ; a messuage and lands there let to James Pearson at gli.; a messuage and lands there let to Nicholas Carr at 4li.; a messuage and lands there let to John March at 2li. los. ; a messuage and lands there let to William Ervington at gli. All in the parishes of ByA\'ell St. Peter and Bywell St. Andrew.

The premises are subject to a mortgage of 500/i., and to an annuity of Soli, per annum for two lives yet in being.

Power of Attorney, 8 April, 1717, to " my trusty friends " Robert Hedle}^ of Keeper, county of Durham, weaver, Michael Bell of Heley, yeoman, and John Robson of Hexliam, gent., or either of them, to sign certificate.

Enrolled i May, 1717.

X. — Register of the estate of James FENWiCKf of East Matfen, GENT., dated 18 April, 1717.

One third part of a farmhold or tenement called Matfen East Farm in the parish of Stamfordham, in my own occupation, of the yearly value of 2311., of which I am seised for my natural life. My son, Thomas Fenwick, is seised of the other two thirds, they being of the yearly value of 50/^. " and let to William Johnson, Joseph Rutter, and John Pryer as tenants of my said son Thomas.

[No Power of Attorney.]

Enrolled 2 May, 1717.

* John Sanderson, whose origin has not been ascertained, purchased Temple Healey in the parish of ByAvell St. Peter, before the year 1638, and was sequestered and fined for delinquency in 1649. His grandson, William Sanderson, was out in the '15, was taken prisoner, but escaped from Chester. He married circa 1700, at Hexham, Elizabeth Charlton, then residing at the Lambshield, on the Devil's Water, said to have been a daughter of the house of Charlton of Hesleyside. He was party to a post-nuptial settlement dated 4th February, 1726-7, and enrolled at Quarter Sessions after the then recently celebrated marriage of his eldest son, George Sanderson, with Elizabeth, daughter of William Widdrington of Cheeseburn Grange, who brought her husband a portion of ;^i,500. cf. pedigree of Sanderson, new History of North- umberland, vol. vi, p. 173; Welford, Royalist Compositions, p. 332; Arch. Ael., 3 ser. , vol. vi, p. 40.

t Mr. James Fenwick of East Matfen, was buried at Stamfordham on the iSth March, 1724-5. Another James Fenwick, probably his grandson, under the description of James Fenwick of East Matfen, gent. , son and heir of Thomas Fenwick, late of the same place, on the 2nd November, 1754, conveyed his property there to John Rowell of Laverock-hall, in the chapelry of Horton. The last-named James Fenwick is stated to have married Dorothy, daughter of Ralph Smith of Xunstanton, the articles before marriage being dated nth September, 1742. Numerous families of small gentry and yeomen, all claiming descent from tiie Fenwicks of Fenwick in the parish of Stamfordham, lingered until the middle of the eighteenth century. ,

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XI. — Register of the estate of John Lawson* of Trinity Parish, York, esq., son and heir apparent of Sir Henry Lawson \^ OF Brough, BART., dated 17 April, 1717.

Several messuages, cottages, &c., in the manor of Byker and parish of All Saints in the county of Northumberland, viz. a mes- suage commonly called Archeldean let to Mr. George Watson at 45/^'. ; a messuage and land commonly called East Bradley let to Ann Barras and her son Anthony Barras at 60//. ; a cottage and two closes let to Isaac Wilson at 25/7'. ; two fields let to William Blenkinship at 2ili. ; a cottage and three closes let to William Henderson at yli.

In the manor or lordship of Cramlington, a messuage and lands let to Thomas and William Douglas at 50/1. ; a messuage and land let to Alexander Carnes at 53^1.

The premises are subject to a bond debt of 400/1.; and, by my marriage settlement, to 6oli. per annum payable to mj^ wife for pin- money.

Power of Attorney, 22 April, 1717, to John Hankin of Newcastle, gent., and Peter Potts of Newcastle, gent., or either of them, to sign certificate.

Enrolled i May, 1717.

XII. — Register of the estate of Sir Henry Lawson, f bart., of Brough, Yorkshire, dated 16 April, 1717.

A moiety of the manor of Cramlington which I hold jointly with Robert Lawson, esq., with the courts, &c., and the following messuages, &c., in Cramlington: —

A messuage, farmhold, &c., called East Cramlington, let to I\Iichael Dunford at goli. a year, " out of which I have yearly allowed him loli. for limestone."

* John Lawson, afterwards Sir John Lawson, third baronet, of Brough, died at York 19th October, 1739. By his wife, Mary, daughter of Sir John Shelley of Michelgrove, Sussex, he had with other issue Sir Henry Lawson, fourth baronet, of Brough.

t The family of Lawson acquired a portion of Cramlington in the fifteenth century in marriage with a coheiress of the Cramlingtons of Cramlington. A moiety of Cambois was purchased in 1552 from Henry, Earl of Westmorland,

by Lawson of Newcastle, merchant, probably the father of Sir Ralph

Lawson, who in 1568 was seised of lands in Heaton and in Byker. The latter acquired a fine property in Yorkshire — still in the possession of his descendants — in marriage with Elizabeth, daughter and heir of Roger Brough of Brough, near Catterick. Their son, Roger Lawson of the Inner Temple and of Heaton, died circa 1614 in his father's lifetime, having had issue by his wife, Dorothy, daughter of Sir Henry Constable of Burton, no fewer than nineteen children. His widow, a charitable but self-centred lady, resided at St. Anthony's, and was buried, with unusual honours, in the church of All Saints, Newcastle, on the 27th March, 1632.

Henry Lawson of Brough, grandson and heir of Sir Ralph Lawson, married Anne, daughter of Robert Hodgson of Hebburn, and dying circa 1636, was followed successively by his sons, Henry and John.

The last-named, John Lawson of Byker, who succeeded his brother, Henry Lawson of Brough, in 1644, had his estates sequestered for his delinquency,

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A messuage, fcirnihold, &c., let to Robert Angus ai qoli. ;i year, loli. a year allowance out of it for limestone.

The manor of Byker with the courts, &c.; one colliery and the moiety of another colliery, both unwrought; besides several mes- suages, lands, &c., in Byker, that is to say: —

Several closes in possession of Isabel Locksmith, formerly John Locksmith her late husband, at ^^li. a year.

A close let to the said Isabel Locksmith at i^li. a year.

A messuage, &c., held by Richard Dawson at :8/i. a year.

A messuage, &c., in possession of the said Isabel Locksmith at los. a year.

A messuage, &c., in possession of Mr. John Beckwith at 3s. a year.

A water corne milne, house, close, water-course, and wayleaves thereof, in joint possession of Matthew White and Philip Hodgson, at the rent of 50 /^

Three messuages let to John Simpson at 3/i. a year.

37 cottages [let at various annual rents from 6s. to ili.].

All the small tithes of Byker enjoyed by the said several tenants, and paying nothing.

Of which manors, etc., I have an estate for my natural life.

The moiety of a colliery in Cambus, unwrought, of which I am seised of an estate of inheritance in fee simple.

The which messuages, lands, etc., are charged with a mortgage of i,oooli. reserved by the marriage settlement of my son, John Lawson, esq., also with ili. 8s. to the Duke of Somersett.

The manor of Cramlington pays los. yearly to the Earl of Murray and 5s. to the Crown.

And also the said manors, etc., are charged with a rent of Soli. by marriage settlement to my Lady Lawson in the name of pin- money. And I owe b}' bond 1,300/^'.

Power of Attorney, 22 April, 1717, to John Hankin of Newcastle, gent., and Peter Potts of Newcastle, gent., or either of them, to sign certificate.

Enrolled i May, 171 7.

XIII. — Register of the estate of Anthony Errington* of Pont Island, gent., dated 18 April, 1717. An annuity of boli. out of lands in East Denton for my life, by virtue of a deed dated March 10, i684[5], between William Riddell

but after the Restoration was created a baronet 6th July, 1665, and lived until the 26th October, 1698. By his wife, Catherine, daughter of Sir William Howard of Naworth, he left, with other issue. Sir Henry Lawson, second baronet, of Brough, an abstract of whose register is given in the text. He died on the gth May, 1726, aged 63.

Although the surface lands of Cambois had been parted with before the date of the register, the family of Lawson retain to this day an undivided moiety of the royalties, c/. Welford, Royalist Compositions, pp. 265-267.

* In an indenture dated ist May, 1719, and enrolled at Quarter Sessions, this gentleman is described as Anthony Errington, theretofore of East Denton

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of Gateshead, esq., Lancelot Errington of East Denton, esq., and Anne Errington of East Denton, widow, of the first part, and Wilham Errington and Anthony Errington both of East Denton, gentlemen, of the other part. Enrolled 2 May, 1717.

XIV. — Register of the estate of Thomas Drew=^ of Harvington, CO. Worcester, gent., dated 18 April, 1717.

An annuity of 40/*. secured by indenture of 2C) Sep., 1698, be- tween John Errington of Beafront, esq., deceased, and the said Thomas Drew, whereby said John Errington, in consideration of 400/^. paid by me, did grant me, the said Thomas Drew, all the messuage of Grottington let at 6oli. a year, the water grist or corn mill called Keepwick mill, &c., let at 25/^'., to secure the payment of 4oli. a year to me during my life. By deed of same date Henry Curwen of Workington, Cumberland, esq., the mortgagee, consented. The said rent-charge is subject to my debts amounting to 170/^".

Power of Attorne}^ 18 February, 1716-7, to Edward Ward of Morpeth, gent., Robert Wilson of Morpeth, gent., Thomas Potts, John Hankin, John Marr, and John Brown, all of Newcastle, gents., or either of them, to sign certificate.

Enrolled i May, 1717.

XV. — Register of the estate of Ralph Brandling, f esq.,

OF MiDDLETON, YORKSHIRE. [No date.]

Collieries in the manor of Jesmond under the following lands: — The Nunns-lands, the Chappel-lands, Sick Man's Close alias Sibbees Close, Pigg's-field alias Pigg's Close, Dead Man's-Grave, Stoney-

and then of Ponteland, one of the younger sons of Mark Errington, late of East Denton, esq., deceased, who was father of Lancelot Errington and of William Errington, both late of East Denton, gentlemen, deceased.

He was buried with his ancestors at Newburn on the ist July, 1723, as " Anthony Errington of Ponteland." By his will, dated 4th June, 1722, and enrolled at Quarter Sessions on the 23rd December, 1723, lie gives to William Errington of Beefrira (Beaufront) and to Nicholas Errington of Ponteland 5s. a piece ; and his claim to the estate of East Denton to John Forcer of New Elvet, esq., whom he makes his executor, c/. Welford, Royalist Compositions, p. 192.

* Little is known of this gentleman. He had apparently sunk part of his capital in the purchase of an annuity charged on Grottington and Keepwick, both in the parish of St. John Lee.

He was also in enjoyment of an annuity of ^^50 per annum payable out of houses in St. James' Place, London, cf. Estcourt and Payne, English Catholic Nonjurors, p. 174.

■]■ Ralph Brandling, born 7th December, 1662, third son of Charles Brand- ling of Alnwick Abbey, was admitted to Gray's Inn 29th May, 1685. He obtained the estate of Middleton in the parish of Rothwell, Yorkshire, in mar- riage with Anne, daughter and heir of John Leghe of that place, which estate, having no issue, he devised to his brother, Charles Brandling of North Seaton, who was buried at Woodhorn nth December, 1734. cf. Welford, Royalist Compositions, pp. 132-135.

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heap Close, Bryer Law, a little close on the north side of Jesmond Loaneinf? occupied by James Henderson. A close heretofore in the possession of Martin Gare. 12 acres of ground occupied by Henry Anderson, merchant. All which lands were the inheritance of Sir Francis Brandling, knight, deceased, my grandfather, and were demised by me to Matthew White, esq., since deceased, and Philip Hodshon, gent., for 21 years at 13s. 6d. per tenn for ship coles; and 8s. 6d. per tenn for pann coles, of which premises I am seised in fee tail.

Power of Attorney, 16 April, 1717, to Edward Riddell of New- castle, gent., Thomas Potts of Newcastle, gent., and Edward Ward of Morpeth, gent., or either of them, to sign certificate.

Enrolled ry May, 1717.

XVI. — Register of the estate of Roger Fenwick* of London,

GENT. [Nn date]

Messuages and lands in Bolam let to John Davison, John Harle, Richard Spragon, William Smith, and James Atkinson for 21 years as from i May, 1702, at looli.

Colepit and quarries of stone in Bolam let to the said John Davison for 3 years as from 2 February, 1714, at 25/f. a year.

In which I am seised in taile to me, and the heirs male of my body, with remainder over.

Power of Attorney, 19 February, 1716-7, to Edward Ward of Morpeth, gent., Thomas Potts, John Hankin, John Brown, and Edward Riddell of Newcastle, gents, or either of them, to sign certificate.

Enrolled 11 May, 1717.

XVII. — Register of the estate of Margaret Charlton, j city of York, widow. [No date.]

150/1. a year out of the manor of Hesliside and its members, and the messuage of Langlee, and out of Dunterly, Brigford,

* On the 6th February, 1626-7, Roger Fenwick I of Shortflat, married at Whickham, Margaret, daughter of Sir WilHam Blakiston. Their second son, also named Roger II, under the will of his grandmother, Dame Margaret Fen- wick of Meldon, dated 2nd November, 1631, received certain lands in the parish of Bolam. Dying in or before the year 1670, he was succeeded by his eldest brother, William Fenwick of Bywell, who, in his lifetime, by deed dated 25th September, 1677, gave his lands in Bolam to his son, Roger Fenwick III. The latter is stated to have married Maud, widow of Sir William Grene and daughter of Alderman Davis of London, by whom he had a son, Roger Fen- wick IV, who died young, and a daughter, Isabel, who in 1730 was about 16 years of age. The Bolam property was sold under Order of Court, and pur- chased in 1727 by John Horsley of Milbum Grange, Ponteland, whose descen- dants subsequently made Bolam their principal residence, cf. Rev. John Hodgson's History o_f Northumberland, part ii, vol. i, p. 335; vol. it, p. 17; also new History of Northumberland, vol. vi, p. 98.

t As has been set out in the note appended to Register No. i. Sir Edward Charlton, bart., of Hesleyside, and fitre iixoris _oi Cartington, left issue four

Bank-edge, Anton-hill, Coat-hill, Green Hoxty, Weed-peake, Hesly Hurst, Ellingham, Stack Hill, Upper Stobbyslee, Nether Stobbyslee, Breerage, Barizand Steed, Stone-how alias Stone-house, Leck-hill, Water-gate, Hesly-head, Hawk hurst, Upper Reedswood, Nether Reedswood, Little Brigford, Bellingham, Upper-Hall, Haining Rigg, Clews, Shaw Riding, Banden-side alias Gofton,Dunstead,Landner {sic) Burn, Hill-house, Hill Gate-house, Ratten-Raw, Morralee, Blacklaw, Brickup, Upper Carriteth, Newton, Charlton, Longhaugh, Upper Eales, Lonhaugh {sic) Sheeles, Plashetts, Blackharm, Temple-green, and several tenements in the town of Wark, Watergate and Middle, and Shillefield in the parishes of Simonburn and Elsden, etc.

Power of Attorney, 29 March, 1717, to Edward Ward of Morpeth, gent., Robert Wilson of the same, gent., Thomas Potts, John Hankin, John Mair, John Brown, and Edward Riddell of Newcastle, gents.

Enrolled 2 May, 1717.

XVni. — Register of the estate of William Riddell* of Swinburne Castle, gent. [No date.]

An annuity of 50/1. secured by indenture quinpartite of 25 April, 1693, between Thomas Riddell, esq., of Swinburne Castle, since deceased (father of me the said William), and Edward Riddell, son and heir apparent of the said Thomas Riddell, of the ist part ; Robert Dalton of Thurnham in county Palatine of Lancaster, esq., and Dorothy Dalton, one of the daughters of the said Robert Dalton, of the 2nd part ; William Hoghton of Parkhall in county Lancaster, esq., and Gervase Hammond of Toughtont in county York, esq., of the 3rd part; the Honble. Francis Radcliffe of Dilston, esq., and William Lambton of Lambton in county Palatine of Durham, esq., of the 4th part ; and Jasper Hall of Swinburn, and Thomas Beadnell

daughters and co-heirs. By a family arrangement one of the daughters, EUzabeth — perhaps the eldest — was married to her cousin german, William Charlton of Longlee, who in her right or his own succeeded to the patrimonial estates of the Charltons of Hesleyside and of Charlton in Tynedale. He is stated to have died circa 1682, and his son, Edward Charlton of Hesleyside, to have died circa 17 10, but the dates in this part of the family pedigree are not well proved. The last-named Edward Charlton married Margaret, daugh- ter of Sir Francis Salkeld of Whitehall in Cumberland, whose register or cer- tificate is abstracted in the text. See also Register No. lxxxi, and Welford, Royalist Compositions, p. 150.

* William Riddell, whose register is abstracted in the text, was the youngest son of Thomas Riddell of Fenham near Newcastle, and of Swinburn Castle, by his wife, Mary, daughter of Edward Grey of Bitchfield. The settlement cited was made on the marriage of his elder brother, Edward Riddell, with Dorothy, daughter of Robert Dalton of Thurnham in Lancashire.

William Riddell, dying unmarried, was buried at Chollerton on the 20th October, 1735. cf. pedigree of Riddell, new History of Northumberland, vol. iv, p. 286, and Welford, Royalist Compositions, pp. 319-322. See Registers

NOS. XX, XLV, CXXXII, CXXXVIII.

j Now Towton.

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of the said county of Northumberland, gents., of the 5th part; declaring the uses of a common recovery, &c., of all the castle, manor, etc., of Swinburne alias West Swinburne, the lordship of Coldwell alias Caldwell, and the Well Houses, with the tenements called Colt Craigg and Kelly-quarter; whereby it is declared that all persons, by virtue of said recovery standing seised of said pre- mises, shall be so seised to the use of said Francis Radcliffe and William Lambton for gg years, to the intent that I the said William Riddell should yearly after the death of my father have the said annuity of 50//. of lawful English money during my life out of the said lands, etc.

Power of Attorney, 26 April, 1717, to Edward Riddell, Thomas Potts, and John Robson of Newcastle, gents., or either of them, to sign certificate.

Enrolled 2 May, 1717.

XIX. — Register of the estate of Charles Collingwood* of EsLiNGTON, GENT. [No date.]

An annuity of 2oli. for life out of the manors, etc., of George Collingwood of Eslington, esq., my late father, and William Colling- wood of Eslington, esq., my late brother, situate in Eslington, Whittingham, Thornton (sic), and Barton, in the parish of Whitting- ham, secured to me by indentures of lease and release, the release being quadrupartite and dated 20 October, 1677; made between said George Collingwood, esq., and William Collingwood his eldest son, of first part; Sir David Fowles of Ingleby, baronet, Ralph Clavering of Callely, esq., Thomas Riddell of Fenham, esq., and Edward Trotter of Skelton Castle, esq., of the 2nd part; John Conyers of Layton, co. Durham, esq., and Roger Mennell of Kilvington, esq., of the 3rd part ; Mary Forster, eldest daughter of Dame Clare Forster of Stokesley, widow, of the 4th part ; and George Whytham of Cliff, esq., and George Mennell, esq., of Dalton in Yorkshire, of the 5th part.

Power of Attorney, 10 April, 1717, given by Charles Colhngsvood of the parish of St. Giles in the Fields, Middlesex, gent., son to George Collingwood of Eslington, esq., deceased, and uncle to George Col- lingwood late of Eslington, esq., deceased, to Edward Riddell and John Hanking of Newcastle, gents., or either of them, to sign certificate.

Enrolled 2 May, 1717.

* Charles Collingwood, seventh and 3'oungest son of George Collingwood of Eslington, by his wife, Agnes, daughter of John Fleming of R^'dale, West- morland, was iive years of age when his father, on the 30th August, 1666, registered his pedigree in Dugdale's Visitation nj Northnmberlayid. This cer- tificate helps to correct the pedigree printed in Surtees Durham, vol. i, p. 7, where it is assumed that the above-named George Collingwood was succeeded by his son of the same name. It raises the inference that the younger George died in his father's lifetime, which inference is supported by an entry in the Whittingham Register of Burials, " 1670-1 Jany. 22 Mr. George Collingwood jun., esq." c/. Welford, Royalist Compositions, p-p. 168-170.

