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 ERRATA ET CORRIGENDA. 
 
 Page 18, line 6 from bottom, for 'John Jackson ; Lieut. -Col. Thos. Swinburne, 
 
 esq.,' read 'John Jackson, lieut.-col. ; Thos. Swinburne, esq.' 
 ,, 61, line 15 from bottom, /or ' Robt. Cane,' read ' Robt. Carre.' 
 ., 173, 1st line of 2nd footnote, delete the words ' is not traceable in local 
 
 records,' and insert the following : — 
 
 William Colston was, apparently, a baker in Newcastle. The Municipal 
 Accounts of that town (extracts from which form one of Richardson's Reprint'^ 
 of Rare Tracts, Newcastle, 1848), contain the following entries respecting 
 him : — 
 
 ' 1650, August. Pair! Wm. Colston for a banquett which was had to 
 entertain General Cromwell, "25/. 2.s. Id.' 
 
 ' 1650, October. Paid Wm. Colston for Naples bisquett and makrownes 
 [macaroons] which was had the 26th August, being a daj' of thankesgiveinge 
 for the great victory in Scotland, 20<.' 
 
 1660, 19 May. Paid Mr. Wm. Colson, for 6 lb. of Naples biskitts 
 delivered by him when generall Monke came thorow the towne, T*'.'
 
 RECORDS 
 
 OF THE 
 
 COMMITTEES FOR COMPOUNDING, ETC. 
 
 WITH 
 
 DELINQUENT ROYALISTS 
 
 IN 
 
 DURHAM AND NORTHUMBERLAND 
 
 DURING THE CIVIL WAR, ETC. 
 lf.43-1660. 
 
 ' Delinquents, conquereil Royalists, are now getting 
 themselves lined, according to rigorous proportions, by a 
 Parliament Committee which sits, and will sit long, at 
 Goldsmiths' Hall, making that locality very memorable to 
 Royalist gentlemen.'— Carlyle, Oliver C'romireU's Letters and 
 Speeches. Introduction to Letter xl., dated Oct. 6, 1646. 
 
 Publig|yjir for tj^^ ^acitt^ 
 
 BY ANDREWS & CO., DURHAM 
 
 WHITTAKER & CO., 2 WHITE HART STREET 
 
 PATERNOSTER SQUARE 
 
 BERNARD QUARITCH, 15 PICCADILLY 
 
 BLACKWOOD & SONS, EDINBURGH. 
 
 1905
 
 
 At a Meeting of the Council of the Surtees Society, held 
 in Durham Castle, December 3rd, 1901, the Dean of Durham in 
 the chair, 
 
 ' It was resolved that the Records of the Committees for 
 Compounding with Delinquents in the counties of Durham and 
 Northumberland be edited for the Society by Mr. Richard 
 Welford, M.A.' 
 
 WiLiJAM Brown, 
 
 Secretary.
 
 CONTENTS. 
 
 PAGE. 
 
 PREFACE . ix 
 
 INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . xi 
 
 PROCEEDINGS OF THE PARLIAMENTARY COMMISSIONERS 
 
 IN THE COUNTY OF DURHAM, 1644-1645 ... 1 
 
 CORRESPONDENCE OF THE DURHAM COUNTY COM- 
 MITTEE . . . . . . . . 39 
 
 CORRESPONDE^^CE OF THE NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY 
 
 COMMITTEE 76 
 
 SEQUESTRATIONS, COMPOSITIONS, ETC., IN DURHAM AND 
 
 NORTHUMBERLAND 94 
 
 APPENDIX 403 
 
 INDEX 414
 
 ABBREVIATIONS IN THIS VOLUME. 
 
 Cal. — Calendar. 
 
 C.A.M. — Committee for the Advance of Money. 
 
 C.C. — Committee for Compounding. 
 
 Cou. Com.— County Committee. 
 
 C.S. — Committee for Sequestrations. 
 
 Y. v.— Yearly Value. 
 
 Y.V.B.W.-- Yearly Value before the War. 
 
 References to the Calendar of the Committee for Componndiiiy are expressed 
 at the head of each case (from page 94) by the abbreviation ^Cal.,' followed 
 by the number and page of the volume of the calendar in which the case 
 is epitomized. In like manner the Calendar of the Committee for the Advance 
 of Money is denoted by the letters ' Cal. [C.A.M.],' followed by number 
 and page. 
 
 Quotations from the Jonrnal-s of the Houses of Lords and Commons are 
 sufficiently indicated by the dates prefixed to them, for the proceedings and 
 debates of both Houses are printed in chronological order, from day to day. 
 Thus 'On May 13, 1643, the Commons agreed,' etc., shows that the transaction 
 is recorded in the Journals under that date. 
 
 ^g° The years have been corrected to the modern style of reckoning, 
 namely, from January 1 to December 31.
 
 PREFACE. 
 
 Resolutions, Ordinances, and Acts of Parliament relating 
 to the sequestration of estates and to compounding for delin- 
 quencies during tlie Civil War, are fully recorded in tlie 
 Journals of the House of Lords and in the more copious 
 Journals of the House of Commons, published by the authority 
 of Parliament in yearly volumes. 
 
 Proceedings of Parliamentary and County Commissioners, 
 to whom was entrusted the task of seizing, valuing, letting, 
 and sometimes selling estates, or of compounding with the 
 owners thereof, are preserved at the Public Record Office in 
 London, and in the Cathedral Library at Durham. The MS. 
 at Durham is but a fragment; the MSS. in London extend to 
 about 300 volumes. Two Calendars of the Record Office docu- 
 ments have been issued under the editorial supervision of Mrs. 
 Mary Anne Everett Green — namely, a Calendar of the Pro- 
 ceedings of the Committee for Compounding, etc., 1643-1660, 
 and a Calendar of the Proceedings of the Committee for the 
 Advance of Money, 1642-1656. 
 
 From these sources the present volume has been compiled. 
 It comprises — 
 
 1. The MS. at Durham, which consists of 80 pages (written 
 in a small, neat hand), bound up in Vol. 22 of the Hunter MSS. 
 It appears to be a contemporary transcript of original records 
 relating to sequestrations in the county of Durham by Sir 
 William Arm5me, and other Parliamentary Commissioners, 
 who held courts of confiscation in various parts of the county 
 during the years 1644 and 1645. 
 
 2. Extracts from correspondence between the authorities in 
 London and the Commissioners for Sequestrations in the 
 counties of Durham and Northumberland, from 1645 to the 
 Restoration of the Monarchy.
 
 X PREFACE. 
 
 3. Sequestrations, CVmipositions, etc., effected in the two- 
 counties during tlie same period, arranged in alphabetical 
 order under the names of the respective compounders, with a 
 selection and condensation of such documents as appeared best 
 calculated to elucidate the position and offence of each delin- 
 quent, the situation and extent of his estate, and the amount 
 of the penalty imposed upon him. To these are added brief 
 extracts from assessments made upon some of the compounders 
 by the Committee for the Advance of Money. 
 
 4. An appendix of documents, including the Sequestration 
 Ordinance, the Solemn League and Covenant, the jN^ational 
 Oath, the Oath of Abjuration, and the Form of Pardon granted 
 to delinquents after they had purged their offences. 
 
 In a single volume, dealing with two important counties, 
 no more could be attempted than an expanded local calendar. 
 AVhosoever desires fuller elucidations can obtain them from 
 the Record Office, being guided thereto by an enumeration 
 of documents printed in the margins of Mrs. Everett Green's 
 Calendars upon the pages indicated herein at the commence- 
 ment of each separate case. 
 
 Thanks are due, and are gratefully tendered, to Mr. F. W. 
 Dendy and Mr. W. AV. Tomlinson, for much useful, and other- 
 wise unacknowledged, sei-vice ; but especially to Mr. J. 
 Crawford Hodgson, F.S.A., who kindly kept a watchful eye 
 upon editorial excursions into local genealogy. Nor must the 
 labours be overlooked of the searcher and copyist at the 
 Kecord Office, Mr. Franklyn Walford, who spared no pains to 
 group and condense widely scattered and painfully voluminous, 
 manuscripts. 
 
 RICHARD WELFORD. 
 
 GOSFORTH, NeWCASTLE-UPOX-TyXE, 
 
 August, 1905.
 
 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 (Figures preceded by the letter ' p,' within lirackets, indicate pages of the 
 present volume.) 
 
 To understand aright the genesis and development of the pro- 
 ceedings recorded in this book, it is desirable to reproduce a few 
 elementary facts in the political history of the period. 
 
 In the spring of the year 1640, King Charles I., who had been 
 trying for twelve years to rule his kingdom without assistance 
 from "the other estates of the realm, found himself at the end of 
 his resources. Loans, benevolences, ship money, and all other 
 means of obtaining supplies were exhausted, and the nation was 
 drifting into a perilous state of fear and ferment. Unable to govern 
 longer by the exercise of royal prerogative, his Majesty ordered a 
 parliament to be summoned. The members assembled on April 13^ 
 and were specially charged, ' laying aside all other debates,' to pass 
 a bill for subsidies and ' hasten the payment of them as soon as 
 may be.' 
 
 But instead of voting supplies, the lower House of the new 
 parliament fell at once to a discussion of grievances. Neither com- 
 plaints from the king, nor adjurations from the upper House — 
 which indeed the Commons promptly resented as an invasion of their 
 privileges — could divert them from their i)urpose. On May 5, when 
 they were sitting for the nineteenth time without having granted 
 a single penny to the royal treasury, his Majesty put an end to their 
 deliberations. 
 
 Meanwhile the Scots, pacified the year before by the treaty of 
 Duns^, determined to i-edress their own grievances by a fresh resort 
 to arms. On August 20 they crossed the Border ; by the end of 
 that month, obtaining an easy victory over the royal forces at 
 Newburn. they were in possession of Newcastle ; a few days later 
 they held all the coast towns between Tweed and Tees, .and were 
 claiming 850/. a day for their maintenance. 
 
 In this state of affairs, with Scotland in open rebellion, and 
 England upon the verge of it, the king once more convened his 
 faithful Lords and querulous Commons. They met on November 3,. 
 his Majesty telling them that he put himself freely and clearly upon 
 their love and affection to enal)le him hrst, to chastise the Scottisli 
 rebels, and then to satisfy all just grievances. 
 
 Such was the beginning of that memorable assembly which, l)y 
 its continuous sitting for twelve years, is known in British history 
 as the Lonjr Parliament.
 
 Xll INTRODUCTION. 
 
 Most of the new knights and biu'gesses had received from their 
 constituents a special mandate to effect, with all possible speed, a 
 thorough reformation of abuses. Some of them had suffered from 
 the arbitrary and high handed lu-oceedings of the king and his 
 iidvisers ; others were weary of the strife and struggle of the times ; 
 iill of them desired to redeem the past and reform the future. No 
 time was lost. Within three months of their assembling they had 
 formally charged the Earl of Strafford, Archbishop Laud and one 
 of the judges with high treason, and had com23elled three other 
 judges to put in bail. During the next six months they had 
 impeached eleven of the bishops and jjrotected themselves from 
 being dissolved, without their own consent, until their work was 
 accomplished.* 
 
 In pursuance of this new and drastic policy the majority in the 
 House of Commons began to treat adherents of the old regime as 
 delinquents! and to punish them at their own sweet will. If loyal 
 pamphleteers ventured to criticise, or royalist parsons to reprove, 
 they were stigmatised as delinquents and were ' sent for.' Being 
 ■ sent for ' meant that the offender was to be arrested and either 
 committed to prison till the House had time and inclination to 
 trouble itself about him, or be sti^aightway hauled to the bar. In 
 either case, being brought into the presence of the outraged 
 Commons, he was ordered to kneel, hear the charges made against 
 him, deliver his answer, and then withdraw while the House 
 deliberated. Brought back and forced to his knees once more, he 
 heard the Speaker pronounce his doom — the pillory, fine, or imprison- 
 ment, or perhaps all three together. Against these sentences there 
 was no appeal, except by way of humble petition for grace and favour. 
 
 From the punishment of delinquency by fine, degradation, and 
 imprisonment the Commons revived the old policy of sequestration. 
 Estates, goods, and chattels of royalists were confiscated and some- 
 times sold outright, land at eight, and houses at six, years' purchase 
 for the payment of the army. 
 
 Wider resort to the practice of sequestration was approved by 
 the House on October 14, 1642, when it was resolved — 
 
 * Among those who took a leading part in the business of the Long 
 Parliament were four nortli count rvmen —Sir Henry Vane, sen., of Raby and 
 Barnardcastle, who sat for the borough of Wilton ; Sir Henry Vane, his son, 
 one of the members for Hull ; Sir Arthur Haslerigg, lord of Brunton, Fawdon 
 and Weetslade, in the parish of Gosforth, elected by the bui'gesses of Leicester ; 
 Sir Thomas Widdrington, Recorder and representative of Berwick ; and John 
 Blakiston, one of the members for Newcastle. Their names are specially 
 prominent in committees relating to delinquents, and to offences, great and 
 small, against the might and majesty of Paidiament. Their biographies are 
 written in the Diet. Nat. Biog. 
 
 t ' Hereupon they called whom tliey pleased De/inqnents, received com- 
 plaints of all kinds, and committed to prison whom they pleased, which had 
 never been done nor attempted before this parliament, except in some such 
 apparent breacli as the arresting a privileged person, or the like.' — Clarendon, 
 ReheUion and Civil War.'^, ITJl edition, i. 27L
 
 INTRODUCTION. Xlll 
 
 That the fines, rents and profits of Archbishops, Bishops, 
 Deans, Deans and Chapters, and of such notorious delinquents 
 who have taken up arms against the Parliament, or have been 
 active in the Commission of Array, shall ])6 sequestered for the 
 use and service of the commonwealth. 
 
 Under this sweeping resolution the revenues of the See and 
 Cathedral of Durham, seized by the Scots some months before, 
 passed into the control of Parliament, whose representatives and 
 agents collected the tithes, rents, and other profits, and appropriated 
 them as directed. 
 
 Further developments of the process of confiscation are exempli- 
 fied in the following resolutions which the Commons addressed, first 
 to the Committee for the King's Revenue, then to a Committee for 
 Subscriptions, and finally to a body specially constituted out of both 
 Houses under the title of the Committee for Sequestrations : — 
 
 1642. Nov. 3. That it be referred to the Committee for the 
 King's Revenue to prepare an order for the receiving of the 
 rents, fines, or other profits due or belonging to any notorious 
 delinquents against the Parliament according to an order of 
 the 15th [Uth] October. 
 
 1643. Jan. 2. That the proposition for raising moneys upon 
 the estates of delinquents, etc., be referred to the Committee 
 for Subscriptions. 
 
 1643. Feb. 6. That the Committee appointed to consider of 
 sequestering the estates of persons in actual war against the 
 Parliament shall also have power to consider of sequestering the 
 estates of such other delinquents as the Committee shall think 
 fit to present to the House. 
 
 During the following month (March, 1643) an ordinance was dis- 
 •cussed, and on April 1 it was issued, for seizing and sequestering the 
 estates of notorious delinquents, to be employed to the use and for 
 the maintaining of the army and forces raised by the Parliament. 
 Armed with this authority the Committee were ordered to meet, 
 ' when and where they please, to prepare all things that may be 
 necessary for the speedy and effectual putting in execution of the 
 said ordinance.' 
 
 One ' speedy and elfectual ' means of putting the ordinance into 
 force, was the sotting up of provincial committees. In most of the 
 counties responsible persons, ' well affected ' to the government, 
 were formed into local tribunals, with solicitors to guide their 
 actions, appraisers to value seized property, collectors to bring in 
 the money, and treasurers to receive it, and, after settling with 
 creditors and allowing a fifth to wives and children, transmit the 
 balance to headquarters. 
 
 It w^as easy enough to issue ordinances and appoint committees ; 
 to make them effective was another matter. Here, in the North of
 
 XIV INTRODUCTION. 
 
 England, a cuuditioTi of affairs existed which, for a time, baffled 
 both Lords and Commons. Newcastle, Sunderland and lilyth were 
 the ports upon which London depended for its supply of mineral 
 fuel, and the Earl of Newcastle held them with iron grip for the 
 king. Parliament could not obtain possession by their own forces, 
 and they were reluctant to seek military aid from the Scots, who 
 were already clamouring for payment of former services and might 
 prove exacting. 
 
 In this dilennna, assisted by the Navy Committee and the Cor- 
 poration of London, they devised a notable scheme. • It was called 
 ' Propositions for reducing Newcastle, that the City may be suj^plied 
 with coals,' and shaped itself, after much discussion, into a mercantile 
 adventure, with security to the adventurers from the proceeds of 
 sequestrations. 
 
 On June 5, 16-i.3, the scheme was launched in the form of an 
 ordinance which fills nearly two pages of the Lords' Journals.* 
 Thus it began : — 
 
 Whereas the greatest part of this kingdom, and more 
 especially the City of London and most maritime towns, are 
 served and furnished with coals from the town of NeAvcastle- 
 upon-Tyne and the adjacent parts of Northumberland and the 
 bishoprick of Durham ; which, being now kept by forces consist- 
 ing of papists and other ill-affected jiersons under the command 
 of the Earl of Newcastle, the city of London and all the greatest 
 part of this kingdom are like to suffer very deeply in the want 
 of that commodity so absolutely necessary to the maintenance 
 and support of life, and which is like to be of very dangerous 
 consequence, in the influence which it may have upon the 
 necessities of the meaner sort ; and whei'eas it is also very 
 dangerous to adventure shipping within the connuand of the 
 forts there erected, as being sul^jected to a surprise, and like 
 enough to be made use of against the safety of the kingdom if 
 they should make their voyage only manned as usually for 
 trade : and how great use hath been made of the port of New- 
 castle, to the danger of the kingdom, since it came into the 
 hands of the said Earl is manifest to all : It is therefore hoped 
 that there are none that will be backward to contribute their 
 best assistance towards the reducing of that place in tlie 
 recovery whereof all men are interested ; and the rather for the 
 opportunity that is now giA'en, if it be speedily undertaken 
 and eft"ectually prosecuted. 
 
 Omitting redundant verbiage the propositions were these: — 
 
 L The Commons to nominate ten members (Sir Henry 
 Anderson and John IMakiston, representatives of Newcastle,. 
 
 * Printed in one of Richardson's Reprints of Rare Tracts, under the title of 
 'An Ordinance for Raising Forces to Reduce the Town of Newcastle.' 
 Newcastle : M. A. Richardson, 1843.
 
 INTRODUCTION. XV 
 
 beiug two of the number), and the Common Council of London 
 ten, to form a Committee for managing the business, with 
 ])Ower to call to their assistance such of the outjiorts as they 
 think fit. 
 
 2. The Committee to have power to appoint sub-connnittees 
 to prejiare books for subscriptions, receive moneys subscribed 
 and issue the same as directed. 
 
 3. All moneys advanced upon these propositions to be 
 ■employed solely for the reducing of Newcastle and parts 
 adjacent. 
 
 4. Every owner or master of ships trading for coals, salt, or 
 glass to the towns of Newcastle, Sunderland, or Blyth, or any 
 place adjacent under the power of the Earl of Newcastle, and 
 not subscribing one-half of his stock in such ships to these 
 propositions within a month, must pay, for every chaldron of 
 •coals Ijought there, is. ; wey of salt, 2s. ; and case of glass, 1 .v. 
 more than any adventurer who buys there any of the said com- 
 modities ; and so continue till said adventurers be reimliursed. 
 
 5. Any person within the city of London or ten miles thereof, 
 •or in outj^orts or cities, or upon, or within, five miles of 
 navigable rivers, having coals from Newcastle, Sunderland, 
 Blyth or adjacent places and neglecting to subscribe within a 
 month a sum of money at least proportionable to the coals he 
 annually expends in his house, to pay 10s. a chaldron more 
 than those who do subscribe ; and so continue till the 
 adventurers be reimbursed. 
 
 6. Subscribers using fraudulent or indirect means to furnish 
 non-subscribing persons with coals, to forfeit the benefit of their 
 subscriptions. 
 
 7. No person to sell coals in London, or an}^ place supplied 
 with coals from Newcastle, Sunderland, Blyth, etc., unless he 
 subscribe a sum proportionable to his trade. 
 
 8. Two parts of the estates of papists, not delinquents, and 
 all the estates of delinquents, so declared by the ordinance of 
 sequestration within the counties of Northumberland and 
 Durham, and in Newcastle, to be forthwith sequestered, and all 
 moneys raised thereby to be to the use of the adventurers till 
 reimbursed, as Ijefore. 
 
 9. All customs, duties and imposts u])on coals, salt and glass 
 in Newcastle, Sunderland, Blyth, etc., to be paid to the use' 
 of the said adventurers. 
 
 10. The Committee to propound all officers for land service 
 in this design to the Lord General, and for the sea service to 
 the Admiralty and the Earl of Warwick, l)y whom com- 
 missions are to be given to approved men. 
 
 11. The forces so raised to be at the disposal of the Com- 
 mittee, but subject to the control of the Lord (General and Loi-d 
 Fairfax on land, and Lord Warwick at sea.
 
 Xvi INTRODUCTION. 
 
 12. When Newcastle, Sunderland, Blyth, etc., are freed from 
 the 2:rievous oppression of the Earl of Newcastle, the Com- 
 mittee will pay every subscriber for each 20s. subscribed the 
 sum of 1/. 6*'. 8<:/., and until those ports be so freed, interest 
 at eight per cent. 
 
 This adventm-e attracted the citizens of London, and a sum of 
 over 6,000/. was subscribed for the purpose of reducing Newcastle 
 and Sunderland to oliedience. But Newcastle and Sunderland were 
 not to be reduced, nor the coal trade freed from " grievous oppression,' 
 by adventures like these. Parliament was obliged to take other 
 measures, and nothing seemed to promise so well as soliciting help 
 from beyond the Border. It was true that three years earlier the 
 Scots had been ' invaders,' and Parliament had hustled them out of 
 the kingdom with all possible speed. It was true also that money 
 due to them for their services here and in Ireland had not been 
 paid. But necessity knows no law, and, after much deliberation, 
 it was resolved to invite ' our brethren of Scotland into the realm 
 for our assistance in this present war.' 
 
 Accordingly, on July 19, 1643, John, Earl of Rutland, Sir 
 William Armyne, bart.. Sir Henry Yane, jun., knt., Thomas Hatcher 
 and Henry Darley, esquires, were appointed commissioners to 
 proceed to Edinburgh, and, infer alia, invite the Scots to send 10,000 
 foot, 1,000 horse and a train of artillery into England to co-operate 
 with the Parliamentary forces. These ' mercenaries,' as the royalists 
 called them, were to be paid for their services from such ' revenues 
 of papists, maligTiants and other delinquents,' as should be assigned 
 by the two Houses. But as mercenaries are not always to be trusted, 
 the negotiators made it a condition of the bargain that Carlisle, 
 Newcastle and Berwick, whensoever they should be secured from 
 the papists and nialignants, should be delivered over to Parliament. 
 
 The Scots lent a favourable ear, Ijut, cautious ever, desired some 
 better assurance for payment than a security based upon confiscation. 
 They had already found that plan of raising money slow and tedious. 
 Thereupon Sir Arthur Haslerigg, Sir Henry Vane, jun., and twenty 
 others, representing both Lords and Commons, were ordered (Sept. 
 28, 164-3) to invite the Mayor and Common Council of London to a 
 conference for raising of money for the Scots and agreeing upon 
 such security as should satisfy the Corporation for any loan they 
 might make for this purpose. A day or two later the security was 
 defined as ' such moneys as shall come in upon the joint credit of the 
 two kingdoms out of the coals of delinquents at Newcastle, and out 
 of the estates of delinquents and malignants in the Northern 
 Coimties.' The Mayor and Council accepted these terms and on 
 October .3, municipal representatives were added to the Parlia- 
 mentary committees which had in charge the payment of the Scots, 
 and the task 'of providing funds for the army. 
 
 From that conference came into being the great tribunal, known
 
 INTRODUCTION. XVU 
 
 and feared throughout the land, first as the Committee at Gold- 
 smiths' Hall (where the Ijusiuess was transacted) and afterwards as 
 the Committee for Compounding. 
 
 Fulfilling the term of their compact with the Scots, Parliament 
 sent instructions, on November 1, to the English commissioners, 
 augmented for the occasion by the inclusion of Richard Barwise, 
 Robert Fenwick, and four others, to sequester in the counties of 
 Northumberland, Durham, Cumberland, Westmorland, York and 
 Nottingham, and the towns of Berwick, NeAvcastle, York, Notting- 
 ham and Hull, the estates of such persons as. by any ordinance of 
 Parliament had been or should be declared sequestrable, to the 
 intent that the profits arising therefro)u might l)e employed in pay- 
 ment of the Scottish forces, etc. 
 
 ' Our brethren of Scotland ' entered England in the middle of 
 January, 1644, and on February -3 set themselves down before New- 
 castle. Surrender of the town being refused, the Scots crossed over 
 to Sunderland, which they managed to capture, and thence marched 
 southward to the siege of York. 
 
 Having thus brought in the " brethren ' and let them loose 
 upon the bishopric, a majorit}- of the Parliamentary commissioners 
 settled in the district and devoted themselves to the business of 
 sequestration. Sir William Armyne, Robert Fenwick and Richard 
 Barwise were the chief inquisitors,* and they were advised and 
 assisted by the two Vanes, and John Blakiston. To encourage them 
 in their work and at the same time protect the interests of the' 
 Parliamentary part}' in the bishoj^ric, the Commons, on May 31,. 
 1644, passed the following resolution : — 
 
 That whatsoever moneys or estates of papists or delinquents, 
 to the value of one thousand pounds, shall be discovered Idv 
 Sir Henry Vane, sen.. Sir Henry Vane, jun., Mr. Blakiston, 
 or either of them, or either of their agents, shall be employed 
 for the buying of arms and ammunition for the defence of the 
 county palatine of Din-ham.f 
 
 * On April 14, 1645, Sir Wm. Armyne, Robt. Fenwick and Richd. Barwise 
 received the honour of the personal freedom of Newcastle. Sir Wm. Armyne 
 was M.P. for Boston, and a parliamentarian of high repute and great 
 responsibility. His achievements are recorded in the Diet. Xat. Jiiog. 
 Robt. Fenwick, of the Bitchfield family, was one of the purchasers of the 
 Bishop of Durham's estates when sold by order of Parliament, and later one of 
 tlie M.P.s for Northumberland. Sir Robt. CoUingwood's opinion of him is 
 shown further on (p. 172). Richd. Barwise was a Cuml)erland man, M.P. for 
 Carlisle, and commonlj' known, from liis strength and stature, as the 'great 
 Richard Barwise.' Sir \\'m. Armyne and he received the tlianks of tlie 
 Commons Julj' 14, 1645, ' for their many and great services to the Parliament." 
 
 + From a similar source means were to be obtained for carrying out a 
 resolution of the Commons, adopted on the 3rd of June following, in favour 
 of sailors at Sunderland who, according to Whitlock {Memon'o/s, p. 85), dis- 
 covering a plot to betray the place to the Scots, put themselves in arms, 
 ])lanted two pieces of ordnance, and secured the town. ' Ordered that 200/. 
 1)6 bestowed upon the seamen and mariners at Sunderland who have expressed
 
 XVIU INTRODUCTION. 
 
 The high handed proceedings of these Northern Commissioners, 
 and their methods of dealing with confiscated property are well 
 illustrated in the MS. at Durham, a copy of which forms part 
 [pp. 1-75] of the present volume. 
 
 Regulations for the ' better ordering ' of sequestrations through- 
 out the country were issued about this time. They provided that 
 within ten days from receipt thereof local committees and their 
 •officers must take an oath of fidelity as follows : ■ — 
 
 I, A.B., do swear that I shall well and truly, according to the 
 trust reposed in me, execute for best advantage of the Common- 
 wealth all and every of the ordinances made by the Lords and 
 Commons assembled in Parliament for sequestrations of delin- 
 quents' and papists' estates ; and that I shall not, for fear, 
 favour, reward or affection, spare, connive at or discharge, any 
 of the said delinquents or papists. 
 
 Furthermore, within five days after a sequestration had been 
 effected the officers were to luring in the goods taken, or pay the 
 value in ready money under a penalty of 2s. Qd. in the pound of 
 value ; sequestered houses and land standing void Avere to be let 
 to the best advantage ; trusty men were to be added to the com- 
 mittees, and three or more were to meet at least two days a week ; 
 treasurers were to be allowed not exceeding 2d. in the pound on 
 moneys received, and exact accounts were to be delivered to the 
 committees quarterly. 
 
 While the local commissioners were l^usy with their seizures and 
 sequestrations, Newcastle was stormed and taken by the Scots. A 
 new area of confiscation was thereby opened out and much difficulty 
 was experienced in dealing with the property seized. There were 
 royalists to be punished, and " well-affected ' persons to be protected, 
 and the victors had taken, as lawful prize, ships belonging to both 
 parties. Negotiations followed, and on November 14, a month after 
 the town had fallen, the Scots sent the following letter to the House 
 of Commons : — 
 
 Whereas the Committee of the Estates of Scotland, and the 
 Lord General his Excellency, have declared the ships which 
 were lying in the river of Tyne upon the 11th October last 
 
 very great aifection and fidelity to the Parliament : And it is referred to Sir 
 Henr^' Vane, sen., and to Mr. Blakiston, to make provision of the said 200/. 
 to be sent to Sir Wm. Armyne and the rest of the Committee at Sunderland 
 to be given to those well affected mariners as a gratuity." Four months later 
 the money had not been paid, for on October 31 the House ordered that goods 
 discovered by F. Webb of London, merchant, should be examined, and if 
 found forfeitable to the State, one moiety of the vahie should be retained by 
 Webb for arms supplied, and the other moiety shoukl be appropriated, under 
 Mr. Blakiston's diiection, in discharging all the "200/. assigned to the Sunder- 
 hind mariners, and then in paying the charge of sending godly ministers into 
 the bishopric, the county of Northumlierland, and the towns of Newcastle and 
 Berwick, and one or two other iterris of expenditure.
 
 INTRODUCTION. XIX 
 
 to be Prize, and ordained the same to be sold for the use of 
 the army : And being now informed that many of the said 
 ships do belong- unto persons well affected unto the Parliament 
 of England and common cause of both kingdoms ; and being 
 very willing to use all such persons with all brotherly love and 
 respect ; they are content to dispense with their right unto 
 the ships of any such persons, and do hereby desire the Com- 
 missioners of both Houses of Parliament to take trial and to 
 testify under their hands which of the said ships do belong 
 to any of the well-affected persons . . . And the said 
 Committee and Lord General, upon production of the said cer- 
 tificate will dispose upon the said ships as the said English 
 Commissioners shall desire. 
 
 Read at a sitting of the Commons on December 5, 16-1-1, this 
 letter was joyfully approved, and the House, ' not doubting but the 
 keels of persons well affected are intended as well as the ships,' 
 passed a vote of thanks to the Committee and Lord Leven for their 
 brotherly respects and affections. 
 
 Having in this manner obtained restitution for their friends in 
 Newcastle, the House proceeded to deal with opponents there. 
 First of all they appointed as a special Sequestration Committee 
 for the town, John Blakiston, Henry A¥armouth, Henry Dawson, 
 John Cosins, Edward Man, Edward Wood, William Dawson, Ralph 
 Fewler, George Dawson, George Fenwick, Thomas Ledgard, Robert 
 Ellison, Christopher Nicholson and Thomas Bonner. All these men 
 were prominent citizens, and most of them were past, present, or 
 future aldermen, sheriffs, mayors, and Parliamentary representatives 
 of Newcastle. 
 
 The House then gave instructions for the preparation of an 
 ordinance for removing, disabling and disfranchising the royalist 
 defenders of the town. In the Commons the ordinance passed 
 without much trouble, but it was not until May 26, 1645, that, after 
 many adjournments and apparently with considerable reluctance, 
 the House of Lords concurred and allowed the ordinance to he 
 formally promulgated as a decree of Parliament. 
 
 Meanwhile, on January i, 1645, summoning to their aid the 
 Committee for Compounding, Parliament ordered that the officers or 
 agents of that Committee at Sunderland, Newcastle and the creeks 
 a,nd harbours thereto belonging, should regulate and manage the 
 coals and collieries of delinquents, receive the profits arising there- 
 from and from exportation of coals coastwise and foreign, and pay 
 over to the treasurer of the Scots army all such profits for four 
 months, and longer if so ordered. The Committee were to take care 
 that the business should he managed with consideration towards 
 the well-affected inhabitants and the good of the Corporatiiin.* 
 
 * Under date June 9, 1645, is an entry in the ./onnin's that the House 
 recommended the Committee at (ioldsmiths' Hall to confer with the Scots
 
 XX INTRODUCTION. 
 
 bearing in mind also the debts and engagements incurred under the 
 ordinance of June 5, 1643, for the reducing of Newcastle, and 
 having special care of the pressing debts due to mariners. 
 
 Again, on the 20th of the same month, after considering letters 
 from Sir William Armyne and Robert Fenwick, with propositions 
 signed by Edward Man and Robert Ellison concerning the manage- 
 ment of delinquents' collieries, it was ordered that both letters and 
 proposals should be referred to the Committee of both kingdoms 
 to treat with the writers and ' settle the measure of coals at Sunder- 
 land and at Newcastle the price of coals there, and for giving an 
 oath to the fillers, staithmen and owners of coals as well as to the 
 masters of ships there.' No delinquent was to be employed in the 
 trade of the Newcastle collieries and strict account was to be taken 
 ' of what coals or other goods of delinquents had been taken away 
 and by whom.' Only a week earlier Mr. Blakiston had declared to 
 the Goldsmiths' Hall Committee that since the taking of Newcastle 
 ' the malignant delinquents ' there had sold, or had in their hands, 
 40.000/. worth of coals. 
 
 Before the autumn of 1645, no definite rules for the guidance of the 
 Committee for Compounding had been formulated by Parliament. 
 The instructions given from time to time, as occasion offered or 
 necessity compelled, had been expressed in somewhat general terms, 
 and no proper provision was made for delinquents who might desire 
 to negotiate amicably. Thus, on September 13, 1644, the Commons 
 gave general authority to the Committee to compound with delin- 
 quents in order to raise 15,000Z. for Lord Fairfax's army. In 
 November following directions were given that the names of persons 
 ' fit to compound for their delinquency ' should be reported to the 
 Committee for the purpose of raising 4,500/. On the 9th of 
 March, 1645, the Committee at their own request, were authorised 
 ' to receive, treat and compound with whatsoever delinquents shall 
 immediately tender themselves to be compounded withal,' first, 
 however, representing to Parliament the compositions made, or 
 fines set, ' before anything be concluded.' The obvious meaning is, 
 that the Committee were to arrange the terms and then seek 
 Parliamentary approval. But, on August 12 following, the Commons 
 passed a couple of resolutions which prescribed, for the first time, 
 the conditions under which voluntary compoundings might be taken 
 and settled by the Committee themselves : — 
 
 That the Committee at Goldsmiths' Hall shall compound with 
 none at less than two years' value, according to the true value 
 of his estate before these troubles began. 
 
 Commissioners and the Committee of the Northern Association ' for the 
 granting and speedy appointing 500 tons of the delinquents' coals to the mayoi* 
 and town of Newcastle for the relief of the poor and infected, and the repair 
 of the walls, bridges, keys, river, harbour, or haven, and for other necessaries 
 for the benefit of the said town.'
 
 INTRODUCTION. ^ XXI 
 
 That the party that shall desire to compound shall, from 
 the committees of the several counties where his estate lies, 
 bring certificates* of the value of his estate, and that he shall 
 be restored to no more than the value of the estate he brings 
 certificates for. 
 
 Having once begun to make rules for compounding, the Commons 
 found it easy to continue the process. Their next move was to take 
 away the fifths previously allowed to wives and children. The 
 ground of withdrawal was a fear that ' divers wives and children of 
 delinquents may resort hither only to obtain the said fifth part, 
 and may be ready to do ill offices to the Parliament.' 
 
 The ordinance withdrawing fifths was issued on September 8, 
 1645, and on October 4, another regulation came out which provided 
 that those who offered to compound for their delinquencies should 
 be allowed to do so upon the terms projjosed to the king by both 
 kingdoms as the basis of a safe and well grounded peace. These 
 were that one-third of the estates of forty-eight persons named 
 therein (one of whom was Sir Thomas Liddell, the elder, of New- 
 castle) and of sundry others, designated generally as members of 
 the lower house, lawyers, clergymen, etc., who had deserted the 
 service of Parliament and adhered to the enemies thereof, should 
 be forfeited for payment of public debt and damages caused by the 
 war, and that all other delinquents should forfeit one-tenth of the 
 value of their jjroperty, the proceeds to be devoted to the same 
 object. In case these proportions should prove inadequate to the 
 satisfying of national needs, power was given to increase the pro- 
 jDortions to one-half and one-sixth respectively. Common soldiers 
 and other persons who, in land or goods iii England were not worth 
 200/., and in Scotland 100/., were to receive their discharge.! 
 
 The next order of the House of Commons prohibited settlements 
 with any other body than the Committee for compounding, and, 
 by inference, at any other place than Goldsmiths' Hall. The order 
 was agreed to at the sitting of the House on October 18 (a fortnight 
 later than the regulation above quoted), and reads as follows: — 
 
 That all compositions for the discharge of the delinquencies 
 of any persons, and for the taking off their sequestrations, 
 shall be made with the Committee of Goldsmiths' Hall : and 
 that no other Committee do compound with any delinquent 
 without the special directions of this House. 
 
 * The provision of a county certificate proved inconvenient owing to the 
 number of counties in which wealthy royalists held or owned lands, and on 
 December 6, 1645, that portion of the order was revoked. 
 
 t During the following spring these propositions were amended and 
 enlarged, and on March 23, 1646, the Commons ordered compounding to be 
 based upon the new regulations. As presented to the king at Newcastle in 
 July, 1646, the proportions of value to be forfeited varied from a tenth to two- 
 thirds. Full details may be seen in Rushworth, Hist. Coll. pt. iv. vol. i. p. 313.
 
 XXll INTRODUCTION. 
 
 By this sweeping declaration of Parliament the Committee for 
 Compounding became one of the most powerful and certainly one of 
 the most important of the Committees by which the business of the 
 nation was conducted. 
 
 With the object of hastening supplies, delinquents who surren- 
 dered before December 1, (1645) were to compound before January' 
 1, (164G), in London, and before Febi^uary 1 in the country. In 
 cases of compounding both in Durham and Northumbei'land, willing- 
 ness to treat before that date was frequently pleaded in compounder's 
 favour. Many local delinquents hastened to obtain settlements 
 within the prescribed time, and, during the months of November 
 and December [pp. 60, 61], Sir Henry Vane and the Durham County 
 Committee dealt with no fewer than thirty-seven cases. 
 
 Regulations relating to pardon and restitution came before the 
 Commons on February 23, 1646, and an ordinance authorising the 
 issue of pardons and the terms thereof (in which the Lords con- 
 curred on April 7) was passed in these words: — 
 
 Whereas A.B. of C. in the county of D. hath Ijy both Houses 
 of Parliament been admitted to his Fine of for that 
 
 he hath been in arms against the Parliament : The Lords and 
 Commons assembled in Parliament do hereby authorize and 
 appoint the Commissioners of the Great Seal of England to pass 
 a Pardon for the said A.B. in usual form, agreed by both 
 Houses and according to this ordinance, with a grant and restitu- 
 tion of his lands, goods and chattels and other estate for which 
 the said tine was accepted, according to the particular thereof 
 made and entered with the Committee at Goldsmiths' Hall, 
 and of all mean profits from the day of ; with an 
 
 exception of the right or estate of the said A.B. in or to all 
 advowsons, presentations and right of patronage to any church 
 or chapel. . . . Provided always that this ordinance and 
 the said pardon thereon to be passed shall not extend to free 
 the said A.B. from a further composition for any other lands, 
 goods or chattels than what are contained in the particular 
 aforesaid : And that, in case the said lands mentioned in the 
 said particular were of greater yearly values than are therein 
 expressed, during three years before the year of our Lord 1640, 
 then the said A.B. shall pay such further fine by way of com- 
 position for the same as both Houses of Parliament shall appoint. 
 
 On June 1, that year, the Commons ordered that previous to 
 compounding, delinquents should subscribe to the National League 
 and Covenant and take the Negative Oath, or Oath of Abjuration, 
 and a few days later they gave the Committee for Compounding 
 power to administer the oath.* 
 
 * Copies of the Solemn League and Covenant, the Oath of Abjuration and 
 the form of Pardon herein mentioned, are printed in the Appendix.
 
 INTRODUCTION. XXIU 
 
 Although the money raised by compositions was chiefly devoted 
 to supplying the sinews of war, appropriations to other objects 
 frequently occurred. Having on July 4, 1646, voted an advance of 
 10,000/. to the forces in Yorkshire, Durham, Northumberland, 
 Cuml)erland and Westmorland, to be charged upon the compositions 
 made with delinquents at Goldsmiths' Hall, the House of Commons 
 before the month was out, sanctioned two payments relating to 
 the Northern counties which are of more than passing interest : — 
 
 1646. July 8. Ordered by the Commons assembled in Parlia- 
 ment : That out of the first moneys that shall be paid in to the 
 Committee at Goldsmiths Hall bv Sir John Mennes [pp. 285- 
 287], Sir Francis Anderson [p. 104] and Mi-. Ralph Cole [p. 164], 
 for their fines or compositions, the said Committee do pay unto 
 Sir Arthur Haslerigg, Ijaronet, a member of this House, the sum 
 of 6,663/. 16.5. 7d. in full of all sums of money due or claimed 
 to l3e due by the said Sir Arthur Haslerigg, for any sendee 
 t(i the Parliament, or otherwise respited upon the public faith 
 and certified by the Committee of Accounts, May 6, 1646, and 
 allowed of this day by this House. And it is further ordered that 
 in case the fines and compositions of the said Sir John Mennes, 
 Sir Francis Anderson and Ralph Cole, not yet paid in shall 
 not satisfy the said sum of 6,663/. 16.«. 7cl. to the said Sir 
 Arthur Haslerigg, that then what shall be wanting thereof 
 shall be paid to the said Sir Arthur out of the fines or com- 
 positions of any such other delinquent or delinquents which 
 have not compounded, as shall l)e named and presented to the 
 said Committee by the said Sir Arthur Haslerigg.* 
 
 1646. July 22. Similar order for payment of 500/. out of 
 the fines of Gilbert Swinhoe and James Ogle [pp. 301-2] to 
 Sir Thomas Widdrington and Mr. Scawen, the members for 
 Berwick to 1)e employed in repairing the bridge and walls of 
 that town, ' much i-uinated by the violence of the sea and by 
 ■ the great icef last winter.' 
 
 Out of composition money came, also, the cost of sending a 
 Parliamentary deputation, with clergy and attendants, to obtain 
 the transference of the cajDtive king from the hands of the Scots 
 in Newcastle. The House of Commons made an order on January 7, 
 1647. that the Committee at Goldsmiths' Hall should advance 
 2,500/. to the ' Committee of Lords and Commons appointed to go 
 to Newcastle to receive the person of the king, upon account towards 
 
 * The Committee at Goldsmiths' Hall adopted the order on July lo, 
 inserting the names of Sir Christopher Hattoii and .John Lynn of Southwick, 
 Northamptonshire, gent., as those of delinquents whose estates should provide 
 the Vialance. The order was repeated on August 20, but the names of Sir 
 Rowland Berkley, Sir Nicholas Wharton and Sir Edward Thomas are substituted 
 for those of Hatton and Lynn. 
 
 + In the Calendar i. 42, the word ' ice ' is printed ' fii'e. '
 
 XXIV INTRODUCTION. 
 
 the defraying the charge and expenses of the said Couimittee in that 
 service, and likewise of the ministers desired to go with them.' 
 
 The excitement and disturbance caused by the Civil War made it 
 difficult for the Compounding Committee and their subordinate 
 agencies throughout the kingdom to effect settlements with com- 
 pounders and satisfy the pressing needs of the Treasury. Some 
 estates were loaded with charges — annuities, bonds, mortgages, 
 tithes, judgments for debts, etc. — or hampered by leases and agree- 
 ments which could not be dealt with offhand, but required time and 
 consideration. Parliament, in urgent want of funds, was continually 
 applying the stimulus of resolution and ordinance ; the Committee 
 for Compounding, at their wits' end for excuses, adopted every now 
 and then, sharp and summary methods with delinquents. Still, the 
 business of providing supplies from compositions made but slow 
 progress. So slow, indeed, that on October 29, 1646, the House of 
 Commons appointed a strong committee, of which Sir Arthur Hasle- 
 rigg was a member, to sit day by day for the purpose of stirring up 
 the county committees, in whose hands, they fancied, delays 
 originated. At the same time they directed the Committee for Com- 
 pounding to consider of some expeditious and fitting way of quicken- 
 ing compositions, ' and of removing the obstructions that are in that 
 business, and settling it in such a. way as may be most effectual for 
 the speedy bringing in the moneys upon delinquents' compositions 
 to the best advantage of the kingdom.' 
 
 Pressed by the Commons, the County Committees put fresh 
 pressure upon delinquents, and grave complaints went up to Parlia- 
 ment, particularly to the upjier House, of their harsh and incon- 
 siderate conduct. The Peers sympathised with complainants, and 
 proposed to abolish district committees. To that proposal the 
 Commons turned a deaf ear. Persisting in their refusal to consider, 
 or rather, perhaps, quietly ignoring, the recommendations of the 
 Lords, they were considerably alarmed on February 1, 1647, by a 
 declaration of the Peers against the Committee for Compounding 
 itself. Thus it ran: — 
 
 Whereas divers delinquents have formerly and still do address 
 themselves unto some persons sitting at Goldsmiths' Hall, and 
 they have a.nd do daily enter into agreements for the taking 
 off such sequestrations as are duly laid upon them by ordinance 
 of Parliament : The Lords ii:i Parliament do declare that all such 
 compositions made by those persons sitting at Goldsmiths' Hall 
 with such as are under delinquency are not authorised by any 
 ordinance of Parliament, and that the Committees for Seques- 
 trations within the several counties of England and Dominion 
 of Wales ought not to obey any order from the persons sitting 
 at Goldsmiths' Hall for the taking off or suspending any seques- 
 trations upon the, pretence of the delinquent having made his 
 composition with them, until such time as a committee or com-
 
 INTRODUCTION. XXV 
 
 missioners to that purpose be settled by ordinance of Parlia- 
 ment, and the composition made with such committee or com- 
 missioners be likewise ratified by ordinance of Parliament. 
 
 Next day the startled and doubting Commons sent a deputation 
 post haste to the upper House to compare the declaration with the 
 original entry, and finding that it was genuine, appointed a com- 
 mittee to consider all the ordinances relating to sequestrations and 
 how far the Lords had concurred in them, with instructions to meet 
 that afternoon and ' report to-morrow morning, first business.' The 
 Committee carried out their instructions to the letter, and presented 
 a report which occupies nearly two pages of the Journals. Within 
 a week, the Committee for Compounding was reorganised. Fifteen 
 members of the upper and forty members of the lower House, includ- 
 ing Sir Arthur Haslerigg and John Blakiston, were appointed to 
 carry out the ordinances for compounding, with power to suspend 
 sequestrations of those who paid a moiety of their fine and who, 
 within six weeks after composition, paid the remainder and sued 
 forth their pardon. Thus an episode which threatened to create a 
 serious breach between the two branches of the Legislature, came 
 to an end, and the work of sequestering, fining and compounding 
 went merrily on as before. 
 
 Still the Lords were not satisfied. On April 9 they revived the 
 proposal to abolish the county committees, ' in regard of the great 
 cries that come to their ears from all parts of the kingdom, where 
 divers persons lie under very great pressures by reason of the 
 partiality and injustice that is used by those Committees, the hope 
 of being delivered from which hath been one of the chiefest motives 
 for the engaging of their lives and fortunes in this dangerous and 
 expensive war.' Still the Commons remained obdurate. 
 
 Among the various appropriations of money obtained from com- 
 pounders at this time was one relating to the re-imbursement of 
 the adventurers under the ordinance of June 5, 1643, for the reduc- 
 ing of Newcastle. On April 13, 1647, by authority of both Houses, 
 an order was issued directing that those who lent a sum of 
 6,368^. l.s. Id. for the reducing of Newcastle and were not yet 
 reimbursed, should be paid, with interest at 8 per cent. ' out of the 
 receipts of fines and compositions of delinquents, made and to be 
 made at Goldsmiths' Hall.' 
 
 Towards the end of the year further payments out of delinquents' 
 ■estates were required to meet the cost of the war in Northimiberland. 
 On November 15, 1647, the Commons received a petition from the 
 Mayor and burgesses of Newcastle desiring relief in respect of their 
 suffering by billet and the free-quartering of soldiers upon them ; 
 while on Christmas Day that petition, and a humble remonstrance 
 presented previously by the justices and gi-and jury of Northumber- 
 land assembled at Morpeth sessions, were taken into serious con- 
 sideration. The House referred the petition to the Committee of 
 the Army, and then ordered first, that special care should be taken
 
 XXVI INTRODUCTION. 
 
 for the speedy supply and full provision of the garrisons of New- 
 castle and Tynemouth with food, ammunition and constant pay ; 
 secondly, that account should be promptly given of moneys received 
 and disposed of for the two garrisons, whether from the Customs, 
 Excise, sale of victuals, or otherwise ; and thirdly, that accounts of 
 free-quarter taken by the forces in the garrisons of Newcastle, 
 Gateshead, and Tynemouth, since the removal of the Scots, should be 
 stated, and that the inhabitants of those places should have the public 
 faith of the kingdom for repayment of the sums found to be due 
 to them. 
 
 On the same day they passed an ordinance in relief of local 
 buidens imposed by the war, which, on January 1, 1648, the House 
 of Lords adopted without alteration, as follows: — 
 
 Ordered by the Lords and Commons assembled in Parlia- 
 ment, that the sequestrations of the lands and estates of 
 delinquents in the county of Northumberland, and ... in 
 the county of Newcastle-upon-Tyne respectively, be gTanted to 
 the said respective counties, and received and detained in the 
 hands of their respective sequestrators of the said counties, 
 and disposed of, upon account, by the commissioners named in 
 the ordinance for the monthly assessments of sixty thousand 
 pounds, who are likewise by former order made committees of 
 sequestrations in the said respective counties, towards the satis- 
 faction of those public engagements and debts due unto the said 
 respective counties by Act of Parliament or otherwise. 
 
 The main object of this and of all similar ordinances was ta 
 revive, renew and stimulate the interest of local Committees in giving 
 speed}'^ relief to financial stress at head-quarters. Parliament com- 
 plained of delays at Goldsmiths' Hall : the Committee there blamed 
 the local commissioners ; the local men passed on the blame to the 
 compounders [p. 40]. If only delinquents would come forward 
 willingly, disclose their means, joay their fines, and obtain pardon, 
 money would flow in, and the Treasury would be satisfied. But 
 compounders were shy, reluctant, hesitating, dilatory. Dilatoriness,. 
 indeed, was an ever-present source of trouble, and to dilatoriness 
 were frequently added concealment and evasion. To check the 
 practice of deception. Parliament devised a notable system of creat- 
 ing spies and informers and rewarding them for their services. 
 On June 13, 1648, the Lords concurred in a resolution of the 
 Commons and jjublished it as a declaration of both Houses that when 
 discoveries should be made of persons who compounded at under 
 values, ' delivering in particulars of under rates, or omitting any 
 pai'ticulars of their estates,' the Committee for Compounding should 
 exact a full moiety of such undervalued properties, and that ' twelve 
 pence in the pound of so much as comes to the State by such dis- 
 covery ' should be allowed to ' all such persons as shall make the 
 discovery.'
 
 INTRODUCTION. XXVU 
 
 Still further to encourage local effort in compounding, the 
 Commons, on January 8, 1619, (having a few minutes earlier 
 created a high court of justice for the trial of the king) adopted 
 an ordinance in the following words : — 
 
 An Ordinance that from the 28th of November last past, all 
 sequestrations of all delinquents and the fines and compositions 
 of new delinquents, and the fines and compositions of old 
 delinquents for their new delinquency within the counties of 
 Northumberland, Cumberland, Westmorland and Durham, the 
 town and county of Newcastle-upon-Tyne and the town of 
 Berwick-upon-Tweed be disposed of for disbanding the late 
 raised forces in the said resiDective counties and places was 
 this day read the first and second time, and upon the question, 
 committed to the gentlemen of the Northern Counties with 
 power to bring in names of commissioners to be added in the 
 said ordinance.* 
 
 The ' gentlemen of the Northern Counties,' through Serjeant 
 (Sir Thomas) Widdrington, sent in one or two amendments, and on 
 March 2, 1649, they were accepted by the House of Commons sitting 
 as the sui3reme authority of the nation under the name of the 
 Parliament of the Commonwealth. The king was dead ; the Lords 
 had ceased to assemble since the 6th of the preceding month ; the 
 Long Parliament (i.e., about 100 members of it) was King, Lords 
 and Commons in one. 
 
 Delinquents in the Northern Counties were now able to arrange 
 their compositions with local authorities upon the spot, or at any 
 rate within easy access of their domiciles, instead of making costly 
 journeys to London and cooling their heels in the frigid shades of 
 Goldsmiths' Hall. Thus arose a Northern Committee for Compound- 
 ing to which was given extensive authority, e.g., the power of making 
 final settlements with compounders and of issuing warrants for pay- 
 ment of money arising therefrom. Twenty-five cases in Durham 
 [p. 4:4] and the same number in Northumberland [p. 78] were 
 adjusted before the year was out. Of this committee Thomas 
 Ledgard, alderman of Newcastle and Mayor in the municipal year 
 1647-48, was treasurer, and payments made to him and for what 
 purpose [pp. 91-9.3] are duly recorded. 
 
 The king being dead, without having sanctioned the propositions 
 made to him respecting delinquents (upon which, however. Parlia- 
 ment had acted all along), it was considered desirable to formulate 
 special rules for compounding throughout the country. The 
 matter was referred to a connnittee of which Sir Arthur Haslcrigg 
 
 * The term ' Ordinance ' was superseded on January 16, wliile tliis matter 
 was under discussion, bj' that of 'Act of Parliament." The fii'st measure so 
 named was headed ' An Act of the Commons in Parliament assembled toucliing 
 the Regulating of the Officers of tlie Navy and Customs.' — .foiirnals, \\. C., 
 Jan. 16, 1648.
 
 XXVJll INTRODUCTION. 
 
 was the head, and during March and April, 16-i9, reports of pro- 
 gress in the making of new regulations were submitted to the 
 Connnons. So far as can be gathered from the voluminous par- 
 ticulars which appear in the Journals the rules, as finally accepted, 
 were as follows : — - 
 
 'Certain persons, of whom Sir Wm. Widdrington was one, to 
 be banished for life and their estates to be confiscated. 
 
 All other delinquents might compound before May 3, if 
 within the realm, and before June 1, if beyond seas, upon 
 submitting to their tines, paying one half (and giving security 
 for paying the remainder at three months) within six weeks 
 from the respective dates of filing their petitions. 
 
 Rents and profits of sequestered estates growing due at Lady 
 Day to be retained in tenants' hands till June 1. 
 
 Estates of those who neglect to compound within the specified 
 times to be confiscated. 
 
 Delinquents formerly excepted from pardon, and now admitted 
 to composition, to pay one full moiety of their estates. 
 
 Members of Parliament, judges, law ofiicers, clergy, masters 
 and fellows of colleges, masters of schools and hospitals to pay 
 one full third. Other delinquents to pay one full sixth. 
 
 Persons, not sequestered, who might consider themselves liable 
 as delinquents in the first war, but were not personally engaged 
 in the later war,* to submit their case before July 1 ; if found 
 liable, to pay one year's value for land and a twentieth of 
 personal estate. 
 
 Comjjounders who had concealed or undervalued before, upon 
 making discovery before June 1, to be admitted at previous 
 rates ; otherwise to suft'er forfeiture. 
 
 Persons engaged in the later and not the former war, to pay 
 a sixth, and if already compounded to pay that sixth over and 
 above former fines. 
 
 Delinquents whose sequestrations had not been taken off to 
 be exempt from fifths or twentieths if they compounded within 
 the specified dates. 
 
 Further rules adoiited by the House, April 9, were to the 
 following effect : — 
 
 Compounders at a third to pay it upon (a) personal estate 
 and chattels : but (h) estates of inheritance, and (c) estates for 
 life settled upon compounder, with remainders in tail contain- 
 ing revocation clauses, also (d) estates so settled by com- 
 l^ounder himself, since 1641, to pay five years' full value. 
 Estates settled hona fide before 1641, (e) without power of 
 
 * The ' later ' or second war was the revival of hostilities by the Diike of 
 Hamilton and Sir Marmaduke Langdale in the spring of 1648. The first war 
 ended with the surrender of Oxford, June 20, 1646.
 
 INTRODUCTION. XXIX 
 
 alienation, to pay three full years' value, and estates so settled 
 (/") for life without jjower of reversion to pay two and a half 
 years' value. 
 
 Compounders at a sixth were to pay as above upon (a) ; but 
 upon (6), (c) and (d) three years', upon (e) two and a half 
 years' and upon (f) two years' value. 
 
 Still the money did not come in. Goad and spur were freely 
 employed, but the Compounding Committee could not move faster. 
 By the end of the year (1649) it became evident that further 
 devolutions of authority from the central office must be made, or 
 the Committee itself must be reconstructed. Parliament chose the 
 latter alternative. Upon New Year's Day (March 25), 1650, it 
 was resolved ' that the several powers now in the Committee of Gold- 
 smiths' Hall be transferred to })ersons who are not members of this 
 House ; that the number of such persons be seven and that Sir 
 Arthur Haslerigg and Mr. Salwey nominate seven fit persons to give 
 their sei-vices upon payment of 300Z. each per annum.' Sir Arthur 
 brought in the bill on March 27 and on April 9 he submitted names 
 of seven commissioners, all which were duly approved, and on 
 April 15 the bill became law. 
 
 While the reconstruction bill was under consideration Parliament 
 discussed another measure which had for its object the ' ordering 
 managing and letting the estates of papists and delinquents 
 sequestered.' This bill passed on January 25, 1650. Under its 
 operation all the old committees in the provinces were relieved of 
 their functions, and new committees were appointed by the Com- 
 mittee for Compounding in their place. 
 
 These new committees were to take over the books and documents 
 of the retiring officials ; to sequester the estates of papists in arms 
 and all other delinquents, and two-thirds of the estates of other 
 papists, and let them for not more than seven years to the highest 
 bidder ; to take in charge all deeds and writings of delinquents and 
 recusants ; to allow one fifth value of the estates to wives and 
 children, and after deducting twelve pence in the pound for their 
 own services, transmit the balance to London. 
 
 Transference of authoi'ity all over the country, so sweeping in 
 its character as that which this Act entailed, could not be effected 
 without friction. Retiring committees wanted their books and 
 papers for the completion of settlements and self defence ; the new 
 committees required them for knowledge of the past and guidance 
 in the future. Graphic descriptions of the difficulties which the 
 Act created in Durham and Northumberland lighten u]i the corres- 
 pondence pages which follow [pp. 46-51, 79-8.3]. So great was the 
 trouble involved that business came to a stand-still, and the process 
 of com})Ounding was practically suspended. Impatient at the delay, 
 the central authority came down upon the old committees with a
 
 XXX INTRODUCTION. 
 
 heavy hand. Each retiring county commissioner, or agent, whO' 
 neglected to deliver up his records promptly was fined 20/., with 
 an augmentation of penalty for further procrastination. 
 
 Having noted so far the growth of sequestration and composition 
 it is time to describe a concurrent process of obtaining funds. From 
 November, 164:2, a Committee for the Advance of Money had been 
 sitting at Haberdashers' Hall, borrowing, levying and assessing in 
 all directions. Every man Avho had an estate worth over 100/. a 
 year, and had not already contributed liberallj' to the Parliamentary 
 war chest, was liable to be assessed upon the assumed value of his 
 property. Those upon whom the levj fell were compelled to lend 
 a twentieth of their real and a fifth of their personal estate at 8 per 
 cent, interest, receiving the security of the public faith for repayment. 
 If the sum assessed was not paid within ten days the security of the 
 public faith was withdrawn and the property was lialile to be dis- 
 trained and sold, while if for any reason distraint could not be 
 effected, the defaulter might be arrested and detained till the 
 amount was paid. On the other hand mitigations were granted 
 upon good reason being shown, such as over valuation, heavy losses 
 through Royal troops, services rendered to Parliament, or inclusion 
 in Articles of War. 
 
 The Committee for the Advance of Money emulated the example 
 of the Coiiimittee for Compounding, and tx'ied to obtain information 
 by bribery. They offered to any informer who discovered property 
 concealed by delinquents, a fifth of its value, while officers and others 
 to whom Parliament owed money were promised a third, a half, and 
 sometimes the whole benefit accruing from discoveries made by 
 them to be applied in liquidation of their accounts [pp. 227-29]. 
 These temptations to lying natiu'ally led to many false accusations — 
 so many, indeed, that at length Parliament forbade the reception 
 of ' informations ' unless the informer obtained a personal recom- 
 mendation from an M.P., Avith the signature of the Speaker, and 
 gave a bond in 200/. to cany the case to an issue. 
 
 As time went on delinquents were drawn more and more into 
 the web woven by this assessing committee, and the process went 
 on until Goldsmiths' Hall and Haberdashers' Hall were getting to 
 loggerheads. Sir David Watkin, one of the Committee for Com- 
 jiounding, reported that these assessments obstructed settlements. 
 He pointed out that when delinquents' fines were set and secured at 
 (Toldsmiths' Hall, the parties were ' sent for to Haberdashers' to pay 
 their fifth and twentieth, to their utter ruin, and this makes them 
 forbear to compound.' Clashing interests were, however, recon- 
 ciled in April, 1650, Ij}- Avhat was practically an amalgamation of 
 these two great committees under the comprehensive title of Com- 
 mittee for Sequestration and Advance of Money and for Compounding 
 with Delinquents. 
 
 Vigorous efforts were put forth under the new regime to
 
 INTRODUCTION. XXXI 
 
 facilitate coinposition and replenish the gaping coffers of the 
 Commonwealth. On August 1, 1650, Parliament sanctioned 'An 
 Act concerning mortgages, extents and other incumbrances upon 
 delinquents' estates,' by which, upon delivering particulars before the 
 end of the month, mortgagees, etc., might compound for their own 
 interests in estates, and, obtaining discharge of that portion from 
 sequestration, prosecute their legal claim in the usual manner. A 
 week later (August 8), the House adopted a series of resolutions 
 from th'e Committee of the Army ' for the removal of obstructions 
 in the bringing in of money upon Sequestrations and Compositions,' 
 the last of which, extending facilities for bribery, offered a premium 
 of a fifth of all sums obtained by discoveries of property belonging 
 to delinquents to those who made the discoveries [p. 187]. 
 
 Discontent and disaffection produced by stringent and inquisi- 
 torial proceedings that ruined half the landed gentry of the country 
 and worried the other half beyond endurance, approached their 
 bursting point in the summer of 1651. In the autumn a bill was 
 brought in for granting a general pardon and oblivion and giving 
 discharges to all whose estates were not sequestered on December 1 
 in that year. The l)ill l^ecame law in February following. 
 
 Meanwhile the Government, pressed for money and determined 
 to make political opponents provide it, discussed at great length 
 bills directing the sale of estates for what was now called treason — 
 treason, that is, against the right divine, or otherwise, of the Long 
 Parliament. Into that net, which had small meshes and gave but 
 few chances, they drew those who had neglected or refused to com- 
 pound, or continued obstinate in delinquency and recusancy, or 
 declined to take the Oath of Abjuration, or committed some fresh 
 offence after compounding, or, indeed, took any step whatsoever 
 that could be construed into contumacy and afford pretext for con- 
 fiscation. These bills in due course became law and were called 
 ' Acts for the Sale of Lands and Estates forfeited to the Common- 
 wealth for Treason ' while those who, by authority of Parliament, 
 took possession of the properties and effected sales thereof were 
 popularly known as ' Treason Trustees.' 
 
 The first of these Acts was passed July 16, 1651. It went back 
 for nine years, that is to say it declared forfeit the estates of which 
 certain persons therein named were seised on May 20, 1642. North 
 ■country ' traitors ' named in the Act were these : — 
 
 Edward Grey, late of Chillingham, Northuml)erland. 
 Sir Thomas Haggerston, late of Haggerston, Northunibei-land. 
 Sir John Marlow [Marley], Newcastle-upon-Tyne. 
 Sir Thomas Riddle, late of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. 
 Sir Thomas Riddle, the younger, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. 
 Sir Richard Temjiest, late of Stella, county Durham. 
 Sir William Widdrington, late of Widdrington Castle, North- 
 umberland.
 
 XXXU INTRODUCTION. 
 
 Estates so seized were to be surveyed by sworn surveyors, and 
 the tenants, for thirty days after survey, were to have the option of 
 purchase. If they declined, the trustees might sell to anybody upon 
 certain terms. For example, lands in possession must realise ten 
 years' purchase, reversions of lands for one life, five years,' two lives, 
 three years' and three lives two years' purchase ; while lands on lease 
 for seven years must bring five and a half, fourteen years three and a 
 half, and twenty-one years two and a half years' purchase. 
 
 The second Act, passed on August 4, 1652, and dating back, as 
 before, to May 20, 1642, contained the names of: — 
 
 Henry Errington, Beaufi-ont, Northumberland. 
 Lancelot Errington, East Denton, Northumberland. 
 V Nicholas Errington, Ponteland, Northumberland. 
 John Forcer, Haberhouse, county Durham. 
 John Lawson, St. Anthony's, Northumberland. 
 Ralph Pudsey, Stapleton, county Durham. 
 Sir Edward Ratcliff, Dilston, Northumberland. 
 
 The third Act, jiassed November 18, 1652, was much more com- 
 prehensive in the number of its victims, but less stringent in the dis- 
 posal of property, for it enabled owners to compound at two- 
 sixths of the value of estates of inheritance (and proportionably 
 for all other estates) and one-third of the value of growing timber. 
 The composition was to be paid in two moieties, the second, six 
 months after the first, but if default were made in payment of the 
 second instalment, the first was to forfeited, and the sale to proceed. 
 Papist delinquents were treated with more rigour. AVhen they had 
 compounded and paid their compositions, they were, within a year 
 from the first payment, to sell their estates and leave the country. 
 If they remained, or having departed,^ returned, any propertj" they 
 possessed or acquired became ' liable unto the laws touching j)opish 
 recusants.' An exception was made, also, in the case of ' such of the 
 traitors in this Act named ' as had ' committed any act of treason 
 or rebellion since the 30th January, 1648.' They were not to enjoy 
 the benefit of compounding, but their estates were to be sold as 
 confiscate to the use of the Commonwealth, unless the Commissioners 
 for Compounding should certify that on December 1, 1651, they were 
 not under actual sequesti'ation, or, having been under sequestration, 
 had compounded for delinquency and received a discharge. Further, 
 all those persons named in the Act who, having already paid the 
 first moiety of fines for compositions, should pay the other half 
 by Februan,- 1, 1653, with damages for forbearance from the time 
 the same should have been paid at the rate of 8 per cent, before 
 the Statute, and 6 per cent, since, should be freed and discharged from 
 thenceforth of their delinquency, and enjoy their estates as fully and 
 amply as if their names had never appeared in the Act. 
 
 Local royalists who found themselves included in this third 
 measure of confiscation were the following: —
 
 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 XXXIU 
 
 _^ Jas. Ascough, MiddletonOue How. 
 
 George Bartrani, Elswick. 
 CZ Thomas Braithwait, Hurjjorth. 
 
 Anthony Buhner, Ketton. 
 
 Francis Carnaby, Togston. 
 
 Edward Charlton, Hesleside. 
 
 Ralph Coatsworth, Great Stainton. 
 
 Cuthbert Collingwood, Dalden. 
 
 Katherine Conyers [blank]. 
 
 Sh- John Clavering, Callaly. 
 
 Thomas Clavering, Learchild. 
 
 Robert Cramlington, Newsham. 
 
 Robert Dent, Biker. 
 
 Robert Emerson, Ludwell. 
 
 John Errington, Elton. 
 
 John Fenwick, Crookden. 
 
 Sir William Fenwick, Meldon. 
 
 Sir Wm. Fenwick, Scremerstoii. 
 
 Robert Fenwick, West Mason. 
 
 Thomas Fenwick, Prestwick. 
 
 William Fenwick, Blagden. 
 
 Ralph Gray, Trumblehill. 
 
 William Hall, Greencroft. 
 
 Richard Harrison, Overfriarside. 
 ii John Hilton, Hilton. 
 
 Sir Charles Howard, Plenmeller. 
 Sir Jno. Mennes, late of Winlaton.. 
 Ralph Millot, Mayland. 
 Thomas Ogle, Darras Hall. 
 William Power, Durham City. 
 Michael Pudsey,Middleton George- 
 Ralph Read, Chirton. 
 Musgi-ave Ridley, Wille- 
 
 montswick. 
 John Rodham, Little Houghton. 
 Thomas Rotherford, Rootchester. 
 Lancelot Salkeld, late of 
 
 Skirrainghani. 
 William Shei-aton, Elwick. 
 William Swinborn, Naflferton. 
 George Thirlwal, Rothbury. 
 Sir Nich. Thornton, Netherwitton. 
 Thomas Waterton, Carraw. 
 Sir Ed. Widdrington, Caxtington. 
 Henry Widdrington, Buteland. 
 Henry Widdrington, Ritton. 
 Ralph Widdrington, Colwell. 
 Thomas Winkle, Harnham. 
 George Wray, Lemonden. 
 Thomas Wray, Beamish. 
 
 7^ 
 
 Li many of these cases the estates were purchased from the 
 Treason Trustees by nominees of the owners, under arrangements 
 which are not disclosed. Most of them were transferred to John 
 Rushworth* and Gilbert Crouch. f 
 
 And thus the pressure, the strain and the struggle went on till 
 April 20, 1653. On that day Cromwell went down to the House 
 of Commons, turned out the members, locked the doors, and brought 
 the reign of the Long Parliament to a sudden end. 
 
 Soon after the elevation of Cromwell to the Protectorate the 
 whole system of dealing with delinquents was changed. Between 
 the sittings of his first and second parliaments, the Lord Protector 
 swept away the Compounding Committee as he had swept away the 
 
 * Jolm Rushworth, M.A., barrister of Lincoln's Inn, and author of the 
 famous Jlisforica/ Collections which bear his name, is described by Anthonj' 
 Wood as born about 1612 of genteel parents in the county of Northumberland. 
 He became clerk assistant in the House of Commons, 1640 ; accompanied 
 Fairfax in the campaigns of 1645, 1646 and 164S ; secretary to Cromwell, 
 1650 ; M.P. for Berwick, 1657, 1659, 1660, 1679 and 1681 ; secretary to Council 
 of State, 1660 ; secretary to the Lord Keeper, 1667, and died in 1690. Memoir 
 in Dirt. Nat. IHoy. 
 
 t Gilbert Crouch married a granddaughter of Rebecca Salvin [p. 329], and 
 was thus connected with leading families in the northern counties.
 
 XXXIV INTRODUCTION. 
 
 Government. Under the revived name of a Committee for Seques- 
 trations six persons were appointed in place of the dissolved com- 
 mittee. To them was given power to dispose as they pleased of 
 delinquents' estates, to dispossess or continue at their pleasure the 
 county committees and their agents, and to allow those who were 
 retained in the service twelve pence in the pound upon all moneys 
 sent by them to Goldsmiths' Hall. 
 
 Acting vinder these powers, the Committee for Sequestrations dis- 
 missed the county committees and appointed one or two represen- 
 tative men in each district to conduct the business [p. 71], giving 
 them the shilling poundage, but saddling them with the whole 
 cost of management. For the county of Durham they selected the 
 two most active members of the old body — ^Francis Wren and Thomas 
 Delaval. For the county of Northumberland they nominated the 
 former treasurer, Henry Horsley [p. 86], who, however, declined to 
 act, and George Fenwick took his place. For Newcastle they ap- 
 pointed William Johnson [p. 87]. 
 
 After the dissolution of the county committees the work of com- 
 pounding lagged. The proceedings of the sub-commissioners present 
 few features of interest and none of importance [pp. 72, 88]. An 
 insurrection in August, 1659, organised by a club of royalists in 
 London, and headed by Sir George Booth and Sir Thomas Middleton, 
 galvanised the old system into temporary activity, but the revival 
 was short and uneventful. Before the re-organised committees had 
 fairly started on a business footing, king and bishop were recalled 
 .and the rule of puritan and presbyter came to an end.
 
 PROCEEDINGS 
 
 OF THE 
 
 PARLIAMENTARY COMMISSIONERS 
 
 IN THE COUNTY OF DURHAM, 
 1644-1645. 
 
 (From a MS. in the Cathedral Library, Durham.) 
 
 Greetham, Aug. 20, 1644. 
 
 1. A warrant to the several petty constables of Sedgfield parish 
 to will and require them to give notice and warning to the inhabit- 
 ants of that parish, that they forbear the payment of any tithes or 
 rents within that parish to Joseph Naylor, D.D., parson of the said 
 parish, and to appear before us at Sedgfield upon Thursday next, 
 being the 22nd of this instant August. Sent by Robt. Dun, con- 
 stable of Greetham. 
 
 2. Ai-rears of rents due to the Lo. Lumley, delivered in to us by 
 Richd. Malam of Hart: — 26 farms, 78/.; Wm. Armestrong, 6?. Is.; 
 small farms in North Hart, \l. 3s. id. ; warren rent, 11. lOs. ; 19 
 landed cottages, il. 155.: Wm. Hirdman, for Hart mill, 21.; small 
 cottages, 2/. 17s. &d. ; 2 small cottages, 2s. 6c?. ; total, 97Z. 9s. id. 
 
 3. Letten unto Richd. Malam of Hart, yeoman, all the tithes of 
 corn and grain and all other tithes whatsoever belonging to the im- 
 propriation of Hart, which formerly have been demised and granted, 
 and also the tithe of the fishing of Hartlepool, rendering therefor 
 200Z. rent, payable monthly by equal portions, the first papiient 
 whereof to begin the first day of Oct. next. And it is agreed that 
 whatsoever sesses shall be laid on the said tithes for the service of 
 the King and Parlt. shall be allowed by the said Richd. Malam 
 in his rent. 
 
 1
 
 4. A warrant to the constables of Billingham parish and Woolves- 
 ton chapelry to give notice and warning to the inhabitants of the- 
 said parish who pay any tithes to appear before us at Rowland 
 Burdon's in Stockton upon Wednesday, Aug. 26. 
 
 5. Letten to John Kawlinge of the Close, in the parish of Elwick 
 Hall, the tithes of Newton Hansart and the Close within the parish 
 of Elwick Hall. Rent, 8/., viz., iOx. for prescription money for coru 
 and hay, and 6/. for petty tithes, payable monthly, the first payment 
 whereof to begin the first day of Oct. next. 
 
 6. For Bruntoft we have instructed Mr. Anthony Gibson and John 
 Rawling to gather the tithes and to lead and stack the corn and 
 hay, and they are to have allowance for their pains upon their 
 accounts. 
 
 7. Letten to Mr. Anthony Gibson his tithes of corn, hay, wool and 
 lamb, and all other tithes w^hatsoever of two farms of his in Bruntoft, 
 holden of the Dean and Chap, of Durham, from St. Andrew's Day 
 last past for a year. Rent, 6/., payable at St. Luke's Day next. 
 
 8. Letten to John Mainsfoorth of Woolveston, the tithes of a 
 quarter of a farm in Bruntoft, now in his occupation, for the rent 
 of lis., payable at St. Andrew's Day next, being the end of the term 
 of one year. 
 
 9. A warrant to the constable of Swainston, and to Henry Craggs,. 
 to seize upon 7 firkins of butter which were sold by Lieut. Col. John 
 Jackson to Capt. Gascoigne Eden, for the use of the garrison. 
 
 [Nos. 10 to 16 not entered.] 
 
 Stockton, Aug. 21, 1644. 
 
 17. Letten to Symond Harrison of Breerton, all the tithes of 
 hay, corn, wool, lamb, and all other tithes whatsoever belonging to 
 Stotfold, parish of Elwick, for the year ending May Day next, at the 
 rent of 20/., to be paid to us, or to whom we shall appoint, for the 
 use and benefit of the conmionwealth, by 3/. 6.s\ Sd. monthly, the 
 first payment whereof to begin Oct. 1, next. And the said Symond 
 Harrison is to have allowance in his rent for all sesses and taxes 
 imposed for the service of the King- and Parlt. 
 
 18. Letten to John Wardaile of Bruntoft, all tithes arising out of 
 his quarter of a farm at Bruntoft in Elwick parish. Rent, 15.v., by 
 2s. 6d. monthly ; first payment Oct. 1 next. 
 
 19. Letten to Jas. Rawlinge, all the tithes of Ranson's land and of 
 the lands allotted for payment of Mr. Chas. Elstobb's wife's portion 
 in Bruntoft, Avhich tithe was lately due to Dr. John Cosin. Rent, i3/., 
 by 16s. Sd. monthly. 
 
 20. Letten to Barnard Jackson of Bruntoft, all the tithes of the 
 half farm at Bruntoft. Rent, '29s., by 4.s\ [sic] monthly. 
 
 21. Mr. Anthony Gibson, Barnard Jackson and John Weardaile 
 are instructed by us for letting the two parts of Ammerston, belong- 
 ing to Lieut. Col. Jno. Jackson, to any person or persons whatsoever 
 who are willing to farm the same.
 
 22. Letten to Peter Finch, Edwd. Richardson and John William- 
 son of Woolveston, all the tithes of corn and grain within the town- 
 ship of Woolveston. Rent, 48/., by 81. monthly from Oct. 1 next. 
 
 23. Letten to Richd. Davison, Thos. Chapman, Thos. Shepheard, 
 Robt. Christofer, Thos. Ward, sen. and jun., Jno. Jeckell and Geo. 
 Markham, all tithes of corn and grain within the township of Billing- 
 ham. Rent, 62/., by 4/. 6s. 8d. monthly. 
 
 24. Letten to Wm. Marshall, Thos. Pickering, Anthony Burne, 
 and Symon Laurence, of Cowpon, all the tithes of that township 
 [parish of Billingham]. Rent, 28/., by 4/. L3s. id. monthly. 
 
 25. Bruntoft tOAvnship : — The land bought of Ranson, 46/. ; Mr. 
 Maxton's wife's jointure, farmed by Jas. Rawlinge, sequestrable, 
 100/. ; the land for the children's portions, 63/. 6s. 8d. ; the Bankes, 
 belonging to Mr. Elstobb, being also part of the children's portions, 
 10/. Total, 219/. 6s. 8d. Jas. Rawlinge is to pay for the lands of 
 Ml'. Maxton's wife's jointure, 100/., and for part of the lands for Mr. 
 Chas. Elstobb's wife's portion, 43/. 6s. 8d., whereof he hath proved 
 that he hath paid in part 10/., remainder 33/. 6s. 8d. 
 
 26. Warrant to John Husband of Sunderland, gent., to demist, 
 let, collect, gather and receive all the glebe tithes, rents for tithes 
 and arrearages of rents within the parish of Eggscliff late belonging -' 
 to Dr. Basier,* late parson there. And also to take and seize into 
 his hands and custody, all the goods, chattels and personal estate, 
 
 as also the lands, tenements and hereditaments, rents, arrearages of 
 rents, revenues and profits of [blank] Sayer, late of Worsall, in the 
 CO. of York, esq., and of Col. John Errington, within the parish of 
 Eggscliff, Elton and Norton in this county, and to demise and let 
 the said lands and rents to the best benefit of the commonwealth 
 for this year to be ended at May Day next. And we do further 
 appoint and require George Featherston, gent., and Mark Hall to 
 be aiding and assisting to the said John Husband in the due execu- 
 tion hereof. 
 
 27. Letten to Mark Hall of Fishgarth, in the parish of Eggscliff, 
 the said house and gi'ound, called Fishgarth, and the tithes of the 
 closes and grounds there. Rent, 5/. 10s., viz., 5/. for the land 
 and 10s. for the tithes, to be paid bv 18s. id. monthly to begin 
 Oct. 1. 
 
 28. Letten to Mr. Rowland Burdon and his brother Robt. Bm'don, 
 
 all the tithes of Norton parish and cha})elry of Stockton, late belong- »/ 
 ing to Sir Edmd. Duncon, colonel. Rent, 160/., by 26/. 13s. id. 
 monthly. 
 
 * The remarkable career of Dr. Basire (prebendary of Durham, archdeacon 
 of Northumberland, and one of the chaplains extraordinary to Charles I.), his 
 imprisonment and escape from Stockton Castle, his expatriation, return to 
 England and resumption of duty at tTie Restoration, are recorded in the 
 Corj-espondence of Isaac Basire, D.D., etc., by W. N. Darnell. London, 
 Murray, 1831.
 
 [29.]* Warrants to the constables of the parish of Hvunvox'th (Mr. 
 Thomson is parson), Diusdaile (Mr. John Kand, parson). Middletou 
 George and Sockburne (Mr. Harrison), to warn all the inhabitants 
 of the said parishes who pay any tithes to the several parsons thereof, 
 to appear before us at Sadberge on Friday, Aug. 23, by eight of the 
 clock in the forenoon, where we intend, God willing, to meet for the 
 disposal of the said tithes. 
 
 Sedgfield, Aug. 22. 1644. 
 
 32. Sedgfield townshii? containeth 89 oxg., the tithes of 85 of 
 which oxg. was formerly letten at 24s. an oxg., 102/., besides John 
 Chipchase, his lamef oxg., 6s. ^d., and the tithes of Mr. Hen. 
 Blakiston's land, being 3 oxg. taken in kind. 
 
 33. Letten to Mr. John Johnson, Thos. Middleton, Ralph Mason, 
 and Robt. Johnson all the tithes of Sedgfield township. Rent, 50Z., 
 to be paid by 8/. 6s. ^d. monthly. 
 
 34. Letten to Richd. Turbett, his tithes of Bradbury. Rent, 8Z., 
 to be paid at Martinmas and Pentecost. Chris. Hixcson hath taken 
 his for the rent of 8?. at Martinmas. 
 
 The residue of Bradbury township had formerly taken their tithes 
 of Richd. Mason, Dr. Nailor's servant, for these rents following, viz., 
 Robt. Fawdon, 6Z. 13s. 4c/.; Wm. Browne, 3/. 13s. M.; Margt. 
 Davison, 1/. &s. Sd. ; Robt. Smyth, 11. 10s. ; John Harrison, 1/. 6s. 8d. ; 
 John Robinson, 3/. These rents were formerly paid, but now they 
 pay in kind. 
 
 35. But because they did not appear to farm their tithes of us, 
 we have made a warrant to Richd. Mason of Sedgfield, authorizing 
 him to demise, let, collect, gather and receive all the tithes of Brad- 
 bury, East Morton, and Old Acres, within the parish of Sedgfield, late 
 belonging to Dr. Nailor, rector of the said parish, and the said tithes 
 to preserve, husband and keep for the best benefit of the common- 
 wealth. And, also, the said Richd. Mason is appointed by us to 
 husband and win the hay of the glebe lands at Bradbury belonging to 
 the said parsonage. And we do hereby further will and require the 
 inhabitants of the said several townships to be aiding and assisting 
 the said Richd. Mason, with their draughts and wains, for the better 
 executing of this our deputation and authorizament. 
 
 36. Letten to Robt. Richardson all the tithes of Low Emelton. 
 Rent, 12Z. 
 
 37. The tithes of Hembleton Hall letten to Thos. Bullasee by Dr. 
 Naylor's servant, for 3/., payable at Martinmas. 
 
 38. Shotton tithes letten to Richd. Lyn for 3/. 10s.. payable 
 lis. 8d. monthly, besides a prescription of 5 nobles, of and for corn 
 and hay at Michaelmas. 
 
 * This paragraph is not numbered, and Nos. .30-31 are not entered in the MS. 
 
 t Apparently altered, in another ink, to 'lande. ' The meaning seems to 
 be that Chipchase held one oxgang, which, with the 85 and the .3, maile up 
 the 89.
 
 39. Letten to Wm. Davison and Ralph. Smyth, all the tithes of 
 Mordon for 20Z., payable 3/. 6s. 8d. monthly, besides a prescription 
 of 16s. at Michaelmas for hay paid per inhabitant. 
 
 40. Fishburne tithes letten to Thos. Read, Geo. Atkinson and 
 Jno. Widdifield for 24/., payable 4Z. monthly. 
 
 41. The tithes of Whinhouses letten to Lancelot Clarke and John 
 Hutchinson for 5/. 10s., payable 18s. id. monthly. 
 
 42. Butterwick tithes letten to Jno. Wilkinson, Jno. Rawling and 
 Symon Cowlin for 13/., payable 43s. id. monthly. 
 
 43. Letten to Wm. Law, for the use of Mr. Thos. Welfoot, all the 
 tithes of Foxton, Sedgfield parish, for 13/., payable 43s. id. monthly. 
 
 44. Letten to Robt. Roper of Trimdon, all the tithes of Mr. 
 Claxton's lands at Morton. Rent, 5/. 
 
 45. Mr. Frevile of Hardwick, hath farmed of us all the tithes of 
 Hardwick (except of hay and corn) for the rent of 4/. to be paid 
 monthly, and for the hay and corn he payeth a prescription, viz., 
 24s. at Michaelmas or St. Andrew's Day. 
 
 46. Letten to Peter Walker of Swainston, his tithes for 3/. and 
 prescription, 20s., payable at St. Andrew's Day next. 
 
 47. Letten to Wm. Law, for use of Mr. Thos. Welfoot, the tithes 
 of Little Newton. Rent, 26/. 13s. id. And he is to have the use of 
 the tithe barn at Cowpon. If the inhabitants of Little Newton desire 
 to have the tithes themselves they are to have them at the same 
 rate, to be paid by 88s. lOnd. monthly. 
 
 48. Warrant to Mr. John Johnson, John Harrison, Ralph Mason 
 and Hen. Steavenson to sequester and seize into their hands and 
 possession all the goods, chattels and personal estates of Jos. Naylor, 
 doctor of divinity, at Sedgfield, or elsewhere Avithin the county, and 
 the same to appraise, detain, and keep for the benefit of the common- 
 wealth, and to deliver a true particular and inventory thereof to us, 
 or whom we shall appoint, when they shall be thereunto required. 
 
 49. Warrants to the general constables of Grindon (parish of 
 Mlddleham), Pittlngton and Gilllgate parishes, and township of Shln- 
 cllflf, to summon and warn all the inhabitants of the said several 
 parishes and township, who are to pay any tithes to the late rector 
 thereof, that they appear before us at the dwelling house of John Hall, 
 vintner, in Durham, upon Saturday, the 24th of Aug. Inst., at 
 9 of the clock in the forenoon, where we intend, God willing, to meet 
 for the disposal of the said tithes. 
 
 50. Warrant to sequester the goods, chattels, and personal estate, 
 as also all the corn, hay and other profits belonging to Col. Cuth. 
 Conyers. late of Lay ton, esq., at Layton or elsewhere. 
 
 [51.] Warrant to Hen. Steavenson, Ralph Thompson and Jno. 
 Widdifield, authorizing and requiring them to sequester all goods, 
 chattels and estates, as well real as personal, of all papists within the 
 parish of Sedgfield [except those of Col. Conyers] and the same to 
 appraise, etc.
 
 Sadberge, Aug. 23, 1644. 
 
 [52.] Lawsoii's lands in Hurworth, late in the teniu"e and occu- 
 pation of Jas. Lawson, an infant, aged 16, deceased, is now 
 descended upon two co-heirs, viz., [blank] Braithwaite, in Westmor- 
 land, of full age, and [blank] Jennyson, son of Mr. Hen. Jennysou, 
 aged li or 15. [Blank] the mother of the said Jas. Lawson, deceased, 
 married since to Philip Dolman, is a papist. There is also 20/. p. 
 ann. issuing out of the said lands to an idiot. Matt. Elwood of 
 Hurworth, a 23apist, farmeth 50/. p. ann. of the same lands. 
 
 [53.] Robt. Wormeley of Hurworth, gent., a papist, is seised of 
 3 oxgangs of land in Hurworth, part whereof is mortgaged to Sir 
 John Litsher in Yorkshire, and part to Mr. [blank] Thompson, rector 
 of Hvu-worth. 
 
 [54.] Wm. Waitinge of Neesham, a papist, is seised of lands in 
 Neesham. 
 
 • [55.] Laurence Sayer of Worsall, in Yorkshire, seised of lands 
 'in Neesham worth 20/. p. ann. 
 
 [56.] Richd. Gresham, Francis Anderson, John Sympson, and 
 Chris. Thomjjson of Hurworth, and Anthony Steavenson, Edwd. 
 Preston, Edmond Chappyloe of Nesham are named sequestrators, 
 [warrant in terms of No 48] to seize, etc., the estates, etc., of [blank] 
 
 Braithwaite, L wife of Philip Dolman, he being a delinquent. 
 
 Laurence Sayer of Worsell, esq., and of Sir Fran. Howard, knight, 
 in Hurworth, Neesham, or elsewhere within the county, the same 
 of Matt. Elwood, Robt. Wormeley and Wm. Waitinge, papists. Mr. 
 Thompson is desired to send a note of the tenants' names and their 
 rents. The sequestrators are to have 14 days' time to return their 
 doings. 
 
 57. Warrant authorizing Major Hen. Lillnirne and Capt. Thos. 
 Lilburne to send several parties of horse of their regiment to Croft, 
 Yaram, Neesham and Peercebrigg, and there to stop and take all 
 goods and chattels of any delinquents or papists which shall happen 
 to be driven or carried away forth of this county into Yorkshire, 
 and the same to keep safely in their custody until order l)e given 
 them from us for the disposal thereof. 
 
 58. The tithes of Sockljurne are impropriate to Shirburne 
 Hospital. The corn tithes are leased to Dr. Bathurst for the rent 
 of 15/. IQs. 8d., payable to the master and brethren thereof at St. 
 Cuthbert's Day in harvest, and St. Cuthbert's Day in Lent. 
 
 59. Warrant to the constable of Haughton parish to take Hen. 
 Russell of Burtree house, parish of Haughton, and bring him before 
 us to be examined and answer a certain information made unto us 
 against him, concerning his delinquency. [It is for buying wool of 
 the master of Shirburne since the proclamation and restraint to 
 the contrary.] 
 
 60. Letten to Mr. Thos. Welfoot of Bishopton, all that farm lying 
 in Foxton, late in possession of Mr. Wm. Poore. Rent. 15/., by oOs. 
 monthlv.
 
 61. Names of such persons as have been in arms against the 
 King and Parlt., having lands within the parish of Middleton George, 
 viz. : — Mr. Jas. Ascough, a papist ; Mich. Pudsey of Pikton in York- 
 .shire ; Mr. John Killinghall ; John Sadler, papist ; Katherin Mainch- 
 foorth, widow, papist. The sequestrators' names for sequestrating the 
 estates of these persons are Mr. John Husband, John Wetherett, 
 Mark Hall, Richd. Wilkinson and Anthony Daile. These men have 
 a warrant for that purpose. 
 
 62. Warrant to Major Hen. Lilburne and Capt. Thos. Lilburne 
 to sequester the estate of Wm. Rowntree, late of Bishopton, being 
 now in arms against the King and Parlt. 
 
 63. Warrant to John Husband, Geo. Fetherston, John Wetherett, 
 Richd. Wilkinson, Wm. Wood, and Mark Hall to sequester the 
 
 ■estates, real and personal, of Lawrence Sayer of Yaram, esq., John 
 Errington the younger, esq.. Sir Francis Bowes of Newcastle, knight, 
 and Mich. Pemerton of Aislaby, gent., delinquents, within the. 
 parishes of Eggscliff, Norton, and Elton, or elsewhere within this 
 county. And also two parts of the estate, real and personal, of 
 [blank] Wytham, of Cliff in Yorkshire, a papist, lying in the jDarish 
 
 ■of Eggscliff, etc. 
 
 64. Letten to John Buck, gent., and John Harrison, the tithes of 
 SadOerge, parish of Haughton. Rent, IS/., by 3/. monthly. 
 
 65. Letten to Lancelot Lambe of Stillington, all tithes of corn 
 and grain in Little Stainton, and East and West Newbiggin, late 
 belonging to Col. Thos. Davison, within the parish of Bishopton. 
 
 -Rent, 9/., by 30.^\ monthly. 
 
 66. Warrant to Rowland Burdon of Stockton authorizing him to 
 •execute the oflfice of Bailiff of Stockton, which late belonged to Roger 
 
 Cane, deed. Dated Aug. 23, 1644. 
 
 67. Warrant against Robt. Smyth of Bradbury, blacksmith, for 
 refusing to be aiding and assisting to Hen. Steavenson and others 
 in the execution of our commands, in apprizing and sequestering of 
 palmists' goods in Sedgfield parish. 
 
 [Nos. 68, 69 and 70 not entered.] 
 
 Durham, Aug. 24, 1644. 
 
 71. Warrant to Anth. Emerson and Thos. Snowdon to sequester 
 all the tithes of Gilligate parish. Order to the inhabitants to pay 
 same, and to assist with their wains and draughts in the husbanding, 
 gathering, and keei:)ing of the same. 
 
 72. Letten to Jane Harper, widow, all the tithes of her grounds 
 •called Howes Close, Gilligate. Rent, lis. to be paid Monday after 
 
 Michaelmas next. 
 
 73. Letten to Giles Atkinson of Gilligate, the tithes of corn of 
 his garth in Gilligate. Rent, 2.'?. 6d., payable as in No. 72. 
 
 74. Letten to Thos. Snowdon, all his tithes of corn in Gilligate 
 parish. Rent, lO.s., payable as above.
 
 75. Letten to Raiph Steavenson, all his corn tithes in Gilligate-. 
 being in two garths. Rent, 2s. %d., payable as above. 
 
 [76.] The tithes of Bishoppmidlam are farmed by Mr. John Ward 
 of Midlani of Sir Chas. Cockin of [blank] in Northamptonshire for 
 the rent of 23/. 15.?. id., payable at Michaelmas and Lady Day. 
 Mr. Ward is enjoined by us not to pay his rent to any for the said 
 Sir Charles's use until the said Sir Chas. procure a certificate of 
 his good affection to the Parlt. Postea, eodem die, Mr. John Fairhaire 
 of Mainsforth, proved him to be a delinquent. 
 
 77. The names of papists having lands in Bishop Midlam parish, 
 viz., Wm. Eden of Whitten, Mr. [blank] Howard of Durham, Matt- 
 Smyth of Barmton, each a third of freehold lands in Corneforth, 
 late John Shawe's, deceased. All these three parts are farmed by 
 Robt. Widdowes of Corneforth for the rent of 50/. p. ann. TwO' 
 third parts of these lands are sequestered. 
 
 78. Wm. Frizell hath half a fann and a fine in Corneforth, now 
 in his own hand, but formerly letten at 20/. p. ann., all sequestered. 
 Sequestrators' names: — John Widdowes, sen., gent., Wm. Labourne 
 and Thos. Hutchinson. 
 
 79. Letten to Ann Wilkinson [alias Sonkey), widow, all the tithe 
 of her corn in Gilligate i^arish for 5s., payable as in No. 72. 
 
 80. Letten to Robt. Brimley of Hart, gent., all the tithes of 
 corn and grain within the township of Heselden Hall. Rent, 14?., 
 by IG-s. 8c/. monthly. 
 
 81. Shinckliff tithes are paid in kind yearly to Mr. Thos. Hopper 
 of Shinckliff, papist, and Mrs. Jane Pearson of Durham, widow, 
 farmers by lease made by Dr. Duncon to them for the rent of 10/. 
 p. ann. The said Mr. HojDper's goods are sequestered by Mr. [blank] 
 Hodgshon. John Hopper of Shinckliff to be sequestrator and join 
 with said Mrs. Pearson to collect, sequester, etc., j parts of that half 
 of the tithes which belongeth to Thos. Hopper, the papist. 
 
 82. The tithes of Croxdaile are paid to Mr. [blank] Green, 
 minister of Croxdaile, chaplain by prescription of [blank], at Michael- 
 mas. Butterl)y payeth prescription of tithes to the same chapelxy. 
 
 83. The tithes of Grindon parish belonging to the master of Shir- 
 burne Hospital ; Mr. Thos. Davison, hath a lease of the tithes of corn 
 of Thorpthewles, made to him by the master and brethren of Shir- 
 bui'ne. Letten to Edwd. Urwen of Winyard the tithe corn of Thorp- 
 thewles, Grindon parish. Rent, 16/., by 53.S'. \d. monthlv. 
 
 8'4. The tithe corn of ^\liitton, in Grindon parish, l^elongeth to 
 Mr. Wm. Eden of Whitton, a papist, two parts whereof is to be seques- 
 tered by Mr. W^m. Watson of Whitton, Edwd. Urwen of Winyard, and 
 Robt. Chipchase, authorised by us to that purpose. This tithe is held 
 of the master of Shirburne Hospital. Rent, 5 marks p. ann. These 
 two parts letten by us to the said Mr. Wm. Eden. Rent, 20 nobles,, 
 by 23.«. Id. oh \ monthly, and the sequestration is released. 
 
 85. Two men of Sheraton, in Munckheselden parish, are to come 
 to Durham on Thursday next to take the tithe of that township.
 
 80. Winyard pajeth a rent of i'is. id. p. ann. for the corn tithes 
 thereof by 16.?. Sd. at St. Cuth. Day next, and 4 nobles at St. Cuth. 
 Day in Lent. 
 
 87. Shadforth payeth a prescription of 71. 6s. 8d. for the tithes 
 there to the Dean and Chap, of Durham, at Candlemas only. 
 
 [Nos. 88, 89 and 90 not entered.] 
 
 The parish of Easington, the tithe thereof with the glebe lands :-- 
 
 91. The tithe of Easington town, letten to Richd. Foster and other 
 neighljoiu's for 40^., to pay proportionably monthly, 40/. 
 
 92. Little Thorpe, letten to Mr. Wm. Johnson and others, to pay 
 monthly proportionably [blank]. 
 
 93. Horden tithes paid by prescription at Martinmas and Whit- 
 suntide, 71. lOs. 
 
 94. Letten to Wni. Harryson the glebe lands for 307., payable at 
 Mart, and Whitsuntide, 301. 
 
 95. Letten to Wm. Younge the tithes of Edwd. Akers, to pay 
 monthly proportionably 1/. 10s. 
 
 96. Letten to the tenants and inhabitants the tithe of Shotton, to 
 pay monthly, total 271. 
 
 97. Letten to Thos. Lighten the tithe of Little Eden, to pay 
 monthly, in all 7/. 3.s. id. 
 
 98. Letten to Robt. Rutter and Wm. Watson the tithe of Gt. 
 Haswell, paying monthh^ in all 13/. 6s. Sd. 
 
 A particular of the tithes of Dalton town, taken Aug. 12, 1644 : — 
 
 99. The inheritance of the corn tithe of the town of Dalton in 
 the Daile, is in Anthony Smyth, Geo. Daile and Thos. Tod, well 
 affected to the Parlt. 
 
 100. The tithe rent of Dalton town, reserved yearly, payal^le to 
 the Dean and Chap, at Candlemas, 3/. 6s. 8d. 
 
 101. The inheritance of the tithe hay of Morton is in Mr. Thos. 
 Shadforth. Rent reserved to Dean and Chap., payable at St. 
 Martin in the winter, 9.s. id. 
 
 102. The tithe corn of Morton, Ferdinand Moorecroft, late tenant. 
 Rent reserved to Dean and Chap. 5/. 6,s. Sd. 
 
 103. The tithe corn of Dalden, Mr. Geo. Collingwood the elder, 
 tenant, payeth to the Dean and Chap, yearly at Candlemas, 21. 
 
 104. Tlie tithe hay of Dalden belongeth to the minister of the 
 parish. 
 
 105. The corn tithe of Cold Heselden is in possession of Anth. 
 Young of Pittington town. Rent payable to Dean and Chap, yearly 
 at Candlemas, 10/. 
 
 106. The tithes of Seaham parish, belonging to Mr. Hen. 
 Blakiston of Durham, the com and hay tithes being formerly let 
 for 50/. 11. ann., which tithe is to be jrathered in kind.
 
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 A particular of Recusants' Rents taken Aug. 12, 16-ti. 
 , Mr. Geo. Colliugwood's tenants of Dalden : — 
 
 107. Thos. Bee, farmer of lands at 6/. p. ann., at "Whitsuntide 
 ^nd Martinmas, 6/. ; Thos. Liddell, rent payable at same days, \Ql. ; 
 Geo. Foster, 15/. ; John Brice, cow grass, M. ; John Johnson, cow's 
 gi'ass, ^1. ; John Hornesbv, two cows' ^rass, winter and summer, 
 [blank]. 
 
 108. The farmer of John Richardson's lands at Seaton, parish of 
 ■Sealiam is Anthony Page, the whole farm, p. ann. 20/. 
 
 109. Thos. Collingwood, recusant, of Dalden hath two cows. 
 
 110. Robt. Collingwood, Geo. Daile, Thos. Liddell and Thos. 
 , Todd, are joined to set and let the lands and tithes of Dalden and 
 
 *' Seaham, belonging to delinquents and papists. 
 
 111. Nicholas Todd farmeth Mr. Collingwood's land at Seaham, 
 paying 50/. p. ann., being a part of the north side. 
 
 ^112. Geo. Fell, Richd. Thompson, Davie Rookesby, Edwd. Fell, 
 and Wm. Skurfield, farmed 100/. p. ann. of that land on the north 
 side, and left it at May Day, Whitsuntide rent being due. 
 
 Rent for lands of Dalden and Seaham, due at Whitsuntide last : — 
 
 113. Anth. Page, land of Mr. Colling^vood at Dalden, p. ann., 
 31/. ; John Waister, rent at Dalton, 54/. ; Thos. Colledge at Dalden, 
 40/.; Thos. Todd and John Ellison of Dalden, behind, 8/.; True- 
 
 ^ man Colling^vood hath, out of Seaham, an annuity of 30/. p. ann. 
 One half year's rent is behind. 
 
 114. Robt. Rennyson farmeth land of Mr. Hixson at Morton. 
 Rent, 20/. p. ann., out of which he is to have 40'*. deducted for 
 
 'dressing the ground. The whole land formerly let for 100/. p. ann. 
 
 [Nos. 115 to 125 not entered.] 
 
 Houghton in the Springe, Sejot. 3, 1644. 
 
 126. Appointment of Wm. Wilson of Newbottle, Geo. Ward of 
 Errington, Thos. Hall, Wm. Lumley, Wm. Fari'ow, and Geo. Dobson 
 to sequester, etc., the lands, goods, chattels, etc., of Sir Wm. 
 Lambton, late of Biddick, knt., and Hen. Lambton of Lambton, 
 
 ■esq., at Lambton, Biddick, Pensher, or elsewhere within this county. 
 
 127. Appointment of Geo. Gray, gent., Hen. A^incent, gent., 
 Xpofer Shepherdson, and Bryan Carter, to sequester, etc., the estates, 
 •etc., of Lieut. Col. John Jackson of Rickleden, Wm. Maddison of 
 Harraton, Toby Bowes of the same, Raijjh Henderson, Thos. Bell, 
 and Wm. Holt of the same, Robt. Carr of Biddick, gent., Capt. 
 John Richardson of Barmston, Talbot Lisle, gent.. Wm. Robson 
 and Wm. Shaftoe of the same. 
 
 128. Warrant to the constables of Sedgfield parish, to give 
 notice to the tenants of Sir Thos. Tempest, knt., at the He and 
 iSwainstens, and to the tenants of John Smyth, esq., at Elmeden,
 
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 and of John Claxton, esq., at AVest Morton to appear before us at 
 Henry Steavenson's, in Sedgfield, upon Thursday next by 9 of the 
 clock before noon. 
 
 129. Warrant to John Garbett of Tofthill in Egglescliff parish, 
 to appear before us at Sedgfield, to answer and inform of such 
 matters as we shall demand of him. 
 
 130. Warrant to Nicholas Hall of Elwick, and Robt. Bromley 
 of Hart, to sequester the lands and estate, etc., of Capt. Wm. 
 Sheraton of Elwick. 
 
 131. Warrant to Richd. Davison, Thos. Chapman, Thos. 
 Shepheard, and Robt. Christofer, to sequester the estate, real and 
 personal, of Capt. Gascoigne Eden, within the parish of Billingham. 
 
 Sedgfield, Sept. 5, 16U. 
 
 132. The rent now paid for Low Embleton is 70/. p. ann. 
 Tenants say there are no arrears. Letten to Robt. Richardson 
 and Jno. Richardson of Low Embleton (being the inheritance of 
 John Smyth, esq.) for year ending May 3 next. Rent 70/. whereof 
 one fifth i^art, and of Whin house, being 20/. 8s. is referred for 
 the maintenance of the wife and children of said Jno. Smith. 
 Residue to us at Martinmas and May Day next in equal portions. 
 
 133. Whin house, being a quarter of Embleton, formerly 50/. 
 ]-j. ann. is now letten by us to Lancelot Clarke, John Hutchinson 
 •and John Liddell for 32/., payable as above. 
 
 134. Swainston, belonging to Sir Thos. Tempest, knt., formerly 
 letten at 140/. p. ann., is now by us letten to Peter Walker, Samuel 
 Walker, and Raiph Snaith, for 90/., to be paid by 15/. monthly. r-n , 
 
 135. Eggscliff, the several particulars belonging to the Rectory' 
 thereof are letten to divers persons, mentioned in an inventory, for 
 64/. Is. 6d., whereof 12/. 16s. is by us allowed for maintenance of ; 
 the wife and children of Dr. Easier, late rector thereof. Inventory I 
 of his goods and chattels amounteth to 40/. 10s. whereof we allow 
 46s. to his said wife and children, the rest she is to pay to us, or to 
 whom we shall appoint, for the benefit of the commonwealth, being ■ 
 for the residue of the said goods, which she hath bought of us. . 
 
 136. Sir Raiph Conyers of Layton, by will dated May 6, 1642, 
 did grant to his dau., Ellinor, for her preferment, and in full satis- 
 faction of her portion, 1,000/. ; for the better raising whereof he 
 bequeathed to Francis Salvin, of White Hurworth, gent., his lands 
 in Mordon and FishJjurne, to ]ie sold, and the remainder of the 
 price thereof he gave to his son Cuthbert* towards payment of his 
 debts. To his said dau. the profits of the said lands in 
 Mordon and Fishburne till they be sold. Since said Sir Raiph 
 Conyers died Col. Cuth. Conyers entered into the lands and hath 
 taken the profits thereof. The said Ellinor now desireth to have ^ 
 the third part of the profits of said lands, she being a })apist recusant. \ 
 
 \ * Fell, fighting for the king, at Malpas in Cheshire, Aug., 1644.
 
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 137. The lands belonging to the Lady Conyers at Lay ton, farmed 
 by Wm. Cowlin, are at the rent of 30/., by Robt. Chapman at 18/. ; 
 by Wm. Wilkinson at 28/., total 76/. ; whereof we have allowed 
 to the said Lady Conyers, for maintenance, 26/. 6.<f. Sd., to be paid 
 to her by said Cbwlinge, out of his rent. Residue to us for the 
 benefit of the commonwealth. She is also to have her portion of 
 the cornfield and meadowfield now in her possession. 
 
 138. The inventory of goods and chattels of Col. Cuth. Conyers 
 at Layton, dated Aug. 25, 1644, amounteth to 58/. 10.<;., which 
 goods, etc., we sold to Mrs. Katherin Conyers, wife of said Cuth. 
 for that sum. Other goods and chattels of said Col. Conyers at 
 Corneforth are sold to said Mrs. Conyers for 38/., total 86/. 10s.* 
 of w^hich a fifth, 19/. Qs. is allowed to her. Residue, 77/. 4s. she is 
 to pay the 5th Oct. and 5th Nov. next by equal portions. John 
 Rawlinge of the Close, and John Harrison of Sedgfield have entered 
 bond to us for payment thereof at said dates. 
 
 Certain lands of Col. Cuth. Conyers at Layton, are letten to 
 Wm. Cowlin for 30/. to Em'uell Suddick for 20/., and to Raiph 
 Thompson for 36/., total 86/., whereof we allow the fifth part, being 
 17/., for the maintenance of said Mrs. Katherin Conyers and her 
 children. 
 
 139. Thomas Middleton, a butcher in Durham, bought 8 sheep of 
 [blank] Stoddert of Fishburne, a papist. 
 
 140. Letten to Geo. Atkinson of Fishburne, 2 parts of a farm in 
 Fishburne late in possession of Raiph Catherick, papist. Rent, 
 20 nobles, payable by 21. s-. '2^d. monthly. 
 
 141. Certificate that Thos. Welfoot, gent., hath bought 1,800 
 sheep, and 160 cattle of the sequestrators, and may travel with said 
 cattle to Kirkby Mooreside, Malton, or Chesterfield in Yorkshire. 
 
 142. W^arrant to warn Richd. Davison, Thos. Chapman, Robt. 
 Christofer, John Jeckell and Thos. Wearmouth to appear here 
 to-morrow morning h\ 8 of the clock to take their oaths as 
 sequestrators of the estate of Capt. Gascoigne Eden, etc., gi'anted 
 to them. 
 
 143. Letten to Wm. Davison and Raiph Smyth of Mordon, all 
 the lands of Mordon now in their possession, late the inheritance 
 of Sir RaijDh Conyers, knt. Rent, 20/., by 3/. 6s. d>d. monthly. 
 Mrs. Ellinor Conyers to have one third, also the rents of the lands 
 at Fishburne farmed by Ra. Thompson. 
 
 144. Letten to Raiph Thompson the lands at Layton, 28/., and 
 Fishburne, 12/. now in his possession. Rent, 40/. W 6/. 13.s'. id. 
 monthly. 
 
 145. Letten to John Hodgson and John Wilkinson, all those 
 lands and grounds called the lie, now in their possession, late belong- 
 ing to Sir Thos. Tempest, knt. Rent, 50/., by 8/. 6s. M. To Isabel 
 Earle and Robt. Earle a farm in Foxton, late belonging to Robt. 
 
 * Evidently a mistake for 96/. lOs.
 
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 Smyth, a delinquent and papist. Rent, 1-i/., by 46*. 8d. monthly. 
 To Steaven Watson of Foxton, the garths and town fields, late 
 belonging to Wm. Power, gent. Rent, 32^., by [blank] monthly. 
 146. The goods and chattels of Elizth. Smyth of Bradbury, 
 widow, a papist, appraised at 71. and her household stuff at 20s. : 
 total, 81. whereof we allow her one third, being 53s. 8d. Residue, 
 105s. 8d., she hath bought of usk, to be paid upon Saturday come 
 sevennight. And for lands whereof she is possessed, valued at 81. 
 p. ann., she is to pay us 3/., by 10s. monthly, and to have allowance 
 of half the sess. After these sums be paid, she is to be discharged 
 of all other incumbrances and troubles. And all officers and soldiers 
 for King and Parlt. are desired not to molest nor trouble the said 
 Elizth. Smyth in her person, goods, or estate. 
 
 [With No. 146 the enumeration of paragraphs ceases.] 
 
 Letten to John Rawlinge, John Wilkinson, Symon Cowlin, and 
 Ralph Richardson, all those lands and grounds at Butterwick now 
 in their possession, late belonging to Jerrard Salvin, late of Crox- 
 •daile, esq. Rent, 95/. To him also, grounds called the Close, now 
 in his possession, in Elwick Hall parish, late belonging to said Jerrard 
 rSalvin, esq. Rent, 80/. 
 
 Sedgfield, Sept. 6, 1644. 
 
 Warrant to the constables of Norton, Billingham and Grindon 
 parishes, to warn the tenants of the lands and grounds of Blakiston, 
 Fulthorpe, Winyard, Thorpthewles and Norton Mill, late the 
 inheritance of Sir Alex. Davison and Lieut. Col. Thos. Davison and 
 all other the tenants and farmers of the said A. D. and T. D. to 
 appear before us at Jas. Greene's house in Thorpe, upon [blank]. 
 
 Another warrant to warn the tenants of Mr. Robt. Eden of Belsey, 
 in the parish of Billingham, and all other delinquents and papists y' 
 in the same parish, amJ constables to appear, the said day and place. 
 
 Warrant to John Husliand to sequester the personal estate of 
 :Sir Alex. Davison and Col. Thos. Davison at Blakiston, Fulthorpe, 
 Winyard, Thorpethewles, or elsewhere in co. Durham. 
 
 Warrant to constables to warn tenants of lands, etc., at Stilling- 
 ton belonging to Capt. Robt. Hartburn, a papist and delinquent, 
 and of Richd. Morpeth, a i)apist and delinquent, tenants of Xpofer 
 Todd, of Bpton., papist, tenants of Capt. Henry Smyth, of Gray- 
 stones and Nesbett, and tenants of Ra. Coatsworth of Great Stainton, 
 to appear before us at Great Stainton this present day. 
 
 Certificate that Wm. Stoddert of Fishburne, a papist, hath com- 
 pounded with us for two parts of his goods and chattels, viz., 3 
 cows, 8 sheep, and his household stuff, for 4/. to be paid on Monday 
 next at Trimdon. Officers and soldiers not to molest, etc. 
 
 Geo. Heddon of Layton is employed by Mrs. Katherin Conyers 
 for selling her goods and estate. Robt. Farrow of Fishburne to 
 pay us 3/. 10s., being the remainder of 8/. 10s. for the price of 
 :20 ewes and 10 lambs by him bought of Mrs. Katherin Conyers.
 
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 Warrant to John Johnson, gent., Thos. Middleton, Raiph Maison, 
 and Robt. Johnson to sequester all the goods and estate of CoL 
 Cuth. Conyers, at Layton, Fishburne, or elsewhere in this county^ 
 not already disposed of by us, and to let the lands and sell the 
 goods. Rents to be paid monthly : goods sold to be paid for withia 
 10 days after the sale. 
 
 Raiph Dedchant and Roljt. Robinson, tenants to Mr. Xpofer 
 Byerley of his lands at East Morton, to pay 100/., 20 days after 
 Martinmas next. 
 
 Stainton Magna, Sept. 7, 1644. 
 
 Bishopton : John Middleton, constable there. Lancelot Todd' 
 of Bishopton, a papist, his son Chris. Todd is in service against the 
 Parlt. Father and son lived in house together, possessed of 7 kine,. 
 9 sheep, 12 acres of oats and pease; their hay is already won. 
 Sequestrators for Bpton are Thos. Welfoot, Jno. Middleton,. 
 Thos. Colson, Jno. Atkinson and Wm. Ayre. Thos. Mawer and 
 Wm. Blackman are to be assistants herein. 
 
 Raiph Coatsworth and Wm. Ricaby, papists, are seised of twO' 
 parts of the lands of Great Stainton town. Mr. Ralph Coatsworth 
 is a delinquent, and Hen. Wilkinson, a papist, is one of his tenants. 
 The names of the, residue of them are Symond Wood, 100/. ; JohiL 
 Colling, 13s-. id.: Ann Dobson, widow, alias Dobbin, 5 marks; 
 Richd. Sunton ; John Rickaby ; Xpofer Richardson, 12.<j. : Robt.. 
 Aude ; Wm. Peacock, iO^. ; John Baxter. 
 
 Ann Dobbin, widow, farmeth 1 messuage and 2 closes. Rent, 5- 
 marks p. ann. at Michaelmas. 
 
 John Baxter farmeth 1 mes. 1 meadow field, called Grundou! 
 Leazes and Mill Car. Rent, il. 
 
 John Collin, 1 mes. and garth, iOs., and Shinckliff garth, which. 
 Mr. Doughty farmeth of John Collin for 30/. rent. 
 
 John Rickaby farmeth Broadleaf New Close and the east end of" 
 the Broad Meadows. Rent, 22/. And 1 mes. and a close called 
 Ricknowle, Hawkesley Sheep Close, Moorespotts, Swinston Close,, 
 and two moors, for ten years. Rent, 16/. 
 
 Symond Wood farmeth land there for 15/. ; and for the land' 
 of Mr. Wm. Killinghall, 20/. ; and for one close of Wm. Rickaby 3/.. 
 
 Xpofer Richardson farmeth 1 mes. Rent, 12,«. 
 
 Robt. Aude farmeth 1 mes. and garth and 12 acres. Rent, 46.«. 8c?.. 
 
 Fulthorp. The total is 160/. p. ann. Tenants — ^Wm. Lamb, 
 sen., farmeth land at the rent of 160/., now letten to him this year- 
 for 106/. 13.«^. id., by 17/. 15.v. 6^. 
 
 Thorpthewles. John Shawe's farm did let for 28/. p. ann. and 
 Mr. Davison hath the other part, half in his own hand. Sidgswicke 
 farm — whether it be Mr. Davison's or Mr. Wm. Barnes's of Darling- 
 ton — is sequesterable.* 
 
 * In margin, 'This belongs to Captain Wm. Barnes of Darlmgton.'
 
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 Francis Denham fanneth land of Capt. Robt. Ellis, of Rudstones^ 
 Yorkshire. Rent (formerly 36/.), 2il. by il. monthly. The said 
 Ellis is also seised of lands at West Hartburne letten to Richd. 
 Wilkinson. 
 
 Letten to Thos. Harrison, 46 A 1.3s. id. ; Marmaduke Davison, 
 19/. 6.'?. Sd. ; Jas. Greene, and Richd. Melson, 4/. the lands in 
 Thorpethewles now in their possession. Rent, 60/. by 11/. 13.v. id^ 
 monthly. 
 
 Letten to John Sidgswick all the lands in his possession in 
 Thorpthewles, late belonginii' to Sir Alex. Davison, knt., and Lieut. 
 Col. Thos. Davison till May Day next. Rent, 30/. by 5/. monthly ; 
 Sidgswick to have his way going crop. 
 
 Woolveston Mill, held of Dean and Chap, farmed of Mr. Davison 
 by Wm. Gelson, and Winvard Mill farmed bv him also. Rent 
 (formerly 42/.), 28/. 
 
 Robt. Sharpe, gent., Chas. Elstobb, gent., Jno. Husband, gent., 
 Edwd. Urwin, Wm. Kitchin, Wm. Chipchase and Jno. Sidgswick 
 are named sequestrators for the real and personal estates of Sir 
 Alex. Davison, Lieut. Col. Thos. Davison, and Capt. Ralph Davison, 
 at Blakiston, Winyard, Fulthorp, Thorpethewles, and Woolveston,. 
 or elsewhere in the county. 
 
 Papists in Little Stainton : — Mr. Midcalf, Capt. P , Hen. 
 
 Johnson, and Richd. Johnson of Newbiggin. 
 
 Warrant authorising John Ricarby, gent., to let the fogg and 
 other grounds of Ralph Coatsworth, and Hen. Wilkinson, delinquents 
 and papists, and two parts of Wm. Rickabie's lands at Great Stainton, 
 till May 3 next, and to sell some hay or corn for obtaining money 
 for the husbanding and reaping of the corn and hay of the said 
 grounds. 
 
 Warrant to Thos. Shipperd, constable of Billingham to bring , 
 John Jeckell and Robt. Christofer before us to Trimdon upon '' 
 Monday next. 
 
 Wm. Gelson farmeth Billingham Mill of Capt. Gascoigne Eden, y 
 Rent, 15/. for half year ending Mart. next. 
 
 Stillington. Lancelot Lambe farmeth land of Mr. Richd. Hart- 
 burne of Stillington, delinquent and papist. Rent, 7/. AVm. Arrow- 
 smyth of Coxoe farmeth of Mr. Richd. Hartl)urne, 7/. lO.'*. John 
 Mawer farmeth of Richd. Morpeth, delinquent and papist. Rent, 
 4/. monthly. 
 
 •o- , 1 TT- 11 ,n ( Letten to them the lands in their own 
 
 Richd. Wadley, 40.s-. . . o? m i 
 
 T 1 -V' in i)ossession m Stilhnirton lor 3/. 10.s\, bv 
 
 John lounge, 40.v. ',107 .li 1 " 
 
 *= ' f 21. v. Hd. monthly. 
 
 Warrant to Capt. Robt. Sharj), Jno. Husband, Robt. Barwick, 
 Lancelot Lambe, and John Mawer, to sequestrate the lands and goods 
 of Mr. Richd. Hartburne and Mr. Richd. Morpeth. 
 
 A close of 6 or 8 acres, taken off Thorpethewles Moor, and now 
 in possession of Cuth. Conyers, who is to hold same until May Day 
 next, and then it comes to Sir Alex. Davison or his son. Mr. 
 Conyers ])ayeth 20*. rent for the close to Mr. Davison.
 
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 All the oats belonging to Sir Alex. Davison growing on 
 Thorpethewles Moor, are sold to Ed. Urwen, for 7/. 10^'., payable by 
 41s. 8ri. monthly. 
 
 Trimdon, Sept. 9, 164i. 
 
 By virtue of an ordinance of Parlt. for sequestering the 
 ■estates of delinquents and papists and other ill-affected persons 
 mentioned in the said ordinance. These are to require you. etc., 
 personally to appear before us, the committee for sequestrations in 
 the said ordinance named, at the dwelling house of Henry Steavenson 
 at Sedgfield upon Friday, the 20th day of Sept. instant, then and 
 there to yield up an account of all such rents as are due and i^ay- 
 able to the Bp. and Dean and Chap, of Durham, or either of them 
 at Pentecost last past, and of all former arrearages of rents due, 
 and to bring with you them the said collectors a true particular 
 rental of all such tenants as pay any rent to the said Bp., or Dean 
 and Chap., and that they give notice to all the tenants of the said 
 Bp. and Dean and Chap, that they also appear before us, at the 
 said day and place, to pay their half j-ear's rent, due at Pentecost 
 last unto us, for the use and benefit of the commonwealth accord- 
 ing to the said ordinance. 
 
 Friday, Sept. 20, for the tenants of Stockton ward to appear, 
 ut swpra. 
 
 Monday, Sept. 23, for the tenants of Easington ward to appear 
 at Robt. Watson's in Houghton. 
 
 High constables of Stockton ward are Robt. Johnson of Greetham 
 and Thos. Welford of Bishopton. For Easington ward Richd. 
 Smyth of Tunstall and Hen. Busby of Cassopp. 
 
 Warrant to the constables of Billingham parish to give notice to 
 such as have not compounded with our lessees for the tithes of 
 their corn there this year, that they do set forth and pay the 
 tithes to the said lessees, or otherwise compound with them for 
 the same, which, if they or any of them do refuse to do, that then 
 you forthwith bring the said parties for refusing before vis, or some 
 two of us, to do and undergo what to justice in that loehalf shall 
 appear. 
 
 Wheatley Hill. The tenants there, Philip Richardson [and] 
 Geo. Meames, say that they are so charged with sessments and with 
 carriages and prisoners for Sunderland that they can make no 
 profits.* 
 
 Trimdon. The names of the papists there are: — Robt. Weenies, 
 Richd. Dunn, Wm. Thompson, Geo. Soulby, and Robt. Burlison. 
 
 Warrant for sequestering of 2 parts of their estates, real and 
 personal, directed to Bryan Burlison, Robt. Roop, jun., Wm. Hutchin- 
 son and Wm. Litster, whom we do authorize to demise the lands 
 till May Day next, and sell the goods for the benefit, etc. 
 
 * In the margin : — ' Phi. Richardson, 60/. ; (ieo. Weenies, 36 ; Willm. 
 Widdrop, 20 ; Geo. Soulby, 23 ; Mrs. Howard, 12.'
 
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 Wiiidgate Town. Names of tenants there: — Nich. Wake, 26^.; 
 Martin Comyn, 26/. ; Francis Smyth, 13Z. ; Elizth. Hull, 26?. and 13?. 
 These are to yield an account and pay rents due at Martinmas next. 
 Warrant to Nich. Wake, Thos. Harrison, Philip Richardson, to 
 sequester the tithes of Windgate Town, and Windgate Grange, late 
 belonging to Shirburne Hospital. 
 
 Windgate Grange payeth 9s. at Michaelmas for tithe corn, wool, 
 and lamb. Those are already paid. 
 
 Rents of Windgate Grange, 114?. : Thos. Harrison, 28?. 10s. ; 
 Nich. Dodshon, 28?. 10s. ; Richd. Errington, 28?. 10s. ; Ann Hull, 
 John Hixson, Wm. Shepheard, Elizth. Swalwell, [blank] Browne, 
 widow, and Raiph Wilkinson of Hart, these have a quarter of it, 
 and pay, ut supra, 28?. 10s. 
 
 Sir Robt. Bindlees' lands in Trimdon letten to Robt. Roop and 
 Wm. Hutchinson for 288?., whereof 20?. is payable to Mr. Fisher, 
 the minister of Trimdon, and 20s. to Mr. Lindly, vicar of Kelloe. 
 Sir Robt. is now in ward to the Lord Bryan, a delinquent, and is 
 about 19 or 20 years of age. 
 
 Coxoe belongeth to Major Kennett, a delinquent. 
 
 Durham, Sept. 10, 1644. 
 
 Whereas we are informed that some ill-affected persons do refuse 
 to be aiding and assisting to John Riccarby, gent., Symond Wood, 
 John Baxter and Thos. Morley, who are by us named and instructed 
 to sequester the estates, real and personal, of Raiph C'oatsworth, gent., 
 and Hen. Wilkinson, delinquents and papists, and two parts of the 
 ■estate of Wm. Rickarby, papist, etc. These are, therefore, to will and 
 require you, the constables of Great Stainton, to bring all such 
 persons, etc., before us, there to be ordered and to undergo what to 
 Justice shall appertain. 
 
 Certificate from the standing committee of the co. of Durham (for 
 sequestrations) that Thos. Welfoot, gent., hath authority to carry 
 1,800 sheep and 160 cattle, sequestered by ordinance of Parlt., or 
 so many thereof as he thought fit, to Kirby Moorside, Malton, 
 'Chesterfield, or to any other fair or market within the bishoprics of 
 Durham or York, and there to sell the same, etc. Similar warrant 
 to permit him and his servants to travel, pass and drive any goods 
 ■or cattle to any fair, etc., in Durham, Yorkshire, or elsewhere, under 
 the command of the King and Parlt., and there to sell the same. 
 
 Notification that the parsonages of Sedgfield (belonging to Dr. ' 
 Naylor), Eggscliff (Dr. Basier), Wolsingham and Middleton-in-Teas- 
 daile (Mr. Maxton), Ryton (Mr. Wm. James), Washington (Mr. 
 Triplett) and Haughton (Dr. Duncon), are sequestered for their ' 
 delinquencies, by virtue of the ordinance of Parlt. in that behalf. . ■' 
 
 Little Stainton. The lands there belonging to Mr. Metcalfe, 
 delinquent and papist, are farmed of him by Nich. Pearson of Murton 
 in Yorkshire, gent., for 20?. p. ann. 
 
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 18 
 
 Sunderland, Sept. 11, 1644. 
 
 Col. Clem. Fulthorpe, Geo. Lilbui-ne, Thos. Shadfoorth, armiger^ 
 Warrant to the constables of Sunderland to warn Geo. Halladay, 
 John Husband, and Jas. Moody of Sunderland to appear at Wm. 
 Wycliff's of Sunderland, to j-ield account of all rents and profits of 
 two mills late belonging to Capt. John Richardson and John Husband,, 
 delinquents, and to receive fresh orders, etc. 
 
 Letten to Geo. Halladay all that windmill in Sunderland now in 
 his possession, which late belonged to Capt. Jno. Richardson of 
 Barmston. Rent, 12/. by 20?. monthly. 
 
 Warrant to the constables of Bishopwearmouth to warn Ralph 
 Holmes of same place to aj^pear, ut swpra, and to warn Jno. Johnson, 
 Ralph Jarvis, Robt. Pattison and Wm. Robinson to appear for 
 sequestrators. They have a warrant to that purj^ose for seques- 
 tering the estate of the said Raiph Holmes. 
 
 Warrant to James Ayre of Seaham, miller, to sequester the profits 
 of the windmill now in his possession, late belonging to John Husband 
 of Sunderland. Letten this mill to said James Ayre till Martinmas 
 next for 30s., payable, 15.s. Oct. 6, and 15s. Nov. 11. 
 
 Warrant to Capt. Cuth. Bainbrigg, who is to be of the quorum, 
 John Parmanly, Jas. Allenson, Leonard Allenson and John Gibson, 
 to appraise 6 stotts, 1 bull, a bull stirk, 5 two-year old stirks, 4 
 yearling stirks and 7 other young cattle (24 in all), late the goods 
 and chattels of John Bmy of Helbeckhall, Westmorland, a papist, and 
 to make an inventory of the same, with authority to sell two parts 
 of said goods, etc., for the benefit, etc., and pay the money to us 
 for the use of the State. 
 
 Warrant to Capt. Sharpe, Robt. Roper, Symon Lackenbie and 
 Wm. Hall to sequester the estates of Lieut. Col. John Forcer at Town 
 Kelloe, and of all other delinquents and papists in the parish of 
 Kelloe, and the estates of Major John Kennett of Coxoe, and Geo. 
 Reed of Cassopp. 
 
 Wari'ant to the keeper of Aycliff Wood to deliver to the greeve- 
 of Billingham 4 wain loads of wood which was cut down for the use 
 of Capt. Gascoigne Eden, to be used for the necessary repair of 
 certain bridges and highways now in decay. 
 
 The names of the most notorious delinquents within the county 
 of Durham:— Sir Thos. Riddell, jun. ; Sir Thos. Liddell bart. ; Sir 
 Thos. Tempest ; Walter Balcanquall, Dean of Durham ; John Heath, 
 esq. ; Wm. Collingwood, gent., under sheriff ; Thos. Burwell, spiritual 
 chancellor ; Mr. Fx-an. Salvin ; John Jackson ; Lieut. Col. Thos.. 
 Swinburne, esq. 
 
 Town Kelloe, Sept. 16, 1644. 
 
 Letten to Geo. Thompson of Howlincarhouse, in Kelloe parish, 
 the tithes of corn and hay, formerly jiayable to Shirburne HospitaL 
 Rent, 28s., by 4s. 8c?. monthly.
 
 19 
 
 Edwd. Urwen holds a protection for goods at Blakiston. 
 
 Richd. Melsonby appointed to preserve the woods of Lieut. Col. 
 Thos. Davison at Winyard and Fulthorp for the benefit, etc. 
 
 Warrant to Richd. Brimley and Richd. Malam, to let two farms 
 at Nelston, in Hart parish, late the inheritance of Ld. Richd. Lumley, 
 or otherwise to disjjose thereof, for the benefit, etc. 
 
 The Kirkepeere, Crofts Meadow, West Moor pasture, all in Kelloe, 
 a little paddock below the Crofts, and the High Close, late the 
 inheritance of Lieut. Col. John Forcer, delinquent and papist : Robt. 
 Rooper of Trimdon, Richd. Allen and John Allen of Kelloe, and Nich. 
 Dodshon of Windgate, to let the grounds and husband the hay grass 
 and other profits thereof and to be accountable. 
 
 Durham, Sept. 17, 1644. 
 
 Warrant to the tenants who ought to pay tithes to John Hopper, 
 that they pay the same to him as formerly. 
 
 Mr. Lilb[urne] received of Jos. Martindaile, 5^., and of John 
 Chapman 5^. in part payment of money l^elonging to Mr. Anthony 
 Errington, sen., for Bowlees and Thornley, 10/. ; he paid to Anthony 
 Errington, gent., out of that money, lOs. ; Mr. John Husband received 
 of Rowland Farrow of Fishb[urne], 4Z. 10s. ; Mr. L. received of 
 Mr. Thos. Thursby of Brafferton, 24s. Qd., viz., 24s. for the rent 
 of his farm there, and 6r/. for prescription — 11. is. 6cl. 
 
 Wm. Busby, John Davison of Cassopp, Robt. Dixon, John Rowell 
 of Shirburne, to sequestrate all the estates, real and personal, of all 
 delinquents in Pittington parish, and 2 parts of all papists' estates 
 in same parish. 
 
 Sequestration of the estate of Capt. Wm. Metcalf and Hen. 
 Johnson of Little Stainton, delinquents and papists, and 2 parts 
 of the estate of Richd. Johnson of East Newbiggin, parish of Bishop- 
 ton, a papist, and of all other papists in Bishopton, directed to 
 John Husband, Thos. Welford, Robt. Moore, John Rickaby, John 
 Atkinson, and Wm. Ayre of Bishopton. 
 
 Sequestration of 2 parts of the estates of Ellen Thompson of 
 Newsham, widow, a papist, Richd. Willie of same, and Robt. 
 Lambton, gent., papists, at Aislaby Fran. Skurry and Gertrude 
 Sayer of Preston, papists, directed to John Husband, Geo. Heigh- 
 ington, John Wetherelt and Mark Hall. 
 
 Total rents of Easington parsonage (late Dr. Clarke's rector i 
 thereof) 137Z. 10s. ; five farms and a half at Greetham, 111/. ; total, 
 248/. 10s., whereof allowed to Mrs. Mildred Clarke for maintenancej 
 of herself and children 49/. 10s. id. 
 
 Warrant to sequester the estates, real and personal, of Thos. 
 Bullock of Whitwell House, and Geo. Martin, gent., at Shinckliff, 
 parish of St. Oswald. -^ 
 
 Warrant to John Husband to let the lands of Wm. Killinghall, 
 Mich. Pudsey and Jas. Ascough at Middleton George and Middleton
 
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 One Row, and to sell the goods, etc., of Killing-hall and Ascough 
 for the benefit, etc. 
 
 Richd. Wilkinson saith that he was present when Mr. Geo. 
 Martin came voluntarily into the sessions house at Durham, at 
 a meeting there about Candlemas was a twelvemonth, and gave 
 his advice for the way of laying on of a sess, for my Lord New- 
 castle's army, as he conceiveth. 
 
 Warrant to the constables of Gilligate to warn the tenants of 
 Eaiph Cole, esq., at Keepyer Grange, and of Mr. Deanes at Ratten 
 Flatt, to appear before us at the dwelling house of RoAvland Stott 
 in Durham upon Tliesday next, 24th Sept. inst. 
 
 Warrant to the constables of Kelloe to warn the tenants of Thos. 
 Bullock and Raiph Allenson at Wharrington and Wliitwell House 
 to appear, etc. 
 
 Warrant to the constables of Long Newton to warn Wm. Gaites, 
 Richd. Johnson and Raiph Colling of Long Newton either to give 
 satisfaction to Thos. Welford and Lancelot Lambe for the trespass 
 by them done in Thos. Welford's corn at Newbiggin, or else to appear 
 before us at the dwelling house of Rowland Stott in Durham on 
 Tuesday next, Sept. 24, to show cause why they do it not. 
 
 The half tithe of Middleton George and Middleton erono [One 
 Row] letten to Thos. Killinghall, gent., for a year ending May Day 
 next. Rent, 10/. by [blank]. 
 
 ^ Wari'ant to Geo. Sayer and John Midcaif of Preston to give 
 satisfaction to Rowland and Robt. Burdon for trespass in the tithe 
 of Preston. 
 
 Warrant to Robt. Bromley of Great Hart, and Nich. Hall, jun., 
 of Elwick, to sequester and sell the hay and let the grass of the 
 third part of Thorpe Bulmer belonging to Mr. Geo. Cunningham. 
 
 Certificate per Rowland Burdon that he is Avell affected to the 
 Parliament. 
 
 Warrant to John Williamson, greeve of Woolveston, to collect 
 the rents due to the Dean and Chap, of Durham and pay the same 
 over to us at John Hall's in Durham on Tuesday, Oct. 1 nest. 
 
 Houghton, Sept. 23, 1644. 
 
 Warrant to John Butter, Robt. Watson, Thos. Jackson, Raiph 
 Wilkinson and Leonard Smyth to sequester the estate of Avery 
 Robinson of East Rainton. 
 
 Durham, Sept. 24, 1644. 
 
 Tenants of Mr. Raiph Cole at Kepier and the Grange. Thos. 
 Snawdon, tenant of Hither Grange, paid formerly 95/. rent p. ann. 
 He will take no lease of us because his meadow grounds are eaten 
 up, but he offers 20/. Cuth. Marshall hath the letting of the 
 residue. Thos. Snawdon farmeth east and west awards (20/.) ; 
 meadow grounds all destroyed by troopers this year. Moorsley
 
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 Close (237.), he hath his gate destroyed with horses ; he reaped 
 only 6 f others of hay and GO thraves of straw, viz., wheat, rye and 
 some oats and bigg — the rest, being -i acres of corn, destroyed. 
 Atkinson's Close and the little Close (12/.) eaten with the troopers, 
 and 1 5 acres of oats destroyed ; the other half, rye and bigg, preserved. 
 All the rest of the Grange was in Mr. Cole's own hand ; Gilb. Marshall 
 can give account of it. 
 
 Tenants of Kepier. Tim. Hubbuck farmed a pasture close called 
 Lyme Kill for 11/. and a meadow close called Lowhaugh for 20?. 
 rent. The meadow all destroyed ; the pasture enjoyed in part, but 
 150 hoi'ses were put into it 2 days and 2 nights. Another meadow 
 close, part of the White Leases, formerly let for 9/., totally eaten 
 and destroyed. 
 
 Mrs. Margt. Blakiston, widow, farmed 1 pasture called Hould 
 Meadow — she kept 2 kine in it — 1 close of meadow called Craw 
 Orchard. Rent of both, 71. ; the meadow all destroyed. 
 
 Edwd. Robinson of Kepier farmed 1 close called the Lowhaugh, 
 rent, 16/. ; meadow and pasture all destroyed, but by means of 
 having this ground he kept 4 kine all summer there. 
 
 Thos. Emerson, tenant to Mr. Deane of Ravensflatt, formerly 
 rented at 34/. p. ann. did let the one half thereof to John Shad- 
 fooi'th of Clapeth. 
 
 Sedgfield tithes, let for 50/. ; Bradbury do. 2iL ; Low Emble- 
 ton do., 12/.; Embleton Hall, do., 3/.; Shotton, 3/. 10s.; Mordon, 
 do., 20/. : Fishburne do., 24/. ; Whinhouse do., 51. ; Butterwick 
 do., 13/. ; Foxton do., 13/. ; Mr. Claxton's land at Morton, 5/. ; 
 Hardwick tithes, 5/. ; Swainston do., 4/. ; Old Acres, let to Mr. 
 Raiph Butler for 4/. 6s. 8d. ; East Murton, let to Ra. Dodshon 
 and Robt. Robinson, 4/. 15s. ; West Murton, hay, corn and calf, 
 let to Geo. Weardaile, 1/. 15s. ; the He tithes let to John Dodgson 
 and John Wilkinson, 5/. 10s. ; glebe lands, Robt. Chapman's rent, 
 28/. ; Jas. Wilkinson's, 48/. ; Mrs. Naylor, in her hand, 35/. ; glebe 
 lands in Bradbury, clear profit, 1/. 3s. 6c/. ; and for the winter 
 eatage there till May Day, 2/. Sum total of the whole rectory, 
 312/. 15s. 8d. ; per inventory made Aug. 31, 1644, 23/. 6s. ; total, 
 336/. Is. Sd.* 
 
 Received for 2 parts of 5 kine, 3 calves and 1 mare, of Augustine 
 Husband, appraised at 6/.— 4/. And for 2 parts of his household 
 stuff, appraised at 30s. — 1/. 
 
 Received for 2 parts of the price of 2 kine of John Ileys, api)rai8ed 
 at 2/. 13s. id., and of 1 brown stagg, at 14s., in toto 3/. 7s. id.— 
 21. is. lOd. 
 
 Warrant to sequester the estates of Thos. Bullock, gent., at Whit- 
 well House, Raiph Allenson, gent., at Wharrington, Jerrard Salvin, 
 esq., at Croxdaile, and Thos. Swinburne, esq., at Butterby, directed to 
 
 * An error in copying or in addition. The total of the figures given is 
 335/. 6s'. 2(1.
 
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 John Hall, draper and alderman, John Ayreson, alderman, Richd. 
 Wilkinson, Richd. Harrison, Richd. Lee, and Ralph Belly, who are 
 to give notice to the parties above named to appear before us at 
 John Hall, vintner, his house in Durham, upon Tuesday, Oct. 8, to 
 show cause why the sequestration should not be proceeded in and 
 their goods sold, etc. 
 
 Durham, Oct. 1, 1644. 
 
 Littletown. Wm. Whitfield and Robt. Bellarby, tenants to Dr. 
 Cosins there, formerly paid 100/. p. ann., brought in 2 bills of dis- 
 bursements for sesses, billeting and losses ; one amounting to 
 78/. 12s. 8d., and the other to 221. 12s. 7d., which they desire to 
 have allowed them in part payment of their rent. 
 
 Salthome is letten to Thos. Welford, gent., for one year from 
 Michaelmas now instant for 150Z. 
 
 Warrant to sequester the estate of Ralph Blakiston, bart., of 
 Gibside, at [blank] or elsewhere in co. Durham, directed to John 
 Reedshaw of Muggleswick, Rowland Harrison, Hen. Blackett, Robt. 
 Hey, Cuth. Ward and John Dryden. 
 
 Warrant to Capt. Robt. Sharpe to sell the corn of Ralph Coats- 
 worth, gent., and Wm. Rickaby of Great Stainton. 
 
 Petition of Mi's. Mary Errington, wife of Col. John Errington, 
 sen., for a fifth of the profits of his sequestered estate at Elton 
 in Eggscliff or elsewhere for maintenance of herself and family. 
 Allowed. The like for the wife of Mr. Mich. Pudsey of Picton. 
 
 Letten to ^Ir. Chas. Elstobb the hay and winter eatage of Capt. 
 Hartburne's grounds at Stillington for 111. 13s. 4:d., and the way- 
 going crop of [blank]. 
 
 Durham, Nov. 12, 1644. 
 
 Letten to Robt. Bellamy of Pittington the Prior's Hall, and other 
 the lands of Littletown, being the corpus of Dr. John Cosins, Pre- 
 bendary at Durham, for a year. Rent, 49/. p. ann., also 40s. to the 
 minister of Pitting-ton for tithe, according to ancient custom. 
 
 Durham, Nov. 13, 1644. 
 
 Ordered, upon the request of Mrs. Ann James, daughter of Mr. 
 Wm. James, one of the prebends of Durham, that she shall have 
 a fifth of the rent of Bewley Grange, parcel of the said prebend's 
 corpus, for maintenance of herself and sister. 
 
 Sequestration of the estates of Cuth. Appleby at Hurworth, 
 and Philip Mallory of Morton, clerk. 
 
 Newcastle, Nov. 16, 1644. 
 
 It is covenanted, granted, premised, and by us confirmed, to 
 Thos. Ellison by an indenture of lease for all Mr. Hixon's lands 
 at Morton, in the parish of Dalton and sequestered for the State and 
 for their use, that the said Thos. shall possess and occupy the
 
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 same for one whole year from the date hereof. And the said 
 Thos. shall be answerable to the State for 201. a year for the 
 same, that is 10^. at Whit Sunday next, or 14 days after, and 10/. 
 at Martinmas next, according to the date hereof. And what charges 
 may be laid upon it by the public authority shall be allowed in 
 his rent. Also the tenants which have it shall continue their times 
 according to their former conditions, without let or molestation by 
 the said Thos. or any for him, they paying to him as they should 
 have done to the State. And their times being out it shall be law- 
 ful for the said Thos. to possess and occupy the same at his most 
 advantage. Also the said Thos. shall pay ol. 6-s. Sd. ancient rent, 
 over and beside that 20/. above named. And the said Thos., 
 doing honestly according to condition, shall have peaceable occupa- 
 tion, according to the ordinances of Parliament. In witness whereof 
 we have set to our hands and seals this 16th day of November, 1644, 
 This lease is drawn by the writer hereof, Thos. Ellison, to whom 
 this land is letten for his good services done for the Parlt. 
 and the Army, and when it is out we will renew it for as long time 
 as our authority will afford. — (Signed) Will. Armj-ne, Rob. Fenwick, 
 Hi. Barwis. 
 
 Sedgfield, Nov. 29, 1644. 
 
 Whereas John Vincent, preacher of God's Avord, hath now the 
 parsonage of Sedgfield conferred upon him by the Parlt. of England. 
 These are therefore to signify unto all the parishioners of the said 
 parish of Sedgfield and all others who are to pay any rent or other 
 duty belonging to the said rectory, that they are from henceforth 
 to pay the rents, and arrearages of rents, due for the tithes which 
 they formerly took of us, to the said Mr. Vincent, and to continue 
 the payment thereof, and of all other duties belonging to the said 
 parsonage, unto him, until they shall receive order to the contrary, 
 •excepting only that Mrs. Dulcebella Naylor, wife of Joseph Naylor, 
 D.D., late parson thereof, is to have a fifth part of the rents and 
 •estate of the said rectory, etc., and what Mrs. Naylor hath already 
 received is to he in part of the said fifth. 
 
 Thorpethewles, Nov. 30, 1644. 
 
 Letten to Wm. Gelson, of Billingham, the water mill and the 
 -wind mill at Billingham, late belonging to Capt. Gascoigne Eden, 
 and 1 house or cottage, 2 riggs on the backside of said house, 1 cow- 
 ■.gate and 1 horsegate, with the mill meadows. Rent, 257. 
 
 Dm-ham, Dec. 3, 1644. 
 
 Letten to Lancelot Lambe, Mrs. Salvin, relict [of] Francisco 
 Salvin, the winter eatage, hay, and way-going crop of the cornland 
 :at White Hurworth, in Kelloe parish, till May Day next. Rent, 
 10/. 8s. Sesses to be allowed. 
 
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 Durham, Dec. 10, 1644. 
 
 Warrant to authorize John Husband, Thos. Chipchase, sen., and' 
 John Chipchase, jun., Fran. Kitchin and Wm. Kitchin to sell, etc., 
 the goods, etc., of Mr. Philip Mallory at Norton, by them sequestered,, 
 etc., for the use of the commonwealth and payment of sesses due to. 
 the Scottish army. 
 
 Letten to Wm. Parkin and Geo. Thompson a farm in Middleton,, 
 late belonging to Mr. Geo. Blaids for a year ending Dec. 6. Rent, 10/. 
 
 Dec. 12, [1644]. 
 
 Letten unto Robt. Roop, all those grounds at Trimdon, now in. 
 his possession, which he formerly farmed of Lord Bryan, from 
 May Day last. Rent, lol., per Richd. and Geo. Lilburne. 
 
 Sequestration of the estate of Robt. Clarke of Lumley, of goods, 
 lands, minerals, coal, etc., directed to Hen. Vincent, gent., Xpofer- 
 Thompson, Edmd. Home, Thos. Hall and John Reed, to sell and 
 let the same, etc. 
 
 Jan. 16, 1645.* 
 
 Sequestration of the goods of Wm. Etherington of Shadfoorth,. 
 and John Etherington of Seham, directed to John Husband, Symond 
 Lackenbie, Wm. Hall and Robt. Collingwood. 
 
 Sequestration of the estate of Sir Thos. Riddell, jun., of the 
 moiety of Tunstall, and two farms of Nether Throston, directed to- 
 John Husband, Robt. Bromley and Nich. Hall of Elwick. 
 
 Sequestration of Mr. Lawrence Sayer's lands in Stockton, and 
 Leonard Stott's lands there, directed to John Husband, Tlios. Watson, 
 Wm. Hart and Thos. Raw^ 
 
 Warrant against Thos. Bullasse of High Embleton for arrearages- 
 of rent due to John Jackson, out of the lands of Embleton. Arr. of 
 rent, 80/. p. ann. To appear at Durham, Tuesday, Jan. 28. 
 
 Warrant to bring in John Pattison of Sheraton to be examined 
 concerning a mortgage for 40/., lent money by Fr. Salvin of 
 White Hurworth. 
 
 Warrant for Nich. Todd of Seham to appear at Durham, Jan. 28,, 
 to answer such matters as shall be objected against him. 
 
 Jan. 29, 1645. 
 
 Letten to Richd. Corker of Tunstall, all the lands there now 
 in his possession, late belonging to Sir Thos. Riddell. Rent, 88/.,. 
 and to uphold the hedges. 
 
 Letten to John Armstrong all the lands at Nether Throston now 
 in his possession, late belonging to Sir Thos. Riddell. Rent, 28/.,. 
 and to repair houses, hedges, ditches, etc. 
 
 * In the MS. this entry reads 'June 16, 1644.'
 
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 Letten to Wm. Chilton of Dalton Percy all the lands there, now 
 in his possession, formerly Dr. Potter's. Former rent, 62^. 16s., 
 and now let, ^ part abated — ill. 17s. id. To have allowance of 
 sesses and tenant to pay church duties, to repair houses, hedges, 
 etc., and not to plough up more ground than is used for tillage, etc. 
 
 Letten to Hen. Steavenson, all the lands of Augustine Hixon, 
 in Morden, for a year. Rent, 20 marks. Hixon to have third part 
 of rent or grounds. 
 
 Sequestration of lands, etc., of Mr. Anthony Buhner of High, 
 Embleton, papist and delinquent, directed to John Husband, Nich. 
 Hall and Robt. Bromley. 
 
 Sequestration of lands of Sir Robt. Bindlees, knt., deceased, at 
 Fishburne, directed as in last paragraph. 
 
 Warrant for Robt. Widdowes to pay in the annuity of Gascoigne- 
 Eden. 
 
 Warrant for Geo. Heddon to appear Ijefore the Committee on. 
 Tuesday next to answer such matters as shall be objected against him. 
 
 Sequestration of one decayed salt pan of Wm. Chapman's of 
 Shields, situate at Munckwearmouth, directed to Cuth. Thompson, 
 Thos. Reedhead, Thos, Farrow, and Wm. Huntley. 
 
 Feb. 6, 1645. 
 
 Letten to John Husband all the lands and grounds in Stillington, 
 late belonging to Capt. Richd. Hartburne, deceased, a delinquent 
 and papist, allowing the widow such a proportion out of the same- 
 as is allowed by ordinance of Parlt. 
 
 Feb. 19, [1645]. 
 
 Sequestration of Col. Howard's lands at Wheatley Hill, directed, 
 to John Husband, Xich. Hall, Robt. Bromley and Robt. Rop. 
 
 A true presentment by me, John Hall, constable of Elwick, for 
 lands and tithes within the said constal)ulary : — 
 
 Mr. Wm. Tunstall for tithe corn of Elwick ; his rent here, so far, 
 29/. ; his farmers. Matt. Corner and Jas. Corner. 
 
 Wm. Sheraton for lands in Elwick, 56/. for years bygone. His- 
 farmer, Robt. Harrison, and, for this year present, to pay his sesses 
 and services, and to pay the surplus, if any be. For lands in said 
 constabulary, his rent, 5/. ; his farmer, Richd. Burdon. For another 
 parcel of land, called Baxter's garth, the rent heretofoi'e, 50.s'. ; this 
 year it is eaten up l^y troopers' horses. 
 
 Inventor}^ of the goods and chattels of Jos. Naylor, D.D. and 
 parson of Sedgtield, appi'aised by us whose names are underwritten, 
 Aug. 31, 1644:— 5 kine, 5 oxen, 1 bull, 14/. 13*-. id. \ 4 sheep 
 hoggs and 5 ewes, 1/. In the parlour, 2 chairs and stools, 14.<. 6</. ; 
 2 little tables and livery cupboards, 13.<(. ; 1 old ' sute of rawde stuff 
 hangers,' 10.*. In the chaml)er above the parlour, 1 pair of tongs, 
 6f/. ; 1 bedstead with feather bed and furniture, 1/. : 6 chairs and
 
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 "2 stools, 7s. ; 1 ' sute of rawd stuff hangers,' 10s. In thq chamber 
 ■ over the hall, 1 trundle bed with furniture, os. ; 1 other little bed 
 with fiu'niture, 6s. In Mrs. Naj^lor's chamber, 1 trundle bed with 
 furniture, 10s. ; 1 little table and 3 chairs, 5 s. In the high chamber, 
 1 bedstead with feather bed and furniture, 6s. ; 1 cupboard and a 
 flock bed, 5s. lOd. In the kitchen, 1 drijDping pan, 1 frying pan, 
 1 pair of iron racks, 3 spetts, 1 brass pot, 1 kettle, 30 pieces of 
 pewter with some other implements, 1/. 10s. In the milk-house, 1 
 churn, 12 milk bowls, 2 skeeles, 3 cheesefatts, 1 dozen and a half of 
 trenchers, with some other small implements, 4s. Sum total, 23Z. 6s. 
 —(Signed) John Johnson, Ra. Maison. 
 
 Tithes and glebe land, let by the sequestrators, belonging to the 
 rectory of Houghton in the Spring, Aug. 13, 1644 ; all the tithes pay- 
 able monthly : — John Wolfe, corn, hay, and customary tithes, from 
 Oct. 1, lil.; Mr. Marmaduke Maison, Houghton tithes, 157.: widow 
 Newby and the rest of the neighbours, Mooresley corn and petty 
 tithes, 5Z. ; Anthony Young of Pittington, Ford and Horner's Hill 
 ■corn, 31. ; Mrs. Smyth of Durham, for her two parts of the tithes of 
 West Herrington, by order in chancery, 207. ; Robt. Ayton, for his 
 third part of same, by order in chancery, 107. ; Hen. Page, Ufferton 
 corn, petty and hay, 67. ; John Lawrence, Raiph Robinson, Mich. 
 Watson and Robt. Lawrence, for other tithes of East and Middle 
 Herrington, 147. ; Cuth. Welsh, Wm. Welsh, Mich. Johnson and 
 Edwd. Smyth, all the tithes of Hetton, 187. ; Thos. Chilton and Robt. 
 Steavenson, all the tithes of Newbottle, 177. ; Geo. Dobson and 
 Thos. Cole, corn, hay and petty tithes of Pensher, 17s. ; Mr. Thos. 
 ■Shadfoorth, all tithes of Eppleton, [blank] ; [blank], tithes of 
 Heyinge, of old, 10s. [blank]. 
 
 Particulars of the glebe lands, as they be let as followeth : — Mr. 
 Nich. Joyce and John Filpott, the Mylne Close, Cow Pasture, Church 
 Yard, Coney Garth, Wall Xooke and Burn Crooks, 217. 10s. ; Raiph 
 Lambton for Cornewell field, 40s. p. ann., 20s. [of it?] for liberty of 
 13 gates till Lady Day to depasture upon Howdon Hill, 27. ; Robt. 
 Watson, the 3 low closes — billetings of soldiers for the armies to be 
 allowed him, at 2d. the meal, 77. ; Mr. Geo. Gray, for hay of the 
 Broad Meadow and the Wicke [blank]. Mr. Marmaduke Mason, 
 7 gates of his own and 4 of others taken into Waterfurrs, 8s. p. gate, 
 to be allowed in his entertainment, 47. ; more, 5 gates taken into 
 Howdon Hill, 17. 7s. ; more, for 2 horses' grass [blank] ; more, 1 stone 
 of tithe wool from East Rainton, 7s. 
 
 The free and customary white rent due to the rectory of Hough- 
 4ion : —Mr. Anthony Shadfoorth and Mr. Robt. Hutton for lands at 
 Warden Law, 17. 6s. 8d. ; Wm. Hope, for Hetton Mill, 5s. ; tithe hay 
 of Hetton by prescription, 12s.;* customary rent for Moorehouses, 
 2s. ; Cocken customary rents, 37. ; Pencher free rent for the mill, Is. ; 
 Morton free rent, 17. 6s. M. ; Herrington free rent, 1«. 8^. ; Biddick 
 
 * In the margin, ' now let."
 
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 free rent, SI. 6s. 8d. ; Newbottle mill free rent, 3?. id. ; Mooresley 
 hay tithe, Is. 8d. ; West Rainton ditto, customary, 16s. ; Newbottle 
 ditto [blank] ; Eppleton ditto, customary, 6s. 8d. ; Pencher ditto 
 customary, 7s. ; Ufferton ditto, customary, 4s. ; Rainton mill, 
 customary rent, 5s. — (Signed) John Husband, Robt. Ranson. 
 
 In Eggscliff, Mr. John Garnett's lands, seized and let, Aug. 18, 
 1644. Rents payable: — John Taylerson, 1 close called the Ould 
 Crooke and Wellbancks, with part of Sweatman, 101. ; Wm. Wilson, 
 the Milne Hall, Zl. 10s. ; Jas. Aynsley, Benfield and Hey close, H. ; 
 Geo. Pease, part of the old crops, 21. 10s. ; Rowland Taylerson, 
 garths and hay gates, 61. Fran. Reed, the low iield, 20/. ; Geo. 
 Featherston, jDart of Swatman's, 11. ; Jno. Dickson, the Close End, 
 61. ; Wm. Clifton, Shoulder breakneck, 11. 10s. ; Richd. Coats and 
 John Ingledew, 21. Summa, 5ol. 10s. — [Let?] to Wm. Stott and 
 Thos. Stott the water mill, wind mill and horse mill at 6s. p. week ; 
 all repairs to be allowed out of the rent which Mrs. Elizth. Garnett 
 receives in part of her own and brother and sisters' annuities. Mr. 
 Pinckney and old Mr. Xpo. Hall, 1001. lent money, p. ann. 81. ; Mr. 
 Wrey, 100/., lent money, 8/. ; Mr. Claxton, a papist, annuity of 
 121. ; Wm., Mary, and Elizth. Garnett, annuities of 12/. each ; Mr. 
 Dodgson's annuity, 6/. 6s. 8d. Summa, 74/. 6s. 8d., besides all free 
 rents and country charges. 
 
 Inventory of such goods as we, the sequestrators, fovmd of the 
 grounds belonging to Mr. Howard, Wm. Eden and Matt. Smyth at 
 Cornefoorth being tenants' goods: — 11 kine, 8 oxen, 10 young 
 beasts, 32 sheep, 4 young staggs, 6 oxen of Peter Woodhouse [blank]. 
 
 Accounts of Bradbury tithes : — Richd. Turbett, tithe corn, 8/. ; 
 John Robinson, 1/. 3s. id. ; Wm. Browne, 15s. ; Humphrey Nelson, 
 4s. ; Robt. Fawdon, tithe corn, 2/. 18s. ; John Harrison, 1/. 6s. 8d. ; 
 Xpofer Hixson, 8s.; Robt. Fishby, lis.; Richd. Turbett, more, 41.; 
 the Hither Sands, 16s. ; hay sold, 3/. 5s. ; corn sold, 9s. ; more hay 
 sold, 5s. Brought to the barn 6 stouks of wheat and 7 of oats. 
 Total, 24/. Is. 6d. 
 
 Account of the glebe land in Bradbury: — Hay, sold for 21. 12s., 
 out of which disbursed for mowing and winning all the rest of the 
 hay, 1/. 8s. 6d. ; Sum,ma restat, 11. 3s. 6d. 
 
 Inventory of all the estate, real and personal, of Mr. John 
 Ti-olopp of Thornley, esq., papist, taken Sept. 18, 1644, by the 
 appointed sequestrators : — In the hall, 3 old tables, 1 chair, 1 old 
 form, 10s. ; household stuff in the parlour, 10s. ; ditto in the inner 
 parlour, 13s. ; ditto his own lodging chamber, 1/. ; 2 bedsteads 
 ■with some feathers, 5s. ; household stuff in kitchen, 5s. ; 1 old lead 
 and 2 old tables, 3s. 4d. ; 4 milk kine and a bull, 5/. ; 2 little hay 
 ricks, 21. ; 1 little sow and 2 pigs, 3s. id. 
 
 Young Mr. Trolopp's inventory, papist, household stuff in the 
 lodging chamber, 21. 
 
 Little John Tl-olopp's inventory, papist, household stuff', lOv. 
 
 Hen. Smyth's inventory of Thornley, papist, household stuff, 10s.
 
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 ^Irs. Salvin's inventory of Hurworth, papist : —In the hall the 
 household stuff there, with a box and a pair of old virginalls, 5.s. ; 
 the household stuff' in the kitchen, 10s. ; same in the buttery, 5s. ; 
 same in the milk house, 2s. ; same in the east chamber, 2s. ; 1 bed, 
 1 chair with 1 old rug and 1 old feather bed in the middle 
 chamber, 10s. ; in the kitchen chamber 1 stand bed, 2 truckle beds 
 with old bedding to them, with all other household stuff, 1/. ; the 
 household stuff in the garret over the kitchen, 6s. ; same in the east 
 garret, 8s. ; 8 geese, 4s. ; 2 kine, 21.; 12 loads of hay, 3/. ; all the 
 ground unletteu, 17. Summa, 81. 12s. 
 
 Inventory of what goods we found in Tursdaile, belonging to Mr. 
 Howard, papist and delinquent : — In the great chamber, 3 tables, 
 5 forms, 13 buft'et stools, and 6 other stools, all torn and defaced, 
 Avith a livery cupboard, 47. ; in the green chamber an old bedstead, a 
 little table with a livery table, a stool, 10s.; in the yellow chamber 
 an old chair with a livery table, an old chair with a form, 6s. 8d. ; 
 in other I'oonis in the house is 2 tables, 4 old bedsteads, 16s. ; in 
 the kitchen 1 cuj^board, 1 cawell, 2 jjair of racks, 4 sj^itts, 21. 
 Summa, 11. 12s. The rent of Tursdaile is 166Z. p. ann. 
 
 The appraisement of Geo. Reed's goods, papist, Sept. 19, 1644 : 
 — The household stuff in the hall, \1 . 10s. ; in the parlour, household 
 stuff and bedding, 1/. ; in the bvittery a stand and a barrel. Is. ; 
 in the loft an old cawell and 3 chests, 6s. 8c?. ; in the milk house, 
 10 bowls, 2 skeeles, 1 tub, 2 shelves, 1 syling board, 2 chairs, 5s. ; 
 in the low parlour an old bedstead, an old mattress, 1 hapj^in, a little 
 livery cupboard. 8s. ; plough gear and wain gear, 4/. ; corn and hay^ 
 87. ; 4 kine and 3 calves, 6/. ; 2 foals, \l. 10s. ; 20 ewes, 20 lambs, 6Z. 
 Summa, 297. Is. — (Signed) Robt. Sharp, Symon Lackenby, Robt. 
 Rooper, Wm. Hall. 
 
 A rental of what rents are paid by the tenants of Wharrington 
 to Mr. Ralph Allenson of Durham, delinquent: — John Knaggs and 
 John Ingleby, 177. ; John Davison, 127. 8s. Id. ; Richd. Darnton, 
 157. 17s. 6^.; Lyonell Ord, 117. 18s. Id.; widow Coatsworth, 
 47. Os. 2d. ; John Ingleby, 77. 3s. ; Thos. Lamb [blank] ; Wm. Arrow- 
 smyth, 37. 19s. hd. ; John Archer, 127. 18s. 6c?. ; Robt. Coatsworth, 
 97. 6s. 2d. We could not get a right particular of the rents in 
 ^'STiarrington, payable to Mr. Ralph Allenson, but all the tenants in 
 general pay to Mr. Allenson 1007. and to the Bp. of Durham 
 267. 13.*. 4f7. 
 
 Magna Stainton. Inventory of the goods of Mr. Ralph Coats- 
 worth, delinquent and papist : — Two year old sterks and 1 bull 
 sterk, 17. 10s. ; I long wain, 1 pair of bound wheels, 2 pairs of iron 
 wheels, 2 pairs of stangs and 2 ploughs, 27. ; 4 oak trees, 4s. ; bigg, 
 107., oats 37. 10s., wheat and rye 87.— 217. 10s. ; 1 ruck of hay in 
 the Moorespotts, with the winter eatage, 27. 13s. 4(7. ; Elstobb stile 
 hay and eatage, 17. 10s. ; 3 oxen, at 33s. 4cZ. apiece, 57. — 347. 7s. 6c?. 
 Capt. Sharpe and John Rickaby to account for this. 
 
 Inventory of Hen. Wilkinson, delinquent and papist: — One
 
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 cupboard, 1 press, 1 table, 1 form, 2 long settles, 1 bedstead, 1 chair 
 5 buffet stools, 2 glass cases, 2 skeeles, 1 stand, 10 milk bowls, 
 1 old feather bed, 3 happins, 1 bolster, 1 codd, 11. 6s. ; 1 round 
 table, 1 little table, 1 bedstead, 2 chairs, 2 trunks, 4 chests, 1 
 spinning wheel, 1 livery cupboard, 1 little press, 1 little table, 
 1 bedstead, 1 box, 2 chairs, 1 counter table, 2 recking crooks, 2 pairs 
 of tongs, 4 doublers, 1/. ; 1 kettle, 1 pot, 2 pans, 1 little ladle, 
 1 frying pan, 1 spitt, 1 harrow, 1 pair of horse gear, 2 swine, 5 
 geese, 2 hens, 15s. ; 3 young beasts, 3/. ; 4 kine and 1 calf, 4/. 5s., 
 1 bull and 1 year old stagg, IL 10s. Summa, 111. 16s. 
 
 Inventory of the goods of Wm. Rickaby, papist :^ — -1 cupboard, 
 1 table, 1 form, 1 glass case, 3 little pewter dishes, h salt, 2 
 salpirres ( ?), 1 peck, \ peck, 1 dozen trenchers, 1 axe, " 1 press, 
 4 stools, 1 little round table, 2 chairs, 3 trundle beds, 1 low bed- 
 stead, 1 wheel, 11. 6s. ^d. ; 1 grease tub, 2 leaven tubs, 1 Avindow 
 -cloth, 1 teamse, 1 wey bawk, 1 pair of scales, 1 iron pot, 1 kettle, 
 3 pans, 1 mashing tub, 1 cooling tub, 1 chair, 2 pairs of broiling irons, 
 1 pair of tongs, 2 cans, 2 skeeles, 3 codds, 1 mattress, 3 sheets, 
 
 1 pair of blankets, 2 happins, 4 chests, \J. 3s. id. ; 10 milk bowls, 
 
 2 happins, 3 pairs of sheets, 1 chopping knife, 1 shredding knife, 
 1 baxslone (?) 1 ox harrow, 1 ark, 1 jDair of old horse harrows, 
 1 paii" of wain blads, 2 swine, 6 hens, 3 cocks, 2 geese, 1 frying 
 pan, 5 recking crookes and 5 turkeys, 11. 3s. \d. ; 6 kine and 6 
 calves, 71. ; 2 year old stirks, 18s. ; 16 sheep at 2s. ^d. apiece, 
 21. 2s. 9>d. ; 24 thrave of wheat and rye, 4Z. ; 18 thrave of oats, 
 18s.; *1 hay stack, 1 hay ruck and the winter eatage, 6/. 13s. id. 
 Summa, 257. 5s. id. — (Signed) John Rickaby, Thos. Morley, Synion 
 Wood. 
 
 Inventory of the goods and chattels of Lancelot Todd of 
 T3ishoptou, papist: — 3 tables, and forms belonging to them, 
 1/. 6s. 8(Z. ; a long seat and 2 stools, 3s. id. ; a cupboard and spence, 
 16x. ; 4 beds, 11. 13s. id.: 5 chests and 1 old trunk, 10s. M. \ 2 
 ■chairs and 1 cradle, 3s. id. ; 2 old kettles and 2 old pans, 5s. ; 1 kirn. 
 Is. ; two pewter doublers. Is. ; 2 sheets, Is. ; half a dozen trenchers, 
 Zd. ; half a dozen spoons, id.; wheat and rye, 5?. 9s. lie?.; corn 
 growing, peas and oats, 3?. ; 7 kine and a bull segg, %l. ; 8 sheep 
 and 2 calves, 11. 10s. ; hay, 3?.t — 26?. Is. Id. The lands used to 
 be farmed in peaceable times at 30?., or thereabouts. Charges of 
 getting hay and corn, 3?. lis. Zd. Third part deducted, rests. 
 John Widdowes is indebted 9/. — (Signed) Wm. Aire, John Atkinson, 
 Thos. Robson. 
 
 A note of the charges laid forth for reaping of Lancelot Todd his 
 
 * In the margin, opposite the entries of wheat, rye, and oats, is written : 
 ■'This is § of the corn of which he bought half, and J no. Rickaby to account 
 iov the other half.' Opposite the hay is written : 'This hay was allowed him 
 •with the land for payment of sesses. ' 
 
 f In the margin, ' Given him to pay sess with.'
 