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XX. — Register of the estate of George Riddell* of London,

GENT. [No date.]

A rent-charge of 2oli. secured by indenture of 25 April, 1693, made between Thomas Riddell of Swinburne Castle, since deceased (and father of me the said George Riddell), Edward Riddell, son and heir apparent of the said Thomas Riddell [and others, as in the Register No. xviii], and I am in possession of the said annuity.

Power of Attorney, 20 February, 1716-7, to Edward Ward of Morpeth, gent., Thomas Potts, John Hankin, John Brown, and Edward Riddell of Newcastle, gents., or either of them, to sign certificate.

Enrolled 11 May, 171 7.

XXI. — Register of the estate of the Honble. Anne Widdrington-]- OF Cheeseburne Grange, widow of William Widdrington of the same place, ESQ., DECEASED. [No date.]

An annual rent-charge of 400/?. secured by indenture tripartite of 14 June, 1693, between Ralph Widdrington of Cheeseburne Grange, esq., and William Widdrington, gent., his son and heir ap- parent (both since deceased), of the ist part; the Right Honble. Sir Caryl Mollineux, bart.. Lord Viscount Mollineux of Maryburgh in the Kingdom of Ireland, and me the said Anne Widdrington by the name of the Hon. Anne Mollineux, daughter of the said Caryl, Lord Viscount Mollineux, of the 2nd part; the Honble. William Mollineux, esq., son and heir apparent of the said Lord Viscount Mollineux, Thomas Cholmondley of Vale Royal, esq., Edward Hors- ley Widdrington of Horsley, esq., William Ogle of Cassey Park {sic),

* The name of George Riddell, son of Thomas Riddell of Fenham and of Swinburn, by his wife, Mary, daughter of Edward Grey of Bitchfield, does not appear in the pedigree of Riddell printed in the new History of Northum- berland, vol. iv. , p. 284, nor yet in the pedigree entered by his father, 24th August, 1666, in Dugdale's Visitation of Northumberland. He is stated to have been of the Order of St. Benedict, cf. Estcourt and Payne, English Catholic Nonjurors, p. 203.

Edward Riddell, to whom the power of attorney was given, was nephew of George Riddell. He practised in Newcastle as an attorney, but having slain Captain Lilburn in a brawl in the Nun's iield or Nun's garden near New- castle, he was tried for murder and apparently executed. He was buried in St. Nicholas's church 13th March, 1723-4. See Registers Nos. xviii, xlv,

CXXXII, CXXXVIII.

t As stated in the text Mrs. Widdrington was one of the daughters of Caryl, third Viscount Moljmeux in the peerage of Ireland, and wife of William Widdrington of Cheeseburn Grange, whose grandfather. Sir Henry Widdrington of Blackheddon, having been fined for his delinquency in 1646, received Cheeseburn Grange by the devise of his Puritan brother, the distinguished Sir Thomas Widdrington, sometime Speaker of the House of Commons.

Mrs. Widdrington, whose register is abstracted in the text, is stated to have been buried at St. Pancras, a graveyard favoured by Roman Catholics of the period. See Register No. lxxxviii; cf. pedigree of Widdrington of Cheeseburn Grange, Arch. Ael., 3 ser., vol. vi, p. 38; and Welford, Royalist Compositioits, pp. 373-375-

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esq., of the 3rd part; in consideration of the intended marriage of the said William Widdrington and me the said Anne Mollineux, Cheeseborne alias Cherrybroiigh Grange, and Grange - houses with appurtenances, and so much of the lands of Etchwick alias Itchwick as were formerly divided and taken from Etchwick and now are used with Cheeseborne Grange, the villages or hamlets of Nesbitt and Ouston alias Ulkeston, lands in Hawkwell, etc., that the said Anne after the death of the said William Widdrington should receive out of the said premises ^ooli. a year, during her life, in full recom- pence of dower, or thirds, etc., which is all my real estate in the county of Northumberland.

Power of Attorney, 5 April, 1717, to Edward Riddell, Thomas Potts, and John Brown of Newcastle, gents., or either of them, to sign certificate.

Enrolled 2 M&y, 1717.

XXII. — Register of the estate of Margaret Brown, widow of William Brown* of Bolton, esq. [No date.]

An annuity of 120/?. out of Bolton in the parish of Edlingham, lands in Shawdon and Woodhouse in the parish of Whittingham, Crawley and Branton in the parish of Eglingham, Doxford in the parish of Ellingham, and Alemouth in the parish of Lesbury, now in the possession of William Brown, Thomas Brown, and Joseph Brown, gentlemen; Christopher Strangeways, William Coulter, John Rayner, George Anderson, George Harrigale, John Wade, Robert Elliot, Thomas Crisp, Robert Gallon, Edward Nevill, Robert Bell, [. . .] Gayre, and [. . .] Riddell, yeomen.

Power of Attorney, 30 April, 1717, to Ford Grey of Alnwick, gent., and Edward Ward of Morpeth, gent., or either of them, to sign certificate.

Enrolled 2 May, 171 7.

* The parentage of William Brown, husband of the lady named in the text, has not been ascertained. He is found first of all farming at Ewart in the chapelry of Doddington, at that time the property of the Greys of Wark. He and his brother, Alexander, were thriving men and made considerable pur- chases from the needy landowners of the day, in the parishes of Edlingham with Bolton, Eglingham, Ellingham, Embleton, and Lesbury. Having sur- vived his brother, William Brown disposed of the fruits of their joint industry and saving by his will dated 6th March, 171 1-2. To his grandson, William Brown, eldest son of his (the testator's) eldest son, Thomas Brown, he gave his property of Alnmouth ; and to his second son, Alexander, he gave Doxford ; To his son, Nicholas Bro\Mr of Ewart, the testator gave Bolton; and to his son Joseph he gave Branton. The testator also gave legacies to his grandson, William Grieve of Berwick; James Grey, an apprentice in London; Robert and William Lisle; and to his granddaughters, Jane Wilson and Margaret Lisle.

The Mrs. Margaret Bro\\ai whose register is abstracted in the text, was daughter of Adam Smith of Scremerston in Island-shire, who owned some small property at Cheswick. His will, dated 20th October, 1702, mentions "my daughter, Margaret Brown, wife of William Brown of Bolton, esq." She may have been a second wife. She died at Newtown, and was buried in Bolton chapel 20th September, 1728.

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XXIII. — A yearly rental of Isabella, Lady Swinburne's lands as they are let for the year 1717, and satled by hir late husband, Sir John Swinburne,* bart., deceased. [No date.]

Jointure lands in Northumberland.

Demesne lands of Capheaton let to my. grandson, Sir John Swinburne, at 130/i.

M^iiney Closes, &c., let to Mr. Edward Killvington at 72/i.

Capheton South Hill farm, &c., let to Mr. Thomas Hall at yoli.

Edge-house farm, &c., let to Henry Brown at 30/^.

Part of Westfield, &c., let to William Welden at 34/y.

Corn milln, &c., let to Henry Trotter at 24//. los.

Lands in West-field let to Thomas Harle and Francis Smith at i2li.

Several closes let to Allen Browne at 24/^". 8s. ^d.

Closes in several places let to William Gilpatrick at 13/^'. 15s.

Farm, &c., let to Mark Gilpatrick at iili. 10s.

Farm, &c., let to Matthew Reedford at 5/i. 5s.

Farm, &c., let to Reynold Harle at ^li. 5s.

In my own hand of the towne-field, i^li. 2s. 6d.

Jacob Acheson's farm, Capheaton White-house, which I let to my son, Sir William Swinburne, Bt., deceased, for 65/?'.

The Fawnes let to Bartholomew Acheson, by lease, for 7 years to come, at 50/^'.

Yearly rental 560/i. i6s. 8d.

Capheaton, Aprill 19, 1717. These are to desire Mr. Thos. Ord, clarke of the pece for the county of Northumberland, pursuant to a laite Act of Parliment for ridgestering papist estaitis, that I doe intend, God willing, to ridgister the lands above mensioned, at the ne.xt generall quarter sessions, and desires the said Mr. Ord may enter this notice as the law directs, as wittness my hand:

Isabella Swinburne.

What is paid out of the within mentioned lands of Capheaton and Capheaton White-house, etc., as followeth: —

The land-tax for Capheaton this year, 43/^'. 4s. f^d.

The corn tythe due, part of Whelpington Rectory, loli.

The window sess for Capheaton, ili. 10s.

Duke of Somerset, rent due, is. ^d.

* Sir John Swinburne, who was created a baronet 26th September, 1660, and rebuilt the mansion house at Capheaton, married Isabella, daughter and sole heir of Henry Lawson of Brough, who was slain in the fight at Melton Mowbray, her mother being Catherine, daughter and co-heir of Sir William Fenwick of Meldon.

Sir John Swinburne died 19th January, 1706, having had issue eleven sons and thirteen daughters. Two of the sons, Edward and James, were out in the Rebellion of 171 5. cf. pedigree of Swinburne, Rev. John Hodgson's History of Northumberland, part ii, vol. i, p. 232 ; Welford, Royalist Compositions , P- 350.

The whole schedule is in Lady Swinburne's handwriting.

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Fee farm rent to Mr. John Bendlowes and others by grant from the Crown, 4s. 8d.

My part of a militia horse, 6li. os. id.

Poor in Wlielpington Parish, my part, 2li.

Paid to Parson Gamwell for tythe of lamb and wool, 2li. 5s.

Allowed Henry Browne of Edge-house for cooles, 2li.

Paid yearly out of the AMiite-house to Bavington, 8s.

Paid the cunterey-keeping sess, 17s. 4d.

Fawnes pays yearly to the Duke of Somerset, 5s. gd.

A modus to the rectory of Wlielpington paid for the Fawnes, 6s. 8^.

Poore sess and repairing of the church, &c., 6s. 8d.

The land-tax for the Fawnes, ^li. 6s. 8d.

Allowed Bartholomew Acheson 40 foder of cools for the im- provement of his farm, 3/1.

Paid out of the Fawnes to Thomas Fenwick, for quitting his farm, ten pound a year for 3 years, 30/^'.

Paid Alen Browne, or allowed in his rent, interest for looli. borrowed long ago, ^li.

Allowed out of the rent I received of my grandson. Sir John Swinburne, Bt., for keeping the house and gardins in repair, 10//.

The out-rents, in all the sum of 120/^. i6s. yd.

I have no lands holden by lease, but Mr. Killvington, Bar- tholomew Acheson of the Fawnes, the rest of the tenants are only verbal contracts.

Power of Attorney, 30 April, 1717, given by Dame Isabella Swinbum of Capheaton, widow of Sir John Swinburn of Capheaton, bart., to Edward Ward of Morpeth, gent., and Lancelott Allgood of Morpeth, gent., or either of them, to sign certificate.

Enrolled 2 May, 1717.

XXIV. — A yearly rental of the Lady Mary Swinburne's lands as they are left for in' the year 1717, and satled by hir late husband. Sir William Swinburne,* bart., deceased, as followeth. [No date.]

Joynture lands in the parish of ChoUerton held by Mr. Ralph Soulsby by lease during his natural life (Beemond House excepted), let by Sir William at 200/?.

Outgoings — Fee farm rent paid to Lady Susanna Fane, 2li. Fee farm rent paid to the Lord Duke, is. 4^. To the setting out of a light horse, 3//.

Capheaton, Aprill ye 18, 1717. These are to desire Mr. Tho. Ord, clarke of the pece for the county of Northumberland, pursuant to a late Act of Parliment for redchestring popish estaites that I doe intend, God willing, to redchester the lands above mentioned

* Sir William Swinburne, second baronet, married Mary, daughter of Anthony Englefield of White Knights, Berkshire, by whom he had (perhaps with other issue) three sons. He was buried at Kirkwhelpington 17th April, 1716.

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att the next genorall quarter sessions, and desires the said Mr. Ord may enter this notice as the law directs, as Witness my hand:

Mary Swinburne.

Power of Attorney, 30 April, 171 7, given by Dame Mary Swin- burn of Capheaton, widow of Sir William Swinburn late of Cap- heaton, baronet, deceased, to Edward Ward of Morpeth, gent., and Lancelott Allgood of Morpeth, gent., or either of them, to sign certificate.

Enrolled 2 May, 1717.

XXV. — Register of the estate of William Ord* of Sturton Grange, esq. [No daf-\]

All the manor of Sturton Grange, now in my mother's and mj' possession; as also all the capital messuage of Sturton Grange with the lands, &c., in the same possession.

All that messuage, farm, lands, &c., let b^'' my mother and me to Ralph Mow at 31 Z?. a year.

All that other messuage, farm, lands, &c., also let by my mother and me to Robert Tate at ^ili. a year.

All that other messuage, farm, and lands let by my mother and me to William Tate at 31/^'. a year.

Of which I have one moiety, and my mother the other, for her jointure, for her life.

The same are subject to a mortgage for 1,500/7'., and for a further sum of Gooli. for younger children.

Power of Attorney, 10 April, 1717, to John Hanking and George Marr of the county of Northumberland, gents., or either of them, to sign certificate.

Enrolled 2 May, 1717.

XXVI. — Register of the estate of Jane Carnaby of Hexham,

WIDOW OF Richard Carnaby of Nubbocke,! dated 17 April,

1717.

An annuity of 20/?. settled on me for my joynture or dower after

the death of my said husband, out of Yolksley alias Nubbocke, and

* William Ord, bailiff, or district agent of the Earl of Northumberland, and as such having an official residence in Prudhoe Castle, took a conveyance on the 17th August, 161 7, of Sturton Grange in the parish of Warkworth, parcel of the possessions of the dissolved abbey of Newminster. Dying at Prudhoe on the 27th April, 1630, he was buried in the chancel of Ovingham under a marble grave-cover with a rhyming epitaph and his arms, quarterly I and 4, three salmons hanriant, one and two ; 2, three mullets, one and two ; 3, three fleurs de lis, one and two. William Ord, whose register is abstracted in the text, was his great-grandson. He is reported to have been out in the '15, but if so he was allowed to return unmolested to his own home at Sturton Grange, where he died unmarried, and was buried at Warkworth on the 23rd January, 1723-4. See Register No. cxvi; of. pedigree of Ord of Sturton Grange in new History of N orthumherland , vol. v, p. 247.

t Although it has not been found possible to affiliate the Carnabys of Nubbock in Hexhamshire with the main stem of Carnaby of Halton, there

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Wester Green-ridge alias Grind-ridge, in the parish of Hexham, and in possession of my sonne, Mr. Francis Carnaby, and his tenants.

Power of x\ttorney, 29 April, 1717, to John Aynsley of Hexham, gent., Edward Ward of Morpeth, gent., and Thomas Marr of Morpeth, gent., or either of them, to sign certificate.

Enrolled i May, 1717.

XXVn. — Register of the estate of Mary Errington of Hexham, WIDOW OF William Errington* of Wallicke Grainge, GENT., deceased, dated 17 April, 1717.

Blackaburne, in the parish of Simonburne, let to Henry Hird- man for 53/?. los. a year, out of which I have only an estate for life, it being settled upon me by way of dower.

Power of Attorney, 29 April, 1717, to John Aynsley of Hexham, gent., Edward Ward of Morpeth, gent., and Thomas Marr of Morpeth, gent., or either of them, to sign certificate.

Enrolled i May, 1717.

XXVni. — Register of the estate of Cuthbert Lambertj of Hexham, gent., dated 17 April, 1717. One burgage, or stone house, in the Market Street, Hexham, in which I now live.

One stable and garth thereto adjoining, in a street called Gylly- gate, in my own possession.

can be no doubt of the consanguinity, for William Carnaby of Halton, in his will dated 2nd August, 1686, entailed his lands on his brother and his issue male, remainder to Ralph Carnaby of Chollerton, remainder to Richard Carnaby I of Nubbock.

Richard Carnaby II, son of the above-named Richard Carnaby I, was buried m the quire of Hexliam on the i8th November, 1692, having had issue by his wife Jane, whose register is abstracted in the text, five sons and four daughters. His eldest son was Francis Carnaby of Nubbock. See Register No. lii.

Mrs. Jane Carnaby, named in the text, was buried in the quire of Hexham on the 31st of May, 1732, having survived her son, Francis Carnaby of Nubbock. See Register No. lii; cf. pedigree of Carnaby of Nubbock, new History of Northumberland, vol. iv, p. 19; and pedigree of Carnaby of Halton in vol. x of same series, p. 408.

* According to the pedigree of Errington of Walwick Grange, given in the Rev. John Hodgson's History of Northumberland, part ii, vol. iii, pp. 413- 416 — which pedigree stands in need of revision — William Errington of Wal- wick, who died in the month of March, 171 3, is stated to have married Mary, daughter of Ralph Bates of Holywell in the chapelry of Earsdon. This statement linds no support in the full and elaborate pedigree of Bates of Holy- well in the new History of Northumberland, vol. ix, p. 86.

William Errington, son of the above-named William Errington, died in 1701 in his father's lifetime. He married Mary, daughter of Francis Howard of Corby, apparently the lady whose register is abstracted in the text.

t According to a carefully drawn up pedigree, preserved in the Bell Col- lections at Alnwick Castle, Richard Lambert I of Hexham — a Roman Catholic physician, who was buried there 6th May, 1694 — '^^'s^s father of two sons, Richard Lambert II and Cuthbert. The latter, a surgeon in.Hexham, for some unknown

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A close in Gylly-gate jfields, which close is commonl}^ called Winewellreins, and in my possession.

Of all which I have an estate by copy of court-roll.

One close in Gylly-gate fields called Windmill-hill.

One close in Gyllygate fields called Winewellreins.

One close in Acomb in the parish of St. John Lees, commonl}^ called Stoneyside.

One house in Gylly-gate.

Out of which said premises the lord of the manor of Hexham receives 5s. 10 Ja'. yearly.

Power of Attorney, 29 April, 1717, to John Aynsley of Hexham, gent., Edward Ward of Morpeth, gent., and Thomas Marr of the same, gent., or either of them, to sign certificate.

Enrolled i May, 1717.

reason was in gaol in 1710, and petitioned Quarter Sessions for relief, alleging that his family were starving. It is evidently he who filed the certificate abstracted in the text. By his first wife, Winifred, daughter of Matthew Leadbitter of Warmley, he had, with other issue, Cnthbei-t Lambert of New- castle, M.D., John Lambert of Newcastle, upholsterer, and a daughter Frances, who was married 23rd July, 1729, to her cousin, Joseph Lambert of Gateshead, linen-draper.

John Lambert, the upholsterer, by his wife Margaret, daughter of William Bradley, bailiff of Gateshead, had issue a son, John Lambert of Durham, conveyancer, who is stated to have drawn up the pedigree, for many years a clerk of Mr. Christopher Fawcett.

Cuthbert Lambert of Pilgrim Street, Newcastle, M.D., born at Hexham 17th March, 1701, eldest son of the above-named Cuthbert and Winifred Lambert, married Julia, or Julian, daughter of Christopher Rutter of Newcastle. He conformed to the Establishment, and dying in the month of September. 1772, was buried near the communion table of St. Andrew's church; having had, with other issue, (i) Christopher Lambert, a captain, 34th regiment, who fell at the taking of Havannah; (2) Jacob Lambert of Newcastle, attorney, and secretary of the Infirmary, who died 2nd Sept., 1792, aged 56, leaving issue; (3) Cuthbert Lambert of H.M. Customs, the hero of Lambert's Leap, who died 13th October, 1770; (i) Winifred, married at St. Andrew's, 29th May, 1757, Christopher Fawcett, recorder of Newcastle; (2) Ann, who was living at I3enwell unmarried in 1793.

The name of the wife of Richard Lambert II has not been ascertained. He had (perhaps with other issue) two sons, Richard Lambert III and Joseph Lambert of Gateshead, woollen draper, who married his cousin, Frances, daughter of Cuthbert Lambert of Hexham, surgeon, and by her had issue two sons and three daughters. One of the latter, Jane Lambert, was married at Gateshead 28th November, 1759, to Edward Charlton of Redesmouth.

Richard Lambert III settled in Newcastle and conformed. The name of his wife has not been ascertained. He was father of Richard Lambert I\', a distinguished surgeon in Newcastle, one of the founders of the Newcastle Infirmary, and, like his father, a Protestant. He married in July, 1752, Julia, daughter of John Ord of Newcastle, attorney, by whom he had with other issue Richard Lambert V of Newcastle and Newbrough, for many years an agent of Lord Ravensworth, who died 26th July, 1835, s.p.

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XXIX. — Register of the estate of Alexander Rutherford* of BuRRATON, YEOMAN. [No date.]

In Burraton, in the parish of Allenton : A messuage, tenement, or farm and curtilage in my possession. One cottage let to Isabel Robson at 6s. a year of which I am seised, to me and my heirs, but they are subject to a judgment or other security for 2oli. to a fee-farm rent, or modus of is. 6|rf. payable to Thomas Selby, esq.

[No Power of Attorney.]

Enrolled i May, 1717.

XXX. — Register of the estate of John Gascoignej of Parlington

IN THE County of York, esq. [No date.]

In Harbottle : A capital messuage let to John Jinnison at ili. 10s. a year.

In Harbottle, Eardope, and Peeles alias Pooles : A castle, and the scite thereof, with several cottages, a park called Harbottle Park, and several closes, lands, tythes, &c., let by me to Mr. John Alder, for 21 years at the rent of 150/^'. a year, and ^li. ys. bd. as a fine, " paid to Mary my wife att the execution of the said lease."

* The Rutherfords were small freeholders at Burradon in Coquetdale. The name of George Rutherford appears on the freeholders' roll of 1638, and that of Andrew Rutherford in the Book of Rates in 1663. Alexander Ruther- ford of Burradon appears in the poll books of 1710 and 1721, in the latter of which the designation " papist " is entered against his name. He was suc- ceeded by his eldest son, John Rutherford, who made his will on the 21st December, 1765. The latter left an only son, Thomas Rutherford, described as of Plainfi eld-hall, 7th May, 1773, in a conveyance of a small freehold in Harbottle, to James Kilpatrick.

t Sir John Gascoigne of Parlington, lifth baronet, born ciyca 1662, married at Saxton, 23rd December, 1689, Mary, daughter and sole heir of Roger Widdrington of Harbottle (by his wife Catherine, who married secondly Gervase Hamond), and with or through her obtained a handsome property in Northumberland.

It has hitherto been believed that Lady Gascoigne's father, Roger Wid- drington, was the son of Sir Edward Widdrington of Cartington, knt. This is not so. Sir Edward Widdrington 's son Roger died in his lifetime, and in order to perpetuate the name he married one of his three daughters, Catherine, to a young kinsman bearing the name of his dead son. As stated above, Catherine, widow of Roger Widdrington, married secondly, in the year 1673, Gervase Hamond of Scarthingwell, and died 30th December, 1697.

By indentui'es dated respectively 21st and 22nd December, 1687, made between Sir Thomas Gascoigne, bart., and John Gascoigne of the first part. Sir Miles Stapleton, knt., G[ervase] Hamond, and Mary Widdrington, sp., of the other part, the Harbottle estate was brought into settlement. On the 20th October, 1691, John Gascoigne and Mary his wife had dealings with the property.

Sir John Gascoigne, who succeeded his brother as fifth baronet in 1718, died at Bath i6th June, 1723, and was buried at Barwick nejir his wife, Dame Mary Gascoigne, who was buried 5th March, 1721-2. Their son, Sir Edward Gascoigne, sixth baronet, sold Harbottle 7th June, 1731, to Luke Clennell. cf. pedigree of Gascoigne of Parlington, in that invaluable repository of York- shire genealogy, Dugdale's Visitation of Yorkshire with Additions, vol. iii, P- 97. by Mr. J. W. Clay, F.S.A., 3 vols., 1899 to 1917.

In Burradon in the parish of AUenton : A messuage let to George Willson at loli. ; another let to Thomas Wilson for roli. ; another let to Thomas Potts for 5/1. ; another let to John Wilson for lo/t.

In Allenton Hough : A close, &c., let to Alexander Brown for 17s. 4d. ; another let to Mary Wilkinson for gs.

All which are, by settlement, limited to the use of me the said John Gascoigne and Mary my wife, for our lives, and the life of the survivor ; remainder to the heirs of my body on said Mary, remainder to my right heirs, with power in me and my said wife, during our joint lives, by deed signed by us, before two or more credible wi.nesses to revoke any the estates beforementioned; which said premises, or part of them, are subject to a modus of los. payable to Sir Reginald Graham, Bart., in lieu of all tythe arising out of Eardhope, a free- rent or quit-rent of 105. lod. out of Harbottle Castle to the lord of the manor of Ridsdale, of 2s. out of Eardhope to said lord of the manor of Ridsdale, of i2li. out of Harbottle Castle and Peeles to Thomas Selby, esq., and 2s. y\d. out of Burradon to said Thomas Selby.

Power of Attorney, 12 April, lyiy, to John Ainesley of Hexham, gent., John Hankin of Newcastle, gent., and Robert Wilson of Morpeth, gent., or either of them, to sign certificate.

Enrolled i May, 1717.

XXXI. — Register of the estate of Mary Stapylton, widow of Nicholas Stapylton,* late of Carlton, Yorks., esq. [No date.] The manor of Barwick-on-the-Hill in the parish of Pont Hand, in my possession.

A messuage, lands, &c., let by Sir Miles Stapylton, baronet, deceased, to James Charlton, by lease dated Dec. i, 1698, for 21 years, at 55/*.

* Nicholas Errington of Ponteland, the representative of an ancient house, fined for his dehnquency in 1647, entered his pedigree 25th August, 1666, in Dugdale's Visitation of Northumberland. By his first wife, Margaret, daughter of Roger Widdrington [of Cartington], he had, with other issue, an eldest son, Mark Errington, whose age in 1663 was given as 32. The latter married Anne, daughter (and ui her issue heir) of Gilbert Stapleton of Carlton near Snaith. Their son, Nicholas Errington, born circa 1660, became, in the year 1707, testamentary heir of his uncle, Sir Miles Stapleton of Carlton, hart. Removing to Yorkshire he assumed the name of Stapleton, but evidently without ob- taining the Royal Ucence or other sufficient authority, for in legal and other documents he and his immediate descendants are generally described or styled as Stapleton alias Errington.

Nicholas Stapleton alias Errington of Carlton and Ponteland married, first, Mary, daughter of Simon Scrope of Danby, the marriage settlement being dated 26th May, 1682. His second wife was Mary, daughter of Thomas Sandys of Worcester^ — the marriage settlement being made in 1699- — the lady whose register is abstracted in the text. He died 7th December, 1716, aged 56, and his widow 26th April, 1735, aged 54. In another court Mrs. Stapleton registered a house in Camblesforth in Yorkshire, cf. Dugdale's Visitation of Yorkshire with Additions, by J. W. Clay, vol. i, p. 169; and Welford, Royalist Compositions, p. 196.

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A messuage, lands, &c., let by the same, to John and Wilham Cutter, by lease dated Dec. i, 1698, for 21 years, 33/^'.

A messuage, lands, &c., let by the same, to John Gowland and William Charlton, by lease dated 2 Aug., 1699, for 21 years, 28li.

A messuage, farm, &c., let by Nicholas Errington, lately deceased, to Thomas Charlton, by lease dated 5 Feb., 1700, for 21 years, 50/i.

A messuage, farm, &c., let by said Nicholas Errington, esq. (by the name of Nicholas Stapylton), to said Thomas Charlton, by lease dated 27 May, 1712, for 8 years, looli.

A moiety of a farm let by said Nicholas Stapylton to Mr. John Ward, by lease dated 24 Jan., 1715, for 6 years, 2ili. 15s.

The other moiety let, same day, to Edward Charlton, for 0 years, 23li. 15s.

A cottage, built on the waste by Mark Buckham, who pays for it yearly, is.

Another cottage, built on waste by William Charlton, who pays for it yearly, is.

Of all which rents, etc., I am in the receipt of the profits for life for my joynture, paying yearly is. 6d. to the Honor or Castle of Mitford, and an annuity of 30/1. to George Errington, esq., for life.

[No Power of Attorney.]

Enrolled i May, 1717.

XXXII. — Register of the estates of Nicholas Stapylton alias Errington,* esq., of Carlton, Yorks. [No date.]

In Ponteland town and parish.

The manor, etc., of Ponteland.

A capital messuage let to Mrs. Mary Errington at 5s.

A messuage, farm, &c., called Westhouses, let by Nicholas Erring- ton, esq., deceased, to Matthew and Edward Crow at goli.

Another messuage, farm, &c., let by said Nicholas Errington under the name of Nicholas Stapylton, to William Potts, jun., and Mark Potts at 33/1.

Another farm, &c., called East-farm, let by the said Nicholas Errington to John Fatkin at 44/1.

A farm, &c., called West-farm, let by the said Nicholas Stapylton alias Errington to said John Fatkin at 34/;'.

* Nicholas Stapleton alias Errington of Carlton and Ponteland, was the second but eldest surviving son and heir of Nicholas Stapleton alias Errington by his first wife, Mary, daughter of Simon Scrope of Danby. He married, first, Charlotte, davighter of Ralph Eure of Washingborough, Lincolnshire; secondly, Mabel, daughter of Walter Bagenall of Dunleckny; and thirdly, Winifred, daughter of John White of Dover Street, London; and died at Hammersmith in July, 1750. He was succeeded by his eldest surviving son, Thomas, the offspring of the third marriage, who, in 1773, petitioned for and obtained a Royal Licence to assume the name and arms of Stapleton (see Newcastle Courant, 5th June, 1773). He sold his property at Ponteland circa 1774 to George Silvertop of Minsteracres. After unsuccessfully claimmg the barony of Beaumont, he died 25th April, 1821, aged 83, and was buried at Carlton.

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Messuage, water corn mill, etc., let by the said Nicholas Stapylton alias Errington to said John Fattkin for 21 years, 48/?'.

Messuage, farm, etc., let by the said Nicholas Stapylton to Christopher Errington, gent., William Cargy, and Cuthbert Charl- ton at T^li.

Messuage called Redhead's farm let to said Christopher Errington and Cuthbert Charlton at 34/ji.

Messuage, farm, etc., called Smallburne, let to John Atkinson at 40/*'.

Walk, or fulling millne, let to Joseph Proctor, 5/1.

Cottage and 3 closes let to John Cargy, yli.

Cottage and garth let to Percival Wood, ili.

Cottage and garth let to Matthew Errington at los.

Cottage and garth let to Aaron Aconside, ids.

Cottage and garth let to Anne Emelton, 6s.

Cottage and garth let to William Humphreys, 8s.

Cottage and garth let to John Fatkin, los.

Stable, &c., to John Emerson at los.

Stable, &c., let to [. . .] Gibson, widow, at 12s.

Cottage, &c., let to Isabell Brown, widow, at 12s.

Cottage and garden let to John Errington, i6s.

In Little Callerton alias Calverton.

Moiety of said hamlet, &c., let by me to Ralph Atkinson for 15 years at 44/;'.

The other moiety of Little Callerton let by me to William Dixon for 15 years at 44/7.'.

Of all which I am in the receipt of the rents for my life without impeachment of waste, with remainder, after several others, to me in fee simple as heir at law to Nicholas Stapleton alias Errington, my late father. Chargeable, however, with an annuity of 155/?. to my grand-mother-in-law, Mrs. Joyce Holtby for her life, and to another annuit^^ of 50/1. to my brother Gregory Errington for his life.

Power of Attorney, 15 April, 1717, to John Hankin of Newcastle, gent., John jMaire of Newcastle, gent., and Robert Wilson of Morpeth, gent., or one of them, to sign certificate.

Enrolled i May, 1717.

XXXIIL — Register of the estate of Gregory Errington* of Carl- ton IN THE County of York, gent. \No date].

An annuity of 50/1. secured to me by deed quadripartite dated 12 August, 1712, between Nicholas Stapylton alias Errington of Carlton, esq., and Nicholas Errington, esq., son and heir apparent of said Nicholas Stapylton alias Errington, of the ist part ; Charlotte Eure, only daughter of Ralph Eure of Washingbrough in the count}'

* Gregory Errington was the third son of Nicholas Stapylton alias Errington of Carlton, in the parish of Snaith, and of Ponteland, by his first wife, Mar3^ daughter of Simon Scroopeof Danby. Under his father's will he had his large gold ring and his silver watch.

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of Lincoln, esq., of the 2nd part; the Honble. Lewis Dymoke of Scrivelsby in the county of Lincohi, esq., and Charles Dymoke of Sandethorpe in the county of Lincoln, esq., of the 3rd part; and Dymoke Walpoole of Lowtli in county Lincoln, gent., and Richard Walpoole of the same, gent., of the 4th part; in which indenture, among divers things, there is an annuity charged to me of 5o/^. out of the capital messuage, &c., called Pont Hand House, with the lands thereto belonging, now in the possession of Mrs. Margaret Errington and John Fattkin and their assigns.

Power of Attorney, 15 April, 1717, to John Hankin of Newcastle, gent., John Maire of Newcastle, gent., and Robert Wilson of Morpeth, gent., or one of them, to sign certificate.

Enrolled i May, 1717.

XXXIV. — Register of the estate of the Honble. Catherine collingwood, one of the daughters of the right Honble. Henry Lord Viscount Montague, widow of George Collingwood,* deceased. [No date.]

An annual rent-charge of 20oli. settled on me by said George Collingwood, by way of jointure, out of the m?nors of Eslington and Whittingham, &c., and of which I am seised for life.

Power of Attorney, 10 April, 1717, to John Hanking and Edward Riddell of Newcastle, gents., or one of them, to sign certificate.

Enrolled 2 May, 171 7.

XXXV. — Register of the estate of Dorothy Hankinj of Newcastle, widow, dated 19 April, 1717.

A messuage and lands in the townfields of Haltwhistle, held by the said Dorothy Hankin for 999 years, at the rent of id. or pepper-

* George Collingwood of Eslington, who was out in the Rebellion of 1715, and thereby lost his life and fortiuie, has been assumed to be the eldest son of George Collingwood of Eslington, by his marriage with Agnes, daughter and co-heir of John Fleming of Rydale in Westmorland. Register No. xix raises the inference that George Collingwood, the son, who was born circa 1653, was dead before the 20th October, 1O77, being survived by his next brother, William, who thereupon became heir apparent to his father. A generation seems to have dropped out, and it is most probable that George Collingwood, the rebel of 1715, was the son and heir of the William Collingwood of Eslington named in Register No. xix. On the 3rd June, 1710, George Collingwood of Eslington took out a licence to marry Catherine Brown, then residing in the parish of Brancepeth, daughter of Henry, fifth Viscount Montague. Of this marriage, so far as is known, there was issue three daughters only, viz. Isabell, baptised at Whittingham 22nd August, 171 1; Barbara, baptised at the same place in the following year; and Catherine, subsequently wife of Sir Robert Throckmorton, bart., the descendant of whose daughter, Barbara, wife of Thomas Gifford of Chillington, became heir general of the CoUingwoods of Eslington.

Mrs. Collingwood, whose register is abstracted in the text, died December, 1776, or January, 1777, at Longbirch near Wolverhampton.

t Dorothy Hankin of Newcastle, widow, by her will dated .:6th October, 1723, gave her messuage at Haltwhistle to her son, John Hankin of Newcastle,

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corn at Pentecost ; and that Henry Dent is in possession of the said premises (except a house called the New-House) by memorandum, or a lease, for 9 years at 8li. los. a year, and that Edward Hankin holds the New-House under no rent ; but let out of charity by said Dorothy Hankin by parole ; and she is seised in right of said tene- ments of a share in Haltwhistle common not yet enclosed.

She is also seised of a customary tenement called Caudley in the manor of Henshaw, of the antient rent of 13s. ^d., and 8d. fine at death of the lord or tenant, for her life, and after her death to Matthew Hankin her son, according to articles dated 2 July, 1656, between Francis Nevill, late lord of the said manor, and the then tenants of the same, and that the same is let to John Young on lease at i6li. a year.

Power of Attorney, 29 April, 1717, to John Maire of Newcastle, gent., Robert Wilson of Morpeth, gent., and Andrew Marr of Mor- peth, butcher, or one of them, to sign certificate.

Enrolled i May, 1717.

XXXVI. — Register of the estate of Margaret Hankin* of Newcastle, spinster, dated 19 April, 1717.

Two customary tenements called Hunter-crook in the manor of Henshaw and parish of Haltwhistle, one at the antient rent of 5s. ^d., the other of 5s. 8d., both of them subject to a fine called an eight-penny fine at the death of lord or tenant, and several rents and services set forth in articles of agreement of July 2, 1656, between Francis Nevill then lord of the said manor, and the tenants ;

and to his son, also named John Hankin, £100. She gave ;^20o to her daughter, Jane, wife of James Selby of Allenton ; her furniture, &c., to her daughter, Margaret Hankin, whom with John Hankin and John Clark of Newcastle, cooper, she made her executors. The will was enrolled at Quarter Sessions in 1733-

John Clark of Newcastle, cooper, John Hankhi, sen., of Newcastle, gent., and John Hankin, jun., of Newcastle, gent., son of the said John Hankin, with two others, were devisees in trust under the will dated 12th October, 1723, of William Halsill of Wylam, gent., who had an interest in the salmon fishery in the Tyne near that place. Halsill's will was enrolled at Quarter Sessions in 1725.

John Hankin of Newcastle frequently acted, under powers of attorney, for the gentlemen who lodged the certificates or registers abstracted in this volume.

On the i6th November, 1749, John Hankin of Sunderland Bridge, near Durham, gent., described as eldest son and heir of John Hankin late of New- castle, gent., and grandson of Dorothy Hankin of Newcastle, also nephew and heir of Matthew Hankin of Newcastle, gent., and of Margaret Hankin of the same place, spinster, conveyed lands at Caudley in the manor of Henshaw, and at Huntercrook in the parish of Haltwhistle, to John Parker of Lees. The conveyance was enrolled at Quarter Sessions in 1750.

* Margaret Hankin was one of the two daughters of Dorothy Hankin, widow (see Register No. xxxv). She died unmarried before i6th November, 1749, in which year John Hankin of Sunderland Bridge, co. Durham, was stated to be her heir.

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and that William Ridley occupies the same at the rent of 14/2.'. except a close and the houses called the Hill-Close, of which George Browel is tenant, at the rent of 3/*.

Power of Attorney, 29 April, 1717, to John Maire of Newcastle, gent., Robert Wilson of Morpeth, gent., and Andrew Marr of Mor- peth, butcher, or one of them, to sign certificate.

Enrolled i May, 1717.

XXXVII. — Register of the estate of James Selby* of Allenton, GENT., dated 19 April, 1717.

Two messuages or farms in the parish of Allenton called Loaning, or George Wilkinson of the Loaning's farm, and George Wilkinson's of \\'ester Loaning alias West-awes, of which the said James Selby is seised, to him and the heirs of his body by Jane his wife, chargeable with an annuity of 2oli. to said Jane if she survive the said James, one cottage let to Michael Parker (?) at the rent of 14s., another cottage let to William Thompson at 6.s. The whole is subject to yM. yearly to the lord of Shermerden.

Enrolled i May, 1717.

XXX^TII. — Register of the estate of Thomas William SELBYf of THE CITY OF YoRK, ESQ., dated 29 March, 1717.

In Allenton Parish. The manor of Shermerdon with its courts, &c., and several quit-rents paid to me, in respect of the said manor of Shermerdon, out of several places in Allenton parish, as also out of several places in Ingram parish, amounting in the whole to 14/1. 149. (-)\d.

* In the report of a meeting of the Berwickshire Naturalists' Chib, held at Ahvinton, 27th July, 1887, Dr. James Hardy has noted a local tradition that James Selby, who resided in the old hall of Alwinton with his brother Thomas, farmed his lands on the archaic system, known as "runrig," and that the property of the two brothers was eventually purchased by the Selbys of Biddleston. Hist. Berw. Nat. Club, vol. xii, p. 39. Bv a deed dated 6th April, 1 771, and enrolled at Quarter Sessions, Thomas Selby of Allenton, described as only surviving brother and heir-at-law of James Selbj-, late of Allenton, also son and heir-at-law of William Selby, late of Allenton, barred the entail of his lands in Allenton. He is described as of Rothbury when he made his will, gth September, 1777, by which, after providing for his two daughters, Elizabeth, wife of William Symonds, and Barbara Selby, and after giving legacies of ;^ioo apiece to his grandchildren, James, Susanna, Barbara, and Mark Selby, he devised his lands in Allenton in trust for his two grandsons, Selby Symonds and Thomas Symonds. The will was proved at Durham in 1781.