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 corn : — 4 shearers, 2s. ; the next day is 5s. ; the next day, 4, is 2s. ; 
 the next day, 6, 3s. ; the next day, 4^, 2s. 9^/. ; binding beans> 
 7s. 6d. ; leading and stouking, 2s. ; a forker, 8d. ; a forker another 
 day, 8d., leading and stouking, 4s. ; rooping and covering, II. ; 
 heaving the oats, 8d. Sumrna, 11. 10s. 3</. Mowing the Hall garth,. 
 14s. ; raking and leading, 15s. ; mowing the fish dam, 6s. ; raking 
 an^ leading, 7s. Summa, 21. 
 
 A rental of all the lands in Nesam, late belonging to Sir Fran^ 
 Howard, knt., as by lease appeareth. Letten for ^ of this rent 
 abated: — John Steavenson, 18Z. ; Thos. Robinson, 23Z. ; Xpofer 
 Steavenson, 23?. ; Edwd. Preston, iM. ; Edmond Chappelow,. 
 16/. 5s. ; Jas. Pinckney, 24Z. ; widow Allanson, Mill farm, 22/. 9s. ; 
 widow Jackson, 24/. ; Anthony Steavenson, 20/. — 213/. 14s. 
 Cottagers: — John Smyth, 1/.; Thos. Jackson, 13s. 4i/. ; Tlios> 
 Mawer, 13s. ^d. ; Edwd. Preston, 13s. id. ; widow Anderson, 1/. ; 
 Thos. Steavenson, 1 boat and cottage, 3/. 2s. ; John Jackson, 1/. ; 
 Robt. Waistell, 1/.; John Browne, 1/. ; Martin Andren, 1/. 13s. id. ; 
 John Goldsbrough, 1/. ; Geo. Smyth, 1/. ; John Tiplady, 10s. ; 
 Xpofer Story, 10s.— 15/. 15s. id. Total, 229/. 9s. id. 
 
 Mr. Braithwaite's and Jennison's lands by year in Nesam, 150/. — 
 Mr. Geo. Buck of Nesham Abbey, Philip Doleman's* lands by year 
 in Nesam, 60/. Wm. Herdman, tenant, hath left the land. Lawrence- 
 Sayer, esq., lands p. ann. in Nesam, Dorothy Wilson and Mary 
 Wilson, tenants, 20/. 
 
 A note of Wm. Wating's corn, kine and cattle : — 3 kine and 
 1 heifer, 5/. ; 4 acres of corn, 4/. ; 4 days' work of hay, 1/. 6s. 8d. ; 
 Wm. Wating's lands p. ann., 5/. — (Signed) Anthony Steavenson,. 
 Edmond Chappelow, Edwd. Parkinson. 
 
 Wm. Wating's free rent to Fran. Howard, 4s. p. ann. ; Marmaduke- 
 Wilson for Stoddoe free rent, 2s. p. ann. 
 
 Easington, Feb. 23, 1645. 
 
 St. Margaret in Durham. Chris. Skurry farmeth a messuage- 
 and bakehouse in St. Margaret's parish, for 11/. rent p. ann., of 
 Capt. John Richardson of Barmston, but he hath disbursed more- 
 than his rent comes to for that bakehouse, 17/. The tithes of St. 
 Margaret's, due to Thos. Richardson, Bryan Richardson, and Robt. 
 Man, are sequestered, for which paid by Richd. Harrison [blank], 
 sequestrator to Mr. Lilburne, Oct. 1, 1644, 5/. lis. '2d., and allowed 
 in assessments, 2/. .'')s. \d. More paid by the said sequestrators to 
 the constables of St. Margaret's in sesses, Nov. 26, 1/. 10s. id. 
 
 Whitwell House. Inventory of Mr. Thos. Bullocke's estate, 
 62/. 13s. 10^. ; his lands p. ann. let for 160/. 
 
 Butterby. Mr. Swinburne, his inventory, goods, 49/. 14s. 2d. 
 The lands of Butterby. farmed of Mr. Nich. Chater, worth, p. ann.,. 
 83/. 6s. 8^. 
 
 * Marginal note — 'This Phi. Doleman married young Mr. Lawson's wife.'
 
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 Croxdaile. Mr. Jerrard Salvin's inventory, 881. IGs. Qd. ; his^ 
 lands there formerly let for 174Z. 
 
 Houghton. Dr. Marshall's inventory, goods and household stuff, / 
 20Z. 6s., and a cottage in Newbottle, mortgaged to said Dr. Marshall, 
 for 30/. 
 
 Rainton. Avary Robinson of Rainton, his inventory, 35/. 5s. 
 
 Hetton-in-le-Hole. Wm. Fulthorp farmeth of Geo. Reed land 
 for which he formerly paid 40/., and this last year, 30/., and for 
 this last half year he produceth a note of disbursements which 
 cometh to 19/. 0.?. 6d. 
 
 Middle Herriugton. John Lawrence farmeth of Mr. Geo. Smyth 
 of Esh, his lands there, for which he payeth 20/. p. ann. He hath 
 paid no rent, but sheweth bills of disbursements, assessments and 
 losses which amounteth to 115/. 9s. 8d. Letten this year to John 
 Lawrence for 14/. 
 
 East Harrington. Thos. Smyth paid to the said Mr. Smyth. 
 12/. p. ann. He hath paid no rent, but sheweth bills of assess- 
 ments and sesses amounting to 40/. Os. id. Letten to said Thos. 
 Smyth this land for 9/. 
 
 Bpwearmouth. Inventory of Ralph Holmes, 45/. 9s. 8d. 
 
 Sehani. Inventory of Nich. Todd, 51/. 15s. Letten to Robt. ,^ 
 Collingwood the East Park Pale field and Nedgfield in Dawdon for 'V 
 one year. Rent, 50/. Letten to John Todd the North Moor, the 
 Fence and the great house in the field, and the wind mill and water " 
 mill. Rent, 60/. It was letten formerly for 120/. Letten to Thos. 
 Liddell the Middle field, North field, Cunny garth, Cowclose, the 
 Moor, High Garthes, the kitchen loft, inner larder and outer larder 
 — the north end of them ; barn and the byre in Daldon. Rent, 55/. 
 Letten to Geo. Foster the Crofts and the Little Park for a year, to 
 begin Sunday, Mar. 25, winter ground at May Day, the house 
 wherein he dwelleth, hen house and a swine gate. Rent, 16/. 
 Letten to Geo. Johnson and John Johnson of Dawdon, the High 
 close, Fogg close, garden house and the house in which Geo. Johnson 
 now dwelleth in Dawdon. Rent, 24/. 10s. Letten to John Home of 
 Dawdon part of the Cowclose adjoining Dalton field, and the house 
 he liveth in. Rent, 4/, 
 
 Newtowne. Robt. Bellamy, tenant, payeth 49/. p. ann. He 
 entered at Mar., 1644, for a year. He hath paid no rent but pro- 
 duceth sessments which exceed the rent. 
 
 Kelloe parish. The tenants of Wyndgate town paid formerly 
 104/., but have paid no rent since May Day last. We offered it fur 
 70/. but they would not take it. Windgate Grange rent, formerly 
 114/.; we offered for 76/.; they would give but 60/. Wheatley 
 Hill rent, formerly 160/. ; we offered it for 90/. ; they will give 
 but 80/. Tursdaile rent, formerly 116/.; they will give this year 
 but 60/. We offered it for 70/. They show billeting and sesses 
 which exceed the rent for this last year. Kelloe town — the tenants .
 
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 liave all denied to take any part thereof. Thornley — the lands 
 belonging to Sir Alex. Davison was letten formerly for 240/., but 
 Wake saith he will not pay this year 1207. for it. 
 
 Hawthorn. John Davison farmeth a house, garth and close of 
 Mr. Collingwood, rent, p. ann., 5s. ; Nich. Richardson, the like, 5s. ; 
 Thos. Robinson, the like, 5s., but this rent is not to be paid till the 
 death of his mother, Margery Robinson, w'ho payeth for her life 
 time ^d. p. ann. ; John Cawston, house and garth, Is. ; John 
 Unthank, a garth. Is. ; John Hart, house and garth, Is. ; Elizth. 
 King, a garth, 6c7. : Miles White, a garth, .3s. id. ; the Hermitage 
 with 5 houses in Hawthorn, farmed by Thos. Walton and John 
 West, 5s. ; John Foster of Cold Haselden payeth a white rent issu- 
 ing forth of his lands in Hawthorn to Mr. Colling^vood, 2s. Qd. ; 
 Thos. Robinson, jun., of Hawthorn, payeth the like free rent to Mr. 
 Collingwood. Is. ?)d. 
 
 Feb. 25, 1645. 
 
 Letten to Edwd. Fawell, 2 closes in Hardwick, now in his 
 possession, called Crooke Meadows and Miller piece. Rent, 14/. 10s. 
 One close in Hutton Henry, now in his possession, called Eastfield. 
 Rent, 247. Letten to Thos. Maior of Hutton, one messuage, the Hall 
 pasture. West Meadows field and the Hall dykes in Hutton. Rent, 
 40 marks. 
 
 Trimdon. The free rent to the chief lord with the mill is 
 297. 4s. ■id., and Sir John Byron had the wardship, which will be 
 expired at Candlemas, 1645. The tithe rent, 207. p. ann. is allowed 
 for the curate. Lands unletten at Hardwick : — John Wilkinson's 
 house, Cowclose, Dane meadows, Grangeclose, Leeclose and Pry- 
 close formerly letten for 387. 13s. 4f7. Letten to Geo. Paxton of 
 Hardwick, the houses now in his possession, a meadow close called 
 Kilnflatt, the Greenes, 3 corn fields, Thisleyclose and the Moor, 
 now in his occupation, being late the lands of Mr. John Mayer, 
 papist. Rent, 427. Letten to Geo. Smyth of Hardwick, Hardwick 
 Dean House, Pryclose, Oxeclose, and 2 little corn closes, contain- 
 ing about 6 acres, now and formerly in his possession, late belong- 
 ing to Mr. John Mayer. Rent, 77. 
 
 Feb. 26, 1645. 
 
 Trimdon. Letten to Robt. Roper his part of the grounds which 
 ■was letten formerly for 1407., from May Day next for a year at 
 757. ; letten to Wm. Hutchinson, his former old rent, 1407., now 857. 
 
 Layton. Wm. Cowling paid formerly 387. ; Robt. Chapman, 
 formerly 227. ; AVm. Wilkinson, formerly 437. ; John Thompson, the 
 High field, formerly 107. and Dyall Hill, formerly 57.— 1187. Wm. 
 Cowling, formerly 307. ; Hugh Parkinson, formerly 107. ; Ralph 
 Thompson, formerlj'- 607. ; Emanuel Suddick, formerly 407. Grounds 
 unletten: — Cutter bower, 47. and West fogg 107. — 167.; High 
 •Garthes, 337.; Low Garthes, 107. — 437. : Deanham's closes, 127.;
 
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 Mill hill and the ploughed land, 327. — HI. ; outlying whereof, 201. ; 
 there is part sown bv Mr. Conyers, 123/. Total [excluding the 
 1237.], 3817. 
 
 Sedgfield, Feb. 27, 1645. 
 
 Swainston. Formerly letten by Sir. Thos. Tempest for 1407. ; 
 let by sequestrators to Peter Walker, Sam. Walker and Ralph 
 Snaith for 907. 
 
 Billingham parish. Newby Grange, letten formerly by Mr. 
 James for 1307., now let to John Wearmouth, sen. and jun., for 1007. 
 
 Swainston parish. Letten to Symond Wood, Mr. Killinghall's 
 lands, 207. : Mr. Coatsworth's 157. ; Wm. Rickaby^s 37. ; formerly 
 letten for 507. — now 387. To Ann Dobbin a messuage and 2 closes 
 of Mr. Coatsworth's estate, 37. 6s. 8d. To John Baxter a messuage 
 and meadow called Grindon Leazes and Mill Car, 47. To John 
 Rickaby the Broad Lee and other grounds on lease for 10 years, 
 67. p. ann. To Robt. Aude, a messuage garth and 8 acres of Mr. 
 ■Coatsworth's, 30*\ To Wm. Pearson, a close of Mr. Coatsworth's, 
 44.S. To Lawrence Jackson a messuage and 3 garths of Wm. 
 Rickaby's, now 37., and from May Day, 1645 to 1646, 27. 13s. id. 
 To Xpofer Richardson a house of Mr. Coatswoi'th's, 12.s. 
 
 Fishburne. Ralph Thompson of Fishburne farmeth the lands 
 there late the inheritance of Sir Ralph Conyers, deceased. Rent, 127. 
 
 Sedgfield, Feb. 27, 1645. 
 
 Thorpthewles. Letten to Fran. Denham lands in his possession 
 there called Denham's farm, late the inheritance of Capt. Robt. 
 Ellis. Rent, 247. 
 
 Fishburne. Letten to Geo. Atkinson of Fishburne two parts of 
 the farm there, late Ralph Catterick's, a papist. Rent, 67. 
 
 Layton. Letten to Chas. Elstobb, gent., two third parts of lands 
 late in possession of Wm. Cowling, Robt. Chapman, Wm. Wilkinson 
 and John Thompson, assigned for the jointure of Lady Mary Conyers 
 at Layton, a popish recusant. Rent, 387. 
 
 Corneforth. Letten to Mr. Wm. Eden of Whitton, two third 
 parts of two third parts, l)elonging to the State, of all those lands 
 in Corneforth, late belonging to Mrs. Howard and Matt. Smyth, 
 papists. Rent, 177. To Robt. Widdowes of Corneforth^ a tenement, 
 late Wm. Frizell's, a delinquent. Rent, 127., and tithe rent, 20?. 
 To John Dodgson, lands called the Isle, late Sir Thos. Tempest's. 
 Rent, 507. 
 
 hajton. Letten to Mr. Chas. Elstoljlj one third part of lands, 
 late Mr. Cuth. Conyers' there, called High garths. West fogg, Citter 
 bower. Long garths, Denham's close, Millhill field and Standley ling, 
 in possession of Wm. Cowlinge. Rent, 507. To Emanuel South- 
 gate lands in his possession late Mr. Cuth. Conj'ers' deceased — 207. 
 To Hen. Tempest of Stella, esq., Wm. Brass of Ketton, John Brass 
 of Flass, and Robt. Richardson of Elmedon, the lands of John Smyth, 
 
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 esq., in Low Elmedon and Whinhouse in Sedefield parish, 102L. 
 To Wni. Gelson, Woulveston Mill and Winyard Mill, late Mr. Tlios. 
 Davison's, 28^. To John Rawlinge lands in his possession in Elwick 
 parish, late Jerrard Salvin's, 80/. To John Rawlinge, John Wilkinson,. 
 Symon Cowlin, and Ralph Richardson grounds at Butterwick ini 
 their possession late Jerrard Salvin's, 9ol. To Isabell Earle and 
 Robt. Earle one farm in Foxton, late Robt. Smyth's, delinquent 
 and papist, HI. 
 
 Stockton, Feb. 28, 1645. 
 
 Hurworth upon Tease. Letten to Leonard Smyth, Richd 
 Grassam, Margt. Grassara, and Chris. Thompson, lands in their 
 possession, inheritance of Mr. Philip Doleman at Hurworth. Rents, 
 Smyth, 151. lOs., Richd. Grassam, 21/. 13-5. id., Margt. do., 18Z.^ 
 Thompson, 6/. To John Richardson, for 26/. 13s. id. ; Geo. 
 Bishopprick, 26/. ; Chris. Thompson, 8/. ; John Coulson, 6/. 13s. id. ; 
 Wm. Betson, 2/. 13s. id., Thos. Walker, 9/. 10s., Richd. Grassam, 
 21. 12s. id.; Geo. Farmer, 10s.: Marmaduke Walker, 2s. 8d., lands 
 now in their possession, late the inheritance of Mr. Richd. Braith- 
 M^aite, delinquent and papist, and Mr. Jenyson, at Hurworth. To 
 John Simpson, lands in the occupation of himself, Geo. Atkinson, and 
 Geo. Deane, late the inheritance of Cuth. Appleby, delinquent, at 
 Hurworth, 20 marks. 
 
 Bryerton. Letten to Thos. Armstrong, 2 farmholds in Bryerton, 
 late inheritance of Sir Fran. Howard, knt. Rent, 32/. To Symon 
 Harrison a farmhold there, 16/. To Chris. Chilton 2 farmholds 
 there, 32/. To Geo. Craw, a farmhold, 16/. To Richd. Thompson, 
 a farm, 16/. To Jas. Rainton, 3 cottages, 46s. 
 
 ^^ Nesham. Letten to John Letemer for lis. 6c/., Geo. Mawer, 
 16s., Cuth. Wilson, 5s., and Jas. Pinckney, 13s. id., the cottages in 
 Nesham now in their possession, late inheritance of Jas. Lawson. 
 To John Steavenson, sen., Anthony Steavenson, Jas. Pinckeney, and 
 Thos. Robinson, lands in Nesham, late inheritance of Sir Fran. 
 Howard. Rent, 172/. 2s. 
 
 Foxton. Letten to Steven Watson of Foxton, 1 house, 4 garths, 
 and the tillage land in the town fields of Foxton, formerly belong- 
 ing to Mr. Wm. Power of Durham. Rent, 40s. 
 
 Bishopton. Letten to Mr. John Jackson of Elstob, the lands of 
 Lancelot Tod of I^ishopton, papist. Rent, 32/. 
 
 Redmarshall. Letten to Nich. Emerson of Carlton, a pasture- 
 close and a meadow close, inheritance of Robt. Jamson in Red- 
 marshall. Rent, 6/. 13s. id. 
 
 Carlton. Letten to Wm. Fowler of Carleton, a house, garth, 
 and 1 oxgang of land there, late the land of John Foster. Rent, 
 4/. 12s. 
 
 Paulherburne. Letten to Richd. Wilkinson of Paulherburne, one 
 tenement now in his possession, late lielonging to Mr. Robt. Ellis. 
 Rent, 40 mai'ks.
 
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 Elton. Letten to John Taylerson of Elton, 1 house, i garths 
 and 1 orchard there, late belonging to Jo. Errington, sen. Rent, 
 8^. 3s. id. To Chi'is. Hodgson for 20.i\ and to Matt. Thompson for 
 25s. two cottages in Elton, late Jo. Errington's. John Bosnian 
 holdeth of old Col. Errington, 8 oxgangs, want a quarter ; paid for 
 it formerly, 40/. Robt. Mery holdeth 5 oxgangs of land of Col. 
 Errington, formerly paid 30/. John Taylerson [as above] holdeth 
 IJ oxgang, paying formerly 8/., with cottages, 121., and now payeth 
 8/. 3s. id. ; besides 20s., he is to pay 5s. 
 
 Stockton. Letten to Robt. Guy, Bryan Crosby, Wm. Usher, 
 and Cuth. Fewler, the Thornehouse close and the intack parcel of the 
 demesnes of Stockton. Rent, 25/. To Rowland and Robt. Burdon 
 of Stockton, 4^ oxgangs, late belonging to Richd. Grubham, delin- 
 quent. Rent, 15/. 10s. To the same, all the demesne lands of Stock- 
 ton, viz., the Great Summer fields and Great and Little Winter fields, 
 Kelsey hill and the Park. Rent, 125/. 
 
 Middleton George. Letten to John Wethrell, sen. and jun., a y 
 farmhold at Middleton George, late belonging to Capt. Mich. Pudsay. 
 Rent, 100 marks. 
 
 Eggscliff. Letten to Mr. Wm. Garnett and John Taylerson, all ^ 
 
 the lands at Eggscliff belonging to Capt. Jo. Garnett, delinquent. 
 Rent, 55/. 10s. To John Taylerson, the Banks and Banks close, 
 being the land of Mr. Lawrence Sayer in Eggscliff. Rent, 5/. 
 
 Preston. Letten to John Garbett of Tosthill, the lands there, "^ _ 
 late Mr. Jo. Errington's, papist, rent, 20/., and the lands in Preston, 
 late Mr. Lawrence Sayer's farmed by Mr. Errington, (and now let to 
 John Garbett) rent, 6/. Total, 25/." 
 
 Stainton parish. Letten to Thos. Humfray of Little Stainton, 
 the lands of Hamery Johnson, papist, and his lands in Newbiggin. 
 Rent, 20 marks. To John Brasse of East Newbiggin, the lands 
 of Richd. Johnson there. Rent, 20 marks. 
 
 Traft'ord-hill. Letten to Geo. Heigington, Jo. Hall and Robt. ^ 
 Hall, the lands called Trafford hill belonging to Mr. Witham, papist. 
 Rent, 133/. 6s. 8d. 
 
 Durham, Mar. 12, 1645. 
 
 Letten to Edwd. Urwin, the manor or lordship of Blakiston, Win- 
 yard, and Fulthorpe, 2 farms in Thorpetliewles, and Wolvistou Mill, 
 the inheritance of Lieut. Col. Thos. Davison ; also the tithes of 
 Thorpethewles and Newbiggin, held of Shirburne Hospital. 650/. 
 To be allowed in his rent all taxes, etc., which shall be duly imposed 
 upon the premises for the service of the King and Parlt., and 
 further we do allow one-fifth ])art of said rent, being 130/., for the 
 maintenance of the wife nnd children of the said Thos. Davison. . 
 
 Letten to Nich. Tod of Seeham, the farm in his possession there ']\ 
 called the demesnes, late belonging to Geo. Collingwood of Daldon, ' 
 
 deceased, a papist and delinquent. Rent, 25/.
 
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 Mar. 13, 1645. 
 
 Keepier. Letten to Margt. Blakiston, widow, Richd. Colston and 
 Abraham Bainbrige, all those lands at Keepier, with the mill. 
 Rent, 80/. 
 
 Apr. 16, 1645. 
 
 Sunderland. Demised to Robt. Holyday the mill, late belonging 
 to Mr. Richardson. Rent, 9/., paying monthly, 15s. 
 
 Ehvicke. Capt. Sheraton's land, in the east end of Elwicke, 
 letten to Nich. Hall. Rent, 30/., formerly, 56/. A close, formerly, 
 4:1. 6s. '3d., part of the moor, formerly, 5/., and 2 garths, formerly, 
 1/., not let. 
 
 Hardwick, Heselden parish. Demised to Richd. Soulby the 
 Cowclose and Dam meadow. Pryclose and Grange close belonging to 
 Mr. Thos. Maior. Rent, 19/. 
 
 Huton. Demised to Thos. Byers the Roded Rigge and all the 
 grounds formerly belonging to Richd. Smyth, being the grounds of 
 Mr. Thos. Maior. [Rent not named.] 
 
 Durham, Dec. 11, 1645. 
 
 Stockton Demesne. Letten to Geo. Lilburne, esq., the demesnes 
 of Stockton, etc., late belonging to Thos. Bp. of Durham. Rent, 
 166/. And the said Geo. Lilburne to have allowance in his rent 
 of all taxes, assessments and billeting according to a late order made 
 by the standing committee of this county between landlord and 
 tenant, and the said Geo. Lilburne is to repair, amend and maintain 
 the houses, hedges, fences and ditches of the premises in good and 
 sufficient repair, and shall so leave the same, at the end of his term, 
 sufficiently repaired and tenantable, and shall not put down nor 
 make any destruction of, or in any, the Avoods or underwoods, coming 
 or growing upon any part of the premises, nor shall rive up, burn, or 
 plough any other or more of the premises than what is now used in 
 tillage. 
 
 Winlaton. To Geo. Beadnell all that eighth part of Winlaton 
 lordship belonging to Sir John Mints. Rent, 75/. To Geo. Stott, 
 Durham, f parts of the manor or lordship of Winlaton, late belong- 
 ing to Mr. Wm. Hodgson. Rent, 225/. 
 
 Fenkelloe. To Thos. Younger, lands, etc., formerly belonging 
 to [blank] called Fenkelloe and Prior's Close. Rent, 62/. 
 
 He. To Thos. Bowes, esq., lands, etc., called the He, in Sedgfield 
 parish, late belonging to Sir Thos. Tempest, knt., delinquent. Rent, 
 60/. 
 
 Peleflatt. To Geo. Pescod, lands, etc., called Peleflati, late 
 belonging to Mr. Selby. Rent, 4/. 10.s\ 
 
 Netherfield House. To Raiph Clavering and [blank] Awder of 
 [blank] lands, etc., called Netherfield House, in Gatesid parish. Rent, 
 23/. Late belonging to [blank].
 
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 Hebburn. To Richd. Woolfe, lands, etc., called Hebburn, belong- 
 ing to [blank]. Rent, 110/. 
 
 Fishburne. To John Widdifield, lands, etc., in Fishburne, late 
 belonging to Mrs. Ellinor Conyers, papist. Rent, 18/. To Kichd. 
 Mason, lands, etc., in Fishburne, late belonging to Ralph Cathericke, 
 a papist. Rent, 8/. 
 
 White Hurworth, etc. To [blank], lands, etc., late Mr. Richd. 
 Baddeley's in White Hurworth and Baxtenvoode, and the tithes of 
 North Auckland. Rent, 701. 
 
 Layton. To Ralph Thompson, John Widdifield and Wm. Chap- 
 man all that manor, lands, etc., of Layton, belonging to Cuth. 
 [l)lank] deed., and to Lady Mary, late wife of Sir Ralph Conyers, 
 and Catherine Conyers, widow, late wife of the said Cuth. Conyex's. 
 Rent, 212/. 10s. 
 
 Frankeland W^ood, etc. To Richd. Marshall all those enclosures, 
 lands, etc., called Frankeland Wood, and Bishop's Meadows, late 
 belonging to Thos. Bp. of Dui'ham, and now sequestered for the 
 use of the State. Rent, 42/. 
 
 Elmeden. To Mr. John Ayreson of Durham, alderman, lands, 
 etc., ia Elmeden and Whinhouse, late belongino- to Mr. John Smyth, 
 late of Esh, esq. Rent, 120/. 
 
 Dalton Percy. To Thos. Barnes of Witton upon Wear, black- 
 smith, those 3 farms in Dalton Percy, belonging to Dr. Chris. Potter 
 of Oxford. Rent, 45/. 
 
 Blackball. To Chas. Joplin a close at Blackball, late belonging 
 to [blank]. Rent, 6/. 
 
 Swalwell. To Simon Wakefield, lands, etc., late belonging to 
 Mr. Jas. Cole of Newcastle, Rent, 16/. 
 
 Grindon. To Wm. Skirfield and Geo. Orde, lands, etc., in 
 Grindon, parish of Bishopwearmouth, late [blank]. Rent, 45/. 
 
 East Herrington. To Thos. Smyth, lands, etc., in East Herring- 
 ton, late belonging to Geo. Smyth, esq., papist. Rent, 10/. 
 
 Middle Herrington. To John Lawrence, lands, etc., in Middle 
 Herrington, late Geo. Smyth's (as above). Rent, 15/. 
 
 Bradley. To John Readshaw and Thos. Hutchison, lands, etc., of 
 Sir Geo. Baker, knt., delinquent, called Bradley, the High House, 
 and Dike Nooke. Rent, 20/. 
 
 Staindrop. To John Yiccars of Staindrop, lands, etc., there 
 called Crabtree Banks, and Hagg Flatt. late belonging to John Heath, 
 esq., delinquent. Rent, 10/. 
 
 Gibside and Marley Hill. To Mr. John Blakiston, those manors, 
 lands, etc., called Gibside and Marley Hill, with the mills, late Sir 
 Raiph Blakiston's. Rent. IGO/. 
 
 Tunstall. To Richd. Carter of Tunstall, lands, etc.. there, late 
 l)elonginrr to Sir Thos. Riddle, knt.. delinquent. Rent. 90/. 
 
 Throston. To John Armstronir, 2 farms in Throston. late Sir 
 Thos. Riddle's. Rent, 30/. 
 
 Elwicke. To Nich. Hall of Elwicke, lands, etc., there, late belong- 
 ing to Capt. Wm. Sheraton, delinquent. Rent, 46/. 3."?. Ir/.
 
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 J ("" Trafford Hill. To Geo. Heighington, lands, etc., in Trafford Hill, 
 
 I Eggescliffe jsarish, late belonging to John Witham, esq., papist and 
 
 L delinquent. Kent, 140^. To have 5/. abated for repairing the west 
 
 end of dwelling house, being ruinous. 
 
 / f~ Aislaby. To Geo. Heighington, and Cuth. son of said Geo., 
 
 lands, etc., in Aislaby, late belonging to Sir Fran. Bowes, knt. Rent, 
 
 26/. 13s. U. 
 
 Swainston. To Peter Walker, lands, etc., in Swainston, late be- 
 longing to Sir Thos. Tempest, knt. Rent, 95/. 
 
 Ulnaby. To Mr. Hen. Blakiston of Newton, esq., lands, etc., 
 in Ulnaby, late [blank]. 
 
 Wolsingham. To Jos. Markendale of Wolsingham, and Ciris. 
 FoUensby, lands, etc., in Wolsingham demesnes, late belonging to 
 Sir Paul Neale, delinquent. Rent, 18/. 
 
 Pontop. To Hen. Blackett, lands, etc., in Pontop, late be- 
 longing to Mr. Meaburne, papist, and now sequestered for the use 
 of the State. Rent, 18/. 
 
 Lanchester. To the said Hen. Blackett, lands, etc., called Manor 
 House, and the impropriation of Lanchester, late Mr. Hodgson's. 
 Rent, 80/. To same, lands, etc., called Stobbylee, late belonging to 
 Wm. Grinwell, papist. Rent, 10/. To same, lands, etc., in Lan- 
 chester, late Geo. Taylor's, papist. Rent, [blank]. 
 
 [Stella.] To Wm. Raine, lands, etc., in Stelloe, late Sir ^blank] 
 Tempest's. Rent, 24/. 
 
 [Killerby.] To Thos. Birkbeck, gent., the tithes of corn and 
 grain within the township of Killerby, late belonging to Dr. John 
 Cosin, delinquent. Rent, 23/. 
 
 [Winlington.] To John Slaytor, the lands, farm, etc., belonging 
 to Robt. Johnson of Winlington, papist. Rent, 15/. lOs. 
 
 Windgate Vill. To Fran. Smyth, sen. and jun., Nich. Wake, 
 Elizth. Hull, and Mary Comjrn, lands, etc., in Windgate Grange, late 
 belonging to Sam. Davison, delinquent. Rent, 80/. 
 
 Windgate Grange. To Thos. Mowbray, Nich. Dodshon, Ellinor 
 Browne, Alice Shepheard, Ann Hull and Elizth. Swalwell, lands, etc., 
 in Windgate Grange, late belonging to Sam. Davison, delinquent. 
 Rent, 78/. 
 
 [Cleatham.] To John Slayter, lands, etc., in Cleatham, late be- 
 longing to Sir John Som'sett, papist and delinquent. Rent, 70/. 
 
 [Shinckliff.] To Mrs. Elizth. Pearson of Shinckliff, spinster, all 
 that moiety of the tithes of corn and grain in the township of Shinckliff, 
 late belonging to Mrs. Jane Hopper of Shinckliff and Thos. Hopper 
 her son, papist, or the one of them. Rent, 25/. To the said Mrs. 
 Pearson, the farmhold, etc., in Shinckliff, late belonging to the said 
 Mrs. Hopper and Thos. Hopper, her son, or the one of them. Rent, 
 21?.
 
 CORRESPONDENGE 
 
 OF THE 
 
 DURHAM COUNTY COMMITTEE. 
 
 {From the Calendar, vol. i.) * 
 
 1645. Nov. 15. Letter from the Cou. Com., sitting at Bishop 
 Auckland, to the C.C. in London: — Gentlemen, — There are three 
 gentlemen of our county, Mr. Hen. Lambton, Mr. Thos. Davison, 
 and Mr. Ralph Davison, who have rendered themselves to this com- 
 mittee, and have desired a certificate from us to make them capable 
 to compound for their delinquency. We are desirous that they may 
 not suffer in this delay, it being only occasioned by reason we desire 
 time to inform ourselves of the true values of their estates. We shall, 
 with speed, endeavour your satisfaction therein and remain, Tour 
 very loving friends, H. Vane, Lionell Maddisonne, R. Belasys, G. 
 Vane, Chr. Fulthorpe, CI. Fulthorpe, Richd. Lilbiu-ue, Ja. Clavering, 
 Timo. Whittingham, Geo. Lilburne, Nic. Heath, Fran. Wren, Geo. 
 Gray. — Addressed — For our much honoured friends, Mr. John Ash, 
 chairman, and the rest of the committee at G.H. 
 
 1617. Durham, May 20. Cou. Com. to the C.C. We have done 
 our utmost to serve the State, but have been much obstructed by 
 the armies so long lying upon us, the burden of which is not yet 
 removed. Our county has been so exhausted with great and sad 
 ■oppressions, that we have had to spend ourselves and our estates 
 in the service without allowance, and to engage our credits to 
 procure supplies, both before and since the departure of the Scottish 
 army, for payment of our ministers and associated forces, above Avhat 
 could be raised by rents or sequestrations. Nor can we be freed 
 from our debts, or repaid our expenses, unless you make them known 
 to Park. — (Signed) Fran. W^ren, CI. Fulthorpe, Richd. Lilburne, 
 Hen. Draper, Thos. Shadforth. 
 
 * In the Calendar of the Committee for Compoundmg, from wliich these 
 letters, with a few expansions, are taken, the correspondence is arranged 
 • chronologically, rendering paginal reference unnecessarj'.
 
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 1648. Mar. 17. C.C. to the Cou. Com.*:— As by Parity, 
 order, Mar. 6, given, t we are authorised to send for delinquents who- 
 refuse to compound, or do not perfect their compositions and take- 
 out their ordinances in the time limited, we reinforce our former 
 orders, and wish you, with all speed, to make return of the names and 
 values of persons sequestered for delinquency, that we may see who 
 have complied with the offers of Parlt. in compounding, or who- 
 neglect them, and may take further coiu"se. Send a reply by the 
 bearer in fourteen days as you will answer the contrary. Meanwhile 
 let the orders here sent you be published, that none may pretend 
 ignorance when called to account for their contempt. 
 
 1648. Durham, Apr. 1.3. Cou. Com. to the C.C. :— We cannot 
 easily give you the required account of sequestration in this county, 
 and of compounders who do not prosecute their compositions, extents 
 being too frequent on delinquents' estates ; but we are meeting weekly 
 at great cost, besides our former sufferings through destruction of 
 our houses, imprisonment, etc., by Parliament's enemies. Yet for 
 four years we have served, and looked for no allowance. 
 
 Tlie whole country has suffered much from both armies, and also 
 by maintaining the associated forces, and by the surprisal of Raby 
 Castle, so that the profits would not pay our expenses, nor a solicitor 
 or clerk, and we have had to pledge ourselves for divers sums. The 
 King, Queen, and bishop's revenues in this county are disposed of, 
 and the dean and chapter's lands are overcharged with stipends. 
 Divers delinquents of the largest estates have compounded, and with 
 one-fifth to delinquents' wives and children, and one-third to papists, 
 much profit cannot be expected. 
 
 The cry of the country is, ' What ! shall we still pay sesses, and 
 have none in the HouseJ for us to grant them? Shall we be ready to- 
 I^erform service for the State and [l^ear] unequal burdens, and still 
 be without the State's protection ? ' No laws can here be executed 
 for recovering debts, but in a jDOor county court under iOs. No 
 bargain nor estate of lands here confirmed because fines cannot he 
 acknowledged. No thieves, robbers, murderers, or felons punished 
 here, because no assize is held in this county ; the numl)er of prisoners 
 
 * A similar letter was addressed to County Committees throughout the 
 kingdom. 
 
 + The order is as follows : — 1648. Mar. 6. — Ordered b}- the Lords and 
 Commons, in Parlt. assembled, that power be and is hereby given to the 
 Commissioners at Goldsmiths' Hall, to send for all such delinquents in safe 
 custody that either do refuse to compound at all, or having submitted to a 
 composition do not. with effect, prosecute and perfect their compositions and 
 take out their ordinances, passed by both Houses, within the times limited, or 
 within one month after the date of this order ; and to commit to prison sucli 
 as they shall find cause, till thej- do comply and yield obedience accordingly. 
 
 J An evident allusion to the abortive efforts that had been made to obtain 
 direct representation of the county palatine in the Parliaments of 1562-6.3, 
 1614, 1620-'21, 1623-24, and from the beginning of the Long Parliament in.. 
 1640 to the date of the letter.
 
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 increases, and the gaols are so thronged that the country is hardly- 
 able to maintain them, and they themselves cry for help. The 
 sufferings of this county have been above those of any other, and 
 no reparation. Whilst some have obtained reparations of losses 
 and security for their moneys, with 8 jier cent, interest, we have 
 wanted these six or seven years 26,000Z. disbursed to the Scots in 
 their first expedition, and no care to repay it, though an Act was 
 passed for that purjDose. 
 
 We l)eg your assistance in making our case known to the Houses. 
 We have laboured by j^etitions, but greater business has made them 
 fruitless, yet we will not desist our labours to promote your service. 
 — (Signed) Thos. Midford, Richd. Lilburne, CI. Fulthorpe. 
 
 1648? Petition of Robt. Sharpe and Geo. Clarke, treasurers to 
 the late C.S. in co. Durham to the C.C, for discharge for 147/. 9s. Qd. 
 ordered to be levied on them for arrears. They deducted this sum 
 for salary on rendering their account, according to the ordinance 
 of Parlt. Have been four years in service in Chester and Easington 
 wards and were drawn from their own occasions to serve the State.* 
 Beg order to the Cou. Com to forbear to levy the said sum. 
 
 1650. Durham, Feb. 4. Isaac Gilpin to the C.C. : — I received 
 the Act for discharging the Cou. Com.,t who were dismissed before 
 
 * Sir Arthur Haslerigg, writing from Newcastle, Maj' 18, 1648, to the 
 Speaker of the House of Conunons, encloses a petition from ' divers gentlemen 
 of the CO. of Durham," in which they ask among other things that Thos. 
 Sanderson, Thos. Holyman, Wm. Butler, Jo. Middleton, Geo. Grayson and 
 Roger Kirkbye, esquires, all gentlemen of good quality, maj' be added to the 
 committee for sequestrations. 'I assure you. Sir,' he continues, 'there is 
 verj' great need of it, for very few of the gentlemen of the count}' that were in 
 arms against you have been sequestered, and most of them have now gone to 
 the enemy.' — Gary, Meinoria/s of the Greaf Cin'l IVa?-, i. 421. 
 
 + 1650. Jan. 25. Ordered [in the House of Commons] that the Lords 
 Commissioners for the Great Seal do take care that writs be issued out and 
 sent down, togetlier with the Act, intituled, ' An Act for the better ordering 
 and managing the estates of papists and delinquents,' to the several sheriffs 
 of every several county, to proclaim this Act. 
 
 This Act (passed for two years) abolislred the committees which had 
 previously prepared, and sometimes settled, cases of compounding, and estab- 
 lished new tribunals nominated and controlled exclusively by the C.C. 
 Its leading provisions were these : — 
 
 All county committees to certify in six weeks the names of papists and' 
 delinquents, and their estates, with leases, charges, etc., thereon, and the 
 arrears unpaid ; and henceforth the said committees are to cease to act, or ta 
 let sequestered estates, receive rents, sell woods, etc., and the C.C., or whom 
 they nominate, are to manage the estates. All farmers, tenants, etc , to pay 
 in their moneys to G. H. before Apr. 1, 1650, on pain of fine. 
 
 Commissioners, appointed by the C. C. from persons faithful in the last 
 war, to have power to peruse all the papers of tlie former committees, who are 
 to be fined if they refuse them. They are to sequester estates of papists in 
 arms, and all other delinquents, and two-thirds of the estates of other papist.s ; 
 to survey the estates, and consider how the rents can be improved, and what 
 profits can be made by wood sales, etc., and let the estates to the highest 
 bidder for not more than seven years ; to keep courts, receive fines, etc., act
 
 42 
 
 by a letter from Sir Arth. Hesilrigge, bart., and Col. Fenwick. The 
 committee were then sitting to let sequestered lands, but they 
 broke up. This is the letting time for farmers, and unless care be 
 taken they will not be let at their value for this year. Are the 
 leases which they had already made to stand] There is a library 
 belonging to Durham Cathedral. When the Scots' armies lay here 
 many of the best books were carried away by them, as is known to 
 Sir Wm. Armyne and the Commissioners of Parlt. then in the North, 
 who have made me keeper of the library, which I have laboured to 
 preserve since. The soldiers have hurt the leads by getting on to 
 them, and wet has got into the walls behind the books and done 
 them some hurt, and more will be done unless the leads are repaired. 
 There was a poor stipend from the dean and chap.'s revenues for 
 keeping the library, which will be taken away on sale of their lands. 
 Something should he done to preserve the books, or they should 
 be sold for the use of the State. There was also some very good 
 plate, and rich copes conveyed away about the Earl of Newcastle's 
 time. I cannot tell what has become of the copes, but Mr. Duncan* 
 had the plate ; theia it was sent to Lady Hamond, and she sent it 
 to Anthony Maxton, one of the late prebends, who died a delinquent. 
 He had it buried in a garden at Harporley, where Jos. Craddock, who 
 married his daughter, lives. He pretends the plate was due to him, 
 because the dean and prebends owed him more than its worth. Pray 
 consider my petition enclosed. 
 
 Petition of Isaac Gilpinf of the city of Durham (undated) : — 
 That before these late troiibles your petitioner suffered much trouble 
 
 upon instructions and receive 12d. in the pound salary ; to examine charges on 
 sequestered estates and allow them if made before sequestration, allowing also 
 wives and children of papists in arms and delinquents a fifth of the estates for 
 subsistence. 
 
 The clerk to the late Cou. Com. is to return the names of all delinquents 
 whose sequestrations are discharged or who are on appeal before the Barons of 
 Exchequer. All profits on sequestered estates to be accounted for to the C. C. 
 only and paid in at G. H. All persons sequestered since Aug. 1, 1649, to be 
 admitted to compound on the votes of Parlt. of Mar. 14 and 21, 1649, if they 
 prosecute their compositions within six weeks after they are adjudged 
 delinquents. 
 
 * Eleazar Duncan, installed prebendary of the fifth stall on Jan. 8, 1627. 
 He was of Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, where he had a fellowship, and in 
 1633 obtained a degree of D.D., upon a treatise De Adoratione Dei versus 
 Altare, which was printed in 1661, with a preface by Dr. Richard Watson. 
 Ordained deacon by Laud, Mar. 13, 1624 ; priest by Bishop Neile, whose 
 •chaplain he was, Dec. 24, 1626. Installed prebendary of Winchester 
 Nov. 13, 1629 ; prebendary of Knaresborough in York Cathedral, May 1, 
 1640 ; collated to the rectory of Haughton, near Darlington, Apr. 10, 1633. 
 He was chaplain to King Charles I. and died in exile, 1649 or 1650. — 
 Hutchinson, Hist. Durham, ii. 188. 
 
 t Isaac Gilpin, clerk to the Durham Cou. Com. and holder of other offices 
 of trust in connection therewith, was a grand nephew of Bernard Gilpin, the 
 ' Apostle of the North,' and father to Dr. Richd. Gilpin the apostle of Non- 
 •conformity in Newcastle. He married Anne, daughter of Ralph Tunstall of
 
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 and injury under the prelatical faction and their agents. That in 
 the time of the Earl of Newcastle he and his wife and children were 
 thrust out of their dwelling by ' mandamus ' from the said earl , 
 whereupon the house where he then lived was spoiled, and much 
 of his household stuff lost and wasted, and he was then forced to 
 put away his children from him and disperse his family, and him- 
 self afterwards was taken jDrisoner by troopers, then under com- 
 mand of Col. Clavering, but by God's providence in a short time 
 delivered out of their hands. That since that time he hath constantly 
 been employed in the Parlt.'s service both by Commissioners of 
 Parlt. and several committees of the county, wherein he hath been 
 diligent and faithful as by certificate from the grand jury of the 
 county at Michaelmas Sessions last (and sent to Sir Hen. Vane) may 
 appear. That for and in regard of his said service it jjleased the 
 Committee of Eevenue about July, 1646, to grant unto your 
 petitioner the keeper's place of Beareparke, which now upon sale 
 thereof is taken away ; being all your petitioner had to show for 
 his said service. That since that time, when the Scots had Berwick 
 and Carlisle and were making their approaches, your petitioner 
 (upon his own charge) furnished himself and his son with horses 
 and arms and assisted those few of the militia which then acted for 
 raising forces in the county, for defence of the county, and so con- 
 tinued for six months together without any recomjiense, his said 
 son being yet in the Parlt.'s service. That your petitioner hath 
 lost divers horses of good value which he kept for that service and 
 hath in all this time had little or no benefit of his poor estate, 
 having a wife and six children. Now seeing your petitioner is 
 grown old and divers of his children not yet preferred, his humble 
 prayer is that you will be pleased to take the premises into your 
 pious consideration and be a means to procure him the said office 
 of keeper, or some other allowance, whereby he may be enabled 
 to maintain himself, wife and children and that his soul may bless 
 the Parlt. and your honours and as in duty bound he shall pray. 
 
 1650. Durham, Apr. 10. Cou. Com. to the C.C. : — We have 
 had divers consultations about the most expeditious way of bringing 
 the sequestrations of the county to an account ; but as divers persons 
 were sequestered by Sir Wm. Armyne and the rest of the Com- 
 missioners of Parlt. [see post., Apr. 25] and also many sequestered 
 
 Coatham Mundeville. So, at least, writes Longstaflfe in vol. 50 of this Society's 
 publications, pp. 143, 494, and his statement is conrirmed by an elaborate 
 pedigree of the Gilpin family attached to Wm. Gilpin's Memoir of l>r. lUchd. 
 Gilpin, although Surtees, Hist. Durham, iii. 272, enters her as one of the. 
 daugliters of Thos. Tunstall and Dorothy Place. Hy this lad}- Isaac had nine 
 children, of whom six were living at the date of his petition. Dr. Riclul. 
 Gilpin of Newcastle appears to have been his second son. Cf. (irosart's edition 
 of Gilpin's Sataii'-s Ttimptation.s, xvii. ; Dendy, Surt. Soc. Pub. 101, p. 2B4, and 
 further letters of petitioner to the C. C. dated Nov. 20 and 26, 1651, and Jan. 
 19, 1652, post.
 
 u 
 
 in 1644, when the county was in much distraction, we find the 
 business so difficult that it cannot be effected in the time allotted 
 to us, and we must entreat your favour for the enlargement of the 
 time.— (Signed) Thos. Midford, Geo. Lilburne. Geo. Gray, CI. Ful- 
 thorpe, Richd. Lilburne, Thos. Shadforth. 
 
 1650. Apr. 17. Order of the C.C. to the Cou. Com. to examine 
 and certify accusations and examinations relating to Geo. Lilburn,. 
 Sir Wm. Langley and [Thos.] Shadford, which (with those of Sir 
 Richd. Bellasise, who had been discharged as not liable to sequestra- 
 tion) had been under consideration and found incomplete. 
 
 1650. Apr. 25. Reports by Sir Arth. Haslerigg's secretary, 
 Anthony Pearson,* of the fines set in the four northern counties by 
 the commissioners appointed by Act of Parlt., Mar. 2, 1649, for com- 
 pounding with delinquents in the last war.f 
 
 Ik East Durham and North Durham. 
 
 £ s. d. 
 Cuth. Appleby, Langleydale (was in arms in 
 
 the first war l)ut never comjiounded) . 
 John Armourer, Cornhill 
 Wm. Barnes, Darlington 
 Geo. Bellasis, Durham ... 
 Thos. Bowes, Streatlam 
 John Buttery, Nesbet 
 Robt. Clavering, Axwell Houses 
 Wm. Collingwood 
 Thos. Conyers, Wolly ... 
 Gascoigne Eden, Billingham ... 
 John Fetherstonehalgh, Stanhope-in-Wardall 547 10 
 
 Ralph Fetherstonehaugh, Toft 310 16 
 
 Wm. Frizell, Durham 40 
 
 Claudius Hamilton, Gateshead ... ... 80 18 
 
 f^ John Hilton, Hilton (settlement of 45/. a year 
 from Monkwearmouth accepted for 450Z.) 484 12 
 John Husband, Sunderland 
 John Jackson, Harraton 
 Thos. Orde, Long Riding 
 Aid. Wm. Orde, Berwick-on-Tweed ... 
 W^m. Reed, Kelloe [Kyloe] 
 Robt. Taylor, Rainton [Raredon], Lanchester 
 
 parish 
 John Tempest, Old Durham ... 
 
 * When the possessions of the See were sequestered, and a great part of 
 them in the hands of Sir Arth. Haslerigg, bart., Anthony Pearson was steward 
 of the halmote or copyhold courts at Durham. — Hutchinson, Hi^t. Durham, 
 i. 507)1. More about him (his repentance, confirmation, and death) appears in 
 this Society's Pub. 53, p. 316. 
 
 t There is a similar list for the county of Northumberland under same date. 
 
 60 
 
 
 
 
 
 71 
 
 6 
 
 8 
 
 438 
 
 
 
 
 
 80 
 
 
 
 
 
 456 
 
 
 
 
 
 165 
 
 
 
 
 
 105 
 
 
 
 
 
 28 
 
 
 
 
 
 96 
 
 19 
 
 
 
 66 
 
 
 
 
 
 4 
 
 10 
 
 
 
 436 
 
 14 
 
 7 
 
 73 
 
 13 
 
 4 
 
 564 
 
 
 
 
 
 20 
 
 17 
 
 
 
 25 
 
 
 
 
 
 305 
 
 9 
 

 
 45 
 
 £ 8. d. 
 
 Nich. Tempest, Stewklev 123 6 8 
 
 Thos. Tempest, Stanley' 100 
 
 Nich. Woodhouse, Coriaforth 20 
 
 1650. Durham, May 17. Late Gou. Com, for Dm-ham to the 
 CC. : — We received an Act of Parlt. of Jan. 25 last, whereby 
 we were prohibited to act any further about sequestrations, and 
 were commanded to make and return duplicates of all sequestrations. 
 In obedience thereto we have had divers meetings, and found it a 
 w^ork of much difficulty and impossibility, as divers delinquents 
 Tvere sequestered by Sir Wm. Armyne and the Commissioners of 
 Parlt. before we sat as a committee; and in 1644 and 1645 we 
 divided, and some of us went through one part of the county, and 
 the others thi'ough another part, and sequestered such as came to 
 •our knowledge. We also had two clerks to keep our books, viz., 
 John Midleton of Darlington* for two wards, and Chris. Mickleton 
 of Durham for the other two ; but by reason of the many distrac- 
 tions which this county lay under, having then many great armies, 
 and by reason of our not sufficient acquaintance with the ordinances 
 of sequestration, we could not proceed in such methodical course 
 as would enable us now to give the account required. Besides, 
 •Chris. Mickleton, having gone to London has delivered up his books 
 to your commissioners. Moreover John Brackenbury,! who then 
 acted much about sequestrations and was made treasurer of part of 
 the county by Sir Wm. Armyne, will not join us, although several 
 times desired. This notwithstanding, one of our clerks has drawn 
 duplicates of the present sequestrations as they were let in Mar. 
 1648 for 1649, a copy of which is enclosed. ... By the Act of 
 Mar. 2, 1649, the sequestrations of all delinquents, and the fines 
 and compositions within those four northern counties were, in regard 
 to their great sufferings, given to such counties respectively, from 
 Nov. 28, 1648, for the disbanding of their respective forces, and 
 for discharging other engagements. We have engaged to pay our 
 •clerks, treasurers, and other agents for their services, and there- 
 fore crave the benefit of the said Act, whereby we may be enabled 
 to discharge the same. We will give a just account and return the 
 overplus ; if any moneys can be justly charged on any of us we 
 shall be ready to give satisfaction ; seeing that we have been and 
 are still willing — to the great loss and damage of our estates, and 
 the hazarding of our own and our wives' and children's lives — to 
 serve the Parlt., we entreat that you will candidly accept our service 
 and grant us such a discharge that we may he no further called in 
 question or troubled. — (Siened) l^ichd. Lilburne, Geo. Lilburne. 
 
 * See the family of Middleton and the confusing number of ' .Johns ' in it, 
 exemplified by Longstaffe, Hlxt. J)ar/i)i<ilon, pp. 139, 140. Pedigree of the 
 Middletons in Surtees, Hisf. Durhttm, iv. 1(58. 
 
 + The case of John Brackenbury of Selaby and his troubles with Lady 
 Katherine Fletcher are recorded later on under his name.
 
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 1650. Durham, May 23. Cou. Com. to the C.C. : — Accord- 
 ing to your several orders, we have proceeded to sequester the 
 estates of delinquents who had not paid in their compositions, and 
 doubt not but they will swiftly apply themselves to give you satis- 
 faction. We are in great difficulties about the duplicate to be 
 given by the old committee, which has not come in entire, but in 
 multitudes of broken reckonings and accounts, they having employed 
 many treasurers and agents and factors for sequestration, and this 
 is a county that has long lain under the oppressing armies of the 
 Scots and the Earl of Newcastle. We find such confusion in all 
 their accounts, by reason of billet and free quarter, broken inven- 
 tories, and cheapness of all manner of goods, both quick and dead, 
 as very much intricates our affairs here. Were the most exact 
 auditors set on to methodize, yet much spare time and recess from 
 other employment would have to be spent, and yet leave room for 
 evil consciences to abuse the State without remedy. For the main 
 of your profits by sequestrations we doubt not to give a good account 
 of the increase beyond what has been heretofore made, and also 
 good discoveries to the State's benefit, and shall be as careful as- 
 we can to enquire after arrears and gather them in. We enclose 
 a part of your charge ; we have chosen Col. Fran. Wren as treasurer. 
 — (Signed) Thos. Hesilrige, Fran. Wren, Thos. Delavall. 
 
 1650. Jime 6. Confirmation by C.C. to Dr. Samuel Rand* of 
 an order of the C.S. of July 7, 1647, making void a former order 
 of that committee for allowance of a fifth to the wife and children of 
 Dr. Clerke, in whose place Rand was appointed master of Greatham 
 Hospital by Parity, order of Sept. 30, 1644. — June 21. Similar 
 order and confirmation by C.C. to Lieut. Col. John Fenwick (to 
 whom, in 1644, Parlt. granted the mastership of Sherburn Hospital, 
 sequestered from John Markham) that no fifth be paid out of it ta 
 Markham's wife and children, nor any disturbance made for it. 
 
 * Samuel, son of Jas. Rand, A.M., vicar of Norton, by Margery, daughter 
 of Edw. Banckes, rector of Long Newton, was baptised Aug. 18, 1588, educated' 
 at Christ's Coll., Cambridge, proceeded A.B. 1610, A.M. 1613, entered at 
 Leyden, Sept. 2, 1616, and graduated M.D. at Groningen. He was admitted 
 Fellow of the College of Phj'sicians, London, Dec. 22, 1630, and afterwai'ds 
 settled in Newcastle, where, on the death of Dr. Robt. Henrj'son, he was 
 appointed Town's Physician, with a .salary of 40/. per annum. Fi-om that post 
 he was displaced for negligence, Apr. 21. 1643, but was re-admitted in 1652. 
 (On his death in 1654 his nephew, Wm. Hilton, claimed 320/. arrears due from 
 the Corporation.) In Sept. 1644 he was appointed master of Greatham 
 Hospital by Parlt. in the following terms : ' Upon a special recommenda- 
 tion to this House from Sir Wm. Armyne and the rest of the commis- 
 sioners at Sunderland, of Samuel Rand, Doctor of Physic, as a person that hath 
 approved himself a constant friend to the cause, and suffered great losses by 
 the enemy, it is this day ordered bj^ the Commons House of Parlt. that the said 
 Dr. Rand shall be master of the hospital of Gi'eatham. . . . And it is referred 
 to the Commissioners of Parlt. at Sunderland to put the said Dr. Rand in 
 possession accordingly.' Dr. Rand died in Mar. 1654, and was buried on the 
 8th of that month at Gateshead. There is a pedigree of his family in Surtees,, 
 Hist. Durham, iii. 417.
 
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 1650. July 2. C.C. to Cou. Com. for Durham, Northumber- 
 land, and other counties : —We find that no moneys have been 
 returned from some counties on the Act of Jan. 25 last, notwith- 
 standing votes in Parlt. requiring the Lady Day rents to be detained 
 in the tenants' hands ; if you had used diligence, money would 
 have been paid in from your county as from others. We impute it 
 to your remissness, and desire better care in future. Send an 
 account of moneys in tenants' hands, or received, or in arrear. 
 Without this we cannot satisfy Parlt. and shall be forced to com- 
 plain of defaulters and take a course to prevent such neglect in 
 future. 
 
 1650. Durham, July 11. Reply of the Cou. Com. :— It is true 
 our county is one of those from Avhich no money has been returned 
 to your treasury, but you must take cognizance of the state of the 
 sequestrations here when we entered upon that employment, viz., 
 that those lands were all let to farm by the former committee for 
 the year 1649, and the rent days by their covenants were Martinmas, 
 which is Nov. 11 and Pentecost, June 20, which are the constant 
 rent days in this county, and that until last Pentecost we could 
 not imburse any considerable sum, which disabled us answering your 
 expectation of the rent becoming due Mar. 25. For our care 
 in returning what we have received, the bearer can witness, with 
 whom we have dealt to obtain us bills of exchange from the 
 treasurers-at-war, which is the only return from these parts, by 
 reason of the army's present advance northward ; and herein we 
 have to crave your furtherance to draw to your treasury 1,500^, 
 which we have received. — (Signed) Fran. Wren,* Thos. Delavall.f 
 
 * Col. Fran. Wren of Henknoll, near Bishop Auckland, son of Fran. Wren 
 of the same place, and nephew to Sir Chas. Wren of Binchester, appears to have 
 embraced the cause of the Parlt. from sincere conviction. When his party was 
 triumphant he conducted himself with great moderation towards the loyalists 
 and maintained the honourable feelings of a gentleman amid the horrors of 
 civil war. He survived the restoration and died a bachelor in the Sfith year 
 of his age, Sept. 24, 1684, and lies buried with his ancestors in the church of 
 St. Andrew's Auckland. Col. Wren had two sisters, the eldest of whom, 
 Gertrude, was an ardent royalist, and of whom tradition relates that when the 
 unfortunate king Charles on his journey from Newcastle to Holmby was con- 
 veyed a prisoner through Bishop Auckland, in the winter of 1646-47, she went 
 to visit him at his lodgings and found him surrounded with watchful guards 
 who were sitting smoking tobacco a practice the king held in utter and 
 decided aversion. Shocked at their uncourtly freedom and want of respect to 
 royalty, she dashed the pipes from the mouths of the astonished soldiers in 
 rapid succession, and then paid her respects to the king, who equallj- surprised 
 and gratified at such an unexpected proof of attention to his personal comfort, 
 said, 'Lady, that's more than I durst have done.' — Sharp's Reprints of Rare 
 Tracts — A Skirmish in Xoftlnunhcrldml, p. 2. But in Richley, Hisl. fiislio/i 
 Auckland, p. 189, this vigorous dame is described as Barbara, wife of Lindley 
 Wren of Binchester. Raine, I/ist. Anrkluntl Cnsf/c, ^p. 81, names iier simply 
 as ' a lady of the name of Wren of the Binchester family,' and Ral[)h Nelson, 
 in notes to John Thompson's paper on Wrai of IVtiichextcr, adopts the same 
 cautious policy. See also the case of Lindlej' Wren at the end of this volume. 
 
 + Thos. Delaval, third son among the numerous progeny of Sir Ralph
 
 48 
 
 1650. Durham, Aug. 20. Late Cou. Com. to C.C. : — We have 
 had several meetings with such of the committee as would join 
 with us, and did our best for the drawing of duplicates, whereof we 
 returned you one, and caused another to be delivered to your com- 
 missioners, with all the books we had touching sequestrations in 
 this county, as also the several charges against delinquents, whereby 
 your commissioners were enabled and have since let all sequestered 
 lands. Since then we have given them our accounts, and caused 
 our sequestrators and treasurers to do the same ; and they have 
 also paid in such moneys as they had in hand. Notwithstanding 
 this, on the 6th inst. we received an intimation from your com- 
 missioners here that a fine of 20/. would be imposed upon every 
 member of our old committee, unless we returned the duplicates 
 required under the Act within a month. We have been ready to 
 show our obedience, and have done our best, and much more than 
 most committees, or than any committee in the like condition, 
 which has been kept so. long and so many times under so many 
 distractions ; we were never a year freed since we were a com- 
 mittee, save in 1647, wherein we had forces of our own raised in 
 the county, and in 1649, which two years were all wherein we 
 could make any reasonable benefit of sequestrations ; the rest of 
 the benefit thereof, and also a great part of the benefit of those 
 two years was not sufiicient for the unavoidable charge forced upon 
 us, above that which this poor exhausted county was then able to 
 bear ; the King, Queen, Prince, and bishop's, dean and chap.'s 
 revenues being otherwise disposed of for most part of the time, 
 and when benefit might have been made thereof ; therefore we 
 
 Delaval of Delaval, by Jane, dau. of Tiios. Hilton of Hilton, became associated 
 with the public life of the county palatine through his marriage with the widow 
 of Fran, .lames of Hetton, youngest son of Dr. James, Bishop of Durham. The 
 number of marriages involved in this connection is remarkable. First of all 
 Bishop James had three wives, the last of which had herself bc-en married 
 before — Isabel, widow of Robt. Atkinson, a wealthy Newcastle merchant, 
 sheritf of the town 1580-81, mayor 1590-91, buried in 8t. Nicholas' Church there, 
 Oct. 6, 1596. By her he had a son, Francis, and this son of his old age became 
 his executor. To him the Bishop left an ample fortune, including great part 
 of the manor of Hetton, commonly called Hetton le Hole. Francis, main- 
 taining the family predilection, was twice married — first, to a ladj- unknown ; 
 secondly, Apr. 27, 1632, to Elizth., dau. of Sir Wm. Belasyse of Morton House. 
 He did not live long after his second marriage, and on Maj' 6, 1645, his well- 
 dowered widow bestowed her hand and forti;ne upon Thos. Delaval. 
 Espousing the cause of the Parlt. Delaval settled down upon liis wife's 
 estate, where he is frequently noted in the records of the period acting as a 
 justice of the peace and a commissioner for compounding. With his colleague, 
 Fran. Wren, he was of the grand jury of the co. Durham which, on Apr. 
 21, 1658, signed the address to Cromwell, promising ' witii the help of the 
 Almighty ' to assist him with the hazard of their lives and estates for the 
 preservation of his person and the settlement of the peace and privileges of the 
 nation. One of his sons, Robt. Delaval, was elected mayor of Durham in 1686 
 and remained in othce till 1689, when he was removed by Bishop Crewe on the 
 ground that he had become embarrassed and misapplied the city revenues.
 
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 •entreat that you will not expect impossibilities from us, but accept 
 our loyalty and faithful endeavours. — (Signed) Thos. Midford, Richd. 
 Lilburne, Geo. Lilburne, Jo. Brakenbury. 
 
 1650. Durham, Sept. i. Cou. Com. to C.C. : — Understanding 
 that the treasurers-at-war are about to return moneys for payment 
 ■of the army in the North, we desire that the 2,000/. we have 
 received on sequestrations may be paid at Newcastle. We received 
 your letter with the instructions. Acts and ordinances for sequestra- 
 tions, and will observe them. We gave notice to the late committee 
 of the fine of 20/. imposed for their neglect in not returning the 
 duplicate, and they replied they could make no other ; but 
 we have received several books and papers which will better 
 inform us concerning sequestrations. — (Signed) Fran. Wren, Thos. 
 Delavall. 
 
 16.50. Durham, Sept. 5. C.S. to the C.C: — We recommend 
 Arth. French, who faithfully served the committee as a sequestrator, 
 but by his exj^enses in that service, and the non-payment 
 of his salary, amounting to 81 Z. 4s. Id., he is brought into 
 -exigencies. — (Signed) Fran. Wren, Thos. Delavall. [Note attached 
 that the C.C. are sensible of the sufferings and service of the poor 
 man, and would very willingly help him if they could.] 
 
 Petition of Arth. French, sub-sequestrator in Chester ward, for 
 payment of salary and allowance for travelling and other expenses. 
 In the l^eginning of the troubles, being well known to bear good 
 affection to Parlt., he was several times taken prisoner, once by 
 Major Holtby by warrant from the late Earl of Newcastle, and 
 sent to York, whence he escaped ; another time by some oflScers and 
 soldiers sent from Sir Wm. Lambton ; one night he had his house 
 beset, and was forced to fly with his son into Scotland, where he 
 continued a year, and meantime had all his estate seized by John 
 Heath of Durham ; returning with the Scottish army under Gen. 
 Leslie, had his barn and goods bui-nt, and had nothing left for 
 maintenance of himself, his wife and seven children. He com- 
 menced a suit against Heath, but was overthrown by reason of the 
 Articles on the surrender of Oxford, and was forced to pay Heath 4/. 
 Being employed as a sequestrator he undertook a dangerous journey 
 into Yorkshire to sell goods for the State, and there is now 81/. 4 .v. Id. 
 due to him, arrears of salary, besides satisfaction for his journeys.* 
 Has several orders, but never received payment. [Writ of execu- 
 tion for payment to Heath of 4/. dated Feb. 12, 1650, with a receipt 
 endorsed Mar. 16, enclosed.] — Sept. 20. Certificate from the late 
 Cou. Com. that French was honest and well affected from the 
 beginning, and had suffered much loss and injury by the contrary 
 party ; that he undertook divers dangerous journeys, which few 
 or none would have undertaken, especially one in 1648, for selling 
 sequestered goods of value to raise money to pay Col. Wren's 
 
 * See post, Dec. 15, 1652.
 
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 regiment, for which he was forced to drive the goods to divers fairs: 
 in Yorkshire, with hazard of his life, and that they would have paid 
 him his stipend with arrears, but were prevented by their authority 
 being unexpectedly taken awaA'. 
 
 1650. Sept. 10. The C.C. order the Cou. Com. to pay 
 1,500/. or any other moneys in hand not exceeding 2,000/. on 
 assignments made by the treasurers-at-war. 
 
 1650. Sept. 20 (No. 1). C.C. to Cou. Com:— The pressing 
 occasions of the State for money has put us to enquire into the state 
 of the sequestration revenues under your management.* .... 
 Your yearly revenue is 6,776/. 5>(. 6f/. so that the rents due Mar. 25 
 
 last are 3,388/. 2*. 9d We hope you have received the late 
 
 votes of Parlt. and note the penalty you incur by not returning 
 moneys. We can neither satisfy our consciences nor answer our 
 trust to Parlt. w^hen moneys lie uncollected or unbrought in. We 
 hope your care in future will prevent our further solicitations and 
 your further trouble. Return such contracts as you have made. 
 In some counties we hear that the committees are remiss in their 
 meeting. Meet weekly, or oftener if needful, and tell us your time 
 and place of meeting, and also why each particular rent remains 
 unreceived. Had you jjut forth your power most of the half year's 
 rents would have been paid. Pay in the revenues as they grow due ; 
 send a perfect rental of your revenue and alterations or improve- 
 ments each month. Pay no charges or allowances without orders 
 from us, except augmentations to ministers. — (Signed) Thos. Mid- 
 ford, Richd. Lilburne, Geo. Lilburne. 
 
 Same date (No. 2). C.C. to Cou. Com. for Durham (and forty- 
 one other districts) : — We said in July last that we had imposed 
 a fine of 20/. on every member of the late committees, treasurer, 
 collector, or solicitor who had not returned their proceedings to you 
 according to the Act, and that if not paid within a month, it should 
 be levied by distress. The time being now expired, and no returns 
 made in several counties, we order that if you have given timely 
 notice to the late committee, you levy the fines accordingly. Call 
 for all accounts, examine them, surcharge them if needful, and 
 transmit them to us, requiring payment of the balance ; or in 
 default, levying it on the accountant. 
 
 1650. Durham, Oct. 3. Cou. Com. to C.C: — In jxirsuance of 
 your order and the enclosed warrant of the treasurers-at-war, we 
 have paid Sir Ai'th. Haselrigg, bart., 2,000/. of the rents of 
 sequestrations received by us last Pentecost ; we enclose his 
 acquittance and desire a discharge from your treasurers at G.H. We 
 are likewise ready to transmit an account of the rents received 
 and in arrear, and in whose hands. We desire to be unburdened 
 
 * A similar letter was sent to twenty-seven other counties, twenty-four of 
 which had sent up portions of the half-year's revenue due. From Durham,. 
 Cumberland, Westmoreland, and Oxfordshire notliing had been received. 
 Northumberland does not appear in the list.
 
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 before we begin our receipts of the rents due at Martinmas next. — 
 (Signed) Fran. Wren, Thos. Delavall. [Note of reply that they are 
 to return accounts and call the former officers to account ; also that 
 they have not yet paid in the money of the growing rents, beside 
 what was in arrear, and that the former officers should give in an 
 account of the arrears received, that it may appear what is in their 
 hands.] 
 
 1650. Durham, Oct. 9. Cou. Com. to the C.C. : — We received 
 yours of Sept. 20, charging us with remissness in not enforcing the 
 rents due Mar. 25 last, our charge amounting to 3,388/. 2s. 9d. ; 
 but we have before stated that our rent days in this county are not 
 Mar. 25 and Sept. 29, but Martinmas and Pentecost, and we 
 did not enter upon our receipts till after Pentecost, since which 
 we have done our utmost to collect the rents. We have paid Sir 
 Arth. Haselrigg 2,000/. in part of our charge, which will well nigh 
 clear it after the out rents and fifths to delinquents' wives are allowed. 
 .... As for the arrears unreceived by the former committee, and 
 the money resting upon the accounts of the treasurers, we have 
 received some of them, but conceive they are claimed by the county 
 for disbanding of their forces raised in 1648, according to Act of 
 Parlt., whereby the benefit of sequestrations in those four northern 
 counties is granted ; and having regard to the great pressures of 
 these parts, we have issued several sums of money. As to our 
 remissness in our meetings, we have constantly met every week, and 
 sometimes have sat fourteen days together ; and for the future we 
 purpose to sit every Tuesday at Durham ; we will send the rental 
 desired and observe your directions as to annuities and rent charges. 
 In all our demises we have covenanted to allow the out-rents, being 
 the fee-farm or old rent issuing forth of any sequestered estate, 
 either to the public revenue or to any lord. We have received a 
 duplicate from the former committee, and although it is not so full 
 as directed by the Act and your instructions, yet by that and 
 the help of their books and papers, we hope to carry on this service. 
 — (Signed) Fran. Wren, Thos. Delavall. [Notes of reply instructing 
 the committee to send Sir Arthur's receipt for the 2,000/., also 
 accounts and the rental, and to certify all out-rents or fee-farm rents. 
 Thanks are given them for their care and diligence.] 
 
 1650. Oct. 17. C.C. to the Cou. Com. : — If the duplicates you 
 have received from the former connnissioners are not according to 
 directions, levy the fine imposed. — P.S. We hear many comjilaints 
 of burdens on sequestered estates by reason of horse, dragoons and 
 forces charged on them. No such charges should be laid, they being 
 no longer the estates of the persons, but of Parlt., who maintains 
 the armies of England, and these are personal charges. We can 
 allow only the tax. 
 
 1650. Durham, Nov. 7. Cou. Com. to the C.C. : — We received 
 yours desiring us to send up an account of our receipts and dis- 
 bursements for the year ending at Michaelmas, and have several
 
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 times iiiforined you that all our rents here are due at Martinmas 
 and Pentecost, but we now enclose an account of the rents received 
 since last Pentecost with the arrears ; also a rental of the estates 
 under sequestration in this county as they were let by us for this 
 year. We also advertised you that on our last letting of sequestered 
 lands we allowed the tenants in their rents all taxes imposed by 
 Park, having had no instructions until now. The whole of the 
 tenants have been charged by the commissioners for the militia, 
 the Act being general, according to the proportions of land they 
 farm, to furnish either light horse or dragoons for the present 
 .service ; they will demand allowance of this charge in the Martinmas 
 rents, and without doing them a manifest injury, and declining our 
 own engagements with them, we cannot deny to allow it ; besides, 
 it is a charge the tenant is not able to bear, the rents being at rack, 
 and at the 'utmost improved value the land will give. We desire 
 your resolutions herein before the receipt of the rents at Martinmas. 
 [Note of reply in margin that the commissioners cannot give allow- 
 ance.] We are now proceeding in the letting of sequestered lands, 
 and desire to know in whose names we are to take bonds and 
 security for the rents. — (Signed) Fran. Wren, Thos. Delavall. 
 
 1650. Durham, Nov. U. Cou. Com. to the C.C. : — We received 
 jours desiring our care in returning the money collected, but the 
 rents here are only now due, and the tenants have fourteen days to 
 provide them, so that it is not possible we could have any money 
 save the 300/. resting upon our account for the Pentecost rents. 
 We are now proceeding in the lets for seven years, (a) Shall we 
 return them by piecemeal as we contract for any estate, or not until 
 they be all let? (6) In whose name are we to take bond for the 
 rents, and how to make the leases ? (c) The treasurer is at great 
 loss in his recei^^ts by dipt and other base money, which is very 
 plentiful in these parts, and a loss in paying and receiving, l^esides 
 his charge. We crave consideration thereof, and the allowance 
 of the ordinance to treasurers granted in this case. — (Signed) Fran. 
 Wren, Thos. Delavall. [Notes for reply : (a) Return particulars and 
 act on instructions ; (h) leases to be let as formerly, tying the 
 tenants to the usual covenants ; (c) no allowance, but to take such 
 money as will pass.] 
 
 1650. Nov. 21. C.C. to the Cou. Com. :— We have received 
 jour accounts, but cannot approve your allowances to tenants for 
 taxes for light horse and dragoons, which are not chargeaiile on 
 
 sequestered estates, and about which we wrote you Acquaint 
 
 the militia commissioners that we do not allow these, and do not 
 give way to what may be a charge on yourselves. — P.S. You ask 
 allowance for money not jiayable, but you cannot expect it, since 
 you can except against such money and refuse to receive it. We want 
 your return of estates let ; but if you will soon have finished we 
 will wait a month or two till you can make a perfect return.
 
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 1650. Durham, Nov. 21. Cou. Com. to the C.C. : — There is a 
 ballast quay or shore at Monkwearmouth, near Sunderland, under 
 sequestration, which brings a rental of 90/. a year to the State. 
 The farmers have complained that Richd. Grey and others, since the 
 same became sequestered, have erected keels and usually bear 
 ballast from the ships that formerly cast their ballast on the said 
 shore and unload it at other quays, contrary to the custom of that 
 place, and to the absolute ruin of such quay, and consequently to 
 the decaying of the said rent due to the State. — (Signed) Fran. 
 Wren, Thos. Delavall. [Note of reply, dated Dec. 11, that they 
 are to enquire by what right men are confined to that quay, and if 
 they find it j^leadable before the C.C. they are to summon the 
 parties to attend them, and send up the proofs.] 
 
 1650. Durham, Nov. 28. Cou. Com. to the C.C. :— Since the 
 Parlt. army marched from here to Scotland, we have had a great 
 many petitions presented to us (some of which we enclose) from 
 the tenants farming sequestered lands adjoining or near the roads 
 that lead through this county, whose losses and sufferings by reason 
 of free quarter and billeting have been great. They profess to be 
 unable to pay their rent, and have therefore solicited us to recom- 
 mend their cases to you. We are also desired to recommend the 
 petition of some poor recusants, whose small estates under the 
 value of 10/. are sequestered, and the third part only left them for 
 their subsistence, so that some of them are a burden to the parish. 
 — (Signed) Fran. Wren, Thos. Delavall. [Note of reply, dated 
 Dec. 11, that there is no power given the C.C., to relieve them 
 until further order from Parlt., though the committee much com- 
 passionate the cases.] Petitions enclosed as follows: — 
 
 1. From Thos. Heighley of Woodham, Chris. Harrison of Wal- 
 worth, Wm. Harrison of Barmpton, and other tenants of sequestered 
 estates lying on and near the high road to Newcastle, to the Cou Com. 
 to relieve them, or reconn)iend their sufferings to the C.C. They are 
 exposed to a perpetual disproportional^le charge compared with other 
 lands at a greater distance from the street, and sitting upon very 
 dear farming they will be disabled either to pay their rents or main- 
 tain their families, unless some considerable allowance be made in 
 defalcation of their rents towards their satisfaction for the daily 
 pressures they groan under by free quarter and otherwise, from the 
 continual concourse of soldiers, in their through marches which 
 cannot be sui^jDorted by those particular places without further con- 
 tribution thereto. 
 
 2. From inhabitants of Pierce Bridge, Over Coniscliffe and Nether 
 Coniscliffe, to the Cou. Com. for relief. Live in the open road where 
 soldiers are continually passing, and still quarter upon them by 
 thirty in a house at a time upon free quarter, so that petitioners 
 are almost ruined, and will be forced to forsake their habitations 
 unless some help is vouchsafed.
 
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 3. From Thos. Pinckney of Brandon, Geo. Taylor of Lanchester, 
 Wm. Hedrington of Shadforth, Thos. Greenwell of Bromshields, 
 recusants, and of all other sequestered recusants in the county whose 
 estates are of small value, to the Cou. Com. either to waive or totally 
 discharge their sequestrations, or recommend their distressed case 
 to the C.C. so that they may have the free enjoyment of their two- 
 thirds, and thereby gain a subsistence for themselves and families, 
 and not be left to ruin or be cast ujjon their parishes. Their estates 
 being of very small value, would not be sufficient to maintain them 
 and their families if not sequestered, some being impotent and very 
 aged, others poor and clogged with debt and great charge of children, 
 so that if two-thirds be taken from them they cannot subsist. They 
 are only sequestered for their religion, and are not capable of any 
 delinquency, and hope the commissioners' charity will not enforce 
 their judgments with any penalties. 
 
 1650. Dec. 9. C.C. to Cou. Com. : — We are sensible of the 
 sufferings and service of Mr. French, and will do what we can to 
 help him ; we will present what you propose to those who can do 
 him good and certify their directions. 
 
 1650. Dec. 12. C.C. to Cou. Com. : — We want your accounts* 
 to Michaelmas, so that afterwards there may be a constant yearly 
 account. We press this as necessary to our orderly proceedings ; 
 take the utmost care that it be returned by Jan. 1. — P.S. We 
 mean accounts of revenues, receipts and payments and wish one of 
 you to bring them up. Also say whether you have received the 
 accounts of the late commissioners ; and if not in whose hands 
 they remain, that we may obtain them for you. Also send us a 
 certificate of your having taken the oath. (The like to North- 
 umberland and other counties.) 
 
 1650. Durham, Dec. 18. Cou. Com. to C.C. : — According to 
 your instructions we have contracted for most of the lands and 
 estates under our charge, of which we will make a return within the 
 time appointed. As to furnishing accounts of sequestrations 
 ending last Michaelmas, our rent days here are Whitsuntide and 
 Martinmas, and from off those days they cannot be removed, by 
 reason of the fairs and markets in these jjarts suitable to those 
 terms ; for last Pentecost we have already returned an account and 
 are using our utmost endeavours in collecting the rents due at 
 Martinmas. We have received 2,000/. which we are ready to pay, 
 and entreat your assistance to the treasurers-at-war for a warrant to 
 pay the same at Newcastle. It is not our slowness in collecting 
 the rents and returning our accounts, but the rent days that cause 
 the delay. We long ago made a return of our having taken the 
 
 * 1650. Dec. 17. — Report to Parliament from a Committee on Papist 
 Recusants, Delinquents, etc., that in the county of Durham the annual rents 
 of the estates of papist delinquents was 2,495/. 7s. 2d., the value of two-thirds 
 of the papists' estates under sequestration amounted to 3,034/. llf. 8rl. Total, 
 5,530/. 4.V. lOfZ.
 
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 oath appointed by the Act of Apr. 15, but if it has not come to 
 hand we will make another. — (Signed) Fran. Wren, Thos. Delavall. 
 
 1651. Jan. 3. Committees for Northd. and Durham to the 
 •C.C. : — In letting estates last year we agreed with the tenants to 
 •deduct out of their rents what taxes should be laid upon them by 
 Parlt. The militia commissioners (all these parts being full of 
 trouble, and the Lord-General wanting a supply of forces, and the 
 C.S. earnestly commanding the militia to raise men and horses 
 according to the Act), equally taxed all the lands according to the 
 pound rate, and foi'ced all the tenants to bring in horses, which was 
 done before we heard anything of your mind. There is no exception 
 in the Act of sequestered lands, (a) It seemed agreeal^le to reason 
 that where all are equally concerned all should bear an equal 
 burden ; had we oj^posed, it had hindered the service, and the forces 
 raised for Scotland would have been very inconsiderable, (b) Should 
 we lay this burden on the tenants it would discourage others from 
 meddling with us, and l^e a great discredit to the public, and we 
 hope for the future that Parlt. will clear the Act. As it is out of our 
 power to alter what is past, we must sulwiiit to the Parlt. 's pleasure. 
 — (Signed) Arth. Hesilrige, Thos. Delavall, Fran. Wren, Wm. Shafto, 
 Hen. Ogle, Hen. Horsley. [Notes for reply : (a) the committee to 
 consider the charge of horse for the time past ; (b) the C.C. cannot 
 allow any such charge, and the counties generally submit to it.] 
 
 1651. Jan. 14. C.C. to Cou. Com. : — Order payment of what 
 moneys you have in hand, not exceeding 3,000/. at Newcastle, by 
 order of the treasurers-at-war. 
 
 1651. Durham, Feb. 4. Cou. Com. to C.C. : — We were not 
 unmindful of what is required by the Act, and your instructions 
 for surveying, but we had already proceeded to contract for the 
 estates under sequestration, letting leases and taking security, which 
 we have prepared to return, having that help in this county which 
 most counties have not ; for all the estates and lands here were 
 exactly valued at the rack upon the making of a late book of rates 
 for the due proportioning of taxes, and in our contracts we have 
 brought the estates to a greater improvement of rent than they were 
 let before the war, or within any man's remembrance. If those 
 contracts be not confirmed before a survey can be made, the tenants 
 will decline their engagements, and we nmch fear we shall not 
 procure tenants to farm them at the rents they are now let for. 
 Yet if you conceive it of advantage to the Commonwealth we will 
 pursue your directions. — (Signed) Fran. Wren, Thos. Delavall. 
 
 1651. Feb. 5. Cou. Com. to C.C. : — According to your order 
 of Jan. 14. for payment of 3,000Z. which we received on the 25th, 
 we, the following Monday, paid the same to And. Edwards by 
 appointment of the treasurers-at-war, and had a receipt, and now we 
 desire a discharge from your treasurers for so much paid into the 
 treasury at G.H. — (Signed) Fran. Wren, Thos. Delavall. 
 
 1651. Durham, Feb. 26. Cou. Com. to the C.C. :— Complaint
 
 56 
 
 is made against us that we have received the fee-farm rents issuing- 
 out of sequestered estates which ought to be received and paid 
 another way. We have not denied the payment of any such rents, 
 save that out of the lordship of Barnes there is a fee-farm rent of 
 Sol. with three years' arrears, a great part whereof was due before 
 sequestration, and ought to have been paid by the delinquent. For 
 one half-year's rent received should we satisfy this arrear? especially 
 as we hear that the estate is about to be compounded for, and this 
 will set it free of all its old debts for the compounder's l^enefit and 
 the State's i^rejudice. We desire your speedy resolution. If any 
 such charges be made against us, wherein we act justly, we should 
 be vindicated and not blamed. — (Signed) Fran. Wren, Thos. Delavall. 
 1651. Mar. 11. C.C. to Cou. Com.: — It is no delight to us 
 to press a survey of the estates, when you know their value so 
 well, and have improved them so much ; but we and you are sworn 
 to observe the Act of Jan. 25, 1650, which orders, not a measure- 
 ment, but a general survey, that you may know the value when 
 you let them. You may encourage the tenants you contract with 
 to go on with their bargains, for as soon as you certify the per- 
 formance of the Act and instructions we will confirm the contracts. 
 We have ordered a discharge to be sent you for the 3,000/. The 
 complaint against you to the Revenue Committee is groundless, as 
 you cannot pay rents and charges on sequestered estates till allowed 
 by us. If the auditors certify what fee-farm rents are issuing from 
 sequestered estates we will give orders, but Parlt. restrains us from 
 paying any arrears before Dec. 24, 1649. Tell the receiver 
 for your county that the Revenue Committee has lately written us 
 about these rents and the case will be considered. 
 
 1651. March. Year's receipts from the estates of delinquents,, 
 papist delinquents and papists as follows: — 
 
 Delinquents. 
 
 Cuth. Appleby 
 
 Sir Wm. Blakeston 
 
 Dr. John Cosins 
 
 Robt. Ellis 
 
 Sir Wm. Fenwick ... 
 
 E<'iph Fetherston- 
 
 haugh 
 Wm. Gargrave 
 Richd. Harrison 
 Wm. James 
 Sir John Mennes . . . 
 Jas., Lord Mording- 
 
 ton 
 
 £ s. d. 
 Per Annum. 
 21 6 8 
 
 30 
 
 17 
 51 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 160 
 
 11 4 
 
 20 10 
 
 56 4 
 
 220 
 
 90 
 
 £ s. d. 
 Per Annum. 
 130 
 
 80 
 177 16 
 
 Sir John Morley 
 
 Michael Pudsev 
 
 Sir Thos. Riddell 
 
 Sir Richd. Tempest 56 
 
 John Widrington ... 30 
 
 Wm. Wivall ... 12 
 
 Sir Andrew Youns: 83 
 
 £1,246 8
 
 57 
 
 Delinquent Papists. 
 
 Jan. Aiscough 
 Thos. Braithwaite . . . 
 Anthony Buhner . . . 
 Wm. Buhner 
 Cuth. CoUingrwood... 
 Raph Cottsworth . . . 
 Robt. Emerson 
 John Errington, sen. 
 John Errington, jun. 
 John Forcer 
 Wm. Freizell 
 
 £ a. d. 
 
 Per Annum. 
 
 50 
 
 189 
 
 80 
 
 48 
 
 356 10 
 
 64 
 
 28 
 
 84 
 
 30 
 
 137 8 
 
 20 
 
 287 6 6 
 
 Wm. Hall ... 
 Sir Fran. Howard 
 Raph Millott 
 Wm. Power 
 Lancelot Sakeild 
 Lawrence Sayer 
 Wm. Sheratton 
 John Smith 
 
 £ s. d. 
 Per Annum 
 
 62 
 
 605 16 
 
 133 
 
 22 
 
 104 0' 
 
 37 6 8 
 
 56 
 
 100 
 
 £2,494 7 2 
 
 Papists, Two-third Parts. 
 
 Mary Appleby 
 Wm. Bierley 
 Sir Raph Blakeston 
 Wm. Bulmer 
 Wm. Burnopp 
 Dame Anne Claver- 
 
 ing 
 Ann Cockson 
 Ellenor Conyers 
 John Conyers . . . | 
 
 The Lady Conyers. . . | 
 Katherine Conyers' 
 John Deneham 
 Thos. Emerson 
 Elizth. Emerson 
 Katherine Forcer . . . 
 Richd. Forster 
 Geo. Garnett 
 Wm. GreenAvell 
 Thos. Greenwell 
 Dorothy Harburne... 
 Anne Hedworth 
 Wm. Hethering[ton], 
 
 sen. 
 Wm. Hethering[ton], 
 
 j"ii 
 
 Raph and Elizth. 
 Huntley ... 
 
 £ 
 
 s. 
 
 d. 
 
 
 £ 
 
 s. 
 
 d. 
 
 Per 
 
 Annum. 
 
 
 Per 
 
 Annum 
 
 10 
 
 13 
 
 4 
 
 Alljert Hodgshon . . . 
 
 26 
 
 13 
 
 4 
 
 4 
 
 5 
 
 4 
 
 John Hodgshon 
 
 103 
 
 6 
 
 8 
 
 146 
 
 13 
 
 4 
 
 Wm. Hodgshon 
 
 311 
 
 6 
 
 8 
 
 26 
 
 13 
 
 4 
 
 Thos. Hopper 
 
 29 
 
 18 
 
 8 
 
 4 
 
 5 
 
 4 
 
 Margaret Howard . . . 
 
 146 
 
 5 
 
 4 
 
 
 
 
 Leonard Hutchinson 
 
 3 
 
 10 
 
 10 
 
 66 
 
 6 
 
 8 
 
 Dorothy Hutton ... 
 
 16 
 
 
 
 0- 
 
 20 
 
 
 
 
 
 Wm. Jenneson 
 
 126 
 
 6 
 
 8 
 
 20 
 
 
 
 
 
 Anne Johnson 
 
 24 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 J?obt. Johnson 
 
 10 
 
 13 
 
 4 
 
 170 
 
 
 
 
 
 Hen. Johnson 
 
 10 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Raph Katherick ... 
 
 8 
 
 
 
 
 
 11 
 
 6 
 
 8 
 
 Wm. Lawes 
 
 6 
 
 18 
 
 8 
 
 6 
 
 6 
 
 8 
 
 Thos. Liddell 
 
 96 
 
 
 
 
 
 18 
 
 18 
 
 4 
 
 Talbott Lisle 
 
 33 
 
 6 
 
 8 
 
 54 
 
 5 
 
 4 
 
 Thos. Mayer 
 
 155 
 
 14 
 
 8 
 
 35 
 
 14 
 
 8 
 
 Katherine Meaburne 
 
 14 
 
 8 
 
 0' 
 
 17 
 
 1 
 
 4 
 
 Barbara Midford ... 
 
 12 
 
 16 
 
 0^ 
 
 8 
 
 
 
 
 
 Jane Millett 
 
 17 
 
 15 
 
 6 
 
 6 
 
 13 
 
 4 
 
 Mary and John 
 
 
 
 
 64 
 
 
 
 
 
 Oswold ... 
 
 17 
 
 19 
 
 8 
 
 10 
 
 13 
 
 4 
 
 Thos. Pinkney 
 
 :} 
 
 6 
 
 8 
 
 
 
 
 Anne Porter 
 
 20 
 
 
 
 0' 
 
 
 
 
 Wm. Rickaby 
 
 26 
 
 18 
 
 8 
 
 20 
 
 
 
 
 
 John Sadler 
 
 8 
 
 8 
 
 0- 
 
 Anne Sakild 
 
 8 
 
 10 
 
 8 
 
 
 
 
 Rebecca Salvin 
 
 48 
 
 
 
 0. 
 
 
 
 
 Geo. Selby 
 
 2 
 
 16 
 
 0.
 
 58 
 
 Papists, Two-third Parts. — Continued. 
 
 The Lady Selby 
 Oeo. Smith 
 Matt. Smith 
 Lancelot Todd 
 John Ti'ollopp 
 Robt. Weemes and 
 Wm. Thompson . . . 
 John Winter 
 
 £ 
 
 s. 
 
 d. 1 
 
 Per Annum. | 
 
 106 
 
 13 
 
 4 
 
 480 
 
 14 
 
 4 
 
 8 
 
 10 
 
 
 
 20 
 
 
 
 
 
 17 
 
 6 
 
 8 
 
 8 
 
 
 
 
 
 6 
 
 13 
 
 4 
 
 Anne Witham 
 Anthony Witham . . 
 John Witham 
 Peter AVitham 
 
 £ s. d. 
 
 Per Annum. 
 
 190 2 8 
 
 70 
 
 81 10 
 
 3 6 8 
 
 £3,129 19 8 
 
 1651. Apr. 11. Certificate by John Middleton, John Husband, 
 and John Glover, postmaster to the Cou. Com., that the horse-boat, 
 formerly at Neasham, for accommodating the county when the 
 Tees rose, is missing to the prejudice of the common pocket. Also 
 certificate by the Cou. Com. that the boat was maintained by Sir 
 Pran. Howard, as lord of the manor. 
 
 1651. Durham, May 2. Cou. Com. to the C.C. : — The Revenue 
 ■Committee enjoin us to observe the ordinance of Parlt. for payment 
 of the fee-farm rents due out of sequestered estates in this county, 
 and to pay in all moneys received ; but having received your order 
 prohibiting such payment vmtil further direction, we have withheld 
 it, though the receivers for the county threaten to drive the 
 'Commonwealth's tenants for the rents, and we expect they will 
 now do it, as they are to sit here this week. Therefore your speedy 
 order is desired. — (Signed) Fran. Wren, Thos. Delavall. [Note of 
 reply dated May 12. The Revenue Committee has written to us, 
 and we have acquainted them that if they will cause the auditor to 
 make certificates of what rents are payable out of sequestered 
 •estates, which have usually been answered to the Crown, we will 
 then grant order therein ; but you are not to suffer the tenants of 
 the Commonwealth to be distm-bed until further order.] 
 
 1651. Durham, May 14. Cou. Com. to the C.C: — We enclose 
 our account for the rents, etc., received up to Martinmas. The 
 money resting on this account, and on our account returned for 
 Pentecost, amounts to 466/. 17s. id., Avhich we desire to pay into the 
 
 treasury We are surveying estates, and will make a due 
 
 return thereof, as also of the contracts There are several 
 
 small old rents issuing out of sequestered estates which were formerly 
 paid to the Crown, the late Bp. and the Dean and Chap., which have 
 now been purchased by several gentlemen from the contractors for 
 sale of the said lands, and are demanded out of the sequestrations. 
 Must these rents be allowed by us to the tenants without your order ? 
 They are small and ancient rents, and almost every estate pays 
 rent to some lord or the other, and we have allowed them until last 
 Martinmas. — (Signed) Fran. Wren, Thos. Delavall. [Note of reply, 
 dated June 14, that the rents are not to be paid without order, as 
 the instructions forbid allowing incumbrances on estates.]
 
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 1651. July 16. Sir Hen. Vane, jun., to the C.C. :— My father 
 "writes me that the C.S. press for the moneys to be paid in from 
 farms in Pierce Bridge and Houghton, out of which fee-farm rents 
 arise to me, and increase rents to my father. You have granted an 
 order for mine, which I dare not send down till the other is per- 
 fected, lest I should be thought to mind myself more than him in 
 his absence, which truly I desire not to do. I send this bearer with 
 a certificate from the auditor, which I hope will satisfy you about 
 my father's rents, which I can testify he has had many years, ever 
 since his purchase from the city. He thinks it hard to be debarred 
 from his own, and to be so long before he can get remedy. 
 
 Enclosed are (1) a letter dated June 9, 1651, from the Cou. 
 Com. to Sir Hen. Vane, sen., Raby Castle, informing him that they 
 are not to allow any rents from sequestered estates without order 
 from the C.C, and advising him to procure one for his rents out 
 of Mr. Witham's lands, Pierce Bridge, and John Bradshaw's, 
 Houghton, and let his receiver allow the tenants the monthly assess- 
 ments. (2) Certificate dated July 11, 1651, by auditor Nich. 
 Spackman for the grant by the late King of the said rents to Edwd. 
 Ditchfield and other citizens of London, who assigned them to Sir 
 Hen. Vane, sen. 
 
 Order in the C.C. that Sir Hen. Vane, sen., enjoy the said 
 rents, and that the Cou. Com. forbear to receive them, and dis- 
 charge them from sequestration. 
 
 1651. Durham, Avig. 5. Thos. Delaval and Col. Fran. Wren, 
 to the C.C. : — Having been employed in viewing estates for the 
 last three weeks, we could not attend our weekly meetings as 
 formerly. We have finished all that lie in the bishopric, but have 
 yet to survey those in Northd. fifty miles beyond Newcastle, and 
 so great are the employments upon sequestration and other public 
 services, that it is impossible for us, being the only two com- 
 missioners resident in this county, to carry on the whole work, 
 though we devote our whole time and neglect our own private aft'airs 
 in our zeal for the public good. We have 3,000Z. of the rents of 
 sequestered estates in the treasury which we have endeavoured to 
 return up to London, but cannot effect it, and therefore desire to 
 be eased of this great charge of money ; as we lie so far remote we 
 beg you will procure order for its payment in the county. 
 
 1651. Durham, Aug. 15. Two letters from Cou. Com. to the 
 C.C. : — (1) We have called for the accounts of the treasurers, 
 sequestrators and others employed by the late Cou. Com. and have 
 received several of them and cannot surcharge them. [Note of 
 reply, dated Oct. 21, that they are to send up all the accounts, 
 whether surcharged or not, and quicken all other accounts.] (2) 
 W^e find in the papers, etc., of the old counnittee that the persons 
 in the enclosed list* compounded with Sir Wm. Armyne, Sir Hen. 
 
 * List of 39 persons enclosed, but see list under date Oct. 9 following.
 
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 Vane, and the former committee in 1645, and had their discharges, 
 and none of them have acted against Parlt. since ; yet we have 
 secured their estates till they plead their discharges hefoi'e you. — 
 (Signed) Fran. Wren, Thos. Delavall. 
 
 1651. Aug. 19. C.C. to the Cou. Com. ordering them to pay 
 4,000/. to the orders of Sir John Wallaston and the other treasurers- 
 at-war. 
 
 1651. Durham, Aug. 23. Cou. Com. to the C.C. : — -The com- 
 missioners for the militia are again raising forces for the defence 
 of this county, and, as formerly, charge all the estates under 
 sequestration to find light horse or dragoons, although we have 
 acquainted them with your order not to admit such charges. As 
 we are not able to oppose, and they have resolved to distrain upon 
 the tenants, we desire further directions. — (Signed) Fran. Wren, 
 Thos. Delavall. [Note of reply, dated Oct. 21, that the C.C. have- 
 formerly given directions in this case, which they are to observe.] 
 
 1651. Oct. 9. List from the commissioners of co. Durham of 
 forty-three persons who compounded in 164-4 and 1645, with their 
 addresses and the amount paid. 
 
 Compounded w'ith Sir Wm. Armyne and the rest of the Parity. 
 Conmiissioners, anno 1644 : — 
 
 Thos. Birbeck of Morton Tinmouth, gent 
 liobt. Eden of Winleston, esq. 
 John Markindale of Old Parke, gent. 
 Chris. Shawe of Ingleton, yeoman 
 John Vasey of NeAvlandes, gent. 
 
 Compounded with Sir Hen. Vane and the Cou. Com. in Nov. and 
 Dec, 1645 : — 
 
 Ralph Allenson of Durham City, gent. 
 
 John Allinson of Bp. Auckland, yeoman 
 
 Robt. Aysley of Coves Houses, gent. ... 
 
 Wm. Belasis of Morton House, gent. ... 
 
 Richd. Bowser of Bp. Auckland, gent. 
 
 I John Buck of Sadbei'ge, gent 
 
 '^ Thos. Bullock of Whitewell House, gent. 
 
 Adam Burdon of [blank], yeoman 
 
 Thos. Caldwell of Sunderland, yeoman 
 
 Roger Carleton of Wolsingham, gent. 
 
 Robt. Carr of North Biddick, gent. ... 
 
 Wm. Chapman of South Shields, shipmaster 
 
 Nich. Chator of Redhouse, esq. 
 
 Thos. Clarke of Sunderland, yeoman . . . 
 
 Anthony Dodsworth of Stranton, gent. 
 
 Hen. Draper of Headlam, gent. 
 
 Tobias Dudley of Chopwell, esq. 
 
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 'Gascoigne Eden of Billingham, gent 
 
 Chas. Estob [Elstob] of Foxton, gent. 
 
 Edwd. Elstob of Elstob. gent 
 
 Xich. Freville of Hardwick, esq. 
 
 John Harrison of Sunderland, yeoman 
 
 Hen. Hodshon of Whickham, gent. ... 
 
 Raii^h Holmes of Bp. Warmouth, yeoman ... 
 
 And. Huntley of [blank], yeoman 
 
 John Jackson of Midridge, yeoman ... 
 
 Robt. Jennison of [blank] [blank] 
 
 Fohn Kennet of Coxhoe, gent. 
 
 John Killinghall of Midleton George, esq. ... 
 
 Wm. Lumley of Lumley, gent. 
 
 'Geo. Midleton of Silksworth, gent. 
 
 John Parmonley of Midleton in Teisdale, 
 
 yeoman 
 Roger Pearson of [blank] [blank] 
 John Richardson of Barmeston, gent. 
 Jerrard Salvin of Croxdale, esq. 
 Hen. Smith of Herrington, esq. 
 Anthony Thompson of Durham City, gent. ... 
 
 John Garth, voted a delinquent by the former committee, Dec. 12, 
 1644 ; but he made no composition nor was any fui'ther proceedings 
 taken against him.* 
 
 This list compared Avith the books of the former committee for 
 the county of Durham and examined by us. — (Signed) Thos. 
 Delavall, Fran. Wren. 
 
 * 1651. Nov. 21. In the House of Commons, as recorded in the Jourjiu/s, 
 the humble petition of Gerard Salvin, .rohn Keunet, esquires, and 
 Robt. Aysley, gent., on the behalf of themselves and divers gentlemen and 
 freeholders of the countj' of Durham, whose names are atiixed, was this day 
 read; whereunto was annexed a schedule of names; viz., John Markindall, 
 •John Vasey, Chr. Shaw, Thos. Birbeck, Nich. Ciiaytor, John Killingliall, .John 
 Buck, Nich. Frevile, Anthony Dodsworth, Robt. Eden, Geo. Midleton, Chr. 
 Elstob, John Richardson, Tlios. Bullock, Hen. Draper, John Garth, Ralph 
 Allanson, Tol)y Dudh', Tobias Ewbanck, Wm. Bellasis, Hen. Smyth, Anthony 
 Thompson, John Jackson, Wm. Chapman, Richd. Bowser, Robt. Cane, Ralph 
 Holmes, John Harrison, Adam Burdon, John Parmonley, Roger Person, And. 
 JIuntley, Edw. Elstob, Robt. Jennison, Hen. Hodshon, Thos. Caldwell, Wm. 
 Lumley. 
 
 Resolved : That all such inhabitants of the countj' of Durham named in 
 the title of the said petition and in the schedule annexed, who did compound 
 with Sir Hen. Vane, Sir Wm. Armyne, and others the Comnrs. of Parlt. joined 
 with them in the years 1644 and 1645, for their delinquency, and liave paid 
 their compositions, be absolutely discharged from sequestration and pardoned 
 for anything done or acted by such person or persons respectively, before tiie 
 time of such their respective compositions. 
 
 The petition iloes not contain the names of Thos. Clarke of Sunderland, 
 Roger Carleton of Wolsingham, Jolm Allanson of Bishop Auckland, and 
 Gascoigne Eden of Billingham, but includes Tobias Ewbanck who is not named 
 in the committee's list.
 
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 1651. Durham, Oct. 22. Cou. Com. to the C.C. :— We have- 
 paid by appointment of Sir John Wollaston, 4,000^. ; that is to say,. 
 to Major Tolhurst, 2,771/. 15s. M., and to Col. Fairfax, 1,228/. is. M., 
 and will return the acquittance to the treasurers at G.H. as soon 
 as we can. — (Signed) Fran. Wren, Thos. Delavall. 
 
 1651. Durham, Nov. 6. Cou. Com. to the C.C. .—In the late 
 Act for sale of delinquents' estates there are sundry who have estates 
 in this county. Are their wives and children to have the fifth part 
 of the rents of the estates due at Martinmas, according to former' 
 order? — (Signed) Fran. Wren, Thos. Delavall. [Note of reply, dated! 
 Dec. 3, that where the commissioners have allowed a fifth it is- 
 granted until sale be made.] 
 
 1651. Durham, Nov. 20. Isaac Gilpin to the C.C. : — There were 
 divers things of value belonging to the church of Durham concealed 
 from the State, as plate worth 100/., copes, and other cloths and 
 ornaments of the church. I took pains to discover the plate while- 
 servant to the old committee, and had several persons examined 
 upon it ; the examinations were delivered to the old committee. 
 I believe if I had order to sue for it and examine witnesses I should! 
 recover it for the State. I propose you should examine Lady Elizth. 
 Hammond, late wife of Dr. Balcanqual, Dean of Durham, as she can 
 tell you what they were, and what has become of them. [Note of 
 reply that Lady Hammond is to be summoned and examined on 
 interrogatories.] 
 
 1651. Durham, Nov. 26. Cou. Com. to the C.C. .-—There 
 being several cushions, broken lead, iron and other loose things 
 belonging to the cathedral here, which were formerly seized to the 
 use of the Commonwealth, and many of them being embezzled when 
 the Scots' prisoners were within the church we have caused the 
 remainder to be inventoried and secured ; they are appraised by 
 two aldermen of the city at 37/. 6.s\, besides a brazen eagle, which 
 likewise belonged to the church, and is not as yet valued; as the 
 trustees for the sale of Dean and Chaj). lands have not taken any 
 course therein, we request directions before we dispose of such 
 goods ; also touching the petition of Isaac Gilpin which we here- 
 enclose. — (Signed) Fran. Wren, Thos. Delavall. [Note of reply, 
 dated Dec. 3, to sell them, and take a new inventory of the books 
 and other goods named by Mr. Gilpin, and if they pay him and put 
 the sum to account, the C.C. will endeavour to get an allowance made]. 
 
 Petition enclosed from Isaac Gilpin to the Cou. Com. soliciting 
 his arrears of salary out of the proceeds of the sale of old materials, 
 etc., belonging to the church and library of Durham. In 1645 was- 
 appointed keeper of the 25u!)lic liljrary of Durham by the com- 
 missioners of Parlt. then in the county, at 5/. a year, which Avas 
 paid until the beginning of 1649, when the Dean and Chap, lands 
 were vested in trustees, since when three years' arrears, amounting 
 to 15/., are due ; but he has continued in his place and been at some 
 charge of late in preserving the books and other goods, by removing
 
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 them to another place for better security, the Scotch prisoners having- 
 then got into the next room, and within twenty-four hours after into- 
 the liljrary, and spoiled and burnt whatever they found there. 
 
 In 1615 he was also appointed by the same commissioners and 
 the old county committee, keeper of the storehouse and treasury 
 of tfie cathedral, wherein were kept some pulpit cloths, long 
 cushions and other goods belonging to the church ; also all the 
 ancient grants, letters patent, and other old records of the Dean 
 and Chap, lands, which he has ever since preserved ; although he 
 Avas to receive iOs. a year for this latter office he has never received 
 anything. 
 
 1651. Dec. 10. C.C. to the Cou. Com. :— We send a letter 
 received from Isaac Gilpin, clerk to the late Cou. Com., touching 
 a discovery of some goods belonging to Durham church ; and on 
 perusal we desire you to examine him, and such others as you see 
 cause, concerning it. We have given orders for the examination 
 here of Lady Elizth. Hammond. — Dec. 30. Order of the C.C. that 
 Lady Hammond, widow of Dr. Balcanquall, Dean of Durham, appear 
 this day to be examined about plate and goods heretofore belonging 
 to the church. 
 
 1652. Durham, Jan. 19. Isaac Gilpin to the C.C. : — As you 
 have summoned Lady Hammond to give information touching the 
 copes, I wish she may be examined concerning the plate. I had 
 two men examined before the old committee, viz., Geo. Blades, 
 steward to the late dean, who deposed that Dr. [Eleazar] Dunxcombe 
 sent it in a trunk to Lady Hammond, who sent it to Anthony Maxton, 
 one of the late prel)ends, and that he hid it underground in his 
 garden at Harporley. They can neither state whether all the church 
 plate was in the trunk, nor whether any other goods were there, 
 for there were two books, with very rich covers, which were usually 
 placed upon the altar between the two gilded candle sticks, and some 
 fine linen which perhaps were put up with the plate. Maxton died 
 in 1646 or 1617, leaving his three daughters administrators, who 
 have since married. It is not known whether he left a will, because 
 there is no settled course here for proving wills, which is a great 
 grievance and loss to the county, and of which I wish Parlt. were 
 informed. Maxton died a delinquent, and it is thought he left 
 a good personal estate, which, if there had l)een a settled course 
 for probate of wills and granting administrations, might easily have 
 been discovered ; but I will endeavour to regain the plate or satis- 
 faction for it. 
 
 1652. Feb. 10. Order of the C.C. that Anthony Pearson be 
 sequestration commissioner in county Durham. 
 
 1652. Feb. 25. C.C. to Cou. Com. : — We beg you to peruse 
 a letter lately sent from Mr. Gilpin, and to examine Lady Hammond, 
 touching the plate therein mentioned, and what else she can dis- 
 cover, and to take information from Mr. Gilpin, and certify us. 
 
 1652. Mar. 5. Two letters from Cou. Com. to the C.C. :— (1)
 
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 'We wrote you that we had received 3,000/. which we would gladly 
 pay into the treasury at G.H. if we could return it ; but being so 
 far remote from London it still remains in our hands. We now 
 desire it may be transferred to the treasurers-at-war, and assigned 
 for the pay of some of the soldiers in these parts, or that we may 
 be otherwise directed as to its disposal. We have our account for 
 the half-year ending Martinmas ready to return, but meantime we 
 are endeavouring to collect in the arrears mentioned therein. We 
 require your confirmation of our contracts for sequestered estates. 
 (2) On your order of Dec. 31, 1651, we have perused the books of 
 the former committee and find the persons underwritten to have 
 been sequestered and not discharged. We have, therefore", given 
 them notice to produce their discharges before you, and procure 
 
 your allowance : Evans, Keverstone ; administrators of Anthony 
 
 Maxton ; John Hester, Bedburn ; Wm. Garth. Headlam ; Chris. 
 Mickleton, Durham ; tenants of Kobt. Wild, Preston ; Hen. Marley, 
 Hilton. ' 
 
 The persons hereafter named have had their estates suspended 
 upon their compositions, but have not recorded their discharges 
 and are likewise summoned to produce the same to your honours 
 within 28 days: — 
 
 The tenants of Richd. Lord Viscount Lumley had notice Feb. 20. 
 Richd. Morpeth of Stillington, gent., Feb. 19. 
 Richd. Baddaley of Durham, gent., Feb. 8. 
 John Heath, esq., Feb. 26. 
 Mr. Jos. Cradock of Harperly, Mar. 5. 
 Sir Nich. Cole, bart., Feb. 26 . 
 
 The tenants of Sir Thos. Riddell's estate, late of Gateshead, 
 Feb. 23. 
 
 There are some others not yet summoned by the agent, Avhereof 
 we shall shortly give you an account. — (Signed) Thos. Delavall, 
 Fran. Wren. 
 
 1652. Mar. 10. Anthony Pearson to the C.C. : — I request an 
 -order to the Durham Committee to repay to Sir Arth. Haslerigg the 
 rents, with arrears, of bishop's lands in Evenwood and Wolsingham, 
 purchased by him.- — Same date. Order of the C.C. that the Dui-ham 
 Committee pay in those rents to Sir Arthur, he having purchased 
 them and received them till the year 1651, and also that they suffer 
 his officers to receive them in future. 
 
 1652. Mar. 18. C.C. to the Cou. Com. :— We have acquainted 
 the treasurers-at-war with the money you have in hand and hope 
 there will be assigiaments sent you. Meantime if you can safely 
 return any part of it, do not lose the opportunity. Your contracts 
 are so numerous that we have not yet had time to run through 
 them, but hope we shall do so soon. — Mar. 23. Same to same: — 
 You are to pay to order of Sir John Wollaston and the late 
 treasurers-at-war 3,0007. out of the sequestered money in your hands.
 
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 1652. Durham, Mar. 30. Cou. Com. to the C.C. :— On yours 
 
 of Mar. 19 and the resolves of Parlt we send you an 
 
 alphabetical list of all persons whatsoever that have been sequestered 
 in this county from Apr. 1, 1644, to Dec. 1, 1651, and are not dis- 
 -charged, having omitted none. — (Signed) Fran. Wren, Thos. Delavall. 
 
 Alphabetical List. 
 {^Sequestered hut not Dhrhfirged.) 
 "Del. " delinquent ; " Rec." recusant. 
 4— Jas. Aiscough of Midleton one Rowe, gent. Eec. Del. 
 Robt. Allen of Sadberge, yeoman. Del. 
 Mary AjDpleby of Lartington, widow. Rec. in co. York. 
 John Armorer of Xorham, gent. Del. 
 Geo. Bellasis of Durham City, gent. Del. 
 Wm. Bierley of Satley, yeoman. Rec. 
 Thos. Billingham of Crookehall, gent. Del. 
 Wm. Blakiston of Archdeacon Newton, esq. Del. 
 Wm. Blakiston of Gibside, esq. Del. 
 Dame Margt. Blakiston of Gibside, widow. Rec. 
 Geo. Bowes of Bradley, knt. Del. 
 
 Raiph Bowes of Hexham, Northumlierland, gent. Del. 
 Thos. Bowes of Streatlam, esq. Del. 
 
 Thos. Brathwhaite of [blank] in co. York, gent. Rec. Del. 
 Anthony Buhner of [blank], esq. Rec. Del. 
 
 -^^T T. 1 ^ 1 Recs., sons of [blank] Buhner of Marrick, esq. 
 
 VVm. Buhner I > -i 
 
 John Buttry of Nesbett, gent. Del. 
 
 Roger Carleton of Wolsingham, gent. Del. 
 
 [blank] Chaytor of Buttroby, widow. Rec. 
 
 Thos. Clarke of Sunderland, yeoman. Del. 
 
 Dame Anne Clavering of Duddo, widow. Rec. 
 
 Steph. Coleson of Riton Woodside, gent. Del. 
 
 Cuth. Colling^vood of Dawdon, esq. Rec. Del. 
 
 Wm. Collingwood of Sledwish, gent. Del. 
 
 Dame Mary Coniers of the same, widow. Rec. 
 
 John Coniers of Layton, gent. Rec. 
 
 Kath. Coniers now wife of Anth. Ovington of Great Stainton, 
 
 yeoman. 
 
 Thos. Coniers of Wooley, gent. Del. 
 
 Xpofer Cookeson of Durham City, gent. Del. 
 
 John Cosin, late of Durham City, doctor in divinity. Del. 
 
 Raiph Cotesworth of Great Stainton, gent. Rec. Del. 
 
 Anne Coxon of Colepighell, widow. Rec. 
 
 John Deeneham of Houghton, yeoman. Rec. 
 
 Richd. Dobson of Sunderland, yeoman. Del. 
 
 \J Gascoigne Eden of Billingham, gent. Del. 
 
 Robt. Ellis of [blank] in co. York, gent. Del.
 
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 Robt. Emerson of Ludwell, gent. Del. 
 
 Elizth. Emerson of Ludwell, widow. Rec. 
 
 John Errington of Rudby, esq. Rec. Del. in co. York. 
 
 John Errington of Elton, gent. Rec. Del. 
 
 Mark Errington of Newcastle, gent. Del. 
 
 [blank] Evens of Keverston, gent. Del. 
 
 Toby Ewbanke of Eggleston, esq. Del. 
 
 Sir Wm. Fenwick of Scremerston, knt. Rec. Del. 
 
 John Fetherstonhalgh of Stanhop, esq. Del. 
 
 Ralph Fetherstonhalgh of Tofts, gent. Del. 
 
 John Forcer of Harborhouse, esq. Rec. Del. 
 
 Kath. Forcer of Kello, widow. Rec. 
 
 Richd. Foster of [blank] in co. York, esq. Rec. 
 
 "\Ym. Freisell of Durham City, gent. Del. 
 
 Wm. Gargrave of St. Ellin Awkland, yeoman. Del. 
 
 Geo. Garnett of Blackwell, yeoman. Rec. 
 
 "\Ym. Garth of Headlam, yeoman. Del. 
 
 Ralph Gray of Trumble Hill, yeoman. Del. 
 
 Wm. Grenewell of West Stobbalee, yeoman. Rec. 
 
 Thos. Grenewell of Bromesheiles, yeoman. Rec. 
 
 Sir Thos. Haggerston of Haggerston, knt. Rec. Del. 
 
 Ralph Hall of Grenecroft, esq. Rec. 
 
 Wm. Hall of Grenecroft, gent. Rec. Del. 
 
 Claudius Hamilton of Gateshead, gent. Del. 
 
 Geo. Harbottle of Holemires, yeoman. Del. 
 
 Richd. Harrison of Overfriarside, gent. Del. 
 
 Dorothy Hartborne of Stillington, widow. Rec. 
 
 Dame Dorothy Hedworth of Harraton, widow. Rec. 
 
 Ralph Hedworth of Chester, gent. Del. 
 
 John Hester of Bedborne Park, gent. Del. 
 
 Wm. Hetherington of Shandforth, yeoman. Rec. 
 
 John Hilton of Hilton, esq. Del. 
 
 Isab. Hixon of Preston, widow. Rec. 
 
 John Hodshon of Mannorhouse, gent. Rec. 
 
 Wm. Hodshon of Hebborne, esq. Rec. 
 
 Thos. Hopper of Shinkliffe, yeoman. Rec. 
 
 Sir Fran. Howard of Corbey in Cumberland, knt. Rec. Del.. 
 
 Margt. Howard of Tirrisdaile, widow. Rec. 
 
 Ralph Huntley of Shandforth. Rec. 
 
 Elizth. Huntley of Shandforth. Rec. 
 
 John Husband of Sunderland, yeoman. Del. 
 
 Leonard Hutchinson of Iveston, yeoman. Rec. 
 
 Dorothy Hutton of Newsham, widow. Rec. 
 
 Matt. Hutton of Marske in co. York, esq. Del. 
 
 John Jackson of Harraton, gent. Del. 
 
 Wm. Jennison of Neasham Al)bey, gent. Rec. 
 
 Anne Johnson of Preston upon Skirne, widow. Rec. 
 
 Hen. Johnson of Little Stainton, yeoman. Rec.
 
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 Richd. Johnson of the same, yeoman. Rec. 
 Robt. Johnson of Willington, yeoman. Rec. 
 Wm. LaAves of Kyoe, yeoman. Rec. 
 Thos. Liddle of Farneacres, gent. Rec. 
 Elizth. Liddle of the same, widow. Rec. 
 Talbott Lisle of Barmeston, gent. Rec. 
 Hen. Marley of Hilton, yeoman. Del. 
 Geo. Martin of Durham City, gent. Del. 
 Anthony Maxton late of Wolsingham, clerk. Del. 
 Thos. Mayre of Hardwick, gent. Rec. 
 John Mayre of the same, gent. Rec. 
 Anne Meaborne of Pontop, widow. Rec. 
 Sir John Menes, late of Winlaton, knt. Del. 
 Barbary Metcalfe of Rackwoodhill, widow. Rec. 
 Hen. Milborne of Bedlington, gent. Del. 
 Dorothy Millot ) , , „ „„ ... , . , ^ 
 
 Jane Afillott I Wnittol, spmsters. Rec. 
 
 Raiph Millott of Maland, gent. Rec. Del. 
 
 Lord Jas. Mordington. Del. 
 
 Sir John Morley of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, esq. Del. 
 
 Thos. Ord of Longridge, gent. Del. 
 
 Elizth. Oswald of Darlington, widow. Rec. 
 
 Jane Oswald of the same, spinster. Rec._ 
 
 Mich. Pemberton of Aislaby, gent. Del. ' "^ 
 
 Arth. Philipps of Durham City, gent. DelT" 
 
 Thos. Pinkney of East Brandon, yeoman. Rec. 
 
 Anne Porter late of Sheilesrawe, widow. Rec. 
 
 Wm. Power of Durham City, gent. Rec. Del. .-^ 
 
 Michael Pudsey of Midleton George, gent. Rec. Del. 
 
 Raiph Pudsey of Stappleton in co. York, esq. Rec. Del. 
 
 Brian Richardson of Barmeston, gent. 
 
 Wm. Rickaby of Great Stainton, yeoman. Rec. 
 
 Sir. Thos. Rlddell late of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, knt. Del. 
 
 Sir Wm. Riddell of Gateshead, knt. Rec. Del. 
 
 John Sadler of Midleton-one-Rowe, yeoman. Rec. 
 
 Anne Salkeld of Over Conniscliffe, widow. Rec. 
 
 Lancelot Salkeld late of Skirningham, gent. Rec. Del. 
 
 Rebecca Salvin of Durham City, widow. Kec. 
 
 Fran. Salvin late of White Hurworth, gent. Rec. Del. 
 
 Lawrence Sayer of Yarm in co. York, esq. Rec. Del. 
 
 Geo. Selby of Winlaton, gent. Rec. 
 
 Dame Elizth. Selby of the same, widow. Rec. 
 
 Thos. Shafto of Tanfield ligh [Lea], gent. Del. 
 
 Wm. Sheraton of Elwick. Rec. Del. 
 
 Matt. Smith of Barmeton, yeoman. Rec. 
 
 Geo. Smith of Esh, esq. Rec. 
 
 John Smith of Esh, gent. Rec. Del. 
 
 Sir John Somersett, knt. Del.
 
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 Wm. Stuart of Littleborne, esq. Del. 
 r( Wm. Swinborne of Capheton in Northumberland, esq. 
 
 Robt. Taylor of Rareton, yeoman. Del. 
 John Tempest of Old Durham, esq. Del. 
 Nich. Tempest of Stanley, gent. Del. 
 Thos. Tempest of the same, gent. Del. 
 Sir Richd. Tempest of Stella, knt. Del. 
 Wm. Tempest of Thorneley, gent. Rec. 
 Wm. Thompson of Trinidon, yeoman. Rec. 
 Xpofer Todd of Bishopton, yeoman. Rec. 
 • v^^i^Nich. Todd of Seaham, yeoman. Del. 
 Geo. Tong of Denton, esq. Del. 
 John Trollop of Thorneley, gent. Rec. 
 Jos. Ward of [blank] in this county, gent. Del. 
 Robt. Weemes of Trimdon. yeoman. Rec. 
 John Widdrington of Hurst in Northumberland, gent. Rec. 
 Robt. Wild late of Ketton, esq. Rec. 
 Peter William of Fawside, yeoman. Rec. 
 John Winter of East Buttsfield, yeoman. Rec. 
 Anne Witham of Sledwich, widow. Rec. 
 Anthony Witham of Preston-upon-Skirne, gent. - 
 Wm. Wivall of [blank] in co. York, gent. 
 John Woodhouse of Corneforth, gent. Del. 
 CWm. Wormeley late of Hurworth, gent. Rec. 
 Thos. Wray of Beamish, esq. Rec. Del. 
 Sir Andrew Young of [blank] in co. York, knt. Rec. Del. 
 
 {Suspended hut not Discharged.) 
 
 Fran. Anderson of Bradley, esq. Del. 
 Richd. Baddeley of Durham City, gent. Del. 
 Chris. Bierley of Midridge Grange, esq. Del. 
 Fran. Bowes of Thorneton, esq. Del. 
 Cuth. Carr of St. Ellin Awkland, gent. Del. 
 Sir Nich. Cole of Keepyeare, bart. Del. 
 Sir John Conieres of Nettlesworth, bart. Del. 
 Jos. Cradocke of Harperley, gent. Del. 
 Sam. Davison of Blakeston, gent. Del. 
 ^Sir Geo. Fletcher of [blank] in Cumberland, knt. Del. 
 John Garnett of Eaglescliffe, gent. Del. 
 John Heath of Old Durham, esq. Del. 
 Richd. Morpeth of Stillington. gent. Del. 
 Sir Thos. Riddell of Gateshead^ knt. Del. 
 Steph. Thompson of Ulnaliy, gent. Del. 
 Marmaduke Tonstall of Wycliffe in co. York, esq. Del. 
 Robt. Worrall of Clerkenwell, London, gent. Del. 
 
 Durham, Mar. 30, 1651.— (Signed) Fran. Wren, Thos. Delavall.
 
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 1652. Durham, Mar. 31. Cou. Com. to the C.C. :— We return 
 our account for rents and arrears received at Martinmas last. Give 
 us your help for payment of 3,183/. 3s. 9d. resting on this account, 
 as we are so far from London. Our excuse for delay in collecting 
 arrears is that our agent is an officer in the army, and is employed in 
 providing for the Scots' pi-isoners. — (Signed) Fran. Wren. Thos. 
 Delavall. [Noted, ' Needs no answer.'] 
 
 1652. Aug. 12. C.C. to Aid. Allen:— There will be 3,000/. 
 ready in Durham in five weeks, which will be paid on your order if 
 you assign it to be received in those parts. 
 
 1652. Nov. 1. John Johnson to Sam. Moyer or Mr. Brere- 
 ton : — Let the following lousiness be examined by the Cou. Com. of 
 Durham, and call John Brackenlmry of Sellaby, co. Durham, now 
 in London, who knows the proceedings from Sir Wm. Armyne. 
 
 The late Parlt. order for clearing all delinquents in co. Durham 
 who compounded with Armyne in 164:4 or Sir Hen. Vane and that 
 committee in 1645, does not include the following, because they 
 either did not compound for their lands or have not paid their 
 compositions. 
 
 Robt. Eden of Windlestone, estate worth 800/. a year, com- 
 pounded with Armyne for personalty of 80/. 
 
 [John] Markindale, Veasie and Aiseby of Wardall, estates of 
 100/. a year or more, compounded with him for small personal 
 estates. 
 
 Thos. Birl)eck, worth 200/. a year, never paid composition, nor 
 the 48/. which his goods amounted to when sequestered. 
 
 John Garth of Headlam, compounded in 1644 with the old com- 
 mittee for 100/. a year, and his estate is worth 300/. 
 
 All these are in the schedule of delinquents who petitioned Parlt. 
 a year ago. 
 
 1652. Nov. 30. Collection of the revenues under sequestration 
 in the co. of Durham: — Delinquents, 4,738/. 7f. 7d. ; papists. 
 
 O 7Q77 S^ AfJ 
 
 1652. Dec. 15. Cou. Com. to the C.C. :— We certify, on behalf 
 of Grace, widow of Arth. French,* that he served faithfully during 
 his employment, and beg payment to the poor woman and her 
 children of the 81/. 4.s\ Id. due to him. — (Signed) Fran. Wren, 
 Thos. Delavall. 
 
 1652. Dec. 23. Cou. Com to the C.C: — The Commissioners 
 of Sewers, co. Durham, have assessed several acres of land sequestered 
 for recusancy of Geo. Smith and Anthony Witham, at 2s. an acre, 
 amounting to 24/., towards defraying the charges of scouring and 
 cleansing the Skirne, and were about to drive the tenants' goods 
 for the same ; but as we had no order for allowance thereof we 
 did not suffer the connnissioners to proceed and desire directions. 
 — (Signed) Fran. Wren, Anthony Pearson. [Enclosing tTie order 
 
 * See ante, Sept. 5, 1650, for details of this pitiful case.
 
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 referred to for levying 2s. an acre on 190 acres in Nun Stainton and 
 Barmpton towards removing the obstructions which caused the over- 
 flowing of the river and did great damage ; with request for the 
 Cou. Com. to procure instructions from the C.C. lest the levying of 
 this assessment might cause a defalcation of rent.] 
 
 1653. Mar. 23. Petition of Edwd. Lee, treasui-er to the com- 
 missioners for propagating the Gospel in co. Durham, to the C.C. 
 Parlt. on Mar, 1, 1650, granted the said commissioners power to 
 dispose of impropriations, tithes, etc., for the preaching of the 
 Gospel and schoolmasters, but the Cou. Com. have received the rents 
 of Coniscliff, Lanchester, Fenwick and Buckton, and half those of 
 Cheswick. Begs an order for their restoration.- — Same date. Order 
 from the C.C. to the Cou. Com. to restore all tithes and impropria- 
 tions received since Mar. 10, 1651-2. 
 
 1653. Apr. 27. C.C. to the treasurers-at-war : — There is 
 5.000Z. in the hands of the committee of Durham and it will be for 
 ease and security of payment if it can be assigned on account of the 
 army in those parts. Reply dated May 3, that they will do so if 
 the letter for payment may be delivered to Thos. Marsh, their 
 cashier, T. Marsh's receipt of said letter, May 6, annexed. — May 3. 
 C.C. to Cou. Com.: — You are to pay 5,000/. on order of Wm. 
 Leman and John Blackwell, treasurers-at-war. 
 
 1653. June 30. Orders by the Committee for Removing 
 Obstructions in the sale of Dean and Chap, lands, for sequestration 
 of various persons for non-payment of the second half of their 
 purchase money for the said lands. Among them is John Young, 
 Pittington, 109/. 3s. M., lands in Pittington, 
 
 1653. Durham, Aug. 10. Cou. Com to the C.C. : — On yours 
 of Sept. 15, 1652, we have summoned all convicted of recusancy, or 
 susi^ected of popery, and tendered them the oath of abjuration. 
 Those named in the annexed schedule refused it, whereon we have 
 secured two-thirds of their estates and valued the same, but only 
 one had any real estate. How are we to dispose of them, the parties 
 being very poor? We find no other recusants. — (Signed) Fran. 
 Wren, Thos. Delavall. 
 
 List of ten persons who refused the oath, and therefore two- 
 thirds of their estates are secured to the use of the commonwealth : 
 
 Jane Garforth, Hunwick, widow 
 
 PhiL Goodericke, Eighton, yeoman ... 
 
 Wm. Richardson, Durham, apothecary 
 
 Alice Richardson, Gateshead, widow ... 
 
 Geo. Smith, Hardwick, yeoman 
 
 Widow Stocke, Newbiggin, widow (her real 
 
 estate) 
 Wm, Thursby, Stockley, yeoman 
 Robt. Ward, Darlington, yeoman 
 Edwd, Wilson, Durham, doctor in physic 
 Hen, Young, Witton, gent. 
 
 £ s. 
 
 d. 
 
 9 15 
 
 9 
 
 6 9 
 
 4 
 
 10 5 
 
 10 
 
 .46 
 
 2 
 
 3 13 
 
 
 
 l1 
 
 5 9 
 
 5 
 
 5 11 
 
 4 
 
 18 6 
 
 8 
 
 3 8 
 
 10 
 
 14 16 
 
 2
 
 71 
 
 1653. Durham, Aug. 23. Cou. Com. to the C.C. :— On your 
 order of Mar. 23 we have repaid to Edwd. Lee the tithes, etc., 
 ordered, but as the committee for propagating the Gospel have 
 settled the impropriations on ministers, are we to discharge the 
 sequestration, or to continue to receive the rents? — (Signed) Fran. 
 Wren, Thos. Delavall. 
 
 1653. Oct. 4. Order of the C.C. on an order from the Com- 
 mittee for Removing Obstructions, etc., (supra) that the Cou. 
 Com. seize and sequester the estate of John Young of Pittington, 
 for non-payment of 109/. 3?. 3fZ. due June 19, 1651, the second half 
 of his purchase money for a house and lands in Pittington according 
 to a Parlt. order of Nov. 10, 1652. 
 
 1654. Feb. 23. Order of the C.S.* on a certificate from the 
 Durham Cou. Com. dated Jan. 31, that Wm. Brewen, their late solicitor 
 and now agent, having l^een at much charge and pains, and forced 
 to keep an assistant, and lost several horses by continual riding, 
 that 50/. be allowed him therefor and paid by the Cou. Com. 
 Brewen in a petition to the commissioners stated that he had 
 been obliged to employ Wm. Story as assistant, no one man being 
 Able to do the work, the county being very great, the revenue 
 large, etc. 
 
 1654. Mar. 14. C.S. to the displaced Cou. Com. : — You Avill 
 find that so much of the revenue by sale and composition being 
 taken away by the ordinance of Feb. 10, we must lessen the charge 
 which was necessary for the former great revenue, which we cannot 
 effect and continue the l)usiness in the former method. We, there- 
 fore, make void all commissions to yourselves or your agents, who 
 are to expect no further salaries, and you are to deliver the books 
 and papers to whom we have ordered to receive 
 
 them, but with leave for you to have recourse to them to perfect 
 your accounts, which we desire may be speedily, and all rents and 
 profits paid in, to avoid trouble to you or us. You are also to 
 deliver to by Mar. 24 all counterparts of leases, 
 
 orders for letting estates for a year, and a list or rental of persons 
 in arrear ; after Mar. 24 you are to receive no profits of sequestered 
 estates, which are to be paid to . We do not make 
 
 this alteration out of prejudice to your former actings, but in 
 pursuance of our trust. 
 
 1654. Mar. 14. C.S. to the new Cou. Com. : — You will per- 
 ceive that the ordinance of Feb. 10 rather gives us a new limited 
 power than confirms the old, and gives us a different title. It is 
 also exjjected that we should lessen the charge of management of 
 sequestered estates. We have therefore made void the commission 
 in your and all other counties and having had experience of your 
 faithfulness and diligence, we have chosen you to act under us and 
 
 * By an ordinance of the Lord Protector and Council, dated Feb. 10, 1654, 
 the Committee for Compounding was dissolved, and a Commission for Se(jiies- 
 trations took its place.
 
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 ai3point you our sub-commissioner in your county to manage estates 
 and receive rents after Mar. 24, and all arrears for which we shall 
 allow you 12^. in the pound on all you pay in ; but you are to be at 
 the whole charge of management and payment, etc. [Persons to- 
 whom the letter was sent — for co. Durham, Fran. Wren and Thos. 
 Delavall at Durham ; for co. Northd., Hen. Horsley at Newcastle. J 
 
 1654. Apr. 13. C.S. to Cou. Com. : — Mr. Pearson writes that 
 he has 1,000/. in hand; let it be paid on order of John Blackwell 
 and Richd. Deane, treasurers-at-war, whose acquittance will be 
 your warrant. 
 
 1654. Aug. 8. Cou. Com. to the C.S. : — Matt. Curry, tenant 
 to two-thirds of Bedlington mill, sequestered for recusancy of John 
 Widdrington, begs a reduction of the rent of 32/. a year, corn being 
 so cheap that he cannot pay the rent* without his utter undoing. 
 We beg leave to reduce it to 16/., or to I'elet the mill. — (Signed) 
 Fran. Wren, Thos. Delavall. [Note of order for abatement.] 
 
 1654. Aug. 22. C.S. to Cou. Com. : — You are to summon all 
 in arrear to pay in seven days and return a list of all defaulters, 
 with particulars that we may fine them as ordered. For collecting 
 these fines we will allow 4^/. a mile and Iv. in the pound for the 
 first 100/., and 4^/. a mile and 6^Z. in the pound for all sums above 
 that. You are speedily to pay in the money as State affairs require 
 it. — P.S. Say what augmentations are payable to ministers from 
 sequestered estates in your jurisdiction. 
 
 1654. Sept. 15. C.S. to Cou. Com. : — We thank you for your 
 care in jaassiug your accoimts The power of the late com- 
 missioners for propagating the Gospel being determined, the augmen- 
 tations in tithes granted by them to the ministers of Darlington 
 and Durham are to return to the State till others are authorized 
 to receive them, according to the ordinance of the Protector and 
 Council of Aug. 29 last, whereby in case of the death or resignation 
 of a person ejected or sequestered the commissioners for approba- 
 tion of preachers are authorized to grant nominations within a 
 limited time, in default of which the presentation for that time 
 devolves on the Protector. . . . ^. We shall compensate you for your 
 troulde in the management of rectories, and doubt not of your care. 
 
 1654. Nov. 10. C.S. to Cou. Com. : — Your accounts are very 
 imperfect. We desire them to be perfected forthwith and the 
 money due to the State speedily paid in. 
 
 1655. Durham, Aug. 29. Cou, Com. to the C.S. : — ^We send 
 you our list of papists and delinquents, viz., 62 papists and 9 
 delinquents, with the addresses of most and the dates of seques- 
 tration. 
 
 * Market price of wheat per quarter in 1646, 2/. Ss-. ; 1647, 3/. 13s. 8d, ; 
 1648, il. 5.S. ; 1649, 4/. ; 1650, 3^. 16v. 8(/. ; 1651, ;V. 13.s-. 4d. ; 1652, 2/. 9.v. 6d. ; 
 165.S, \l. 15.t. 6(/. ; 1654, 1/. 6s. ; 1655, 1/. 13s. 4d. ; 1656, 2/. 3s. ; 1657, 21. 6s. Srf. 
 — Fleetwood, Chronicon Frecmmm, 1st edition, 1707, p. 125.
 
 ^ 
 
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 Papists and Delinquents now under Sequestration. 
 
 Palmists. 
 
 Mary Appleby of [blank], widow. 1645. 
 
 Wm. Bierly of Satley, yeoman. 1645. 
 
 Dame Margt. Blakeston of East Gibside, widow. 1651. 
 
 Wm. and Anthony Buhner of Merricke, gents. 1646. 
 
 Dame Anne Clavering of Duddo, widow. 1645. 
 
 Dame Mary Coniers of Layton, widow. 1645. 
 
 John Coniers of the same, gent. 1645. 
 
 Kath. Coniers now wife of Anthony Ovington of Layton, gent. 
 
 1645. (She hath taken the oath of abjuration; the 
 
 sequestration is suspended.) 
 Dorothy Coxon of Colepighill, widow. 1645. 
 John Deeneham of Houghton, yeoman. 1645. (He took the oath 
 
 of abjuration and his rents are suspended by order.) 
 Elizth. Emerson late of Ludwell, widow, deceased. 1644. 
 Kichd. Forster of Stokesley in co. York, esq. 1645. 
 Geo. Garnett of Blackwell, gent. 1645. 
 Wm. Grenewell of West Stobbalee, yeoman. 1645. 
 Thos. Gi'enewell of Broomsheeles, yeoman. 1645. 
 Eaiph Hall of Grenecroft, gent. 1645. 
 
 Dame Dorothy Hedworth of Harraton, widow. May, 1650. 
 Wm. Hetherington, sen., of Shandforth, yeoman. 1644. 
 Wm. Hetherington, jun., of the same, yeoman. 1644. 
 Isabel Hixon of Preston, widow. 1644. 
 
 Elizth. now wife of Albert Hodshon of Lintshall, gent. 1652. 
 Wm. Hodshon of Hebborne, esq. 1645. 
 Margt. Howard of Tirrisdale, widow. 1645. 
 Leonard Hutchinson of Iveston, yeoman. 1645. 
 Dorothy Hutton of Newsham, widow. 1645. 
 Wm. Jennison late of Neesham Abbey, gent., deceased. 1645. 
 Anne Johnson of Preston, widow. 1645. 
 Robt. Johnson of Willington, yeoman. 1645. 
 Hen. Johnson of Little Stainton, yeoman. 1645. 
 Richd. Johnson of Newl^iggin, yeoman. 1645. 
 Wm. Lawes of Kyoojieth, yeoman. 1645. 
 Elizth. Liddell of Farneacres, widow. 1645. 
 Talbott Lisle of Barmeston, gent. 1645. 
 Thos. Maire of Hardwick, esq. 1644. 
 John Maire of the same, gent. 1644. 
 Barbara Metcalfe of Rackwoodhill, widow. 1645. 
 Jane and Margt. Millot of Whittoll. [n.d.j 
 Elizth. Oswald of Darlington, widow. 1645. 
 Jane Oswold of the same, spinster. 1645. 
 Thos. Pinkney of Ushawe, yeoman. 1645. 
 ,Wm. Rickaby of Great Stainton, yeoman. 1644. 
 f John Sadler of Middleton-one-Rowe, yeoman. 1645.
 
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 Mary Salkeld of High Coniscliflfe, widow. 1645. 
 
 Rebecca Salvin of Elvett nigh Durham, widow. 1644. 
 
 John Salvin of Heworth, gent. 1653. 
 
 Geo. Selby late of Winlaton, gent., deceased. 1645. 
 
 Dame Elizth. Selby of the same, widow. 1650. 
 
 Matt. Smith of Barmeton, yeoman. 1645. 
 
 Wm. Tempest late of Thornaley, gent., deceased. 1645. 
 
 Wm. Thompson of Trim don, yeoman. 1645. 
 
 Xpofer Todd of Bishopton, gent. 1645. 
 
 John Trollopp of Thorneley, esq. 1645. 
 
 Robt. Weemes of Trimdon, yeoman. 1645. 
 
 John Widdrington of [blank] in Northumberland, gent. 1650. 
 
 John Winter of East Buttsfield, yeoman. 1645. 
 
 Anne Witham of Sledwish, widow. 1645. 
 
 Isabel Witham of Preston, widow. 1653. 
 
 John Witham of Cliff in co. York, esq. 1643. 
 
 John Witham of Fawside, gent. 1653. 
 
 Delincpients. 
 
 Ralph Grey late of Trumble Hill, gent. 1649. 
 Geo. Harbott of Holemires, yeoman. 1652. 
 ^ John Hilton of Hilton, esq. 1644. 
 
 Sir John Meenes late of Winlaton, knt. 1645. 
 
 John Morley of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, esq. 1644. 
 
 Elizth. relict of Raiph Pudsey late of Stoppleton in co. York, 
 
 esq. 1654. 
 Sir Wm. Riddell late of Gateshead, knt. 1652. 
 Lawrence Sayer of Yarm in co. York, esq. 1645. 
 Wm. Wivall of [blank] in the said co., gent. 1644. 
 
 (Signed) Fran. Wren, Thos. Delavall. 
 
 1658. Dec. 20. Order in the Court of Exchequer (on pi'esenta- 
 tion of John Lawson and Robt. Busby as debtors for 17/. and 15/. 
 for parts of the sequestered estate of Anne Johnson in l^rafferton 
 and Chester parishes, and on jDlea of Wm. Brasse that the estate was 
 sold to him by the heir and present owner, Mich. Johnson, Anne 
 Johnson dying Feb. 14, 1658, and that Wm. Brass is a Protestant), 
 that the sequestration be discharged ' and that the hands of the 
 Lord Protector shall be therefrom amoved.' 
 
 1659. Durham, Oct. 6. Cou. Com. to the C.S. : — We are willing 
 to serve the State, but we know of none in this county who were in 
 the late rebellion ; we want to know who are prisoners of war, that 
 we may enquire if they have estates here. Lord Belasyse has, 
 and we hear that he is a prisoner. One of our names is written John 
 Jobland for John Jopling. (Signed) P. Hobson, Jo. Jopling. 
 
 1659. Shipley, Oct. 13. Cuth. Rayne to the CS. : — I am willing 
 to act with Paul Hobson and John Jopling as commissioners for 
 Durham, though I live some miles from the city. We have met and 
 will do our best in the service.
 
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 1659. Durham, Oct. 31. Cou. Com. to the C.S. :— We find none 
 here who have estates that were concerned in Sir Geo. Booth's insm-- 
 rection except Lord Belasyse. . . . We want instructions, for ' those 
 strange revolutions doth put a great amazement upon most men.' 
 We are confident God will work good by it, and bring down the malig- 
 nants, who are now very high. ' They rant high with Monk's declara- 
 tion, and this last week there was a declaration abroad from Charles 
 Stuart, which much heightens them.' You will have the news from 
 Scotland ; he [Monk] imprisons all that join not with him, and is 
 drawing his forces towards the borders. — (Signed) P. Hobson, J. 
 Jopling. 
 
 1660. Jan. 25. C.S. to Col. [Robt.] Lilburne : — You have in 
 your hands several informations against gentlemen in the northern 
 parts suspected to have been engaged in the late insurrection. We 
 desire you to return them, or transcripts of them, to us, that we may 
 make the best improvement we can of them for the State.
 
 CORRESPONDENCE 
 
 NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY COMMITTEE. 
 
 1647. July 6. C.C. to the Sheriff of Northd. :— As the service 
 is much injured by delinquents not prosecuting their compositions 
 according to their obligations, on account of unwarrantable favour 
 shown them, you are to issue proclamations that all compounders 
 who do not pay in their moneys within fourteen days shall have their 
 whole estates seized and sequestered as if they had not compounded. 
 Also that all who are sequestered, or sequestrable, and do not apply 
 to compound within one month, shall lose the benefit of all articles 
 and ordinances of Parlt. for their case, and be proceeded against as 
 contemners of Parlt. favour. 
 
 1647. Oct. 19. Order of the committee at G.H. on the motion of 
 [Sir John] Fenwick, M.P., that Robt. Fenwick be required to return 
 the papers in his hands concerning sequestrations in Northd., and 
 all the letters delivered by Sir Wm. Armyne and the rest of the 
 commissioners in the North which were found in Sir John Morley's 
 study. 
 
 1648. Mar. 31. Order of Lords and Commons that Sir Arth. 
 Haslerigg, governor of Newcastle, and Mr. Geo. Fenwick be added to 
 all committees of sequestrations in the four northern counties. 
 
 1648. Nov. 11. Cou. Com. to the C.C. — We received your 
 letters from G.H. touching 42,000/. charged upon the treasurers of 
 sequestrations, wherein you desire a speedy account of the sequestra- 
 tions of this county, and the moneys thereof in our hands, towards 
 the raising of that sum. In answer to which we thought fit to let 
 you understand that this county for these ten years last past hath 
 been made most miserable by war, and that such was the sense of 
 the Parlt. of our suft'erings, that the houses did grant to this 
 Committee the sequestrations of this county towards satisfaction of 
 the debts and pulolic engagements thereof. (Signed) Arth. Hesel-
 
 77 
 
 rigge, Mich. Welden,* Wm. Shafto,t Hen. Ogle,| Hen. Horsley.Jj 
 Additional MSS., Brit. Museuiii, 5,508, So. 72. Printed in Sharps 
 Bare Tracts. 
 
 1650. Feb. 13. Note, in the proceedings of the C.C, that Wm. 
 Shafto, Hen. Ogle, Hen. Horsley and John 8alkeld|| of Alnwick were 
 presented to the C.C. as commissioners for Northd. 
 
 1650. Feb. (?) Information by Geo. Kedshaw, agent to the 
 commissioners for Northd., to the C.C. that he has seized 1,000/. in 
 the hands of Lady Elizth. Forster which she holds as executrix to the 
 late Sir Thos. Swinburne, papist. That divers papists' houses in 
 Newcastle are not yet sequestered for want of special order. That 
 
 * Michael Welton or Weldon, of VVeldon Tower, near the head of Whittle 
 Burn, Ovingham, represented an ancient Northumbrian familj-. Wallis, 
 Antiqiiitits of Northumherland, ii. 156, describing their tower, enumerates 
 Simon de Welton, 10 Hen. IV. to 14 Hen. VI. ; Thos. de Welton, 25, 35 
 Hen. VI. ; Simon de Welton, 5 Edw. IV., and 'Michael Welton, 19 Chas. I., 
 1643, who was then one of the Parliament commissioners for sequestering lands 
 in Northd., an Act being passed the year before, in June, that this and the 
 other northern counties should be on the same footing as Ireland, and the 
 lands and estates of many great families shared among such as would advance 
 money to bring them under their power.' From the list of rentals in 1663 
 (Hodgson, Hist. Northd. pt. ill. vol. i. p. 335), we learn that Mich. Weldon's 
 estate consisted of Weldon Town and Hall, for which he was rated on 150/. 
 
 t Wm. Shafto was of Little Bavington, in tlie parish of Thockrington, 
 a captain in the army of the Commonwealth. All that is known about him 
 appears in connection with a pedigree of the family by ]\Ir. .J. Crawford 
 Hodgson. F.S.A., in the new Hist. Northd. iv. 415-16. 
 
 \ Hen. Ogle was the eldest son of Luke Ogle of Eglingham, near Alnwick, 
 where a branch of the wide-spreading familj' of that name was settled for manj- 
 generations. His mother was Isabella, dau. of Edmund Craster of Craster. 
 He entertained Cromwell in 1650 at Eglingham, and sat in Cromwell's first 
 two parliaments (1653 and 1654). his colleagues in the second of them being 
 Wm. Fenwick of Wallington and Robt. Fenwick of Bedlington. He was 
 therefore the Hen. Ogle who detected and exposed Hopkins the witch finder 
 whose villainies in Newcastle 'about' 1649 or 1650 are narrated with much 
 piquancy of detail by Ralph Gardiner in his EiigUuid's Grievance Discovered . 
 When Hopkins had finished his work in Newcastle and received his wao-es, 
 Gardiner tells us, ' he went into Northumberland to try women there, where he 
 got of some three pound apiece. But Hen. Ogle, esquire, a late member of 
 Parlt., laid hold on him and required bond of him to answer the sessions, but 
 he got away for Scotland, and it was conceived that if he had stayed he would 
 have made most of the women in the north witches for monej-.' There is an 
 excellent sketch of him in Sir Hen. A. Ogle's Oijle and Bothal, pp. 196, 369. 
 
 § The founder of the Horslej^s of Milburn Grange was John of that ilk, 
 a commissioner for enclosures upon the Middle Marches in 1552, who purchased 
 the estate from Bertram Anderson of Newcastle on Aug. 23, 1566. Henry 
 Horsley of Milburn Grange, above named, held a commission for raising forces 
 in Northd. in 1645, and for taxes in 1649-1650, etc. By his will made on 
 Nov. 9, 1659, and proved on the 3rd of tlie same month, 1660, lie left to 
 Margaret his wife, and her heirs, his farm at Dalton ; she to liave Milburn 
 Grange according to a settlement previously mSTcTe, and to be liis executrix. 
 — Hodgson, Hist. Northd. pt. it. vol. i. p. 335. 
 
 II John Salkeld, of Hulne Park House, Alnwick — a distant connection of 
 Colonel Salkeld of Rock, who was an ardent royalist. — See the new Hisi 
 Northd. ii. 136.
 
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 large sums remain in the hands of former sequestrators, collectors, 
 tenants and others, not yet accounted for. 
 
 1650. Newcastle, Ajjr. 1. Geo. Redshaw to the C.C. : — The 
 county is very spacious and lies near bad instruments to a common- 
 wealth. . . . You require an account of the profits from keeping 
 courts upon papists' and delinquents' estates, and what copyhold lands 
 there are in them. The gentleman who kept these courts has died, 
 and I doubt the records cannot be got ; but the usual time of keeping- 
 them was Easter and Michaelmas, so that if you send me an order for 
 keeping them I will return you a just account and hope to make some 
 discoveries. As soon as the lands are let for the ensuing year I shall 
 go about some new delinquents and take an account of the late 
 collectors and sequestrators that you may know how the rents have 
 been disposed of. 
 
 1650. Alnwick, Apr. 10. Cou. Com. to the C.C. :— The 
 delinquents have moved us for orders for their fifth parts, and the 
 tenants for an allowance for repairs, pretending inconvenience both 
 to the commonwealth and themselves if the dwellings, etc., are not 
 kept in repair. We desire directions, having no power to grant 
 such allowances. The Cou. Com. received from the C.C. an order- 
 of Mar. 14 last for paying to Sir Chas. Cavendish so much of a 
 rent charge of 300/. p. ann. as was due at Lady Day, 1648, out 
 of the Earl of Newcastle's estate in Northd. or to show cause to the 
 contrary within one month. The Cou. Com. say that the particulars 
 which Sir Chas. Cavendish compounded for was never under 
 sequestration for his delinquency, nor was it ever known that 
 Sir Chas. had any interest to any estate issuing out of the Earl 
 of Newcastle's lands in Northd., those lands being let ever since the 
 sequestration without any challenge or claim by Sir Chas., and had 
 been given in (upon sequestration) by the Earl's officers as they 
 had been let formerly free of all incumbrances. Dr. Gray, a 
 dangerous incendiary and invective person, has cut down and sold 
 some of the woods belonging to the Earl of Newcastle and threatened 
 the tenants for paying their rents to the State. — (Signed) Wm. 
 Shafto, Hen. Ogle, Hen. Horsley, John Ogle. 
 
 1650. Report by Sir Arth. Haslerigg's secretary, Anthony Pear- 
 son, of fines set in the northern counties by the commissioners 
 appointed by Act of Parlt., Mar. 2, 1649, for compounding with, 
 delinquents in the last war.* 
 
 In County Northumberland. 
 
 Lancelot Algood, Hexham 
 Ralph Bowes, Hexham 
 Chas. Brandling, Alnwick Abbey 
 John Carr, West Ditchburn ... 
 
 * Similar list for the county of Durham on p. '44. 
 
 £ 
 
 s. 
 
 d. 
 
 70 
 
 4 
 
 
 
 20 
 
 12 
 
 
 
 98 
 
 
 
 
 
 34 
 
 14 
 
 0.
 
 79 
 
 Wm. Carr, Cray hall 
 
 Thos. Clavering, Learchild 
 
 Edwd. Conyers, Hoi^ton [Hoppen] 
 
 David Errington, Beaufront . . . 
 
 Gilb. Errington, West Denton 
 
 Mark Errington, West Denton 
 
 John Foster, sen., Etherston ... 
 
 John Foster, jun., Etherston ... 
 
 Thos. Foster, Etherston 
 
 Thos. Jackson, merchant, Newcastle 
 
 Geo. Lawson, Xewton-by-the-Sea 
 
 Sir Fran. Liddell, Baniborough 
 
 Hen. Milburne, Bedlington 
 
 Geo. Orde, Sameshouse 
 
 John Orde, Westwood 
 
 John Ramsay, Berwick 
 
 Roger Reed, North Shields 
 
 John Ridley, Hardriding 
 
 John Sauuderson, Healey 
 
 Wm. Strother, Kirk Newton (tithes of Milfield, 
 Coupland and Yeavering accepted for 
 600/.) 
 
 Geo. Whitehead, Buhner 
 
 £ 
 
 s. 
 
 d. 
 
 40 
 
 
 
 
 
 74 
 
 18 
 
 6 
 
 79 
 
 
 
 
 
 15 
 
 
 
 
 
 66 
 
 13 
 
 4 
 
 67 
 
 15 
 
 
 
 32 
 
 
 
 
 
 83 
 
 19 
 
 4 
 
 273 
 
 
 
 
 
 33 
 
 6 
 
 8 
 
 30 
 
 5 
 
 10 
 
 342 
 
 16 
 
 10 
 
 27 
 
 19 
 
 4 
 
 40 
 
 3 
 
 4 
 
 304 
 
 
 
 
 
 779 
 
 15 
 
 3i 
 
 210 
 
 
 
 o' 
 
 16 
 
 11 
 
 4 
 
 126 
 
 14 
 
 
 
 1,095 
 
 10 
 
 
 
 4 
 
 
 
 
 
 1650. Newcastle, May 13. Hen. Horsley, one of the Cou. Com., 
 to the C.C. : — You require an account of our proceedings but as the 
 rest of the commissioners are in several parts of the county, taking' 
 the engagement and other public services as justices, we cannot 
 
 meet at present Are we to allow a third and a fifth to 
 
 [recusants and] delinquents and to grant allowances for repairs? 
 
 1650. Morpeth, May 28. Cou. Com. to C.C. :— We have 
 received several letters from you and the former committee, wdth 
 the Acts of Parlt. touching sequestrations, which we will put in 
 execution. As to the late committee and the former sequestrations, 
 since the beginning of these Avars this county has been so infested 
 with the enemy, that often times the rents of sequestered estates 
 could not be collected, and at other times all or most part of them 
 have been allowed for assess and billet to the Parlt. forces, which, 
 with many assessments and taxations, have so much devastated this 
 county, that it could not have subsisted if Parlt. had not granted 
 the benefit of the sequestrations towards defraying those debts, and 
 
 other public engagements, Avhereof many are yet unsatisfied 
 
 AVe have taken the oath before Sir Arth. Haslerigg, who wall tell 
 you the condition of this county. We enclose the names of a fit 
 treasurer, steward of courts, and clerk of the sequestrations, and 
 desire you will grant them a commission, with proper salary and 
 allowances. What are we to do about allowing fifths and compensa-
 
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 lion for repairs / The season of the year causes the tenants to press 
 about the latter and the low condition of the delinquents the former 
 for their subsistence. Officers proposed: — Hen. Horsley of Mil- 
 burne Gx'ange, treasurer ; Thos. Millnirne of Newcastle, steward ; 
 Edwd. Crow of Newcastle, clerk. — (Signed) Wni. Shafto, Hen. Ogle, 
 Hen. Horsley, John Ogle.* 
 
 1650. June li. C.C. to the Cou. Com:- — We approve the 
 persons named by you as treasurer and steward. You can choose 
 your clerk and allow him 2s. 6d. a day. Be good husbands to the 
 State in your allowances for repairs, yet do not suffer decays for 
 want of repairs. Refer to us any applications for fifths. Return 
 Avhat you have collected, or possibly we may prevail with the 
 treasurers-at-war to appoint payment of it there. 
 
 1650. July 2. C.C. to Cou. Com. (Same as to Durham under 
 this date.) 
 
 1650. Newcastle, July 10. Hen. Horsley to the C.C: — In 
 the absence of the other commissioners, who are employed upon 
 the army's advance intO' this county, I take on myself as treasurer 
 and one of the Cou. Com. to inform you that the profits of sequesti'a- 
 tions were granted for discharging pul^lic engagements of the 
 county. In other counties rents are payable at Lady Day and 
 Michaelmas, but here at Whitsuntide and Martinmas ; we will get 
 them in and give you an account ; but the tenants, by reason of the 
 troublesome and dangerous times cannot get their goods sold, and 
 so raise the money ; and we are therefore constrained to use more 
 moderation than otherwise we would. We have only received 
 1,000/. of the Whitsuntide rents, l^ut we hope to receive the arrears 
 shortly, except the rents of the Earl of Newcastle and Sir Wm. 
 Widdrington's estates, which are to be paid to [Susan] Blakiston 
 Ijy your order. f Impute not our former failings to remissness, 
 but to the absolute necessity and exigency of the county's sufter- 
 ings. [Notes of reply: — How were the profits of sequestrations 
 employed, and is she [Mrs. Blakiston] not provided for two ways ? 
 They are to certify what order it is they mean.] 
 
 1650. Sept. 20. C.C. to Cou. Com. (Same as to Durham under 
 this date.) 
 
 * John, son of Hen. Ogle of Eglingliam (see note, p. 77), by Jane, dau. of 
 Nich. Forster of the Whitehoiise, born aboi;t 1621, received in 1650 a commis- 
 sion as captain of militia for the four noi-thern counties ; the next year he was 
 under the commonwealth commanding a troop of horse in Scotland ; in 1652 he 
 is mentioned as a commissioner for compounding, and the next year as 
 treasurer. He married Eleanor, dau. of Robt. Pringle of Stichell, in Scotland. 
 See fuller account of him in Ogle and Bothal, op. cit. 
 
 t 1649. June 6. In the House of Commons a petition of C4eo. Blakiston of 
 Newcastle-upon-Tyne, gentleman, with a certificate of the Committee at 
 Newcastle, dated Mar. 4, 1645, was read, and it was ordered that 3000/. be 
 paid to the wife and children of the late John Blakiston, esquire (MP. for 
 Newcastle), and 500/. to Geo. Blakiston, both sums out of the estates in 
 Northd. of Sir Wm. Widdrington and the Earl of Newcastle. See the case of 
 Sir Wm. Widdrington hereafter.
 
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 1650. Oct. 9. Cou. Com. to the C.C. :— On yours of July 23, 
 intimating that a tine of 20/. was imposed upon each member of the 
 late committee for not returning their books and papers to us, Ave 
 certified that we had received them and desired you to remit the fine. 
 As for the accounts required of sequestrations made by them, they 
 were disposed of for public uses, according to Act of Parlt. and Ijy 
 the appi'o]:)ation of Sir Arth. Haslerigg and Col. Geo. Fenwick, so 
 that we presume neither the late committee nor ourselves will be 
 further charged with accounting for them.— ^(Signed) Wm. Shafto, 
 Hen. Ogle, Hen. Horsley. 
 
 [Draft of reply dated Nov. 4. The fine of 20/. laid upon the 
 members of the late committee we have discharged, but we expect 
 that the accounts may be made up and transmitted to us accordingly, 
 or it will not satisfy Parlt. to say that the money was disposed of 
 for public uses by approbation of gentlemen entrusted there, though 
 we know them to be persons of honour and integrity, unless it like- 
 wise appears what was disjDosed of, and to what use, and by what 
 order ■ this is therefore to be required, and the neglect will compel 
 us to execute the like penalty. Prevent it by engaging those 
 concerned herein to make a speedy return.] 
 
 1650. Newcastle, Nov. 14:. Cou. Com. to C.C: — We have not 
 been slack since Whitsuntide in our endeavours to bring in the rents 
 for that half-year, but the backwardness or inability of the tenants 
 have frustrated our intentions. We have now received 2,000/., but 
 Mrs. Blakiston has received 811/. upon the Act of Parlt. for .3,500/. 
 to be paid her ; of this and of the arrears, deductions and allowances 
 we will send an account. Meantime state how the balance in our 
 hands of 1,300/. may be paid here, so as to save the charges and 
 trouble of sending it up. — (Signed) Hen. Ogle, Hen. Horsley. 
 
 1650. Dec. 12. C.C. to Cou. Com. (Same as to Durham under 
 this date.) 
 
 1650. Newcastle, Dec. 23. Cou. Com to the C.C. : — We are 
 sorry you think us remiss, but we have before acquainted you that 
 our rent days are at Whitsuntide and Martinmas, and why the 
 accounts of the former committee have not come in. We are ready 
 to pay 1,300/. to Sir Arth. Haslerigg at Newcastle or to whom you 
 shall appoint. We are now letting lands, which will be our emjiloy- 
 ment for some time, as two of our fellow commissioners are at Edin- 
 burgh with Sir Arth. Haslerigg. — (Signed) Wm. Shafto, Hen. Horsley. 
 
 1651. Jan. 3. Committees for Northd. and Durham to the 
 C.C. (See Durham correspondence under this date.) 
 
 1651. Newcastle, Feb. 17. Cou. Com. to the C.C. :— We have 
 received several orders from you for allowing a fifth to delinquents' 
 wives and children ; but as wives married since the sequestration, 
 and children brought up in the popish religion are not to have the 
 benefit of the said allowance, we beg further directions. You say 
 that the contracts made in other counties are not allowed because a 
 rsurvey had not been taken, nor the acts or instructions pursued ; 
 
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 we have endeavoured to follow the rules with all care, and what 
 lands have been let by us are upon such considerable valuations as 
 few of them have been let at formerly. — (Signed) Wm. Shafto, Hen. 
 Horsley. [Reply : You are to follow your instructions as to fifths, 
 though orders may have been obtained from us on misinformation.] 
 
 1651. Newcastle, Mar. 24. Geo. Redshaw to the C.C. : — I am 
 agent in Northd., and Newcastle being a county of itself, no seques- 
 tration has been made upon the lands or goods of those that were in 
 service against Parlt. The Cou. Com. for Northd. are allowed by 
 Parlt. to act therein, but they will not do so without your order, 
 although there are so many there liable to sequestration. 
 
 1651. Mar. Nine bills drawn by Aid. Thos. Ledgard of New- 
 castle on the treasurers-at-war for sums amounting to 2,500/. 
 
 1651. Apr. 7. Hen. Horsley to the C.C: — John Ogle, one of 
 our commissioners, is now commander of a troop of horse in 
 Scotland ; two others are far from Newcastle and cannot meet often 
 on account of urgent business. As we must be two in our actings 
 I beg appointment in Ogle's place of Thos. Errington, who lives 
 near, and has always been faithful and active. This will much 
 satisfy the peoj^le who generally resort to Newcastle. 
 
 1651. Newcastle, July 10. Hen. Horsley to the C.C: — Being 
 appointed treasurer for Northd., and having received i,000('., I want 
 to send it, but cannot get it to London unless I give the merchants 
 two per cent., and sending it by sea is hazardous. I desire you to 
 get a bill of exchange for it from Sir John Wollaston, Major Richd. 
 Salway, Steph. Estwicke or Richd. Waring at London, and charge 
 it upon the rest of our commissioners and myself, and we will pay 
 it here by your order. 
 
 1651. Newcastle, Oct. 1. Cou. Com. to C.C. :— As to the 
 duplicates of the late committee's proceedings, we requested further 
 time to put them in some perfect way, but we find such difficulties 
 in it that all our labour will not give you so exact an account as. 
 you require. We therefore beg you will accept the books only. 
 
 At the first reducing of this county the ordering of sequestra- 
 tions was in the then commissioners of Parlt. resident here with 
 the Scottish army. In Whitsuntide, 1645, the Cou. Com. took upon 
 themselves the letting of sequestered lands according to the ordinance 
 of Parlt., but in regard to the distractions in these parts, little or no 
 profit could be made of them for three years after, all the rents 
 being taken up in assess, Ijilleting, and free quarters by the Scotch 
 army. Through distractions, etc., the committee could not follow any 
 direct rule in their proceedings, nor keep the books exactly, dis- 
 turbances often interrupting their service. 
 
 In 1648, this county was invaded by the enemy, who took up all 
 the rents and profits of sequestrations, besides the great loss it sus- 
 tained otherwise when the enemy had the command. In the retreat 
 of the Cavaliers and Scotch army from Preston, they so plundered
 
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 and spoiled this county that Parlt. granted the benefit of the seques- 
 trations towards repair of the county's losses, and discharge of other 
 public engagements, and it was disposed of accordingly. 
 
 We therefore conceive it cannot be expected that a perfect account 
 can be given of all the former sequestrations, yet we presume to say 
 that the late committee have been so faithful and honest in their 
 trust that none can justly tax or impeach any of their proceedings. — 
 (Signed) Wm. Shafto, Hen. Horsley, Hen. Ogle, John Ogle. 
 
 1651. Oct. 29. C.C. to Cou. Com. at Newcastle: — In yours of 
 Oct. 1, you say there is no hope of receiving duplicates of the 
 former committee's proceedings but by your excuses you seem to 
 think only accounts of moneys received and paid are meant, which 
 is not satisfactory. We do require these, but they must include 
 charge of billet, taxes, etc., whilst the county was under power of 
 the enemy that they may be defalked. Without them we cannot 
 discharge our duty otherwise than by inflicting the penalty of the 
 Act in case of default. But besides the accounts we want duplicates 
 of the proceedings in cases of sequestration and discharge, and the 
 actings of the committee at their sittings, according to the Act of 
 Jan 29, 1650. We send you a precedent according to which such 
 returns should be made and you must forward it to those who chiefly 
 acted and send us their names. 
 
 1652. Jan. 28. John Rushworth to Sam. Moyer or other of 
 the C.C. : — The enclosed came to my hands to be presented to the 
 commissioners with an earnest desire to move you to send an 
 answer this post, as Lord St. John and Sir Hen. Vane, jun., expect 
 it. You know how to direct to Mr. Horsley, or if you send it to 
 me to Lincoln's Inn, I shall not fail to send it by the post. 
 Annexing, 
 
 1. Oliver St. John and seven other commissioners in Scotland to 
 Hen. Horsley, treasurer to the Cou. Com.: — ^There is a great 
 necessity of money for pay of the army here ; as you have money to 
 be returned to London we wish you to accept of bills charged on you 
 by Geo. Bilton, deputy treasurer-at-war and to pay the money to 
 such persons as he shall appoint receiving bills from the deputy 
 treasurer charged upon the treasurers-at-war in London. We desire 
 your answer by return of post ; your help in this business will be 
 very acceptable. Dalkeith, Jan. 20, 1652. 
 
 2. Geo. Bilton to Hen. Horsley: — The commissioners of Parlt. 
 in Scotland wanting money for payment of the army have given me 
 a letter of credit to you for such moneys as I shall by bills charge 
 upon you ; if I can I will waive the charging any upon you until I 
 hear your answer, but I fear the want of the soldiers quartering in 
 your county and their importunity will enforce me to charge it 
 sooner. Whatever you can pay do to the utmost, and if you can 
 charge any to be paid here to me by any merchants that they may 
 be paid by vou at Newcastle it will be very good service. . . . Leith, 
 Jan. 20. '
 
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 3. Hen. Horsley to the C.C. — I enclose copies of letters received 
 from Scotland and desire your pleasure therein. The commissioners 
 expect an answer to-morrow. I shall write them that, being en- 
 trusted by you, I am commanded to pay no moneys without your 
 order, and if they are displeased I hope you will satisfy them that 
 I could not part with any money without an order produced under 
 jour own hands. Newcastle, Jan. 23. 
 
 1652. Newcastle, Feb. 5. Hen. Horsley to Thos. Bayley, clerk 
 to the C.C. : — I shall observe your masters' commands not to pay 
 any money without their order. I have been much pressed by Mr. 
 Bilton, the deputy treasurer, by letters and liills of exchange, to pay 
 moneys to Capt. Daborne and Capt. Lilbourne, two troops that 
 quarter in Northd., ))ut I still refuse and tell them in plain English 
 I cannot pay any money, nor accept Mr. Bilton 's bills without an 
 order from Haberdashers' Hall. If the soldiers take it from me by 
 force I cannot help it, but I shall not pax-t with it unless I have order. 
 
 1652. Feb. 20. Order of the C.C. that John Pye be agent to 
 the committee for Northd. in place of Geo. Redshaw. 
 
 1652. Apr. 21. Order of the C.C. that auditor Sherwin pass 
 the first half-year's account of the Northd. commissioners, they 
 affirming that it is according to the contracts and leases made by the 
 late committee. 
 