James Selby, whose register is abstracted in the text, married Jane, daughter of Dorothy Hankin of Newcastle (see Register Xo. xxxv), but apparently left no issue.

t The origin of the very ancient house of Selby of Biddleston may, with probability, be carried back to Adam de Selby, who, in 11 83, farmed the demesnes of Little Haughton in the Bishopric, and, with greater assurance, to Sir Walter de Selby, who was enfeoffed of the manor of Felling in 1220. In the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries the Selbys made Segliill their chief

Bidleston West Demesne : The mansion house of Biddleston, &c., let by me to George Rutherford at 2yli. 5s. a year, " one hen, and the spinning of Hne or wool."

Messuage or farm, &c., let to John Reed at 54/1. los., one hen, and the spinning of a pound of line or wool.

Messuage, &c., let by me to George Brown at 27/1. 5s., one hen, and the spinning of i pound of line or wool.

Biddleston Town: Cottage, &c., let to Dorothy Davy at the yearly rent of one hen and the spinning of i pound of line or wool.

2 cottages, let to Ward and Alexander Luck each at the

yearly rent of one hen and spinning i pound of line or wool.

Messuage and farm, &c., let to Thomas Davison at lo/i. 17s. 6d., one hen, and the spinning of i pound of line or wool.

Messuage or tenement farm, let to John Sprote at yli. 5s., one hen, and spinning i pound of line or wool.

Messuage, &c., let to Alexander and William Wallas at loli. 17s. 6d. and one hen, and spinning i pound of line or wool.

Messuage, &c., let by me to Francis Scott at ^li. 12s. 6d., one hen, and spinning i pound of line or wool.

Messuage, &c., let by me to John Robson at ^H. 12s. 6d., one hen, and spinning i pound of line or wool.

Messuage, &c., let to John Bro^\^l at yli. 5s., one hen, and the spinning of i pound of line or wool.

Messuage, &c., let to Robert \Vhite at 3/1. 12s. 6d., one hen, and the spinning of i pound of line or wool.

Messuage, &c., let to William and Robert Wright at ;^li. 12s. 6d., one hen, and the spinning of i pound of line or wool.

Messuage let to John Grey at yli. 5s., one hen, and the spinning of I pound of line or wool.

A wind mill and water corn mill let to William Wright for lyli. 3s. 6d.

East Demesne : A messuage let to William Horsley for =,8li., and to spin i pound of line or wool.

residence, where they indulged in disputes with the prior of T5Tiemouth. Biddleston seems to have been acquired in 1304 by Walter de Selby III, in marriage with Catherine, daughter of Sir Hugh Delaval, and about the same period they held the barony of Prenderleith , near Jedburgh, cj. new History of Northiimberland, vol. ix, pp. 56-58.

Ralph de Selby, a doctor in the Canon and Civil laws, and one exceedingly beloved and favoured by Henry IV and Henry V, died in 1420, and was buried in Westminster. His monumental inscription is preserved by Weever, p. 488.

Thomas William Selby, whose register is abstracted in the text, was the eldest son of Charles Selby of Biddleston, by his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Gellibrand of Chorley in Lancashire, and succeeded his father in 1709. He married Barbara, daughter and heir of Christopher Percehay of Ryton, CO. York, and dying 17th February, 1755, was buried at St. Pancras, where there is, or used to be, a monumental inscription. He was succeeded by his son, Thomas Selby.

The Biddleston estates, after being dismembered by sales from time to time, were brought to the hammer in 1914, and now all that remains of the ancient heritage is the mansion house and under six hundred acres of land.

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Eillilaw : A messuage let by me from year to year to Mr. William Selby at 50/*'. 13s. 4d., and spinning i pound of line or wool.

Barn with several lands, let to John Budle at 25//. 6s. Sd., and spinning i pound of line or wool.

Puncherton : A tenement farm, &c., let to John Davison at the yearlv rent of Soli., and to spin i pound of line or wool.

Rookland : A messuage let to George Hymers, 25/1. a year, and to spin I pound of line or wool.

Batlesheelhaugh : Messuage let to Christopher Jameson for 31/i., and to spin i pound of line or wool.

Coatwalls : A messuage and lands let to Gilbert Potts at the 3^earh^ reserA-ed rent of 36/i. 3s. 4^., two hens, and to spin i pound of line or wool.

Sharperton tithes : One moiety of tithe of corn, wool and lamb, and all other great and small tithes and oblations in the township of Sharperton, let by me to Mr. William Potts at loli. los., of which 2s. bd. is, b}" agreement, to be returned, and to spin i pound of line or wool.

The other moiety of Sharperton tithes let to Mrs. Mary Potts at loli. los., of which 2s. (id. is to be returned, and to spin i pound of line or wool.

Tithes of corn, hay, lamb, and wool, &c., for the township of Burraton, let together, with a modus, as follows, viz.: Alexander Rutherford, 13/^'. 6s. 8^., James Turner, 6li. 13s. 4^., William Green, 6/^'. 13s. 4^., George Wealance, Ui. 13s. ^d., William Wealance, 6li. 13s. 4^., and each of them to spin i pound of line or wool.

Foxton : A messuage and lands let to John Spragon at Sli. los., and to spin i pound of line or wool.

Messuage and lands let to John Robson at 8li. los., and to spin I pound of line or wool.

Westnewton : A messuage with lands and tithe of corn, hay, wool and lamb, and other tithes, let to John Welance at 20/^. los., and to spin i pound of line or wool.

Parkhead : A messuage and lands with all the tithes, let to Alexander Potts at ig/i. 5s., and to spin i pound of line or wool.

Allenton : A cottage let to Ann Ward at the yearly rent of spinning i pound of line or wool. Barn, stable, &c., with lands, and the tithes of all kinds upon it, let to Mr. James Selby, adjoining another farm at High Allenton of his own freehold, let at '^yli., and to spin I pound of line or wool.

Spithopes : A tenement and lands let to John Kellett at bli. a year.

Blindburn, &c.: A messuage and all tithes thereon and within the hamlets or steads called Blindburn, Buckhamswalls, Ettrick-

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burn(?), and part of Phillip, let to Andrew Lawson at 112/?'. ids., to spin I pound of line or wool.

Netherton : A messuage, &c., let to Matthew Budle at 8/i., 2 hens, and to spin i pound of line or wool.

Messuage let to John Budle, junr., at 4/^., one hen, and to spin I pound of line or wool.

Messuage let to George Budle at 8/7'., two hens, and to spin I pound of line or wool.

Messuage let to George Bolam, junr., at 6li. a year, one hen, and to spin i pound of line or wool.

Messuage let to George Bolam, senr., at 8/^'., two hens, and to spin I pound of line or wool.

Messuage, &c., let to George Story at 2/i., one hen, and to spin I pound of line or wool.

Messuage, &c., let to William Bolam at 4/?'., one hen, and to spin I pound of line or wool.

Messuage, &c., let to Ralph Story at 4/f , one hen, and to spin I pound of line or wool.

Messuage, &c., let to John Budle, senr., at i2li., 4 hens, and to spin I pound of line or wool.

Messuage, &c., let to Christopher Trumble at 4/7., one hen, and to spin I pound of line or wool.

The above tenants of Netherton are to lead 15 loads of wood to the highlands over and above their respective rents.

In Hallystone Parish.

Dewshill : A messuage and lands let to George Bulman for 9 years at the reserved rent of 16/?'., and to spin i pound of line or wool.

Carshope : A messuage, lands, &c., and all the tithes thereon, let to Robert Marshall at 48/1., and to spin i pound of line or wool.

Ridleys : A messuage, lands, &c., and all the tithes thereon, being a moiety of the same, let to Robert Marshall at 48/z., and the spinning of half-a-pound of line or wool.

Messuage, lands, &c., with all tithes thereon, being the other moiety of Ridleys, let to Michael Marshall at 48/1., and spinning half-a-pound of line or wool.

West Wilkwood : A messuage and lands with all the tithes upon it, let to John Dixon at 29/t., and to spin i pound of line or wool.

East Wilkwood : A messuage, farm, &c., and all tithes arising thereon, let to Mr. William Selbye at 14/1. 15s., and spinning i pound of line or wool.

Phillip : Several parcels of ground with all tithes, oblations, &c., arising thereon, within the other part of the hamlet of Philipp, and the tythe of Makeadon in the parishes of Allenton and Hallyston, let to James Robson at 36/?. 15s. a year, and to spin i pound of line or wool.

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Of all which manors above described I, the said Thomas William Selby, am in the receipt of the rents and seised of a freehold estate for life, without impeachment of waste, with remainder to my right heirs, save that the tithes in West Newton, Parkhead, High Allenton, Blindburn, Buckhams-walls, Ettrickburn (?), Phillip, and Makeadon, Carshope, Ridleys, West Wilkwood, and East Wilkwood, of which I am seised to me and my heirs. But all the said pre- mises are subject to a forfeited mortgage or other security for 2,oooli., to one other mortgage for $ooli., to another mortgage of 500/*'., another of 20oli., and several other debts amounting together to 1,162/?'. 9s., and one annuity of 240/1. paj^able to my aunt Anne Selb}' for her life; another annuity to Cornelius Willson of ^li. for life; another annuitj'' of 2li. to Mr. William Selby for life; to an annuity to Mrs. Jane Wy\'ill of 2oli. for life; an annuity of 2oli. to Mrs. Isabell Wyvill for life; a fee-farm rent of 22li. os. 7\d., payable to Luke Clennell, esq. ; a modus of $li. los. payable to the parson of Hallystone and Allenton out of the said tithes; of which the said Luke Clennell repays me the annual sum of one pound, as his pro- portion of the said modus for his tithes ; and one other modus of ill. 155. to Sir Nicholas Shierbum out of the same tithes.

In the Parish of Allenton.

Carlecroft Tiths : All kinds of tithes and oblations let to Mr. Henry Potts for yli., 2 stone of cheese, and to spin i pound of line or wool.

Linbrigs Tiths : All sorts of tithes lei to Parcivell Horsley and John Potts at 9/1.

Saughrige : A messuage, &c., let to John Kellett for 19/1., and to spin I pound of line or wool.

Shillmore : Several parcels of land let to Mr. Arthur Clavering at 13/ji. 6s. %d., and to spin i pound of line or wool.

Several parcels of ground let to George Story at 14//., and to spin I pound of line or wool.

Messuage or farm let to Thomas Jameson at 13/^'. 6s, M., and to spin I pound of line or wool.

Allenton : A messuage, farm, &c., and all tithes thereon (ad- joining another freehold farm at High Allenton belonging to himself) let to Mr. John Younge at 27/2. los., and to spin i pound of line or wool.

Messuage in Allenton let to Alexander Potts at 3/^'. a year.

In the Parish of Hallystone. Linsheels : Several parcels of ground let to Mr. William Selby at bli. lys. 6d.

Several parcels of ground let to William Horsley at 6li. 17s. 6d.

A messuage, &c., let to John Kellett at 13/1. 15s.

Several pieces of ground let to Mr. Arthur Clavering at 13/1. 15s.

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Several parcels of ground let to Parcivell Horsley at 13/i. 15s., and to spin i pound of line or wool.

Cragsheel : A messuage let to George Aikenhead at 34/t., and to spin I pound of line or wool.

Harbottle : A messuage, &c., let to Christopher Jameson at 6/i.

Messuage, &c., let to John Scott at 2li. los., and to spin i pound of line or wool.

Messuage, &c., let to George Young at 2li. zs. bd., and to spin I pound of line or wool.

Messuage, &c., let to Cudbert Dixon at ili., and to spin I pound of line or wool.

Harbottle Peels : A messuage, &c., let to James Young at ^li., and to spin i pound of line or wool.

A quarry or crag, called the Millstone-crag, in my own possession.

Woodhall : A messuage let to George Hall for ^li. 3s. gd., and to spin I pound of line or wool.

A messuage, &c., let to Joseph Bullman for loli. ys. 6d., and to spin I pound of line or wool.

A messuage, &c., let to Mary Potts, widow, for loli. ys. 6d. [no spinning].

A messuage, &c., let to Barbra Comon, widow, for 5/1. 3s. gd., and to spin I pound of line or wool.

A messuage, &c., let to John Thompson for 5/1. 3s. gd., and to spin I pound of line or wool.

A messuage let to Edward Potts for 2li. lis. io|^., and to spin I pound of line or wool.

A messuage let to IsabeU Stavart for 2li. lis. lo^d., and to spin I pound of line or wool.

Hallystone Mill : A messuage, garden, water com mill, &c., let to John Thompson for i2li. a year.

Hallystone Cottages : Cottage let to William Best at 12s. 6d., and to spin i pound of line or wool.

Cottage let to Elizabeth Thompson at ili. 5s., and to spin i pound of line or wool.

Cottage let to Isabella Henderson at 12s. 6^., and to spin i pound of line or wool.

Cottage let to Edward Potts at 12s. 6d., and to spin i pound of line or wool.

Two cottages let to Robert Wilkin at ili. 5s., and to spin i pound of line or wool.

Cottage let to Isabel Stavart at 12s. 6d., and to spin i pound of line or wool.

Harehaugh Tiths : All tythe of corn, hay, and all other sort of tythe arising in Harehaugh, let, from year to year, to Roger Handy- side at 2li.

Woodhouses Tith : All kinds of tythe let to George Charter at bli. a year.

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Lentronside Tith : Tiths of corn, hay, wool, and all other tyths and oblations, with a modus, arising within the village or hamlet of Lentronside, let to William Potts at the yearly rent of lit. 5s.

South Eardupp : Tith of all sorts with oblations let to William Akenhead at 19s. a year.

North Eardupp Tith : A modus for tithe of 6s. 8d. payable to me by Luke Clennell, esq.

Quickenin-coat : Tith of corn, hay, wool, and all other tithe and oblations let by me to Mrs. Anne Hagerstone at I2li. a year.

Barrow : In Allenton and Hallystone parishes, messuage, &c., let to Mr. James Selby, Parcivell Horsley, and John Potts, at lyli. 14s., and to spin one pound of line or wool.

Barrow water corn mill and farm, &c., let to Robert Scott at iGli. a year, and to spin i pound of line or wool.

In Ingram Parish.

Hartside : A messuage, farm, &c., let to Andrew Bum at 5o/t. a year, and to spin i pound of line or wool.

Greaves Ash : A messuage, farm, &c., let to James Atkin for 15/i. 13s. 4d., and to spin i pound of line or wool.

Ingram : A messuage, farm, &c., let to Thomas Rutledge for I2li. a year, and to spin i pound of line or wool.

Messuage, farm, &c., let to George Bartram at i2li. a year, and to spin i pound of line or wool.

In Kirknewton Parish.

Ewsden : Messuage, farm, &c., let to WiUiam Douglas for 2^li. yearly, and to spin i pound of line or wool.

Common-Burn : A messuage, farm, &c., let to Mr. Edward Wilson at 2^li. 10s., and to spin i pound of line or wool.

In Rothbury Parish.

An annuity or rent-charge of 6li. payable to me out of a farm called Castron.

In Elsdon Parish.

Monkrige : A messuage, farm, &c., let to Mr. Charles Hall at 10//. a year, and to spin i pound of line or wool.

Rooken : A messuage, tenement farm, &c., let to William Marshall at I2li. 10s., and to spin i pound of line or wool.

A messuage let to George Marshall at I2li. los., and to spin I pound of line or wool.

Of all which messuages in this registry described, beginning with Carlecroft tithe, I am in the receipt of the rents, and am seised of all, or in the greater part thereof, to me and my heirs, and in the rest I have a trust, or equitable estate, to me and my heirs. But the same, with all other the premises in this registry first above described, are subject to the said several mortgages, debts, annuities,

&c., and to a modus of ili. los. to the vicar of Kirknewton, a rent of 15s. to Sir Nicholas Shierburn; to 2li. a year to the poor of Bristol out of Hallystone mill; and to the fee-farm rents following: 4s. out of Rooken, 12s. out of Monkrige, ili. out of Woodhall, 2s. out of Barrow, is. 6^. out of Linsheels, is. iid. out of Harbottle Peels, and 14s. 11^. out of Harbottle town.

In Elsdon Parish.

Hatherwick : Messuage, farm, &c., let to Robert Potts at ili. i8s. /\d.

Coldpeel : A messuage, farm, &c., let to William Buckham at 4//. 5s.

Dean-head and Lancesfiield : A messuage, &c., let to John Marshall at loli.

Hopehead : A farm let to William Headley at 2li. los.

Collyerllee : A messuage, farm, &c., let to Mr. Edward Hall at 2oli.

Bents : A messuage, farm, &c., let to Mr. Thomas Hall at 15/i.

Of all which messuages, &c., in this register described, beginning with Hatherwick in parish of Elsdon, I have a defeasable estate subject to several provisions or equity of redemption, and to a yearly payment of ^li. lis. 8^. to Mrs. Margery Anderson for her life; and to a fee-farm rent of lod. out of Coldpeel, and of 2s. /\d. out of Lances Field and Deanhead, payable to Mrs. Ellinor Howard.

Power of Attorney, 29 March, 1717, to Edward Ward of Morpeth, gent., Richard Greave of Alnwick, gent., Peter Potts and John Hankin of Newcastle, gents., or one of them, to sign certificate.

Enrolled i May, 1717.

XXXIX. — Register of the estate of George Rutherford* of BiDLESTON, GENT. [No date.]

In Harbottle in the parish of Hallystone and manor of Ridsdale : a malt kiln, out of repair and not used, in my own possession; a messuage, tenement, or farm, &c., let by me to William Wilkinson under the annual rent of toU. ids.

Of all which I am seised, to me and my heirs, but the premises are subject to a forfeited mortgage or other security of 104/^'. and a fee-farm rent of 6s. M. payable to Mrs. Ellinor Howard.

Enrolled i May, 1717.

* By lease and release dated respectively 7th and 8th December, 1749, Andrew Rutherford, son and heir of George Rutherford, deceased, conveyed his messuage and close in Harbottle to Percival Clennell of Harbottle.

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XL. — Register of the estates of John Clavering* OF Callaley, esq. [No date.]

The manor or lordship of Callaley now in the possession of my mortgagees.

The mansion liouse of Callaley and appurtenances in possession of my creditors and mortgagees and let to Andrew Pringle and George Snardon {sic) yearly at igoli.

High -houses farm, &c., let by my mortgagees to Roger Snardon (sic), Robert Jackson, Thomas Gardner, and Thomas Avery, as partners, at 54/^.

Three closes called Fating-pasture, Ferny -latt, and Mare-meadow held, in the parish of Whittingham, let to John Moody, junr., at 50/i.

Tenements, cottages, &c., in \\lnttingham, let by mortgagees to several poor people at 22li.

Yetlington manor, in my own possession.

Messuage, lands, &c., in Yetlington South-side, let by me to John Robson at 2oli. 10s.

Messuage, lands, &c., in Yetlington South-side, let by me to Luke Blakelock at gli. 3s. gd.

Messuage, lands, &c., in Yetlington South-side, let by me to William Avery at I2li. 8s. lod.

Messuage, lands, &c., in Yetlington South-side, let by me to John Moody at i^li. 135. 4^.

Messuage, lands, &c., in Yetlington South-side, let by me to Anthony Stephenson at loli. 5s.

* Sir John Clavering of Callaly, the heir male of the very ancient baronial house of Clavering of Warkworth, accepted a knighthood i6th January, 1614, from King James I, probably to please his wife, Anne, daughter of Thomas Riddell of Gateshead. Taking part in the great Civil War, he was a Commiss- sioner of Array, and very active on the King's side. He is stated to have died in 1646 or 1647 a prisoner in London. Duddo in Norhamshire, which was held by his widow in dower, was sequestered for her recusancy.

He had issue six sons and four daughters. The three elder sons seem to have conformed, and were educated at Queen's College, Oxford. The fourth son became a priest and chaplain to the Benedictine nuns of Pontoise, where he seemingly died in 1694, aged 68.