 1652. Apr. 23. Petition of Hen. Horsley to the C.C: — Has 
 acted for two years as treasurer and most of the business lies on 
 him because he resides in Newcastle, two of the other three com- 
 missioners being on service in Scotland, and the other too old to 
 act. He has been obliged to employ Matt. Newton as his deputy these 
 twO' years. His salary being very small and his charges very great, 
 begs some allowance. — Same date. Order of the C.C. that he detain 
 oOl. in his hands till this committee report the case to the army 
 committee, and auditor Sherwin is to allow it in his account. 
 
 1652. May 26. (?) Petition of Geo. Redshaw to the C.C. : — 
 Being appointed agent for the Cou. Com. of Northd., acted from 
 Feb. 1, 1650, to May 18 last, when John Pye produced a com- 
 mission to act in his place. Is injured in credit by being turned out. 
 Always endeavoured the State's interest, and was at great charges 
 in maintaining three horses and men and in executing his office by 
 reason of the continual incursions of the Scots and the stubbornness 
 of the people in collecting rents and bringing in composition money, 
 and has only had 4s. a day paid to Nov. 11, 1651. Begs allowance 
 for charges, payment since Nov. 11, and re-instatement in his office. — 
 Same date. Petition to C.C. from Redshaw to give an order for 
 Anthony Woodman, whom he has been obliged to employ with three 
 more since Feb. 1, 1650, to act as agent with allowance. The 
 county is large, and the danger great by reason of the Scots, Capt. 
 Richardson and moss-troopers and for the most part he had no forces 
 at command, they being on duty or denied to him. — Same date. 
 Order in the C.C. that the Cou. Com. certify what the revenue of the
 
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 county is before another agent be allowed. — Reply of the Cou. Com. 
 that the revenue for two years ending Nov. 11, 1651, was 17,215/. 
 2^<f. '2^d. except disbui'sements in salaries, taxes, fifths, etc., and that 
 Redshaw did his duty as agent, and had the assistance named. 
 
 1652. May 28.' C.C. to Hen. Horsley and John Ogle: — We 
 wish that you two only would certify to us why you and the rest of 
 the committee have given in no account of the money remaining 
 in the hands of the former committee or their agents or tenants ; 
 also whether Wm. Shaftoe and Hen. Ogle who are in commission 
 with you, are in arrears to the State and so cause you delay. 
 
 1652. June 3. Geo. Redshaw to the C.C. : — I hope my wrong is 
 not your law. Lady Forster says it is Col. Fen wick. I seized 1,000/. 
 left her in 1645, by Sir Thos. Swinborne, but it was seized before by 
 Sir Wm. Ai-myne and inventoried. She gave me an engagement 
 to discharge this for the State and also a charge against herself for 
 delinquency. She told me a year ago she would get Col. Fenwick to 
 disgrace me, but I desire you will not do it without a charge proved. 
 Pray give pay to my assistant, for we collected 17,000/., besides 
 5,000/. composition money, paid in at no little charge. The rents 
 came to 17,000/. beside deductions, and are now let at over 10,000/. 
 a year. [Noted. ' Needs no answer.'] Enclosing, 
 
 Geo. Redshaw to Col. Fenwick : — I find it is through you I am 
 turned out of employment. You will please to make it good at 
 Haberdasher's Hall. My reason for proceeding against Lady Forster 
 is that I knew Sir Thos. Swinborne was a delinquent, his goods 
 sequestered, and he fled and protected by Lady Forster,* so his 
 goods in her possession were sequestrable. She lent 400/. and sent 
 horse and arms to the enemy, harboured delinquents and sent them 
 away disguised ; so if I be displaced it is for doing my duty. New- 
 castle. June 3, 1652. 
 
 1652. Nov. 24. C.C. to treasurers-at-war, desiring them to 
 assign, among other sums in the hands of Cou. Com. to be paid in 
 those parts on account of the army, 2,500/. at Newcastle. 
 
 1652. Nov. 30. Collection of the revenues under sequestration 
 county of Northd. : ^Delinquents, 3,779/. 9.s. id.; papists, 739/. 16s. 
 
 1653. Newcastle, Sept. 14. Cou. Com. to C.C. :— We find by 
 your order of Aug. 30, that John Ogle who was treasurer to sequestra- 
 tions last year, refused payment of certain fee-farm rents, and si)oke 
 ill to those who demanded them. This was unknown to us. — (Signed) 
 Hen. Horsley [and perhaps others, but the document is damaged 
 by damp]. 
 
 * Sir Thos. Swinburne, Knt., died at Blanchland, Apr. 29, 1645, at about 
 6 o'clock in the presence of Lady Forster, Mrs. F'lizth. Fenw ick, and others. On 
 the previous Monday, by a nuncupative will he directed that Lady Forster 
 should receive all he died possessed of, after funeral expenses were paid and 
 the poor discharged. New Hist. Xorthd. vi. 329. In the Cal. of tlie C.A.M. 
 iii. l.S.SO, is an entry dated Apr. 8, 1651, that Lady Elizth. Foster of Blanch- 
 land assisted the enemy in the late wars with money, horse and entertainment.
 
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 1653. Oct. 11. C.C. to Cou. Com. : — You are to pay to the 
 order of the treasurers-at-war 2,000/. or 2,500/. sequestration money 
 now in your hands. 
 
 1653. Dec. 9. Petition of Fortune, widow and adniinistratix of 
 Geo. Redshaw, to the C.C. There is 33/. 12.s. due to him on his salai'y 
 of 4:5. a day from Nov. 11, 1651, to Apr. 28, 1652, and he employed 
 Anthony Woodman as assistant — giving him diet and horsemeat, and 
 2s. 6d. — and three others. Begs satisfaction. — Same date. Order 
 of the C.C. that they are not satisfied that an assistant was necessary, 
 but if the Cou. Com. certify that it was the 2s. (id. shall be allowed. 
 
 1654. Mar. 14.' Commissioners for Sequestrations, replacing the 
 C.C, appoint Hen. Horsley their sub-commissioner for Northd. — 
 (See the full order under Durham, pp. 71, 72.) 
 
 1654. Mar. 23. C.S. to late commissioners for Northd. : -^We 
 hear from John Ogle, one of the late commissioners that he has 
 600/. of sequestration money in hand on his year's account. See 
 that it be paid on order of John Blackwell and Richd. Deane, 
 treasurers-at-war. 
 
 1654. Apr. 4. C.S. to Hen. Horsley: — You decline to act on 
 your new commission, your own business having been much hindered 
 by your former employment, which was so troublesome that you 
 have long wished dismissal. Our experience of your faithfulness 
 induced us to choose you, and we knew not your intention to desert 
 the service. We hope you will not leave the work when no other 
 is appointed to act, but make returns on letters sent you till we 
 pitch on some other person. Advise with Sir Arth. Haslerigg and 
 tell us whom you think fit and willing to be employed. 
 
 1654. May 11. C.S. to Hen. Horsley :^ — Thanks for your civil 
 answer in promising not to neglect our orders about sequestrations 
 in your county till we find some fit successor, though your own 
 occasions prevent your continuance in it. We have chosen (ieo. 
 Fenwick. 
 
 1654. May 11. C.S. to Geo. Fenwick: — Hearing of your good 
 affection we appoint you commissioner for Northd. in place of Hen. 
 Horsley and send you the Protector's ordinance. You are to receive 
 12^. in the pound on all moneys brought in, you paying all charges. 
 The books, etc., of the late committee are to be delivered to you, 
 also all counterparts of leases, which you are to return speedily to us. 
 Write us of your resolution to proceed in the business. 
 
 1654. May 31. C.S. to Hen. Horsley: — On your recommenda- 
 tion we have appointed Geo. Fenwick commissioner. . . . We thank 
 }"0U for your promise not to neglect orders till your successor was 
 appointed. As to the salary in the interval we doubt not you and 
 Mr. Fenwick will agree. 
 
 1654. June 2. C.S. to Geo. Fenwick : — You must summon be- 
 fore you those tenants who are in arrears of rent, and if they refuse 
 to pay, levy the arrears on their estates, and tell them of the penalty 
 inflicted by ordinance of the Protector and Council for non-payment 
 of rents.
 
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 1654. Aug. 4. C.S. to Win. Johnson of Newcastle-upon-Tyne : — 
 We appoint you our commissioner for the town and desire you to 
 take the examinations of Kobt. Gainsford and others on an alleged 
 corruption in the management of the coal farm sequestered from 
 Thos. Ashfield. 
 
 1655. Aug. 20. List by Geo. Fenwick of papists and delin- 
 quents* in Northd., with addresses and dates of sequestrations. 
 
 Margt. Algood of Broomley, widow. Seq. 1645. Pap. 
 
 Anne, wife of Chas. Brandling of Alnwick Abbey, esq. Seq. 1650. 
 
 Pap. Disch. 
 Wm. Burnupp of Hexham, gent. Seq. 1648. Pap. 
 Fran. Carnaby of Togston, gent. Seq. 1644. Del. Disch. 
 / Sir Wm. Carnaby of Bothell, knt. Seq. 1644. Del. 
 
 Cuth. Collingwood of Eslington, esq. Seq. 1644. Pap. Del. Disch. 
 
 Martin Collingwood of Shipley, gent. Seq. 1645. Pap. 
 
 Lane. Errington of East Denton, esq., deed. Seq. 1644. Pap. Del. 
 
 John Fenwick of Crookden, gent. Seq. 1645. Pap. Del. 
 
 Wm. Fenwick of Shortflatt, esq. Seq. 1648. Pap. Del. 
 
 Edwd. Gray of Morpeth, esq. Seq. 1644. Pap. Del. 
 
 Elizth. Gray of Morpeth, spinster. Seq. 1645. Pap. 
 
 Dame Margt. Gray, of Spinleston, widow. Seq. 1645. Pap. 
 
 Thos. Greene of Scremerston, gent. Seq. 1652. Pap. 
 
 Wm. Hodshon of Elswick, gent. Seq. 1648. Pap. 
 
 8ir Chas. Howard of Plenmeller, knt., deed. Seq. 1644. Pap. Del. 
 
 Disch. 
 Dame Dorothy, relict of said Sir Chas. Seq. 1653. Kec. 
 Wm. Hutchinson of Hexham, gent. Seq. 1648. Pap. 
 Phillip Jefferson of Hexham, gent. Seq. 1648. Pap. 
 Thos. Jefferson of Hexham, gent. Seq. 1644. Pap. 
 Ellinor Lawson of Togston [blank]. Seq. 1648. Pap. 
 Thos. Leadbitter of Hexham, gent. Seq. 1648. Pap. 
 Wm. Earl of Newcastle. Seq. 1644. Del. 
 Ellinor Orde of Prudhoe, widow. Seq. 1645. Pap. 
 Musgrave Ridley of Whitesheeles, gent. Seq. 1645. Del. 
 Thos. Hotherford of Rutchester, gent. Seq. 1644. Pap. Del. 
 Matt. Soulsl)y of Hexham, gent. Seq. 1648. Pap. 
 Nich. Thornton late of Gallowhill, gent. Seq. 1648. Pap. Del. 
 Hen. Widdrington of Buteland, gent. Seq. 1644. Pap. Del. Disch. 
 Sir Edwd. Widdrington of Cartington, k]it. and l)art. Se(]. 1644. 
 
 Pap. Del. Disch. 
 Hen. Widdrington of Riton, gent. Seq. 1644. Pap. Del. Disch. 
 John Widdrington of Stoncroft, gent. Seq. 1648. Pap. Del. 
 Ann Widdrington of Westharle, widow. Seq. 1645. Pap. Disch. 
 Sir Wm. Widdrington of Widdrington, knt., deed. Seq. 1644. Del. 
 
 *'l")el.,' delinquent; 'Disch.,' discharged; 'Pap.,' papist; 'Rec.,' 
 recusant ; ' Seq.,' sequestered.
 
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 1655. Sept. 8. C.S. to Wm. Shaftoe : — We appoint you a com- 
 missioner to act with Mr. Fenwick in examining Albert Hodgson and 
 others in a case between us and Sir John Fenwick, bart., and Wm. 
 Fenwick. 
 
 1655.? Note of query whether a solicitor and receiver of seques- 
 trations in CO. [Northumberland] from 1642 to 1649, who received 
 12,224/. 16s. 3d. before his suspension in 1649, beside a large sum 
 as two-thirds of recusants' estates from 1642 to 1655, having been a 
 commissioner from 1649 to Mar. 14, 1654, should be the only person 
 charged, or others that have acted with him and are still living. He 
 did not give in his accounts as ordered, Dec. 8, 1654. 
 
 1659. Newcastle, Oct. 13. Cuth. Cotesworth to the C.S. : — I 
 have taken your commission and instructions, etc., to Robt. Fenwick, 
 one of the commissioners named ; when the committee is once settled 
 the work will be well carried on ; three will be at home next week, 
 the rest live in Westmoreland and Cumberland, 40 miles off. 
 
 1659. Oct. 19. C.S. to Cou. Com. for Northd., Cumbd. and 
 Westmlnd. : — We wish you soon to meet and to divide yourselves 
 into your respective counties for the more expeditious carrying-on of 
 the work. 
 
 1659. Nov. 10. C.S. to the commissioners for Cumbd., Northd. 
 and Westmlnd. : — We sent you a commission and instructions to act 
 but we do not know whether you have met and done anything. We 
 desire you to enter upon the Avork, for there will be store of business 
 if timely looked into, and delay may lose all the advantage. It is 
 of great interest to the public to prosecute it, and we beg a sjDeedy 
 account of your proceedings. 
 
 1659. Newcastle, Nov. 26. Cuth. Cotesworth to the C.S. : — 
 I gave yours of the 10th to the commissioners, but most of them 
 are not free to act, not above four in all the counties. The gentlemen 
 in Cumbd. and Westmlnd. appointed a meeting at Barnard Castle 
 on the 16th and my brother Mich, went, but none of them came. 
 Capt. [Robt.] Atkinson wrote him that only he and another would 
 act in the two counties, and that in regard of the present troubles 
 he could not come. My brother is gone into Westmlnd. and will, I 
 hope, soon give a good account of affairs.
 
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 DURHAM AND NORTHUMBERLAND. 
 
 LANCELOT ALLGOOD OF HEXHAM.* 
 
 (Gal. i. IX 202; iv. p. 2842 ; v. p. 3263.) 
 
 1649. Lancelot Allgood petitions the C.C. Having adhered tO' 
 the enemy in the last war, begs to compound on the rates allowed by 
 Parlt. Particular of his estate as reported to the C.C. : — Copyhold of 
 the manor of Hexham, a thatched house and 10 acres of ground in 
 Hencotts and places adjacent, Y.V., 6/. 13.<. id. ; in fee, 3 acres in 
 Hexham fields, Y.V.B.W., '21. 8.s. ; do. a dwelling house in Hexham, 
 Y.V.B.W., -4/. ; do. one half of Braideley, or Bradley, near Med- 
 domsley, co. Durham, Y.V.B.W., 20/. ; lease for 20 years yet to 
 come of half of a tenement called Marley Coate Walles, near Slaley, 
 Y.V.B.W., il. Craves, and hath allowed him a rent-charge of 8/. 
 p. ann. issuing out of the half of Bradley to Robt. Awton, the sur- 
 viving executor of John Addy, deceased, till 1007. be paid ; also an 
 annuity of 5Z. 6s. B>d. payable to Margt. Newton, for life, out of 
 Bradley. 
 
 Fine at a sixth, 70/. 4.s\ 
 
 1651. June 26. Petition to the C.C. of Thos. Fenwick and Wni. 
 Smith, both of Hexham, tanners, stating that Lancelot Allgood, by 
 deed dated June 11, 1646, in consideration of 100/. assigned to 
 them an annual payment, or rent-charge of 10/. whereof he stood 
 lawfully seised, issuing out of a capital messuage called Cockley, alias 
 West Errington, Northd., which they duly received and enjoyed, 
 
 * The AUgoods were prominent in the local government of Hexham. Five 
 bailiffs of that name presided over the manor courts. These Hexham AUgoods 
 were a cadet branch of the AUgoods now settled at Nun wick, though the main 
 line may have resided in Hexham before it moved westward. Lancelot Allgood 
 was bailiff in 1646, and four years earlier he occurs as disbursing money at the 
 induction of one Anderton to the mastership of the Free Grammar School of 
 that town. New Hist. Northd. iii. 65, 224, 300.
 
 95 
 
 until now of late the said rent-charge is sequestered, for no delin- 
 quency of petitioners, but as the estate of the said Lancelot Allgood, 
 ■who, it seems, became a delinquent in the second war, which was 
 about the year 1648, and not before ; but the said Allgood, since the 
 said assignment, hath not had anything to do therewith. They beg 
 a reference to the Northd. commissioners, that upon examination of 
 petitioners' witnesses the commissioners may certify for what cause 
 they sequestered the said annuity, and if for Allgood's delinquency, 
 to state the time and cause of his being made a delinquent. — Referred 
 accordingly, the commissioners to certify within five weeks from date. 
 1651. Sept. 3. Petition of Lancelot Allgood of Hexham, executor 
 of Mal:)el Oard,* widow, to the Cou. Com. for allowance of a rent- 
 charge of 121. a year on the lands of Sir Thos. Haggerston, bart., 
 sequestered for delinquency, which Mrs. Oard bought for 150/. and 
 from which, by her will, divers legacies have been paid and others 
 are still owing. — Cou. Com. refer the case to the C.C. who report (July 
 22, 1652) that the lands, being in the Act for Sale,t all charges 
 thereon must be made ffood. 
 
 MARGARET ALLGOOD OF BUOOMLEY. 
 
 (Gal. V. p. 3191.) 
 
 1654. Jan. 17. Petitions the C.C. that, two-thirds of her estate 
 in the parish of By well St. Peter, J being under sequestration for 
 I'ecusancy, she may be admitted to compound for the same, accord- 
 ing to the Act of Oct. 21, 1653, with such abatements and advantages 
 as are given to persons in her condition. — Referred to Mr. Brereton. 
 
 JOHN ALLINSON, OR ALLANSON, BISHOP AUCKLAND. 
 
 1645. John Allinson, or Allanson, of Bp. Auckland, described as 
 a yeoman, § compounds with Sir Hen. Vane and the Cou. Com. for 
 his delinquency. — Fine, 30/. 
 
 * Apparently the widow of Thos. Orde of East Orde, whose hiq. p.m. is 
 dated 1639. By him she had two daughters, one of whom, Dorotliy, married 
 Hen. Orde of West Orde. Raine, Hi'it. North Durham, p. 250. Cf. also new 
 Hist. Northd. iii. 175, 176, 218. 
 
 t Haggerston's estate is included in the first Act for Sale of Lands and 
 Estates forfeited for Treason, passed July 16, 1651. 
 
 I In the County Rate Book, 1663, (:leo. Allgood of Hexham is rated on 8/. 
 for property in the township of Broomley. Hodgson, Ilixt. Northd. pt. III. 
 vol. i. p. 286. 
 
 § One of four trustees named in the charter by which Bp. Cosin endowed 
 the Beadhouses Charity at Bp. Auckland, Sept. 14, 1669. Richley, Hist. Bp. 
 Auckland, p. 132.
 
 96 
 
 RALPH ALLINSON, OR ALLANSON, OF DURHAM CITY.* 
 
 1644. Sept. 24. The sequestrators, sitting at Durham, order the 
 sequestration of the estate at Wharrington, belonging to Ralph 
 Allanson of the city of Durham. They with difficulty obtain par- 
 ticulars of his rentals from sympathising tenants. (Ante, pp. 21, 28.) 
 
 1645. He comi^ounds with Sir Hen. Vane and the rest of the 
 Cou. Com. for 150Z. 
 
 1651. Nov. 21. He petitions Parlt. for pardon of offences com- 
 mitted prior to the date of composition and obtains it. 
 
 BERTRAM ANDERSON OF NEWCASTLE.! 
 
 fCal. ii. p. 1178.) 
 
 [This case is printed in full as a specimen of the voluminous 
 documents relating to compositions which appear in the 270 vols, 
 of MS. covered by the Calendar.] 
 
 * Ralph AUanson's case, so far as it concerns the co. of Durham, does not 
 appear in the Calendar, because he was among those who compoixnded direct 
 Avith the local Committee. But his name is there in connection with three 
 other compositions : (1) in the matter of Tlios. Shadforth of Eppleton {Cal. iii. 
 1763), who was charged with entertaining delintjuents, 'notably Capt. Ralph 
 Allanson,' from which it appears that he was a captain in the royal service ; 
 (2) Nov. 22, 1650, with Hen. Blakiston, he petitions the C.C. to compound for 
 lands bought of Peter Blakiston of Old Malton, co. York, and this being 
 granted {Ca/. iv. 2621), the fines are paid and the estate discharged ; (3) Feb. 
 ■25, 1652 (Cal. iii. 2108), three daus. of Dr. Cosin (afterwards Bp. of Durham) 
 petition the C.C. for an examination of their title to three leases made in 1637 
 by the Dean and Chap, of Durham to Ralph Allanson [their uncle] in trust for 
 l.hem. His name is attached to the petition from compounders in the co. of 
 Durham presented to the Commons Nov. 21, 1651, in which, reciting the com- 
 positions of 1645, they solicit (and obtain) discharge and pardon. Hurtees, 
 Hi.<t. Durham, pt. ii. vol. i. pp. 2, 74 ; vol. iii. pp. 198, 203, describes him as a 
 son of Anth. Allanson of Bp. Auckland, bailiff of Durham city and clerk of the 
 market by patent, Oct. 15, 1627, mayor of the city in 1635 and 1642 ; married by 
 his brother-in-law. Dr. Cosin, to Mary, one of the daus. of Marmaduke Blakiston, 
 prebendary of the 7th stall in Durham Cathedral. In 1628 John Skirfield and 
 ■ Elizth. his wife granted to him a messuage, toft and garden, 20 acres arable, 
 50 acres meadow, and 80 acres pasture in Aislaby ; in 1631 he purchased 70 
 acres of meadow and as many of pasture, with free fishery, in Eaglescliffe and 
 Aislaby, and the following year he and Mary his wife granted the same estate 
 to Laurence Sayer of Worsall, esq. , and John Errington, gent. 
 
 t Bertram Anderson, son of Hen. Anderson of Newcastle, merchant 
 adventurer (boothman or corn merchant), admitted a member of that company 
 by patrimony, Nov. 27, 1639. Dendy, Surt. Soc. Pub. 101, p. 258. Legatee 
 of 10/. under the will of Aid. Robt. Anderson, the ' good benefactor ' of 
 Gray's Chorographia, May 6, 1640. Bertram Anderson appointed Quajniaster 
 of Newcastle, Dec. 14, 1655. Brand, Hist. Xeivcastle, ii. 35. It is open to 
 conjecture that Bertram, the delinquent, was Bertram the Quaymaster, and 
 that the position was bestowed upon him in consideration of his losses and 
 sufferings. The names of Beitram, Henry and Robert were, however, so 
 common in the local family of Anderson that it is difficult to disentangle and 
 identify them.
 
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 Petition. 1646. A23ril 10. To the Honourable Committee for 
 Compounding with Delinquents. The humble petition of Bartram 
 Anderson, of Newcastle upon Tyne, merchant. Sheweth — That being 
 unhappily drawn on to be a lieutenant in one of the trained bands 
 of Newcastle under the command of Sir John Morley, and was there- 
 fore found a delinquent, his lands sequestered, all his personal estate 
 was by the soldiers plundered and taken from him, he being indebted 
 unto divers citizens of London, and much engaged for his father 
 'deceased. Now the humble desire of the petitioner is, he having 
 with the first taken the National Covenant, the Oath of the fifth of 
 April, and rendered himself before the first of December for a com- 
 position, as by two several certificates will ajjpear, that your honours 
 will be pleased to take his losses, debts, and engagements into con- 
 sideration, and give him a favourable composition according to the 
 ordinance of Parliament. And your petitioner shall daily pray. — 
 (Signed) Bart. Anderson. 
 
 A particular of the estate, real and personal, of Bartram Ander- 
 son of Newcastle upon Tyne, merchant, as followeth : — His lands of 
 inheritance at the Quarry House* within the county of Northumber- 
 land in the best times were worth 30/. p. ann., and now let by the 
 •Committee for 20/. p. ann., out of which there is paid for outrents, 
 3Z. 18s. 8<i. yearly, as by certificate from the Committee of the said 
 .county appeareth ; so that the clear yearly value in the best times 
 was but 26/. Is. id. He hath also a lease of certain lands in Fenham, 
 within the county of Northumberland for three lives, of the yearly 
 value of 5/. in the best times, but now demised by the Committee 
 >of the said county for 3/. p. ann. as by certificate from the said Com- 
 mittee appeareth ; out of which he payeth yearly unto the hospital 
 of St. Marie the Virgin in Newcastle the sum of 13s. Ad. ; so that 
 the clear yearly value was in the best times but 4/. 6s. Sd. He hath 
 also one house in fee simple within the town of Newcastle upon Tyne, 
 of the yearly value of 4/., as by certificate from the Committee of 
 the said town appeareth. He hath also one horse-mill of Charles 
 Swanlinge, for the term of seven years, within the said town of 
 Newcastle, worth 40s. p. ann. as by certificate from the Committee 
 of the said town appeareth. His personal estate was wholly lost 
 and plundered, being of the value of 1,652/., as by certificate from the 
 Committees of Northumberland and Newcastle apjDeareth. 
 
 A particular of the several debts owing by the said Bartr. 
 Anderson unto several men within the city of London : — Ini])., he 
 oweth unto Mr. Richard Wareinge, Treasurer of this Committee, 23Z. 
 It., he oweth unto Mr. Richard Sallaway, one of the members of the 
 Honourable House of Commons, 46/. It., he oweth unto Colonel 
 Hardwick, of Southworke, 37/. It., he oweth unto Mr. Boggest, of 
 
 * Quarry House, in the parish of Newburn, co. Northd., held with Bell's 
 •Close, in 1663, by Ralph Jenison, esq., of Elswick. Rental, 40/. Hodg-son, 
 Hist. Northd. pt. iii. vol. i. p. 256. 
 
 7
 
 98 
 
 Little Eastcheap, 41/. It., he oweth unto Mr. Southerby, of Gratious 
 Street, 5/. 
 
 There is owing to me by book bonds and bills, 100/. 
 
 This is a true particular of all my estate, real and personal, for 
 which I only desire to compound, to free it out of sequestration, 
 and do submit unto, and undertake to satisfy and pay such fine as 
 by this Committee for Compositions with Delinquents shall be 
 imposed and set to pay for the same in order to the freedom and 
 discharge of my person and estate. I do affirm I was never member 
 of the Honourable House of Commons, nor was ever, or am, a popish 
 recusant, or popishly affected, nor was ever counsellor or advocate 
 at law, common or civil, nor attorney or proctor, or other officer 
 whatsoever towards the law, common or civil, or other officer what- 
 soever belonging to the State, or in the Commonwealth. — (Signed) 
 Bart. Anderson. 
 
 1646. Feb. 27. Report from the standing Committee of the 
 County of Northumberland : — Upon the solicitation and request of 
 Bartram Anderson, of Newcastle upon Tyne, merchant, heretofore 
 a lieutenant in the trained bands there, under the government of Sir 
 John Morley, and to the ... he may the better be enabled to 
 make his comp . . . with the Committee of Sequestrations, we 
 do hereliy certify that the said Bartram Ander . . . hath lands of 
 inheritance at Quariy-house, within this county, of the yearly value 
 of 30/. in the best times, but is now let for 20/., out of which there 
 are paid outrents, 3/. 18.s\ 8d. p. ann. And also a lease of certain 
 lands in Fenham for three lives, of the annual value of 5/. p. ann. 
 in the best times, and now rated at 3/. p. ann. which are all the 
 lands of inheri .... and leases which the said Bartram hath in 
 this county to our knowledge. His personal estate was all lost and 
 plundered, which, we are informed, amounted to 1,652/. And we 
 are likewise informed that he is executor to his father, and is 
 engaged, upon specialties, to the value of 700/. And we further 
 certify that he hath taken the Oath of the fifth of April not to 
 adhere unto the enemy. And that he was with us, and desired to 
 compound before the first of December last, and hath ever since 
 remained in the Parliament's quarters. — (Signed) John Fern, William 
 Shafto, Tho : Lorraine, Henry Ogle, Henry Horsley. 
 
 1646. Mar. 18. Certificate from the Committee of Newcastle 
 upon Tyne : — Whereas Bartram Anderson of the said town of New- 
 castle, merchant, sometime a lieutenant in the trained bands of the 
 said town, under the command of Sir John Morley, kt., hath come 
 unto us and prayed our certificate to the intent he may be the better 
 enabled to compound with the honourable Committee of Sequestra- 
 tions at Goldsmith's Hall, London, we have thought fit, at the desire 
 and request of the said Bartram, to certify that the said Bartram 
 Anderson hath one messuage or tenement within the said town, 
 formerly of the yearly value of 8/., but now, by reason of the decay 
 and ruin thereof, occasioned by the shooting of ordnance and the-
 
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 storming of the town, not worth above 4/. p. ann. He hath also a 
 lease of a horse mill, for seven years, of the clear yearly value of 40s., 
 which is all the land he hath in the said town to our knowledge. For 
 his personal estate in this town, we know not of any, he having 
 lost all he had in the said town when it was stormed. We do further 
 certify that the said Bartrani Anderson hath taken the National 
 League and Covenant and that he came unto us and desired to com- 
 pound before the first day of December last and hath ever since 
 remained in this town amongst us, and carried and behaved himself 
 with all due obedience and subjection to all ordinances of Parliament. 
 All which we humbly refer to your grave wisdoms. Given under our 
 hands the day and year above said. — (Signed) Henry Dawson, Thomas 
 Ledgerd, Willm. Dawson, Christo. Nicolson, Robert Ellison, Edward 
 Man, Ed. Wood, Ra. Fewler, Geo. Dawson. (Endorsed) Bartram 
 Ander ... of Newcastle, Northumberland. Intr. Discharged as 
 being under value. 
 
 1646. April 1. Report. Bartram Anderson of Newcastle upon 
 Tyne, merchant. His delinquency that he was in arms against the 
 Parliament, and in the town of Newcastle when it was stormed. That 
 he rendered himself to the Connnittees of Northumberland and New- 
 castle immediately after the taking of that town, and hath taken the 
 National Covenant and Negative Oath before the said Committees 
 before the first of December last, and desired to compound, as the 
 said Committees do certify, and therefore within a tenth. That he 
 compounds upon the certificates returned by the said Committees 
 and upon iinother, delivered in under his own hand, by which he doth 
 submit to such fine, etc., and by which it doth appear: — That he is 
 seised in fee, to him and his heirs in possession, of and in a messuage 
 called the Quarry House, lying and being in the county of North- 
 umberland, of the yearly value, before these troubles, 30/., for which 
 his fine is 60/. That he is seised of a like estate of a small tenement, 
 situate and l:)eing in Newcastle upon Tyne, of the value before these 
 troubles, 8/., for which his fine is 16/. That he is possessed of 
 certain lands and rents, lying in Fenham, in the said county of 
 Northumberland, which he holdeth for three lives, of the yearly value, 
 before these troubles, 5/., for which his fine is 7/. lO.s. That he is 
 possessed of the remain of a term of seven years yet to come, of a 
 horse mill in Newcastle, of the yearly value, before these troubles, 2/., 
 for which his fine is 2/. His whole fine is 85/. lOv., but of which he 
 craveth to be allowed 4/. llf. ^d., paid yearly out of his freehold 
 lands to the lords of the fees of which the premises are holden, for 
 which he is to be allowed 9/. 2s. 8d., which, being taken out of his 
 fine, leaves it clear, 76/. 7s. id. His personal estate, being 1,652/. 
 was all plundered from him and lost, as the Committee do certify. 
 He alledgeth that he is indebted, by bonds and bills, to several 
 persons, to the value of 154/., and there is owing to him a 100/. 
 which is not considerable. — (Signed) Jerom. Alexander, Sam. Moyer. 
 1646. May 2. Fine, 75/.— (Signed) John Ashe.
 
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 1647. July 7. Order of the C.C. Present : Lo : Grey of Werk, 
 Mr. Jo. Ashe, Mr. Gurdon, Mr. Hoyle, Sir David Watkins and Mr. 
 Bateman. Upon the humble petition of Bartram Anderson of New- 
 castle upon Tyne (who hath made his composition with this Com- 
 mittee and paid the one moiety of his fine), shewing thereby his 
 great losses and engagements to the value of 1,600/., and how that 
 he is not of estate worth 200/., and prayeth to be discharged as one 
 under the value. It is ordered that a letter be written to the Mayor 
 and Committee of Newcastle to certify the truth of the petitioner's 
 estate in each particular, that so the true value of his estate may 
 appear to this Committee. 
 
 1647. July 1.3. Letter from the C.C. to the Mayor, etc., of New- 
 castle (Present : Mr. Ashe, Mr. Jenner, Sir Arthur Haselrige, Mr. 
 Hoyle, Mr. Darbey, Sir D. Watkins, Mr. Pack, Mr. Bateman). 
 Gentlemen. We have received a petition from Bartram Anderson, 
 of Newcastle ujDon Tyne, who hath compounded with this Committee 
 for his estate and paid the moiety of his fine, whereby he sheweth 
 that albeit he hath made his composition and paid part of his money 
 for his own quiet, yet is not worth in real and personal estate (his 
 just debts being paid), above 2001. And, therefore, hath prayed 
 that in regard of the great losses he hath sustained in the late 
 troubles, being to the value of 1,652/., and of 1,000/. debts which he 
 stands engaged, partly for his own proper debt, and ]»artly as executor 
 to his father, he may receive the benefit and favour which the 
 Parliament hath vouchsafed to delinquents not worth above 200/. 
 For our better satisfaction herein we shall desire you to examine the 
 enclosed, being a copy of the pai'ticular of his estate and of the 
 just debts he owes, which he hath verified upon oath, before one of 
 the masters of the Chancery. And that you certify this Committee 
 the truth of the petitioner's estate in each particular, and the charges 
 thereupon, that we may proceed accordingly. Your ready return we 
 shall expect, and so rest, etc. 
 
 (The Mayor of Newcastle's Reply.) 
 
 1647. Oct. 1. Right Honourable. I received jour letter from 
 Goldsmith's Hall, dated the 6th of July last with an enclosed par- 
 ticular of the estate of Bartram Anderson of Newcastle upon Tyne, 
 merchant, and of the great debts he owes, desiring me to examine 
 the same and to certify the Committee what estate he hath, real and 
 personal, what losses he hath sustained, and the just debts he is 
 liable unto. In pursuance whereof I have called the said Bartram 
 Anderson before me, and have informed myself liy all other ways and 
 means I could for the finding out of the truth thereof. And, upon 
 due examination and proof, do find that the particular sent me by 
 the Committee is perfect and true in all things. His losses and 
 sufferings have been very great, amounting to the full value men-
 
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 tioned in the particular, and more by 500/. at the least. The debts 
 that he is lialile unto as executor unto his father, Henry Anderson, 
 and for which there are several judgments against him in the Mayor's 
 Court of this town, being all of them by bond, amount unto the sum 
 of SiOl. So that upon a due estimation and balance of his estate, 
 I cannot conceive (his just debts being paid) he can be worth in all the 
 world the sum of 200/., his estate is so mean. And except by the 
 favour of this honourable Committee he may receive the benefit which 
 the Parliament hath been pleased to grant to those who are not worth 
 above 200/., he is no way able to subsist, but must fall into great 
 misery and distress. All which I humbly certify unto this honourable 
 Committee, referring the farther consideration thereof unto your 
 wisdoms, and rest. Your Lordships' and the Committee's in all due 
 observance. — (Signed) Hen. Dawson, Maior. 
 
 [In another handwriting.] Let the sequestration be taken off 
 upon this Certificate. 
 
 [Endorsed.] To the Right Honble. the Committee at Goldsmiths' 
 Hall, London. These present. 
 
 SIR FRANCIS ANDERSON OF NEWCASTLE.* 
 
 (Cal. i. p. 42; ii. p. 1011.) 
 1645. Nov. 29. Sir Fran. Anderson, knt., prisoner at York, 
 petitions the C.C. stating that he has been in arms for his Majesty, 
 
 * Eldest son and heir of Roger Anderson of Newcastle, bj' his second wife, 
 Jane, dau. of Wm. Bower of Oxenfield, co. Durham. He married, in 1636, 
 Jane, dau. and heiress of John Dent of Barnardcastle. The particular of his 
 estate shows that he had been well endowed by his ancestors with worldly 
 gear, and representing as he did a great and powerful familj^ deeply imbued 
 with loyalty to Crown and Church, it was no wonder that he received, in 1641, 
 at tlie age of 27, the honour of knighthood. After the fall of Newcastle in 
 Oct., 1644, his stately mansion of Anderson Place, in the upper part of the 
 town, became the headquarters of the Scottish army, and, for a time, the 
 Court of the captive king. What l)ecame of Sir Francis after compounding for 
 his estate until the Restoration is not known ; but in Aug., 1660, his fellow 
 citizens of Newcastle elected liim colleague of Robt. Ellison in that Healing 
 or Convention Parlt. which, three months before, had voted for the return of 
 Chas. II. The following year he was re-elected M.P., with Sir John Marley, 
 hero of the siege, as his coadjutor. The grateful Company of Merchant 
 Adventurers admitted him a In-other (liis patrimonial right having lapsed 
 through his father's neglect) ou the grounds of worthy progeniture and services 
 rendered to the Company (Dendy, Surt. Soc. Pub. vol. 93, p. 202 >'/ paKsim). 
 At Michaelmas 1662, and again in 1675, he was appointed Mayor of Newcastle ; 
 his Parity, services ended onlj' with his death. During his second mayoralty 
 he sold his magnificent Newcastle home to Sir Wm. Blackett, and thence- 
 forth became identified witli the estate of Bradley, in the parish of Ryton, 
 bequeathed to him by the will of his relative, Alderman Robt. Anderson. He 
 was buried at Ryton, July 19, 1679, leaving Bradley to his son Henry, whose 
 dau. Jane carried it by marriage into tlie Newcastle family of Simjjson, and 
 the Simpsons, in turn, carried it over to the Liddells of RavensworLh. There 
 is a pedigree of the family, and of the Simpsons, in Surtees, Jfisf. Dnrhnm, 
 ii. 269.
 
 102 
 
 for which, his estate is sequestered. Was taken prisoner by Col. 
 Copley's forces at the taking of Sherburne. Hearing that all those 
 who were formerly in arms are invited to come in by Dec. 1., is 
 desirous to take the benefit thereof. Prays that he may have liberty 
 to attend the C.C. upon his parole, or sufficient bail, and be admitted 
 to composition as others in like condition. Particular of estate : — 
 Lands and tenements in Jesmond, Y.V.B.W., 176/. ; by demise of the 
 hospitals of Virgin Mary and Mary Magdalen in Newcastle, for re- 
 mainder of a term of 14 years yet to come, lands and tenements in 
 Jesmond, Y.V.B.W., 46/. ; a messuage, lands, etc., at Cawsey, par. 
 of Tanfield, Y.V.B.W., 45/. ; lands and tenements in Barnard Castle, 
 Y.V.B..W., 40/. ; ditto in Ryton, Y.V.B.W., 20/. ; a copyhold messuage 
 and land in Elswick, Y.V.B.W., 70/. ; after the death of Lady Jane 
 Mennes, an eighth of the lordship and colliery of Winlaton, Y.V.B.W., 
 140/. ; other messuages, lands and tenements in Newcastle, Y.V.B.W., 
 30/. ; a moiety of coal mines and seams of coal in Kippier and 
 Crawcrook, par. of Ryton, Y.V.B.W., 60/. ; the other moiety of 
 said colliery for remainder of a term of 8 years yet to come, held 
 by demise from Alice Delavale, widow, Y.V.B.W., over and above 
 rent reserved, 400/. ; in fee certain other collieries in Denton and 
 Sugley, CO. Northd., Y.V.B.W., 80/. ; a franck-tenement during three 
 lives, of and in certain other collieries in Wliickham, held by demise 
 from [blank], Y.V., 60/., where the mine will not last two years ; 
 an eighth part of the shija Lemmon of Lynn, and a sixteenth of the 
 Unity of Harwich, both worth 130/. Out of which desires to be 
 allowed 60/. p. ann. granted by his father to his mother-in-law 
 (Adeline, his father's third wife), for her jointure, who is still living 
 and receiveth the same. Also to be allowed 40/. p. ann., rent-charge, 
 granted by deed, June 30, 10 Caroli, to Thos. Malabar and his heirs 
 for ever, but to determine upon payment of 520/. Also 400/., for 
 which the lands in Jesmond stand mortgaged to Mark Milbancke, 
 gent., upon condition to be void upon payment of 400/. on Sept. 20, 
 1646. Also 25/. a year rent-charge, issuing out of parcel of the jDre- 
 mises, and payable to the jDOor of the parishes of Newcastle and 
 Winlaton for ever. Also the debts and legacies hereunder mentioned, 
 charged upon said collieries in manner following: — Alice De la Vale, 
 by deed dated Jan. 10, 8 Caroli, demised to Robt. Anderson of 
 Newcastle-upon-Tyne, esq., all her coal pits, coal mines and seams of 
 coal in Little Kippier and Crawcrook, -pav. of Ryton, to hold, from 
 Pentecost, for 21 years, paying 6d. for every corve of coals during 
 said term. Robt. Anderson, by his deed. May 4, 16 Caroli, assigned 
 his interest therein unto Robt. Anderson ; also being seised of the other 
 moiety of said collieries, and of all other the collieries aforesaid to him 
 and his heirs in fee, did by said deed convey the same to petitioner and 
 his heirs conditioned that out of the rents, issues and profits thereof, 
 petitioner should pay all his debts and legacies. The said Robt.
 
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 Anderson owed, at his death, and did demise, by his last will,* made 
 May 6, IGiO, the sums of money following: — Mr. John West, by 
 Ijond, 1,500Z. ; [blank] Freeman, do., 200/. ; the Lord Bellraven, do., 
 500/. ; Mr. Timothy Draper, do., iOOI. ; Mr. Anthony Dodsworth, do., 
 250/.; Mr. Roger Bowes, do., 100/.; Mr. John Tomkins, do., 100/.; 
 Mr. John Richardson, do., 50/. ; Mr. Mark Shaftoe, do., 200/. ; Mr. 
 Thos. Curwin, do., 100/. ; Mr. Cuth. Heron, do., 100/. ; Mr. Arth. 
 Alvey, do., 100/. ; Mrs. Dorothy Henderson, do., 40/. ; Sir Hen. 
 -Gibes, by contract, 300/. Total, 3,940/. And did bequeath these 
 legacies : — 
 
 * 1640. May 6. Will of Robt. Anderson of Newcastle, alderman. To be 
 buried in St. Nicholas' Church near my j^arents. To wife Jane, for her thirds 
 of my personal estate, all my coals at pit and staith within the lordship of 
 Winlaton ; all my corn growing on AUerside Haugh, Winlaton ; three of my 
 best keels (out of my twelve) at her choosing ; in money 150/. ; all my house- 
 hold stuff, jewels, plate and other furniture within this my now dwelling- 
 house in Newcastle excepting iron chimneys, bedsteads and tables and other 
 woodgear (whicli is to be left after her decease to my executor) ; all my stock 
 of horses, oxen, wain gear and plough gear, with all other necessaries belong- 
 ing said farm of AUerside Haugh. To Robt., son of Gyles Anderson, 1001. , 
 provided he go not about to disturb my executor ; to Robt. , son of Geo. 
 Anderson, 30/. ; to Robt., son of Isaac Anderson, 300/., to be paid by 100/. p. 
 ann. after the expiration of six years. To Thos. Haggerston's eldest son, in 
 consideration of his father's care of my colliery, past and to come, 50/., to be 
 paid at the end of seven years from date. To Geo. Beednell, my servant, 50/. 
 and my best cloak and suit. To my servant Geo. Pearson 20 nobles and a 
 suit and cloak. To Thos. Lawson, my servant, 4/. and a suit and cloak. To 
 rest of household servants, Thos. Blackebarne, 40'>-. ; Wm. Currey, 40v. ; Geo. 
 Bednell, '20s. ; Elizth. Finch, 40s., and the other women servants 20n. apiece. 
 To aunt Elizth. Anderson 20 nobles, and her two daughters, Anne and Margt., 
 10/. each. To Dorothie Mills 5/. To Elizth., wife of Wm. Anderson, deed., 
 her four daughters, 5/. apiece. To Barthram, son to Hen. Anderson, 20/. To 
 Frances and Mary Anderson, 10/. each. To John, son of W^m. Fenwick of 
 London, the sixteenth of Hawker, his new ship, towards his education. To 
 my four noble friends the old Lady Margt. Selbie, of Whitehouse, Mrs. Margt. 
 Blaikston, of Gibside, Sir. Wm. Fenwick and Sir Nich. Tempest, each of them 
 20/. towards the buying of a diamond to wear for remembrance. To the poor 
 at my funeral, 20/. To Mr. Alvey, 40.s\ To Mr. (^ray, 20.s. To Mr. Robt. 
 Shaftoe and his wife, 20.s. To my cousin Hen. Anderson and his wife, 20s-. 
 apiece. To Elizth., wife of Wm. Anderson, deed., 20s'. To Mr. Edwil. Stott, 
 20s'. Residue to cousin Fran. Anderson, full executor. Witnesses : Thos. 
 Mallabar, Erasmus Tovverson, Richd. Bellshawe. 
 
 Buried. Mr. Robt. Anderson, Alderman, a good benefactor. May 12,' 1640. 
 St. Nicholas' Re<i., Newcastle. 
 
 In the Quire and Walks about it is many faire Monuments, Tombes and 
 Marble-Stones of Maiors of this Towne . . . not one word of their good Deeds ; 
 their Generations and Names are worne out. Onely that thrice Noble Maior 
 Master Robert Anderson, whose Memory will continue untill there be no more 
 time; ^'Ere vel marmore perennius, riz., His (Jift of twenty Pound per annum 
 for ever to the foure Churches in Xeicrasllc. JJignnm Utiide Virum, iMitsa retat 
 Mori. Gray, Chorographia (1649), p. 11. 
 
 Left by Mr. Robert Anderson p. ann. [to the poor of All Saints] which 
 bas not been paid since 1651, the sum of 5/. Bourne, Ffist. Neinras//c, p. 100. 
 
 1653. Mem. : That Robert Anderson, Alderman, deceased, gave 5/. yearly 
 to the poor. Two years unpaid. 1654. Sir F. Anderson in arrear 3 years of 
 •5/. a year, bequeathed by Mr. Robt. Anderson. A/l Saints' Church Books.
 
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 d. 
 
 Robt., son of 
 
 Isaac 
 
 
 
 
 Anderson 
 
 
 300 
 
 
 
 
 
 Robt., son of 
 
 Giles 
 
 
 
 
 Anderson 
 
 
 100 
 
 
 
 
 
 Robt., son of 
 
 Geo. 
 
 
 
 
 Anderson 
 
 
 30 
 
 
 
 
 
 Thos. Hagestoi 
 
 I 
 
 50 
 
 
 
 
 
 Geo. Bednall 
 
 
 50 
 
 
 
 
 
 Geo. Pearson 
 
 
 6 
 
 13 
 
 8 
 
 Thos. Lawson 
 
 
 i 
 
 
 
 
 
 Thos. Blackbor 
 
 le ... 
 
 2 
 
 
 
 
 
 Wni. Currye 
 
 
 2 
 
 
 
 
 
 Geo. Redwall 
 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 
 
 Elizth. Fench 
 
 
 2 
 
 
 
 
 
 Three servants 
 
 more 
 
 3 
 
 
 
 
 
 Elizth. Anderson, sen. 
 
 6 
 
 13 
 
 8 
 
 Ann Anderson 
 
 
 10 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Mr. Hen. . 
 
 Vnde 
 
 rson 
 
 £ s. d. 
 
 Margt. Anderson ... 10 
 
 Dorothy Mills ... 5 
 Elizth. Anderson's 
 
 daughters ... 20 
 
 Barth. Anderson ... 20 0' 
 Fran. and Mary 
 
 Anderson ... 20 0' 
 
 The Ladv Selbv ... 20 
 
 Mrs. Bla*xton ' ... 20 Q 
 
 Poor of the parish... 20 
 
 Mr. Gay 10 
 
 Mr. Robt. Shaftoe 
 
 and his wife ... 2 0' 
 
 Elizth. Anderson, jun. 10 
 
 Mr. Stott ...... 10 
 
 Sir Nich. Tempest 20 
 
 Sir Wm. Femvick... 20 a 
 and his wife, 21* 
 
 16J:G. June 12. Deposition of Sir Fran. Anderson to the truth of 
 the foregoing particulars. 
 
 1G46. June 18. Petitioner has taken the National Covenant, 
 and Negative Oaths. 
 
 Same date. Fine fixed at l,200/.t 
 
 1616. July 10. Order of the C.C. that the Serjeant-at-Arms 
 attending the House of Commons be desired from time to time to 
 send in safe custody unto this committee the body of Sir Fran. 
 Anderson, knt., to the end he may jDrosecute his composition for 
 his delinquency, according to the ordinance of Parlt. in that behalf. 
 
 1616. July 15. Order of the C.C, on an order of the House of 
 Conniions, that out of the first moneys paid in by Sir Fran. Anderson, 
 Sir John Mennes and Ralph Cole for fines, they pay 6,663/. 16.s. 7d. 
 to Sir Arth. Haslerigg, bart., M.P., in full of all sums claimed for 
 service to Parlt., or respited on the public faith, certified by the Com. 
 
 * The total is 747^ 7-<. 4(/. In the books of the C.C. it is entered as 
 647/. 7-^'. 4d. in one place and 607/. 7'''. 4f/. in another. On comparing the names 
 of the legatees with those which appear in the will itself, it will be seen that 
 the bequest of 40.9. to Mr. Alvey is omitted. Mr. Alvey, no doubt, was the 
 royalist vicar, one of the ' notorious delinquents ' named in the terrible 
 ordinance of Parlt. dated May 26, 1645. 
 
 t 1647. Julj' 13. Resohition of the House of Commons: — That this 
 House doth accept the sum of 1,'2()0/. of Fran. Anderson of Newcastle-upon- 
 Tyne, esq., for his delinquency. His offence is that he was in arms against the 
 Parlt. He rendered in Nov., 1645. His estate in fee p. ann. is 480/. ; 46/. 
 p. ann. for 14 years ; 60/. p. ann. for three lives ; 400/. p. ann. for 8 years ; 
 170/. p. ann. in reverson ; a personal estate to the value of 130/., out of which 
 allowance is to be made for 60/. p. ann. issuing for one life ; 65/. p. ann. for 
 ever ; for 400/. charged on the lands in fee, and 3,600/. debt which is charged 
 upon the collieries.
 
 105 
 
 of Accounts, May 6, 1646, and allowed by the House of Commons r 
 also that if these fines do not reach the sum, it is to be made up out 
 of the fines of such delinquents who have not compounded as Hasle- 
 rigg shall present. 
 
 1647. Mar 11 [CaJ. (C.A.M.) ii. i.. 801]. Sir Fran, assessed 
 at 800/. 
 
 1649. Nov 23 [ihid.\ Order that his assessment be discharged on 
 payment of 255/. within a month. 
 
 1650. Jan. 31 [_ibid.\ He comi)lains of the neglect of his 
 solicitor in allowing the fine to be set without receiving particulars 
 of his debts before the war. Being ill and far off begs that the 
 Cou. Com. of Newcastle may receive particulars of his debts, and 
 that he may have them allowed. 
 
 1650. April 25 [ihid.\ Sir Arth. Haslerigg seconds liis re- 
 quest, and certifies that, to his knowledge, Sir F. Anderson is extra- 
 ordinarily in debt. 
 
 1650. May 17 [ibid. p. 802]. Sir F. Anderson's petition re- 
 newed. Has paid his moiety and begs leave to prove the debts before 
 the Cou. Com. at Newcastle, and to have them considered in payment 
 of second moiety. — Granted, and his deposition to be returned in a 
 month. 
 
 1653. Mar. 23. At the instance of Mr. John Carr, certificate 
 given that in the treasurer's book of G.H., Sir F. Anderson's fine of 
 1,200/. is entered as fully paid— the first moiety on Oct. 29, 1646^ 
 and the remainder May 18, 1649. 
 
 CUTHBERT APPLEBY OF LANGLEYDALE. 
 
 (Col. ;. p. 2( >:',.) 
 
 1649. Cuth. Appleby of Langleydale, in the co. of Durham, 
 petitions that having been in arms against the Parlt. in the first 
 war, and adhered to the enemy in the last war, and never com- 
 pounded, he humbly desires to be admitted to a reasonable fine 
 and composition for his delinquency. His estate is a moiety of a 
 farm or tenement in Hurworth-upon-Tees, in right of Anne, his 
 wife, for life ; remainder to the heirs of their bodies, Y.V.B.W.,, 
 26/. 13?. id. 
 
 Fine at a sixth, 60/. 
 
 JOHN ARMORER OF CORNHILL.* 
 
 (rnl. i. p. .204.) 
 1649. Having adhered to the enemy in the last war, John 
 Armorer of Cornhill-on-Tweed, begs to l)o admitted to compound for 
 
 * In 1670 tlie proprietors of Cf>rnliill were John Forster and Wni. Armorer 
 of the family of Armorer of ?>elfor(l. Tlioic was a suit in tlie Chancery at 
 Durham in 1672 between Thos. Armorer, gent., an infant, hy his trustees, and 
 Forster and his tenants on a mortgage (lueslion. The matter was afterwards 
 carried to the House of Lords, where the decree at Durham was reverseiL 
 Raine, Xorth Durham, p. 321.
 
 106 
 
 his delinquency. His estate : — A lease of four farms or tenements 
 in Cornhill for 52 years to come, Y.V.B.W., 281. ; the reversion of a 
 moiety of a mill in Cornhill (after one life) for 52 years to come, 
 Y.V.B.W., GI. 13s. id. Craves allowance of payment to the land- 
 lord out of the said farms, 1/. 13.!^. id. p. ann. ; mortgage of part of 
 two of the said farms passed, in 1640, to Richd. Selby for 50/. : a 
 bishop rent payable to the Earl of Suffolk, 21. p. ann. 
 Fine at a sixth 711. 6s. 8d. 
 
 JAMES AYSCOUGH OF MIDDLETON-ONE-ROW.* 
 
 (Cal. ii: p. 271S.) 
 
 1644. Sept. 14. Wan-ant to sell Jas. Ayscough's goods at 
 Middleton, co. Durham, and let his lands, sequestered to the State. 
 
 1651. Feb. 13. Petition of Thos. Scroggs of Middleton-one-Rcw 
 showing that he bought, nine years ago, a rent-charge of 12/. on Over 
 Dinsdale from Jas. Ayscough. The land being sequestered for delin- 
 quency, he received nothing till 1648, when he had an order for 
 two years' rent, but nothing for his arrears of 60/. Is aged, blind, 
 poor, and well affected, and the Cou. Com. have allowed his deed. 
 Begs papiient with arrears. 
 
 1651. June 12. Petition of Edwd. Barton, jun., of Marton, co. 
 Yoi'k, showing that being seised of an annuity of 20/. out of the 
 manor of Dinsdale, sequestered five years since for the delinquency of 
 Allan Ayscough, (father of Jas.), one-third part w^as ordered Ijy the 
 YorkslflVe ccClhmissioners to be paid him, which he received till 
 stayed last Michagj^ias,^ for what cause he knows not. 
 
 1652. Jan. 21. Petition of Allan Ayscough that John Conyers 
 and Alice, his wife, for 110/. paid by said Allan, granted his lands in 
 Dinsdaile to said John and his wife during their lives, then to 
 petitioner for four years if he did not in that time pay to one 
 Simon Askwith, Mrs. Conj^ers' sister's son, 200/., then the remainder 
 to come for ten years to said Simon, who is not sequestrable but Avell 
 affected. Two years since said Conyers and his wife died and the 
 estate was sequestered for petitioner's delinquency. Is not able to 
 pay the 200/. and if it be not paid his interest will determine two 
 years hence and he being a delinquent and Askwith Avell aft'ected, the 
 commonwealth will lose the benefit of the sequestration. Referred to 
 Mr. Brereton. 
 
 * A pedigree of the Ayscoughs in Surtees, Hisf. Durhnm, iii. 227, 
 explains the relationship of some of these petitioners. James, the delinquent, 
 was eldest son of Alan Aj'scough, by Anne, j-oungest dau. of Thos. Brathwaite 
 of Nesham Abbey ; his wife was Dorothy, second dau. of Sir Wni. Kennet of 
 Coxhoe. Alice, sister of Alan Aj'scough, married John Conyers of Dinsdale ; 
 Alice, sister of Jas. Aj-scough, married Eilwd. Barton of Towthorpe, Yorksh. 
 The manor of Middleton-one-Row, formerly part of the possessions of the 
 Surtees family, was conveyed in 1612 to Chris, and Alan Ayscough, whose 
 descendants held land there for several generations.
 
 107 
 
 1652. Apr. 8. Order that Barton be paid his annuity from Dec 
 ~2-4, 1649, the other two-thirds being sequestered for his recusancy. 
 
 1652. Nov. 18. The estate of Jas. Aj^scough at Middleton-one- 
 Rcw appears in the third Act for Sale. 
 
 1653. May 5. Order that Scroggs be allowed his rent-charge 
 with arrears from Dec. 24, 1649. 
 
 1653. June 30. Report to the C.C. that Jas. Ascough was seised 
 of a messuage in Dinsdale, worth yearly, 80/. 10-*?. Fine at two- 
 sixths, 349/. 13-s. id., paid next day and estate discharged. 
 
 1653. Aug. 22. Discharge from sequestration of the manor of 
 Middleton-one-Row, bought of the Treason Trustees by Gilb. Croucli. 
 
 ROBERT AYSLEY OF COVESHOUSES. 
 
 1645. The name of Robt. Aysley of Coveshouses, co. Durham, 
 appears in the list on page 60 of those who compounded with Sir 
 Hen. Yane and others in 1645. But the fine is not given, and no 
 further reference to the case occurs. 
 
 RICHARD BADDELEY OF DURHAM CITY.* 
 
 (Cnl. ii. p. 9S0.) 
 
 1645. Nov. 20. Richd. Baddeley of the city of Durham, gent., 
 petitions the C.C. shewing that although he never took up arms, 
 nor was in service for the King against the Parlt., but was in New- 
 castle at its rendition and was there taken prisoner, and paid his 
 fine, or I'ansom, for the freedom of his estate and person, yet his 
 estate is sequestered. Prays that the Cou. Com. l^e ordered to certify 
 his estate and the cause of his sequestration. Particular of his 
 estate: — A messuage and lands in par. of Kelloe, Y.Y. 40/.; tithes 
 of corn in North Awkland, in fee-farm, Y.Y. in common years, 30/. ; 
 lease from Dean and Chap., for remainder of a term of about 12 years, 
 of a messuage and stone quarries near Durham City, Y.Y. above the 
 rent, 16/. ; lease from the same for like term (3 parts in 4 to be 
 divided) of a water corn mill near Durham, Y.Y. above rent reserved, 
 6/. : lease from the bishopric for 11 years of a coney wai'i'cn, near 
 
 * llichil. Baddeley, secretaiy to Morton, Bp. of Durham. In the cathedral 
 library (Mickleton MSS. ), are several letters addressed to him by tlie bishop. 
 He wrote a life of that prelate, which was printed by Stephen Bulkley at York 
 in 1669. In the preface or 'Address to the Christian Reader," he explains 
 that he iiad been the bishop's servant and secretary for fifty years, and being 
 quite onted of such ottices and employment as lie had under liis lordship, ' by 
 these late woeful! and destructive times,' thought that he could not better 
 bestow some part of his decaying old age tlian in recollecting and laying 
 together such memorable particulars as he had observed during attendance 
 upon his lonlship.
 
 108 
 
 Durham, now destroyed by the Scots, so that Y.Y. is not above 10«, 
 Personal estate worth 20/. Is indebted to Mrs. Robson of Durham^ 
 86/. ; Dorothy Smith, 84/. ; Mrs. Seeker, 10/. ; Mr. Mickleton, 10/. ; 
 Mr. Geo. Sheyres, 10/.; Dr. Brownerigg, 120/.; Mr. Edwd. Lively, 
 51. ; Mr. John Parsons, 30/. Total, 355/. Has a grant of 20/. for 
 life as auditor to the see of Durham, Avhich he desires to com- 
 pound for. 
 
 1647. Sept. 7. Certificate that he has taken the National 
 Covenant, July 16, 1647, and the Negative Oath on 22nd of same' 
 month. 
 
 1647. Oct. 21. Fine at a tenth, 162/. lO.s., but if he settle 16/. 
 p. ann. for increase of maintenance of the minister of Andrew Auck- 
 land,* the fine to be abated. 
 
 1649. Feb. 27. Certificate that he settled the 16/. p. ann. (Sir 
 Thos. Widdrington and Mr. Lascelles, trustees) upon the living of 
 Andrew Auckland by deed dated Oct. 29, 1647, and a re-demise by- 
 deed dated Oct. 30,' 1647. 
 
 * The Puritans did not acknowledge saints in Church dedications. Parity. 
 Fast Sermons, with which they generously indulged themselves, were preached,, 
 not at St. Paul's, but at ' Paul's,' London, nor at St. Margaret's, but at 
 'Margaret's,' Westminster. These official discourses, printed by order of the 
 House of Commons, for the edification of the well affected, the conversion of 
 malignants, and the admiration of posterity, bore fearful and wonderful title 
 pages. A favourite divine of the period was Dr. John Arrowsmith, a native 
 of Gateshead, and here are the title, dedication, etc., of one of liis Parity, 
 sermons : — 
 
 A great Wonder in Heaven : | or | A lively Picture of the Militant | 
 Church ! Drawn by a divine Pencill. | Revel. 12. 1, 2. | Discoursed on in a | 
 Sermon j Preached before the Honourable | House of Commons, at | Margarets 
 Westminster, on the last I Monethly Fast-day, | January 27, 1646-7 | By 
 John Arrowsmith, B.D. | John 16. 20, 21. 1 London 1 Printed by R. L. for 
 Samuel Man dwelling at the | Swan in Pauls Churchyard, 1647. 
 
 Ecclesife nutritiis | Reipuljlicae fulcris I Pietatis energeticae I Asseclis simul 
 & patronis : | H. E. | Selectis e populo Anglicano | Senatoribus Wesmonasterii | 
 Congregatis | Qui ut nobis posterisque consulerent | Se per sexennium 
 prodegere | Conciunculam banc qualemcunque | (Intra cujus ambitum Christi 
 sponsam | Mariti sui radiis coruscantem j Mundi turn illecebras turn minas 
 calcantem | Evangelica veritate redimitam | Laborantem tamen, & puerperarum 
 more j Periclitantem cernere est) | Coram ipsis habitam, | Avidisque nuper 
 exceptam auribus | Oculis propitiis perlustrandam | Si quando negotia 
 deferbuerint, j Perquam humiliter | Oftert | D.D.Q. | Ad obsequium illis in 
 Domino pro virili | exhibendum paratissimus j Joannes Arrowsmith. 
 
 Die Mercurii, 27 January, 1646. Ordered by the Commons assembled in 
 Parliament : That Sir Anthony Irby do from this House give thanks to Master 
 Arrowsmith, for the great pains he took in his Sermon he preached before the 
 House of Commons on this day at Margaret's, Westminster, and that he do 
 desire him to print his Sermon, wherein he is to have the like privilege in 
 printing of it as others in the like kind usually have had. (Signed) Hen. 
 Elsyng, Cler. Pari. Dom. Com. 
 
 I appoint Samuel Man to print my Sermon. (Signed) John Arrowsmith.
 
 109 
 
 SIR GEORGE. BAKER OF CROOK HALL.* 
 
 (Cal. in. p. 2043.) 
 
 1649. May 4 [or 9]. Having adhered to and assisted the forces 
 raised against Parlt. for which he is sequestered, Sir Geo. Baker of 
 ■Crook Hall, co. Durham, petitions that he may be admitted to com- 
 pound for his delinquency. Particular of his estate : — Lands and 
 tenements in par. of Lanchester, Y.V.B.W., 70^. 10s. ; a messuage in 
 Newcastle, Y.V.B.W., 10/. — both in fee; the manor and part of the 
 demesnes of Bulbecke, Y.V.B.W., 40/. No personal estate. Debts 
 to several persons, 700/. Taken from him by the Scots and seques- 
 trators, 2,000/. 
 
 1649. June 28. Fine, 360/. lOs. 
 
 1649. Sept. 14 [Cal (C.A.M.) ii. p. 1140]. Liformation against 
 Geo. Baker, Humphrey Bbltron, glover, Cuth. Cann [Carr 1] Ralph 
 Cock, Geo. Dawson, merchant, Robt. Ellison, Wm. Robson and Thos. 
 Sharper, all of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. — Order for Cou. Com. to 
 examine and in case of delinquency to secure their estates. 
 
 1650. May 30. Sir Geo. Baker writes from Gateshead to Nath. 
 Snape of Gray's Inn, London, asking him to confer with Thos. Dent, 
 lodging at Mr. Soppett's at the sign of the King's Head, Gray's Inn 
 Lane, touching his second payment. States that there is order taken 
 with some masters of ships to pay it. Also desires the help of Mr. 
 Job Howes. 
 
 HENRY BARNES OF WITTON-LE-WEAR.f 
 
 (Cal. ii. p. 1541.) 
 
 1646. Oct. 8. Hen. Barnes of Witton-le-Wear, co. Durham, 
 petitions the C.C. shewing that he left his own habitation and lived 
 
 * Second son of Oswald Baker of the city of Durham ; bapt. there May 18, 
 1596. His father died in May, 1608, and his mother married Councillor Wm. 
 Smith, one of the seneschals of the Bp. of Durham, and clerk of the Palatinate 
 Court of Chancery, who brought his stepson up to his own profession of the 
 law. Called to the Bar in due course, he married Elizth., dau. of Thos. Liddell 
 of Ravensworth, afterwards Sir Thos. Liddell, bart. Purchased Crook Hall, 
 par. of Lanchester. Elected Recorder of Newcastle, he became a hero of the 
 siege and capture of the town in 1644, and therefore was one of the foremost 
 among the delinquents who were ordered by the House of Commons, Nov. 19, 
 1644, to be sent up to London. The House committed him to the Compter 
 in Southv^ark on Dec. 13 following. He was included in the order for 
 disfranchisement and disablement of Newcastle offenders. May 26, 164.5. Died 
 in comparative obscurity at Hull, seven years after the Restoration, and is 
 buried in the great church there. 
 
 f Henry and William Barnes belonged to what may truly be termed the 
 balival family of Darlington. It produced, either of the name or relationship,
 
 110 
 
 ill the King's quarters, and there took up arms against the Parlt. ; 
 that he was in Oxford during the siege, and at the surrender thereof,, 
 and that he is comprised within the Articles agreed upon for the 
 rendition of the same.* He hath taken the National Covenant and 
 the Negative Oath, and is willing to be obedient to all ordinances of 
 Parlt. Desires that he may be admitted to a reasonable composition 
 according to the same Articles. Particular of his estate: — Lease 
 from Queen's Coll., Oxford, for 15 years yet to come of three farms in 
 Dalton Pearcy, at 30^. yearly, and a fee-farm rent to the Crown of 
 8/. lis. Y.V. over and above the same, 101. Petitioner affirms that 
 he is no popish recusant, nor popishly affected, etc. 
 Fine at a tenth, 20/. 
 
 at least seven bailiffs of the borough. So writes Longstaffe in his Hist. 
 DarliiK/ton, p. Ixxxi., as an introduction to a very elaborate pedigree of the 
 family, commencing with Sir Wm. Barnes, knt. , who died in the reign of Richd. I. 
 Bp. Barnes of Durham (1577-87) was great-uncle of Henry and great-great- 
 uncle of William the compounders. Henry was the fourth son of Wm. Barnes 
 of Bedbourne Park, gent, (afterwards bailiff of Darlington and coroner of 
 Darlington VVard), who was the second son of Henry Barnes, the bishop's 
 brother. Compounding Henry occurs as bailiff and keeper of Stockton castle, 
 and a referee in the Stockton Commons division, 1658. In the parish registers 
 of Hart his death and interment are thus recorded : ' Mr. Henry Barnes of 
 Dalton Piercy, a worthe gentleman, was buried in the body of the parish 
 . church of Hart, before his own seat or pew, ob. 19 Nov., 1703.' Compounding 
 William was the eldest son of compounding Henry's brother Thomas. He 
 married twice — (1) Elizth.,dau. of Sir John Calverley of Eryholme, York., knt. ;. 
 {2) Elizth., daxi. of John Buck of Sadberge, co. Durham. By these second 
 nuptials he had a dau., Dorotliy, who became his sole heiress, and was three 
 times married, (1) 1674, to Michael Blackett, alderman, and in 1676-77 sheriff 
 of Newcastle, son of Sir Wm. Blackett, bart. ; (2) to Sir Richd. Brown of 
 London, bart. ; (3) to John Moore, D.D., Bp. of Ely. Longstaffe, op. cit., 
 writes lovingly of the balival Barneses. 
 
 * Being a captain in the service of the king at the surrender of Oxford, 
 Hen. Barnes received the following safe conduct pass from Sir Thos. Fairfax, 
 knt., general of the Parliamentary forces: 'Suffer the bearer hereof, Capt. 
 Hen. Barnes, capt. of a troop in General Reuthen's regmt. , who was in the 
 city and garrison of Oxford at the surrender thereof, and is to have full benefit 
 of the articles agreed unto upon the surrender, quietly and without let or 
 interruption to pass your guards with his ser\ants, horses, arms, goods, and 
 all other necessaries, and to repair unto London or elsewhere upon his neces- 
 sary occasions. And in all places where he shall reside, or whereto he shall 
 remove, to be protected from any violence to his person, goods or estate, 
 according to the said articles, and to have full liberty at any time within six 
 months to go to any convenient port, and to transport himself, with his servants, 
 goods, and necessai'ies bej'ond the seas, and in all other things to enjoy the 
 benefit of the said articles. Hereunto due obedience is to be given by all 
 persons whom it may concern, as they will answer the contrary. Given under 
 my hand and seal the 24th day of July, 1646. — (Signed) T. Fairfax. To all 
 officers and soldiers under my command, and to all others whom it may 
 concern.' 
 
 [The body of the pass is printed.]
 
 Ill 
 
 WILLIAM BARNES OF DARLINGTON.* 
 
 (Col. ii. p. 1407.) 
 
 1646. Sept. 2. Capt. Patrick Ogilvie jietitions that he is and 
 always was in the Parlt.'s service, and in 1644, after having bought 
 of Wm. Barnes, for 2,1 OOZ., several estates in co. Durham, and paid 
 the full value thereof, he had notice that Barnes was a delinquent 
 before the sale. He conceives, therefore, that he cannot enjoy the 
 said estates without the order of the C.C. Is willing to compound 
 for them. Encloses a certificate from Lord Chancellor Lowden and 
 the Marquis of Ai'gyle, that he has taken the National Covenant and 
 behaved himself faithfully. Particular of his estate: — A burgage in 
 Darnton, otherwise Darlington, in the Bachland, with half an oxgang 
 of land in 2 closes, Y.Y., 13/. 6.s. Sd. ; 3 little closes of arable, and 
 a little meadow called Farnsey, Y.V., 20/. ; 7 burgages in Darnton 
 together called the Broadstreet, worth [blank] ; a tenement in the 
 tenure of John Johnson in Darnton, Y.V., 1/. 10.s\ ; a burgage and 
 ridge of land in the townfields of Darnton, in possession of Elizth. 
 Gregory, Y.Y., 4Z. ; 3 oxgangs of land in Bondgate, in the tenure of 
 Elizth. Gregory ; 2^ oxgangs of land in Thornbeckhill, in possession 
 of Thos. Emmerson, Y.Y., 20/. ; 13 acres of land in closes, next to 
 the lands in Thornbeckhill, Y.Y., 10/. ; a close and meadow, called 
 Dycunkest, in possession of Elizth. Gregory, Y.V., 6/. ; a field called 
 the Townefield, in possession of Edmoud Bland of Darnton, Y.V., 
 10/. ; a farm in Thorpthewles, Y.V., 26/. 13.v. id. ; le<ase of the tolls 
 of Darnton, Y.Y., 10/. ; a right to several del)ts due by bonds, in all 
 454/., yearh" interest of same, 37/. 
 
 1647. May 26. Chris. Mickleton, clerk of the peace, co. Durham, 
 certifies that Capt. Wm. Barnes was connuitted to Durham gaol for 
 the murder of Wm. Sidgewick of Thorpethewles about Nov. 2, 1644. 
 — Same date, Jo. Morland, clerk of the Crown, co. Durham, certifies 
 that Biarnes was indicted at the gaol delivery held at Durham, 
 Apr. 12, 1647, found guilty of manslaughter, and ordered to enter 
 recognisances for appearance at next assizes which he did and was 
 set at liberty. 
 
 1647. May 27. Petition of Patrick Ogilvie, ' jiretending to have 
 purchased an estate of Wm. Barnes ' considered I^y C.C. Resolved 
 that he be not admitted to composition, the purchase lieing made 
 Avhen Barnes was a delinquent. 
 
 Same date. Petition of Wm. Barnes himself considered. For 
 bearing arms against Parlt. his estate is sequestered ; l)egs to be 
 admitted to favourable composition. His estate: — Lease from the 
 
 * A long and complicated case. The documents relating to it are unusually 
 numerous and tantalising. The C.C. evidently suspected collusion amongst 
 the parties. Hence, for a time, they refused to adnut Ogilvie to tlie benefit of 
 composition, describing him as 'pretending' to have purchased the estate 
 during Barnes's delinquency.
 
 112 
 
 Bp. of Durham for three lives of tolls of chattels sold in Darlington 
 market, Y.V., 30^. ; freehold and copyhold lands, etc., held of the 
 Bp. in fee simple in Darlington and Cockermouth, Y.V. in each town, 
 50/. ; a pasture close in fee at Haughton, 3/. [Later (but undated) 
 ifAnthony Pearson, secretary to Sir Arth. Haselrigg, puts in a valua- 
 ' tion thus : — Parcels of land called Long Farneham, Glover-pasture, 
 Thornebeckhills, Glarensides, Town End Fields, Fosterfields, Wynd- 
 millhill, Sheeps-close, and Emerson's-close, and other tenements in 
 Darlington, Y.V.B.W., 110/.; land in fee, called Marshall's close, 
 in Haughton, Y.V.B.W., 3/. ; lease for three lives of the tolls of 
 Darlington, Y.V., besides rent preserved, 44/.] 
 
 1647. June 1. Certificate that Barnes took the National Coven- 
 ant, May 25, 1647, and the Negative Oath, May 27, 1647. 
 
 1647. July 13. Ogilvie fined at a tenth, 400/., for Barnes's estate, 
 but resjjited for further i3roof of purchase. 
 
 1647. July 27. Cou. Com. to certify which of the parties had the 
 estate when it was sequestered, and its true Y.V. 
 
 1647. Nov. 9. Cou. Com. by Clem. Fulthorpe and Thos. Shad- 
 forth, certify that Barnes held the estate at date of sequestration, 
 .and that Ogilvie entered into corn, etc., after sequestrators had 
 
 possession, and sold part thereof. 
 
 1648. Jan. 21. Ogilvie permitted to compound. Lands in fee, 
 Y.V., 200/. ; personal estate, 490/. Fine at a half, 1,745/., but if he 
 will pay in the whole at once to be reported to the House at a 
 
 .sixth, 763/. 66'. 8^. 
 
 1648. Jan. 28. Barnes's fine fixed at a half, 937/. 
 
 1648. Feb. 28. Barnes petitions C.C. that his fine was set at a 
 half because he did not apply before May, 1646. Pleads that he 
 could not do so having been a prisoner in Durham from Nov. 4, 1644, 
 till Apr. 17, 1647, upon suspicion of killing a man. Prays reduc- 
 tion to a tenth. 
 
 1648. Mar. 6. Order that Barnes's fine be a sixth — 376/. 10s. ; 
 a half in hand and the remainder in three months. 
 
 1649. Sept. 16. Order of the C.C. to the Cou. Com. to forbear 
 further sequestration of Barnes's estate, unless concealment or 
 under valuation be discovered. 
 
 1651. Feb. 26. Barnes petitions that he formerly tendered com- 
 positions for delinquency, but, before perfecting them, went into the 
 North, where he was imprisoned and forced to compound with Sir 
 Ai'th. Haslerigg, from whom he received a discharge, which he begs 
 may be allowed him.*^ — Granted, if there be no other matter against 
 him than he has compounded for. 
 
 1653. Aug. 10. Complains of being summoned by Cou. Com to 
 pay the fine set on him by C.C. in 1647, his discharge notwithstand- 
 ing.— Order that, ha-^dng satisfied his fine the Cou. Com. trouble 
 Barnes no further. 
 
 * He had compounded for 438/., ante, p. 44.
 
 113 
 
 GEORGE BARTRAM OF ELSWICK. 
 
 (Cal. iv. p. 3040.) 
 
 1652. Sept. 7. Confirmation by the C.C. of a lease by the Cou. 
 Com. to Matt. Newton of Newcastle, of a farm at Elswick, co. Northd. 
 sequestered from Geo. Bartram, for six years at a rent of 30/. 
 
 1652. Nov. 18. The estate of Geo. Bartram appears in the third 
 Act for Sale. 
 
 1652. Dec. 9. Geo. Bartram petitions for discharge of his estate 
 in Northd., having compounded with Sir Arth. Haslerigg and the 
 ■other commissioners and paid the fine. — Referred to Mr. Reading. 
 
 1653. Jan. 6. Reading reports that Geo. Bartram being in arms 
 against the Parlt. in the second war, had submitted and paid a fine ; 
 that the Cou. Com. were thereupon ordered to forbear all further 
 sequestration and permit him to enjoy the rents and profits of his 
 
 ■copyhold estate, Y.V.B.W., 35/. ; that by Act of Parlt., dated Mar. 2, 
 1649, power was given to Sir Hen. Vane, Sir Arth. Haslerigg and 
 •others to compound with new delinquents in Northd., Cumblnd., 
 Westmlnd., Durham and Newcastle and Berwick, and that, by pro- 
 viso in the third Act for Sale, any persons whose names are inserted 
 therein, but who have compounded and received discharge, shall be 
 exempted out of the Act. 
 
 Same date. Survey and sale of Geo. Bartram's estate stopped. 
 Sir Arth. Haslerigg is ordered to present the case to Parlt. 
 
 1653. June 15. Estate finally discharged, the case having been 
 .reported to Parlt. as directed. 
 
 RALPH BATES OF HALLIWELL.* 
 
 (Cal. a. J). 1078.) 
 
 1646. Jan. 22. Petition of Ralph Bates, shewing that, living in 
 ■the CO. of Northd. with his wife and family, he could not remove 
 from the country, but was forced by the Earl of Newcastle to be 
 captain of a foot company, which he left in Yorkshire. Ever since 
 •the taking of Newcastle he hath remained in the Parlt. quarters and 
 is sorry for his offences. Prays for such a composition as may stand 
 with the clemency of Parlt. Particular of his estate : — His demesne 
 of Halliwell, worth, in the best times, 60/., and now let for 20/. p. 
 ann. ; nine farms in South Milburne and a water mill, let in best 
 times for 40Z. p. ann. : a farm in Bedlington, in best times, 4/. p. 
 
 * Son of Cuthbert Bates of Halliwell, by Klizth. Ogle of Bebside, and 
 representative of an ancient and loyal Northumbrian family. His elder 
 Tirother, Cuthbert, capt. of a foot company under the I^^arl of Newcastle, died 
 at the siege of York in 1644, unmarried, and thus compounder became the head 
 •of his house. Baptised at Earsdon, Aug. 129, 16 1. S, he married Margt., dau. of 
 Thos. Chaitor of Butterby, co. Durham, entere<l his pedigree at the Heralds' 
 'Office in 1666, and died Mar. 11, 1690-91, aged 78. ('/. Burke, Landed 
 'Gentry, and Foster, VUitations of Northd. , -siiJ) voce Bates of Milbourne. 
 
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 114 
 
 ann. ; advowson of the parsonage of Whalton. His personal estate- 
 was wholly consumed and wasted by the armies. Craves allowance- 
 for '21. 2s. id. quit-rent to Ralph Delaval, and Is. ^d. paid to the 
 Crown. 
 
 1646. Sept. 18. The Cou. Com. report to the C.C. that Bates 
 has taken the Negative Oath before them, Nov. 29, 1645, and the 
 National Covenant before Ralj^h Watson, the minister where he 
 dwells, Dec. 25 following. He has also taken both of them again^ 
 Sept. 5 last past. 
 
 Fine at a tenth, 200Z.* 
 
 WILLIAM BAXTER OF WHITWORTH.f 
 
 {Cat. [C.A.M.] iii. p. 1234.) 
 
 1650. May 31. Wm. Baxter of Whitworth, Wm. Brass of Braffer- 
 ton, Steph. Coulson. John Easter, Wni. Hodgson, Cuth. Hopper, 
 Gabriel Jackson of Langley, Percival Mackendall, Thos. Robson, Thos. 
 Todd and Wm. Wheatley, all of the co. Durham, reported as delin- 
 quents by Capt. Hen. Goodyeare of Auckland, in same county, capt.- 
 lieut. to Sir Arth. Haslerigg, governor of Newcastle, Parlt., Sept. 18, 
 1649, having ordered him 300/. out of delinquents' estates to be 
 discovered by him, he discovered the above-named, but before he 
 could proceed to proof the Cou. Com. was dissolved. Begs an order 
 to the present Cou. Com. to take the examinations in proof, and pay 
 him the 300/. — Order thereupon that the Cou. Com. receive the- 
 heads of the charges against them all, Baxter excepted, examine 
 witnesses, and on proof of delinquency, seize and inventory their 
 estates. 
 
 1650. Aug. 30. Publication of proofs ordered in the cases of 
 Brass, Jackson and Baxter. — Sept. 6. Their estates to be seized and' 
 security taken from them for the forthcoming thereof. 
 
 1650. Nov. 28. Sir Arth. Haslerigg to the C.A.M. At Good- 
 yeare's request I inform you that when Lieut.-Col. Hen. Lilburne, 
 deputy governor of Tynemouth. Castle, set the prisoners at liberty,. 
 
 * 1648. July 1. The House of Commons accepts '200/. fine for the delin- 
 quency of Ralph Bates. His offence, that he was in arms against the Parlt. 
 He rendered in Nov., 1645. His estate in fee in possession, p. ann. 104/., 
 out of which issues for quit-rent p. ann. 21. 2-s.. which leaves the fine at a tenth, 
 200/. In Rentals of 1663, Hodgson, Hist. Xorfhd., pt. iii. vol. i. p. 321, Ra. 
 Bates, of Halliwell, appears at 160/. for Milbourn Town, 120/. for Halliwell, and 
 35/. for East Harford. 
 
 t Whitworth belonged to the Nevills till the attainder of Chas., Earl 
 of Westmorland, after the northern rebellion in 1569. The capital messuage 
 and the chief portion of the manor ^\as purchased of the Crown by Thos. 
 Watson, who had been one of the earl's tenants. His gi'anddaughter Margaret, 
 sole survivor of the family, married Wm. Baxter, who alienated to Mark 
 Shafto in 1650. Surtees, Ifisf. Durham, iii. 291. It is possible that Baxter, 
 who was of Corbridge, co. Northd., sold the estate to enable him to pay his fine.
 
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 put arms in their hands, and declared that he kept the castle for 
 the King, Goodyeare refused to assist, was thrown down the works, 
 or leaped over them, escaped to Newcastle, and has long been in 
 Parlt. service. 
 
 1651. Jan. 29. Goodyeare complains that the delinquents pro- 
 cure delays, that multiplicity of business prevents hearing, and that 
 they try to weary him and force him to desist the prosecution. Begs 
 a speedy hearing. — Hearing ordered on Friday in the cases of Baxter, 
 B'rass and Jackson. 
 
 1651. June [?]. Goodyeare repeats his application. When Lil- 
 burne revolted he left him and carried away 80 soldiers ; next morn- 
 ing, with his men and others stormed the castle, where he lost all he 
 had — 300/. Thereupon Parlt. ordered him 300Z. as above, etc. 
 Biegs not only the 300/. out of Baxter, Brass and Jackson's estates, 
 but a fifth of the remainder, as discoverer, having spent 50/. in 
 the prosecution. 
 
 (Col. iv. p. 2714.) 
 
 1651. Feb. 11. Wm. Baxter, being adjudged delinquent, 
 petitions for a reasonable composition. His estate : — In fee a 
 capital messuage and lands in Whitworth, Y.V.BlW., 70/. ; the 
 moiety of a messuage called Pedgebank during his wife's life, with 
 lands thereto belonging in par. of Brancepeth, Y.V.B.W. (beyond 
 rent to State and Church), 25/. ; cattle, household stuff and other 
 goods to the value of 51/. is. lOd. Craves allow^ance for 45/. paid 
 for his delinquency upon his composition with Sir Wm. Armyne and 
 the Parity, commissioners, as by their order dated Dec. 19, 1644, 
 appears. Is indebted to several persons, 600/. 
 
 1651. Mar. 11. Fine fixed at 247/. 10s., but respited 14 days for 
 Sir Wm, Armyne to satisfy the C.C. as to receipt of the 45/. 
 
 1652. Sept. 7. Fine paid and sequestration discharged. 
 
 GEORGE BELLASIS OF DURHAM.* 
 
 (Col. i. p. 203.) 
 
 1649. Petitioner, having adhered to the enemy during the last 
 war, begs to compound on the terms offered by Parlt. Particular 
 of his estate : — An annuity of 40/. p. ann. for life, issuing out of 
 the lands of Sir Richd. Bellasis at Haswell, in the par. of Easington. 
 
 Fine at a sixth, 80/. 
 
 * Geo. Bellasis, sixth and youngest son of Sir Wm. Bellasis of Morton 
 House, Houghton-le-Spring, by Margt., dau. and co-heiress of 8ir Geo. Selby 
 of Whitehouse, co. Durham, knt. Born at Morton House, Dec. 24, 1622. 
 Foster {Yortshire Pedigrees, vol. ii. ) supposes compounder to be identical witli 
 Geo. Bellasis, who married for his second wife (first unknown), July 17, 1655, 
 Elizth. Parker of Marion, co. Westmorland, and founded the family of Bellasis 
 of Long Marton in that county. His father, Sir Wm., high sheritY of Durham
 
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 SIR RICHARD BELLASIS OF LUDWORTH* 
 
 (Cal. Hi. p. 2245.) 
 
 [Undated.] Petition of Sir Richd. Bellasis to the House of 
 Commons, showing that for divers years last past, he has executed 
 the commands of Parlt. in several conditions as deputy lieut., com- 
 missioner in the Northern Association! and high sheriff, co. Durham, 
 to his very great charge and exjJense, neither has he omitted to give 
 obedience and satisfaction to any ordinance or payment imposed by 
 the House ; yet a charge of delinquency for crimes long since com- 
 mitted is now exhibited against him, of which he was never guilty. 
 Begs that as now no committee is sitting here to which he can 
 appeal, the sequestration may be stayed, and be censured by the 
 House, or whomsoever they shall appoint. 
 
 from 1625 to 1640, received Chas. I. (journeying to Scotland in 1633) at the 
 head of the gentry of Durham, and his loyaItj% and that of his sons, nearly 
 involved the ruin of his family. Sir \Vm. died while the Scots were 
 invading the bishopric and was liuried in Houghton-le- Spring church, Dec. 5, 
 1640. State Papers of the period record his conferences with the Government 
 and show the troubles which beset his fifteen years' occupancy of the shriev^alty. 
 A long pedigree of the family is printed in Foster's Yorkshire Pediiirets, vol. ii. ; 
 others appear in Graves, Hid. Clej-claiul, p. 57; Hutchinson, Hist. Durluim, 
 ii. 574, and Surtees, Hist. Durham, i. 203. 
 
 * Sir Richd. Bellasis of Ludworth and Owton, co. Durham, and Bleatarn, 
 CO. Westmorland, eldest son of Sir Wm. Bellasis of Morton House, born 14 
 and baptised 23 Apr., at St. Nicholas's, Newcastle ; married (1) Elizth., dau. 
 of Wm. Spooner of Peshley, Norfolk, (2) Margt. , dau. of Sir Wm. Lambton of 
 Lambton ; knighted at Berwick, June 26, 1639 ; buried at St. Osw aid's, 
 Durham, Feb. 26, 1651. 
 
 t Shortly after the siege of Newcastle, Sir Richd. Bellasis was sent up 
 to London by the gentlemen of the county of Durham to acquaint Parlt. 
 with their sad condition. The Parity, commissioners at Newcastle, writing 
 from Durham (Nov. 1, 1644) to the Speaker of the House of Commons, explains 
 his mission as follows : ' The gentlemen of the bishopric of Durham thought 
 fit to send one of their own number expressly to acquaint the House with 
 the estate and condition of the county as it stands at this present ; and for 
 that they find their burthens daily increase upon them, and an inability for 
 them to undergo the present charge, they humbly desire the advice and assist- 
 ance of the House how they may be relieved. We have been witness of their 
 willingness and readiness to do for the army from time to time to the utmost 
 of their power, but rents of delin(|uents and sequestrations in these unsettled 
 times afford so little help, as this gentleman, Sir Richd. Bellasis, can inform 
 you, that unless some course be thought of how to dispose of those forces now 
 quartered in the bishopric of Durham at the end of this month, they know not 
 how to subsist, nor how the armv can possil)ly be provided for. You will 
 understand all the particulars from Ins relation better than we can write. We 
 have endeavoured to do the best service we can to raise moneys for the army, 
 and with the advice of the gentlemen of the Standing Committee, we have 
 tried all ways and means, and ai'e of opinion that those delinqiients of a lower 
 rank, that will offer reasonable compositions, if the House be pleased to allow 
 of it, may afford more present relief than to proceed bj' way of sequestration 
 according to the ordinances, whicli are very longsome and hazardous. Where- 
 fore the Committee humbly represents to the House that Sir William Darcy, 
 who hath not been very active against us (yet is adjudged a delinc[uent), is
 
 117 
 
 1648. Durham, Oct. 4. The charges against Sir Richd. are (1) 
 That he consented to the loan of 1,000/. to the King against the 
 Parlt., which was the county's money, paid to them by ordinance of 
 Parlt. (2) That he voluntarily lent 100/. to the King towards the 
 maintenance of the wars. (3) That, shortly after, he went to 
 Holland and stayed there about a year and corresponded with those 
 who procured or sent over arms into England against the Parlt. 
 (4) That on his return he countenanced many persons, who had 
 received commissions against the Parlt., as namely, Capt. Dossie, 
 who was committed to gaol for piracy, and procured contributions 
 towards his maintenance there. (5) That he was named a com- 
 mittee man in the ordinance for the militia for his county, and 
 being brought before Sir Arth. Hesilrigg, bart., governor of New- 
 castle, refused to act or afford any assistance and has absented him- 
 self ever since. 
 
 Answers of Sir Richd. : — (1) Was not in the country when that 
 loan was made. Never consented to the lending of any of the 
 county's money. (2) Confesses that he lent the King 100/., but it 
 was before any war was declared or any ordinance to prohibit it, 
 neither was it towards the maintenance of the war, it being specified 
 iiL the receipt for it to be for the relief of the King's private necessity. 
 (.■')) Being a report only needs no answer but refers to the testimony 
 of Mr. Strickland, then agent of Parlt. (4) Says that he knows 
 not what that word countenancing means unless to be civil l)e 
 esteemed countenancing — procured no contribution for Capt. Dossie 
 but only as sheriff delivered his petition to the justices. (5) Was not 
 brought but came voluntarily to this and all other county meetings 
 — refused to act as commissioner for the militia, there being no 
 
 willing to give 100/., and to lend 400/. more on the public faith, and to procure 
 it as speedily as may be ; Sir John Conyers, a committee-man and Commissioner 
 of Array, is adjudged likewise a delinquent, and is willing to give 100/. and to 
 lend 200/. upon the public faith, and procure it, either upon his credit or by 
 engagement of his lands, with all possible speed. If the House be pleased to 
 approve of this way we shall proceed in it ; if not, upon knowledge of their 
 pleasures herein, the sequestration according to the ordinances must proceed, 
 and we must raise what we can upon these gentlemen as well as others. We 
 have writ sundry letters concerning the settlement of the town of Newcastle, 
 but have not yet received directions from you. The Mayor [Sir John Marley] 
 is still prisoner in the hands of the Sheriff of Northumberland [Michael 
 Weldon], and there is an absolute necessity of sending down some persons of 
 trust and ability concerning the Customs and trade of the town, and managing 
 the coals and collieries, which we conceive may afford a very considerable 
 maintenance for the soldiers if rightly and carefully managed. We shall not 
 be wanting to do for the service what lies in our powers ; but the burthen is 
 too heavy for us, and therefore we hope you will take it seriously into your 
 consideration, and speedily put all things in such a way that you may reap 
 benefit by this great blessing we have so long expected, and now at last the 
 Lord hath given into our hands, as the town of Newcastle and Tynemouth 
 Castle is. Thus, hoping very speedily to receive your directions in tliese affairs, 
 we rest, your humble servants. —(Signed) Win. Armynp, Ri. Barwis, Robt. 
 Fenwick.'
 
 118 
 
 ordinance to authorize him — subscribed for horses and made other 
 offers concerning which he refers to Col. Wrenn — did not go into 
 the enemy's quarters and only absented himself on his own affairs 
 and because he was scandalised with the name of obstructor. 
 
 164:9. Feb. 7. Depositions of witnesses before Cou. Com. Geo. 
 Lilburne says that Sir Richd. was a countenancer of delinquents 
 and evil affected men, especially of Capt. Dossie, a pirate, who broke 
 out of gaol and is now a rover and robber upon the seas. — John 
 Joblin, keeper of the gaol at Durham, says that Sir Richd., being 
 high sheriff, often desired deponent to allow Capt. Dossie to come 
 to him. Dossie would have starved in gaol, having no subsistence 
 until an order was procured out of the sessions for an allowance of 
 3s. 6d. weekly, but deponent knows not who procured the order. — 
 Col. Thos. Midford says that the Cou. Com. being at Newcastle 
 to confer with Sir A. Hesilrigg touching raising forces in order to 
 withstand Sir Marmaduke Langdale, who was about to seize Berwick 
 and Carlisle about June, 1648, Sir Richd., [being asked] to join with the 
 rest of the well affected in raising forces, declined to do so. 
 
 1649. Feb. 20. Order of Cou. Com. that the charge against Sir 
 Richd. with the answer and proofs be transmitted to the House of 
 Commons and that the rents of all his lands in the county shall 
 remain in the tenants' hands till the matter be tried. 
 
 Further answers of Sir Richd. : — That he was in York about the 
 middle of July, 1649, and there was moved by Sir Thos. Riddell, 
 jun., and Sir Wm. Lampton to lend the King 100^. for his pi'ivate 
 necessities, which sum he paid Aug. 10 following at Durham. He 
 was very loth to be drawn in but was i^ersuaded by Mr. Hen. 
 Bellasis, son of Lord Falconbridge, that if he did nothing it would 
 be very ill taken, and being afraid of his estate and liberty was 
 induced to consent, he having especial occasion to go to the assizes 
 at Durham to settle his estate, his father being lately dead. 
 
 1650. Apr. 15. Referred by Parlt. to the C.C. at G.H.— Apr. 17. 
 He is declared by them not to he within the ordinance for sequestra- 
 tion and is ordered to be discharofed. 
 
 WILLIAM BELLASIS OF MORTON HOUSE.* 
 
 1645. Wm. Bellasis compounds with Sir Hen. Vane and the Cou. 
 Com.— Fine, 40/. 
 
 * Second son of Sir Wm. Bellasis. l)orn at Morton House, Dec. 30, 1617 ; 
 married (1 ) Martha, dau. of Sir Hen. Curvven of Workington, knt. ; (2) Elizth., 
 dau. of Sir Ralph Bethell of Kllerton, co. York, knt., a colonel in the royal 
 army. In acknowledgment of loyal services during the civil w ar, he received 
 from Chas. II., dated Brussels, Mar. 18, 1660, an autograpli letter of thanks. 
 His second son by Martha Curwen, Richd. Bellasis, M.A. , held the living of 
 Haughton-le-Skerne, near Darlington, valued at 1,200/. a year, for over 40 
 years, and was buried there Nov. 1, 1721. A dau. by Martha Curwen, named 
 Elizth., married John Fern, a well-known conveyancing attorney in Newcastle, 
 who was buried at St. John's in that town, June 14, 1744.
 
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 1651. Nov. 21. Petitions Parlt. for pardon of offences com- 
 tmitted before the date of composition, and obtains it. 
 
 THOMAS BIRKBECK OF MORTON TINMOUTH.* 
 
 1644. Thos. Birkbeck of Morton Tinmouth, co. Durham., gent., 
 'Compounds with Sir Wm. Armyne and the Parity, commissioners. — 
 Fine, iOl. 
 
 1651. Nov. 21. Petitions Parlt. for pardon of offences com- 
 mitted prior to date of composition. Granted. 
 
 MARGARET BLAKISTON OF GIBSIDE.f 
 
 (Cal. iv. p. 2785 ; v. ^x 3191.) 
 
 1651. May 2. Margt., widow of Sir Ralph Blackston, recusant, 
 petitions the Cou. Com. for allowance of her dower of third of the 
 
 * A description of the little hamlet of Morton Tinmouth, quondam Priorin 
 de Tynemouth, in the parish of Gainford, and a pedigree of the Birkbecks 
 appear in Surtees, Hist. Durham, iv. 23, 25 (cf. also Walbran's (la'uiford, 
 p. 106). Compounder was a son of Richd. Birkbeck, who acquired the estate 
 hy his marriage with Anne, dau. and co-heir of Ralph Alwent and widow of 
 Fran. Bainbrigg, gent. The Birkbecks were from Hornby in Westmorland, 
 and probably, as is suggested by Burn and Nicholson, Hist. Wtstmorlaiid, etc., 
 derived their name from the Birkbeck Fells in that county. Thos. Birkbeck, 
 the compounder, is named aute, p. 69, as a delinquent who had paid neither the 
 composition nor the 48/. value of his sequestered goods. 
 
 t Dau. of Sir Wm. Fenwick of Wallington and widow of Sir Ralph 
 Blakiston of Gibside. The pedigree in Surtees, Hist. Durham, ii. 255, shows 
 the descent of the Blakistons from Wm. Blakiston of Blakiston, co. Dmham, 
 whose will is dated Jan. 15, 1561. His grandson, Roger, married in 1539 Elizth. 
 (aged 16), dau. and sole heir of Richd. Marley of (xibside, and thus the Gibside 
 estate came into the Blakiston family. The eldest son of this union, Wm. 
 Blakiston of Gibside, married Joan, dau. of Robt. Lambton of Lambton, and, 
 dying without issue, was succeeded by his brother (xeo. , who had married 
 Eleanor, dau. of John Thaine of Swaffham, Norfolk. The eldest son of Geo. and 
 Eleanor, named, after his uncle, Wm., married Jane Lambton, sister of his 
 uncle's wife, and being knighted at Durham in 1617 became the first Sir Wm. 
 Blakiston of Gibside. He died in 1641, and was succeeded by his son Ralph, 
 who married (1) Frances, dau. of Sir Chas. Wren of Binchester, and (2) Margt., 
 dau. of Sir Wm. Fenwick of Wallington. Ralph was created a baronet in 
 July, 1642, and dying in Jan., 1650-51, was succeeded by his son Wm., the 
 second Sir Wm. of Gibside. Meanwhile, another Sir Wm. Blakiston had been 
 created. He was the third son of Hen. ]51akiston of Archdeacon Newton, who 
 was a brother of the first Sir Wm. Sui-tees descrilies him as a distinguished 
 loyalist, colonel in the service of Chas. I., knighted in Apr., 1643, at Oxford, 
 and desperatel_y wounded in the attack on Massey's cpiarters at Monmouth in 
 Sept., 1644. The occurrence of two contemporaneous Sir Wm. lilakistons, one 
 of Gibside (Sir Wm. No. 2) and the other of Archdeacon Newton, tends to 
 confusion in local history, but in the two cases under that name wliicli a])pear 
 in the Calendar the distinction is clearly indicated.
 
 120 
 
 estate of Sir Ealph, sequestered for the delinquency of Sir Wm.,, 
 her son and heir. Same date the petition is referred to the C.C.^ 
 and on June 11 the CC. refer it to Mr. Brereton. 
 
 1654. Jan. 17. Petitions that two-thirds of her estate being- 
 under sequestration for her recusancy she may be admitted to con- 
 tract for the same according to the particular annexed [missing], 
 and according to the Act of Parlt. of Oct. 21, 165-3, and humbly 
 desires that she may have such abatements and advantages as shalJ 
 be made to persons in her condition. Petition referred to Mr, 
 Eeadinof. 
 
 SIR RALPH BLAKISTON OF GIBSIDE. 
 
 (Cal. Hi. p. 2181.) 
 
 1650. Feb. 19. Petition of Richd. Hedworth* of Long Benton, 
 Northd., a claimant on the estate of Sir Ralph Blackstone and Sir 
 Wm. his son [missing], referred to Mr. Brereton. 
 
 1651. May 15. Hedworth begs an order for the Cou. Com. of 
 Dui'ham to investigate his right to an annuity of 40^. granted him, 
 17 Chas. I., by Ralph Blackstone, in reversion after petitioner's 
 mother, Elizth., now dead, on Pockerley Manor, but the lands being 
 sequestered for Blackstone's recusancy! the Cou. Com. will not 
 allow it without order. 
 
 June 12. Fran. Middleton of Seaton, co. Durham, deposes that 
 Elizth. Hedworth, sister to Sir Wm. Blakiston, late of Gibside, died 
 at Pockerley about Candlemas, 1643, and that she was Richd. Hed- 
 worth's mother. 
 
 1651. July 8. Hedworth's rent-charge allowed on his taking 
 the Oath of Abjuration before the Cou. Com. with arrears from date 
 of his petition. May 15, he paying his proportion of taxes. The 
 Cou. Com. are to send up a particular of Wm. Blackstone's estate, 
 and not to discharge it, his pretended composition notwithstand- 
 ing, until he produce his discharge before the C.C. and they give 
 further order. 
 
 1651. Dec. 3. Toby Dudley! ^^^^ Fran. Middleton petition that 
 
 * Richd. Hedworth, son of Chris. Hedley of Pokerley, by Elizth. [Blakiston] ; 
 baptised at Chester-le-Street, Mar. 6, 1586-87; living at Stocksfield, Northd., 
 Apr. 2, 1658. Pedigree in Surtees, Nivt. Durham, ii. 197. 
 
 t The warrant to sequester Blakiston's estate, issued at Durham, Oct. 1, 
 1644, appears ante p. 22. 
 
 I Son of Ambrose Dudley of Chopwell. Born in 1597, he married Jane, 
 dan. of the first Sir Wm. Blakiston of Oibside. He was therefore brother-in- 
 law of Sir Ralph and uncle to Sir Wm. the second, and the rest of the ' destitute 
 children.' His dau. Jane, sole heiress, married Robt. Clavering, and carried 
 the Chopwell estate into the Clavering family. Mary Clavering, granddau. 
 of Robt. and Jane, married the first Earl Cowper, and is the author of that 
 interesting sample of Court gossip and scandal entitled the Diary of Mary 
 Counter Cowper, 1714-20.
 
 121 
 
 Sir Ralph demised to them, Jan. 17, 1651, a third of his lands for 
 80 years at a peppercorn rent, as security for his debts, and then 
 for payment of 70Z. a year for his younger children. On his death 
 the lands were sequestered for delinquency of Sir Wm., his son 
 and heir, and they are obstructed in their rights. Beg to prove the 
 title, pay the debts and supply the destitute children. — Referred to« 
 the Durham Com. to certify and Mr. Reading to report. 
 
 1652. Mar. 17. Counsel not being satisfied with the proofs, 
 the petitioners beg an order to the Cou. Com. for further examina- 
 tion. — Granted. 
 
 1652. Sept. 23. Order on report allowing two-thirds of one- 
 third of the lands named in the deed, petitioners to bring in a valua- 
 tion of the estate, and to prove the debts before the Cou. Com. 
 in 6 months. 
 
 SIR V^T^. BLAKISTON OF ARCHDEACON NEWTON. 
 
 (Cal. iv. IX 2861.) 
 
 1651. Aug. 1. Hen. Rlaxton of Archdeacon Newton, petitions 
 for examination of his title to a farm there, which he allowed his 
 son Wm., who was in debt, to let to Geo. Harrison, his surety, for 
 8 years. It was sequestered for his son's delinquency, but the late 
 Cou. Com. ordered petitioner the rents, yet the present Cou. Com. 
 have sequestered it and let it for 7 years. — Referred to Cou. Com. 
 and Mr. Reading. 
 
 1651. Oct. 22. Mr. Reading reports the deposition of Geo. 
 Harrison of Newton, that about 16.39 he took a farm of Hen. 
 Blaxton and Wm. Blaxton, his son, in Archdeacon Newton for 8 
 years at a yearly rent of 40/. Petitioner was in possession when 
 deponent entered and suffered the rent to be disposed of by Wm., 
 now Sir Wm. Blaxton,* towards the payment of his debts for 
 which deponent was bound, and when the term expired he took 
 the farm of petitioner. Believes that Sir Wm. had no interest 
 therein, except during the said 8 years by his father's permission 
 
 * 1646. Nov. 30. At a sittinj:; of tlie House of Commons, a letter from 
 Col. Points, dated York, Sept. 27, 1646, enclosing two copies of a letter, not 
 signed, and a paper enclosed, concerning an endeavour to sur])rise I'ontefract 
 Castle, and concerning malignants and paj)ists receiving commissions from the 
 King to raise forces against the Parlt., weie all this day read. The names of 
 the persons in tiie copy of the letter written to the committee at York were 
 Sir Wm. Blakiston and eleven others. Tiie House resolved that tliey he all 
 sent for as delin([uents by tlie Serjeant-at-Arms, his deputy oi- deputies, and 
 that tliey have power to receive into their custody all sucli other nuilignant 
 suspected persons as Col. Points shall think fit to be secured, and bring them 
 up as delin(|uents. The House oidered, also, that Sir 'I'lios. Widdrington, Mr. 
 John Blakiston (member for Newcastle) and two otliers write to the generals 
 of the Scots' armj' and to the Mayor of Newcastle desiring tlicm to aid in the 
 apprehension of these delincjuents.
 
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 for payment of his del)ts. Tlie said lease determined at May Day, 
 1647. Reading rejiorts also the depositions of Jas. Hilcock that he 
 was petitioner's near neighbour for 50 years, and believes that he 
 was not so kind and loving to his son as to give him anything he 
 could withhold from him, and that the Cou. Com. finding in the 
 books of the former committee that the said farm had been 
 sequestered for the delinquency of Sir Wm. and finding no discharge, 
 continued the same. 
 
 1652. May -i. Order on report that the sequestration iDe con- 
 tinued, the evidence being insufficient. 
 
 1652. May 19. Petitioner prays that as his deeds and witnesses 
 are 200 miles off, the Cou. Com. may examine them. — Granted. 
 
 1652. Oct. 1-1. Order that the lands be discharged on oaths of 
 Hen. and Wm. Blackston that there was no agreement between 
 them to vest the estate in William. 
 
 1653. Feb. 9. On report that Sir Wm. Blackston, the son, has 
 taken the oath as to the agreements with his father, order that he 
 enjoy the estate on security for 3 months, and that meanwhile the 
 Yorkshire commissioners repair to Hen. Blackston. tender him 
 the oath, and if he take it the Cou. Com. are to discharge the estate 
 and give up the bond ; if he refuse, the money received is to be 
 repaid, and the estate reserved for the State. 
 
 1653. Sept. 14. Order of Oct. 14 last made absolute and 
 sequestration discharged. 
 
 SIR WILLIAM BLAKISTON OF GIBSIDE. 
 
 (Cal V. p. 3296.) 
 
 1652. Apr. 15. The Cou. Com. report to the C.C. that Sir Wm. 
 Blackstone of Cibside, co. Durham, compounded for delinquency in 
 the second Avar, was fined 590Z. 2s. 2d., which he paid, and his 
 estate Avas discharged ; they beg direction. 
 
 1652. June 9. The Cou. Com. report that Sir Wm. Blackstone 
 has brought them a discharge from the previous commissioners but 
 that they continue the sequestration till he procure an order from 
 the C.C. 
 
 1652. Aug. 31. Order of the C.C. on compounder's request, 
 that the Cou. Com. alloAv his discharge if he has committed no act 
 of delinquency since Jan. 30, 1649. 
 
 1652. [Nov. ?] Registrar's certificate that the order of the C.C. 
 for his discharge was withheld on report that he is a papist as Avell 
 as a delinquent, that he and his brethren are dangerous men, and 
 that his estate of 1,000/. a year is fit to be sold. 
 
 1653. Mar. 10. Geo. Kedshaw certifies that Wm. Blaikiston 
 ■of Gibside, a late baronet, being a papist, and in both wars against 
 the Parlt. made a composition at Newcastle, about Mar. 2, 1652,
 
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 -with the commissioners there for about 800/. in all, his land and 
 •colliery, estimated 7001. p. ann. But some of the commissioners 
 refused to sign his order, it being antedated long before his sub- 
 mission, neither did he take the Oath of Abjuration, yet his estate is 
 not in the Bill for Sale. 
 
 SIR FRANCIS BOAVES OF NEWCASTLE.* 
 
 (Cal. a. p. 1159.) . 
 
 1646. Mar. -30. Sir Fran. Bowes, knt., makes oath before Edwd. 
 Rich, that in Oct., 1644, he rendered himself to Sir Wm. Armyne, 
 knt., then a commissioner for Parlt. in Newcastle,! since which 
 time he has conformed to all orders and ordinances of Parlt. 
 
 His petition (undated) states that he has resided sometimes in 
 the King's quarters, which, by reason of the enemy then in those 
 parts he could not avoid, for which cause his estate is sequestered. 
 Prays for a favourable composition. Particular of his estate: — 
 Messuages, lands, and tenements in Aseleby, Y.V.B.W. 30/. : a like 
 estate in the reputed manor of Thornton, Y.V.B.W., 80/. ; a like 
 • estate in 2 houses in Newcastle, Y.Y.B.W., 23/. ; remainder of a term 
 of twelve years to come of a twelfth part of a colliery in the lord- 
 ship of Gateshead and Wickham. Y.V.B.W. , 260/. ; a term of ten 
 years to come of a farm in Wallsend, held of the Dean and Chap., 
 Y.V., 30/. clear. Craves allowances of 1/., a quit rent paid yearly 
 to Lord Lumley for one of the tenements in Newcastle ; is. out 
 of the other house there paid yearly to the Crown, and 50s. yearly, 
 a quit rent paid to Mr. Chas. Brandling; 37s. yearly, a rent to the 
 said Dean and Chap., and a wood rent of 4.s. yearly to the said Dean. 
 All his i^ersonal estate in goods and chattels was plundered. He 
 •owes in debts, ' sperate and desparate,' 200/. Desires to be allowed 
 150/. lent to the Parlt. upon the propositions. Certificate appended 
 that he took the Negative Oath, Apr. 3 last, and the National 
 •Covenant, Mar. 25, liefore Isack Reynolds, minister of Gray's Inn, 
 of which Inn he is a member. 
 
 1646. Apr. 28. Fine fixed at 544/. 
 
 1646. May 21. Fine paid and the estate discharged. 
 
 * Hen. Bowes of Newcastle and Thornton Hall, merchant, who died during 
 his shrievalty of Newcastle in the summer of 1624, was compounder's father, 
 his mother being Anne, dau. of Fran. Anderson of Newcastle, nieichant. Sir 
 Fran, married (I) Eleanor, dau. of Hen. Maddison of Newcastle (she died in 
 Apr., 1636), and (2) Margt. , dau. of Robt. Delaval of Cowpen, who died in 
 childbed at the age of 38, Aug. 5, 1652. He was sheritV of Newcastle in the 
 municipal year 1632-33. and dying Aj)r. 23, 1677. aged 66, was buried at 
 Conisclitfe, where his son Sir Fran. (No. 2), mourning the loss of father, 
 mother, wife and children, set up a marble monument upon which is recorded 
 his sorrows. See the inscription in Surtees, I/is/. Durham, iii. 379. 
 
 t Order for sequestration of the estate of Sir Fran. IJowes of Newcastle, 
 knt., issued at Sadberge, Aug. 23, 1644, anfe, p. 7.
 
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 MARY, WIDOW OF SIR GEORGE BOWES* 
 
 (Gal. iv. p. 2400.) 
 
 1650. July 5. Her petition is that Sir Geo. Bowes, knt., her 
 late husband and father of Ralph Bowes and her seven other 
 children, being born to a very fair estate was obliged to sell the 
 best part of the same and of petitioner's right thereto in order to 
 release himself from other entanglements. In the fear that little 
 would be left for herself and children she was advised that some 
 new estate should be bought in the name of friends, over which 
 Sir Geo. should have no disposing power. Accordingly in 1637 
 Bradley Manor, Y.V., 103/. above the rent payable to the Exchequer,^ 
 was bought in the names of Tobit Bowes of Harraton, and John 
 Hilton of Hilton, gent., in trust for them and since the death of 
 Sir Geo. full seven years ago they have enjoyed the same until about 
 a month since when it was seized to be sequestered by the Cou. 
 Com. as the estate of Sir Geo. who died a delinquent, if not cleared 
 by the C.C. before Aug. 1 next. Begs its discharge. Sir Geo. having 
 long before his delinquency passed all his estate away and never 
 having had any interest in the said manor. 
 
 1651. Dec. 2. Mr. Breretou reports that Wni. Eure of Kelloe, 
 heir of Lady Scroope and Thos. Eure, testifies to the validity of the 
 deed of Dec. 11, 1637; that Jos. Cradock of Harperley, deposes to 
 same effect and further says that Philip Howard and John Emerson, 
 witnesses thereto, died in 16'45, and that Thos. Claxton and Anne 
 Maxwell, other witnesses are also dead ; that Ralph Hutton, of 
 the Garth, deposes that Sir Geo. Bowes had no estate in the said 
 manor. 
 
 1651. Dec. 18. Order that the Cou. Com. certify for whose 
 delinquency the estate claimed by the first deed was sequestered, 
 and that Lady Bowes prove, by oath of the trustees, that it was in 
 trust for her, and how the profits have been employed since its date. 
 
 1652. Mar. 18. Claim allowed. Petitioner to have the profits,, 
 with arrears since date of first petition. 
 
 RALPH BOWES OF HEXHAM. f 
 
 (Cal. I. IX 202 ; iv. p. 2401.) 
 1649. Ralph Bowes, having adhered to the enemy in the last 
 war, petitions to be admitted to a reasonable composition. Par- 
 
 * Mary, eldest dau. of Sir Ralph Delaval of Seaton Delaval, married Sir 
 Geo. Bowes, knt., sometime of Biddick and of Cleatlam and afterwards of 
 . Bradley. Ralph, the son herein named, bap. Sept. 12, 1627, mar. at St. Giles, 
 ' Durham, Jan. 22, 1649, Margt., dau. of Sir Joseph Cradock of Richmond, knt., 
 fi-om whom descended the Bowes family of Bradley Hall. Pedigree in Surtees, 
 Hist. Durham, iv. 110, where, and in Sharp, Memorials of the ReheUion of 1569, 
 pp. 3fI6-405, much information respecting the families bearing the name of Bowes 
 is given. The petition above quoted shows the manner in which the estate of 
 Bradley was acquired. 
 
 t Son of Geo. Bowes of Biddick, co. Durliam, and younger brother of Sir
 
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 ticular of his estate : — In fee the moiety of a farm called Lunton 
 Hill, Y.V., 6/. 135. id. ; a debt owed him by Thos. Brown, 3/. 125. 
 
 Fine at a sixth, 207. I2s. 
 
 [Undated.] Dorothy, wife of Ralph Bowes of Hexham, for her 
 six children, begs the fifth of the moiety of a rent of 71. 6s. from 
 the house of Softley, co. Durham, due to her husband, but sequestered 
 for his delinquency. — No order. 
 
 THOMAS BOWES OF STREATLAH.* 
 
 (Cal. i. p. 203.) 
 
 1649. June 21. Thos. Bowes of Streatlam, co. Durham, com- 
 :pounds for adherence to the enemy in the last war. Particular of 
 his estate : ■ — He is seised of Bradewood in right of his wife, 
 Y.V.B.W., 160Z. ; also of Stotley [?] in same right, Y.V.B.W., 58?.; 
 an annuity for life issuing out of Streatlam lordship, of 50/. ; the 
 reversion of a place called Fogerfoord, after six years, Y.V., 16?. 
 Craves allowances of a fifth part of his personal estate for his wife 
 (being in all 480?.), viz., 96/. 
 
 Fine at a sixth (the 96/. being deducted) •456/.t 
 
 Geo. Bowes of the preceding case. He was baptised Oct. 2.5, 1600, and married 
 Dorothy Errington at St. Margaret's, Durham, Dec. 11, 1629. By her he had 
 seven children, all girls. Being out with Sir Marmaduke Langdale in the 
 second war, he was one of tlie 379 royalist prisoners taken in the valley of the 
 Coquet during the skirmish there, July 1, 1648. He died in Newcastle and 
 was buried in St. John's church of that town, Mar. 19, 1668, where also, July 
 29, 1674, his wife was interred. 
 
 * Compounder, grandson of Sir Geo. Bowes, the heroic defender of the 
 North in the rebellion of the earls, temp. Queen Elizabeth, bap. at Chelsea, 
 Dec. 23, 1607, succeeded his brother Talbot at Streatlam. Sharp, Memorials of 
 the Rebellion, 1569, p. 399, quotes from the Bowes MSS. a statement that Thos. 
 inherited the loyalty of his ancestors and a heavy fine was imposed upon him 
 as a delinquent, on payment of which he received a certificate from the com- 
 mittee at Newcastle, dated Sept. 27, 1649. He married Anne, dau. and co-heir 
 of Anthony Maxton, prebendary of Durham and chaplain to Chas. I., a lady of 
 powerful and vigorous intellect, whose widowhood of forty-four years was 
 •dedicated to the preservation of the property of the family, which had suffered, 
 in all its branches, from its inherent loyalty. 
 
 + Turbulent John Lilburn, ' Freeborn John,' with the records of whose 
 disputes the Journals of the House of Commons are abundantly stored, 
 benefited by this fine. On Dec. 18, 1648, the House passed an ordinance for 
 payment of 3,000/. to Lilburn out of the sequestered estates of Sir Hen. Gibb, 
 Sir Hen. Bellingham, and Thos. Bowes, lying in co. Durham, for reparation 
 and damages ' sustained by two unjust sentences made against him in the 
 Star Cliamber.' The ordinance, printed in full in the Lords' ./ni(riia/s (Dec. 23, 
 1648), declares that the Star Chamber sentences upon Lilbuin were ' bloody, 
 wicked, cruel, barbarous and tyrannical,' and that Bowes, Bellingham anil 
 Gibb had been ' active in the late Northern insurrections, and aiding and 
 assisting to the most wicked invasion of Duke Hamilton.' In 1650 (July 16) 
 it was reported to the House that 1,583/. 18v. 4rZ. was still unpaid, and order 
 •was given to satisfy the claim out of the sale of Dean and Chapter lands.
 
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 WILLIAM BOWES OF BARNES* 
 
 (Cal. in. p. 2385.) 
 
 1650. June 28. Petition of Wm. Bowes of Barnes or Wear- 
 mouth, CO. Durham, an infant, by Thos. Bowes, esq., and Robt. 
 Collingwood, jun., gent., his guardians, showing that his father's 
 estate in Ryhope and Barnes, since his death a month ago, have 
 been sequestered for delinquency, whereby he is deprived of his 
 inheritance. If the estate be liable, begs a reasonable composition. 
 Particular thereof : — The manor of [blank] in fee, Y. V. over the 
 rent (83/. 13.<. ^d. paid to the commonwealth), 240/. : a like estate 
 of the impropriate tithes of Barnes and Ryhope, Y.V.B.W., 70Z. 
 Craves allowances for a debt of 400/. due to Mr. Jackson, for which 
 he has a statute entered into before these wars, and the land there- 
 upon extended. Another particular (undated) : - — The manors of 
 Barnes, Homeldon and Clowcroft in fee tail, Y.V.B-.W., 340/. ; corn 
 tithes in Ryhope, Y.Y.B.W., 80/. ; a rent-charge for 2 years yet 
 to come by indenture dated Feb. 17, 1638, between Wm. Bowes, sen.,, 
 first part, and Robt. Leyton and Solomon Wyvill, second part,, 
 Y.V., 70/. Craves allowance of a rent-charge payable to the State 
 out of said manor, 83/. 4s. 8f7. p. ann. ; also a customary rent tO' 
 the minister of Wearmouth out of said manor, 14/. p. ann. ; also 
 for a debt of 800/. (500/. of it still due) secured by a statute- 
 acknowledged by Wm. Bowes, in 1642, to Anne Jackson, by virtue of 
 which statute said Anne has extended the lands of compounder, and 
 is now in possession. 
 
 1650. July 19. Anne, widow of Wm. Bowes, begs an order to 
 the Cou. Com. to pay for her and her two children the eighth of 
 her husband's sequestered estate, with arrears from his death. He 
 died in London, and the lands being so remote, and she not able to 
 look after them, she has been reduced to great straits and misery. 
 — Order that the eighth be allowed if the marriage was before the 
 delinquency. 
 
 * The devolution of the estates of Wm. Bowes as described by Surtees, 
 Hist. Dnrhain, i. 236, and iv. 112, is interesting. Barnes, with Homildon, 
 Clowcroft, and other lands came to the family of Bowes, through the marriage 
 of Maud, dau. of Robt. de Dalden, with 8ir Wm. Bowes of Streatlam. She died 
 in 1421, and the estates continued in Sir William's descendants till the failure 
 of male heirs to Sir Geo. Bowes of Dalden in 1556, who left three daughters only, 
 namely, (1) Elizth. , wife of John Blakiston of Blakiston, (2) Dorothy, wife 
 of Sir Cutli. Collingwood of Eslington, and (3) Anne, who married her cousin, 
 Robt. Bowes of Aske. These heiresses divided the estates, and Homildon, 
 etc., fell to Anne. In 1571 Robt. Bowes, Anne's husband, exchanged Homildon, 
 etc., with the Crown for lands in Old Acres, Seaton and Ott'erton. King 
 James granted Homildon, Clowcroft, and Grindon, in 1611, to Thos. Emerson 
 and Richd. Cowdell under a Crown rent of 83/. 4.s. 8(/. , and they immediately 
 conveyed thorn to Ralph, son and heir of Rnbt. Bowes. Ralph married Joan, 
 dau. and sole heiress of Wm. Headlam of Nunthorpe in Cleveland, who 
 brought him nine sons and four daughters. Of this large family William was the 
 eldest son, and he, marrying Frances Ventrice, or Ventris, became the father 
 of petitioner, his only child, who, baptised Dec. 28, 1641, died unmarried^ 
 June 13, 1662.
 
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 1650. Aug. 16. Wm. Bowes renews his petition by Frances 
 Ventrice, his grandmother. — Cou. Com. to certify cause of sequestra- 
 tion, and whether petitioner is brought up a Protestant. 
 
 1651. Jan. 13. The Cou. Com. report that Wm. Bowes, sen., 
 was voted a delinquent June 21, 1618, since which time the estate 
 has continued sequestered, but, on account of its incumbrances, has 
 been of little or no benefit to the State till June 5 last, when the 
 Cou. Com., being empowered to withdraw the incumbrances, again 
 sequestered it and let the same to the use of the commonwealth. 
 
 1651. May 16. Wm. Bowes, by his grandmother, begs to com- 
 pound for the estate, fearing an appeal may be chargeable and 
 troublesome. 
 
 1651. July 9. Wm. Bowes, being ten years old, petitions by^ 
 his grandmother for discharge of Barnes manoi-, and other lands in 
 Ufferton, Sunderland, etc., demised 15 Jas. by his grandfather,. 
 Balph Bowes, in trust for himself and Joan his wife, and then for 
 his son Wm. and his heirs male. Ralph, Joan and Wm. being 
 dead, the right is in petitioner, but the Cou. Com. keep the estate 
 under sequestration. — Cou. Com. to certify and Mr. Reading to 
 report. 
 
 1651. Aug. 6. He begs the fifth of his estate pending appeal for 
 maintenance, with arrears since Dec, 1649, or he must perish for 
 want. — Granted. 
 
 1651. Nov. i. Mr. Reading reports that Ralph Bowes, by 
 indenture dated Dec. 5, 1617, in consideration of marriage with 
 Joan his wife, granted to Marmaduke Blaxton, and Robt. Colling- 
 wood, and their heirs, the manor of Barnes and all his lands in 
 Bai'nes, Hommaldon, Clowcroft, Uflferton and Sunderland to use of 
 said Ralph and Joan, with remainder to Wm. Bowes, petitioner's 
 father and his heirs male, remainder to Robt., third son of Ralph 
 with like remaindei's to Toby, Fran., Richd., Geo. and Thos., sona 
 of said Ralph, and so on to Ral|)h's right heirs ; that the premises 
 descended to i^etitioner's father, a delinquent and now dead, and 
 then to petitioner in tail. 
 
 1651. Nov. 7. Anne w'idow of John Jackson, begs reference to 
 the York Cou. Com., she and her witnesses living near there, of her 
 claim to an annuity of 32/. which Wm. Bowes charged on his lands 
 for her jointure, but is now sequestered for some pretended delin- 
 quency of Wm. Bowes committed since this grant. 
 
 1651. Nov. 11. Fine fixed at 9267. lO.v., half to be paid in 
 14 days, remainder within six weeks after confirmation. 
 
 1652. Nov. 14. Fine paid and estate discharged. 
 
 1652. Nov. 25. Fi-ances Ventrice, the grandmother, begs an 
 order to the Cou. Com. to pay into the Exchequer 88/. 4.s-. Sd., fee- 
 farm rent, owing from Barnes, Homildon and Clowcroft Manors 
 while sequestered, they l^eing now compounded for. — Granted.
 
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 RICHARD BOWSER OF BISHOP AUCKLAND. 
 
 1645. Described as a gentleman, Richd. Bowser compounds 
 with Sir Hen. Vane and the Cou. Com. — ^Fine, 10^. 
 
 1651. Nov. 21. Petitions Parlt. for pardon of offences com- 
 mitted before the date of composition. — Granted. 
 
 JOHN BRACKENBURY OF SELABY.* 
 
 (Cat Hi. p. 1G62.) 
 
 1645. Nov. 27. Charges exhibited against John Brackenbury 
 of Selaby, co. Durham. (1) That he had a letter and schedule from 
 John Heath directed to himself, Hen. Draper and John Garth, con- 
 taining names of gentlemen who had volunteered to give money 
 towards the maintenance of the army, and that he had sent his man, 
 Richd. Finley, with the said letter to John Garth desiring the latter 
 to call the parish together to see what they would voluntarily give 
 to the said service. (2) That he had sent to Col. Tinsley and Major 
 Salvin 305Z. for the advance of the Earl of Newcastle's army. (3) 
 That he sent in jirovision to Pearsbridge and gave money with his 
 own hands to the constable of Gaynforde for hiring carriages for 
 the conveyance of ammunition to York for the said army. (4) That 
 he being deeply indebted and his lands engaged was advantaged in 
 his rents and profits by a journey he took to Pomfrett Castle to Sir 
 John Readman, his wife's brother-in-law, who begged his estate 
 (for preservation of his wife and children) of the Marquis of New- 
 castle, and made Mr. Hen. Lancaster his kinsman, his steward, w^ho 
 paid Mr. Roleston (secretary to the Marquis of Newcastle) ten pieces 
 of gold for his jjains in procuring a commission. That ha\ang 
 divers judgments against him he dared not stay in the country but 
 fled to Scotland, as he said for religion, and for a year hardly came 
 twice to his parish cluirch, for there was a judgment against him 
 at the suit of Sir Hen. Fletcher, another against Edwd. Rayne, 
 who was bondsman for him at the suit of Peter Carter for 126/., 
 
 * Surtees, Hist. Durhnm, iv. 17, writes warmly of the Brackenburys and 
 their home of Selaby, in the parish of Gainford. Selaby he describes as one of 
 the most sparkling gems in the Cleveland coronet, one of the loveliest emerald 
 spots in the Vanes' fair extended domain. Over the name of Brackenbury he 
 sends a gleam of interest through its connection (1) with the stout lieutenant 
 of the Tower, Sir Robt. Brackenbury, who refused to help Richard to the 
 throne, through the murder of the princes, and (2) with Sir Robert's nephew, 
 Richd. Brackenbury, gentleman usher to Queen Elizabeth. At the beginning 
 ■ of the civil war the family fortunes had fallen to a low ebb, and before it 
 was over the John Brackenbury of these papers, whose wife, Jane, was a dau. of 
 Hugh Selbj' of Newcastle, merchant, had become involved with the Cou. Com., 
 of which he was treasurer, and lost his patrimonial estate. He had retired to 
 Gainford in 1657, and was buried at Durham in Nov., 1677. Selaby was 
 acquired by Gilbert Marshall, representative of one of tlie female co-heirs, and 
 eventually was purchased by the Vanes of Raby.
 
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 •and another at the suit of Margt. Carter for iOl. That he ■was 
 collector for the King's rents in Gainford, the ancient rent being 
 29/. 19s. id. 3'early, which he received of the town and is '' runne 
 behinde ' with the King 105/. odd money, for which the poor tenants 
 ■of Gainford had their goods twice driven and were forced to pay 
 •great fees for releasing the same : the said rents are still undischarged 
 either to the King or to the State to the great terror of the poor 
 tenants of Gainford. (5) It is supposed that he had concealed all 
 his creditors' estates as are comprehended in his own estate, of those 
 who are supposed to be delinquents as follows: — -Baronet Fletcher, 
 80/. p. ann., Mich., 16-45, i years behind. Anthony Tompson, lOOZ. 
 p. ann., at Mart., 1640, 2 years behind. Grace Hudleston, his mother 
 '(a convict recusant), 100/. p. ann., 3 years behind. Mrs. Salkeld, 
 20/. p. ann., 3 years behind. Mrs. Fairchaise of Westmorland, about 
 52/., [blank] years behind ; besides other executions, extents and 
 judgments. (6) He pretends that he has suffered much by the enemy, 
 which upon examination will be jDroved to the contrary, for the goods 
 which were upon the gi'ound were driven by his mother by virtue 
 of a sequestration out of the Court of Chancery for her dowry. 
 
 1646. Jan. 15. His answers: — (1) He receiA^ed the letter and 
 schedule but had no intention of putting the same into operation and 
 suffered his goods to be driven rather than send in horse or armies 
 to the enemy's service though often commanded from him. (2) That 
 at Spittle upon Staynmoore he met Thos. Salvin, Major to Col. 
 Tilsley, who took him prisoner to Hornby Castle, co. Lanes., a 
 garrison of the King's, where he was daily threatened for adhering 
 to the Parlt. and paid a sum of money but not so much as is alleged 
 for his liberty. (3) He denies. (4) He says that Mr. Thos. Birk- 
 beck brought him a ' furloe ' from Sir John Readman but that he 
 declined to go to Pontefract though afterwards he went but declined 
 large promises of honour and preferment and received no profit by 
 going, and he denies any judgments against him and says that as for 
 the King's rents he will give satisfaction for what is due to Sir Geo. 
 Vane, receiver of the King's revenues. (5) He denies the conceal- 
 ment of debts. As regards the 80/. p. ann. alleged to be due to Sir 
 Hen. Fletcher for 4 years, it is due for ' ase money ' for 1,000/. which 
 respondent had of him 4 years ago for which his demesne of Sellaby 
 stands for security ; the matter is now before Parliament. He also 
 acknowledges (and explains) other del:)ts.* 
 
 1652. Aug 27. Petition to the C.C. praying that he may pay 
 to use of commonwealth the remainder of 1,000/. endeavoured to be 
 recovered from him by Lady Kath. Fletcher, and that her proceed- 
 ings against him may be stayed. He conveyed Sellaby lordship, 
 July 29, 1640, to Hen. afterwards Sir Hen. Fletcher of Hutton 
 in Cumberland, to secure 1,000/., and if he failed to j^ay same by 
 
 * His connection afterwards with the Durham Cou. Com. is illustrated. 
 aiite, pp. 45, 69. 
 
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 130 
 
 Aug. 1, 1644, Sir Hen. was to pay 2,516/. more for the entire pur- 
 chase. In 1642, i^retending that he (Brackenbury) had broken the 
 covenants, Fletcher put in suit against him a bond for 2,000/. and 
 obtained judgment. After his death as a delinquent at the battle 
 of Chester the Cou. Com. (Jan. 1646) sequestered petitioner's 
 estate for the debt and raised 300/. or 400/. out of it, and Lady 
 Fletcher had brought a suit against him. 
 
 1652. Aug. 31. Hen. Darley, formerly governor of Berwick, 
 recommends Brackenbury's case, and says that the latter lived in 
 Berwick all the time of his governorship. — Sept. 1. Brackenbury 
 ordered to forbear pajTnent to Lady Fletcher who is summoned to- 
 show cause why the 1,000/. should not be levied, she having neglected 
 to comiDound for it. — Oct. 19. Lady Fletcher pleads the Act of 
 Pardon. She was never a delinquent. Prays she may not be 
 denied lawful recovery of the debt. — Nov. 23. Witnesses to be 
 examined by, Cou. Com., Durham. — Nov. 24 and 25. Brackenbury 
 summoned and granted protection. 
 
 1653. Aug. 17. Mi". Brereton reports [inter alia]: — On Nov. 
 27 achai'ge was exhibited before the late Cou. Com. against the 
 said John Brackenbury, then one of the Com. and their treasurer, 
 touching a judgment against him at the suit of Sir Hen. Fletcher 
 and also for the supposed concealment of the estates of those of his 
 creditors who were supposed to be delinquents, and that .... 
 Jan. 16, 1646, the C.C. had ordered his estate to be sold towards 
 the payment of such debts as he had confessed to be owing by him 
 to delinquents and papists. — Sept. 6. Judgment postponed. 
 
 1654. Jan. 11. Lady Fletcher admitted to comjDound, unless- 
 Brackenbury show cause to the contrary in 14 days. 
 
 THOMAS BRAITHWAITE OF HURWORTH.* 
 
 (Cal. iv. p. 2522.) 
 
 1650. Aug. 29. Edwd. Briscoe and Wm. Clarke beg to com- 
 pound for the estate of Thos. Braithwaite in the co. Durham, which 
 is vmder an extent to them for a debt of 500/. unpaid. — Referred to 
 Mr. Brereton. 
 
 * Thos. Braithwaite, or Brathwait, was the eldest son of Richd. Braithwaite- 
 of Burneshead, Westmorland, the reputed author of Drunken Barnahy, by 
 Finances, dan. of Jas. Lawson of Neasham, a descendant of the Lawsons of 
 Cramlington and Byker. At the dissolution of the monasteries Aid. Jas. 
 Lawson (mayor of Newcastle in 1529-30 and 1540-41) secured a considerable 
 share of the plunder. He acquired lands, etc., belonging to the nunnery of 
 St. Bartholomew in Newcastle, of which his sister Agnes was prioress, and the 
 whole estate of the abbey of Neasham, of which his sister Jane was abbess, 
 including lands, etc., in Neasham, Hurworth, Dinsdale, Little Burdon and 
 Cockfield. At Aid. Lawson's death Neasham, etc., went to his younger son, 
 Henrj-, then to Henrys son James (2), who, dying in 1627, left an infant grand- 
 son. This grandson died in 1644, under age, and the property reverted to his 
 
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 1652. Nov. 18. The estate of Thos. Braithwaite of Nesham 
 Abbey appears in the third Act for Sale. 
 
 1653. Mar. 4. Thos. Braithwaite petitions that being in the 
 third Act for Sale he may compound under the provisions of the 
 Act. Particular of his estate : — The moiety of Nesham Abbey, par. 
 of Hurworth, upon lease, Y.V., 551. ; a moiety of Himgerhill, with 
 the lands, etc., belonging to Hurworth, Y.V., 231. 8s. id. ; a moiety 
 of Lawson's lands in Hiu-worth, Y.V., 73^. 3s. id. ; a moiety of 
 Hindon, par. of Cockfield, Y.V., 71. 2s. 
 
 1653. Aug. 2. Report to C.C. of survey made in June last, show- 
 ing that Braithwaite held in fee the moiety of a mansion house called 
 Nesham Abbey, Y.V., 11. 10s., whereof his moiety is 15s. Said 
 mansion is out of repair, but not fit to be demolished, so the sur- 
 veyors estimate the value of it in timber, stone, glass, iron and 
 lead at 30^., and the site thereof, when the materials are cleared 
 off, 11. 5s. Repair, according to first foundation thereof, will cost 
 lOOZ. Timber trees, growing about said messuage, are worth 
 51., whereof his moiety is 21. 10s. ; lands and cottages, Y.V., 
 139/. 18s. lid., his moiety being 69/. 19s. 5^d. ; in fee two thatched 
 cottages, one garden plot, and several parcels of land in Hurworth, 
 Y.V., 90/. 8s. 7d. But 20 acres of the premises, being a moiety of 
 the Oxclose, is the inheritance of Wm. Jennison, gent., but no value 
 thereof to be deducted off, 90/. 8s. 7d. He was also seised of a 
 moiety of Hungry Hill, and several closes and fields thereto belong- 
 ing, of Y.V. 49/. 9s. 4f/., whereof his moiety, 24/. 14s. 8d. The said 
 messuage is since burnt, so that there is but one little thatched hovel 
 for tenant to live in ; charge of erecting a farm house will be 20/. — 
 
 two aunts, daughters of James (2), namely, Frances, who married Braithwaite, 
 and Anne, wife of Hen. Jenison of Wynyard. Details in Surtees, Jlist. 
 Durham, iii. 260-263. Pedigree of Brathwaite in Kicolson and Burn's West- 
 morland and Cumlierland, i. 126. See also later mh voce Wm. Jenison. 
 
 ' Drunken Barnaby ' himself was a delinquent who had to pay heavily for 
 his loyalty. But by the time that the sequestrators entered upon their work the 
 Teesside estates had passed out of his hands. For in 1633, Frances his wife 
 died, and her share in the Hurworth, Neasham, etc., property devolved upon 
 their eldest son Thomas, who compounded as above. He remained a widower 
 six years and then married Mary, dau. of Roger Croft, of Catterick, near 
 Richmond, Yorkshire. It was, therefore, for his ancestral home in Westmorland 
 and the new home at Catterick that ' Barnaby ' compounded. His case appears 
 in the Cal. iii. 1888, and at greater length in the York'<hire Royalist Co/npo-iitioii. 
 Papers, ii. 196. Briefly put, his delinquency was that he took up arms against 
 the Parlt. , but upon the Hrst advance of the Parltj'. forces into Westmorland 
 he submitted and took the Covenant. His estate : a life interest, witli 
 remainders to his wife, sons, and wife's right heirs, in the manor of Catterick, 
 Y.V., 120/. ; a life interest, with remainders to sons and the right heirs of his 
 father, in the manor of East Apleton, Y.V. 180/. ; a like estate of the manor of 
 Burneshead and other lands in co. Westmorland, Y.V. 188/. 6.s. 8'/. Out of 
 which he craves allowance 4/. Is. 4d. for a chief rent ; 2,500/. which he is 
 indebted ; 500/. which he is indebted ; 40'. annuity to Robt. Braitiiwaite his 
 half-brother. 1649, Apr. 10, fine, at a sixth, 1,150/. 12.s. M. 1649-50, Mar. 4, 
 fine paid and estate discharged.
 
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 his moiety, 10/. The jDremises are in the several parishes of Danesdale 
 and Hurworth. Also a moiety of Hayndon farm, par. Cockfield, and 
 several parcels of land, Y.V., IQl. lis. 7d., his moiety, 8/. 5s. 9^d. 
 As a reprise there is due to Chris. Byerly and his heirs a rent-charge 
 of 40/. p. ann. issuing out of premises in Hurworth, solely belonging 
 to Braithwaite, for by deed dated Aug. 21, 1619, Jas. Lawson, father 
 of Frances, compounder's mother, for 100/., granted to Wm. Graunt 
 an annuity of iO/. out of the manor of, and all other his lands in, 
 Hurworth, redeemable on payment of 400/., and Byerly deposes that 
 said annuity was paid to him, as Graunt's administrator about ten 
 years since, but not later, and that he obtained judgment in Easter, 
 1652, and still claims the same and arrears. Braithwaite claims 
 allowance of a judgment of 500/. to Edwd. Bi'iscoe, also one of 
 160/. recovered against him by John Hutton, in 1653, upon a bond 
 dated 1649 : but Hutton deposes that the debt was due in 1641, 
 for which he sued compounder to an outlawry in 1642 before he 
 could get any bond. 
 
 1653. Aug. 4. Fine fixed at two-sixths, 793/. 7s. '2d. 
 
 1653. Sept. 22. Fine paid and estate discharged. 
 
 1654. Aug. 2. The C.C. complain to the Cou. Com. that the 
 estate was returned as worth 240/., and the fine so set, but the 
 surveyors returned it at 198/. 8s. only, and the surveyors' salaries 
 have been stopped till they account for the under value. 
 
 1654. Aug. 8. The Cou. Com. explain : Certain lands in 
 Neasham Abbey, Hungerhill, Hurworth and Hinedon, were in the 
 joint possession of Thos. Braithwaite, recusant delinquent, and Wm. 
 Jennison, recusant, in right of two co-heirs. Braithwaite's moiety 
 and two-thirds of the moiety of Jennison were sequestered, the 
 third part of his moiety being in specie, and the estate let as 
 follows : — The moiety and two-thirds of the other moiety of land 
 in Neasham Abbey for 140/. 5s. ; Hungerhill, 50/. ; Hui'worth, 195/. ; 
 Hinedon, 16/. Total, 401/. 5s., Y.A^ The estate of Braithwaite 
 is 240/. 15s., of Jennison 160/. 10s., so there is only allowed to Braith- 
 waite a fifth of 240/. 15s. And as to the estate in Hurworth (the 
 only one named in C.C. order) the moiety of Braithwaite and 
 two-thirds of the moiety of Jennison is let for 195/. and if the 
 recusant's sixth be added it amoimts to 234/., so that the moiety is 
 116/. of that particular. 
 
 CHARLES BRANDLING OF ALNWICK ABBEY.* 
 
 (Cal. '%. -p. 202 ; Up. 1401.) 
 
 1646. July 23. Chas. Brandling of Alnwick Abbey, co. Northd., 
 petitions the C.C, showing that he left his own house upon the 
 
 * A comparatively quiet member of a ' pushful ' and enterprising family 
 whose doughty deeds adorn and enliven the pages of local history. Col. Chas. 
 Brandling, whose delinquency is herein disclosed, had but recently inherited
 
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 coming of the Scots into England and went into the King's garrison, 
 and there took up arms, and was in Newark during the siege and 
 at its surrender, and is comprised in the Articles thereupon agreed. 
 Has since taken the National Covenant and the Negative Oath, and 
 lived in the Parlt.'s quarters. B'egs to be admitted to a reasonable 
 composition. Particular of his estate: — Is seised. as heir male to 
 Sir Fran. Brandling, his father, who was tenant in tail of the manor 
 and site of the Abbey of Alnwick, and of a tenement in Broxfield, 
 Y.V., 250/. ; a like estate of a parcel of land called the Nunmore, 
 near Newcastle, Y.V., 30/. ; a like estate in Newcastle of several 
 out-rents, house-rents, and little closes thereto belonging, formerly 
 worth 6/. 13?. id., but now, many of them being pulled down and 
 burned by the late wars, are of little or no value ; a right to certain 
 lands near Alnwick and in Hadston, of which he has never had 
 possession, and so does not know their value, but desires a saving 
 to compound when he shall recover the same. 
 
 1649. Keport to the C.C. that his estate comprises the following 
 properties: — In fee, Alnwick Abbey demesnes, Heckley Grange and 
 Hefford-lawe, Y.Y. heretofore, 240/. ; two water corn mills belong- 
 ing, Y.V., 20/. ; a farm in Brockenfield, Y.V., 10/. ; the small tithes 
 and Easter Book of Alnwick parish, Y.V.B.W., 40/. ; the moiety of 
 tithe corn of Longhoughton, 30/. ; the tithes of Alnwick Park and 
 Hull [Hulne] Park^ 10/. ; the Nun Moor, near Newcastle, Y.V., 40/. : 
 the Maudland [Magdalen] Deane* near Newcastle, one acre of land 
 in Gesmond grounds, where one wind mill stood, and one wind mill 
 and two water corn mills in Maudland Deane, but all demolished by 
 the armies, Y.Y., 6/. 13s. id. ; some house-rents and several out- 
 rents of houses in Newcastle, Y.V., 10/. He is allowed, to his grand- 
 father's wifef in lieu of her jointure, yearly for life, issuing out of 
 Alnwick Al)bey, 80/. ; fee-farm rents due to the late King out of 
 said lands, Y.Y., 54/. 
 
 Fine at a sixth, 898/. 
 
 1651. June 18. He petitions the C.C. for inquiry. The Cou. 
 
 the Alnwick Abbey estate through the death of his father, Sir Francis (o/a Aug. 
 28, 1641), when the sequestrating process began. According to Surtees he 
 married Anne, dau. of Ralpli Pudsey of Plessy, co. Northd., but Hodgson, 
 writing later, corrects this statement, and describes the wife as Anne, dau. of 
 Robt. "\Viddrington of Plessy, whose widow Ralph Pudsey married, becoming 
 thereby the father-in-law, and not the father of the lady. The compounding 
 papers, herein epitomised, show that Hodgson was right. After Chas. Brand- 
 ling's death his widow married Sir Richd. Neile, knt., grandson of Archbishop 
 Neile, of whose gallantries Surtees, in notes to the life of the Arciibishop, gives 
 some amusing examples. Cf- Surtees, flift. Dnrltam, ii. 8, 90, 93 ; Hodgson, 
 Hist. Northd. pt. ii. vol. ii. 298 ; Tate, Hist. Alnwick, ii. 36-38 ; and J. 
 Crawford Hodgson in the new Hist. Northd. v. 413. 
 
 * A deed relating to this property is published in the ProceeAlngs of tht 
 Newcastle Society of Antiquaries, viii. 257. 
 
 t Mary, dau. of Thos. , Baron of Hilton, co. Durham, second wife of Robt. 
 Brandling, 'heir of the Felling.'
 
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 Com., in Feb. last, sequestered lands called the Morehouse, Shotton 
 Edge, etc., which are descended to Anne Widdrington his wife, but 
 for what cause he does not know. 
 
 1653. Dec. 19. Reading reports that Robt. Widdrington of 
 Plessy, by indenture dated May 10, 1630, granted to Jas. Whitehead 
 of Welbeck, Notts., for 120/., the farm called Fawden Edge (now 
 commonly called Shotton Edge), in the occupation of John Win- 
 chester on a 60 years' or life lease, at a yearly rent of IcZ. Petitioner 
 let the farm to Jas. Ingleby, gent., for 60 years at 121. p. ann., which 
 rent was paid until the premises were sequestered for the recvisancy 
 of Anne Brandling, whose estate is entered in the Contract Books 
 of the Cou. Com. as let as follows : — Two parts of the land in 
 Shotton Edge and Bridghouse to Geo. Marshall for six years from 
 Michaelmas last at 73/. 6s. 8d. yearly ; Plessey corn mill and colliery 
 to Humphrey Bell for five years, at 23/. 6s. 8^^. yearly ; Plessey 
 Newhouses to Wm. Gale for one year at 52/. Total, 148/. 13s. id. 
 
 1654. May 4. Brandling acknowledging Whitehead's right, the 
 sequestz'ation is discharged with arrears from date of petition.* 
 
 1654. June 20. Mr. Reading reports that by indenture, May 29, 
 1641, Robt. Widdrington of Plessy, esq., agrees with Ralph Pudsey 
 of Stapleton, co. York, esq., and John Richardson of Durham, gent., 
 that he will stand seised of all his manors, lands, etc., in Plessey, 
 Newhouse, Brighouse, Shotten and Shotten Edge, co. Northd., 
 amongst other lands in co. Durham, to his own use for life and then to 
 the use of Anne Widring^on, his daughter, and her heirs for ever, pro- 
 vided that if the said Robt. should have any heir male of his body 
 after the date of the said indenture all the said premises shall 
 remain to such son ; that the said Robt. Widdrington died with- 
 out such issue in May, 1641, at York, and was buried there ; that 
 the said Anne is below the age of 23 years and has been married 
 to Chas. Brandling, about 3 years, that in Feb., 1646, the Cou. Com. 
 found that the said Anne had a good title to all but what is in her 
 mother's jointure (which is sequestered for the delinquency of Pudsey, 
 her father-in-law) and sequestration as to her ought to be discharged, 
 but care should be taken for her education as she was but thirteen 
 years of age and her mother a papist; that on June 24, 1646, the 
 Cou. Com. allowed her title in the said lands and ordered the 
 sequestration to cease and any issues of such lands since May 2 
 last to be paid to her; that the C.C, Nov. 10, 1647, on the petition 
 of Mrs. Ann Widdrington ordered the sequestration to cease and 
 restitution to be made, unless just cause be found to the contrary 
 within one month ; that the Cou. Com. have certified that two parts 
 of the said estate are still under sequestration, and are set by them 
 
 * In the Northd. Rentals, 1633, Chas. Brandling is rated for the following 
 estate: Newhouses, 144/. ; Bridgehouse, 20/.; Shotton, 135/.; Plessy, 20/.; 
 Plessy Mill, 10/. : Brockstield, 10/. ; Abbey Demesne and Heckley, 250/. ; Low 
 Highlaws, 60/. ; Alnwick oorn tithes and mill [blank] ; Bilton tithe [blank] ; 
 Lesbury corn tithe, 80/. ; Denwick tithe, 20/. ; Hawkwell tithe [blank] ; Long 
 Houghton h tithe, 40/. ; Shilbottle tithe [blank].
 
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 •-at 157^. p. ann. ; that Elizth. Pudsey, sworn befoi'e the Cou. Com. 
 May 3, 1654, deposed that Anne Brandling, now wife of Chas. 
 Brandling, is her daughter by deponent's former husband, Robt. 
 Widdrington, deceased, and that the said Ann was married in Jan., 
 1650, and was then aged about eighteen years ; that Chas. Brandling 
 deposes that he has not released or set over his interest in said 
 lands; that auditor Thos. Brown certifies, Apr. 25, 1654, that in 
 the Cou. Com. accounts, July 6, 1653, said lands are mentioned to 
 be sequestered for the recusancy of the said Anne and let to several 
 persons, etc., that Mr. Thos. Fowles certifies that in the books of 
 •convicted recusants he does not find any Chas. Brandling or Anne 
 -Brandling, or Anne Withrington of co. Northd. 
 
 1654. June 22. Confirmation of order of discharge of Feb. 4, 
 1646, further confirmed Nov. 10, 1647. But as regards the seques- 
 tration in 1648 the Cou. Com. are to certify within a month whether 
 such sequestration was made on account of Anne Widdrington going 
 to mass, between the time of the said order in 1647 and the time 
 ■of her marriage, or for any other cause. Meanwhile the rents are 
 to remain as they are. 
 
 1654. Sept. 12. The Cou. Com. report that they cannot find 
 anything touching her going to mass. — Sequestration to be absolutely 
 discharged and all arrears allowed. 
 
 1654, Nov. 21. Wm. Pitt of Hartley Wespall, Hants., begs the 
 rents, etc., during sequestration of two-thirds of Chas. Brandling's 
 estate, on^ which he had an extent in 1652 for a debt of 4,0007. 
 — Case dismissed.* 
 
 WILLIAM BRASS OF BRAFFERTON.t 
 
 (Cal. iv. p. 2714.) 
 1651. Mar. 7. Wm. Brass of Brafferton, co. Durham, petitions 
 ■that having been lately adjudged a delinquent he may be admitted 
 
 * 1674, Feb. 21 . Indenture tripartite. ( 1 ) Richd. Neile of Durliani, Anne his 
 wife and John Morland of Durham ; (2) Robt. Brandling of Alnwick ; (3) 
 Edwd. Widdrington of Felton, John Tempest of Old Durham, 'I'hos. Selby of 
 Biddleston, and Thos. Featherstonehaugh of Stanhope. Neile and wife and 
 Morland agree to levy, at Easter term, to Robt. Brandling, one or more tines, 
 etc., of certain messuages, lands, etc., in Shotton, in the occupation of EUinor 
 Mitford, widow, Fen wick Midleton, gent., Isabel Hall, widow, and Thos. 
 Humble ; also messuages, 3 gardens, 100 aci-es land, 100 do. meadow, 200 do. 
 pasture, 400 do. heath and moor, at Shotton Edge : said Hobt. Brandling as 
 cognisance to the fine to be seised of the premises to use of Widdrington, 
 Tempest, Selby and Featherstonehaugh for 99 years (if Ralph and Chas. Brand- 
 ling, his brothers, shall so long live) to pay said Ralj))! and Ciias. yearly, ' in 
 the church porch of St. Nicholas ', 30/. each. Further covenants in case of death 
 of Anne Neile, mother of said Ralph and Chas., etc. ifS. Ihcd with the editor. 
 t A well-to-do grazier, ])robably one of a family, long settled at Flass and 
 Broome, in co. Durham, whose descendants spread themselves over various 
 parts of the l)ishopric. The name of Brass in Durham history suggests a 
 tragedy and a triumph. Tragedy in the murder near Ferryhill (Jan., 1683), of
 
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 to a reasonable composition. Particular of his estate: — In fee, a 
 messuage, with lands belonging thereto, in Brafferton, par. of 
 Aycliffe, Y.Y.B.W., 50/. ; in fee, as his inheritance, a chief rent out 
 of lands in Bransijeth, 6/. 13s. od. yearly, and after six years the 
 inheritance of said lands, V.B.W. above the chief rent paid to the 
 State, 53/. ; for the life of his wife only, a messuage and several 
 small cottages, with lands belonging, in St. Andrew Auckland, 
 Escomb, and Newtoncapp, Y.V.B.W., 43/. 3s. id. ; goods and house- 
 hold stuff of all sorts, 60/. 8s. lOd. Owung, by bond from Sir Thos. 
 Tempest, and Thos. Swinburne, esq., 360/. ; by bond from Wm. Todd 
 and Wm. Key, 25/. Debts from others which are very desperate, 
 viz., from John Thompson and Robt. Baker, 167/. 13s. id.; Thos. 
 Thompson, 51/.; John AYilson, 80/.; Geo. and Anthony Sedgwick, 
 25/. ; Robt. Johnson and John Craddocke, 3/. 6s. 6d. ; Wm. Boomer' 
 and others, 330/. Debts owing by compounder: — To Capt. Thos. 
 Lilburne, by bond, 50/. ; 'Mr. Luke Wastall, by bond, 50/. ; a legacy 
 charged on him by his father, Thos. Richardson's will, 400/. ; to- 
 Jas. Pennyman, esq., and Sir Jas. Pennyman, 750/. 
 
 Fine at a sixth, 314/. 5s. M. [Endorsed — Paid, Mar. 19, 1651,. 
 157/. in part.] 
 
 THOMAS BRIGNELL OF LAMBTON.* 
 
 (Gal. Hi. p. 2077.) 
 
 1649. June 8. Petitioner, a yeoman at Lambton, co. Durham,, 
 conceives he may be liable to sequestration for something said or 
 done by him in the late war, and not being at all sequestered or 
 judicially impeached and not having been engaged in the later war, 
 petitions to be admitted to a reasonable comjjosition. His estate : — 
 A copyhold of inheritance, after six years, in Wickham, now in 
 possession of Jane Wilson for six years, Y.V., 2/. 10s. ; horses, 
 beasts, household stuff and implements of husbandry, value 40/. 
 Owes by bond and otherwise, 30/. 
 
 Fine, on his own discovery, 4/. 10s. 
 
 the three children of John and Margt. Brass by And. Mills, a weak-minded 
 servant of the family ; triumph in the courageous ccndiict of Brass Crosby, 
 Lord Mayor of London, who, in 1771, setting at defiance the whole power of 
 Government, secured the freedom of publishing Parity, debates. Crosby's 
 mother was Mary, dau. and co-heiress of John Brass of Blackballs, par. of 
 Hesilden ; his father, Hercules Crosby, was a biu'gess of Stockton. See an 
 order of the Court of Exchequer, Dec. 20, 1G58, ante, p. 7-1. 
 
 * Apparently one of the family, if not the founder, of the Brignells of 
 Gelleslield, in the parish of Whickham. 1656, June 9. Fran. Wetwang of 
 Newcastle, draper, and Geo. Hodgson of same place, assign to Thos. Brignell 
 of Whickham, gent., 4 acres of land in the south field of Whickham, with coals 
 under, liberty to sink pits, way leave, water courses, etc. 1 663-64. Margery 
 Atkinson of Newcastle, widow (dau. of John Stephenson of Blaydon, yeo., 
 deed.), and Jas. Shafto, jun. (son and heir of Jas. Shafto and Isabel his wife, 
 another dau. of John Stephenson), convey to Thos. Brignell of Whickham, 
 gent., 2 cottages and 1 acre of land there, now in his occupation. From 
 MS. Dcexh with the editor. Will, dated Oct. 20, 1685, of Thos. Brignell of 
 Gellesfield, gent., quoted by Sartees, Ilisf. Diirhdin, ii- 251.
 
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 JOHN BUCK OF SADBERGE. 
 
 1645. John Buck of Sadberge, co. Durham, gent., compounds 
 ■with Sir Hen. Vane and his colleagues. — Fine, 100/. 
 
 1651. Nov. 21. Petitions Parlt. for pardon of offences com- 
 mitted prior to the date of compounding. — Granted. 
 
 THOMAS BULLOCK OF WHITWELL HOUSE.* 
 
 1645. Thos. Bullock of Whitwell House, co. Durham, com- 
 pounds as above. — Fine, 100/. Petitions Parlt. also, as above, and 
 obtains pardon. 
 
 ANTHONY BULMER OF HIGH EMBLETON.f 
 
 (Cal. iv. p. 3000.) 
 
 1645. Jan. 29. Sequestration of the goods of Anthony Buhner 
 ordered at Durham by Sir Wm. Armyne and his colleagues. 
 
 1652. Nov. 18. The estate of Anthony Bulmer of Ketton, 
 appears in the third Act for Sale. 
 
 1653. Sept. 23. Discharge from sequestration of High Elmeden 
 mansion house, co. Durham, bought from the Treason Trustees by 
 Gilbert Crouch. 
 
 1654. Mar. 16. Like discharge of a rent-charge upon Ketton 
 lordship, Durham. 
 
 * Thos. Bullock of Whitwell House, in the par. of St. Oswald's, Durham, 
 was Registrar to the Dean and Chapter. He obtained Whitwell through his 
 marriage with Anne, dau. and co-heir of Edwd. Blakiston of that place. 
 
 + Second son of Sir Bertram Bulmer of Tursdalc, knt. , by Isabel, dau. of 
 Sir Nich. Tempest of Stella, bart. He married a lady named Wild, of Ketton, 
 and is entered as of that place in the third Act for Sale. His father, Sir 
 Bertram, lived in great splendour in the reign of King James, and dissipated 
 the greater part of his paternal inheritance. He spent much of his time at 
 Court and would then be exactly the character described in the excellent 
 old song : — 
 
 ' W^ith new titles bought with his father's old gold. 
 For which many of his father's old manors were sold. 
 
 Like a new courtier of tlie King's, and the King's new courtier.' 
 
 After liis fortunes were broken Sir Bertram led a troop, whicli he raised himself 
 in the Low Counti'y wars, where his men on one occasion deserted him, and lie 
 was taken prisoner by the Spaniards. He afterwards returned to Durham, 
 and d3nng in the parish of St. Oswald in 16.S8 was buried there. Wm. 
 Bulmer, his eldest son, accjuired a considerable property by marriage witli 
 Dorothy, heiress of Sayer of Morwick, a village near Reeth, in Yorkshire ; but 
 several branches of the faiiiil}- were; reduced soon after Sir Bertram's death 
 to very \n\v conditions in life. In 16r)4, Win. Bulmer of Morwick, Dorothy his 
 wife, and Wm. and Anthony Bulmer, two of their younger sons, granted a 
 third part of the manor of Silksworth for 860/. to Antiiony Watson of 
 Throston. A pedigree and notes of the famih' (from which tlie ])receding lines 
 are extracted) appear in Surtees, Ilisl. Durham, i. "i^, 241, and iii. o^.
 
 138 
 
 WILLIAM BULMER, JUN., OF SILKSWORTH. 
 
 (Col. iv. p. 2393.) 
 
 1650. July 2. Order given by the C.C. to seize the estate of 
 Wm. Bulmer the younger, of Silksworth, co. Durham, and retain 
 it till further order. 
 
 1650. Nov. 13. Lady Troath Tempest, widow and executrix of 
 Sir Thos. Tempest of Stella, petitions that in 11 Chas., Wm. Bulmer 
 and Dorothy his wife demised to Sir Thos. and the late Sir Wm. 
 Lambton, bart., lead mines in Marrick, co. York, for twenty-one years 
 at 12d. rent, in payment of 4,938?. debts, but the premises being 
 sequestrated she petitioned, and in 1645 the sequestration was dis- 
 charged and she enjoyed them, till of late she is disturbed by the 
 Cou. Com. 
 
 1651. May 8. Order that as Wm. Bulmer compounded with 
 the late King as a recusant in 1632, long before the making of the 
 lease, the deed can only be allowed as to a third, and that Lady 
 Tempest answer in a week whether she will be tenant to two-thirds 
 of the estate at 1,000Z. p. ann. 
 
 1651. Jime 5. Order that the deed be allowed, that Lady 
 Tempest depose in six weeks to her profits and expenses, and that 
 Bulmer's debts at the time of making the deed be proved. 
 
 1651. Aug. 8. Being prepared to jjrove the debts Lady Tempest 
 begs a commission to the Cou. Com. to examine her witnesses. — 
 Granted. 
 
 1652. Sept. 6. Wm. Bulmer himself petitions that his Silksworth 
 estate, being sequestered for recusancy, he may have a third thereof 
 set forth in kind according to the several ordinances of Parlt. 
 
 1654. Jan. 18. Begs to contract for two-thirds of his estate 
 according to the particular annexed [missing] and to the Act of 
 Oct. 21, 1653.— No order. 
 
 ADAM BURDON OF [BLANK], COUNTY DURHAM. 
 
 1645. Adam Burdon compounds with Sir Hen. Vane and his 
 fellow commissioners. — ^Fine, 40?. 
 
 1651. Nov. 21. He petitions Parlt. for pardon of offences com- 
 mitted prior to composition. — Granted. 
 
 WILLIAM BURNUP OF HEXHAM. 
 
 (Col. iv. p. 3012.) 
 
 1652. June 18. Wm. Burnup petitions, showing that two parts 
 of his estate at Hexham, called Windmill Stubb, otherwise Taylor's 
 Cloase, or Broad Cloase, are sequestered for his recusancy only, yet 
 the Cou. Com. have not allowed him his third part. Humbly desires
 
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 an order that he may peaceably enjoy his third in kind of the 
 premises. Same date the Cou. Com. certify that two parts of his 
 • estate are sequestered, and that Thos. Addison has been admitted 
 tenant for 5 years at 6Z. 10s. p. anu. — Ordered that the third be 
 granted if for recusancy only, but if for delinquency only a fifth. 
 
 1654. Feb. 17. John Plumpton of Grenecroft, co. Durham, gent., 
 aged about 48, deposes that he was present when Jane, wife of Wm. 
 Burnup, last summer, delivered to Mr. Shafto, Mr. Horsley and Mr. 
 John Ogle, Northd. commissioners, the order of the C.C. dated June 
 18, 1652. They then acknowledged that the sequestration was for 
 recusancy only, but refused to give him the third part, alleging that 
 they had already demised it to another. 
 
 1654. Feb. 24. The C.C. direct their order to be enforced, and 
 the Cou. Com. to obey without putting petitioner to further trouble. 
 
 JOHN BUTTERY OF NESBIT.* 
 
 (Col. i. p. 203.) 
 
 1649. John Buttery of Nesbit, co. Durham, having adhered to 
 the enemy in the last war, desires to compound. His estate : — 
 Certain tenements and lands in fee in Nesbit, Y.y., 90/., out of which 
 he is to pay his brother Jas. for his portion, 200Z. (A judgment 
 of 90/. being fully proved he was abated for that 15/.) He is also 
 to pay out of said lands to two sisters, 200/. (Not allowed.) Like- 
 wise his mother is to have a third of the said lands for life. 
 
 Fine at a sixth, 165/. 
 
 CHRISTOPHER BYERLEY OF MIDDRIDGE GRANGE. f 
 
 (Cal. n. p. 875.) 
 
 1644. Dec. 12. Information against Xtopher Bierlawe, or 
 Byerley, of Middridge Grange, co. Durham : — (1) That he was a 
 
 * The Butterys were landholders in Monk Heselden, co. Durham. In 
 July, 1602, John Welbury granted the manor of Nesbit, lying on the S.W. 
 brink of Heseldon Dene to .John Buttery, from whom, in 1018, it descended to 
 Ralph his son and heir. James, son and heir of Ralph, had administration for 
 his own use and that of his sisters, Eleanor and Alice. The com pounder was 
 probably a son of James, but there is no pedigree of tlie family, and tlic descents 
 are not traceable. Surtees {//^s■^ Durham, i. 6.3), gives the facts here quoted, 
 and in a footnote indicates, from the Registers of St. Mary-le-Bo\v, Durliam, 
 the descent, in another form, of one meml)er of the family — ' May 22, 1700, 
 Thos. Buttery, gent., a poor inhabitant, buried.' 
 
 t Eldest son of Anthony Bj^erley of Peckhall in Riclnnondshire, by Anne, 
 dau. of John Talbot of Thornton-in-the-Strcet, co. ^'ork, He married Jane, 
 dan. of Wm. St. Andrew of Gotham, Notts., and widow of Thos. Wildbore of 
 Knottingley, by whom he had Anthony (a colonel under the Karl of Newcastle) 
 «,nd Robt., twins, and other issue. Antliony's son Robt. was M.P. for Durham, 
 .and afterwards of Knaresl)orough, in several Parlts.
 
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 committee man and frequently sat, especially on Jan. 9 last, wheni 
 it was agreed that horses and arms should be provided for the • 
 Earl of Newcastle's army, and the Close of Durham fortified. (2) ■ 
 That he voluntarily lent the King 10/. about July, 1642. (3) That 
 he furnished Anthony,* his son, and divers servants with horses, . 
 money and arms about July, 1642, who were in actual service 
 against the Parlt. (4) That Anthony, being unmarried, and living 
 with his father, Avas made colonel about Jan. 1644, by my lord of 
 Newcastle's commission, and having raised his regiment with no 
 means but from his father, was in actual service at York during 
 the siege there. (5) That, as the Parlt. commissioners at Sunderland 
 were informed. Sir Thos. Riddell, Sir Wm. Widdrington, and Wm. 
 Davenant, received l,bOOl. of Mr. Byerley for the maintenance of" 
 the war. (6) Tliat he was foreman of the grand jury when an 
 indictment, put in by Sir Thos. Tempest, and others, was found 
 against John Smart, declaring him to be a rebel and traitor for 
 adhering to the Parlt. The committee desire to be satisfied (7) as to ■ 
 what advice he gave his son when he took leave of him and entered 
 upon the charge of his regiment ; also (8) as to money demanded 
 of Mr. Bierlawe by Sir Wm. Widdrington. 
 