Sir John Clavering's eldest son, Robert, having died in his lifetime, he was succeeded by his second son, John Clavering of Callaly, whose estate was sequestered in 1650 for his recusancy. Dpng unmarried, he was succeeded by his next brother, Ralph Clavering of Queen's College, Oxford, and of Lincoln's Inn, who, on the 25th August, 1666, entered his pedigree in Dugdale's Visitation of Northumberland. By his marriage with Mary, daughter of William Middleton of Stokeld, Yorkshire, he had issue a son, John, bom circa 1659, who was entered at Lincoln's Inn i8th February, 1670-1. The dilapidations to the estate in the time of the Civil War and Commonwealth had left it in the pitiable condition disclosed by the certificate abstracted in the text, the mortgagees being then in possession. Happily, John Clavering had only one sister, I\Iary, wife of Gerard Salvin of Croxdale, to be a charge on the estate; and by his marriage with Anne, daughter of WiUiam, second Lord Widdrington, he had only one son and one daughter. John Clavering was buried in the chancel of Whittingham 14th October, 1724. cf. Welford, Royalist Compositions, pp. 155-157.

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Messuage, lands, &c., in Yetlington South-side, let by me to James Gardner at i2li. ys. 8d.

Messuage, lands, &c., in Yetlington North-side, let by me to Samuel Gardner at 28li. lis. ^^d.

Messuage, lands, &c., in Yetlington North-side, let by me to John Potter at 25/*. 13s. 3|^.

Messuage, lands, &c., in Yetlington North-side, let by me to Edward Wardhaugh at 14/1. 6s. 8|5.

Messuage, lands, &c., in Yetlington North-side, let by me to George Avery at 5/2.'. 14s. ^h^-

Messuage, lands, &c., in Yetlington North-side, let by me to George Black at <)li. 14s. 3|^.

Messuage, farm, &c., called the Follions, let by me to Roger Story at 35/^'.

Closes called the Flotes, Fatting-close, &c., in Yetlington, let to John Moody, senr., at 95/^'.

A tenement or farm called Shathouse in Felton parish, which I hold by a forfeited mortgage made to my father, let by me to Robert Earsden at 22/*.

Messuages, &c., in parish of Alnwick, let by me to Winifred Cotes at 10/*.

Tithes of Glanton, let by me to Edward Anderson and William Potts at 24^^'. los.

Tithes of Little Ryle and Carsley-house, " unlett and of noe profitt."

Of all which manor of Callaley, &c., in the parish of Whittingham, I have only a right of the equity of redemption of the same for my life, the same being subject to a mortgage of 4,300/^'., of which the mortgagees are in possession. Of the tithes of Callaley, Yetlington, Little Ryle, Carsley-house, and Glanton, I am possessed for a term of years from the Dean and Chapter of Carlisle at the yearl}/ rent of yli. 16s. 8d., and the said tithes are in mortgage for 400/1. Of the residue of the manors, lands, &c., I am tenant for life, with remainder to my first son in tail, remainder over to myself in fee, but the same subject to a charge of 2,oooli. for my daughters' portion and to the sum of i,oooli. debt, &c.

Power of Attorney, 10 April, 1717, to John Hanking, gent., and Andrew Marr, gent.

Enrolled 2 May, 1717.

XLL — Register of the estate of Edward Haggerston* of Ellingham, esq. [No date.]

I am in possession of two-thirds parts of the township of Hasslerigg in the parish of Chatton, and of all the tithes of corn, hay, wool,

* Edward Haggerston of Ellingham, sixth son of Sir Thomas Haggerston of Haggerston, second baronet, purchased Ellingham lotli Januaiy, 1698-9, and died 21st April, 1740. Leaving no issue he was succeeded by his nephew. Sir Carnaby Haggerston, third baronet, who, dying in 1756, gave Ellingham

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lyne, hemp and lamb, and all other tiths whatever growing thereon; settled at my marriage by my late father, Sir Thomas Haggerston, bart., by deed quadrupartite dated Jan. 17, 1693, upon trustees for the use of me for life, and, after my death, to my wife as part of her jointure, and after her death to my first son in tail, with divers remainders — which estate is let to Henry Ord, gent., at i2oli. by lease for 15 years from Pentecost, 1711, out of which I am to allow 40s. payable yearly to vicar of Chatton, as a modus for said tithes; ili. 6s. 8d. to an almshouse in Bristol; 8s. ^d. and " four bodwells " called Earls-rent to the Duke and Duchess of Somerset, and allow to the tenant, coals worth about 5/*'. a year or upwards.

I am in possession of a messuage or farm called Langleyford in Kirknewton parish, also settled at my marriage by said indenture to similar uses, and let to John Da\ason and Robert Davison by lease for 21 years from Pentecost, 1702, at Soli, a year.

Also of sundry tenements in the parish of AUington and of the places called the Nun-Closes in Farnham, and the great and small tithes of Farnham, and a cottage, which were purchased by my late father of Dame Mary Charlton, deceased, and settled on trustees at my marriage for my life, the lands let to James Robson at 50/^'. a year, and the tithes let to William Potts at loli.

Also I enjoy the rents of a farm called Dunsdale alias Dunsden in the parish of Kirknewton for my life, by said indenture of settle- ment: Patrick Murray and Charles Carr, gent., tenants, by a lease for 7 years from Pentecost, 171 1, at the rent, 33/^'.

Also I am in the receipt of the profits of the farm I hold of Sam's- house in the parish of Long Lowick, by said indenture for life, let to Prideaux Selby, gent., by a lease for 7 years from Pentecost, 1711, at 2oli. a year.

Also of the profits of all the township or village of EUingham and the water corn mill, of which I am seised in fee simple, part of which, viz. the south side, is let to John Neile and Elizabeth Craw- ford, widow and administratrix of James Crawford, by lease for 21 years from Pentecost, 1716, at Soli, a year; the water corn mill let to John Yunes at i^li. a year, and the rest of EUingham called the North-side in my own hands or occupation is reckoned worth ig^li. a year.

Also I have the fee simple of farm and farmhold of Chathill, being reckoned one moiety of the township of Preston in the parish of EUingham, let to Robert Robson and William Young as execu- tors of George Young, deceased, by lease for 7 years from Pentecost, 1715, at 70^1;. a year.

to his third son, Edward Haggerston. He dying, without issue, in 1804, gave EUingham and Chatliill to his nephew, Thomas Haggerston, ancestor of Sir John Haggerston, ninth baronet, the present owner. The highland pro- perties in the parish of Kirknewton, Heslerigg, &c., have long been alienated. c/. Welford, Royalist Compositions , pp. 221-224. For pedigree of Haggerston see Raine, North Durham, p. 224; and new History of Northumberland, vol. ii, p. 263.

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Also of the fee simple of a farmhold called Tynely, let to the above named John Neile and Elizabeth Crawford by lease for 21 years from Pentecost, 1716, at ^oli. a year.

Also I am in the receipt of a rent-charge of iili. a year out of lands at Branxton in the parish of Branxton, by grant of the said Sir Thomas Haggerston to John Clavering, esq., and Edward Horsley Widdrington, esq., as trustees, to my use for my life.

Also the rents and profits of lands and the corn tiths in Branxton as mortgagee by assignment of said Sir Thomas Haggerston to Gerard Salvin and Charles Selby as trustees for 1,000 years, dated 17 Jan., 1693, that I should receive the interest for life of ij.ooli., for which sum the said land and tithes in Branxton were mortgaged to said Sir Thomas Haggerston, and which are now let to James Bumss at io$li.; and the said sum of i,ioo/i., when paid, to be laid out in the purchase of freehold lands to use of me for life; out of which said tithes I pay to the vicar of Branxton 2oli. a year, and to Sir Francis Blake and Widow Carr of Crookham ili. i6s. d>d. quit rent.

I am also in possession of two rent -charges or annuities of bli. a year each out of lands in Famham, from said Sir Thomas Haggerston, to trustees for my use for my life.

The payments out of said estate are as follows: to John Neil and Elizabeth Crawford for coals for lime, tli. ; to Robert Robson and William Young for the same, 2li. ; for setting out a light horse, 40s.; a steward, and for riding charges, loli.; Cow-sess and Rogue Money. I owe to different persons 5,500/1., secured on said estates by mortgage, &c., and I owe on bonds 400//.

Power of Attorney, 12 April, 1717, to Edward Ward of Morpeth, gent., Lancelot Allgood of Morpeth, gent., or one of them, to sign certificate.

Enrolled 2 May, 1717.

XLH. — Register of the estate of the Honble. Henry Widdrington,*

ESQ., ONE OF THE YOUNGER BROTHERS OF THE Rt. HoNBLE.

William, Lord Widdrington, baron of Blankney, de- ceased. [No date.]

An annuity of loo/i. payable out of the manor or lordship of Widdrington, secured by virtue of a term of years limited to the

* Henry Widdrington was third son of William, second Lord Widdrington of Blankney in Lincolnshire, and of Widdrington Castle, by his marriage with Elizabeth, daughter and heir of Sir Peregrine Bertie of Eveden, Lincolnshire. He had another rent-charge of ;/^ioo per annum payable out of his brother's lands in Lincolnshire. He was of the Society of Jesus, and chaplain at Callaly, where he died i6th November, 1729. Estcourt and Pajme, English Catholic Nonjurors, p. 165. 'Mr. Henry Widdrington of Callaly' was buried at Whit- tingham on the 19th November, 1729. His brother, William, third Lord Widdrington, whose marriage settlement is cited, married Alathea, daughter and heir of Charles, Viscoimt Fairfax of the kingdom of Ireland, cf. Welford, Royalist Compositions, pp. 378—382.

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Honble. Edward Widdrington and Ralph Widdrington, esqs., Sir Christopher Nevil, kt., and James Moyser, esq., by indenture dated 27 April, 1677, being the marriage settlement of the said William, Lord Widdrington, my brother.

Power of Attorney, 20 March, 1716-7, to Edward Ward of Mor- peth, gent., and Lancelot Allgood of Morpeth, gent., or one of them, to sign certificate.

Enrolled 2 May, 1717.

XLIIL — Register of the estate of the Honble. Elizabeth Widdrington* of Horsley, widow. [No date.]

A rent-charge of 400/^. a year out of the manors, &c., of Felton and Bokenfield, secured by indenture quadrupartite made 24 June, 3 James II [1687], made between the Honble. Edward Widdrington, esq., and Edward Horsley Widdrington, his son and heir apparent, and me the said Elizabeth, of the ist part; Caryll, Lord Molyneux, of the 2nd part ; William, Lord Widdrington, and Richard Townley, esq., of the 3rd part; the Honble. William Molyneux, esq., and the Honble. Ralph Widdrington, of the 4th part ; which said rent-charge is all the real estate belonging to me in Northumberland.

Power of Attorney, 20 February, 1716-7, to John Ord and Ralph Fetherston, both of Newcastle, gents, or either of them, to sign certificate.

Enrolled 2 May, 1717.

XLIV. — Register of the estates of John CoLLiNGWOODf of

Eslington, esq. [No date.]

Manor of Eslington, and mansion house there in my own pos- session.

* Edward Horsley Widdrington of Horsley and Felton, son of the Hon. Edward Widdrington, by his marriage with Dorothy, widow and devisee of Robert Lisle of Felton, also daughter of Sir Thomas Horsley of Horsley, married Elizabeth, daughter of Caryl, third Viscount Molyneux in the peerage of Ireland, the lady whose register is abstracted in the text. She died on the 12th June, 1730, and was buried in the church of St. Paul, Covent Garden, on the "north side of the middle aisle close to the pews No. 10 and 11." cf. pedigree of Widdrington of Felton, new History of NoytJnimberland , vol. vii, p. 263.

f The register abstracted in the text is a surprising document, for it records an attempt to set up an alleged settlement of the Collingwood family estates, and to prove that they were so strictly entailed that George Collingwood, the rebel, could forfeit no more than a life estate. John Collingwood was third son of George Collingwood of Eslington by his marriage with Agnes, daughter and coheir of John Fleming of Rydal, and brother of William Collingwood, party to the settlement of 20th October, 1677. Although John Collingwood's statement was duly enrolled at Quarter Sessions, the estate was included in the Act of Parliament entituled An Act for Vesting the For- feited Estates in Great Britain and Ireland in Trustees, to be sold for the Use of the Public, and by the Commissioners appointed under the Act, was offered for sale at Essex House, London, on 13th February, 1718-9. At the auction sale, or subsequently, the property was purchased by Sir Henry Liddell

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Gilbert Park, gent., a messuage or farmhold in Eslington at the yearly rent of 26li.

George Morrison, a messuage or farm at Eslington, 253/?. 13s. 6d.

William Dixon, a messuage or farm at Eslington, 26/i,

Robert Peary, a messuage or farm at Eslington, i8li.

John Collingwood, a messuage or fai^m at Eslington, yli. los.

Joseph Brown, certain lands in Eslington, 68li.

Cuthbert Blacklock, messuage, &c., in Eslington, ^li. 15s.

Robert Clark, messuage, &c., in Eslington, 3/i. 15s.

William Cowley, messuage, &c., in Eslington, 3/^'. 15s.

In the Manor of Whitingham. John Howes, messuage, farmhold, etc., 44/^'. John Elliot, messuage, farmhold, &c., 2^li. James Anderson, messuage, farmhold, &c., i8li. John Jackson, messuage, farmhold, &c., 15/^. John Dodds, messuage, farmhold, &c., i2li. Robert Hudson, messuage, farmhold, &c., i^U. John Nicholson, messuage, farmhold, &c., 15^*. Henry Bell, messuage, farmhold, &c., 15//. James Brown, messuage, farmhold, &c., 13/^'. 6s. 8d. John Pigdon, messuage, farmhold, &c., i^li. 6s. 8d. William Mill, messuage, farmhold, &c., 13/^. 6s. 8d. Robert Gramer, messuage, farmhold, &c., I2li. i6s. Robert Nicholson, messuage, farmhold, &c., 2$li. 12s. Matthew Mill, messuage, farmhold, etc., I2li. i6s. Robert Wliittham, messuage, farmhold, &c., 12//'. i6s.

In the Township of Thrunton. Andrew Dixon, messuage, farmhold, &c., 43//. William Miller, messuage, farmhold, &c., 2gli. Thomas Davinson, messuage, farmhold, &c., 30/^. John EUiott, messuage, farmhold, &c., 30/1.

In the Township of Barton. Gawyn Hopper, messuage, &c., 39/^". ids. Wilham Allinson, messuage, &c.,gli. 5s. Henry Todd, messuage, Scc.,gli. 5s.

Cottages in the Town of Whittingham. John Hann, rent, 5s. William Collingwood, ^li. Thomas Hudson, 20s. Thomas Hall, los. Thomas Walker, los.

of Ravensworth, bart., and on the 28th May, 1719, a precept was issued to the sheriff to put him in possession. The " Particular of tlie Estate," con- taining interesting details of the rentals, etc., is printed in Dixon, Whittingham Vale, pp. 97-99. An entry in the Whittingham Registers of the burial on 28th March, 1716, of John, son of John Collingwood of Eslington, suggests that John Collingwood of the text may have been married, cf. Welford, Royalist Compositions, -pp. 168-170.

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Margaret Moffit, 3s. 4d.

William Lees, $s.

Mary Shanks, 3s. 4^.

Mary Pile, ^s. 4^.

Richard Curry, 5s.

Edward Anderson, 5s.

James Davinson, 8s.

In all which premises I have an estate for life, remainder to my first and every other son, in taile.

Also an annuity or rent-charge of 2oli. out of the lands, &c., of my late father, George Co^ing^vood, esq., of Eshngton, and William Collingwood, esq., my late brother, eldest son and heir of the said George Colling^vood [and others], by indenture of 20 October, 1677.

Quit-rents due to me out of lands in Glanton: Gawen Hopper, 5s. 4d. ; Edward Anderson, 8s. ; Joseph Mills, 3s. gd. ; James Hadkin, I2S. yd.

Power of Attorney, 30 April, 1717, to Edward Ward of Morpeth, gent., and Lancelot Allgoocl of Morpeth, gent., or either of them, to sign certificate.

Enrolled 2 May, 1717.

XLV. — Register of the estate of Edward Riddell* of Swinburne Castle, esq. [No date.]

The manor or lordship of Great Swinburne, the mansion and appurtenances in my own possession.

The East-farm of the said lordship let to John Robson, Matthew Rutter, Robert Hutchison, and Matthew Forster, by me, under the yearly reserved rent of 95^^., and one goose and one hen, the lessees being obliged every year to lead 20 waine loads of coals to the manor-house of Swinburne for my use. No fine taken for the lease.

The Low-farm of Swinburne let to Ralph Davison, John Robson, and Hugh Waugh at 131/^'. rent.

Swinbuni water cora-miln let to John Brown at 2oli. a year.

Coldwell-demesne, the hamlet of Caldwell, &c., held by Jasper Hail, gent., and the north pasture, part of Swinburne demesne,

* Edward Riddell of Swinbum Castle was grandson of Sir Thomas Riddell the younger of Fenham, sometime Recorder of Newcastle, a Royalist, whose estates appear in the hrst Act for Sale, i6th July, 1651. His father, Thomas Riddell of Fenham, 20th August, 1678, took a conveyance from William, Lord Widdrington, of the Castle and manor of Great Swinbum, with lands at Col- well, Colt Crag, Kaley Quarter, etc.

Edward Riddell was six years of age when his father, 24th August, 1666, entered his pedigree in Dugdale's Visitation of Northumberland. By articles dated 25th April, 1693, on his marriage with Dorothy, daughter of Robert Dalton of Thumham in Lancashire, Swinbum was limited to him and his issue male, but charged with several annuities. It is probable that on his marriage he took up his residence at Swinbum, and that Fenham was sold after his father's death in 1704, to John Ord of Newcastle, attorney. Edward Riddell was buried at Chollerton 22nd March, 1722. cj. pedigree of Riddell, new History oj Northumberland, vol. iv, p. 2S4; and Welford, Royalist Com- positions, pp. 319-322.

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at the yearly reserved rent of 220/2^. fur 32 years, commencing I May, 1 71 7. No fine taken for lease.

The Well-houses let to Cuthbert Atkinson, William Atkinson, and John Akenhead on lease commencing i May, 1717, at 135/i. a year. No fine taken for lease.

Edge-house farm let to Thomas Lamb, Cuthbert Lamb, John Lamb, and Barbara Lamb at the rent of 55/^'., i goose, and one hen, and -20S. being allowed for coals for burning lime.

Colt Craig in the parish of ChoUerton, leased to Michael Cook for 9 years from 30 April, 1715, for three first years 50/^'., and the re- maining six 55/?'. a year. No fine paid for lease.

The coal mines, opened and unopened, in the manor of Fenham leased by me to William Bowman, merchant, and John Hebdon, gent., since deceased, for 21 years, commencing Nov. 20, 1714, re- serving the annual rent of 20oli., which is after the rate of 13s. ^d. per tenn for 300 tens of ship coals, and for every tenn over 300, 13s. 4'/., and for every tenn of pann coales, yearly rent of los. per tenn. The said John Hebdon, by indenture dated 26 Feb., 1714-5, at my request assigned to Jasper Hall, in trust for me, one moiety of the remainder of the term. The said colliery is unwrought, and not any of the reserved rent e\-er paid.

In all which said premises I have an estate only for life.

Incumbrances on said estate.

The said lands, &c. (the coalmines excepted), are subjected to a forfeited mortgage (mortgagee in possession), on which is due for principal and interest, 2,945/?. is. yd.; part of my sisters' portions, Syjli.; annuities, yoli. The coalmines are charged to my sisters' fortunes with i,oooli., and annuities of 30//.

The lands and coalmines also charged with 1,500/^'., a portion for my daughter. And they are also charged with 3,477/?'. is. lod.

Gerry Weare holds the farmhold, &c., called Crookden, in the parish of Kirkwhelpington, under me as tenant at the rent of 30/1. a year. In which last mentioned premises I have an estate for 99 years if William Fenwick, gent., so long live.

Power of Attorney, 26 April, 1717, to Edward Riddell, jun., Thomas Potts, and John Brown, all of Newcastle, gents., or either of them, to sign certificate.

Enrolled 2 May, 1717.

XL VI. — Register of the estates of Thomas Gibson* of Stagshaw Closehouse, gent., dated 18 April, 1717.

Stagshaw Close in the parish of St. John Ley, possessed by said Thomas Gibson as tenant for life.