 His answers: — (1) That he was not appointed committee man 
 by the Earl of Newcastle, but named amongst others at public meet- 
 ings, nor was privy to the purchase of horses and arms, nor did 
 frequently attend the meetings. (2) Ttat he lent the King 10^. 
 about July, 1642. (3) He did not furnish his son Anthony with 
 horses, money and arms. (4) His son lived with him and was made 
 colonel by Sir Thos. Glenham in Jan. 1644 (as he thinks); he main- 
 tains his son, but has never helped him in raising any force. (5) 
 He paid Sir Thos. Riddell, who detained him in prison, 3001. for 
 his liberty, and Wm. Davenant 250/. for a like reason, but paid 
 nothing to Sir Wm. Widdrington. (6) Was on the grand jury, but 
 does not remember the substance of the indictment against John 
 Smart. (7) After his blessing given to his son, he willed him to 
 behave himself as became a man. (8) Sir Wm. Widdringtoa 
 demanded 500/. of him, but none was paid. 
 
 [Undated.] Petition from Chris. Byerley to the C.C. shewing 
 that for some delinquency conceived to be committed against Parlt., 
 his personal estate, worth about 300/., was sequestered by the Cou. 
 Com., with half of his yearly revenue, about 400/. On the advent 
 of the Pai'lt. army he was imprisoned by Sir Wm. Widdrington as 
 being a friend to the Scots' army, and on the retreat of the King's 
 forces he escaped and returned to his home. Afterwards upon 
 supposition of some delinquency he was imprisoned and paid to 
 
 * The loyal Col. Anthony Byerley, who commanded a regiment m the 
 service of Chas. I., garrisoned his house at Midridge for the King, and his 
 troops were long remembered in popular tradition as Byerley 's bulldogs. 
 Richie}', Hist. Bp. A iirkhiud, p. 89. Pedigree of the family in Surtees, Ili'it. 
 Diirltam, iii. 313.
 
 Ul 
 
 ■Sir Wm. Armyne 200/. for his release. Being aged- about SO years, 
 and willing to jDrovide for his children, desires to be admitted to 
 composition. He has already paid, or had taken from him, 800Z. 
 
 ; Signed by Robt. Byerley on behalf of his father and elder brother 
 
 -Anthony. Particular of his estate: — Midridge Grange lease, 350Z. _; 
 Newbigen, 12Z. ; Shildon tithes, 5Z. ; a moiety of St. Andrew Auk- 
 land tithes, 160/. ; Morton, 100/. ; Newtown, lease of the bishop, 
 60/. ; Carlebury, an estate for life of John Jenyson, sen., 150/. ; 
 Walworth, an estate for life of Jenyson, sen., 450/. ; Heworth, a rent- 
 charge, 22/. ; Midridge tithes, 3 years only to expire, 30/. In York- 
 shire, Pickall, 200/. ; Smeate, 350/. ; Threakeston and Burneston, 
 with tithes and lands adjoining, 120/. Total, 1,848/. 
 
 1645. Charge against Col. Anthony Byerley : — Since his return 
 from York, when it was taken, he has kept himself out of sight, 
 notwithstanding that he obtained. protection from the Earl of Leven 
 and Lord Fairfax, and never would come in to take the covenant. 
 He has been with the enemy divers times and is believed to be in 
 their actual service. Two attempts have been made to apprehend 
 him, but he has escaped out of his father's house. 
 
 1645. July. Tlie Cou. Com. report that Chris. Byerley was a 
 great money man and transacted his business without broker or 
 
 : scrivener, so that his bonds and mortgages are concealed. They are 
 informed that he had additional estates, viz., Morton Tynmouth, 
 Y.V., 16/.; Thorpe Bulmer, Y.V., 90/.; Lough gi'ounds, Y.V., 26/., 
 but by a certificate of Anthony Byerley this is denied. 
 
 1645. Nov. 19. Chris. Byerley appeals for favour, pleading 
 sufferings and imprisonment, and good affection towards Parlt. 
 
 1645. Nov. 25. Fine, 4,000/. But if Robt. Byerley make it 
 appear that 400/. a year of the land is bond fide his own, 800/. to 
 be abated. 
 
 1645. Dec. 2. The fine on Chris, and Anthony Byerley to be 
 4,560/., but if Robt. prove as above, 800/. to be abated. 
 
 1646. June 2. Robt. begs a review, the certificate of value by 
 Cou. Com. being signed by only three gentlemen of the co. of 
 Durham, and only one of them was of the Cou. Com. 
 
 1646. June 20. Certificate that Chris. Byerley took the 
 National Covenant and Negative Oath before the Cou. Com., Nov. 
 15, 1645; that Anthony took the National Covenant before Gilbert 
 Wildbore, minister of Heighington, Sept. 20, 1645. 
 
 Fine fixed at 4,261/. 
 
 1646. June 25. Deposition of Robt. Byerley that Walworth 
 and Carlebury were entailed in 1615, and that no fine or recovery 
 has been taken since that date. Hen. Heighington deposes that 
 John Jenyson, being seised of the manors of Walworth and Carle- 
 bury for life, with remainder to his heirs male, gi-anted to Chris. 
 Byerley, in the name of Robt. Byerley, his second son, all his rights, 
 etc., in said manors, for 3,000/. by indenture 14 Chas. wherein it 
 was covenanted that if John Jenyson's eldest son should, at full age,
 
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 join with his father in assuring the manor of Carleburj to Chris. 
 Byerley and his heirs, that then Chris. Byerley should release all 
 his right, etc., in Walworth to John Jenyson and his heirs. 
 
 1646. Nov. 26. Report to C.C. that the fine was eventually fixed 
 at 4,261/. to abate 1,300/. if Robt. Byerley would give up his interest 
 in certain rectories, but this he and his father and brother would 
 not condescend to. 
 
 1647. May 5. Chris. Byerley complains that on an allegation 
 of neglect in prosecuting his composition the Cou. Com. raised his 
 fine from a tenth to a sixth — making 6,300/., a sum he cannot pay. 
 — Ordered that on paying a half of 4,261/., and settling 200/. a 
 year on the ministry, for which he was allowed 2,000/. from hi& 
 fine, the case of the later fine be re-considered. 
 
 1649 (?) May 25. Sir Arth. Haslerigg begs the favour of the 
 committee for Chris. Byerley saddled with an additional fine because 
 the money was not paid in time. — May 29. Fine at 4,261/. to • 
 stand, it not appearing to the C.C. why it was raised and so, the 
 impropriation being settled, the sum to be paid is 2,261/. 
 
 1650. Sept. 6 [Cal. (C.A.M.) iii., 1,266]. Chris. Byerley, 
 Jas. Craddock, Robt. Eden, Gerard Salvin and Lindsey [Lindley] 
 Wren reported as having assisted the late King by acting as Com- 
 missioners of Array at Bp. Auckland and elsewhere. — Cou. Com. 
 to take examinations and return them. 
 
 1652. July 7. Anthony Byerley and Cuth. Carr* beg discharge 
 of their respective estates, the latter settling a third of the impro- 
 priation of St. Helen Auckland, the former that of St. Andrew 
 Auckland upon trustees for the ministry there. 
 
 1655. May 29. Discharged on the C.C. perusing the deed of 
 settlement. 
 
 THOMAS CALDWELL OF SUNDERLAND. 
 
 1645. Described as a yeoman, Thos. Caldwell of Sunderland 
 compounds with Sir Hen. Vane and the Cou. Com. — Fine, 5/. 
 
 1651. Nov. 21. Petitions Parlt. for pardon of offences com- 
 mitted before the date of compounding. — Granted. 
 
 ROGER CARLETON OF WOLSINGHAM. 
 
 1645. In like manner Roger Carlton, gent., of Wolsingham, 
 compounds with the local authority and pays a fine of 40/., but his 
 name does not appear among the petitioners to Parlt. for pardon. 
 
 * Cutli. Carr married for his second wife Byerley's second dau. Clare. 
 See his case further on.
 
 143 
 
 FRANCIS CARNABY OF TOGSTON.* 
 
 (Cal. in. V- 2040.) 
 
 1652. Nov. 2. The estate of Fran. Carnaby (a younger brother 
 of Sir Wm. Carnaby of Thernam), who was mortally wounded at the 
 battle of Naseby fighting for the King, appears in the third Act for 
 Sale. 
 
 1653. Jan. 21. Major Wm. Salkeld, nephew of Fran. Carnaby, 
 deceased, petitions the C.C. to be allowed to compound for a lease 
 of Togston, in co. Northd., under the following circumstances: — 
 By indenture tripartite, Apr. 1, 1640, between Sir Wm. Carnaby,t 
 knt., and Fran., his brother, of the first part, Richd. Carnaby, gent., 
 of the second part, and Anthony Allan, gent., of the third part, the 
 messuages, lands, etc., of Togston were, among other things, settled 
 by said Sir Wm. to use of said Fran, for twenty-one years to com- 
 mence from the death of said Fran. The said Fran, died in Oct, 
 1645, and petitioner, being his nephew by the sister's side, took out 
 letters of administration of his effects, but could not proceed to a 
 composition by reason the writings were not come to his hand, till 
 he procured them last term through a Chancery suit. As the estate 
 of Fran, is in the Act for Sale petitioner prays that he may com- 
 pound according to the rules appointed by Parlt. — No^ order recorded. 
 
 1655. Sept. 4. Discharge from sequestration of houses and 
 lands in Togston forfeited by Fran. Carnaby and bought from the 
 Treason Trustees by John Button. 
 
 JANE CARNABY OF THERNHAM.| 
 
 (Gal. Hi. p. 2040.) 
 1649. May 12. Jane, daughter and heir of Sir Wm. Carnaby 
 of Thernham, co. Northd., compounds by her guai-dian,§ Sir Thos. 
 
 * The division of Togston among Fran. Carnaby, Sir Wm. Fenwick and 
 three freeholders is recorded in the new Hisf. Northd. v. 3.32, where also 
 (p. 333), an affecting account of the death of Sir Fran. Carnaby is quoted, q.v. 
 
 t Sir Wm. Carnaby was chosen to represent Morpeth in the Parlts. of 1623 
 and 1640. On Aug. 26, 1642, he was disabled for refusing to attend tlie 
 service of the House upon summons, and for raising arms against the Parlt. 
 Sir Wm. fought at Marston Moor in the Northd. regiment ; his lands were 
 confiscated and he fled the country. The Carnabys seem never to have 
 recovered from this reverse. Bates, Border Holds, p. 320. 
 
 X Thernham, on the north bank of the Coquet, opposite Holystone, has 
 been wretchedly corrupted into Kernhain and Fairnham. Bates, Border Jloldf, 
 p. 18. Robt. Horsley, who died in 1445, resided in the tower of Thernham, 
 now called Farnham, in Coquctdale, which tower continued to belong to that 
 line of the Horsley family till their heiress carried it to the Carnabys of Halton 
 in the reign of Hen. VIII. Hodgson, Hint. Northd. pt. ii. vol. ii. p. 100 ; see 
 also the new Hist, Northd. v. 332-334. 
 
 § At the date of this petition Jane Carnaby was only ten years old. Slie 
 afterwards married, as second wife, Sir Thos. Haggerston of Haggerston, son, 
 as she was the dan., of a royalist who had maintained his loyalty on the 
 field of battle. In Hodgson, Hist. Northd., pb. iii. vol. i. p. 331, Mrs. Jane 
 Cainaby is rated, in 1663, for Togston at 66/. ; Hadston, 140/. ; Farnliam, 60/. ; 
 Lynbridge and Whiteside, "()/. ; Adon, a/lns Whittington (\)at Shcels, 80/.
 
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 Widdrington, for the estate and delinquency of her father, " who 
 assisted the forces raised against Parlt. in the first engagement. 
 He died in 1645, and since that time his estate has been under 
 sequestration. Particular of estate : — In fee a capital messuage with 
 lands, etc., in Farnham, Y.V.B.W., 30Z. ; lands and tenements in 
 Lian Briggs, with certain highland grounds on a place called Coquet 
 Head, within three miles of Scotland, Y.Y.B.W., 1201. ; lands and 
 tenements in Togsden in reversion after the end of a lease of twenty- 
 seven years yet to come granted to Fran., brother of Sir Wm. 
 Carnaby, but now in dispute between Mr. Sawkill [Salkeld], 
 administrator to said Fran. Carnaby, deceased, for which she prays 
 a saving to compound until the title be determined, Y.V.B.W., 30/. 
 A dispute is now pending between compounder and Sir Edwd. Ead- 
 cliffe for a corn mill and water mill at Haydon Brigg— the rents 
 whereof are sequestered as part of Sir Edwd.'s estate, for which she 
 prays a saving to compound when recovered, Y.V.B.W., 43/. 6s. Sd. 
 In fee a caj^ital messuage with lands, etc., in Hadstone, purchased 
 by her father of Sir Fran. Brandling, deceased, and now extended 
 as part of Lady Brandling's jointure by virtue of a statute entered 
 into by said Sir Fran, to Mr. Wm. Pitt, brother to Lady Brandling, 
 for securing 100/. p. ann. towards her jointure, Y.V.B.W., 142/. 
 
 1649. June 29. Fine at a third, 750/., but Sir Thos. Widdring- 
 ton is to report the case to Parlt. for mitigation of the fine. — July 16. 
 Case to be reported upon payment of a moiety of the fine. 
 
 1650. June 4. Fine, on the report, to be 1,490/. — July 12. On 
 motion in her behalf, former fine of 750/. confirmed. — Nov. 19. 
 Having had a saving as to lands in Togston, etc., and part of them 
 being extended by Pitts for a debt, and the other part by Sir 
 Edwd. Radcliffe, begs further time. — Order, as to the part for which 
 Jane is in suit, that saving be gi'anted till next term. 
 
 1654. Humphrey Shalcrosse,* scrivener, of London, begs 
 examination of his claim to or restoration of Hadstone lands secured 
 to him, 9 Chas., by Sir Fran. Brandling of Alnwick Abbey, knt., on 
 a statute staple, for a debt of 2,000/., at which time Sir Fran, was 
 seised in fee of said lands, but they are now under sequestration for 
 the delinquency of Sir Wm. Carnaby, knt., deceased, Avho bought 
 them of Sir Fran, after acknowledgment of the statute. Prays that, 
 as said statute nor any part of it is paid, the hands of the common- 
 wealth may be removed and that he may be put in possession till 
 the debt be satisfied. — Referred to Cou. Com. and Mr. Reading. 
 
 1655. Sept. 4. Discharge from sequestration of Togstone houses, 
 lands, etc., forfeited by Fran. Carnaby, and bought of the Treason 
 Trustees by John Button. 
 
 * ' Mr. Humph. Shailcrosse ' is entered in Hodgson, HmI. Northd. pt. ill. 
 vol. i. p. 325, as holding Newminster Abbey in 1663, for which he was rated 
 on 260;.
 
 145 
 
 RALPH CARNABY OF HALTON.* ' 
 
 (Gal. a p. 1012.) 
 1645. Nov. 29. Ralph Carnaby of Halton, co. Northd., being a 
 prisoner in Mulgrave Castle, petitions for his liberty in order that 
 he may compound for his delinquency in having been a colonel on 
 the King's side. Particular of his estate : — The demesne of Halton 
 and Aydon Castle, and messuages, lands and tenements at Great 
 Whittington, Clarewood, Halton Sheeles and Carrhouse, Y.V.B.W., 
 233?. Craves allowance of the following charges: — An annuity of 
 18/., payable out of Whittington to Mr. Burrell for life, 18/. ; 
 annuity of 12/. out of Clarewood for said Burrell's life, 12/. ; annuity 
 ■of 43/. out of Aydon, Carrhouse and Sheeles to Edwd. Carnaby, 
 his brother, for life, 43/. ; annuity of 40/. out of Halton demesnes 
 to the cottagers of Halton for the life of compounder, 40/. ; annuity 
 of 40/. to Mr. Butler, a counsellor, out of Halton demesne, 40/. ; 
 annuity of 20/. to old Mrs. Carnaby for her life out of Halton, 20/. 
 Total, 173/. 
 
 The tenants of Great 'Whittington present this note : — Great 
 Whittington, consisting of eighteen farms, Y.V., 18/. 17s. id. ; 
 Clarewood, eight farms, do., 12/. ; Halton Sheeles, six farms, do., 
 6/. ; Carrhouse, three farms, do., 4/. All these tenants hold thus for 
 Mr. Carnaby's life : — Aydon Castle, being a demesne, is of Y.V. 33/. ; 
 Halton demesne, do., 60/. 
 
 1646. July 9. Petition renewed and referred. — No order. 
 
 CUTHBERT CARR OF ST. HELEN AUCKLAND.! 
 
 (Gal. ii. p. 1179.) 
 1646. Apr. 15. Compounds for delinquency. Was captain of 
 foot for the King at Newcastle. Since its surrender has never borne 
 arms against Parlt. Has taken the National Covenant and the 
 Negative Oath. 
 
 * Ralph Carnaby of Halton, near Corbridge, son of Lancelot Carnaby of 
 that place, bj' Katherine, dau. of Sir Cuth. CoUingwood of Eslington, knt., 
 was thrice married ; (1) to Anne, third dau. of Sir Wm. Fenwick of Wallington, 
 (2) to Jane, dau. of — Burrell of Newcastle, (3) to EUinor, dau. of John Thomlinson 
 of Whitby, York, by each of whom he had issue. He was appointed by 
 the Hoiise of Commons, June 25, 1641, a commissioner to perfect accounts for 
 billet and other moneys due to co. Northd. from the Scots army. About 
 two years after the restoration of the monarchy he died and was buried at 
 St. Mary the Less, Durham, Feb. 10, 1662. Pedigrees of this ancient north- 
 country family appeai- in Foster, VUitafions of Northd., 1615 and 1(J66, 
 pp. 23, 24. 
 
 t One of the brave defenders of Newcastle during the siege in Oct., 1644. 
 At the beginning of the struggle he was sheriff of the town and as such signed 
 the defiant replies to Leslie's summons to surrender. Afterwards he was one 
 of the hostages sent to the Scottish camp while the contending parties vainly 
 endeavoured to arrange a treaty. During the storming of tlie town he was in 
 command at the Newgate, and for a time held iiis own against five Scottish 
 regiments. Biography of him in History of the Family of Car r, ii. 184-196. 
 
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 146 
 
 Particular of his lands as they were let before these wars : — 
 In fee, lands in the parish of St. Helen Awkland, Y.Y., 60/. ; a 
 reversion in fee after his mother's decease of lands in said parish, 
 Y.V., 62/. ; in fee, the moiety of the impropriation of St. Andrew 
 Auckland tithes, Y.Y., 160/. Mother, now living, has her thirds out 
 of the lands and the improi^riation. 
 
 1646. Aug. 28. Fine fixed at 67.3/. 
 
 1650. Mar. 10. Upon certificate from the Cou. Com. of his fair 
 dealing and moderation, it is ordered that upon settling a third of 
 his interest in the rectory of St. Helen Auckland, his fine of 673/. 
 be wholly remitted : Sir Arth. Haslerigg and Geo. Fenwick to be 
 trustees. — March 12. Suspension of sequestration granted him on 
 his bond to settle the sum on the rectory within six weeks after 
 Sir Arthur's return to the country.* 
 
 1647. May 16 [Cal. (C.A.M.) ii., 755]. Cuth. Carr assessed at 
 400/. 
 
 1650. Nov. 1 [ibid.'\. His assessment calculated at 140/. and on 
 payment of a half he is to be heard as to his debts. 
 
 1651. Jan. 15 [ihid.]. The Cou. Com. to examine whether the 
 debts are his own, and whether principal and not interest. 
 
 1651. Mar. 7 [ibid.]. Order, that having paid 70/., if he paj 60/. 
 more he have a full discharge. Amount paid [June 27] and assess- 
 ment discharged. 
 
 JOHN CARR OF LESBURY AND WEST DITCHBURN.f 
 
 (Cal. i. p. 202; ill p. 1715.) 
 
 1647. Mar. 25. John Carr (of Lesbury, near Alnwick, Northd., 
 gent.) sends a petition [missing] to the C.C. for leave to compound. 
 Report of sub-committee states that he was in arms against the 
 Parlt., that he hath taken the National Covenant and Negative Oath 
 before the Cou. Com. and rendered himself upon the reducing of 
 the city of York ; that he compounds upon a particular delivered in 
 under the hand of one Mathias Hunter in his behalf, by which it 
 appears that he is seised in fee of lands in West Ditchburn of the 
 Y.V.B.W. of 24/., for which his fine is 48/. ; that he is possessed of 
 the remainder of a term of five years to come of and in certain lands, 
 etc., in North Charlton, in said co., held of the Dean and Chap., 
 Durham, Y.Y.B.W., above rent reserved, 13/. 13s. id., for which his 
 fine at half a year is 6/. 6s. 8f/. Total fine, 54/. 65. 8d. 
 
 * See the case of Chris. Byerley, ante, p. 142. 
 
 t Son of John Carr of Lesbury and West Ditchburn, by Dorothy, dau. of 
 Hen. Collingwood of Great R3'le. He was a ward of Sir Wm. Widdrington, 
 through whose influence he took up arms on the king's side. There are a 
 pedigree of the family and details of their life at Lesbury, in the new Hist. 
 Northd. ii. 429 et seq.
 
 147 
 
 I 
 
 1647. July 22. Particular of estate submitted by petitioner: — 
 Land in West Ditchburn, p. ann., 20/., out of which he pays yearly 
 to the King a vicontial rent of 1/. 6.?. 8^. ; to Bamborough castle, 
 18s. ; and tO' the church of Eglingham, 10?. ; so that he never made 
 in the best of times of his lands in Ditchburn above 177. 5.s. id.; 
 lease of tithes in North Charlton held (three years unexpired) of the 
 Dean and Chap., Durham, Y.V., 16/., whereof he pays to said Dean 
 and Chap. 2/. 6.?. 8«^. p. ann. ; so his lands in fee simple are but 
 17/. 5.«. id. and his tithes for three years, 13/. 13s. id. 
 
 1647. Oct. 12. Fine at a sixth, 80/.* 
 
 1650. Dec. 17. Petitioner begs discharge of his rents again 
 seized, though he has compounded and paid his fine. — Referred to 
 Cou. Com. No further record. 
 
 RALPH AND FRANCIS CARR OF COCKEN.f 
 
 (Cal. iv. p. 2553.) 
 
 1650. Sept. 23. Letter from Fran. Wren and Thos. Delaval,^ 
 Cou. Com. for Durham : — We have sequestered the lands in 
 possession of Fran. Carr of Cocken in this co., gent., for the 
 delinquency of his elder brother, Ralph Carr, deceased, in arms 
 against the Parlt. in the first war who was heir to and in law (if 
 not actually) possessed of the said lands. Fran. Carr aforesaid has 
 this day appeared before us, desiring that sequestration may be 
 taken off ; he alleging that his said brother was only interested in 
 the said estate during his natural life and that he was a minor at the 
 time of his decease. And accordingly has produced a deed of entail 
 made between petitioner's grandfather, Wm. Carr, Wm. Blaxton and 
 Ralph Blaxton his son, dated Nov. 17, 1615. And we have examined 
 Fran. Middleton and Wm. Jurdon (tAvo of the witnesses to the said 
 deed) who, upon their oaths, have testified the sealing and delivery 
 thereof. 
 
 1651. Jan. 21. Fran. Carr petitions that his estate is seized by 
 the Cou. Com. on pretence that his brother, Ralph, was a delinquent 
 in his lifetime, and that it formerly l)elonged to him, whereas it was 
 long since settled on petitioner by his grandfather, and his brother 
 was never possessed of it, but died three years ago under age, and 
 was never sequestered. 
 
 1652. June 19. Claim allowed and estate discharged. 
 
 * On p. 202 of the Calendar his fine for West Ditchburn is entered as 
 Ml. Us. 
 
 f The lives and actions of t4^s^iMNW»«»^>^^«uiiuik^jiui«ki«^i)UaaM*«(»' north- 
 country families bearing the historic name of Carr, arc ensln-ined in the 
 volumes before quoted, entitled The HiMory of the Fami/i/ of Can; 3 vols, 
 folio. London : 1893-1899.
 
 148 
 
 ^ ROBERT CARR OF ETAL. 
 
 (Col. iv. p. 2964.) 
 
 1652. Feb. 27. In the matter of Robt. Carr (master of the 
 Samuel and Justina) of Newcastle and Etal, the Cou. Com. of 
 Northd. certify, on information against him before the Cou. Com. of 
 London, that he is a delinquent within the ordinance of 1643 ; that, 
 twelve months before, he had to fly Newcastle for his affection to 
 Parlt., but was sequestered and then his ship was sequestered. At 
 the same time all his estate in Newcastle was sequestered by Sir 
 John Marley, and his wife was kept close prisoner in her house ; 
 but she escaped to Sunderland to her husband, then employed by 
 Parlt. for relief of the Scottish army at Boldon Hills. After the 
 reducing of Newcastle, neither he nor his wife returned. He was 
 very active at Sunderland, at Boldon fight, and in regaining the 
 ships at Tynemouth Haven from the enemy .^ — -Same date, order in 
 the C.C. that Carr be discharged if there is no other matter against 
 him. 
 
 1653. June 24. Chas. Newton of Elswick, Northd., begs con- 
 firmation of a lease granted to him in 1652 by the Cou. Com, as the 
 highest bidder for New Etal, Berryhills, two water mills and all 
 tithes, etc., sequestered from Robt. Carr ; rent, 300?., taxes deducted. 
 — Same date. The Cou. Com. to certify whether let according to the 
 Act and instructions. 
 
 1654. June 1. Robt. Carr petitions that in Nov., 1652, his 
 estate was discharged from sequestration on composition and pay- 
 ment of fine, but Etal tithes were sequestered, for which he did 
 not compound, being in suit for them with Thos. Carr of Ford. 
 Is a Scot,* and within the Protector's late Act of Grace and Pardon 
 [for Scotland] by which sequestration was not to be continued after 
 May 1 last. Begs discharge of Etal tithes and the rest of his estate 
 accordingly. 
 
 Particular of his estate : — The lordship or manor of Etal, other- 
 wise Etal Berryhill ; the mills in Old and New Etal for life, the 
 remainder to his issue in tail and other uses expressed in his deed 
 of settlement, Y.V., 240/., out of which a rent of 48/. 6.s. 8c/. was pay- 
 
 * Some light is thrown upon this allegation by a petition to the C.C, dated 
 June 5, 1651, in which John Radclitfe and Susan his wife, relict of Wm. Carr, 
 and Thos. Carr, her son and heir, June 5, 1651, beg an order to the Cou. Com. 
 to examine Thos. Carr's title to the tithes of Etal, held till eleven years ago, 
 when Robt. Carr, a Scot, commander of the Scottish army in their then 
 expedition, finding Thos. Carr an infant, and his mother a widow, seized the 
 tithes, and in those troublous times none durst question him, till she married 
 Radcliffe, a commander for Parlt. When the case should have been tried, 
 Robt. Carr returned to Scotland and took up arms against the State, whereby . 
 the tithes are sequestered, and they deprived thei'eof. The C.C. ordered the 
 Cou. Com. to exanune the title, etc., and on Sept. 16, ordered on Radcliffe's 
 request that he have copies of the certificate and proofs, and that the case be 
 referred to Mr. Brereton.
 
 149 
 
 able to the late King ; a like estate of the corn tithes of Old and 
 New Etal, Y.Y.B.W., 50Z. ; the title to said tithes being now in suit 
 he craves a saving until it be known to whom they belong. There 
 is also a rent-charge of 16Z. yearly to his sister, in lieu of her 
 portion, being one of the uses in the deed of settlement mentioned. 
 Craves allowance also for 400/. due to the Earl of Suffolk upon a 
 statute which was part of the purchase money for the lands com- 
 pounded for and one of the uses in the deed; also for 130/. for pay- 
 ment whereof Berryhill is mortgaged ; also for 796/. due to several 
 persons upon judgments at law, as may appear by the records and 
 copies.* 
 
 165i. June 22. Order for discharge of the sequestration. 
 
 1655. Sept. 4. By his composition he was to have rents of Old 
 and New Etal for 1652 restored, but the Cou. Com. refusing this he 
 petitioned the Committee for Four Northern Counties for relief and 
 the fifth for wife and children, but their power being ended they 
 could not relieve him. Begs an order therefore. — Cou. Com. to certify. 
 
 ROBERT CARR OF NORTH BIDDICK. 
 
 1644. Sept. 3. The estate of Robt. Carr of North Biddick, co. 
 Durham, gent., sequestered by the Cou. Com. sitting at Houghton- 
 le-Spring. 
 
 1645. Robt. Carr compounds with Sir Hen. Vane and the Cou. 
 Com.— Fine, 10/. 
 
 1651. Nov. 21. Petitions Parlt. for pardon of offences com- 
 mitted previous to the date of the composition, and obtains it. 
 
 WILLIAM CARR OF CRAWHALL.f 
 
 (Cal. i. p. 202.) 
 
 1649. Wm. Carr of Crawhall, in the par. of Haltwhistle, co. 
 Northd., having adhered to the enemy in the last war, begs to be 
 admitted to a conii^osition. His estate consists of the demesnes of 
 Crawhall, Bradleyhall and the Sands, for life. Y.V.B.W., 20/. He 
 craves, and is allowed on rejiort, a rent-charge of 16/. p. ann., issu- 
 ing out of the said lands to Edwd. Fenwick of Stanton, esq., in 
 consideration of a debt of 200/. 
 
 Fine at a sixth, 40/. 
 
 * In the Rentals for 1663 Sir Robt. Carr is rated at 240/, for Old and New 
 Etalls, and 120/. for Catford Law. 
 
 t On the marriage of his dau. Margt. and Ralph Clavering of Bowsden, in 
 1615, Nich. Crane of Crawhall, settled upon them Ids messuages called 
 Crawhall, Bradley-hall, the Sands, and eight others. In 1659, Wm. Ridley of 
 Woodhall, esq., Richd. Carnaby, and others, levied a fine of Crawhall to secure 
 Wm. Carr of that place, for three years, in possession of lands in Bowsden, 
 formerly belonging to Ralph Clavering. Wm. Ridley of Crawhall, appears in 
 the Northd. Rentals of 16(5.3 as rated for that place at GO/. Hodgson, Hist. 
 Northd. pt. II. vol. iii. p. 329, and pt. ill. vol. i. p. 345.
 
 150 
 
 ROBERT CHAPMAN, CLERK. 
 
 (Cal. iv. p. SOW.) 
 
 1652. June 30. Thos. Burwall* of Durham, Hen. Smith of 
 Herrington, and Robt. Chapman, clerk, petition that having a lease 
 from the late Dean and Chap, of Durham of Bywell Peter's rectory 
 and tithes in Northd., they are kept from possession by a sequestra- 
 tion on the tithes as belonging to Robt. Chapman. Beg a reference 
 to counsel and an order to the Cou. Com. to examine their lease and 
 certify the cause and date of sequestration. — Order to Cou. Com. 
 to certify and Mr. Reading to report. 
 
 1653. Sept. 7. Order on report that the Cou. Com. certify in a 
 month why they stated that in 1650 the rectory and tithes were 
 sequestered for delinquency of Hen. Smith as owner, and whether 
 the parties concerned in the will of Elizth. Hunt, widow of Dr. 
 Richd. Hvmt.f late Dean of Durham, are delinquents or recusants; 
 then, if there appear no fresh ground of sequestration, the estate 
 will be discharged. Meantime petitioners are to enjoy the pi'ofits 
 of the rectory on double security unless cause to the contrary is 
 shown in a month. 
 
 1653. Dec. 30. The claim of petitioners, as trustees for Elizth. 
 Hunt, allowed ; sequestration discharged, with arrears from date of 
 petition. 
 
 WILLIAM CHAPMAN OF SOUTH SHIELDS, SHIP- 
 MASTER. 
 
 1615. Jan. 29. Sequestration of a decayed salt pan of Wm. 
 Chapman's of Shields, situate at Monkwearmouth, ante, p. 25. 
 Chapman compounds in Nov. or Dec. following, paying a fine of 100^. 
 and petitions Parlt., Nov. 21, 1651, for pardon, and obtains it, for 
 offences committed previous to the date of his composition. 
 
 EDWARD CHARLTON OF HESLEYSIDE. 
 
 (Cal. iv. pp. 2587, 3074; v. p. 3212.) 
 
 1652. Nov. 18. The estate of Edwd. Carlton [Charlton] of 
 Hesleyside, co. Northd., esq., appears in the third Act for Sale. 
 
 1653. Jan. 14. Petition of Hen. Widdrington, John Ridley, Hen. 
 Errington and Wm. Charlton for and on behalf of Matt. Charlton, 
 
 * Thos. Burwell, vicar-general of tlie diocese of Durliam, appointed Sept. 
 30, 1631, buried St. Margaret's, Westminster, Mar. 2.'), 1673. Hutchinson, 
 Hint. Durham, ii. 256. Of his troubles with Peter Smart and his adniinistra- 
 tion of the diocese as spiritual chanceUor, much appears in Surt. Soc. Pub., 
 vol. 34, pp. 244 (it »(iq. 
 
 t Richd. Hunt, D.D., installed May 29, 1620. Died Nov. 1, 1638. There 
 is a sketch of his career in Hutchinson, Hist. Dtirham, ii. 154.
 
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 «on of Wm. Charlton, late of Hesleyside, shewing that the said Wm. 
 Charlton, by deed dated June 11, 1640, granted to petitioner for 
 life a yearly rent of 13/. 6s. d>d. issuing out of all his manors, lands, 
 ^tc, in CO'. Northd. Now forasmuch as the estate of Edwd. Charlton, 
 brother to the said Matt., is to be sold by the late Act for Sale, etc., 
 he, the said Edwd., Ijeing son and heir of the aforesaid Wm. Charl- 
 ton, the petitioners pray on behalf of the said Matt., who is both 
 •deaf and dumb and born so, for allowance of the said annuity accord- 
 ing to the said deed. — Same date. Petition (counterpart of the 
 above) in favour of Katharine, dau. of Wm. Charlton, late of 
 Hesleyside, who, like her brother Matt., is both deaf and dumb and 
 Ijorn SO', for allowance of her annuity of 13/. 6.s. 8r7. — Both petitions 
 referred to the Cou. Com. and Mr. Reading.* 
 
 1653. Jan. 18. Petition to the C.C. from Roger Charlton, eldest 
 son and heir apparent of Edwd. Charlton of Hesleyside, esq., and of 
 Wm. and Matt. Charlton, brothers of the said Edwd., shewing that 
 by indenture dated May 11, 1621, Sir Hen. Widdrington of Widdring- 
 ton and Sir John Fenwicke of Wallington, knts., granted unto Wm. 
 Fenwick, esq., and Edwd. Lawrence, gent., their heirs and assigns, 
 all those tenements and parcels of arable land in Northd. called 
 Lee Mealinge, consisting of divers tenements, i.e., Wester and Easter 
 Elingham, Kelsunke Cothill, Brigford Bankedge, Ant on hill, Crock- 
 hill, Lymergreen, Stackhill, Wedparke, Katcherhaugh and Loncksty, 
 together with one water corn mill to the use of Wm. Charlton of 
 Hesleyside, petitioners' grandfather, for life and after his decease 
 to the use of Edwd. Charlton, son and heir apparent of the said 
 Wm., father to petitioners, for and during his life, and after his 
 decease to the use of the first son of the body of the said Edwd. 
 and the issue male of such first son, and for default to the use of 
 Wm. Charlton, second son of the said Wm. Charlton the elder, 
 and so on to the seventh son. The said deed provides that the said 
 Wm. Charlton might demise the premises for twenty-one years or 
 for one, two or three lives with power of revocation, etc. Now 
 forasmuch as the estate of the said Edwd. Charlton is in the last 
 Act for Sale of delinquents' estates and the petitioner, Roger, being 
 son and heir to the said Edwd., and petitioners, Wm. and Matt., 
 being remainders in tail, by name, after the death of the said 
 
 * These petitions help to elucidate the early pedigree of the Charltons of 
 Hesleyside, which, as developed by Burke and other genealogists, leaves much 
 to be desired. Sir Edwd. Charlton, one of the Itaronets of Nova Scotia, 
 lost his title during the civil war. His wife, Mary, who in the case which follows 
 petitions for her fifth, was a daughter of Sir Edwd. Widdrington of Carting- 
 ton (see note .s.v. Edwd. Widdrington). In the Northd. Rentals, 1668, 
 Sir Edwd. Charlton ap])ears rated for the following properties : Dunterly, 
 Hesliside, Brerish, Heslewood, l)Oth Stol> I^ees, Ellingham and Bridgford, 86/. ; 
 The Shaw, 21. ; Rideing, II. ; Beggeriaw and Craw Sheel, ."iO/. ; liaineing 
 Ridge, 8/. ; Nether Leanie, 24/. ; Warke, his pt., 11. ; Watergaite, ya Middle 
 and Leckhill, 8/. ; Reedswood |I4/.], Corsenside, 24/. Elizabeth, his dau. and 
 ■coheir, married her cousin german Wn'i. Charlton, to whom she had issue 
 Edwd. Charlton of Hesleyside and Charlton.
 
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 Roger without issue male, they humbly pray that their several and 
 resjDective claims to the premises may be allowed according to the 
 said deed. — Referred to Mr. Reading and the Cou. Com. 
 
 1653. [Undated but endorsed Jan. 27.] Like petition of Roger^ 
 \Vm. and Matt. Charlton showing that by indenture dated Feb. 8, 
 1621, Wm. Charlton of Hesleyside, in consideration that the premises 
 should continue in his name, blood and family, as also natural love 
 and affection which he did bear toward Wm. and John Charlton, 
 agreed with Sir Hen. Widdrington and Wm. Fenwick to le\'y a fine 
 unto them and their heirs, of the manor of Hesleyside with 10 
 messuages, 6 cottages, 10 tofts, 6 barns, 1 fulling mill, 1 water 
 corn mill, 1 dove cote, 1 garden, 200 acres of land, 100 acres of 
 meadow, 100 acres of pasture, 40 acres of wood, and 300 acres of 
 moor with the appurtenances in Hesleyside, Aldersheeles, Breredge, 
 Hesleyhead, Watergates, Lekehill, Simonburn and Bellingham, in 
 CO. Northd., to the use of said Wm. Charlton for life and after his 
 decease to the use of Edwd. Charlton, his son, with remainders and 
 powers as above. Petitioners pray as before that their claims may 
 be allowed. Like petition as to lands at Learn, Riding, and Reeds- 
 wood, settled by the grandfather on petitioners' father and his heirs. 
 
 1653. Jan. 18. Petition of Christian Chax'lton, widow, late wife 
 of Edwd. Charlton of Hesleyside, on the behalf of herself and the 
 children of Margt. Ellott, daughter to the petitioner and wife ta 
 Wm. Ellott, shewing that by Articles indented Nov. 30, 1614, between 
 Wm. Charlton and petitioner and Edwd. Errington, it was, among 
 other things, agreed by the said Wm. Charlton that petitioner and 
 her assigns should peaceably enjoy during her life the third part 
 of all the demesne lands belonging to the said Edwd. Charlton, 
 deceased, mentioned in an inquisition found before the Sheriff of 
 Northd., Sept. 29, 1614, and also to receive and take the third part 
 of the tithe of Breredge and Heslehead, and the third part of the 
 ancient tenements in the said deed of Articles mentioned. And 
 whereas it was further agreed that the said Wm. Charlton should 
 retain 150/. in his hands, due to petitioner's daughter, Margt. Charl- 
 ton, paying consideration for the same 71. every half year so long 
 as he should continue the same in his hands. Now forasmuch as 
 the said estate since the making of the said Articles is descended to 
 Edwd. Charlton, son of Wm. Charlton, who was son of Matt. 
 Charlton and nephew to the said Edwd. Charlton, deceased, 
 petitioner's late husband, which said Edwd. Charlton is to have his 
 estate sold by the last Act for Sale, petitioner prays to be per- 
 mitted to enjoy during her life the premises before mentioned, which 
 she has for near forty years together quietly enjoyed without inter- 
 ruption ] also to allow the 150/. due to the children of the said 
 Margt., with arrears of interest. — Cou. Com. to certify and Mr. 
 Reading to report. 
 
 1654. Apr. 20. John Rushworth contracts with the Treason 
 Trustees for the Charlton lands as follows : — West Woodborne,.
 
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 Barnarsteed, Langely, Warletonne, Dunterley, Roughehead, Shaw,. 
 Beggerlaw, Greenhaugh, Woodhouses, Cragsheeles, Swynnymaw- 
 haugh, Swynnymaw Bogg, Beggersicke, Langleyshanke, Greenehaugh- 
 head, Belling tenement, Stonehouse, Myles Feild, Hillhouse, Ryding, 
 Hennigrigg, Clews, Hasleside, Breridge, Haslehead, Leakehill, Water- 
 gates, Leame, Lee Malyn, Briggford, Antonhill, Greene, Stackhill, 
 Weede Park, Hokestie, Stobberlee upper and nether, Ellingham over 
 and nether, and Reads Wood upper and nether, in the several 
 occupations of Tho^. Foster, otherwise Thumpitt, Thos. Foster, 
 Archbold Coxon, — Foster, widow, Anne Foster, widow, Wm. 
 Charlton, Mabel Charlton, Anthony Dodd, John Rydley, Nichson 
 Chrishope, Hen. Errington, Wm. Charlton, Rowland Dodd, David 
 Dodd, Jeffrey, Michael, Andrew, Reynold, and Patrick Robinson, 
 Humfrey Milbourne, and Christobella Dodd, their, or some of their, 
 assigns, late parcel of the estate of Edwd. Charlton, esq. 
 
 1654. May. 11. Discharge of said lands from sequestration, 
 Rushworth having ]:)aid the whole of the purchase money. 
 
 SIR EDWARD CHARLTON OF HESLEYSIDE. 
 
 (Cal. iv. p. 2587.) 
 
 1650. Oct. 30. Mary, Lady Charlton, wife of Sir Edwd., 
 petitions to be allowed for maintenance, according to the gracious 
 favour of Parlt., the fifth of her husband's estate, sequestered for 
 delinquency and recusancy. — Ordered according to instructions. 
 
 NICHOLAS CHATOR OF REDHOUSE.* 
 
 1645. Nich. Chator, esq., of Redhouse, co. Durham, compounds 
 with the local commissioners. — Fine, 60/. 
 
 1651. Nov. 21. He petitions Parlt. for pardon, and obtains it,, 
 for all offences committed prior to the date of his composition. 
 
 JAMES CHOLMLEY OF CRAMLINGTON.f 
 
 (Cal. Hi. p. 1720.) 
 
 1647. Apr. 15. Jas. Cholmley of Cramlington, co. Northd.,^ 
 petitions to be allowed to compound. His delinquency that he was 
 
 * Can this be Nicli. Chaytor, of the Butterby family (who married Ann, 
 dau. and co-heiress of Wm. Lambton of Haughton Fieki), father of Sir Wm. 
 Chaytor, and founders of the Ciiaytors of Croft ? The fine appears to be small 
 for a delinquent who had been a lieut.-col. under the Earl of Newcastle. 
 
 t Petitioner was apparently a connection of the Cholmleys of Whitliy, for 
 under date June 14, 1650, Jas. Cholmley of Crandington, and Wm. Noble 
 of Whitby, depose, in the case of Sir Hugh Chobnley's compounding, that 
 they were present when Sir Hugh signed a certain deed at Whitby. He 
 marrietl Adeline, dau. of Geo. Braban of Brancepeth Castle, and widow of
 
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 in arms against Parlt. He was taken prisoner at the battle of 
 Sherburn, co. York, Oct. 14, 1645, and carried to Pontefract Castle, 
 severely wounded, where he moved the governor, Col. Overton, to 
 accept a ransom, so that he might repair to London to make his com- 
 position, btit his womids would not allow him to travel. He has 
 taken the National Covenant and Negative Oath. Particular of his 
 estate: — In right of his wife, who is seised for life (being 70 years 
 of age), as jointress to her former husband, of certain lands and 
 tenements in Cramlington, Y.V.B.W., 50/. ; a like estate in right 
 of wife for life of certain lands and tenements in Jesmond, Y.V.B.W., 
 20/. ; in fee to him and his heirs a small tenement in Whitby, co. 
 York, Y.V.B.W., \I. 10s. ; a personal estate in some parts of small 
 ships and boats for coals, value 20/. There is due to him from John 
 Chapman, by bond, 50/. ; Isaac Newton, upon account, 150/. ; Jas. 
 Cole, without speciality, 50/. ; Anne Lawson, widow, upon bond, 
 100/., and for arrears of rent from her, 160/. He is indebted to 
 several persons upon bond as follows: — Roger Wills of Newcastle, 
 120/.; Sir Hen. Cholmley, 50/.; Sir Wm. Belt, 200/.; Margt. and 
 Mary Salvin, infants, 200/. 
 
 1647. Apr. 22. Fine at a tenth, 73/. 
 
 1649. [Dec. ?] Petitions that since he exhibited his particular he 
 is informed that one of his neighbours has sunk a coal pit very near 
 his land in Jesmond, which of necessity must be wrought in part of 
 the said land, and, consequently, some benefit will arise to petitioner 
 by reason of coal to be taken out of his land, perhajDS to the value 
 of 10/. p. ann. Begs that some small fine may be assessed upon 
 this [blank] p. ann. which he hopes he shall make by the profits of 
 coal out of the said land in Jesmond, over and above the value 
 thereof mentioned in the former particular, to the end that he may 
 be enaJjled to enjoy the same without trouble or disturbance. 
 
 [Endorsed.] Liberty to add this and compound. 
 
 1650. May 30. Fine paid and estate discharged, his appeal made 
 last Dec. not being determined yet. 
 
 Roger Anderson of Jesmond. Deeds, penes Mr. F. W. Dendy, show that on 
 May 4, 1621, Roger Anderson covenanted with Geo. Mraban, and John Braban, 
 his son, to suffer recovery of a third of Jesmond manor, etc. , to the use of the 
 said Roger and Adeline, and the heirs of their bodies, etc., and that on Aug. 15, 
 1658, there was a feoffment from Jas. Cholmley of the city of Durham, gent., 
 and Adeline his wife, late wife of Roger Anderson, to Wm. Coulson of the 
 same premises. In the Northumberland Rentals, 1663 (Hodgson, Hi-<t. Northd. 
 pt. III. vol. i. p. 250), James Cholndey is entered as owner of land at Cram- 
 lington, valued at 80/. p. ann., and the mill there, not valued. Hereafter we 
 shall meet with him petitioning the C.C. as guardian of three daurs. of 
 John Hodgson of Manor House, Lanchester. His own daughter, named after 
 her mother, Adeline, became the second wife of Lancelot Hodgson of 
 Winlaton, a son of Jolm Hodgson, sometime of Jesmond. It was this 
 Lancelot Hodgson, who obtained leave of Vicar Nailer to remove the Percy 
 shrine in St. Nicholas' Church, Newcastle, and put his father's tomb in its 
 place, as recorded by Bourne, HiM. Newcastle, p. 72. In the Registers of 
 that church are the following entries of the burials of Lancelot and Adeline : 
 1673, Mar. 20, Adeline, wife of Lancelot Hoilgsoii, gent. ; 1677, May 16, 
 Lancelot Hodgson, esq. Cf. new Hist. Northd. iv. 295.
 
 155 
 
 THOMAS CLARKE OF SUNDERLAND. 
 
 1645. Thos. Clarke, described as a yeoman, of Sunderland, com- 
 pounds with Sir Hen. Yane and the Cou. Com.- — Fine, 5/. 
 
 LADY ANNE CLAYERING OF DUDDO.* 
 
 (CaJ. ir. p. 2027.) 
 
 1652. Jan. 7. Toby Metcalfe, tenant of two thirds of the 
 .sequestered estate of Lady Anne Clavering of Duddo in Norham- 
 shire, begs allowance of his expenses of 17/., certified as spent in 
 repair of the ruined houses.- — The Cou. Com. are to allow what has 
 been necessarily expended. 
 
 1654. Jan. 12. Lady Anne Clavering, widow, petitions that as 
 two-thirds of her estate is under sequestration for her recusancy, 
 she may be admitted to contract for the same according to the Act 
 •of Oct. 21, 1653. — Referred to Mr. Reading. [No jmrticular of 
 estate attached.] 
 
 1654. Mar. 28. Capt. Thos. Love [deputy governor] of Holy 
 Islands, begs allowance of out-rents upon Lady Clavering's estate, 
 payable to Lord Suffolk and Mrs. Dorothy Ord. He has farmed the 
 estate from the Cou. Com., but they are not able to allow him the 
 ■out-rents, and he has been obliged to pay them, in addition to the 
 full rent. — Cou. Com. to examine and certify and Mr. Brereton to 
 report. 
 
 JOHN CLAYERING OF CALLALY. 
 
 (Cat. in. p. 2340.) 
 
 1650. June 7. Petition of John Clavering [missing] referred to 
 Mr. Reading. 
 
 1650. June 21. Clavering begs a third of his estate sequestered 
 for recusancy. — C.C. direct Cou. Com. to certify why they do not 
 allow this third. 
 
 * Widow of Sir John Clavering, lineal descendant of the Claverings, lords 
 of Callaly from the reign of Hen. III. She was a dau. of Sir Thos. Riddell of 
 Gateshead, twice mayor and twice M.P. for Newcastle, by Klizth.. dau. of Sir 
 John Conyersof Sockburn, and therefore sister to Sir Thos. Riddell of Fenham, 
 Recorder of Newcastle, and colonel of a foot regiment in the service of the 
 king. Sir John Clavering, being a strong supporter of the monarchy, not only 
 provided money and men, but, with his son and heir, Robt. Clavering, joined 
 the royal forces, was taken prisoner in 1644, and died in a London gaol three 
 years later. Robert, the heir, raised a regiment of foot and another of horse for 
 the king, and after distinguishing himself at Morpeth and South Shields, died 
 •of a fever in his father's lifetime. Thus the estate, although sequestered for 
 Sir John's delinquency, descended by inheritance to Joiin Clavering, the 
 petitioner in the case which follows. Raine, Hist. X. Dnrhnm, p. 317, states 
 that there was generally a resident family of Clavering at Duddoe a junior 
 branch from Callaly, or a jointured widow. An interesting account of Sir 
 • John and his descendants appears in Dixon's Whitliiigham Vide, p. 124 tl acq.
 
 156 
 
 1650. Nov. 7. The Cou. Com. rei^ort that the estate was 
 sequestered for the delinquency of Sir John Clavering, deceased, 
 "who was. commissioner of Array and active in the first war, and 
 that, as no composition has been made, petitioner can claim only 
 an eighth. 
 
 1650. Dec. 4. Wm., Jane, Mary and Elizth., younger children 
 of the late Sir John Clavering, beg an order to the Cou. Com. to pay 
 them the fifth of their father's sequestered estate, which is refused 
 and they must perish without relief. — Granted, with arrears from 
 Dec. 24, 1649. 
 
 1651. July 22. John Clavering begs allowance of an annuity of 
 50Z. for life settled on him by his father after age of twenty-one. Is 
 now thirty ; late Cou. Com. allowed the deed, but refused by the 
 present. — Referred to Cou. Com. and Mr. Brereton. — Same date. 
 Dorothy Swinhoe, widow, of Chatton, and John Oard and Elinor his 
 wife, late Clavering of Fenwick in Islandshire, beg allowance with 
 arrears of annuities of 7/. 10s. each on lands called the Nuns in 
 Newcastle, value 151. a year, left to Dorothy and Elinor by Dame 
 Mary Guavarra of Duddo, par. of Norham [their mother and grand- 
 mother] and confirmed by Sir John Clavering, and now refused 
 v»'ithout an order from the C.C. 
 
 1652. Aug. 5. Wm. Collingwood, surviving trustee for John 
 Clavering's younger brothers and sisters, and other creditors of John 
 and his late father, begs discharge of lands settled in 1648 for pay- 
 ment of debts and portions of younger children. 
 
 1652. Sept. 28. Report of Mr. Brereton that Sir John Claver- 
 ing, by indre, Apr. 10, 1632, for settling his estate in his name and 
 blood, and out of love for Dame Anne his wife and his sons, Robt.,^ 
 John, Ralph and Thos., covenanted with Gilb. Swinhoe and Thos. 
 Riddell that he (Sir John) and his heirs should stand seised of 
 Callaly, Yetlington, Duddo and Greenlaw, to these uses, viz., to said 
 Sir John for life and then, as to Duddo and Greenlaw, to Dame 
 Anne for life for jointure and satisfaction of dower, and as to Callaly 
 and Yetlington from death of Sir John, and Duddo and Greenlaw 
 from death of Sir John and Dame Anne, to Robt. for life, with 
 remainder to his heirs male in seniority and for want thereof to John,, 
 the petitioner, for life, with remainder to his heirs male, with like uses 
 over to Ralph and Thos. and in default to the right heirs. 
 
 1652. Nov. 18. The estate of Sir John Clavering appears in the 
 third Act for Sale. 
 
 165-3. Sept. 16. Discharge from sequestration of houses, etc., 
 at Upper Trewhet, Rothbury, forfeited by Sir John Clavering and 
 bought from the Treason Trustees by John Rushworth and Gilb. 
 Crouch. 
 
 1653. Nov. 3. John Clavering begs to compound for Whitting- 
 ham rectory, which is in the Act for Sale. — Nov. 10. Sequestration 
 discharged he having paid the fine. — Dec. 9. Allowed one-third of 
 Callaly manor and other lands and his mansion house for habita- 
 tion, with arrears from 1649.
 
 157 
 
 1654. Feb. 17. Nich. Ogle of Eslington begs confirmation of 
 contract of Aug. 23, 1653, for four years "with Cou. Com. for two- 
 thirds of Callaly; rent, 44/. 13.s. M. — Noted, the Cou. Com. to 
 certify. 
 
 1654. Aug. 3. Order on report allowing the annuities of 
 Dorothy and Elinor out of the Nuns, with arrears from date of 
 petition. — Sept. 6. Further order allowing them out of any of Sir 
 John's lands. 
 
 ROBERT CLAVERING OF AXWELL HOUSES. 
 
 (Gal. i. p. 203.) 
 
 1649. Robt. Clavering of Axwell Houses, co. Durham, com- 
 pounds with the Parity, commissioners in the four northern 
 counties for adhering to the enemy in the last war. Particular of 
 his estate: — A quarter part of Kenton, Northd., and an eighth part 
 of Whitburne Moor, adjoining, for nine years yet tO' come, Y.Y.B.W., 
 307. ; in fee an eighth part of Ridingfield in Whickham, Y.Y.B.W., 
 15Z. 
 
 Fine at a sixth, 105/. 
 
 THOMAS CLAYERING OF LEARCHILD.* 
 
 (Col. i. p. 204; iv. p. 3114.) 
 
 1649. Thos. Clavering compounds with the commissioners as 
 above. Particular of his estate : — In fee the demesne of Learchild. 
 Northd., Y.Y.B.W., 36/., out of which he craves allowances of (1) 
 a third payable to his mother during her life, 12/. ; (2) the tithe 
 of the demesne payable to the Dean and Chap, of Durham, 21. 8s. ; 
 (3) 5.S. p. ann. payable to the Crown ; (4) 7s. Qd. p. ann. payable to 
 Morpeth Castle ; (5) a rent-charge of 11/. 3s. 5d., paid out yearly 
 till a debt of 140/. be satisfied.! 
 
 Fine, 74/. 18s. 6d. 
 
 1652. Nov. 18. The estate of Thos. Clavering appears in the 
 third Act for Sale. 
 
 1653. May 25. Thos. Clavering complains that although he 
 compounded and paid his fine the sequestration is continued, the 
 Cou. Com. refusing to discharge the estate without order, and now 
 he is in the late Act for Sale. Begs an order to preserve his estate. 
 
 1653. May 27. Sale stayed till further orders. 
 
 1653. June 15. His request referred to Mr. Reading, meantime 
 the Cou. Com. are not to meddle. 
 
 1653. July 26. Estate discharged without further fine, as he 
 ought to enjoy the benefit of his former composition. 
 
 * See pedigree and notes on the family of Clavering of Learchild by 
 ■Crawford Hodgson, in the new Hist. Northd. vii. 184. 
 
 + In another particular of his estate this rent charge is not entered.
 
 158 
 
 RALPH COATSWORTH OF GREAT STAINTON.* 
 
 (Cal. Hi. pp. 2127, 2251, 2253.) 
 
 In the Sequestrators' Books, ante, pp. 22, 28, authority is given to 
 sell the corn of Ralph Coatsworth and an inventory of his farming- 
 effects is supplied, the value being 3-i/. 7s. 6d. He is described in 
 the one case as ' gent.,' indicating his position, and in the other as 
 delinquent and papist, showing his offence. He does not appear in 
 the Calendar as a compounder, but is mixed up with the cases of 
 Lawrence Sayer of Yarm (whose servant he is said to be), Chris. 
 Hall of Hartburn, near Stockton, and Wm. Lambton of Stainton. 
 He is also named in connection with the sensational jDroceedings 
 relative to the seizure of Harraton Colliery. His estate was declared 
 forfeit by resolution of the House of Commons, Oct. 27, 1652, and 
 was in the third Act for Sale. At the end of Chris. Hall's case is an 
 entry, dated Sept. 9, 1653, discharging the sequestration of houses, 
 etc., in Great Stainton, forfeited by Ralph Cotsworth, and bought 
 by Geo. Hurd and Geo. Leafe. 
 
 GEORGE COCKE OF NEWCASTLE.! 
 
 (Gal. a. p. 1194.) 
 
 164G. Apr. 22. Geo. Cocke of Newcastle, described as a 
 merchant, compounds for his delinquency in serving for six months 
 
 * Longstaffe, in a paper on the Killinghalls {Arch. Aeliana, 2ncl ser. ii. 
 91), quotes a mortgage in the shape of a lease dated Jan. 28, 1608-9, from 
 Hen. Killinghall and another to Ralfe Cotesfurth of Newton Ketton, gent. , 
 of a messuage in Sadberge, adding that Cotesfurth was a mere trustee for 
 Lambton of Stainton, for on May 16, 1615, Margt. , widow and executrix of 
 Wm. Lampton of Houghton Field, and Raffe Cotesfurth of Winton, co. York, 
 gent., administrators of the former Ralph, granted the lease to Wm. Staveley and 
 Geo. Tomlinson. Further on (p. 96), be notes that Cotesworth shared the mis- 
 fortunes of his friends, for the co-heiresses of Wm. Lambton (wives of Nich. 
 Chaytor and John Killinghall) were unjustly kept out of certain lands by 
 reason of his recusancy and delinquency. In the papers relating to Chris. Hall's 
 case appears the petition of these two ladies to the C.C. They allege that 
 Wm. Lambton, who died in 1649, was unable to govern himself, that Wm. 
 Cotsworth intruded on the estate and pretended a conveyance to him, that 
 at William's death Ralph Cotsworth, his brother and heir, kept possession, and 
 that their estate is sequestered for Ralph's recusancy and delinquency. They 
 beg not to be kept out their inheritance, and state that they applied to Sir 
 Arth. Haslerigg and Mr. Fenwick, two of the Cou. Com. for Durham, who 
 ordered them to try their titles, but the present Cou. Com. will not permit this 
 without order from the C.C. Leave being given, the trial came off in 1654, 
 and the verdict being in their favour the matter was referred to Mr. Brereton, 
 and no more is heard of it. Longstaffe, Hi'^t. Darlington, p. Ixxxviii., mentions 
 that Elizth. Barton, ' lately tlie wife of Ambrose Waller, and then the wife of 
 Ralph Coatsworth,' was fined at the borough court in 1613, for not doing 
 service for a burgage called the Bull Inn. 
 
 + Capt. Geo. Cocke might have been classed among the most ' notorious 
 delinquents ' of the period, so strong was his loyalty, so fierce his love of fight- 
 ing for the Crown. He had flown to arms very early in the struggle, for, in
 
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 as captain of a troop of horse under the Earl of Newcastle. States 
 that on the takmg of Newcastle, in Oct., 1644, he was sent up to 
 London and committed, a prisoner, to the Compter in Southwark 
 where he remained till released on bail. Particular of his estate : — 
 In fee two messuages in Newcastle, Y.Y.B.W., 2il. ; a personal estate 
 in goods and debts, some desperate, to the value of 400/. ; part of 
 which is sequestered by the committee of Newcastle ; a personal 
 estate of the value of 400/., lent by way of mortgage upon two 
 houses in Newcastle, now in the occupation of Thos. Randall and 
 Roger Lasam ; a sixth part of a ship called the Mai/ Flower of New- 
 castle, John Harrigate, master, of the value of 40/., sequestered ; 
 a sixteenth part of the Katherine of Newcastle, George Grey, master, 
 value 15/., sequestered. 
 
 1646. May 5. Fine fixed at 205/. 
 
 DOROTHY COCKSON OF COLDPIKE HILL.* 
 
 (Gal. iv. p. 3107.) 
 
 165.3. Apr. 28. Nich. Briggs of Brome Hall, co. Durham, begs 
 allowance of his title to an annuity of 4/., which Anth. Cockson, 
 for 40/. granted 13 Car. to Eleanor Forcer, late of Greencroft, on 
 his lands in Cowj^ighill, co. Durham, which are sequestered for the 
 recusancy of Dorothy Cockson, his widow. The rent charge is now 
 conveyed to petitioner. — Cou. Com. to examine, and Mr. Reading to 
 report. No further record. 
 
 1643, he was taken prisoner and shut up in Dover Castle. There he was in 
 Jan., 1644, when the Commons agreed to exchange him for another local com- 
 batant - Geo. Lilburn of Sunderland, who had fallen into the hands of the 
 Royalists. Conditions were attached to the exchange, and these it is to be 
 presumed were fulfilled, for on Mar. 22, following, the House ordered his dis- 
 charge. He came back to Newcastle and fell to fighting again. At the siege 
 he was specially active, and in conse(^uence had the ill-fortune to be included in 
 the memorable orders of the Commons, which directed that the vanquished 
 heroes of the fight should be 'sent for' and committed to prison. Capt. 
 Cocke's gaol was Lambeth House at first, and afterwards Southwark Compter, 
 where he was detained for some time on a charge of levj'ing actual war against 
 the Parlt. His parentage and subsequent history are traceable in Dendy, 
 Surt. Soc. Pub. vol. 101. On page 251 of that volume (with a note, 'died circa 
 1678') he is entered as a son of Garrett Cocke of Newcastle, gent., and as 
 having been apprenticed Apr. 30, 1631, to Abraham Booth, corn merchant; 
 while on pages 97, 99 et. seq., he is noted as performing eminent services for the 
 Newcastle Merchants Company in their dispute with tlie Merchant Adventurers 
 of London. 
 
 * In the reign of Elizabeth, the Cocksons were owners of the manor of 
 Coldpike Hill, and in 163 , Antli. Cockson settled his capital messuage there 
 on his two younger sons, George and Charles, successively in tail male. Sur- 
 tees, Hi'<t. Durham, ii. 320.
 
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 JAMES COLE OF NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE.* 
 
 (Cal. li. p. 971.) 
 1645. Nov. 19. James Cole, merchant, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 
 petitions for leave to appear in person before the C.C. to com- 
 pound for his delinquency in being in the garrison of Newcastle 
 against the Parlt. He has been for 20 weeks a prisoner in 
 SouthAvark Compter, although he was never in arms. 
 
 1645. Nov. 22. Petitioner renews his application. The chai'ges 
 against him are : — (1) That for the past 3 years he has traitorously 
 plotted and raised sedition between the King and Parlt. and has 
 spoken as follows: — That Robt., Earl of Essex, Lord-General of 
 all the forces, and Robt., Earl of Warwick, Lord High Admiral of 
 England, were traitors and rebels against the King, and that the 
 Parlt. was a company of traitors and rebels. (2) That in June, 1642, 
 at Newcastle, he confederated with Sir John Marley, knt., late 
 Mayor of Newcastle, Thos. Liddle, Sir Nich. Cole, bart., Ralph Cole, 
 etc., felons, for the purpose of making war against the King and 
 Parlt., and gave Wm., Earl of Newcastle, Sir Wm. Widdrington and 
 others, 18,000/. in aid thereof, and that they did levy' war as above 
 said. (3) That being a free burgess and one of the Common 
 Council of Newcastle, he attempted to disfranchise Hen. Warmouth, 
 burgess, freeman and alderman, and Robt. Ellison, burgess and 
 freeman, because they would not adhere to the said Earl of New- 
 castle and others in the said war. (4) That he, with others, in July, 
 1637, caused 3 ships to be sunk in the mouth of the harbour of 
 the Tyne, thereby blocking and hindering the expedition sent to 
 reduce the Earl of Newcastle. (5) That he and the others named 
 have conspired to defend each other in the said wai', and have 
 also compelled many persons to give it in writing that the Earls 
 of Essex and Warwick are traitors. (6) That in Nov. 1642, at 
 Newcastle, he delivered to the said Earl of Newcastle 3,144 ' Scottes 
 blew capps ' to the maintenance of the said war. and to delude and 
 make this kingdom believe that the kingdom of Scotland had 
 sent in forces to aid the King against the Parlt. (7) That he con- 
 tinued in war against the King and Parlt. until Oct. 19, 1644, when 
 he was apprehended at Newcastle as a traitor. 
 
 Particular of his estate: — A lease for 1,000 years of a place 
 adjoining Swalwell town, co. Durham, called the Tetherings and 
 Intack, part of the manor of Axwell-houses, formerly let for 25/. 
 p. ann., and last year let for 12/. lO*. : a house in Newcastle by the 
 Keyside, formerly let for 15/. p. ann., but for 3 years past he 
 has not received a penny rent for it ; a house in Gaitshead, let 
 before these unnatural wars for 2/. 10s. p. ann. ; a fourth of a ship 
 called the Georg of Newcastle, whereof Geo. Errington is master, 
 sequestered by the committee of Campden House, valued at 60/., 
 now at Burdax, in France (Mr. John Brownell of Furnival's Inn, 
 gent, is engaged for the said fourth part ; in case it should be 
 
 * Son of Ralph Cole, whose case follows, q.i:
 
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 adjudged due to the State it is 60/.). In debts owing to me by 
 .several parties, some upon speciality and most of them desperate, 
 about 1,000/. ; viz., Robt. Bewick, Thos. Liddell of Ravensholme 
 Castle, and others, bond of -100/., dated Oct. 10, 1640, for pay- 
 ment of 200/. on Apr. 10, 1641, to Mich. Hall of Gaitshead ; bond 
 dated Aug. 2, 1643, of John Hodshon of Newcastle, Sir Chas. Howard 
 of Crogland, l^art., Nich. Tempest of Flatworth, 208/. for 104/. ; bond 
 of Sir Lionel Maddison and Sir Alex. Davison of Newcastle, 208/. 
 for 104/. to Mich. Hall of Durham ; bill obligatory of John Feather- 
 stonhaugh of Stanope Hall, 20/. for 10/. ; also owes him 4 bills of 
 10/. each, which Mr. Thos. Troulopp, attorney of Durham, has in 
 his keeping, and for which a suit was entered in 1642 and judgment 
 had for 40/. ; bill obligatory of Sir Nich. Tempest, 144/. for 72/. ; 
 bill of Christopher Reasley of Newcastle, 72/. of Avhich 40/. is paid, 
 leaving 32/. ; bill obligatory of John Wolfe of North Shealds, 26/. 10.?. 
 for 13/. 5-^. : also owes him for one hogshead of French wine, 71. ; 
 bill of Mrs.' B-arbara Hilton, 40/. for 20/. 5s. 4c/., of which 8/. has 
 been jiaid, leaving 12/. os. id. ; bill of Mr. John Tailor of North 
 Shealds, 20/. for 10/. ; also due from John Tailor, 11/. lOs. for 
 half a butt of sherry : bond of Sir Fran. Anderson of Jesmond, knt., 
 and Ralph Delavalfof Seaton Delavall, 200/. for 100/. ; bond of Sir 
 AVm. Riddell of Gaitshead, knt., and the said Ralph Delavall, 200/. 
 for 100/. ; bond of Thos. Harrison of Durham city, vintner, 80/. 
 for 40/. ; bond of Sir Fran. Anderson of Jesmond, and Sir Wm. 
 Fenwick of Mildon, 200/. for 100/. ; bond of John Chapman of 
 Ruston, CO. York, gent., Jas. Chumley of Scarborow, co. York, esq., 
 and Wm. Chapman of Hacknes, co. York, gent., 100/. for 50/. Total, 
 1,014/. Os. Ul. Debts owing: — To Mrs. Elizth. Quested of London, 
 widow, bv bond of Apr. 27, 1645, payable Apr. 29, 1646, 158/. 17s. : 
 Mr. Thos. Horth of Great Yarmouth, by bill of Nov. 13, 1643, 
 payable Mar. 25, 1644, 83/. 8s.; Thos. Butler's widow, for 2|^ years 
 house rent at 23/. p. ann., 57/. lOs. ; Geo. Foster of Barwick, ever 
 since Nov. 6, 1643, 54/. 2s. ; Lieut-Col. Bi'eamer, upon bond due 
 Aug. 1, 1645, 108/. ; Dority Harrison, widow, of Newcastle, by bill of 
 Oct. 5, 1644, payable Apr. 5, 1645, 20/. 16s. ; Hen. Bulmer, co. 
 Durham, gent., by bond of Nov. 1642, payable at Whitsunday, 1644, 
 52/. ; Mark Milbanke, for several particulars out of his shop, 12/. 
 Total, 546/. 13s. Losses since these unnatural wars about 1,500/. 
 to the utter undoing of him, his wife, and 4 j^oung children. 
 
 1646. Jan. 27. Fine, 136/. 6s. 8d. 
 
 1646. Jan. 31. Having suljuiitted to the fine his sefjuestration 
 is suspended. 
 
 {Cal. [C.A.M.] ii. p. G78.)-- 
 
 1646. Fell. 4. Jas. Cole assessed at 200/. : his father. Raljth 
 Cole, at 1,200/. 
 
 * 1G46. Aug. IS. Tlic House of Commons resolved to accept V.Wtl. Gv. Sd. 
 of Jas. Cole for his delinquency. His offence, assisting the forces raised 
 
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 162 
 
 1640. Sejit. 18. Jas. Cole to be hrouo-ht in custody to pay his 
 assessment. 
 
 1647. June 1. Their estates to be sequestered for non-paynient 
 of assessments. 
 
 1650. Oct. 16. Jas. Cole ordered to pay 7U/., when he will be 
 discharged from his assessment ; Kalph to pay 4()()/., and then to be 
 heard as to his debts. 
 
 1650. Oct. 23. Jas. Cole beys for an abatement of his father's 
 fine, also of his own, havin<>- had no allowance in his composition 
 for the loss of a ship cast away, nor for his debts before the war. 
 Betrs to be dischartred on payinjx -iO/. more than the '50/. already 
 paid. — Granted, l^alph Cole to have a hearing on payment of .'300/. 
 
 1650. Nov. 8. Jas. Cole having paid in the -'JO/, his assessment 
 is discharged. Ralph petitions that being assessed, although he has 
 already compounded, and being 80 years old and infirm, the Con. 
 Com. may be ordered to take his affidavit as to his debts, as he 
 cannot travel to London Avithout danger to his life. — Order that 
 the Cou. Com. take his oath that they are his own debts, not on 
 surety, and principal, not interest. 
 
 1650. Nov. 14. Order that 850/. is Kalph Cole's true proportion 
 according to the particular of his estate, of which he has paid .'500/. : 
 deduction is to be made for his debts. 
 
 1651. Jan. 10. Order that as his debts appear to l)e 1,470/., on 
 his paying 300/., beside the .'300/. already jiaid. he be discharged 
 from his assessment. 
 
 1651. The sum lieinof paid the estate is discharged accordingly. 
 
 SIR NICHOLAS COLE, DART., NEWCASTLE.* 
 
 (CaJ. u'l. p. 197S.) 
 
 1649. Apr. 20. Sir Nich. Cole compounds for delinquency in 
 arms. Was taken prisoner at the reducing of Newcastle in Oct.. 
 
 1644. His estate is as follows: — (1) To him and his heirs, a small 
 
 against the Parliament. His estate, 25/. p. ann. for 1,000 years; 17^. 10s. p. 
 ann. in fee, and a personal estate of the value of 513/. 7s. Ordinance for 
 granting him a pardon passed, and sent to the Lords for concurrence. Un- 
 fortunately a pardon from Parliament was not considered to be quite good enough 
 for Jas. Cole's brethren in the Newcastle Hostmen's Company. Five years 
 after the Commons had adopted the foregoing resolution, the Hostmen, acting 
 under some impulse ■which does not appear, entered in their books the following 
 order : Whereas by an ordinance of Parliament bearing date Monday, May 26, 
 
 1645, Jas. Cole, sometime a brother of this Company, was, amongst others in 
 the said ordinance mentioned, for his notorious delinquency disfranchised of 
 his freedom of this town and from all benefits and privileges belonging to tlie 
 
 same the said Jas. Cole shall not from henceforth be summoned to 
 
 appear, nor sit in court as a brother of the said Company, any former Act or 
 Order to the contrary in anywise notwitlistanding. Dendy, Hostmen s Books^ 
 Surt. Soc. Pub. 105, p. 96. 
 
 * Another son of Ralph Cole.
 
 parcel of crround and colliery called the King's land in the parish 
 of Whickhani. which cost 120/., Init during these troubles, and before 
 any sequestration, another title was set up by Mr. Clavering and 
 others, who now have possession and have wrought out most of the 
 coal, so that he must recover the same by a suit in law. If his 
 title prove to be good it may be worth, for live years, the yearly sum 
 of 25/. : afterwards, nil. (2) An eighth part of a small ship called 
 the Dolphyne of Newcastle, Edward Rand, master, sequestered by 
 the committee of Campden House, worth 50/. (3) A lease from Mr. 
 Wray for four years yet to come of the moiety of land and a colliery 
 called Hodgson's field in co. Durham, Avhich by reason the same is 
 drowned and cannot be recovered without great charge, he conceives 
 to be worth not above 50/. 
 
 1649. June 5. Fine at a half. :U2/. lO.v. 
 
 1(551. Sept. 1 [Cal. (C.A.M.) iii. ]>. l.'^88]. Assessment of 100/, 
 made on Sir Nich. Cole, but no proceedings taken. 
 
 1652. Jan. 16. Noted as having lapsed payment of his fine. 
 
 1652. May 20. Fine |>aid and estate discharged. 
 
 IJALPH COLE OF NEWCASTLE AND BRANCEPETH.* 
 
 (Cal. /•;. p. 971.) 
 
 164:5. Nov. 22. Ralph Cole petitions to be admitted to com- 
 ijound for delinquency in being in Newcastle garrison against the 
 Park. He was never in arms, but has been in prison twenty-two 
 weeks. 
 
 16i6. Fel). 5. Affidavit of Ralph Cole, alderman of Newcastle, 
 that he paid to General Lesley, Earl of Leven, upon the taking of 
 Newcastle, as a composition for his life and safety of his person 
 from imprisonment, 200/. : that there being an order of the House 
 of Commons that out of 500 ' tenns ' of coal to be seized of delin- 
 quents' coals for the service of the town and thereabouts, there 
 
 * The rise of the Coles, from a tradesman's slioj) in the narrow streets of 
 (rateshead, to atHuence in the halls of Brancepeth, and tlieir gradual retro- 
 gi'ession to the station in life from whicli they sprung, form a romantic chapter 
 in the vicissitudes of local families. Ralph Cole, above named, served as 
 Sheriff of Newcastle in the muncipal year 1625-26. He was elected Maj'or in 
 1633, and his son, Nich., who had married a Liddell of Ravensworth, was at 
 the same time appointed Slieriff. Three years before his mayoralty, lie luul 
 bought from the Heaths the fertile lands of the dissolved hospital of Kepier ; 
 three years after it he purchased, in trust for Nich., the castle and fair 
 domains of Brancepeth. In 1640, when the Scots were in possession of New- 
 castle, Nich. was elected Mayor, and for his loyalty was created a baronet. 
 At the ensuing mayor-choosing he was re-elected, and at Michaelmas, 1642, the 
 choice of the burgesses again fell upon him, tliough on Oct. 20, by royal 
 mandamus. Sir John Marley superseded him. Towards the close of liis second 
 mayoralty (Se))t. 20, 1642) the House of Commons sent for him as a delimiuent, 
 and after the siege of Newcastle, he and his father, and Jas. his brother, wlio 
 was sheriff during the storming of the town, were removed from their offices.
 
 164 
 
 should Ije charged upon him 80 ' tenns ' since Oct. last, for which he 
 hath paid 160/., and there remains to pay 120/., payment of which 
 will Avholly take the protit of Blackliourne colliery for seven or eight 
 years ; that there is little or no protit to be made of the collieries 
 now, by reason there are not cattle in the country to convey the coals 
 from the pits to the waterside, for whereas the usual rate was but 
 !)d., he now payeth 1-td. and 16d. a carriage, iO carriages or wain 
 loads making one ' teuii ' of coals. 
 
 1646. Apr. 7. Ralph Cole petitions to be admitted to compound 
 for delinquency in contributing to the King's forces. Has taken the 
 Oath, etc. Particular of his estate: — In fee a lordship called 
 Branspeth Castle and the East and West parks thereto belonging, 
 Y.V.B.W., 508/. 9s., less rent to the King yearly, 44/. 6.s. 8d., and 
 tithe rent to the parson of Branspeth, yearly, 13/., leaving the true 
 value at 451/. 2.s. id. (Note: the East Park let for -300/., West 
 Park, 160/., old rents, l)eing in copyhold, p. ann., 48/. 9s. ; total, 
 508/. 9s.). In fee the demesne of the manor of Keepier Hospital 
 and the West Grange, Y.V.B.W., 335/., part of which, viz., 2 Avater 
 corn mills, are let at 45/. p. ann., but the charge of repairing the 
 mills and mill dam is about 25/. p. ann., so the true value is 315/. 
 Scot's House with land belonging, copyhold of the manor of Durham, 
 Y.V.B'.W., 30/., out of which is paid yearly to the lord of the manor, 
 21., so the true value is £28. In fee, in Gateshead parish, the follow^- 
 ing : — (1) a cottage and close called Edene's land, 5/. ; (2) a cottage 
 and little close called Dasies Houses, 1/. 6s. Sd. ; (3) 2 closes called 
 Lawes closes, 3/. ; (4) a close adjoining Besibourne, called Tent close, 
 41. ; (5) Panthead close and 4 rigs of ground, 6/. ; (6) Bankes his 
 House in Gateshead town, let B.W. for 6/. p. ann.. out of which 
 paid to the King as a quit-rent, 16s. 8d. p. ann. — ^remaining yearly, 
 5/. 3s. id. : (7) a house adjoining it, 21. ; (8) another house next to 
 it, 1/. 6s\ Sd. ; (9) a house wdiere he has lived 50 years and upwards, 
 being next to last named house, 4/. ; (10) a house adjoining his 
 dwellinghouse, 21. ; (11) another house, in Marygate, Gateshead, 3/. : 
 (12) another house in Marygate called Calvert's House, with a Avharf 
 
 disfranchised, and committed to prison. Ralph and Jas. compounded in 1646, 
 but Sir Nich. , who escaped arrest, and was specially excepted from pardon, did 
 not succeed in making terms with the angi-y Parlt. till 1649. Ralph Cole's 
 case was considered in the Commons July 9, 1646, when it was resolved to 
 accept 4,000/. as a fine for his delinquency. His offences were described as 
 approving of sending a governor by the King to Newcastle ; joining with the 
 Earl of Newcastle ; being a Commissioner of Array and bearing arms himself ; 
 arraying the citizens and compelling them to carry arms ; consenting to the 
 taking away the lives of some, disfranchising others, burning and jaulling down 
 houses, sinking ships in the harbour, etc. His estate is stated to be 795/. for 
 15 j^ears ; 150/. p. ann. for 21 years ; 50/. p. ann. for two lives in a colliery, 
 and 2,770/. personal estate, out of which issues 44/. 6s\ Sc/. p. ann. fee farm 
 rem to the Crown, and I'M. 3v. id. p. ann. for other rents. In 1648 (June 12) 
 the House ordered payment of 1,.500/. , part of his fine, for the relief of New- 
 castle, to Sir Arth. Haslerigg, governor thereof, and on May 22, 1649, passed 
 an Act for pardoning his delinquency. He died in November, 1655.
 
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 belonging, 6/., with a rent paid yearly to Baronet Radcliff of Dilston, 
 G.'*. Sc/., so there remains 5/. 13.*. id. : (13) a house at the foot of 
 Bottellbank. 3/. os., out of which 5s. is paid as a quit-rent to the 
 Dean and Chap, of Dui'ham, so there remains 3^. [All these rents 
 are Y.V.B.W.] In fee, a house in the Close, Newcastle, Y.V.B.W., 
 8Z. A house and land on lease from the Dean and Chap, called the 
 White House, par. of Jarrow, for 15 years yet to come, Y.V.B.W., 
 807., out of which a yearly rent is paid to Dean and Chap., 
 11/. 14.<;. lid., also to Sir Hen. Gibb for tithe, as a modus decimandi, 
 l^s. id. — in all 12/. lis. 'id., so there remains 67/. os. dd. A house 
 similarly held for 15 years called Wardley, par. of Jarrow, with land 
 I)elonging, Y.Y.B.W., 70/., out of which yearly rent to Dean and 
 Chap, is 8/. 16.*., remaining 61/. 4.s. Lease for 21 years to come of 
 a close adjoining Eighton Loning End, par. of Lamsley, Y.Y.B.W., 3/. 
 One third part of Blackbourne colliery, co. Durham, held of the 
 Bp. for three lives, of which one is latel}'' dead, paying to the 
 Bp. 40/. p. ann., for every pit Avorked. This cost me 700/. in 1645, 
 which might be worth 50/. p. ann. if the times were good, but I 
 have no profit by it, and if any man will give me the same rate for it 
 I shall be Avilling to leave it — 700/. One third of Gateshead colliery 
 in Jarrow, held of the Dean and Chap, by lease for 15 years to 
 come, paying therefor 10/. yearly for every pit, which cost me and 
 my partner, Mr. Leo. Carr, who owns the other two-thirds, above 
 3,000/. more than ever we gained, and yet we have not Ijrought it to 
 perfection. I did own a three-fourths part of Wilson's Field colliery 
 in Gateshead, of which I had a term of 11 years yet to come, paying 
 Qs. Sd. to the owner, profit of every ' tenn ' wrought. I paid for the 
 lease as an income, 150/. (which might be worth 50/. p. ann. for a 
 three-fourths part) and have been there at great expenses, and being 
 by my lease tied to work, and if I discontinue for a year he to re- 
 enter, and by reason of these unnatural wars and my imprisonment, 
 he hath thrust me out, which was a very hopeful colliery, and I at 
 above 600/. charges in winning it and now he reapeth the l)enefit and 
 profit. A lease of Chopridon colliery for 21 years, all expired but 
 one year, and little hope of any coals to he wrought. I value my 
 interest of this colliery at 30/. In del)ts owing to me by several 
 persons, some upon specialities and book debts, most of them I fear 
 are desperate. 2,500/. I owe to several ])ersons upon bond and 
 otherwise, 3,300/. For my other personal estate, which was in corn, 
 hay. sheep, horses and mares, in 1643 and 1644, I lost hj the Eai'l 
 of Newcastle's army and the Scots army above 800/. In coals taken 
 from my staithes and pits near to the town my loss and damage 
 is above 500/. ; and when the town was taken by storm my loss of 
 ])late, puter, lirass, bedding, diaper, damask, and other linen was 
 above 800/. Shipping : — A fourth part of the Dolphin of Newcastle, 
 Mr. Edwd. Band, master, sequestered, valued at 100/. A fourth of 
 the Ralph of Newcastle, Mr. John Hodshon, master, sequestered, 
 valued at 120/. A half of the Elsahrth of Newcastle, Mr. Mai'k
 
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 Pattisoii, master, about the burthen of 50 tons, an old ship valued 
 at 50/. For other shipping I have lost parts of three ships since 
 these unhappy differences, the Rose of Newcastle, of which I owned 
 all but an eighth part, and a half of the Fetter of Newcastle, and a 
 fourth and an eighth of the Elsaheth of Boston, valued at 600/. 
 
 1646. Apr. 7. The C.C. considering the grossness of his offence 
 and not being satisfied with the particular of his estate, put a 
 tine of -1,000/. upon him. The grossness of his oft'ence is detailed in 
 the following articles exhibited against him: — 
 
 (1) That the said Ralph Cole hath traitorously and maliciously 
 projected, incited and assisted to bring Wni., Earl of Newcastle, from 
 York to Newcastle-upon-Tyne to be governor thereof and general of 
 the forces in the Northern parts raised against the King and Parlt., 
 and hath actually levied war against the Lords and Commons in 
 this present Parlt. assembled, thereby endeavouring to subvert the 
 fundamental laws of this kingdom, the destruction of the true 
 Protestant religion, the liberty of the subject and the privileges 
 of Parlt. 
 
 (2) That he hath instigated the King to make and levy war 
 against the Parlt. and to that end and purpose has counselled some, 
 and compelled divers of the burgesses and inhabitants of Newcastle 
 to lend great sums of money for the levying of war raised for the 
 destruction of this present Parlt. 
 
 (3) That he with others, in opposition to the authority of 
 Parlt. before the setting up of the King's standard at Nottingham 
 caused and procured a seditious petition to be drawn up and sub- 
 scribed by several inhabitants of Newcastle, and sent the same, 
 with £2,000, to the King, thereby to help and strengthen the un- 
 happy division between the King and Parlt. 
 
 (4) That he, combined with others, oppressed and tyrannised over 
 the estates, liberties and lives of the good subjects of this kingdom, 
 and has l)een a princii:)al author, abettor and actor, in the lining, 
 imprisoning, disfranchising, Imnishing, plundering, robbing and 
 destroying divers of his Majesty's good subjects in their estates, 
 murdering and hanging sundry others for adhering to the Parlt., 
 viz. : — Edwd. Harrison, Thos. Dawson, Hen. Johnson, Wu). Fenwick, 
 AVm. Wilkinson and Richd. Bee. 
 
 (5) That he, with others, contrived and framed many detestable 
 and unlawful oaths and bound themselves together to defend each 
 other in the said unjust war, and have drawn and compelled by 
 threats and otherwise [others] to take the said oaths, which said 
 oaths are herewith produced.* And did further, by word of mouth 
 
 * Oaths contrived by Ralph Cole and otiiers [upper part of the document 
 much mutilated], dated Aug. 15, 1644. 
 
 (1) [Two or three lines illegible] .... dience to his Majesty, against 
 whomsoever shall by fraud or force .... without his Majesty's special com- 
 mission imder his hand ; iind if I surprise the aforesaid town of 
 
 Newcastle I do hereby swear .... plot and design, and I do furtlier swear to
 
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 and [several words illegible] the Lord-General of the forces raised 
 by the authority [illejiible] Lord Hitrh Admiral of Ensland, and 
 their jiartakers [illegiljle], rebels and traitors. And [illegible] press 
 divers Ijurgesses, as namely Leonard Carr, alderman ; John Emmer- 
 son and Hen. Maddison, merchants ; Wm. Dawson, draper ; Hen. 
 Rawlings, Geo. Bednell, and others to the number of forty, in their 
 pul)lic meetings, to swear and subscribe under their hands that the 
 isaid eai'ls, and all others that took ujj arms by authority of this 
 present Parlt. were rebels and traitors. 
 
 (6) That he and others, in oj^position to the authority of Parlt., 
 and of purpose to dain up the river Tyne and to destroy navigation, 
 trade and commerce betwixt his Majesty's subjects in Newcastle and 
 places thereabout, and his Majesty's other subjects in London and 
 other parts of the Kingdom under the power of the Parlt., caused 
 .sundry ships and vessels to be sunk in the river Tyne and at Tpie- 
 mouth Bar, thereby to augment the misery and procure the ruin 
 of the Kingdom so much as in them lay. 
 
 (7) That he, with others, exposed Newcastle-upon-Tyne to storm 
 and the burgesses and inha):»itants thereof to plunder and ruin, and 
 
 have no ... . espondency .... with the enemy which is against this town 
 or any other which is against his Majesty directly or indirectly .... of this 
 town, all this I do swear without any mental .... soever, as I expect 
 salvation and help from Almig .... 
 
 (2) I, A. B., do, in the presence of Almighty God, swear and protest to be 
 true and faithful to my sovereign lord King Charles, and to his heirs, and in 
 my rank, state and quality, to give true obedience to his generals and other 
 officers for the time being in his Majesty's war against sucli rebel subjects as 
 have already taken up, or shall hereafter take up, arms and be declared to 
 wage war against him, or which shall any ways abet, assist, or aid tliem. And 
 I do further swear to defend the town and county of Newcastle-upon-Tyne so 
 far as in me lieth, and preserve it, in due obedience to his Majesty, against 
 whomsoever shall, by fraud or force, endeavour to possess themselves of it 
 without his special commission under liis hand, and if I know of any design to 
 betray it or surprise it, I do hereby swear to discover to Mr. Mayor of the 
 sai<l town such plot and design. So help me God I 
 
 (3) I, A. B. , do, in the presence of Almighty God, vow and protest that 
 from henceforth I will not take up arms against his Majesty, King Cliarles, 
 upon any pretence or colour whatsoever, nor be aiding, abetting or assisting to 
 the Scotch Army now in P^ngland, or any part thereof, nor unto any army or 
 any forces hereafter to be raised into Scotland without his Majesty's com- 
 mission. And this I do heartily and willingly, without any equivocation or 
 mental reservation. So help me God ! 
 
 (4) I, A. B., do, in the presence of Almiglity God, swear to be true and 
 faithful to my sovereign lord. King Charles, and to his lieirs, and to be obedient 
 to Sr. John Marle[y], Knt., Mayor and Governor of Newcastle, in whatsoever 
 he commands, so far as in me lieth, for the preservation of Newcastle from 
 tliose rebellious subjects which do come against it, whether they be English or 
 Scots, and I do further swear to have no intelligence or correspondency with 
 those rebels now under command of General Leisley and the Earl of Callender, 
 nor any other his majesty's enemies. And if I know, or hereafter sliall know, 
 of any plot or design to betray this town of Newcastle, 1 do swear to reveal 
 such plot and design to Mr. May . . . All this I swear to perform really and 
 
 truly without any manner of dissembling or evasion whatsoever ect 
 
 salvation and help fr God.
 
 168 
 
 Avas a chief cause in spillinp- so uiuch innocent blood, and other 
 inexpressible miseries, and refused to admit the army and forces 
 raised by the authority of Parlt. to have entrance to the said town. 
 (8) That he and others endeavoured to raise mutinies and 
 sedition in the army raised by the authority of Parlt., when the 
 army lay at Sunderland, and to that purpose attempted, caused 
 and procured others to attempt to fii-e the ships within the river of 
 Sunderland, and endeavoured to draw the mariners and seamen to 
 join Avith him in his traitorous designs, tending to the ruin of the 
 Parlt. and Kingdom. 
 
 (9) That he was one of those that gave order for the burning of 
 several hundred houses at several parts within and about the town, 
 being to the utter overthrow and beggary of [document torn, 
 1 many] hundred families, whose goods and estates for the most 
 part were in those houses. 
 
 (10) That at the beginning of the war in Ireland, when the said 
 Kaiph Cole and others heard of any victory obtained by the rebels 
 against the Parlt. forces there, then he and they commonly burnt 
 liontires, commanded others to do the like, and caused bells to be 
 rung in token of joy. 
 
 (11) That after the House of Commons had, for his notorious 
 delinquency, ordered a serjeant at arms to fetch up the said Kaiph 
 Cole and other delinquents to Westminster, he sent to the Parlt. 
 of Scotland and used all possible means to make a division betwixt 
 the two Parliaments of England and Scotland, and when all the 
 means he and his confederates used proved ineffectual, being then 
 at sea on shipboard, he endeavoured to corrupt the captain and 
 promised a great reward if he would convey them into Holland. 
 
 1652. Aug. 31. Memorandum that Ralph Cole compounded 
 with a saving for the reversion of three-fourths of Wilson's Field 
 collier}-. 
 
 165."). July 26. He is allowed a hearing for the non-payment of 
 the latter half of his tine. 
 
 165:'). Aug. 17. Fine paid and the estate discharged. 
 
 CUTHBEliT COLLIXCWOOD OF DALDEN AND ESLINGTON.* 
 
 (Cai. ;;;. i>. 2204.) 
 
 1650. Mar. 6. Petition of Sir Arth. Haslerigg, bart., exhibited 
 to the C.C. on the 2nd inst. complaining that he had been long in 
 suit for tlie numors and lands of Eslington, Whittingham, Barton 
 
 * The CoUingwoods of Eslington acquired their Durham estates through 
 the marriage of Dorothy, dau. of Sir Geo. Bowes, with Sir Cuth. CoUingwood, 
 in the time of Queen Elizabeth. One of her sisters, Eliztli., married Jolui 
 Blakiston of Blakiston, and the manor of Dalden was divided between them. 
 Cuthbert, the delinquent, grandson of Sir Cuthbert, was three times married, 
 but had children by his second wife only — Olive, dau. of Chris. Wyvill of
 
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 and the moiety of Tliroimton, lying in the cf). Xorthd. and that the 
 said lands being sequestered foi- the delinquency of the Colling- 
 ■\voods, papists in arms, petitioner formerly petitioned the Lords and* 
 Commons for leave to try his title at common law, which accord- 
 ingly was granted ; and that thereujjon the petitioner sealed a 
 lease, and upon trial at the last assizes a verdict. Avas given for the 
 petitioner's title. That thereupon he petitioned the Barons [of the 
 Exchequer] to take off the sequestration, who referred it to Mr. 
 Attorney General, and, after receiving his rej^ort, declared that 
 power was taken from them, and relief only to be had at the C.C. 
 And the petitioner, praying that this committee would give him 
 relief and suffer him to have the fruit of his verdict and judgment, 
 it is resolved : That the sequestration be taken off the manors of 
 Eslington, Whittingham, Barton and the moiety of Throunton, now 
 in the possession of the State, that being excepted which is granted 
 by letters patents in the time of King Edwd. VI. and the 600 acres 
 jjassed by fine.* That Mr. Attorney be desired to prosecute the title 
 of the Commonwealth to the said lands. That Sir Arth. Haslerigg 
 give security to answer to the Commonwealth the profits of the said 
 estate if it shall be hereafter decreed for the State. 
 
 1650. Mar. 8. Cuth. Collingwood, esq., petitions so far as he is 
 concerned in the fifth part of the lands in question Ijetween Sir 
 Arth. Haslerigg and himself, for the provision of his younger 
 children, stating that he was surprised at having to attend the 
 C.C. on Wednesday, not having the advantage of his former counsel, 
 then on circuit, for they would have satisfied the C.C. with the 
 justice of his title. Desires jiostponement until next term that his 
 counsel may attend so that the State's possession of the whole (being 
 near 10,000 acres) and petitioner's interest in the fifth part thereof 
 may not l^e given away (upon a verdict for 5 acres only, gotten hx 
 surprise and had without consent of parties or directions of any 
 court or committee), Ijefore an equal trial at law therein (the birth- 
 right of everv Englishman) and a full hearing thereof. 
 
 Burton, CO. Kbor, esq. Benedict, his second son, was slain fighting for tlie 
 Crown at Naseby. Surtees, Hist. Ihirham, pt. ii. vol. i. p. 7. In Parlt., Sir Artli. 
 Haslerigg, notwithstanding this soniewliat obstinate delinquent, secured a 
 hearing for his petitions and obtained postponements of the sale of his estates. 
 Thus, Aj)r. 'lc>, 1651, a petition from him being read to tlie House, with a 
 certificate from the C.C, it was resolved to omit his name for the present from 
 the Bill for Sale of Estates forfeited. Again, July 1, 1652, a motion to include 
 his name in a similar Bill was negatived. Later, Oct. 27, 1652, the motion %\as 
 carried and, Nov. 2, confirmed. For otiier details of the CoUingwoods an<l 
 their possessions, see Dixon's WhiUimihani Vn/c, pp. 79-79. See also the new 
 Bist. Northd. ii. 133. 
 
 * In Kaster term, 1542, a fine was made between Ro})t. Collingwood, es(j., 
 plttf., and Bertinus Haslerigg and Isabella his wife, aiul Miles Haslerigg anil 
 Bridgett his wife, of 20 messuages and lands and the moiety of one water-mill 
 in Kstlyngton, Whyttyngham, Berton and Tlirowiiton. Fff-J of Fines, Nortlul., 
 1591-1603, ppiics New Hi.story Committee.
 
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 1650. Mar. 1.'5. Collin s:wood to IjriiiLi,- in a deed to lirove his 
 claim. 
 •■ 1650. Mar. 20. The lands contiruied to Haslerigg. 
 
 1650. Nov. 6. Roger, Isabel, Elinor and Jane, Collingwood's 
 younger children, beg orders to the two Cou. Conas. to allow them a 
 fifth of their father's sequestered estate. 
 
 1650. Dec. 5. Trustees for sale of delinquent's estates request 
 the C.C. to certify Collingwood's delinquency. 
 
 1650. Dec. 21. Cou. Com. report that he was in arms against 
 Parlt. and was styled recusant and delinquent by the late C.C. 
 
 1651. July 2 ( %). Trevanion Collingwood of Seaham, begs allow- 
 iuice of ."JO/, aiuiuity on lands there. Certificate from Cou. Com. that 
 it was granted in 163."5, and is sequestered, and that petitioner who 
 is very poor and infirm, has no other suljsistence. — Granted, with 
 arrears from 1649. 
 
 1652. Mar. 24. Kobt., son of Geo. Collingwood, l)y his guardian 
 and kinsman, Thos. Bowes, begs discharge of a half .of Dalden Manor, 
 conveyed by Sir Thos. Blackston, bart., to his grandfather, Robt. 
 Collingwood, but now sequestered for recusancy of Cuth. who owns 
 the other moiety. Is brought \\\\ a Protestant. 
 
 1652. Mar. .'iO. Cou. Com. to certify petitioner's title. 
 
 1652. Xov. Ic'^. The estate of Cuth. Collingwood appears in the 
 third Act for Sale. 
 
 165-3. May 12. Cuth. Collingwood petitions to compound for 
 his estate, being in the last Act for Sale, and the surveys returned. 
 This [)etition was not granted ajjj^arently, for the following dis- 
 charges from sequestration of forfeited lands belonging to him are 
 recorded : — 
 
 1653. May 28. Grindon Farm, Bp. Wearmouth, sequestered 
 from Anne Wytham, widow, l^ut found to lie Cuth. Collingwood's, 
 bought by Sam. Foxley. 
 
 1653. Aug. 4. Grindon mansion house released. 
 
 1653. Dec. 29. Anne Wytham, widow, begs a hearing of her 
 claim to Grindon, a third of which she has held since the death of 
 her brother, Geo. Collingwood, but her eldest brother, Cuth., being 
 a delinquent, it has been sold as his. — Claim disallowed. 
 
 1653. Sept. 20. Seaham Manor, Dalden Hermitage, co. Durham, 
 with right of fishing, etc., l)Ought by Sam. Foxley. 
 
 1654. Jan. 5. Robt. Stapelton and John Toung, assignees of 
 Cuth. Collingwood, beg to compjound for the tithes of Whittingham 
 Kectory. — Granted. Fine at two-sixths, 78/. 6.*;. 
 
 1654. May 11. Hartside village in Ingi-am parish, co. Xorthd., 
 bought by Phil. Purefoy and Jonathan Barthropp. 
 
 1656. Apr. 24. The Treason Trustees notify the C.S. of trial in 
 Common Pleas about Eslington, Whittingham, etc., between Colling- 
 wood and Sir Arth. Haslerigg, and advise them to defend the 
 State's title therein.
 
 in 
 
 SIR ROBERT COLLIXGWOOD OF BRAXTON. 
 {Cal. iv. p. 2719.) 
 
 164:8. Dec. 15. A charge of delinquency against Sir Robt. Col- 
 lingwood of Branton, co. Northd., knt. (1) That a little before Mid- 
 summer last, Capt. Hen. Harbottle, being at Branton about raising a 
 troop of dragoons for Col. Uray, the said Sir Roljt. Collingwood told 
 the said Capt. Harliottle that he was engaged to furnish Col. Gray with 
 some muskets for the same. (2) That the said Sir Roljt. thereupon 
 gave the said captain 9 muskets of which he had 8 in his own house 
 and 1 out of a house in Branton. (3) That at the same time the said 
 Capt. Harbottle received of Sir Robt. 2 horses for dragooners, and 
 being demanded another horse by the said Harbottle for the service 
 against the Parlt. the said Sir Robt. answered that he had already 
 given his colonel, meaning Col. Gray, a horse which he thought 
 might exempt him from finding another. (i) That the said Sir 
 Robt. was divers times with Col. Gray since Barwicke was taken, 
 viz., at Woller, Barwicke, Balml)rough and at Cartington Moor, 
 a little l)efore the defeat given to the cavaliers at Callaley, and went 
 into the enemy's quarters and garrison at his pleasure. (5) That 
 some soldiers being to be raised for Col. Gray upon Sir Robt. 
 Collingwood's lands they fled from their houses, refusing to serve, 
 whereupon Sir Robt. caused the constables to drive their goods and 
 deliver them to Capt. Harbottle who carried them to Scremerston 
 where they were kept until released by Col. Gray. (6) That the 
 said Robt. held correspondence with the enemy, as api^ears by a 
 letter from Lieut. Col. John Salkeld in these words, viz.: — Sir. — 
 I received your horse you sent me in for Eglinghani and we liave 
 appraised him to Si'. I desire that my cousin [?] may know as 
 much, that you may have satisfaction for your cruelty towards her. 
 I am in haste and only have time to sul:)scribe myself. Sir, your 
 humble servant, John Salkeld. I have given order for return of her 
 oxen. Barwicke, Aug. 21, 1648. 
 
 1651. Mar. 7. Wm. Shafto and Hen. Ogle, Cou. Coms., send 
 the foregoing charges, with another against John Salkeld of Rock,* 
 to the C.C., explaining that both Colling"wood and Salkeld stand 
 upon their vindication, and that they have foreborne to lay on the 
 sequestrations. 
 
 1651. Apr. 9. The C.C. order the estates to l)e secpicstei'ed upon 
 proof. 
 
 1651. July 25. The Cou. Com. are to examine Sir KoI)t.t and 
 other witnesses on lioth sides. No further record. 
 
 * The charge against/ Salkeld is i)riiiteil in the new lli'^t. Xort <I. ii. i;i2. 
 
 t 1657. June 11. Sir Wm. Strickland acijuaints the House [of Commons] 
 "with a paper he hath received from Robt. Ogle, whicli was read, being as 
 followeth : The information of Robt. Ogle of Kslington [Kglinghani V], Nortlid., 
 gentleman, who saitli that in April last, he lieing at his inn at Alnwick, Sir
 
 172 
 
 WILLIAM COLLINGWOOD OF DURHAM CITY. 
 
 (Cal ;. J). 304.) 
 
 1G49. Win. Collingwood of the city of Durham compounds with 
 the Parity, commissioners for adhering to the enemy, etc. Par- 
 ticular of his estate: — In fee two closes of ground in Mooresley, in 
 the par. of Houghton, called East Close and Broome Flatt. He is 
 allowed a fee-farm rent of los. id. p. arm. payable to Sir Edwd. 
 Musgrave, knt. 
 
 Fine at a sixth. 28/. 
 
 Robt. CoUiugwood of Branton, John Salkeld of Rock, jun., Daniel, son of Sir 
 Robt. , and one Robt. Pembei'ton, came into the room where this informant 
 was, Avhere, falling upon discourse about a king, Sir. Robt. said : We must 
 have a king and will have a king, and my Lord Protector dares not refuse it. 
 And afterwards, the said Sir Robt. began to inveigh against Rol)t. Fenwick, a 
 member of this present Parlt. , saying he was a base fellow, his father was 
 Jianged for felony ; and he did wonder who sent him to the Parlt. And fur- 
 ther that some few days before, being incompanj' where cavalier gentlemen were 
 murmuring that they had been debarred from horse-races, Daniel Collingwood, 
 son of Sir Robt., thereupon took liberty to say that there was none now in 
 power but the Rascality, who envied that gentlemen should enjoy their 
 recreations. (Signed) Robert Ogle. — Ordered, That Sir Robt. Collingwood and 
 Daniel his son be sent for as delinquents. 
 
 1657. June 23. The House being informed that Mr. Collingwood was at 
 the door, he was called in. And being come to the Bar, and kneeling, the 
 Speaker demanded of him whether he did say that there Mere none but the 
 Rascality now in power, etc. [as above]. He doth utterly denj' that he spoke 
 any such words. And being commanded to withdraw. Resolved, That Daniel 
 Collingwood he discharged. That Sir Robt. Collingwood have time to appear 
 at the Bar the second Thursday of the next meeting, and in the meantime the 
 warrant to the Serjeant-at-Arms be suspended. 
 
 1658. .fan. 29. The House being acquainted, etc.. Sir Robt. Collingwood 
 was called in and brought to the Bar, where he kneeled down, and afterwards 
 was, by Mr. Speaker, commanded to stand up. And the said information 
 being read unto him as the same was delivered into the House under the hand 
 of Robt. Ogle, he confessed his being at Alnwick at the time and place and in 
 the company of the gentlemen named in the said information, but did utterly 
 deny the speaking of the words contained in the said information and now 
 read to him. Whereupon it was Resolved, That Sir Robt. Collingwood be 
 discharged of his imprisonment. 
 
 1659. Sir Robt. Collingwood figures again in the Jonnm/s, in a suit 
 against Hen. Ogle. Ogle, under arrest, petitioned the House, and July 2, 1659, 
 Sir Arth. Haslerigg, as head of a committee of inquiry, reported that the suit 
 had been heard at Newcastle Assizes two years since, when Sir Robt. was non- 
 suited ; that he had then taken out a writ against Ogle, which he had beem 
 two years endeavouring to serve, and that the action arose out of a joint 
 promise for payment of 1,500/. to Sir Eobt. by Sir Wm. Selby, Mr. Shaftoe, 
 and Hen. Ogle, commissioners for raising forces for the Parlt. in 1645, who 
 raised a proportion of a foot regiment of which Sir Robt. was colonel and 
 wants his arrears, and that Shaftoe and Selliy being dead he had sued Mr. Ogle. 
 The House ordered Ogle to be set at liberty and directed the Committee to 
 examine into the matter fi;rther and report. 
 
 About this Sir Robt. Collingwood and the Branton branch of the once 
 prolific family of that name, little is recorded. Cuth. Collingwood of Branton, 
 par. of Eglingham, made his will Aug. 12, 1608, leaving by Katherine his wife
 
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 WILLIAM COLSTON OF POXTELAND.* 
 
 {Cal il. p. 1061.) 
 
 16-t5. Dec. 12. Wm. Colston of Ponteland, co. Northd., petitions 
 to be admitted to compound for delinquency, havino- been in New- 
 ■castle durinir the siege. He surrendered Nov. 29 last. His personal 
 estate is all wasted by the armies, and taken away by the seques- 
 trators, and he is in debt 350?. The land which he possessed in 
 Ponteland, worth 100 marks y>- aiiii> h^ held in right of his wife as 
 executrix of the Avill of Cuth. Proctor her father, deceased, for pay- 
 ment of his debts and the sum of 900/. to his daughters out of said 
 land, which 900/. is to be equally divided between petitioner's wife 
 and Isabel her sister. He has 49.s. p. ann. for life, in right of his 
 wife, out of certain houses in Sandgate, near Newcastle. Another 
 l^articular of his estate shows that the personalty was wasted, etc., 
 except a small quantity of feathers. His lands at Ponteland in best 
 times were let at 64/., and are this last year demised by the Con. 
 Com. at 20/. p. ann., but there is a rent charge of 10/. -p. ann. issuing 
 therefrom to the executors of John Stobbes and a rent charge of 49.<. 
 p. ann. in right of his wife for life. His debts: — To Lady Melton, 
 by bond, 197/. : Margt. Hudson, ditto., 34/. : Anthony Anderson, 
 
 four sons and one daughter. The eldest son, Daniel (of Branton), married 
 Eleanor, dau. of Robt. Mitford of Mitford, by whom he had Sir Kobert the 
 delinquent and four daughters. The second son, Norman Collingwood, received 
 as his portion under the will two farm holds at Branton, then in his own occu- 
 pation. Another son, John Collingwood, was apprenticed, Feb. 1.3, 1611, to 
 Fran. Parkinson, of Xew"castle, merchant. Sir Robt., as appears by the 
 report of the cp;arrel at Alnwick, had a son named Daniel, and in the registers 
 of Alnwick are entered the liaptisms of two daus., Agnes, Feb. 1, 1658, and 
 Barbara, Aug. 22, 1660. In the Northd. Rentals, 1663, he was rated for 
 Branton and Brandon, 300/., and Reveley [blank]. Ex inf. Mr. J. Crawford 
 Hodgson. 
 
 * Wm. Colston is not traceable in local records. His wife was a dau. 
 of Cuth. Procter of the Shawdon family. Procter was a Newcastle merchant, 
 apprenticed to And. Westwood, boothman, Oct. 11, 1577 {Dendy, Surt. Soc. 
 Pub. 101, p. 212), and assessed in a suljsidy roll of 1621 for lands in All Saints' 
 parish, Newcastle, at \2^. By his will dated Mar. 23, 1632, he desired to Vie 
 buried at All Saints, near to his late wife [EUinor Procter, wife of Cuthb. , 
 bur. Aug. 13, 1624]. Gave his three daus., Margaret, Dorothy and Isabel, all 
 his lands, tenements, etc., in Newcastle and Gateshead (except his own 
 dwelling house in Pilgrim St. ) ; also his goods, chattels and leases, except his 
 lease of lands at Ponteland, which he gave to his son, Cuth. Procter, provided 
 that within ten j'ears of testator's death he should pay his three sisters, in one 
 payment, 1)00/. Executors, the three daus. Proved at Durham, Dec. 17, 1633. 
 There is a note in the C.C. Report, that one of the said daus. died before the 
 day of payment ; that Margaret, wife of compounder, alone proved the will ; 
 the otlier sister renounced probate. The money not being paid, the executrix 
 and lier husband, Mr. Colston, entered and possessed the same until it was 
 sequestered ; the other sister is not paid any share of the 900/. Tlie lease is for 
 1,000 years. In the Northd. Rentals, 1663, Mrs. Margt. Coulson was rated 
 for lands in Ponteland township at 30/.
 
 174 
 
 ditto., 20/.; several others, ditto., 19/. KM.; Mrs. Darby, ditto., 
 12/. ; executors of Mrs. Gray, 20/. ; without speciality, 70/. Total, 
 372/. 10.^. 
 
 16^5. Dec. 2:5. Fine fixed at 1 :'):'>/. Gg. Sd. 
 
 1646. Mar. 9. The House of Commons accepts the fine, his 
 offence being the forsaking of his habitation and residing in the 
 enemy's quarters. His estate, 100 marks p. ann. An ordinance 
 to be brought in for his pardon. 
 
 1646. Mar. 24. Fine reduced to 9:5/. 6.^. Sd. 
 
 1650. Feb. 7. Fine remitted, delinquent having made over 40/. 
 a year for 5 years to Newcastle garrison. 
 
 PHIL. COLVIbL OF STANHOPE. 
 
 {(',,1. r. /-. .i:w.) 
 
 1656. June 5. Certificate by the Registrar of the C.C. that Phil. 
 Colville had not fjeen sequestered, nor proceeded against for 
 delinquency, nor had he conqiounded. 
 
 EDWARD CONYEHS OF HOPPEN.* 
 
 (Cal ;. p. 202.) 
 
 1649. Edwd. Conyers compounds with the Parity. Commissioners 
 for his estate of Hopton, or Hoppen, in the par. of Bamburgh. Par- 
 ticular thereof: — A demesne in fee, lying in Hopton, Y.V.B.W., 
 40/. He is released from compounding for a farm in Lucker, 
 Y.Y. 10/., in suit betwixt the executors of Thos. Bradforth and 
 himself, until it be recovered; is allowed also 1/. IQs. p. ann., pay- 
 able to the Crown out of the said demesne ; also a yearly rent of 
 10s. payable out of the same to the Earl of Northumberland, 5/. 
 payable to his father-in-law yearly for life out of said demesne, and 
 a rent charge to his grandmother's children of 12/. p. ann. for the 
 payment of 150/. 
 
 Fine at a sixth, 79/. 
 
 * Compounder was the son and lieir of Robt. Conyers of Hoppen, by Mary, 
 dau. of Robt. Brandling of Felling. His father's will, dated June 8, 16'2ti, 
 mentions the following persons and property : — To son Edward my demesnes 
 in Hoppine and the reversion of Coathouse, Dovecott, and Dovecott Meadow 
 Close in Lucker, after the death of my mother-in-law, Thomisin Conyers, 
 widow, with remainder to Thos. Bradfoorth of Bradfoorth, esq. ; mentions 
 dau. Mary Bradfoorth ; daus. Jane and Susselye [Cicely] ; bastard son, Robert ; 
 my burgage in Berwick; brother-in-law Richd. Brandling of Whithill, gent., 
 and his son Edwd. Brandling ; wife Mary ; sister Elizth. (iardner ; house in 
 lierwick which my father dwelt in ; cousin Thos. Armorer of Belford. A 
 through stone to be set above me in my porch that my picture may be graven 
 of it in the form of complete armour. Cf. the new Hint. Nortlid. i. 245.
 
 173 
 
 KATHEHIXE. WIDOW OF CUTHHEHT CONYERS, AND JOHX 
 COXYERS OF LAYTON.* 
 
 (Cal }r. p. .?SOd). 
 
 1(551. May. 22. AYiii. and Ann, younjzer children of Cuth. 
 Conyers, beg examination by the Cou. Com. of Durham, where the 
 witnesses live, and reference to counsel of their claim to annuities 
 (W^m. 20/. and Ann 20 marks) settled on them, in 1627, by their 
 grandfather. Sir Ralph Conyers, on Layton Manor, allowed l)y former 
 Cou. Com. but now stayed on general instructions, the estate being 
 sequestered for recusancy of John Conyers. 
 
 1651. July 30. Beg allowance of a third of their annuities 
 allowed them as recusants, having no other subsistence. — Same date. 
 Claim of a third allowed, with arrears from Dec. 24, 1649. 
 
 1651. May 28. Anthony- Ovington of Great Stainton begs dis- 
 charge of a third of Layton lordship, jointure made to Katherine 
 his wife Ijy Cuth. Conyers, her former husl)and. and sequestered for 
 her recusancy, though she has now conformed and constantly attends 
 Great Stainton parish church. — Same date. Order that he shall l)e 
 relieved when Park, declares what it accepts as conformity. 
 
 1652. Xov. IS. The estate of Kath. Conyers ap|iears in the 
 third Act for Sale. 
 
 1653. Jan. 19. Ovington cumphiins that, in spite of his wife's 
 conformity and his aj)peal, the estate is, l)y mistake, in the last 
 Act for Sale, though she was never a delinquent and has taken the 
 Oath of Aljjuration. — Sale to be stopped. 
 
 1653. Aug. 23. Anthony and Kath. Ovington petition Parlt. 
 to accept her conformity, discharge the estate, and grant the rents 
 from the time of appeal. 
 
 1653. Oct. 7. The I'ents granted for six months on security 
 for two years' value, and if they do not then obtain an order of 
 Parlt. the sequestration to l)e laid on anew. 
 
 1654. Apr. 12. Permission extended for twelve months longer. 
 
 1655. June 29. The Ovingtons beg extension without limit of 
 time on security of three years' value. — Granted on two years' security 
 till Mar. 25, 1656, and if then they have not procured a determinate 
 order, the Cou. Com. to receive the profits. 
 
 1656. Feb. 2. The officers of the Exchequer demanding Oving- 
 ton's rents, and compelling him to give security for them he appeals 
 to the Protector, the Treasury l)eing unal)le to help him. — Referred 
 to the Council. 
 
 * A long and tedious case, .showing the diftJculty of obtaining release from 
 sequestration even after alleged conformitj'. Cuth. Con3'ers, son of Sir Ralpli 
 of Layton, married (1) Margt., dau. of John Witham of Cliflfe, co. York; 
 (2) Catli., dau. of Wm., Lord Eure. He was slain, fighting on the royalist 
 side at Malpas in Cheshire, Aug., 1644, and his widow appears to have nuirried 
 Anthony Ovington. This marriage was apparently unknown to Surtees w hen 
 he compiled the pedigree of the family for his Ilisf. Diirliioii, iii. 37.
 
 17(3 
 
 1656. Feb. 27. Order in Council that Ovington's petition be 
 -not sent to the Treasury. — No further record. 
 
 1654. Jan. 5. John Conyers begs to contract on the late Recus- 
 ant's Act for two-thirds of his sequestered estate. — Referred to Mr. 
 Reading. 
 
 1651. June 16. Thos. Fairfax of York, husband of Ann, sister 
 of John Conyers, begs allowance of a rent-charge of 1,000 marks, 
 charged on the estate on the marriage of his wife's parents and 
 allowed by the Cou. Com. and a third paid hitherto, but he being 
 comfortable [conformal)le i] thinks the other two-thirds should be 
 paid. — Cou. Com. to certify and Mr. Brereton to report. 
 
 SIR JOHX CONYERS OF NETTLESWORTH.* 
 
 (Cai. ri. p. 'JOS. J 
 
 1645. Sept. 21. Sir John Conyers of Xettlesworth, co. Durham, 
 petitions the C.S., shewing that his estate, having been sequestered 
 he answered two charges before the Cou. Com. and offered to give 
 lOOZ.f to Parlt. to show" his affection, which was accepted if he would 
 lend 200/. more on the j^ublic faith. He consented, but asked for 
 time, being weakened and in debt by the quartering of the whole 
 Scottish army on him for ten days, and having eleven children. His 
 case was referred to Parlt., but meanwhile his estate lies untenanted. 
 Begs suspension of sequestration. 
 
 1647. Mar. 27. Petitions the C.C. to be admitted to compound 
 for delinquency in adhering to the King. Particular of his estate : — 
 In fee to him and his heirs in possession, lands and tenements in 
 Horden, par. of Easington, Y.V.B.W., 350/. ; a like estate in a close 
 in Thorpe, Y.V.B.W., 9/. ; and in lands, etc., in Preston, i^ar. of 
 Ayclift'e, Y.V.B.W., 801. ; a like estate in freehold and copyhold lands 
 and tenements in Nettlesworth, Y.V.B.W., -30/. ; a frank tenement 
 during three lives in lands, etc., in par. of Easington, held by demise 
 from the Bp. of Durham at 1/. p. ann., Y.V.B.W., 9/. ; personal 
 estate, consisting of cattle and household stuff', amounting to 20/. 
 He has lost, by the taking away of his stock and goods by the 
 armies, the value of 1,500/. Craves to be allowed 416/. for parcel 
 of the said lands and tenements in Horden, charged as follows : — 
 Demise, dated Oct. 6, 1638, to Robt. Colling-Avood, his heirs, etc., 
 
 * Sir John, living in troublous times, was a prominent member of the great 
 historical family of Conyers. Although active rebels in the time of Queen 
 Elizth., the various branches of this house were intenseh^ loyal to King Charles. 
 Everj^ history of Durham contains an account of them, from their rise in the 
 twelfth century to the last baronet of the race, who died in indigence at the 
 beginning of the nineteenth century. Cf. Surtees, Hist. Durham, i. 28 ; 
 iii. 37, 79, 81. 219, 247, 401; Arch. ^'Eliana, v. 36; Graves, Hist. 
 Cleveland, pp. 49, 330, 439, the Visitations of Durham 1.575 and 1615 ; Burke, 
 Vicissitudes of Families, 2nd series, pp. 17-28. 
 
 + See note to the case of Sir Richd. Bellasis, untc, p. 117.
 
 1.77 
 
 ■of fields called Leyfields and the Intacke pasture, with other lands, 
 •etc., for 300 years, under proviso of voidance upon payment of the I 
 41 6Z. ; also 320/., for which the other part of Horden stands charged 
 from June 30, 1636, to Ealph Alleuson, esq., for an annual rent of 
 40/., conditioned on payment of 520/. on Dec. 26, 1638, or within 10 
 •days after, of which sum 200/. is paid, leaving 320/. unpaid, and • 
 the lands charged with the whole; also quit rents, 3/. 15s. 6<:/., to 
 ■the Bp. of Durham for Nettlesworth lands, and 13s. id. to said Bp., 
 fee-farm rent out of lands in Preston. 
 
 1647. Apr. 20. Fine at a tenth, 651/. 12.s.* 
 
 (CflZ. [C.A.M.] ii. p. 755.) 
 
 1647. Jan. 29. Sir John Conyers assessed at 500/. 
 1650. Oct. 18. Petitions that as he has been prevented from 
 attending by great floods, he may be examined on oath in the North. 
 
 1650. Nov. 11. Order that as his twentieth is 240/., he shall 
 have a commission for his examination in the North on pajanent 
 •of half that sum. 
 
 1651. Mar. 7. Order, on his son's deposition as to his debts, 
 that 100/. be accepted, and therefore 20/. of 120/. paid is to be 
 returned, and he discharged on j^ayiug the Cou. Com. their 
 allowances. 
 
 THOMAS CONYERS OF WOOLLEY.f 
 
 rCal. i. p. 203.) 
 
 1649. Thos. Conyers of Woolley, par. of Brancepeth, co. Durham, 
 com^DOunds with the Parity. Commissioners for his delinquency! 
 during the late war. His estate : — A farmhold, called Wolly, for 
 90 years, determinable on the death of Thos. Grinwell of Crook, 
 Y.V.B.W., 40/. ; the moiety of a tenement in Raby for 10 years to 
 come, Y.y.B.W., 12/. He is allowed a fee-farm rent of 3/. 10s. \d. 
 issuing out of the farmhold. 
 Fine at a sixth, 96/. 19s. 
 
 * 1648. Aug. '26. The House of Commons resolved to accept 651/. 12.s\ for 
 Thos. Conyers' delinquency. His offence, that he lived in the enemy's quarters, 
 and adhered to the forces against the Parliament. He rendered in Oct., 1644, 
 his estate in fee in possession, p. ann., 369/. ; for three lives p. ann., 9/. ; 
 personal estate, 20/. ; out of which issues for ever p. ann., 14/. 9n-. ; also 
 charged upon the lands, 736/. ; which being allowed, leaves the fine at a tenth, 
 651/. 12.<;. Ordinance for granting a pardon and taking off the sequestration 
 passed, and ordered to be sent to the Lords for their concurrence. 
 
 t A member of the Marske offshoot from the family of Conyers. His father, 
 Wm. Conyers of Woolley. married for his first wife, Alice, dau. of Anthony 
 Kendall of Thorpthewles, who brought him five sons and eiglit daughters. 
 None of these sons survived, and when he died, in 1641, administration was 
 granted to Thomas Conyers, who, with two daughters, issued from a second 
 marriage. Thomas was united to Margt., dau. of Sir John Calverley of 
 Littleburn, by whom he had three sons and a daughter. 8he lived till May, 
 1705, and died in great poverty. Raine, Arch. ^EHana, v. 38. 
 
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 178 
 
 JOSEPH CRADOCK OF EVENWOOD. 
 
 (Cal. iii. p. 187S.J 
 
 1648. Nov. 27. Jos. Cradock of Eveinvood, co. Durham, begs- 
 to comi^ound for his delinquency in assisting the forces raised against 
 the Parlt. Particular of his estate : — A copyhold in Evenwood, for 
 the life of Geo. Downes, aged 80, Y.V.B.W., 11/.; several other 
 copyhold lands there in right of his wife, Y.V.B.W., 64/. ; personal, 
 estate, value, 133/. Debts due by him :— To Mr. Robt. Harrison, 
 by bond, 112/.; Mr. Gamble Jackson, 174/.; Mr. Robt. Harrison,. 
 50/. ; to several others by bond, 500/. 
 
 1648. Dec. 14. Fine at a sixth, 112/. lO.v. 
 
 1652. Mar. 25. Fine paid and estate discharged. 
 
 ROBERT CRAMLINGTON OF NE\YSHAM.* 
 
 (Cal. iv. p. 313S.) 
 1653. Sept. 10. Discharge from sequestration of Newsham Halh 
 Tynemouth, forfeited by Robt. Cramlington and bought from the 
 Treason Trustees by Ralph Milbank. 
 
 SIR WILLIAM DARCY OF WITTON CASTLE.f 
 
 (Cal. in. p. 1880.) 
 
 1648. Dec. 14. Dorothea, wife of Sir Wm. Darcy, petitions that 
 her husband may he permitted to compound and free his jierson and 
 estate from sequestration. He chooses rather to do this than justify 
 himself. Particular of his estate : — In fee the Manor of Witton, 
 in par. of same, with the demesnes belonging, Y.Y.B.W., 200/. ; in 
 fee the reversion, after two lives, to a tenement in Witton, occupied' 
 by John Jerome, Y.Y., 20/. ; in fee an iron forge, a water corn mill, 
 
 * The House of Commons, Nov. 2, lfi52, when debating the bill which 
 became, a few days later, the third Act for Sale of Estates forfeited for Treason, 
 resolved that the name of Robert Cramlington of Newsham be inserted into 
 this bill. On July 14, preceding, thej' had ordered the insertion of the name 
 of John Cramlington in the bill, and the resolution of Nov. 2, was, no doubt, 
 a rectification of Christian name only. Wallis, Hist. N'orthd. ii. 281, describes 
 Newsham, near Blyth, as the manor and seat of a younger branch of the 
 Cramlingtons of Cramlington and ... of Robt. Cramlington in the reign of 
 Chas. I. whose estate was sequestered, etc. It was afterwards purchased by 
 the city of London and sold to Col. Thos. RatclifF. Cf. J. Crawford Hodgson, 
 Arch. yEliuva, xix. 4 ; xxiv. 127. 
 
 t Sir Wm. Darcy, created knight at Berwick, July 26, 1639, appointed a 
 commissioner to perfect accounts of billet and other moneys due to the county 
 of Durham from the Scots army, June 25, 1641, and high sheriff of Durliam in 
 October following, was the second son of Conyers, Lord Darcy and Conyers. 
 The Darcy family acquired the castle of Witton from the Eures in the fifteenth 
 century and held it down to the middle of the eighteenth century, when it was 
 sold to Wm. Cuthbert, recorder of Newcastle. Sir Wm. Darcy was appointed, 
 Aug. 16, 1660, chancellor and keeper of the great seal of the see of Durham.
 
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 with a dwelling house and grounds belonging, Y.V.B.W., 20/. ; in 
 fee the Manor of Hamsterley, in par. of same, with the demesnes and 
 ' filches ' and some small copyholds held of the Bp. of Durham, 
 Y.V.B.W., 200/. ; in fee-farm the corn tithes of the prebendary of 
 Hamsterley and Witton, Y.V.B.W., 58/. ; for three lives, held of the 
 Bp., grounds called Cojjlaw, with a water corn mill belonging, 
 Y.V.B.W., 160/. ; he is in suit for lands called Ricknall or Ricknall's 
 Grange, which he desires not to compound for till recovered, 
 Y.V.B.W., 66/. 13s. 4<i. ; a house in Durham, held of the Bp. by 
 lease for 30 years to come, Y.V., 3/. 10s. ; another house there, part 
 freehold and j^art leased from the Bp., Y.V., 6/. 10.s\ ; quit rents 
 belonging to the Manor of Witton, Y.V., 21. ; stock upon the forge, 
 400/. Craves allowance of an annuity of 400/. charged by deed 
 upon the manor and prebendaries of Witton and Hamsterley, pay- 
 able to Lady Darcy for life; 11/. p. ann. to the Bp. for the manor 
 of Witton ; 21. p. ann. tithe rent for the demesnes ; copyhold rent 
 to the Bp. for part of Witton, 1/. 12s. ; tithe corn of the two pre- 
 bendaries, paid to the King, p. ann., 8/. 2s. ; to the Bp. for Coplaw, 
 p. ann., 18/. 10s. ; to the Bp. out of Ricknall's Grange, 71. 10s. He 
 is indebted to several persons 1,000/. 
 
 1650. Feb. 5. Fine at a sixth, 1,839/.; 600/. to be deducted if 
 he prove that 400/. a year to his mother is chargeable on his estate. 
 
 1650. Feb. 12. Parishioners of St. Andrew Auckland beg that 
 the value of their rectory, 58/. a year, for which Sir Wm. is to com- 
 pound, may be settled on Witton and Hamsterley chapels, the 
 ministers of which have only 20 nobles a year each for maintenance. 
 The parish is large and suffering for lack of teaching. 
 
 1650. Mar. 1. Each chapel granted 29/. a year. 580/. more 
 to be deducted from Sir William's fine. 
 
 1650. Mar. 3. Upon discovery of a new delinquency the fine 
 increased to 2,400/., or 1,800/. if he settle the rectory. 
 
 1650. Apr. 5. Whole fine remitted on his paying 1,000/. to 
 Morton,* Bp. of Durham, and settling 40/. a year on Auckland 
 Church. 
 
 1650. May 11. Fine paid and estate discharged. 
 
 RALPH, SAMUEL AND THOMAS DAVISON.f 
 
 (Col. a. pp. 986, 1400.) 
 
 1645. Nov. 27. Ralph and Thos. Davison petition together for 
 liberty to compound on the late ordinance for delinquency. Thos. 
 
 * 1650. March 2. Ordered by the House of Commons that tlic sum of 
 1000/. of the fine of Sir Wm. Darcy, a delinquent, be forthwith paid luito Dr 
 Moreton, late Bp. of Durham, or liis assigns, towards tlie arrears of tlie 800/. 
 p. ann. granted to him bj' the Parlt., and that tiie Committee at Goldsmiths 
 Hall do pay the same accordingly'. 
 
 t The three petitioners in this case were the surviving sons of Sir Alexander 
 Davison (sheriff of Newcastle, 1611-12, mayor, 1626-27 and 1638-39), who.
 
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 states that he was lieut.-col. under the Earl of Newcastle from 
 Apr. 1643 to Oct. 1644, when he surrendered, but was never out of 
 the county while in arms. Being a member of Gray's Inn has taken 
 the Oath and Covenant in the chapel there. Ralph admits that he 
 was captain of a foot company. 
 
 Particular of Thos. Davison's estate : — In fee, Blakiston, Y.V., 
 250Z. ; Wineyard, Y.V., 280/. ; Fulthrope, 90/. ; Thorpethewles, 80/. ; 
 Wolverton Mill, 10/., on a lease for 10 years. Total, 710/. Out of 
 which his mother has her third for life — 236/. 6s. Sd. Likewise 
 there is an annuity for life to Mr. John Brand of 50/. Petitioner 
 is 2,000/. in bonds. Prays consideration of the following: (1) That 
 lands in the northern parts were in the best times at 15 years' 
 purchase. (2) That during the abode of the Scottish Army and 
 these distractions none will purchase upon any terms, nor will the 
 profit pay taxes. (3) That the whole profits have been sequestered 
 for two years and petitioner has lost his whole stock, worth 300/., 
 and has six children, and never yet enjoyed his estate. 
 
 Particular of Ralph Davison's estate : — Part of the farm of 
 Thornely, in tail, Y.V., 200/. ; a small parcel of land near Newcastle 
 in fee, Y.V., 10/. 6s. Sd. (out of which his mother for her third for 
 life has 70/. 2s. ^d. The reversion is to him). Also a twelfth part 
 
 although an octogenarian, fought bravely in defence of the town during the 
 siege and, with his son Joseph, was slain in the conflict. The epitaph on his 
 monument in the cathedral of Newcastle, where he was buried Oct. "29, 1644, 
 elucidates the family history : — 
 
 P.M. 
 
 Alexandri Davison, Equitis Aurati 
 
 et Annae filiae Kadulphi Cocke ejus conjugis Charissimae 
 
 Ex qua filios quinq : Thomam, Equitem Auratum, 
 
 Radvlphvm Davison de Thornley, Samvelem Davison de 
 
 WiNGATE Grange, Josephvm Centurion cordatum (in hujus 
 
 oppidi contra Scotos Rebelles propugnatione strenue 
 
 Ad mortem usque dimicantem heic juxtim tumulatum) 
 
 Edwardvm Mercatorem caelibem defunctmn : 
 
 Filias etiam binas 
 
 Barbarem primo Radulpho Calverley 
 
 Deinde Thomae Riddell de Fenham in com : 
 
 Northumbriae equ : aurat : 
 
 Ac Margaretam Henrico Lambton armig : enuptas suscitavit. 
 
 Qvi quidem Alexander gi'assante tunc conjuratione perfidissima 
 
 Optimo Regi causaeque regiae semper 
 
 Fidelissimus 
 
 gravem rej familiaris jacturam m&ximo animo perpessus, tandemque in hujUS 
 
 Novi Castri oppidi obsidione 
 
 cum Scotorum Rebellium exercitu irruenti magnanimiter confligens 
 
 Novissimuiu Spiritum (octogenarius fei'e) 
 
 fortiter effudit. 
 
 XI° Die Mensis Novembri Anno ab 
 
 incarnatione Domini MDCXLIIII° 
 
 hoc posuit Monumentum 
 
 Thomas primogenitus Eques Auratus. 
 
 There are pedigrees of the family in Surtees, Hist. Diirham, iii. 166-167, and 
 
 nteresting details of Ralph's marriage settlement in A7xh. jEliana, i. 140.
 
 181 
 
 of a colliery in Ryton for three lives, Y.V., 607., of which his mother 
 has a third for life. Craves consideration: (1) That land in these 
 jiarts in the best times will not sell for above 15 years' j^urchase. 
 (2) That the 101. p. ann. lying near the walls of Newcastle is all cut 
 up to make the works, and yields nothing. (3) That it has been 
 sequestered for two years and his personal estate seized, worth 140/., 
 and he has a wife and six children. 
 
 1646. Jan. 17. Thos. Davison fined at 1,116/.; Ralph at 400/.* 
 
 1650. Nov. 22. Thos. Davison compounds on an additional par- 
 ticular as follows : — An estate of 1 50/. p. ann. ; lease for 7 years 
 of certain tithes in Thorp., held of the Bp. of Durham, Y.V., 15/. 
 over and beside 14/. p. ann. paid to the master of Shei'borne of whom 
 it is held. 
 
 Fine at a tenth, 312/. 18s. 
 
 1646. July 30. Sam. Davison begs to compound for his delin- 
 quency in bearing arms against the Parlt. Has taken the National 
 Covenant. Particular of his estate : — In fee tail a farm and lands 
 in Wingate, Y.V., 80/. ; a like estate called Wingate Grange, Y.V., 
 80/. Charge upon the same, a third to his mother, the Lady Davison 
 in jDart of her dower ; in all 53/. 6s. 8d. Debts, 300/. and upwards. 
 
 1646. Sept. 16. Fine fixed at 320/. 
 
 (C'aZ. [C.A.M.] ii. p. 754.) 
 
 1650. Oct. 18. Ralph Davison of Wynyard assessed at 600/., 
 Aug. 7, 1646, and Thos. Davison of Blakiston at 700/., Jan. 29, 
 1647, petition that they have been i^revented attending when 
 summoned by great floods and beg a commission to take their oaths 
 in the North as to their debts before the war, when they will submit 
 to reasonable fines. 
 
 1650. Nov. 1. [Ibid.] Thos. Davison ordered to pay 300/. within 
 14 days. Ralph's twentieth being 140/., he is to pay half and then 
 to be heard about his debts. 
 
 1652. Jan 10. [Ibid.] Both discharged, having paid the respective 
 sums of 300/. and 140/. 
 
 SIR RALPH DELAVAL OF SEATON DELAVAL. 
 
 (Cnl [C.A.M.] ii. p. 807.) 
 
 1647. May 11. Sir Ralph Delaval of Seaton Delaval, co. Northd., 
 assessed by the C.A.M. at 1,500/. 
 
 1647. May 28. Assessment discharged, his residence being only 
 in the North. 
 
 * 1646. July 24. The House of Commons accepted 400/. for tlie delinquency 
 of Ralph Davison and 1,116/. for that of Thomas. The estate of Ralph is 
 described as 210/. 6s. H(f. p. ami., and a lease for three lives of 60/. p. ann., 
 out of which issues 70/. p. aim., etc. Thomas's estate is put down at 710/. 
 p. ann., out of which issues in annuities for life, 286/. 6s. 8d. Usual order for 
 pardon attached.
 
 182 
 JOHN DENHAM OF HOUGHTON IN THE SIDE. 
 
 (Cai. iv. p. :.m8.j 
 
 1652. Apr. 29. The Cou. Com. certify the present conformity 
 of John Denham, of Houghton in the Side [near Coniscliffe, co. 
 Durham] yeoman, and refer him to the C.C. for discharge of his 
 estate, two-thirds part of which has been sequestered for recusancy 
 only. 
 
 1654. Oct. 24. He complains to the C.C. that he is sequestered 
 for recusancy, though he conformed to the Protestant religion three 
 years ago and has taken the Oath of AlDJuration. ' Begs a discharge, 
 or to receive his rents on security, till Parlt. give their resolution in 
 the case of conformitants.* — Order that he is to have his rents on 
 security for one year. 
 
 ROBERT DENT OF BYKER, NEWCASTLErUPON-TYNE. 
 
 (Cal. iv. p. 3879.) 
 
 1651. Oct. 8. A third of the manor of Byker, belonging to the 
 family of Dent,t having been sequestered for the delinquency of 
 Robt. Dent, under circumstances that are not explained, and so 
 remaining after Robt. Dent's death, his brother-in-law, Wm. Ford, 
 June 20, 1645, writes to the C.C. on the subject. He begs a return 
 from the Cou. Com. of a certificate why Dent's lands in Byker, which 
 of right belong to him (petitioner) — a moiety in right of his wife, 
 Jane, one of the daurs. and co-heirs of Hen. Dent, deceased, the other 
 moiety by purchase from Kath. Dent — are sequestered, the recusancy 
 or delinquency of Robt. Dent, son of the said Hen. being the pretext. 
 — The letter is referred to the Cou. Com. 
 
 1652. Nov. 18. The estate of Robt. Dent appears in the third 
 Act for Sale. 
 
 1653. Sept. 20. Robt. Stockdale and Margery his wife, late wife 
 of Robt. Dent, petition that Margery having a right of dower on her 
 late husband's estate, forfeit for treason, begs to compound for it 
 under the provisions of the third Act for Sale. — Noted as referred 
 to Mr. Reading, who forwards, on the Sth October following, ms 
 report, including a survey of Margery's third part of the third of 
 the manor : — 
 
 Mr. Reading reports that by writ of Common Pleas, dated Feb. 
 12, 1648, reciting that whereas Margery, late wife of Robt. Dent, 
 had recovered her seisin against Jane Dent and Kath. Dent of the 
 third part of the third part of the Manor of Biker, 2 messuages, 19 
 
 * Surtees, Hist. Durham, iv. 5, enters John Denham, recusant, among the 
 freeholders of Haughton le Side in 1687. 
 
 f A Tyneside family, owners for several generations of an estate in Byker, 
 then outside, but now forming part of the borough of Newcastle. Some of the 
 Dents entered into municipal life and took their turns in the shrievalty and 
 mayoralty of the town. Others, and among them the delinquent, were leading 
 members of the Newcastle Society of Hostmen. An old-time mooring place in 
 the Tyne, adjoining their estate, hears their name. Dent's Hole, to this day.
 
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 •cottages, 2 gardens, 60 acres of land, 64 acres of meadow, 60 acres of 
 jDasture, 40 acres of moor, 1 quarry of sea coal and a free piscary in 
 Biker, as her dower, therefore the sheriff of Northd. was commanded 
 to give her full seisin of the third pnvt of the third part aforesaid, to 
 hold to her in severalty by metes and bounds. Also to inquire inter 
 alia, the true value of the said lauds, and by inquisition held at 
 Newcastle, Apr. 7, 1648, it was found that the said Robt. Dent died 
 June 20, 1645, seised of the premises in his demesne as of fee, and 
 that those tenements are worth, in all issues above reprises, 20 marks. 
 
 Survey of demesnes in dower to the supposed wife of Robt. Dent : — 
 All those closes of pasture ground known by the name of the Great 
 Whinney pasture, bounded, N., by the Whinney Close meadow ; E., 
 by a place called the Plains ; S., by the Tine bank or Dente's Hole ; 
 W., by Well Close and Preston Leazes ; containing by estimation 
 about 30 acres, Y.V., 10/. All that pasture ground called Well 
 Close, bounded N., by Preston Leazes ; E., by the Great Whinney 
 pasture ; S., by Tine bank or Dente's Hole ; W., by Preston Leazes ; 
 containing by estimation about 14 acres. Y.V., 4/. 13.s. id. 
 
 Mem. — In 1649 the Cou. Com. being satisfied that Margery Dent, 
 relict of the said Robt., had a lawful right in a third part of the 
 -estate whereof he died seised, and that the said two closes were by 
 the sheriff' of the county delivered to her by virtue of her judgment 
 in dower, discharged the same from sequestration and she has 
 accordingly enjoyed the same ever since. 
 
 1653. Oct. 11. The request to be allowed to compound is refused, 
 Margery being neither jDarty, heir nor assignee to the delinquent. 
 
 1653. Oct. 24. Discharge from sequestration of the estate for- 
 feited by Dent and bought from the Treason Trustees by Ralph 
 Arrom. 
 
 1654. Jan. 11. Robt. and Margery Stockdale beg allowance of an 
 annuity of 10/. a year settled on Margery by her late husband by 
 a deed which the Committee for removing obstructions to com- 
 pounding have allowed. They have received only half, and now 
 ask for the other half with eleven years' arrears. — Referred to Mr. 
 Reading. No further record. 
 
 ANTHONY DODSWORTH OF STRANTON.* 
 
 1645. Anthony Dodsworth of Stranton, co. Durham, gent., com- 
 pounds with Sir Hen. Vane and the Cou. Com. Fine, 60/. 
 
 1651. Nov. 21. Petitions Parlt. for pardon, and obtains it, for 
 offences committed prior to compounding. 
 
 * Stranton, the town on the sea strand, near Hartlepool, or rather that 
 part of it which bore the name of the West Manor, came to tlie Dodsworths, 
 a Yorkshire family, by purchase from Sir Wm. (xascoigne in 1607. Anthony, 
 the compounder, was the only son of Anthony Dodsworth, the purchaser. He 
 married, Dec. (i, 1637, Eleanor, dau. of Lewis Widdrington of Cheeseburn 
 Grange, Northd., from whom came Anthony No. 3, who, April 15, 1662, 
 wedded Elizth., dau. of Hen. Maddison of Newcastle, merchant. There is a 
 pedigree of the family in Surtees, Hist. Dnrliam, iii. 12.S, who at the date of 
 ■compilation was the owner of the old estate of tiie Dodsworths in Stranton.
 
 184 
 
 HENRY DRAPER OF HEADLAM* 
 
 1645. Hen. Draper of Headlam, co. Durham, gent., compounds, 
 with Sir Hen. Vane, etc. Fine, 60/. Petitions, etc., as in Dods- 
 worth's case, p. 183. 
 
 TOBY DUDLEY OF CHOP WELL, f 
 
 16i5. Toby, or Tobias, Dudley of Chopwell, co. Durham, esq.,, 
 compounds with Sir Hen. Yane, etc. Fine, 150/. Petitions, etc.,. 
 as above. 
 
 GASCOIGNE EDEN OF BILLINGHAM.J 
 
 (Cal. I p. 204.) 
 
 1649. Gascoigne Eden, of Billingham, co. Durham, compounds; 
 with the Parity. Commissioners for adhering to the enemy in the 
 last war. His estate is reported upon as folloAvs : — Lease of mill 
 for seven years yet to come from the Dean and Chap, of Durham, 
 Y.Y.B.W., beyond rent reserved, 20/. ; lease of a farm in Billingham 
 from Dean and Chap, for above ten years yet to come, Y.V.B.W., 
 beyond rent, 13/. ; lease of tenement there called Bones [or Bonds] 
 Farm, for eight years yet to come from Dean and Chap., Y.V.B.W., 
 beyond rent, 13/. He is allowed 100/. owing to Dr. Rand, for 
 which his Billingham estate is absolutely passed over. Craves to 
 l)e remitted from compoundinc: for Bones farm, passed over to Sir 
 Hen. Willdon of Richmond inl640, 13/. 
 
 Fine at a sixth, 66/. 
 
 * Grandson of Thos. Draper, citizen of London, and son of Timothy Draper,, 
 who, coming to Tyneside in the later j'ears of Queen Elizabeth as one of her 
 Majesty's Customers, settled down as a Newcastle citizen and married three 
 Newcastle wives. (His sister Susan married John Speed the chronologer, and 
 being a very prolific lady brought Mr. Speed twelve sons and six daughters. ) 
 Timothy's wives were these : — (1) Dorothy, widow of Alderman Roger Rowe, or 
 Rawe, married Oct. 9, l.'iOS ; (2) Eleanor, sister of Sir Tlios. Liddell, bart. , 
 married Oct. 10, 1602; (3) Frances, widow Priestley, and dan. of Aid. Chris. 
 Consett. Hen. Draper, the compounder, eldest son (by the third wife), 
 married Eleanor, dau. and heir of Hen. Birkbeck of Headlam, near Gainford, 
 and tlius acquired the estate for which he compounded. Pedigree of the family 
 in Surtees, Hist. Durham, iv. .31. 
 
 + See note to the case of Sir Ralph Blakiston, p. 120. 
 
 I Son of John Eden of West Auckland (of the Windlestone family) by 
 Margery, dau. of Anthony Welbury of Castle Eden. With his brother Robert 
 who rose to the rank of colonel, he had a commission in the royal service, and 
 is designated, in some of the dociiments, Capt. Eden. His name appears t%A'ice 
 in the lists— first as having compounded in 1645 for delinquency in the first 
 war, the fine being 66/. 13s\ ^d., and, as above, in 1649, when the fine was 66^.
 
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 ROBERT EDEN OF WINDLESTONK* 
 
 1G44. Robt. Eden of Windlestone compounds with Sir Wm. 
 Armyne and the other Parity. Commissioners for 132/. and is among 
 the Durham petitioners to Parlt., Nov. 21, 1651, who claim exemp- 
 tion from further penalties on that ground. Yet in Nov. 1652, he 
 appears as one of those who either did not compound, or had not 
 paid their compositions. No further reference to the matter appears. 
 
 CHARLES ELSTOB OF FOXTON.f 
 
 1645. Compounds with Sir Hen. Yane and the Cou. Com. 
 Fine, 5/. 
 
 1651. Nov. 21. Petitions Parlt. for pardon, and obtains it, for 
 offences previous to date of compounding. 
 
 EDWARD ELSTOB OF ELSTOB. 
 
 The same. Fine, 3/. Qs. 8d. Petitions Parlt. also with same 
 result. 
 
 RICHARD, ROBERT AND ELIZABETH EMERSON OF 
 LUDWELL. 
 
 (Cah iv. p. 3061.) 
 
 1652. Nov. 17. Elizth. Emerson, widow, and Robt. Emerson,, 
 son of Richd. Emerson, deceased, of Ludwell, joar. of Stanhope, 
 petition the C.C. that their husband and father, Richd., bought 
 Spartaley in Weardale of John Emerson and enjoyed it till 1641, when 
 a half was sequestered for recusancy of Elizth. and delinquency of 
 
 * Eldest son of John Eden, above named, and brother of Gascoigne. A 
 colonel in the King's service. Nominated knight of the Royal Oak at the 
 Restoration, his estate being valued at 1000/. a year. Married Anne, dau. 
 and co-heir of Matt. Bee of Ninebanks, Northd., first wife; Dorothy, dan. of 
 Wm. Wray of Beamish, co. Durham, second wife. Grandfather of Robert 
 Eden, who was created a baronet Nov. 1.3, 1672, and was elected seven times 
 M.P. for CO. Durham. 
 
 t Chas. and Edwd. Elstob were first and second sons of John Elstob of 
 Foxton by the first of his three wives, each of whom had issne {n'dr pedigree 
 in Surtees, J/isf. Burhum, iii. 47). PMward, bap. Nov. "20, 1603, is styled of 
 Great Lumley in the pedigree. He died there in July, 1663, sme prole. 
 Charles, bap. July 11, 1602, buried Apr. 19, 1666, married Mary, dau. of Ralph 
 Fetherstonhalgh of Stanhope, by whom he had, among other children, Charles, 
 D.D. , Prebendary of Canterburj', and Ralph, merchant adventurer, slieritf of 
 Newcastle in the municipal ye&v 1686-87. Ralph of Newcastle, by his marriage 
 with Jane, dau. of Wm. Hall, merchant of that place, became the father of 
 Wm. and Elizth. Elstob the eminent Saxon scholars.
 
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 Robt. A year ago, Geo. Emerson, who pretends a title to it,* seized 
 it and leased it to Ralph Emerson, who procured a verdict of ejec- 
 tion at last assizes. Beg stay of proceedings till the case is deter- 
 mined. — Ordered that Cou. Com. allow no extent upon the land, but 
 keep it sequestered and summon Geo. to show cause. 
 
 1652. Nov. 18. The estate of Robt. Emerson of Ludwell appears 
 in the third Act for Sale. 
 
 1652. Nov. 30. Geo. Emerson, of St. Nicholas Olaves, Bread 
 Street, London, petitions for discharge of sequestration of two- 
 thirds of the estate and its delivery to him as heir to Geo. Emer- 
 son, his grandfather, his father, John Emerson, having died in 
 George's lifetime. Had a verdict at summer assizes against Elizth. 
 
 Extract from the books of Surveys and Contracts as to Robt. 
 Emerson's estate: — A messuage called -Ludwell ; one byer ; a moiety 
 of the Great Field, 8 acres ; the Cornfield, ^ acres ; the Lambe fawe, 
 2 acres ; Craghead, 2 acres ; Lugge Sale, 2 acres (all meadow land) ; 
 22 gaits in Billing pasture ; fourth part of a tenement called Gate- 
 castle in Stanhop Park; the Fairholme, 8 acres meadow; 11 pasture 
 gaits in Billing ; moiety of a tenement called Spartalee, with a 
 messuage, 2 acres meadow and 3 pasture gaits in Billing ; a messuage 
 called Wolfe Cleugh and 20 acres meadow ; liberty of common on 
 the Fell. All the above premises let to Anthony Pearson of Bp. Auck- 
 land, gent., from May 1, 1651, for seven years at 36/. p. ann., beyond 
 assessments for church and poor, with covenants for repair and main- 
 tenance of fences, etc., and against ploughing land not used for tillage, 
 under penalty of 40*". an acre. The State to allow all taxes and 
 charges imposed ujDon said jDremises. Issuing out of the estate is a 
 customary rent, formerly paid to Bp. of Durham, of 3/. 19s. 2f/. 
 p. ann. A fifth part is allowed for maintenance of delinquent's 
 wife and seven children. 
 
 Estate of Elizth. Emerson, the same, but in lieu of Fairholme. 
 she has the Over-meadows, Lambe-fawe and the Fawe-head, 11 acres 
 meadow ; in place of Wolfe-cleugh she has Paddock-nooke house 
 and 16 acres meadow in the Frith in Stanhoj^ Park; also the 
 Scabbs Eale, 5 acres meadow ; the Paddock, 3 acres of pasture ; 
 2 horse gaits in the Frith; 14 pasture gaits in Billing. Two-third 
 parts are let to Thos. Forcer of Durham city from May 1, 1651, 
 for seven years at 22/. p. ann. on same conditions as above. Customai-y 
 rent formerly paid to Bp., 4:6s. and 9s. lOd. 
 
 1653. Apr. 6. Robt. and Elizth. Emerson petition that as the 
 estate is in the [third] Act for Sale and they 200 miles off, and unable 
 to employ lawyers, their title may be defended at the State's charges, 
 or out of estate. Beg also allowance for expenses of witnesses 
 examined at Durham. 
 
 * Chancery and other proceedings herein, with abounding material respecting 
 the Emersons of VVeardale and everywhere else, may be seen in a work of 
 infinite labour and patience, entitled 7Vte Emjli^h Emerson.s, by P. H. Emerson, 
 M.B, B.A., 4to, London : David Nutt, 1898.
 
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 1653. Oct. 26. Discharge of houses and land in Ludwell for- 
 feited by Robt. Emerson and bought from the Treason Trustees by 
 Gilb. Crouch and Thos. Robson. 
 
 1651. Feb. 22. Chris. Emerson of Eastgate in Weardale petitions 
 that Bp. Neile, 3 Car., granted to him, in trust for Richd. Emerson 
 and his children, the Keepership of Stanhope Park ; Richd. died leav- 
 ing a child, Katherine, who released to petitioner, but two-thirds is 
 sequestered for recusancy of her mother, Elizth., who had only a 
 widow's estate and is now dead. Begs examination of his claim. 
 
 1654. Mar. 30. Anthony Meaburn of Pontop, and Wm. Mow- 
 bray, merchant of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, beg discharge of lands, etc., 
 which they purchased last Jan. from Kath., dau. and heir of Richd. 
 Emerson, two-thirds of same being sequestered for recusancy of her 
 mother, Elizth., now dead. 
 
 1654. Oct. 19. Claim allowed. 
 
 1654. July 6. Order of C.C. on report, that Elizth. Emerson's 
 deeds be produced before Cou. Com. and cause to be shown in a 
 month why George's claim should not be allowed. 
 
 1654. Nov. 7. Cause not being shown, and Elizth. dead, George's 
 claim allowed and estate discharged, with arrears due from death 
 of Elizth. 
 
 1654. Nov. 15. Kath. Emerson of Ludwell, reciting her father's 
 purchase of Spartaley and Geo. Emerson's claim, begs leave as heir 
 at law of her mother, now dead, to prove her title. — In Jan. follow- 
 ing Kath. pleads that the deed proving her title is lost and begs 
 for more time. C.C. refuse and discharge the sequestration in 
 favour of Geo. Emerson. 
 
 CUTHBERT ERRINGTON OF KENTON. 
 
 (Gal. iv. p. 2736.) 
 
 1651. Feb. 26. Mabel, widow of Cuth. Errington of Kenton, co. 
 Northd., petitions the C.C. that she was married 25 years since to 
 Oswald Mitford of North Weetslade, co. Northd., who settled half 
 of certain lands there on her for jointure, and died sixteen years 
 ago, but the lands are sequestered for the delinquency of Cuth. 
 Errington, now dead, whom she married since. Begs an order to 
 the Cou. Com. to certify and leave to pi'ove her title. — Granted. 
 
 1651. May 6. She begs a special order for her cause to be heard 
 out of course ; Sir Arth. Haslerigg, knowing her ])overty, has written 
 to beg for dispatch, and she has discoveries to declare of concealed 
 delinquents' estates.* 
 
 _ * The lady had probably heard of the resolutions of Parlt. passed Aug. 8, 
 1650, by which a premium of one fifth of all sums obtained by discoveries of 
 concealed delinquents' estates was offered to those who made the discoveries. 
 Whether she really did turn informer is not recorded, but she undoubtedly 
 obtained an early settlement of her case.
 
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 1651. May 13. Report to C.C. that Oswald Mitford, with his. 
 wife, Mabel, was possessed of a moiety of North Weetslet for twelve- 
 years together, and after his death Mabel married Cuth. Errington, 
 who })ossessed it till it became sequestrable for delinquency. He 
 died Jan. 22 last. 
 
 1651. May 20. The Cou. Com. certify that the moiety of Weets- 
 let was in possession of Mabel's former husband, but that after his 
 death the half of that estate was to fall uiDon his two daughters, 
 one of which is married to Geo. Fenwick, and upon that marriage 
 Mabel set him over another half quarter, so that there will be due to 
 the widow one quarter and a half. — Ordered, on report, that she have 
 half of the six farms settled on her with the last half-year's arrears ; 
 Geo. Fenwuck is left to his legal remedy, the sequestration notwith- 
 standing. 
 
 DAVID ERRINGTON OF BEAUFRONT.* 
 
 (Cal i. p. 203.) 
 
 1649. David Errington of Beaufront, co. Northd., compounds 
 with the Northern Commissioners for adhering to the enemy in the 
 last war. His estate : — A bond of 50/. due to him from Mr. Chas. 
 Howard of Croglin, co. Cumb., and a bond of 40/. due to him from Mr. 
 Chas. Howard of Naward. 
 
 Fine at a sixth, 15/. 
 
 GEORGE ERRINGTON OF NEWCASTLE.! 
 
 (Cal. u. p. 1270.) 
 [No date. Nov. 18, 1645 ?] Geo. Errington of Newcastle-upon^ 
 
 * David Errington appears to have been a member of the Beaufront family 
 in comparatively poor circumstances. J. Crawford Hodgson in the new Hist. 
 Northd. vol. iv. , contributes genealogies, wills, transfers of property and other 
 items elucidating the lives of the Erringtons of Anick, Beaiifront, Bingfield, 
 Dalton, Hexham, Keepwick, Portgate, etc. The Erringtons of Denton find 
 equal illustration in Denton HaU and Its Associations, hy W. W. Tomlinson. 
 
 t George Errington, of the Denton family, deserves special mention, apart 
 from the references to pedigrees, etc., in preceding note, for he was one of the 
 heroes of the siege of Newcastle. Bourne, Hist. Neircast/^, p. 283, quoting the 
 Milhank MS., states that ' Pilgrim Street Gate was maintained by Capt. Geo. 
 Errington, Lieut. Wm. Robson, and Ensign Thos. Swan, who fought and 
 killed very many, they themselves not having one hurt, until they were 
 encompassed by the enemy before and behind. And even then they would not 
 parley with the Scots who fought against them without, but did capitulate 
 with Lt. -Col. Sinclair, who loved and honoured them and kept his agreement 
 so well with them that not one of them was robbed of his clothes or money, 
 nor were any of his men suffered to give any evil word.' In Thurloe, State 
 Papers, iii. "208, is a letter from Major Topping, dated Tynemouth Castle, 
 March 8, 1655, to Secretary Thurloe, announcing the capture of Robt. , son of 
 Sir John Marley, on board the Elizalx'lh, Chris. Shadforth, master, inward 
 bound, and enclosing the names of several suspected persons who have accom- 
 panied, four or five at a time together, those that were in arms for the king, 
 viz., Martin Errington, capt., George Errington, capt., Gilbert Errington,, 
 major, and thirteen others. Major Topping adds, ' Newcastle men will not 
 believe there is any plot. So you may guess what spirit they are of. '
 
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 Tyne petitions to compound for his delinquency. Has been for 
 many years an inhabitant and merchant of that town, and while 
 the Earl of Newcastle commanded the town he was ordered, and dared 
 not refuse, to receive a commission for a captain of one of the trained 
 bands of the town and upon the storming of the town was taken 
 prisoner. 
 
 16-16. May 1. Petitions the C.C., citing above petition to Cou. 
 Com. Has taken the National Covenant and Negative Oath. His 
 estate : — The sixteenth part of a ship called the Nathan of New- 
 castle, Robt. Peacock, master, worth 50/. Due and owing from 
 Mark Errington, his father, -iOO/., as security for which he has a rent- 
 charge of 80/. p. ann. out of lands in Fellin, in the bishopric of 
 Durham. 
 
 1646. June 2. Fine fixed at 45/. 
 
 1651. Nov. 17. Petitions the C.C. that being by virtue of a deed 
 ■of bargain and sale, enrolled in Chancery, dated Jan. 16, 1636, made 
 by Sir Fran. Brandling of Alnwick Abbey, knt., to Mark Errington, 
 his father, and of a similar deed dated June 11, 18 Car. made by his 
 father to himself, and also of a Chancery decree, seised to him and 
 his heirs of and in the capital messuage called Darras Hall, yet said 
 estate is sequestered for the delinquency of one Thos. Ogle, who 
 hath no right or title thereunto. Begs an order to Cou. Com. to 
 examine his title and discharge the sequestration. 
 
 1652. Oct. 6. Complains that the case having been refei'red to 
 Mr. Brereton that gentleman cannot perfect his report because not 
 satisfied that 1,230/. was not paid by Lancelot, father of Thos. 
 Ogle in pursuance of an award of arbitrators concerning Darras Hall 
 estate. Petitioner declares that it was not paid and begs an order 
 to Cou. Com. to examine his father and himself thereon. 
 
 1652. Oct. 26. Depositions taken by Wm. Shafto and John Ogle, 
 commissioners for sequestrations: — Mark Errington, petitioner's 
 father, of West Denton, gent., sworn and examined, saith that the 
 1,230/. ordered by the award to be paid to deponent by Lancelot 
 Ogle has never been paid, either wholly or in part. Mr. Chas. 
 Brandling obtained an injunction upon a decree in Chancer}- in 
 deponent's name for settling deponent in Darras Hall, now in 
 question, thereby to disburden the lands of Felling of a rent'Charge 
 of 80/. a year, which was charged upon the same till deponent should 
 be lawfully jDossessed of Darras Hall. Brandling has detained said 
 rent ever since, conceiving it for the reason aforesaid, taken off from 
 said lands of Felling. Deponent's son, Geo. Errington, has from time 
 to time distrained goods for the arrears thereof, but they have 
 been replevied, and suits touching them are yet depending. Geo. 
 Errington, the petitioner, confirms his father in same words. Phil!]) 
 Goodrick of Felling, co. Durham, gent., steward to Chas. Brandling, 
 deposes that about nine months ago Mr. Brandling ordered him not 
 to pay the annual rent of 80/. issuing out of Felling to |)etitioner, 
 or to any for his use. Being denied pajmient, Geo. Errington had 
 several times distrained, and deponent, by his master's order, had
 
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 replevied, and suits thereupon are still depending. Shafto and Ogle 
 certify that in the books of the late Cou. Com., Darras Hall appears 
 as having been sequestered in 16i5, and so remains for Thos. Ogle's 
 delinquency, said estate having been, for divers years heretofore, 
 regarded as his proper estate. 
 
 1653. July 21. On review of the case, claim allowed and 
 sequestration discharged, with arrears from Apr. 13, 1652. 
 
 GILBERT ERRINGTON OF WEST DENTON. 
 
 (Cal. i. p. 202.) 
 
 1649. Gilb. Errington compounds with the Northern Com- 
 missioners for delinquency in adhering to the enemy during the last 
 war. His estate : — A personal estate in money of 400/., being his 
 ■wife's portion left by will of her father, Ralph Read* of Chirton to 
 her, which is in the hands of John Salkeld of Rock, Kath. Ms 
 daughter, late wife of the aforesaid Ralph Read, Wm. Chapman of 
 Sheeles and Philliss, his wife, and detained by them from the com- 
 pounder. 
 
 Fine at a sixth, 66/. 13s. id. 
 
 HENRY ERRINGTON OF BEAUFRONT. 
 
 (Cal. it: p. 2598.) 
 
 1650. Nov. 6. Hen., son of John Errington of Beaufront, co. 
 Northd., being lately adjudged a delinquent, petitions the C.C. for 
 allowance of a fifth of his estate for the benefit of his wife and 
 children. — Granted. 
 
 1650. Dec. 25. Samuel Brass of Durham, a lame man, aged 80, 
 begs allowance of a deed made before the wars, in the name of his 
 son Wm., by which John Errington, for 100/. worth of stock, engaged 
 to pay petitioner 20/. a year for twelve years, but only paid it for 
 three years. — Referred to the Cou. Com... of Durham, in which co. 
 the land lies. 
 
 1651. Nov. 11. Thos., son of Richd. Knight, free mason, of Dun- 
 stan's in the West, London, begs allowance of his title to a yearly 
 rent of 20/. charged on the manor of West Errington, in Hexham- 
 shire, co. Northd., gi'anted by John Errington, Nov. 26, 1616, for 
 200/., to his said father. Petitioner has been kept from his rights 
 through sequestration of the premises for the delinquency and 
 recusancy of Henry, John Errington's son and heir. — Cou. Com. to 
 examine and certify. 
 
 1652. Apr. 13. Rich. Carnaby begs examination of his title to 
 West Errington and Fallowfield, granted him in 1642 by Hen. 
 Errington for 200/., and 20/. a year rent-charge. — Cou. Com. to 
 certify, etc. 
 
 * See the case of the father later on, ■^. r. Reed of Chirton.
 
 191 
 
 1652. July 9 [Cal. (C.A.M.) iii., p. 1448]. Hen. Errington 
 petitions that his estate is seized and sequestered by the Cou. Com. 
 without cause. Begs the heads of the charge and leave to examine 
 witnesses. — Gi'anted. 
 
 1652. Aug. 4. The estate of Hen. Errington of Befront appears 
 in the second Act for Sale. 
 
 1652. Sept. 8. Petitioners complain of continued distraints 
 by Sir John Fenwick and his agents, in spite of order of Jan. 18, 
 and beg that he may be brought to account for moneys so received. 
 — Order confirmed. No claims to be allowed vmless proved before 
 the C.C. 
 
 1652. Oct. 14. Lancelot Errington of Aden Castle, Northd., and 
 Johi^ Shaftoe, clerk, and Margt. his wife, beg the C.C. to examine 
 their title to a rent-charge of 10/. on lands in Wharnley, etc., 
 granted them for 100/. by Hen. Errington in 1647. — The Cou. Com. 
 to certify, etc. 
 
 1652. Dec. 6 \CaL (C.A.M.) iii., p. 1448]. The Cou. Com. send 
 to the C.A.M. the charge of delinquency against Hen. Errington, 
 made Dec. 20, 1646, namely, that he rode armed in the enemy's 
 quarters in Hexhamshire, and was to have been a captain ; that he 
 entertained two gentlemen from beyond seas to ride in his troop ; 
 that when Cromwell was in pursuit of Montrose and the cavaliers,, 
 on their retreat from Preston fight, he entertained Major David 
 Errington at his house and sent a servant and three horses with him 
 to Berwick garrison, where they remained till its surrender. — Note 
 attached, dated Oct. 21, 1652, that the estate was sequestered upon 
 this charge, which was proved, and that the sequestration has 
 remained ever since. 
 
 1653. Jan. 18. Hen. Errington, gent., Thos. and Geo. Bell, 
 Nich. Fenwick and Roger Chator petition that being tenants of your 
 honours [the C.C] of the sequestered estates of Hen. Errington, esq., 
 at Beaufront, Groatlington, Fallowfield. East and West Errington and 
 Cockley, co. Northd., Wm. Carr, John Chute, Hugh Heslei'ton and 
 other bailiffs of the manor of Hexham, have distrained them for old 
 arrears of fee-farm rents, due before they took the farms, compelled 
 them to pay, and spoiled their cattle, so that by threats of new dis- 
 tresses many are ready to leave their farms. They beg restoration 
 of the moneys or allowance thereof in their rents. — Cou. Com. 
 ordered to take care that the tenants are not disturbed. 
 
 1653. Jan. 19. John Rushworth, esq., and Gilb. Crouch, gent., 
 contract with the Treason Trustees for the purchase of that capital 
 messuage, lands, etc., called Byfront, otherwise Beaufront, a water 
 mill called Acomb Mill, the manor of Fallowfield, messuages and lands 
 in Cocklie and Fallowfield, a messuage in Wharneley, par. of New- 
 borough, occu])ied by Nich. Dixon, a messuage in Garmont Hall, 
 otherwise Bullister Bush, par. of Newl)orough, with the lands, etc., 
 also occupied hj Nich. Dixon, and two messuages and lands, etc., 
 in Groatinnton, late parcel of the estate of Hen. Errington. — 
 Sequestration discharged. Mar. 18 following.
 
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 1653. Jan. 19. Similar contract between Rushworth and Crouch 
 and the Treason Trustees for the purchase of the township of East 
 Errington, and two tenements, being one-third part of the village 
 of Keepicke, held of the manor of Hexham, occupied by Nioh. 
 Fenwick and Geo. Bell, or their assigns ; also a water corn mill 
 called Keepick Mill, with the meadow lands, etc., thereto belonging, 
 parcel, etc., as above. — Sequestration discharged May 28 following. 
 
 MARGARET, WIDOW OF LANCELOT ERRINGTON 
 OF EAST DENTON. 
 
 (Gal. iv. p. 2715.) 
 
 1651. Feb. 12. Margt., the distressed widow of Lancelot Erring- 
 ton, late of Denton, co. Northd. esq., petitions the C.C. that, her 
 late husband's estate being still under sequestration for his recusancy 
 and delinquency, she and her poor children are left destitute of all 
 manner of maintenance. Begs an order to the Cou. Com. for allow- 
 ance of a fifth, with arrears, according to the ordinance of Parlt. ; 
 also, being a sickly woman and her poor children very young, that 
 she may have her dwelling house, and her fifths in kind, so that she 
 may therewith make some better provision of livelihood for her 
 ' children, not being able to supjDort them with the bare rent. — 
 Granted. 
 
 1651. Nov. 7. Chas. Errington, gent., petitions the C.C. that 
 his father, Mark Errington, being, by deed dated Feb. 7, 1632, made 
 between him, the said Mark and Lancelot Errington, esq., seised of 
 and in an annuity of 8/. issuing out of the said Lancelot's lands 
 within the lordship of Denton, did by deed dated May 10, 1639, in 
 consideration of the love which he bore to petitioner, grant the 
 same to him for a maintenance as a younger son, and petitioner has 
 ever since till of late, received the money, but now it is sequestered 
 for Lancelot's delinquency, and the Cou. Com. pretend they cannot 
 permit petitioner to receive it without an order. Begs an order to 
 
 ■ Cou. Com. to pay the annuity. — Referred to Cou. Com. to certify the 
 cause of sequestration. 
 
 1652. May 12. Gilb. Mabbot of Westminster, gent., guardian 
 of Mark, son and heir of Lancelot Errington, deed., an infant, 
 13etitions for discharge (with arrears since the father's death) 
 of the sequestration on the estate. The property is described 
 as the manor, lordship or township of East Denton, wuth appur- 
 tenances, a messuage in Lemington, and a moiety of all coal-mines 
 to be dug in the fields and i^recincts of Denton. Lancelot died 
 about three years since and the estate belongs to Mark, the infant, 
 as eldest son, by virtue of a settlement made Apr. 20, 1630, by 
 Anthony Errington, gent., grandfather of said Mark. 
 
 1652. Aug. 4. The estate of Lancelot Errington of East Denton 
 apjaears in the second Act for Sale.
 
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 1652. Aug. 13. Grant by the Con. Com. to John Clarke of 
 Denton, of a five years' lease of East Denton colliery, sequestered 
 from Lancelot Errington, at a rent of 160^. 
 
 1652. Oct. 30. Certificate of a lease to Cuth. Blaigburne for 5 
 years of North Seaton, sequestered from Errington. 
 
 1652. Dec. 17. Depositions in support of Mabbot's petition 
 taken as follows: — John Fenwick of Newcastle, aged about 60 
 years, deposes that Anthony Errington died about 20 years ago ; 
 that Ralph, his second son, died about 17 years since vmmarried ; 
 that Lancelot, his eldest son, died in Sept. 1649 ; that Francis, 
 •eldest son of the said Lancelot, died unmarried about 8 years ago, 
 aged about 17, and Anthony the second son about 6 years ago, 
 aged about 16. Deponent has also viewed the name of Humphrey 
 Errington, which he l^elieves to be that of Humphrey Errington, 
 late of Lemington, co. Northd., gent., who died about 6 years ago. 
 Mark Errington, the petitioner, is now the eldest son and heir of 
 the said Lancelot and is about 20 years old ; Lancelot, the other 
 petitioner, is a child and about 14 days ago was living at Durham. 
 Thos. Holmes of Denton, yeoman, aged about 65 years deposes that 
 he was servant to the said Anthony Errington and well knows that 
 the said Anthony was owner of the lordship of Denton, of the moiety 
 
 of the colliery there, 2 copyhold farms in Elswick, a messuage in 
 Lemington, a colliery in Benwell and lands in North Seaton. He 
 believes that the said Anthony purchased all the said premises. 
 
 1653. Jan. 12. John Clarke begs confirmation of his lease. 
 He was the highest bidder, doubling the former rent, and has spent 
 400/. in repairs. He and four families have spent their whole liveli- 
 hood thereon, and have received no profits. 
 
 1653. Jan. 13. Lease confirmed if let according to the Act. 
 
 1653. June 6. John Leech, treasurer of the C.C.* reports that 
 in a list of sequestered persons from Dui-ham sent in a letter of 
 Mar. 30, 1651, Mark Errington of Newcastle, gent., is returned a 
 delinquent. Has several proceedings in his custody touching 
 Lancelot Errington of Bingfield, Lancelot Errington of Aden Castle 
 
 * The C.C. and their officers appear to have become son»ewhat 'mixed' 
 among all these Erringtons witli recurrent baptismal names. (Erringtons and 
 Fenwicks, Ogles and Carrs aie troublesome ])eople to locate in North counti'y 
 genealogy.} Richd. Sherwjm, auditor to the C.C, tried his hand at the puzzle, 
 June 3, 1653, with the following result: — County of Northd., Lancelot 
 Errington of East Denton, a papist an<l delinquent. He was a lieut. -colonel 
 and was taken prisoner in Newcastle. His estate p. ann. 500L Mark 
 Errington of West Denton, a committee man ; his hand at several warrants, 
 his three sons in arms against the Parlt. ; himself an active man against the 
 Parlt. ; thought to be worth in money 2000/., his estate p. ann. lOO/. The 
 above is a true copy of what is certified concei'ning the said Lancelot and 
 Mark Errington in the duplicate from tlie late Committee for Sequestrations 
 in CO. Northd. of all such (lelimjuents wlio were censured before the month of 
 Sept., 1645. But that the said Mark of West Denton be the son of the said 
 Lancelot appears not to me. (Signed) Ri. Sherwyn, Aud"". 
 
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 and Mark Errington, late of Pout Island, gent., deed. Lancelot 
 Errington of East Denton is in the second Act foi* Sale, and part 
 of his estate sold to John Bowes, gent. 
 
 1653. June 7. An officer of the C.A.M. certifies that he cannot 
 find in the books of the late committee any charge or information 
 of delinquency, recusancy or otherwise against Mark Errington of 
 Denton nor any other Mark Errington. 
 
 1653. July 12. Dischai'ge from sequestration of coal-mines in 
 Benwell forfeited by Lancelot Errington and sold by the Treason 
 Trustees to Gilb. Crouch. 
 
 1653. Sept. 1. Mabbot's claim allowed. Sequestration to be 
 discharged from date of petition. 
 
 1653. Sept. 13. Hen. Horsley and John Ogle, reciting this 
 allowance of claim, order that the sequestration be forthwith taken 
 oft" the lands and colliery in Denton and Lemington, and the tenants 
 notified of the same, so that Mabbot or his assigns may enjoy the 
 profits thereof without disturl)ance, provided the present tenants 
 have their time in the premises according to the Cou. Com. lease, 
 but paying the rent to Mabbot. The treasurer for sequestrations is 
 also to pay him arreai-s. 
 
 1653. Nov. 24. Discharge from sequestration of East and 
 West farms in Elswick, par. of St. John, Newcastle, bought by 
 John Bowes. 
 
 1654. July 26. Like discharge of houses and lands and a malt- 
 kiln in North Seaton, bought of the Treason Trustees bv Gilb. Crouch. 
 
 MARK ERRINGTON OF PONTELAND. 
 
 (Cal. iv. I). 2907.) 
 
 1651. Nov 26. Ralph, Hen. and Roger, younger sons of Mark 
 Errington,* esq., of Pont Hand, co. Northd., deed., petition the 
 C.C. for allowance of several annuities given them by the will of 
 their father,! as by certificate of Sir Arth. Haslerigg and the Cou. 
 
 * Sir Will. Brereton, aftei-wards the great Parity, general, travelling 
 through the northern counties in 1635, noted Errington's decoj' for wild few 1 : 
 ' About seven miles from Newcastle we took notice of a convenient seat of a 
 coy in Point Island, which belongs unto Mr. Mark Arington.' 
 
 t Will of Mark Errington dated Oct. 22, 16.37 :— Age 73A years. To be 
 buried in north porch of Pont Hand church near to dear deceased wife. To 
 eldest son, Gilbert, all my draught oxen, with plow, wa^-nes, etc. To sen 
 Ralph, 50/. p. ami. out of the lands of Pont Hand, Little Callerton and 
 Marsfyn [Mason]; to son Henry, 28/. p. ami., and to son Roger 10/. p. ann. 
 out of said lands. To children of son-in-law, John Lawson of Coldcoats, by 
 dau. Margt., 20/. ; to children of son-in-law, Thos. Bails, by dau. Dorothy, 
 20/. ; to each of son Gilbert's young children, 5/. ; but to god-child Francis 
 Errington 10'. p. ann., and to god-child Nich. Errington the best young horse ; 
 to Margt., wife of said god-child [Qy. which], 2 old angels for a token. To 
 sister Kath. Stanupp 5/. p. ann., and, if she like, to have her diet, meat and
 
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 Com. will further appear, the estate from which they arise being 
 sequestered for the delinquency of their nephew^ grandchild of their 
 father, and having no other means of subsistence they are ready to 
 starve through want thereof. The Cou. Com. have paid petitioners 
 their due proportions under the will till the late order from the 
 C.C. caused them to be withheld. — Order to the Cou. Com. to have 
 the will proved and send a copy of it ; petitioners to depose that 
 they have not released the same and when they received it. 
 
 165-2. Feb. 10. The 20/. annuity allowed to Hen. and 10/. 
 to Roger, with arrears for the three last half years, but not the 
 50/. to Ralph, because he is a i^aj^ist delinquent. 
 
 1654. June 22. Hen. Errington, on behalf of his poor wife and 
 six children, petitions the C.S. His father left him 20/. a year for 
 life, and 8/. more if he should not choose to live with his brother 
 Gilb. ; that he could not in respect of his wife and children with any 
 convenience diet with Gilb.. wherefore Gilb. till his death, and Nich. 
 Gilbert's eldest son, until sequestration, constantly paid these 
 annuities, as did also the Cou. Com. after sequestration till stopped 
 by the C.C. ; whereupon petitioner applied to the C.C. who granted 
 payment of the 20/., but hj mistake in drawing up the order, the 
 8/. was omitted. Begs that it may be allowed with arrears. (Kath., 
 Henry's wife, confirms her husband's statements.) — Full annuity 
 granted with same arrears for the 8/. as already ordered for the 20/. 
 
 MARK ERRINGTON OF WEST DENTON. 
 
 {Cal. I. p. 202.) 
 
 1649. Mark Errington compounds direct with the Northern 
 Connnissioners as a delinquent who adhered to the enemy in the last 
 war. His estate: — In fee a tenement in Denton, Y.V.B.W., 25/. 
 He is allowed a fee-farm rent of 2/. 8?. 4f/. p. ann. payable out of 
 said tenement to the Crown. 
 
 Fine at a sixth, 67/. 15s. 
 
 drink with son Gilbert. To dear cousin and friend Roger Widrington of 
 Harbotle a spurr riall. To dear friend Robt. Errington of Harbotle a '10s. 
 piece. To nephew Lane. Errington a 20v. piece, and to Ins son, Mark, ' wliom 
 I christened,' a cow and a calf. To cousin Lane. Ogle of Darras Hall and his 
 wife, an old angel each. To nephew Cuth. , son of brother Robt. Errington, 
 a 20s'. piece. Son ( Ulljert sole executor. Supervisors, 'my truely kinsmen and 
 friends,' Sir Tlios. Tempest of Stelley, knt. and bart.. Sir John Delavalc of 
 Disington, knt., Sir Wm. Riddell ol (iateshead, knt., Mr. Roger Widrington 
 of Hai'botle, esq., Robt. Rookesby. esq., and Lane. Errington of Denton. 
 Witnesses: John Delaval, Will. Riddell, Rogr. Widrington. Certificate 
 signed by Art. Hesilrige, Hen. Ogle, Will. Shafto, Hen. Horsley and John 
 Ogle that they saw this will July I, 16.51 ; that Jlalph is a recusant and 
 delinquent ; that the lands from which the aiuniities issue are under seques- 
 tration for the delinquency of Nich. Errington of Pont Hand, esq., tiiat Roger 
 is a Protestant and conformable to the church, and hath not (to their 
 knowledge) been in arms against the Parlt. ; all which, in regard of the poverty 
 and pressing conditions for livelihood of the said parties, is referred to the 
 consideration of the hon. C.C, etc.
 
 li)G 
 
 NICHOLAS ERRINGTON OF PONTELAND. 
 
 (6V/Z. ill. j). 17 oO.) 
 
 1647. Apr. 22. Petitions the C.C. to be allowed to compound. 
 States that he departed from his house at Ponteland, went into the 
 garrison at Newcastle, and there adhered to the King's forces 
 but submitted himself to Parlt. in Oct. 1645. Has taken the 
 Covenant and Oath and begs a favourable composition. Particular 
 of his estate:— In fee tail lands and tenements, and three mills in 
 Pont Eland, Little Eland, Barwick-on-the-Hill, Eland Hall, Mearsfen 
 alias Mearson [Mason], and Little Calverton, all in par. of Pont 
 Eland, Y.V.B.W., 335/. ; a like estate in the capital messuage, grange, 
 tenement and hamlet of Woolsington, par. of Newborne, Y.V., 
 ■80/.; personal estate none. Craves allowance as follows: — On the 
 lands, etc., in Pont Eland except Barwick-on-the-Hill, a charge to 
 Raphe Errington, of 50/., Hen Errington, 28/. and Roger Errington, 
 10/. p. ann. for their lives ; on the lands in Woolsington a fee-farm 
 rent to the Crown of 5/. p. ann. ; on Barwick Hill, and other of 
 the Pont Eland lands, a yearly rent to the free school of Morpeth, 
 4s. ; on parcel of the premises in Mersfen a further yearly rent to 
 the Crown of 13s. 4d. 
 
 1647. May 28. Fine at a tenth, 818/. 5s. id., to be 730/. os. id. 
 if he prove within a month these charges on his estate. 
 
 1650. Feb. 19. John Finster, of Ferry Hill, administrator of 
 Richd. Hixon of Preston-le-Skerne, co. Durham, petitions that Gill). 
 Ea-rington and Nich. his eldest son, in 1640, for 967/. lis. 7d., 
 •demised to Hixon, Woolsington Grange and Eland Hall for 21 years, 
 at a pepper corn rent, and he re-demised them to the Erringtons, 
 at a rent of 100/., with clause of re-entry for non-payment. Hixon 
 died in 1641, but the rent was paid till the estate was sequestered 
 as belonging to Nich. Errington. Begs its discharge that he may 
 pay Hixon's debts. — Cou. Com. to examine. 
 
 1650. June 25. The lesser tine confirmed. 
 
 1650. Oct. 30. Petitions the C.C. that his estate having been 
 long under sequestration, he may be allowed a fifth part for the 
 maintenance of himself and five children according to the gracious 
 favour of the Parlt. in such cases. — Ordered according to instructions. 
 
 1652. May 6. Begs a review, being willing and able to pay 
 a portion of his fine. Finds his name returned as a delinquent and 
 recusant, but is no recusant. Begs that his estate may be left out 
 of the Bill for Sale. — The auditor to certify. 
 
 1652. June 24. On certificate that he is a papist and delinquent 
 he is ordered to take the Oath of Abjuration. 
 
 1652. Aug. 4. The estate of Nich, Errington of Ponteland, 
 appears in the second Act for Sale. 
 
 1652. Oct. 14. Wm. Swinburne of Capheaton, Northd., begs 
 examination of his title to a rent-charge of 5/. a year on Woolsington
 
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 West Close, granted him by Gilb. Errington in 1622 till he paid 
 50^. arrears of rent. Received same till sequestered, as above. — Cou. 
 Com. to examine. 
 
 1653. Jan. 5. Order for possession to be given to Sir Arth. 
 Haslerigg, who on Nov. 10, contracted with the Treason Trustees for 
 the purchase of several farms with their appurtenances in Little 
 Carleton together with several mills and certain lands thereunto 
 belonging- in the par. of Pont Island. Like order as to Berwick Hill 
 farm, sold to Gilb. Crouch and Sam. Foxley ; like order as to several 
 messuages and lands in Marsfin East Houses and West Marsfin in the 
 par. of Pont Lsland sold to Sam. Foxley and assigned by him to Sir 
 Arth. Haslerigg. 
 
 1653. Aug. 18. Like order as to Ponteland Hall, sold to Crouch 
 and Foxley. 
 
 1653. Nov. 16. Like order as to Woolsington House and a 
 third of certain houses, etc., in Eland Hall (in payment of 1,200?. 
 part of a debt of 1,583/. 7.«. lOd. allowed to John Finster) bought 
 by Thos. Wharton and Gilb. Crouch, all of them late parcel of the 
 estate of Nich. Errinjirton.* 
 
 JOHN AND WM. ETHERINGTON OF SEAHAM AND 
 SHADFORTH. 
 
 1645. Jan. 16. Sir Wm. Armyne and his colleagues, sitting at \/ 
 
 Durham, order the sequestration of the goods of John Etherington of 
 Seaham and Wm. Etherington of Shadforth. — No further informa- 
 tion obtainable. 
 
 TOBY EWBANK OF EGGLESTONE.f 
 
 (C'rtZ. iv. p. ^534.) 
 
 1650. Aug. 29. Richd. Cresheld, serjeant-at-law, and Thos. 
 Cresheld, executors of Hen. Dingley, of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields. 
 
 * In the Northd. rentals for lGfi.'>, tlie owners of these properties are set 
 clown as follows : -Berwick-on-j-e-liill, Mr. Nich. Errington of Pont Island, 
 rental, "200/. ; Low Callerton, the same, 70/. ; Pont Island Hall, Mr. Mark 
 Errington of Pont Island, 40/. ; Pont Island and Mills, Nich. Errington, 240/. ; 
 Mairsfen, Mr. Robt. Haselrigg, 98/. ; Woolsington, Ra. Jenison of Elswick, 
 e.s(j., 100/. 
 
 t Toby Ewl)ank was the son of a notaVile ])linalist, Hen. Ewbank, A.M., 
 prebendary of Lichfield, I58L1612; I'ector of Washington, 1583-1611 ; rector of 
 Winston, "ir)S8-l 620 ; prebendary of the 12tli stall at Durham, 1506-1620; 
 rector of Whickham, 1620-1628 ; Master of the Hospital of St. Mary the Virgin, 
 Newcastle (in which position lie had a la\v suit with his patrons, tiie Cori)ora- 
 tion, and lost it), 1585-1615. 'I'oby's mother was Anne, dau. of Thos. Sampson, 
 Dean of Christchurch, Oxford ; his wives were Elizth., widow of Hichd.
 
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 London, petition the C.C. foi- a composition for a statute of 800/. 
 entered into before 1640 on the estate of Tobj Ewbank. The 
 estate consists of the manor of Egglestone, co. Durham, of the 
 yearly value of 60/., and a capital messuage at Black well in the 
 same county. [Yearly value of Blackwell not stated.] The money 
 being theirs only in trust for payment of debtors they beg not to be 
 obstructed in receiving their rents, nor enforced to pay a fine. — 
 Petition rejected. 
 
 1651. Mar. 18. Ewbank complains that though he never acted 
 against Parlt. the Cou. Com. have sequestered him on false informa- 
 tions. Begs the heads of the charge against him and leave to 
 examine witnesses. 
 
 1651. Apr. 8. The charge against him is that he sent provisions 
 to the Earl of Newcastle's army in the first war, and was several 
 days with Sir Marmaduke Langdale's forces for the King in West- 
 morland and Cumberland in the last war. To this he answers 
 denying the latter charge and stating that for his delinquency in 
 the first war he compounded with Sir Hen. Vane and the Northern 
 Commissioners and paid 100/. fine.* 
 
 1651. Dec. 9. Edwd. Gray of Staindrop prays allowance of a 
 rent charge of 40/. granted him in 1637, on the lately sequestered 
 lands of Toby Ewbank. — Referred to the Cou. Com. 
 
 1652. June 18. On hearing counsel for Ewbank praying his 
 discharge, and on reading the Parity, order of Nov. 21, 1651, 
 whereby the persons named in a petition presented to the House 
 on that date (of whom Ewbank was one) who compounded with Sir 
 Hen. Vane and the other Parity. Commissioners in 1644 and 1645 
 and paid their compositions are to be absolutely discharged for 
 everything done before their compositions, the C.C. discharge them 
 accordingly. But as the Cou. Com. certify that on a charge in 
 Apr., 1651, Toby Ewbank was engaged in the second war they 
 sequestered his lands, the C.C. order that he be discharged therefrom 
 on the Act of Pardon, as the delinquencies were not committed after 
 Jan. 30, 1649, and the sequestration was illegal. Therefore his 
 bonds and securities are to be given up, and the profits received 
 from his estate since his appeal against the last charge restored. 
 
 Stobert (who lived but foui- months after lier man-iage), and Mary, dau. of 
 Hen. Grey of Newminster Abbey (4th son of Sir Ralph Grey of Chillingham), 
 by whom he had issue. The manor of Egglestone, part of the forfeited estates 
 of tlie Earl of Westmorland, was convej'ed to him, under the name of Tobias 
 Ewbank of Staindrop, in 1632. He presented two cups to Staindrop church, 
 bearing date mark 1629, and in 1635 was defendant in an action for recovery 
 of the cost of casting two bells for the tower of that church. Gf. Surt. Soc. 
 Pub. 40, p. 68. There is a pedigree of the Ewbanks in Surtees, Hist. Durham, 
 iv. 141. 
 
 * Ewbank's name does not appear in the list of compounders with Sir Hen. 
 Vane, though it is included among those who petitioned Parlt. for pardon 
 Nov. 21, 1651, on the ground that they iiad compounded with Sir Henr}-.
 
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 JAMES FAWCETT OF GOSWICK. 
 
 fCal. l\. p. 1047.) 
 
 1645. Dec. 6. Jas. Fawcett begs to be allowed to compound 
 for delinquency in taking up arms for the King, his only alternative 
 being to pay 500/. which was impossible. Alleges that he deserted 
 in five months, took the Covenant (Sept. S, 1644) before Lord Fairfax 
 at York and has since lived at Berwick. Has also taken the Oath. 
 Begs a letter to the Cou. Com. to certify the value of his estate. He 
 states that in Feb., 1644, his real estate in possession at Goswick,* 
 which had then been sequestered, consisted of the following lands : — 
 The Milkhouse grounds, Knebbles Close, Diprige Close, and Broad 
 Meadows. These the Cou. Com. overrated at 100/. by reason I had 
 improved it by sowing winter corn upon parcel of the premises to my 
 great loss, the profits redounding to the then farmer, not to me. At 
 the time of sequestration I had a future estate in remainder to the 
 residue of my lands in Goswick expectant after two lives. Afterwards, 
 both these parties dying unexpectedly, those lands came to me. 
 Whereupon the Cou. Com. in Jan. last (1645) set the same entirely 
 with the first sequestered premises, at 160/. p. ann. for the present, 
 but I refused to give that rate, conceiving it to be an over valuation, 
 and so was driven to accept the fifth part, and out of that to pay 
 assessments jiro rata, the Connuittees discharging and freeing the 
 tenants from all contribution and Parlt. taxes for the residue. This 
 estate being never, to my observation, let for yearly rent but enjoyed 
 and husljanded by the owners, I have not any rental or means to 
 deliver or distinguish the particular yearly estimate otherwise than 
 above said ; howbeit the present farmer has in these two years last 
 past impaired the premises by ill husbandry and otherwise a full 
 third part of that value reserved, neither will 100/. repair the houses. 
 Particular of personal estate : — A lease of certain tolls in Barnard 
 Castle for 3 years to come, which at the best times yielded about 
 30/. yearly but for 3 or 4 years last past not above half that value, 
 all or most of which has issued in taxes and assessments. After the 
 
 ''' The writer of this spirited epistle, which takes the form of indignant protest 
 rather than that of humble petition (and is therefore printed more tuUy), 
 acquired Goswick, the ancient inheritance of the Swinhoes, by purchase from 
 the Swinhoe family. Raine, J/i^/. Norlli iJnrham, p. 185, states that by tine 
 levied Aug. 8, 1637, Sir Robt. Hajubleton, knt., and Margery, his wife, 
 Geo. Muschamp, esq., and Mary, his wife, and Kath. Swinhoe [the three 
 ladies being daughters and co-heiresses of Wm. Swinhoe of Goswick and 
 Alnmouth, esq., deed.] conveyed to Jas. Fawcett, gent., the manor of 
 Goswick, alias (iostwick, with its appurtenances, and that in lGli'2 Jas. 
 Fawcett, sen., Jas. Fawcett, jun., etc., conveyed that part of the (loswick 
 estate called the Milkhouse Farm to Thos. Haggerston, esq. 
 
 tin a rental of the town and borough of Barnard Castle in lt>41 Mr. 
 Fawcett appears as holding the tfdls, common bakehouse ami sliambles at 
 Jol. Tf. ancient rent. Surtees, HiM. Dnrhani, iv. 70.
 
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 expiration of the said term the estate in remainder enm'es to Sir 
 Hen. Vane, knt. A lease at Bowes, co. York, for about 4 years ta 
 come, set for 15/. p. ann., which being adjacent to or lying in the very 
 road to Carlisle the entire rents and profits are exhausted in Parlt. 
 taxes and free billeting. Another lease of certain tolls in Bowes for 
 8 years in being, which in the best times yielded about 101. yearly 
 (beside the chief rent) but for the past 3 or 4 years has not yielded 
 above 101. in the whole (which is not above 3/. Gs. 8d. communibus 
 annis), which premises are all I can declare of my personal estate, 
 uiy own just debts and engagements to and for others (bona fide) 
 exceeding double the value of any debts due to me, which for the 
 most part are desperate. All my goods, household stuff, cattle, horses, 
 sheep and moveables were seized and sequestered by the Cou. Com. 
 to the value of 350/. and sold by them without account or any 
 recompense. 
 
 1645. Dec. 27. Fine fixed at 360/.* 
 
 1646. Aug. 7 [Cal. (C.A.M.) ii. p. 714]. Assessed at 600/. 
 
 1647. May 4 (ibid.). Another assessment of 250/. vacated on 
 account of the former. 
 
 1648. April 12. The estate of James Fawcett ordered to be 
 re-sequestered for non-payment of fine. 
 
 1649. Feb. 24. He begs repeal of this order because, immedi- 
 ately after paying the first moiety of his fine and securing the rest, 
 he was arrested and imprisoned in the King's Bench, where he still is. 
 By reason of the assessments and troubles in the North, he receives 
 no rents. Begs longer time for payment. — Granted ; no proceedings 
 to be taken without further direction. 
 
 1651 (?). Begs abatement of interest on his second payment. 
 His estate lies 4 miles from Berwick and has been wasted by the 
 cavaliers, the Scottish army. General Cromwell's forces coming and 
 going, and Col. Wren's regiment, Avhich last plundered him of all he 
 had, to the amount of 300/. Has been forced to borrow in order to 
 pay the rest of his fine.- — No order »iven. 
 
 1652. Jan. 23 [C'al. (C.A.M.) ii. p. 714]. The assessment of 600/. 
 discharged, ' as he is in debt more than he is worth.' 
 
 JOHN FEATHERSTONHALGH OF STANHOPE, f 
 
 (Cal i. p. 204.) 
 1649. John Featherstonhalgh of Stanhope in Weardaie com- 
 pounds with the Northern Commissioners for delinquency in adher- 
 
 * 1646. July "24 and Aug. IS. Tlie House of Commons accepts 360/. for the 
 delinquency of Jas. Fawcett of Goswick, in bearing arms against the Parlt., 
 and agrees to an ordinance for granting him a pardon. His estate in fee 160/. 
 p. ann. and 55/. p. ann. for 864 years. Agreed to hy the Lords, March 1, 1647. 
 
 + Compoimders in this and the following case were descendants of a long 
 line of yeomen and gentrj- domiciled at Stanhope, and owning the estate of 
 Stanhope Hall, from the time of Edward III. to the battle of Blenheim, in
 
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 ing to the enemy in the last war. His estate : The demesnes of 
 Stanhope Hall in fee tail, Y.V.B.W., 200/. ; a tenement in Burnetoft, 
 CO. Durham, in fee tail, Y.V.B.W., 50/. ; in fee the reversion of the 
 demesnes of Bm'netoft after decease of Jane Maxton, his mother-in- 
 law, Y.V.B.W., 100/. ; in fee the reversion of a tenement in Stanhope 
 after decease of said Jane Maxton, Y.V.B.W., 30/. Craves and is 
 allowed an annuity of 100/. p. ann. payable to his brothers, Ralph 
 and Francis, out of his lands in Stanhope during their lives ; also 
 a rent-charge of 3/. 16s. 8d., payable out of his land at Burnetoft 
 to Mrs. Lamljert during her life ; also a rent-charge of 7/. p. ann. 
 payable to the Bp. of Durham out of the demesnes of Stanhope Hall. 
 Fine at a sixth, 5-17/. 10.*. 
 
 RALPH FEATHER STONHALGH OF TOFT. 
 
 (Cal. i. p. 204.) 
 
 1649. In like manner Ralph Featherstonhalgh, brother of John, 
 compounds. His estate is reported as consisting of a life annuity, 
 issuing out of the demesnes of Stanhope Hall, of 50/. ; in fee, lands 
 called Toftes and Oustons in Elwick par., Y.Y., 60/. ; copyhold lands 
 called Whitestield and Loninghead in Stanhope par., Y.Y., 13/. ; in 
 fee, a parcel of ground in Stanhope par. called Six Acres, Y.Y., 6/. 
 Craves and is allowed 50/. due to Mr. Geo. Carpenter by decree in 
 chancery ; 56/. to Mr. Salvin of Croxley [Croxdale] by similar decree ; 
 53/. due to widow Ransome by similar decree, all three sums, forth 
 of Toftes and Oustons. 
 
 Fine at a sixth, 310/. 16>.-. 
 
 LANCELOT AND ROBERT FENWICK .OF MATFEN.* 
 
 (Cal. ii. p. 999; ir. p. o02(>.) 
 
 1652. June 30. Ralph Hardwick of Hovingham, co. York., 
 petitions for allowance of his title to an annuity of 10/. charged on 
 
 1704, when Col. Featherstonhalgli, the last of the Stanhojjc Hall family, was 
 killed. The_y were sons of Ralph Featheistonhalgh, by his rirst wife, Jane, dan. 
 of John Appleyard of Biirstwick in Holdernes.s. Ralph's second wife was Jane, 
 dau. of the Rev. Anthon}- Maxton, prebendary of Durham, npon whom he 
 settled for life, Sept. 14, 1632, lands in Burntoft, valued at (SOI. p. ann., as 
 described in the above particular. John Featherstonhaluii, the elder of the 
 two comjiounders, married Alice, dau. and heiress of Wm. Maire of ^'ork city, 
 and was afterwards in the military service of tlie Bishop of Durham along the 
 Borders. Surtees, llixt. I>iiili<iin, iii. 89; Egglestone, Staiihapv and its 
 Xei(iIilio!ir/ioo(l, p. 91. 
 
 * ' At one time in South Northd., if a man's name was not Ogle the heavy 
 odds were that it was Fenvvick.' Bates, Arch. Aflinua, '2\u\ series, xi. 27;"). 
 About the beginning of the seventeentii century, a branch of the prolific 
 Fenwicks settled at Matfen, then in the parish of Stamfordham, not far from
 
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 Matfen Manor, Xorthd., granted for 125/., Nov. 12, 1628, by Lancelot 
 Fenwick and Robt. his son, to Mary Skelton, deceased, and petitioner. 
 — Referred to the Cou. Com. 
 
 1652. Nov. 18. The estate of Robt. Fenwick of West Matfen 
 appears in the third Act for Sale. 
 
 1653. Sept. 16. Hen. Widdrington begs examination of his claim 
 to, or order for payment of, an annuity of 9/. a year on West Matfen, 
 Northd., granted him in 1635 by Lancelot and Robt. Fenwick 
 and received till lately, when it is refused without further order. — 
 Cou. Com. to certify. 
 
 1654. May 11. Gilb. Crouch contracts with the Treason Trustees 
 for the purchase of West Matfen High Hall, with the appurtenances, 
 etc., and messuages, lands, etc., in the par. of Stannerton, other- 
 wise Stamfordham, late parcel of the estate of Robt. Fenwick, gent., 
 and pays the first moiety of the purchase money. 
 
 1654. Nov. 28. Sequestration discharged; arrears to be allowed 
 from the time of purchase. 
 
 THOMAS FENWICK OF PRESTWICK.* 
 
 (Gal. V. p. 321:2.) 
 
 1652. Nov. 18. The estate of Thos. Fenwick of Prestwick, co. 
 Northd., api^ears in the third Act for Sale. 
 
 the original, or reputed original, seat of the clan — Fenwick Tower. Of that 
 branch, diunng the Civil \\'ar, Lancelot and Robert Mere the representatives. 
 Whether they petitioned for permission to compound and were refused, or 
 whether tlie\' neglected to petition, which is more likely, is not disclosed ; in 
 any case their estate was sequestered and sold. After the restoration of the 
 monarchy, however — sequestration and forfeiture under the Commonwealth 
 notwithstanding — the Fenwick race still flourished in the neighbourhood of 
 their ancestral home. In the Rentals of 1668, before quoted, they occur 
 among proprietors in the parish of Stamfordham, as follows : Fenwick 
 Demesne, Sir Wm. Fenwick, 200/.; Heugh Town. Mr. Robt. Fenwick, .31/., and 
 Mr. Ra. Fenwick, 15'.; Matfen Kast, Sir Wm. Fenwick, 64/., and Mr. Robt. 
 Fenwick, 16/.; Matfen West, 2 mills, Mr. Robt. Fenwick, 20/. About the 
 year 16S0, West Matfen was alienated to John Douglas, a wealthj' attorney. 
 His son, Oley Douglas, left an only tlau. and heiress, and she, marrying Sir 
 Fdwd. Blackett, carried the Matfen property into her husband's family, where 
 it still remains. On the authority of the Spearman MSS. , Mackenzie (Hist. 
 Northd. ii. 232) relates that Sir Wm. Blackett allowed the last heir, Robt. 
 Fenwick, who possessed a house at Stamfordham, 20/. a year, and that upon 
 his death Sir John Swinburne leased it to Phillis Pinkney, but gave a good 
 part of the fine to one Simpson, a midwife, dau. of said Robt. Fenwick, then 
 deceased. 
 
 * A similar case to that of Lancelot and Robt. Fenwick. In the reign of 
 Queen Elizabeth, Wm. Fenwick held divers demesne lands in Prestwick of 
 the Crown in rdpiti:. He died Sept. 80, 1598, and the iiiq. p. m. shows that 
 RoVjcrt, his son and heir, was then of the age of 23 years. In 1626, Robt. 
 Fenwick held one messiiage called Prestwick Hall, and other lands and tene- 
 ments late belonging to his father, Robt. Fenwick, esq., deed., of the clear 
 annual value of 30-'. Three vears later, Prestwick Hall, with 20 acres of
 
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 1654. May 11. Gilb. Crouch contracts with the Treason Trustees 
 for the purchase of all that messuage, tenement and several cottages 
 and hereditaments, with the appurtenances, situate in Prestwick, in 
 the parish of Pont Island, in the occupation of Gawen Gibson, late 
 parcel of the estate of Thos. Fenwick, gent., and pays the first 
 moiety of the purchase money. — Thereupon the C'.C. order the 
 sequestration to be discharged. 
 
 WILLIAM FENWICK OF BLAGDON. 
 
 (Cal. iv. p. 2487.) 
 
 1650. Aug. 9. Sir John Fenwick, bart., M.P., of Wallington,* 
 ■CO. Northd., petitions the C.C. showing that the late Wm. Fenwick, 
 sen., of Blagdon, by deed of June 20, 1615, enfeoffed petitioner, his 
 heirs, etc., of the capital messuage of Blagdon and the lands thereunto 
 belonging, to the only use of petitioner, his heirs, etc., for ever, 
 conditioned for voidance upon payment of 300^. on May 1, 1616 ; 
 
 arable, 40 of marsh, and 5 of pasture, the estate of Robt. Fenwick, was 
 sequestered into the king's hands, being of the annual value of 51. Maddison, 
 Presfirick Carr, p. 70. The name of Fenwick does not appear in connection 
 with Prestwick in the Rentals of 1063 ; tlie proprietors then being Mrs. 
 Barbara Sluifto, of Prestwick, rental 00/., Gawen (Jibson, 2.j/., and Wm. Potts, 
 sen. and jun., 2.}/. But it occurs again in 1806, when Percival Fenwick lield 
 lands there, and so continued down to our own ilav. Cf. Proc. Neirca>itl.fi Soc. 
 Antiq.,Vi\.2QV-'20-2. 
 
 * Sir John Fenwick, wlio figures so conspicuously in the case of Wm. 
 Fenwick of Blagdon, is the subject f)f a long biographical note in Hodgson, 
 Hint. XortJid. pt. II. vol. i. p. 256, which, with correction of errors disclosed by 
 later publications, will serve to illustrate and explain the subject-matter. Sir 
 John was the eldest son of Sir Wm. Fenwick, of Wallington, by his first wife, 
 Grace, dau. and coheir of Sir John Forster of Adderstone. In 1602, his 
 maternal grandfather settled upon him the manor of Hexham, with lands and 
 tenements thereto belonging, Hexham Mills, Anick (irange, Poyfield or 
 Priorthornes, Dotland Park, the tithes of Hexliairi, Acomb, Anick, Sandhoe, 
 Wall and Fallowfield, and a sheepwalk called Westljurnhope. At his father's 
 deatli ill 1613, lie inherited the broad and fertile lands of Ken\\ick, East 
 Matfen, Wallington, Cambo, Walker, (lunnerton, Ryal, Sweethope and 
 Harewood, with tenements in Hawicke, Catcherside, (ireenleighton, Long 
 Witton, Hawkwell and Bruntoii, and half a water mill at Heaton. In 1618, 
 he purchased Rothley ; in 16.3.', he acquired the regality of Hexham, with its 
 long train of manors, lands and tenements. He sat in Parlt. for his native 
 county of Northd. in the 21st j'ear of James I., and the I.Sth and 16th of 
 Charles I., whicii last-named king, June, 1628, create<l him a baronet. As a 
 member of tiie Long Parlt., his loyalty was so conspicuous that on Jan. 22, 
 1643, he was discharged and disabled for deserting the service of the House 
 and being in the king's quarters. In 1644, he and others —30 horse and arms- 
 were captured by the Parity, forces. Captivity probably brought liim into sub- 
 mission, for, in the year after he was taken, lie was liigh siieriff of Northd. 
 On June 26, 1646, tlie order for disaliling him was rescinded, and from 1()42 to 
 1649, his name frequently occurs on ciiinmittecs for secpiestrating estates 
 and levj'ing taxes. He died rirrti 1658. Sir .loliii H'enwick, executed for 
 treason Jan. 27, 1697, was his grandson.
 
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 that the said Wm. Fenwick made livery and seisin to petitioner on 
 the said June 20, 1615, but has never repaid the sum advanced, 
 and therefore the messuage and lands became his. The estate is now 
 sequestered as the proi^erty of the late Wm. Fenwick, jun. Petitioner 
 has appealed to the Barons of the Exchequer who refer him to the 
 C.C. Begs to prove the deed in the country, his witnesses being old 
 and 200 miles from London. — Granted, the Covi. Com. to certify the 
 value of the lands, etc. 
 
 1650. Sept. 16. Margt., widow of Wm. Fenwick of Blagdon, 
 petitions for a fifth of her husband's estates, which the Cou. Com. say 
 they cannot grant without an order. — -Granted from Dec. 24, 1649. 
 
 1651. Feb. 19. Cuth. Heron of Chipchase, Xorthd., petitions 
 that the Cou. Com. may examine his title to lands in Bywell, bought 
 of John and Ann Hodshon, lately sequestered as belonging to Wm, 
 Fenwick. — Referred to the Cou. Com. 
 
 1651. July 31. The Cou. Com. certify that the messuage and 
 lands at Blagdon, Y.V., 80/., are sequestered for the delinquency 
 of Wm. Fenwick, deceased. — Order that the deed be allowed (pro- 
 vided Sir John certifies that he has neither recovered nor released 
 the debt) and that he be admitted to compound under the Act of 
 Aug. 1, 1650. 
 
 1651. Aug. 1.3. Sir John certifies as desired, adding that he is 
 85 years old and hopes that, on account of this and the winter, his 
 oath may be dispensed with, or the Cou. Com. may repair to him. 
 
 1651. Nov. 11. Sir John objects to compound, the estate having 
 been sequestered from a paj^ist delinquent, with whom no rules are 
 given to compound, and begs j^ossession. — Order for further inquiry 
 to be made. The Cou. Com. have not taken Sir John's oath and if 
 there be no cause to the contrary he is to be allowed the benefit of 
 the deed without compounding. The Cou. Com. are to rejtair to and 
 examine him. 
 
 1651. Dec. 23. Sir John petitions that Geo. Ward and Robt. 
 Morgan of London, in 7 Jas., sold him mills and fishings in Bywell, 
 Northd., which he has held till they were sequestered as the estate 
 of Wm. Fenwick of Shortflatt, delinquent. Has never conveyed 
 them away, and begs examination of his title.* — Granted. 
 
 1652. Nov. 18. The estate of Wm. Fenwick of Blagdon, apitears 
 in the third Act for Sale. 
 
 1653. Jan. 13. Sequestration discharged. Sir John to have the 
 estate till his debt is paid, with interest, but before delivery of the 
 discharge he is to give in a particular and valuation of the estate. 
 
 * This matter is further ehicidated, dil. iv. 3107, l>y a petition to the C.C, 
 dated April 26, l()r>3, from Thos. Krrington, postmaster of Newcastle, who begs 
 confirmation of a contract with the Cou. Com. f<n- Bywell mills and fishings, 
 part of the estate of Wm. Fenwick, for 5 years. The Cou. Com. are ordered 
 to certify wliether the said Fenwick is Wm. Fenwick of Blagdon, whose estate 
 is in the last Act for Sale. The}- reply that he is not the same, and the con- 
 tract is confirmed, so far as the estate is let according to instructions.
 
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 1653. Dec. 29. The particular being given in and the account 
 allowed the discharge is to be delivered. 
 
 1653. Oct. 12. Sir John complains that he is charged a fee- 
 farm rent of 49/. 9s. bd. from Hexham Manor, but the lands being 
 sequestered for the recusancy and delinquency of their owners he 
 has been hindered from receiving the rents. Begs examination of 
 the case and discharge of arrears. — Order to the Cou. Com. to certify 
 as to arrears since 1649, when they will be allowed if there is cause ; 
 meanwhile the sheriff to forbear levying them. 
 
 1654. Nov. 30. Wm. Fenwick petitions for time to produce the 
 will of Sir Wm. Fenwick, his grandfather, and leave tO' compound 
 for a moiety of the mills and fishing at BywelL* — Cou. Com. to 
 examine witnesses and Mr. Brereton to report. 
 
 1655. June 28. Order on Brereton's report, that half the estate 
 is to remain sequestered as Wm. Fenwick's, and the other moiety to 
 go to Sir John, except a sixth of it claimed by Wm., with arrears 
 from Dec. 23, 1651. As to the sixth. Sir John, having a good title, 
 is to receive the rents on security till further order ; two months to 
 be given to each to prove title, the Cou. Com. examining Sir John 
 at his own house. 
 
 1655. Sept. 7. On Wm. Fenwack's request, 14 days longer 
 granted and a protection given to Albert Hodgson, of Lintz, co. 
 Durham, one of his witnesses. 
 
 SIR WILLIAM FENWICK OF MELDOX.t 
 
 (Col. iv. p. ;J740.) 
 
 1650. Aug. 29. The House of Commons, debating the first Bill 
 for Sale of Estates forfeited for Treason, resolves, on second reading, 
 to include the name of Sir Wm. Fenwick among those w^hose lands 
 are to be sold. 
 
 * About the separate identity of Fenwick s bearing the name of William, 
 there appears to have been some trouble ; so also respecting the mills and 
 fishings at By well, the documents relating to which would fill at least a dozen 
 pages of this volume. A sufficient explanation of the proceedings, with a 
 pedigree of the Fenwicks of Bywell, by Mr. J. Crawford Hodgson, a])pears in 
 the new IIi>:f. Northd. vi. 96-100. 
 
 + A pedigree and biographical note of Sir Wm. Fenwick of Meldon, are 
 given by Hodgson, Hist. Xorthd. pt. ii. vol. ii. p. 17, and a much more copious 
 account of the family is printed in Arch. AfJiaiiu, 2nd series, i. 95, 96, '205-21.3. 
 Sir William was the eldest son of Sir Wm. Fenwick of Wallington, b\- liis 
 second wife, Margaret, dau. of Wm. Selby of Newcastle, and, therefore, half 
 brother of Sir John of the preceding case. Under his father's will, he obtained 
 the lordship of Meldon, Heron's Close and the Leehouses, a rent of 40s'. a year out 
 of West Whelpington, the parsonage of Hartburn (excepting tlie tithes of 
 North Middleton), and lands of the yearly rent of 6<. 8r/. each in Kirkwlieli)ing- 
 ton and Gunnerton. James I. knightid liim in 1616. He died May 29, 1652, 
 in London, whither he had gone, probably to attend to his petition above 
 cited. His death may account for the delay in obtaining inclusion of his
 
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 1651. May 8. Petition from Sir Win. read in the House and his 
 name withdrawn. 
 
 1652. July 1. Similar resolution ^^roposed in debate on the 
 second Hill tor Sale and a<rain defeated. 
 
 1()52. July 11. Motion repeated that the name of Sir Wm. Fen- 
 wick be inserted, notwithstandinir the former order, and afjain it 
 passed in the negative. 
 
 1652. Oct. 27. In discussin<r the third Bill for Sale the name 
 of Sir Wm. Fenwick was entered and retained ; Nov. 2, order for 
 inclusion confirmed. 
 
 1651. Nicholas Fenwick, haviutr taken a five years' lease of 
 Scremerston town and colliery (sequestered from Sir Wm. Fenwick) 
 at an increased rent, viz., 100/. a year, and the colliery being drowned 
 out, petitions the Cou. Com. of Dtirham* for a large allowance for its 
 recovery, or deduction of 60/. from ^the rent. — Referred to the C.C. 
 
 1651. May 1-1. He petitions the C.C. The colliery is now use- 
 less to Berwick garrison. Begs allowance of 100/. 
 
 1651. Sept. 10. Renews his application. Desires an order to- 
 the Cou. Com. to abate his rent, 80/. 
 
 1651. Oct. 15. He and Anthony Hall, another tenant, petition 
 for examination of their claims. They have spent 60/. in regaining 
 the colliery and it will cost much more. 
 
 1652. Mar. 17. Order that 90/. be abated for the three half 
 years' rents since the colliery was drowned, the other three years of 
 their lease to be at 30/., they regaining the colliery. 
 
 1652. June 17. Martin Fenwick of Kenton, wishing to take in 
 partners, petitions the C.C. for a several years' extension of his lease 
 (which has 5 years to run at 46/. ]i. ann.) of the manor house, 
 saltpans and colliery at Amble. He has disbursed upon the colliery, 
 although not yet perfected, 100/. more than the profits received, and 
 it Avould have been utterly lost, and still is in danger, l)ut for 
 petitioner's special industry and excessive charges. Begs allowance 
 for the manor house which is ready to fall for want of repair. 
 
 estates in the two subsequent BilLs for Sale. Like his father, lie was twice 
 married, first to Isalielhi, dau. and lieiress of Sir Arthur Grey of Spindleston, 
 and secondly to Elizabeth, dan. of Sir P^dwd. Radclitl'e ofDilston. Tliree daus. 
 survived him, the second of whom, Catharine, married first. Sir Hen. Lawson of 
 Biough Hall, a colonel in the royal service, killed at Melton ?kIowbray in 1644, 
 and secondly, Sir Fran. Radcliffe, fii'st earl of Derwentwater. The eldest dau., 
 Mary, was united to Sir Andrew Young of Bourne, co. York, and a petition 
 from her and her husband, epitomised later on in this volume, explains the 
 manner in which Scremerston became part of the estate — a transaction Avliich 
 Raine {op. cit. p. 235) could not understand. After his death she became the 
 wife of Sir Thos. Longueville of Wolverton, Bucks. The third dau., Dorothj-, 
 married Edwd. Moore of Bankhall, co. Lancaster. 
 
 * Until 1844 Noriiamshire, Islandshire, and Bedlingtonshire, large tracts 
 of land in Northd., belonged to the bishopric of Durham. Scremerston was iir 
 Islandshire.
 
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 1652. Oct. 9. Cou. Com. report the charp:es at 93/. 9.5. lOr/., but 
 40/. more is required ; the protits are hazardous, and the net yearly 
 value is only 32/., though the rent is 40/. 
 
 1653. Apr. 13. Petition of Martin Fenwick renewed and refused, 
 the estate being in the last Act for Sale. 
 
 1652. Aug. 4. Elizth., widow of Sir Wm., petitions for dower 
 allowance from her husband's estate (sequestered for recusancy) from 
 the time of his death, May 29 last. 
 
 1652. Dec. 6. Elizth. Fenwick pleads that having brought her 
 husband a portion of 1,600/., she should have had a jointure of 
 333/. 6.<t. Sd. a year, but the estate being sold she cannot now receive 
 the fifth. — Order that a fifth be paid. 
 
 1653. Jan. 29. Petition of Sir Andrew and Maiy Young of 
 Bourne to the C.C. showing that Hen. Lawson conveyed Scremerston 
 lordship to Robt. Anderton and Thos. Harbottle in trust for Ralph, 
 eldest son and heir of Sir Wm. Fenwick and his issue male, with 
 remainder to the other sons of Sir Wm., and in default to his 
 daughters. The male issue being dead the estate came to Catherine, 
 Mary [petitioner] and Dorothy, his daughters, l)ut after the death of 
 his sons, Sir Wm. concealed the estate from his daughters and allowed 
 it to be sequestered for delinquency with his own estate. Also 
 Middleton HalP which came to him In' right of his wife Isabel, and 
 Avas held by him in courtesy after her death, now descends to the 
 daughters. Beg allowance of a third. — Similar petitions from 
 Francis Radcliffe and Catherine his wife, and Richd. Langhorne of 
 the Inner Temple, to whom Dorothy Fenwick, remaining daughter of 
 
 Sir Wm., conveyed last June her third of the said estate for its 
 discharge. 
 
 1653. April 5. The three sisters jietition to compound upon the 
 terms of the third Act for Sale, the estates being surveyed and 
 appointed to be sold. - — Referred to Mr. Brereton. 
 
 1653. May 17. Discharge from sequestration of the following 
 portions of Sir Wm. Fenwick's estate, l)Ought of the Treason Trustees, 
 April 20, 1653, by Martin Fenwick of Kenton :— =-The capital messuage 
 of Meldon, with lands thereto belonging, viz., Deere Close, Dene 
 Close, Coney Warren, Well Close, Priests' Close, 3 little garths or 
 closes, used for folds, behind the cottage in Meldon, Haygarth Close, 
 Night Fold, Upper and Lower Night Closes, Whinney, Bogg or 
 Horse Close, Hangeney Banks, Lancaster Bouudies, the Parke, Dog- 
 stones, parcel of ground on which standeth divers saughs, alders, 
 and hassell trees, Luney Rake hills, Roehills, Oldyees Leasowes, 
 Readshill, Long Riggs, Wood Ends and the Leasowes, Oxpasture, 
 Horse Close, Cowpasture, Town or Common pasture, Westmost Close, 
 and Middle Whiteficld. And all the demesnes of Thornton, other- 
 wise the east township of Temple Thornton, the water corn mill 
 
 * Apparently Middleton Hall near Wooler, wliich afterwards belonged to 
 the Radcliffes of Dilston.
 
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 called Temple Mill upon the river of Wansbeck, with 2 small garths 
 or closes adjoining, and a close called Temple Mill Allers. And all 
 those several pastui'es, etc., called Hartburne, otherwise Newton 
 Grange demesnes, with the appurtenances, etc. 
 
 1653. May 28. Like discharge of the following lands, tene- 
 ments, etc., bought by Geo. Clarkson : — Several cottages, lands, etc., 
 in par. of Whalton, called West Newham ; a farmhouse with garth 
 and several parcels of ground, with appurtenances, in Whalton ; 
 2 messuages or farm-houses, 17 days' work of meadow, 46 stints or 
 pasture for so many beasts, and 90 days' work of arable thereto 
 belonging in Cresswell ; the warren or game of conies and all the 
 fishing in Cresswell : parcels of land in Hallington, called Northfield 
 and Middlefield ; a parcel of ground, sometimes used for pasture 
 and sometimes for meadow, containing about 86 acres ; the common 
 moor or fell, into which the tenants turn their beasts, sheep and 
 oxen ; the parcel of meadow called Hallington Mill and the water 
 corn mill, and all those farm houses known by the name of Morwick 
 Walk Mill, with the land thereto belonging, called Whinney Field, 
 Hilly Closes, Banke Riggs, Brownfield and Walk Mill Closes. 
 
 Same date. Like discharge of lands, etc., bought by John Blunt, 
 gent. : — The Manor of Scremerston, with all lauds, tenements, etc., 
 belonging, and a capital messuage and lands called Middleton Hall, 
 with the appurtenances, etc. 
 
 Same date. Like discharge of lands, etc., bought by Geo. Clark- 
 son, esq., and Samuel Foxley, gent. : — A farm named Heron's Close ; 
 a parcel of ground called Espley with appurtenances ; the house 
 called Amljell Hall, with lands, etc., all the saltpans, colliery, coney 
 warren, fishing and rent corn belonging to Ambell Hall : the farm- 
 house, lands, etc., in the township of Newton-by the-Sea, called 
 Newton Farm ; those several closes called Fenwick closes, near 
 Anwicke, a parcel of waste ground, etc., in the par. of Elsden, all in 
 CO. Northd., in the several occupations of Thos. Wharton, Martin 
 Fenwick, Wm. Wettman, John Ridley and John Salkeld. 
 
 1654. Jan. 13. Geo. Pott begs to prove his claim to Esplye 
 House, near Morpeth, mortgaged long since by Gerard Hall to Sir 
 Wm. Fenwick for Gerard's life, with reversion to John Hall, who 
 left it to petitioner for life : Gerard being dead the estate reverts 
 to petitioner, but is sequestered for Fenwick's delinquency. — Referred 
 to the Cou. Com. and Mr. Brereton. 
 
 JOHN FORCER OF KELLOE AND HARBOUR HOUSE.* 
 
 (Cal. iv. p. 2632.) 
 
 1650. Nov. 27. Jane, wife of John Forcer, esq., of Durham 
 city, petitions the C.C. for allowance of the fifth part of her husband's 
 
 * John Forcer, lieut.-col. in the royal service, belonged to a family which, 
 under the name of Fossour, is found settled in the twelfth century at Thock-
 
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 •estate, long since sequestered for his recusancy and delinquency. 
 This she formerly had, but the Cou. Com. have recently retained it. 
 — Granted. 
 
 1652. Aug. 4. The estate of John Forcer of Harbour House 
 appears in the second Act for Sale. 
 
 1652. Nov. 10. Discharge of Forcer's estate, it having been 
 .sold (Nov. 3) to John Rushworth and Gilb. Crouch. The estate 
 consists of a capital messuage and lands called Harbour House, with 
 the appurtenances in St. Margaret's in the suburbs of the city of 
 Durham ; certain enclosed grounds, with two cottages called North- 
 warts [or Northwastes] in the several occupations of Wm. Winter, 
 Matt. Curlew and Jas. Hall ; and the capital messuage, with appur- 
 tenances, and several pasture and other grounds called Kellow 
 grounds, in Kellow. 
 
 JOHN FORSTER, SEN., OF ETHERSTON.* 
 
 (Cal. i. p. 202.) 
 
 1649. John Forster, the elder, of Etherstone, or Adderstone, co. 
 Northd., compounds with the Parity. Commissioners for adhering to 
 the enemy in the last war. His estate is reported to be a little 
 ' chamblett 'f of ground called the Hagghouse in Northd. for life, 
 Y.V. \7l 6s. 8(rZ. He is allowed a rent pavable out of said land to 
 Lord Gray of Wark II. 6.?. M. 
 
 Fine at a sixth, 32^. 
 
 (rington, Noi'thd. (see the new Hist. Northd. iv. 399-401), but afterwarils 
 became domiciled at Kelloe, which, with Harbour House and lands in various 
 parts of the bishopric, caine to them through the marriage, in the fourteenth 
 century, of John Fossour to Joan, dau. and heiress of Wm. and Agnes de 
 Kellaw. At the ]:)eginning of the seventeenth century the family deserted 
 Kelloe for Harbour House on the Wear, and in 1782 thej' died out. Their 
 pedigree (Surtees, Hist. Durham, vol. i. pt. ii. p. 65) shows that the example of 
 John in the fourteenth century, going for a wife ' where money is,' was 
 diligently followed by his descendants. The petitioner in the present case, 
 Jane Forcer, was a dau. of Sir Thomas Riddell of Gatesliead, knight ; her 
 husband's mother was a Hodgson of Hebburn ; his grandmother a Trollop of 
 Eden ; while one of her own sons, Geo. Forcer, married a Swinburne of Cap- 
 heaton, and a son of that marriage was united to a-dau. of Lord Fairfax of 
 Gilling Castle. 
 
 * Etherston, Adderstone, or Herdiston, as it is called in the Subsidy Roll 
 of 1296, was the parent house of the great family of Forster and was possessed 
 by them for twelve generations. In the new Hist. Northd. i. 220, are a 
 history and pedigree of this remarkable family, including the outlawry of one 
 of its prominent members, Thos. Forster, the rebel ' general ' in tlie '45, and 
 items respecting the devolution of the estates generally, rentals in 1663, etc. 
 
 t Possibly from 'cliamblet,' to variegate or mark witl^ streaks, meaning a 
 little streak or strip of land. 
 
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 JOHN FORSTEK, .TUN., OF ETHERSTON. 
 
 (Cal. ;. p. ^02.) 
 
 1049. A like compo.sitioii made by John Forster the yountjer. 
 His estate is reported as an aimuity of 60/. payable to him for life 
 out of Craster, co. Northd. He is allowed 13/. 6s. Sd. for tithes 
 payable to a college in Oxford ; a customary rent of 2/. 5.<. payable 
 yearly to Mr. Cocks, minister of Embleton : to Mr. Gray of Howick,. 
 1/. p. ann. ; Mr. Wing, another minister, 1/. p. ann. ; to Lord (xray 
 of Wark a customary rent of 8v. Sd. 
 
 Fine at a sixth, 8:')/. 19.v. 4r/. 
 
 THOMAS F0HSTE15 OF ETHERSTON. 
 
 (Cal. i. p. 202.) 
 
 1649. A like composition made by Thos. Forster, colonel in the 
 King's army. Particular of his estate: — Two farms in Newton of 
 the Moor, Y.Y., 10/. ; 4 farms in Heathpoole, Y.V.B.W., 20/. ; a 
 moietv of the tithe of Learmouth, Y.V.B.W., 30/. ; the petty titlies 
 of Carham, Y.Y.B.W., 9/. ; the tithes of Monny Lawes, Y.Y., I'O/. ; 
 the tithes of Bradforth, Y.Y. 2/. All held in fee, and situate in 
 CO. Northd. 
 
 Fine at a sixth. 273/. 
 
 NICHOLAS FREVILLE OF HARDWICK.* 
 
 1645. Nicholas Freville of Hardwick, co. Durham, coniijounds 
 with Sir. Hen. Yane and the Cou. Com. — Fine, 200/. 
 
 1651. Nov. 21. Petitions Parlt. for pardon, and obtains it, on 
 the ground that he has already compounded. 
 
 * Hardwick, near Sedgefield, was the reward or pension of (460. Freville, a 
 Staffordshire gentleman of ancient descent who had served as clerk of the 
 ordnance, under the Earl of Sussex, in the suppression of the Northern Rising 
 of 1569. Knighted by King James I. at York, April 7, 1603, he was for a long 
 time keeper of Raby for the Crown. He married Elizth., dau. of Thos. Jenison 
 of Walworth, and dying childless, Nov. 15, 1619, aged 82, was buried at 
 Sedgefield. His estates he left to his youngest nephew, Nich. Freville, the 
 compounder, who married, at Heighington, Aug. 21, 1625, Mary, dau. of Thos. 
 Jenison of Irchester, co. Northampton, and died in Dec, 1674, aged 76, leaving 
 three daurs. co-heiresses, one of whom, Margaret, married Sir Thos. Lambton 
 (knighted by Cromwell, and under him governor of the Leeward Islands), son 
 of Sir \Ym. Lambton of Lambton. A pedigree and other details respecting the 
 Frevilles appear in Surtees, HiM. Durham, iii. 34-36.
 
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 WILLIAM FHIZELL OF DURHAM.* 
 
 (Cal. i. p. 204.) 
 
 1649. Wm. Frizell, haviiiir adhered to the enemy in the last 
 war, compounds with the Northern Commissioners on the rates 
 allowed by Parlt. His estate: — Twenty acres of copyhold ground 
 in Cornforth, finable at the death of the tenant, one year's ancient 
 rent, which is lO.y., Y.V.B.W., '.M. 16.v. 6r/. ; a lease for two lives of a 
 tenement in Cornforth, Y.V.B.W., 16/. ^s. Begs, and is allowed from 
 aforesaid lease, the lord's rent 1/. O.y. 4</. 
 
 Fine at a sixth, 40/. 
 
 JOHN GALLON OF ALNWICK. t 
 
 {Cal. [C.A.M.] iii. 1351.) 
 
 1651. June 24. Information hj Geo. Stanton of Alnwick that 
 in June, 1648, John Gallon of that town freely gave his brother, 
 Thos., a nag to serve the late King on under Col. Edwd. Grey, the 
 said Thos. having had a horse killed in the service. Also that he 
 sent another horse to Lieut. -Col. Robt. Brandling, commander in 
 Berwick against Parlt. — The Cou. Com. to take examinations and 
 send them up. 
 
 1652. Jan. 13. Depositions being completed he begs a copy, 
 leave to examine witnesses, and further time, as he lives 230 miles 
 off. Can prove that he has been plundered and imj^risoned for his 
 affection to Parlt. — Order that Cou. Com. examine his witnesses. 
 
 * On March 19, 1635, being then about 29 years of age, William Frizell, 
 or Frissell, gent., was appointed messenger of the High Commission Court of 
 the diocese of Durham, in succession to Nich. Rayne, deed. Verj' soon after 
 his appointment charges were made against him of abusing his position. In a 
 case wherein John Sharpe of Slingley was accused of uttering blaspliemous 
 words, it was alleged that Frizell had offered to accept 10/. as a bribe to with- 
 draw or conceal the information. Upon this charge he was examined June 21, 
 1636, by the Court, sitting at Auckland, and deposed that, the proof against 
 Sharpe being defective, he had suggested the bribe to elicit a confession. With 
 this explanation the Court appears to have been satisfied. Two j^ears later, in 
 a case against Marmaduke Hedworth, he was less successful. The Court 
 ordered that he should deliver Hedwortli to the keeper of his Majesty's gaol, 
 etc., and then ' for divers reasons, and specially for neglect of his oftice, imposed 
 a fine of 40/. upon the said Frissell to his Majesty's use.' Frizell married a 
 dau. of Wm. Wilkinson of Durham city, yeoman. Surt. 8oc. Pub. 34, pp. 
 144-14.5, 154, 272. Frizell's land at Cornforth was sequestered in Aug., 1644. 
 
 t The Gallons flourished for nearly four centuries in Alnwick, and died out 
 in 1811. Wm. Galon was a juror when the inquisition was made, in 1460, 
 relating to the Alnwick chantry ; others were chaplains and monks. Edwd. 
 was a merchant in 1636 ; John, his son, was chamV)erlain in 1640 ; after them 
 follow in succession, Edwd., who died in 1695, John, his son, admitted a 
 merchant in 1693, Edwd., who died in 1673, and Edwd., the last of them, 
 usuall}- called 'Justice (iallon,' who died July 12, 1812, aged 73. The later 
 members of this family were attorneys, and many of them were wealthy, 
 holding lands and houses in and around Alnwick. Tate, Hint. Afnivick, ii. 404, 
 and the new Jfinf. Xorfhd., ii. 486.
 
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 1652. Mar. 30. Petition on Gallon's behalf for discharge under 
 the Act of Pardon. 
 
 1652. Mar. 31. Discharge granted. 
 
 JOHN GARNETT OF EGGLESCLIFF.* 
 
 (Cal. a. p. 1 104.) 
 
 1641. Aug. 18. Sequestration of the lands of John Garnett of 
 Egglescliflfe. 
 
 1646. Apr. 4. Garnett compounds for his delinquency. He was 
 an officer in arms for the King in Scarborough Castle and came into 
 the county of Durham in 1645, on the surrender of that castle. Has 
 conformed to the oi'dinances of Parlt. since Aug., 1645, but was pre- 
 vented from earlier compounding by a hurt received at the castle. 
 Has taken the National Covenant and Negative Oath. His estate is 
 as follows: — In fee the manor of Egglescliffe, Y.V., 90^.; a cottage 
 in Yarrom, co. York, Y.V., 6s. 8d. Craves allowance of following 
 rents issuing out of said manor by deed dated Nov. 9, 12 Car., viz., 
 to his sisters, Mary and Elizth., until they are satisfied, 100/. each — 
 16Z. yearly; to Alice Clopton an annuity for life, granted to her by 
 Lawrence Garnett, 16/. ; to Thos. Hodgson, an annuity granted to 
 him for the life of Thos. Garnett, 6/. Us. id. Total, 38/. 13s. 4rZ. 
 
 1647. Mar. 30. Fine, at a tenth, 142/. 
 
 1649. May 4. Having paid half the fine and given security for 
 the other half, sequestration suspended. 
 
 1650. Jan. 9 [Cal. (C.A.M.) p. 1,181]. Garnett's assessment of 
 a twentieth taken off, he having secured and paid his fine at G.H., 
 according to the order of Parlt. of March 24 last. 
 
 1650. Feb. 12. Fine paid and estate discharged. 
 
 * Son of Anthony Garnett of Egglescliffe, by Mary, dan. of Mich. Pemberton 
 of Aislaby, and grandson of Laurence Garnett of Egglescliffe, whose wife was 
 Anne, dau. of Wm. Sherwood, merchant of Newcastle. John Garnett, captain 
 of horse in the regiment of Col. Geo. Heron, married Alice, dau. of Chris. 
 Place of Dinsdale, and widow of Mich. Pemberton of Aislaby, grandson of 
 Mich. Pemberton above named. The deceased husband of Alice was a major, 
 and his brother, John Pemberton, a captain in the royal service. Darnell's 
 Life of Dr. Basire, contains references to Gai'nett in letters written to and \iy 
 Basire when in exile from his living of Egglescliffe. Thus, in a letter to his 
 wife (June 4, 1647), he writes from Rouen, 'Ah, how sad was I when I heard 
 that Capt. Garnett had compounded now at last, notwithstanding his good 
 resolutions at first to the contrary.' Again, from Rome (March 14, 1650), 
 ' Mr. Wm. Ashburnham and Mr. Lambton present their service to you, and I 
 to Mr. Garnett, whom God bless for his constancy. ' Mrs. Basire, in a letter 
 to her husband (May 30, 1654), states that in all her troubles Mr. Garnett 
 stands her good friend, etc. There is a pedigree of the Garnetts in Surtees, 
 Hifit. Durham, iii. 197.
 
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 JOHN GARTH OF HEADLAM.* 
 
 (Cal. i. p. GLj.) 
 
 1644. Dec. 12. John Garth of Headlam, co. Durham, being voted 
 a delinquent, afterwai'ds, as is alleged, neglected to compound with 
 the Cou. Com. 
 
 1651. Nov. 21. Garth petitions Parlt. for pardon and obtains it. 
 
 LADY ANNE GIBB OF JARROW.f 
 
 (Cal. Hi. p. 2239.) 
 
 1650. Apr. 1. Lady Anne Gibb petitions the C.C, showing that 
 the estate of her husband. Sir Hen. Gibb, was sequestered by order 
 of the House, dated Aug. 28, 1648, and given to Lieut.-Col. John 
 Lilburn for the advance of 3,000/., etc. ; that her husband has 
 appealed to the House, J hoping to give them satisfaction, and that 
 
 * See the allegations against him in this matter of compounding, ante, p. 69. 
 Surtees enters a pedigree of the Gartlis in his Hist. Durham, iv. 28 ; another 
 genealogy is to be fonnd in Walbran, Antiq. (iainford, p. 110. 
 
 t In 1G22 a fine was levied of Jarrow manor from Lord Eure to Henry 
 Gibb, esq., of Falkland, gentleman of his Majesty's Chamber, and in 1627 
 there was a general release. In 1631, Hen. Gibb (afterwards baronet of Nova 
 Scotia) settled the manor on his marriage with Anne, one of the daus. of Sir 
 Ralph Gibbs, knt., deed. In 1653, Richd. Everard and Elizabeth his wife, 
 dau. and coheir of Sir Henry, Frances Gibb, spinster, the other dau., and 
 Edwd. Gibb, a trustee, conveyed the manor by bargain and sale to Thos. 
 Bonner and RoVjt. Ellison of Newcastle. Dame Anne Gibb released her dower, 
 June 1 following. Surtees, Hi^t. Durham, ii. 72. 
 
 X Sir Henry made several advances towards the all-conquering Parliament. 
 First of all his wife. Dame Anne, on June 3, 1644, presented a petition to the 
 House of Commons, and the House referred it to the consideration of the 
 Committee for the King's Revenue, 'for tlie petitioner's relief.' Then, July 4 
 following, the House dealt with Sir Henry : Ordered, That the paper of June 
 29, representing the condition of >Sir Hen. Gibb, this daj' reported from the 
 Committee of both kingdoms upon the recommendation of the Scots Com- 
 missioners, be from this House in especial manner recommended unto the 
 Committee for the King's Revenue, and to do therein for the party's relief in 
 such manner as shall seem best to their judgments. Again, Nov. iS, in that 
 year tlie Commons ordered. That tiie humble petition of Sir Hen. (Jibb be 
 referi-ed to the consideration of the Committee for the Northern Affairs, where 
 Sir Thos. Widdrington has the chair. To that committee Sir Henry made a 
 notable proposal in these words : It is humbly desired bj' Sir Hen. Gibbs, 
 that, wiiereas the king is indebted unto him the sum of 1,457/. 3v., as will 
 appear by patent under the great seal of England dated April 29, 4 Car., 
 and that for pajiuent thereof, certain woods, upon the west park of Brandece- 
 pats, are b\- the patent mortgaged to him : That the said ^\•oods may be 
 applied to the use of tlie public, or good of collier}' and keels, now much 
 wanting ; and the said Sir Hen. Gibb in consideration thereof, and for that the 
 want thereof liath contracted a greater del)t u])on him, may be paid out of the 
 delincjuents' estates, the said sum of 1,457/- 3^. , with damages since it was 
 payable ; or any other way which shall be thought most fitting. This document, 
 being submitted to the Commons, produced the following resolution : That
 
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 therefore she bej^s allowance of her fifth from the time of his 
 sequestration. — Granted, but the fifth to date from present time only. 
 
 1650. May 17. Her husband havinp; died [Apr. i^] Lady Gibb 
 begs a discharge from sequestration. In August, IG.'U, Sir Hen., 
 being seised in fee of divers lands in co. Durham, settled them upon 
 her for life and then to his heirs. Particular of his estate: — All 
 the lands and iuqjropriation of Jarow, with the 2 saltpans, let before 
 the war at ilSL, but as now let by the Commissioners, Y.V., 
 301/. 14.?. 2d.; 2 saltpans totally ruined, formerly worth yearly, 
 38/. Yearly payments out of said lands, 32/. 19.s'. lOr/. 
 
 1650. May 23. Further particular, on report : — Sir Hen. Gibb 
 was seised in fee of the manor of Jarrow, and of a tenement in 
 Munckton, co. Durham, and of 2 saltpans in Jarrow, and of the 
 rectory impropriate of Jarrow and other lands in Jarrow, Munckton 
 and Sheills, purchased of Lord Eure. By his deed, dated Aug. 3, 
 1631, for a jointure for the petitioner, and preferment of her children, 
 lie covenanted to stand seised of the premises to his own use for life, 
 remainders to his wife and to his right heirs. 
 
 1650. May 28. Deed allowed and sequestration discharged. 
 
 THOMAS GREEN OF SCREMERSTON. 
 
 (C(d. V. p. 3238.) 
 1655. June 19. Anthony Hall of Scremerston, in Islandshire, 
 petitions the C.C. for an order to the Cou. Com. to certify why the 
 half of a farm in Bolam, co. Northd., with the appurtenances, and 
 the lands and premises belonging thereto, late in the tenure of 
 Robt. Inges, purchased 1jy him of Thos. Green of Scremerston, should 
 lie sequestered for Green's recusancy, seeing that no order for the 
 sequestration of the said lands, etc., can be found. — Cou. Com. to 
 certify,* and Mr. BIrereton to report. 
 
 the proposition presented by Sir Hen. Gibb, knt. and bait., concerning certain 
 woods upon the west park of Brande Smyth, in the bishopric of Durham, be 
 referred to the consideration of the committee at Newcastle, to inquire into, 
 and consider of the true state of the l)usiness, and to do and order therein that 
 which shall be most agreeable to justice, most advantageous and just for the 
 ■commonwealth, and most advantageous and satisfactoiy to Sir Henry Gibb ; 
 and to acquaint the House with their proceedings herein. Ordered, that as to 
 Sir Henry Gibb's propositions concerning liis pension, the Hoiise will take them 
 into consideration in convenient time. Nothing further is recorded in the 
 Journals about Sir Henry's proposals, but on Aug. 28, 1648, comes this 
 ominous resolution : — That the estate of Sir Henry (ilibb, real and personal, in 
 England be forthwith sequestered. Finally, in December, appeared the ordin- 
 ance appropriating the estate in manner already explained in a note .s. t: 
 Thomas Bowes. It will be observed that the clerks of Parlt. in framing these 
 resolutions had some difficulty with the name of Brancepeth. ' Brandecepats ' 
 and ' Brande Smyth ' are not even plausible guesses in orthography. 
 
 * No further record appears, but the name of Thos. Green of Scremerston, 
 gent., is in the list of papists and delinquents sent up to London by Geo. 
 Fenwick {ante, p. 87 ^ the sequestration being there entered as made in 1652.
 
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 EDWARD GREY OF COWPEX.* 
 
 (Cal. ii. p. 14(19 ; V. p. 3281.) 
 
 1646. Edwd. Grey, described as of Coupon, co. Northd., petitions 
 to be allowed to compound, on the terms contained in the articles 
 sicfned at Newark, for his delinquency in takinfj up arms against 
 Parlt. He has taken the National Covenant and the Negative Oath. 
 Particular of his estate : — In fee messuages and lands called Ougham 
 Grange and Nunakirs, Y.V.B.W., 60/., subject to a fee-farm rent of 
 277^3. ann. to the Crown ; (part of said lands is mortgaged for 100/. 
 to Mr. Pye, of Morpeth, who, for non-payment, has entered into 
 possession) ; messuages, lands, etc., in Heaton, Higham Dykes, and 
 Little Benton for the life of his wife, l:)eing her jointure by her former 
 husband, Robt. Mitford, Y.Y.B.W., 138/., subject to a chief rent of 
 3/. p. ann. to the Crown, and 6/. p. ann. to the church of St. Nicholas 
 Newcastle, out of the Heaton lands, and to a chief rent of V. to the 
 Crown and 6/. to the church of Tynemouth, and an annuity of 8/. 
 to Geo. Hymers (or Keymers) and Richd. Maughan, out of the lands in 
 Higham Dj^kes and Little Benton. Is indeljted at several scriveners' 
 shops in London, viz., Mr. Shelcrosse, Mr. Wilkinson and Mr. Bredele, 
 in sums borrowed years since, 400/. Debts owing petitioner : — John 
 Dalevell and others, 200/. : Jas. Henderson, 100/. ; Cristofer Ogle, 
 25/. ; Singleton of Cresswell and his lirother, .■}2/. Losses by the 
 ■armies, 400/. 
 
 * A prominent member of a well-known familj' — the (Jreys of Chillingham. 
 In Raine's North Dxrhnm (pedigree of (irey of Heton, etc.), he appears as a 
 •son of Sir Ralpli Grey by a second wife, and brother of an equally well-known 
 loyalist, Dr. Robt. Grey, rector of Bishopwearmouth and prebendai-y of Durham. 
 Raine describes him as Edwd. (^rey, owner of lands in Ulgham (irange and 
 Nunnikirk, ex dono patrif, also a member of Gi'ay's Inn. Recourse to the 
 (Jray's Inn R€(jister!i proves his admission, Aug. 3, 1629. Hodgson, //^s/. 
 Northd. pt. II. vol. ii. p. 178, assigns the ownership of Ulgham Grange in 
 1648 to Col. Edwd. Grey, who was then residing there. His name is in the 
 tirst Act for Sale, passed .July 16, 1651, as Edwd. Gray, late of Chillingham, 
 CO. Northd., esij. After the troubles were over he had possession of most of 
 the properties enumerated in the particular of liis estate. In the Northd. 
 Rentals of 1663, before (luoted, he is entered for Ulgham Grange at 100/., 
 Higham Dykes, 30/.. Heaton, 122/., and 2 mills at Heaton, 20/. It is to be 
 noted, in connection with this case, that, as with Erringtons and Fenwicks, 
 the authorities were puzzled by recurrent Christian names. There were at 
 least five Edw. Greys or Grays in the field— Edward of (1) Cliillingham, (2) 
 Morpeth, (3) Angerton, (4) Shoreston and (5) Howick. Among the jiapers 
 relating to the next case, that of Edwd. Grey of Morpeth, is a deposition by 
 •Gilb. Crouch that he well knows Edwd. (Jrey of Chillingham, one of the 
 persons named in the first Act for Sale ; he also well knows Edwd. Grey of 
 Morpeth, and says that they arc two several persons ; he is well ac(iuainted 
 with both, and knows that Edwd. (irey who conveyed lands called Ulchester 
 to Jonathan Adkins is not tlie same Edwd. (irey named in tlie said Act for Sale. 
 See note to the case of Margaret (irey of Spindleston.
 
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 1647. Jan. 19. Fine at a sixth, 389/. 10s. 
 
 1650. Aug. 2. On the petition (missing) of Margt., Lady Bowes, 
 and Elizth., Barbara and Alice Delaval, sisters and co-heirs of Mar}% 
 late wife of Edwd. Grey, delinquent, they are ordered to prove 
 whether Edwd. Grey is still living. 
 
 1650. Nov. 20. They beg discharge of the sequestration on 
 Heaton manor, Higham Dykes and Little Benton, of which Robt. 
 Mitford was seised, and by indenture dated June 16, 1640, gave to 
 Sir Peter Riddell to the use of Robt. and Mary, his then wife, and 
 their heirs, and in default to the heirs of Mary. Robt. Mitford died 
 without heirs and Mary entered into the said lands, married Edwd. 
 Grey, for whose delinquency they are now sequestered, and died 
 in Feb., 1650. By her death the lands have descended to petitioners. 
 — Referred to Mr. Brereton and the Cou. Com. 
 
 [No date.] Thos. Carr, postmaster of Berwick petitions that he 
 has held his office through the war, done Parlt. good service, and 
 suffei'ed much in their cause. Hears that Edwd. Grey of Cowpon 
 wants to compound for part of his inheritance at Higham Dykes. He 
 and his ancestors having been in i:)ossession 100 years, desires that 
 Grey may not compound therefor till the case has been tried at law. 
 
 1651. Feb. 5. Carr renews his petition. Higham Dykes was 
 sequestered as the estate of Col. Edwd. Grey of Cowpon, who had no 
 title thereto. On appeal to the C.S. in 1646, had leave to enter the 
 lands and try his title at law, but Grey has violently dispossessed him 
 of the premises, and still continues therein. — Cou. Com. to certify 
 and Mr. Brereton to report. 
 
 1651. July 16. The estate of Edwd. Grey, late of Chillingham, 
 appears in the first Act for Sale. 
 
 1652. Jan. 16. Note that Grey is to be re-sequestei'ed for lapsing- 
 payment of the second half of his fine. 
 
 1652. May 8. Order that as Thos. Mainwaring has purchased 
 from the Treason Trustees lands and a mill in All Hallows' par., 
 Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and also lands at Long Benton, late the estate 
 of Edwd. Grey, the Cou. Com. forbear to receive the rents if the 
 premises are sequestered as Grey's. 
 
 1652. May 8. Discharge from sequestration of messuages, milk 
 etc., bought l3y Thos. Mainwaring. 
 
 1652. June 4. The same of Ulgam or Ougham Grange bought by 
 Nich. Foster. 
 
 1652. June 15. Edwd., Kath. and Francis, children of Randal 
 Fenwick of Little Harle, Northd., beg speedy allowance of rent- 
 charges of 5/. each, purchased for them for 100/. by their father in 
 1640, on his sale of the manor to Sir Wm. Riddell and others, and 
 duly paid hitherto, but now the Cou. Com. require a special order 
 therefor. — Order to Cou. Com. to explain. 
 
 1652. Nov. 9. Discharge from sequestration of a house called 
 Nunnykirk bought by Nich. Foster.
 
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 1652. Nov. 18. On report that the lands are sequestered as be- 
 longing to Edwd. Grey, a papist in arms,* the annuity of Kath. 
 Fenwick is allowed ; the other two being in Paris their claim is only 
 to be allowed on certificate that they are brought up Protestants. 
 
 1653. May 27. Thos. Mainwaring of London petitions that 
 having contracted, Jan. 21, 1652, for purchase of part of the estate 
 of Edwd. Grey, it has since appeared by the allowance of the claim 
 of Bowes and the Delavals that the premises were the inheritance of 
 Maiy Grey, who died without issue, and no interest remained in 
 Edwd. Grey to dispose of. Has received 170/. rent, out of which he 
 has disbursed 61/. 19,«. id. in taxes and charges. Begs leave to 
 pay in the remainder and have his discharge. — Ordered that Main- 
 wairing present accounts and pay in all he has received from the 
 estate before he has restitution. 
 
 1653. June 14. Order, on compliance, for restitution. 
 
 1654. March 9. Order for payment to Lady Bowes and the 
 sisters of 157/. 4.<t. 9d. received bv Mainwarine: on account. 
 
 EDWARD GREY OF MORPETH. 
 
 (Cal. ii. p. 1485.) 
 
 1646. Edwd. Grey, papist delinquent, of Morpeth, co. Northd., 
 petitions for discharge of his estate from sequestration according to 
 York Articles, or leave to compound. Particular of his estate: — 
 For life the demesnes of Bitchfield, par. of Stamfordham, Y.Y.B.W., 
 130/. ; a like estate in Little Harle, par. of Kirkwhelpington, 
 Y.Y.B.W., 70/. ; the like in demesnes called Barker's Lands and 
 Hepscott, in Mori)eth, Y.Y.B.W., 36/. : for life a mill called Lear- 
 
 * Col. Edwd. Grey was so determined a royalist, and so fond of fighting for 
 crown and church, that he went out with Marniaduke Langdale in the second 
 war, although he had compounded for delinquency in the first war and taken 
 the covenant and oath. A letter from Sir Arthur Haslerigg, governor of 
 Newcastle, dated July I, 1648, and read in tlie House of Commons on the 5th 
 of that month, gives details of the victory obtained against Langdale's forces 
 in Northd. Rusln\ orth prints parts of the letter {Co/Zirfioiis, pt. iv. vol. iii. 
 p. 1177), hut the whole appears in Bates, Border Holds, p. 400: 'You have 
 heard how Langdale retreated upon Major General Lambert's approaching, and 
 would not engage his forces upon terms of advantage, resolving to preserve 
 his body whole to join with the Scots ; and upon his retreat to Carlisle he sent 
 Col. I'empest witli 700 or SOO of his horse for to meet Col. Grey tliat was 
 before that time kept up in Berwick by our Northumlierland horse, with the 
 assistance of Major Sanderson's two troops, but upon Col. Temjiest coming 
 into Nortlnunl)erland ours drew towai-ds Newcastle, and Col. Grey with his 
 forces from Berwick joined with Col. Tempest about Alnwick. . . . There are 
 taken most of the considerable gentlenjen of Northumberland anil Bishoprick 
 that were the \ery first beginners of this war. . . . Col. Gre\' compounded at 
 (joldsmiths' Hall and did take tlie covenant, and so have sonic otiiers, and there 
 is not a man in the north of England that iuvth done you more mischief than 
 Col. (Jrey.' His name is inserted in the list, dated Marcii 13, 1649, of those 
 wlio uere to expect no pardon.
 
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 mouth, par. of Carhani, Y.V.B.W., 'MV. ; for life the impropriate 
 tithes of Carham, Y.V.B.W., 17/. ; for life the demesnes of West 
 Hartford, i)ar. of Hortou, 47/. ; a i'ent-charp:e of 40/. yearly, issuing 
 out of Sir Wm. Widdrington'vS estate in Milborne Grange and 
 Newhani ; a rent-charge of 10/. yearly out of the same ; a rent- 
 charge of 20/. yearly out of lands called Edinirton, ])ar. of Mitford. 
 — No order made. 
 
 IGoO. July .'50. Begs an order for the continuance of the hfth of 
 his sequestered estate for maintenance of his many children. — 
 Granted. 
 
 1G5.'?. Oct. 1.3. Begs to compound on the votes of Sept. 3 last, 
 his estate being sequestered for I'ecusancy and delinquency, and not 
 lieing in the Acts for Sale. 
 
 1654. Jan. (I). Petitions the Protector for the discharge of a 
 third of his estate, .\dmits that he is a recusant and that he retired 
 to Newcastle when the Scottish army came in, but states that he sub- 
 mitted in 1644, to the Cou. Com., and has neither absented himself 
 since nor l)een engaged for the King, yet is sequestered for absence. 
 
 1654. Mar. 30. Petitions the Protector again, begging for the 
 benefit of York Articles or leave to compound, with allowance from 
 his tine of the rents received from his estate. 
 
 1654. Dec. 22. Petitions the Com. for Relief on Articles of 
 War. By York Articles, citizens w^ere to have liberty to dispose of 
 their houses and goods, and remove or remain ; on those Articles he 
 has petitioned the C.C, but they refuse him as being a papist 
 delinquent. Begs relief. — The C.C. to certify whether he has for- 
 feited the benefit of York Articles. 
 
 1655. Jan. 4. Petitions for a lease of his estate at present 
 rental ; it l)eing much damaged for want of repairs. — Granted for a 
 year. 
 
 1655. May 8. Petitions for his fifth, granted l)y late C.C, 
 with arrears, the tenants refusing to pay it. — Granted. 
 
 1656. Jan. 31. His petitions for discharge under York Articles 
 or leave to compound, dismissed. 
 
 ELIZA Hf:TH GREY OF DEANHAM. 
 
 (Cal. iv. p. 291)8.) 
 
 1652. Mar. 4. James Whitehead of Welbeck, co. Notts., begs 
 an order for examination or allowance, with arrears, of an annuity 
 of 10/. on the lands in New Deanham, par. of Hartl^orne, co. Northd., 
 of Randal Fenwick of Hawick [par. of Kirkharle] in same co. which 
 he bought in 1626 for 100/., ])ut the lands, being conveyed to Elizth. 
 Grey [spinster], are sequestered for her I'ecusancy. — Referred to Cou. 
 Com. and Mr. Brereton. 
 
 1652. Nov. 18. On report claim allowed, unless petitioner be a 
 recusant. •
 
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 1654. Jan. 12. Elizth. Grey petitions to contract for two-thirds 
 of her sequestered estate. 
 
 1659(0. Certificate that Edwd. Grey farmed her estate at 55/. 
 a year on lease for 21 years, or for her life, and that she died, Dec 7, 
 1657, when the sequestration was discharged, he being a Protestant. 
 
 MARGARET GREY OF SPINDLESTON. 
 
 (Cal. V. p. 31SS.) 
 
 1654. Jan. 17. Dame Margt. Grey, wido^v of Sir Arth. Grey 
 of Spindleston, co. Xorthd., petitions for leave to contract for two- 
 thirds of her estate in terms of the Recusants' Act of Oct. 21 last. 
 — Referred to Mr. Reading. 
 
 1654. June 13. Martin Fenwick, gent., petitions that two parts 
 ■of the estates of Dame Margt. Grey in Spindleston and elsewhei'e 
 in CO. Northd., is sequestered for her recusancy, and let by the 
 Cou. Com. unto petitioner ; that Edwd. Grey, esq., pretending some 
 title to some part of said estate, hath entered and sealed a lease of 
 ejectment to Nich. Carnaby, gent., who intends to bring the same to 
 trial at next assizes. — Referred to Cou. Com. and if Fenwick's petition 
 be true. Grey is forbidden at his peril to go to trial till his claim is 
 admitted l)y the C.C. 
 
 1654. Dec. 27. Dame Margt. Grey and Martin Fenwick of 
 Kenton petition that the late Robt. Dodsworth, tenant of two-thirds 
 ■of the estate of said Margt., spent 86/. 17«. in repairs, Imt the Cou. 
 Com. allow only a third (28/. 19-s-.) thus charging Margt., who had 
 ■only a third of the estate, with two-thirds of the repairs, and now 
 demand the 28/. 19v. from Fenwick, though it was defalcated liy 
 Dodsworth. 
 
 1655. Feb. 7. Upon report from the Cou. Com. under the hand 
 ■of Geo. Fenwick, certifying that the 28/. 19.s\ was for repairs in 1651, 
 which was allowed to the then tenant by the auditor and upon read- 
 ing the depositions of John Selby, Nich. Fenwick, and Robt. Richard- 
 son and the affidavit of Dorothy Fenwick, the C.C. order the Cou. 
 Com. to forbear to levy the said sum, or to molest or trouble the 
 tenant. 
 
 1654. Dec. 28. Edwd. Grey of Morpeth Ijegs aHowance nf his 
 title to a half of Ulchester Manor, and other lands, etc., in Xorthd. 
 and Durham, settled upon him and his heirs by indenture dated 
 Feb. 12, 1637, by Sir Roger Grey, knt., deceased, at which time the 
 premises were in lease for a term of years, but the interest of the 
 lease ha-ving come to Dame Margt. (xrey, the lands, etc., are 
 sequestered for her recusancy. — Referred to the Cou. Com. 
 
 1655. Jan. 10. Sir Andrew Young of Bourne, co. York, and 
 others petition for examination bj^ the Cou. Com. of their title under 
 Sir Arth. and Sir Roger Grey, deceased, to the moiety of Ulchester
 
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 Manor and Grange, par. of Baniljurgh, two-thirds of which are 
 sequestered as the estate of Margt., widow of Sir Arthur. — Cou. Com. 
 to certify and Mr. Reading to report. 
 
 1655. Apr. 24. Jonathan Atkins of Henderskelf Castle, co. York, 
 l)etitions for allowance of his title to two-thirds of lands in Ulchester, 
 purchased for 940/. of Edwd. Grey and sequestered for the recusancy 
 of Dame Margt. Grey, who had an interest therein only during a 
 lease which expired at Whitsuntide. 
 
 1655. July 17. Atkins begs possession and leave to try his title 
 at law. 
 
 1655. July 19. Granted, notwithstanding Fenw^ick's motion to 
 the contrary.* 
 
 RALPH GREY OF TRUMBLE HlLL.f 
 
 (Cal. V. p. 32 10.) 
 
 1652. Nov. 18. The name of Ralph Grey of Trumble-hill, 
 yeoman, appears in the third Act for Sale. 
 
 * All these claims and countci'claiins become intelligible when we under- 
 stand the relationship of the various claimants as set forth iu Raine's elaborate 
 pedigree of the tireys, Hist. Nortli ]))trh<im, p. 3"27. Briefly it may be 
 explained thus : Sir Ralph Grey of Chilllngham, knt. (o/». 1565), married 
 Isaljel, dau. and co-heir of Sir Thos. Grey of Horton. By her he had, among 
 other issue, (a) Sir Ralph Grey of Horton, knt., father of Col. Edwd. Grey of 
 Cowpen : (h) Sir Roger Grey of Ulchester (or Outchester), knt., ol). .^.p.: {c) Sir 
 Arthur Grey of Spindleston, knt., who married Margt., dau. of Anthonj' 
 Bulmer of Tursdale, co. Durham, and had issue Isaliel, wife of Sir Wm. 
 Fenwick of Meldon, whose eldest dau., Mary, married Sir Andrew Young, of 
 Bourne, co. York, knt.; (d) Sir Edwd <irey, knt., constable of Morpeth Castle, 
 father uf (1) Edward Grey of Morpeth, (2) Catherine, who liecame the wife of 
 Randal Fenwick of Blagdon, (8) Elizabeth of Deanham, who died a spinster, 
 and others. Here we have all the compounders of the name of Grey whose 
 cases precede, viz., Col. Edwd., Edwd. of Morpeth, Elizth. of Deanham, and 
 Margt., widow of Sir Arthur of Spindle.ston. Further illustrations of the 
 familj- coiinections and contentions and tlie transmissions and de\olutions of 
 the familj- estates are derivable from Hodgson, //!•</. Xort/nl. (pt. ii. vol. i. : 
 Little Harle, p. 209, Deanham, ]). 295, Nuunykirk, p. 330 : pt. ii. vol. ii. : 
 Cowpen, p. 26s, Hepscott, p. 439//) and from the new Hixf. Norlhd. i. 
 184-187, where is a detailed account of Spindleston, with correspondence of 
 Dame Margaret <Trey and the Fenwicks, and pp. 205-209, which contain an 
 equally interesting description of Outchester under Grey ownership. 
 
 t Trumble Hill, or Trubble Hill, is, or was, a homestead in the chapelry of 
 Kyloe, Islandshire. Raine, ///>/. North Dnrliam, Appendix, p. 159, in a list 
 of landowners assessable in 1670-167 1 upon the Subsidy Roll of 12//. in the ])ound, 
 shows Ro. Graj- rated upon a j-early value of 9/. These Greys belonged to a 
 famih" long donaciled at Kyloe. There is a pedigree of them in Raine, above 
 quoted, but it does not help in this case, for Rol)t. Grey the petitioner does not 
 appear in it. A descendant of the familj% Dorothy, dan. of Marmaduke 
 (irey of Kyloe, carried the name into the house of Bacon, or Bacon -Forster, 
 of Styford, and originated the cognomen Bacon-Grey. Vide the new Hi>it. 
 Northd. vi. 236.
 
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 1654. Apr. 25. Robt., son and heir of Ralph Grey of Trumble 
 Hill, deceased, petitions for an order to the Cou. Com. to examine 
 his title to lands there, not knowing why they keep him out of 
 possession thereof. 
 
 1654. July 11. Francis Moore of Fenwick [near Belford], aged 
 56 years, deposes that he knew Ralph Grey, petitioner's late father, 
 and that he was drowned at Haggerston south bridge on Martinmas 
 day about 1 8 years ago, and that said Ralph died seised of a messuage 
 called Trumble-hill, leaving only the petitioner and one daughter ; 
 that petitioner is his son and heir, and ought to enjoy the said lands 
 nt Trumble-hill ; that the same is freehold, and descended to Ralph 
 Grey, deceased, as heir to Thos. Grey, his father, who died about 30 
 years ago, and that petitioner, Robt. Grey, is about 23 years of age. 
 Adam Smith of Haggerston, yeoman, aged about 36 years, deposes to 
 the same effect. Edwd. Grey of Sherstone, co. Northd., gent., aged 
 about 50, brother of said Ralph Grey, makes a similar deposition. 
 Cou. Com. books, under date Apr. 13, 1650, show that Ralph Grey's 
 land was let to Ralph Turnbull for 12^., for one year from May, 1650, 
 and again on Nov. 22, 1651, to same Turnbull for 7 years at 14/. 
 p. ann., tenant to have allowed the monthly tax imposed for main- 
 tenance of the Army. 
 
 1655. Jan. 19. Certificate from the Registrar that Ralph Grey 
 was in the last Act for Sale. No further information obtainable. 
 
 SIR THOMAS HAGGERSTON OF HAGGERSTON.* 
 
 (Gal. a. p. 002 ; iv. p. 2558.) 
 
 1645. July 31. Resolution adopted by the House of Commons : 
 — That the garrison of Holy Island be reduced to the ancient 
 establishment, and that Capt. Shaftoe, the present governor there, 
 shall have the arrears of pay due to himself and his soldiers, for that 
 garrison, out of the sale or sequestration of the lands and estate of 
 Col. Thos. Haggerston, esq., now a prisoner to the Parlt. And it is 
 
 * Haggerston, in the chapelry of Ancroft, Islandshire, was the home of the 
 family of that name from an early period. Edward III. gave licence to Robt. 
 de Haggerston to crenellate ' mansum suum de Hagerstone,' June 4, 1345 
 {Bates, Border Holds, p. 10). Buckton, in the adjoining chapelry of Kyloe, 
 was purcliased by Thos. Haggerston (the compounder) June 10, 1G37, for 
 534^. 15.V. \\d., and Fenwick, also in Kyloe chapelry, was ac(iuired by him 
 Nov. 23, 1639. He succeeded his father, Wm. Haggerston, in 1606, being 
 then a minor, was col. of a regiment of horse and foot under the Karl of New- 
 castle, and was created a baronet by Chas. I. in 1643. He married Alice, sole 
 heir of Hen. Banaster of the Bank, co. Lane, by whom lie had a numerous 
 family. One of his sons, .John, was killed at Oiinskirk, fighting *.i- imrte reijis, 
 in 1644. A daughter, Ellen, Ijecame the wife of Wm. Selby of Biddleston, co. 
 Northd., and another daugliter, Margt., wa^^ united (1) to ^Vm. Hodgson of 
 Hebburn, co. Pal., and (2) to Lane. Hodgson, esq. A pedigree, with in- 
 formation respecting tlie family and their possessions, appears in Raine, Xorlh 
 Durham, pp. 200-234.
 
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 further ordered that 100/. be paid out of the said estate to Capt. 
 Robt. Hug^e, late captain of that island, for his relief, he having first 
 rendered it into the hands of the Parlt. 
 
 1645. Aug. 23. Order by the Connuittee for reducing Newcastle 
 and parts adjacent, that Capt. Shaftoe, having taken Col. Haggerston, 
 papist in arms, and secured Holy Island, etc., shall take possession of 
 the manors of Haggerston. Fenwick and Buckton, value 270/., belong- 
 ing to Col. Haggerston and keep the profits (except the fifth allowed 
 to the colonel's wife) till the sum of 1,4:>0/. be paid, rendering a 
 true account thereof ; and after that, he and his men shall be i»ut on 
 the old establishment.* 
 
 1650. Dec. 18. Alice, wife of Sir Thos. Haggerston, petitions 
 for her fifth of her husl^and's estate, sequestered through his being 
 a recusant-delinquent. — Granted, with arrears since Dec. 24, 1649. 
 
 1651. Mar. 1. Petition [missing] of Joan, widow of Capt. Shafto 
 of Holy Island, referred to Mr. Reading. 
 
 1651. Mar. 4. Sir Thos. Haggerston, in reply, i)etitions that 
 Joan Shaftoe is attempting to obtain his estate on i)retence of arrears 
 of pay due to her late husband ; that the order of Parlt. under which 
 she claims was for arrears due to soldiers under his command ; that 
 he and she have had possession of most of petitioner's estate for 
 three years, yet paid nothing to the soldiers, but spoiled the estate 
 and let the houses go to decay ; that since they were outed they 
 have received sums far exceeding the arrears due ; that, in 164."5, 
 Capt. Shaftoe took from petitioner at his own dwelling, money, 
 plate, goods and cattle, worth 867/., most of which he converted to 
 his own use, and so ransacked the house that they left not the 
 clothes on the backs of petitioner's wife and children ; that before 
 sequestration the Cajit. took 30/. worth of petitioner's timber, pre- 
 tending it was for the fort at Holy Island, but converted it to his own 
 use, and had in like manner used 70/. sent to him for arms and 
 clothes ; and, lastly, that he had returned false musters, getting pay 
 
 * The garrison of Holj' Island forms the subject of several documents in the 
 MSS. relating to compositions. Thus, under date April IS, 1651, there is 
 a petition from 4:-! otKcers and soklieis and 2 of tlieir widows to the Cou. Com, 
 begging that they maj- receive their pay. They state that having waited for 
 it a long time they applied to Parlt., that in 1645 the House passed an 
 ordinance for payment to Ije made out of the estate of Sir Thos. Haggerston till 
 1.430/. was fully paid, but for four years they received only 140/., the times 
 being ti'oublcsome, that in 1649 thej' received nearlj' 300/., but that last 
 Martinmas the Cou Com. stopped the payment. — The Cou. Com. refer the 
 petition to the C.C. Again, on March 8, 1654, the sohliers and widows petition 
 the C.C. for 955/. l"2s. lie/., balance still due of the 1,430'. They were hindered 
 first by the troops being in the counti-y ; then the rents were kept in the 
 tenants' hands ; now the estates are sold. — May 23. The C.C. state that thej' 
 have no pow er to act in this matter, Haggerston's money being received by the 
 Cou. Com. according to an order of Jan. 25, 1650, and no order has been issued 
 since for payment to petitioners. Further details of the garrison and its 
 vicissitudes appear in Raine, op. cit., p. 164.
 
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 for 60 men when he had not 20. etc. Be^s that inquiry may be 
 made, and that meanwhile the profits of the estate may be allotted 
 to the poor, wronged soldiers. 
 
 1651. May 8. Deljate in the House of Connuons on amendments 
 to the first Bill for Sale. Petition from Sir Thos. Hauffrerston read. 
 Resolved that Sir Thos. Haggerston do stand in this l)ill. That the 
 business concerning Capt. Shaftoe, governor of Holy Island, and 
 Capt. Rugge* be referred to the Committee of the Revenue to 
 examine the state of the business and report it to the House. 
 
 1651. May 29. Thos., son of Thos. Collingwood of Buckton, begs 
 allowance of an annuity of 24/. on lands at Buckton, granted him 
 long ago by Sir Thos. Haggerston and allowed till lately. 
 
 1651. July 16. The name of Thos. Haggerston, late of Hagger- 
 ston, CO. Northd., otherwise called Sir Thos. Haggerston, ajipears in 
 the first Act for Sale. 
 
 1651. Sept. 10. Sir Thos. petitions for allowance of a rent- 
 charge of 12/. on his estatef which will be lost unless allowed ))y the 
 contractors for his estate. — Cou. Com. to certify. 
 
 1651. Oct. 1. Sir Thos. petitions again. Respecting his charges 
 against the Shaftoes he has proved most of his points, but not all, 
 the examinations being at Durham, threescore long northern miles 
 from Holy Island where he and his witnesses dwell, and the Com- 
 mittee refusing to allow the charges of witnesses, though for the 
 sole benefit of the State. Begs a local committee to take his proofs 
 or cost of taking witnesses to Durham. 
 
 1652. Mar. 19. John Brownell contracts with the Ti'ustees for 
 the Sale of Lands, etc., for a mansion-house called Haggerston, with 
 several other messuages, lands, tenements and mills in the townships 
 of Haggex'ston, Fenwick and Buckton, with the appurtenances, late 
 parcel of the estate of Thos. Haggerston, es(p, being an estate for 
 the life of the said Thos. sold at five years' purchase, being 
 590/. llv. lOr/. p. ann., in possession of the State. 
 
 1652. May 19. Discharge of the estate from sequestration. 
 
 1652. May 26. Francis Anderson and two others, trustees foi- 
 the children and grandchildren of Thos. Haggerston, beg allowance of 
 a lease of corn tithes in Fenwick, Buckton and Cheswick, Holy Island, 
 settled on them by Haggerston during the lives of his younger 
 children, Hen., Margt., and Alice, and his grandchildren, Wm. 
 and Chas. Selby, and excepted in the last Act whereljy his other lands 
 are sold. — Cou. Com. to certify proofs of this lease, its sealing, 
 deliverv, etc. 
 
 * Sir Will. Brereton, in his journey tlironuli Durham anl Nortlid. in lO.S;!, 
 visited Holy Island and was entertained by Ca])t. Kugge, of whose Iiospitality 
 and personal appearance he writes : 'Captain Rugg. governor of this fort, is as 
 famous for his generous and free entertainment of strangei's as for his great 
 bottle nose, which is the largest I have seen.' 
 
 t See AUgood's case, ante, p. 95.
 
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 1652. July 22. Thus. Collingwood's petition for the annuity of 
 i'-i/. gi-anted, with arrears since 1649, on oath that no part of the 
 300/. given for it has been repaid. 
 
 1653. Oct. 26. Petition of Anderson, etc., renewed, the children 
 having no other maintenance than these tithes. — Allowed on secui'ity 
 for six weeks. 
 
 1653. Dec. 22. Anderson's claim allowed, with arrears from 
 date of petition, amounting for last three half-years to 395/. 3.s. 8d. 
 
 CHRISTOPHER HALL OF NEWSHAM. 
 
 (Cal. ii. p. 15:23.) 
 
 1646. Oct. 1. Chris. Hall of Newsham, co. Durham, gent., 
 petitions for leave to comioouud for delinquency. [Petition missinff.] 
 1646. Dec. 19. Fine at a tenth, 460/.* 
 
 CHRISTOPHER HALL OF HARTBURN.f 
 
 (Cal. in. p. 2251 ; iv. p. 3299.) 
 
 1650. Apr. 25. Chris. Hall of Hartburn, or West Hartburn, co, 
 Durham, having been voted a delinquent by the C.A.M., begs to com- 
 pound. [Petition, referred to Mr. Brereton, missing.] 
 
 1651 [blank]. Chris, and Francis, sons of Thos. Hall of Hornby 
 in Cleveland, beg a certificate from the Cou. Com. of the cause of 
 their sequestering the lands of John Douthwaite, of Westholme. 
 Chris. Hall has a right to a rent-charge of 100/. a year thereon, and 
 
 * 1648. Mar. 4. The House of Commons accepts 460/. fine for the 
 delinquency of Chris. Hall of Newsham His offence, that he deserted his 
 dwelling and went to Oxford. He surrendered upon Oxford articles. His 
 estate in fee in possession, p. ann. , 230/. , for which his fine at 2 years' value is 
 460/. — April 3. The House of Lords approves and directs a pardon to issiie, 
 with restitution of lands, goods, etc. 
 
 t A long and tiresome case, mixed up as it is with that of Lawrence Sayer 
 of Yarm and Worsall, co. York. Surtees, Hi>:t. Durhani, iii. 207, prints a 
 pedigree of the Halls, and, a few pages earlier, one relating to the Sayers 
 family, showing the connection of both with Preston-on-Tees, Aislaby, Hart- 
 burn and other places in the neighbourhood of Stockton. The Halls of 
 Newsham began with John Hall, a descendant of the Halls of Gretford in 
 Lincolnshire. His son, William, or Christopher, married a Pollard of 
 Brampton, near Barnard Castle, and by her he had, among other children, 
 Francis of Newsham, and Chris. No. 2, who settled at West Hartburn and 
 died s.p. Francis, marrying Margt. Tunstall of Long Newton, became the 
 father of Chris. No. 3, Fiancis \o. 2, and several other children. Chris. No. 3 
 was united to Anne, ilau. of Edwd. Blakiston of Great Chilton, by whom he 
 had Ludowick, Catherine, wife of Wm. Fenwick of Bywell, and Anne, wife of 
 Robt. Shafto of Benwell. He was buried at Bywell St. Andrew's Church, 
 where his daughter, Mrs. Fenwick, erected a monument to his memory, as 
 recorded in the new Huf. Northd. vi. 246.
 
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 Francis Hall to a parcel of land and a messuage called Aislaby 
 Holmes, both of which are sequestered for the delinquency of Chris. 
 Hall, their great-uncle. 
 
 1651. Mar. 25. Thos. Hall, brother and executor, and Margery 
 Pinkney, executrix of Chris. Hall, beg to compound for the estate 
 of the said Chris, who died soon after he was adjudged a delinquent. 
 
 1651. May 6. Mr. Brereton reports that by indenture dated 
 Jan 28, 1642, John Douthwaite of Westholme, in consideration of 
 1,250?. to be paid by Chris. Hall of Hartborne, granted him and 
 Chris, the petitioner, a rent-charge of 100/. p. ann. out of his 
 messuages, lands, etc., in Newsham, Westholme, Alwent, Winston, 
 East Jamleazes and Bellamy, par. of Winston, and acknowledged a 
 judgment upon a bond of 2,500/. for assuring them the said rent. 
 By indenture dated Oct. 21, 1647, Thos. Jefferson, jun., of Elton7 
 for .360/. enfeoffed said Chris. Hall of Hartborne and Francis his 
 brother, of 4 closes called Aslaby Holmes, in the manor of Aslaby. 
 By deed dated Oct. 22, 1647, the said Chris. Hall of Hartborne, 
 released all his right, etc., in Aslaby Holmes to Francis Hall. The 
 said rent-charge of 100/. and the said lands called Ayselaby were 
 sequestered, Oct. 9, 1649, for the delinquency of Chris. Hall, sen. 
 The same really belonged to Chris, the elder, the petitioners' names 
 being only used. — Deposition enclosed from Thos. Hall to the effect 
 that the rent-charge of Westholme was purchased for the use of 
 Chris. Hall, sen., and Chris. Hall, jun., deponent's son, and that the 
 following is a particular of the estate, as discovered unto him, the 
 executor: — Household stuff: 2 chests, 1 trunk, 1 desk, worth in 
 all, 2/. ; rent-charges out of (1) Robt. Jefferson's lands at Elton and 
 Long Newton, 23/. yearly ; (2) lands in Cleveland, which Mr. Forster 
 of Tolsby pays 4/. yearly : (3) a house and land that Mr. Best lives^^-i 
 upon in Appleton, co. York, 4/. yearly. Begs a saving for rent- ) 
 charges out of (1) lands at Xesham, which belonged to Lawrence 
 Sayer of Yarm, and is sequestered, 12/. yearly ; (2) Leonard Jackson's 
 lands at Byshoppton, 4/. yearly : (3) Mr. Conyers' lands at Laton, 
 and Mr. Coatsworth's land, both in co. Durham, 9/. 12s. yearly; 
 (4) Leonard Emmerson's land at Hilclose House or thereabouts, SI. 
 yearly ; (5) tithes of Yarm for three lives, sequestered for Lawrence 
 Sayer's delinquency, 60/. yearly ; (6) an extent upon the lands of 
 John Errington of Elton for a debt of 300/., but the lands are now 
 sequestered. 
 
 1651. July 1. Lancelot Pinkney petitions that in 9 Car., Wm. 
 Lampton, for 300/., granted to Margery Pinkney a yearly rent-charge 
 of 24/. out of his lands in Stainton'in the St., co. Durham, and, 
 15 Car., Lawrence Sayer, for 400/., granted her a rent^charge of 
 32/. a year out of his lands in Egglescliff and Aislaby, which said 
 rents she received till sequestered for delinquency of Sayer and 
 Ralph Coatsworth, owners thereof. Begs order for examination of 
 claim, etc. — Referred to the Cou. Com. 
 
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 1651. Oct. 1. Chris. Potter aud Margery his wife, executrix of 
 Margery Pinkuey, beg a hearing of the report in the case of said 
 Margery Pinkney. In Apr., 1649, Chris. Hall and she became joint 
 purchasers of lands, but Hall becoming delinquent his moiety was 
 sequestered. In Aug., 1650, he died, leaving Margery Pinkney one 
 of his executors. She petitioned to have the sequestration dis- 
 charged, claiming- the whole by survivorship and her claim was 
 referred to counsel, but in Feb., 1651, she was denied a hearing, on 
 the suggestion that she pretended sickness to avoid examination, 
 but her sickness was real, as was proved by her death in April 
 following. Margery Potter is her sole executrix. — To be heard in 
 course ; petitioners to prove Margery Pinkney's death. 
 
 1652. Jan. 6. Thos. Hall, fined at a sixth, for Chris. Hall's 
 delinquency, 394/. 2s. 8d. 
 
 1652. Jan. 14. The fine being paid or secured, sequestration 
 suspended. 
 
 1652. Jan. 14. Lawrence Sayer begs an order to cross-examine 
 Pinkney's witnesses. The 400/., though lent in name of Margery 
 Pinkney, was the proper money of Chris. Hall, who, purchasing other 
 lands of petitioner, was allowed the 400/. and promised to deliver 
 up the security. Lawrence Pinkney having got possession, since 
 Margery's death, has obtained an order for examination of witnesses. 
 — Cou. Com. to investigate and Mr. Reading to report. 
 
 1652. Jan. 21. Margery Potter begs allowance of two rent- 
 charges, one of 20/. a year on the lands of Wm. Rickaby of Great 
 Stainton, by deed of Jan. 5, 1628, the other of 8/. a year on lands 
 of Ralph Laken of Preston in same co., by deed of June 16, 1639, 
 due to Margery Pinkney, deceased, and now to petitioner, but 
 sequestered, the former for Rickaby's recusancy and the 8/. on 
 supposition that it belonged to Chris. Hall. 
 
 1652. April 2. The joint tenancy not carrying away the State's 
 interest, the executor is to compound for the moiety. 
 
 1652. May 20. Fine fixed at 108/. 
 
 1652. June 30. The two Potters petition for restitution of rents 
 received, they having compounded and paid the fine, and finally (May 
 26, 1653), after more petitions, the C.C. order the Cou. Com. to 
 pay Mrs. Potter two-thirds of the rent-charge of 20/. a year (the 
 other third to be satisfied by the recusant out of the third of lands 
 enjoyed by him) and she is to have the whole of the 8/. a year, freed 
 from sequestration, with arrears since Jan. 21, 1652. 
 
 1652. Aug. 31. Note of a saving of Thos. Hall and Margery 
 Pinkney to compound for rent-charges on lands in co. Durham, 
 sequestered from Laurence Sayer. 
 
 1653. Mar. 30. Thos. Metham of Kilton Lodge, co. York, begs 
 allowance of a rent-charge of 56/. a year which Lawrence Sayer (June 
 4, 16 Car.), for 700/., granted to petitioner on his lordship of Preston- 
 on-Tees, and which petitioner has never released. — Cou. Com. to 
 examine and certify.
 
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 1653. July 21:. Discharfre from sequestration of Preston Manor 
 and lands in Egglesclitt' and Aislaby, forfeited by Lawrence Sayer, 
 and bought of the Treason Trustees by Gilb. Crouch and Martin 
 Lister. 
 
 1653. Sept. 9. Like discharge of houses, etc., in Great Stainton, 
 forfeited by Ralph Cotsworth and bought by Geo. Hurd and Geo. 
 Leafe. 
 
 1653. Sept. 28. Like discharge of fishing in the Tees, lands in 
 Stainton, etc., bought by Gillj. Crouch. 
 
 {Cal. [C.A.M.] ii. p. 1082.) 
 
 1619. May 18. Information by Robt. Fenwick that Thos. Fowler 
 and Michael Pemberton of Aislaby, Chris. Hall of Hartborn, and 
 Rowland Place of Dinsdale, all in co. Durham, are delinquents. — 
 Cou. Com. to take examinations, etc. 
 
 1649. June 23. Information by Robt. Aiscough that, in 1642, 
 Hall sent a horse into Col. Errington's troop; that, in 1643, Pem- 
 berton was major, and Place lieut.-col. to Col. Cuth. Conyers of 
 Layton, under the earl of Newcastle, and that, in 1643, Fowler rode 
 his own light horse into the county troops against Parlt. with answer 
 of Pemberton, admitting the facts, but stating that as he came within 
 the time limited by Parlt. he hoped he should not have been further 
 questioned. 
 
 1649. Oct. 3. Additional charges against Hall before the Cou. 
 Com. : — (1) That he hired Hen. Lawson to carry a pike three months 
 under Capt. Eden, in Col. Hilton's regiment. (2) That he lent Sir 
 Thos. Riddell, jun., Governor of Tynemouth Castle for the King, 140/. 
 (3) That he compelled Geo. Hodson of Long Newton, by threats, to 
 fight against Parlt. under Capt. Chris. Wray, which he did till he 
 was killed at Bradford. (4) That he paid assessments and afforded 
 billets to the King's party, but bade the Parlt. party eat the ground 
 if they could, for he would pay them no assessment. — Hall, replying 
 (Nov. 2), pleads that he is 87 years old, has kept his bed divers years 
 and has neither acted nor contributed against Parlt. Begs a copy of 
 the charge and leave to examine witnesses. — Granted. 
 
 1649. Dec. 15. Further charge against Hall, that he hired two 
 butchers to drive eleven of his beasts to Newcastle for the Earl of 
 Newcastle's army. 
 
 1650. Mar. 13. Order, on hearing the case, that Hall is a 
 delinquent, and that his estate, real and personal, be sequestered. 
 
 1650. Mar. 18. The following persons, all of co. Durham, who 
 owe money to Hall, are to appear and show cause why they should 
 not pay the debts to the C.A.M. : — John liuck, Sadbergh, 300/. ; Wm. 
 Allen, ditto, 200/. ; Leonard Emerson, 200/. ; Robt. Jefferson, 200/. : 
 Robt. Leaking, Preston, 100/. ; — Errington, Elton, 300/. ; Richd. 
 Oswald and Chris. Vasie, Low Coniscliff, 50/. ; Wm. Hort, Stockton, 
 60/. ,; Jno. Dowthwaite, Westholme, 1,800/.
 
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 1650. May 31. C.A.M. to the Cou. Com. :— We find that some, 
 on pretence of being Hall's executors and others on other pretences, 
 refuse to be examined. By the ordinances of sequestration the Cou. 
 Com. have power to examine any but the delinquent himself, and in 
 case of refusal, to commit them. You are to obey that order. 
 
 1650. July 3. The Cou. Com. ordered to seize and sequester 
 Hall's estate, real and personal, receive all his debts and rents, and 
 send the moneys to Treasurer Dawson at once. 
 
 1650. [Oct.] Robt. Fenwick requests, as he has been at great 
 charge in discovering the estate of Hall, who labours to conceal it, 
 and by making compacts with some of his debts has got the money 
 into his hands since he was judged a delinquent: — (1) That Hall be 
 required to produce his bonds and evidences, or, on refusal, be 
 brought up in custody and that Margery Pinckney, of West Hartborn, 
 whose name is used in trust for protecting a gi-eat part of Hall's 
 estate, be brought up in custody to be examined thereon, and also 
 Wm. Best, Hall's solicitor ; (2) that the lands of Dowthwaite, Buck 
 and Jefferson, engaged for their debts to Hall, and Hall's own lands 
 at Aislaby, be seized by the State ; (3) that a commission be granted 
 to the Cou. Com. to examine witnesses named, for further discovery 
 of Hall's estate; (4) that a course be taken against Oswald, John 
 Bradford and Richd. Vasye, who, since Hall's conviction, have paid 
 in the debts to Margt. Pinckney, pretending them to be hers. 
 
 1650. Nov. 2. Information by Wm. Best of Appleton, relative 
 to the lending of money by Hall on mortgage or bonds, and purchase 
 of lands in his name and Margt. Pinckney's jointly. 
 
 1650. Dec. 4. On Fenwick's motion, Thos. Hall and Margt. 
 Pinckney, pretending to be the late Chris. Hall's executors, are 
 ordered to appear before the Cou. Com. and be examined about the 
 estate, and all of it already seized or hereafter discovered, to be 
 sequestered. 
 
 1651. Feb. 25. The Registrar to peruse the examination of Thos. 
 Hall, kinsman of Chris. Hall, as to his estate and take care that 
 orders be sent for its sequestration. Thos. Hall to appear on Friday 
 and answer more fully to interrogatories. 
 
 1651. May 1. The Cou. Com. to sell his goods and personal 
 estate, receive his rents, and in case of refusal levy them by distress, 
 pay in all received, and give accounts of their proceedings. Thos. 
 Hall and Margt. Pinckney to be further examined, and Fenwick heard 
 on the reports drawn up for them on their compositions. 
 
 1652. Jan. 7. Fenwick begs an order for payment of 130/. Is. lOf/., 
 received out of Hall's estates, and for admission of Thos. Hall, 
 nephew of Chris. Hall, to compound for the lands and rent-charges 
 due to his uncle. — Order that Fenwick, being sole discoverer, and 
 having received but 400/. from his discoveries on his Parlt order 
 for 1,000/., be allowed the 130/. 10s. paid in from Chris. Hall's 
 estate.
 
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 1652. Feb. 4. Like order for payment to Fenwick of 197?. Is. id., 
 being half the fine paid in by Thos. Hall on composition for Chris. 
 Hairs estate. 
 
 1652. Apr. 8. Like order for payment to him of 78?. 15s. \d. 
 from C. Hall's estate. 
 
 1653. Jan. 26. Order that the G.H. Treasurers pay Fenwick 
 164/. received in 1649 from Hall's estate, making up his receipts to 
 969/. 18s. ^d. and to pay the balance of .30/. Is. 9<i. out of the next 
 money paid in from same estate. 
 
 LODOWICK HALL OF GREAT CHILTON.* 
 
 (Col. ii. p. 1238.) 
 
 1646. Apr. 30. Lodowick Hall of Great Chilton, co. Durham, 
 petitions for leave to compound for his delinquency. [Petition 
 missing.] 
 
 1647. Mar. 27. Petitioner is admitted to composition. The 
 report states that his delinquency is going to and staying at York, 
 while it was held against the Parlt. He has taken the National 
 Covenant and Negative Oath. Particular of his estate : — A freehold 
 for life of a messuage, lands and tenements in Chilton, with remainder 
 to his wife for life, for her jointure, then to the heirs males of his 
 body, with other remainders over, Y.V.B.W., 180/. Craves allow- 
 ance for rents issuing out of said lands, viz. : — Annuity of 66/. 13s. id. 
 to Mrs. Blaxton for her life ; annuity of 20/. to Mrs. Bullock for her 
 life ; annuity of 20/. to Francis Hill, citizen and goldsmith of London, 
 and his heirs for ever, as by deed dated March 9, 1632, appears, 
 made by Chris., father of compounder, to said Francis Hall, with a 
 proviso for redemption upon payment of 260/. 
 
 1647. Apr ;. 'Fine at a half, 1,025/. 
 
 1649. M^y 4. Compounder begs a reduction of his fine accord- 
 ing to the time of his submission. 
 
 1649. July 4. Fine reduced to 419/. lis. 
 
 1650. May 31. Fine paid and estate discharged from 
 sequestration. 
 
 WILLIAM HALL OF GREENCROFT. 
 
 (Gal. iv. pp. 2S9C), SOoS, ol37.) 
 
 1651. Nov. 11. Ralph Hall,t father of Wm. Hall of Greencroft, 
 
 * Son and heir apparent of Chris. Hall, No. 3. His mother, Anne 
 Blakiston, brought Great Cliilton into the Hall family. He was baptised Feb. 
 27, 1621, at Merrington, ami married Mary, dau. of (Jeo. Blincoe, of the Middle 
 Temple, London, by wliom he had nine sons and six daughters. One of the 
 daugliters married John Errington, jun., of Elton, another was imited to 
 Richd. Belasyse, rector of Haughton-le-Skerne, while a third espoused Tristram 
 Fenwick. 
 
 \1: Ralph Hall of Greenoroft, who died in 165G, was one of those steady 
 
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 •CO. Durham, petitions the C.C. that having no other livelihood than 
 a rent^charge of 60?. from Greencroft demesnes, now sequestered for 
 the delinquency of Wm. Hall, his son, upon whom he settled his 
 estate, the Cou. Com have lately detained it upon general instructions, 
 whereby he is ready to perish. Begs reference to counsel. — Referred 
 to Mr. Reading. 
 
 1652. Feb. 4. Ralph Hall petitions that his family, perishing 
 for want of their third of this annuity of 60/., and he being denied 
 judgment at once, but promised a hearing some Thursday, begs a 
 special order therefor. — Ordered that the case be heard in course, 
 and that he, being a recusant, be allowed a third of the 60/. on 
 security of two years' value provided he prosecutes his cause to a 
 hearing. 
 
 1652. May 6. Order, on report, allowing his title and granting 
 him a third of the rent-charge, with arrears since Dec. 24, 1649, on 
 oath that he has not released his title, and his bond to be given up 
 provided he is a recusant only. 
 
 1652. Aug. 13. Lancelot Errington and Adinel, his wife, of 
 Bingfield, co. Northd., beg reference to counsel of the proofs of 
 their interest in a poor annuity of 8/. from Wm. Hall's lands in 
 Greencroft. — Referred to Mr. Reading. 
 
 1652. Nov. 18. The estate of Wm. Hall of Greencroft appears 
 in the third Act for Sale. 
 
 1653. Sept. 6. Discharge from sequestration of Greencroft 
 House, and another house in Lanchester parish, held by Ralph and 
 Wm. Hall, forfeited by Wm. Hall and bought of the Treason Trustees 
 by Sam. Foxley. 
 
 1653. Oct. 13. Orders to the Cou. Com. for payment to Foxley 
 of arrears since May 28, 1653, the date of his purchase. 
 
 1653. Nov. 24. Errington's rent-charge allowed, with arrears 
 from date of his petition, unless he is a recusant, in which case he 
 is to have only a third, and a third of the arrears. 
 
 1654. June 24. Order in Committee for Removing Obstructions 
 that they allowed Errington's claim ; that the 8/. rent-charge was 
 granted as security for 80/. with interest, which comes to 13/. 6.s. O^d., 
 and that therefore 93/. 6.s\ Old. should be paid to the Erringtons by 
 the Trustees of the last Act for Sale. 
 
 loyalists who positively refused, upon any terms whatsoever, to compound with 
 Parlt. His estates were consequently included in the Act for Sale. His son, 
 William, was in possession of his inheritance after the Restoration, but so 
 loaded with the consequences of his own and his father's loyalty, that he was 
 obliged first to mortgage and then to sell his property to the Claverings about 
 1670. The Halls held Greencroft for two centuries. Ralph Hall was tiie eldest 
 son of William of Greencroft, by Alice, dau. of Thos. Tempest of Stanley. 
 William, the compounder, was Ralph's eldest son and heir, and was buried in 
 the quire of Lanchester Church, Nov. 21, 1684. Surtees, Hist. Durham, 
 ii. 321 323.
 
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 CLAUDIUS HAMILTON OF GATESHEAD.* 
 
 (Cal i. p. 203.) 
 1649. Claudius Hamilton of Gateshead compounds with the 
 Northern Commissioners for adhering to the enemy in the last war. 
 His estate is reported as consisting of a copyhold farm in Wickham, 
 CO. Durham, for the term of his wife's life, Y.V.B.W., 35/. ; also 
 a house in the street called the Side in Newcastle, Y.V., 6/. He is 
 allowed an old rent of Is. Sd. p. ann. payable out of the house, and 
 of 3.«. 4^d. payable out of the land aforesaid to a chapel called St. 
 Margaret's. Fine at a sixth, 80/. 18-*. 
 
 JOHN HAMILTON OF HURWORTH.f 
 
 (Cal. iv. p.- 2060.) 
 
 1652. Mar. -4. The Cou. Com. report the sequestration of John 
 Hamilton, clerk, minister of Hurworth. He was in arms with 
 ■Ghas. Stuart and taken prisoner at Worcester. — Ordered to act 
 according to their instructions. 
 
 {Cat. [C.A.M.] iii. p. 1461.) 
 
 1653. Jan. 21. Being unjustly charged before the Cou. Com. 
 with acts of delinquency done before Jan. 30, 1649, he begs a copy 
 of the charge, and leave to examine witnesses. — Granted. 
 
 1654. Feb. 23. Petitions that, being a settled minister when 
 the Act passed for departure of the Scots from England, he left, 
 none in the North having jaower to grant licenses to remain. The 
 inhabitants have petitioned for his return, but he who holds the 
 profits has accused petitioner of delinquency, out of mere malice ; 
 he has attended the Cou. Com. a year, and they see no cause why 
 publication should not jiass, which he, therefore, begs. — Granted. 
 
 1654. Mar. 1. His case being ready for hearing, he is informed 
 that by the late ordinances of the Protector and Council, the C.A.M. 
 have no certain rules to adjudge delinquents, and, therefore, begs 
 dismissal from further attendance, that he may return to his family. 
 — Referred to Mr. Brereton. 
 
 1654. May 2. Being accused of assisting the King of Scots in 
 1651, and requesting discharge on the late Act of Pardon, it is 
 granted. 
 
 * Except as a seatholder in St. Mary's Church, Oateshead, from 1641 to 
 1648, no note of Claudius Hamilton is to be found in local liistory- The liouse 
 in the Side was probably part of the confiscated property of the chantry of St. 
 Margaret in St. Nicholas' Church, Newcastle, most of which lay about the Cale 
 Cross and tlic Quayside. 
 
 t Described by Surtees, Ilitit. Durham, iii. 256, as a Scotchman, who 
 obtained the living of Hurworth in 1645, and was married the following year 
 in his own church to Jane Foreman. On his sequestration, he was succeeded 
 by Leonard Wastell, B.A.
 
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 GEORGE HARBOTTLE OF HOLEMIRES.* 
 
 (Gal. iv. p. 3124.) 
 
 1646. Mar. 18. Note in the books of the Cou. Com. of Durham 
 that all Mr. Geo. Harbottle's lands in Holemires, par. of Chester-le- 
 Street, are let to Mr. John Ayreson for 10?. 
 
 1648. Feb. 7. Similar note that all Geo. Harbottle's lands there 
 are unlet. 
 
 1653. July 12. Peter Singleton, gent., son and heir of Ralph 
 Singleton of Moraleeze, petitions the C.C for discharge of lands at 
 Holemires which Geo. Harbottle mortgaged to petitioner's father, 
 in 1641. 
 
 1653. Aug. 23. Peter Singleton of Moraleeze, gent., aged about 
 36 years, deposes that Geo. Harbottle, in 17 Car. (1641), acknowledged 
 a statute merchant in 200/. of all his lands and tenements, with a 
 defeasance, for the payment of 100/. within seven years and interest 
 yearly for the same, and that in 1649, the said 100/. and a great 
 part of the interest being unpaid, he brought an extent upon the 
 estate of the said Harbottle in Holemires, Y.V., 10/., and had posses- 
 sion delivered by the sheriff till the debt of 200/. with charges 
 should be satisfied ; yet the Cou. Com. have seized the estate for the 
 delinquency of Geo. Harbottle. — Cou. Com to certify. No further 
 record. 
 
 JOHN HARRISON OF SUNDERLAND. 
 
 1645. John Harrison of Sunderland, described as a yeoman, 
 compounds with Sir Hen. Vane and his colleagues. Fine 20/. 
 
 1651. Nov. 21. Petitions Parlt. for pardon and obtains it, for 
 all offences committed prior to date of compounding. 
 
 RICHARD HARRISON OF OYER FRIARSIDE.j 
 
 (Cal. iv. p. 2632.) 
 
 1650. Nov. 27. At the request of Anne, Vife of Richd. Harrison 
 (of Over Friarside, co. Durham, gent.), daughter of Thos. and Sybil 
 Smith, and widow of John Meaborne of Pontop, for payment of her 
 
 * The Harbottles had property in various parts of the co. of Durham, e.g., 
 at Beamish, Kibblesworth, Tantield, Cawsey, Beckley, Findon Hill, Brode- 
 mires, and Holemires. Under the name of Harbart, there is a pedigree of the 
 Holemires family in Surtees, Hist. Durham, ii. 205. 
 
 t The family of Harrison, with a pedigree, figures in Surtees, Hist. Durham, 
 ii. 233, 257, etc. Their part of Byermoor came to them through the 
 marriage of Wm. Harrison of Whickham with Agnes, coheir of George 
 Hogeson, descendant of the previous owners. Wm. Harrison, son and heir of 
 William and Agnes, married Margery, dau. of James Rawe (of a Newcastle 
 family), and she brought in Over Friarside and Bryan's Leap. Her son
 
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 fifth, the Con. Com. report that her husband's estate is sequestered 
 for delinquency, that the fifth for which she asks was allowed 
 formerly, and that they commend her case to consideration. 
 
 1652. Feb. 18. Lands of Richd. Harrison in East Boldon, let by 
 the Cou. Com. to Thos. Lawson for 5 years from May 1, 1652, at 10/. 
 p. ann. 
 
 1652. July 13. Anthony, son and heir of John and Ann Mea- 
 borne of Pontop, co. Durham, petitions for an order on the Cou. 
 Com. to discharge two-thirds of the moiety of Pontop, the jointure 
 of Kath. Meaborne, his grandmother, who died last May, but it 
 is still sequestered for her recusancy. 
 
 1652. Nov. 18. Anthony Meaborne's petition gi-anted, with 
 arrears since the grandmother's death, petitioner to take the Oath 
 of Abjuration and pay his proportion of taxes. 
 
 1652. Xov. 18. The estate of Richd. Harrison appears in the 
 third Act for Sale. 
 
 1653. June 8. Anthony Meaborne petitions again, showing that 
 his parents, both dead, held Pontop Manor, and his father had a 
 lease of coalmines in Crook, one third of which premises Ann Mea- 
 borne held for life as daughter of Thos. Smith, the rest as widow 
 of John Meaborne, but afterwards marrying Richd. Harrison, the 
 estate was sequestered as his, though he held it in right of his 
 wife only, who is lately dead. Begs leave to prove his claim. 
 
 1653. Sept. 29. Order on report allowing Anthony's claim to 
 all the lands except those granted by the lease ; they are to be dis- 
 charged with arrears from date of petition on his taking the Oath 
 of Abjuration, if a suspected recusant. 
 
 1653. Oct. 19. Thos., son of Richd. Harrison, begs discharge of 
 copyhold lands at Newfield, co. Durham, in which his father had 
 an estate during the life of Ann his wife, now dead. — Granted. 
 
 165-1. Feb. 23. Discharge from sequestration of that capital 
 messuage and land in Over Fryerside, Tanfield, co. Durham, in the 
 occupation of Cuth. Proctor, Robt. Harrison, John Gallilee and 
 Richd. Armstrong, late parcel of the estate of Richd. Harrison. 
 
 1654. Apr. 20. Ralph, son of Richd. Harrison, petitions for an 
 order to the Cou. Com. to examine his title to copyhold in East 
 Boldon, surrendered to the lord for his use by his father and Ann 
 his late wife. — -Referred to the Cou. Com. and Mr. Brereton. 
 
 Richard was the loyalist whose name heads this chapter, and he by iiis second 
 wife, Anne, dan. and coheir of Thos. Smitii of Waldridge, gent., and widow 
 of John Meahurne of Pontop, gent., had, among other issue, three sons, John, 
 Ralph and Tlion»as, two of whom claimed relief from sequestration of portions 
 of the patrimonial estate and were successful. Ralph Harrison, making his 
 will, Mar. 26, IfiST, bequeaths to the ])0or of Bryan's Leap, 20/., of Lamesley, 
 50/., of Tantield, Ryton, IJoldon, Gateshead and Chester-le-street, 100/., each 
 parish ; to cousin Robt. Robinson, 10/. ; godson Ralj)h Bidmer, 5/. ; brother 
 Anthony Meaburne of Pontoyj, my watch and 10/. ; l)rother Thos. Harrison, mj' 
 third part of the colliery in Burnoptield ; sister Klizth. Harrison, 20/. ; sister 
 Jane Harrison, LV. ; brother John Harrison sole executor.
 
 2.34 
 
 1655. May 17. Reports of the Cou. Com. considered, containing 
 depositions as follows: — (1) Geo. Kirkby of Durham, gent., aged 
 about 61, says that at a Halmote, held at Chester [-le-Street], Oct. 
 15, 1652, Ralph Harrison, son of Richd. and Ann Harrison, took of 
 the lord the moiety of all the premises in East Boldon which were 
 lat-e of Sibill Smith, sometime called Sibill Punshon, late wife of 
 Thos. Smith, deceased, and whereof the said Sibill died seised and 
 the reversion of the same, in which the said Ann, one of the daughters 
 and co-heirs of said Sibill. had right, and the said Ann and her hus- 
 band surrendered their whole title and interest in the said premises 
 to the use of the said Ralph. (2) Anthony Meaborne of Pontop, 
 geut., aged about 23, deposes that the said Ann died at Overfriar- 
 side, Oct. 23, and was l)uried in Tanfield church, Oct. 24, 1652. (3) 
 John Carr deposes that Richd. Harrison, father of Ralph, was buried 
 at Tanfield about April last. (4) Mr. Brown certifies that a survey 
 of Richd. Harrison's estate was taken, July 30, 1651, viz., in Pontop, 
 Lanchester par., one barn and byer, and the third part of a tenement 
 house ; six pasture gates in the Great Pasture, five ditto in the Low 
 Pasture ; the third part of Shipmar-hills, New Meadow and Well- 
 garths, being 30 acres of meadow lying in Newfield, par. of Chester ; 
 one moiety of 3 little closes adjoining Pelton grounds, worth 4/. 
 p. ann. He certifies, further, that the premises are set unto 
 Anthony Meaborne for 7 years, from May 1, 1651, at 14/. 10s. rental, 
 above all assessments to chiirch and poor, and to repair the houses, 
 etc., the Commonwealth to allow all other taxes and charges, and 
 that a fifth part is allowed to Mrs. Ann Harrison, for the mainten- 
 ance of herself and children, and that the premises were formerly 
 let at a rent of 12/. 13.>.'. 4^/. 
 
 1654. Feb. 23. Ralph Harrison's claim allowed ; sequestration 
 to be discharged with arrears from date of petition, provided the Cou. 
 Com. are satisfied with the deposition as to the death of the father. 
 
 DOROTHY HARTBUR.N OF STILLINGTON.* 
 
 (Cal. iv. p. 2797.) 
 
 1644. Sept. 7. Warrant from the Cou. Com. sitting at Great 
 Stainton, to Capt. Robt. Sharp, John Husband and others to seques- 
 trate the lands and goods of Mr. Richd. Hartburn. 
 
 1651. May 14. Richd. Hartburn being dead, Dorothy, his widow, 
 petitions the C.C. for an order to the Cou. Com. to gi-ant her the 
 chief mansion and the third of her estate, sequestered for her 
 recusancy. She has held the third of Stillington manor ever since 
 her husband's death, but not the house. — Granted. 
 
 1651. July 24. Survey of Dorothy Hartburn's estate :^ — A 
 messuage and orchard ; at north end of Eastfield, 40 acres of pasture ; 
 Latimore-fiat, 10 acres of pasture; Crooke, 4 acres of pasture; the 
 
 * Widow of ('apt. Richd. Hartburn, of Stillington, par. of Redmarsliall, co. 
 Durham.
 
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 Meadow Crooke, 13 acres, all in Dorothy's possession. The two- 
 thirds sequestered are one house, two parts of a barn, two cote- 
 houses, the south end of the Eastfield and the Leefield, 80 acres 
 pasture ; the Moore, 60 acres and William's Close, 18 acres meadow ; 
 Long Acres End, 6 acres; the Moore Daile, 10 acres; Clay flat, 12 
 acres, Crooke, 4 acres, and the rest of the Moore Dailes, 16 acres, all 
 arable. The two-thirds let to Emanuel Southgate of Stillington, 
 yeoman, from May 1, 1651, for 7 years at 100/. over and above all 
 sessments for church and poor, he to uphold houses, fences, etc. 
 There is issuing out of this estate yearly to Merton College, Oxford, 
 a certain rent, with malt and wheat, amounting in common years to 
 24/. The said two-thirds were formerly let for 80/. rent. 
 
 1651. Nov. 25. The Warden and Fellows of Merton College 
 petition that their farm at Stillington is sequestered for recusancy 
 of Hartborne the tenant, whose lease having expired they let the farm 
 to Thos. Barnes, but the Cou. Com. will not release it, so that the 
 college is defeated of the rent. — Referred to the Cou. Com. and Mr. 
 Reading. 
 
 1652. July 22. Order on report that the Cou. Com. pay two- 
 thirds of said rent (7/. 13s. id.), with 5 qrs. of wheat and 8 qrs. 
 of barley, out of the two-thirds of the premises in the hands of the 
 State. 
 
 1654. Feb. 23. The Warden and Fellows petition again. They 
 leased half of Stillington and Seaton Carew manors for 21 years, 
 with clause of re-entry on nonpayment of rent, to Richd. Hartborne, 
 who died in 1644, much in arrear. His widow having paid neither 
 rent nor arrears, they forfeited the lease and granted a new one 
 to Thos. Barnes, who has assigned to Geo. Meynell. On Dorothy's 
 recusancy two-thirds of the estate were let by the sequestrators to 
 Emanuel Southgate, who suffers the mansion to go to ruin and cuts 
 down the wood. They beg discharge of the sequestration, Dorothy's 
 interest having long since expired. — Referred to Mr. Reading. 
 
 1654. Oct. 10. Order (on plea that Richd. Hartborne's lease 
 was void in law being made in reversion) allowing the claim of the 
 college and their tenant, Geo. Meynell, with discharge of sequestra- 
 tion and arrears from date of petition. 
 
 INNE HAUGH OF [blank] NORTHUMBERLAND.* 
 
 (Cal. V. p. 3227.) 
 
 1655. Jan. 23. Thos. Johnson, alderman of Norwich, begs dis- 
 charge from arrears of an estate purchased five years since from 
 
 * No further infoi-mation is obtainable beyond a statement that Mrs. Haugh, 
 or Hall, was buried at St. (4iles in tlie FieldK, Middlesex, in Nov. 1652. 
 Searching for Martha Browne and Anne Hall in tiie county of Northnmbcrland 
 is an enterpi'ise as hopeful as that of finding the lady to whom a relative in 
 Australia despatched a letter bearing the address of ' Mrs. Smith, Back of the 
 Church, England.'
 
 236 
 
 Richd., son of Martha Browne, who had a life interest therein, with 
 remainder to Richd. Browne, out of which estate two-thirds of an 
 annuity of 81. was sequestered for the recusancy of Mrs. Anne Haugh 
 or Hall. Martha Browne died in Aug., 1652, whereby the estate 
 became the property of petitioner, and Mrs. Haugh died Nov. 13, 
 1652. — Referred to the Cou. Com. 
 
 JOHN HEATH OF DURHAM CITY.* 
 
 fCal. a. p. 1558.) 
 
 1646. Nov. 7. Sequestration of his lands, goods, etc., having 
 been effected in 1644, John Heath petitions the C.C. for leave to 
 compound. His delinquency consisted in going to the King at 
 Oxford and he applies to compound on Oxford Ai'ticles. Particular 
 of his estate : — A lease for 12 years yet to come of a house in Dur- 
 ham held of the Dean and Chap., Y.V.B.W., 8/. ; another house in 
 Durham, 3 parts thereof being in fee, and the other part held of 
 the Dean and Chap., for 15 years yet to come, Y.V.B.W., 51. ; a parcel 
 of ground in South Sheiles called a Ballast Key f for 6 • or 7 years 
 yet to come, held of the Dean and Chap., Y.V.B.W., 4Z. ; a rent seek 
 issuing out of 2 farms called the Bogle Hole and the Burne, Y.V., 
 1/. lis. 9d. ; in mortgage from Richard Curtis | and his wife as 
 security for 300?., which he stands engaged for to Mjr. Dainty of 
 London, citizen, and Mr. Wm. Sedgewicke of Durham, a house 
 in Stanthropp [Staindrop] with the lands thereunto belonging, which, 
 lands the compounder had in possession until the sequestration,. 
 Y.Y.B.W., 26/. Craves allowance for 201., being an annuity paid to 
 
 * The Heaths of Kepier, Okl Durham, Rainside, Little Eden, and in later 
 times of \Vestoe, South Shields, descended from John Heath, Warden of the 
 Fleet, who, at the time of the Rebellion of the Earls, i569, ac(|uired from John 
 Cockburn, lord of Ormeston, grantee under the Crown, the fair and fertile 
 lands formerlj' belonging to the liospital of Kepier. In less than a century, 
 at the outbreak of the Civil War, the Heaths had alienated much of the Kepier 
 estate, including the site of the hospital itself, so that when John Heath, the 
 compounder, rendered a particular of his propert}' to the C.C, he possessed 
 only the houses and lands above enumerated. Surtees deals tenderly with the 
 Heaths in the first vol. of his HiM. Durham, pp. 65-71, while special references 
 to John the compounder occur in Surt. Soc. Pub., vol. 34, and in the earlj- 
 part of the present volume, where he figures as one of the most notorious 
 delinquents of the county. 
 
 t Sir Robt. Heath, chief justice, whose disputes with the Corporation of 
 Newcastle about a ballast wharf at South Shields form an interesting chapter 
 in Tyneside history, states in a letter to Secretary Coke, dated May, 1632, 
 that his undertaking a ballast shore at that place was ' at the motion and by 
 the encouragement of a kinsman of my name at Durham. ' 
 
 X 1630. Aug. 12. Richd. Curteis of Durham, stationer, and Mary his 
 wife, for 300/. convey to .John Heath of the city of Durham, esq., the rectorial 
 house in Staindrop, formerly in possession of Edmund Nattress, containing by 
 estimation 48 acres. Surtees, Hi>it. Durham, iv. 135.
 
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 Margery Craddocke, widow, charged upon the said mortgaged lands 
 and tenements in manner following: — Joseph Craddocke of Bishop's 
 Auckland, being seised of the said lands and tenements in mortgage 
 a« aforesaid, by his will, dated Aug. 1, 1633, demised to his said 
 wife, Margery Craddocke, 20/. yearly to hold during her widowhood. 
 The said Margeiy survives and receives the annuity. 
 1647. May 28. Fine fixed at 55/. 
 
 RALPH HEBBURN OF HEBBURN.* 
 
 (Cal. [C.A.M.] ii. p. 980.) 
 
 1648. Nov. 21. Information given to the C.A.M. that Ralph 
 Heborne of Heborne, co. Northd., was a colonel in the King's army, 
 never compounded, joined with the Scots in the last insurrection 
 against Parlt., and is bound at G.H. for Col. Gray, a notorious delin- 
 quent, who has broken his articles. Heborne's estate is worth 
 500/. a year. No further proceedings recorded. 
 
 JOHN BARON HILTON.f 
 
 (Gal. I. p. 204; 'dip. 2271.) 
 
 1649. John Hilton of Hilton, co. Durham, compounds with Sir 
 Arthur Haslerigg and the Parity. Commissioners for delinquency 
 during the last war. A settlement of 45/. a year from Monkwear- 
 mouth is accepted for 450/. and the fine fixed at 484/. 12s. 
 
 * Representative of an ancient family settled for many generations on lands 
 bearing their name under the shadow of the Cheviots. In the Northd. Rentals 
 of 1663, before quoted, 'Col. Ralph Hebbourn, esq.,' appears for Hebbourne, 
 Earl, and Hebburn Mill — 120/. for Hebbourne and 20/. for Earl. An account 
 of this family (with a pedigree) by Mr. J. Crawford Hodgson appears in Arch. 
 ^Eliana, 2nd series, xviii. 26. 
 
 t Only the barest outline of this remarkable case is possible here. But the 
 whole story is told, with much detail, in Surtees, Hist. Durham, ii. 21-89, 
 and in the appendix thereto, pp. 383-385. The following fragments will send 
 the reader to the volume for more : ' After a series of twenty descents, 
 stretching through five centuries, the family was nearly ruined by the 
 improvident posthumous generosity of Henry Hilton. This gentleman had 
 several years before, on some disgust, deserted the seat of his ancestors and 
 lived in obscure retirement, first at the house of a remote kinsman at Billing- 
 hurst in Sussex, and afterwards at Mitchel-grove where he died. By will dated 
 Feb. 26, 1640-41, he devised the whole of his paternal estate for ninety- 
 nine years to the Lord Mayor and four senior aldermen of the city of London, 
 on trust to pay, during the same term, 24/. yearly to each of thirty-eight 
 several parishes or townships in Durham, Surrey, Sussex, Middlesex and 
 Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; 28/. p. ann. to the mayor of Durham and 50/. p. ann. to 
 the vicar of Monkwearmouth ; he tlien leaves an annuity of 100/. to his next 
 brother Robert and to his heirs, and 50/. ]). ann. to his brother John, which 
 last sum is to cease if he succeed to the larger annuity as heir of Robert [which 
 ■event actually happened] ; all the residue and increase of his rents he gives to
 
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 1650. May 3. Thos. Hollyiiuiu petitions on behalf of his wife,. 
 Margt., widow of Rolit. Hilton, fox- arrears of her dower and freedom 
 of her dowerlands granted 3 years ago in the Common Pleas, but 
 since sequestered by the C.S., out of which the Cou. Com. allow her 
 a third only. Particular of her dowerlands : — Out of the lordship 
 of Hilton, Newton Carr and Woodleezes, 30 acres meadow, at 26/. p. 
 ann. ; the Lawfield and Butchers Closes, 100 acres meadow, at 62/. 
 p. ann. and 20 acres pasture, at 81. p. ann. Out of the lordship of 
 Ford, Low Meadow, 30 acres, at 20/. p. ann. ; West Field, 10 acres 
 meadow, at 25/. p. ann. ; Seven Pound Close and Calf Close, 
 meadow^ land, at 12/. 10s. p. ann. Out of the lordship of Great 
 Usworth, lands, arable and meadow, called Easttields, 100 acres, at 
 85/. p. ann. Out of the lordship of Follansby, Broad Meadow, 20' 
 
 the city of London, charging them to bind out yearly five children of his own 
 kindred to some honest trade ; and further he desires them to raise 4,000i'. out 
 of the rents to remain in the city chamber ninety-nine years and the interest to 
 be applied in binding out orphan children born on the manors of Ford, Biddick 
 and Barmston. After the expiration of that term he devises the whole of his 
 estates, with the increased rents, and the 4,000/. to hi.s heir at law, provided 
 he be not such a one as shall claim to be the issue of testator's own bodj'. He 
 then crives several legacies to his servants and to the family of Shelley of 
 Mitchel-orove, declares that he has 3,000/. on good bonds in London ; appoints 
 the Lady Jane Shelley to be his executrix, and desires burial in St. Paul's 
 Cathedral, under a fair tomb like in fashion to the tomb of Dr. Dunne, for 
 which purpose he leaves 1,000/. to his executrix, who ne\er complied with the 
 injunction. 
 
 ' Henry Hilton left a widow who re-married Sir Thos. Smith. Robt. Hilton, 
 the next brother to Henry, survived him only a few months, and he also left 
 a widow, whose second husband. Sir Thos. Halleyman, obtained, in com- 
 pensation of her dower, a life estate in Ford [co. Durham]. The will itself 
 produced litigations and chancer}- suits in abundance, and under all these 
 circumstances the estate, or rather the shadow of the estate, vested in John 
 Hilton, the seventh and sole surviving brother of Henry. The civil wars burst 
 out in the same year, 1641. anti John Hilton perilled the reliques of his fortune 
 in the royal cause. The estate of Hilton, placed exactly between the royal 
 army and" the Scots, was plundered and wasted by both parties, and on the 
 final ruin of the royal cause the Hiltoiis, included in the list of malignants, 
 were totally disabled from struggling at law or equity, eitlier with the rebel 
 city of London or with the two knights who had espoused the worse, then the 
 better cause. The wonder is that from such a state of things the family ever 
 emert^ed at all ; but the younger John Hilton, who succeeded to the claims of 
 his father in 1658, seems to have possessed a share of prudence and quiet 
 perseverance very unusual in a ruined cavalier. The citizens of London were 
 wearied out with the contest ; and after the Restoration an amicable decree 
 was pronounced by which the possession of the estates was restored to the 
 heir, on condition that he should discharge all the particulars of the trust 
 created bv the will of Hen. Hilton, should make regular payment of the several 
 parochial charities and satisfy the claims of the two dowagers. Under these 
 sore incumbiances Mr. Hilton took the management of his own property, but 
 the rents, wasted as the estate had been for twenty years, were totally 
 inadequate to the charges, and it was found necessary to i-educe the whole of 
 the payments one-third. From this period the ancient barons of Hilton, no 
 longer distinguished by extended possessions or extraordinary influence, 
 retreated, without degradation of blood or of honour, into the quiet ranks of 
 private gentry.'
 
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 acres at 15/. p. ami. ; Middlefield meadow, 16 acres, at 11/. p. aim. 
 Out of the manor of Barmeston, a third of two parts of a rent of 20/. 
 p. ann. upon a lease of the manor of Barmeston, and a third of two 
 parts of the reversion of the same manor, 4/. 8.'*. lO-Jf/. Out of the 
 manor of North Biddick, a third of two parts of a I'ent of 13/. G.s. 8r/. 
 p. ann., reserved upon a long lease of that manor and the like of a 
 reversion of the same, 2/. 19.s'. 'S^d. 
 
 1650. May 1-4. Margt. Hollyman is allowed a third of the lands 
 of which her husband died possessed, but no damages. 
 
 1650. June 14. Hollyman begs leave to hold lands upon a judg- 
 ment in Common Pleas in 1647, for payment of 1,111/. recovered by 
 Margt., his wife, against John Hilton, esq., a delinquent, brother and 
 heir of said Robt., for detaining her dower, viz., out of Hilton, 5 
 messuages ; Dogtayles meadowy at 4/. p. ann. ; Low Haugh meadow, 
 Stickle Hills pasture, at 11/. p. ann. ; Hilton Wood pasture and three 
 houses built thereon at 7/. p. ann. ; East and West Parks, meadow 
 and pasture, at 18/. p. ann. Out of Ford, 1 messuage called The 
 Ford, and Glororum Close, at 12/. p. ann. ; Bracken Hill and Well 
 Close, at 12/. p. ann. ; Bomdre [or Bomere] Closes and Ford Brockes, 
 at 15/. p. ann. ; Meadow Haugh and Pasture Haugh, at 3/. p. ann. ; 
 Penny^vell Field and Lee Field pastures, at 40/. p. ann. Out of 
 Follansby, 1 messuage called Follansby, the Saugh Close, at 32/. p. 
 ann. ; Fence Close and the Greenes, at 14/. •6s-. id. p. ann. — Not 
 granted. 
 
 1650. July 16. Sir Wm. Smith, bart., petitions on behalf of 
 Mary, his wife, widow of Hen. Hilton. — Referred to Mr. Brereton. 
 
 1650. Nov. 6. Alice, wife of John Hilton, petitions for her 
 fifth of her husband's sequestered estate. — Granted, with arrears 
 since Dec, 1649. 
 
 1651. Feb. 6. Order, on Sir Wm. Smith's petition, that the 
 dower l)e allowed ; the Cou. Com. to certify the value of the lands 
 and show their receipts and Sir Wm. Smith's since Dec. 24, 1649. 
 
 1651. Sept. 3. The Smiths complain of non-fulfilment of this 
 order. John Hilton compounded in 1649, with a saving of reversion 
 to his heirs of the lands in Durham and Wilts, of Hen. Hilton, which 
 were devised for 99 years to charitable uses, by a will allowed in 
 Chancery and, therefore, the State has no interest therein, yet 
 petitioners are disturbed in their dower rights. — Order that the lady 
 swear she has not released her dower, and accounts of the estate 
 since 1644 to be given. 
 
 1652. Jan. 1. Particular of the real estate of John Hilton: — 
 In fee a rent-charge issuing out of Jesmond and South and North 
 Gosforth, 100/. In fee the Rectory of Munckwearmouth, Y.V.B.W., 
 80/. He craves a saving to compound for 1,022/. 6.s'. 8d. p. ami., 
 the manors of Hilton, Ford, Barmeston, Biddick, Great Usworth 
 and Follansby, being now in suit, they being given away, as many 
 pretend, by his brother's will. Also for the manor of Easton Bassett, 
 CO. Wilts., Y.Y.B.W., 180/., a rent-charge of 13/. 2s. 8d. out of the
 
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 rectory of Munckwearmouth, and 5/. 6s. 8d. Avhich he pays out of the 
 same to the curate by grant from Queen Elizabeth. 
 
 1652. Mar. 3. The Mayor of Durham, the vicar of Monkwear- 
 mouth, the churchwardens and overseers of Fulhvell, Hilton, Wear- 
 mouth, Great Uzworth, Hartlepoole, Lumley, Gatesyde, Chester in the 
 Street, Herrington, Ferrihill, Darleton, Sunderland, Houghton, Rain- 
 ton, Brunspith, Pencher, Lanchester, Bertley and South Shields, 
 in CO. Durham, and of many other parishes in the south of England, 
 together with the poor kindred of Hen. Hilton, petition for discharge 
 of Hilton's lands. The arrears for lOf years are 10,500/. and are 
 sequestered for delinquency of John Hilton. 
 
 1652. June 1. On report that Hen. Hilton died Mar. 13, 1641, 
 and that Robt. Hilton is brother and heir, ordered that Lady Mary 
 Smith have her third since Dec, 1649 ; that Sir Wm. Smith and 
 the Cou. Corns, of Durham, Cumberland and Wilts, account to the 
 State for their receipts, and that the deed for pious uses and Hilton's 
 will be produced and proved. 
 
 1652. Nov. 18. The estate of John Hilton of Hilton appears in 
 the third Act for Sale. Against this Sir Wm. and Lady Smith 
 protest. They claim all the lands of Hen. Hilton, part by virtue of 
 Lady Smith's dower and part by assignment of the sole survivor of 
 the Lord Mayor and aldermen to whom Hen. devised his lands, they, 
 the Smiths, paying 24/. yearly to the poor, retaining 100/. to them- 
 selves and employing the rest to bind five of Hilton's poor kindred 
 apprentice. He also gave 100/. a year to his brother John from the 
 lordships of Ford, Barmeston and Biddick, but the lands were seques- 
 tered in 1649 for the delinquency of John, who had only this 100/. 
 .a year, the reversion being in Robt. Hilton, who assigned it to his 
 wife, Margt. They beg discharge of the sequestration. 
 
 1653. Feb. 3. Robt. Hunt, tenant of lands in Follonsby begs 
 the Cou. Com. to allow from his rent of 140/. for the sequestered 
 estate of John Hilton, the cost of repairs, etc., the outhouses, barns, 
 ■stables, etc., and most of the mansion house being burnt at the siege 
 of Newcastle by the Scots. 
 
 1653. June 9. Order that 8 persons be appointed by the agents 
 for the poor and 2 by Sir Wm. Smith to take charge of the estate 
 and allow them their portions and Lady Smith her thirds. 
 
 1653. Sept. 8. The agents of the poor beg that 1,031/. 3s. id. 
 received already from the Hilton estate may be paid to the trustees. — 
 Ordered that two-thirds be given to the trustees for the poor ; one- 
 third to remain in the hands of the Cou. Com. 
 
 1654. Feb. 3. The agents of the poor petition the Protector 
 for payment of the 1,031/. 3.<f. id., with 111/. 35. ihd. received since, 
 total 1,142/. 6s. 8hd., which they cannot obtain by reason of a 
 second restraint laid upon the Treasury. 
 
 1654. Feb. 10. Order in Council for payment of the said sum, 
 and all other like moneys, to the Lord Mayor and four senior 
 aldermen, to be disposed of according to the will.
 
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 1654. May 9. Discharge from sequestration of Ford, Hilton and 
 other manors in Great Usworth, bought by John Hilton, being 
 sequestered from him. 
 
 ISABEL HIXON OF MORDON; 
 
 (Cal. a. p. 1180.) 
 
 1644. Nov. 16. Sir Wm. Armyne and his colleagues let to Thos. 
 Ellison, for his good services done for the Parlt. and the army, all 
 the sequestered lands of Mr. Hixon* at Mordon, par. of Dalton, co. 
 Durham, for 201. a year with promise of renewal.! 
 
 1646. Feb. 6. A petition from Thos. Ellison of Easington, read 
 in the House of Lords, who send it to the Commons with a recom- 
 mendation that for his service to the State, as appears by a certificate 
 of the Committee of Parlt. with the Scots army, his prayer be 
 granted. J 
 
 1646. Apr. 15. Having received two reminders from the Lords 
 of Thos. Ellison's petition, the Commons resolved to agree with the 
 Lords in recommending to the Durham Cou. Com. that Thos. Ellison, 
 his executors, etc., may have, hold and enjoy, during the sequestra- 
 tion thereof, all that farm of Mordon now in his possession, being 
 
 * Wm. Hixon of Morden, a recusant, was brought before the High Com- 
 mission Court at Durham, Jan. 15, 1629, for outrageous behaviour in the 
 Abbey Church during evening prayer. Much overtaken with drink he went 
 into the choir and fell a roaring and singing, etc. The Commissioners 
 conceiving that he had done this in contempt and dislike of the service of God 
 used in the church, being a recusant papist, ordered him to make open 
 siTbmission at the Market Cross in linen apparel. Surt. Soc. Pub. 34, p. 17. 
 
 f See the document itself in the Proceedings, ante, p. 22. This lease, it ma}' 
 he noted, is the only document in the book at Durham which bears the signa- 
 tures of the Parliamentary Commissioners. 
 
 X The certificate is composed of tlie following documents : — 
 
 (1) Honoured Gentlemen — We do declare that in our greatest distresses in 
 the Northern Parts that the Petitioner did very willingly and very jeopard- 
 ously hazard his life for the common good of the Parliament in bringing of true 
 intelligence to my Lord General Fairfax and General Leven, and wliat dangerous 
 designs soever we did set him upon he did very faithfullj' discharge the same ; 
 wherefore we do certify he very well deserveth that which he desireth. 
 Witness our subscriptions. (Signed) Fran. Pierepont, Rob. Goodwin, Hen. 
 Darley, Edward Bowles. 
 
 (2) I have often heard Sir William Armin in his life time affirm the truth 
 of what is above declared to be done by the petitioner. (Signed) Tho. Lister, 
 Robt. Fenwick. 
 
 (3) The above said Thos. Ellison did several times pass through the enemy's 
 quarters, betwixt the English commissioners at Sunderland and the Scottish 
 artny and Lord Fairfax's army, to carry intelligence and to obtain relief from 
 the siege at York, when the enemy distressed tlie party at Sunderland and 
 endangered the burning of all the shipping (as they had set fire on tlie coals 
 and collieries) and upon the score of this and other service was the lease of a 
 papist estate granted to him by Sir William Armin and other Commissioners. 
 <Signed) William Rowe. 
 
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 part of the estate of Richd. Hickson, esq., a recusant convict, etc., at 
 the yearly rent of 25/. by equal portions half-yearly. — Order sent 
 to the Cou. Com. accordingly. 
 
 1651. Mar. 28. The Cou. Com. write to the C.C. that the lands 
 so let are now worth 60/. a year, and beg instructions. 
 
 1651. Apr. 30. The C.C. order the Cou. Com. to take care that 
 this estate and air other lands be improved to best advantage. 
 
 1652. Feb. 10. Richd., Viscount Lumley, begs an order to the 
 Cou. Com. to pay him, as lord of the fee, two-thirds of the fee-farm 
 rent of two tenements .in Mordon, seized for the recusancy of Isabel 
 Hixon. The whole rent is 3/. lis. a year, but he only claims the 
 chief rent and not possession. 
 
 1652. Apr. 10. Lord Lumley renews his petition, which is 
 allowed. 
 
 1653. Jan. 28. Petition of Isabel, widow of Richd. Hixon, and 
 Margery and Joan her daus. and heirs apparent, sheweth, that 
 Thos. Ellyson has for 7 or 8 years enjoyed two parts of petitioners' 
 lands under a grant as he pretends from the Parlt. for the recusancy 
 of Richd. Hixon, her late husband, and under sequestration which 
 petitioners believe has been upon false information of the said Ellyson,. 
 for the said Hixon died in Dec. 1640, before any sequestration was 
 awarded. The said Ellyson holds two farms under the grant of one 
 farm, at far less than their value, and the land being in jointure is not 
 sequestrable : also he has cut down the best wood and ploughed the 
 lands. Begs an order to the Cou. Com. to examine their claim and 
 allow them some maintenance out of their estate. — Cou. Com. to 
 examine and Mr. Brereton to report. 
 
 1653. June 6. Note that Isabel Hixon has been returned as a 
 recusant. Value of the estate not recorded. 
 
 ALBERT HODGSON OF LINTZHALL.* 
 
 (Col. Hi. p. 2115.) 
 1649. July 27. Walter Menall, merchant of London, petitions 
 for leave to compound for the manors of Lints Hall and Upper 
 
 * Nicholas Hedley of Lintz, living in 1558, whose wife was Elizabeth, dau. 
 of Richd. Hodgson (of the Hebbiirn family and three times mayor of Newcastle), 
 entailed his estate, failing issue of his own, upon his wife's relations. Under 
 this settlement, Lintz became the property of Richd. Hodgson, nephew of the 
 mayor, and his descendants held it till the extinction of male issue in Ralph 
 (1773), whose heiress was the wife of Thos. Selby of Biddleston. Richd., the 
 inheritor of Lintz, married a Prussian lady, dau. of Albertus Hinderusius, 
 whence the name of Albert, given to their son and heir, father of the 
 compounder. The great grandmother of the compounder, wife of the thrice 
 elected mayor, was a dau. of Aid. James Lawson, of Newcastle and Nesham, 
 and widow of Gerard Fen wick. Thus there was a connection between 
 the Hodgsons and Fenwicks which proved of service to Sir Wm. Fen wick of 
 Meldon, as already described. Albert Hodgson's wife, Elizabeth, dau. of 
 Robt. Millot of Whithill, par. of Chester-le-Street, we shall see hereafter 
 successfully proving her claim to her proper allowance from lands sequestered 
 for the delinquency of her brother Ralph Millot.
 
 243 
 
 Lints, CO. Durham, with the appurtenances, purchased of Albert 
 Hodgson, who is sequestered for recusancy only, Y.V.B.W., 40/. 
 
 1649. Dec. 19. Fine fixed at 53Z. 6s. M. 
 
 1650. Nov. 21. The letting of Hodgson's estate by the Cou. Com. 
 approved, and they are to take care that no spoil be committed. 
 
 JOHN HODGSON OF MANOR HOUSE, LANCHESTER.* 
 
 (Col. iv. p. 2814.) 
 
 1646. Jan. 22. The Manor House and Lanchester impropria- 
 tion, under sequestration for the recusancy of John Hodgson, let by 
 the Cou. Com. to Henry Blackett for 80/. , 
 
 1647. Mar. 19. Hodgson's land at Manor House let to Chris. \ 
 Mickleton for 26/. ; Hodgson to enjoy a third part thereof in kind, ' 
 to be set forth at his own charge. Lanchester impropriation (Con- 
 sett prebend and Langley prebend) let to John Redshowe for 130/. 
 
 1648. Feb. 8. Consett and Langley prebends let to Wm. Plumb- 
 ton for 130/. 
 
 1649. Feb. 19. Manor House, two parts thereof, late in the 
 tenure of Hen. Blackett, not so good as the third part (hedges 
 decayed, and Thos. Taylor suffers thereby in his ground adjoining), 
 let to Matt. Grange of Manor House, for 15/. Consett and Langley 
 prebends let to John Joplin for 140/. clear rent. 
 
 1652. May 5. John Clapton and Peter Dunkin complain that 
 having had from the Cou. Com. a lease of two-thirds of John Hodgson's 
 tithes of Lanchester, at the high rent of 100/. a year, the inhabitants 
 refuse payment. — Order that the parishioners pay the tithes or show 
 cause. 
 
 1652. June 5. The parishioners plead that the premises are 
 demised to John Plumbton and two others, as well as to Clapton and 
 Dunkin, all of whom, except Dunkin who is in Ireland, disclaim the 
 petition as proffered without their direction. Petitioners duly pay 
 their tithes but refuse payment for some small parcels of a large 
 common, divers miles long, because it never paid tithes, has only been 
 ploughed 2 years, and is worth but Id. an acre. Beg that the 
 lessees may be left to the law. 
 
 * Wm. Hodgson, a brother of Richcl. Hodgson, mentioned in last note as y 
 three times mayor of Newcastle, purchased, July 20, 1553, of Simon Welburn 
 and Chris. Morland, grantees uiider the Crown, the messuage and lands called 
 Maydenstanhall, afterwards Manor House, Lanchester, late parcel of the 
 monastery of Hexham. John Hodgson, from whom it was sequestered, was i 
 the grandson of the purchaser. Besides Manor House, he helil an impropri- 
 ation of tithes belonging to the prebends of Consett and Langlc}% in the old 
 collegiate church of Lanchester, which, prior to the dissolution, maintained a 
 dean and seven prebendaries. His wife was the dau. and sole heir of Thos. i 
 Wray of Beamish, and at his death, in 165.S, just a hundred j^ears after his ' 
 grandfather bought the estate, his line ended in three daughters. After the 
 Restoration the property was sold to the Stevensons of Byerside. Pedigrees, 
 with abundant details of the Hodgsons are to be found in Surtees, Hist. 
 D^irham, ii. 77, 319, while the very interesting Mills of Richard the may or, 
 and William of Lanchester, appear in Surt. Soc. Pub. 38, pp. 115, 283.
 