* In 1691, Thomas Gibson of Hexham received Stagshaw Close-house, in the parish of St. John Lee, from Sir WilUam Fenwick, in exchange for property elsewhere. He purchased Stonecroft in 1693 from William, Lord Widdrington, and Housesteads in 1698, from Armstrong and others. His eldest son, George Gibson, was out in the Rebellion of 1715, and died, a prisoner, in Newgate

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A farmhold in Corbridge, occupied by Richard Gibson at ]2li. a year; by Thomas Noble at 13/?. ; by Michael Hymers (?) at loli. $s. Another by Cuthbert Jopling, Matthew Greenwell, and William Jopling at iili., and 5 cottages let to [various tenants] at the yearly rent of 3//. 11s. The remainder of said tenement, in possession of said Thomas Gibson, who is seised of tiie whole as tenant for life, and pays for quit-rents 2//. 3s. 2d.

A farmhold called Stotefold in Hexham parish, ol which the said Thomas Gibson is seised in fee, let to Edmund Rowland and George Rowland at 2oli. a year, out of which is allowed to the tenants for lime 28s. yearly. The premises are charged to the lord of the manor of Hexham for a fee-farm rent of los. A close in the fields of Hexham let to George Johnston and John Shaw at ^li. 5s., and charged with 5s. 8d. annually to the Duke and Duchess of Somerset. Another parcel of ground in Hexham townfield, of about an acre, and let to William Lishman for 45s. A burgage and garden in Hexham let to John Fenwick for 4li. 5s. Another burgage there let for ^li. Of which said 2 burgages and 2 parcels of ground the said Thomas Gibson is seised in fee.

Power of Attorney, 26 April, 1717, to Cuthbert Heron of Hexham, tanner, and John Heron of Hexham, yeoman, or either of them, to sign certificate.

Enrolled i May, 1717.

XLVn. — Register of the estate of Mary Gibson of Stonecfoft, WIDOW OF George Gibson,* late of the same place, dated 18 March, 1716-7.

Certain farmholds in the parish of Simonburn called Hawkeupp, let to Matthew Robson for 50/^. a year; Stokoe in said parish, and Old Side, and the tolls due in the market town of Bellingham, which two last named tenements and tolls are let to James Charlton at igli. a year. The farmholds of Stokoe and Old Side pay a quit rent of ids. a year, and the tolls a quit rent of 13s. 4^. Also a farmhold in the parish of Halt whistle, called Housesteads, in pos-

27th December, 1716. Dying on the 4th August, 1720, Thomas Gibson was succeeded by his grandson. See Register No. xlvii. cf. pedigree of Gibson of Stagshaw Close-house, new History of Northumberland , voL x, p. 156. See also Register No. ci.

* As has been stated in the note appended to Register No. xlvi, George Gibson of Stonecroft, eldest son of Thomas Gibson of Hexham, having been taken a prisoner at Preston and found guilty of high treason, died in Newgate 27th December, 1716, and was buried at St. Giles in the Field. The property at Stokoe and Hawkhope had come to him through his mother, Bridget, daughter and coheir of Jasper Charlton of Hawkliope, and happily was protected from forfeiture through his attainder by his marriage settlement, made 20th June, 1707. His wife, whose register is "abstracted in the text, was Mary, daughter of William Bradshaigh of Haigh, a very ancient house in Lancashire. She died, leaving issue, before the i6th January 1741-2. cf. pedigree of Gibson of Stagshaw Close-house, new History of 'Northumberland, vol. x, p. 156; and the Rev. John Hodgson's History of Northumberland, part ii, vol. iii, p. 394-

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session of Christopher Johnson, at the rent of 30/7. a year. Also the antient rights, duties and services, fines and heriotts due and accustomed to be paid forth or out of the messuage or tenement called Temple Green in the parish of Simonbume.

Of all of which she is seised for life, by settlement made at her marriage and in lieu of dower or thirds.

Power of Attorney, 5 April, 1717, to Thomas Gibson of Stone- croft, gent., Thomas Carr of Hexham, gent., and Cuthl ert Heron of Hexham, gent., or one of them, to sign certificate.

Enrolled i May, 1717.

XLVin. — Register of the estate of Matthew Leadbitter* of Wharnley, yeoman, dated 18 April, 1717.

A close in the town -fields of Hexham, occupied by Joseph Maughan at 3/?. 12s., and held in fee by the said Matthew Leadbitter.

A messuage, or burgage, in Hexham, part let to Ann Dods at 50s., and the other part in possession of John Cotesworth at 45s., and held in fee by said Matthew Leadbitter.

A parcel of ground in Hexham town-fields, held in fee, and let to Christopher Bell at 26s. a year.

Another parcel in said toAvn-fields, held by copy of court roll, in possession of William Fenwick at 4li. 18s. a year.

Another parcel in said towai-fields, held by copy of court roll, let to Thomas Johnston at 36s.

Another parcel in said town-fields, held in fee, and let to Christopher Dickinson at 55s.

Another parcel in said town-fields, held by copy of court roll, and let to Mabell Johnston, widow, at 4/1.

Out of all which said Matthew Leadbitter pays a fee-farm of 8s. 3d.

Power of Attorney, 26 April, 1717, to John Robson of Hexham, yeoman, and Richard Ellis of Hexham, yeoman, or either of them, to sign certificate.

Enrolled i May, 1717.

XLIX. — Register of the estate of Nicholas LEADBiTTERf of Nether Warden, yeoman, dated 18 April, 1717.

One messuage or farmhold at Nether Warden, now in the pos- session of Nicholas Leadbitter, who is seized of it in fee.

* Matthew Leadbitter of Wharnley, second son of Matthew Leadbitter of Warden, and brother of Nicholas Leadbitter of Nether Warden (see Register No. XLix), was married three times, and had a numerous issue. He was buried at Warden loth June, 1751. c_f. pedigree of Leadbitter, Rev. John Hodgson's History of Northiimberland , part ii. vol. iii, pp. 409-411.

t Nicholas Leadbitter, eldest son of Matthew Leadbitter, enjoyed some property in the parish of Warden, purchased by his ancestor in 1613, and judiciously augmented from time to time. The date of his death is not re- corded in the pedigree of Leadbitter of Warden, given in the Rev. John Hodgson's History of 'Northumberland , part ii, vol. iii, pp. 409-411. He was succeeded by his son, Matthew Leadbitter of Warden.

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One water com mill let to Matthew Pratt at iili. 5s., of which the said Nicholas Leadbitter is seised in fee.

One cottage in the parish of Warden, in the possession of John Ridley at 40s. a year.

Out of which the said Nicholas Leadbitter pays yearly to the lord of the manor of Hexham 43s. and 6d. for fee-farm rent.

Power of Attorney, 20 April, 1717, to John Robson of Hex- ham, yeoman, and Richard Ellis of Hexham, yeoman, or one of them, to sign certificate.

Enrolled i Ma3^ 1717.

L. — Register of the estate of John Heron of Hexham, yeoman, dated 18 April, 1717.

Two burgages and one close in Hexham, by copy of court roll of the manor of Anicke Grange, let for 20s. per annum, for which I pay to the lord of the said manor 3s. a j^ear.

Also a messuage in the parish of Hexham, held by me in fee, and one part of it let to one tenant at ^ili., and the other to another at 50S., chargeable to the lord of the manor of Hexham with los. a year for a fee-farm rent.

Enrolled i May, 1717

LI. — Register of the estate of Robert Spoor* of Hexham, BLACKSMITH, dated 18 April, 1717.

A burgage or stone house in Gyllygate in Hexham, in which I now live. A close in Hexliam townfields of one acre, of which I have an estate in fee simple.

Power of Attorney, 30 April, 1717, to John Aynsley of Hexham, gent., Edward Ward of Morpeth, gent., and Thomas Marr of the same.

Enrolled i May, 1717.

LH. — Register of the estate of Francis CarnabyI of Hexham, gent., dated 20 April, 1717.

A burgage or stone house possessed by the said Francis Camaby, of the yearly rent of 14/I and out of Stephenson's lands and Gapprig in the possession of William Thompson of Hexham, butcher, whereof

* On the 4th April, 1728, Margaret Spoor of Hexham, widow of Richard Spoor of Hexham, blacksmith, was party to a release of a burgage in Gilygate, Hexham. Sessions Papers, Moot Hall, Newcastle.

t Francis Camaby of Nubbock and of Hexham, was the eldest son of Richard Camaby of Nubbock, and of Jane his wife, whose register is abstracted in No. XXVI. He was buried in the quire of Hexham on the 2otli October, 1725. Either on his death, or subsequently, Nubbock passed to his two sisters — Jane, wife of William Marley of Picktree, co. Durham, and Bridget. The latter, dying unmarried, by her will dated 29th December, 1752, gave her moiety of Nubbock to her sister for her life, and on her death to her daughters — -Jane, wife of John Story of Chester-le-Street, and Anne, wife of John Hutton. cf. pedigree of Camaby of Nublinck, new History of Northumberland, vol. iv, p. 19.

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the said Francis Carnaby has only an estate for the hfe of his now wife, Mary Carnaby.

A capital messuage called Yolkley alias Nubbuck alias Nubby- dykes, of which he, Francis Carnaby, hath the inlieritance and equity of redemption, it being mortgaged to John Bacon, esq., by Richard Carnaby, gent., deceased, his father, for 400/?., and for 500/^. (the said 400//. being included) at 6 per cent., by the said Francis Carnaby, and chargeable with 20li. a year in lieu of jointure to Jane Carnaby, the said premises of Nubbock let to George ^Vhite for bzli. a year. Also a messuage there let to William Corbett at 15s. a year.

Also a capital messuage and village called Wester Grindrish alias West Greenridge alias Greenridge hall, of which he has the inheritance and equity of redemption on pajonent of the said 500/i. and interest to said Mr. Bacon and 2oli. to said Jane Carnaby, and a payment of 200/1. out of its profits to Jane, wife of William Marley, gent., Margaret Carnaby, Mary Carnaby and Bridget Carnaby, and Richard Carnaby, the late brother of said Francis Carnaby and his sisters ; which said premises of Green- ridge are let to Joseph Maughan at 10/^., to John Stokoe at loli., to John Winter at $li., to John Winter at 2//. los., to Thomas Hudspeth at ^li., to John Armstrong at ^li., and to Dominic Armstrong at 2li. los.

Power of Attorney, 26 April, 1717, to Edward Ward of Morpeth, gent., and Richard Ellis of Hexham, gent.

Enrolled i May, 1717.

LHI. — Register of the estates of Thomas Kirsop* of Hexham, YEOiVLAN, dated 18 April, 1717.

A farmhold in the town and townefields of Newbrough, leased to Thomas Stanley bj^ Thomas Kirsop, deceased, my late father, together with a parcel of land called Talbotts Meadow, at 25/2.'. a year rent. A parcel of ground there held by lease from the Duke and Duchess of Somerset under the reserved rent of 20s.

A freehold tenement in the to"\\Ti-fields of Hexham, called the Shaw, now in possession of said Thomas Kirsop, out of which looli. was left b}^ Thomas Kirsop, the father of the said Thomas Kirsop, to his daughter.

One copyhold burgage in Hexham let at ^li. a year, with an antient rent to the lord of the manor of Anick Grange, 3s.

The south part of one other burgage in Hexham, now let for

* There were two families of Kirsop in Hexham, the one Protestant and the other Roman Catholic, probably descended from a common ancestor. A pedigree of the Protestant line is in the possession of the present editor, but no pedigree of the Roman Catholic line is kno-wTi to him. Thomas Kirsop, whose register is abstracted in the text, married, before 1730, Bridget Fenwick, by whom he had issue, who were baptised in the chapel of the Dominican mission at Hexham.

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3^. lOS. a year, and chargeable with 5s. 4^. antient rent to the lord of the manor of Anick Grange.

Half acre of land in Hexham town-fields, held of the lord of the same manor, at 5^. rent, and in possession of the said subscribing Thomas.

A parcel of meadow in said townfields, called Stotfould, and other small parcels there, making in all about 5 acres, and part of a burgage and house in possession of said Thomas Kirsop, and paying to said lord 3s. 2|rf.

Power of Attorney, 26 April, 1717, to Cuthbert Heron of Hexham, tanner, and Richard Ellis, yeoman.

Enrolled i May, 1717.

LIV. — Register of the estate of Barbary Jefferson,* widow, of Hexham, dated 18 April, 1717.

One burgage or thatched house let to 2 tenants at ili. ijs., which pays 4s. a year to the lord of the manor of Hexliam.

One other burgage or thatched house, with garth or garden, possessed by said Barbary Jefferson, situated in Hexham, and paying a quit-rent of is., and which she has only for life.

Lady Close, consisting of 4I acres of meadow or pasture land, Mirrey Leazes 3 acres, the Reins i acre, and a little parcel called Little Close, all lying in the town-fields of Hexham, in the pos- session of the said Barbary Jefferson, paying yearly a fee-farm rent of 4s. 6d., also sesses, tithes, &c.

Power of Attorney, 26 April, 1717, to Thomas Kirsopp of Hexliam, yeoman, and Richard Ellis of Hexham, yeoman.

Enrolled i May, 1717.

LV. — Register of the estate of Thomas Lawesj of Upper Eshalls, YEOMAN, dated 18 April, 1717.

In right of Jane my wife, for her life, as her jointure, two parts of a messuage and farm in the parish of Hexham in my possession, and out of which I pay to the lord of Hexham ys. ^d. fee-farm rent.

Power of Attorney, 26 April, 1717, to John Robson of Hexham, yeoman, and Richard Ellis of Hexham, yeoman.

Enrolled i May, 1717.

* No pedigree is accessible of the family of Jefferson of Hexham. They intemiarried with the local families of Gibson, Leadbitter, Bates, and Fether- ston of Black-hall, in Hexhamshire. Philip Jefferson, who practised in Hexham as a surgeon, was entered on a list of reputed Papists, drawTi up in September, 1745. cf. new History of Northumberland, vol. iii, p. 257.

t Thomas Lawes of the Eshells in Hexhamshire, was carried before the justices and charged with being concerned in the Rebellion of 1715, but having the reputation of being an honest, quiet, and peaceable man, he was discharged. He seems to have been related to the yeoman family of Forster of Upper Eshells, whose pedigree is printed in the new History of Northum- berland, vol. iv, p. 63. It is possible that his wife Jane may have been the widow of Robert Forster of Eshells, who died in 1684 or 1685.

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LVI. — Register of the estate of Joseph Studholme* of Hexham, BLACKSMITH, dated i8 April, 171 7.

One burgage in Hexham, in my possession, and holden by copy of court roll of the manor of Hexham, by the antient yearly rent of 6d. and other services.

Enrolled 2 May, 1717.

LVn. — Register of the estate of Christopher DiCKENSONf of Hexham, tanner, dated 18 April, 1717.

A close of one acre in Hexliam town-fields, called Wineswell- reins. A burgage in Hexham let at ili. 16s. Another close in Hex- ham to\^^l-fieIds in a place called Chair-way. Another close of i| acres, with a cottage house, on Tyne Green. All held by copy of court-roll, &c.

Enrolled i May, 1717.

LVni. — Register of the estate of Mary Radclyffe| of Durham, dated 19 April, 1717.

Newsham : A messuage and lands called Blythe Nook farm in the township of Newsham, leased to William Silvertop by Thomas Errington on behalf of Thomas Radcliffe, esq., deceased, at 40/1. a year. A messuage and three closes, called the Warreners Closes, in Newsham, and the coney warren there (leased as above), to Edward Watts and John Watts at 35/^". a year. The messuages and lands called Cuthbertson's farm and Cresswell closes, in Newsham, leased as above to John Clerk at 38/1. a year. The mansion house and demesne of Newsham in possession of Margaret Robinson, widow, without any lease, at ^6li. a year. The messuage and lands called the Linkliouse, leased as above to Francis Weldon at goli. a year. The South-west farm in Newsham, one moiety let to John Liddell, and the other moiety to Edward Mitford, without an)-' lease, and each at i6li. a year = 32/i. a year. The Great West Farm,

* The name of George Studholme, butcher, occurs in a list of reputed Papists in the borough of Hexham, drawn up in September, 1745. See new History of Northumberland, vol. iii, p. 257.

t The name of Christopher Dickenson is entered in a list of reputed Papists in the borough of Hexham, draA\'n up in September, 1745. cf. new History of Northumberland, vol. iii, p. 257.

X Lady Marj' Radcliffe, youngest daughter of Francis, first Earl of Dervvent- water, was born after the 24th August, 1666, and before the i8th December, 1668. Under the will of her brother, Thomas Radcliffe, she took his lands at Nafferton, Newsham, and Plessey, to which she added, bj- purchase, Red- heugh near Gateshead. In the latter part of her life she resided in Old Elvet, where she died unmarried 3rd March, 1724-5, and was buried with her ancestors at Dilston. Her will, dated 22nd November, 1722, was proved in the Preroga- tive Court of Canterbury, 13th July, 1725. This register is supplemented by No. Lxxxv. cf. pedigree of Radcliffe of Dilston, new History of Northum- berland, vol. X, p. 280; see also Welford, Royalist Compositions, pp. 313-315. See Nos. lxviii and ixix post for her sisters' register.

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let by lease made as before, to John Farkess and John Chicken at 45/t. a year. House and close let to Philip Jubb at 2li. a year. Newsham fishery in the sea let to Richard Nicholson and Philip Dun at ^li. los. a year. House, stable, and bakehouse on the south side of the Waggonway, let to Richard Kam at 25s. a year. The Fieldhouse and garth let to Jane Field, widow, at 5s. a year. House let to Elianor Potts at 5s. a year. House let to John Ward at 5s. a year.

Out of which rents are allowed for keeping half a Light Horse, 4/1. ; to the Royal-aid Sess, 62li. 15s. ; to tenants for limestone and coles for the improvement of the ground, yearly 15^^. 12s. ; to John Sandford during his wife's lifetime, 2oli.; to Mr. Henry Cram- lington, T^li. i8s. 10^. ; which 2oli. and ic^li. i8s. 10^. are the interest of 665/i. 14s. 2d. due to said Henry Cramlington, and charged upon the said lands, &c., of Newsham.

Nafferton farm let to David Wilson and Edward Himers, by lease from Thomas Errington on behalf of Thomas Radcliffe, esq., at 2i8/i. a year. Out of which estate is paid annually and forever, to the poor of the parishes of Hexham, Corbridge, Bywell St. Peter, Bywell St. Andrew, and Sleley, ^oli., with which Nafferton stands charged; and the tenants are allowed iSZ^". annually for limestones. The Royal Aid cess, which last year was 2'^li. los. ; also %U. a year payable on 25 March, to Mr. Addison for a modus.

In the township of Plessy. Shotton, Shotton house and close, Gair's-house and close, let by lease in quarters to Robert Cockburn, Thomas Bell, John Anderson, and William Gillespy, at -^ili. 5s. each; Shotton Edge let to John Pye at 33/^". a year; Plessy farm- house and lands let to Mr. Robert Widdrington as tenant without any lease, at 6oli. a year; Plessy Colliery, in possession of William Bowman as tenant, — but whether by lease in writing or otherwise I know not, being but lately come to the perception (sic) of the profits thereof, and no lease being made thereof by me nor by any person in trust for me, rent i8/i. a year; Shotton Westhouses farm, and Stannington-bridge house leased, as above, to John Robinson at 54/^. a year; Bridge-house farm leased, as above, to William Silvertop at 23/i. a year; Plessy corn mill and closes let to John Young at 35/j. a year; Plessy New-houses farm, one half of which is let to James Atkinson at 55/i., one quarter to Robert Gilespy at 2^11. los., one sixth to John Newton at i^li. 15s., and the other one sixth to John Robinson at 13/1. 15s.

Also Angus house and garth, in Newsham aforesaid, let to Mark Angus at 5s. a year.

Out of which rents there is paid for keeping half a Light Horse, ^li.; a fee-farm rent to the Earl of Carlisle, 5s. yd.; to Ralph Brandling, esq., and Mr. Charles Brandling, an annuity out of Plessy, 6o/^. ; to the tenants for limestones and coals for the improvement of their ground, i^li. los.; for Royal Aid sess, which

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for last year was 62li. 8s. In all which said messuages, lands, &c., I am seised for life.