 244 
 
 1652. June 15. Petition renewed. If any tithes be due yet only 
 2 parts in 7 belong to Hodgson, and if 2 parts were due, yet as 
 the waste parts were improved at parishioners' expense, no tithes 
 ought to be paid till 7 years after the improvement under the Tithes 
 Act. 
 
 1652. July 2. Order for the Cou. Com. to examine witnesses 
 whether the lands are free under the Act. 
 
 1653. Mar. 2. John Readshaw, Nich. Byerley and others petition 
 that, having purchased in Feb., 1650, forfeited Dean and Chap, lands 
 called Heleyfield, Whitehall, etc., in Muggleswick manor, par. of 
 Lanchester, the premises ought to be free from tithes, but the 
 impropriation of Lanchester being sequestered for Hodgson's recus- 
 ancy, the tenants demand the tithes. Beg that they be left to 
 their remedy at law, and pending the suit that the tithes may remain 
 in petitioners' hands. — Referred to the Cou. Com. 
 
 1653. May 18. James Cholmeley, guardian of Ellinor, Dorothy 
 and Elizth., daus. and coheirs of John Hodgson, late of Manor House, 
 complains that the estate is kept under sequestration, notwithstanding 
 his death. Petitioner, being an unquestionable Protestant, and every 
 way conformable to the church and government of the Common- 
 wealth, begs discharge of the sequestration. 
 
 1653. Sept. 14. On report from the Cou. Com. the sequestration 
 is discharsred. 
 
 HENRY HODGSON OF WHICKHAM.* 
 
 1645. Hen. Hodgson of Whickham, co. Durham, gent., com- 
 pounds with Sir Hen. Vane and the Cou. Com. — Fine, 40/. 
 
 1651. Nov. 21. Petitions Parlt. for pardon and obtains it for all 
 offences committed previous to the date of compounding. 
 
 * Wm. Hodgson, father of compounder, acconling to the pedigree before 
 quoted, was a son of Richd. Hodgson, the mayor. He married, at Whickham, 
 May 26, I6O.1, Agnes, widow of John Harrison of that place, and in her right 
 held copyhold lands and tenements there. In Newcastle, he was a hostman, and 
 as such participated in the Grand Lease of (lateshead and Whickham, granted 
 by Queen Elizabeth to the Hostmen's Company for the benefit of the town in 
 1583. Much about both it and him appears in Dendy, HoMmeiia Books, Surt. 
 See. Pub. 105. By his marriage with Mrs. Harrison, Wm. Hodgson had four 
 sons Richard, (ileorge, Samuel, and Heni'y the compounder. From Cleorge, 
 it is said, come the Hodgsons of Els wick, whose leading representatives in the 
 latter half of last century were twD brothers John and Richard. Each of these 
 brothers receiving property from relatives, added a name to his own. John 
 the elder, known throughout the noith of England as John Hodgson Hinde, 
 represented Newcastle in six parliaments, wrote an introductory volume to 
 Hodgson's Hi'it.. of Northd., edited vol. 5 of this Society's books [Symeon 
 of Ihirham), and contributed copiously to the Arch. Ae/iana and other 
 archivological publications. Ricliard, the younger brother, also a vigorous 
 politician, known in after years as Richard Hodgson Huntley, sat for Berwick 
 from ls37 to 1847, and for Tynemouth from 1861 to 1865, and was for many 
 years chairman of the North British Railway.
 
 245 
 
 WILLIAM HODGSON OF HEBBURN.* 
 
 (Col. iv. p. 2848; v. p. 3222.) 
 
 1651. July 9. Petition of Wm. Hodgson of Hebborn, that he cannot 
 longer sustain the cost of defending his title and the Commonwealth's 
 interest in the estate at North Hebborn and Winlaton manor, co. 
 Durham, which descended to him as heir tail by the death of his 
 brother. Sir Robt. Hodshon, in Jan., 1643, with the exception of one 
 third, the jointure of Sir Robert's relict, and farmed of Cou. Com. 
 for 243/. a year rent, two-thirds of which are sequestered for 
 petitioner's recusancy. Has incurred a debt of 200/., besides spend- 
 ing all his receipts from the estate in defence of the title against 
 Francis Carr of Cocken, who married the dau. of Sir Robt. He is 
 now scarcely able to subsist, much less continue the defence of his 
 title. Begs allowance of the debt, a yearly sum for continuing the 
 defence, and an order to the Cou. Com. to certify. — Order to the Cou. 
 Com. granted. 
 
 1652. Dec. 16. The Committee state that they cannot allow 
 the sums claimed in their capacity of C.C., but petitioner may state 
 his case to them as a Committee for Indemnity. 
 
 1653. June 21. John Newton of Newcastle, begs confirmation of 
 a 7 years' lease made to him by the Cou. Com., Apr. 1, 1650, of 
 two-thirds of a farm in Els wick, f at a rent of 20/. yearly, sequestered 
 from Wm. Hodshon. — The Cou. Com. are to certify the terms of 
 contract, and whether let according to instructions. 
 
 1654. Jan. 26. Lease confirmed, if let as per instructions. 
 Same date. Francis Carr of Hebborn and Anne, his wife, dau. 
 
 and heir of Sir Robt. Hodshon, knt., deed., beg leave to proceed 
 at law as to their title, alleging (1) that the said Sir Robt. being 
 
 * About the stout old Catholic knight. Sir Kobt. Hodgson, his harbouring 
 of priests, his importation of forbidden books, and the pucker into which his 
 conduct put the Bishop of Durham, much may be read in Surtees, at the refer- 
 ence given in last but one footnote. He married Frances Ingleby, a grand- 
 daughter of the attainted earl of Westmorland, to whose .fortunes, or rather 
 misfortunes, in tlie rebellion of 1569, the Hodgsons attached themselves. By 
 this marriage, he had two children — Robert, who died young, and Anne, who 
 became the wife of Francis Carr of Cocken. Wm. Hodgson, the petitioner, 
 brother and heir male of Sir Robert, and nephew of Wm. Hodgson of Whick- 
 ham, was united to Margaret, dau. of Sir Thos. Haggerston of Haggerston, by 
 whom he had Su' Francis Hodgson, knt., who died v.p., and Alice, wife of Sir 
 Thos. Tempest of Stella, bart. Winlaton manor had been acquired of the West- 
 morland family by their friend Riclid. Hodgson, the mayor, just in time to 
 escape forfeiture. 
 
 t The Hodgsons had a footing in Elsvvick at this date which had come 
 through the marriage of Richard, the mayor, with Mrs. Fenwick. In the dis- 
 cussions on the second Bill for Sale of forfeited estates, July 14, 1652, tlie House 
 of Commons ordered the insertion of the name of Robt. Hodgson of Elswick, 
 but it did not appear in the Act, nor in tlie third Act, passed a few months 
 later. It was not until about 1720, that John Hodgson, an alleged descendant, 
 acquiring the lordsliip from the Jenisons, specially associated the names of 
 Hodgson and Elswick.
 
 246 
 
 in his lifetime lawfvilly seised of several manors, lands and heredita- 
 ments in CO. Durham in fee, was by inquisition, Feb. 17, 10 Car. 
 [1635] found to be a lunatic ; (2) that the said Anne, being next heir 
 was then of the age of two years ; (3) that his lands and goods were 
 seized and committed by the Bp. of Durham to a third person ; (4) 
 that during Sir Robert's lunacy a deed was pretended to be made by 
 him to disinherit said Anne, though it will be proved that Sir Robt. 
 continued a lunatic and died so, and was not capable of making such 
 a deed ; (5) that by colour of this pretended deed, Wm. Hodgson got 
 part of the premises into his possession, and two-thirds of them are 
 sequestered for his recusancy, so that without permission of the C.C. 
 petitioners cannot proceed at law for the discovery of the fraud of 
 the said deed, nor to recover Anne's right of inheritance. — Order that 
 Wm. Hodgson show cause why petitioners should not proceed at law 
 against him. 
 
 1654. Mar. 8. Order annulled till Carr has stated his title. 
 
 1654. Nov. 14. Petition of Jarvis Baxter, a soldier in the State's 
 service in Col. Hen. Pretty's regiment, showeth that John Baxter, 
 petitioner's father, about April, 9 Car., lent to Wm. Hodgshon 21 OZ., 
 and for security took a conveyance dated April 13 following, of a 
 capital messuage, with appurtenances, called the Fieldhouses in Gates- 
 head,* and all mines of coal and quarries, with liberty to dig and have 
 wayleave, and heaproom, etc., in the names of John Girlington and 
 Francis Salvin, in which deed is a proviso for the avoiding thereof 
 upon payment of 210?. at 6 months' warning. Baxter and Girlington 
 are dead ; Francis Salvin is also dead leaving John Salvin, his son 
 and heir, who has assigned his interest in the premises to petitioner 
 in pursuance of the said trust. The said money is still unpaid but 
 two-thirds are sequestered for the recusancy of Wm. Hodgshon. Begs 
 allowance of title. — Referred to the Cou. Com. 
 
 RALPH HOLMES OF BISHOP WE ARMOUTH.f 
 
 1644. Sept. 11. Warrant from Sir Wm. Armyne and the Cou. 
 Com. to sequester the estate of Ralj^h Holmes of Bishopwearmouth, 
 yeoman. 
 
 * LiTB. Feb. 3. Wm. Tempest, reciting that Richd. Hodshone, esq. [the 
 mayor], was his tenant at will of a cottage and lands in Gatesyde, called Field 
 Howses, late parcel of the lands of Robert Tempest, of high treason attainted, 
 now conveys to Robt. Hodshone [father of Sir Robert], the tenants son and 
 heir, the Field-howses, etc. Arch. Ael. 2nd ser. i. 33. 
 
 + Ralph Holmes was one of a family of yeomen who farmed lands at 
 Bishopwearmouth for several generations. His will, dated June 28, 166.5, in 
 which he desires to be buried in his predecessors' accustomed place, near the 
 south porch door of the church, is quoted by Surtees, HiM. Durham, vol. i. 
 part II. p. 229, who also mentions a plain marble stone, at the entrance to that 
 porch, under which lie interred the bodies of Mr. Ralph Holmes and many of 
 his ancestors. A lane leading off the High Street of Sunderland still bears the 
 family name.
 
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 1645. Feb. 24. Inventory of his goods taken ; value, 45/. 9s. 8d. 
 !Fine fixed at 501. 
 
 1651. Nov. 21. Petition to Parlt. for pardon, having compounded 
 in 1645. — Granted. 
 
 JANE AND THOMAS HOPPER OF SHINCLIFFE.* 
 
 (Cal. iv. pp. 3038, 3079.) 
 
 1644. Aug. 24. Sequestration of the goods of Thos. Hopper of 
 Shincliffe. 
 
 1645. Dec. 11. A moiety of the tithes of corn and grain in 
 Shincliffe and the fai^mhold there, late belonging to Mrs. Jane Hopper 
 and Thos. Hopper her son, or the one of them, let to Mrs. Elizth. 
 Pearson of that place, for the respective rents of 25/. and 21/. 
 
 1652. Aug. 13. Chris. Hilyard of Durham, begs allowance 
 of his title to a rent-charge of 16/. a year on lands in Houghton,' co. 
 Durham, for the life of Jane Hopper, for whose recusancy they are 
 sequestered, though the interest is solely in petitioner. — Referred to 
 the Cou. Com. and Mr. Reading. 
 
 1653. Dec. 9. Richd. Marshall, who has bought Shincliffe farm 
 and land from the Trustees for Sale of Dean and Chap, lands, 
 petitions that he may have the rents in arrear, the right of the former 
 tenant, Thos. Hopper, recusant, who held it on a 21 years' lease, 
 at 2/. 18.S. 7hd. rent., having expired last November. 
 
 1653. Dec. 14. Estate discharged from sequestration, Marshall 
 to receive rents and arrears from date of purchase. 
 
 1654. Nov. 7. Jos. Holdsworth, minister of Oswald, city of 
 Durham, petitions that in 1653 he was settled minister there by the 
 late Commissioners for Propagating the Gospel in the four northern 
 counties, and was ordered the rectories of Oswald, Pitting-ton and 
 part of Billingham. The tithe corn and hay of Shincliffe, part of 
 Oswald rectory, had been in lease to Thos. Hopper, and was 
 sequestered for his recusancy ; but though the lease expired July 23, 
 1653, and the profits should now revert to him, the Cou. Com. will 
 not discharge the sequestration, and 'have let it for 14/. to Chas. 
 Wren, of Durham. Begs discharge with arrears. — Referred to the 
 Cou. Com. and Mr. Reading. 
 
 * The Hoppers were an old established family in the bishopric. There 
 were Hoppers at Wokingham in the reign of Henry VIII., and some of their 
 descendants settled at various times in the city of Durham, and at Shincliffe, 
 Silksworth, Walworth and Pittington. The most eminent member of the 
 family, Robert Hopper, 1)orn in 1754, through his marriage with Ann,' only 
 dau. of Dr. Williamson, rector of Whickham, took the name of Williamson. 
 He was a brilliant lawyer, known far and wide for the accuracy of his judgments 
 and the soundness of his legal opinions. In the cathedral church of Durham a 
 sculptured brass, and in that of Newcastle a marble monument, erected 
 'by public and professional friends, honour the memory of Robt Hopper 
 Williamson, Temporal Chancellor of the Coimty Palatine and Recorder of 
 Newcastle.
 
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 SIR CHARLES HOWARD, KNT., OF CROGLIN, ETC.* 
 
 (Gal. iv. p. 2673; v. p. 3280.) 
 
 1650. Dec. 19. Dorothy, wife of Sir Chas. Howard of Croglin^ 
 CO. Cumberland, and North Charlton, Plenmeller and Haltwhistle, co. 
 Northd., jjetitions for an order to receive a fifth of her husband's 
 estate (sequestered for recusancy and delinquency) for herself and 
 ten children. — Granted, with arrears since Dec. 2-1, 1649. 
 
 1651. Apr. 9. Petition of divers copyholders and other custom- 
 ary tenants of the manors of Plenmeller and Haltwhistle, whose 
 names are subscribed as follows : — Francis Ridley, John Orsnebe, 
 Wm. Ridley, Nich. Ridley, Wm. Ridley, Nich. Ridley, Thos. Whit- 
 field, Nich. Colsen, Robt. Dixon, Chris. Ridley, Wm. Ridley,t ^ohn 
 Taylor, John Ridley and John Barnett, begging retention of their 
 tenements or leave to prove their right thereto. Their ancestors long 
 held them, paying rent to the Crown, but Lord Wm. Howard pur- 
 chased the royalties of King James and expelled petitioners, because- 
 they would not, as others had done, let their tenant-right to him. 
 After his death, Capt. Thos. and Sir Chas. Howard, papists in arms, 
 held the lands until the Scots' invasion, when they fled, leaving the 
 lands waste. Petitioners thereupon, having always adhered to the 
 Parlt., returned to their lands and have held them for 8 years, paying 
 rent, but the Cou. Com., having sequestered Sir Chas. Howard's 
 estate, have let their tenements. — Cou. Com. to examine their title 
 and Mr. Reading to report. 
 
 1651. June 11. Roger Harbottle of Haltwhistle, petitions the C.C. 
 that Sir Chas. Howard and his father have for 20 years held Halt- 
 whistle and Plenmeller manors, etc., and 7 years ago, his estate was 
 sequestered for recusancy, since which Nich. Ridley and ten others 
 have entered the estate by force and kept it, Sir Chas. being very 
 aged and unable to prosecute them. Sir A. Haslerigg and the 
 
 * The family hi;^t(5ry of this case is fully disclosed in the documents quoted. 
 Su- Charles Howard, born in 1590, son of Lord Wm. Howard of Naworth, 
 the 'Belted Will' of Border tradition, married Dorothy, dau. of Sir Hen. 
 Widdrington of W iddrington, co. T^orthd., sister of Mary, second wife of his 
 brother Sir Fran. Howard, and of Katherine, wife of Sir Wm. Riddell of 
 Gateshead. At the outbreak of the Civil War he was living at Croglin, 
 in Cumberland, one of the lesser estates of his father, and is usually described 
 as of that place to distinguish him from other representatives of a very 
 prolific race. There are pedigrees of the north country Howards in Hodgson, 
 Hist. Northd. pt. ii. vol. i. p. 7, and in 8urtees, Hifit. Durham, pt. ii. vol. i. 
 p. 80. Tlie domestic life of the Naworth family is exhaustively illustrated in 
 Surt. Soc. Pub. 68. 
 
 t Included in these fourteen signatures are three distinct William Ridleys 
 and two Nicholas Ridleys, but no signature of Walter Ridley whose name 
 appears in the Calendar. But in a renewal of the petition dated Feb. 10, 
 1652, Francis, Walter, Nicholas and William Ridley (four signatures only) 
 occur. From what follows in Harbottle's petition it is open to conjecture 
 that the second entry of William and Nicholas Ridley is a duplicate, and that 
 the third William may have been Walter.
 
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 Northern Commissioners being informed of this, let the premises to 
 petitioner at the improved value of 55/. from Whitsuntide and dis- 
 charged the others from intermeddling, yet they go on ploughing and 
 sowing. Begs that he may be protected in his possession, and the 
 tenants not allowed to have the crops, or the State will lose this year's 
 rent. — Ordered that the Cou. Com. make good their bargain to him, 
 and not make leases on small pieces of paper as formerly done. 
 
 1652. Mar. 23. Wm. Graham, Wm. Porter and Anne Stobbert, 
 all of Netherwitton, co. Northd., servants to the late Wm. Radcliffe, 
 beg examination by the Cou. Com. and reference to counsel of their 
 claim to a rent-charge of 121. a year, settled in 1635, by Chas. Howard 
 of Naworth (fourth son of Lord Wm.) and Dorothy, his wife, for 150Z. 
 on Wm. Radcliffe, with power of redemption on re-payment with 
 arrears, and left by him to petitioners, but wanting means they have 
 yet reaped no benefit therefrom. 
 
 1652. June 4. Roger Harbottle petitions again, complaining that 
 the tenants have not only detained the lands for 2 years, but have 
 sold the timber and spoiled the i^remises. Begs that they may be 
 stayed therein, called to account for the value of the im[»roved rent 
 of the estate, and of the timber and waste, and that he may be paid 
 his great charges. — Order that as the tenants intruded into the 
 estate as Sir Chas. Howard's, paying only a small quit-rent, the Cou. 
 Com. re-sequester the estate, call all parties to account who have 
 received anything from it since sequestration, or have felled or sold 
 timber, and take care that no more be felled or carried away. 
 
 1652. June 15. Wm. Howard of Thorpe Bulmer, co. Durham, 
 son and heir of Sir Chas., begs discharge of the manors of Plenmellor, 
 etc., which by deed dated Oct. 8, 14 Car., his gi'andfather, Lord 
 Wm., settled upon himself and Elizth., his wife, with remainders to 
 Sir Chas. and petitioner. Thej' are now all dead, yet he is kept out 
 of possession on 2^retence of the delinquency of his father, who died a 
 month since and had only a life estate in the premises. 
 
 1652. Aug. 11. Petitioner to have a third of the estate, with 
 arrears since his father's death if he died since Dec, 1649 ; if before, 
 arrears from Dec. 24, 1649, only; the remainder to remain seques- 
 tered for petitioner's recusancy, he having refused to take the Oath of 
 Abjuration. 
 
 1652. June 15. Sir Chas. being dead, his widow begs discharge 
 of North Charlton and other lands in co. Northd., settled on her 
 husband and children, by Sir Wm. Widdrington in lieu of 1,000/. left 
 her by her father, Sir Hen. Widdrington, but sequestered for Sir 
 Charles's delinquency and still kept sequestered, though they are 
 the only maintenance she has left. 
 
 1652. Sept. 22. Certificate of a lease for 5 years at 90/. to 
 Chas. Newton, of Plenmeller lordship, sequestered from Sir Chas. 
 Howard. 
 
 1652. Oct. 20. The claim of Graham, Porter and Stobbert 
 allowed and sequestration discharged, unless Wm. Radclifiu, who died 
 in Oct., 1647, was sequestered for delinquency before his decease.
 
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 1652. Nov. 18. The estate of Sir Chas. Howard appears in the 
 third Act for Sale. 
 
 1653. July 28. Lady Dorothy's petition respecting North Charl- 
 ton granted, if she take the Oath of Abjuration, and take oath also 
 that she has not barred herself from enjoying the estate, with arrears 
 from her husband's death in May, 1652. 
 
 1653. Nov. 9. Philip Purefoy, gent., contracts with the Treason 
 Trustees for the purchase of the manors, lordships and townships of 
 Haltwisle, Hartlebourne, Plenmeller and Ferrysheilds, with the lands, 
 etc., thereof, the water corn mill and fulling or walk mill, with 
 appurtenances in Haltwisle, and the dyeing house, together with, the 
 colliery, coal-mines or seams of coal in Haltwisle, belonging to the 
 said manor, and all other the messuages, lands, etc., within the said 
 manor, by what names soever they are called ; also the farm of 
 Softley, par. of Knaresdale, with the lands, etc. in the occupation of 
 Wm. Ridley, or his assigns ; also the messuage, with two little cottages 
 and two dovecotes, with the lands, etc., in North Charlton, in the 
 occupation of Thos. Forster, or his assigns, all in co. Northd. and 
 late parcel of the estate of Sir Chas. Howard, knt., deed. 
 
 1653. Nov. 10. Discharge of same from sequestration. 
 
 1654. Jan. 17. Lady Dorothy begs to contract on the late 
 Recusants Act for two-thirds of her sequestered estate. — Referred to 
 Mr. Reading. 
 
 1656. Jan. 4. Lady Dorothy petitions the Protector on behalf 
 of herself and eight fatherless children, that she had a portion, when 
 she married Sir Chas., 26 years since, and had divers manors settled 
 on herself, but he being forced into the King's quarters, the estate 
 was sequestered till his death in 1652, and was put into the Act for 
 Sale* and sold, no regard being had to her claims. She begs 
 1,053Z. 6s. ^d. the second moiety of the purchase money. — Referred 
 to three members of the C.C. 
 
 1656. Nov. 26. Report by the C.C, that Lady Dorothy married 
 Sir^ Chas. 26 years ago ; that his father, Lord Wm., by deed of 
 Oct. 8, 1638, above quoted, settled Plenmellar and other manors 
 on kim for life, with remainder to his eldest son Wm., and other 
 remainders ; that the estate was sequestered for Sir Charles's delin- 
 quency, but after his death one-third was discharged and two-thirds 
 sequestered for Wm. Howard's recusancy ; that nevertheless Philip 
 Purefoy bought the lands named in the petition, and (Nov. 10. 1653) 
 paid the first moiety, viz., 1,053/. 6s. 3^7., whereby Wm. Howard is 
 
 * 1652. July 14. Petition of the Lady Dorothy Howard, late wife of Sir 
 Chas. Howard (presented in the new list from the C.C. as a papist delinquent) 
 and of Wm. Howard their son, read in the House of Commons. Resolved, 
 That the name of ^ir Chas. Howard of Hartwisle be inserted in this Bill [the 
 thii-d Bill for Sale]. — Nov. 2. Resolved, That the name of Sir Chas. Howard 
 of Plenmeller be inserted in this Bill.— Nov. IS. The third Act for Sale 
 passed ; Sir Chas. Howard's name appears in it twice, viz. , for Croglin and 
 for Plenmeller.
 
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 prevented from fulfilling his promise of providing for her and her 
 eight younger children ; that this happened because Wm. was 
 ignorant that his claim ought to have been proved before the Com- 
 mittee for Removing Obstructions as well as the C.C. — Order in 
 Council to advise that the second payment of l,0o3l. 6s. $d., be 
 applied to the benefit of the lady and children, Lord Widdringtou 
 And Major Gen. Chas. Howard to see how it may best be settled. 
 
 SIR FRANCIS HOWARD OF NAWORTH.* 
 
 (Cal. iv. p. 2588.) 
 
 1644. Aug. 23. Warrant to sequester the estate of Sir Francis 
 Howard in co. Durham. 
 
 1645. Feb. 19. A rental of his lands in Neasham, co. Durham, 
 taken by the Cou. Com. 
 
 1651. July 16. The name of Sir Francis Howard of Naworth, 
 CO. Cumberland, appears in the first Act for Sale. 
 
 1652. Mar. 3. Sir Thos. Cotton, bart., contracts with the 
 Treason Trustees for the purchase of the manor of Coniscliffe, with 
 the lands, etc., lying in Upper and Lower Coniscliffe, Neasham, 
 Briarton, Cleatlam and Auckland, co. Durham,! la-t© parcel of the 
 estate of Sir Francis Howard. 
 
 1652. Mar. 12. Sequestration of these lands discharged to the 
 purchaser. 
 
 1653. Jan. 27. Lady Mary Howard complains that her husband's 
 estate being sold under the first Act for Sale, there is nothing left 
 for her and nine young children, unless they may be relieved out of 
 the rectory and tithes of Coniscliffe, Neasham and Brierton, exempted 
 from sale. Begs her fifth thereof, with arrears. 
 
 1653. Feb. 3. Lady Mary's petition granted, (rectories and tithes 
 being excepted from sale) with arrears from Dec. 24, 1649. 
 
 1654. Aug. 7. Wm. Parish, minister of Darlington, petitions 
 for discharge from sequestration, or from payment of a fifth, or any 
 other charges, on Coniscliffe Rectory, which in 1652, the Committee 
 for Propagating the Gospel in the four northern counties, settled on 
 him for maintenance, appointing him minister ; it is part of the 
 estate of Sir Francis Howard, delinquent, and was in the Act for 
 Sale, but has been excepted. — Petition dismissed. , 
 
 " Second surviving son of Lord Wm. Howard. He married, first, Margaret, 
 dau. of John Preston, esq., of Furness, by whom he had two children, Thomas, 
 who was killed at Atherton Moor, .Tune .SO, 1648, fighting for the king, and 
 Elizabeth, wife of Edwd. Standish of Standish. Ho married, secondly, Mary, 
 dau. of Sir Hen. Widdringtou, by whom he had numerous issue. From one 
 of them, William, descend the Howards of Corby. 
 
 + Proceedings in relation to his Cumberland and Westmorland estates are 
 ■omitted.
 
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 MARGARET HOWARD OF TURSDALE.* 
 
 (Cal. iv. p. 3153.) 
 
 1645. Feb. 19. Warrant to sequester the estate of Col. Thos, 
 Howard at Wheatley Hill, co. Durham. 
 
 Same date. Inventory of his goods taken at Tursdale in the same 
 county, t 
 
 1653. Nov. 2. Thos. Sanderson of Hedleyhoj^e, guardian to 
 Thos., infant son and heir of Thos. Howard, claims Tirresdale Manor 
 and other lands settled on the infant by Lord Wm. Howard, his grand- 
 father, but sequestered for the recusancy of Margt., his mother. 
 Begs leave to prove the title. 
 
 1654. Jan. 10. Begs to extend the claim to lands in Wheatley 
 Hill, etc., and Dromonby Grange, co. York, omitted in his former 
 petition. 
 
 1654. Mar. 6. John Hobson and another depose that Thos. 
 Howard died possessed of the capital messuage of Tirresdale, and 
 of other lands and tenements in Wheatley Hill, Cornforth and Hett, 
 
 * Widow of Thos. Howard, esq., Lord William Howard's youngest son. 
 Thos. Howard was a colonel in the royal service and was slain at Piercebridge, 
 Dec. 2, 1642. His widow, the petitioner, was Margaret, dau. of Sir Wm, 
 Eure of Bradley, in the Bishopric. Tursdale manor was purchased by Lord 
 William, in 1638, for 1,658/., and settled upon himself and wife for life, with 
 remainder to Thomas. The year following, Wheatley Hill estate was bought 
 for 2,880/., and conveyed to Lord William and two of his elder sons, Sir 
 Francis and Sir William, in trust for Thomas. 
 
 t Proceedings of the Parity. Commissioners relating to Col. Howard's 
 property are disclosed ante, pp. 25, 28, etc. Further details appear in the booka 
 at the Record Office, as follows : — 
 
 1647. Jan. 22. Wheatley Hill lands, Mrs. Howard's, let to Chris. 
 Mickleton for 90/. Mar. 9. Wheatley Hill let to Philip Richardson, Robt. 
 Darneton, Edwd. Armstrong, and Lionel Ord for 120/., to perform all personal 
 service, but to be free of billet and sessment. March 12. Two parts of 
 Howard's lands at Cornforth, and two parts of Mat. Smith's there let to Robt. 
 Watson for 19/. 8s. lOcZ. March 19. Tursdale Low Moor, parcel of Spenny- 
 moor (Mrs. Howard's), let to Thos. Hutchinson for 12/. 
 
 1648. Feb. 4. Tursdale Low Moor let to Thos. Hutchmson for 13/. 
 Feb. 10. Tui'sdale, save the Low Moor, let to Wm. Ord, and Elizabeth and 
 Thos. Wilkinson for 110/. ; Wm. Ord is at liberty to plough 2 acres more of 
 coarse grounds. Wheatley Hill let to Geo. Weemes for 140/. 
 
 1649. Feb. 22. Two parts Howard's lands and two parts Smith's at 
 Cornforth, let to Robt. Watson for 17/ , and to plough 4 acres in the rough 
 moor. Feb. 23. Two parts Wheatley Hill let to John Ward of that place for 
 75/. Tursdale and the Low Moor let to Wm. Ord for himself and the rest of 
 the tenants for 98/. S.s'. 
 
 1650. March 20. Two parts Smith's and all Mrs. Howard's lands at Corn- 
 forth let to Robt. Watson for 21/., Mrs. Howard to have a third part of her third 
 part. March 26. Tursdale and Low Moor let to Mr. John Markindalefor 82/.; 
 Wheatley Hill (2 parts) to same for 93/. 6.s. Hd. Nov. 20. Two-thirds of the 
 Cornforth lands let to John Markindale for 7 years from May 1, 1651, for 
 71. 6s. 8(/. p. ann., out of which said tenant is to be allowed the free rent and 
 monthly tax for the army. Two-thirds of Wheatley Hill let to John 
 Markindale, jvm., for 7 years from May 1, 1651, for 93/. 10s. p. ann.
 
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 CO. Durham, and that two parts thereof are sequestered for the 
 recusancy of Margt. Howard, his widow. — Margt. Howard deposes 
 that she has no jointure in her late husband's lands in Tirresdale, 
 Wheatley Hill, Cornforth, Hett or Dromonby and that he died at 
 Pearsbridge about 1 1 years ago, and was buried in Coniscliffe Church. 
 1654. Mar. 30. Claim allowed on report as to Tursdale Manor, 
 but the mother having a dower on the other lands, the Cou. Com. 
 are to discharge two-thirds only, and of the other third, two-thirds 
 is to be still sequestered for her recusancy. — Arrears granted from 
 Dec. 24, 1649. 
 
 ANDREW HUNTLEY OF [FRIARSIDE ?]. 
 
 1645. Compounds with Sir Hen. Vane and the Cou. Com. Is 
 described as a yeoman, but the place of his abode is left blank. 
 Fine, 5/. 
 
 1651. Nov. 21. Petitions Parlt. for pardon and obtains it, on 
 the ground that he has already compounded for his delinquency. 
 
 JOHN HUSBAND OF SUNDERLAND.* 
 
 (Cal. i. p. 203.) 
 
 1649. John Husband of Sunderland, compounds with Sir Arth. 
 Haslerigg and his colleagues for adhering to the enemy in the last 
 war. Particular of his estate : — Lease for a year to come, of the 
 third part of a farm in Burdon from the Dean and Chap, of Durham, 
 rent 5/. p. ann. ; in fee the third part of a house in Darlington, 
 Y.V., II. 6.S. M. 
 
 Fine at a sixth, 4/. 10s., 
 
 GABRIEL JACKSON OF LANGLEY. 
 
 (Cal. iv. p. 2714.) 
 
 1651. Mar. 7. Petitioner, having been adjudged a delinquent, 
 begs that he may be admitted to a reasonable composition. Par- 
 
 * Longstaffe, HiM. Dar/irujton, p. I ill, mentions, as living in 1626, John 
 Husband, a lawyer, 'who wrote an exquisite hand.' In Summers, Hist. 
 Sunderland, p. .'•i52, John Husband appears as a common council man, 
 appointed by Bp. Morton in his charter, incorporating the borough, dated 
 Mar. 31, 16H4. Again, John Husband of Sunderland, gent., is one of tiie 
 principal sequestrators named in tlie Proceedings of Sir Wni. Armyn and his 
 colleagues in 1644-45, ante, pp. 1-.S8. It was he who seized the estates of Dr. 
 Basire, Lawrence Sayer of Yarm, Sir Francis Bowes, and otliers, fully a month 
 before James Ayre, above named, was ordered, avte, p. 18, to secjuester the 
 profits of John Husband's winflmill. Further, in 1647, John Husband, with 
 Geo. Lilburn and three others, Surtees, IHkI. Jhir/unn, ii. 107, was ap])ointed 
 surveyor to the committee for the sale of the late Bisiiop's lands. And yt^t 
 John Husband compounds for delinquency in 1649 ! Unless, therefore, John 
 Husband, in all these positions, was two Husbands or more, it is ditficult to 
 understand the proceedings.
 
 254 
 
 ticular of His estate : — In fee a messuage and some land, called Widdi- 
 field, par. of Andrew Awkeland, Y.V.B.W., over and above the charge 
 upon it, 20/. ; a lease of a house and ground at Langley, par. of 
 Branspeth, for about 49 years to come, Y.V.BlW., 15Z. ; for the term 
 of his wife's life, a little parcel of common ground in the par. of 
 Oswald [Durham city] Y.V.B.W., 3/. ; a lease of a house and another 
 small parcel of ground in same par. for 4 years yet to come, Y.V.B.W., 
 4/. ; cattle, household stuff and other goods worth 38/. 
 Fine at a sixth, 98/. 3s. 4:d. 
 
 JOHN JACKSON OF MIDRIDGE. 
 
 1645. Described as a yeoman, John Jackson of Midridge, com- 
 pounds with Sir Hen. Vane and the Cou. Com. — Fine 70/. 
 
 1651. Nov. 21. Petitions Parlt. for pardon, and obtains it, for 
 all offences committed before his composition. 
 
 JOHN JACKSON OF HARRATON.* 
 
 (Gal. i. p. 204.) 
 
 1644. Sept. 3. Warrant to sequester the estate of Lieut.-col. 
 John Jackson at Rickleden, co. Durham. 
 
 1649. Jackson petitions for leave to compound for delinquency 
 in adhering to the enemy in the last war, etc. Reporl^on his estate 
 shows that he has lauds and collieries in fee in Harraton, Y.V.B.W., 
 160/. ; a third of the lordship of Rickleton, Y.V.B.W.. 26/. Us. id. ; 
 lands in Harraton called the Awards for 33 years, Y.V.B.W., 10/. : 
 ditto called Dawderhaugh, for 10 years, Y.V.B.W., 10/. He is allowed 
 an annuity of 10/. issuing out of his lands at Harraton to Richd. 
 Jackson for life ; 600/. for two sisters' portions and 200/. for a 
 brother's portion. Compounder confesses that Roger Harper, John 
 Brack and others are possessed of certain lands in Amerston for his 
 use by virtue of a decree of Durham Chancery, for payment of 
 certain debts of Mr. Girlington, who had the fee simple thereof, 
 Y.V., 60/., out of which is paid 20/. yearly to Martyn Dethicke for 
 life ; 5/. yearly to one Kendrith and his heirs for ever ; 10/. yearly 
 to one Slinger ; all charged -thereon by said Girlington. Compounder 
 also stated that 225/. is in arrear out of said lands to the parties 
 before mentioned, for which they have entered into possession and 
 disposed of said lands for their own use. 
 "Fine at a sixth, 436/. 14s. 7d. 
 
 * Sir John Jackson (son and heir of Thos. Jackson of Harraton), lieut.-col. 
 in the Royal service, married in second nuptials, Susan, dau. of Geo. Grey of 
 Southwick, and widow of John Hedworbh of Harraton. Thus he became 
 mixed up in that memorable conflict over the Harraton collieries which looms 
 out, large and full, from the mists of local history during the Interregnum. 
 Further reference to the struggle, and to Sir John Jackson's part in it, appears 
 later, s.r. Thos. Wray of Beamish.
 
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 THOMAS JACKSON OF NEWCASTLE* 
 
 (Cal. i. p. 202.) 
 
 1649. Thos. Jackson petitions for leave to compound on the 
 rates of Parlt. for adhering to the enemy in the last war. His 
 estate consists of a bond of 200/. due to him from Wm. Reay, mer- 
 chant, John Marshall, gent., and John Cock, merchant, all of New- 
 castle, for which the said Marshall is imprisoned. 
 
 Fine at a sixth, 33Z. 6s. d>d. 
 
 PHILIP AND THOMAS JEFFERSON OF HEXHAM. f 
 
 1652. July 15. The House of Commons resolves that the names 
 of Philip and Thos. Jefferson of Hexham be inserted in the second 
 Bill for Sale of Estates forfeited for Treason. 
 
 ROBERT JENISON OF [blank]. 
 
 1645. Robt. Jenison of a place unnamed, co. Durham, compounds 
 with Sir Hen. Vane and the Cou. Com. — Fine, 5/. 
 
 1651. Nov. 21. Petitions Parlt. for pardon, and obtains it, for 
 offences prior to compounding. 
 
 WILLIAM JENISON OF NEASHAM.J 
 
 (Cal. iv. p. 3084.) 
 
 1653. Feb. 16. Wm. Jenison petitions for a stay of all ])ro- 
 ceedings upon the third part of his manor of Hurworth, co. Durham, 
 upon which Chris. Byerley of Midridge Grange, having, as he j^re- 
 tends, a rent-charge of 40/. a year, has made several distresses. — 
 Order that Byerley prove his title ; meanwhile distresses are to cease. 
 
 * Thos. Jackson, son of Thos. Jackson, of Hariaton, co. Dui'ham, was 
 apprenticed to Roger Liddell, mercer, Newcastle, Mar. 28, 1629, and set over 
 to Abraham Booth, Nov. 12, following. Dendy, Surt. Soc. Pub. 101, p. 248. 
 Surviving his troubles, he pursued his calling in Newcastle till Feb., 1682, on 
 the 28th of which month he was buried in St. John's Churchyard. Abraham 
 Booth was the husband of Judith, dau. of Wm. Jackson, town cjerk of New- 
 castle, sister of Sir John Jackson of Gray's Inn, and of Hen. Jackson of 
 Gotham JShxndeville, co. Durham. 
 
 + Although this resolution appears in the Journals of the House, neither 
 Philip nor Thos. Jefferson are included in the second Act for Sale, passed Aug. 
 4, 1652, nor in the third Act which passed Nov. IS, following. Nor do their 
 names appear in the Calendar as compounders. But in the list of pa])ists and 
 delinquents in Northd., sent to the C.C. by Geo. Fenwick, Aug. 20, 165;"), (tnte, 
 p. 87, they are entered as papists, whose estates or goods had been sequestered 
 (Thomas's in 1644 and Philip's in 1648), but not discharged. Of. the new 
 Hist. Northd. iii. 279, 287. 
 
 + See the case of Thos. Hraithwaite, ante, p. 131. The House of Commons, 
 July 1, 1652, resolved to include the estate of Wm. Jenison in the second Bill 
 for Sale, but it does not appear in the Act, nor in that which followed— the 
 third Act for Sale.
 
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 1654. Mar. 29. Wm. Jenison, as heir to his mother, dau. of 
 Jas. Lawson, begs that a due proportion may be allowed out of the 
 sequestered two-thirds of his estate towards payment of Byerley's 
 rent-charge, which he now admits was made by Lawson. 
 
 1654. May 16. Chris. Byerley, executor of Wm. Grant, com- 
 plains that an annuity of 40/. given by Lawson to Grant for 400/. 
 has been long unpaid, and begs examination of his title. — Referred to 
 Cou. Com. 
 
 1654. Nov. 7. Almond Bedford, merchant, London, begs allow- 
 ance for repairs on the estate at Neasham, etc., purchased from Thos. 
 Braithwaite and Wm. Jenison. During sequestration the manor 
 house and other houses have become ruinous, and Hungerhill farm- 
 house is burnt. — Referred to Cou. Com. 
 
 1655. May 29. Cou. Com. having certified the necessity of re- 
 building of houses at a cost of 60/., Bedford begs that that sum may 
 be paid him. 
 
 1655. May 30. The Committee are to grant 40/. abatement out 
 of the rent, and what is already laid out is to be abated. 
 
 1655. June 15. Rowland Place and the other trustees of the 
 will* of Wm. Jenison, who is dead, beg discharge of the two-thirds of 
 his estate from sequestration. 
 
 1655. Aug. 11. Certificate that in a list of sequestered persons, 
 returned from Durham, Mar. 17, 1654, Wm. Jenison's estate is 
 entered as follows: — At Hindon, Y.V., without deductions, 8/.: 
 Neesham Abbey, Y.V., without deductions, 70/. 2s. dd. ; Hungerhill, 
 Y.V., without deductions, 25/. ; Hurworth, Y.V., without deductions, 
 97/. lOs. Total, 200/. 12.s\ 6r/. 
 
 * Will of Wm. lenison of Nesham, gent., dated Apr. 10, 165.5. To be 
 buried in the parish church of Hurworth, amongst my ancestors. To Rowland 
 Place of Dinsdale, esq., John Beverley of Smeaton, esq., John Jenison the 
 younger, esq., Riclid. Foster of Morton, gent., Nich. Pearson of Marton, gent.. 
 Hen. Jenison of Nesham, gent., and Jane Jenison of the same, spinster, all 
 my lands, tenements and hereditaments in Nesham, Hurworth and Hindale, 
 on trust to pay out of Hurworth 1;V. and Nesham 10/. to Mr. John Garnett 
 yearly during the life of my father ; to pay to John Calverley of Eriholme, 
 esq., and his heirs, 15/. yearlj- out of Hurworth, and 15/. yearly out of Nesham 
 until my heirs pay him 400/. ; to pay to each of my four children, viz., 
 William, James, .lane, and Elizabeth, 200'., half out of Hurworth and half out 
 of Nesham ; the several sums before given to John Calverley and .John Garnett 
 being first paid as they become due. Remainder to my heirs. Witnesses : 
 Henry Emerson, Wm. Gates, Thos. Stobbs. 
 
 In some depositions relating to this case, dated July 10, 1655, Anne, wife 
 of Wm. Jenison, is mentioned as ileceased, and Thomas, their son and heir, is 
 stated to have been born Feb. 3 eight years ago. A pedigree of tlie family in 
 Surtees, Hist. IhirJiam, iii. 268, does not quite harmonise with the provisions 
 of this will. To the four children named in the will Surtees adds a dau. 
 named Mary and another named Jane. One Jane is entered as being buried 
 July 21, 1655, i.e. after the death of both father and mother, while the other 
 dies unmarried in 1672. To this last-named Jane her brother Thomas 
 administers, so that her existence is proved. The child that died in 1655 must, 
 therefore, have borne some other name, if it belonged to the family at all.
 
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 1655. Nov. 9. Certificate of Thos. Brown, auditor, that in a 
 book of Surveys and Contracts, made by the Cou. Com., exhibited 
 Aug. 4, 1652, there is a survey of the estate of Wm. Jenison and Thos. 
 Brathwaite, viewed and taken July 10, 1651, as follows : — In Hindon 
 par. of Cockfield, a messuage called Hinedon ; the great field, 40 
 acres, meadow ; Burfoote Leases, 10 acres, meadow ; Cow Close, 18 
 acres, pasture ; Nuns Loaninge, 3 acres, pasture, with common right 
 on the Fells adjoining ; two-thirds of one moiety and one whole 
 moiety let to John Greenhill of Hindon, yeoman, for 7 years, from 
 May 1, 1651, for 16/. yearly. A fifth of the moiety allowed to Mrs. 
 Ursula Brathwaite for relief. The premises were formeily let for 
 14Z. 3s. 4(i. In Neasham, par. of Hurworth, a house called Neasham 
 Abbey, otherwise Neasham Nunnery, with 1 orchard, 6 cottages, 
 2 barns and 1 horse mill ; Cunney Close and Sadie Flatt, 16 acres, 
 arable ; Cent Close, 10 acres, arable ; Garend's field, 20 acres, arable ; 
 Willy Close, 14 acres, jDasture ; The Bankes, 20 acres, pasture; Too 
 ( 1 two) Flatts, High Birke Carr and Peaslands, 40 acres, pasture ; 
 Ewe Close, 24 acres, pasture ; Little Oxe Close, and Flowerpiece, 
 5 acres, meadow ; Calfe Close and Mickle Deale Mouth, 13 acres, 
 meadow; Over Langlands, 16 acres, meadow; Laith Close and East 
 end of Heatham Slacks, 10 acres, meadow ; Great Oxe Close, 8 acres, 
 meadow ; Brankinholme, 6 acres, arable and meadow. A sixth of 
 the whole set forth for Mr. Jenison's third part — Lone Langlands 
 and Bank, 18 acres, meadow ; Low Birke Carr and the west end of 
 Heatham Slacks, 30 acres, pasture. All these premises (except the 
 lands set forth to Mr. Jenison) and a moiety of the Abbey house 
 and orchard, are let to Thos. Harrison of Neasham Abbey, yeoman, 
 from May 1, 1651, for 7 years, at 140Z. 5s. yearly. A fifth of a full 
 moiety of the said estate is allowed to Mrs. Brathw^aite for main- 
 tenance. The said estate was formerly let for 110/. In Hurworth, 
 a messuage called Hungerhill with 1 barn ; the great pasture, 60 
 acres, Banke Close, 8 acres, meadow ; Ingdaile Closes, 32 acres, 
 meadow ; Farr Hungerhill, 40 acres arable, and 6 acres meadow. 
 All let to Matt. Shawter of Hungerhill, yeoman, except a third of a 
 moiety set forth to the recusant from May 1, 165 — for 3 years at 
 55/. 3s. ^d. yearly. A fifth of a moiety allowed to Mrs. Brathwayt. 
 Formerly let for 45/. 16s. 8^. In the town of Hurworth. a messuage 
 in possession of Ellinor Elwood with 1 garth and 1 barn ; Low Crake 
 Hill, 14 acres, arable; High Crake Hill, 17 acres, meadow; High 
 Close, 12 acres, pasture, and 6 acres arable ; a messuage in possession 
 of John Richardson with 1 barn ; Cow Close and Banks, 20 acres, 
 pasture ; Meadow Cow Close, 20 acres and the Oxe Close, 20 acres, 
 arable ; Out Moore, 60 acres, pasture ; Round Close, 6 acres, arable : 
 1 pasture called Staine, 14 acres; Ingmires, 16 acres arable and 
 10 acres meadow ; Geslinge Mere, 12 acres, pasture; Garend's fields 
 in Fower Closes, 26 acres, arable ; the Intack and Moore, 20 acres, 
 pasture; Greybeck, 12 acres, meadow; the Two Lee Closes, 18 
 acres, arable; Gibson Close and Floss, 12 acres, meadow; Round 
 
 17
 
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 Hill pasture, 30 acres ; Lang Close, 6 acres, arable, with a house and 
 garth, 3 cote houses and 3 garths ; Oxe Close, 38 acres joasture and 
 6 acres arable ; Butcher's field, 20 acres, meadow and arable ; Calfe 
 Close and Waninge Close, 9 acres meadow and 8 acres arable ; 
 Whinney field, 50 acres pasture. A full moiety and two-thirds of 
 a moiety let to Richd. Mawer of Midridge, yeoman, from May 1, 
 1651, for 7 years at 195/. yearly. A fifth of the moiety allowed to 
 Mrs. Ursula Brathwaite for maintenance. Out of this issues a free 
 rent formerly paid to the Bp., 13s. id. yearly. This estate formerly 
 let for 146/. 6.«. 8f/. 
 
 1655. June 19. Referred to the Cou. Com. No further record. 
 
 ANNE JOHNSON OF CHESTER-LE-STREET. 
 
 (Gal. \. p. 745.) 
 
 1658. Dec. 20. Order in the Court of Exchequer, on presenta- 
 tion of John Lawson and Robt. Busby, debtors for 17/. and 15/. 
 respectively to the sequestered estate of Anne Johnson in Brafferton 
 and Broomyholme, co. Durham, and on plea of Wm. Brass that the- 
 estate was sold to him by the heir and present owner, Mich. Johnson, 
 that the sequestration be discharged and that the hands of the Lord 
 Protector shall be therefrom removed. The order states that Anne 
 Johnson was seised in her demesne as of freehold for the term of 
 her life in right of her jointure, of certain tenements at Brafferton 
 in Aycliffe, and Briniynham [Broomyholme], -p&v. Chester[le-Street] ; 
 the I'emainder, after her death, to Mich. Johnson, cousin and heir of 
 Mich. Johnson, late of Twisell,^ deed., who was husband of the said 
 Anne, by virtue of which remainder the said Mich., the younger, was 
 seised of the premises in fee expectant, and being seised, by indenture 
 dated June 1, 1657, for 350/., demised the said premises to Wm. 
 Brass for 1,000 years, under the rent of Id. yearly, provided that if 
 Mich., the younger, paid to Wm. Brass 350/. within 21 years after 
 Anne's death, the said Mich, should re-enter the premises, the demise 
 notwithstanding. The said Anne died about Feb. 14, 1658, at 
 Chester[le-Street] and the said Wm. Brass was possessed of the 
 premises for the residue of the term, subject to the proviso aforesaid. 
 17/. is owing for rent by John LaAvson, farmer at Brafferton, for the 
 year 1658, and 15/. for rent by Robt. Busby, farmer at Broomyholme, 
 for the same year. 
 
 REV. HENRY JOHNSON OF BOTHAL. 
 
 1648. Jan. 7. Ordinance of Parlt. published in the Journals oi 
 the House of Lords as follows : — Whereas the rectory of the parish 
 
 * Surtees, Hi^t. Durham, ii. 199-200, gives a pedigree of the Johnsons of 
 Twizel, and a most interesting account of the acquisition, settlement andl 
 disposal of their estates.
 
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 church of Bothell, co. Northd., lately sequestered from Hen. Johnson, 
 clerk, late incumbent there, for his delinquency, is now become vacant 
 by the death of the said Johnson, and the advowson thereof at 
 the State's disposal by reason of the delinquency of Wm., Earl of 
 Newcastle, patron of the said living : The Lords and Commons in 
 Parlt. assembled taking notice thereof, and to the end that the said 
 church and rectory may be supplied with an able and orthodox 
 minister, do hereby order, ordain and appoint, John Thompson, 
 clerk, B.A., a godly and orthodox divine (who hath been formerly 
 approved of by the Assembly of Divines to officiate the cure of the 
 said church during the late sequestration), to be rector and parson 
 of the said church and parish, and do establish him incumbent of 
 the same, and that he shall and may have, hold, etc., the said rectory 
 and parsonage and the glebe lands, tithes and profits whatsoever to 
 the said rectory belonging, etc. Provided that the said John Thomp- 
 son shall pay all such tenths, first fruits and other duties as ought 
 to be paid, etc., saving to all bodies, politic and corporate, and all 
 other persons, such right and title as they, or any of them, have 
 unto the patronage of the said church of Bothell, except such persons 
 as are sequestered or sequestrable by ordinance of Parlt. for sequester- 
 ing of papists' and delinquents' estates. And the Connnissioners for 
 the Great Seal are hereby authorized to pass the grant hereof under 
 the Great Seal accordingly.* 
 
 JOHN KENNETT OF COXHOE.f 
 
 (Gal. Hi. p. 2044.) 
 
 1645. John Kennett of Coxhoe, co. Durham, gent., compounds 
 with Sir Hen. Vane and the Cou. Com. — Fine, 80/. 
 
 1649. May 10. Compounds again. His delinquency, that he 
 was in arms against the Parlt. in the first war only. Particular of 
 his estate : — A life annuity out of the manor or lordship of Girsbye 
 in CO. York, settled by deed dated Nov. 19, 2 Car., upon Mary 
 
 * Inserted as an example of the manner in which church livings belonging 
 to delinquents were dealt with and ' intruding ' ministers appointed. More 
 about this ' godly and orthodox divine ' may be read in Surt. Soc. Pub. 50, 
 p. 146, and in the new Hi^f. Northd. v. 287-288. 
 
 t Son of Wm. Kennett of Coxhoe, by Mary, dau. and sole heir of Chris. 
 Blakiston of Coxhoe, and grandson of Sir Wm. Kennett of Sellendge, co. Kent, 
 whose second wife was a Conyers of Sockburn. John, the compounder, a 
 major in the Royal service, married Troath, dau. of Sir Thos. Tempest of Stella. 
 Surtees, HUt. Durham, vol. i. pt. ii. p. 72, supplements a pedigree of the 
 family by a note that Wm. Kennet, the father (whom he designates as a 
 colonel), persecuted in his early years as a papist recusant, and in his latter 
 years plundered by the sequestrators as a royalist, bore arms as a volunteer for 
 Chas, I., and was twice wounded, viz., at Piersebridge and at Marston Moor, 
 in which latter fight his son Samuel was slain. Of John the compounder, adds 
 Surtees, ' I have a handsome portrait, in armour, with long dark hair, dark 
 complexion, aquiline nose, and features expressive of sense and spirit.'
 
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 Kennett, his mother, remainder to compounder for life, remainder to 
 the first and every other son of compounder, with divers remainders 
 in tail, remainder in fee to the right heirs of Sir Wm. Kennet, his 
 grandfather, for ever. 
 
 Fine at a sixth, 300^. 
 
 1649. June 21. Begs reduction of his fine which has been set as 
 for an estate in fee. Has but an estate for life. — Fine reduced to 
 250/. 
 
 1651. Nov. 21. Petitions Parlt. for pardon, and obtains it, on 
 the ground of previous compoundings. 
 
 JOHN KILLINGHALL OF MIDDLETON ST. GEORGE.* 
 
 (CM. a. p. 1374.) 
 
 1644. Aug. 23. Sequestration of the lands of Mr. John Killing- 
 hall of Middleton St. George, co. Durham. 
 
 1645. Killinghall compounds with Sir Hen. Vane and the Cou. 
 Com.— Fine, 60Z. 
 
 1646. July 2. Note of his wish to compound again. His 
 delinquency is that he bore arms against the Parlt. but surrendered 
 in Nov., 1645, and took the National Covenant and Negative Oath. 
 No particular of his estate can be found. His wife, Margt., and 
 Anne, wife of Nich. Chayter of Houghton, were daus. and co-heirs 
 of Wm. Lambton, gent., deed., and his lands and tenements in Great 
 Stainton should have descended to them, but they were kept out of 
 possession by reason of the recusancy of Ralph Cotesworth who 
 claimed as brother and next heir of Wm. Cotesworth, gent., who 
 pretended that a conveyance of the said estate had been made to him. 
 — These parties are left to try their title at law. 
 
 Fine fixed at 48/. 
 
 * The documents relating to this case are for tlie most part missing. 
 Surtees prints a Catalogue of Compounders, published in 1655, in which John 
 Killinghall is entered as compounding for 440/. Longstaffe. in an exhaustive paper 
 Arch. AeL 2nd ser. ii. 95) on Middleton St. George and the house of Killinghall, 
 repeats that statement. Yet the records above show only 108/. paid altogether. 
 Indeed, Killinghall was one of those who petitioned Parlt. for pardon and 
 obtained it for ofl"ences previous to his first compounding. Longstaffe quotes 
 from the Chaytor archives a document which Margt. Killinghall was compelled 
 to sign after her husband's death in Jan., 1652, as follows : I do declare and 
 promise to be true and faithful to the Commonwealth of England as it is now 
 established without a king or house of lords -Margarett Killinghall. These 
 are to certify whom it may concern that Margaret Killinghall of Midleton 
 George, in the co. Durham, widow, came before us, James Clavering, esq., and 
 John Walton, esq., justices assigned to keep the public peace in the co. of 
 Durham at Durham in the co. aforesaid, the 11th day of Jan. in the year of our 
 Lord 1652, and did then and there before us and in our presence, take and .sub- 
 scribe the engagement above written according to the Act of this present 
 Parlt. ill tliat behalf set forth and provided. In witness, etc., Ja. Claveringe, 
 John Walton. Witnesses : Ed. Parkinson, Thomas Killinghall, Tho. Mascall.
 
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 HENRY LAMBTON OF LAMBTON* 
 
 (Gal. a. p. 986. J 
 
 1645. Nov. 27. Hen. Lambton of Lambton, co. Dvu'liam, 
 petitions to be admitted to compound on the late ordinance for 
 delinquency. Has taken the National Covenant before Isaac 
 Reynolds, minister, of Gray's Inn, Oct. 21, 1645, and the Negative 
 Oath, Nov. 27, 1645. His delinquency, that he was a lieut.-col. in the 
 Earl of Newcastle's army, from Apr., 1643, till Oct., 1644. He then 
 laid down arms, and has ever since lived within the Parlt. quarters. 
 He was never out of the county during his being in arms. Particular 
 of his estate : — A frank tenement for life in the farm of Lambton, 
 Y.V.B.W., 200/., out of which his mother-in-law has 80/. p. ann. for 
 life. So there rests 120/. and the reversion for life expectant after 
 the decease of his mother[in-law] half a year's value of the 80/., which 
 is 40/., the whole fine of this, 160/., subject as a security to Mr. 
 Bowes for payment of 320/., whereof there is 3 years in arrear. The 
 farm of Salcocke, co. York, for life, Y.V., 40/. The farms for life of 
 
 * Compounder was the eldest son of twenty-four children born to Sir 
 Wm. Lambton of Lambton, knt. Sir William married, first, Jane, third dau. 
 of Sir Nich. Curwen of Workington, and by her had Henry the compounder, 
 with two other sons and three daughters. She was buried Mar. 3, 1619, and 
 Sir William married, secondly, Catherine, dau. of Sir Hen. Widdrington of 
 Widdrington, co. Northd., who brought him ten sons and eight daughters. 
 The men who bore the name of Lambton were devoted adherents of the royal 
 cause. Sir William was a colonel in the royal army and fell at Marston 
 Moor, July 14, 1645. William, one of his sons by Cath. Widdrington, was 
 killed at Wakefield the year before, and it is not improbable that the 
 ' capt. lieut. Lampton,' whose name appears in Rushworth among the prisoners 
 taken at the battle of Naseby-field, June 14, 1645, was the compounder. 
 Both he and a sister married into the loyal and fighting family of Sir 
 Alex. Davison. Henry Lambton took to wife Margaret or Mary Davison, 
 while Sir Thos. Davison, her brother, married p]lizabeth or Alice Lambton. 
 Certain names, as Margaret and Mary, Alice and Elizabeth, Maud and 
 Matilda, Agnes and Ann, seem to have been interchangeable. The pedigrees 
 of Lambton and Davison in Surtees, UiM. Durham, differ as to the names of 
 these ladies, and that of Lambton must certainly be wrong either in assigning 
 William, who was killed at Wakefield, to the second wife of Sir William if, as 
 the dates show, his baptism took place in 1617, when the first wife was living, 
 or in the date of the first wife's death. Henry's son, Wm. Lambton, who 
 represented Durham county in seven parliaments between 1684 and 1713, was 
 a man of strong character and unimpeachable integrity. His uprightness 
 earned for him the sobriquet of ' Old True Blue ' ; his individuality led to the 
 following episode as told by Sir Cuthbert Sharp, Hist. Hartlepool, p. 81 : — 
 Once on the meeting of a new parlt. , the doorkeeper seeing him dressed in a plain 
 grey home-spun coat, made of the wool of his own sheep, and thick shoes, 
 would not admit him farther than the lobby, where he sat quietly enough until 
 a friend in a finer coat came up, who remonstrated with the doorkeeper on his 
 shutting out one of the most honourable and respectable members of the House 
 of Commons. The doorkeeper changed his tone, and hoped his honour would 
 give him something as a remembrance. Up started Will, more vexed at the 
 fellow's servility than at his former rudeness, and gave him a hearty box on 
 the ear, saying, ' There's a god's-penny for thee ; I think thou'lt ken auld Will 
 Lambton again ! '
 
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 Trilby, Y.V., 20/., and Pictrey, 10/. He has a colliery within the lands 
 of Lambton which is demised to Sir Richd. B'ellasis, Geo. Lilburn 
 and Geo. Grey for 3 years at 800/. yearly, charged by deed for pay- 
 ment of 500/. yearly to his younger brothers and sisters for raising 
 their portions for 21 years, so there is 300/. clear for life. 
 
 1646. Jan. 17. Fine fixed at 960/., but if he make it appear 
 before the last part is due that he has only an estate for life, 230/. 
 to be abated. 
 
 1646. Apr. 30. Ordered to pay 300/., and give his own security 
 to pay 260/. more if the House impose it. 
 
 1647. Jan. 29 [Cal. (C.A.M.) ii., p. 755]. Hen. Lambton assessed 
 at 600/. 
 
 1650. Nov. 1 [Cal. (C.A.M.) ii., p. 755]. Order that according 
 to his composition ^particulars, his twentieth will be 520/., and on 
 payment of 200/. he shall have a commission for examination of his 
 debts, and be further heard as to his assessment. 
 
 1651. Feb. 18. Having lapsed his time, the remainder of his 
 tine cannot be paid till the pleasure of the House be known. 
 
 1651. Feb. 25. 260/., balance of tine, to be received and kept 
 on deposit. 
 
 1652. Jan. 16. Reported as having paid his full fine. 
 1652. May 14. His discharge granted. 
 
 1652. Feb. 12 [Cal. (C.A.M.) ii., p. 755]. Sir Arth. Haslerigg 
 writes that Lambton's whole fine is in the treasurer's hands and 
 suggests stay of proceedings for the fifth and twentieth, as usually 
 the fine for delinquency is first paid and then the twentieth demanded. 
 
 1652. Feb. 13. Order for stay of all proceedings till the report 
 of Parlt. is heard. 
 
 1652. May 19. Interest on the balance of his fine after it was 
 deposited to be returned to him. 
 
 SIR WILLIAM LANGLEY OF LUMLEY.* 
 
 (Cal. Hi. p. 1945.) 
 
 1644. July 10. The petition and letters from Sunderland of 
 Sir Wm. Langley, bart., Geo. Lilburn and Geo. Grey, jun., referred 
 by the House of Commons to the consideration of the Committee of 
 the Navy. 
 
 * Elizabeth, sister of Richd. Viscount Lumley, married Sir Wm. Langley 
 of Higham Gobions, co. Bedford, and thus it happened that (Sir William 
 obtained property in the bishopric and became involved in the local troubles of 
 the time. Early in the striiggle, he was a well affected person, to whom, with 
 Geo. Lilburn and Geo. Grey, Parlt. entrusted great interests in the north of 
 England. l'>ut in a veiy short time all three of them fell iinder suspicion, and 
 as will be seen, s.r. Geo. Lilburn, charges of malversation and treachery wei'e 
 dying against them thick and fast. Curiously enough the depositions against 
 Sir Wm. Langley are taken by Lilburn.
 
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 1644. July 15. The House adopted the following resolutions: — 
 That Sir Wm. Langley, Mr. Geo. Grey, Mr. Geo. Lilburn and all 
 other well-affected persons in the like condition, shall be restored to 
 the possession of their collieries, coals and all things incident there- 
 unto, according to their respective interests which they had before 
 the enemy had the same in their power : And that they have restitu- 
 tion for their coals sold by the Commissioners out of delinquents' 
 estates.* That no coal, Sunderland measure, shall be sold thereat 
 above fourteen shillings the chaldron the best, and twelve shillings 
 the chaldron the worst, to be delivered at the ship side ; these rates 
 to continue 6 months. That no coal shall he transported beyond 
 seas without the leave of the Houses of Parliament, upon pain of 
 forfeiture of ship and coals. That Sir Wm. Langley, Mr. Geo. Grey 
 and Mr. Geo. Lilburn shall take the delinquent's collieries in Sunder- 
 land to lease, if the committee of the Parliament there shall think fit, 
 and employ them and work them, unless other well-aft'ected gentle- 
 men of the country shall offer to take them and to work them. 
 
 1645. Nov. 4. Nich. Shadforth of Hawthorn and John Marshall, 
 upon oath before Richd. and Geo. Lilburn, say that Wm., son of 
 Sir Wm. Langley, took a commission from the Earl of Newcastle as 
 lieut.-col. under Sir Edwd. Woodrington's command. Marshall 
 having sold a horse to the said lieut.-col. he and Shadforth went to 
 Lumley Castle where Sir Wm. lived, to deliver the horse and get 
 paid for it, and when they complained of the charge and luirden laid 
 on the town [Cold Hesleden], Sir Wm. replied that it was a little 
 charge to find horses, seeing that he himself was content to put his 
 son into the service. Sir Wm. threatened Marshall and others of 
 Lord Lumley's tenants, that if they would not find horses for the 
 king's service they should never, if the king lived and held up his 
 head, hold leases of Lord Lumley again ; and being told that Roger 
 Steedman, dwelling in the town of Hesleden, would not bear one 
 penny, replied that the said Roger should never have lease again. 
 They further say that John Willson, a papist, who is servant to Sir 
 Wm. Langley, paid to the said John Marshall three placet in part 
 payment of the said horse. 
 
 Further charge added afterwards: — That Sir Wm. Langley put 
 two horses into the troop of Sir Wm. Lambton, who was in arms 
 against the Parlt., and desired Sir Wm. Lamliton to say that he 
 bought them of him. 
 
 1645. The Cou. Com. investigate these charges and acquit Sir 
 Wm. Langley. 
 
 1649. Majf. 22. The charge of delinquency against Sir Wm. 
 Langley having ])een revived, Isaac Gilpin sends him a copy of it, to 
 which he replies that he lived with his whole family under the power 
 
 * On July 19, the House of Commons deloted this word 'estates,' and 
 substituted ' coals and collieries. ' 
 t Can this word mean ploughs ?
 
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 of the king's army and on his return from Scotland, whither he and 
 his son had tied to escape from the king's forces, he was discovered 
 in his attempt to get to London. His son was taken prisoner and 
 a fine imjjosed by the king's party for his ransom, but he was not 
 able to pay it and so his son was detained. He has heard that his 
 son took up a command under the Earl of Newcastle, but it was with- 
 out his consent. When the said John Marshall demanded money 
 for a horse sold to Mr. Wm. Langley, Sir Wm. refused to give him 
 any and never discoursed with him. He became odious to the Earl 
 of Newcastle for not furthering the Earl's service, and thereupon, 
 suddenly leaving his wife and family, went with his son to Scotland, 
 as aforesaid, and after his return he endeavoured to convey himself, 
 wife and family and all his portable goods to London, and for that 
 purpose had agreed with John Machell,* a merchant of Newcastle, 
 to bring them to London from Hartlepool, but this being discovered 
 and his son thereupon taken prisoner, he could not prosecute his 
 intention. He escaped to Hull and there voluntarily contributed 
 2001. on the propositions of May 1, 1643, and after that time came 
 with the Scots into the field against the Earl of Newcastle. He 
 denies threatening Lord Lumley's tenants. Although he was under 
 the power of the king's army he never voluntarily contributed horse 
 or other aid to that army, or any other forces raised by the king. 
 He hopes it is well known how he and his wife were used by the 
 Earl of Newcastle's army while they were in those parts. [A number 
 of depositions in support of these allegations follow.] He begs dis- 
 charge from fm'ther trouble if nothing material is proved against 
 him, and consideration of his great service and sufferings for Parlt. 
 — Ordered that inquiry be made as to how far he was responsible for 
 the raising by his son of a troop of horse for the king, and as to his 
 influence over Lord Lumley in the management of his estates. 
 
 1650. Apr. 15. Sir Wm. having petitioned Parlt. for a decision 
 upon the charges revived against him, of which he was acquitted 
 before, and pleading that he has paid all duties and 2001. to Lord 
 Fairfax at Hull, and was of the Durham Committee, the House of 
 Commons ordered that the consideration of the accusations and 
 examinations respectively exhibited and taken against him and 
 against Shadforth, Bellasis and Lilburn be referred to the Committee 
 at G.H. 
 
 1652. May 4. He begs discharge on the Act of Oblivion, having 
 never been sequestered. — Cou. Com. to inquire into the state of the 
 case. . 
 
 1652. June 25. On their report that his estate was seized but 
 not sequestered, discharge granted. 
 
 * John Machell, son of John Machell of Pottfield, co. Durham, apprenticed 
 to Thos. Lambert, mercer, Newcastle, Dec. 25, 1633. Dendy, Surt. Soc. Pub. 
 101, p. 254.
 
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 WILLIAM LAWES OF KIOPEY.* 
 
 (Gal. V. IX 3182.) 
 
 1654:. Jan. 11. Wm. Lawes of Kiopey, co. Durham, petitions 
 to be allowed to contract on the late Recusants' Act for the 
 sequestered two-thirds of his estate. — No further record. 
 
 GEORGE LAWSON OF NEWTON BY THE SEA.f 
 {Col. i. p. 202.) 
 
 1649. Geo. Lawson of Newton by the Sea, co. Northd., com- 
 pounds with Sir Arth. Haslerigg and his colleagues for delinquency 
 in adhering to the enemy in the late war. His estate comprises : — 
 In fee, 2 tenements or farms in Newton, Y.V.B.W., 14/. Craves 
 and is allowed his mother's thirds, payable yearly during her life, 
 il. 13s. U. 
 
 Fine at a sixth, 30Z. 5s. IQd. 
 
 JANE LAWSON OF TOGSTON. 
 
 (Gal. V. p. 3192.) 
 
 1654. Jan. 17. Jane Lawson of Togston. co. Northd., petitions 
 to be allowed to contract on the late Recusants' Act for two-thirds of 
 her estate, sequestered for recusancy. — No further record. 
 
 JOHN LAWSON OF BYKER.| 
 
 (Gal. iv. p. 2636.) 
 
 1650. Dec. 3. Petition of Catherine, widow of Hen. Lawson of 
 Byker, co. Northd., showing that her late husband died about 5 years 
 
 * This is probably Kyopeth, part of the vill of Kyo in the parish of 
 Lanchester, where a family of Blakiston held land in 1623. Cf. Siirtees, Hisf. 
 DHrham, ii. 348. 
 
 t Fourth son of Geo. Lawson of Little Uswortli, co. Durham, by Mabel, 
 dau. and colieiress of Sir Reginald Carnaby of Hexham. See letter from him, 
 dated 1611, in the new Ili.ii. Nortlul. ii. 93//, and a pedigree of the family, 
 ihid. p. 96. 
 
 X Henry and John Lawson were sons of Hen. Lawson of Bjker by Anne, 
 dau. of Robt. Hodgson of Hebburn. Henry, jun., entered the royal service, 
 and while in command as colonel of his regiment was killed in a skirmish at or
 
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 ago, and his estate came by entail to his brother [John], for whose 
 delinquency it is under sequestration ; that she has no jointure 
 beyond her thirds, two parts whereof are sequestered for her 
 recusancy ; that, therefore, she receives but the ninth part, some 
 arrears whereof, as also of her third part of a small farm of the value 
 of 20/. p. ann. in Tbggesden, co. Northd., which is her own inherit- 
 ance, are behind and unpaid, the Cou. Com. (having stayed it upon 
 general orders of the C.C. to detain the fifths of delinquents' estates) 
 contending that the orders extend to her thirds. Begs an order to 
 the Cou. Com. to pay her the said ninth of her late husband's estate 
 and the third part of her own inheritance. — Order to the Cou. Com. 
 for payment accordingly. 
 
 1650. Dec. 3. Katherine, wife of John Lawson, petitions for a 
 fifth of her husband's estate in Northd., sequestered for his delin- 
 quency. 
 
 1650. Dec. 17. Petition of Hen. Lawson's ^^ idow gi-anted. The 
 Cou. Com. are to allow her one full third part of the thirds (a ninth) 
 of the clear yearly revenue of her late husband's estate, Avith arrears 
 from Dec. 24, 1649, together with a full third part of her own in- 
 heritance, deducting a due proportion for taxes and other charges. 
 Gf. the new Hist. Northd. v. 334. 
 
 1650. Dec. 24. The Cou. Com. certify that John Lawson's estates 
 are let to Geo. Hodgson, Cramlington, at 150/. and Byker at 80/. 
 a year. 
 
 1651. June 17. John Lawson comjDlains that, being a younger 
 brother upon whom an ancient estate tail is descended as heir to his 
 grandfather, it is lately seized and withheld from him by the Cou. 
 Com. upon what ground he knows not. — Cou. Com. to certify the 
 grounds of the seizure. 
 
 1652. Aug. 4. The second Act for Sale passed. The estate of 
 John Lawson of St. Anthony's to be sold for the use of the Navy. 
 
 Same date. Capt. John Mason begs confirmation of his lease of 
 the premises, upon which he has spent 100/., and has an order to be 
 
 near Melton Mowbray, and was buried at Grantham. He married Catherine, 
 dau. and coheiress of Sir Wm. Fenwick of Meldon, and left an only dau., 
 Isabella, who became the wife of John Swinburne of Capheaton, created a 
 baronet in 1660. Catherine (petitioner) afterwards married Francis Radcliffe, 
 first earl of Derwentwater. John Lawson, his brother, the delinquent, was 
 united to Katherine, dau. of Sir Wm. Howard of Naworth, great-grand- 
 daughter of ' Belted Will,' and sister of the first earl of Carlisle. In 1665, he 
 was created a baronet and became Sir John Lawson of Brough Hall, co. 
 York. A pedigree of the Lawsons of Cramlington, Byker, Rock and elsewhere 
 in Northd., Neasham in the co. Palatine and Brough Hall, Yorksh. , is pre- 
 fixed to The Life of Mrs. Dorothy Ldirson of St. Antony's, by Geo. Bouchier 
 Richardson. In the Northd. Rentals, 1663, Sir John and Hen. Lawson are 
 bracketed for Byker at 96/., and Cramlington at 160/., while on the next page 
 John Lawson appears for Cramlington at 160/., and for ' Mr. James Cholmeley's 
 part,' 80/., with the somewhat contradictory explanation that this is ' for his 
 own share without Mr. Cholmley's.' See ante, s.r. James Cholmley.
 
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 reimbursed out of the rents. Being in charge of the garrison at 
 Carlisle during the governor's absence, and not hearing of the Act 
 for Sale of these lands, begs that his business may be considered. 
 
 1652. Sept. 29. Capt. Leving, now in the service of Parlt., also 
 begs confirmation of his lease from the Cou. Com. for 6 years of 
 St. Anthony's ; rent 521. — C.C. reply that they cannot confirm it 
 beyond a year, but (Nov. 4) instruct the Cou. Com. to allow both 
 Mason and Leving such repairs as are necessary. 
 
 1652. Oct. -30. Registrar's certificate of a lease to Geo. Moore 
 of John Lawson's estate in Cramlington, Northd. 
 
 165.3. Feb. 3. Discharge from sequestration of two-thirds of 
 Byker village and Sheelefields grounds, Northd., forfeited by Lawson 
 and bought of the Treason Trustees by John Rushworth. — Like dis- 
 charge of a half of East Cramlington Manor. 
 
 1653. Mar. 23. Like discharge of Brough Manor, co. York.* 
 
 * 1653. Sept. 7. Petition of John Lawson read in the House of Commons. 
 Ordered, that this petition be referred to the Committee of Public Debts, to 
 examine the truth thereof and to state the matter of fact, and report within 
 twenty days ; that in the meantime, payment of the second moiety for 
 purchase of petitioner's lands be respited, and no advantage be taken for non- 
 payment thereof, etc. 
 
 1653. Oct. 17. Report read in the House of Commons from the Committee 
 for Public Debts on the case of John Lawson, viz. : (1) That the estate of the 
 said Mr. Lawson was in the second Act for Sale to be sold for the use of the 
 Commonwealth. (2) And from Haberdashers' Hall it is certified that Mr. 
 John Lawson was returned by the Commissioners for Northd. in April, 1652 
 (where part of the estate lay), as papist and delinquent, but they find no 
 matter of fact certified as to his delinquency. And Capt. Ogle, being then 
 one of the Commissioners for Sequestrations in Northd. (and now a member of 
 Parlt. ), doth affirm that no act of delinquency came before them against Mr. 
 Lawson, other than two months' riding in a troop when he was but fifteen 
 years old, under a guardian, and his elder brother living. And the Com- 
 missioners of Haberdashers' Hall do further certify that in any return from the 
 Committee of York they find none by the name of John Lawson mentioned 
 otherwise than for recusancy, nor do they find any information exhibited 
 against the said Mr. Lawson other than as aforesaid. And by certificate 
 under the hands of divers well-affected gentlemen of the co. of York, it 
 appeareth the said Mr. Lawson hath lived peaceably and quietly for these 
 nine or ten years last past, and never acted anything against the Parlt. that 
 they knew, or ever heard, but hath submitted to all acts and ordinances of 
 Parlt. And this committee do not find any charge of delinquency for many 
 years after any such act committed, nor till recovery of the said estate, which 
 he could not recover but in a tedious suit, in which he spent above 400^. (as he 
 hath deposed), and was at length forced to confess a judgment of 2,000/., 
 which we have seen attested before us, for satisfaction of his brother's 
 daughter ; so that he is in worse condition than if he had not recovered the 
 said estate, except he be relieved V>y the favour of Parliament. 
 
 Resolved by the Parlt., that so much money as yet remains unpaid of the 
 second moiety of the mone^' payable for the purchase of the estate of John 
 Lawson be and is hereby remitted unto him, and tlie payment thereof dis- 
 charged, and that the trustees and treasurers named in the Act whereby the 
 lands of the said John Lawson are exposed to sale, be re(|uired to take notice 
 hereof, and to do and proceed, etc., as if the second moiety had been entirely 
 and fully paid in to the said treasurers at the time limited by the said Act. 
 
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 SIR FRANCIS LIDDELL OF REDHEUGH AND BAMBOROUGH * 
 
 (Cal. i.p.203; iv. p. 3123.) 
 
 1649. Sir Francis Liddell compounds with Sir Arth. Haslerigg^ 
 and his colleagues for adhering to the enemy in the last war. His 
 estate : — In right of Agnes, his now wife, for her life, the manor 
 of Balmbrough, holden of the late kings of England in capite, Y.V., 
 100/., out of which is to be deducted one-third for wardship of Wm. 
 Forster (aged 12) during minority, for which Agnes payeth yearly to 
 the Crown 14/. 18s., also a yearly rent to the Crown, 12/. lis. 7^d., 
 a yearly rent payable to the sheriff at Michaelmas, 1/., also to the 
 minister of Balmbrough for his stipend, 6/. 13s. id. He is also 
 seised of an estate in right of his wife during her life, after expira- 
 tion of a lease granted to Frances Foster, dau. of his said wife, for her 
 portion, for 10 years, whereof 5 years are yet to come from May-day 
 last, of certain lands in Sunderland and Shoston within said co., 
 being customary tenants of the yearly rent of 100/. ; a like estate in 
 right of his wife for life, of fishings in the TWeed, of the yearly 
 rent of 32/., whereof a third part is due for the wardship of said 
 Wm. Forster ; petty tithes in par. of Balmbrough of the yearly rent of 
 18/., out of which a third as before for Wm. Forster; an estate in 
 
 * This, and the two cases which follow, relate to members of the historical 
 family of Liddell of Newcastle and Ravenswoi'th. Thos. Liddell of Newcastle, 
 merchant adventurer, sheriff of the town in 1563-64, and mayor in 1572-73, 
 who died in 1577, is the common ancestor. The inventory of his varied goods 
 and chattels may be read in Surt. Soc. Pub. vol. 2. His tombstone in the 
 church of St. Nicholas, Newcastle, might, at one time, have been seen bearing 
 the rhythmical epitaph — 
 
 ' Thomas Liddell, mei'chant adventurer, died, May 8, 1577 ; 
 Whose soul in God we triist went straight to Heaven.' 
 He was succeeded by a son of the same name who, making a fortune by 
 successful dealings in corn and coal, adopted the usual course of wealthy 
 townspeople — bought landed estate in the country and founded a county 
 family. His purchases included the castle and manor of Ravenshelme (now 
 Ravensworth), the manor of Lamesley, and other estates round about. .Sheriff 
 of Newcastle in 1 592-93, he became mayor at Michaelmas, 1597, and was 
 elected for a second term of office in 1609. Ten years later he died. He was 
 twice married ; first to Margaret, dau. of Aid. John Watson of Newcastle, 
 and secondly to Jane, dau. of Aid. Henry Midford of that town, and was the 
 father of eleven children. His eldest son by the first marriage is the Sir Thos. 
 Liddell whose case follows next but one ; his eldest son by the second 
 marriage is the Henry Liddell whose case intervenes, and the compounder, Sir 
 Francis, to whose name this footnote is attached, was old Thomas Liddell's 
 grandson, the second son of Sir Thomas. 
 
 Sir Francis Liddell, knt., bap. at Lamesley, Jan. 8, 1607, married for his 
 first wife Elizabeth, dau. of Sir Geo. Tonge of Denton, co. Durham, knt. She 
 was buried at Gateshead, Aug. 10, 1643, and he espoused in second nuptials 
 Agnes, dau. of Sir Wm. Chaytor of Croft— a lady who had had two husbands 
 already, namely, Nich. Forster of Bamborough, and one Rawson of Ripon. . 
 In her right she held Bamborough, subject to the wardship, etc., of her first 
 husband's children. Agnes was interred at Croft, June 18, 1669 ; Sir Francis 
 survived till about 1680.
 
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 tail of a capital messuage or lordship called Redheugh, Y.V., 50L, 
 extended for debt by Mr. Raphe Coale, and by him letten to Wm. 
 Liddell, who hath possession thereof. 
 
 Fine at a sixth, 342/. IQs. lOd. 
 
 1653. July 7. Complains that having compounded in 1649, paid 
 his fine and obtained his discharge, the Cou. Com., have ordered his 
 tenants to detain his Bamborough Castle rents. Begs an order to 
 receive them. — Referred to Cou. Com. 
 
 HENRY LIDDELL OF FARNACRES.* 
 
 (Cal. iv. p. 2904.) 
 
 1651. [April ?]. Francis Fisher of London, j^etitions for allow- 
 ance of his title to the estate of Farnacres. He states that by 
 indenture dated Dec. 13, 1632, Hen. Liddell and John Girlington 
 assigned to Eleazer Hodson of London, doctor in jihysic, and Daniel 
 Hodson, merchant, the dissolved chantry of St. John the Evangelist 
 and John the Baptist called Farnacres Chantry, par. of Wickham, a 
 capital messuage and the site of the late chantry, a water corn-mill 
 and all the demesne lands of the chantry which were part of the 
 lands of Urias Babington, deed., and had been seized into the king's 
 hands and demised by letter patent dated Dec. 23, 1629, to Anthony 
 Maxton and John Girlington. The reversion of all which premises 
 was in the said Hen. Liddell, Maxton having released his interest 
 therein to John Girlington, to hold to the two Hodsons until 
 2,508/. Os. ^d. be paid at various dates according to several obliga- 
 tions whereby the said Hen. Liddell, Wm. Jennison, John Girlington 
 and Philip Goodrick or some of them, stand bound to the said Hod- 
 sons. And that by indenture of Apr. 21, 1634, the said Hen. Liddell 
 and Elizth., his wife, Thos. Liddell, their son and heir apparent, and 
 others for a competent sum of money enfeolfed Francis Saunders 
 a,nd Robt. Collins of London, merchant tailor, of the said premises, 
 with a covenant for the discharge of all incumbrances, except the 
 indenture by Liddell and Girlington, to the Hodsons. And by 
 indenture dated Feb. 21, 1651 (Francis Saunders being dead), the 
 said Robt. Collins assigned his interest to Francis Fisher of London, 
 esq. He states further that he did not enter upon the estate till 
 a year since, when he found Thos. Liddell in possession and two-thirds 
 sequestered for his recusancy. Li support of this petition Daniel 
 
 * Henry Liddell of Farnacres, eldest son of his father's second marriage, 
 and half-brother of Sir Thomas, took to wife Elizabeth, daii. and coheir of 
 Aid. Wm. Jenison of Newcastle, by Anne, dan. and coheir of Wm. Claxton 
 of Wynyard. He was sheriff of Newcastle in the munici])al year l(i21-'2"2, but 
 received no other civic honours. His line became extinct in his grandson, and 
 the estate was purchased by the elder branch of tlie family— the Liddells of 
 Ravensworth.
 
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 Hodson, merchant, deposes that the said mortgage was forfeited 
 long before the wars and that the said estate is now come to Francis 
 Fisher. 
 
 1651. Apr. 20. The Cou. Com. ordered to examine the proofs 
 of Fisher's claim.* 
 
 1653. Mar. 9. Susan Fisher, widow, complains that before the 
 case came to hearing, her husband and Thos. Liddell both died, and 
 when it was heard, through her non-attendance her title was not 
 allowed. Having better information begs to be admitted to make 
 further proof. — Granted. 
 
 1653. Mar. 31. Ordered that the two-thirds claimed by- 
 petitioner be discharged and that two-thirds of the remaining third 
 be continued under sequestration for the recusancy of Elizth. Liddell, 
 widow, whose jointure it is ; petitioner to be paid all arrears. 
 
 1653. Apr. 1. Thos. Wharton of Gray's Inn, guardian of Hen., 
 son and heir of Thos. Liddell, complains of the sequestration remain- 
 ing on the two-thirds of the third and begs that the title of Susan 
 Fisher, or of his ward. Hen. Liddell, may be allowed. — Referred to 
 the Cou. Com. 
 
 1653. Dec. 26. Wharton renews his petition. 
 
 1655. May 31. Ordered that the rents continue in the tenant's 
 hands. 
 
 1655. July 19. Order renewed for six weeks from date, before 
 which time the case will be determined ; if not, the Cou. Com. to 
 proceed as if this order had not been made. 
 
 SIR THOMAS LIDDELL OF RAVENSWORTH CASTLE. f 
 
 (Gal. a. p. 892.) 
 
 1645. May. Articles exhibited against Sir Thomas Liddell as 
 follows: — (1) That for more than 30 years he has been a burgess, 
 
 * Surtees, Hi^t. Di(rham, ii. 244, states that at the dissolution, the chantry 
 of Farnacres, founded in 1429 by Sir Robt. Umfraville, was granted to Alex. 
 Pringell in tail male, and, reverting to the Crown in 1592, was granted by 
 Queen Elizabeth to Theophilus Adams and Thos. Butler, who conveyed, 
 Nov. 3, 1600, to Urias Babington. Babington died in London, Feb. 26, 1605, 
 being then a debtor to the Crown, and at the inq. p. m. it was proved that 
 Babington's holding was in trust for Thos. Liddell, who died Aug. 17, 1619, 
 seised of the estate which he had previously settled (saving his own life interest), 
 Feb. 28, 1618, on the marriage of his son Hen. Liddell with Elizabeth Jenison. 
 
 t Sir Thos. Liddell, bart., eldest son of Thomas No. 2, was bap. at St. 
 Nicholas, Newcastle, Apr. 14, 1578, and married Feb. 23, 1596, Isabel, dau. of 
 Hen. Anderson of Haswell. Elected sheriff of the town at Michaelmas, 1609, 
 when his father was mayor for the second time, he became chief magistrate 
 himself in 1625, and nine years later was re-elected. An ardent royalist, he 
 was sent to represent his fellow-townsmen in that abortive parliament which 
 the King summoned to meet on the 13th of April, and dissolved on the 6th of 
 May, 1640. His services to the Crown were rewarded by a baronetcy on 
 Nov. 2, 1642. He was in Newcastle during the siege, and his name is
 
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 freeman and oastinan, and sometimes sheriff, alderman and mayor 
 of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and took divers oaths for maintaining the 
 laws of the land and the liberties of the Corporation, but contrary 
 thereto has projected several illegal ways destructive to the liberties, 
 etc., of the said town, particularly in combining with Sir John 
 Marley, Sir Nich. Cole, Kalph Cole and others, for their own private 
 lucre and profit, in 1637, to procure a patent for the sole vending 
 and sale of coal in Newcastle, and, having procured the same, they 
 raised the price of the coal I2d. per chaldron in the said town. 
 (2) That about 3 years ago the Parlt., having appointed Algernon, 
 Earl of Northd., to be lord lieut. of the town and county of New- 
 castle, the said Thos. Liddell, about May 1, 1642, assembled together 
 with Raph Cole, Raph Clerk, Thos. Blenkinsop, Raph Bowes and 
 other burgesses of the town to the number of 200, and endeavoured 
 to persuade the burgesses to choose some other lord lieut., and fail- 
 ing to do so he, about May, 1642, confederated with Wm., Earl of 
 Newcastle, Sir Wm. Widdrington, Sir John Marley and others to 
 levy war against the king and Parlt., and notwithstanding that he was 
 deputy mayor of Newcastle and was desired by divers well-aft'ected 
 persons to [illegible] the entrance of the said Earl of Newcastle, 
 he declared that the said Earl had a commission from His Majesty 
 for the government of the town, and allowed him to enter and 
 possess the said town and also delivered up to him the arms, 
 ammunition and magazine of the said town. He also presented to 
 the king at Nottingham a petition as follows : — ' To the King's most 
 Excellent Majesty. The humble petition of the Mayor and Common 
 Council being the reprehensive [sic] body of the town of Newcastle. 
 While the seas of distemper ran too high you were pleased to bring 
 us under the lee of your sovereignty. Here we cast anchor and are 
 confident you will look upon this place as always of profit and conse- 
 quence, so now by your providence of strength, this your late pro- 
 tection and this last message, of Aug. 25, has raised our sadded 
 hearts into present comforts and these future hopes that there will 
 be shortly a right understanding betwixt your Majesty and the two 
 
 attached to the defiant replies with which the authorities met the demands 
 for surrender. On Oct. 3, 1644, before the final storming of the town, 
 his name as ' late Commissioner of Array for the county of Durham ' was 
 entered by the House of Commons among sheriffs of counties who, having 
 raised the po-fse comiratus against the Parlt., were to be exempted from all 
 public employment. After the capture of Newcastle, he was imprisoned in 
 London, with other ' notorious delinquents ' from Tyneside, and included in 
 that sweeping order of disfranchisement and disablement which the Commons 
 passed Dec. 5, 1644, and the Lords confirmed in May following. He died in 
 1652, father of fourteen children, most of whom, inchiding his heir, Sir Thos. 
 Liddell, knt., predeceased him. The title and estates descended to his 
 grandson, Thos. Liddell, who, marrying a dan. of Sir Hen. Vane, turned the 
 family influence into an utterly different political groove — that of the puritan 
 and presbyter. Biographies of the principal members of the historical family 
 of Liddell appear in Afeii. of Mark 'twixt Tyne and Tireexl, vol. iii. , while in 
 Surtees, Hid. Durham, ii. 212, their pedigree is recorded.
 
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 houses of Parlt., that in the interim the soldiers among us may have 
 Buch constant pay as their army may be as hitherto defensives not 
 oppressive and that your just prerogative shall be preserved to your 
 royal throne, etc. We humbly pray your Sacred Majesty to accept 
 this earnest [of] our lives and fortunes which is 2,000^.' (3) That 
 he raised and paid to Nich. Cole and others 1,000/. for levying the 
 said war. (1) That, whereas Commission of Array had been declared 
 illegal, he and others at Newcastle, in Sept., 1642, executed a Com- 
 mission of Array whereby Edwd. Harrison, Hen. Johnson, Wm. 
 Fenwick, Wm. Wilkinson and Richd. Bee were imprisoned and put to 
 death and others compelled to levy war against the Parlt. (5) That 
 he accepted from the Earl of Newcastle, in Aug., 1642, a commission 
 as captain in the trained bands. (6) That he and others swore 
 certain oaths [recited at length] to levy war and to defend each other 
 therein. (7) That he declared Robt., Earl of Essex, lord general of 
 the forces, to be a traitor and rebel, and urged divers burgesses, at 
 the arraying of the inhabitants and other public meetings, to give 
 it under their hands that the Earl of Essex and others who took up 
 arms by order of Parlt., were rebels and traitors, as namely, Leonard 
 Carr, alderman, John Emerson, Hen. Maddison, Wm. Dawson, Hen. 
 Rawling, Geo. Bednall and others. (8) That he attempted to and 
 did disfranchise Hen. Warmouth, esq., then a burgess, freeman and 
 alderman of the town, also Robt. Ellison, merchant and burgess, and 
 other well-affected burgesses, because they would not adhere to the 
 said Wm., Earl of Newcastle, Sir Wm. Widdrington and others. (9) 
 That in December, 1643, he sunk divers ships in the river Tyne. 
 {10) That he and others traitorously exposed the town of Newcastle 
 to storm, plunder and ruin, and to the loss of much innocent blood 
 and other inexpressible miseries, and continued in arms until Oct. 19, 
 1644, when he was apj^rehended in the said town as a traitor in arms 
 against the king and Parlt. 
 
 1646. Feb. 12. Sir Thos. petitions the C.C. for leave to com- 
 pound [petition missing] but the C.C. resolve that they have no power 
 to compound with him. Particular of his estate : — A third of houses 
 and lands called Fegger-houses in Lamesley, Y.V., 16/. : a copyhold 
 house and ground called Holling Bush in Lamesley, Y.Y., 7/. lO-:*. ; 
 lands in Ravenshelme town, called Harbotle's lands, Y.V., 28/. ; lands 
 in same called Collingswood's land and Greenewell's lands, Overhouse 
 Garth, Gibbrideing and Leigh's land, Y.Y., 40/. ; Thorney Close in 
 Lamesley, Y.V., 14/. The impropriation of Lamesley — the cure pro- 
 vided for and the fee farm rent paid to the Crown, Y.Y., 45/. Total 
 of the estate in fee simple, 150/. 10s. For life, Ravenshelm Castle, 
 with the demesnes, Y.Y., 191/. ; lands and houses, viz., Wheatlyes 
 farm, Y.Y., 22/. ; Dugglastes houses, garth and an old house, Y.Y., 
 6/. ; Scarfields Garth, house and lands, Y.V., 13/. ; Speed's farm, Y.Y., 
 25/. ; Harley Fields, Y.V., 15/. ; Paddockes, Y.V., 6/. ; Saunder's 
 Cottage, with garths and paddocks, Y.V., 8/. ; Kirkclose, Y.Y., 71. : 
 Turnemill, with house and ground, Y.V., 25/. ; Overeighton house
 
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 and ground and a piece of ground called Chapel Garth and Intakes, 
 all worth 12?. yearly. In toto, 139?. Seven small cottages in 
 Baynsly Lonning being for poor men to dwell in, Y.V., 10?. 10s. ; 
 three houses in Newcastle, Y.V., 30?. Total of life estates, 370?. 10.<t. 
 A colliery in Ravenshelme for life, which, is a very casual and uncer- 
 tain estate, being subject to drowning and decay by the rains and 
 uncertainty of price, being this year 30?. per cent, less than hereto- 
 fore, occasioned partly by want of rent and partly by reason of 
 great charge, and great imijositions and excise laid on them. All 
 which considered, I cannot value it at more than I do in this par- 
 ticular now or am hereafter likely to make of it. Y.V., 600?. Upon 
 the marriage of my son all the lands in the particular, wherein 
 I have an estate but for life, are so settled that after my 
 death they are to come to the heirs male of his body, who is 
 dead and has left a son living. There are other lands settled by me 
 upon the marriage of my son in jointure for his wife, the Lady 
 Bridget Liddell,* who is now living, and after her death to the heirs 
 male of my said son. The particulars are as follows : — Long Acres 
 and the little wood in Lamesly, Y.Y., 50?. ; Northends lands, with 
 houses and a mill thereto belonging in Lamesly, Y.V., 100?. ; Nether 
 Eighton, and houses thereto belonging in Lamesly, Y.Y., 50?. Total, 
 200?. These lands I have thought fit to express in this particular to 
 the end it may appear that they are not now and have not these 20 
 years been any j^art of my estate. All my personal estate has been 
 seized and disposed of to the use of the State and all the profits of 
 my lands have been sequestered from me these 3 years. I have 
 been much impoverished by free billetting of soldiers, and by an 
 order of the House of Commons the Committee of Newcastle assessed 
 me in Oct. last 100 ' tenns ' of coal, which I desire may be taken 
 into consideration. I pay to the Bp. of Durham out of Collingswood 
 lauds, 16«. yearly; Hollingbush, 8.s. yearly; Fegger-houses, 8«. yearly. 
 Total, 1?. 12.S. Daniel Hodgshon of London, merchant, has a statute 
 on my lands for a sum of money [amount not stated]. I owe to my 
 dau., Lady Bridget, living at Battersye, 700?., arrears of her jointure. 
 
 1646. Feb. 13. In the House of Commons the humble petition 
 of Sir Thos. Lyddale, bart., jDrisoner in London House, was read, and 
 it is ordered that he be referred to the Committee of G.H. to com- 
 pound for his delinquency. 
 
 1646. Feb. 20 [Cal. (C.A.M.) ii., p. 683]. Sir Thos. Liddell 
 assessed at 2,000?. 
 
 1646. Feb. 24. Order of the C.C. that he be brought from 
 London House. 
 
 1646. Mar. 26. Sir Thos. Liddell says lie paid, in ciuisideration 
 
 * Dau. of Ed\v»l. Woodward of Lee, near Windsor, esq., one of tlic maids 
 of honour to the Queen of Bohemia. Married Sir Thomas Liddell, heir of the 
 compounder, Feb. 5, 1624. He died a few years later, leaving one son, the 
 puritan Sir Thomas, and Bridget his widow married Thos. Heneage of 
 Battersea, esq., nephew of Sir Thos. Heneage, knt. 
 
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 of the coal that was already digged belonging to him at the taking; 
 of Newcastle, to the Scots 800^., at Is. per chaldron as the coals were- 
 sold, and 200/. to Sir Wm. Armvne and 300/. to Gen. Leven. 
 
 1646. Apr. 7. Fine at a third. 4,000/.* 
 
 1646. May 18 [Cal. (C.A.M.) ii., p. 682]. His assessment of 
 2,000/. to be discharged on his paying 50/. by midsummer. 
 
 1646. June 20. Having paid, or given security, for the first 
 moiety of his tine, he is authorized to go to Durham to raise the 
 other half. 
 
 1646. Aug. 6. Treasurer Dawson, who demands 100/. due at 
 Whitsuntide from Sir Thos. Liddell, is required to forbear any such, 
 demand from him, he having paid and secured his fine, and being by 
 Parlt. order restored to his estate. 
 
 1646. Aug. 21 [Cal. (C.A.M.) ii., p. 682]. Asain assessed at 
 1,500/. 
 
 1647. Sept. 21. Re-sequestration ordered by the C.C. for non- 
 payment of remainder of his fine. 
 
 1647. Oct. 5. Respited, and a letter written him to hasten, 
 payment. 
 
 1647. Oct. 21. Paying in a part of the remainder, sequestra- 
 tion is suspended on the motion of Sir Hen. Yane.f 
 
 1652. Jan. 16. A list of the names of such delinquents as have 
 elapsed their times for payment of the latter moiety of their fines, 
 includes that of Sir Thos. Liddell, with a note that he pretends he 
 has paid 1,500/., which is the remainder of his fine, to Sir Arthur 
 Haslerigg. 
 
 * 1646. Ma}- "2. Resolution of the House of Commons, agreeing to accept 
 4,000/. for the freeing Sir Thos. Liddell from his delinquency and taking off 
 the sequesti'ation of his estate. He hath an estate in lands for life, 370/. 10.s. 
 p. ann. ; in fee 150/. p. ann. ; and for one life in a colliery, 600/. p. ann. ; an 
 ordinance to be passed for granting a pardon to him for his offence and for 
 dischai'ge of his estate accordingly. — June 5. Ordinance passed. — June 11. 
 Ordinance confirmed h\ House of Lords. 
 
 t 1649. July 20. Sir Hen. Vane presents to the House of Commons, from 
 the C.C, a report dated Apr. 10, 1649, as follows : — Upon Sir Arthur Haslerigg's 
 acknowledgment of the receipt of 1,500/. of the fine imposed upon 8ir Thos. 
 Liddell for his delinquenc}^ which he appointed to be paid to Alderman Leger 
 [Ledgard] for the use of the garrison, and which was employed accordingly for 
 the pay of that regiment of the army that is in the garrison of Newcastle, it is 
 ordered, that Sir Arthur Haslerigg, or Sir Hen. Vane, jun. , be desired by this 
 committee to I'eport to the House that it is the opinion of this committee that 
 the treasurers at Goldsmitlis' Hall should be required to deliver up the bonds 
 entered into for securing pajnnent of the said fine ; and that the treasurers at 
 war be directed to pay 1,500/., out of the arrears owing to the said regiment, 
 unto the treasurers at Goldsmiths' Hall, who are to chai'ge themselves and their 
 accounts with the same as in full of the whole fine imposed upon the said Sir 
 Thos. Liddell. — Ordered accordingl}' ; the treasurers at Goldsmiths' Hall to 
 deliver up the bonds and the committee of the army to deduct out of the sums 
 to be paid by them to the garrison regiment of Newcastle, 1,500/. in lieu of the 
 1,500/. received by Sir Arthur Haslerigg in part of Sir Thos. Liddell's fine and 
 bj' him emploj^ed for pay of that regiment, and that thej^ give warrant to the 
 treasurers at war to pay the said 1,500/. to the treasurers at Goldsmiths' Hall.
 
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 GEORGE LILBURX OF SUNDERLAND* 
 
 (Cal. Hi. p. 1917.) 
 
 164:9. Feb. 15. Isaac Gili^in transmits to Wm. Lenthall, 
 speaker of the House of Commons, by order of Sir Arth. Haslerigg 
 and the rest of the Cou. Com. the originals of proceedings concerning 
 Geo. Lilburn (late a Sequestration Commissioner himself) and Thos. 
 Shadforth as described in the four paragi-aphs following : — 
 
 1642. Sept. 12. Warrants to the constables of Darlington ward 
 and Stockton ward, co. Durham, to send in respectively 20, 30 and 
 30 horses furnished to Newcastle for conveying his Majesty's 
 ammunition from Newcastle on payment of 5s. a day. Signed and 
 sealed by Sir Wm. Carnaby, Sir Tlios. Riddell, Sir Thos. Liddell and 
 Geo. Lilbm-n. 
 
 1647. Sept. 8. Information by Thos. Shadforth: (1) That 
 Lilburn, being a justice of the peace, joined with Sir Wm. Carnaby, 
 Sir Thos. Riddell, jun., and Sir Thos. Liddell, in issuing warrants 
 to bring in 80 horses from Darlington and 60 from Stockton ward, 
 to convey the king's ammunition from Newcastle. (2) That he sent 
 a musket to Col. Hilton, then col. under the Earl of Newcastle^ 
 against Sir Hugh Cholmley and Col. Boynton. (3) That he com- 
 pelled a servant of his, by beating him, to serve against Parlt. 
 
 * During the Interregnum the co. of Durham, which under its spiritual 
 lords had never been able to obtain direct representation in Parlt., was favoured 
 with a transient enjoyment of that privilege. An assembly, nominated bj' 
 Cromwell, met on Juh* 4, 1653, and two days later declared itself a pai'lia- 
 ment. In this — the Barebones Parlt. of history — Durham county was repre- 
 sented by a noted puritan in the person of Hen. Dawson, twice mayor of New- 
 castle. He died a few weeks after, and when, the following year, another 
 parlt. was summoned, and two members were assigned to Durham, the choice 
 of the electors fell upon Geo. Lilburn of Sunderland and his nephew, Col. 
 Robt. Lilburn, one of the regicides, and brother to that quarrelsome and 
 obstreperous person, John Lilburn — ' Freeborn John.' This family of Lilburn, 
 a younger branch of a very ancient and honourable house in Northd., 
 had been long seated at Thickley-Punchardon, par. St. Andrew Auckland. 
 George Lilbixrn settled at Sunderland, at first probably as an adventurer in 
 the trade of the place, but afterwards he was carried forward to a consider- 
 able pitch of local influence. In 1634, when Bp. Morton, desirous of en- 
 couraging trade and commerce in the port, granted a charter of incorporation to 
 the people of Sunderland, he appointed Geo. Lilburn one of the twelve aldermen. 
 When the Civil War bi'oke out, he took the side of the Parlt., was placed on 
 committees of sequestration, and being the only magistrate within the limits 
 of the borough, he practically ruled Sunderland for some years. His connection 
 with the great local squabble over Harraton colliery will he seen hereafter in the 
 case of Thomas Wray ; his troubles about Ford Manor are recorded above. A 
 dead set appears to have been made against him by the Royalists, and for a 
 time he must have been one of the best abused men in the count}'. Y^et he 
 outlived it all. Before tlie echoes of his disparagement had fairly died awaj', 
 he was elected M.P. , and two years later, in 1656, was appointed high sheriff. 
 Then came the Restoration. He survived that also — lived in fact till 1677, 
 and then died at the great age of 99 ! Cf. Surtees, Hi/it. Durham, i. 258, ii. 
 21h, 49, 129, 223 ; Hutchinson, Ht^t. Dvrimm, iii. 341-342 ; Sharp, Knights and 
 Burgesses of iJurhum, pp. 13, 14; Sunnners, Hist. Sunder/and, p. 345.
 
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 1647. Sept. 16. Depositions in proof thereof. 
 
 1647. Sept. 18. Certificate by Ralph Lambton : Lilburn was 
 taken, Nov. 11, 1642, and brought prisoner to Durham. There I 
 visited him and often tried to persuade him to yield and be freed on 
 giving a horse, or 150^., to Sir Wm. Lambton for the Earl of New- 
 castle's army, urging him, for the sake of his wife and children, not 
 to hold out ; but, though he was cruelly used, he said he would rot 
 in prison rather than assist against Parlt. (Note and certificate 
 enclosed in proof thereof.) 
 
 1647. Sept. 30. Lilburn's answer to Shadforth's charge: Does 
 not remember signing any warrants for the king's service. Denies 
 sending any men to Col. Hilton to fight against Parlt., but long ago 
 corrected a servant for refusing to serve in the trained band under 
 Col. Hilton, when he was major of the trained bands. Absolutely 
 denies it. No man in the North more opposed superstitious actions. 
 Was brought before the High Commission Court and sent to gaol 
 for finding fault with Dr. Bazeer's [Basire's] sxiperstitious prayers, 
 and was sent three or four times to London by warrant from the 
 Archbishop of Canterbury for speeches against l)ishops, and by the 
 Privy Council for refusing to pay ship money, to his loss of 1,000?. 
 Took eleven Avitnesses to London to prove his case in Parlt., but 
 greater matters stayed his proceedings. In 1642, when the Earl of 
 Newcastle came to the North, was indicted for not coming to prayers, 
 and was put off the bench of justices by Judge Heath. Was reported 
 to the Earl as the greatest enemy in those parts and sent for to 
 Newcastle, put into restraint, and much abused by his officei'S, as 
 puritan, rogue and vagabond. Stole away with Lever, Carr and 
 others and went to Edinburgh to ask help from Pickering, Parlt's. 
 agent there. Returned home on his wife's assurance that Sir 
 Wm. Lambton would protect him. Met the county gentlemen to try 
 to dissuade them from setting up the Commission for Array ; 
 narrowly escaped being taken by them and, getting away to join 
 Capt. Hotham, w^as seized, brought to Durham, robbed of all he had 
 and taken to York, where he was kept 14 months, resisting the 
 offers of Ralph Lambton to have him liberated if he would contribute 
 to the Earl of Newcastle's forces. Accuses his informer as being 
 an associate of delinquents, aiding the Commission of Array, refus- 
 ing to serve under the Earl of Essex, being a favourer of ministers 
 banished for disaffection, a concealer of delinquents' goods, an 
 oppressor of the people, etc. Says the present information is brought 
 to shuffle off proceedings on foot against the informer, with whom 
 he has lately quarrelled, though they were good friends formerly. 
 
 1647. Sept. -30. Order in the Cou. Com. for stay of j^roceedings, 
 there being no validity in the charge. 
 
 1649. Jan. 30. Order vacated ; all i)roceedin<2s to he transmitted 
 to Parlt. 
 
 1649. April 6. Petition of Thos. Shadforth to the House of 
 Commons. He has long since comj^lained to the Cou. Com. of
 
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 Durham, that Geo. Lilburn, J. P., aided the Earl of Newcastle by 
 giving his oath to ministers and others, and by joining with Sir Wm. 
 Carnaby, Sir Thos. Riddell and Sir Thos. Liddell, in pressing 140 
 horses from Durham to carry ammunition to the king before the 
 battle of Edgehill. The warrants are now in the hands of John 
 Blackston, M.P. Also that he assisted the king's deputy lieut. and 
 Commissioners of Array : that he armed a servant who fought in 
 Col. Hilton's regiment at Marston Moor and after the defeat returned 
 to Lilburn's house, that he then, by cunning, got into places of 
 trust which he has betrayed by obtaining for his friends great 
 bargains of lands. Begs that worthy persons in the Northern Com- 
 mittee may be appointed to hear these charges. — Same date petitions 
 the Northern Committee to examine his witnesses in the country, as 
 he has lost so much by the Earl of Newcastle's forces and raising a 
 troop of horse for Parlt., that he cannot bear the charge of taking 
 them up and maintaining them in town. 
 
 1649. [April ?]. Charges against Geo. Lilburn by Edwd. Colston 
 in the Cou. Com. at Durham : (1) That on Sept. 18^ 1642, he, with 
 Sir Wm. Carnaby, Sir Thos. Liddle, jun., and others, signed 
 warrants for raising 80 horses, etc. [as in Gilpin's enclosure No. 1]. 
 (2) That he took, and enjoined others to take, an oath of fidelity to 
 the king and willingness to join his forces under the Earl of New- 
 castle. (3) That, being appointed one of the C.S. by Parlt.. he, with 
 his brother Richd., and Thos. Mitford, procured many leases to 
 himself and others on his behalf of delinquents' and papists' lands at 
 low rates, giving in no accounts, or unjust ones, and buying their 
 goods at very low values to the gain of 10,0007. (4) That he joined 
 in the last invasion made by the Scots and published letters of 
 intelligence, discouraging such as took part with Parlt. — Lilburn 
 replies : (1) That, having cleared himself of this before a Committee 
 of Parlt., he wonders he should be troul^led with it again. (2) Denies 
 it, being at that time prisoner for 8 months, though 60 years old, in 
 York gaol for refusing to join the Earl of Newcastle. (3) He bid 
 for lands to encourage others and they were let low because of the 
 unsettled state of the country ; but he did not combine with his 
 brother and Mitford and has taken no lands since the ordinance for- 
 bidding sequestrators to take them. He had a third of Ford Manor 
 from Sir Wm. Smith as in right of his wife and a third of two-thirds 
 froin Hollyman as dower of his wife, but has been so troubled with 
 debts of John Hilton's assessments, free quarters and billets, that 
 he would gladly have given up the lands. (4) He denies utterly, 
 stating that he tried to suppress the invasion. 
 
 1650. Aug. 27. Lilburn petitions the C.C. to order Cou. Com. 
 to return his books of accounts which they have seized. — Cou. Com. 
 to certify cause of seizure. 
 
 1650. Sept. 24. On Ralph Lanibton's complaint that Geo. Grey 
 and Geo. Lilljurn Avithhold from his family their fifth of one-fourth 
 of his colliery, they are ordered to bring in their accounts of the 
 collierv.
 
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 1630. Oct. 16 aud 17. The Cou. Com. are to demand arrears 
 from Grey and Lilburn of their receipts from the colliery since 
 sequestration and, if they refuse, to proceed on the ordinance for 
 sequestration. 
 
 1650. Nov. 6. Lilburn petitions the C.C. again. He was J. P. 
 for many years in the king's time and tried to preserve the people's 
 rights against his arbitrary prerogative ; resisted ship-money and 
 clergy innovations at great expense, being twice imprisoned, and 
 on his appeal to Parlt. found great respect from some who are now 
 his adversaries. When the last war arose, was the forwardest for 
 Parlt. and, therefore, taken prisoner in Sept., 1642, and forced to 
 sign warrants for summoning horses for the Earl of Newcastle. He 
 and his party so violently opposed the Commissioners of Array, 
 that it came to blows, and he had to fly for his life and leave his 
 wife and twelve small children to the fury of his advei'saries. Was 
 seized before he could get to young Hotham, carried to Durham gaol, 
 and then, though 60 years old, marched through mire and dirt to 
 York, where they threw him into a dungeon and used him barbarously 
 14 months, as is well known to Sir John Boucher, M.P., his fellow 
 prisoner. Was then judged worthy of an honourable exchange, aaid 
 afterwards employed as J. P. and as Commissioner of Militia and of 
 Sequestration. In 1645 a delinquent (brother-in-law to a northern 
 Parlt. man), to smother his own guilt, accused petitioner of signing 
 those warrants, and he was reproached for it in the House of 
 Commons. Pressed Sir Arth. Haslerigg and the Committee to bring 
 the case to an issue, after it had lain 2 years dormant, but the 
 accuser pretended that petitioner was so powerful that the witnesses 
 durst not appear. Obtained an order in the Cou. Com. to transfer 
 the case to Parlt., when the accuser's brother offered to cease the 
 prosecution if petitioner would cease his charge against his delin- 
 quent iDrother. He declined, and, in 1648, the case was Ijrought 
 before a Parity. Committee ; Sir Arth. and a brother of his accuser 
 being among the judges. Brought up seven or eight zealous Parlt. 
 men as witnesses and fully cleared himself, and a report Avas ordered 
 to the House and he advised to return home meanwhile. But the 
 report being delayed, his adversaries having displaced the old Parlia- 
 mentarians in the country, brought against him a second charge of 
 fraud last May and sequestered his whole estate, and he has never 
 yet been able to bring the case to an issue. Begs copies of his charge 
 and a fair hearing.- — Order for his estate not to be sequestered for 
 delinquency or faults in his accounts until he has a copy of the charge 
 and proofs, unless there be further cause of delinquency tlian has 
 been transmitted. 
 
 1650. Nov. 8. Frances, wife of Metcalfe Ripon,* merchant, of 
 Newcastle, states that Geo. Grey offered her husband 40/., 60/. and 
 
 * Metcalfe Rippon, son of Win. Rippon of Yarm, yeoman, apprenticed to 
 Ralph Carr, merchant adventiarer, Newcastle, May 1, 1622. Dendy, Surt. Soc. 
 Pub. 101, p. 242.
 
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 -at length 100/., in lieu of a debt of 160/. due to him by John Brignell 
 and threatened, if he refused to accept it, to paj- the money to the 
 State, the husband being a delinquent ; at length, \Yhen he was 
 prisoner in London, being in want of money, she accepted the offer. 
 
 1650. Nov. 30. Charge exhibited against Lilburn by Mr. Fowle, 
 for the State, that he has held Ford Manor, worth 200/. a year, many 
 years, and received and concealed the profits and ploughed up the 
 best grounds, and that he and Geo. Grey have concealed a gi'eat sum 
 received from Lambton Colliery, sequestered from Ralph Lambton, 
 papist delinquent. 
 
 1650. Dec. 25. Order on Lilburn's request, for publication of 
 proof and for examination of Thos. Chilton of Sandgate, Newcastle, 
 Cou. Com. to certify whether he has not been already examined on 
 behalf of Parlt. ; if so his deposition is to be sent, if not he is to be 
 sent wp himself to be examined, Lilburn bearing his charges and the 
 Cou. Com. sending up interrogatories. 
 
 1651. Feb. 21. Order to the Cou. Com. to examine more closely 
 whether the warrants are under Lilburn's hand and seal, examining 
 such as know his handwriting ; also the late Cou. Com. as to whether 
 he acknowledged them as his ; also to examine whether the oaths 
 pressed on the people by Lilburn were against Parlt. 
 
 1651. Apr. 28. Lilburn's answer to the charges exhibited against 
 him by Mr. Fowle gives details of transactions relative to Ford 
 Manor, of which he was tenant, in 1612, to John, Baron of Hilton, as 
 he had been to John's brother Hen. ; losses by John Hilton who took 
 the land when he was in prison ; claims upon it of a third by the 
 widow of Hen. Hilton, who in 16-15 married Sir Wm. Smith, bart., 
 as her jointure, and of a third of the remaining two-thirds by Margt., 
 widow of Robt., brother and heir of Hen. Hilton. Declares that he 
 lias duly accounted for the manor and committed no waste ; also 
 accounted for a colliery at Lambton rented from Sir Wm. Bellasis 
 and Geo. Grey, but denies that it belonged to Ralph Lambton or any 
 papist. 
 
 1651. July 1. Petition of Geo. Lilburn to Parlt. Before the late 
 
 wars he was deeply engaged against the tyrannical power of the late 
 
 King in point of ship-money, suffered much and was several times in 
 
 jjrison. Hoping liberty from this Parlt., he promoted its interest in the 
 
 Northern Counties and being J. P., held meetings and tried to raise 
 
 forces to ojipose those that were being raised in 16-12 for the King. 
 
 In Oct. opjjosed the Commission of Array at hazard of his life at the 
 
 ; Sessions House, Durham ; had to fly for his life and tried to join Col. 
 
 Hotham, but being api:)rehended by the Earl of Newcastle was carried 
 
 prisoner to Durham, and in Nov. was dragged on foot, through mire 
 
 and dirt, at the tail of the King's carriages to York Castle, where 
 
 he was barbarously used till the end of 1643, when he was released 
 
 -on exchange, his house being meanwhile plundered and scarce bread 
 
 , -enough left for his twelve small children. Has since continued faithful 
 
 Jn offices of trust, and that in times of danger, when others have
 
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 deserted. Notwithstanding this, he has been persecuted for 4 years 
 on 251'etence that in Sept., 164:2, he signed two warrants to bring 
 in ammunition to the King's forces then in Newcastle garrison. Begs 
 speedy judgment without further vexation, exhausting of his estate, 
 or loss of his time. — Referred to C.C. who are to discharge petitioner if 
 nothing appear more than mentioned in the petition. 
 
 1651. Dec. 10. Ealph Lambton of Trybley, co. Durham, com- 
 l^lains that being sharer in Lambton colliery with Sir Wm. Bellasis, 
 Geo. Grey and Geo. Lilburn, he had a fourth of the profits till Grey, 
 taking advantage of a charge of delinquency against him, has taken 
 the whole profits to himself and partners, and being very powerful, 
 will not give in accounts, so that petitioner and his ten children have 
 not even their fifth.* 
 
 1651. Dec. 16. Conij»laint repeated that Grey and Lilburn have 
 kept the profits of the collieries in their hands, value 3,000/, depriving 
 Lambton of his interest therein. — Order to Cou. Com. to examine 
 witnesses. 
 
 1652. [March?] Grey's defence is that he took 60/. for helping 
 Rippon to obtain the 100/., that he has held no lands or rents in 
 Harraton from Hedworth or AYray, nor attempted to defraud the 
 State therein. Denies that he holds any nionej^ of Lambton's or that 
 Ralph Lambton ever had an estate in Lambton colliery, w^hich was 
 leased in 1647 by Sir Wm. and Hen. Lambton to Grey and Sir Wm. 
 Bellasis ; at first they allowed Ralph Lambton to put in stock, but 
 dismissed him for unjust dealing, and when the Earl of Newcastle 
 held the country, he disposed of all the coals. Denies that he has 
 money in hand from Harraton colliery but is prepared to give accounts. 
 
 1652. June 1. The C.C. order that Lilburn give accounts for 
 twro-thirds of Ford Manor and other sequestered estates of which he has 
 received the profits. 
 
 RICHARD, VISCOUNT LUMLEY AND JOHN, HIS SON.f 
 
 (C(d. n. i>. 920.) 
 
 1645. Nov. 24. Lord Lumley being at Bristol, too ill to travel, 
 begs letters to the Cou. Coms. of Sussex, York. Durham and Bristol 
 
 'On May 10, 1644, the case of Ralph Lampton, described as of Newcastle, 
 Northd., had been before the C.A.M. He had been successful in obtaining 
 40/. damages in an action against one Smith of Southwark, and the C.A.M. 
 ordered the bailiff of Southwark to pay the 40/. over to them that it might be 
 sequestered. Three days later Lampton was assessed at 80/., but could not be 
 found. Then, on Aug. 7, Mr. John Blakiston, M.P., having certified that he 
 was well affected, had taken the Covenant, and was plundered and driven 
 away by the enemy, with his wife and children, it was ordered that he be 
 repaid 38/. 19v. which had been paiil in. 
 
 t North-country interest in this case of Lord Lumley is slight. His lord- 
 ship's estates in the North do not appear to have suffered, sequestration being
 
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 to certify the value of his estate, being desirous to take the benefit of 
 the propositions. 
 
 1646. Aug. Father and son both petition to compound. In Jan., 
 1644, they left Stanstead (Sussex) in the Parlt. quarters to join the 
 King, but never bore arms, nor contributed in his service. Lord 
 Lumle}' petitioned on Bristol Articles before Dec. 1, and has taken 
 the National Covenant and Negative Oath. John Lumley came in on 
 the surrender of Winton Castle, took the Covenant before Dec. 1, and 
 has since taken the Oath. 
 
 1646. Sept. 18. Lord Lumley fined at 1,980Z., John at 1,800/. 
 for his estate in reversion. 
 
 1648. Sept. 26. Fine reduced to 1,925/. 15.?. 
 
 1650. Apr. 11. After considering various petitions the C.C. 
 order John Lumley's fine to stand. 
 
 1650. Oct. 4. John Lumley offers Hartlepool Rectory for half 
 his fine, and begs a review and deduction for Lady Lumley's jointure 
 and for his estate only, being a reversion for life. 
 
 1652. Nov. 6. The fine being fully paid, discharge granted. 
 
 WILLIA]^! LUMLEY OF LUMLEY. 
 
 1645. Compounds with Sir Hen. Tane and the Cou. Com.— - 
 Fine, 10/. 
 
 1651. Nov. 21. Petitions Parlt. for pardon and obtains it on 
 the ground that he has already compounded. 
 
 THOMAS MAIRE OF HARDWICK.* 
 
 (Cal iv. IX 2051.) 
 
 1652. Feb. 10. Andrew Mayre of Barnacre, co. Lane, gent., 
 petitions for an annuity of 10/. on lands at Hutton Henry, co. 
 
 apparentl}' limited to his .Sussex and Hampshire ])ropefties. So little local 
 importance attaches to the matter that e\en the authors, or rather authoresses, 
 of a handsome quarto volume, published in 1904, entitled Rrrord'i of thf 
 Lumlej/s of Lumley Caxth', have not taicen the trouble to consult the MSS. 
 relating to the case at the Record Office, Init content themselves with extracts 
 from the printed Cahntdar-^, of which the above are the essential paragraphs. 
 
 * The Maires of Hardwick and Lartington, represented to-day by the 
 Lawsons of Brough Hall and the Silvertops of Minsteracres, ranked among the 
 Catholic gentr}' of the nortliern counties in the days of the Stuarts, and 
 their descendants have never deserted their faith. Robt. Maire, father of the 
 petitioners, was of the third descent from John Maire, of Maire in Cheshire, 
 wlio settled in the city of Durliam in the sixteentli century. Robert married 
 Crace, sole heiress of Hen. Smith of Durham, and his children were the above- 
 named Thomas, who married (1) Frances, sole heiress of Sampson, second son 
 of John Trollop of Thornley, and (2) Eleanor, dau. of Ralph Conyers of Lay ton;
 
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 Durham, granted hiiu in 1G39, by IJobt. Mayre of Hardwick, his 
 "father, and by Thos. Mayre, his brother, from the death of the 
 father, which annuity he has enjoyed for 10 years but it is now 
 sequestered as the estate of Thos. Mayre. Begs reference to the 
 Cou. Com. to examine his witnesses, etc. — Granted. 
 
 1652. Nov. 2. Rejiort confirming Andrew Mayre's petition and 
 stating that said Robt. Mayre died Mar. 18, 1645. 
 
 1653. Mar. 17. Title allowed; rent-charge to be paid, two-thirds 
 out of the Commonwealth's two-thirds, and the other third out of 
 the rest enjoved bv his recusant brother, with arrears from Dec. 
 24, 1649. 
 
 1654. Jan. 5. Thos. Mayre begs to contract on the late 
 Recusants' Act for his sequestered estate. — Same date. Like 
 petition from John Mayre of Hardwick, two-thirds of whose estate 
 ■are under sequestration. — Both petitions referred to Mr. Reading. 
 
 JOHN MALLORY OF FELTOX.* 
 
 (Col. iv. p. 3145.) 
 
 1652. Xov. 18. The name of John Mallory of Felton, Xorthd., 
 appeal's in the third Act for Sale. 
 
 1653. Aug. 12. Thos. Redshaw, gent., contracts with the 
 Treason Trustees for the j^urchase of several messuages, lands and 
 tenements, with their appurtenances, in Bishopton, co. York, late 
 parcel of the estate of John Mallory, gent. 
 
 1653, Sept. 28. Sequestration discharged accordingly. 
 
 GEORGE MAXBY OF GATESHEAD. 
 
 (Cal. 'iv. i>. 2010). 
 
 1650. Xov. 12. Petitions to ):»e allowed to compoimd for being 
 in arms in the first war. Has lived peaceably since, was never 
 sequestered and is very poor. He has a personal estate in goods and 
 household stuff to the value of 50/. 
 
 Fine at a sixth, 8/. 6-^. M. 
 
 John, who was united to Margaret, dau. of Geo. Mej'nill of Dalton, in Rich- 
 niondshire, and (William, his third son, dying young) Andrew, whose wife 
 was a dau. of John Ricliardson of Merscough, co. Lane. Pedigrees of the 
 Maires and Silvertops are in Surtees, Jlixt. JJiirham, i. 52, 53, and of the 
 Silvertops, brought down to date, in the new JliM. Xorthd. vi. 215. 
 
 * Delinquent is assumed to have been vicar of Felton. See the new 7//-/. 
 Nortlid. vi. 278, 281. Bishopton is near Ripon, which city the Mallorys 
 represented in several parliaments.
 
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 JOHN MARKINDALE OF OLD PARK. 
 
 (Cal. i.ix 615; iv. p. 2680.) 
 
 1644. lu the list of those who compounded with Sir Wm. 
 Armyne and his colleagues is the name of John Markindale, gent.,* 
 but the amount of the fine is not stated. 
 
 1651. July 23. John Markindale, jun., of Old Park, co. Durham, 
 begs an order to the Cou. Com. to examine his title to a rent-charge 
 on Dromonby Grange, co. York, lands of Thos. Eure, settled on his 
 wife, Mary, by her father, Sir Wm. Eure, and sequestered 4 years 
 ■since for the delinquency of Wm., brother and heir to Thos. Eure, but 
 his rent-charge was allowed by the Cou. Com. till the lands were 
 lately sequestered. 
 
 1654. Mar. 9. Claim allowed with arrears from date of petition. 
 
 SIR JOHN MARLEY OF NEWCASTLE.! 
 
 (Cal. iv. p. 3005.) 
 
 1651. July 16. The name of Sir John Marlow of Newcastle- 
 -upon-Tyne, knt., appears in the first Act for Sale. 
 
 1652. May. 5. Wm. Smith contracts with the Treason Trustees, 
 "for the purchase of a third of Blackbourne Colliery, now, or late, in 
 the occupation of John Watson, late parcel of the estate of Sir 
 John Marlowe, and has paid the first moiety of the purchase 
 .money, etc. 
 
 * Ante, pp. (JO, 09. 
 
 t This seems to have been all that was left of the estate of Sir John 
 Marley, liero of local song and story, exemplar of loyalty and valour to many 
 generations of north countrymen living between the Tees and the Tweed. 
 Sir John was a son of Wm. Marley, mercht. adv., Newcastle, and appears in 
 public life for the first time as sheriff of the town in 1634-35. Two years later, 
 he was elected mayor and governor of the Hostmen's Companj', and in that 
 double capacity appeared before the King iji April, 1638, to discuss one of the 
 many recurring complaints about the coal monopoly in Newcastle. After the 
 Peace of Berwick in 1639 he was knighted, and thenceforward, till the taking 
 of Newcastle, when he was mayor for the fourth time, State papers, Corpora- 
 tion annals, and Bishopric records abound with his letters, reports and pro- 
 ceedings. Taken to London as a prisoner of war, displaced, disabled, and 
 specially excepted from all mercy and pardon as a more than usually notorious 
 and infamous delinquent, he managed to escape from his captors, went over 
 to the Continent, joined the band of exiles tliat fluttered round Chas. II. , and 
 waited for the restoration of the monarchy. Shortly Ijefore Cromwell's death 
 lie returned to England to make his ];)eace witli the Commonwealth, but before 
 terms could be arranged, the Commonwealth itself went to pieces, and 
 then, with king and bishop, he came to his own again. Restored to all liis 
 former rights and ])rivileges in Newcastle, iiis admiring fellow townsmen sent 
 him in 1661 to represent them in Parlt., and in that capacity he continued to 
 serve till liis death, at the age of 83, in 1673. .Memoir in Men. of Mart 'fini.rt 
 TyiiP. and Tweed, iii. 149. Many references to his life and labours occur in 
 Surt. Soc. Pub. vols. 50 and 101, and in all the histories of Newcastle.
 
 284 
 
 1652. May 19. John Prestlye contracts with the Treason 
 Trustees, for the purchase of a twelfth of a colliery within the 
 lordship of Ryton, late parcel of the estate of Sir John Marlowe, 
 knt., and has paid the first moiety of the purchase money, etc. 
 
 1652. June 2. Discharge from sequestration of the part sold 
 to Prestley. 
 
 1652. June 15. Like discharge of Blackbm-ne Colliery. 
 
 ANTHONY MAXTON OF DURHAM AND WOLSINGHAM.* 
 
 (Cal. iv. p. 2902.) 
 
 1651. Nov. 18. Richd. Turbutt of Bradbury, co. Durham, 
 petitions the Cou. Com. stating that Tlios. Lambe of Coxhoe and 
 Francis Salvin of Whitechurch, became bound in 1639 to Anthony 
 Maxton in 2081. for payment of 104/. in 6 months; that Maxton 
 died a convicted delinquent, aiid his widow and administratrix 
 threatened to sue upon the bond ; that thereupon Hen. Jackson, 
 servant to Maxton, and Thos. Lambe, on promise (which they will 
 not now perform) to assign to petitioner a farm in Cornforth, jiro- 
 cured him and John Chajiman to enter into a bond for the said 
 debt to Ann, dau. of Jos. Cradock, one of the administrators of 
 Anthony Maxton ; that upon this bond Cradock has sued petitioner 
 and Chapman, and obtained judgment and execution against them 
 in the name of his dau. ; that their goods have been taken and 
 Chapman has been arrested, although the debt was due to the 
 Commonwealth by delinquency of the said Anthony, as neither he 
 nor his administrators have ever com^Dounded ; and that, therefore, 
 the bond ought to be paid by Lambe and Salvin who Avere first bound 
 and whose bond is still uncancelled. Begs the Cou. Com. to call 
 it in and take the executions off his and Chajjman's estates, etc. — 
 Referred to the C.C. 
 
 1651. Dec. 10. The C.C. order the sheriff to pay the debt to the 
 Cou. Com. for the use of the State. 
 
 1652. Mar. 5. The Cou. Com. send to the C.C. a list of six 
 persons whose estates have been sequestered and not discharged : 
 among them are the administrators of Anthony Maxton. 
 
 1652. Mar. 17. The Cou. Com. report to the C.C. that the money 
 in Turbutt's case has been paid to Jos. Cradock's attorney. 
 
 * Anthony Maxton, A.M., prebendary of the eighth stall at Durham, to 
 which he was I'ollated May 2.S, \(y.V,^. A Scotchman by birth, and recommended 
 to Bp. Morton by Chas. I Deacon, 1008, priest, 1609. Collated to Wolsing- 
 ham rector}-, June 21, 1614 ; Middleton-in-Teesdale, July 10, 1619. Died about 
 1641, and was interred at Wolsingham. Left no .son. 'Married his j'oungest 
 daughter to I'owes of Streatlam ; another to Sir Joseph Cradock, and another 
 to Thomas Featherstone of Stanhope.' Hutchinson, Hist Durlatm, ii. 201-202. 
 Hid some of the cathedral plate in liis garden at Harperle}', as recorded, antCy. 
 pp. 42, e.*?.
 
 285 
 
 SIR JOHN MENXES.* 
 
 (Col. [O.A.M.] ii. p. 892.) 
 
 1648. June 19, 21. Notes of the seizure of Sir John Mennes's 
 estate in co. Bedford, and that Sir Matt. Menues, K.B., left to his 
 brother, Sir John, his house in Lincohi's Inn Fields, and a lease oi 
 lands at Teddington, co. Bedford, value 95Z. p. ami. with 700/. arrears. 
 — Order that the rents and arrears be detained in the tenants' hands. 
 
 1648. Sept. 1. Order that the late Sir Matthew's tenants pay no 
 rents or arrears save to this Committee, his lands being bequeathed 
 by him to delinquents who are in arms against Parlt. 
 
 1651. May 22. Infoi'mation that Sir John Mennes was in 1648, 
 and still remains, commander of the revolted ship Swalloiv. 
 
 1651. Oct. 22. Sir John's case respited. 
 
 * Nothing is recorded in local history about Sir John Mennes beyond the 
 
 hazardous guess of Surtees (Hist. Durhcun, ii. 272), that he was ' a Scottish 
 
 knight who had obtained some interest in the collieries.' Concerning 
 
 Jeremiah Tolhurst, information is almost as meagre. These omissions form an 
 
 excuse for the disproportionate length of the notes Avhich follow : — Sir .Johir 
 
 Mennes, naval commander, poet, and, in right of his wife, coalowner at Win- 
 
 laton, was born at Sandwich, Mar. 1, 1599, of an old Kentish family, and 
 
 entering the navy, spent his early days afloat, in the service of his king 
 
 and country. In May, 1629, he brought over from Dunkirk, in the ship he 
 
 commanded, ' a gentleman who is coming towards His Majesty,' a gentleman 
 
 who has since been ide|itified as the great painter, Rubens. From 1630 to 
 
 1635, he commanded successively the (rm-Zand, Bed Lion, and Vangimrd, 
 
 employed in guarding the Narrow Seas ; the year following, under the earl of 
 
 Northumberland, he was captain of the Corertine : in 1639, he became captain 
 
 of the Victori/, and on Feb. 22, 1640, was commissioned by the earl, then Lord 
 
 Admiral, to raise a troop of carabineers. With the carabineers he came to 
 
 Newcastle and remained with them till the end of the year. Meanwhile, he 
 
 had wooed and won a north-country lady — Jane, dau. of Tlios. Liddell of 
 
 Ravensworth Castle (by his second wife, Jane Midford), and widow of Robt. 
 
 Anderson. The marriage settlement, quoted above, indicates a wedding in 
 
 1640. On Feb. 25, 1642, the bridegroom was knighted at Dover, and shortly 
 
 afterwards joined his old ship, the Vidoi-y, under the earl of Warwick. By 
 
 this time doubts had arisen in the navy as to which king should be obeyed — 
 
 King Charles or King Parliament. Warwick, receiving an ordinance from 
 
 Parlt., prepared to take command of the fleet ; the King ordered the fleet to be 
 
 surrendered to himself and threatened Warwick with the pains and penalties 
 
 of high treason if he refused obedience. Thereupon the earl summoned a 
 
 council of war. Twelve out of eighteen captains attended; Sir John Mennes 
 
 and the rest of the captains refused. Parlt. ordered them to be dismissed 
 
 the service and sent up as delinquents. Through the medium of the Upper 
 
 House, however, Sir John made his peace with the angry legislature, and in 
 
 the Lords' Journals (vol. v. pp 179, 180, 189, 190), his letters to Lord Warwick 
 
 and other papers relating to the case, together with his order of release on 
 
 •luly 7, 1642, are printed. He continued to serve on the royalist side, and was 
 
 Rear-Admiral of the piratical squadron which Blake finally crushed in Nov , 
 
 16.50. p]scaping to the Continent, Sir John followed the fortunes of Chas. II., 
 
 and at the Hestoration was appointed Admiral of the Narrow Seas and 
 
 Commander-in-Chief in tiie Downs. On Oct. 30, 16(51, the office of Controller 
 
 of the Navy was bestowed upon him. In that position he naturally came into 
 
 line with Pepys, whose famous Diary is full of references to their meetings, 
 
 their tastes, their adventures, etc. Pepys hail a very poor opinion of Sir John
 
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 {(Wa. ill. p. 1805.) 
 
 1652. Dec. 22. Petition of Dame Jane, wife of Sir John Mennes.. 
 reciting that by indenture dated Dec. 14, 1639, between Sir John 
 (by the name of John Mennes, esq.) of the first part, j^etitioner (by 
 the name of Jane Anderson, widow) of the second part, and Ralph 
 Errington, esq., of the third part, a marriage was agreed upon 
 between John Mennes and petitioner, and for settling and securing 
 of petitioner's estate for her maintenance, the said John covenanted 
 with the said Ralph, that after the marriage he should enjoy, for 
 petitioner's use, all her personal estate and the rents, etc., of her 
 real estate, which belonged to her as the relict of Robt. AndersoDb, 
 esq., [of Newcastle] deed., without hindrance from the said 
 John. From time to time after the marriage, and until the 
 premises were sequestered for the delinquency of Sir John Mennes, 
 petitioner and Errington received the profits. Sir John never inter- 
 meddling therewith. Now, as the said deed was made long before the 
 wars, and because the Cou. Com. receive the profits and refuse her 
 the enjoyment of them wdthout instructions, she begs an order for 
 discharging the sequestration. — Referred to the Cou. Com. and Mr> 
 Brereton. 
 
 Meunes's abilities. Under date Feb. "27, 1663, he scores him off' in the follow- 
 ing fashion : ' Found Sir J. ^linnes pretty well fuddled, I thought ; he took me 
 aside to tell me how, being at my Lord Chancellor's to-day, my lord told him 
 that there was a Great Seal passing for Sir W. Pen ... to l)e, as it were, 
 joint controller with him, at which he is stark mad, and swears he will give 
 up his place. ... To see how the old man do strut, and swear that he 
 understands all his duty as easily as crack a nut — and easier, he told my Lord 
 Chancellor, for his teeth are gone— and that he understands it as well as anj- 
 man in England . . . though God knows he cannot do it more than a 
 child.' Again, on Ma_y 5 following: 'With Sir J. Minnes, he telling me 
 many old stories of the Navy ... at the beginning of the late troubles, and 
 I . . . shall hereafter cease to wonder at the bad success of the King's 
 cause when siich a knave as he (if it be true what he says) had the whole 
 management of the fleet, and tlie design of putting out my Lord Warwick and 
 caiTying the fleet to the King, wherein he failed most fatally, to the King's 
 ruin.' Notwithstanding Pepys's opinion of him, Sir John Mennes received 
 various promotions: Master of the Trinity House, May 26, 1662; Master of 
 the Ordnance, Nov. 8, 1664 ; Commissioner of the Navy, 1666. With all 
 these public functions to discharge he found time to cultivate the Muse. He is 
 credited with producing, in collaboration with Dr. James Smith, the collection 
 known in later times as Miisarvm Deliciw, also Merrie A'eu'es from Epsom 
 Wells (4to, 1663), and divers other poems scattered in other men's works. 
 Denham, the poet, addresses the first of his poetic Epistles ' To Sir John Mennes, 
 on being invited from Calais to Boulogne to eat a pig.' He died FeV). 18, 1671, 
 and having lived with, or near, Pepys in Seething Lane, London, was buried in 
 his parish church of St. Olave, Hart St., where in May, 1703, Pepys himself 
 found a resting place. Lady Jane Mennes predeceased him. She died without 
 issue July 23, 1662, and was interred in the church of Nonington, near 
 Sandwich. A pedigree of the Mennes family appears in Boys, Hist. Sandwich ;. 
 memoirs of Sir John are in Wood, Athencn Oxon., the preface to Musarum 
 Delicio', Charnock, Nav. Biog., and the Diet. N'at. Bioq.
 
 287 
 
 1652. Nov. 18. The estate of Sir John Mennes, late of Winlaton , 
 knt., appears in the third Act for Sale. 
 
 1653. Feb. 15. Major Jeremiah Tolhurst. Tho.s. Sanderson.. 
 Geo. Farrow and tenants of Winlaton Colliery, co. Durham 
 (sequestered for delinquency of Sir John Mennes), j^etition the Cou. 
 Com. for relief from the great rent of the sequestered parts of the 
 Colliery till trade be opened. Through war with Holland, sale of 
 coal to the Dutch has been stopped 8 months, and the coal is too 
 small for the English market. They declared, when they took the 
 lease, that they could only pay the rent if not hindered by fire, water, 
 or war. — Referred to the C.C, the Cou. Com. haying no power. 
 
 165-3. July 14. Tolhurst and his partners iDetition the C.C. for 
 relief from their rent until they can use the Colliery, or they will 
 he tmdone by the charges of keeping it from destruction. They 
 haye appealed to the Cou. Com. since they lost their trade. May, 
 1652, but the Cou. Com. have no power to relieye. — Dec. 16. Upon 
 the offer of petitioners to prove that, owing to the war with the 
 Dutch, they would lose 3d. a chaldron upon the coal, even if they 
 paid no rent, and that this loss is wholly occasioned by the present, 
 war, ordered that the Cou. Com. examine witnesses to prove this 
 and meanwhile forbear for 2 months to levy the rent. 
 
 165i. Nov. 28. Thos. Sanderson of Hedley Hope,* co. Durham., 
 petitions that his aunt, Lady Jane Mennes, has part of a colliery 
 in Winlaton as jointure, now sequestered for the delinquency of her 
 husband. Sir John Mennes; that on Jan. 13, 1651, Francis Wren 
 and Thos. Delaval, commissioners for managing delinquents' estates 
 demised to him the eighth of the colliery at Winlaton with the 
 wayleaves, heap room, staithroom, gins, engines, keels and other 
 appurtenances for 7 years ; that he took this lease, at a yearly rent 
 of loOL because his aunt was in great straits, Init the sale of coals 
 has been so stopped by the war at sea, that the colliery will not 
 pay half the rent. Begs to be freed from his engagement. — Referred 
 to Cou. Com., with order on a previous return from that body, that 
 the C.C. have no power to relieve petitioners, but will fi>rbear to 
 levy the rents for 6 weeks to give them time to address the 
 Protector. 
 
 1655. Feb. 21. The Treasury Commissioners to whom the case 
 is referred, request the C.C. to send them the letters and papers 
 concerning it. 
 
 1655. Mar. 1, Major Tolhurstf deposes that on Dec. 2, 165-1, he 
 offered to surrender the lease of the colliery to the Cou. Com. 
 
 * Son of Samuel Sanderson of Hedleyhope, by Barbara, dau. of Thos. 
 Liddell, and sister of Lady Jane Mennes. Ante, p. 36, Oeo. Beadnell appears 
 as tenant under the commissioners of Lady Jans's jointure. 
 
 + Major Jeremiali Tolhurst first appears in local history in connection with 
 the impressment of seamen, the raising of troops, and tiie purveyance of forage 
 and provisions. The Auditor's Accounts for 16r)2-r)3 return him as a creditor 
 for money paid to sick soldiers in Newcastle, spent upon hay ' bought in the
 
 288 
 
 rivers of Tyne, Wear, Tees and Humber," and provisions, horses, saddles, etc., 
 forwarded to the armies in Scotland ; also for the cost of raising two companies 
 for Berwick, sending 850 men from the northern counties to Dundee, despatch- 
 ing 500 barrels of powder from Newcastle to London, and so on. In April, 
 1654, he was apparently living in Newcastle, for on the 13th of that month, 
 Matthew Hopper of Sandgate, 'a poor man,' was killed 'by firing a piece near 
 Major Tolhurst's house' (Sharp, Cliyonicon Mirahile, p. 66). A year later, he 
 was Governor of Carlisle, and in that capacity (April, 1655) petitioned for 
 repairs to the citadel, and received the appointment of sequestrator for the 
 counties of Cumberland and Westmorland. His name appears, or did appear, 
 upon one of the bells in Carlisle Cathedi'al. As one of the Parliamentary 
 lessees of Harraton colliery he came under the lash of John Hedworth in 
 The Oppressed Man's Outcry, as Sir Arthur Haslerigg's ' busy and late upstart 
 major.' On Sept. 24, 1655, he was in Newcastle, receiving the honorary 
 freedom of the town, and four days later the Newcastle Company of Hostmen 
 bestowed upon him the personal freedom of their fraternity in the following 
 terms : ' Whereas iipon the petition of ^Nlajor Jeremiah Tolhurst, Esq'', a free 
 burgess of this Town desiring he might be admitted a free brother of this 
 Company for his duties paying. And whei-eas by the Charter of this Company 
 no person ought to be admitted thereunto unless he be abiding and inhabiting 
 in the same. And whereas nevertheless this Court hath used upon extra- 
 ordinai'y and special causes and occasions to admit some persons of eminence 
 and quality to their freedom in this Company. This Court, taking into due 
 consideration the quality of tlie said Jeremiah Tolhurst being CTOvernor of the 
 Town and Garrison of Carlisle, and a gentleman very willing and able to be 
 viseful and serviceable to this Town and Company have thought fit and so 
 ordered and it is this present day ordered by us the Governor Stewards and 
 Fraternity of Hostmen, that the said Jeremiah Tolhurst be of the grace and 
 favour of this Court admitted and sworn a brother of this Company for his 
 duties paying, and he was admitted and sworn, and paid for his admittance 
 53s. 4d. Provided nevertheless, and it is the true intent and meaning of this 
 Court that his said freedom sliall extend only to his person during his life, and 
 shall not enable his wife to have or enjoy any freedom thereby if she overlive 
 him, or enable the said Jeremiah Tolhurst to take any apprentice, nor make 
 an J' man free of this Company.' Between the years 1655 and 1659, his name 
 appears in the Hostmen's Books (Dendj% Surt. Soc. Pub. 105) as that of a 
 brother who was entrusted with important missions to London in defence of 
 the coal trade against the attacks of Ralph Gardiner and others. In Maj', 
 1657, he was nominated one of the visitors of Cromwell's projected college at 
 Durham. After the Restoration, conforming to the new order of things, he was 
 elected member for Carlisle in the first Parlt. of Chas. II. , and while so serving 
 (Sept. 5, 1660), secured the adoption of a resolution in the Commons — 'That 
 the sum of 100/. which Mr. Jeremiah Tolhurst, (Governor of Newcastle, is out 
 of purse in keeping that garrison, shall be paid to the said Jeremiah Tolhurst, 
 or his assigns, out of the p]xcise,' etc. 
 
 Curiously enough, Tolhurst, like Mennes, was a friend of Pepys. ' Hither 
 comes Major Tolhurst one of my old acquaintance in Cromwell's time, and 
 sometimes of our club, to see me, and I could not do less than carry him to the 
 Mitre, ToUaust telling me the manner of their coUierj-s in the North ' (Diary, 
 Jan. 9, 1663). The following j'ear, dating his letter from the Custom House, 
 Newcastle (July 22), Tolhurst writes Pepys recommending his old friend ' Capt. 
 Wni. Tickell, a stout, gallant man, who in the last Dutch war was in command 
 of a Dutch tireship, to be appointed to some frigate.' At this time the Major 
 was living in the parish of All Saints, Newcastle, for the registers of the 
 church there record the baptisms of four of his children : Grace, July 23, 1661 ; 
 Jeremiah, Apr. 10, 1663 ; P]lizabeth (who married John Senhouse, Esq., of 
 Netherhall, co. Cumberland), May 12, 1664, and Mary, Nov. 1, 1665. Retain- 
 ing his interest in the coal trade, he was one of three members of the Host- 
 men's Company who were appointed, June 5, 1665, to take account of what
 
 289 
 
 ANTHONY METCALFE OF ALDBOROUGH.* 
 
 (Cal. iv. p. 3064.) 
 
 1652. Nov. 18. Timothy TVzack of Newcastle, merchant, Elizth., 
 his wife, and Isabell, Frances and Mary Metcalfe, all of them 
 daughters of Geo. Metcalfe of Aldborough, gent;, deed., petition 
 the C.C. that their father, many years before the late wars, leased 
 to Sir Edwd. Plumpton, and Mr. [Richd.] Metcalfe, for 21 years,* the 
 reversion of a moiety of his lands in Aldborough, to commence after 
 the decease of their grandmother [Ellinor, widow of Anthonv 
 
 coal pits were working, and report to the Company every Friday, while in 
 1668 (Jan. 27) he was elected to represent the fraternity on a committee for 
 balancing the trade of England and Scotland (Dendy, op. eit. ■•<upra). What 
 became of him after 1671 is not clear. He occurs in that year as a tenant of 
 Sir Francis Radcliflfe, first earl of Derwentwater, paying rent ' for every going 
 pit at Throcklej^' 22/. p. ann. (Arch. Ael. 2nd ser. i. 129), and that is the last 
 we see of him. 
 
 * A Yorkshire case with Tyneside connections. Timothy Tyzack was a 
 man of mark in his day, not, however, in Newcastle, as would appear from the 
 foregoing petition, but in Gateshead, where he followed the calling of a mercht. 
 adv., being, as we learn from the books of the fraternity, an active member of 
 the Incorp. Company of Drapers, Tailors, Mercers, Hardwaremen, Coopers, and 
 Chandlers there. He was one of the notable family of Tyzack who, with the 
 Henzells and Tittorys, came from Lorraine to Tyneside in the latter part of the 
 sixteenth century to follow the craft of glassmaking, an industry which, in after 
 years, grew until the banks of the Tyne produced two-fifths of all the class 
 manufactured in England, and more than the wliole output of Finance. ' The 
 reason of their coming hither was the persecution of the Protestants in their om'u 
 country, of whose persuasion they wei-e. They settled iipon the river side at 
 the place called, from their abiding in it, the Glasshouses. They became very 
 numerous and generally married into each other's families (Bourne, Hisf. 
 Xewcasffe, p. 155). Timothy had a glasshouse at Howdon Panns, as well as a 
 shop in Gateshead. He married Elizabeth, dau. of Geo. Metcalfe of 
 Aldborough, near Boroughbridge, gent., and in after life held various public 
 offices in the parochial administration of his adopted town — as overseer, church- 
 warden, one of the ' four-and -twenty,' etc. A fine tombstone, placed within 
 the altar railings of Gateshead church, preserves his memory and liis heraldrv, 
 and perpetuates the record of his family — 
 
 ' Here lieth interrd the Body 
 
 of Timothy Tizacke Merch' 
 
 Adventurer & Elizabeth his 
 
 wife who had issue b^' him 7 
 
 Children 2 Survivd them viz 
 
 Timothy & Georg She Depte'' 
 
 this life y'' 1.3 day of October 
 
 Anno 1659 He Depted this 
 
 life y'' 6"' day of February 16S4. ' 
 The arms on the stone are the same as those of the Henzells, and possibly 
 of the Tittorys, namely, three acorns slipped, two billets in chief, but, in thfs 
 case, impaling a fesse between three calves passant, for Metcalfe. Motto 
 (same as the Henzells') : 'Seigneur je te prie garde ma vie.' Fuitlier details 
 of Timothy Tyzack, with a picture of the monument, and a copy of his will, 
 appear in Veatitjes of Old Neitr.a.st'e and Gafeshearl, by J. R. Boyle and W. H. 
 Knowles. See also Grazebrook's A^oWe Families of Henzey, Tyltirijand Tij~ack\ 
 
 19
 
 290 
 
 Metcalfe], who had theiu in jointure, Avhich lease was made in trust 
 to pay the debts of the said Geo. and raise portions for petitioners. 
 Their grandmother died about half a. year since, and Mr. Metcalfe, 
 one of the lessees, being dead, and Sir Edwd. Plumpton very aged, 
 petitioners are left destitute of all relief and no care taken for their 
 maintenance or portions. They pray that the Yorkshire Cou. Com. 
 may examine Sir Edwd. Plumpton and other witnesses in joroof of 
 their statements. — Referred to the Cou. Com. and Mr. Brereton. 
 
 1652. Dec. 7. Report from Mr. Brereton that Geo. Metcalfe, 
 son and heir of Anthony Metcalfe of Aldborough, settled lands, etc., 
 after the decease of his father, and Eleanor, his mother, on his 
 children. Elizth. Tyzack confesseth that she is a jaapist, but does 
 not know of what religion her sisters are. They have a brother, 
 Anthony, who is sequestered for recusancy. — Ordered that the claim 
 be allowed, and that the sequestration for the delinquency of the 
 brother, Anthony, he discharged, with arrears from the date of the 
 petition. 
 
 BARBARA METCALFE OF RACKWOOD HILL.* 
 
 (Cal. V. p. oSol.) 
 
 1655. Feb. 22. Geo. Meynell of Dalton, co. York, petitions the 
 C.C. for an order to the Cou. Com. of Durham to examine his claim 
 to lands in Rackwood Hill [Hamsterley], as surviving purchaser 
 thereof, with Richd. Metcalfe, deed., from Chris. Athowe, two- 
 thirds of which are sequestered for the recusancy of Barbara Metcalfe, 
 widow. — Referred to Mr. Reading, who reported that on April 2, 
 1627, Chris. Athowe or Athey, gent., for 325 A surrendered to the 
 use of Meynell and Richd. Metcalfe a messuage called Rackwood Hill. 
 with 69^ acres of land and 3 acres of the lord's waste there ; that on 
 May 17, 1634, Meynell and Richd. Metcalfe surrendered said 
 l^remises to Jas. Metcalfe, from the feast of the Invention of the 
 Cross last past, for 21 years, that Richd. Metcalfe died Feb. 16. 
 1639, and Jas. Metcalfe about 1637, after which Barbara, widow of 
 James, possessed the premises. — No further record. 
 
 * Barbara Metcalfe's lands were sequestered in 1644 or 1645, for in Jan., 
 1646, Rackwood Hill was let to Hen. Blackett for '25/. p. ann. In 1647 it was 
 taken bj' Chris. Mickleton, for the same sum, and two parts of it in 1649 l)y 
 Geo. Blackett and Ralph Walton, for 19/. 4*. The Blacketts were settled in 
 this neighbourhood at an early date. Hodgson {Hist. Northd. pt. ir. vol. i. 
 p. 258) starts the pedigree of that historic family with Edwd. Blackett of 
 Hoppyland, who married Jane Kirkhouse at Hamsterlej- in July, 1582. Hoppj-- 
 land and Rackwood Hill adjoin Hamsterlej' village. Hen. Blackett, above 
 named, is probably the person to whom sequestered lands at Lanchester and 
 Pontop [ante, p. 38) were let in 1645.
 
 291 
 
 CHRISTOPHER MICKLETON OF DURHAM* 
 
 rCal. iv. p. 2696 J 
 
 1651. Jan. 23. Chris. Mickleton having a cause pending before 
 the Barons of the Exchequer, requests the Cou. Com. to report his 
 case to the C.C. They report that they noted him a delinquent, 
 incapable of his office of undersheriff, and sequestered his estate. 
 
 1651. Feb. 17. The Barons, on appeal, having ordered his dis- 
 charge, the C.C. contirni the order. 
 
 Ubl. Nov. 14. [Cal. (C.A.M.) iii., p. 1109.] Information 
 received that he was an officer and provider for the Earl of New- 
 castle's army, and Ijrought in arms against Parlt., 1643-45, and that 
 he has an estate in Stanton and Seaton in the co. Durham, which 
 he lately purchased of the Earl of Hereford, worth 150/. a year.f 
 
 (;e(»h(^e middleton of silksworth.^ 
 
 1G45. Geo. Middleton, gent., of Silksworth, co. Durham, com- 
 pounds with the Parity, commissioners. — Fine, 120/. 
 
 1651. Nov. 21. Petitions for a free pardon, on the ground that 
 he has already compounded. — Granted. 
 
 HENRY MILBURNE OF BEDLINGTON. 
 
 (Cal. i. p. 202.) 
 
 1649. Petitioner begs to compound on the rates of Parlt. foj- 
 adhering to the enemy in the last war. His estate : — Remainder 
 of a lease for 4 years of the tithe-corn of Bedlington, Netherton 
 and East and West Sligburne [Sleekburn], Y.V.B.W., 50/. : a moiety 
 of a copyhold farm of customaiy tenant right, not finable, Y.V., 3/. : 
 in fee, a house and a close called Meadyes Close in Bedlington, Y.Y., 
 \l. \0s. Total, 54/. 10.<f. Craves, and is allowed, a yearly rent out of 
 the tithe-corn to the Dean and Chap., 9/. ; an anntiity out of the same 
 
 * An attorney in tlio city of Durham, underslieriff in 1648, and father of 
 James Mickleton, collector of the MS8. in the librarj- of PHi'hmn Catlicdntl 
 which bear his name. He died in 1(509, and was buried in the Cathedral yard. 
 A pedigree and some notes on the family appear in Surtees, Ili^^t. Durham, 
 vol. iv. pt. II. J). 140. Lettei's from Christopher Mickleton and several refer- 
 ences to him occur in Cosin's Coi-re^pondeMce, Surt. Soc. Pub. 55. 
 
 t No further proceedings are recorded. Possibly the • information ' proved 
 to be incorrect. 
 
 J A descendant of the Middletons of Belsay, Northd. , son of (ieo. Middle- 
 ton of Silksworth, by Klizth., dau. and co-heir of Chris. Wharton of OfTerton 
 and Wiugate Grange, co. Durham. Married, Oct. 30, 1628, Klizth., eldest 
 dau. of Thos. Heath of Kepier (Irange. Pedigree in Surtees, Hi':l. Dvrhnm, 
 vol. i. pt. ir. p. 245.
 
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 to his mother during her life, 6/. 13s. M. ; a yearly rent payable 
 out of the half copyhold farm to the Bp., 10s. ; and another rent 
 paid yearly to him out of the house and close, 8s. Total, 16/. lis. id. 
 Fine at a sixth, 271. 19s. Sd. 
 
 RALPH MILLOT OF WHITEHILL.* 
 
 Col. iv. jtyp. 2625, 3183.) 
 
 1650. Nov. 26. Doi;othy, wife of Ralph Millot of Mayland and 
 Whitehill, co. Durham, petitions the C.C. for her fifth of the 
 sequestered estate of her husband. — Granted. 
 
 1651. Feb. 5. Elizth. Hodgson (formerly Millot), wife of 
 Albert Hodgson of Lintz, co. Durham, petitions that she and her 
 sister Mary held from Sir Wm. Lambton and Wm., his son, an 
 assignment dated Nov. 26, 1634, of a lease from the Bp. of Durham 
 of Bedoms Flat, parcel of the manor of Chester [le Street] ; her 
 brother, Ralph, having had the renting thereof for her use, it was 
 demised by the late Cou. Com. with the rest of his estate, sequestered 
 for his delinquency, with allowance of a third to i^etitioner which 
 the present Cou. Com. refuse. Begs that only two-thirds may be 
 sequestered for her recusancy. — Referi'ed to Mr. Reading. 
 
 1652. Jan. 8. Mr. Reading reports that by lease dated Sept. 
 28, 1618, Richd., Bp. of Durham, demised to Sir Wm. Lambton, knt.. 
 Sir Wm. Wray, knt., and Wm. Lambton, gent., a close of pastui-e 
 called Beddamflat, near Chester in the Street, then occupied by 
 Thos. Millot, to hold to said Sir Wm. Lambton and the others 
 during the lives of Robt. Millot and Elizth. Millot, the now 
 petitioner, being then of the age of nine, and Mar}^ Millot aged four, 
 daughters of the said Robt., at a yearly rent of 50s., and a fat calf at 
 Whitsuntide. By subsequent inderitures the interest in the lease 
 passed to said Elizth. and Mary, and by memorandum were conveyed 
 to Ralph Millot, their elder brother. Mary died about 12 years 
 ago and Elizth. has received the rents, etc., for many years. Y.V. 
 of said close, 16?. Robt. Millot died in 1623. Elizth. married 
 Albert Hodshon of Lynts, co. Durham. 
 
 1652. May 11. Margt. and Eleanor Lambton beg allowance of 
 annuities of 51. granted them, in 1622, by Robt. Millot on the town 
 fields of Pelton, redeemable on payment of 50/., but the estate has 
 
 * Ralph Millot, representative of a long line of ancestors which extends 
 V)ack to the beginning of the fourteenth century, was a son of Robt. Millot of 
 Whitehill, by Dorothy, dau. of Sir ^Wm. Wray of Beamish. He was a stout 
 champion of the royal cause, and by his marriage with Dorothy, dau. of Sir 
 Wm. Bellasis of Morton House, he obtained a wife as staunch and loyal as 
 himself. His devotion was to have been rewarded at the Restoration by inclu- 
 sion in that famous order of knighthood which the king intended to create, 
 under the title of his hiding place, the Royal Oak. But the Order was still- 
 born, and the nominees never received their projected honours. Surtees {Hist. 
 Durham, ii. 153) pixblishes a pedigree of the Millot familj^
 
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 loug- been sequestei'ed for the delinquency of Ralph, son of Robt. 
 Millet. — Cou. Com. to examine whether they have released their 
 annuities, etc. 
 
 1652. May 20. Elizth. Hodgson's claim allowed by the C.C. 
 
 1652. Nov. 18. The estate of Ralph Millot appears in the third 
 Act for Sale. 
 
 1653. Mar. S. Thos. Carr of Bulmer, co. York, petitions that 
 the late Robt. Mylott of Whitehall, being indebted to petitioner, 
 granted him, in 1622, rent-charges of 501. and 50^. Os. Id. on May- 
 land Manor, redeemable on payment of 450/V or 550/., some of which 
 is paid. Ralph Mylott, the son and heir, being in the late Act for 
 Sale, Carr begs allowance of his claim on the estate of Mayland and 
 Pelton if Mylott applies to compound. 
 
 1653. Mar. 8. Ralph Millot begs to compound under the pro- 
 visions of the third Act for Sale. Particular of his estate as per 
 survey, Feb. 7, 1653 : — A capital messuage called Whitehall, par. 
 of CTiester, Y.V., 11. 10s., now in decay, and the materials worth 
 20/. ; the ground, being 4 acres when cleared, will be worth 20s. 
 yearly. Several parcels of ground and a water corn mill, Y.V., 
 103/. OS. 'id. There are on the premises 400 small timber trees 
 and dovecots, valued together with the underwoods at 11/. 10s. All 
 these premises are let by the C.S. to Wm. Ward of St. Ellen Aukland, 
 yeoman, by lease dated Jan. 22, 1651, to commence from May 1 next, 
 for 7 years, if the same should so long continue to be the estate of 
 the said Ralph Millot, at a yearly rent of 120/. but are worth p. ann., 
 as by the particular, 104/. 15s. 2d. It is observed by the surveyor- 
 general that the estate is not now Ralph Millot's, and therefore the 
 lease is void. The said commissioners also let under the said lease 
 to the said Ward, a close called Bedomsflattes supposed to be the 
 estate of Ralph Millot, but upon the petition of Elizth. Hodshon, 
 sister of the said Ralph, by an order of May 20, 1652, the sequestra- 
 tion thereof was discharged, and the premises declared to be no 
 part of Mr. Millot's estate. The said close is of Y.V., 16/. which 
 by the said order is to be deducted from the 120/. There is a quit 
 rent issuing out of Whitehall of 4/. Is. id., formerly paid to the Bp. 
 as lord of the manor, but now to [blank] Boothby, gent. The 
 monthly tax and quit rent are to he allowed out of the rent. He 
 is also seised in fee of another capital messuage called Mayland, 
 otherwise Maland, Y.V., 10s. and of several closes of land of the 
 yearly value of 46/. lO.s-. There is to be paid out of the premises to 
 Sir Arth. Haslerigg, knt., as chief lord of the manor of Wessingham. 
 1/. IBs. 9d. There are claims by Thos. Carr of a debt of 300/. 
 charsred upon the estate by Robt., Ralph's father, deed., and an 
 annuity of 5/. out of Pelton granted by said Robt. to Margt. and 
 Eleanor Lambton. 
 
 1653. Mar. 15. Fine fixed at 851/. 11.^. lOd. 
 
 1653. May 12. Fine to l)e abated 100/. for a debt of 300/. to 
 Thos. Carr.
 
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 1653. June 6. Fine paid and estate discharged. 
 
 1(55 J. Jan. 13. Jane and Margt. Millot beg to contract under 
 the late Recusants' Act for a water corn mill and l^akehouse at 
 Chester, co. Durham. — Referred to Mr. Reading. 
 
 Same date. Mark Awde (tenant of two-tliirds of Chester Mill, 
 sequestered for the recusancy of Jane and Margt. Millot, rent, 14/. 
 a year), complains that Ralph Hedworth has erected a malt mill 
 within the manor and got great quantities of malt ground at his 
 mill, though the tenants are bound by custom to grind at the said 
 ancient mill, wherefore Awde cannot continue to pay his rent. — 
 Hedworth to be summoned to show by what riaht he erected the 
 mill. 
 
 1655. Feb. 20. Hedworth's counsel urging that the mill i.s not 
 built on Chester Manor belonging to Jane Millot, 1)ut on hi.s own 
 manor called Chester Deaner}^, a commission to examine the case 
 is ordered to meet on May 3, jjroceedings against the tenant to be 
 stayed meanwhile. 
 
 1655. May 17. The C.C. not being satisfied with the allegations 
 in Awde's petition, order the Cou. Com. to search the Court Rolls 
 of the late Rishop's manor of Chester as to whether the tenants of 
 Hedworth's manor are bound to grind their corn at the mill there ,; 
 njeantime io forbear to levy the rent from Awd^. 
 
 ELIZABETH MITFOHD OF ({ATESHEAD.* 
 
 (('<il. r. p. o.?:^:'j 
 
 165-1. Nov. 28. Elizth., widow of Dr. Barnaljy Potter, lau Rp. 
 of Carlisle,! begs reference to the Cou. Com. to examine hei- title 
 to the half of Newcastle-upon-Tyne Rectory, demised in 1640 by the 
 late Dean and Chap, of Carlisle to John Garnett for 21 years, at a 
 rent of 10/. lO.s-., but sequestered for the recusancy of Elizth. Mitford, 
 whose title expired last Oct., and now belonging to petitioner, 
 
 * Some light is thrown upon this case by tlie will of Jane, widow of Cinis. 
 Mitford, mayor of Newcastle in 1569, one of the great Newcastle family of 
 Anderson, being a dau. of Hen. Anderson, four limes mayor, sister of Bertram 
 Anderson, maj'or and AI.P. , and aunt of Hen. Anderson, m.ayor and M.P. 
 •lane Mitford made her will, Oct. 1(5, 1606, and, among other be(juests, she 
 gave Christopher, son of her son Robert, half her moietj' of the tithe corn of 
 the rectory of Newcastle, and Henry, another son of Robert, the other half 
 (Surt. Soc. Pub., vol. 38, p. 31). Henry married Elizabeth, granddaughter of 
 Thos. ]3eckham, of (Jateshead, and Deckham, at his death in 1614, left 
 her his capital messuage of Deckham Hall, ' wherein said Henry Mitford 
 <lwelleth.' The register of burials at St. Nicholas, Newcastle, under date 
 Mar. 19, 1641, contains an entry which fixes the date of petitioner's widow- 
 hood : ' Henry Midforth, niercht. l>ur.' 
 
 j Bishop Potter, a native of Kendal, while lecturer at Totnes, in Devon- 
 shire, became acquainted with the family of Sir Edwd. Giles, whose dau. 
 Elizabeth he afterwards married. Atkinson, IVorfhics of' W<--<tworI<ni(l, i. 99.
 
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 who is not in any ordinance of sequestration. Begs, also, that no 
 ■augmentation may l)e paid therefrom till her claim is heard. — 
 (Granted. 
 
 1654. [Blank.] Capt. Ueo. Wood, for Elizth., widow of Hen. 
 Mitford, petitions that for 10 years half the tithes of Newcastle 
 Kectory, value 100/. a year, have been sequestered from her for her 
 recusancy and neither the late nor the present- Cou. Com. have 
 accounted for the profits. Last year they were let for lOo/., Ijut 
 as corn is now cheap she begs a lease at 66A I3s. id., which, with 
 her third, 33/. 6.*?. 8d., will be 100/. a year with allowance for taxes, 
 augmentations, etc. Requests, further, that the Cou. Com. may 
 4iccount for the profits since first sequestered and pay in the money 
 in their hands. — Order for accounts accordingly, the Cou. Com. to be 
 told that the C.C. have granted Capt. "Wood a lease. 
 
 JAMES, LOBD MOKDIXGTON. 
 
 (Col. Hi. p. 21.24.) 
 