Power of Attorney of the Rt. Hon. the Lady Mary Radclyffe of the city of Durham, daughter of the Rt. Hon. Frances, Earl of Darwentwater, deceased, dated 15 April, 1717, to James Scott of Alnwick, gent., and Richard Grieve of Alnwick, gent.

Enrolled i May, 1717.

LIX. — Register of the estate of Francis Reed* of Longhorsley, YEOMAN, dated 20 April, 1717.

An annuity of ^li. for life out of the manor, &c., of Long Horsley, belonging to Edward Horsley Widdrington, deceased, and left to me by him by will, or other instrument in writing for the purpose.

Enrolled 2 May, 1717.

LX. — Register of the estate of Catharine Selby of NEWCASTLE,t WIDOW and relict of Thomas Selby, late of the same

PLACE, deceased.

I am in possession of an annual rent-charge of I2li., secured by indenture of lease dated 18 March, 1698, made between Philip Hodshon of the city of Durham of the one part, and Thomas Selby of Newcastle, and me, Katherine his wife, of the other part, by which the said Philip Hodshon demised to said Thomas Selby and me, &c., all his collieries in Jesmond for 60 years at a pepper-corn rent, to secure to us I2li. a year for our joint lives and to the longer liver, and to which since the death of my said husband I am entitled.

Also a rent-charge of I2li. charged on the lands in Northumber- land of Ralph Widdrington, esq., deceased; also on the tithes of Lanchester, co. Durham.

Power of Attorney, 30 April, 1717, to Edward Riddell and Thomas Potts of Newcastle, gents.

Enrolled 2 May, 1717.

* The date of the death of Edward Horsley Widdrington of Long Horsley and Felton has not been ascertained. See No. xliii for his widow's register. The individual whose register is abstracted in the text was evidently a pen- sioner of the family.

t Pedigrees of Hodgson of Newcastle, Hebburn, and Winlaton, afterwards of Tone, may be found in Surtees, History of Durham, vol. ii, p. 77, and the new History of Northumberland, vol. iv, p. 298. For an account of their interest in Jesmond see " An Account of Jesmond," by F.W. Dendy, Arch. Ml., 3rd sen, vol. i, pp. 92-93. The lady whose register is abstracted in the text may possibly have been a daughter of John Hodgson by Anne his wife, and aunt of Philip Hodgson, mentioned in the text. She also registered in another court an annuity of £12 per annum charged on the rectory or great tithes of the parish of Lanchester, co. Durham, cf. Estcourt and Payne, English Catholic Nonjurors, p. 49; and Welford, Royalist Compositions, p. 245.

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LXI. — Register of the estate of Anne Thornton* of Nether-

VVITTON, WIDOW OF NICHOLAS ThORNTON, ESQ.

The said Nicholas Thornton, my late husband, at the time of his death, was seised of an estate of inheritance in the manor of Nether-witton, and of the several villages, &c., of Thornton and Healey, of the farmholds called Camehill, Shelly, Old-parke, Park- head, and Fawley-house, all in the parish of Hartburn; and of the towns and hamlets called Wingates and Garrett Lee; and the capital messuage called Witton Sheeles, and the messuages of Wes- terheugh. Holme, Reaburne, and Trewhittley Sheeles, all in the parish of Horsley; and tithes of corn and hay, wool and lamb, and all other tithes in the towns of Slaley, Stiford, and Broomhaugh, in the parishes of Bywell and Corbridge, of all which I am entitled to my thirds or right of dower, but as yet have made no entry or brought any action of dower, and never was in possession of any part thereof.

Power of Attorney, 24 April, 1717, to Edward Riddell, John Hankin, and Thomas Potts, all of Newcastle, gents., and Edward Ward of Morpeth, gent.

Enrolled 11 May, 1717.

LXIL — Register of the estate of John Mackay of Newbiggin,

GENT., AND OF MARGARET MaCKAY, HIS WIFE, LATE MAR- GARET FeNWICK, widow AND RELICT OF ROBERT FeNWICK OF NeWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, gent., AND NOW WIFE OF THE

SAID John Mackay, [dated 20 April, 1717].

An annual rent-charge of 2oli. out of a messuage or farmhold in the township of Ovingham, &c., late the lands of the said Robert Fenwick, of which I am seised in right of my said wife and for her life.

Power of Attorney, 25 April, 1717, to Edward Riddell, Thomas Potts, and John Brown, all of Newcastle, gentlemen.

Enrolled 2 May, 1717.

LXIIL — Register of the estate of Richard HoDSHONf OF Gateshead, gent.

Charles Montague, esq., holds all my full third part of the coal mines in the lordship of Benwell under lands called Stumplewood-

* The lady whose register is abstracted in the text was Anne, widow of Nicholas Thornton of Nether Witton, and daughter of Sir John Swinburne of Capheaton, first baronet. Her marriage settlement was dated 2nd Sep- tember, 1687. She also registered in another court property in Chester-le- Street (Estcourt and Payne, English Catholic Nonjurors, p. 49). The date of her death has not been ascertained, cf. pedigree of Thornton of Nether Witton, in Rev. John Hodgson's History of Northumberland, part ii, vol. i, pp. 316-319; also Welford, Royalist Compositions, p. 359.

t The identity of Richard Hodgson, whose register is abstracted in the text, is established by a certificate enrolled in another court, whereby he registered a life estate in property in the chapelry of Tanfield, let to his son Ralph

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head alias Stumblewood-head, Cross Flattes, Lease Meadowfield, and the Goarc Flatt alias Gawflatt, leased by me for 31 years, from Martinmas, 1698, at the reserved rent of us. 6d. per tenn for all coals wrought out of the same, and one tenn of coal for my own use as fire coal.

Of which I am seised for life, with power to dispose of one half part of said third part.

But the same are now and for the last 12 years have been un- wrought and of no value, and charged with 6li. 13s. 4^., one third part of an annual rent to the CroNvn of 2oli. payable out of the whole.

Power of Attorney, 30 April, 1717, to Edward Riddell and Thomas Potts of Newcastle, gents.

Enrolled 2 May, 1717.

LXIV. — Register of the estate of William Errington* OF Beaufront, ESQ., [dated 20 April, 1717].

All that capital messuage called Beaufront, with the several closes and lands contiguous, in the parish of St. John Lee, all now in my own possession; also three closes in East Errington now in my own possession. A colliery called Baker [sic\ in the parish of All Saints, Northumberland, " drowned and un wrought."

The farm of Beaufront Hill-head let to William Hall and partner at 39/^. los.

The farm of West Errington alias Cocklaw, one moiety let to John Burgess at %oli., the other moiety to Ralph Carr and Jane Addison at yoli. = i$oli.

The Walk milne and " ham " or small piece of ground thereto belonging, let to William Kitchin at uli.

The copyhold farm of East Errington let to Edward Forster at looli.

The copyhold farm of East Errington Red-house let to Ralph Davison at looli.

Hodgson for £172 per annum (Estcourt and Payne, English Catholic Non- jurors, p. 49). He had succeeded in 1669 to property at Lintz in Tanfield, under the will of his uncle, Albert Hodgson of that place, whose estate had been sequestered for recusancy in 1649. Richard Hodgson mentioned in the text was succeeded by his son, Ralph Hodgson of Lintz, whose son, of the same name, died in 1773, leaving issue by his wife Catherine, daughter and coheir of Roger Strickland of Catterick, an only daughter, Catherine, wife of Thomas Selby of Biddleston. cf. pedigree of Hodgson of Hebburn, Surtees' Durham, vol. ii, p. 77, amplified by notices on p. 232 of same volume; cf. Welford, Royalist Compositions, p. 242.

* William Errington of Errington and Beaufront, was son of William Errington and brother and heir of John Errington of Errington and Beaufront,

who died in 1713. He is stated to have married a daughter of Girlington

of Thurland in Lancashire. He was buried at St. John Lee 22nd February, 1725-6, and dying without issue he was succeeded in the family estates hy his brother, Thomas Errington, and he by his son, John Errington. See Register No. cxxxvi; see pedigree of Errington of Errington and Beaufront, new History of Northumberland, vol. iv, p. 188; see also Welford, Royalist Compositions, pp. 190-192.

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The copjiiold lease of East Errington Hall house and the land thereto belonging, let to Mr. Sanderson at 30/^.

The copyhold tenement at Buckley let to John Lounsdale at 50/^'. and Ralph Davison and William Lounsdale at ^oli. = looli.

The copyhold farm of Keepwick, in three farms, one let to Thomas Errington at 48/^. 2s., another let to Edward Forster at 46li., and another let to John Thompson at 28/1. 17s. 6d.= i22li. 17s. 6d.

Keepwick com milne, with a " ham " or small piece of ground thereto belonging, let to William Soppet, 2$li.

The farm of Grottington let to Edward Forster and John Lounsdale at yoli.

A messuage and farm called Redhouse in Alnwick (sic) in the parish of St. John Lee, let to George Wilson and George Angus at 4oli.; another messuage in Anwick in the parish of St. John Lee, let to John Angus at ^li. ; another messuage and close there let to Widdow Widdrington at 5/1. los. ; with several cottages in Anwick aforesaid inhabited by poor people at no rent; and one third of a colliery in Anwick " drowned and unlet."

A farm called HoUinghall in St. John Lee parish let to Lancelott Bell and Thomas Hutchinson at 50/^'.

A farm called Hayning inSimonburne let to Alexander Arm- strong, 65/i.

The corn tithes of Corbridge let by me to various tenants, viz. : Corbridge come tithe let to William Hudspeth and partner at no//'. ; Aidon Castle tithe let to George Jackson, 16H.; Aidon towne and Thomeburough tithe let to Widow Smith at 54/?. = 181//.

Halton, Halton Sheels, Carr-houses, Clarewood, Great Whit- tington, and White-house com -tithes, let by my late brother, John Errington, esq., to John Douglass at 88li.

The farm of Kirkley alias Kirkley Thome in the parish of Ponte- land, between several tenants at 105/^.

The farm of Benridge in Kirkley let to John Ward, 27/^'.

Kirkley Mill let to Matthew Ellington, I2li.

Of which said lands in Beaufront, Beaufront Woodhead, West Errington, Grottington, HoUinghall, and Haineing, I am seised in fee simple to me and my heirs, but Grottington is subject to a rent charge of 40/i. per annum granted by my brother, John Errington, esq., and HoUinghall to a forfeited mortgage of 400/^. (all of the freehold said premises are subject to 28li. a year for fee farm rents and several judgements and incumberances) . And I am seised of the equity of redemption of the said copyhold lands in East Er- rington, Errington Redhouse, and Buckley, mortgaged by my said brother, John Errington, for 4,ooo/z., whereof 3,000/j. are repaid, and of the equity of redemption of the said copyhold lands in Keep- wick mortgaged for i,20oli.; and I am possessed of a trust estate and right of redemption of the tithes of Corbridge for 21 years, of which seven are expired, made by the Dean and Chapter of Car-

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lisle at 4^11. 8s. 8d. a year, and a fine of 500/?. for renewal, every 7 years. I am seised of the said farms in Kirkley alias Kirkley Thorne, to me and my heirs, by virtue of a forfeited mortgage, the equity of redemption whereof was foreclosed by my said late brother, John Errington, and the same descended to me by his death.

Enrolled i May, 1717.

LXV.— Register of the estate of Robert Widdrington* of Plasey, GENT,, dated 15 April, 1717.

Denis Herford holdeth by a lease made by Dorothy Widdrington, late of Buteland, widow of William Widdrington, late of Buteland, a house, lands, &c., there, in the parish of Chollerton, for 61 years from May, 1694, at yearly rent, 31/^.

Denis Herford holdeth another tenement in the parish of Chol- lerton, without lease, at the yearly rent of 4/^.

James Oliver, Andrew Oliver, and Thomas Smith hold tene- ments, &c., in said parish of Chollerton, at the yearly rent of 45/^.

William Oliver holds a tenement in said parish of Chollerton, I2li.

George Moor, John Moor, and John Robson hold a messuage, farm, lands, &c., in said parish of Chollerton, at i^li.

John Forster, John Robson, Rowland Murde [sic], and Roger Reed, a messuage, lands, &c., in the parish of Corsenside, at 14/^. 12s.

All which rents are the full improved yearly value, and I am seised of the said messuages, &c., in an estate of inheritance in fee simple, &c. As witness my hand, April 15, 1717.

Debts charged upon the said farm, &c., by the predecessors of Robert Widdrington:

To Michael Widdrington, younger brother of the said Robert,

200/z.

To Barbara Widdrington, sister to said Robert, 150/1. To Margaret Widdrington, sister to said Robert, 150/?.

* The register abstracted in the text offers an opportunity to correct a pedigree of Widdrington of Buteland printed in the new History of Northum- berland, vol. iv, p. 369.

Henry Widdrington of Buteland, whose estate was inserted on the third Act for Sale, i8th November, 1652, was not a son of Sir Ralph Widdrington, as has been supposed, but a son of [Benjamin ?] Widdrington and Catherine his wife. His wife's name was Isabel, who, on the 30th October, 1650, peti- tioned for her fifth for maintenance of herself and children. One of Henry and Isabel Widdrington's daughters and coheiresses, Dorothy Widdrington, married William Widdrington, in her right, of Buteland, by whom she had (perhaps with other) issue Henry Widdrington of Buteland (slain by William Charlton of the Bower, 21st' February, 1709-10), whose widow, Elizabeth, had a settlement of ^20 per annum, as mentioned in the text ; Robert Wid- drington, whose register is abstracted in the text, who seems to have resided at one time at Buller's Green, Morpeth, made his will loth February, 1731; Michael Widdrington of Buller's Green, named in the text, whose will is dated i6th July, 1741 ; and their daughters Barbara and Margaret (afterwards wife of James Robinson), and two other sisters, Mrs. Hewitt and Mrs. Bourne. cf. Welford, Royalist Compositions, p. 375.

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To the widow of Mr. Henry Widdrington, the elder brother of the said Robert, 2oli. a year for hfe settled upon her by her husband. To Mr. Robert Allgood, i6s. M. per annum. Enrolled 2 May, 1717.

LX VI. —Register of the estates of John Newton* of Stocksfield- HALL, dated 19 April, 1717.

One moiety of the capital messuage of Stocksfield-hall, with Stocksfield-hall fishery in the Tyne, now in my own possession. Also the other moiety, with lands thereto belonging, let to Samuel V\^eatley and John Suretis, by lease, at 8i/z. a year.

A part of Stocksfield-hall farm, let by me and Robert Newton, deceased, to George Stokoe for 21 years at 15//. los. a year.

A fulling mill let to Josiah Jewit and Michael Hunter at 4/2'. a year.

Of all which I am seised in fee, to me, my heirs and assigns, sub- ject to a forfeited mortgage of yooli., a modus of 2li. a year for each undivided moiety of the premises, in the several parishes of Bywell St. Peter and B}^vell St. Andrew, in full satisfaction for all tithes of corn, and subject to several debts amounting to 350/?., and the sum of 30S. a year for petty tithes in parish of By^vell St. Andrew.

Power of Attornej^ 27 April, 1717, to John Hankin of Newcastle, John Maire of Newcastle, John Brown of Newcastle, and Robert Wilson of Morpeth.

Enrolled i May, 171 7.

LXVH. — Register of the estate of Edward Widdrington,! gent., of Colt-park, dated 19 April, 1717.

The mansion house, called Ritton, and grounds belonging called Ritton and Birkheads, in the parish of Hartburn, let to Thomas Coxon and William Winship at 135^?.

A messuage called Colt-park in my owti possession.

A messuage and land there let to William Potts at 40/ii. (reserving to myself one close of pasture, or meadow, in my own possession).

* The estate of Stocksfield-hall descended from John Newton, who held the same in 1558, in lineal succession to Jane and Ann Newton, granddaughters and coheirs of Lancelot Newton of Stocksfield-hall, whose will is dated 6th May, 1700, and by them was sold in 1713 to their two imcles, Robert and John Newton. What happened afterwards is obscure, but on the 24th June, 1720, John Newton, described as of Stocksfield-hall, gent., entered into an agreement to sell to William Blakiston Bowes of Gibside his manor and capital messuage of Stocksfield-hall "as well that part which was lately in possession of his brother, Mr. Robert Newton, as also that part which belonged to the said John Newton," with the walkmill fishery in the Tyne, &c. The consideration was ;^2,8oo. cf. pedigree of Newton of Stocksfield-hall, new History of Northumberland, vol. vi, p. 257.

t Edward Widdrington was eldest son of William Widdrington of Colt- park in the parish of Hartburn, and nephew, heir-at-law, and devisee of Gilbert Errington of Portgate in the parish of St. John Lee. See Register No. xciii. His wife's surname has not been ascertained ; her christian name was Mary. By her he had issue five sorts, who all died young or child-

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A limestone quarr}^ at Birkheads, of which I make sometimes IDS. at other 20s. a year or thereabouts.

A landsale colHery at Birkheads and Colt-park, now unlet and unwrought.

Of all of which I am seised in fee, to me, my heirs and assigns, subject to a mortgage of 1,400/4., payable to Mrs. Ursula Shaftoe, Mr. Francis Shaftoe, and Mrs. Mary Shaftoe, and a debt on bond due to [blank] Lisle of looli., and a Crown-rent of 3/1. 6s. 8d., payable to Edward Noel, esq.

Enrolled 2 May, 1717.

LXVIII. — Register of the estate of the Lady Catharine Rad-

CLYFFE,* SPINSTER, ONE OF THE DAUGHTERS OF THE RlGH^T

HoNBLE. Francis, late Earl of Derwentwater. [No date.]

A rent-charge of lOoli. a year out of Newton-hall in the parish of Bywell St. Peter, secured to me by indenture of 16 June, 1688, made between said Right Honble. Francis, Earl of Derwentwater, of the ist part, and Pierce Butler and Henry Forster of London, gentlemen, and me the said Lady Catharine Radclyffe, and Lady Elizabeth, third daughter of the said earl, of the other part, which said rent charge is all the real estate in any will belonging to me in the county of Northumberland.

Power of Attorney, 15 August, 1717, to John Aynsley of Hexliam, gent., Edward Ward of Morpeth, gent. Witnesses, Robert PuUenger, Edward Twallin.

Enrolled 10 October, 1717.

LXIX. — Register of the estate of the Lady Elizabeth Radclyffe,! spinster, one of the daughters of the Right Honble. Francis, late Earl of Darwent water. [No date.]

A rent charge of lOoli. a year out of Newton-hall by indenture dated 16 June, 1688, made between the said Francis, Earl of Dar-

less, and two daughters, Elizabeth, wife of John Cuthbertson of Alnwick, and Mary, wife of Thomas Potts of Warton, the legitimate claims of whose children were defeated by the inequitable will of their uncle, Henry Wid- drington of Portgate and Colt -park, who was buried in Hexham quire on the 14th January, 1727-8. cf. pedigree of Widdrington of Portgate and Colt-park, new History of Northumberland , vol. iv, p. 213.

* Lady Catherine Radcliffe, third daughter of Francis, first Earl of Derwentwater, professed at St. Monica's Convent, Louvain, 12th July, 1688, and, dying gth July, 1744, was buried in the convent. See pedigree of Radcliffe, new History of Northumberland, vol. x, p. 280; and Nos. lviii supra and lxix post for her sisters' registers; cf. Welford Royalist Com- positions, p. 313.

t Lady Elizabeth Radclille, fourth daughter of Francis, first Eaid of Der- wentwater, professed at St. Monica's Convent, Louvain, 12th July, 1688, and, dying 26th October, 1723, was buried in the convent, cf. pedigree of Radcliffe, new History of Northumberland, vol. x, p. 280; see Nos. lviii and LXVIII supra, for her sisters' registers; cf. Welford, Royalist Compositions, p. 313-

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wentwater, and Pierce Butler and Henry Forster of London, gents., Lady Catharine Radcliffe, second daughter of the said earl, and me the said Ehzabeth Radclyffe, of the other part, which rent-charge of looli. is all the real estate belonging to me in the county of Northumberland.

Power of Attorney, 15 August, 1717, t(j John Aynsley of Hexliam, gent., and Edward Ward of Morpeth, gent. Witnesses, Robert Pullenger, Edward Twallin.

Enrolled 10 October, 1717.

LXX. — Register of the estate of Mary Phillips of the city of York, widow, daughter of James Wallis,* late of copeland, esq.