 1649. James Douglas, Lord Mordington. petitions tlie Com. 
 at Newcastle to be allowed to compound for joining the enemy in 
 the latter war. His estate at Berwick is as follows: — Maudlinfield, 
 Snuke, Cony Garth, Horsemans Batt and Constables Batt Ijeing 
 English ground, within Barwicke l)ounds, Y.V.B.W^., 100/. The Lmer 
 and Outer Castle Hills, Lumsdain's Annej^ and New Water Haugh 
 within said liounds, Y.Y.B.W., 180/. Marshall Meadows, within 
 said l)0unds, Y.Y.B.W., 40/. Gainshnv, within said bounds, Y.Y.H.W., 
 45/. (xarrison and Horseman Meadows, within said Ijoiuids, 
 Y.V.B.W., 50/. Two water-mills and a wind-mill within and near 
 the said town of Barwick, Y.V., 27/. All the above in fee. Three 
 years yet to come of a lease of the manor of Haggerston. Y.Y.B.W., 
 120/. Personal estate, 100 bowls of oats at 12.s., 55 bowls of barley 
 at 15.S-., 27 bowls of whent at 23'?. per liowl and 80 trusses of hay 
 at 4,s-. Qd. per truss. Total value, 150/. G^-. ' Signed in the name and 
 by the conuiiand of the Lord Mordington, my master. l)y me, William 
 Dui'ham.' 
 
 1()49. Se]ii. 18. Petition of the Mayor, Aldcnnaii and iJurgesses 
 ■of Berwick to the Com. at Newcastle, showing that their town 
 was an ancient garrison and had great lands l)elonging to it, which 
 were given away by King James on the union of the kingdoms, a 
 ;j;arrison being unnecessary. Put last year the Scots, contrary to 
 agreement, took the town and made it a garrison, to its great 
 prejudice, and since its rendition, Pa]'lt. lias ke|)t it as a crarrison. 
 James, Lord Mordington, a coiisiaiil cnrmy lo Parli. an<l now 
 ■sequestered, i)Ossesses most of the aforesaid lands, for wiiich he 
 desires to conqjound. As it will be ver}'' dangerous to have so 
 powerful an enemy on Scot-t/h ui'ound. 2 miles distant, liolding lands 
 which almost compass the town, and owninLi' ;ill tlic watci' and tlio
 
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 mills, by means whereof he can send servants and tenants as spies 
 to promote designs for surprising the garrison, they beg that his 
 composition may be suspended till the pleasure of Parlt. be known. 
 
 1650. Jan. 28. In the House of Commons the humble petition of 
 James, Lord Mordington being read, it is ordered that it be referred 
 to the Com. for compositions with delinquents in the four 
 northern counties to take and receive the profits of the sequestration 
 of the said Lord Mordington's estate, until the House take further 
 order, to the same uses to which the same was appointed by former 
 order.* 
 
 1653. Oct. 25. Lord Mordington petitions the C.C. that his 
 estate in Berwick being sequestered, the profits have been taken to 
 the State for 3 years and that he has not had the fifth for mainten- 
 ance of himself, wife and six children. Begs to compound on the 
 Act of Sept. 3 last, and encloses a particular of his estate and its 
 value since 1640, as follows: — The Maudlin Field, Snuck, Cony 
 garth and Constables Batt, Y.V., 807. ; two water-mills arid a wind- 
 mill, Y.V.. 271. : the Castle Hills, Castle Fields, New Water Haugh, 
 Lumsdaine's Anney and Garrison Meadows, Y.V., 1801. ; Gainlaw, 
 Corkenhaugh and Marshall Meadows, Y.Y., Sol. ; total 372Z. Out 
 of which lands is paid unto the State in fee-farm rent, yearly, 
 28/. 7,y. 2d. Begs to know the time allowed for compounding to 
 persons living more than 80 miles distant, also a deduction from 
 his fine of 207Z. 9s. Qd., his fifth for 3 years, and leave to pay the 
 fine at Berwick, Leith or the Xorth of England, on account of the 
 difficulty of transporting money. — Referred to Mr. Reading. Xo- 
 further record. 
 
 RICHARD MORPETH OF STILLIXGTOX.f 
 
 (C(d. 'li. p. 1130.) 
 
 1646. Mar. 22. Richd. Morpeth of Stillington in Stockton Ward- 
 en. Diu'liam, whose estate had been sequestered (Sept. 6, 1641). 
 
 * Scott {Hilt. Beririck, p. 416) shows the pixrpose to which Lord Mording- 
 tou's revenues were applied: 'In 1653, they [the Corporation] petitioned 
 successfully for the sequestered estates of Lord ilordington and thus obtained 
 money enough to put the bridge in proper repair." Again (p. 269), 'From 
 1657 to 1661 the financial condition of the town was highh^ satisfact ry. This 
 arose principally from the large revenues derived from Lord Mordington's 
 estate, which had been forfeited by the Commonwealth. These were iised to 
 clear oft' all debts, and make needful repairs to the fortifications and the 
 bridge. In 1658-59 they amounted to 2280/. 5^. Up to Michaelmas of 1660, 
 1291/. had been obtained bj- the Mayor from the same source, who accounted 
 for tlie spending of 3112/. 4.v. 3r/. On the Restoration being completed the 
 Mordington estates had to be restored to their owner, and so the financial 
 condition of the Corporation speedily became embarrassed again.' 
 
 t Compounder was the son of Chris. Morpeth of Htillington, gent., by 
 Alice, dau. of Francis Barwick. He married Margaret, dau. and co-heir of 
 John Blakiston (next brother of Sir Thos. Blakiston, bart. ) by Anne, dau. of
 
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 jietitions for permission to compound. His delinquency was in leav- 
 ing his house, going into Cumberland, and assisting the forces of the 
 King. His estate, as per deposition. Mar. 31, 1646, is as follows : — 
 In fee, lands in Bishopton, Great Stainton and Stillington, Y.V.B.W.. 
 25/. ; out of which there is paid to the poor of Readmarshall yearly 
 for ever, charged by the will of Chris. Morpeth, il. Lease for 
 10 years yet to come of lauds and tenements in Stillington, held of 
 Martin [Merton] College, Oxford, clearly worth yearly 901. ; out of 
 which over and above the 90/. there is paid to said college, -40/. 
 vearlv. Goods and household stuff, value about 50/. Debts about 
 300/.' 
 
 1616. Apr. 16. Fine, 100/. 
 
 SIR GEORGE MUSCHAMP OF BARMOOR.* 
 
 (Cal. ii. p. 884.) 
 
 1645. Apr. 10. The Cou. Com. report to the Speaker of the 
 House of Commons, who sends the report to the C.C. that Sir Geo. 
 ^luschamp of Barmoor, co. Northd., having carried arms against the 
 Parlt. as colonel of a regiment, submitted himself about October last : 
 that he has taken the covenant at Lowick Church ; that he has been 
 
 Francis Ti'ollop of Thornle}, and dying in Jan., 1670, was bviried on tlie '20th 
 of that month at, Re<lmarshall. His father Christopher died in Jan., 1640, 
 seised of Stillington Brigge Close, within the fields of Bishopton, Ellebrig and 
 Whinnej' Close in Elstobb, and a cottage and oxgang in Stillington, held of the 
 Dean and Chap, of Durham. B3' his will dated Jan. 18, 1641, Chris. Morpeth 
 gave a rent chai'ge of 3/. yearly for ever out of lands in Bishopton-field called 
 tiie Hills — 30.S. to be given to the poor of Stillington and the residue to the 
 poor of Redinarshall and Carleton ; also 20s. to the poor of the whole parish. 
 Surtees, Hi^t. Burham, iii. T^. 
 
 * Repre.sentative of an ancient family holding lands at Barmoor and 
 Bowsden for more than 300 years, and in modern times nourishing in 
 W'eardale. He was tlie eldest son of Sir Wm. Muschamp of Barmoor, knighted 
 at Berwick, May 11, 1617, sherifif of Northd., 20 Jas. I. (oh. 1631), by 
 Elizabeth, dau. of Sir Nich. Gilbourne of Charing, co. Kent. He married, first, 
 Marj', dau. and co-heir of VVm. Swinhoe of Goswick (?) ; secondl}-, Gilibert, 
 dau. of Sir Richd. Houghton of Houghton Tower, co. Lane. A colonel in the 
 service of Chas. I., commanded. Mar. 19, 1642, to disarm Tiios. Armorer of 
 Belford, Richd. Forster of New ham, and Robt. Carr of Howick, gents., 
 suspected of treasonaljle intentions. He died in 1648, or early in 1649, for on 
 Fel). 23 in the latter year his widow renounced administration in favour of his 
 creditors (Raine, Ilixl. North /)ii7-/iam, p. 267). Receiving a commission from 
 the earl of Newcastle to raise a regiment of soldiers in tlie North for the King, 
 he sent to the mayor of ]>erwick (in Feb. 1643) to know if he would allow 
 him to beat a drum foi' recruits in liervvick. The mayor [.lolin Sleigh] in the 
 name of the whole guild answered that ' neither Sir (Jeo. Muschamp, nor any 
 other for him, shall have liberty for l)eating of a drum for raising of any 
 soldiers in this burgh ' (Scott, //is/. }t, nrick, p. 206). Among the documents 
 at the Record Ottice is a pass dated Newcastle, Mar. 22, 1640, signed by W. 
 Armyne, R. Barwise, and R. Fenwick, autiiorising Sir George, with a page 
 and one servant, to travel in safety to London.
 
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 delayed in waiting upon Parlr. l)y ill health, and that his estate — the 
 lordship or manor of Barmoor — is of the yearly value of about 300/. 
 Out of this he begs allowance of (1) three annuities of 20/. each to 
 liis brothers Wm., Ralph and Thos., allotted them by the will of 
 Dame Elizth., their mother, relict of Sir Wm. Muschamp, knt., 
 rheir father, dated Mar. 19, 1638 ; (2) a charge of 200/. (secured 
 I)y the land) to Mary Muschamp, his sister, allotted and devised in 
 like manner ; (3) an annuity or rent-charge of 40/., granted about 
 8 years since to John Ridley of Alnwick ; (4) a rent-charge of 81. 
 yearly, granted aljout 7 years since to John Forster of Atherston. 
 gent., for his life. 
 
 16-15. May 11. Sir Geo. complains that his tine has Ijeen set at 
 1.600/., and that no consideration is had of the charges on his land, 
 ivmounting to 1,300/. Ilis delinquency was in raising arms for the 
 King, but he never marched out of the county, nor was ever in actual 
 arms against Parlt. liegs further respite for jiayment. 
 
 1645. Aug. 12. The House of Commons accepts 600/. tine for 
 the delinquency of Sir Geo. Muschamp. and agrees that upon pay- 
 )nent of the same an ordinance shall be brought in for discliarge of 
 his delinquency and for taking the sequestration off from his estate.* 
 
 1646. July 24. Sir Geo. states that he has endeavoured to 
 raise the amount of his fine, and being unable to do so before Aug. 1. 
 according to ordinance, begs to receive no prejudice. 
 
 1647. Jan. 19. Fine reduced to a tenth. 520/. 
 
 1650. July 15. Petition (missing) of Gilibert, Lady Muschamp, 
 for clearing of her jointure. — Referred to Mr. Brereton. 
 
 1653. Aug. 5. Sir Geo. having lapsed payment of the second half 
 of his fine and an order being issued for seqtiestering his estate. 
 Lady Muschamp appears in answer to the order. — The Cou. Com. are 
 to ce)'tify what thev know and forbear proceedings ])endinir incjuirv 
 by the C.C. 
 
 Same date. Francis Smith ordered into the custody of the 
 Serjeant at Arms because, in 1647, he delivered to Lady Muschamp 
 a certificate Ijearing the name of John Leech, late registrar, w^ho 
 disowns it. 
 
 1653. Aug. 17. Smith petitions for his release, being truly 
 inuocent. Was necessitated in June, 1650, to take the benefit of the 
 Oath and Act of Grace to redeem himself from Upper Bench prison. 
 Ls 70 years old, infirm and destitute, and in imminent danger of 
 perishing imtimely. — Order for his release on bail. Lady Muschamp 
 to- clear her title to her jointure in 20 days or the estate to be 
 sequestered for non-]iaynieiit of tine. 
 
 * In the House of Lortls, Aug. 28, 1(54."), upon reading the petition of Geo. 
 Muschamp showing that there are such great taxes laid upon his estate, by 
 which he is not able to subsist unless some abatement be made, it is ordered, 
 in regard to the great losses the petitioner has sustained by the King's arm}', 
 that it be recommended to the Hf)use of Commons that some abatement may 
 be made him. On Oct. "20, 1645, he was assessed by the C.A.M. at 600/., but 
 no proceedings to recover tlie money were taken.
 
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 1G53. Oct. 7. Lad}' Muschauip complains that having taken a 
 journey of 600 miles to satisfy the C.C. touching payment of the 
 first half of her husband's fine, and being dismissed, she cannot again 
 undergo the like. Begs order for the Cou. Com. to take proof of 
 lier jointure and stay of proceedings meantime. 
 
 1653. Dec. 8. Her claim allowed and sequestration discharged. 
 
 1654^. May i. Sir Geo. petitions for a protection, desiring to 
 •offer something for the clearing of his innoceucy, but being in 
 danger of arrest for debt. — Protection for 14 days granted. 
 
 1655. May 2. Mich. Herring, Aid. AVaring and three others to 
 apjjear before the C.C. touching the payment of the first half of 
 Sir George's fitie. 
 
 1655. July 10. Smith begs final resolution of the C.C. He 
 Avitnessed the payment of the moiety. — He is to have lil)erty to pro- 
 duce what proof he can and to have freedom from arrest. 
 
 Wn.LIAM CAVENDISH. EARL OF NEWCASTLE.* 
 
 (Cal. iii. "py. 1/32-37. J 
 
 1650. Apr. 1. Jane Cavendish, dau. of the Earl of Newcastle, on 
 behalf of her brothers and sisters, petitions the C.C. for the fifth 
 of her father's estate, as formerly allowed. ^ — Granted. 
 
 * Wm. Cavendish, successively earl, mai'quis, and duke of Newcastle, but 
 better iinown in English historj^ as 'the loyal Duke of Newcastle," was a son 
 of Sir Chas. Cavendish, knt., of Welbeck, Notts., by Cath., dau. of Lord Ogle 
 of Bothal and heiress of the barony. Born in 1592, he attained rank and 
 honour at an unusually early period of life. Before reaching his majority he 
 was created a Knight of the Bath (June 3, 1610), and ten j^ears later, liaving 
 entertained J as. I. at Welbeck, lie became Viscount Mansfield. In 1()2S, he 
 was created Baron Cavendish and Karl of Newcastle, and in the follow ing yeai- 
 succeeded to the Ogle estates. In 16.>3, lie entertained Ciias. I. at Welbeck 
 (Ben Jonson writing the masques) at a cost of "20,001)/. Five years later 
 he was appointed governor of Charles, Prince of Wales, ;ind the next year 
 (1639) lent the King 10,000/., and raised a troop against the Scots at his own 
 <'harge. His subsequent piomotions were as follows : Privy councillor, Nov. 
 *29, 1639; Commissioner of Regency, Aug. 9, 1641; General of the Roj'al 
 Armies north of Trent, and (iovernor of Newcastle, 164"2 ; Baron Bertram and 
 Bolsover and Mar((uis of Newcastle, Oct. 27, 1643. After the Ijaltle of 
 Marston Moor he went into exile and suffered many jirivations, having even to 
 pawn his wife's jewels for sustenance, Init returned with Chas. II. at the 
 Restoration. On March 16, 1665, he was created Earl of Ogle and Duke of 
 Newcastle, and in 1670 received the appointment of Lord Lieut, of Northd. 
 He was twice married, first to Elizth., dau. of VVm. Bassett of Blore. co. 
 .Stafford, by whom he had six sons and four daughters ; secondly, to Margt. . 
 <lau. of Sir (^lias. Lucas. The second wife, liaving no orts))ring, de\oted 
 herself to literature, and became the most ))roiitic writer of her tiitu'. Her 
 'Life" of her husband, often reprinted, offers a graphic presentment of the 
 hero and his achievements. She estimates the accountable losses wliich he 
 sustained through his devotion to the monarchy at 941,30.'}/., witlu^ut reckoning 
 the sacrifice of his personal estate. The Duke die<l on Christmas Day. 1676, 
 and was succeeded )>}' his second son Henry.
 
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 1650. Oct. 11. Isabel Bell of Bothal, petitions the C.C. that 
 she was 40 years servant to Lady Ogle, who settled upon her 10^. a 
 year for life out of Bothal Manor. After Lady Ogle's death this was 
 paid by Lady Shrewsbury, her heir, then by Lady Cavendish, and 
 then by the Earl of Newcastle. After his sequestration she was paid 
 until the late prohibition of claims unless allowed by the C.C. Begs 
 an order for its continuance. Having to deal with those set up by 
 God to act faithfully, hopes they will not withhold the widow's mite. 
 — Referred to Mr. Reading. 
 
 1650. Oct. 18. Lady Kath. Lambton, begs confirmation of an 
 order of the C.S. of Mar. 24, 1646, allowing her annuity of lOOZ. 
 granted, 6 Chas., by the Earl, charged on his manor of Bothal and 
 all his other lands in Xorthd., with arrears. — Granted. 
 
 1650. Nov. 26. Jane Cavendish and her sister, Frances, com- 
 plain that notwithstanding the C.C.'s grant of the fifth, the Cou. 
 Com. of Northd. refuse it, alleging an Act of Parlt. whereby Mrs. 
 Blackstone is to receive 3,500Z. from the estates of the Earl and 
 Sir Wm. Widdrington. Petitioners contend that the Act was not 
 intended to prejudice any just charge upon their father's lands, and 
 has been so explained by the C.C. in Lady Widdrington's case. — The 
 fifth granted, the Act of Parlt. notwithstanding. 
 
 1651. Apr. 25. Elizth., wife of Robt. Harbottle of Hebburn, 
 Northd., petitions that her husband was 30 years tenant of a farm 
 in Hebburn. belonging to the Earl, and paid his fine and 40s. rent. 
 When the lease exj^ired he was unable to attend to its renewal, 
 having been woimded, and she and her children taken prisoners and 
 plundered of all they had by the cavaliers, but he employed, as his 
 agent, Francis Pye of Morpeth, who now saj^s he took it for himself 
 and turns them out. Begs that they may be admitted tenants and 
 Pye called to account for his perfidious dealing. — Cou. Com. to 
 summon both parties, examine the dift'erence and compose it if 
 they can. 
 
 1651. Julv 16. The Earl's estates entered in the first Act for 
 Sale. 
 
 1652. Oct. 30. Confirmation of a lease of Newton Hall, Northd.. 
 to Matthew Newton, for 5 years. 
 
 1651. Dec. 10. Margt., wife of the Earl, petitions for her fifth 
 of her husband's estate, sequestered for delinquency according to the 
 ordinances of Parlt., having no other means of livelihood. Noted as 
 refused, the Earl being an excepted person, and she married to him 
 since he became a delinquent, so that at the time of marriage he had 
 no estate. 
 
 Sequestrations discharged on lands, etc., as follows: — 1652. 
 Aug. 5. Bearle Manor, Northd., sold to Wm. Hinde and Geo. 
 Coulson. Aug. 28. Messuage, etc., in Woodhorn, Northd., to Richd. 
 Baker ; ditto in Pegsworth, Bothal barony to Geo. Lawson. Sept. 
 20. Lands, etc., in Woodhouse [Woodhorn ?] to Capt. Edwd. Orpin 
 for Col. Horton's brigade, being part of 1,0007. a year assigned to
 
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 them by Parlt. Sept. ::!8. Cockley Park Tower and lands to John 
 Ilushworth. Oct. 5. Lands in Pegsworth to John Thompson. Oct. 
 14. Lands in Pegsworth, etc., to John Hutton. Nov. 2. Lands in 
 N. Middleton to John Rea. Nov. -3. Bothal barony to Barn. 
 Trembett, merchant, of London. Nov. i. Sheepbanks and Nev,'hall 
 farms to John Hutton and Robt. Grey. No. 10. Hepwell [Hepple?] 
 barony to Robt. Thorpe. — 1653. Feb. 28. Cottages,' etc., in Bedling- 
 ton to Robt Fenwick. Mar. 5. Marrowlee [Moralee "?] manor, etc., 
 to Anthony Peirson. Mar. 13. Newton Hall, Bearle Manor, to Matt. 
 and Chas. Newton. Mar. 23. Lands, etc., at Hexham to Richd. 
 Baker. July 22. Ogle lordship and castle to Jas. Moseley. Aug. 10. 
 Addison's Close, Hexham, to Thos. Addison. 
 
 JAMES OGLE OF CAUSEY PARK.* 
 
 (Cal. a. p. llO'i.) 
 
 1646. Mar. 31. James Ogle petitions to be allowed to com- 
 pound for his delinquency. He was a major of foot under the Earl of 
 Newcastle, in which service he continued until the storming of 
 Newcastle town. Has taken the Covenant and the Negative Oath. 
 — Robt. Fenwick and Ralph Salkeld certify that Ogle has lived in 
 the Parliament's quarters ever since the storming of Newcastle, and 
 that before then he was dangerously wounded in the thigh, so that 
 most men conceived it impossible for him to recover ; that the great 
 storms, frost and snow, beginning in November, continued so sore 
 that the like was not for many years before nor since; that in 
 respect of the extraordinariness of the weather and many of the 
 members being employed in taking the Scots' account for cess and 
 billet the Com. seldom met that winter, and that he could not attend 
 but in great danger of his life. Particular of his estate : — In fee, 
 Causey Park, Earsden Hills, Langdickes and certain tithes in the 
 par. of Lang Horsley, Y.V.B.W., 89i?. In fee, in right of his 
 wife, lands and tenements in Bxn-roden, Y.V.B.W., 807. There is 
 a rent-charge of 15/. granted Apr. 18, 1634, by Edwd. Ogle, his 
 elder brother, to Thos. Pye of Morpeth issuing out of Earsden Hills, 
 for 5 years, whereof 2^ years' rent is unpaid. Likewise a rent- 
 
 * Hodgson (Hint. Xortlid. pt. ii. vol. ii. p. 135) states tliat compounder 
 paid the 324/. fine, the receipt for which sum, dated Oct. 31, 1649, was in 
 possession of the family. He was a deptity lieut. and a commissioner of 
 subsidies for Northd., and appointed Dec. 8, 1660, under the signature of the 
 Earl of Northd. and Lord Josceline Percy, a major of the regiment of foot 
 whereof Wm., Lord Widdrington, was colonel, and, May 4, 1663, a captain of 
 ' that troop of horse raised within the county,' as appears by the original com- 
 missions preserved among the family papers. He married Jane, only dau. of 
 Lancelot Ogle of liurradon, by whom he had issue, William of Cawsey Park, 
 who succeeded him. He died Dec. 4, 1664, and was buried in St. Andrew's 
 Church, Newcastle, where there is a long latin inscription to his memory. See 
 a more detailed account of him in 0(jle and JSotluil.
 
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 charge of 15/. issuing our of Langdickes, alias Foxholes, granted! 
 May 17, 1639. by said Edwd. to said Pye, whereof 2i years' rent is 
 not paid. 
 
 164:7. Jan. 23. Additional particulars in Report. He is 
 possessed of a term of 7 years to come of the rectoiy impropriate of 
 tlie church of Lang Horsley which he holds by lease of Sir Matt. 
 Palmer at the yearly rent of 28/.. which was formerly the inheritance 
 of compounder's father and granted to Sir Matt, for 350/. on con- 
 dition of ijayment within 21 j'ears. The grant bears date July 9, 
 1632, so he has 7 years yet to redeem it, and in the interim he 
 holds the same by lease at 28/. yearly rent. Y.V.B.W., 2/. over 
 and above the rent reserved. He craves allowance for an annuity 
 of 5/. to Margt. Miller, who is yet living, bequeathed to her by 
 Launcelot Ogle in 1640; a legacy of 50/. to Jane Ogle, base dau. of 
 Lauucelot Ogle, to be jiaid when she is 21 or married, and 4/. 
 yearly to be paid her in the interim. She is now aged 14 ; but the 
 will is not proved, and the 50/. is not charged upon the lands. 
 
 1647. Feb. 6. Fine at a sixth, 324/.*" 
 
 1647. July 13. Petitions for a review in order to the reduction 
 of his fine to a tenth, he having paid a moiety. — Referred to the 
 sub-committee. 
 
 THOMAS OGLE OF DARRAS HALL. 
 
 (Cal. ;;. p. 11)74.) 
 
 1646. Jan. 17. Petition [missing] from Thos. Ogle of Darras 
 Hall for leave to compound. 
 
 1646. Apr. 6. Ogle deposes that about 2 years ago he departed 
 from Oxford into France with his wife and children, resolving not to 
 return until a final end was made to these unhappy wars ; but fall- 
 ing desperately sick at Flushing he returned home about Oct., 164L 
 where he has remained, not intermeddling in the affairs of this 
 kingdom ; and on Dec. 19 last procured a pass from the Cou. Com. to 
 
 * At the sitting of the House of Commons July '22, 1646, it was ordererl 
 that 500'. be allowed to the town of Berwick out of the fines of Jas. Ogle and 
 (rilb. Swinlioe, delinquents, to be employed for the repair of the bridge and 
 walls of that town, much ruinated h\ the violence of the sea and by the 
 great ice the last winter. Scott (Hist. Beru-irk, pp. 209, 211) states that the 
 winter of 1643-44 was verj- severe, and that tlie Scottish armj- going south- 
 wards crossed the Tweed when frozen, taking their baggage over on the ice. 
 But this is too soon for ' the last winter ' in the Commons' resolution. In the 
 winter of 1645, however, the Scots ' left not a doore or any tymber they could 
 come to, but took them to their f j'res. Thej^ kept 14 guards, and 14 fyres day and 
 night.' Scott adds, '500^ was promised as the fines of Jas. Ogle and Gilb. 
 Swinhoe. Only 162/. of this came to the hands of the Guild, since Swinhoe 
 died before his composition was paid. The money received was almost wholly 
 spent upon the bridge.' In the list of disbursements (ante, p. 91), underdate 
 March 20, I64.S, appears the entry of the fine, receipted for 314/.
 
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 120 to London to make his composition for delinquency, havint,' 
 engaged himself to Sir Wm. Armyne and others not to depart out 
 of the county without their licence. 
 
 1646. Nov. 18. The House of Lords direct the Gentleman Usher 
 to apprehend Capt. Ogle, Avho apjjeared that day at the hearing of 
 Peter Smart's case,* he being formerly committed for treason and 
 other offences against the State, but escaped prison, and hath since 
 acted against the State ; and that he stand connnitted until he make 
 it appear how he comes to be released, and whether he hath com- 
 pounded, etc. 
 
 1646. NoA'. 11). LTpon hearing the petition of Capt. Tims. Ogle 
 to be released, the Lords order that he still stand committed to the 
 custody of the Gentleman Lusher ; meanwhile, the particulars of the 
 charge against him to be produced. 
 
 1647. Feb. 6. The Lords order that Capt. Thos. Ogle stand com- 
 mitted to Newgate, until the j^leasure of the House be known : 
 counsel to proceed against him as they think tit. 
 
 Undated [1647?] Ogle, j^etitions the C.C showing that he was 
 committed by the Lords in Parlt. until he made his composition, 
 which composition he was unal)le to perfect in regard the Scots' 
 army was in the North, and now Ijy this commitment is in as great 
 incapacity to raise money as ever : prays therefore for bail, or 
 liberty to go into the country with a keejier, that he may procui-e 
 money to pay his fine and perfect his composition, which he will 
 never he able to do if continued in prison. 
 
 1647. June 19. The Lords order that Capt. Thos. Ogle be 
 bailed, and (July 2) accept Mr. Witherington of Broome, co. Durham, 
 gent., and Wm. Stevens of Drury Lane, Middlesex, cutler, in 500/. 
 and 100/. apiece, the sureties to appear before the House within 10 
 days after notice given. 
 
 1649. Mar. 24. Ogle again petitions for leave to compound, 
 showing that he was in arms against the Parlt. for which his estate 
 remains under sequestration. Particular of his estate: — In his 
 demesne as of fee, the capital messuage, etc., called Darras Hall, 
 Y.V.B.W., 80/. 
 
 1649. Apr. :'). Fine at a sixth, 240/. 
 
 1650. Nov. 20. Susanna, wife of Thos. Ogle, begs a fifth of her 
 
 * Hie case of troublesome Peter Smart, prel)eii(liuy of Durliam, is detailed 
 in Surt. Soc. Pub. 34, pp. 197-250. Tlios. Ogle was Smart's son-in-law, 
 having married his dau. Susanna. Mrs. Smart, writing to her husband (p. 
 206), mentions petitioner as ' my son Ogle,' and in that capacity he figures in a . 
 repudiating epistle (p. 249) from Smart iiimself, thus : — ' I have discharged my 
 son Ogle for intermeddling hereafter with any money belonging to me, for he 
 hath dealt falsely with me to my utter undoing ; therefore, whatsoever is now, 
 or hereafter sliall be, paid to him must be paid o\er again to lue. And this I 
 would have all men take notice that I trust him not.' Petitioner's connection 
 with tiie Northd. family of Ogle, his troubles aliout Darras Hall and the fine 
 estate which afterwards came to him, are detailed in (Ji/Ze (ind Rothul, p]). 109, 
 HI, 112, 314, and Appendix, xliv. See also (iDtf, y. 189.
 
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 husband's sequestered estate for herself and children. — Granted, with 
 reduction of taxes, etc. 
 
 1652. Nov. 18. The estate of Thos. Ogle of Darras Hall, co. 
 Xortlid., appears in the third Act for Sale. 
 
 GEORGE ORDE OF SAMESHOUSE.* 
 
 (Cal i. p. 202.) 
 
 1649. George Orde of Sameshouse compounds for delinquencv 
 in the last war. Particular of his estate : — Lands in Sameshouse. 
 Y.V.B.W. 6/. : land called a Marke land in Lowick, Y.V.B.W., 4S)s. : 
 ground in Bowsden, called the Crookehouse, Y.V.B.W., 31. ; the 
 reversion after 9 years, reserving 20s. yearly rent, of ground called 
 Allerburne Spittle, Y.V.BlW., 9/. All in fee. Craves a saving to 
 compound for the Marke land, Lowick, and the Crookehouse in 
 Bowsden, mortgaged to Luke Orde for 501. for the use of an orphan ; 
 also for Allerburne Spittle, now in suit between John Ratcliffe and 
 himself. 
 
 Fine at a sixth, 40/. ■)$. Ad. 
 
 JOHX ORDE OF WEETWOOD.f 
 
 (Cnl. I p. 202.) 
 
 1649. John Orde of Weetwood compounds for delinquency in 
 the last war. His estate comprises the demesne lands of Weetwood. 
 in fee, Y.Y.B.W., 100/. and a house in Berwick, Y.V., 4/. He is 
 allowed 4/. p. ann. payable to liis aunt during her life. 
 
 Fine at a sixth, .'')04/. 
 
 THOMAS ORDE OF LONGRIDGE. 
 
 (('al. I'll. p. 1739.) 
 
 1647. Apr. 27. Thos. Orde of Longridge, par. of Norham, begs 
 to compound for delinquency. Was in arms against the Parlt. but 
 submitted in 1644 and took the National Covenant, Mar. 22, 1645. 
 
 * Not ideiititied, but in tlie pedigree of Orde of Newbiggeu (Raine, Xorlh 
 JJu7-ham, p. 311), John Orde, described as residing at Wester Newbiggen, 
 whose will was proved in 1639, directs that his son James shall have Sanishouse 
 when he is 18 years old, his eldest son William to inherit Felkington, and 
 another son, Edward, to have Unthank. Two other sons, Henry and Thomas, 
 are described as of Weetwood. Two daughter's are named Isabel and Anne. 
 Sameshouse was near Lowick. ' The township of Kilhowe is bounded ... on the 
 west part by the township of Lowick and Sambeshouse. ' Raine, op. cit., p. '2'2. 
 
 + Not identified, but Hen. and Thos. Orde, sons of John Orde of Wester 
 Newbiggen, appear in the pedigree as belonging to Weetwood.
 
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 His estate : — In fee, a messuage and lands in Longridge, out of 
 which he pays yearly to the Earl of Suffolk 'il. Ids. id. : Y.V., over 
 and above said rent, 24/. A lease for 7 years to come from Dean 
 and Chap, of Durham, of small tithes in par. of Norham ; Y.V., 
 over rent reserved, 21. 
 
 1647. May 13. Fine at a tenth, 50/. 
 
 1652. Jan. 16. His estate to be sequestered for non-payment of 
 latter half of his fine. 
 
 1653. Mar. 1. Payment made and estate discharsfed. 
 
 THOMAS ORDE OF LONG RIDING* [RIDGE?]. 
 
 (Cal. i. p. 203.) 
 
 1649. Thos. Orde, described as of Long Riding, compounds in 
 1649. His estate in Longridinge is of the Y.V.B.W., 26/. 13s. id. 
 He has also in fee certain cottage houses in Norham, Y.V., 1/., and 
 a lease for about 7 years to come of certain petty tithes in Norham, 
 Y.V., above the rent, '21. 6s. 8d. He is allowed an ancient rent due 
 to the Earl of Suffolk of 3/. 13.s. id. 
 
 Fine at a sixth, 73/. 13.5. id. 
 
 WILLIAM ORDE OF BERWICK.! 
 
 (Cal. i. p. 204.) 
 
 1649. Alderman Wm. Orde of Berwick compounds for 
 delinquency in the last war. Particular of his estate : — The 
 demesnes of Greyndon, Newbigen, and Peltington [Felkington], 
 Y.V.Bi. W., 200/. ; a moiety of a house in Berwick, Y.V., 21. ; two 
 
 * This and the preceding case appear to refer to one and the same Thos. 
 Orde. He may have been a dilatory person in tlie matter of payment, and 
 having neglected to complete the settlement of 1647, provoked a fresh seizui'e 
 and a tine based upon the higher scale. In the pedigree of the Ordes of Long- 
 ridge (Raine, North Durham, p. 303), Thos. Orde appears as a son of Geo. 
 Orde, who, in 1633, is described as having ' lately bought of Lord Suffolk the 
 lands of Longridge.' Like the Ogles, Fen wicks and Forsters, the Ordes were 
 a numerous and prolific family. Kaine apologises for omitting many branches 
 of them, which he found so extremely numerous as to set arrangement at 
 defiance. 
 
 t Compounder was the eldest son of John Orde of Wester Newbigi.en, and 
 inherited Felkington under his father's will. This branch of the family entered 
 into the municipal and political life of Herwick. John Orde was mayor of that 
 town in 1613 and 1624 ; Wm. Orde filled the same olHce in 1634, while one of 
 their descendants, V\ m. Orde of Newbiggen, represented tlie bor ugh in the 
 twelfth parliament of Queen Anne, 1713-14. The M.P. erected ;> mansion house 
 at Sandybank, within the township of Felkington, in hich he died in 1748, 
 leaving three daughters, co-heiresses, among whom a partition of the estates 
 was made in 1749. Their marriages and the descent of the property are 
 detailed in Kaine, North Durham, p. 313. 
 
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 306 
 
 farms or teuenieuts lying in Beal, Y.V.B.W., 10/., all in fee. He is 
 allowed an annuity of 20/. out of Peltington to his mother, Elinor 
 Orde, late wife of John Orde of Berwick, alderman, during her life, 
 and an annuity of 16/. to Jas. and Anna Orde, brother and sister to> 
 the compounder for their lives. 
 Fine fixed at 56i/. 
 
 WILLIAM ORDE OF THISTLERIGG.* 
 
 (Cal. iv. IX 2550.) 
 
 1650. Sept. 13. Petition of Clare, or Clara, wife of Wm. Orde 
 of Thistlerigg- showing that her husband, Wm. Orde, gent., stands 
 sequestered for being a recusant in arms. Petitioner therefore 
 pray.s to be allowed her fifth part for her present maintenance. 
 
 [Endorsed] Ordered according to the instructions. 
 
 ROBERT OSBORNE OF DURHAM, f 
 
 {Cal. [C.A.M.] iii. 1341.) 
 
 1651. May 15. Information received that in 1643 and 1644 
 Robt. Osborne, minister, of Durham, adhered to the enemy, left 
 home and lived in Bristol, Hereford and Oxford, whilst they were 
 King's garrisons, and preached there, abetting the war against 
 Parlt. ; that he married the widow of Sir Francis Brandling, who has 
 a jointure of 500/. a year at Fellin, co. Durham, which he now holds, 
 and that there are 500/. arrears of rent due thereon. 
 
 1651. June 17. Order for appearance of witnesses in the case. — ■ 
 Xo further information. 
 
 * Not identitied in either person or place. 
 
 t Nothing relating to this marriage, or this minister, is to be found in 
 local records, and the ' information received ' appears to have been incorrect. 
 According to the pedigree in Surtees, HiM. Durham, ii. 92, Sir Francis 
 Hrandling was twice married. His first wife was Elizabeth, fourth dau. of 
 Sii-. Ralph Grey of Chillingham, and the articles by which his father, Robt. 
 Brandling, settled the Abbey of St. Mary in Alnwick, the two abbey mills, 
 a messuage called Broeksfield, the tithes of Long Houghton, Alnwick, West 
 Park, Cowledge Park, and Hulne Park, lands in Jesmond and Nunwood, in 
 anticipation of the marriage, is dated May 18, 1618. By her he had six sons, 
 the eldest being Charles, whose case appears ante, p. 132. On Feb. 4, 1638, this 
 lady being dead, Sir Francis settled his manors of North and South Gosforth, 
 and Felling, and various lands and tithes on Sir Wm. Widdrington and Edmund 
 and Wm. Pitt, to the use of himself for life, with remainder to his intended 
 (second) wife, Elizth. Wheeler, widow, sister of Edmund and Wm. Pitt, for 
 life. Sir Francis died in 1641 ; his widow sur\'ived him thirty-four years. 
 In the burial register at St. Nicholas', Newcastle, under date Feb. 28, 1676, 
 is an entry of her interment as Ladj' Elizabeth Brandling, widow, and as 
 Baldwin Pitt, of the Middle Temple, obtained a grant of administration of 
 her estate, there can be no doubt that she was the widow of Sir Francis Brand- 
 ling, and the lady to whom Robt. Osborne in the ' information ' was reported 
 to be married.
 
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 ELIZABETH OSWALD, CO. DURHAM.* 
 
 (Cal. iv. p. 2708.) 
 
 165L May 11. Elizth. Oswald, described as a widow belonging- 
 to the CO. of Durham, begs an allowance from the two-thirds of her 
 lands, sequestered for recusancy, of two-thirds of a rent-charge of 
 10/. granted before sequestration to Wm. Ward, and allowed by the 
 late Cou. Com. but suspended on general instructions. — Referred to 
 Cou. Com. and Mr. Bi-ereton. 
 
 JOHN PARMONLEY OF MIDDLETON IN TEESDALE. 
 
 1645. Described as a yeoman, John Parmonley compounds with 
 Sir Hen. Vane and his colleagues. — Fine, 5/. 
 
 1651. Nov. 21. Petitions Parlt. for pardon of offences previous 
 to date of compounding, and obtains it. 
 
 HENRY PASTON OF BLACK HEDDON.f 
 
 (Gal. in. p. 1690.) 
 
 1647. Mar. 20. Hen. Paston petitions for leave to comjDOund for 
 delinquency. Was cornet of a troop under the Earl of Newcastle, 
 but deserted before the battle of Marston Moor. In May, 1645, his 
 lands, worth 50/. a year, were sequestered. Was then about to come 
 to London to compound, but a title was set up by his mother, Dorothy 
 Paston, widow, and second brother, Aaron, whereby to defraud the 
 State of the benefit of his comjjosition and to disinherit him. The 
 case was before the C.S. and was not determined till Mar. 9 last, so 
 that he could not compound earlier. Begs consideration of his 
 charges in the suit, and of the time when he was desirous to com- 
 pound. Particular of his estate : — In fee certain lands and tenements 
 in Blackheddon and Wallrigg [par. of Stamfordham, Northd.], 
 Y.V.B.W., 50/., out of which his mother has a third for life as 
 jointure. 
 
 1647. .Apr. 1. Fine at a tenth, 84/. 
 
 * 111 tlie list of per.sons seque.steted (anlc, p. 67), this lady is desciubed as of 
 Darlington. Longstaffe (J fist. Jkir/iiKj/oii) has several notes of the Oswald 
 family, and. among others (p. 210), an extract from the parish registers showing 
 that, in 160S, Elizabeth wife of Hen. Oswald, was excommunicated. 
 
 t In the Rentals of 1663, Aaron Paston is entei'ed as owner of Blackheddon, 
 at 120/ , and Wallridge at 9/. — total, 129/. p. ann. Hen. Paston, by deed dated 
 Mar. 14, 1699, gave 12/. p. ann. out of his estate of Blackheddon and Wall- 
 ridge to be distributed by the minister and churchwardens of Stamfordham on 
 the four /'Hiartcrh' term da3'R. Mackenzie, Hist. Northd. ii. 226.
 
 308 
 
 1647. July 22. Paston complains that, notwithstanding his 
 payment of a moiety and giving security for the rest, the Cou. Com. 
 have allowed his mother to enter upon the estate and refuse him 
 possession without further order. — Cou. Com. to yield him possession 
 if they find his petition true. 
 
 1647. Oct. 19. Complains that he is still kept out by Dorothy 
 and Aaron, and begs an order for possession. — Granted. 
 
 1652. Jan. 16. Noted to be again sequestered, having lapsed 
 payment of his second moiety. 
 
 1652. Apr. 7. Petition renewed. Has been unable to pay the 
 second half of his fine through Dorothy and Aaron's continued 
 possession. 
 
 1652. May 11. Order that if the premises were sequestered for 
 his delinquency after his father's death, and if the estate was let as 
 his, the Cou. Com. are to give him possession of two-thirds, unless 
 his mother and brother show cause within a month. 
 
 1652. June 18. The Cou. Com. are to examine witnesses on 
 both sides if they find it difficult to judge as to the possession, but 
 are not to intermeddle with the title. 
 
 ROGER PEARSON OF 
 
 1645. Roger Pearson (of place unknown) co. Durham, com- 
 pounds with Sir Hen. Vane and the Cou. Com. — Fine, 5Z. 
 
 1651. Nov. 21. Petitions Parlt. for pardon of offences com- 
 mitted prior to date of his composition. — Granted. 
 
 THOMAS PEIRSON OF NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE.* 
 
 (Col. iv. p. 2958.) 
 
 1652. Feb. 20. Jane, wife of Thos. Peirson of Myerscough, co. 
 Lancaster, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne, petitions for her fifth of her 
 husband's sequestered estate, with arrears. — The Cou. Com. of 
 Lancashire to allow it, less taxes. 
 
 1653. May 26. Thos. Peirson begs to compound (on the proviso 
 in the third Act for Sale) for his estate in Lancashire, which is 
 surveyed for sale. 
 
 1653. June 17. As Thos. Peirson of the town and co. of 
 Newcastle-upon-Tyne, he deposes that he has not inhabited in the 
 CO. of Lancaster these 10 years last past, and the lease of premises 
 
 * I'his case I'eallj^ belongs to the co. of Lancaster, but petitioner lived in 
 Newcastle at the <late of his petition, and is therefore included. 
 
 ' Mrs. Jane Peirson, buried Oct. 14, 1682,' is an entry in the registers of 
 All Saints Church, Newcastle.
 
 309 
 
 in Myerscough in that co., ■was, many years ago amongst other 
 writings, lost. 
 
 1653. June 29. Fine at two-sixths, 5Z. 
 
 1653. July 7. Fine paid and estate discharged. 
 
 ROBERT PLACE OF DINSDALE.* 
 
 (Col. iv. p. 2874.) 
 
 1651. Sept. 23. Robt. Place of Dinsdale, co. Durham, petitions 
 for liberty to compound. His offence is that he adhered unto and 
 assisted the forces against the Parlt. in the late wars, for which 
 his small estate, consisting of a horse and some wearing apparel, of 
 the value of 101., is liable to sequestration. 
 
 Fine at a sixth, 1/. 13s. id.j 
 
 ANNE PORTER OF SHIELD ROW.| 
 
 fCal. Hi. p. 2370.) 
 
 1650. June 14. Wm. Blakiston of Andrew's House, co. Durham, 
 petitions for allowance of his title to land called Shield Raw in same 
 CO., lately in possession of Wm. Porter, at whose death they were 
 sequestered for the recusancy of Anne, his widow, who had no estate 
 therein but for the use of Wm. Porter, jun., her son, an idiot, now 
 deed. Petitioner claims by virtue of indentures dated Aug. 10 
 and Sept. 28, 1614, and is well affected to Parlt. 
 
 1651. Sept. 16. Mr. Brereton reports that Wm. Portei', by 
 indenture, Aug. 10, 1614, granted Sheill Rawe with the lands thereto 
 
 * The vicissitudes of the family of Place of Dinsdale may be read in 
 Surtees, Hist. Durham, iii. 230-238, while memoirs of Francis Place, the 
 artist (1647-1728), ' one of the first Englishmen to practice the newly dis- 
 covered art of mezzotint engraving,' find appropriate place in Walpole's 
 
 Cataloffne of En<i raver x and the Diet. Nat. Biog. 
 
 t Not 200/. as stated in the Calendar. 
 
 X In his account of Tanfield, Surtees, Hist. Durham, iii. 230, gives some 
 interesting particulars of this family and their property. Anne Porter, whose 
 name heads this chapter, was a dau. of Robt. Eden of West Auckland, and 
 widow of Wm. Porter of Shield Row, who was buried at Tanfield, Feb. 6, 
 1620. By him she had one son, William, the idiot above named, and one dau., 
 Jane, who married, Nov. 28, 1615, Nicliolas, second son of Sir Win. Blakiston 
 of Gibside, knt. The weak-minded son having died, Wm. Blakiston, the 
 petitioner, son of Nicholas and Jane, succeeded to the property, and married 
 Dorothy, dau. of Hen. Lawson of Brough. The subsequent history of the 
 family is a tale of misfortune. Petitioner's son, Ralph Blakiston of Cliester-le- 
 Street, died in 1701, and his children (by Mary Sampson of that place), althougli 
 descended from the opulent house of Gibside, and from Lawson of Brough, ' fell 
 into abject poverty and mingled their blood in alliance with the equally 
 ancient and unfortunate house of Conyers.' His younger brother, William 
 Blakiston, the last of the family who held the estate, died in 1737.
 
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 belonging, to Wm. Blaickston of Gibside and Wm. Tempest, to his 
 own use for life, and then to use of said feoffees, etc., with power to 
 said Wm. to determine said uses ; unto which gi-ant Roger Tockets, 
 esq., and Wm. Garth, gent., being lessees for years of the premises, 
 attorned Sept. 28, 1614. By another indenture of Sept. 28, 1614, 
 reciting the former, and that said Wm. Porter had only two 
 children, namely, William, who was weak both in body and mind, 
 and Jane, and two brothers, Michael and Nicholas, and desiring 
 that the premises should continue in his name and blood, it was 
 agreed that after the death of Wm., the father, if Wm., 
 the son, be thought able to govern the estate, or have 
 issue male, then living, the said lands, etc., should be conveyed to 
 him and his issue and their heirs male with various remainders : but 
 if he be not thought able and have no issue male living, then, after 
 expiration of the lease to Tockets and Garth, said Jane Porter, if 
 living, should have the profits, during the life of the son and two 
 years after, upon condition that if, within those two years, 
 Mich, or his heirs pay Jane 600^. if Wm., the son, have no 
 dau., and if he have any, then one moiety to Jane, the other 
 to the said daughters ; then upon such jDayment, the Trustees shall 
 •convey the premises to Mich. Porter if living and his heirs male, etc., 
 with various remainders over. But if the GOOl. be not paid the 
 Trustees shall, if Wm., the son, have no dau., convey the premises 
 to said Jane and her heirs for ever. — Thos. Peirson deposes that Wm. 
 Porter, the son, died without issue about July, 1647. — Thos. Dent 
 •deposes that Nich. Blaickston, esq., afterwards knt., deed., married 
 the said Jane Porter and they had issue Wm. Blaickston [the 
 petitioner], who is the only son and heir of the said Nich. and Jane. 
 
 1652. Apr. 1. Anne Porter is to prove that she has no jointure 
 or right in the estate except for her son ; Blakiston to make further 
 proof of his title and take the Oath of Abjuration. 
 
 1652. Sept. 22. Blakiston's claim allowed, sequestration dis- 
 vcharged, and arrears granted from June 14, 1650. 
 
 WILLIAM POWER OF DURHAM CITY. 
 
 (Gal. iv. p. 3097 J 
 
 1653. Mar. 18. Wm. Power of Durham, finding his estate in 
 the third Act for Sale and already surveyed for A'alue, petitions to be 
 allowed to compound on the proviso in that Act contained. 
 
 1653. May 28. Order of the Treason Trustees for the discharge 
 from sequestration of tenements, with appurtenances in Durham 
 City in the occupation of Wm. or Thos. Power, and lands, tenements, 
 etc., at Foxton, par. of Sedgefield, in the occupation of Robt. 
 Biuckle, late parcel of the estate of Wm. Power, gent., purchased by 
 Robt. Pescod of London, gent., who has paid the first moiety of the 
 purchase money.
 
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 MICHAEL PUDSEY OF MIDDLETON GEORGE* 
 
 (CaJ. h. [>. 30S9.) V 
 
 1652. Nov. 18. The estate of Michael Pudsey of Middleton 
 *George, co. Durham, appears in the third Act for Sale. 
 
 1653. Feb. 24. Pudsey petitions for leaA^e to compound in 
 accordance with the provisions contained in that Act. Particular of 
 his estate : — The mansion or farmhouse called Middleton George, 
 with the lands, etc., as the same are returned by the surveyors, Y.V., 
 119^. lis. od. Desires a reprise of 29/. Is. p. ann. for 5^ years in 
 respect of a lease of the premises by Cou. Com. to Jas. Salvyn, gent., 
 also of a reprise of a rent resolute of 3s. Qd. issuing yearly for ever 
 out of the premises, and a reprise of 26?. issuing yearly for ever to 
 the free school of Tiverton. — Referred to the Cou. Com. 
 
 1653. Mar. 1. Fine, 656/. 5s. _ 
 
 1653. June 6. Fine paid and estate discharged. 
 
 RALPH PUDSEY OF STAPLETON. 
 
 (Gal. Hi. p. 2354.) 
 
 1650. June 7. Wm. Hollyman of Monkwearmouth, begs to know 
 the cause of sequestration of his moiety of Monkwearmouth Manor, 
 which he claims in right of his wife, Mary, dau. and co-heir of 
 Robt. Widdringtonf and widow of Samuel Smathwaite, but now 
 sequestered for the delinquency of Ralph Pudsey of Sta])leton, in 
 Richmondshire. — Referred to Mr. Brereton. 
 
 1650. July 9. Brereton reports that the estate was sequestered 
 from Ralph. Pudsey as a papist in arms ; that Geo. Grey, one of the 
 Cou. Com., took it, but paid no rent, and passed it to Hollyman, 
 who pretends a title in right of his wife. 
 
 * The Pudsey family form the subject of a paper by the late Cauon Raine 
 in Arch. Ael. 2nd ser. ii. 173-190. Michael Pudsey, the compounder, only 
 son of Ambrose Pudsey of Picton, by Jane, dau. of Edwd. Wilkinson of North- 
 allerton, was born in 1618, and married Mary, second dau. of Gerard Salvin of 
 Croxdale. By her he had a large family. Dr. Raine states that Pudsey suf- 
 fered severely for his loyalty. Nor were his kinsmen more fortimate. His 
 cousin, Ralph Pudsey of Stapleton [see next case], a captain in the royal army, 
 was killed at Naseby, and the Act of IQTrl took away his estate from his 
 widow. Michael, however, survived these commotions, and recovered his 
 confiscated property. 
 
 t Robt. Widdrinftton, of Plessy, co. Northd., son of Sir John Witldring- 
 ton, of Widdrington, knt., by his second wife, Agnes, dau. of Sir Kdwd. 
 Gower, purchased Monkwearmouth Manor in 1597. His grandson, of the same 
 name, married, in second nuptials, Elizabeth, dau. of John Richardson of 
 Durham city, and she, after his death, was united to Ralph I'udsey. (See 
 note, ante, p. 133.) These extracts from the (Jnlendar make additions and 
 corrections to l)oth Surtees and Hodgson. Both historians assume that Robt. 
 Widdrington had only one dau., viz., Anne, although Hodgson (juotes a guar- 
 dianship deed in which she is described as ' one ' of the daughters of Widdring- 
 ton. It now appears that he had a dau., Mary, married rirst to Sam. Smath- 
 waite, and secondly to the petitioner, Wm. Hollyman. Cf. Hodgson, Hist. 
 Northd., pt. ir. vol. ii. p. 298, and Surtees, ///</. Durham, ii. 9.
 
 312 
 
 1650. July 12. John Hedworth of Harraton petitions that he and 
 his ancestors have held Monkwearmouth since 41 Elizth., and that 
 Hollyman has held half of it for 7 years in right of his wife. — 
 Ordered that the Cou. Com. certify who held it at time of 
 sequestration. 
 
 1652. Aug. ±. The estate of Ralph Pudsey appears in the second 
 Act for Sale. 
 
 1652. Aug. 13. John Aja^eson, alderman of Durham and tenant 
 of Monkwearmouth, petitions that he is wrongfully kejDt out of a 
 farm and ballast quay in Monkwearmouth, sequestered for the 
 recusancy of Ralph Pudsey, and taken by him from the Cou. Com., 
 in 1650. Wm. Holl5^llan pretends a title thereto, and has damaged 
 petitioner in 13Z. 6^«. 8^., besides the loss of corn, value iSL, which 
 he planted, but Hollyman carried away. — -Cou. Com. to certify and 
 Brereton to report. 
 
 1653. Sept. 21. Order that as Aja'eson is in ari'ear with his 
 rent because his crop was taken away, he pay in the balance above 
 the alleged damage by Hollyman. 
 
 1653. Oct. 6. Order repeated, with summons to Hollyman to 
 show cause why he should not pay Ayreson's damages — 61/. 6s. Sd. 
 
 1653. Dec. 2. Hollyman replies that he held the farm and 
 ballast quay when they were sequestered, and that, after the Cou. 
 Com. let them to Ayreson, he simply carried away his own corn 
 which he had sown, whereupon Ayreson complained and has obtained 
 60?. damages. Begs a re-hearing of the case in the country. — 
 Granted. 
 
 1654. Ai^r. 20. Hollyman Ijegs allowance for his repairs, having 
 been at great charges to remove the ballast and repair the quay. — 
 Cou. Com. to certify what repairs are needed and what are the 
 privileges of the quay.* 
 
 1650. Nov. 27. Elizth, widow of Ralph Pudsey, late wife of 
 Robt. Widdrington, petitions for her fifth of her husband's estate, 
 allowed her by the old Yorkshire Com. but refused by the new 
 Com. — Granted, with arrears since Dec, 1649, taxes deducted. 
 
 1651. Sept. 4. Allowed at her own request to prove the deed 
 of jointure from Widdrington, and the death of Pudsey, which entitles 
 her to a third ; Cou. Com. to certify who has held the lands during 
 sequestration and by what right, and what remains due to the State. 
 Pudsey is supposed to have been slain at the storming of Tradath in 
 Ireland. 
 
 1652. Sept. 1. Begs allowance of a third in her own right and 
 leave to farm the rest of her jointure, being lands in Monkwear- 
 mouth. Y.V., 130/., sequestered, etc., but her claim proved and 
 allowed by Cou. Com. — Further proof of her claim to be heard. 
 
 1651. Feb. 20. Robt. Eden and Isabel, his wife, widow of John 
 Widdrington, beg reference to counsel of their claim to a rent-charge 
 
 * .See the CoiTespoudence, aiiff, p. 53.
 
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 of 50/. on lands and the ballast shore at Monkwearmouth, granted 
 in 1621 by Robt. Widdrington of Plessy, for life, to John Widdrington 
 and his wife. Cou. Com. admit the deed, but the charge is seques- 
 tered for delinquency of Ralph Pudsey, who married Widdrington's 
 widow. 
 
 1652. Mar. i. Claim allowed, with arrears since Dec. 2-1, 1649, 
 on petitioners taking oath that they have not released their interest 
 therein, and Robt. Eden taking the Oath of Abjuration. 
 
 1654. Apr. 20. Col. Geo. Fenwick begs discharge of a third of 
 the estate in Monkwearmouth, which he purchased of Elizth., widow 
 of Ralph Pudsey, in 1652, and took from the Cou. Com. in May, 
 1653, at a rent of 100/. a year for 7 years, and the ballast shore at its 
 worth for one year. He has been at great charges in removing the 
 ballast, repairing the quay, and employing keels to take the ballast 
 from ships, whereby the profits are almost lost. Btegs that the Cou. 
 Com. may certify what has been expended, and that keels may be 
 forbidden to carry away the ballast. — Order given for discharge as 
 desired, with arrears from the date of purchase, Mrs. Pudsey's fifth 
 to be in part of said arrears ; the Cou. Com. to certify what has 
 been expended, and what is still needful. 
 
 1654. July 26. The Cou. Com. report that 280/. out of the 
 State's two-thirds should be expended in repair of the ballast shore ; 
 unless this is done, ships cannot safely come to the quay. 
 
 1654. Oct. 3. The C.C. resolve that, as the rent is only 30/. 
 a year, they cannot pay more than they receive, but that no rent 
 shall be paid for next year, the sum so retained to go towards 
 repairs ; the Cou. Com. to see that that sum and also the recusant's 
 third be so expended. 
 
 1655. May 22. Order, on Fenwick's request, that he have 
 another year's lease of the ballast quay at former rent on giving 
 security for jjayment. 
 
 1656. Mar. 5. On his application for allowance of two-thirds 
 of the rent of the ballast shore for repair of the quay, the Treasury 
 Commissioners report that the quay should be repaired at the State's 
 charge, but having no power to issue money without warrant from 
 the Protector, they request an estimate of the repairs needed on 
 survev, and further orders from the Protector. 
 
 SIR EDWARD RADCLIFFE. BART., OF DILSTON.* 
 
 (Cal. ir. 2>. 2580.) 
 
 1650. Oct. 30. Dame Clare, wife of Sir Edwd. Radcliffe. 
 petitions on behalf of herself and her children for a fifth of her 
 
 * ' Few families have been more unfoi'tuuate and more lieloved than that of 
 Dilston. Sir Edward reared for liiniself a house ; of that house not one stone 
 remains upon another. He endeavoured to raise his family to greatness : wha
 
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 husband's estates in Xorthd., Cumberland and Yorkshire, now vuider 
 sequestration for recusancy and debnquency, with arrears from Dec. 
 24 last. — Ordered accordinti' to instructions. 
 
 1650. jS'ov. 6. Like petition from Sir Edward, the Cou. Com. 
 having suspended the payment until it is confirmed by the C'.C. 
 — Granted. 
 
 1652. July 28. Gregory Butler of Cumberland, petitions for a 
 renewal of an order of the C.S. to the Cou. Com. on his claim to 
 certain lead mines, ore, etc., in Alston Moor, sequestered for the 
 delinquency of Sir Edwd. Radcliffe, by whom they were demised to 
 him. Was plundered of his former order and therefore it could not 
 be executed. — Referred to Cou. Com. who report (Oct. 12) that they 
 find nothing annulling petitioner's title. 
 
 1652. Aug. 4. The estates of Sir Edwd. Radcliffe included in 
 the second Act for Sale. 
 
 1652. Oct. 30. Certificate from the Registrar of two leases, 
 namely, the Thornborough estate [near Corbridge] to Thos. Kell, 
 and Ovingham farm to John Saunderson, both sequestered from Sir 
 Edwd. Radcliffe. 
 
 1653. May 28. Sale effected. Sequestration discharged by the 
 Treason Trustees, in the following terms: — Whereas Major John 
 Wildman on Apr. 6 last contracted with the Treason Trustees for 
 the purchase of the interest and estate of Sir Edwd. Radcliffe, bart., 
 in the manors of Dilston and Whittingstall. a tenement and lands in 
 By well, several lands and tenements in Corbridge and Errington, 
 Westwood Farm, par. of Hexham, Woodhall Farm and Woodhall 
 Mill, a capital messuage and lands called Wolley in Bywell, with an 
 ovei-shot water corn mill there, a messuage with lands and mills 
 called Whittall, par. of Ovingham, a messuage, lands, etc.. called 
 Portegate, par. of St. Johnley, 4 messuages called Newton Hall 
 with lands, etc., par. of Peter's Bywell, a water corn mill called 
 \Vliittley Milne, and 2 small cottages, a messuage called Gare- 
 gheele, par. of Hexham and the several lands, etc., in the territories 
 of Newbiggen, Woodhorn and Seaton, with lands, etc., in Ovingham, 
 all in CO. Xorthd., and whereas said Wildman has paid the first 
 moiety of the purchase money, it is ordered that the C.C. be desired 
 to direct the Cou. Com. to give the said John Wildman possession, 
 discharged from sequestration, etc. 
 
 does not know the issue of this greatness when it was at length secured ? The 
 very honours of the Radclitfes were their ruin. He married three of his 
 daughters into three ancient houses ; each of these houses has withered branch 
 and stem. There seemed to be a curse resting upon the house which no 
 offering could expiate and no disaster banish. Other lords have entered upon 
 the estates which he collected for his children, and the inheritance of the 
 Radcliffes is among strangers. The aged seaman, who has been a trusty 
 servant to his country, can now have an asylum where lie can rest in peace 
 till the storms of life are over ; but little does he know or think of the brave 
 deeds and the misfortunes of those once loj^al gentlemen whose estates have 
 ■enriched the royal hospital of (Greenwich.' Arrh. Ad. '2nd ser. i. 219.
 
 315 
 
 Same date. Like discharge to Wildman of the manors of Coastley, 
 Langhope, Bagi'aw and the Snape, par. of Hexham, also the manors 
 of Aydon Shields, Throckley and Thornborough, co. Northd., and 
 Alston Moor, Thornethwaite, Castle Rigg and Derwentwater, co. 
 Cumberland. 
 
 1653. Nov. 9. Like discharge to Geo. Hmd, gent., of the 
 barony and manor of Langley, Haydon Bridge Mill in Warden, 
 and that ferry boat or passage over the river called West Tyne, 
 otherwise South Tyne, at Haydon Blridge, and several other 
 messuages, lands and tenements belonging to the said barony of 
 Langley, co. Northd. 
 
 165-1. July 19. Wm. Hudspeth petitions the C.C. that the Cou. 
 Com. contracted with Thos. Gibson and Cuth. Blackborne for all 
 the lands of Sir Edwd. Radcliffe in Corbridge, for 7 years from 1651, 
 at a rent of 40/., and he, becoming their tenant at Hill Farm at 10/. 
 a year, paid them the rent till by order of the Cou. Com. it was paid 
 to their agent, Pye ; yet petitioner is returned as in arrear and his 
 goods are detained. Has the acquittances, but is in arms and far 
 from home. — Order to the Cou. Com. to certify why they have 
 returned Hudspeth in arrear, to restore his goods on security, and 
 forbear security for 2 months. 
 
 1655. Mar. 21. The Treason Trustees complain that the right 
 to Haydon Mill and the feriy there is contested by Sir Wm. Carnaby 
 as part of his estate. 
 
 1655. Apr. 3. The opponents ordered to show cause within a 
 month, or sequestration will be discharged upon the estate as being 
 Geo. Hurd's. 
 
 JOHN RAMSEY OF BEWICK. 
 
 (Gal. i. p. 202.) 
 164:9. John Ramsey, described as of " Berwick,"* compounds for 
 delinquency during the last war. Particular of his estate : A coal- 
 
 ■^ No trace of John, or any other Ramsey, can be found at this period in 
 the histories of Berwick, and therefore it is reasonable to suppose a misprint 
 for Bewick, where a family named Ramsey or Ramsay undoubtedly had 
 property. Authoiity for the change is justified by the Registers of Eglingliam, 
 in which parish Bewick is situated. Thus : — 
 
 July 27, 1664, John Cockburn and Margrat Ramsay, Bewick, married. 
 
 June 12, 1666, Kathren Ramsey, dau. Mr. John Ramsay, Bewick, baptized. 
 
 Sept. 6, 1685, Mrs. Alice Ramsay, 0[ld] Bewick, bur. 0. Bewick ChappcU 
 in ye Quire. 
 
 Apr. 24, 1686, Robt. Ramsay, O. 15ewick, bur. at the Chappell tliere. 
 If this correction be admitted, it probably applies also to the pedigrees of tlrey, 
 in which Catherine, dau. of Edwd. (4rey of Morpeth, by Margaret, dau. of 
 Sir Hen. Widdrington, is entered as marrying John Ramsey of ' Berwick." 
 John Ramsay possessed the manors of Old and New Bewick and East Lilburn. 
 His son George succeeded him and sold Wooperton to Sir Richard Stotc. 
 Mary Ramsay mar. Ralph Williamson before 28 Chas. II. and Elizth. Ramsaj- 
 mar. Edmund Ashton before 85 Chas. II. Mary, dau. of — Williamson of 
 Bewick, mar. Wm. Harvey of Chigwell and their two sons took Bewick in 
 moieties. Ex inf. Mr. J. Crawford Hodgson.
 
 316 
 
 pit called Coleburne in Bewick Moor, Y.B.V.W., 2/. ; the demesnes 
 of New Bewick, Y.V.B.W., 50/. ; 16 farms or tenements in Old 
 Bewick, Y.V.BlW., 71. per farm, 112Z. ; 11 farms or tenements in 
 East Lilborn, Y.V., 71. per farm. 111. ; 16 farms in Wooperton, 
 Y.V., 4/. per farm, 64/. ; 5 farms in Eglingham, Y.V., 40s. per farm, 
 10/. ; a mill, in Old Bewick, Y.V.B.W., 24/., all these held in fee. 
 He is allowed 4 farms in Old Bewick, mortgaged to Wm. Carr for 
 300/., at 7/. per farm, the mortgagee being in possession ; 2 farms 
 in Old Bewick now in the possession of Robt. Ramsey which he has 
 in the right of his wife from Gawyn Collingwood at 7/. per farm, 14/. 
 Fine at a sixth, 779/. 156-. Z\d., paid by a transference of his 
 estate at Wooperton to trustees for the use of the co. of Northd. 
 
 RALPH REED OF CHIRTON.* 
 
 (Cal. iv. p. 26S7 .) 
 
 1650. Nov. 27. Petition of John Salkeld of Rock, shewing that 
 one Ralph Reed being indebted above 1,300/. to one Mr. Milborne 
 of Chirton, co. Northd., for his security for that and other moneys 
 due to him assigned over 3 farms and certain collieries in Chirton 
 above 9 years since, and petitioner, at the request of the said Mr. 
 Reed, paid the said debts to Mr. Milborne, who, for his security, 
 assigned over the said 3 farms and collieries unto petitioner, and 
 Mr. Reed promised also to assign over one more but died before 
 it could be efi'ected. Petitioner further states that during the said 
 Ml-. Reed's life he received an annual rent of him for the same and 
 also of Ralph Gardner (who since married the said Reed's widow) 
 until of late the said Gardner has informed the sequestrators for the 
 county that the said farms and collieries were Mr. Reed's and he was 
 a delinquent, for which they have sequestered them and leased them 
 to the said Gardner. Prays an order to the Cou. Com. to examine 
 his title. — Cou. Com. to certify. 
 
 * This case is speciall}" interesting from the light it throws upon tlie life and 
 means of Ralph Gardner, author of that local classic, England's Grievance 
 Discovered in Relation to the Coal Trade, London, 1655. It was known that 
 Gardner, who defied the authorities at Newcastle, and arraigned their 
 monopolies before ' the supreme authorit}-, the Parliament of the Common- 
 wealth of England,' was a brewer at Chirton, near North Shields, but it was 
 not known that in right of his wife he was interested in farms and collieries 
 as well. It was supposed, too, that his wife was a daughter of Ralph Reed ; 
 but it now appeal's she was Reed's widow (daughter of John Salkeld of Rock), 
 and had three children at the time of her re-marriage, which took place at 
 Earsdon chuich, Sept. 9, 1646. Biographies of Gardner appear in a third 
 reprint of his famous book, published by Philipson and Hare, North Shields, in 
 1849, and in Men of Mark 'tivixt Tyne and Tweed. About the book itself, 
 its maps and illustrations, and the raritj"^ of the original issue in a complete 
 form, there is an excellent paper by Mr. C. J. Spence, in Arch. Ael. 2nd ser. 
 xiii. 285-305.
 
 317 
 
 1651. Oct. 8. Petition of Ralph Gardner of Chirton, showing: 
 that, near 4 years since, he married the widow of Ralph Reed of 
 Chirton, the said Ralph being dead about 2 years before ; that his 
 wife was, at the time of her marriage, possessed of her thirds of the 
 estate of the said Ralph Reed and of some salt pans and collieries 
 
 also in right of herself and her three children, which formerly belonged 
 to the said Reed, and during her widowhood and since her marriage 
 lias enjoyed the estate quietly, but the Cou. Com. made an order 
 in Aug. last (1651) for sequestering the estate of petitioner and 
 his wife as having belonged to Ralph Reed. The said Reed, 
 having been dead 6 years, cannot possibly defend any charge of 
 ■delinquency, and none should now be made. Petitioner prays that 
 he and his wife may not be disturbed in the enjoyment of their 
 estate.- — Referred to the Cou. Com. and Mr. Reading. 
 
 1652. Mar. 24. John Salkeld petitions that the Cou. Com. may 
 certify that Ralph Reed, though in prison, was not a delinquent 
 when he surrendered the property and state the time of the acts of 
 delinquency which caused his sequestration. — Referred to the 
 Cou. Com. 
 
 1652. May 20. Report from the Cou. Com. that from a court 
 roll of the manor of Tynemouth of a court held there, May 1, 1648, 
 it appears that Ralph Reed, gent., was a copyholder of the said 
 manor, of a tenement in Middle Chirton of the yearly rent of 40s. 
 and of another tenement there of the yearly rent of 40s. and 
 of another tenement in Middle Chirton of the yearly rent of 40s. 
 — Order thereon that as the surrender was in 1642, and the admits 
 tance in 1648, being the first court held after the surrender, and 
 as the sequestration was not laid on till 1650, after delinquent's 
 decease, the claim is allowed and sequestration discharged, with 
 arrears from date of petition. 
 
 1652. June 2. Order that the arrears be paid out of sequestered 
 moneys in the hands of the Cou. Com. or their next receipts. 
 
 1652. Aug. 3. Order on the petition (missing) of Wm. Strother, 
 jun., John Salkeld, jun., and John Strother, that the Cou. Com. 
 examine witnesses for proof of their title to the premises mentioned, 
 and the sealing and execution of their deeds, and certify the cause 
 and date of sequestration. 
 
 1652. Nov. 18. The estate of Ralph Reed of Chirton, co. Northd., 
 appears in the third Act for Sale. 
 
 1653. Jan. 21. Ralph, son of Ralph Reed, complains that his 
 father is in the Act for Sale, though he was never sequestered, but 
 died 7 years ago, and petitioner has enjoyed the estate since. As the 
 Act contains a proviso, exempting estates not sequestered before 
 Dec. 1, 1651, begs a certificate to the Treason Trustees that the 
 estate was not then sequestered. — Granted ; sale to be stayed. 
 
 1653. Mar. 2. The Cou. Com. having certified that the estate 
 was not sequestered on Dec. 1, 1651, the C.C. request the Trustees 
 to withdraw it from sale, and allow no further proceedings against it.
 
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 ROGER REED OF NORTH SHIELDS. 
 
 (Cal. ;. p. 202.) 
 
 1649. Roger Reed of North Shields, comj^ouuds with the Com- 
 inissioners at Newcastle for his delinquency during the last war. 
 Particular of his estate : In fee, after May Day next, a farm in 
 Whitchester, now in the possession of John Ogle, gent., Y.V., 55/. ; 
 in fee, after 3 years, 2 salt pans and houses thereto belonging at 
 North Shields, Y.Y., 187. 
 
 Fine at a sixth. 210/. 
 
 WILLIAM REED OF KYLOE.* 
 
 (Cal. i. p. 203.) 
 
 1649. Wm. Reed of Kyloe, compounded with the Commissioners at 
 Newcastle for his delinquency during the last war. Particular of his- 
 estate : — In fee, in right of his wife, a sixth of the lordship of 
 Keylo, Y.V.B.W., 16/. 13s. i:d. He is allowed a rent-charge of 
 13s. id. p. ann., payable to Mrs. Gray of Bradford, co. Northd. ; a 
 rent-charge of 1/. Is. payable to Ralph Grey and his heirs ; a 
 mortgage of the said sixth of Keylo for the payment of 100/. passed 
 over in 1640, being yearly, 8/. 
 
 Fine at a sixth, 20/. lis. 
 
 JOHN RICHARDSON OF BARMSTON.f 
 
 1645. Described as a gentleman, John Richardson of Barmston, 
 par. of Washington, co. Durham, compounds with Sir Hen. Yane and 
 his colleagues. — Fine, 100/. 
 
 1651. Nov. 21. Petitions Parlt. for pardon of offences before 
 date of compovmding and obtains it. 
 
 * See pedigi'ees of Reade, or Reede, of Feuham in Islandshiie, in Raine 
 {Hist. Xorth Durham), p. 179, and Grey of Kyloe {iJnd. p. .337). Compounder 
 is, apparently, Wm. Reed, jun., described in the pedigrees as of Fenhani, who 
 married Margaret, the eldest of six co-heiresses of Hen. Grej' of Kyloe. The 
 chapelry of Kyloe faces Holy Island and the Fames. 
 
 + Possibly of the family of Richardson of the city of Durham, who, according 
 to Surtees {Hist. Durham, ii. 49). had some midisclosed interest in the Hilton 
 manor of Barmston about this time. In the sequestration liook at Durham he 
 is described as Capt. John Richardson of Barmston.
 
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 Sill THOMAS RIDDELL OF GATESHEAD.* 
 
 (Cal. Hi. p. SOo?.) 
 
 16i9. May 5. Petition of Sir Thos. Riddell the elder of Gates- 
 head, knt., showing that he assisted the forces raised against the 
 Parlt., for which his estate stands sequestered, and his humble desire 
 is that he may be admitted to a reasonable composition for his 
 delinquency. Particular of his estate:- — ^In fee, a capital messuage, 
 with lands, mills, etc., also St. Edmond's all in Gateshead, Y.Y., 
 160/. Coal-mines, keels and colliery there. Y.V.. coDimunihus annis, , 
 
 * Sir Tho.s. Riddell of Gateshead was tlie representative of an old knightlj- 
 family in Northd., various members of which filled the highest offices of civic 
 government in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. In the year 1500, Thos. Riddell of 
 Newcastle was elected to the shrievalty of the town, followed by the niaj-oralt}- 
 in 1510, 1521 and 1526. \Vm. Riddell, appointed sheriff' in 1575 and mayor in 
 1582 and 1595, was his grandson, a son of Peter Riddell bj' Dorothy, sister of 
 Sir Robt. Brandling. William married twice ; his first wife was Ann, dau. 
 and heiress of '\^'^m. Lawson of Newcastle, by \\hom he had Thomas, the 
 compounder ; his second wife was Barbara, dau. of Bertram Anderson, 
 merchant and alderman, by whom he had Peter, afterwards Sir Peter Riddell, 
 elected sheriff in 1604, mayor in 1619 and 1635, and M.P. for the toMii in the 
 Parliaments of 1624, 1626 and 1628 and the Short Parlt. of 1640. ThoniasT" 
 the compounder, married Elizabeth, dau. of Sir John Conyers of Sockburn, 
 knt., b}' whom he had six sons and four daughters. He was sheriff of' 
 Newcastle in the municipal year 1601-1602, received the honour of knighthood 
 from James I. in 1603, became ma3or in 1604, and again in 1616, and in 1620 
 and 162S represented the town in Parliament. Two of his sons were knighted 
 during his lifetime— William in 1633 and Thomas, jun., in 16:-!9. During his 
 first mayoraltj-, he was appointed bailiff of Gateshead, and there, in a mansion 
 erected upon the ruins of St. Edmunds Hospital, he took up his zesidence. 
 There he was living when tlie Scots came in 1640 and laid waste his property. 
 For, according to a petition which he sent to the king, they disposed of all his 
 corn, both in his garners and in the ground, spoiled and consumed all his Iiaj-, 
 old and new, took possession of his two mills, spoiled man}' acres of his ground 
 by making trenches in it, seized his coals, broke his colliery engines, drowned 
 and destroyed best part of his coal mines, banished his servants and plundered 
 his tenants, bj- all of which he was damnified in 1500/. During the siege of 
 Newcastle, in 1644, he signed the famous letter in which the authorities 
 refused to surrender the town to the Scots ; after the siege he, with iiis two 
 sons. Sir William and Sir Thomas, jun., were 'sent for' b}- the House of 
 Commons. His great age (74) seems to have exempted him from imprison- 
 ment ; Sir Thomas, jun., fled the country, but Sir William was sent to the 
 Tower and while there (June 16, 1645) Mas assessed by the C.A.M. at 300/. and 
 ordered to remain in custody until that sum was paid. On his proving that he 
 was a prisoner at war and had no estate, the lieut. of tlie Tower was ordered 
 to send him in custody to be examined by the C.A.M. Later, on Auo. 13, 
 the restraint was taken off, but nothing further is entered respecting him till 
 Maj- 11, 1646, when he was 'allowed till .Monday' to submit an offer about his 
 assessment, or make an affidavit of his jjrojjortion. Tlure tlie record ends. 
 Sir Thos. Iliddell, sen., died Mar. 30, 1650, within twelve months of presenting 
 his petition. There is a revised pedigree of the family in tlie new Ili^/. 
 Northd. iv. 284 ; and details are obtainaV)le from tlie liistories of Newcastle ; 
 Surtees, //;'</. Unrlinm, ii. 127, 128 ; the ./omnxi/s of tlie House of Commons, 
 vols, ii., iii., iv. and vi., and the .Jovriial< of the Lords, vols. vii. and ix.
 
 320 
 
 1701., whereout issues a fee-farm rent to the Crown from the coal- 
 mines of ni. 12s. Craves allowances (1) 601. p. ann. granted by 
 him to Mr. Robt. Grey, 11: Car. I. out of his lands in Gateshead and 
 St. Edmond's in consideration of 750A ; (2) rent-chai-ge of HI. 16s. 
 to Jas., Chas. and Anthony Salvyn, out of his lands, coal-mines, etc., 
 in consideration of 560^. ; (3) rent-charge of iOl. p. ann. to Francis 
 Bowes, out of St. Edmond's in consideration of 500?. : (4) rent-charge 
 of 50/. p. ann. granted to Geo. Riddell* and Jane, his Avife, out of 
 his lands in Gateshead on the marriage of said George and Jane ; (5) 
 iOl. p. ann. to Robt. Riddell for life out of lands in Gateshead. By 
 deed, Apr. 3, 17 Car., for payment of debts and benefit of his 
 children, compounder demised all his coal-mines in Gateshead to 
 trustees for 7 years, commencing from his death. By deed Dec. 20, 
 20 Car. he made a like lease of the coal-mines for 3 years to follow 
 the 7 years for like uses. 
 
 1649. July 9. Fine at a sixth, 408/. 
 
 1650. Sept. 27. Petition of Dame Barbara, wife of Sir Thos. 
 Riddell, knt.f showing that without an order she cannot receive her 
 fifths of her husband's sequestered estate, and is put to great want 
 and misery. Prays for an order according to the directions of Parlt. 
 - — Granted, unless the Cou. Com. have received some order to the 
 contrary. 
 
 1651. July 16. The estates of Sir Thos. Riddell, sen., and Sir 
 Thos. Riddell, jun., appear in the first Act for Sale. 
 
 1652. Mar. 18. The Treason Trustees inform the C.C. that 
 Gilb. Crouch on Dec. 26 last, contracted with them for the purchase 
 of Lumpton Hill farm, par. of Hamsterley, late parcel of the estate 
 of Sir Thos. Riddell, knt., and has paid the first moiety. They 
 desire the C.C. to direct the Cou. Com. to permit Crouch quietly to 
 enjoy the premises, etc. 
 
 Same date. Similar notification that John Tonge has purchased 
 Tonstall and Throston farms and paid the first moiety. 
 
 1651. Apr. 15. Hen. Lambton and three other trustees beg dis- 
 charge of an estate of the late Sir Thos. Riddell. left to them in 
 
 * George Riddell, D.C.L., judge advocate in the army of the marquis of 
 Newcastle, one ot the younger sons of Sir Thomas, married Jane, dau. and 
 co-heiress of Dr. Eysdale, chancellor of York. 
 
 + Sir Thos. Riddell, jun., admitted at Lincoln's Inn, June 12, 1619, 
 Recorder of Newcastle, Governor of Tynemouth Castle and colonel of a 
 regiment of foot in the service of Chas. I., usually described as of Fenham to 
 distinguish him from his father, Sir Thomas. Married April 13, 1629, 
 Barbara, dau. of Sir Alex. Davison, and widow of l^lph Calverley of 
 Newcastle, merchant. After the storming of Newcastle in 1644 he escaped to 
 the Continent in a small fishing vessel from Berwick. Parlt. oflFered a reward 
 of 1000/. for his apprehension. He died at Antwerp in April, 1652. By the 
 death of his father in March, 1650, he had become Sir Thomas without the 
 affix 'jun.,' and the notifications of the Treason Trustees which follow refer 
 to his estates, and not his father's.
 
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 trust for payment of -100/. debts, but sequestered for his delinquency 
 and recusancy. — Referred to the Cou. Com. 
 
 1651. [April or May.] The C.C. write to the Cou. Com: — We 
 received yours of Mar. 28 last, touching Sir Thos. Riddell of Gates- 
 head, wherein you mentioned his delinquency and composition, as 
 also his death, and also the entering of Sir Wm. Riddell, his son and 
 heir, a papist and a delinquent in the first war, upon his estate, which 
 you have again secured, and that the said Sir William* thereupon pro- 
 duced to you an assignment or lease of March 22, 1619-50, made by 
 Sir Thomas after his composition, to Hen. Lambton and others in 
 our said letters mentioned, by which is granted all the said estate 
 for 31 years in trust for payment of his debts, to which we give this 
 answer — that as to the said lease or assignment, it being a charge 
 upon a sequestered estate, ought to have been compounded for by 
 the lessees, otherwise the estate to be sequestered according to the 
 Act of Aug. 1, 1650. You are, therefore, to sequester the afore- 
 said estate. 
 
 1652. Mar. 23. The Treason Trustees announce that Robt. 
 Rayne has purchased a tenement, within the lordship of Softlie, 
 now in his occupation, late parcel of the estate of Sir Thos. Riddell, 
 and is to quietly enjoy the premises, etc. 
 
 1652. May 19. Similar announcement that Gilb. Crouch, on 
 loehalf of John Rushworth, has contracted for the purchase of pasture 
 ground called Baldon, alias Baldwyn Flatt, a meadow called Little 
 Midgebarn, and a jDasture called Smoring Crooke, par. of Wickham, 
 and also a wayleave through Baldwpi Flatt for waggons and horses 
 to carry coals to the waterside, all late parcel of the estate of Sir 
 Thos. Riddell, jun. Possession to be given, etc. 
 
 Same date. The Trustees announce that Sampson Estwicke, 
 firent., on May 11, contracted with them for the purchase of the 
 lordship of Fenham and several messuages or tenements there, with 
 the collieries and mines of coals upon the premises, late parcel of 
 the possessions of Sir Thos. Riddell, jun. Peaceable entiy to be 
 given, etc. 
 
 1652. June 1. Like announcement that Edward Greene on 
 Mar. 10 last, contracted with them for the purchase of the manor of 
 Softlie with the lands, etc., late parcel of the estate of Sir. Thos. 
 Riddell. Possession to be given, etc. 
 
 1652. June 24. Sir Wm. Riddell's estate discharged; the 
 Trustees to jmy 20/. a year to the State and to receive the profits on 
 account, first paying to the State the debts due to delinquents. 
 
 1653. Sir Wm. Riddell begs the benefit of the Act of Pardon, not 
 
 * Sir Wm. Riddell, eldest son and heir of Sir Thomas, married Katlierine, 
 dau. of Sir Hen. Widdrington of Widdrington. Tiieir son, also named 
 William, who married Isabel, dau. and co-heir of Robt. Wyld, of Hunton 
 Hall, Yorksh., became involved in pecuniary troubles, out of which arose 
 consideraVjle litigation, and evcntuallj^ the (Gateshead estates of tiie family 
 passed away to the Claverings. 
 
 21
 
 322 
 
 beiii^ sequestered befrn-e Dec. 1, 1651, and haviu"; taken the engage- 
 ment. — Cou. Com. to certify date of sequestration. 
 
 1654:. Jan. 12.' Their rejiort being returned, he begs reference' 
 to counsel. — Granted. 
 
 JOHN RIDLEY OF HARDRIDING.* 
 
 {CaL i. p. 202.) 
 
 1649. John Ridley of Hardriding, co. Northd., compounds with 
 the Commissioners at Newcastle for delinquency in the last war. 
 His estate : A lease for 20 years to come of a farm in Hardriding, 
 Y.V.B.W., 13/. Qs. 8d. He is allowed a rent of 4Z. 6s. yearly paid 
 to Mr. Nevill of Cheate, in co. York ; also his mother's thirds out of 
 the said farm during her life, 3/. 0.*;. 2c/. 
 
 Fine at a sixth, 16/. lis. id. 
 
 MU8GRAVE RIDLEY OF WILLIMOTESWICK.f 
 
 (Cal. iv. p. 3154.) 
 
 1652. Nov. IS. The estate of Musgrave Ridley of Willimotes- 
 wick api^ears in the third Act for Sale. 
 
 1653. Nov. i. Petition of Francis Nevill, esq., showing that lie 
 is seised in fee of the manor of Willmanswick, with several messuages, 
 lands, etc. ; that Musgrave Ridley is tenant at will to j^etitioner of 
 a farm there called Whitsheilds, which the Cou. Com. have 
 sequestered for Ridley's delinquency, although he has no estate, 
 intei'est, or terms of years in the said farm other than tenant at 
 will as aforesaid. — Referred to the Cou. Com. 
 
 * Compounder was a descendant of the historic family of Ridley of 
 Willimoteswick, in the barony of Tindale — a family which included knights 
 and esqiiires who did doughty deeds on the Borders, and learned clerics, one of 
 whom is known the world over as Bishop Ridley, the martyr. He married, 
 first, Anne, dau. of Ralph Featherstonhalgh of Stanhope Hall, and second, 
 Mary, dau. of Edwd. Lawson of Brunton, and is entered in Dugdale's 
 Vmtntion as 'John Ridley of Hardriding, esq., now one of his Ma""- Justices 
 of the Peace in this Coiintj' of Northumberl', ret. 51 annor. 1 Sept. a" 1666. 
 He was major of a Regiment in the army of the Right Honb''' Willm. Marquesse 
 of Newcastle, for the service of K. Charles the first, as also Major in the 
 Garrison of Carlisle, Sir Philip Musgrave being Governour, and afterwards 
 Major to S' Marmaduke Langdale, knt.' Pedigree in Hodgson, Hist. Northd. 
 pt. II. vol. ii. p. 325. 
 
 + Another member of the Ridley family, but in the direct line of the elder 
 branch, and 'last of the lords of \\'illimontswick." Hodgson, in the pedigree 
 already quoted, states that 'he was plundered for his loyalty to Chas. I., in
 
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 JOHN RODDAM OF LITTLE HOUGHTON.* 
 
 fCal. iv. p. 2992.) 
 
 1652. May 10. On this date sequestration of the estate of John 
 Roddam of Little Houghton, Northd., for delinquency in the second 
 war was suspended by the Newcastle Committee, under the Act of 
 Mar. 2, 1649, preparatory to his paying or giving security for 
 his fine. 
 
 1652, Nov. 5. Sequestration discharged on his paying the full fine. 
 
 1652. Nov. 18. John Roddam's estate entered in the third Act 
 for Sale. 
 
 1653. Jan. 19. Roddam complains that notwithstanding his 
 discharge his estate is in the Act for Sale. Begs the C.C. to certify 
 the Treason Trustees, so that the estate may be discharged. — 
 Oi-dered to bring in particulars of his estate and prove his fine. 
 
 1653. Mar. 2. Petition renewed. Particular of his estate: — 
 For life, with remainder to his son, lands called Houghton and Brox- 
 field, with a mill, Y.V.B.W., 50/. lO.s. Craves allowance for a 
 mortgage of 130/. for which he pays 10/. lOs. p. ann. ; also he pays 
 8/. p. ann. upon a statute, the money owing being 100/. — Order that 
 he cannot be discharged, being in the second war ; but when his 
 purvey is returned and the fine set, the C.C. will submit to Parlt. 
 whether the money already paid may be accepted in part thereof. 
 
 1653. May 27. The Trustees for Sale requested to stay the sale 
 till further order. 
 
 1653. July 26. Order that he enjoy the benefit of his com- 
 position, and that the estate be discharged. 
 
 whose reign he held in rapite of the Crown the manors of Willimoteswick, 
 Ridley, Ridley Hall and Melkridge, besides divers messuages and lands there, 
 and the rectory of Haltwhistle.' How these manors passed into the hands 
 of the Nevills of Cheate, or Chevet, in Yorkshire, does not appear, but in 
 1663, ten years after the date of the above petition, Francis Nevill of Willi- 
 montswick is entered in the rentals of Northd. for Hensey [Henshaw] lordship, 
 1.32/., Thorngrafton lordship, 200/., Ridlej' lordship and Willimontswick, 208/., 
 Chesterwood, 20/., Millhills by Grundon, 10/., Crookbank, Hornstead, Over 
 Lingrass, Nether Lingrass, and Leadgaite, 45/., Milkridge lordship, 120/. 
 ' Then fell the Ridley's martial line 
 
 Lord William's antient towers, 
 Fair Ridley on the silver Tyne 
 
 And sweet Thorngraf ton's bowers.' — Surtees. 
 In 1661 Musgrave Ridley and Wm. Ridle}-, parish of Haltwhistle, and Hugh 
 Ridley of Hutton Busliell were bound in their recognisances to appear at next 
 York assizes for killing Francis Hobinson of Hackness, gent. — Surt. Soc. Pub. 
 40, p. 188. 
 
 * A member of the ancient family of Roddam of Roddam settled at Little 
 Houghton in the early part of the fourteenth century. Compounder was a son of 
 Edmund Roddam of Little Houghton, by Margaret Grey, dan. of Sir Ralph 
 Grey. In the Northd. Rentals, 1663, John Roddam is entere<l for Renington, 
 3/., Broxfield, 15/., Little Houghton, 125/., and Roddam, 60/. The family 
 history is noticed in the new Hist. Northd. ii. 166, 404-408.
 
 324 
 
 RALPH ROKEBY OF HARRATON. 
 
 (Cal. Hi p. 2375.) 
 
 1650. June 18. John Hedworth* of Harraton, co. Durham, 
 petitions the C.C. showing that by deed dated Aug. 20, 1599, his 
 great grandfather conveyed to his (petitioner's) father for life the 
 lordship of Harraton with remainder to his eldest son and his heirs 
 male, and so to all his sons in tail. Petitioner is the eldest son 
 of his father, who is long since dead, and has had possession of the 
 demesne, part of said lordship, for 3 years, and is no delinquent ; yet, 
 in April last, the Cou. Com. sequestered the premises and leased 
 them to others, on pretence that part of them belonged to Ralph 
 Rookesby, a delinquent, and the other part to petitioner's mother, 
 a papist recusant, whereas they have no title at all, the right being 
 vested in petitioner by virtue of the said deed, as also by a judgment 
 against Rookesby in an action of trespass and ejectment. Begs 
 discharge of the sequestration. — Order to Cou. Com. to certify who 
 was in possession at the time of sequestration. 
 
 1650. July 12. John Hedworth and Wm. Hollyman of Monk- 
 wearmouth, who holds half the estate in right of his wife, complain 
 that they have been turned out although they offered security for the 
 profits. — Ordered, that if those in possession at date of sequestra- 
 tion be not recusants or delinquents they are to be restored, and 
 prosecute their cause to a judgment in .3 months. 
 
 1650. Aug. 16. Hedworth complains of seizvu-e of his cattle on 
 pretence that they belong to his father-in-law, Geo. Grey, namely, 
 12 milch kine, 10 working oxen, 6 steers and 28 young beasts. — 
 Cou. Com. to certify the cause of their proceedings and not to dispose 
 of the cattle without further order. 
 
 1650. Oct. 4. Hen. Marwood of Durham, petitions for discharge 
 of a close at Harraton, the sequestered estate of his brother-in-law, 
 Ralph Rookesby, settled for payment of an annuity of 20/. upon 
 petitioner's wife, Dorothy Rookesby, hy her father. — Referred to the 
 Cou. Com. 
 
 1650. Oct. 11. Hedworth complains that his lands are not 
 restored, to his loss of 500A Begs justice and allowance of damages. 
 
 1651. Feb. 5. The order of July 12 to be enforced; Cou. Com. 
 to certify in 3 weeks all their proceedings in this case. 
 
 1651. May 28. Hedworth again begs restoration of his cattle. 
 — Cou. Com. again ordered to send up their proofs. 
 
 1651. May 29. Sequestration of the annuity to Dorothy dis- 
 charged with arrears since Dec. 24, 1649. 
 
 * Author of The Oppressed Man's Outcry, respecting which see notes to the 
 case of Thos. Wray. The petitioner, son and heir of John Hedworth of 
 Harraton (by his second wife, Dorothy, dau. of Sir Ralph Delaval, of Seaton 
 Delaval, co. Northd.), married Susan, dau. of Geo. Grey of Southwick. After 
 petitioner's death in Jan. 16.56, this lady became the wife of Col. Sir John 
 Jackson, and being left for the second time a widow, married Ralph Rokeby 
 the elder, whose son, Ralph Rokeby, jun., married Mary Hedwoith, petitioner's 
 aunt. Pedigrees in Surtees, Hist. Durham, ii. 18.3-185.
 
 325 
 
 THOMAS RUTHERFORD OF RUTCHESTER.* 
 
 (Cal. iv. p. 2604.) 
 
 1650. Nov. 6. Thos. Rutherford, with Hen. Errington and Hen. 
 Widdrington, gent., his trustees, petitions the C.C. showing that he 
 has been adjudged delinquent for being in arms against the Parlt. 
 in the first war, and other acts of delinquency, and that his estate 
 is under sequestration, whei'eby his wife and children are ready to 
 perish for want of bread ; begs, therefore, that, according to 
 accustomed rules, they may have a fifth part of the estate for their 
 maintenance. — Granted. 
 
 1651. Nov. 26. Robt. Collingwood of Durham, begs discharge of 
 Longbank [in Rutchester], demised to him at a rack rent of 
 13/. 10-^. 6d. by Thos. Rutherford and now sequestered for Ruther- 
 ford's delinquency. 
 
 1652. Nov. 18. The estate of Thos. Rutherford of Rutchester 
 appears in the third Act for Sale. 
 
 1653. Jan. 23. Hen. Tempest pleads that Gawen Rutherford and 
 h's son, Thomas, demised to him for 5 years, from 1642, the west 
 part of Rutchester for payment of 30/. p. ann. which has not been paid 
 on account of the wars. Begs allowance of the 5 years" rent from 
 Rutherford's estate. 
 
 1653. Jan. 27. John Sanderson begs to prove his title to a rent- 
 charge of 8/. on lands at Rutchester, granted him in 1642 by Gawen 
 and Thos. Rutherford. 
 
 Same date. Robt. Collingwood and Chris. Morpeth beg allowance 
 of their annuitv of 13/. lOs. on lands at Rutchester, sold to them in 
 1635 for 150/. by Thos. Rutherford. 
 
 1653. Mar. 17. Report from counsel that on Mar. 24, 1636, 
 Robt. Collingwood and Chris. Morpeth, in consideration of 13/. IO5., 
 yearly rent, demised Long Bank in Rouchester, to Thos. Rutherford 
 for 99 years, which said ground had been previously demised by 
 said Rutherford and Jane, Lady Wray, to said Collingwood and 
 Morpeth for 150/. — Discharge granted, with arrears, on Collingwood 
 taking oath that he has not released his interest therein. 
 
 1654. Feb. 6. Gilb. Crouch having contracted on Dec. 9 last 
 with the Treason Trustees for the purchase of a moiety of a messuage 
 called Rowchester Tower, Heddon on the Wall, Northd., forfeited by 
 Thos. Rutherford, discharge thereof from sequestration is ordered. 
 
 * The Rutherfords of Rutchester (Vindobala), if not possessed of much 
 wealth themselves, married into well-to-do county families. Scattered 
 references in local history show that Tlawen Rutherford, of Rutchester Tower, 
 married Grace, dau. of Thos. Swinburne of Capheaton, that Elizabeth, dau. of 
 Gawen, was united to Edward, son of Edwd. Gre}' of Morpeth, that Isabella, 
 another dau. , became the wife of Gawen Aynsley of West Shaftoe and Little 
 Harle Tower, while Thomas, his son, the compounder, married Jane, dau. of 
 John Errington of Errington, afterwards of Beaufront, by Dorothy, dau. of 
 Edwd. Widdrington of Cireat Swinburne, and that Thomas hail a son n;uned 
 William. Cf. the new Hist. Xorthd. iv. 188-190. In the Northd. Rentals of 
 1633, Thos. Rotherford is entered for Routchester at 120/.
 
 326 
 
 LANCELOT SALKELD OF SKIRMIXGHAM* 
 
 (Cal. Ir. p. 2038.) 
 
 1649. Dec. 20. The Barons of the Exchequer, being Commis- 
 sioners of Appeal in cases of sequestration, order that Francis Salkeld, 
 an infant of 12 years, be permitted to receive the rents and protits 
 of such lands as his father, Lancelot Salkeld, esq., deed., was seised 
 of as tenant for life and ' estated in,' in his lifetinie. 
 
 1650. June 24. Dorothy Salkeld of Whitehall, co. Cumlierland, 
 widow, certifies that neither she nor her late husband, Lancelot 
 Salkeld, ever claimed any right, title, or interest in Ewe Close, Milne 
 Close, or the Dams, or Skirmingham Mill, which always belonged 
 to the Porters. 
 
 ] 650. Dec. 3. Dorothy petitions for the fifth of her late 
 husband's estate, sequestered for delinquency and recusancy for 
 relief of herself and her seven fatherless children. [Particular of 
 estate missing.] — Order accordingly. 
 
 1651. Feb. 12. Wm. Porter of Low Holme, Cumberland, begs 
 discharge from sequestration of Ewe Close, Milne Close and Skirm- 
 ingham Mill, co. Durham, of which he is rightly seised by deed dated 
 Aug. 22, 1603. Petitioner and his father, who purchased it for his 
 use, enjoyed it for 40 years till it was sequestered for delinquency, 
 etc., of Lancelot Salkeld. — Referred to Mr. Reading. 
 
 1651. Feb. 20. Sequestration discharged; arrears to be paid 
 to petitioner. 
 
 1652. Nov. 18. The estate of Lancelot Salkeld, late of Skirming- 
 ham, appears in the third Act for Sale. 
 
 1653. Jan. 17. Dorothy begs to contract on the late Recusants' 
 Act for two-thirds of her sequestered estate. — Referred to Mr. 
 Readin<r. 
 
 BRYAN SALVIN OF CROXDALE.f 
 
 (Cal. iv. p. 2S05.) 
 
 1651. Nov. 7. Bryan Salvin of Croxdale, co. Durham, petitions 
 to be allowed to compound, having assisted the forces raised against 
 
 * Lancelot Salkeld, whose estate at Skirmingham (par. of Haughton-le- 
 Skerne) was sequestered, was one of the Salkelds of Whitehall, Cumberland, a 
 branch of the family at Corby in that county, as were also the Salkelds of 
 Hulne Abbey, Alnwick. According to Hutchinson (Hist. Cninherland, ii. 
 360), he married Dorothy, dau. of Alan Askeugh, of Skeughsby, Yorkshire, 
 by whom he had Francis, afterwards Sir Francis, son and heir, and other issue. 
 Surtees (HiM. Dui-ham, iii. 345) quotes a fine, dated 1606, by which Wm. and 
 Anthony Porter and Nich. Salkeld, gents., acquired from Thos. Norton, esq., 
 Skirmingham water mill and 70 acres of meadow there, the same property, 
 apparently, which Dorothy in her statement of June 24, 1650, disclaims. 
 
 + This young man, contemplating matrimony, with nothing to depend upon 
 but the bounty of his father, thought it wise to compound while single, lest a
 
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 the Parlt. in the second wai-, for which his small estate is not yet 
 sequestered, as he alleges. Particular of his estate : A gelding 
 worth 10^. ; some books and wearing apparel to the value of 10/. 
 1651. Nov. 25. Fine at a sixth, :}/. 6s. 8d. 
 
 GERARD SALYIN OF CROXDALE. 
 
 1645. Gerard Salvin of Croxdale, esq., compounds with Sir 
 Hen. Vane and his colleagues. — Fine, 800/. 
 
 1651. Nov. 21. He petitions Parlt. for pardon and ol^tains it, 
 for offences committed prior to compoimding. 
 
 JOHN SALVIN OF HURWORTH.* 
 
 (Cal. Iv. p. 2909.) 
 
 1652. Mar. 4. The Cou. Com. report to the C.C. that John 
 Salvin having refused to take the Oath of Abjuration, they have 
 sequestered two-thirds of his estate. [Particular thereof missing.] 
 — Ordered to act according to instructions. 
 
 1652. Apr. 21. Robt. Collingwood of Durham city, and Gilb. 
 Crouch, on behalf of the children and creditors of John Salvin, beg 
 allowance of a deed whereby Salvin, in 1651, demised to them his 
 messuage, chattels and goods at Hurworth, in trust for payment of 
 debts and raising jiortions for his children, Imt the estate is now 
 sequestered. 
 
 1652. Nov. 2. Mr. Reading reports that by indentures dated 
 June 24 and 25, 1651, John Salvin demised to Collingwood and 
 Crouch his messuage, lands, etc., with remainder expectant upon the 
 
 worse fate befel him after marriage. His father, the ninth (Jerard Salvin of 
 Croxdale, married for his first Avife Mary, dau. of Robt. Hodgson of Hebburn, 
 and Vjy her had two sons, (xerard tlie 10th, wlio was shiin while fighting for the 
 King at Northallerton in 1644, and William, who died luiniarried. Brj'an was 
 the elder son of a second mari'iage, his motlier being Mary, dau. of Bryan 
 Belasyse of Morton House. In 1652, having in the meantime paid his tine, 
 compounder was united to Catherine, dau. of Sir Thos. Tempest of Stella. 
 He died in his father's lifetime, August, 1658, and eight years later, when the 
 father departed, it was compounders son, the 11th (ierard Salvin of Croxdale 
 who, inheriting the family estates and marrying Mary, dau. of Ralph Clavering 
 of Callaley, continued the direct line of this ancient an<l honourable liousc. 
 
 * In the C'tli H<hi.r, John Salvin is entered as of Heworth, but tliat is 
 evidently a mistake for Hurwortli. He was a grandson of the 6th Gerard 
 Salvin of Croxdale and son and heir of Thos. Salvin of Tliornton Hall by his 
 second wife, Rebecca, seventh dau. of Cuthbert Collingwood of Dalden Tower, 
 CO. Durham, and Esbngton, co. Northd., the remarkable old lady whose case 
 follows. In Richardson's Imjiriiits of Ihirr I rartx (Newcastle, 1844), are two 
 petitions of John Salvin to the House of Commons, circa 1642, in which he 
 makes serious accusations against Bp. Morton, Dr. Cosin, Rebecca Salvin, his 
 mother, and Cieo. Collingwood of Dalden. his uncle.
 
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 death of Kebecca Salvin, his mother,* and all goods, etc., in said 
 messuage, to hold the messuage for 80 years and the goods for ever, 
 in trust that he should enjoy the same (goods, etc., excepted, which, 
 however, he may use at the pleasure of the trustees) for life, paying 
 56?. p. ann. to said trustees during his mother's life and after her 
 death 90/. p. ann. more. 
 
 [The deed mentions John Salvin's wife, Ann, and his children, 
 John (heir apparent), Thomas, Dorothy (wife of said Gilb. Crouch), 
 Elizabeth, Ann and Gerard.] 
 
 1652. Dec. 2. The claims of Collingwood and Crouch are allowed, 
 but two-thirds of 56/. reserved to John Salvin in the deed is to be 
 sequestered, and the Oath of Abjuration tendered to such of his 
 children, claiming benefit, as are of age. 
 
 REBECCA SALVIN OF HURWORTH. 
 
 (CaJ. iv. p. 3161.) t 
 
 1653. Aug. 9. Information received from John Clarke that Sir 
 Hen. Anderson holds 1,000/. of Rebecca Salvin's, though the bond 
 is taken in another name, and James Cholmley of Cramlington, 
 700/. ; two-thirds of both sums belong to the State on account of 
 her recusancy. 
 
 1653. Aug. 19. Cholmley to appear and show cause why he 
 should not pay in two-thirds of the debt. 
 
 1653. Oct. 26. The Warden of the Fleet to send Anderson with 
 a keeper, to be examined about the debt. 
 
 1653. Dee. 2. Rebecca Salvin, widow, | being a recusant, aged 
 90, or thereabouts, prays to be admitted to compound for her estate 
 [particular not found] respect being had to her great age, and the 
 withholding from her of the following rent-charges to her prejudice 
 and that of the Commonwealth, viz. : (1) 56/. p. ann. for ever issuing 
 out of Dawden, now belonging to Cuth. Collingwood and George, 
 his eldest son, who are 12 years in arrear ; (2) 40/. p. ann. for 
 petitioner's life, issuing out of the lands of Cuth. Heron of Pigdon, 
 CO. Northd., 12 years in arrear ; (3) 40/. p. ann. for petitioner's life 
 issuing out of Denton, now belonging to Geo. Tonge, esq., 10 years 
 in arrear. Begs the C.C. to order these persons to pay their 
 arrears by a certain day, and Thos. Horsley forthwith to bring into 
 court all deeds, etc., concerning her estate which are in his custody 
 or the custody of any other by his appointment. — Order accordingly. 
 
 * The will of Thos. Salvin, John's fatlier, is summarised in Surtees, Hi»f. 
 Durham, iii. 382. 
 
 f The first three paragraphs (August and October, 1653) and the itema 
 dated Jan. 19 and Mar. 16, 1654, are from the Cal. [C.A.M.] iii. p. 1469. 
 
 X Signed on her behalf by Rebecca Horsley.
 
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 1653. Dec. 23. Horsley petitions, denyiiif^ having any writings 
 of hers. — Order that he aj^pear or be taken into custody, and that 
 Mrs. Salvin have leave to prove that the deeds are in his hands. 
 
 1654. Jan. 17. Gilb. and Dorothy Crouch beg to compound on 
 behalf of themselves and their children for a debt of 1,000/. due- 
 from Sir Hen. Anderson to Eebecca Salvin, grandmother to Dorothy,, 
 to whom it was transmitted. — Referred to Mr. Reading. 
 
 1654. Jan. 19. John Clarke petitions that he cannot perfect a 
 discovery of some of the personal estate of Rebecca Salvin, because 
 those Avho hold it will not pay it in unless the securities are delivered, 
 and they are in the hands of Thos. Horsley of Horsley, Northd. Begs 
 an order for Horsley to bring in all the writings in his custody 
 relating to the estate. 
 
 1654. Mar. 16. Horsley being in custody for not producing 
 writings and answering questions, his counsel undertake that he will 
 answer and deliver the writings to Mr. Brereton, if they may be 
 returned when perused. — Order thereon that the examiner repair 
 to his chamber and take his answer, and that all writings relating 
 to Mrs. Salvin be delivered to Brereton, who is to peruse and report 
 upon them, and then return them ; Horsley, on so doing, is to be 
 discharged from custody. — Mar. 30. Order for his discharge 
 accordingly. 
 
 1654. Apr. 19. Rebecca Salvin petitions the Protector that, 
 being sequestei'ed for recusancy since 1642, and having many 
 children and grandchildren, she is 3,000/. in debt, and in danger of 
 losing her estate l)y the subtilty of Thos. Horsley and others pre- 
 tending an interest therein. Begs that her debts may be called in 
 (part taken as a fine, and the rest granted to her) namely, Cuth. 
 Heron, sen., Chipchase, Northd., 500/. and 40/. a year interest for 
 12 years; Geo. Tonge, Denton, co. Durham, 500/. and 40/. a year 
 interest for 14 years; Geo. and Cuth. Collingwood, Dalden, Northd., 
 400/. and 32/. a year for 15 years ; Ralph Cole and Robt. Bewick 
 of Newcastle, 500/. on a bond for 1,000/. and 15 years' interest. — 
 Order that they be brought in, one-third to be paid to petitioner, 
 who shall compound for the two-thirds. 
 
 1654. May 30. Further debts for which Mrs. Salvin desires to 
 compound : — Sir Hen. Anderson, 1,000/. ; his sons Robert and Henry 
 being security in bonds of 2,500/. for principal and interest ; Wm. 
 Read, Titlington, Northd., 300/. on mortgage, with 10 years' 
 interest; Ann Witham of Sledwi.sh, co. Durham, 100/.; Lawrence 
 Sayer, Yarm, co. York, 130/. with 5 years' interest. — Order for pay- 
 ing in their debts, Horsley to have notice, and Geo. Fenwick to 
 certify serving notice and orders. 
 
 1654. June 27. Order that Mrs. Salvin prove the debts of Heron 
 and Horsley, who deny them, and that the Cou. Com. sequester the 
 estates of Wm. Read and Ellinor [widow of Robt.] Bewick, who have 
 not appeared. 
 
 1654. June 28. Similar order to prove CoUingwood's debt who 
 denies it and asks for costs of his appearance.
 
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 165-4. July i. Sir Hen. Anderson* to the C.C. : — " I am ordered 
 to show cause why I should not pay in 1,000/. due to Mrs. Salvin. 
 I owe nothing but on security, and will not pay without discharge. 
 If the money be due to the State, they owe me far more than will 
 pay my debts, and then I need not lie in prison, as I have done 
 these 6 years, plundered of all I had. You have had my estate 5 
 years, and I received only 600/., of which 25/. was stopped for salaries 
 of your Committee. The receivers pretended to have received no 
 more, but the estate was let at 1,700/. It is strange that I should 
 be questioned as to whether the land be my own, after your Com- 
 mittee have let it as mine and taken the profits. I nmst appeal to 
 the supreme power against such injustice. You suffer me to lie in 
 prison and starve for debt : I pray immediate restoration of my 
 estates.' 
 
 1654. July 5. Ordered that as he, among others, was summoned 
 to bring in a debt due to Rebecca Salvin, principal and interest being 
 2,500/., and has neither done so nor shown cause to the contrary, 
 the Cou. Com. levy the same upon his estate. 
 
 1654. July 13. Thos. Salvin, infant, by Edwd. Colston and Mary 
 Hodgson, his guardians, begs discharge of sequestration and leave 
 to refer to Chancery his claim to a debt of 500/. on bond of 1,000/. 
 from the Mayor and Burgesses of Newcastle, settled by his grand- 
 mother, Rebecca, upon his father, Thos. Salvin, on his marriage with 
 Susan Hodgson, reserving to herself a life interest only. Thomas, 
 son of Sir Thos. Horsley, who has married Rebecca Salvin, f a grand- 
 daughter, holds the bond and claims the debt, and on j^lea of the 
 recusancy of Rebecca Salvin, sen., has obtained an order to seize it, 
 two-thii'ds belonging to the State. 
 
 Same date. Wm. Collingwood and Gilb. Crouch remonstrate 
 against an order [of July 5] granted to Rebecca Horsley in the name 
 of Rebecca Salvin, widow, to levy 2,500/. on the estate of Sir Hen. 
 
 * Eldest son of Aid. Hen. Anderson of Newcastle, who was elected mayor 
 of tliat town in 1575, 1583 and 1594, and represented his fellow citizens in the 
 Parliaments of 1584, 1586, 1588 and 1592. Henry tlie younger was knighted in 
 Aug., 160S, became mayor of Newcastle in 16 1 3, and was elected M.P. in 1614, 
 1620, 1624, 1625, 1626 and 1640. He married Mary, dau. of Richd. Remington 
 of Lockington, bj' whom he had five sons and two daughters. One of the 
 latter, Isabel, became the wife of Sir John Hotham, who, in tlie beginning of 
 the Civil War, bravely held Hull against the forces of the Crown. Later, 
 Hotham and his son went over to the King's side, and Sir Hen. Anderson was 
 involved in their disgrace. They were executed ; he was expelled from Parlt. 
 and committed to the Tower, with an allowance of 40s'. a week, to be paid out 
 of his estate. Although in his petition, siqyra, he complains that he has been 
 six 3'ears in prison, his committal to the Tower was ordered on December 12, 
 1643, ten years before. Possibly, therefore, making submission to Parlt., he 
 had been released and after an interval re-arrested and put into prison for 
 debt. His landed estate being at Long Cowton, his case as a compounder 
 '{Gal. iii. p. 2334) belongs to the co. of York. 
 
 t Tlie lady who signs the petition of Dec. 2, 1653, evidently.
 
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 Anderson, Crouch claiming the moneys due from Sir Henry by 
 statute and Collingwood those due by Ijond. — Order suspended unless 
 Mrs. Horsley show cause. 
 
 1654:. July 18. Suspension removed till Collingwood and Crouch 
 prove their title. In the cases of Tonge and Cole, the debts to be 
 levied on their estates ; Ellinor Bewick to have 2 months in which 
 to prove that she is not liable ; Sir Hen. Anderson's debt, with 
 interest, to be levied on the estates of his sons, Robert and Henry, 
 who are his sureties, and that of Lawrence Sayer on his own estate. 
 
 1654:. July 21. Robt. Clavering and Alex. Collingwood claim 
 the debts due from Cuth. Collingwood and Wm. Read by deed of 
 Feb. 1, 1645, on behalf of the grandchildren of Rebecca Salvin and 
 beg reference of the claim. — Granted. 
 
 1654:. July 25. Sir Hen. Anderson petitions the C.C. that, being 
 prisoner in the Upper Bench, he hears that they have ordered his 
 ■estate to Ije sequestered for a pretended debt to Rebecca Salvin, 
 which he denies. The sequestration is laid on against all law and 
 practice, execution being issued before any hearing. Begs leave to 
 plead, examine witnesses and have a just and legal trial. — Directions 
 given to stay the order. 
 
 Same date. Lawrence Sayer denies the debt which Thos. 
 Horsley demanded from him long ago by assignment from Mrs. 
 Salvin, but he could not raise the money, being in the Act for Sale, 
 and had to give new security to avoid imprisonment. — Ordered that 
 the debt be levied and remain in the hands of the Cou. Com. pending 
 judgment, but if Sayer give security he may have stay of levv-ing 
 and return of what has been levied. 
 
 1654. Aug. 1. Ralph Cole, alleging that the debt is a town debt, 
 owing by him and others of Newcastle, the depositions in Chancery 
 as to the trust for the use of Mrs. Salvin are to be allowed, Horsley 
 to appear in a month, all parties to be examined, and meanwhile the 
 le-v^ing of the debt to be suspended. 
 
 1654. Aug. 3. Mrs. Salvin begs dispatch, having hardly bread 
 to put in her mouth. 
 
 1654. Aug. 17. Thos. Horsley begs examinations to prove that 
 the debts which Anderson, Collinirwood and others are summoned 
 to pay to Mrs. Salvin, belong to him. — -Cou. Com. to examine and 
 allow him to cross-examine, giving notice to Mrs. Salvin. 
 
 1654:. Aug. 24. Ellinor Bewick, denying the debt, petitions for 
 a like order to examine and cross-examine. — Granted. 
 
 1654. Oct. 30. Geo. Fenwick sends up to the C.C, on their 
 order, the depositions in Horsley's case. 
 
 1654. Nov. 28 and 29. Tim. Remington petitions, complaining 
 of disturbance by Rebecca Salvin and Gill). Crouch in his possession 
 of Long Cowton Manor, co. York, demised to his father and brother 
 for payment of the debts of Sir Hen. Anderson, many of which they 
 have paid and others petitioner has convenanted to ]tay. Begs that 
 the case niay lie referred to counsel. — Granted.
 
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 1654. Dec. 28. Orders for levying debts upon the estates of Sir 
 Hen. Anderson, Tim. Remington and Lawrence Saver revoked ; 
 seizures made by virtue thereof to be restored. 
 
 1655. Jan. 9. Mr. Brereton to draw up a case regarding the 
 debtors to Mrs. Salvin for reference to the Protector.* 
 
 JOHN SANDERSON OF HEALEY.f 
 
 (Cal i. p. 202.) 
 
 1649. John Sanderson of Healey, co. Northd., compounds with 
 the Commissioners at Newcastle for delinquency in the last war. 
 Particular of his estate: — In fee, a messuage called Hely, Y.Y.B.W.,. 
 2>Ql. ; ditto, 4 farms in High Fawtherley and Low Fawtherley, 
 Y.V.B.W., 10/. ; ditto, a tenement in Dotland, Y.Y.B.W., 5/. He is 
 allowed 45s. fee-farm rent payable out of Fawtherley to the Crown ; 
 2s. fee-farm rent out of Heley : 8s. 4f/. fee-farm rent out of the tene- 
 ment in Dotland. 
 
 Fine at a sixth, 126/. 14s. 
 
 SIR WILLIAM SELBY OF WHITEHOUSE.J 
 
 (Cal. iv.p.2763; r. p. 3223.) 
 
 1651. Mar. 27. John Southey, barrister, of Gray's Inn, guardian 
 to Geo. Selby, an infant, son of Sir Wm. Selby, petitions the C.C. 
 that the infant, being heir at law to the late Sir Geo. Selby, is entitled 
 to two mansion houses with lands, etc., viz., Whitehouse, pai'. of 
 Ryton, and Stotfold, par. of Elwick Hall, both in co. Durham, late in 
 
 * This epitome of proceedings set on foot by a courageous old woman of 
 ninety, in whose veins ran the blood of Collingwood and Bowes, is but a bare 
 outline of the case as presented in the voluminous papers at the Record Office. 
 
 + All that is known about the family to which compounder belonged is con- 
 tained in the new Hist. Xorthd. vi. 171-174. 
 
 X The Selbys plaj'ed a conspicuous part in the history of the two northern 
 counties from the time of Edw. I. to the end of the Stuart dynasty. They are 
 frequently mentioned in the publications of this Society, notably in vols. 2 and 
 38, and pedigrees of them appear in Surtees, Hi><t. Durham, ii. 274, and Raine, 
 Hist. Xorth JJurhani, pp. 206, 315, 338. Their honours culminated in the 
 reign of James I. Five of them were knighted by James as he made his 
 triumphal marches between England and Scotland, namely, Wm. of Biddleston, 
 Geo. of Newcastle and his brother Wm. of Whitehouse, John of Twizell and 
 Wm. of Ightham in Kent. Sir Geo. married Margt., dau. of his relative, Sir 
 John of Twizell, and having royally entertained his sovereign in Newcastle on 
 one of his Scottish visits, was known to the end of his days as ' the King's 
 Host.' Four times he was mayor of the town and twice M.P. In St. Nicholas' 
 Church, where he was buried, his widow erected a magnificent tomb, which, in 
 1782, preparatory to a so-called 'restoration,' was sold by auction and broken 
 up to form foundations for new houses in Mosley Street, adjoining !
 
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 jointure to Dame Margaret, Sir George's widow ; that Wm. Selby, 
 eldest son of Sir William, died about li years since;* that Sir 
 George died 26 years since and Lady Margaret died half a year ago. 
 Petitioner has brought up the infant a Protestant and well affected, 
 but the Cou. Com. have sequestered the estate on pretence that his 
 mother, Elizth. Selby, is educating him a papist. Begs leave to 
 prove that the infant is not liable to sequestration and an order to 
 the Cou. Com. to certify the cause of sequestration, the rents 
 remaining in the tenants' hands meanwhile. — Granted. 
 
 1651. July 2. The Cou. Com. certify that Southey has been at 
 great charge in educating the infant a Protestant, that the estate 
 was not sequestered till Nov., 1650, and that it will be a great loss 
 if the estate, being a collier}-, be let to strangers. 
 
 1651. July 24. Mr. Brereton reports that Sir Geo. Selby, by 
 will dated Dec. 18, 1624, gave his capital messuage and land to 
 Dame Margaret, his wife, for life, while unmarried, under yearly rent 
 of 26/., and appointed said premises to his brother. Sir Wm. Selby, 
 with remainders over ; appointed also that Dame Margaret, during 
 widowhood only, ^hould hold the third part of the manor of Stot- 
 fold,t remainder to Sir William for life, with other remainders over. 
 By codicil dated Mar. 12, 1625, he gave Dame Margaret the Batehouse 
 and certain lands belonging, under rent of 10/., payable to Sir 
 William. Such estate as Dame Margaret held in jointure has 
 descended to Geo. Selby, the infant, who was about 15 years old when 
 Dame Margaret died. J 
 
 1653. Jan. 31. Sequestration discharged with arrears since 
 Dec. 24, 1649. 
 
 1654. Dec. 5. Petition of Geo. Shafto,§ infant, by his guardians, 
 Thos. Harrison and Phillis, his wife, showing that Geo. Selby, a 
 papist, having without colour of any title or interest obtained 
 possession of the moiety of lands called Pieldflatt, par. of Whickham, 
 belonging to petitioner's uncle who died about 12 years ago, 
 
 * Killed in a duel by John Trollop of Thornley at a horse race at Whitehall 
 Dyke Nook, Dec. 4, 1636. The Selbys and Trollops were at variance through 
 Trollop's great-grandfather contracting liis son and heir, Francis, to a daughter 
 of Wm. Selby, great-grandfather of the victim, under a penalty of 300/., and 
 afterwards breaking the contract, paying the penalty and marrying his son to a 
 daughter of Sir Francis Tunstall of Scargill. Surtees, Hist. Durham, vol. i. 
 pt. II. p. 89. 
 
 t Stotfold was acquired by the Selbys from the Nevills, earls of Westmor- 
 land, shortly before the attainder of that noble family. In 11 Elizth. it 
 comprised 5,310 acres, viz., 1,500 arable, 800 meadow, 1,000 pasture, 10 wood 
 and 2,000 furze and briar. 
 
 J Geo. Selhj' of Whitehouse (now Axwell), heir-at-law to Sir Geo. Selby, 
 was created a baronet after the Restoration. 
 
 § The Shaftos of Whickham and Swalwell were a branch of the Shaftos of 
 Shafto, CO. Northumberland. Petitioner was a son of Thos. Shafto of Whick- 
 ham by Phyllis Ogle, and heir to his uncle \Villiam, who died in 1641. The 
 family history of this brancli is in Surtees, /list. Durham, ii. 274.
 
 334 
 
 petitioner, for recovery thereof, sealed a lease to — Robinson,, 
 brought an action of ejectment and obtained judgment in Hilary- 
 term, 1651, but cannot obtain possession of the two-thirds of the- 
 premises delivered to him by the sheriff of the county without an 
 order to the Cou. Com. because the said two-thirds are sequestered 
 for the recusancy of said Geo. Selby. Prays for discharge or 
 examination. — Referred to the Cou. Com. and Mr. Reading. 
 
 THOMAS SHADFORTH OF EPPLETON.* 
 
 (Cal. Hi. pp. 1702, 1917.) 
 
 164:7. Aug. 12. Information laid against Thos. Shadforth of 
 Eppleton, CO. Durham, (1) that in 1643 he was a Commissioner of 
 Array for the Earl of Newcastle (who gave him a ]jrotection for 
 person and goods) lent him 200/. and gave horses to Thos. Riddell, 
 governor of Tynemouth castle ; (2) that he refused a commission 
 to be a capt. for Parlt. under the Earl of Essex, and went into the 
 King's quarters ; (3) that since he has been a justice of the peace he 
 has released jDapists from Durham goal, viz., John Etherington and 
 Thos. Todd, who are dangerous men and refuse the Oath of 
 Supremacy ; (4) that he has been a great countenancer of delinquents, 
 papists and ill-affected persons, as Toby Blaxton, Ralph Allanson, 
 Capt. Thos. Paul and others, threatening the witnesses against them 
 on examination ; (5) that he sent a man named Robt. Roljinson, 
 and a, bay mare worth 6/., into Col. Tempest's regiment, and sent 
 Litstei", his tenant, with another horse, into Sir Wm. Lambton's 
 regiment, who was at the battle of Longmarston Moor, which said 
 Litster is tenant to him still ; (6) that he gave Ralph Allanson, 
 Peter Blakiston and others entertainment secretly in his house at 
 Eppleton ; (7) that he received the tithes of Hulaui, and other 
 revenues and profits of the lands of Dr. Cosin and other delinquents, 
 without authority from the State, and lays heavy burdens on the 
 tenants of sequestered estates. 
 
 1648. Mar. 5. The House of Commons order that the informa- 
 tion and letters sent from the Cou. Com. of Durham concerning Mr. 
 Thos. Shadforth and others with several petitions and informations 
 
 * Thos. Shadforth was brother-in-law to Bishop Cosin, liaving married 
 EUzabeth, while the bishop married Frajices, daus. of Marmaduke Blakiston, 
 prebendary of Durham. There are many references to him iu Covin's Corren- 
 jjoiiflence, Surt. Soc. Pub. 55. The family history finds ample exposition in 
 Surtees, Hut. Durham, i. 219-221. See also, ante, the case of Geo. Lilbuni, 
 where charge and countercharge Itetween Shadforth and Lilburn, both of them 
 sequestrators and professed Parliamentarians, shoot out briskly. Eppleton 
 estate, Surtees relates, was lost to the family through the misfortunes of Tlios. 
 Shadforth, grandson of the sequestrator, who sold it in 1692, retired to Bishop 
 Auckland, and before his death received parish relief from the township of 
 which he had been almost the sole proprietor.
 
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 in the hands of Mr. John Blakistoii be referred to the Northern 
 Committee, and that they sit this afternoon and so, de die in diem : 
 And that Sir Arth. Haslerigg and Col. Geo. Fenwick be added to the 
 said Committee. 
 
 161:9. Feb. 1. Charges exhibited against him: — (1) That being 
 of the Militia Committee for co. Durham he deserted Sir Arth. 
 Haslerigg, and rode armed out of the county with nine men, and; 
 kept away till after the battle of Preston ; (2) that he entertained- 
 divers delinquents in his house, notably Capt. Ralph Allanson ; (3) 
 that when Nich. Todd was brought in for delinquency before the 
 Cou. Com. of Durham, Shadforth, in a furious manner, asked who 
 were the witnesses against Todd, and being told, replied they were 
 foresworn men, and railed on them, obliging the Committee to break 
 up their sitting; (-i) that being one of the Cou. Com. he has con- 
 stantly absented himself from serving thereon ever since the 
 beginning of the last war against the Scots ; (5) that he effected the- , 
 ejection of Mr. Easthorp,* minister of Houghton, for remonstrating V 
 with him on his leaving the county. 
 
 164:9. Apr. 6. Shadforth pleads not guilty and petitions that 
 the charges against him may be referred to gentlemen in the- 
 Northern Counties, or put in some other way for speedily clearing 
 his innocence. Begs that, as none of the charges have been proved 
 he should not be troubled to summon witnesses in his vindication. 
 
 1650. Apr. 15. Order of the House of Commons that con- 
 sideration of the accusations and examinations respectively exhibited 
 against Mr. Shadforth (and others) and the whole business touching 
 them be referred to the Committee of G.H. 
 
 1650. May 24. Depositions l^efore the Cou. Com. ex parte Thos. ^ 
 Shadforth: — John Cooper of East Renton. co. Durham, says that 
 being bailiff of Easington ward when Col. Bowes was sitting on the // 
 Commission of Array in the school house of Houghton, he was com- 
 manded to call together all the inhabitants of his ward, but Thos. 
 Shadforth said the writ was illegal and persuaded them not to be 
 arvaj-ed. Like evidence given by Leonard Smith of Easton, Phillip 
 Brough, constable of East Renton, Thos. Brough, Ralph Wilkinson, 
 John Wheatley and Mich. Rol^inson. Edwd. Lee of Sunderland 
 deposes that he went with Marmaduke Tunstall to the Parlt. Com- 
 missioners at Berwick and delivered a message from Thos. Shadforth 
 and others, tendering a loan of money for the service of Parlt. The 
 following persons also gave evidence : — Geo. Lilliurn of Sunderland, 
 Thos. Ellison of Morton, Geo. Midleton* of Silksworth, Francis Midle- 
 ton of Oft'erton, Ralph Holmes of BislKjpwearmouth, Riehd. Smith of 
 Tonstall, John Ranson of Houghton in the Spring, Wm. Litster of 
 Eppleton, John Husband of Darlington, Timothy "Whittingham, Thos. 
 Midford, Hen. Busby and Ralph Daylle. 
 
 * Easthoi-p does not ajiiiear in the list of rectors in the county histories, 
 but is mentioned in the Churcli Books under date 1650. He evidently preceded ' 
 Battersby, who is entered as 'an intruder' at Houghton in 1659.
 
 336 
 
 1651. Mar. 3. Shadforth begs publication of his case. Parlt. 
 referred the charges against him to the C.C. who referred them to 
 the Cou. Com., who have examined and certified. — Gi-anted. A com- 
 mission is to examine further on the State's part and petitioner is 
 to have liberty to cross-examine. 
 
 1651. June 3. Petition for publication renewed. — Granted. 
 
 1652. June 11 [Gal. (C.A.M.) iii. p. 1,445]. A charge of delin- 
 quency being made against him by the Cou. Com., from which he 
 begs discharge on the Act of Pardon, it is granted, provided he were 
 not sequestered before Dec. 1, 1651, and takes the engagement, if 
 he has not already taken it. 
 
 MARK SHAFTO OF NEWCASTLE.* 
 
 {Cal. [C..\.M.] ii. p. 650.) 
 
 1645. [Dec. 1?] Information received by the C.A.M. that Mark 
 Shafto of Gray's Inn and Xewcastle, lived in the enemy's quarters 
 till taken prisoner to Sunderland, where he was accused of joining 
 papists and Irish rebels and assisting the Earl of Newcastle's army. 
 When asked what he could do for Parlt. he answered nothing, as he 
 had no great estate. His old friend, Hen. Darley, got leave for 
 him to go to the Commissioners at Durham, but he slipped away and 
 went home, though a jDrisoner, and refused to meet them on their 
 summons, even when engaging to do so. He was chief adviser of 
 Sir John Marley in his designs against Parlt., and in the execution 
 of four of the Parity, army, and has visited him without leave since 
 his imprisonment. He sat at Newcastle by a commission of Oyer 
 and Terminer dated Sept., 1643, under the Great Seal, when Parlt. 
 had declared the seal of no validity. He also sat at the trial of 
 John Smart at Durham and consented to his sentence. 
 
 * Mark Shafto, son, grandson and great-grandson of mayors and sheriffs of 
 Newcastle, was elected Recorder of the town in 1648. He purchased Whit- 
 worth, and marrying Mary, dau. of Aid. Thos. Ledgard, treasurer of the 
 Northern C.C, became the father of Sir Robe. Shafto, twice Recorder of 
 Newcastle. Sir Robert took for his wife Catherine, dau. of Sir Thos. Widdring- 
 ton by Frances, dau. of Ferdinando, Lord Fairfax, and thus Whitworth, like 
 other estates in the northern counties, came from a loyalist owner into the 
 hands of a family of Parliamentarians. Dodd (i/?"sV. Sptnnymoor, p. 35) states 
 that Mark Shafto was known to his contemporaries as 'Six Bottle Mark,' Ln 
 compliment to his capacity for port wine ; and he professes to find a delicate 
 allusion to this pi'opensity upon his tomlistone in Whitworth church, as witness 
 the fifth line of the following quotation from the epitaph : — 
 
 VIR ERAT IN OMNI VITA AMABILIS, 
 
 ET EXEMPLUM 
 
 PIETATIS ERGA DEUM, 
 
 LIBERALITATIS IN EGENOS, 
 
 HILARITATIS INTER AMICOS, 
 
 HUMANITATIS ERGA OMNES, 
 
 FACILIUS LAUDAND, QUAM IMITANDUJI.
 
 To these charges Mai'k Shafto replied: — (1) That he lived where 
 some of Col. Weldon's troops sometimes came and saw him, and at 
 other times passed by, and where Lord Calender's army lay and 
 passed by. He was in such a place with part of his family when 
 A message was sent from his lordship that if he would come and 
 <ihallenge one Geo. Armorer, then being in the army amongst them, 
 to be his servant as he had affirmed himself to be, and had been 
 taken by them in seeking a horse taken from him (Mark) that day, 
 he woidd presently be dismissed and not kept as a prisoner there; but 
 Lord Calender had gone on to Lmnley, where he (Mark) was when 
 the Connnissioners came. (2) That he was not able to do more than 
 furnish a horse completely for the service of Parlt., his estate being 
 wholly in land, much in his own hands and unstocked, and he greatly 
 indebted. (.3) Being without horses he could not wait upon the 
 Connnissioners before they had moved on to Sunderland. (4) Being 
 at Witton, Sir Wm. Darcy gave him notice to appear at Durham 
 before the Commissioners next time they came there, which he did. 
 '(5) He was summoned in writing on Sept. 12 last, by Capt. Birbeck, 
 to appear next day at Sunderland before the Commissioners. Living 
 IS miles away he sent his servant with a letter giving reasons for 
 not appearing, viz., that he would not be able to return in time to 
 keep, as steward, Sir Hen. Vane's Courts at the beginning of the 
 following week and that the plague had dangerously Ijurst forth 
 in Sunderland. (6) Having begun to keep the Courts of Sir Hen. 
 \ane, Capt. Chambers, with some horse, by warrant from the Com- 
 missioners, apprehended him when sitting as steward for the manor 
 and lordship of Staindrop, keeping a Court Leet and a Court 
 Baron, to which ai'rest he submitted, and was in custody for a night 
 and a day, until the Capt,, by the mediation of Sir Geo. Van© and 
 Mr. Thos. Bowes, was persuaded to suffer him to go at large, and 
 keep the rest of Sir Hen. Vane's Courts, they undertaking that, 
 upon the return of the Connnissioners from Westmorland, he should 
 appear before them, which he did. (7) As kinsman of Sir John 
 Marley he visited him in prison, as others did. but denies having 
 offered himself as security for Sir John's bail. (8) Divers felons 
 having been for a long time in the gaol of the castle of Newcastle, 
 and no assize or gaol delivery having been held for a year, and no 
 prospect of one by reason of the troubles, he was requested by some 
 gentlemen on behalf of the county of Northd. to join in the execution 
 ■of a connnission of Oyer a)id Terminer under the great seal of 
 England at Stafford, for that county, wherein, in May, 1643, he 
 joined with other knights and gentlemen of that county but not 
 an^'thing which had relation to Parlt. was in question before them, 
 neither did the Commission liear date in Sept., 104.3, as is alleged. 
 (9) He never sat at Durham upon the trial of Smart nor consented 
 to the sentence, nor was privy to his indictment, confession or 
 arraignment. His reason for being at Durham on that day was 
 that the same day was appointed for trial of jiersonal actions in 
 
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 the Court of Pleas there, and he spent about a day and a half there 
 in taking instructions from his clients in their causes and afterwards 
 in pleading of them. (10) He never advised Sir John Marley in any 
 design whatsoever against the Parlt., and until now never heard or 
 knew of any men of the Parity, army, or any others, to be executed 
 by Sir John Marley. 
 
 1645. Dec. 12. Order in the Cou. Com. that all former pro- 
 ceedings against Mark Shafto be declared void, as he has given 20/. 
 to show his affection to Parlt. 
 
 1651. May 14. Information received that Shafto was proved a 
 delinquent in 1645, but is not sequestered and has not compounded. 
 
 1651. May 16. His estate to be seized and secured ; but (May 20) 
 allowed to hold it on giving security in 1,000/. 
 
 1651. June 3. Cou. Com. to certify proceedings in the case and 
 whether there has been any erasure, interlining or alteration of 
 the records. 
 
 1651. June 18. Case postponed. Shafto is going to Newcastle 
 and is not to be prejudiced or surprised in his absence. 
 
 1652. July 6. Request for his discharge on the Act of Pardon, 
 return of his security and a certificate of the proceedings. 
 
 1652. July 28. Granted, provided he was not sequestered on 
 Dec. 1, 1651. 
 
 THOMAS AND ROWLAND SHARPER OF NEWCASTLE.* 
 
 (Cal. a. p. 1.209.) 
 
 1646. Apr. 25. Thos. Sharper petitions for leave to compound 
 for his delinquency in being in the King's service at Tynemouth 
 Castle. Was there at its surrender, obtained the protection of the 
 Earl of Leven and deserted the Service. Has been in prison since 
 Sept. 1 last. Particular of his estate: — A lease of a corn tithe 
 belonging to Church Acliffe, Scoole Acliffe and Braferton, held of the 
 
 * Capt. Thos. Sharper, engaged in the siege of Newcastle, was one of the 
 delinquents sent for !)y the Commons for participation in the town's resistance. 
 He appears to have taken I'efuge in Tynemouth Castle, which, eight days after 
 the fall of Newcastle, surrendered to the Scots upon terms of which he was able 
 to take advantage, though, a year later, he was committed to prison. Shortly 
 after compounding he died, leaving a widow, wlio, paj'ing tlie fines, obtained 
 possession of the property. The name of Sharper is not common in Newcastle 
 history, and it is possible that an old lady wlio made it notorious by an extra- 
 ordinary act of self-murder was related to the compounder. The Register of 
 St. Andrew's church, Newcastle, under the date of the old woman's burial 
 (Aug. 8, 1703), tells the dismal story in brief, thus : — 'Elizabeth Sharper, who 
 lived in Sidgate [Percy Street], rip open her owen belle with a par o' sesers ; the 
 wound was six enches long and her pudens cam out and lay on each sid of her. ' 
 In Memoirn of Ambrose Barves (Surt. Soc. Pub. 50, p. 238], the details are given 
 at some length as an example of God's severity on an old unmarried woman of 
 eighty who, it was whispered, bore a child to another woman's husband in her 
 younger years.
 
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 Dean and Chap, of Durham, 12 years being unexpired; Y.V., 30/, 
 above rent reserved, which is 14/. 6s. 8d. yearly. He is indebted 
 in part for this lease, 150/. The State and Parity, army have taken 
 the entire profits these 2 last years, without allowing either him or 
 his wife the fifth part according to the ordinance. He has also a 
 house in Newcastle, Y.V., 6/., and a sixteenth part of the following 
 ships of Newcastle : — The Mary, 30/. ; The Elizabeth, 80/. ; The May 
 Flower, 60/. ; The Concord, 40/. 
 
 1646. July 7. Fine fixed at 63/. 
 
 1649. Apr. 20. Rowland Sharper begs to compound for 11. 
 a Y&dur by way of addition to the estate of the late Thos. Sharper, 
 he being heir at law of the said Thomas. The estate is a messuage 
 in Newcastle in the tenure of Elizth. Sharper, Y.V., 7/. 
 
 1649. Apr. 28. Fine at a tenth, 14/. 
 
 1652. May 20. Both fines having been paid on behalf of 
 Elizabeth, widow of Thos. Sharper, the estate is discharged, and she 
 is restored to full possession. 
 
 CHRISTOPHER SHAW OF INGLETON. 
 
 1645. Described as a yeoman, Chris. Shaw of Ingleton, near 
 Staindrop, co. Durham, compounds with Sir Hen. Vane and his 
 colleagues. — ^Fine, 25/. 
 
 1651. Nov. 21. Petitions Parlt. for pardon, and obtains it, on 
 the ground that he has already compounded. 
 
 CAPTAIN JOHN SHAW OF FERRYHILL.* 
 
 (Cal. iv. IX 2619.) 
 
 1650. Nov. 21. The Cou. Com. report that John Shaw, being 
 High Constable [of Darlington ward] when the Earl of Newcastle 
 was raising an army, issued warrants, etc., against Parlt., on which 
 they secured his estate. 
 
 1651. Jan 20. The charges against him are: — (1) That he was 
 a High Constable in co. Durham when the Earl of Newcastle was 
 raising an army in the said county ; (2) that he executed several 
 warrants from the then Committee for the raising of money and 
 
 * The family of Shaw had lands at Ferryhill, Pittington, Cornforth and 
 Thrislington, and were substantial yeomen in that part of the bishopric. In 
 1613, the Fulthorpes of Tunstall alienated Thrislington to their tenants, Wm. 
 and John Shaw of that place ; and William, wlio died in 1632, left lands in 
 Ferryhill and North Pittington to his eldest son John — Capt. John Shaw, 
 described above as of Ferryhill. Capt. Shaw represented the tenants of the 
 Dean and Chapter of Durham in negotiations with the contractors for sale 
 of the Cliapter estates in 1649. Surtees, Hint Durham, i. 113 ; iii. 16, 286. As 
 in so many other compountling cases, the record ends abruptly, and nothing 
 transpires as to further proceedings.
 
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 furnishing cai'riages for the use of the said aiiny against the Parlt. : 
 (3) rhat he continued in the said office all the time the Earl was in 
 the county; (4) that in 1648, when Duke Hamilton invaded England 
 with an army, he openly said that he who did not want the Scots in 
 England was not an honest man, for there was never more need of 
 their coming than at that time, or Words to that effect. The follow- 
 ing persons deposed to the above : — John Farrer, Durham ; Jos. 
 Heirrison, Little Chilton ; Thos. Maltby, Great Chilton ; Luke Key, 
 ditto ; Thos. Hixon, Merrington ; Hen. Moorcroft, Durham ; Heii. 
 Ooodyeare, North Awkland. The following deposed on his behalf : - — 
 Capt. Thos. Lilburn, Offerton ; Robt. Sharpe, Hawthorn ; Capt. 
 Anthony Smith, Dalton ; Geo. Shawe, Pittington ; Robt. Tatuni, 
 Ferriehill ; Robt. Dun, ditto ; John Willy, Merrington. Jas. Crosby 
 of Ferriehill, deposed that in 1643 Baptist Johnson took Capt. John 
 Shaw and carried him prisoner to Durham for being negligent in 
 his office of High Constable in sending in carriages, and he was 
 divers times threatened for his backwardness in that service by 
 several of the Earl's forces. Lawrence Brack of Ferryhill deposed 
 that after Shaw went into the Parliament's service the Earl's forces 
 plundered his house, drove away all his goods to the value of 220/. 
 {by reason whereof his land lay waste, and his damage could not be 
 less than 200/.), and plundered him so near that his children were 
 stripped naked and thrown out of their beds on to the straw. Robt. 
 Richardson, Tudhoe ; Edwd. Alwen, Alwent ; Peter Hutchinson, 
 Bp. Midleham ; Capt. Adam Shipperdson, and Hen. Goodyeare testifj' 
 that Capt. Shaw was well affected to the Parlt. 
 
 1651. Aug. 6. Request made on his behalf that publication may 
 be stayed and witnesses examined by the Cou. Com. about a con- 
 fession he is said to have made. — Order for examinations on oath 
 that neither Shaw nor anyone on his behalf has seen the depositions. 
 
 WILLIAM SHERATON OF ELWICK.* 
 
 {Gal. iv. IX 3103.) 
 
 1644. Sept. 3. Warrant to sequester the lands, etc., of Wm. 
 Sheraton of Elwick, co. Durham. 
 
 1652. Nov. 18. Wm. Sheraton's estate appears in the third Act 
 for Sale. 
 
 1653. Mar. — . Annual value of Sheraton's estate (all in Elwick) 
 as per survey : — A house of 3 rooms with barn, stable, malt-kiln and 
 garth, bounded by the garths of Jas. Craggs and Thos. Wilkinson, E., 
 
 * In a catalogue of gentlemen of the county of Durham who bore com- 
 missions, and were more or less deeply engaged on the King's side, the name 
 of the conipovmder is entered as Capt. Wm. Sheraton. The proceedings show 
 that he was one of those determined Royalists who would not avail himself of 
 the liberty to compound, until his estate was in the hands of the Treason 
 Trustees and surveyed for sale.
 
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 and the town street, W.. containing 2 roods, more or less, 10s. A 
 small tenement or mider settle, bounded by the town street, E., and 
 Baxter's Garth, W.. Is. Two garths of meadow, bounded by Mr. 
 Hall's garth, E., and garths of Jas. Craggs and Thos. Wilkinson, W., 
 containing about 2 acres 3 roods, 27s. Q)d. A parcel of pasture (into 
 three divided) bounded by Thrum's Lane, E., the town ' wyde,' S., 
 and North Home, N., containing about 19.3 acres 2 roods, 64^. lO.s., 
 and 10 acres more which were deducted for the highways. Baxter's 
 Garth, meadow, bounded Ijy the cottage garths, N., and the tofts, S.. 
 containing 2 acres 3 roods, 27s. 6^7. The Moore, pasture, with 
 small tenement thereon, bounded by Morten Moore, E., and Three 
 Nooke Close, AV., containing 18 acres. 3/. Totals — 217 acres 2 
 roods, Y.V., 70/. 1G.>;. Mem. : Thos. Corner holds all the said premises 
 by lease dated Jan. 18, 1651, granted by Francis Wren and Thos. 
 Delaval, County Commissioners, for 7 years, at 68/. 3s. If/, p. ami. 
 but worth upon improvement 52/. 8s. more. Reprises : A fee-farm 
 rent of 6/. 4s. payable formerly to the Crown, and now bought by 
 Mr. Geo. Blaikston, Newcastle ; a rent-charge of 4/. yearly payable 
 to Wm. Maire of HardAvick, gent., until 50/., borrowed in 1633, be 
 fully paid. 
 
 1653. Apr. 8. Sheraton begs to compound. Particular of his 
 estate as above. 
 
 1653. Apr. 22. Fine fixed at 70/. 18s. M. 
 
 1653. May 27. Fine paid and estate discharged. 
 
 HENRY SIBTHORP OF LONDON.* 
 
 (Cal. ii. p. 1375.) 
 1646. July 2. Hen. Sibthorp begs to compound on Newark 
 Articles for delinquency in being in arms for the King. Particular 
 of his estate : — In right of his wife, for her life, a rent-charge of 
 80/. p. ann., issuing out of Newminster, near Morpeth, formerly 
 belonging to Sir Francis Brandling, knt., deed. Due to him from 
 William, Lord Viscount Grandison, deed.. Sir George Ayliffe, deed. 
 Sir Edwd. Hide, knt., and Mr. Hamond Francklin, by bond, 600/., 
 with interest, which is desperate by reason of the death of the 
 said lord and Sir George, the delinquency of Sir Edwd. Hide, 
 the poverty of the said Francklin and the loss of the said bond upon 
 the taking of Newcastle. Due from others, 35/. Duo to his wife 
 from Wm. Accle of Acton, for the maintenance of her children, by 
 covenant made to lier liefore he intermarried with her, who was the 
 Andow of Robt. Jolmson, esq., deed., 50/. Craves allowance of 
 283^. 15s., debts to divers persons. He lost in goods and other 
 things at the taking of Newcastle, 460/. 
 
 * 1638. Feb. 4, Sir Francis Brandling, for 1,000/., demised the site of 
 the monastery of Newminster, land.s, tithes, etc., for 99 years to Hen. Sibthorp 
 of London, Ksq. Surtees, flist. Durham, ii. 93.
 
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 1646. Nov. 19. Fine at a sixth, 120/. 
 
 164:6. Nov. 28. Licensed to go down into Northd. to raise 
 his fine. 
 
 (Gal. [C.A.M.] ii. p. 1041.) 
 
 1649. Mar. 20. Hen. Sibthorp of Newcastle, or Morpeth, 
 Northd., assessed 50/. 
 
 1652. Apr. 9. Applies for his discharge from assessment on the 
 Act of Pardon. — Granted. 
 
 1652. Aug. 4. Petitions that his tenant, Andrew Luuisden, whom 
 he distrained for rent, has in malice informed the Cou. Com. that 
 he undervalued his estate in his composition, having lent Sir Francis 
 Bi-andling 1,000/., for which he should have 80/. interest, and 64/. 
 more on a second deed, which really swallows up the former, so that 
 only 80/. is due. If the estate were undervalued he is acquitted 
 by the Act of Pardon. Begs to enjoy the 80/. compounded for, and 
 to have a discharge of the seizure of his estate, made on this malicious 
 information. — Cou. Com. to certify the cause of their withholding the 
 lands compounded for by petitioner. 
 
 1652. Dec. 4. Renews his request for discharge on the Act of 
 Pardon, not being sequestered on Dec. 1, 1651. — Granted. 
 
 THOMAS SIMPSON OF NEWTON CAP.* 
 
 (Cat a. p. 1318.) 
 
 1646. Apr. 28. Thos. Simpson of Newton Cap, co. Durham, 
 petitions for leave to compound. In 1642, being summoned by Sir 
 Thos. Riddell, could not jjay 50/. to the King, so was enforced to his 
 Majesty's service, which he deserted 10 weeks afterwards. For so 
 doing, was, in 1643, brought by Sir Edwd. Widdrington's soldiers 
 before a Council of War for his life and with much difficulty escaped. 
 At Easter, 1643, took up arms for Parlt. under Col. Mitforth. Was 
 then a capt. under Col. Wren, and instrumental in making several 
 prisoners and releasing Capt. Walter's horses at the taking of 
 Helmsley Castle. Was at the taking of Nasborough, Pomfret and 
 Raby, and lay before Newark 9 weeks last year. For all his services 
 
 * Henry Simpson of Piddinghall Garth, or Pittington-hall-garth, was one 
 of the Durham county gentry who were charged to provide light horse for the 
 Royal service. Thomas, his brother, served under him till Easter, 1643, and 
 then went over to the side of the Parliament. The family (from Warwick- 
 shire) settled at Pittington late in the sixteenth century. Henry, grandson of 
 the settler, bap. at Pittington church. May 21, 1615, married Mary, dau. of 
 Sir Wm. Belasyse of Morton, and died in April, 1647. His widow took for 
 her second husband, Wm. Blakiston of Old Malton, co. York. Thomas, the 
 petitioner, two years younger than Henry, makes no mark in local history. In 
 the next generation, by the marriage of Margaret, dau. of Henry Simpson to 
 Edwd. Shipperdson, the estate was carried into the Shipperdson family. 
 Surtees, Hist, Dnrluim, i. 113, 114.
 
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 has had but a week's pay. The estate now sequestered has been his 
 for 6 months only, in right of his wife, whom he married when in 
 the Parliament's service. Certificates attached from the Mayor of 
 Durham and Col. Francis Wren. 
 
 The Mayor, John Hall, certifies that about Jan. or Feb., 1643, 
 he was i^resent when Mr. Thos. Simpson was brought before Sir 
 Edwd. AViddrington as a deserter (having been formerly a comet 
 under Sir Edward's command) and there he heard Sir Edward 
 threaten to have Mr. Simpson hanged for leaving and drawing away 
 other soldiers. Francis Wren, col. of a regiment of horse com- 
 manded by Ferdinando, Lord Fairfax, Lord General of the North, 
 certifies that he knew Mr. Thos. Simpson to serve under his Ijrother, 
 Capt. Hen. Simpson, being a capt. of his regiment from July 12, 
 1643, until Jan. next following, and in that time he behaved 
 himself well. 
 
 1646. May 1. Further petition. Six weeks ago the Cou. Com. 
 issued an order for sequestering his estate, being 53Z. p. ann., without 
 restitution, whereof petitioner, his wife, children and creditors to 
 her late husband must be ruined. Particular of his estate : — In 
 right of his wife for life lands in Newton Cap, Bp, Auckland, 
 Y.V.B.W., 1001. Craves allowance of 40Z., an annuity which he pays 
 to Mr. Wm. Brasse for 11 years yet to come; also a rent of 71. to 
 the Bp. of Durham. Personal estate, value 57/. Ss. Owes 300/. 
 
 1646. June 16. Fine fixed at 50/. 
 
 1646. June 18. Begs restitution of his personal estate, worth 
 57/., which the sequestrators have seized, notwithstanding his com- 
 position. — Restitution ordered. 
 
 THOMAS SMELT OF ETHERLEY.* 
 
 (Cal. IV. p. 2613.) 
 1650. Nov. 13. The Cou. Com. certify that they have secured 
 the lands at Etherley, co. Durham, worth 50/. a year, of Thos. Smelt, 
 ■deed. He was in arms, but laid them down in June, 1643, and died 
 in Dec. following. By deed dated Aug. 17, 1643, he conveyed 
 all his lands at Etherley to Matthew Smelt, his brother, John Tonstall 
 and Richd. Bowser in trust to raise 50/. each for his nine young 
 
 * Scattered notes of persons bearing the name of Smelt appear in this Society's 
 volumes and in Siutees, ///s^. Durlinm, but no attempt seems to have been made 
 to link them togetlier genealogically. There was an armigerou.s family of the 
 name at Kirby Fleetliam, co. York, whose pedigree is given by DugiUile, and 
 who may, or may not, liave been lehited to tlie Smelts of co. Durliam. Richd. 
 Smelt signs the petition to the King of the kniglits, gentlemen and inhabitants 
 of the county palatine, praying for the restoration of the ' legal and primitive 
 government of the (Jhurch for the good of our souls and the county palatine ; 
 for the safeguard and governance of our estate,' whik' another of his name. 
 Richd. Smelt, clerk, was master of Durham (irannnur Scliool in the early part 
 of the seventeenth century. John Smelt and ^lai'garet, liis mother, are entered 
 in the Calmdur as purchasing, in 1636, from Laurence Sayer, an annuity of 20/. 
 on his lands at Aislaby, which they sold in 1647 to Mary Trotter of Skelton 
 Castle.
 
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 children, all then living, with reversion to his eldest son, Richard. 
 They have no other subsistence. 
 
 1651. Jan. 7. Petition of Richd. Smelt, for himself and eight 
 younger children of Thos. Smelt, deed., shewing that his father sub- 
 mitted himself to Parlt. within the compass of their orders, and left 
 a small estate at Etherley in trust for his children, who have no 
 other maintenance.— Referred to the Cou. Com. 
 
 1651. July 30. The Cou. Com. are to remove the sequestration 
 if there be no judgment on record against Thos. Smelt. 
 
 1651. Sept. 24. Estate discharged, unless it be proved that the 
 father died in arms against Parlt. 
 
 JOHN AND EDWARD SMITH OF ESH.* 
 
 1650. June 7. John Smith, infant son and heir of John Smith 
 of Esh, CO. Durham, deed., begs discharge of a messuage, lands, etc., 
 in Elmeden. Petitioner is heir, but the premises are under seques- 
 tration for his father's delinquency. — Referred to Mr. Reading. 
 
 1650. Aug. 1. Mr. Reading repoi-ts that John Smith, deed., by 
 deed dated Jan. 30, 1640, covenanted to stand seised of Millhill 
 Quarter and Floweryfield Quarter in Elmeden to the use of himself 
 for life, with remainders to George, his son and heir, now dead, 
 William, his second son, also dead, John Smith, the petitioner, and his 
 heirs male, with other remainders in tail. John, the father, died in 
 Paris, Sept. 6, 1649. 
 
 * The estate of Esh came to the Smiths (or Smythes as they are uamed in 
 local historj') through the marriage of William (son of Geo. Smith, of 
 Nunstainton, by his second wife, Elizabeth, dau. of Wm. Lambton of Lambton), 
 with Margaret, second daughter and co-heir of Anthony Esh of Esh. Their 
 eldest son, George (who executed the deed of June 27, 1621), married 
 Margaret, dau. and co-heir of Edwd. Gage of Bentley, Suffolk, and by her had 
 two sons, Edward and John. Edward was united to Catharine, dau. and co- 
 heir of Sir Thos. Metham of Metham, co. York, and after his death (Apr. IS, 
 16r)l) without living issue, the estates of the family came, under the deed of 
 1621, to the sons of John, his brother. John, desci'ibed as of Emelden, or 
 Embleton, had been sequestered Sept. 5, 1644, and died Sept. 6, 1649, before 
 Ills brother. His widow, Margaret, dau. of Sir Bertram Buhner of Tursdale, 
 married, in second nuptials, Sir Richd. Lee of Langley, co. Salop. They (John 
 and Margaret) had five sons, George, William, John, Edward and Thomas, and 
 two daughters. George and William died young ; John (2), the petitioner, also 
 died, ■':.]>., Aug. 11, 1651, while his case was under consideration, and thus 
 Kdward, the fourth son, became heir to the estates of both his father and 
 grandfather. Created a baronet at the Restoiation, and marrj'ing his step- 
 father's dau., Mary Lee, Sir Edward founded a family noted for alliances with 
 the aristocracy. His eldest son. Sir Richard, married a daughter of Sir Chas. 
 Smith, Lord Carrington ; his second son. Sir Jolm, a dau. of Sir (-eo. Blount ; 
 ;tnd his dau., Mar}% Sir Geo. Southcote ; while his grandson. Sir Edward, took 
 for his second wife a daughter of Hugh, Lord Clitt'ord of Chudleigh. There is 
 a pedigree of the family in Surtees {Hist. Durham, ii. 338), and the acquirement 
 and devolution of the estates, as per list in the deed of 1621, are described in 
 other parts of that work under the res])ective parishes in which they were 
 situated.
 
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 1651. July 17. Case postponed till the pleasure of Parlt. be- 
 known. 
 
 1653. Apr. 20. Edwd. Smith, hj John Rushworth, his guardian, 
 begs discharge of an estate, now come to him and sequestered for 
 recusancy only of Geo. Smith, now dead. — Referred to Mr. Reading. 
 
 1653. May 31. Mr. Reading reports that by deed dated June 27, 
 1621, and by fine levied Aug. 6, 1621, Geo. Smith settled the manors 
 of Nunstanton, Barmeton, Esh, Herrington, and divers messuages, 
 lands, etc., in Nunstanton, Rowley, Barmeton, Esh, East, West, and 
 Middle Herrington, Offerton, Vllshaw, Walworth, Woodham, Hough 
 and Houghton, co. Durham, to the use of himself for life and then 
 to Edwd. Smith, his son and heir, and his heirs male, and for default 
 to John Smith, his second son, and his heirs male, and for default 
 to the right heirs. 
 
 1653. June 16. Order that Lady Lee, Edwd. Smith's mother, be 
 examined upon the deeds of settlement on which the whole case rests, 
 and on claims to lands in West Auckland and Cockside House ; also 
 as to w^hether there has been any revocation, and whether she has 
 any jointure on the estate. If not the sequestration is to be 
 discharged. 
 
 1653. June 29. Lady Lee, examined, makes oath that she knows 
 of no other deeds than those of June 21, 1621, and Jan. 30, 1640, nor 
 that the estate is otherwise settled, nor of any revocation, and that 
 she claims no jointure out of any of the lands therein named and 
 that no jointures are chargeable thereon. The C.C. being satisfied, 
 discharge the sequestration and direct that Rushworth receive the 
 rents and be paid all arrears since Apr. 20. 1653. 
 
 HENRY SMITH OF HERRINGTON. 
 
 1645. Hen. Smith of Herrington, esq., compounds with Sir Hen. 
 Vane and the Cou. Com. — Fine not recorded. 
 
 1651. Nov. 21. Petitions Parlt. for pardon of oft'ences com- 
 mitted prior to date of composition, and obtains it. 
 
 ROWLAND STEELE, NEWCASTLE.* 
 
 (Cal. [C.A.M.] iii. p. 1359.) 
 1651. July 25. Information received that Rowland Steele was in 
 arms against Parlt. in 1644, under Sir John Marley, governor of the 
 castle of Newcastle for the King, and encouraged his servants to 
 bear arms in the garrison. — The Cou. Com. to examine witnesses 
 and send up the depositions. 
 
 * No trace of a person bearing this name is to be found in local arcliives. 
 George Still or Styll, mercht. adventurer, was a .somewhat prominent person in 
 Newcastle at the clo.se of the .sixteenth century, and in Queen Elizabeth's 
 cliarter, Mar. 22, 1600, he was appointed sword bearer. But neither Still nor 
 Steel appear among the inhabitants of Newcastle M'ith the christian name of 
 Rowland. As the case proceeds no further, it may be presumed that the 
 'information' was wrong — prf)ni])ted by the hope of gain.
 
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 WILLIAM STEWART OF LITTLEBURN* 
 
 (Cal. iv. p. 2619.) 
 
 1650. Nov. 21. The Cou. Com. report to the C.C. that Col. 
 Stewart is a Scot, maiTied to Lady Calverley of Littleburn, co. 
 Durham, that he is said to be in arms in Scotland against the Parlt. 
 and that they haA'e secured his estate. — Order to continue the seizure 
 and try to find some jDroof. 
 
 1650. Nov. 27. Wm. Stewart and Elizabeth, late wife of Sir 
 John Calverley. petition that they are interested in the Littleburn 
 mansion house during the life of Elizabeth, it being her jointure. It 
 was seized 6 weeks ago on pretence of the delinquency of Col. Stewart, 
 which he denies, and she is therebj' left destitute. Beg that the Cou. 
 Com. may give them the heads of their charge, and leave to examine 
 witnesses and stay proceedings ineauAvhile. — Granted, the Cou. Com. 
 to certify in a month. 
 
 1651. May 26. Deposition before the Cou. Com. of Lieut. Wm. 
 Carter, in Col. Allured's regiment of horse, that about a week ago he 
 was quartered in Galloway, where Col. W'm. Stewart lives, and often 
 heard, from officers and neighbours, that he had command of a 
 regiment at Dunbar fight and from thence hardly escaped; that 
 about a month ago they had orders from Col. Hacker to secure the 
 Scottish gentlemen in Galloway, but Col. Stewart fled. 
 
 1651. June 25. Order that his rents be secured and 6 weeks 
 given him to show cause why he should not be sequestered. 
 
 1651. Aug. 5. Jane Stewart of Elvet, deposes that Col. Wm. 
 Stewart was born at Clarey in Galloway ; that about 7 years ago he 
 came into England in the service of Parlt., was governor of Sunder- 
 land and had command of a regiment of foot and a troop of horse, 
 which troop he raised at his own chai-ge : that his regiment lay 
 against Scarborough until the same Avas reduced ; that he lay against 
 NeAvcastle, where he was dangerously wounded by a bullet ; that about 
 10 years ago, being then a private gentleman in the Scottish Army 
 in the first expedition, he married Lady Elizth. Calverley ; that when 
 the Ejii'l of Newcastle was in this county his house at Littleburn was 
 plundt)ed and his rents taken, and nothing was left but the bare 
 walls : that Mr. Geo. Calverley, Lady Calverley's only son, was in his 
 service : that he marched out of England with the Scottish Army 
 
 * Sir John Calverley of Littleburn, near Brancepeth, had three wives : 
 (1) Anne, dau. of Matthew Hutton, Archbp. of York, (2) Catherine, dau. of Sir 
 Timothy Whittingham of Holmside, and (3) Elizabeth, bap. Aug. 17, 1595, at 
 Bishop Middleliani, dau. of Richd. Freville of that place, and sometime of Raby 
 Castle, gent. Among the Raine MSS is the nuncupative will of Sir John, made 
 April '22, 16:^8, in these words : ' I make ni}^ wife my executrix, and to her I 
 give all that by law I can give unto lier. ' 'lliis is the lady who married the 
 Scottish colonel, Stewart, a gallant officer in Lesley's army at the siege of 
 Newcastle, where he distinguished himself in the storming of the Westgate, 
 and was rewai'ded only six years later by being treated as an enemy ot the 
 Parlt., and a tit subject for sequestration.
 
 347 
 
 and did not come into Enp;land with Hamilton, but his troop, by his 
 command, fought against the Earl of Montrose at the liattle of Philip- 
 haugh, where the said Earl was defeated. Robt. Mayre of East 
 Brandon, co. Durham, yeoman, deposes that Sir Jas. Lesley, by 
 command of the Earl of Newcastle, plundered Col. Stewart's house 
 a,nd took away all his goods, to the value of 800/. at the least. 
 
 1652. May 19. Col. Stewart begs that as several charges of 
 delinquency in the second war have been brought against him in 
 €08. York and Durham, and the cause is now to be heard on proofs 
 for both sides, but is not ripe for judgment, because the York Cou. 
 Com. have not given date or cause of sequestration, they may be 
 ordered to certify thereon with speed. — Granted. 
 
 1652. June 19. Order that as there is only one witness, and 
 the charge not sufficiently proved, the sequestration be taken off, 
 and the rents and profits received from his estate since date of his 
 appeal, Nov. 27, 1650, be restored to him. 
 
 WILLIAM STROTHER OF KIRKNEWTON. 
 
 {Cal. i. p. 203.) 
 
 1649. Wm. Strother of Kirknewton, co Northd., compounds for 
 delinquency in the last war. Particular of his estate (all in fee) 
 ;ind the Y. V.B.W. thereof : — Kirknewton demesne and tithe, 90Z. : 
 West Newton demesne and tithe, lOOZ. ; a corn mill, 8/. ; land and 
 tithes in Lanton, 85/. 16s. M. ; Millfield tithes, 24/. ; Yeavering 
 tithes, 13/. 6s. 8c?. ; the Crooke-house, now lying lea [blank] ; Rough- 
 side, 10/. Also some petty tithes, Y.V., 18/. : part of Fowberry 
 [tithes?] Y.V., 76/.; Cowpland tithes, Y.V., 30/.; Houghteil 
 tithes, Y.V., 20/. ; Akeild tithes, Y.V., 40/. He is allowed 50/. out 
 of one moiety of West Newton and 115/. out of Fowberry, Lanton 
 and Cowpland, both sums payable yearly to his mother for life ; 
 also 20/. p. ann. payable out of Houghteil tithes to his uncle, Mr. 
 Lyonell Strother for life, and 10/. p. ann. payable out of Akeld tithes 
 to his uncle, Wm. Strother, for life. 
 
 Fine at a sixth, 1,095/. lOs. The tithes of Milfield and Cowp- 
 land, and a third of Yeavering tithes, Y.V., 60/. are accepted for 
 600/., to be allowed in the first payment of his fine. 
 
 JOHN SWINBURNE OF CAPHEATON.* 
 
 (Cal. V. p. 3211.) 
 
 1654. May 9. Francis Godfrey, guardian to John Swinburne, 
 •esq., an infant, son and heir apparent of John Swin))urne, late of 
 
 * The infant in this case is evidently the ' little lost baronet ' of local story. 
 His father, John Swinburne, son and heir of Wm. Swinburne of Capheaton 
 and Nafferton (whose case follows), was kille<l at Meldon, on Feb. 18,
 
 348 
 
 Capheatou, co. Northd, deed., petitious the C.C. showing that John,, 
 the father, by indenture dated July 14, 1642, bought of Nich. Thorn- 
 ton, gent., a moiety of the manor of Gallohill and two farms and 
 a half in Bolam par. ; that he died about 10 years since, leaving 
 the heir an infant, not now above 11 years of age and that the 
 estate is under sequestration, for what cause petitioner knows not. 
 Prays that the Cou. Com. may be ordered to certify cause, examine 
 title, etc. — Granted. Cou. Com. to certify and Mr. Reading to report. 
 No further record. 
 
 THOMAS SWINBURNE OF BUTTERBY.* 
 
 (Cal. a. p. 1049.) 
 