The rent-charge of 40/i. a year issuing out of the lands of Cope- land, out of lands in Knarsdale, Humbleton, and Akefield [sic], late the inheritance of the said James Wallis, and now the inheritance of Ralph Wallis of Knaresdale, esq. Wliich said rent -charge I hold by virtue of a grant from the said James Wallis, esq., dated 27 Jany., 3 James II (1687-8), to me the said Mary Phillips by the name of Mary Wallis, spinster, daughter of the said James Wallis, for the term of my natural life.

Power of Attorney, 15 August, 1717, to Thomas Potts of New- castle, gent., Thomas Ilderton of the same place, gent., and James Rain of Hexham.

Enrolled 10 October, 1717.

LXXI. — Register of the estate of John TALBOTf of Cartington,

gent. [No date.]

A particular of the several messuages belonging to me, the said John Talbot, and of the several lands out of which any rents are issuable and payable to me.

I am entitled to the equity of redemption of the township or \-illage of Cartington, now in the tenure of John Hogg, William Brown, James iVddison, and James Gibson, at the yearly rent of ly^li., besides the house and gardens, worth 405. a year; they

* There is a narrative pedigree of Wallis of Knaresdale and of Coupland in the Rev. John Hodgson's History of Northuinberland, part ii, vol. iii, pp. 83-85, which is commented on in the Rev. Matthew CuUey's " Notes on the Manors of Akeld and Coupland," in History Berwickshire Naturalists' Club, vol. xi, pp. 403-414. James Wallis, father of the lady whose register is ab- stracted in tlie text, seems to have been succeeded by a son of the same name whose guardian was Vaughan Phillips, then or later the husband of his sister Mary. He was succeeded by Ralph Wallis, who may have been his brother, who, 13th November, 171 3, sold Coupland to John Ogle, and on the 20th August, 1730, he conveyed Knaresdale to John Stephenson of Newcastle, t John Talbot, whose register is abstracted in the text, was the eldest son of John Talbot, said to have been slain in 1686 at the seige of Buda in Hun- gary, by his wife Christian, daughter and coheir, of Sir Edward Charlton of Hesleyside and Cartington. On the 7th January, 1699, his grandmother, Dame Mary Charlton (see Welford, Royalist Compositions, p. 150), conveyed to

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enjoying all the said lands in the township of Cartington except the North-close, Blackehope, and Westhill, at i$oli., by lease, for seven years, executed by me, commencing i May, 1715 ; and the North-close, Blackehope, and Westhill, at 23/^'., as tenants at will. But I am not in receipt of the rents of the said estate, they being taken by Elizabeth Huddleston of Newcastle, widow, to whom I am indebted the sum of 1,000/^'., for securing which all the said lands, &c., are mortgaged to her.

I am also entitled to the equity of redemption of a tenement in Thropton let by lease to Thomas Armorer at i^li. los. a year, but the rents thereof are also received by said Elizabeth Huddleston for the said mortgage of i,oooli.

I am possessed for life of a farm called Green Chesters, parish of Elsdon, held by Dorothy Hall and John Hall at 2ili. rent under lease from me.

I am possessed for life of the farm called Hillock in Elsdon parish, let to Carnaby Hall at 5/1. a year.

I am also possessed of a farm called Cold Town in the parish of Elsdon, let to Robert Elliot at 3/i. a year.

I also hold for life the manor of Ovington and a salmon fishery at Eltringham in Ovingham parish, let at 40s. a year, now held by William Hindmarsh as tenant at will.

Also of the fee farm rents payable out of lands in the parish of Elsdon, viz. Ashbrae, payable by John Hogg, George Potts, and John Hedley, and amounting to 4li. 5s. To a rent of a tenement in Coldtown, 7s. 6d. A rent payable out of Cleughbrea by Edward Fletcher and John Talbot, 2li. A rent payable out of the Cragg by Joseph Arthur, yli. 4s. 10^. A rent payable out of South Eardhope by John Alder and Gilbert Potts, zli. 6s. 8d. A rent payable out of North Eardhope by said John Alder and Gilbert Potts, 2li. 6s. Sd. A rent payable out of Faimy-cleugh by Alexander Brown and Robert Detchon, 9s. 2d. A rent payable out of Green Chester by Thomas Wanlas, ili. 10s. A rent payable out of Headshope by John Hedley, 3/V. 9s. 8^. A rent payable out of Iron-House by John Gallon and William Snowdon, ^li. 5s. $d. A rent payable out of Lentronside by William Potts, ili. A rent payable out of Troughend by Nicholas Hedley, 6s. 8^. A rent payable out of Woolaw by William and George Coxon, ili. A rent payable out of Linheads by Thomas Forster, 2s. 6d.

A customary rent payable out of Little Tosson in the parish of Rothbury by James Storey, 6s.

Francis Radcliffe the manor of Ovington and certain lands, in trust for her grandson, John Talbot. He also succeeded to part of Cartington. He is stated to have been out in the Rebellion of 171 5, to have been taken prisoner at Preston, and to have been allowed to escape from Chester. His will is dated 17th Julie, 1724. He was married, but, leaving no issue, was succeeded by his brother, Gilbert Talbot (see Register No. cxxiv). For some account of his property at Cartington with a pedigree of his mother's family, see Pro- ceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle, 3rd ser., vol. viii, pp. 21-34.

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A rent payable out of lands in Warton in Rotlibury parish by Mr. Gilbert Park and Robert Potts, ili.

A rent payable out of East Matfen in the parish of Stamfordham, a customary rent, by John Douglas, esq., and Robert Pearson, gent., ili.

A farm or tenement in the township of Troughen in the parish of Elsden, held by George Potts as tenant at will, 2li. $s.

A rent payable out of Old Town in Elsden parish, a rent of 4U. los. payable by Mr. Gabriel Hall, Edward Reed, Michael Reed, Clement Reed, William Reed, John Reed, senr., Edward Hall, and John Hedley, 4li. 10s.

Witnesses, George Williamson, James Wivell, Richd. Prendreth, George Reynoldson.

Power of Attorney, 12 September, 1717, to Edward Ward of Morpeth, gent., Ford Grey of Alnwick, gent., Lancelott Allgood of Morpeth, gent., and Robert Bulman of Morpeth, gent.

Enrolled 13 October, 1717.

LXXn, — Register of the estate of William Hardwicke* OF London, gent.

A white-rent of 13s. 6d. from two or three freeholds in Wood- burne, in my own possession.

A messuage farm and lands in the parish of Rothbury leased to William Lawson at y6li. 10s. a year.

* William Hardvvick, whose register is abstracted in the text, was the eldest son of Ralph Hardwick of London, merchant, bj^ his wife Mary, daughter and coheir of Sir Edward Charlton, bart., of Hesleyside and Cartington. By deed dated 13th March, 1702, his grandmother, Dame Mary Charlton, settled on him one third part of Cartington. The surname of his first wife, Mary, has not been ascertained. She was buried at Hexham on the 13th June, 1744, having outlived their son, John Hardwick, who was also buried at Hexham, and January, 1735-6. William Hardwick married secondly Winifred, daughter of John and Winifred Cotes of Alnwick (see Register No. viii), the articles before his second marriage being dated 4th October, 1746. By this marriage there was no issue.

1757, March 13th. Will of William Hardwick of Hexham, esq. " I give my lands in Cartington, Nether Leam, Cluesfield, Woodburn, Lewisbum, &c., to Sir Walter Blacket of Wallington, bart., and William Fenwick of Bjrwell, esq., in trust for my cousin, William Hardwick, in the county of York, hus- bandman, and his heirs, in tail male. Remainder to William Errington of Sandhoe. To my brother-in-law, James Morryson, £50 per annum. To my wife Winifred £25 per annum over and above the jointure secured to her by her marriage settlement. To Nicholas Leadbitter of Hexham, gent., ;^ioo. To John Thompson of the same place, barber, £25. Enrolled at Quarter Sessions, 13th July, 1757. Testator was buried at Hexham, 20th March, 1757.

By indenture dated 15th October, 1765, William Hardwick, formerly of Terrington, lately of Coulton, and then of Cornbrough, Yorks., gent., cousin, heir-at-law, and devisee of William Hardwick, esq., mortgaged lands at Car- tington mill, Woodburn, &c., to William Carr of Etal.

Winifred, widow of William Hardwick, returned to Alnwick, where she was buried on the 5th February, 1769, as " Mrs. Winifred Hardwick of Bond- gate, widow, heretofore Cotes."

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A mill and farm in the said parish let to said William Lawson at i6li.

A messuage and lands in the parish of Corsenside leased to John Davison at ^oli. a year,

A messuage and lands in the parish of Bellingham let to George Robson at 2^li. a year.

Of all which I am seised to me and my heirs in fee simple.

Power of Attorney, 12 September, 1717, from William Hardwick of Cartington, gent., to Edward Ward of Morpeth, gent., Ford Gray of Alnwick, gent., Lancelot Allgood of Morpeth, gent., and Robert Bulman of Morpeth, gent.

Enrolled 19 October, 1717.

LXXIII. — Register of the estate of Robert Collingwood* of

BOSCOBELL IN COUNTY SaLOP, GENT. [No date.]

An annual sum of 20li. payable out of the manor house called Eslington-hall, the Myle farm, the town-side, &c. &c., in the town- ship of Eslington, and out of the manors of Wliittingham and Thronton.

Also an equitable interest in the term of 1,000 years by inden- tures of 20 Oct., 1677, limited of the said premises.

Power of Attorney, 20 July, 1717, to Edward Ward of Morpeth, gent., John Stoddard of Morpeth, gent., and Ford Grey of Alnwick, gent.

Enrolled 10 October, 1717.

LXXIV. — Register of the estate of Lancelott ORDf of Weetwood, ESQ., and Mary, his wife. [No date]

The manor and capital messuage, lands, &c., of Weetwood, parish of Chatton, now in the possession of Robert Strother, gen- tleman, and let to him, from year to year, at yoli. a year. Of part of which premises situated on the south side of the river Till and called Weetwood-bank and Weetwood-bank-foot, I am seised in fee to me and my heirs for ever. And of the capital messuage

* Robert Collingwood, whose register is abstracted in the text, was seven years of age when his father, George Collingwood of Eslington, 30th August, 1666, entered his pedigree in Dugdale's Visitation of Northumberland. He was of the Society of Jesus, and died at Boscobel 24th January, 1740. See Estcourt and Payne, English Catholic Nonjurors, p. 209; see also Registers Nos. XIX, XXXIV.

t In 1649 John Ord of Weetwood compounded for his delinquency, his estate comprising the demesne lands of Weetwood and a house at Berwick. By indenture dated ist Februarj^ 1685-6, Lancelot Ord the elder made a settle- ment of Weetwood on his son, Lancelot Ord the younger, charging it with an annuity for his wife and portions for his daughters, and with the payment of his debts amounting to ;^i,200. In the event, the property was sold, apparently by the Lancelot Ord whose register is abstracted in the text, to James Dagleish, whose heiress, Rosamond Dagleish, carried it in marriage in 1766 to John Ord, lieutenant R.N., in whose descendants it rests. So far as is known, there is no connection between the older Roman Catholic family and the

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and the rest of the demesne lying on tlie north side of the Till, I and the said Marj^ are seised for our lifes and the life of the longer liver, and after our decease the same is limited to m}^ right heirs for ever.

Power of Attorney, i6 August, 1717, to John Aynsley of Hexham, gent., and Edward Ward of Morpeth, gent.

Witnesses, Mannock Strickland, Thomas Cholmeley, Robert Pullenger, Edward TwaUin.*

Enrolled 10 October, 1717.

LXXV. — Register of the estate of Richard CARRf of Gateshead, GENT., dated 27 Sep., 1717.

Mr. Lancelot Allgood holdeth of me a stone house in Hexham in a place called Battle-hill, let to him by Robert Wilson for one year at jli. 15s. annual rent, and charged with the sum of 100/?'. to Mrs. Featherstone, widow.

Also Charles Scott holdeth of me a farm in the parish of Simon- burne, let to him by Mr. John Carr and Mr. John Heron, ray trustees, for i6/j. a year.

And Andrew Oliver and Robert Stokoe hold of me a farm in Simonbume parish, let to them by Mr. Thomas Carr and Mr. John Heron at i^li. a year, and chargeable with loli. a year to Mrs. Dorothy Shaftoe for a term of years yet to come, which premises I hold in fee simple, &c.

Enrolled Oct. 10, 1717.

LXXVI. — Register of the estate of John Potts :!: of Everingham IN THE county OF YoRK, GENT. [No date.]

I am possessed of an annuity of 50/7. charged on the manor of Low Tnihit in the parish of Rothbury.

present Protestant line. cf. Welford, Royalist Compositions, p. 304; Arch. /El., 3rd ser. , vol. xii, pp. 62-63; ^rid Register No. xcix. Payne, in his Records of Catholics in 1715, p. 94, states that Lancelot Ord, whom he calls a captain, was taken a prisoner at Preston, but escaped and fled beyond seas, also that he had three brothers, John, Miingo, and Francis. The will of Lancelot Ord, made 4th August, 1734, at Boulogne, is noted in Estcourt and Payne, English Catholic Nonjurors, p. 209.

* The names of two of the witnesses to the power of attorney are the same as the witnesses to the signatures of the Ladies Catherine and Elizabeth Radcliffe, raising an inference that Mr. and Mrs. Ord were also residing in Lou vain in 1717.

t A member of the family of Carr of Hexham, whose descent and history are treated at large in The History of the Family of Carr, 3 vols., folio, 1893- 1899, privately printed.

X John Potts of Everingham, whose register is abstracted in the text, was probably a son of George Potts of Nether Trewhitt, who, on the 20th November, 1667, took out a licence to marry Eleanor Widdrington.

Born circa 1674, John Potts professed at Lambspring in Westphalia, 2ist May, 1691. On the completion of his studies he was sent in 1701 on the English Mission in the Northern Province, and stationed successively at

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Also of an annuity or rent charge of loli. pa^^able for my natural life out of the manor of Low Truhit settled upon me by several indentures, and confirmed b}^ an Act of Parliament in the reign of Queen Anne.

Power of Attome3^ i6 September, 1717, to John A^oisley of Hex- ham, gent., Peter Potts of Newcastle, gent., and Thomas Potts of Newcastle, gent.

Witnesses, Robert Pullenger and Edward Twallin.*

Enrolled 10 October, 1717.

LXXVII. — Register of the estates of Edward Horsley

WlDDRINGTONf OF HORSLEY, ESQ. [No date.]

A true particular of the manors, lands, &c., of me the said Edward Horsley Widdrington, &c.

The manor of Felton, Felton-hall, demesne, and North More, let to John Hudson, Rich. Robeson, and Robt. Robeson, at loili.

A messuage called Moulds-haugh and lands thereto belonging, let to Robt. Robeson and Nich. Hill, 32/?.

A messuage called Brery Bank and lands thereto belonging, let to Robt. Thompson, i8/i.

A messuage called Swinscroft and lands thereto belonging, let to John Hudson, iili.

A messuage called West Farm and lands thereto belonging, let to Tho. Telford and Robt. Horn, i^li.

A messuage called Fence and lands thereto belonging, let to George Straker, 33/1. los.

A messuage called New Shothaugh and lands thereto belonging, let to John ]\Ioreson, 20U.

A messuage called Stephen Closes with lands thereto belonging, let to Wm. Robeson, ^6li.

York and Whenby, whence he was removed in 1717 to Everingham. There he combined the office of resident chaplain with that of land agent to Sir Marma- duke Constable, whose mother was Mary, daughter of the first Earl of Der\vent- water. In 1733 Potts was honoured with the titular distinction of " Cathedral Prior," and was buried at Everingham in June, 1743. In the Downside Review, vol. xxxv, No. 103, published at Downside Abbey near Bath, there is a valuable paper entitled " Dom. John Bede Potts," contributed by Mr. R. C. Wilton, who has had access to the account book and original letters written by Potts (see Register No. lxxxii).

* The names of the two witnesses to the signature of John Potts are the same as to the signatures of the Ladies Catherine and Elizabeth Radcliffe and Mr. and Mrs. Ordof Weetwood, suggesting that John Potts was a religious at Louvain at the time he drew up the certificate.

t Edward Horsley Widdrington of Long Horslej' and Felton, whose register is akstracted in the text, was the only son of Edward (Horslej') Widdrington by his marriage with Elizabeth, daughter of Caryl, third Viscount Moljaieux (see Register No. xliii). He married Mary, daughter of Humphrey Weld of Lulworth, and, dying at Felton on the 12th December, 1762, aged 67, was succeeded by his only child, Elizabeth Margaret, wife of Thomas Riddell of Swinburn. See Registers Nos. xviii, xlv; and for pedigree of Widdrington of Felton, the new History of Northumberland, vol. vii, p. 263.

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A water corn mill let to John Chirenton, 26li. los.

A quit rent out of Side Banks paid by Robert Lisley, ^li.

The North More limestone quarry let to Robt. Horn and John Tailford, ^li.

Doneson House let to Andrew Robson, Roger Banbrough, and Wm. Robinson at ili. i8s.

Another house, ili.; smith's shop, ili. = 2li.

The borough rent in Felton, ili. 6s. 8rf.

A close on the lord's wastes there in the possession of Robt. Dobson, 3^.

Felton orchard let to John Thompson, ^li.

A house built on the lord's waste and in possession of Thomas Ogle, gent., 2d.

Green Huigh rent from the freeholders of Newton-on-the-Moor, 5s. 2d.

Green Huigh out of Overgras-stead, 3^.

All which lands are the parish and township of Felton in the lordship of Felton.

The manor and lordship of Bockenfield, with its rights, &c.: Bockenfield demesnes and the Long-close let to John Hudson,

120li.

A tenement called Wintrick, with lands, &c., lei to Mabel Forster,

A tenement called Heugh mill, with lands, &c., let to Clement Bell, 2bli.

A tenement called Bywell, with lands, let to Wm. Tully, John Blackett, Robt. Brown, Thos. Grey, yoli.

A tenement called Burgham, with lands, &c., let to Edw. Gray, Robt. Brown, and Robt. Moore, 45/?'.

High moor and Bywell-field and the North-close, part in Felton and part in Bokenfield, let to Andrew Storey and Thos. Thompson,

ITOli.

A messuage called Hellm-the-Hill, with lands, &c., in parish of Felton, let to Rich. Thompson, 25Z2'.

A messuage called Tocls Loaning-end in Bockenfield let to Robt. Moore and Wm. Seelby, 15^/.

The manor or lordship of Horsley: A tenement called Horsley Birks, with lands, &c., let to Geo.

Burne, Widow Burne, and James Wallis, 47//.

A tenement called Baxton (sic) Dean, with lands, &c., let to

Matt. Swan, sen., Matt. Swan, jun., and John Tully, 46//.

Harelaw, Himers-close, and Prodlock's close, let to Jas. Ormley,

A tenement called Hare Deane, with lands, &c., in possession of Mrs. Widdrington, gZi.

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The townside of Skreenwood in the parish of Alnham, and a tenement there let to John Budells and widow Budels, &c., 64li.

A messuage called Screenwood and the demesne side in the parish of Alnham let to Robt. Skell}/, 64/^'.

A tenement called Whomley-burn in the parish of Horsley, with lands, &c., let to Jas. Ansly and Wm. Rand, i^li.

Mrs. Widdrington for one part of the same place, 5/*.

Two messuages called Tlieslehaugh and Nether-house, with lands, &c., in the parish of Brenkburn, let to John Swan, Matt. Towns, Bartholomew Hare, Lancelot t Lambert, yoH.

A messuage at Old Weldon in the parish of Brenkburne in the possession of Robert Lisley at the yearly rent of 26//'.

One moiety of Horsley mill in the pos.session of John Johnson, 8li.

Quit-rent out of Brenkheugh in the parish of Brenkburn paid by Mr. Joseph Bilton, 2H. 13.S. ^d.

Ellington quit-rent in the parish of Woodhorn paid by the farmers and freeholders of Ehington, ili.

Quit-rents out of Witton Shealds in the parish of Horsley paid by Mr. John Thornton yearly, 3s.

Harelawe colliery in the parish of Horsley let to James Ansley, 31/^'.

The capital messuage at Horsley in possession of the Honble. Mrs. Widdrington,