 1645. Dec. 8. Thos. Swinburne .of Butterby, co. Durham, 
 petitions for leave to compound for delinquency. He was compelled 
 
 1643-1 644, by John Salkeld of Rock, under circumstances which are fully detailed 
 by Hodgson, Ilitt. Xo7'f.hrf. pt. ii. vol. i. p. 222. The murdeied man had been 
 three times married, (1) to Dorothy, dan. of Cuthbert Heron of Chipchase, 
 Northd., who died s.p., (2) to Isabella, dau. of Sir Thos. Tempest of Stella, by 
 whom he had two daughters, (3) to Anne, dau of Sir Chas. Blount of Maple- 
 durham, Oxon., who brought him one son, the subject of this storj'. The third 
 wife survived him and took for a second husband Francis Godfrey (the petitioner), 
 a colonel in the Parliament army. On page 233 of Hodgson (op. rif. supra), 
 the talc of young Swinburne's expatriation is thus told : ' He was sent while 
 a child to a monastery in France, where a Northumberland gentlcTnan of the 
 Radcliffe familj', accidentally visiting the place, recognised in his face the 
 features of the Swinburne family. On enquiring of the monks how he came 
 there, the only answer they could giv^e was, that he came from England, and 
 that an annual sum was remitted for his board and education. On questioning 
 the boy himself it was, however, found that he had been told that his name 
 was Swinburne, which, with the account of his father's death and his own 
 mysterious disappearance in Northumberland, induced the superior of the 
 house to permit him to return home, where, in an inquest specially 
 empanelled for that puipose, he identified himself to be the son of Sir John 
 Swinburne and .Anne Blount, by the description he gave of the marks upon a 
 cat and a pimch bowl which were still in the house. Chas. II., Sept. 26, 1660, 
 regarding his loyalty and zeal for the Restoration, advanced him to the dignitj* 
 of a baronet, in the patent for which he styled him rirnm pjatrimonio cew^u, ei 
 mormn proJntatt Apectahilem.^ He married Isabel, sole dau. and heiress of Hen. 
 Lawson of Brough Hall, co. York (by Catherine, dau. and co-heiress of Sir Wni. 
 Fenwick of Meldon, knt. », and this ladj- brought him 11 sons and 13 daus. — 
 24 children in all ! He died at Capheaton June 19, 170G. 
 
 * Thos. Swinburne, the compounder, of the family of Swinburne of Chop- 
 well, CO. Durham, was a son of John Swinburne of Wjdam, Northd., by 
 Dorothy, dau. of John Ogle, brother to Lord Ogle. He married Hieronyma, 
 dau. of Thos. Chaytor of Butterby, and was living at his wife's ancestral home, 
 aged 69, in 1666. A pedigree in Surtees (Hist. Dnr/iam, ii. 278), describes him 
 as of Barmston. Sir Thos. Swinburne of Edlingham (in same pedigree), high 
 sherifi' of Northd. in 1628 and 1629, who compiled the memorable list of 
 shrievalty expenses which appears in Hodgson (Hist. Nortltd. pt. ill. vol. i. 
 p. 008), was sequestered as a delinquent (avff, pp. 77, 85), but his case does not 
 further appear.
 
 349 
 
 Toy the Earl of Newcastle, in 1642, to lend the King- 30/., and to 
 attend the then high sheriff to Barnard-castle, where there was a 
 treaty between the gentlemen of the five northern counties, about 
 measures for the safety of those counties, which treaty produced only 
 some propositions, and nothing to the prejudice of Parlt. He was 
 named in the Commission of Array, but refused to act or to sit on 
 a committee for raising money and disarming the disaffected, which 
 was prejudicial to Parlt. Particular of his estate: — Lands in 
 Barmston, co. Durham, Y.V., 50/., whereof 20/. is an estate for one 
 life and the rest in fee ; his part in the lordship of Oulton, being a 
 lease for not above 14 years to come, 160/. ; his part of the township 
 of Blackwell on a lease of like period, 30/. ; his part of the lordship 
 or demesne of Whesso, being a lease for about 30 years to come, 
 50/. Total, 290/. p. ann. His personal estate, value 100/., is seized 
 by the Cou. Com. 
 
 1645. Dec. 30. Fine fixed at 320/.* 
 
 1647. Dec. 15. Complains that while he has been in London on 
 his composition, the Cou. Com. have sequestered the poor remainder 
 of his goods. Begs redress.— Order for sequestration (granted 
 because he was not suing- for pardon) revoked, as he is prosecuting it. 
 
 THOMAS SWINBURNE OF MIDDLETON HALL. 
 
 (Cal iv. p. 3172.) 
 
 1653. Dec. 21. Petition of Thos. Swinburne of Middleton Hall, 
 •CO. Northd., gent., showing that being tenant to the Connnonwealth 
 at a full rent for the sequestered estate of Middleton Hall, he had, 
 in 1651, quartered in the meadows there at their marching against 
 the Scots, 400 horse at the least, as appears by a ticket under the 
 hand of the then quartermaster general, by which means he has 
 sustained damage to the value of 15/. ; that he has been promised 
 satisfaction, but hitherto cannot obtain any, the Cou. Com. alleging 
 they have no power to allow the same without an order from the 
 C.C. Prays that the Cou. Com. may have the order. — Referred to 
 the Cou. Com. 
 
 1654. Dec. 19. Petition renewed, in which the damages are put 
 at 20/., as certified by the Cou. Com. — Order that 20 marks 
 <13/. 6.V. 8^.) be allowed. 
 
 * 1646. July 24. Tlie House of Coininons accepted li'IO/. of Tlios. 
 Swinburne of Ijiitterby, esq., for his delin(jueiicy in ' voluntai-y contributing' 
 to the maintenance of the enemy's garrisons and agreed to an ordinance for 
 granting him a pardon. His estate in fee, HO/, p. ann., and, for several terms 
 to come, divers parcels of land to the value of 260/. p. ann. Agreed to by the 
 Lords, May 28, 1647.
 
 350 
 
 WILLIAM SWINBURNE OF NAFFERTON.* 
 
 (Cal. iv. p. 2583.) 
 
 1650. Oct. 23. Wm. Swinburne petitions that having resided 
 sometime in the enemy's quarters his estate is sequestered, and he 
 cannot compound, being a papist delinquent. Begs a fifth of his 
 estate for maintenance of himself and children. — Allowed according 
 to instructions. 
 
 1652. Jan. 3. Certificate of Edwd. Crow, committee clerk, that 
 the estates of Wm. Swinburne, under sequestration, were let in 1650 
 for the periods and yearly rents following : ■ — ^Four farms in Benwell, 
 with the colliery, to Hen. Widdrington, esq., 5 years, 100/. ; lands 
 and tenements in Nafferton to same, 5 years, 101/. ; lands in Lowick, 
 to Robt. Smart, 3 years, 14/. ; Edlingham corn mill, etc., to John 
 Ramsay, 1 year, 9/. ; Edlingham North demesne and Newtown to 
 Geo. GrieTe, 60/. ; Edlingham Castle demesne, to Thos. Sothern, 
 36/. ; Edlingham South demesne, to Geo. Craister, 5 years, 8/. ; a 
 part of Benwell Main coal, and Three-Quarter coal, to Robt. Shaftoe, 
 esq., 6 years, 20/. The Fawnes, AVm. Fenwick by old lease payeth 
 1/. 6-9. p. ann. 
 
 1652. Wm. Swinburne petitions that he is a very aged man and 
 was never in arms, nor raised a man against the Parlt., nor in any 
 other ways acted in the late wai'S ; but in the beginning and violence 
 thereof (his habitation being in Northd., near Scotland, and plundered 
 and made uninhabitable by the Scotch and other soldiers) was forced 
 to retire into the next garrison, where he lived for only a short time, 
 for the protection of himself and family from the terror and violence 
 
 * In the Swinburne pedigree, Hodgson {Hist. Northd. pt. ii. vol. i. p. 232) 
 devotes some space to enumerating the misfortunes and courage of that stout old 
 recusant Wm. Swinburne of Capheaton and Nafferton. His father was Thos. 
 Swinburne of Capheaton ; his mother, ^lai'garet, dau. of Wilfrid Lawson of 
 Usworth, CO. Durham ; he was twice married, (1) to Margaret, dau. of John 
 Swinburne of Edlingham Castle, and (2) to Jane, dau. of Matt. Bee of Ninebanks 
 Jsorthd. , and had by the first wife five, and by the second wife seven children — 
 twelve in all. John, who was killed by Salkeld, was his eldest son and heir ; 
 William, of Halliwell, was the eldest son bj' the second marriage. ' He paid 
 25/. for refusing knighthood at the coronation of Chas. I., was high sheriff of 
 Northd. in 1639, received an unwelcome visit at his house at Nafferton in 
 Sept., 1640, from a party of the Scotch army, but in the same month had a 
 protection from some of the generals, and in Nov., one from Leslie himself 
 — warrants that were, perhaps, little regarded, for his house and estates were 
 many times after that cruelly pillaged. In 1650, when he was between seventy 
 and eighty years old, or to use his own patriarchal phrase, when he was a very 
 aged man, he was visited by the tender mercies of the commonwealth parlia- 
 ment for some old sin of having fled for protection before the Scotch army into 
 Newcastle, and thence to Milium Castle, in Cumberland. In 1652, he 
 prostrated himself, by a petition, before the merciful feet of the supreme 
 authority of the nation, praying that because he had never engaged in the late 
 wars his estates might be preserved from sale, but on the 2nd Nov. [in that 
 year], he appears in the long list of Northd. gentlemen whose names were 
 inserted in the bill for the sale of their estates. '
 
 351 
 
 of the soldiers against him as a papist, they being in the beginning 
 of the wars so extremely violent against all papists that none durst 
 appear or keep their houses. But so soon as that terror and violence 
 was over, he withdrew himself from thence to the place of his habita- 
 tion, where he hath quietly remained, no ways engaging in the second 
 war or since. He has patiently waited for favour and mercy, hoping 
 to be distinguished from those that were in arms, and humbly con- 
 ceiving that this forced dei3arture from his habitation, for which his 
 whole estate has been under sequestration these 8 or 10 years, will 
 not render him one of those notorious delinquents to be made 
 examples of by the sale of their estates. Petitioner is emboldened 
 to cast himself at the merciful feet of liheir honours beseeching them 
 to preserve his estate from sale, the same being long since entailed, 
 and he having many children to maintain therewith. 
 
 1652. Apr. 8. R. Sherwiu, auditor, certifies that petitioner was 
 a papist delinquent and fugitive from his house to Newcastle, and 
 then to Milium Castle, a garrison held against the Parlt. The Cou. 
 Com. certify that Swinburne has taken the Negative Oath, is 
 betwixt 70 and 80 years old, is of quiet and good behaviour and 
 never had any employment for the King against Parlt. to their 
 knowledge. Signed by Robt. Clavering, Wm. Armorer, Robt. Dods- 
 worth, John Fenwick, Wm. Selby, John Hall. 
 
 1652. Aug. 13. Approval by the C.C. of a lease for 6 years to 
 Robt. Shaftoe of a sixth part of Benwell coal-mine, seqviestered from 
 Wm. Swinburne of Nafferton. 
 
 1652. Nov. 18. The estate of Wm. Swinburne of Nafferton, 
 appears in the third Act for Sale. 
 
 1653. Jan. 31. John and Thos. Pye, sons and executors of the 
 late Thos. Pye, beg allowance of a rent-charge on Swinburne's estate 
 bought by their late father, with arrears. 
 
 1653. May 13. Wm. Swinburne begs to compound for the Fawns 
 Farm,* being in the late Act for Sale and unable to compound for 
 the rest of his estate. 
 
 1653. May 31. Fine at two-sixths, 100/. U.s. 6^. 
 
 1653. July 13. Discharge from sequestration of the manors of 
 Nafferton and Edlingham, the capital messuage called Edlingham 
 Castle, and a mill and lands there ; a messuage called the Fawnes 
 in Kirkwhelpington ; the Newtown Tower in Edlingham ; lands, etc., 
 in Lowick in the several occupations of Thos., John and Robt. 
 Smart, Jane Lightharnesse, widow, Robt. Meadow and Thos. Trotter ; 
 farms, etc., at Benwell occupied by Wm. Milburne, Nich. Armstrong, 
 Thos. Milburn, Matt. Hodshon and Hen. Widdrington ; collieries or 
 seams of coal within the lordship of Benwell, occupied by Hen. 
 Widdrington, Thos. Nicholls and Roljt. Shaftoe, late parcel of the 
 
 * The Fawnes, which consisted of cue farm, was both a constablery and a 
 township, and in 1.541 was protected by a small pelehoust- or bastle. Hodgson, 
 Hist. Nortlid. pt. III. vol. ii. p. 195.
 
 352 
 
 •estate of Win. Swinbunie. esq., iind bought from the Treason Trustees 
 by Col. Robt. Thorpe, Win. Sankey, esq. and Gilb. Crouch, gent. 
 
 165:1 July 25. The Committee for Removing Obstructions allow 
 the claim of Wm. Swinburne's younger sons, William, Thomas, 
 Matthew and Allan to Halliwell House, Brancepeth, as demised in 
 trust for them in reversion by Wm. Baxter, in 5 Chas., but it is 
 forfeited during the life of W^m. Swinburne, sen., a delinquent. 
 
 1653. Aug. 31. Hen. AViddrington of Blackheddon, Northd., 
 begs confirmation of a 6 years' lease by the Cou. Com. of Durham, 
 Apr. 16, 1652, of Halliwell House, sequestered for recusancy of Wm. 
 Swinburne, jun. (rent, 44A), having been at great charge upon the 
 jiremises. ,, 
 
 165-1. Jan. 11. Lease confirmed if granted according to 
 instructions. 
 
 1651. Mai". 10. W^m. Beckwith begs reference to counsel of his 
 claim to Halliwell House, conveyed to him, in Feb., 1654, by Wm. 
 Swinburne, jun., of Capheaton, for 21 years, for 800/., but it is 
 sequestered for the recusancy of Wm. Swinburne, sen., who lately 
 died and had only a life interest therein. — Referred to Mr. Reading. 
 
 1655. Jan. 18. Order, on report from Mr. Reading, that the 
 claim cannot be allowed at present, but the Cou. Com. are to certify 
 whetlier it was sequestered for the recusancy of William, the father, 
 and if not sequestered for recusancy or delinquency of William, the 
 son, the claim to be allowed, with arrears since the petition. 
 
 1655. Feb. 16. On further proof, claim allowed with, arrears. 
 
 GILBERT SWINHOE OF CHATTON.* 
 
 (Cal. V. p. 3250.) 
 
 1646. Apr. 16. Under this date, in a list of ' imperfect cases,' 
 i.e., of jiersons who petitioned ro compound, but their petitions are 
 
 * Raine (Hist. Xortli Uurham, p. 184) piints a pedigree of the family of 
 Swinhoe of Goswick, in Islandshire, and Cornhill-on-Tweed, and on p. 237, one 
 of the Swinhoes of Scremerston. In the new Hist. Xorfhd. i. 212, is another 
 relating to the Swinhoes of Mousen, and ibid. ii. 124-126, are many interesting 
 items respecting the Swinhoes of Rock. Gilbert, above named, was a son of 
 James Swinhoe of Berwick by Margaret, dau. of Geo. Orde of Easter New- 
 biggin, gent., and grandson of Gilbert Swinhoe of Cornhill and Goswick. He 
 married Dorothy, dau. of Sir Henry (Tuevara, knt. of Berwick, descendant of a 
 Spanish mercenary who settled in England nnder Philip and Mary. He was 
 Hi^h Sheriff of Northd. in 1642, and as such was included in the list of those 
 who, charged with having raised the ^vosve comitatu-s against the Parlt., were, 
 by resolution of the House of Commons, Oct. 3, 1644, excluded from employ- 
 ment. The following year, under circumstances that are not recorded, he was 
 taken prisoner and shipped to London, as appears by the Commons Journah 
 under date Sept. 27, 1645, wherein it is stated that a letter from the Com- 
 missioners of both Houses, from Berwick, of Sept. 16, was read, announcing 
 that by Capt. Robt. Carre, in the Samuel Jiisdna, of London, they had sent 
 up as a prisoner Mr. Gilbert Swinhoe, sometime High Sheriff of Northumber- 
 land, with a desire to have a special care taken of him, in regard of his 
 interests and ill-affections. The House committed him to the Tower ; there to 
 remain a prisoner during their pleasure.
 
 353 
 
 Tiiissing, comes the name of Gilb. Swinhoe. No papers relating to 
 liim and his estate are to be found among the C.C. books and MSS. 
 His tine, with that of Jas. Ogle, was to have been appropriated to 
 the repair of Berwick Bridge, but he died (probably in prison) before 
 it could l)e collected, and it does not appear ever to have been paid.* 
 
 JAMES SWINHOE OF CHATTON.f 
 
 (Cal. Hi. p. 2016.) 
 
 164:9. May 2. Jas. Swinhoe compounds for his delinquency in 
 assisting the forces raised against Parlt. in the first and last engage- 
 ments. He has been beyond the seas for 6 months past. Particular 
 of his estate: — For life, with various remainders, the manor of 
 Berrington, Y.V.B.W., 120/. ; after expiry of a lease for 5 years, a 
 messuage with several tenements and lands called Cornehill, par. of 
 Norham, Y.V.B.W., iOl. ; a messuage and lands called Crookehouses, 
 par. of Kirknewton, Y.V.B'.W., 30/. ; a tenement and lands in 
 Chatton, Y.V.B.W., 10/. ; a tenement and lands called Keppey, par. 
 of Kirknewton, Y.V.B.W., 10/. ; a tenement and lands in Kirknewton, 
 Y.V.B.W., 2/. ; several cottages in H oly Isla nd, Y.V.B.W., 1/. All in 
 fee. Craves allowance of the followmg sums charged upon Berring- 
 ton by deed dated June 22, 1637:— 600/. to the Earl of Suffolk, 
 with 12 years' interest ; 200/. to Thos. Welford, esq., with 7 years' 
 interest ; 100/. to Wm. Bradley, with 7 years' interest ; 100/. to Wm. 
 Turney, gent., with 8 years' interest ; 100/. to Mark Bradlej' with 
 7 years' interest ; also il. p. ann. for ever to the castle of Norham, 
 out of Cornehill; also his mother's thirds, 31/. p. ann., out of all the 
 lands except Berrington. 
 
 1649. Aug. 9. Fine, 393/. 13s. \d. 
 
 1651. July 22. Compounder complains that, although he has 
 paid his fine and had his discharge, he is threatened with re-sequeS'tra- 
 tion by the Cou. Com. unless he bring in his composition money to 
 Mr. Ledgard of Newcastle, treasurer for compositions there. — Order 
 that he be no further molested. 
 
 ROBERT TAYLOR OF RAREDON.| 
 
 {Cal. i. p. 203.) 
 1649. Rcbt. Taylor of Raredon, par. of Lanchester, co. Durham, 
 compounds with the Counnissioners at Newcastle for delinquency in 
 
 * See note to the case of James Ogle, ante, p. 301. 
 
 t Son of Gilbert of the previous case, by Dorothy Guevari'a, compounder 
 appears as sole executor in the will of Lady Guevarra of Duddo in 16.S0, and as 
 a lieut.-col. in the army in 1643. He was killed in a duel Ity Andrew Carr, 
 Feb. 23 or 24, 1672, the circumstances of wliich are detailed in Surt. Soc. Pub. 
 40, p. 187. Raine (///.«/. Xortli Durham) expresses a ])elief that James Swinhoe"s 
 brother, Gilbert, who provoked the quarrel which led to the duel, was the 
 author of a jjlay named TJie Trafjedy of t/ie Unliappy Fair Irene. 
 
 * Raredon, now Rare Dean, is situated on the Pan Burn, a little south of 
 
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 354 
 
 the last vrar. Particular of his estate: — In fee, a small messuage' 
 in Satlev, Y.Y.B.W., 5/. ; and after the death of his mother, a parcel 
 of ground in Raredon, Y.Y.B.W.. SI. He is allowed 13/. 6.s. 8d. 
 issuing out of the said messuage to his brothers Lancelot and John 
 Taylor for their portions, for -which they have the said land in 
 possession till their portions be paid. 
 Fine at a sixth, 25/. 
 
 JOHN TEMPEST OF OLD DURHAM.* 
 
 (Ccd. i. p. 204.) 
 
 1649. John Tempest of Old Durham, compounds with the Parity'. 
 Commissioners for delinquency in the second war. Particular of his 
 estate : — In fee simple, a tenement and lands, called Swaynston with 
 the appurtenances, par. of Sedgefield, Y.Y.B.W., 100/. ; in fee simple, 
 a tenement called Lints and Ewhurst, par. of Tanfield, and Steele 
 Close there, Y.Y.B.W., 14/. He is allowed a fee-farm rent issuing 
 out of SwajTiston, 11/. 6s. 8c?. ; out of Lints and Ewhurst, 17*. 
 
 [The following paragraph is crossed through and marked in the 
 margin ' not allowed ' : 500/. due upon a recognizance as acknow- 
 ledged by the compounder's father, Jan., 1639, long befoz'e the 
 premises were settled upon the compounder which is sued to a judg- 
 ment and an elegit thereupon.] 
 
 Fine at a sixth, 305/. 9-*. 
 
 a Une drawn between Satlev and Cornsaj'. Corusay was the home of a family 
 of Taj'lors for many generations. In April, 1674, Rowland Wilkinson of 
 Raredon, bequeathed lands at Satley to the poor of the parish of Lanchester. 
 Surtees (Hi><t. Durham, ii. 341) states that the Taylor family was divided into 
 several branches, possessing propertj' in Cornsay, Stowhouse and Halhill. 
 Thos. Taj'lor of l)iirham, and Cornsay House, esq., the last lineal repre- 
 sentative of the first purchaser in the reign of Edward lY. , married a daughter 
 of Sir Thos. Tancred of Boroughbridge, bart. 
 
 * Compounder, only son of Sir Thos. Tempest, knt., Attorney General of 
 Ireland, descended from the ancient family at Holmside, Durham, and Studley 
 Royal, Yorksh., married Elizabeth, dau. and sole heiress of John Heath of Old 
 Durham in 1642, when his father settled upon him Swainston and the Isle. 
 His estate was sequestered in 1644, and at the date of compounding he was 
 returned, with his father-in-law, as one of the principal malignants in the 
 county. Sharp (Knights and Burgesses of Durham) states that he was one of 
 the Court party, and in a pamphlet written with a violent tincture of party 
 spirit, called 'A seasonable Argument, etc., or a List of the Principal 
 Labourers in the Great Design of Popery,' etc., Amsterdam, 1677, he is called 
 a papist, a pensioner, and a Court-dinner man, who has got a Customer's 
 place at Hull for his son. When Durham County was permitted to elect 
 members of Parlt., 1675, he was the first man selected ; he sat also in the 
 succeeding Parlt. , elected 1679. It was intended that he should be a knight 
 of the Order of the Royal Oak, but from fear of exciting discontent and 
 jealousy the order was never created. His name occm's frequently in the 
 correspondence of Bishop Cosin, Surt. Soc. Pub. 55.
 
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 SIR NICHOLAS TEMPEST OF FLATWORTH.* 
 
 (Cal. iii. p. 1743 ; iv. y. 2670.) 
 
 16i7. May 5. Sir Nich. Tempest petitions the Committee at 
 Newcastle for liberty to compound. [Petition missing.] 
 
 1650. Oct. 1 Petitions Sir Arth. Haslerigg, Governor of New- 
 castle, for allowance of his fifth, being sequestered, though never in 
 actual service against Parlt. 
 
 Note that he neglected his opportunity of coming in to compound, 
 nothing can be done and that he must move the C.C. 
 
 1650. Nov. 7. He petitions the C.C. showing that his estate is 
 sequestered for delinciuency notwithstanding he was never in actual 
 service against the Parlt., and has sustained very great losses, inso- 
 much that he has not any means left for the maintenance of him- 
 self and family but the allowance of the fifth part of his estate, which 
 he petitioned for to the Committee of Newcastle who directed him 
 to the C.C. ; that now his rents are likely to be paid in to the 
 treasurer below, who will not allow the same to joetitioner without 
 order from the C.C. Prays order to the Cou. Com. for the allowance 
 of the said fifth part according to the late Act. — Is allowed his fifth 
 according to instructions. 
 
 1651. July 3. Petitions the C.C. for an order to the Cou. Com. 
 not to hinder him from receiving the rents of the manor of Lem- 
 mendon [Lemington] and of half that of Wheatley Lawfield, and 
 the Latage, half a parcel of ground in the West Wood, Bolton South 
 Wood, and several messuages in Bolton and Lemmendon, Northd., 
 which Sir John Clavering and Ann, his wife, by deed June 7, 12 Car., 
 sold for 1,850/. to petitioner and Sir Francis Brandling, deed., in 
 trust for Geo. Wray, and which they hold till a debt of 1,000/., part 
 of the money j^aid Ijy them for the premises, shall be discharged by 
 said Wray. Till the beginning of the troubles Wray satisfied the 
 interest, but not since. Petitioner is now liable for principal and 
 interest, and is sued for same, the Cou. Com. having sequestered the 
 premises for Wray's delinquency. — Referred to Cou. Com. 
 
 NICHOLAS TEMPEST OF STANLEY.! 
 
 (Cal. i. p. 204.) 
 164:9. Nich. Tempest compounds with the Commissioners at 
 
 * Sir Nich. Tempest, knt., sheriff of Newcastle in 1620, and one of the 
 leading men in the coal trade of the town for forty j'ears, is here described as 
 of Flatworth, while in the books of the Newcastle Merchant Adventurers 
 (Dendy, Surt. Soc. Pub. 101, p. 281) he appears as of Willington, Northd. Both 
 Flatworth and Willington lie, not far apart, on the north side of the Tyne 
 near North Shields. In the Newcastle Hostmen's Books (Dendj', Surt. Soc. 
 Pub. 105) his name runs at large. He was a son of Nicliolas Tempest of 
 Thornley, parish of Ryton, was created a baronet in 1622, became high 
 sheriff of Northumberland in 1632, and was buried at St. Nicholas's Church, 
 Newcastle, Sept. 16, 1656. 
 
 t Misprinted Steukley in the Caleiiclar. The list of sequestered persons, 
 ante, p. 68, rectifies tlie error.
 
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 Newcastle for delinquency during the last war. His personal estate 
 is in money, value, 7-40^. 
 
 Fine at a sixth, 123?. 65. 8d. 
 
 SIR RICHARD TEMPEST OF STELLA* 
 
 (Cal. iv. pp. 2697, 3006.) 
 
 1651. Jan. 27. Thos. Davison, a kinsman of John Rushworth, 
 and Gilb. Crouch, desire an order for a fifth of the lands, etc., of 
 Sir Richd. Tempest for Thomas and Richard, his children, with 
 arrears if possible. The estate is all in lands and collieries in 
 CO. Durham. 
 
 1651. Jan. 29. The children petition for a like order, being 
 young and destitute. — Granted. 
 
 1651. July 16. The estate of Sir Richd. Tempest appears in the 
 first Act for Sale. 
 
 1652. June 3. Discharge from sequestration of Stella manor, the 
 Treason Trustees having on the previous day agreed with Hen. 
 
 * Addressing a gathering of the Newcastle Society of Antiquaries at his 
 residence, Stella Hall, in August, 1888, the late Mr. Jos. Cowen, M.P., 
 remax'ked that the family of Tempest had been seated for centuries in the 
 CO. of Durham, and many of its members had held places of great trust in the 
 times of the Edwards and the Henrys. ' The head of the house in 1570, 
 unfortunately, joined in the rebellion of the earls, was attainted, and had 
 his estates confiscated. Younger members of the family were merchant 
 adventurers in Newcastle. One of them, becoming wealthy, retired, bought 
 Stella and built the present house. Nicholas Tempest was created a baronet 
 by James I. in 1622, and six successive baronets resided here in Catholic 
 splendour and loyalty. One was colonel of a regiment of horse in the service 
 of Charles I. and fought for the king till the last. Other members of the 
 family held positions of influence in connection with the Court and govern- 
 ment of the Stuart kings. By marriage with neighbouring landowners their 
 property was substantially augmented, the most notable accession being 
 obtained when Sir Thos. Tempest married the second dau. and co-heir of 
 Wm. Hodgson of Hebburn. By this marriage the Tempests became owners 
 of three-eighths of the manor of Winlaton, and considerable possessions in the 
 parish of Rj-ton. At an earlier date they obtained an estate at Stanley in the 
 parish of Tanfield. Sir Francis died unmarried in 1698, when the estates 
 passed to his sister, who married William, fourth Lord Widdrington, and the 
 title to his cousin, who died in 17-12 without an heir. The baronetcy then 
 became extinct.' The colonel of a regiment of horse, named by Mr. Cowen, was 
 Rich. Tempest of Stella. He was leader of the English forces in what is called 
 the second war or Marmaduke Langdale's Insurrection. Besieged in Cartington 
 Castle, near Rothbury, by the Parity, troops, which had made a forced march 
 from ChoUerton in the morning of July 1, 1648, he held out for two hours and 
 then surrendered. The next day, Sunday, the prisoners were being brought 
 to Newcastle when Sir Richard, ' after he had broke his fast ' at Morpeth, 
 managed to escape. He married .Sarah, dau. of Sir Thos. Campbell, Lord 
 Mayor of London, and having lived long enough to see the monarchy restored, 
 died in the early part of Feb., 1662, and on the 5th of that month was buried 
 at St. Giles', Durham. Pedigrees of the Tempests are in most of the county 
 histories— notablj' in Surtees, Hist. Durham, ii. 271, 275, 327 ; iv. 93.
 
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 Tempest, esq., to convey it to him and his heirs in full satisfaction of 
 his claim to several rent-charges issuable out of said manor and 
 other parts of the estate of Sir Richd. Tempest. — The Cou. Com. are 
 to permit said Hen. Tempest to enjoy the premises, etc. 
 
 THOMAS TEMPEST OF STANLEY. 
 
 (Cal. i. v- 203.) 
 
 1649. Thos. Tempest of Stanley, co. Durham, compounds for 
 delinquency during the last war. He has a personal estate in money, 
 value, 605/. 
 
 Fine at a sixth, 100/. 
 
 SIR THOMAS TEMPEST OF THE ISLE. 
 
 {Cal. in. p. 1999.) 
 
 1649. Apr. 28. Sir Thos. Tempest of The Isle, par. of Sedge- 
 field, CO. Durham, compounds for delinquency in being in the King's 
 quarters in York in the first war. His estate : In fee, the manor 
 called The Isle, Y.V.B.W., 80/., subject to a lease dated Apr. 1, 1637, 
 to John Rushworth, esq., at a reserved rent of a pepper-corn yearly, 
 in ti'ust for compounder's debts, charged with a recognizance of 500/., 
 whereupon judgment is had, and on elegit. He is likewise tied by 
 deed dated Jan. 3, 1639, to pay two several sums of 20/. and 6/. 
 which have been in arrear ever since his sequestration. The Report 
 adds that he also agreed to pay the several sums of 300/., 100/. and 
 40/. to the children of Elizabeth, his late wife, deed. 
 
 Fine at a sixth, 134/. 
 
 WILLIAM TEMPEST OF THORNLEY.* 
 
 (Cal. iv. p. 2952.) 
 
 1652. Feb. 10. Geo. Ward of Upton, co. York, being aged and 
 unfit to travel, begs reference to the Cou. Com. of his claim to 
 Eastwood and Mooreclose Dean closes, Chopwell, sequestered for 
 delinquency and recusancy of Wm. Tempest, one half of which was 
 petitioner's estate, as proved by an order of the Cou. Com. in Nov., 
 1647, only Mooreclose Dean being omitted therefrom. Tempest and 
 Geo. Stevenson have detained it. Tempest having an order for his 
 
 * Wm. Tempest of Thornley, par. of Ryton (a small estate to the west of 
 Winlaton, nearly opposite Gibside), was a son of Nicholas Tempest of that 
 place, and brother of Sir Nicholas, Chas. and Robt. Tempest, all three 
 merchants and coalowners in Newcastle. He married Marian or Mary, dau. 
 and heir of Wm. Aynsley of Shafto, co. Northd., and was buried at Uyton 
 July 27, 1652. She outlived him and was buried beside him Mar. 24, 1668.
 
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 third, petitioner applied to the Cou. Com. for his half according to a 
 deed by Tempest granting it to him, but they had no power without 
 order. — Referred to the Cou. Com. and Mr. Brereton. 
 
 1652. Feb. 18. The Trustees for the Sale of Crown Lands, having 
 conveyed to Chas. Yane of Westminster, esq., several lands and 
 tenements, heretofore parcel of the manor of Chopwell, two-thirds of 
 which are sequestered for the recusancy of Wm. Tempest, direct the 
 receivers, bailiffs and tenants of the manor to pay the I'ents, etc., to 
 the said Chas. Vane. 
 
 Xote (undated) of Cuth. Hawdon, clerk to the Cou. Com., that out 
 of two-thirds of the moiety of Chopwell Eastwood, sequestered from 
 Wm. Tempest, is issuing a fee-farm rent formerly paid to the Crown, 
 of 21. 3<;. \d. yearly, now purchased by C. Vane. 
 
 1652. June 1. Sequestration of the two-thirds discharged. 
 
 1651. Nov. 28. Vane begs further discharge, having purchased 
 the reversion after Geo. Ward, now dead, and Tempest's title ceases. 
 — Referred to Cou. Com. 
 
 1655. July 11. Mathias Hunter of Alnwick and Ralph Taylor 
 of Newcastle, having for valuable consideration bought of Mary, relict 
 of Wm. Tempest, the moiety of several messuages and lands in 
 Thornley and Ryton, and one close called Lily Crooke Hills, and all 
 other the lands, etc., called Thornley, or Stonehouse for 99 years, if 
 said Mary should so long live, beg discharge of same, and an order 
 to the Cou. Com. to take their own and other witnesses' examin- 
 ations. — Granted. 
 
 GEORGE THIRLWALL OF ROTHBURY.* 
 
 (Col. V. p. 3208.) 
 
 1652. Nov. 18. The estate of Geo. Thirlwall of Rothbury, co. 
 Northd., appears in the third Act for Sale. 
 
 165-i. Mar. 23. Discharge from sequestration of two farms and a 
 half in Allington, and a cottage and lands in Wrighills in the occu- 
 pation of John Thirlwall and Geo. Wilkinson, late parcel of the 
 estate of Geo. Thirlwall, forfeited l)y him and sold Ijy the Treason 
 Trustees to Thos. WjTiyard, gent. 
 
 * In a pedigree of the Thirlwalls of Thirlwall on the Roman Wall, which 
 appears in Hodgson (Hist. Xorthd. pt. ii. vol. iii. p. 146), Geo. Thirlwall, who 
 is here entered as the owner of property at Alwinton and Wreighill, near 
 Rothbury, occurs as fifth son of Lancelot Thirlwall of Thirlwall by Thomasine, 
 dau. of Sir Geo. Heron of Chipchase, knt. He married Margaret, dau. of Thos. 
 Selby (of Biddleston ?), from whom, perhaps, he received this estate on the 
 Coquet so far away from the patrimonial acres. A supplementary pedigree of 
 the Thirlwalls is printed in the new Hist. Northd. iv. 35, in which the editor, 
 Mr. J. Crawford Hodgson, quotes from the Rothbury registers the pathetic 
 entry of the burial of Mary, granddaughter of Geo. Thirlwall, • died in ye 
 flower of youth, buried in ye porch of Cartington, March 20, 1660-61.'
 
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 ANTHONY THOMPSON OF DURHAM CITY. 
 
 1G4:5. Described as a gentleman, Anthony Thompson compounds 
 ^^ith Sir Hen. Vane and the Cou. Com.— Fine, 400/. 
 
 1651. Nov. 21. Petitions Park, for pardon, and obtains it for 
 offences committed prior to compounding. 
 
 DOROTHY THOMPSON OF HEXHAM. 
 
 (Cal. V. p. 3227.) 
 1655. Jan. 11. John Taylor of York, begs discharge from 
 sequestration (with allowance for arrears) of an estate of inheritance 
 of some cojDyhold land called Tailer's Close, with its appurtenances, 
 lying within the manor of Hexham, surrendered by Dorothy 
 Thompson, widow (for whose recusancy it was sequestered) to 
 "William, her son, by whose death it descended to Rol^t. Thompson, 
 who sold it to petitioner. — Referred to the Cou. Com. 
 
 WILLIAM THOMPSON OF TRIMDON.* 
 
 (Cal. iv. p. 3107.) 
 
 1653. Apr. 26. Sir Robt. Bindloss, bart., begs allowance of rent- 
 charges of l'2s. and 22-!^. on the lands of Wm. Thompson and Robt. 
 Weemes, in Trimdon Manor, co. Durham, sequestered for their 
 recusancy. 
 
 165-i. Apr. 12. Mr. Reading reports that Wm. Thompson held 
 by lease from Sir Robt. Bindloss, bart., lord of the fee and manor of 
 Trimdon, certain lands there for which he paid a rent of l'2s. [in 
 another account 15?.]. — Application granted with arrears from date 
 of petition. 
 
 SIR NICHOLAS THORNTON OF NETHERWITTON.f 
 
 (Cal. iv. pp. 2591, 3003, 3048.) 
 1650. Oct. 30. Anne, Lady Thornton, widow of Sir Nich. 
 Thornton of Netherwitton, co. Northd., petitions for her fifth of her 
 
 * After the dissolution of the greater monasteries, Trimdon was part of the 
 landed pension which rewarded the services of the first Lord Wharton, a brave 
 and successful soldier in the Scottish wars. By bargain and sale enrolled 
 Aug. 11, 1618, Philip Lord Wharton, Sir Thos. Wharton, knt., and Humphrey 
 and Thos. Wharton conveyed the manor to Robt. Bindloss, esq., of Borwick 
 Hall, Lancashire, and in 1655 Sir Robt. Bindloss conveyed the estate to John 
 Fulthorpe of Tunstall, and Robt. Roper, the elder, of Trimdon. The Whartons 
 granted out various parcels of the lands to different persons to hold for 999 or 
 1,000 years, under small reserved rents, and doing service at the Court Leet, 
 etc. Surtees, Jlist. Unrliam, i. 104. 
 
 t A descendant, but not in the legitimate line, from the famous Roger 
 Thornton, who, entering Newcastle a poor lad from the country in the latter 
 part of the fourteenth century, as recorded in the familiar lines — 
 ' At the West Gate cam' Thornton in, 
 With hap, a halfpenny, and a lamb's skin,' 
 became the richest merchant in northern England. Eight times mayor, and 
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 husband's estate, long sequestered for delinquency and recusancy. — 
 Grante^l according to instructions. 
 
 1650. Dec. 18. Lady Thornton begs allowance of her third,^ 
 as a recusant, of rent-charges of 801. and 40/. on the estate of Sir 
 Wm. Widdrington, left her by her sister, Ursula Widdrington, and by 
 Wm. Kadcliffe. — Granted since Dec. 2i, 1649, if sequestered for her 
 recusancy only. 
 
 v/' 1651. May 7. Wm. Fenwick^_Qf_J£allington, trustee for Lady 
 
 Thornton's children, begs allowance of 40/. a year purchased by Wm. 
 Radcliffe from Sir Wm. Widdrington in 1642, and settled on him, 
 Sept. 15, 1649, in trust for the children. — Cou. Com. to examine title 
 and certify and Mr. Brereton to report. 
 
 1651. May 21. Cuth. Sapwith of Gray's Inn Lane, begs reference 
 to counsel of his right to lands in Riplington, Whalton, etc., Noi'thd., 
 sequestered last Feb. by the Cou. Com. as belonging to Thornton and 
 Gray, papists, but held by petitioner before the late wars. — Referred 
 to Mr. Reading. 
 
 1651. Nov. 12. Hen. Lambton of Lambton, co. Durham, begs 
 discharge of an annuity of 20/. bought from Sir Nich. Thornton for 
 250/. in 1642, and settled on lands in West Thornton, Northd., now 
 sequestered for Thornton's recusancy.— Referred to Cou. Com. and 
 Mr. Brereton. 
 
 1652. Mar. 11. John Sansom of Twizel, co. Northd., begs 
 
 Maison Dieu, and, dying in Jan., 1430, was buried in All Saints' church there 
 under a beautiful altar tomb, inlaid with a brass of Flemish work which is still 
 preserved as the art treasure of the town. Of him and his career there are 
 plenteous gleanings in the histories of Newcastle and among the biographies of 
 north-countrj- celebrities. Hodgson (/f;W. Xortlid. pt. it. vol. i. p. 316) supplies 
 a copious pedigree of the family at Netherwitton, while a series of Thornton 
 Papers in Arch. Ael. 1st ser. ii. 93, provide manj^ interesting items respecting 
 them and their property. Sir Nicholas, the delinquent, whose case fills manj- 
 sheets of C.C. and Cou. Com. paper, was the eldest son of Nich. Thornton of 
 Netherwitton bj' his second wife, Jane, dau. of Cuth. Radclitfe of Blanchland. 
 His father had submitted to seizure of his estates as a papist recusant in 162S, 
 but when the Civil War broke out, Nicholas the son, recusant though he was, 
 flew to arms in defence of his king. In Oct., 1643, he received a commission 
 from the Earl of Newcastle as captain of a troop of ' hargobuziers ' of 100 men, 
 with power to raise the said troop by beating a drum within the four northern 
 counties. He married Anne, dau. of Sir Hen. Widdrington, and sister of Wni.,. 
 first Lord Widdrington. After his death, his Avidow had an order from Cromw ell 
 forbidding all otficers and soldiers under his command to otfer any violence to 
 her person or any of her family, or to take away any of her horses, cattle, or 
 other goods. This is dated July 17, 1650, but in Aug., 1651, 300 horse, 
 belonging to the officers of nine regiments of foot, 1,000 horses belonging to 
 the train and baggage, 150 horses belonging to the life guard, and 1,000 horses 
 belonging to the regts. of Cols. Thomlinson and Hacker, were all quartered 
 upon her grounds at Netherwitton. Ci'omwell ordered that allowance should 
 be made to her not only for the corn and grass consumed, but also for thirty 
 loads of hay which the foot soldiers spoiled by using it for strewing their tents. 
 With his sanction the account was made up as follows : — 2,450 horse at Zd. a horse 
 a night, 30/. 12s'. %d. ; 30 loads of hay, IS/. ; a barn burned hy the soldiers, 16/. ; 
 16 sheep taken and killed, 3/. 4.s-. ; oats eaten and destroyed — 39 bolls 1 bushel, 
 13/. 16.S. M. ; peas, 2 bolls 1 bushel, 1/. \1s. M. ; rye, 1 boll, 1/. ; bigg, .10 bolls, 
 1 1/. 15s. ; total, 96/. 5'.'. 6r/. These figures are from the Thornton Papers,
 
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 allowance of an annuity of 8L, sold him in 1636 bj^ the late Nich. 
 Thornton, for 100/., Thornton becoming a delinquent the estate is 
 sequestered, and the Cou. Com. will not allow the annuity without 
 order. — Referred to the Cou. Com. and Mr. Brereton. 
 
 1652. Mar. 23. Hen. Thornton of Netherwitton, begs allowance 
 of his title to a rent-charge of 4:1. a year on Gallow Hill, co. Northd., 
 granted by Hen. Thornton of that j^lace, and Nicholas, his son, by 
 indenture dated Dec. 27, 1629, for 50/., to Wm. Radcliffe, who, by 
 will dated Oct. 22, 1647, bequeathed it to petitioner, his nephew. 
 The estate, since Radcliffe's death, has been so entangled with debts 
 that petitioner cannot reap the benefit of his bequest. It is now 
 under sequestration. 
 
 1652. Nov. 17. Claim allowed and sequestration discharged. 
 
 1652. Mar. 23. John Witham of Cliff, co. York, and Jane, his 
 wife, relict of Nich. Thornton [mother of Sir Nicholas] petition for 
 allowance of a rent-charge of 4/. a year on Milborn, co. Northd., 
 settled by Nich. Thornton, by indenture dated Oct. 15, 1634, for 50/. 
 on Wm. Radclifl'e, who bequeathed it to petitioner, Jane, his sister,, 
 sole executrix. They have not reaped the benefit of their legacy 
 because of the debts charged on the land. — Referred to the Cou. Com. 
 
 1652. Mar. 25. Lady Anne and John Thornton, son and heir of 
 Sir Nicholas, beg examination of a deed of settlement, dated Apr. 
 30, 1633, by which Sir Nich. Thornton (by the name of Nich. 
 Thornton, esq.) covenanted with Sir Wm. Widdrington and Sir Wm. 
 Lampton, knts., that in consideration of his marriage with Anne 
 
 wherein also appear commissions signed Jan. 25, 16 0, and June 13, 1667, to 
 John, son of Sir Nich. Thornton, as cornet in Lord Widdrington's troop, also 
 the following document testifying to the loyalty of John's son Nicholas, and 
 quoted here for its historical and biographical interest : — ' We whose names are 
 hereunto subscribed do certify that Sir Nicholas Thornton, late of Wittoii 
 Castle, in the co. of Northd., knt., deceased, did, in the beginning of the war,, 
 at his own charge, raise a troop of horse for his late Majesty's service, and 
 commanded them himself, till want of health obliged him to return home, and 
 then he left them to his Ijrother, .John Thornton, under whose command they 
 continued in the king's service so long as any tield forces remained on foot, the 
 said John being for a long time lieut. -col. to Sir ^Ym. Blakiston of Newton ;, 
 that the said Sir Nicholas, for this, and his constant adherence to the King's 
 party, was in his lifetime often plundered, his estate sequestered, and so continued 
 divers years after his death, and at last put into the Bill for Sale, which forced his 
 son John Thornton to redeem it at a high rate, and the rather because the said 
 John Thornton, the son, even in his infanc}', showed his loj'alty by appearing 
 in the war of 1648, where he was made prisoner, and constantly after sustained 
 all the hardships and plundering that the prevailing enemy could inflict upon 
 him ; and that, after the ha{)py Restoration of his majesty, the said John was 
 cornet, etc., till his death ; and that the said Sir Nicliolas Thornton was grand- 
 father, and the said John Thornton, his son, was fatlier to Nicholas Thornton, 
 esq., now of Witton Castle. And we further certif}- that the said Nicholas 
 Thornton hath on all occasions showed himself loyal and ready to serve his 
 Majesty, and that his two uncles, Henry and William, ai-e now living, which 
 Henry served in the qualit}" of a commissioned officer under his late Majesty of 
 blessed memory, and that William is son to Sir Nicholas Tliornton, and served his 
 Majesty under the command of Wm., Lord Widdrington, late deceased. Wit- 
 ness our hands the 2nd Jan>, 1685. J. Howard, vice-com., Tho: Horslej', sen., 
 N. Whitehead, Will: Strother, Willm. Ogle, Edmund Craster.'
 
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 [Widdrington], and of 1,000/. for their marriage portion, and for 
 settling his lands, etc., he would levy a fine of the manor and castle 
 of Witton-on-the-Water and Xether Witton, and all the lands, etc., in 
 the towns and hamlets of Witton-on-the-Water, Xether Witton, 
 Windgates, Brenckhaugh, Todbm-n. Trewittlee, Witton Sheilds, West 
 Sheilds, Carnehills, Hedley Old Park, Shelley Hay Close, Hall- 
 bancks and the Eastmaines, arable lands containing 2 jjloughs, 2 
 meadows containing 20 acres, the residue of the deanesne lands called 
 Xether Witton, and a water corn mill, to the following uses, viz. : — 
 Witton Castle and several parts of the demesne lands of Xether 
 Witton, the Xew Park, Hay Close, Hallljanck, the 2 ploughs of 
 arable, the 20-acre meadows, and all other demesne lands of 
 X'ether Witton except the Old Park, 7 farms in Witton, in the tenure 
 of the said Xich. Thornton, the water corn mill, the Brenckhaugh and 
 all lands and tenements to said castle and last mentioned premises 
 belonging, to use of the said Xicholas for life, then to Anne for life 
 for her jointure, then in tail to their heirs male, and for default to 
 John, brother of said Xicholas, and his heirs male, with divers other 
 remainders in tail. Residue to use of said Xicholas for life, then to 
 the eldest son of Xicholas and Anne, with remainder in tail, etc. 
 Provided that if the jointure lands, after the death of said Xicholas 
 should not be discharged of all rents, charges and annuities granted 
 by the will of Xich. Thornton (father of the said Sir Xicholas) to 
 John, Cutlibert, Roger and Henry, sons of Xicholas the elder, that 
 then the said fine should be, as touching the residue, to use of said 
 Anne until the jointure lands should be discharged of said rents, etc. 
 Provided, further, that if said Xicholas and Anne should have 
 ■children living at the death of said Xicholas, all those who should 
 stand seised in use, possession, etc., of said premises (except the 
 jointure) should stand thereof seised, that each of the younger sons 
 should have 30/. each yearly for life, the eldest dau. 300/. and 
 the younger daus. 250/. each on marriage, or age of 21. These 
 manors, etc., petitioners ought to have enjoyed since Sir Xicholas' 
 death in Oct., 1617, but they are kept out of them by sequestration 
 for his delinquency, which ought not to continue after his decease. 
 — Cou. Com. to certify and Mr. Reading to report. 
 
 1652. May 1 Francis Cheeseman, officer in the army, begs dis- 
 charge on the Act of Pardon of lands in Riplington, par. of Whalton, 
 CO. X'orthd., the rents of which were stayed in the tenants' hands 
 as 1: elonging to Edwd. Grey, and Xich. Thornton, but they really 
 belong to petitioner. 
 
 1652. May 21. Thos. Anderson and Hen. Jolly, citizens of 
 London, beg discharge on the Act of Pardon of lands in Riplington, 
 bought by Cuth. Sapwith in 1613, of Edwd. Grey and Xich. Thorn- 
 ton, and by him sold to jDetitioners, who have always been well 
 affected. — Order, on report, that the sale of 1643, on which Sapwith 
 claims, cannot be allowed on the present proof. 
 
 1652. June 10. Gerard Xewman of Meldon, co. Xorthd., begs 
 allowance, with arrears, of his annuitv of -4/., charsed bv Xich.
 
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 Thorutou on lands in Gallow Hill in 1G35. He ^vas permitted to 
 enjoy it by order of the Cou. Com. in 1647, on production of his 
 deed, yet the present Cou. Com. refuse it. — Cou. Com. to examine and 
 certify. 
 
 1652. July 15. John Thornton, infant, son and heir of Sir 
 Nicholas, petitions Parlt., presumably for liljertv to compound with 
 the C.C. 
 
 1652. Sept. 23. Major John Bligh and Col. Wm. Levitt, having 
 bought fee-farm rents in Xorthd., sequestered from Nich. Thornton, 
 Hen. and Sir Wm. Widdrington, and Gilb. Errington, the same are 
 discharged from sequestration ; but o,ne-third is to be allowed to the 
 sequestered persons if recusants, or a fifth if delinquents. 
 
 1652. Nov. 18. The estate of Sir Xich. Thornton of Xether- 
 witton appears in the third Act for Sale. 
 
 1653. Jan. 17. Wm. Graham deposes that Sir Xich. Thornton 
 died Oct. 16, 1647. Anne survives. Their eldest son, John, is aged 
 19. They have a younger son, William, and daus. Mary, Frances, 
 Elenor and Anne now alive. 
 
 1653. Jan. 26. Thos. Fowle certifies that Mch. Thornton of 
 Gallehill, gent., compounded for two-thirds of two messuages and 
 land in Gallehill, and other lands there, Riplington, and one cottage 
 in Milborne, not found by inquisition, yielding il. p. ann. 
 
 1653. Jan. 28. Wm. Graham deposes that Nich. Thornton of 
 Netherwitton, is the same person that was afterwai'ds called Sir 
 Nich. Thornton, and that he and Nich. Thornton of Gallehill, gent., 
 were two distinct persons, of kindred one to another. Nich. Thorn- 
 ton of Gallehill died about 2 years ago. 
 
 Same date. Auditor Sherwyn reports that Sir Nich. Thornton 
 was certified to l^e a capt. of horse and a papist, and his estate 
 "valued at 350/. p. ann. His lands are let to Edwd. Fenwick for 
 5 years from Whitsuntide, 1651, at 150/. p. ann. 
 
 1653. Feb. 3. [Cal (C.A.M.) iii. p. 1,462.] Certificate from 
 the C.A.M. that Lady Anne and John Thornton have never been 
 sequestered for delinquency or recusancy, but that in the third Act 
 for Sale the estates of Sir Nicholas are ordered to be sold. A like 
 certificate that no information has been exhiljited against Nich. 
 Thornton, nor any sequestration issued on any part of his estate 
 claimed by Hen. Thornton for delinquency or recusancy, nor on any 
 part claimed by John Witham of Clift", co. York and Jane, his wife. 
 
 1653. Feb. 17. Geo. and Mich. Collingwood of Todburn, Northd., 
 heg allowance of their annuities of 6/. and 12/. a year from lands in 
 Kirkley and Todburn, sequestered for the delinquency of Sir Nich. 
 Thornton. They claim by deeds dated May 10, 1635, and Dec. 10, 
 1641.— Referred to the Cou. Com. 
 
 1653. Aug. 30. Major Bligh complains that John Ogle, the Cou. 
 Com. Treasurer, detains the rents, and l)egs an order to compel him 
 to pay, with arrears, and not to meddle further with the said rents. 
 — Granted. The Cou. Com. to have a copy of the order and pay the 
 rents in 7 days, or show cause.
 
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 1653. Sept. 1. On report, the claim of Lady Anne Thornton and 
 her son, John, is allowed, Sir Nicholas having only a life interest in 
 the estate. The Cou. Com. are to enquire whether Lady Thornton 
 is convicted of recusancy ; if so, the sequestration of two-thirds of 
 her jointure is to continue ; if not the whole estate with arrears 
 since the petition of Mar. 25, 1652, is to be discharged. Wm. 
 Fenwick, guardian of John Thornton, is to see that he is brought up 
 in the Protestant religion. 
 
 1653. Sept. 27. Edwd. Fenwick, of Stanton, Northd., begs 
 discharge of a house with lands in Milborn, which Nich. Thornton 
 sold, in 1644, to Sir Francis Howard and Sir Nich. Thornton in trust 
 for Mich. Ga.scoyne, who sold it to j^etitioner, but it is sequestered 
 for the recusancy of Nich. Thornton, though he is dead. — Cou. Com. 
 to examine and Mr. Reading to report. 
 
 1653. Dec. 14. Order for payment of arrears of other fee-farm 
 rents purchased by Bligh and Levitt. 
 
 1654. Feb. 17. Wm. Anslow claims for Leonard Thornton, 
 orphan, his ward, who is a Protestant, tenements in Milborn and 
 all the lands of the late Nich. Thornton, Northd., sequestered for 
 recusancy, and begs to prove the title. — Referred to the Cou. Com. 
 
 1654. July 6. Sansom's claim allowed. If the estate is 
 sequestered for delinquency, the whole annuity to be paid, if for 
 recusancy, two-thirds, with arrears from date of petition. 
 
 1654. July 20. Discharge from sequestration of houses, lands, 
 collieries, etc., in or near West Thornton and Kirkley, Northd., 
 forfeited by Sir Nich. Thornton, and liought from the Treason 
 Trustees by Gilb. Crouch. 
 
 1654. Oct. 3. Major Bligh complains that a great part of the 
 arrears of the rents due to him are detained by the Cou. Com. Begs 
 an order to be paid direct by the tenants. — The present Cou. Com. 
 to pay forthwith the arrears justly due. 
 
 1654. Nov. 30. Cuth. Sapwith petitions that, Thornton being 
 dead and his own title being well-known to the Cou. Com., they^ 
 on Apr. 29, 1652, ordered the tenants to pay him their rents, but 
 he cannot enjoy them without order of the C.C. — Referred to the 
 Cou. Com. and Mr. Brereton. 
 
 1655. Feb. 1. Order that the claim of Edwd. Fenwick be 
 allowed and sequestration discharged, with arrears from date 
 of petition. 
 
 GEORGE TONGE. OF DENTON.* 
 
 (Cal. a. p. 998.) 
 
 1645. Nov. 27. Geo. Tonge of Denton, co. Durham, and of the 
 Honble. Socy. of Gray's Inn. petitions for leave to compound for 
 
 * The Tonges were a junior branch of an ancient hoi;se — the lords of Tong, 
 in the parish of Birstall, co. York, and long resident at Eccleshill, par. of
 
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 his delinquency. Pleads that by reason of the Earl of Newcastle's 
 absolute power, he was forced to take command in the Army, and 
 has now^ for 3 years borne arms against the Parlt., but he has now 
 wholly deserted and quitted the service, and has conformed to the 
 ordinances of Parlt. in taking the Covenant and Oath at Gray's Inn 
 Chapel, and again at Zacharies. 
 
 16J:G. Mar. 11. Particular of his estate from a certificate of 
 the Cou. Com. : — Land at Denton, being his inheritance, let 6 years 
 since at a full rack rent of 120/. p. ann. ; copyhold land at West 
 Thickley, the jointure of Lady Tonge, his mother, with reversion 
 after her death to Mr. Tonge, let then at a full rack rent of 120/. 
 p. ann. He paid p. ann., out of the land at Denton, 10/. Part of 
 said land at Denton is mortgaged for security of a rent of 40/. 
 p. ann. The whole land at Denton is now let to farm by the Com- 
 mittee at 80/. p. ann. 
 
 1646. July*2. Fine, 320/. 
 
 1650. Aug. 29. Petition of Ralph Delaval and Wm. Garland of 
 Andrew's Holborn, for an order to extend the sequestered lands of 
 
 •Geo. Tonge, against whoiji they have obtained a judgment of 1,000/. 
 in the Upper Bench, and to compound on the Act of Aug. 1, for the 
 part extended. — Refused. 
 
 1650.^ Sept. 30. The Cou. Com. report that Tonge's estate in 
 Denton being sequestered, they were informed that it belonged to 
 his mother who had exchanged it with her son for lands in Thickley, 
 also sequestered, which is a hard case for the lady. 
 
 1651. Mar. 4. Complaint on behalf of Lady Tonge that the 
 Thickley lands are sequestered as her son's, and that he has sold the 
 
 Bradford in that county. It was probably through the marriages of Richard 
 of Eccleshill to Isabel, dan. of Robt. Hedworth of Harraton, and William, his 
 son, to Elizabeth, dau. of Hen. Lord Clifford, and widow of Ralph Bowes of 
 Streatlam, that they crossed the Tees and settled at Thickley, par. of 
 Heighington, of which place Wm. Tonge, LL.B., was vicar in 1499. George, 
 son of Wm. Tonge and widow Bowes, married Helen, dau. of John Lambton 
 of Lambton, and their son, Cxeorge, being apprenticed in 1576 to Mark Shafto, 
 merchant adventurer, carried a portion of the familj' to Newcastle. For 
 George was followed thither by two brothers, namely, John, who dying with- 
 out issue was buried at All Hallows Church in that town, May 7, 1613, and 
 William, executor to John, who was interred at the same place Dec. 30, 1622. 
 Geo. Tonge of Thickley and Denton, nephew of the three brothers in New- 
 castle, was knighted Apr. 24, 1617. He married Elizabeth, dau. of Thos. 
 Blakiston of Newton Hall, near Durham city. Hy her he had thirteen children, 
 seven of whom survived him and married into leading north-country families. 
 George, the compounder, liap. at St. Giles's, Durham, Nov. 11, 1617, took to 
 wife, Barbara, dau. of James Carr of Newcastle, and sister of Cuth. Carr of St. 
 Helen's Auckland. What happened at their wedding, and much more about 
 the Tonge family may be read in Surt. Soc. Pub. 34, notably on p. 157 ct >ieq. 
 After her decease he married again and by both wives left issue. Of his sisters, 
 Elizabeth became the wife of Sir Francis Liddell of Redheugh ; Gertrude 
 wedded Henry Maddison of Newcastle ; Catherine was united to Francis 
 Bowes of Thornton ; Mary married John Swinburne of Durham. Surtees, 
 Hwt. Durhum, iv. p. 4, and Walbran, Hist. Gain/ord, p. 116, are the 
 authorities for this note.
 
 366 
 
 Denton lands to Geo. Lilburn, a Committee man. Begs allowance 
 of Denton, and all her divers lands. 
 
 1651. Mar. 12. The Cou. Com. to take examinations and send 
 up deeds. Thickley to be dischai'ged from sequestration during her 
 life, and inquiries to be made whether Geo. Lilburn helped to yield 
 Denton to her that he might retain Thickley. 
 
 1651. May 23. Hen. Marshall of Denton, begs allowance of an 
 annuity of 10/. on lands in Denton, sequestered from Geo. Tonge. 
 
 1651. July 24. Lady Tonge begs payment of 60/., being a 
 third of her husband's estate of 180/. a year, having no other 
 maintenance. She received it till the estate was sequestered from 
 her son. — Cou. Com. to certify Sir Geo. Tonge's estate, and what was 
 settled upon her and allow her 20/. on security meanwhile. 
 
 1651. July 29. George, John and Elizabeth, children of Geo. 
 Tonge, beg allowance of their fifths, with arrears since Dec, 1649. 
 Their father's whole estate being sequestered for delinquency, and 
 he unable to raise moneys for composition, they are put to great 
 misery. — Granted. 
 
 1651. Dec. 3. Lady Tonge is allowed in lieu of jointure a third 
 of the lands, etc., of which her husband died seised, from the time 
 when they were seized for the State. 
 
 1652. May 5. Geo. Tonge petitions for leave, on the Act of 
 General Pardon, to pay his fine of 320/., though, being imprisoned 
 for debt, he could not raise it in due time, and has with difficulty 
 borrowed it to get his sequestration discharged. — Allowed to pay 
 the fine with interest and have his estate on security till the pleasure 
 of Parlt. be known. 
 
 1652. July 15. The claim of Hen. Marshall alloAved, if he has 
 not released it, nor received arrears. 
 
 1652. Nov. 10. Petition of Geo. Tonge, Ralph Delaval and Wm. 
 Garland read in the House of Commons, with a certificate of the C.C. 
 Ordered, that the C.C. and the Treasurers of G.H. be authorized to 
 accept the fine due upon the composition of Geo. Tonge, with interest 
 for forbearance thereof since it should have been paid, and upon pay- 
 ment thereof l^efore Feb. 1, to dischai'ge the sequestration. 
 
 1653. Jan. 1-1. The fine paid and sequestration discharged. 
 
 JOHN TKOLLOP OF THORXLEY.* 
 
 (Cal. iv. p. 2710.) 
 1651. Feb. 5. Ralph Bell of Thirsk, begs continuation of a 
 rent-charge of 4/. a year, granted 17 Jas., by John Trollop to Rich. 
 
 * The misfortiuies of the familj- of Trollop are sketched at great length 
 by the master hand of Surtees, Hi>it. Durham, i. 85-90. From his graphic 
 narrative it is evident that the Trollops were a bold, courageous, and high- 
 minded race. In the reign of Elizabeth they suffered for their religion ; in 
 the reign of Charles I. they suffered for their loyaltv. Involved in the
 
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 Bassett of Upsall, co. York, by him sold to petitioner and allowed 
 by the Durham Cou. Com. out of Trollop's sequestered estate till 
 the late order of prohibition. — Referred to Mr. Reading. 
 
 1652. Nov. 17. The name of [John] Trollop appears in a list of 
 I^er&ons reported to Parlt. from the Committee on the third Act for 
 Sale. 
 
 1653. May 20. Mr. Reading reports that by indenture dated 
 May 15, 1619, John Trollop, esq., in consideration of iOL granted 
 to Richd. Bassett an annuity of i?. issuing out of Pound Close and 
 Pond Close garths, in the lordship of Thornley. 
 
 1654. Jan. 5. Claim allo^yed and two-thirds of the annuity, 
 with arrears from date of petition, to be paid out of the sequestered 
 two-thirds of Trollop's estate. 
 
 JOHN VASEY OF NEWLANDS. 
 
 161'±. John Yasey of Xewlands, co. Durham, gent., compounds 
 with Sir Wm. Armyn and his colleagues. — Fine, 33/. 
 
 1651. Nov. 21. Petitions Parlt. for pardon, and obtains it, for 
 offences committed prior to compounding. 
 
 rebellion of the earls in 1569, they obtained pardon six years later, but could 
 not obtain the restoration of their forfeited estates. For nearlj^ foi'ty years 
 they struggled in the law courts against the Crown lessees. They succeeded 
 in 1613 in recovering their projierty, but the scars were never healed. 
 Mortgage succeeded mortgage, and almost every succeeding j-ear was marked 
 by a new incumbrance. ' While the estate was thus mouldering away piece- 
 meal,' writes Surtees, 'an unfortunate accident occurred which precipitated 
 the downfall of the family. On the 4th iJec, 1636, John Trollop the younger, 
 in a sudden quarrel at a horse race, fought with Wm. Selby, esq., of Newcastle, 
 at White Hall Dike Nook, and slew him on the spot. Trollop immediateh- 
 fled, and was outlawed at the assizes at Durham Aug. 7, 1637. In 1641, on 
 the breaking out of the civil wars . . . Mr. Trollop, like the rest of the 
 Catholic gentry, eagerlj' embraced the royal cause ; and besides the total ruin 
 of his shattered fortunes [see the inventory, ante, p. 27], lost his two younger 
 sons in the King's service — Col. Michael Trollop, slain at Wigan (to whom the 
 King had granted a lease of 99 years in his outlH^^ed brother's estate > ; and 
 Capt. Wm. Trollop, who died of his wounds during the siege of Oxford. 
 After the Restoration the Trollops, like many a starving Cavalier, found them- 
 selves reduced to the possession of the family mansion. ... In 16S8, after the 
 death of the elder Jolui Trollop, the numerous family of Thornley was reduced 
 to two individuals — his only remaining son and his grandson, who clung to the 
 ruins of the estate, till on the death of John Trollop the j^ounger in 1678, his 
 father, the last survivor of his family, sold the manor and remaining lands to 
 John Spearman, gent., and retired to West Herrington, where he died in 
 16S2, and was buried at Kelloe on the 18th of January, iiltimn.\ ■'Quorum.' John 
 Trollop, whose name lieads this chapter, married Elizal)eth, dau. of Sir Wm. 
 Blakiston of Blakiston, by whom he had John the outlaw, and four other 
 children who died in infancj'. From a second marriage (with Isabel, dau. of 
 Geo. Holtby of Shackerton, co. York) came Michael and William who were slain 
 in the war, and six moi'e, all of whom died young. John the outlaw thus 
 became the only surviving child, and he, marrying Dorothy, dau. of Sir Robt. 
 Hodgson of Hebburn, had one son, also named John. He ol)tained a reversal 
 of the outlawry on the 10th April, 1579, but his son died inimarried in the same 
 year leaving him the last of his race, as described by Surtees.
 
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 THOMAS WATERTON OF CARRAW.* 
 
 fCal. iv. p. 3 131. J 
 
 1652. Nov. 18. The estate of Thos. Waterton of Carraw, co. 
 ^^orthd., appears in the third Act for Sale. 
 
 1653. Aug. 1. Discharge from sequestration of a capital 
 messuage or mansion house and land called Carron, with the appur- 
 tenances, in CO. Northd., in the occupation of Arth. Foster, late 
 parcel of the estate of Thos. Waterton, gent., sold by the Treason 
 Trustees to Thos. Slingsby of London, who has paid the first moiety 
 of the purchase money. 
 
 GEORGE WHITEHEAD OF BULMER.f 
 
 (Cal. i. p. 202.) 
 
 1649. Geo. Whitehead of Buhner, co. Xorthd., compounds with 
 the Parity. Commissioners in Newcastle for delinquency in the last 
 war. His estate : A lease of Boulmer from the Earl of Northd., half 
 a farm on lease in right of his wife, and a moiety of 15/. in money, 
 payable to him and Mrs. Barbary Errington at the surrender of the 
 lease to John Errington. 
 
 Fine, il. 
 
 ANN WIDDRINGTON OF WEST HARLE.+ 
 
 (Cal. iv. p. 3103.) 
 
 1653. Apr. 8. Robt. Green, Wm. Robson, Gilb. Reed and their 
 wives, Isabel, Lucy and Eleanor, daus. and heirs of Rowland Robson, 
 
 * In the Commons Journals, Nov. 2, 1652, this place is ' Carrow,' in the 
 third Act for Sale ' Carraw,' in the Calendar 'Carram,' and in MS. from the 
 Record Office 'Carron.' Possibly Carraw, near Newbrough, is the place. 
 John Carr, capt. of Wark, being taken prisoner by the Scots, Aug. 24, 1542, 
 with John Tempest and his brother, who were in command of 100 men, the 
 Earl of Rutland despatched anotlier 100 men under Thos. Waterton and Nich. 
 Tempest to reinforce the garrison. Bates, Border Holdt, p. 357. Many years 
 ' later, Thos. Waterton, of the ancient family of Waterton of Walton, co. 
 York, married Anne, dau. of Hen. Slingsby of Scriven, co. York, sister of 
 Catherine, wife of Sir John Fenwick of Wallington, Northd., sister also of Sir 
 Hen. Slingsbj', bart. , who was beheaded June S, 1658, for alleged conspiracy 
 against Cromwell. Thos. Slingsby of London, it will be noted, buj's the 
 estate, a transaction which suggests a family arrangement. In the Northd. 
 Rentals, 1663, Carrow, in Newbrough Chapelry, is owned by Capt. Forster, 
 and is rated at 50/. p. ann. 
 
 t One of the Earl of Northumberland's officers in Long Houghton parish. 
 His history and pedigree (beginning with himself) and an account of his 
 troubles with a previous lessee of Buhner, may be read in the new Hist. 
 Northd. ii. 402. 
 
 X Apparently Ann, widow of Robt. Widdrington of West Harle (who died 
 in Apr., 16.32, aged 46), son of Roger Widdrington of Colwell and uncle of 
 Ralph Widdrington of Colwell. The devolution of Colwell and Whitehouse is 
 worked out, with much interesting material, by Mr. J. Crawford Hodgson in 
 vol. iv. of the new Hint. Xorthd.
 
 369 
 
 'of Nether Healey, co. Northd., beg allowance of a rent-charge of 24/. 
 granted, 18 Chas. I., by Ann Widdrington to Rowland Robson on her 
 lands in Whitehouse, par. of Thockrington, and sequestered for her 
 recusancy. — Referred to Cou. Com. and Mr. Brereton. 
 
 1653. Dec. 30. Wm. Moyer, auditor, certifies that two-thirds of 
 Ann Widch-ington's estate at Whitehouse has been let at 60/. p. ann. 
 
 1654. Jan. 17. Ann Widdrington begs to contract on the late 
 Recusants' Act for the sequestered two-thirds of her estate. — Referred 
 to Mr. Reading. 
 
 1654. AjDr. 13. Three-fifths of the rent-charge is allowed to 
 Green, Robson and Reed, with arrears since Dec, 1649, and dis- 
 "charge of sequestration, but the other two-fifths being released to 
 petitioners by Thos. Davison and Wm. Dunn, recusants, proof it- 
 required that the release was in good faith and not in trust for 
 themselves. 
 
 1654. May 30. Proof given and the whole rent-charge released. 
 
 SIR EDWARD WIDDRINGTON OF CARTINGTON.* 
 
 (Cal. iv. p. 3507). 
 1650. Aug. 16. Wm. Smith of Brignill [or Brigmill] begs relief 
 irom the action of the Cou. Com. of Northd., who refuse obedience to 
 an order of the C.S. dated Aug. 2, 1647, permitting him and Wm. 
 Smith of Cheswick to enjoy their 21 years' lease of Harbottle manor, 
 granted them. Mar. 1, 1642, by Sir Edwd. Widdrington for 500/., 
 but sequestered for his delinquency. — Cou. Com. to certify cause of 
 ■sequestration and whether petitioner is a papist. 
 
 * Sir John Widdrington of Widdrington, Warden of the Middle Marches 
 in 1537, M.P. for Xorthd. in 1552, and high sheriff of the county in 1559, was 
 "twice married and became the father of a numerous family. By his first wife, / 
 Agnes, dau. of Jas. Metcalfe of Nappa, in Wensleydale, he had two sons and a 
 daughter. Edward, his second son, of Swinburne Castle, Northd., was united 
 in 1565 to Ursula, dau. and co-heir of Reginald Carnaby of Halton Castle, and 
 by her had (1) Sir Hen. Widdrington, who, marrying Mar}% dau. of Sir 
 Hen. Curwen of Workington, became the father of William, first Lord 
 Widdrington ; (2) Sir Ralph, who married a lady uiiknown, and had issue 
 John Widdrington of Stonecroft, Hen. Widdrington of Buteland, and Ursula, 
 wife of Thos. Mountney ; (3) Roger Widdrington of Cartington and Harbottle, • 
 "whose first wife was Mary, dau. of Francis Radcliffe of Dilston (by whom he 
 had Sir Edward of Cartington) and whose second wife, Rosamond, dau. of 
 Michael Wentworth of Worley, Yorks., was the widow of Bertram Reavely, 
 whose curious monument adorns the church at Mitford, near Morpeth. Sir 
 John's second wife, Agnes, dau. of Sir Edwd. (4ower of Sittenham, Yorks., 
 brought him eleven children, one of whom, Robert, founded the family of 
 Widdrington of Plessy, and of Monkwearmouth, and anotlier, knighted by 
 James J., became Sir Ephraim Widdrington of Trewhit and Ritton. These 
 gleanings from the pedigrees of Widdrington in Hodgson, //t's/. Xortlid. 
 pt. II. vol. ii. p. 236, will serve to link together most of the persons named in 
 the compounding cases relating to the Widdrington family. Further informa- 
 tion may be sought in the new Hist. Xorthd. iv. (wherein over 100 Widdrington 
 items are indexed), Surtees, Hist. Durham, ii. 8, and the Hodgson volume 
 ■ above quoted, pp. 104 and 297. 
 
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 370 
 
 1650. Oct. 30. Christine, wife of Sir Edwd. Widdrington, begs, 
 her fifth of the estate sequestered for her husband's delinquency and 
 recusancy. — Ordered according to instructions. 
 
 1650. Dec. 7. The Cou. Com. desire instructions from the C.C. 
 •whether to allow Edwd. Keveley the estate which he claims in the 
 jointure of Rosamond, wife of Bartram Reveley, and afterwards of 
 Roger "Widdrington, she being deed., and the C.S. having allowed 
 him the rest of the estate as heir in tail. 
 
 1651. Jan. 9. The two Smiths complain that their charges hy 
 appeals are so great that without an immediate order they and' 
 their families will be ruined. — Cou. Com. to examine and report. 
 
 1651. Mar. 25. Mr. Reading reports that Sir Edwd. Widdring- 
 ton, Geo. Pott and Andrew Rutherford, yeomen, by indenture of 
 Mar. 1, 1642, for 5007. paid to Sir Edward, demised to the two 
 Smiths the manor and castle of Harbottle, with all its demesne lands 
 for 21 years, conditioned for voidance, if, within 8 years, Sir Edward 
 paid the 500/. in one sum. 
 
 1651. Apr. 30. Edwd. Revely of Throphill, Northd., begs refer- 
 ence to counsel of his claim to lands in Newton Underwood, settled 
 on Rosamond Widdrington, who is lately dead. — Referred to Mr. 
 Reading. 
 
 1652. Mar. 25. Order, on Reading's report, admitting Reveley's 
 title and discharging the sequestration of two-thirds of said lands. 
 
 1652. Xov. 18. "The estate of Sir Edwd. Widdrington of Cart- 
 ington, Northd., appears in the third Act for Sale. 
 
 [Undated. Nov. 1652 ?] Petition of Roger, son and heir of Sir 
 Edwd. Widdrington, showing that by indenture of Nov. 18, 1601,* 
 Francis Radclitfe of Dilston, conveyed to Roger Widdrington. 
 petitioner's grandfather, the manor of Linsheeles, Loughriggs and 
 Laithough, during the lives of said Roger and Mary, his then wife, 
 then to use of first son of Roger and his heirs male, and for default 
 to second, third, fourth, etc., sons, with other remainders over. 
 Begs examination of his claim thereto after death of Sir Edward. 
 
 * On Nov. 18, 1601, Francis Radcliffe of Dilston settled Cartington on 
 Roger Widdrington, the husband of his eldest daughter, Mary. Their son, 
 Sir Edwd. Widdrington of Cartington, was created a baronet on Aug. S, 1642. 
 From his petition to Chas. II. we learn that, in obedience to the late king's 
 proclamation, he had left his dwelling in Northd. at the approach of the 
 Scottish army, losing bj' spoil and plunder, 1,900/. He and his kinsman. Lord 
 Widdrington, raised at their own charge 2,000 foot and 200 horse to serve Lord 
 Newcastle, as well as part of another brigade. After Marston Moor he was 
 banished and his lands sequestered, while his Avife was lined 400/. for giving 
 information to the king's party, and his chief house, Cartington Castle, worth 
 8,000/., pulled down. The eldest son of Sir Edwd. Widdrington died in 16.54, 
 and after his own death Cartington appears to have become the property of 
 Sir Edwd. Charlton of Hesleyside, who had married his daughter Mary. Sir 
 l"'dw. Charlton died in 1675, and the two widows, Dame Christina Widdrington 
 and Dame Marj' Charlton, continued to reside at Cartington for some years 
 after, both their names appearing in the lists of recusants. Bates, Border 
 HokU, pp. 398, 403.
 
 371 
 
 [Undated.] Petition of Roger Widdrington, showing that by 
 deed of Nov. 1-i, 1615, Francis Radclifte of Dilston, granted to Sir 
 \Ym. Fenwick and other feoffees in trust, the town and lands of 
 Snifter, to the use of Roger and Mary Widdrington during their lives, 
 then (as before). Begs examination of his claim thex'eto. 
 
 [Undated.] Petition of Roger Widdrington, showing that by 
 deed of Sei:)t. 25, 1632, between (1) Rogei-, Thos. and Roger 
 Widdrington, and John Saunderson, and (2) Sir Wm. Widdrington, 
 the said Roger, Thomas, Roger and John conveyed to Sir William the 
 manors of Cartington and Ovington and the lands of Linsheeles and 
 Saughrig. Laythhaugh, Tossen, Warton, Snitter, Clifton, Priests' 
 Leases, East and West Crookden, Green Chesters, Ridding, Wood- 
 houses, Hallystone, Harnhous. Headshope, Lentrenside, Netherton 
 and Paynchford, during the life of said Roger, then to Edward (now 
 Sir Edward) and then (as before). Begs examination of his claim 
 thereto. 
 
 [Undated.] Petition of Roger Widdrington, showing that by 
 deed of Dec. 22, 1632, Roger and Oswald Widdrington and others 
 granted to Thomas, Lord Wentworth, Sir Geo. Wentworth and others, 
 Burdhey, Woodlow, Xetherhowses, Eshtrees, Claighbrey, Hillocks, 
 Fetherwood, Cottenshopp, Oldtowne, Coldtowne, Rissingam, 
 Troughead, Linhead, Corsingsides, and Brighowses to the use of 
 Rosamond Revely for life, then to her eldest son and other sons in 
 tail male, with other remainders over, and after their decease to the 
 use of Edwd. Widdrington, petitioner's father, and his eldest son, 
 with other remainders over ; and forasmuch as the said estate is 
 descended to petitioner's father, and is in the last Act for Sale, 
 petitioner begs examination of his claim thereto. 
 
 [Undated.] Petition of Hen. Widdrington and John Sanderson, 
 gent., showing that Roger and Sir Edwd. Widdrington by deed of 
 June 30, 1640, conveyed to petitioners in trust for a provision for 
 the daus. of the said Sir Edward, the lands in Shilmore, Soppitt, 
 Dungehope, and Peterside, to commence from the birth of the first 
 son of said Sir Edward, for 31 years, and whereas Sir Edward has 
 a son. lately born and now alive, and his estate is to be sold under 
 the last Act for Sale petitioners l^eg allowance of the lease as aforesaid. 
 
 [Undated.] Andrew Lawson begs allowance of an annuity of 
 16/. on Catthooles and Loungesknowe, Northd., granted him, 17 
 Chas., by Sir Edwd. Widdrington, whose estate is in the last Act 
 for Sale. — Like petition from Elizth. Gray, for allowance of a rent- 
 charge of 20/. granted to her, 17 Chas., Ijy Sir Edwd. AViddrington, 
 for 250/. on lands in Snitter which are in the last Act for Sale. 
 
 1653. Jan. 31. John Brownell l)egs the l:)enefit of his judg- 
 ments, according to the late Act for Sale on the lands of Sir Edwd. 
 Widdrington, from whom he holds a bond of 200/. dated 1631, for 
 payment of 100/., and a bond of 120/. dated 1639, for payment of 
 60/.. which are still unpaid and Sir Edward's lands are now to l)e sold. 
 
 1654. Mar. 23. Discharge from sequestration, having been sold
 
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 to John Kushworth, and payment made for same, of all those 
 demesne lands called Cottenshoppe head, Fetherwood and Burdhope 
 and all those houses, farms, townships, etc., called Xetherhouses, 
 Woolawes, Clowghbrea, Eshtrees, Hillock, otherwise Over Rachester, 
 Aid Towne, Brigghouses, otherwise the Brig, Corsenside, Caldtown, 
 Eiseingham, Linneheades and Troughen, with all rents, royalties, 
 rights, etc., in co. Xorthd., in the several occupations of Francis Pye, 
 Wm. Hidley, Daniel Hidley, Wm. Fletcher, Geo. Coxon, Math. 
 Coxon, Anthony Hidley, Thos. Hidley, Isabel Pott, Elizth. Hogg 
 (widow), Percival Hidley, Wm. Hall, Clement Read, Wm. Hall, Edwd. 
 Read, Margt. Read, Edwd. Read, John Brown, sen., Gawin Read, 
 Peter Read, Cuth. Browne, Anthony Browne, John Browne, John 
 Read, Wm. Read, John Foster, Geo. Hogg, Geo. Read, Archibald 
 Read, John Foster, Roger Foster and Wm. Hall, late parcel of the 
 estate of Sir Edwd. Widdrington, bart. 
 
 1654. May 11. Like discharge to John Rushworth of Linn- 
 sheildes, Prestleases, Crookeden, otherwise Craggtheeles, Clifton, 
 Soppitt, Dunghope, Parlerside, Longisknow, otherwise Barrowburn 
 Foot, Cattholes, otherwise Xottliehurst, Shellmore, other^vise Shillope, 
 Lee Clough, Sawghrigge and Leathehaugh, co. Xorthd., late parcel of 
 the estate of Sir Edwd. Widdrington, bart. 
 
 Same date. Like discharge to John Rushworth of the manor 
 of Ovington, with the colliery and the fishing in the Tyne to said 
 manor belonging, and the manor, capital messuage, or castle called 
 Cartington, with the demesne lands thereto belonging and all the 
 demesne and other lands called Snitter, Xetherton, Lenterne Clough, 
 otherwise Lenterne Side, Woodhouses, Hideshope, Carnehouse or 
 Ernehouse, Greeii Chesters, Long Tey, otherwise Soardhope third 
 part, Thropton, Tosson, Warton, Cragg, Lewis Bourne, and West- 
 mattfin with all the messuages, lands, etc., thereto belonging in co. 
 Xorthd., in the several occuiDations of Edwd. Cheater, Geo. Cheater, 
 Wm. Johnston, John Cheater, Wm. Pott, Anthony Pott, Walter 
 Browne, Wm. Pott, Mich. Pott, Robt. Pott, Anthony Wanlofte, 
 Mich. Hall, Peter Snowdon, Alex. Hall, Stephen, Wm., John and 
 Anthony Yarrow, Richd. Stokoe, Mark Pott, [blank] Ogle (widow), 
 Robt. Davison, Anthony Pott, Thos. Pott, Mark Pott, Geo. Buddie, 
 Mich. Bolam, Wm. Halsopp, John Buddie, Chris. Bolam, Thos. How, 
 Geo. Bolam, Thos., Arch, and Chris. Bolam, John Bolam, Chris. Arch, 
 Francis Xevill and Hen. Widdrington. 
 
 1655. Apr. 12. Like discharge to John Rushworth and John 
 Brownell, esqrs., of the manor house with all demesne lands, 
 messuages, etc., called Hartbottle, with a corn mill and fullins: mill 
 in the parishes of Allwenton and Hallistone, late parcel of same 
 estate.* 
 
 * Other claims against Sir Edw. Widdrington 's estate, or cases in which 
 the estate is involved are these: — (Cal. ii. p. 84-3.) 1650. July 17. Francis 
 Nevill of Chevet, Yorkshire, petitions for allowance of 1,600/. debt, for which 
 he obtained a jixdgment against Geo. Widdrington. Referred to Mr. Brereton.
 
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 1655. Sept. 4. Christine, wife of Sir Edward, complains that 
 although she received her fifth till the late Act for Sale, yet now the 
 estate is sold, except a third of Alwenton Rectory and Hallistones, 
 which were excepted. Begs an order to receive her fifth part of the 
 profits. — Granted, with arrears from Oct. 30, 1650. 
 
 HENRY WIDDRINGTON OF BLACKHEDDON. 
 
 (Cal. a. 2). 909.) 
 
 1645. Nov. 27. Hen. Widdrington of Blackheddon, co. Northd., 
 begs to compound for delinquency in being a major (in the train 
 band of Northd.) of a foot regiment for the king, in which he con- 
 tinued till Mar., 1643, when he laid down his commission and in 
 Aug., 1644, surrendered to Lord Fairfax. Through causeless jealousies 
 he was apprehended in Newcastle. Has taken the National 
 Covenant. Being a younger brother, his chief estate is in horses, corn, 
 cattle, sheep, etc., all which have been taken from him. Has a 
 wife and seven children. Particular of his estate as it was letten 
 before these times: — House and land at Blackheddon, 30/. p. ann., 
 the moiety of Boulton and Broompark, 30/. p. ann. ; a mortgage of 
 the tithes of Stamfordham, being a lease for yeai's from the Bp. of 
 Durham, at a rent of 40 marks and 6 bushels of wheat on the 21st 
 Dec. yearly, but the wife and heir of the mortgagor (Wm. Fenwick, 
 since deed.) pretending the principal money to be satisfied in the 
 reception of the yearly profits, have, through a petition to the Cou. 
 Com. grounded upon false and untrue suggestions, got possession 
 of the said tithes without paying anything for the same, saving the 
 said 40 marks to the late Bp. of Durham, and so he is out of 
 possession, and has no means to regain the same but by suit in law 
 or equity. His personal estate in corn, cattle and other goods, to the 
 value of 1,000/. has been taken from him. He owes his brother. Sir 
 Thomas, by bond. 100/., also lent to him 140/., and to the or]ihans 
 and children of John Collingrwood, deed., upon bond, 40/. Total, 
 280/. 
 
 — Aug. 5. Begs reference to counsel of his complaint that tlie Cou. Com. for 
 Northd. refuse obedience to the order of the C.S. allowing him tliis debt due 
 from Sir Edwd. Widdrington on a judgment against his father, Roger 
 Widdrington of Cartington, Northd. — Aug. 29. Begs to compound for the debt 
 on the Act of Aug. 1. Noted, claim allowed. ^Dec. 4. Pleads that his extent 
 was never questioned till this Act passed, and Sir Edwd. Widdrington, being 
 a papist and delinquent in arms, cannot compound. — 1651. April 23. Begs 
 confirmation of the order of allowance. — Order that the Cou. Com. inquire into 
 the cause of sequestration. 
 
 {Cnl. V. p. 82S4-) 1650. Aug. 16. On Lord Craven's petition for fulfilment 
 of an order of the C.S. of Oct., 1648, for pavment of a debt of 1,300/. due by 
 Sir Edwd. Widdrington from his se(iuestered estate, the C.S. are to certifj' why 
 the lands were sequestered, whether Lord Craven be a papist and in this land ; 
 if not, where he is, and whether he has gone bj' license of the State.
 
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 16i6. Jan. 3. Fine, 200/., to be paid as follows : — 50/. presently, 
 50/. 3 month.s hence, and 100/. 3 months after he shall be peaceably 
 possessed of Stamfordham tithes.* 
 
 (CV/L [C.A.M.] ii. p. 819.) 
 
 1651. Dec. 26. Hen. Widdrington having been assessed at 150/. 
 in May, 16J:7, the C.A.M. order that he be discharged from his assess- 
 ment on payment of 30/. in a month, f 
 
 1652. Feb. 7. Deposition to prove that a debt of 300/. due to 
 him on bond by Cuth. Heron and Sir Xich. Tempest, was in behalf 
 of Wm. Swinburne, papist and delinquent, and the l^alance has been 
 paid to. the Cou. Com. 
 
 1652. Mar. 3. Cuth. Heron of Chipchase, Xorthd., petitions 
 that, being bound with Sir Xich. Tempest to pay Hen. Widdrington 
 of Blackheddon 300/. at a day long since past, judgment at law was 
 taken against him, but it appeared that the bond was for the use of 
 Wm. Swinburne ; that 100/. had been repaid, and all the interest 
 except 32/. and therefore 232/. was due, which was paid by order to 
 the Cou. Com., but the bond not being returned, petitioner and 
 Tempest are in danger of being sued on the judgment. Begs that 
 the bond may be cancelled, and Widdrington forced to acknowledge 
 satisfaction of the debt. — Order accordingly. 
 
 1652. Dec. 2. Widdrington petitions that the money was really 
 due to him. Begs an order to the Cou. Com. to examine his witnesses 
 and stay iiroceedings meanwhile. 
 
 1653. Aug. 31. Order renewed for the bond to be brought in 
 for cancelling, or the parties refusing to be brought up in custody 
 for contempt. 
 
 1654. Jan. 17. Widdrington pleads that Wm. Swinburne is 
 lately dead, and he knows not where the bond is. Living 250 miles 
 away begs the Cou. Com. may tak^ his oath and stay proceedings. — 
 Granted. Oath to be taken in a month. 
 
 1654. July 25. Widdrington begs an order to the C.C. to take 
 evidence that the debt was his own, and not Swinburne's. — The Cou. 
 Com. to examine and Brereton to report. 
 
 1656. Mar. 6. Hen. Widdrington petitions the Protector for 
 exemption from the decimation tax. He was of the late King's 
 party, but deserted, voluntarily came in and compounded in 1645, 
 has since continued obedient to the .government of the Common- 
 
 * 1646. Feb. 14. Resolution of the House of Commons, agreeing to accept 
 a fine of 200/. for discharging the delinquency of Hen. Widdrington, he having 
 been in arms against the Parlt. His estate, 60/. p. ann. in lands, and a term 
 of j-ears of certain tithes, 100/. p. ann. — May 4. An ordinance for granting him 
 a pardon passed. 
 
 t Under the title of Sir Hen. Widdrington, compounder appears in the 
 Rentals of 1663 as owner of Black Heddon township ; rental, 120/.
 
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 ^'ealth and been active in many public services. Has been a Com- 
 missioner for trial of offenders against the State. Desires the 
 beneiit of that part of the Protector's instructions which extends 
 favour to those who have wholly changed their interest in that party 
 with which they were at first engaged. Sends certificate by Chas. 
 Howard and the Commissioners of the iieace in Xorthd. of his 
 good conduct. 
 
 1656. Mar. 7. Letter from the Protector and Council to Col. 
 ■Chas. Howard to discharge him on the late instructions. 
 
 HENRY WIDDRINGTON OF BUTELAND.* 
 
 (Cat. iv. p. 2593.) 
 
 1650. Oct. 30. Isal:)el, wife of Hen. Widdrington of Buteland, 
 ■CO. Northd., petitions for her fifth for maintenance of herself and 
 children, with arrears from Dec. 24, 1649. — Noted, according to 
 instructions. 
 
 1650. Nov. 6. Hen. Widdrington petitions for like allowance on 
 their behalf. — Granted, with arrears. 
 
 1652. Feb. 10. Catherine, widow of [Benjamin ?] Widdrington, 
 begs payment of^her third from Buteland and other lands, co. Northd., 
 allow^ed by the late C.C., but being sequestered for the recusancy 
 and delinquency of her son, Henry, it has been refused lately on 
 general instructions. Is 80 years old and very infirm. — Cou. Com. 
 to certify cause of sequestration, etc. 
 
 1652. Feb. 17. Mary and Catherine [not Dorothy as the 
 Calendar states) daus. of Hen. Widdrington, infants, renew the 
 petition of Oct. 30, 1650, for their fifth. — Granted, with deduction 
 -of taxes and charges. 
 
 1652 1 Hen. Widdrington of Blackheddon, begs an order to the 
 Cou. Com. to permit him to enjoy a little stead or hamlet called 
 the Steele and one quarter of the little stead called Brumupp and 
 Langley, Northd., leased to him in 1640, for 21 years by Hen. 
 Widdrington of Buteland, or examination of his claim thereto. — No 
 order made. 
 
 1652. Nov. 18. The estate of Hen. Widdrington of Butelandf 
 appears in the third Act for Sale. 
 
 1653. Sept. 16. Ursula Mountney of Stone Croft, Northd., 
 widow, late Ursula Widdrington, begs pa}Tiient of her annuity of 
 4Z. with arrears, granted her liy Hen. Widdrington of Buteland in 
 
 * In the Calendar the cases of Hen. Widdrington of Buteland and Hen. 
 Widdrington of Ritton are mixed. An attempt is here made to assign the 
 various items to their proper headings. 
 
 t In the Rentals for 166.S Mr. Hen. Widdrington of Butland is returned 
 at 160/. for two Butlands, Steale, Hindliouse, Calf Close, Broomehope and 
 Felling [Stelling]. ,
 
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 1637, on his lands in South and North But eland, which she duly- 
 received till the Cou. Com. stayed it. — Cou. Com. to examine and. 
 certify. 
 
 1653. Nov. 9. Discharge from sequestration of a messuage and 
 lands in North Seaton, par. of Woodhorn, co. Northd., late parcel 
 of the estate of Henry [which Henry?] Widdrington, etc., and pur- 
 chased from the Treason Trustees by Sam. Foxley, gent. 
 
 1653. Dec. 21. Hen. Widdrington of Buteland begs an order to 
 the Cou. Com. to reimburse him 50/., charges in defending his right 
 to his sequestered estate, against Wm. Charlton,* who claims part 
 of it. — Cou. Com. to take examinations thereon. 
 
 1654. Mar. 22. Mary and Dorothy, daus. of Henry, beg anothei* 
 order to the Cou. Com. for jDayment of their fifth, which is refused, 
 and as yet they have received nothing for maintenance. — Noted that 
 the C.C. have no power by the order of Feb. 10, 1654, to grant 
 fifths to the wives and children of delinquents, and, therefore, can do 
 nothing as to this petition. 
 
 1654. Mar. 22. No return having been made to the order of 
 Dec. 21. it is renewed to Hen. Horsley, the present sub-commissioner 
 of the county. 
 
 1654. Apr. 25. Petition of Cath. "Widdrington allowed, with 
 arrears from date of petition and the lands discharged from seques- 
 tration. 
 
 HENRY WIDDRINGTON OF RITTON.f 
 
 (Cal. iv. p. 2594.) 
 
 1652. Feb. 5. Ephraim ATiddrington of Ritton, Northd., begs 
 allowance, with arrears, of an annuity of 20/. on lands in Northd. 
 settled on him, 15 Chas., by his grandfather. Sir Ephraim Widdring- 
 ton, who died 3 years since, but said annuity is sequestered for the 
 
 * See Charlton of Hesleyside, ante, and the new Hist. Northd. iv. 231. 
 
 t 1654. Mar. 10. Information of Edwd. Trumbel of Morpeth that on 
 Thursday morning last he was invited to a wedding at Duddo, and going 
 thither in the evening he found men there with every of them pistols to the 
 number of seventy or thereabouts, and that the report was among them that 
 that part}- would enter upon Sandgate [Newcastle] that night, and another 
 party under command of one Uelaval was to come in at Westgate, and another 
 party under command of Willoughby or Cholmley to come in (Tateside, to take 
 Newcastle. There was one Mr. Widdrington of Ritton, Michael Windegaites 
 and Wm. Aldcome at this rendezvous. — March 13. Information of Michael 
 Pratt, taken at Morpeth, that on Thursday night, 8th inst., at Duddo, he saw 
 Major Thos. Carnaby, Gawin Snowden, Michael Windegates, Wm. Pott of 
 Warton and one Wallas of Caistron, and they reported that Roger Hall of 
 Rutchester was there, John Davison of Newton in Coquet, Edwd. Bell of 
 Duddo, and his son Edwd. Bell of Stannington. Heard some of the company 
 sa}- that Mr. Hen. Widdrington of Ritton was there, and Wm. Aldcome of 
 Morpeth. — Thurloe, State Papers, iii. "216, ■228. In the Northd. Rentals, 
 1663, Ritton, Colt Park and Birkheads, belonging to Hen. Widdrington, esq., 
 are valued at 80/. Duddo is in the parish of Stannington.
 
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 delinquency of his brother Henry and the Cou. Com. cannot allow it 
 without order. 
 
 1652. Feb. 6. Auditor Sherwyn certifies that by an account 
 of the Cou. Com. dated Apr. 22, 1651, Hen. Widdrington is 
 sequestered as a papist and delinquent and that his lands in Ritton, 
 Coltey Park and Highbrick Heades are farmed by Thos. Horsley at 
 a yearly rent of 45?. 
 
 1652. Apr. 9. Claim of Ephraim Widdrington allowed, but he is 
 to have only a third of the annuity and of arrears from Dec. 24, 
 1649, because he has refused to take the Oath of Abjuration. 
 
 1652. June 10. Wm. Widdrington of High Birkhead, begs allow- 
 ance of a grant made to him by his father, Sir Ephraim, July 26,. 
 1624, of lands in High Birkhead, now sequestered by the Cou. Com. 
 as the estate of Hen. Widdrington, grandchild and heir of Sir 
 Ephraim. — Cou. Com. to examine deeds and certify cause of 
 sequestration. 
 
 1652. Nov. 18. The estate of Hen. Widdrington of Ritton 
 appears in the third Act for Sale. 
 
 1653. Feb. 17. John Witham of Cliffe, co. York, and Jane, his 
 wife, sister and heir to John Radcliffe of Nether Witton, petition for 
 allowance of their title to a rent-charge of 81. a year on West Calde- 
 cotts, and other lands in Northd., granted to GIIId. Errington, late of 
 Ponteland, by indenture of Oct. 11, 15 Chas., for 100/. to John 
 Radcliffe, which said lands are since come to Hen. Widdrington and 
 are sequestered. — Referred to the Cou. Com. 
 
 1654. Nov. 14. Discharge of messuages, lands and tenements 
 called Ritton, Colt Park, Birkheades in par. of Hartburn and the 
 East and West Caldecotts, par. of Ponteland, late parcel of the 
 estate of Hen. Widdrington, etc., purchased by Geo. Hurd of London, 
 merchant. 
 
 JOHN WIDDRINGTON OF BEDLINGTON. 
 
 (Cal. V. pp. 2954, 3197.) 
 
 1654. Jan. 19. John Widdrington of Bedlington petitions the 
 C.C. stating that two-thirds of his estate are under sequestration for 
 recusancy, and praying that he may be permitted to contract accord- 
 ing to particular annexed [missing]. 
 
 1654. Aug. 8. Matt. Currey petitions the Cou. Com., shewing 
 that, in 1651, he farmed Bedlington Mill, sequestered for the 
 recusancy of John Widdrington, gent., for 7 years, at 487. rent ; 
 that he had a mill-close as pasturage for two cattle, and all the 
 tenants in Bedlington were bound under a fine to bring their corn 
 to the mill to be ground ; that 39 of them, encouraged by Robt. 
 Fenwick,* who has purchased the royalties, withdraw their custom 
 and grind where they will. Fenwick has also taken the mill-close, 
 
 * ' The manor of Bedlington was sold by the Parliamentary confiscators 
 of Church property in the (ilreat Rebellion, to Robt. Fenwick, Esq., for 
 1,296/. 7^\ 5Aa'.' Raine, Hist. Xorth Durham, y. 365. V
 
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 so that petitioner cannot keep swine or poultry, nor get thatch for 
 roofing, to the loss of iO/. Begs relief or discharge from his lease. 
 — The Cou. Com. request the C.C. to admit him tenant at 16/., or 
 discharge him from his lease. 
 
 1655. May 17. The C.C. decide that they cannot relieve the 
 petitioner. 
 
 JOHN WIDDRIXGTON OF STONECHOFT.* 
 
 (Cal. iv. p. 2953.) 
 
 1652. Feb. 11. John Widdrington of Stonecroft, co. Northd., 
 begs an order to receive his third from Stonecroft and the half of 
 Whittington, sequestered for his recusancy only. — Granted, if for 
 recusancy alone. 
 
 165.3. Apr. 1-3. John Carnaby of the Hermitage, co. Northd., 
 begs confirmation of a lease of the said lands, granted him by the 
 Cou. Com. for 4 years at 48/. 10*\ ; the estate not being in the last 
 Act for Sale. — Cou. Com. to certify if the lease is according to Act 
 of Parlt. 
 
 1653. July 19. Petition renewed, he being admitted tenant 
 according to instructions. On the Cou. Com. so certifying the con- 
 tract is confirmed. 
 
 SIR WILLIAM WIDDRINGTON OF WIDDRINGTON.f 
 
 (Cal. iv. p. 2416.) 
 1650. July 9. Mary, wife of Sir Wm. Widdrington, petitions for 
 her fifth of her husband's estate, sequestered for delinquency. — 
 Granted, the Cou. Coms. for Northd. and Lincoln to allow the same 
 from his estates in those counties. 
 
 * By his will, dated Jiuae 4, 1664, John Widdrington of Stonecroft, who 
 appears in the Northd. Rentals of 1663 for lands in North Seaton at 15/., gave 
 to his sister, Ursula Mountney of Stonecroft (his executrix), and to her heirs 
 for ever, his lands of Stonecroft, Nunbush, Whittington, Portgate, etc., also 
 Seaton, «/?a.s Northseaton, and Woodhorn, lately purchased of Sir Hen. 
 Widdrington of Elackheddon, knt., and Nich. Whitehead of Morpeth, gent., 
 and Margaret his wife. Mrs. Mountney, by will dated July 16, 1680, left her 
 estates to the head of the clan. Lord Widdrington, but reserved a rent-charge 
 of ,32/. a year upon Stonecroft and Nunbush, which property she desired should 
 always be let to some discreet Catholic, qualified to keep a priest for the help 
 of poor Catholics in Hexham and Warden. When her brother John left her 
 his estates he stipulated that a priest should be kept at Stonecroft, and she, in 
 turn, ordained that he should be paid 20/. a year out of the 32/. rent-charge. 
 The remaining 12^. was to be distributed among the poor of Hexham, 3/., 
 Warden, 3^., Chollerton, 2/., St. John Lee, 1/., and Corbridge, 1/., the balance 
 of 2/. to be given to the distributor. Cf. Hodgson, Hi'it. Xorthd. pt. ii. vol. 
 ii. pp. 1S9, 237, and pt. ii. vol. iii. pp. 393-396. 
 
 t Sir Wm. Widdrington (the first Lord Widdrington, though not so named 
 in these papers) was the eldest son of Sir Hen. Widdrington, Warden of the 
 Marches, High Sheriff in 1636, and three times M P. for Northd. Sir William 
 was elected in April, 1640, to the Short Parlt., and in October following to the 
 Long Parlt. Very soon after his second election ' distaste ' was taken by the 
 House of Commons at his describing the Scots as 'invading rebels,' whereupon
 
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 1650. Oct. 17. The Cou. Com. of Xorthd., scrupling to pay 
 the fifth because of a grant from the estate by Park, to Susanna 
 Blackstone,* are ordered to pay it, the grant notwithstanding. 
 
 (Nov. 10, 1640), ' Sir William in liis place stood up and said that he knew them 
 to be the king's subjects, and would no more call them rebels, and with this 
 explanation the House rested satisfied.' A few months later he was again in 
 trouble. Under date June 9, 1641, we read in the Journal'' that 'There was 
 this morning exceptions taken against Mr. Price and Sir Wm. Widdrington 
 for some carriages of theirs last night concerning the taking away the candles 
 from the serjeant violently, when there was no general command in the House 
 for the bringing of candles in, but a great sense of the House went for rising, 
 it being so very late. They in their places made explanation with what 
 intentions they did it, and they were commanded to withdraw, which accord- 
 ingly they did ; and then the House fell into debate of the business. Resolved 
 (by 189 to 172 votes) that Sir Wm. Widdrington and Mr. Herbert Price shall, 
 for their offence to this House, be sent to the Tower, there to remain during 
 the pleasure of the House. Sir Wm. Widdrington and Mr. H. Price were 
 called to the Bar, and there offered to kneel ; but because thej' did not kneel 
 they were caused to withdraw. And after some debate of the House, con- 
 cerning their coming kneeling they were again called to the Bar, and there, 
 they kneeling all the while, Mr. Speaker pronounced the sentence against them 
 of their being committed to the Tower.' From this durance, on petition, after 
 a week's detention, both prisoners were released. A year later Sir William 
 definitely joined the royal forces and on Aug. 26 he was expelled the 
 House for raising arms against Parlt. On Nov. 10, 1643, the king 
 rewarded his fidelit}' by creating him a peer of the realm. He was present 
 at most of the battles, from that of Worcester, Sept. 23. 1642, to that 
 of Marston Moor in Jiily, 1644, when the Roj'alists sustained a crushing 
 defeat and he fled beyond seas. In 1649 his name occurs in a list of a dozen 
 delinquents who were to be proclaimed traitors and presented for perpetual 
 punishment and confiscation. Returning to England in June, 1650, Avith 
 Prince Charles, he plaj'ed an active part in the abortive attempt to restore the 
 Crown, and at Wigan, on Sept. 3, 1651, in the 40th year of his age, he 
 was slain. Clarendon describes him as ' one of the most goodly persons of that 
 age, being near the head higher than most tall men,' and that he was among 
 ' the first who raised both horse and foot at his own charge, and served 
 eminently with them under the Marquis of Newcastle, with whom he had a 
 very particular and entire friendship.' 
 
 * Susan, or Susanna, Blakiston was the widow of John Blakiston, son of 
 Marmaduke Blakiston, Archdeacon of York and Prebendary of Durham. John 
 Blakiston represented Newcastle in the Long Parlt. from Jan. 7, 1641, till his 
 death in June, 1649, and was a nember of the C.C. He was one of the fifty- 
 nine persons who signed the death-warrant of the king, and hence is known in 
 local history as Blakiston the regicide. His wife was Susan, widow of Roger 
 Chambers, merchant adventurer of Newcastle, to whom he was married at All 
 Saints church in that town, Nov. 9, 1626. On July 6, 1649, a few days after 
 his death, the House of Commons passed a resolution that 3,000/. be paid to 
 his wife and children out of the Northd. estates of Sir Wm. Widdrington and 
 the Earl of Newcastle, for the reparation of his losses and sufferings for the 
 state by means of Sir Wm. Widdrington and the Earl. This resolution was 
 em])odied in an Act of Parlt. dated Aug. 19 following, which gave tlie widow 
 1,500/. and the three children 1,000 marks each. In the Ca/endar, iii. p. 2124, 
 are three entries concerning her case. Under date Apr. 17, 1650, she com- 
 plains that a stay is made to her payment, and begs a fresh order ; on the 
 24th of same month Parlt. issue an order for payment to her accordingly, and 
 on May 11, the Cou. Com. certify that she has received 790/. 12■^■. 4r/. from the 
 two estates. In the correspondence, ante, p. 81, this sum is entered as 811/., 
 but the date is six montlis later.
 
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 1651. July 8. Jane, widow of Ambrose Loreyne of Tynemouth,. 
 begs reference to counsel of her title to an annuity of 6/. charged 
 on the lands of Sir Hen. Widdrington [father of Sir Wm.] by deed 
 of 21 Jas.-— Keferred to the Cou. Com. 
 
 1651. July 18. The estate of Sir Wm. "Widdrington appears in 
 the first Act for Sale. 
 
 1651. July 22. E^^hraim Armorer, for Robert, infant son of 
 the late John Carr of Lesbury, Northd., begs payment from Sir Wm. 
 Widdrington's estate of a legacy of 50^.. with interest, left by John 
 Carr to Sir William as trustee of Carr's son. — Referred to Cou. Com. 
 
 1651. Sept. 24. Lady Widdrington begs stay of rents in tenants' 
 hands till allowance of her claim to the manors of Blankney, etc., co. 
 Lincoln, which her father, Sir Anthony Thorold, by deed dated Dec, 
 11 Car., settled upon Sir William on their marriage [1635], said 
 lands being by the late Act, appointed to be sold. — Referred to Mr. 
 Reading. 
 
 1651. Sept. 21. Petition of William, son of Sir Wm. Widdrington, 
 deed., reciting a long indenture dated June 2, 1621, by which Sir 
 Hen. Widdrington and Sir Robt. and Dame Elizth. Cary conveyed^ 
 to Sir Hen. Curwen, Sir John Fenwick, Sir Wm. Lambton and Hen. 
 Errington, esq., the manors of Widdrington, Woodhorne, Ellington, 
 and his lands, etc., in AViddrington, Woodhorne, Ellington, Linton, 
 Newbiggin, Drueridge. Burrowden, Denton near Newcastle, Hurst, 
 and Black Callerton. co. Xorthd., to his own use for life, then to his 
 son, the late Sir William, for life, remainder to the first son of 
 Sir AVilliam and his heirs male, with several remainders over ; that 
 Sir Heniry and Sir William are both dead, and petitioner is first 
 son of Sir William ; that the lands of the said Sir William are 
 appointed to be sold, but until such sale the rents and profits are dis- 
 posable by the C.C. Prays to have the pi-ofits accrued since his 
 father's death. — Referred to Mr. Reading. 
 
 1652. Jan. 1. The Committee for Removing Obstructions report 
 their opinion that Mary AYiddrington, with William, her eldest son, 
 and Henry, Edward, Ephraim, Ral2:^h, Antony and Roger, the younger 
 children of Sir William, should have the benefit of the deed of Dec. 
 11 Car. 
 
 1652. Jan. 29. Order on Rejiort that the Committee are satisfied 
 as to Wm. Widdrington's claim to the estate. As to his claim under 
 the deed of June 2, 1621, the estate being in the Act for Sale, and 
 the Committee for Removing Obstructions having allowed it, the 
 C.C. are also to allow the claim, and order the rents to be paid to 
 him, with arrears since his father's death, unless they know him 
 to be a delinquent. 
 
 1652. Feb. 27. On certificate from the Cou. Com. that the 
 Martinmas rent is already paid to Susanna Blackstone, they are 
 to certify how much it is, and Mrs. Blackstone is to show cause why 
 she should not pay back to Wm. Widdrington what she has received ' 
 from the estate Avhich comes to him by the death, in Aug. last, 
 of Sir William, his father.
 
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 1652. Apr. 8. Order to the Cou. Com. to pay Wm. Widdring- 
 ton the Martinmas rents and put them to account on the estates of 
 ■the Earl of Newcastle and Sir Wm. Widdrington, which are lialjle 
 for the sums granted to Mrs. Blackstone. 
 
 1652. June 16. Discharge from sequestration of the capital 
 messuage called Chibburne (tenant, Geo. Burrell) late parcel of the 
 estate of Sir Wm. Widdrington, and purchased. Mar. 26, by Gilb. 
 Crouch. 
 
 1652. July 27. James, Earl of Suffolk, begs discharge and 
 reimbursement of the rents received by the Cou. Com. from the 
 manor of Redesdale, co. Xoz'thd. He and his ancestors have long 
 been lords of the manor of Harbottle, but the Cou. Com., for reasons 
 unknown, detain under sequestration, Ramshope pasture grounds. — 
 The Cou. Com. certify, later, that these were sequestered as joart of 
 the estate of Sir Wm. Widdrington. 
 
 1652. Sept. 15. Order for the discharge from sequestration of 
 the manors of Humshaugh and Colwell, with the woods, rents, 
 royalties, etc., thereto belonging ; the messuage called Great Swin- 
 bourne, otherwise West Swinbourne, par. of Chollerton ; a capital 
 messuage and several other messuages, lands, etc., in the township 
 ■of Colwell, par. of Chollerton, and the messuages there called Toane- 
 house, Whiteside Lawe, Colt Cragg and Kelly Quarter, and several 
 messuages, lands, etc., in the par. of Symondbourne and Holme- 
 shaw Mill there, all in co. Xorthd., late parcel of the possessions of Sir 
 W^m. Widdrington, and purchased, June 2, by Gilb. Crouch. 
 
 1653. Oct. 5. Like discharge of the manor of Ellingham, other- 
 wise Ellington, with the woods, coal mines, royalties, etc., in co. 
 Northd., late parcel, etc., of Sir Wm. Widdrington's possessions and 
 purchased Sej^t. 14, by John Button, gent, of London. 
 
 [Undated.] Petition of Gilb. Crouch showing that on June 2, 
 1652, he contracted with the Treason Trustees for the manor and 
 other premises in Colwell, late parcel of the possessions of Sir Wm. 
 Widdrington, deed., and on Sept. 6, following, paid the whole pur- 
 chase money, whereupon the sequestration was by order of Sept. 6, 
 1652, to be removed; yet Ealph Widdrington of Colwell, being a 
 farmer to part of said lands in Colwell, the Cou. Com. sequestered 
 part of said lands as the estate of said Ralph, whereas it was really 
 the estate of Sir William, and Ralph only a farmer to it. On this 
 account the C.S. refuse to discharge the same. Prays for examina- 
 tion as to the title of said lands and if they belong to Sir William 
 that they may be discharged according to order. 
 
 1653. Nov. 9. John Rushworth, esq., and Gilb. Crouch, gent., 
 conti-act with the Trustees for the purchase of the demesne lands of 
 Bingfield and Colwell with several messuages, lands, etc., in the 
 parishes of Chollerton and St. John Leyes in co. Xorthd., now or late 
 in the occupation of Rowland Widdrington, Thos. Bell and Elizth. 
 Errington, late parcel of the estate of Ralph Widdrington. 
 
 1654. Mar. 23. Whereas it appears by an order of the Treason
 
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 Trustees, dated Nov. 9, 1653, that John Rushworth and Gilb. 
 Crouch on Nov. 9 last, contracted with the Trustees for the jjur- 
 chase of all those demesne lands of Bingfield and Colwell with 
 several messuages and lands in the parishes of Chollerton and St. 
 John Leves, now or late in the occupation of of Rowland "Widdring- 
 ton, Thos. Bell and Elizth. Errington or their assigns, late parcel of 
 the estate of Ralph Widdrington and have paid in the first moiety 
 of the purchase money due on Nov. 9 last. It is ordered that Mr. 
 Hen. Horsley do forbear to levy or retain any of the rents and 
 profits of the aforesaid premises which have grown due since Nov. 9 
 last, and from henceforth forbear to intermeddle therewith, if they 
 are sequestered as the estate of the said Ralph Widdrington. 
 
 1654:. Apr. 27. Upon reading our order of Mar. 23 last, in the 
 case of Gilb. Crouch touching a purchase made by him with the 
 Trustees at Druiy House for the manor of Colwell and other premises 
 in Colwell, late parcel of the estate of Sir Wm. Widdrington, at which 
 time he complained that, notwithstanding he had paid his whole pur- 
 chase money and had our order for discharge of sequesti'ation, the 
 Cou. Com. continued part thereof under sequestration as the estate 
 of Ralph Widdrington who was only farmer thereof. Now on hearing 
 Mr. Brereton's verbal report upon his perusal of the survey thereof 
 and the conveyance under the hands and seals of the Trustees, we are 
 satisfied in the several points directed by the said order, and do 
 thereupon order that the sequestration be dischai'ged and the arrears 
 I^aid to the purchasers from the time of payment of their purchase 
 money or first moiety thereof unless it shall appear to the Cou. 
 Com. that there is cause to hold the same under sequestration, etc.* 
 
 * The documents in this case are extracted at some length with the object 
 of elucidating a dispute. The estate of Ralph Widdrington of Colwell appears 
 in the third Act for Sale, and the Treason Trustees sold what they believed to 
 be his. But they had already sold it, or part of it, as the estate of Sir Wm. 
 Widdrington. Hence the orders and counter orders hei'ein quoted. Mr. J. 
 Crawford Hodgson in the new Hist. Xorthd. iv. 231. citing Fawcett's title 
 deeds and the Rev. John Hodgson's MSS. , states that in 1637 Halph Errmgton 
 of Bingfield conveyed his estate to Ralph Widdrington of that place : that 
 Ralph Widdrington in 1640 made a settlement of his lands at Bingfield North 
 Side, and the water corn mill upon l\is son Henry, with remainder to his other 
 sons in tail, then to Wm. ^Viddrington, his brother, with remainder to Thomas, 
 William nnd John, sons of Hen. Widdrington, whose relationship is not 
 stated : and that the Widdrington lands in Bingfield were, with an estate at 
 Colwell, confiscated for the delin(|uency of Ralph Widdrington, ' late of 
 Colwell,' and sold in 1653 for the sum of 980/. to John Rushworth and Gilb. 
 Crouch, who in the following year conveyed to Hen. Widdrington of Black- 
 heddon, who acted, apparent!}- in trust for, or on behalf of, Wm. Charlton, a 
 scion of the Hesleyside family, afterwards himself of Heslej'side and ancestor 
 of the present owner. Then on p. 294: .Mr. Hodgson gives a pedigree of 
 Widdrington of Colwell, showing that Ralph M-as a son of Hen. Widdrington 
 of Colwell and nephew of Robt. Widdrington of West Harle (the case of whose 
 widow appears, antf^, ■■•■.r. Ann Widdrington^, and quotes another of the 
 numei'ous dociiments connected with the case, as follows : — 
 
 1654. Mar. 15. The Treason Trustees sell to John Rushworth and Gilbert 
 Crouch for 980/. 9s. 9'/. a messuage in Bingfield, late in the occupation of
 
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 THOMAS WINKLE (OR WRINKLE) OF HARNHAM.* 
 
 {Col. iv. p. 3078.) 
 
 1652. Nov. 18. The estate of Thos. Winkle of Harnham, co. 
 Northd., appears in the third Act for Sale. 
 
 1653. Jan. 31. Thos. Horsley begs leave to jjrove his claim to 
 two houses and 700 acres called Harnham, Northd., long held by his 
 ancestors, but returned by the surveyors as belonging to Winkle, who 
 is in the last Act for Sale. 
 
 Same date. John and Thos. Pye, executors of Thos. Pye, their 
 father, beg allowance of a rent-charge on Winkle's estate, bought by 
 their late father. 
 
 Rowland Wicldrington. Also the demesne lands of Collwell, lying entire, 
 boundered with Great Swinburn ground S.W. and W., Little Swinburn 
 ground on the N., and Colwell town and townfield on the E. and S. consisting 
 of a messuage or house called Collwell Hall, with a stable, a byar, a barn, a 
 fould garth, a stackyard, a dovecoate, and one garth of ai-able land called the 
 Orchard, consisting of, by estimation, 2 acres more or less, together with 5S 
 aci'es of meadow ground and 145 acres of pasture ground, now or late in the 
 tenancy of the said Rowland Widdrington, of the yearly value of 35/., and also 
 all houses, outhouses, etc., belonging to same, etc., parcel of the possessions of 
 Ralph Widdrington late of Colwell, gent., one of the persons in the additional 
 Act named, whose estate hath been, and is herebj' declared and adjudged to 
 be, justly forfeited by him for his treason against the Parlt. and people of 
 England. 
 
 In the Northd. Rentals of 1663 the second Lord Widdrington is entered 
 as the owner inte)- alia of Colwell, Colt Cragg, Great S^vinburn, and Tone 
 House, while Bingfield Demesne is owned hy Wm. Charleton of Spittle. 
 
 * Hodgson (Hist. Xorthd. pt. ii. vol. i. p. 345), describing Harnham, states 
 that after 15H8 no proprietor appears till 1628, when Griffin Wrinkles of 
 Harnham, gent., occurs in a list of jurors at the assizes for that year. In 1629, 
 one Gerard Coxon was imprisoned on suspicion of stealing 8 horses from Joliu 
 Wrinkles of Harnham, gent., and in Nov., 1652, the name of Thos. Winkle of 
 Harnliam was inserted in the third Bill for Sale. Tliis proceeding probabl}' 
 involved him and his family in difficulties whicli wrenched tlie place out of 
 their hands ; for, in 1663, his son, under the description of Thos. Wrinkles of 
 Ford, gent., covenanted to levy a fine to cut off the entail upon the place. In 
 1665, he sold the mansion house called the High-house and certain lands there 
 to Cutli. Ogle and Andrew Cowl>urne for 650/. ; in the next year, for 300/. he 
 parted with the Middlestone-house and several fields, then in the occupation of 
 his mother, Eleanor Wrinkles, widow ; and also convej'ed to the same Ogle and 
 Cowburne the moor in the lordship of Harnham, which purcliases appear by 
 deeds in 1667 and 1670 to have l>een made for the use of Philip Babington, 
 esq., and Catherine, his wife. He married Susan, dau. of Wm. Carr of Ford, 
 and sister of Lady Blake of the same place. He died before Apr. 13, 1669, and 
 his widow married John Carr of Crookham. She and her second husband sold, 
 Apr. 10, 1670, their third part of Kimmerston to Wm. Carr of Eshot. Bj- iier 
 marriage with Wrinkle she had two cliildren, Wm. Wrinkle of Crookham, 
 wlio died in Feb., 1686, leaving a widow, but apparently no issue, and Mary 
 Wrinkle, who married Geo. Ogle of Shortfiat, and, dying in Sept., 1693, left two 
 daughters, Catherine Ogle, who became the wife of Daniel Whitsum, and 
 Eleanor Ogle, who was united to Wm. Thew of Denwick. Ex iiif, Mr. J. 
 Crawford Hodgson.
 
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 1653. July 20. Ellen, widow of Thos. Winkle, for her seven 
 small children petitions that her hivsband's estate being sequestered 
 .she has been allowed her fifth, and with that and a third allowed her 
 husband's mother she has managed to maintain her family ; but now 
 that third is denied, and she is not allowed the expenses of a suit-at- 
 law to defend her right to the sequestered estate. Begs redress. — 
 Order that the third be continued if the mother is sequestered for 
 recusancy only. The Cou. Com. to certify as to the suits-at4aw. 
 
 1653. Sept. 2. She begs reference to counsel of her claim to 
 Harnham manor, settled on her by her husband, on their marriage 
 in 164:5, with life interest to himself, but sequestered for his delin- 
 quency and in the late Act for Sale. Her claim is allowed by the Com- 
 mittee for Removing Obstructions. — Referred to Mr. Reading. 
 
 1653. Sept. 27. Mr. Reading reports that by deed dated Sept. 
 29, 16-45, Thos. Winckle, gent., in consideration of his marriage with 
 Ellen, his wife, granted to Robt. Babington and "Wm. Middleton the 
 manor of Harnham to the following uses: — Middleton House and 
 byer, Boghall Close meadow, Hodgson Holes and Boghall, arable, 
 Toft Hall meadow, Whinny Close and Xorthbank pastures, and the 
 depasturing in South Bank pasture of all such calves as the said 
 Ellen should breed upon the jDremises, to the use of himself for life, 
 then to Ellen for life as her jointure, then to use of Thomas, their 
 eldest son, and his heirs, and for default to said Thomas, the father, 
 -and his heirs, and for default to Griffin Winkles, second brother of 
 Thomas, the father, and so for successive defaults, to Charles, third 
 brother, John, fourth brother and the right heirs. The rest of the 
 manor to the use of said Thomas, the father, for life and after his 
 death as above. Ellen Winkles deposed that she married the said 
 Thomas about 14 years ago, with whom she had in jDortion several 
 houses in Catterick, co. York, which with household stuft' therein 
 were of at least 500/. value. In 1645, she joined with him in selling 
 the same, and with the money therefrom he disengaged his lands 
 in Xorthd., named in the deed of Sept. 29, 1645, by paying the debts 
 of Grifiin Winkles, his grandfather, at which time he was in no 
 ways sequesterable. But about Dec, 1648, being among some of 
 Duke Hamilton's forces, he was taken prisoner, without any arms 
 about him. She does not believe that he ever was a soldier in the 
 Duke's army, or at any time before, against the Parlt. But, being 
 so taken, his estate has been sequestered ever since, to the ruin of 
 herself and four children. About 6 years afterwards he went to 
 Ireland in the service of Parlt., and she believes him to be dead. 
 His estate is of Y.V. 35/., out of which is allowed her fifth, after 
 deduction of allowances and charges. 
 
 1654. Mar. 23. Proof of Thos. Winkle's death being produced, 
 the claim is allowed and sequestration discharged, with arrears from 
 date of petition.
 
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 NICHOLAS WOODHOUSE OF CORXFORTH.* 
 
 (Cal: i. p. 204.) 
 
 1649. Nich. Woodhouse of Cornforth, co. Durham, compounds 
 '^vith the Parliamentary Commissioners at Newcastle. Particular 
 of his estate : — For the lives of his father, John Woodhouse, and his 
 younger brother, John Woodhouse, a farmhold in Cornforth called 
 the Fifty Acres. Y.V.B.W., 10/. Craves allowance of 10«. p. ann., 
 jrent payable to Thos. Haslerigg, lord of the manor. 
 
 Fine at a sixth, 20/. 
 
 GEORGE WRAY OF LEMINGTON. 
 
 (Cal. iv. p. 2067.) 
 
 1650. Dec. 18. Geo. Beadnall of Lemmendon, co. Northd., 
 petitions that he mortgaged the demesnes of the manor of Lemmen- 
 don and the moiety of the said town for 1,800/. to Sir Thos. Widdring- 
 ton and John Radcliffe, which mortgage was assigned to Sir John 
 -Clavering, who sold it to Sir Francis Brandling and Sir Nich. Tem- 
 pest, in trust for use of Geo. Wray. Petitioner had, by Chancery 
 decree, power to redeem his estate for the same sum to Wray, but 
 Wray, being a papist and in arms against Parlt. in the first and 
 second engagements,! and Sir Nich. Tempest and Charles, heir and 
 
 * Brandon house, below Cornforth, to the north, surrounded with old 
 warm inclosures, was the seat of the Woodhouses, a line of yeomanly gentry. 
 Wm. Woodhouse was a freeholder there in 1684. Surtees, Hist. Durham, 
 iii. 15. Nicholas, the compounder, was one of the north-country cavaliers who 
 was found among the forces of Sir Marmaduke Langdale, captured on Coquet 
 water and in the Vale of Whittingham, June 30, 1648, with 300 soldier's and 
 600 horse. 
 
 T 1648. April 19. In the House of Lords, letters were read from the 
 English Commissioners in Scotland, stating that they had made a second 
 demand for delivery to them of Capt. Wogan and his troop, Sir Philip Musgrave 
 and Sir Thos. Glenhain, and also ' one Col. Geo. Wray, who is a papist, and 
 was a colonel in the war against the Parlt., and hath been for some time of late 
 (and we believe now is) in this city of Edinburgh,' to be disposed of as both 
 Houses of the Parlt. of England might direct. To which the Estates of Scot- 
 land replied that under the Act of Pacification and 01)livion of 1641, no one 
 can be delivered up by the kingdom of Scotland but such only of the English 
 nation who have incensed the King of Scotland against the kingdom ot England, 
 all other criminals being referred to the la\\s. In April, the reply of the 
 English Commissioners to the letter of the Estates of Scotland, containing a 
 further demand for the delivery of the above-named persons, was read. Several 
 repetitions of the demand occur in May and .Tune ; meanwhile the second war 
 Ijroke out, and these disputes al)0ut Wray and the rest were merged in the 
 general conflict. It is remarkable that no mention of Geo. Wray as a com- 
 batant is made in any of the county histories. Concerning Thos. Wraj', his 
 brotlier, there is abundance. (See the next case.) Yet George was a much 
 more distinguished fighter for the Crown, having been engaged in botli wars 
 and, as the foregoing ])aragraph shows, was the suliject of animated correspon- 
 dence between Pai'lt. and tlie Estates of Scotland.
 
 386 
 
 fexecutor of Sir F. Brandling, being also delinquents, they cannot 
 receive the redemption money ; offers it to the C.C., abatement being 
 made for what profits Wray has already taken beyond interest for 
 his money, and for such depopulations and spoils as he has made. — 
 Cou. Com. to certify and Mr. Brereton to report. 
 
 1650. Dec. 24. Reuben Easthorp begs that in the above named 
 cause between Beadnall and Wray witnesses and writings in town 
 may be examined there and the rest by the Cou. Com. — Granted. 
 
 1651. May 29. Mr. Brereton reports that by deed dated July 
 30, 1630, Geo. Beadnall,* Elizabeth his wife and Robert, his son, for 
 1,800/. mortgaged to John Radclift'e and Thos. Widdrington, the 
 manor or village of Lamedon new demesnes, with the half of 
 Wheatley-Lawfield, the eatage and half stint of a parcel of ground 
 in Westwood, and of Boulton-Southwood, and the moiety of ll 
 messuages in Lamedon, to be void on payment of 1,800/. on or 
 before Aug. 1, 1633 ; that for 1,550/. Radclift'e and "Widdrington con- 
 veyed the premises, Mav 26, 1631, to Sir John Clavering ; that on 
 Mar. 30, 1633, Geo., Elizth. and Robt. Beadnell, for 250/. con- 
 veyed the other moiety of the 14 messuages to Sir John Clavering, 
 excepting 6 cowgates and 6 horsegates, winter and summer upon the 
 premises, to be void on payment of 250/. on or before Dec. 25, 1640 ; 
 that on June 7, 1636, on payment of all the sums due to him, 
 Clavering assigned all the mortgaged premises to Sir Francis Brand- 
 ling and Sir Nich. Tempest in trust for Geo. Wray, who paid 1,850/. 
 He reports, further, that Geo. Wray is a papist and a delinquent, and. 
 was in arms in the first and second engagements against the Parlt. ; 
 that the demesne and town of Lamedon was sequestered in 1644 ; 
 that the estate stands in the book of rates at 200/. p. ann. and 
 jDears taxes accordingly, and is this year let for 170/. billet and repairs 
 to be borne by the tenant ; that Geo. Wray entered upon the whole- 
 estate in May, 1650 ; that it was then worth 200/. p. ann., and that he, 
 purposing to lay out the estate, was offered by Ralph Rennyson, 20/. 
 a year for the worst parts ; that by depopulating 12 tenements in 
 good repair, and the waste and spoil of woods and trees, the pulling 
 down of stone walls and taking up causeys, he has damaged the estate- 
 48/. or 50/. p. ann. 
 
 1651. Sept. 18. The auditor is ordered to examine how much 
 of the 2,050/. debt, interest and repairs, has been satisfied, and what 
 wilful waste has been done to Beadnall's damage, from July 30, 1630. 
 On receipt of that account and discharging what is unsatisfied of the 
 said sum, the sequestration shall be taken off, and Beadnall per- 
 mitted to enjoy the estate. 
 
 * George Beadnell, or Beadnall, of Lemington, was the father, 1)}' a second 
 marriage, of Geo. Beadnell of Newcastle, a very uncompromising Puritan, 
 and a sore thorn in the side of the authorities after the Restoration. Cf. Surt. 
 Soc. Pub., 50 ; Arch. Aeliana, 2nd ser. xiii. 36 (in which is a copj' of a license 
 granted in 1672 for preaching at his house in Newcastle) ; also the new Hist. 
 Northd. vii. 171, where Mr. J. Crawford Hodgson provides a detailed pedigree 
 of the Beadnell family.
 
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 1651. Dec. 19. Geo. Wray petitions the C.C. that Beadnall, 20 
 years ago, mortgaged Lemmendoii for 1,800/., which, for the like 
 sum, was conveyed to petitioner, but by surprise Beadnall has ob- 
 tained a Chancery decree to be admitted to redeem the lands, and 
 petitioned to have the sequestration discharged, alleging that 
 petitioner has been fully satisfied out of the rents and timber. Prays 
 that (having never been heard in Chancery, nor by the C.C, though he 
 can show that Beadnall has extinguished his right of redemption, and 
 that he, petitioner, is really 2,-300/. out of pocket) he may be admitted 
 to examine witnesses before the Cou. Com. in both counties, and 
 that he, or some other well affected person, may be taken as tenant 
 for 7 years pending the examinations. — Referred to the Cou. Com. 
 
 1652. June 10. Wray being in London to follow his cause and 
 in danger of arrest for debt, begs protection of the C.C. during the 
 hearing. — Granted. 
 
 1652. July 5 and li. Beadnall petitions for further time and 
 makes oath that the Cou. Com. refused to examine on his behalf 
 when they examined for Wray. — Six weeks' further time granted. 
 
 1652 (Aug.?) Elizabeth, wife of Geo. Wray, petitions that she 
 has scarce a good room in the manor house of her husband's estate 
 to live in, and that Cuth. Thomson, living in part of the house 
 through which she must leave her room, is very troublesome, and 
 his wife a brawler and scold. Begs his dismissal, as the tenants 
 threaten to pull down the house if he is continued tenant. 
 
 1652. Sept. 1. Robt. Kijiling petitions that he took Lemmendon 
 demesne from the Cou. Com. giving timely notice (at the request of 
 the other tenants) to Cuth. Thomson to remove, he being a very 
 troublesome neighbour, who destroys the wood, being encouraged 
 thereto by Geo. Beadnall, for whom he keeps the mansion-house: 
 Begs to enjoy his lease, having given good security for the rent. — 
 Cou. Com. to end the matter if they can ; if not, to certify. 
 
 1652. (Oct.?) Other tenants petition the Cou. Com. against 
 Thomson, who trespasses on their corn, breaks the pinfold, etc. Begs 
 his removal, he having had lawful warning. 
 
 1652. Oct. 19. Auditor Sherwin reports depositions of Robt. 
 Pemberton and Randal Munkester that Geo. Wray improved the 
 estate to the value of 40/. or 50/. p. ann., while Richd. Saire deposes' 
 that upon these improvements, with buildings, repairs, sinking a 
 colliery, and fencing, Wray expended at least 300/. 
 
 1652. Nov. 17. The Cou. Com. to allow Wray 20/. towards his 
 charges in prosecuting his cause. 
 
 1652. Nov. IS. The estate of Geo. Wray appears in the third 
 Act for Sale. 
 
 1653. Jan. 31. John and Thos. Pye, sons of Thos. Pye, petition 
 that Wray sold their father rent-charges on his lands in Northd., 
 but they are in the Act for Sale. Beg an order for relief. 
 
 1653. May 5. The C.C. not admitting that Beadnall has lost his 
 right of redemption (the money due to Wray being 1,850/.) orders
 
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 Wray to pass his account with the auditor on oath, at the rate of 
 170/. a year from June 7, 1636, a proportionable part of taxes being 
 allowed and borne equally by Wray and Beadnall. 
 
 1653. June 16. Beadnall's debt to Wray being, according to the 
 auditor, 1,142/. 16s. lid. the sequestration is to be discharged on 
 his paying it to the use of the State. Wray is allowed 35/. in 
 addition to the 20/. already granted for his charges in attendance 
 touching the business of Lemmendbn, he having rendered an account 
 for defending the Commonwealth's title to the lands against Geo. 
 Beadnall as follows : — Bringing witnesses 26 miles, and bearing their 
 charges until they were examined, 4/. Seeking records in Chancery, 
 2s. Qd. Self, man, and 2 horses, 48 days at 10.<t. a day, 24/. Man 
 and horse charge at London, 70 days at 5.s. a day, 17/. 10s. [and 
 32 other items]. 
 
 1653. June 29. Beadnall ordered to pay in a moiety of the 
 1,142/. 16.^. 11^. 
 
 1653. July 29. Wray, being in the Act for Sale, petitions to 
 compound on the proviso in that Act, or for the sums due on the 
 mortgage. — Referred to Mr. Brereton. 
 
 1653. Oct. 11. Beadnall having satisfied the debt, and Wray 
 having compounded and paid a fine, the sequestration is to be 
 discharged. 
 
 1654. Jan. 10. On BeadualFs comj^laint that he is denied 
 possession by Mrs. Wray, the Cou. Com. are to see that he is put in 
 possession and paid the half-year's rent. 
 
 THOMAS WRAY OF BEAMISH.* 
 
 (Gal. Hi. p. 2127.) 
 
 1649. Oct. 29. Statement by Thos. Mitford and Richd. Lilburn 
 of the Durham Cou. Com. of their reasons for dissenting from the 
 sequestration of Harraton Colliery : — (1) That it was well known that 
 one Mr. Jas. Morley and his assigns had great part of said colliery, 
 and was in quiet j^ossession thereof, and was desirous to sell part of it 
 to Col. Mitford, one of the Committee and afterwards came to Col. 
 
 * According to Surtees, Ralph Maddison conveyed, in 1605, the manor, etc., 
 of Beamish to Sir Wm. Wray, knt. . of St. Nicholas, near Richmond, and his 
 trustees, Sir Wm. Fenwick, and Sir Geo. Selby, knts. Thos. Wray, his son 
 (by Jane, dau. of Wm. Selby of Whitehouse), bore a colonel's commission in the 
 service of Chas. I., and was one of those who refused to make terms with the 
 Parliament. His estate was, therefore, forfeited and sold to Foxley, by whose 
 aid he was able to retain a hold of the property. He married ( 1 ) Frances, dau. 
 of Francis Tunstall of Scargill Castle, co. York, and (2) Eleanor Belson, a 
 Lincolnshire lady. Only one of his three children reached maturity, a daughter 
 (wife of John Hodgson of Manor House, Lanchester), and after making pro- 
 vision for her issue, he settled his estates upon his brother, Geo. Wray, and his 
 heirs male. Geo. Wray married Elizabeth, dau. of Robt. Brandling of 
 Felling, and had issue a son, Thomas, who sold Beamish in 1672. There is a 
 pedigree of Wray in Surtees, IliM. Durham, ii. 221-226.
 
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 Mitford's house to take his advice for the managing of it. (2) That 
 the lord of Newcastle's forces being in the country, Mr. Thos. Wray, 
 a papist and delinquent, might take the advantage and get himself 
 possessed of part of the said colliery, and if so we conceive it ought 
 not to prejudice the said Mr. Morley or his assigns therein. (3) That 
 the Cou. Com. made an order dated Aug. 13 last, for examining the 
 whole business ; that Mr. Wray might bring in his writings and that 
 Mr. Lilburne and Mr. Gray being tenants might, with their landlords, 
 bring in theirs. At hearing thereof it was required the party 
 entrusted with the evidences should show them, but it was not 
 permitted, nor the said Mr. Wray to produce his, and charged 
 that he should not speak therein, being upon Dec. 11, last. (4) That 
 it was never intended by the order dated Feb. 6, 1646, to let more 
 than the delinquents' part to Mr. Pearson, as we heard was only 
 the Half Yard and Three Quarter coals, and we have been credibly 
 informed that the said Pearson never wrought any one part thereof. 
 (5) That upon the hearing, the matter being so doubtful, it was 
 agreed that stating of the case to send up to Park, for direction 
 should be private, and till then to pi'oceed no further ; but contrary 
 to that agreement a paper was brought in and entered in the Clerk's 
 book, which paper was privately drawn up so that we never knew 
 of it. (6) That certainly we know it would be a great loss to this 
 Commonwealth to lose such a colliery, and that if it be not well 
 managed it is subject to fire or water ; and being informed that 
 keeping the colliery on foot kept the price of coal down at Sunder- 
 land, and that the last year it pleased God it was fired and drowned 
 and above 50 persons slain, which caused coal to rise in price to 
 16-s. per chaldron, the same sort of coal being sold before at lis. 
 per chalder, therefore we rather thought fit to secure the rent for the 
 State in the tenants' hands until the title be tried than hazard the 
 losing that colliery which is of so great advantage to the Common- 
 wealth. 
 
 1650. May 4. The Cou. Com. complain that the right of Ralph 
 Coatsworth, papist and delinquent to let Harraton Colliery and an 
 estate of 601. a year is likely to be lost at law, Geo. Grey claiming 
 an entail for his son-in-law, John Hedworth. They have been offered 
 500/. a year for the colliery. 
 
 1650. June 16. Order that they receive the profits while the 
 parties make good their claim. 
 
 1650. June 21. Josiah Primatt, leather seller, of London, begs 
 discharge of three-fourths of the coal mines which he holds on lease 
 from John Hedworth, but which are sequestered for delinquency of 
 Thos. Wray of Beamish, who holds only a quarter of it. 
 
 1650. July 12. Wm. Hollyman of Monkwearmouth, and John 
 Hedworth having petitioned (June 18) that, after a 7 years' 
 lease, the Cou. Com. turn them out on pretence that the estate 
 belongs to recusants, order made that they be restored if they held it 
 at date of sequestration and are not delinquents or recusants them-
 
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 selves. Respecting Primatt's petition the Cou. Com. are to cex'tify 
 when the mines were sequestered, and who then held the three 
 parts. 
 
 1650. July 24. Geo. Savage of Highgate, Middlesex, begs dis- 
 charge of Thos. Wray's estate, on which he has two extents for 
 406/. each, and (Jan. 2.3, 1651,) is allowed half the estate on account, 
 till the debt is paid, with 6/. damages ; Cou. Com. to certify its 
 value. 
 
 1651. Jan. 16. The Cou. Com. report that they have let the 
 colliery to Col. Francis Hacker and other tenants for 5 years, as no 
 one would take it on a short term. 
 
 1651. Feb. 10. The C.C. cannot confirm Hacker's lease, the 
 colliery being reported worth 2,000/. 
 
 1651. Feb. 11. Further hearing ordered, at which Sir Arth. 
 Haslerigg is desired to be present. 
 
 1651. Feb. 26. Josiah Primatt petitions for more time, and 
 that Wray be ordered to prove his title to the colliery. — Granted. 
 
 1651. Mar. 28. Primatt again petitions. Hedworth, in 1628, 
 demised the coal mines for 41 years to Ralph Rokesby and Robt. 
 Conyers, and by several assignations detailed, a fourth came to Wray 
 and the rest to Primatt. In 1640 the mine was drowned, but Primatt 
 and his tenant regained it at great cost in 1647 ; in 1648, it was both 
 flooded and fired and was regained at great cost, but Sir Arth. 
 Haslerigg and the other sequestrators have sequestered the whole 
 colliery for Wray's delinquency. Begs its discharge. — Order made 
 for hearing and examination of witnesses.* 
 
 * In the interest of far-away members of the S^^rtees Society it seems desir- 
 able to elucidate the story, but imperfectly told in these papers, of the great 
 dispute about Harraton Colliery. Briefly put, the facts as recorded by 
 Surtees, HUt. Diirham, ii. 178 et se^., are that, in the 16th centur}-, the Hed- 
 worths of Harraton held extensive manors and lands in the northern parts of 
 the count}- of Durham. Sir John Hedworth of that place executed a lono- 
 entail of most of these estates in 1599 to his grandson John (afterwards Sir 
 John) Hedworth. The grandson was a man of indolent temperament, careless in 
 managing his estates and easily persuaded to lease or grant awaj' his lands for 
 inconsiderable sums. In due time he succeeded in shuttling otf the coil of his 
 temporal inheritance, and driven from the house of his ancestors, sought refuge 
 in an obscure farm at Rugely Wood, u here he was like to have starved had his 
 neighbours not assisted him. Dying in 1642, he left his son John, who was 
 barely of age, inextricablj- involved in the web which his father's indolence had 
 spun for him. The collieries at Harraton, which were of great value, had been 
 partly leased for a trifling consideration to Wray of Beamish, from whom they 
 were sequestered in 1644, and in 1647 leased under the State by Geo. Grey of 
 Southwick and the well-known Lilburns, who also made title under a lease of 
 Sir John Hedworth's to Robt. Conyers, transferred by Conyers to Josiah 
 Primatt and by him to Grey and Lilburn. Young Hedworth, who had married 
 the dai;. of Geo. Grej-, seemed likely by this connection to regain some of his 
 own property, but in 1649, Sir Arthur Haslerigg, on Wray's delinquency, let 
 both land and collierj' to Col. Hacker, Col. Mayers, Major ToUiurst, and Col. 
 John Jackson, who afterAvards married Mr. Hedworth"s widow. Mr. Hed- 
 worth vented his feelings, Sept. 11, 1651, in The Oppref^fted Jlau's Outcry, a 
 very outspoken epistle, addressed to Sir Hen. Vane, sen. , Wm. Vane, his son,
 
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 Lt.-Col. Paul Hobson, John Middleton, and members of the Committee of 
 Durham Militia (a copy of it forms one of the series of Richardson's Reprint x of 
 Rare Tract.-^, Newcastle, 1847). In that pamphlet Mr. Hedworth puts his loss 
 at 6,703/., and that of his tenants — Primatt, Geo. Lilburn, and Geo. Grej-, jun. 
 — at 10,9.50/. He details his sufferings at great length, and sets forth under 
 seven heads the means he had adopted to obtain redress. All these had failed 
 and he had thereby become ' the most miserablest spectacle and object in 
 England, being robbed by Sir Arthur Haslerigg, etc., of my land, colliery, 
 goods and cattle, and dammed up, that I can have justice nowhere, to obtain 
 a little of my own to buy me bread, to keep me, my wife and young and 
 tender infants alive,' and worst of all, ' debarred to have the benefit of the law 
 against any of those that detain other parts of my inheritance from me. 
 Wherefore, hear Heavens, and give ear, Earth ; and if any bowels of 
 compassion, justice or mercy be in you, pity, commiserate, and help to relieve 
 me, a most distressed and cruelly oppressed young gentleman, that with grand 
 oppression and unparalleled cruelty is like to be destroyed. And, therefore, as 
 you are men, nay, men of honour, conscience, or common honesty, or as even you 
 came from the bowels of women, help, help, help me and my perishing 
 famil}^ in my transcendant and great distress, and put forth some of that 
 power, betrusted to you by the Parliament of England, as you are members of 
 the chiefest power in this country, viz., commanders and disposers of all the 
 forces and militia there, and send forth your warrant and soldiers, to com- 
 mand before you these thieves and robbers now upon my ground, that call 
 themselves soldiers, and so, being within j'our jurisdiction, are under your 
 immediate command, and compel them by your pov^-er, either to produce before 
 you a formal and written warrant to justify them in what they have already 
 done, or in default thereof to send them to the gaol as rogues, thieves and 
 robbers. And as one of you is a Parliament man, and as either the spirit of 
 honour or an Englishman dwells in you, send this my complaint to the Parlia- 
 ment. And as one other of you hath been a member of the army, in a place of 
 eminency there, and as either the spirit of a soldier or a man of magnanimity 
 dwells within you send this my moui-nful complaint, lamentation and outcry to 
 his Excellency the Lord General Cromwell and the honourable officers of his 
 army, and entreat of them in my behalf . . . Your greatly distressed friend and 
 humble servant heartily to serve you and the Commonwealtli, John Hedworth. 
 Witness, George Grev, John Lilburn, Ralph Rooksby, Richard Grey, Ralph 
 Grey, Roger Harper.' In another pamphlet entitled, Mas(jrave Mnzz/ed, or 
 The Traducer Gagged, written in defence of Sir Arthur (Newcastle, 1650), the 
 other side of the story appears. Mr. ^Vray, we are told, has for many j'ears 
 had a just and legal interest in a colliery at Harraton, which in 1644 was 
 sequestered by Sir Wm. Armyne and his colleagues for the papacy and 
 delinquency of Mr. Wray, and again, in 1645, by Geo. Lilburn and Geo. Grey, 
 upon the same account. In l(j47 Lilburn and Grey made themselves the 
 State's tenants for the colliery, and having found the sweetness of it, laboured 
 to purchase it of Wray for 5,000/. But, afterwards, pretending to have got 
 some interest from others in the colliery, they declined the agreement with 
 Wray, entered upon the colliery and disposed thereof to their own uses. 
 There was no hope of redress for Wray, he being ' under hatches and the 
 Lilburns uncontrollable,' till Sir Arthur came, who being certified of Lilburn's 
 uujust act, by Wray petitioning him and the Commissioners, sequestered the 
 colliery to the St ite's use. After this Grey induced young Hedworth to set up 
 his title (whose inheritance it is, but was bought of his fatlier by Wray for a term 
 of years not yet expired), and they, taking advantage of Wray's coutinement 
 (who suffered a judgment by default), re-entered upon the colliery ; of which 
 plot and knavery Sir Arthur having notice, re-sequestered it. Thus Sir Arthur 
 is charged witli ptitting honest men out of their possessions because he pro- 
 hibited Lilburn and Grey to defraud Wray of his right of title and the State 
 of their right of sequestration, and did an act of private and public justice. 
 Another device of Lilburn's to get Wray's evidences of the collier}' from him
 
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 1651. Apr. 18. The Cou. Com. report that the value being un- 
 certain they let the colliery at a royalty of 1.*. Sd. a chaldron on coal 
 wrought and vended. 
 
 1651. June 5. Wray, ordered to attend, with allowance of 5^. for 
 his expenses, begs that the hearing may be postponed. It is pressed 
 for by Geo. Grey and Geo. Lill^urn, Cou. Corns, who, while entrusted 
 for the public, dispossessed the State of its rights and received the 
 money into their own purses. — Case postponed till a licence can be 
 obtained from the council of State for Wray, who is a papist and. 
 delinquent to come to London. 
 
 1651. July 2. Primatt complains of Wi-ay's request for delay, 
 and begs to be restored to possession, at least on security. — No order 
 given : votes in the C.C. being equal. 
 
 1651. July 8. Wray begs allowance of his charges — 19^. 10«. — 
 Ordered 10^. and 3 weeks' more time, the expenses of his witi^esses to 
 l)e forborne. 
 
 1651. Sept. 3. Primatt urges a speedy hearing. — Order that the 
 Cou. Com. lay other business aside and complete the examination of 
 witnesses in a month. 
 
 1651. Oct. 8. The Cou. Com. to examine the damage done to the 
 colliery by John Hedworth, Richd. Grey and Ralph Rokesby, who, 
 Aug. 23rd last, cut the ropes of the Water pits, whereby the colliery 
 was drowned. 
 
 1651. Nov. 12. Wm. Colling^vood, for Rebecca Metcalfe, begs 
 that no judgment may be passed to her prejudice, an eighth of the 
 collieiy belonging to her by gi-ant from Jas. Morley in 1639. 
 
 1651. Dec. 12. The C.C. decide that there is not sufficient cause 
 for discharge, that all parties may take their course at law, and 
 that Sir Arth. Haslerigg, who was said to have acted unjustly in 
 seizing the colliery, does not appear to have any interest in it. 
 
 1651. Dec. 17. Wray begs allowance of his charges — 59/. 6-?. 8d. 
 — besides suits in Chancery and charges before the Cou. Com. Also 
 that the C.C. defend his title and call Grey and LillKirn to account 
 
 was to pretend that Wraj' had a popish priest in his house, and under that 
 colour ransacked the house, took awav deeds and evidences, copes and other 
 church stuff, some old gold of Mrs. Wray's, her watcli and rings to the value 
 of 200/., nor was anything restored save ten pieces of gold, the watch and a 
 wedding ring, which were ravished from them by public order, but the deeds, 
 etc., no orders could recover. Much more about the dispute is to be found 
 in the various pamphlets and booklets issues by or concerning John Lilburn, 
 and notably in Li/lmrne Tryed and Ca.<tf. London, 165.3. See also the cases of 
 John Jackson, Geo. Lilburn and Ralph Rnkesbj-, ante. Hedwortli of the 
 0Htc7-p died in Jan., 1656, and his son John (tlien a minor) in some measure 
 repaired his shattered fortunes by marriage with Anne, co-heir of Wm. James 
 of Washington. By this lady he left two daus., of whom the elder, Dorothy, 
 married Ralph Lambton, and the yoimger, Elizabeth, became the wife of 
 Sir Wm. Williamson of Monkwearmouth. Lambton bought Williamson's 
 share of the estate, and now, upon the site of Harraton Hall, the scene of so 
 much trouble during the Commonwealtli, stands the lordly castle of Lambton, 
 the seat of the Earls of Durham.
 
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 for their receipts from the colliery. — Allowed 50/., if approved by 
 the Army Committee, to be deducted from his wife's fifth. 
 
 1652. Jan. 15. Petition of Josiah Primatt read in the House of 
 Commons, showing that petitioner, by his under tenants, Geo. Lil- 
 burn, esq., and Geo. Gray, jun., gent., being in 164:7-48-49 in just 
 and quiet possession of the collieries or seams of coal in Harraton 
 called the Five Quarter and Nine Quarter Coal, and having spent 
 near 2,000/. to win same, which lay drowned and lost from 1642 to 
 1647, Sir Arth. Haslerigg in Sept., 1649, procuring Col. Francis 
 Wren, one of the Cou. Com. and Col. Geo. Fenwick to join with him, 
 made an order, against which the rest of the Com. present protested,* 
 to sequester the said collieries, under colour of an untrue suggestion 
 that Sir Wm. Armyne had sequestered the same in 1644, as belonging 
 to Thos. Wray, a papist delinquent, whereupon Sir Arthur violently 
 dispossessed petitioner's tenants, seized their goods, and let the said 
 collieries to Col. Francis Hacker and several of the officers of his own 
 regiment. Petitioner has petitioned the C.C. for relief, but by the 
 power and influence of the said Sir Arthur upon most of the C.C. he has 
 been denied the ordinary course of 2:)roceeding in all courts of justice, 
 and at last, coming to hearing. Sir Arthur appeared every day of the 
 hearing and took upon him, not only to plead against petitioner, 
 which is humbly conceived to be contrary to law, he being a member 
 of the supreme authority, but also to prejudge petitioner's case, and 
 to direct the C.C. what to judge therein, and by his power and in- 
 fluence upon the C.C. he overawed most of them. And after full 
 hearing, judgment being respited from day to day, the said Sir Arthur 
 kept private correspondence with some of the said C.C. about finding 
 some new colour or pretence to detain petitioner's possession from 
 him ; whereupon he produced new pretended evidence after full 
 hearing, and thereupon the major part of the said C.C. not daring, 
 as is humbly conceived, to oppose the will and pleasure of the said 
 Sir Arthur have, contrary to clear evidence before them for petitioner, 
 refused to relieve him, and have punctually pui'sued in their judg- 
 ment, the direction publicly given by the said Sir Arthur. That 
 the said C.C. being the only persons authorized by Parlt. to hear 
 and determine all cases about sequestered estates, petitioner cannot 
 be relieved from the oppression and tyranny of the said Sir Arthur, 
 save by the Parlt. or their special order and direction, and petitioner 
 hath been kept from his possession above 2 years, and the said Sir 
 Arthur hath declared the said collieries to be worth, at least, 5,000/. 
 p. ann. Prays Parlt. in respect to the pul^lic justice of the Common- 
 wealth to cause the truth of the premises to be speedily examined, 
 and to provide for petitioner's relief from the oppression and tyranny 
 of the said Sir Arthur, and for the dispensation of justice, without 
 fear or favour, as to their wisdoms shall seem most just. 
 
 * The reference here is to the protest of Thos. Mitford and Richd. Lillmrn, 
 with which the case begins.
 
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 The House adopted the following resolutions: — (1) That Parlt. 
 doth approve of and affirm, the judgment and resolutions of the 
 C.C. in the case of Josiah Primatt. (2) That this petition is false, 
 malicious and scandalous. (3) That the printing, publishing and 
 dispersing of this petition, both before and since it was preferred 
 to the Park., is an high breach of privilege of Parlt. (4) That all 
 the printed copies of the petition intituled The Humble Petition 
 and Appeal of Josiah Primatt of London, Leather seller, be burned 
 by the hand of the common hangman at the Old Exchange, London, 
 and in the New Palace, Westminster, on Tuesday and Wednesday 
 next : and that the Sheriffs of London and Middlesex do take care 
 that the same be done accordingly. (5) That the fine of 3,000/. be 
 imposed upon Josiah Primatt of London, Leatherseller, to be paid 
 to the use of the Commonwealth. (6) That the said Josiah Primatt 
 be likewise fined 2,000/. more, to be paid to Sir Arthur Haslerigg 
 for his damages. (7) That the said Josiah Primatt be likewise 
 fined 2,000/. more, to be paid vmto Jas. Russells, Edwd. Winslow, 
 Wm. Molins and Arth. Squibbe, esqrs., four of the C.C, that is to 
 say, to each of them 500/. for their damages. (8) That the said 
 Josiah Primatt be committed to the Fleet, there to remain a prisoner 
 until the several sums aforesaid be paid. (9) That the Serjeant-at- 
 Arms do apprehend the said Josiah Prymatt and bring him to the bar 
 of this House to receive the judgment aforesaid, upon Tuesday next, 
 and that Mr. Speaker do direct a warrant to the Sergeant-at-Arms, 
 accordingly.* 
 
 The House then proceeded against Lieut. -Col. John Lilburn for 
 distributing printed copies of the petition, and fined him the same 
 sums for the same uses as above — 7,000/. in all. They further 
 resolved that Lilburn should depart out of England, Scotland and 
 Ireland, and the islands and territories thereof, within 30 days next 
 coming, and if after the said 30 days he be found within England, 
 etc., he be proceeded against as a felon and suft'er the pains of death 
 accordingly.! 
 
 1652. Jan. 16. The House of Commons considered certain 
 passages in a printed book intituled A Just Reproof to Haberdashers 
 
 * Josiah Primatt remained in prison till Apr. 7 following, when Parlt., 
 upon his humble submission, released him and pardoned him the fine of 3,000/. 
 to the State. 
 
 t Lilburn, being brought to the House, Jan. 20, ' obstinatel}^ denied to 
 kneel at the Bar,' whereupon Mr. Solicitor was ordered to bring in a bill for 
 enacting the judgment of Parlt. against him. The bill passed the House ten 
 days later, and on the 30th of the month he sailed from Dover to Ostend and 
 settled in Amsterdam. Returning to England in June, 1653, after the dissolu- 
 tion of the Long Parlt., he was apprehended as a felon, and on the 13th 
 July tried for his life. The jury acquitted him, to the great annoyance of 
 Parlt., by whose order they were summoned to appear before the Council of 
 State to answer for their conduct. On a charge of plotting with royalists 
 abroad, he was again apprehended and committed to the Tower. From thence 
 he was removed to the Channel Islands, and finally to Dover Castle, whence he 
 was discharged, under security of his brother for good behaviour, shortly before 
 his death, Aug. 29, 1657.
 
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 Hall, Or an Ejjistle, writ by Lieut. -CoL John Lilhurn, July 30, 1651, 
 to four of the Commissioners at Haberdashers Hall [Russell, Win- 
 slow, Molins and Squibbe, as above], and ordered the book to be 
 burnt by the common hangman at same places and time as Primatt's 
 petition. Resolved, that it be referred to the C.C. to call Geo. 
 Grey and Geo. Lilburn to account for the profits received out of 
 Harraton Colliery, and also to examine their miscarriage in getting 
 possession and contriving the second order touching the said colliery 
 and any other their miscarriages in their trust as sequestrators or 
 committee men. 
 
 1652. Jan. 21. John Levitt, D.C.L., begs allowance for attend- 
 ing the C.C. in the case of Hax'raton Colliery, being sunnnoned thereto 
 by Thos. Wray, under orders of the C.C. — Order that if he appeared 
 within the time named in summons the C.C. will consider his desires. 
 
 1652. Jan. 23. The C.C. request the attendance of Sir Arth. 
 Haslerigg on this business, if his weighty puljlic affairs will permit. 
 
 1652. Jan. 28. Wray accuses Grey and Lilburn of violently 
 seizing the colliery, and of working it so badly that, first it was set 
 on fire, and then both it and Lambton Colliery were drowned 
 through neglect to the loss of i,000/ to the State ; also of seizing 
 houses, etc., belonging to it, worth 100/. a year. — Cou. Com. to make 
 inquiry. 
 
 1652. Feb. 10. Wray begs further allowance for Mr. Rich 
 and Mr. Farewell, who have attended on the case. — Grant of 5/. 
 to each. 
 
 1652. Mar. 16. Col. Francis Hacker and Capt. Edwd. Sheppard- 
 son, beg renewal of their lease of Harraton Colliery, having spent 
 2,400/. on recovering the pit from water, so that they will derive no 
 benefit from the first 5 years' lease. — The Cou. Com. to certifj' its 
 value, said to be worth 15/. a day; but they reply (July 16) that 
 they cannot state the true value because of casualties. 
 
 1652. Nov. 18. The estate of Thos. Wray of Beamish appears 
 in the third Act for Sale. 
 
 1653. Apr. 13. Sheppardson begs allowance of 130/. for repair 
 of house and ballast shore at Monkwearmouth, farmed by him of the 
 Cou. Com. at 190/. a year, and much decayed. — Cou. Com. to certify 
 the covenants in his lease and examine on oath as to his disburse- 
 ments for repairs. 
 
 1653. Sept. 6. Xich. Galley and Wm. Richardson, beg discharge 
 for two half-years' rents. At May Day, 1617, they Ijecame tenants of 
 the Cou. Com. for a year, of lands in Beamish l)elonging to Wray, 
 but before the first rent day the lands were extended and the profits 
 levied by the sheriff. Petitioners appealed and the old Cou. Com. 
 consented to their paying the rent to satisfy the extent, but, being 
 entered in the old Committee's book, the rent is charged again. — 
 Referred to the Cou. Com. and Mr. Reading. 
 
 1653. Sept. 28. Discharge from sequestration of the manor of 
 Beamish, par. of Tanfield, and several lands, messuages, etc., in Tan-
 
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 field, Keephill and Cawsay, in the occupation of Francis Wray, Wm. 
 Richardson, Thos. Selby, Jno. Valentine, Thos. Freeman, Ralph 
 Simpson, Hugh Burroughs, John Banbrik and Xich. Galley all parcel 
 of Thos. Wray's estate and sold for 1,058/. 7s. lOd. by the Treason 
 Trustees to Sam. Foxley and Gilb. Crouch. 
 
 1653. Nov. 9. Like discharge of a moiety of Cow Close in the 
 lordship of Harraton and a colliery near Harraton, sold to Gilb. 
 Crouch, Robt. Colby and Wm. Williams. 
 
 1654. Mar. 23. Sheppardson renews his petition. The C.C. 
 consider the account for repairs excessive and unreasonable, and 
 desire certificate of what was needful to make the house wind and 
 water tight. Later (June 23) they grant 50/. for these repairs, to 
 be abated out of his rent. 
 
 165i. Mar. 30. Hacker and Sheppardson beg to be excused the 
 rent and to have allowance for damage at Harraton Colliery caused 
 by Hedworth, Grey and Rokesby cutting the ropes in Aug., 1651, 
 whereby petitioners lost 200/. and 2,000/. by want of coals. — Order 
 that the rent cannot be delayed, but assistance will be given to 
 recover the damasres. 
 
 LINDLEY WREN OF BINCHESTER.* 
 
 (Cal. a. p. 923.) 
 1645. Oct. 17. Lindley Wren of Binchester, co. Durham, 
 petitions to be freed from further payment under the order of seques- 
 
 * During the Civil War two branches of the local family of Wren took 
 opposite sides in the conflict. Lindley, son of Sir Chas. Wren of Binchester, 
 espoused the cause of the king ; his cousin, Francis Wren of HenkuoU, was a 
 colonel in the army of the Parlt. and treasurer of the Durham Cou. Com. for 
 Compounding. Lindley Wren, born when his father was constable of Durham 
 Castle, had Bp. James for one of his godfathers, and therefore started life 
 under episcopal tutelage, which, in maturer j-ears, kept him loyal to Church 
 and Crown. He married Barbara, dau. of the fii'st Sir Wm. Blakiston of 
 Gibside ; his sister, Frances, was united to Sir Ralph Blakiston, Sir William's 
 son and heir. The marriage articles of Lindley and Bai'bara are dated Sept. 27, 
 1622, when the lady was about 16 years of age. There is a curious notice of this 
 couple, a dozen years later, in Sir Wm. Brereton's Xoten of a Journey through 
 Durham and No7ihnmberfand (IQSo) : — ' From Piercebridge [spelling modernised 
 throughout] with generous Mr. Henry Blakiston, younger brother to Sir W. 
 Blakiston of Gibside. . . . This gentleman brought me to Auckland, 
 invited me to his brother's and his nephew Wren's — Mr. Lindley Wren, who 
 married Sir W. Blakiston's daughter, a fine gentlewoman, very lively and of a 
 free carriage, etc' At the bishop's palace 'we rested the Lord's daj', and were 
 very generously and nobly entertained. Here dined with him [the bishop] 
 Mr. Lindley Wren of Binchester and his wife, a mighty gallant, a fine dainty 
 gentlewoman if she know but how to value and prize the perfections God hath 
 given her ; whose husband hath impaired his estate in maintaining [l)lank] at 
 so gi'eat a height.' To her is attributed, by some writers, the episode recorded 
 on page 47, ante, and the character given to her by Brereton strengthens the 
 conjecture. In the register of burials at St. Andrew's, Auckland, are the final 
 records of Barbara and Lindley :—' 1652[3]. March 8. Mrs. Barbary Wren, 
 buried.' * 1656. July 19. Lindley Wren of Binchester, esq., buried in the 
 quire.'
 
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 "tration, or to pay a moderate fine for his delinquency in taking up 
 ■arms when his estate lay under the Earl of Newcastle, on the ground 
 that he laid down his arms in 164:3 and willingly gave three horses, 
 worth 30/. for the service of Parlt. Sends certificate of Robt. 
 Tawcett, minister of Denton, that he came of his own accord 
 to Denton and took the National Covenant, which could not be 
 tendered to him in his own parish at Auckland, because the plague 
 was violent there. Particular of his estate, signed by Barbara 
 Wren: — Land, tenements, etc., at Billy Hall and Billy Rawe, 38/. ; 
 at Newton Cap, 35/. ; at Woodhouse Close, 30/. ; Binchester 
 demesne, 60/. ; the water corn mill, 13/. 8s. 9d. ; the Prebend, 10/. ; 
 -a free rent, 5/. ; improved rents, 4/. 17s. 3d. ; total, 196Z. 6.s. Also 
 the butlerage of Newcastle and the ports thereunto belonging* which 
 was purchased of Sir Wm. Waller at 70/. p. ann., but is not so much 
 worth for the present, nor hath not been for these 5 years last past. 
 The charge upon the estate in due debts is above 1,500/. — Cou. Com. 
 to certify his delinquency and value of his estate. 
 
 1645. Nov. 15. Fine proposed, 400/., but it is to be reported to 
 the House of Commons that his estate is charged with 1,500/. debts, 
 and that 70/. a year of its whole value, being 266/., belongs to one of 
 his sons. 
 
 1645. Nov. 27. Barbara Wren pleads that she has attended six 
 weeks to compound for her husband, he being too infirm to come 
 in person ; that the Cou. Com. who were to certify his delinquency 
 and estate, are not sitting, and that meanwhile she is at great charges. 
 
 1646. Jan. 31. Fine of 300/. accepted by the House of Commons.! 
 1646. Feb. 3. The C.C. understanding that the lease of the 
 
 butlerage of Newcastle and ports thereto belonging does of right 
 
 * ' There is also another very ancieut hereditary duty belonging to the 
 •Crown, called the prisage or butlerage of wines, a duty which is taken notice of 
 in the Great Roll of the Exchequer, 8 Rich. I. Prisage was a right of taking 
 two tuns of wine from every ship (English or foreign) importing into England 
 twenty tuns or more, one before and one behind the mast ; which by charter of 
 Edw. I. was exchanged into a duty of 2.s. for every tun imported by merchant 
 strangers, and called butlerage, because paid to the King's butler.' — Stephens, 
 Commentaries on the Laics of England, 4th ed. ii. p. 570. Whether Sir Wm. 
 ^N aller had a grant of the butlerage from Parlt. for his own services or for 
 payment of the army, or whether he farmed the tax, are questions not answered 
 bj' a search through the Journals of Parliament. That he controlled it is 
 evident from the fact of Lindley Wren purchasing the profits from him for his 
 son. Dendy, Surt. Soc. Pub., vol. 101, p. 71, prints a letter from a deputation 
 of Newcastle Mercht. Adventurers who were dela5-ed in a conference with 
 the Mercht. Adventurers of London by ' a business betwixt Sir Wm. Waller 
 and the merchants of York and Hull for butlerage of wines, etc' 
 
 f 1646. Jan. .31. The House of Commons accepts a tine of .300/. for dis- 
 charge of the delinquency of Lindley Wren of Binchester, esq., he having been 
 in arms against the Parliament. His estate, 260/. p. ann., whereof 70/. p. ann; 
 is a lease of one of his children. An ordinance to be bi'ought in for granting 
 him a pardon for his offence and a grant of his estate compounded for under 
 •the Great Seal accordingly. — May 4. Ordinance read, passed and sent to the 
 Lords for approval.
 
 398 
 
 belong to Lindley Wren, younger son of compounder, as upon 
 debate in the House of Commons appears, order the Cou. Com. to 
 permit Lindley, the son, to receive the rents, issues and profits thereof 
 from Nov. 11 last past. 
 
 164:7. Jan. 29 [Cal. (C.A.M.) ii. p. 765]. Lindley Wren assessed 
 at 3007. 
 
 16i9. July 27. Order to apprehend Ed^Yd. Perrin, surety for 
 payment of the second moiety of compounders' fine, he having re- 
 ceived the 150/. and failed to pay it over. 
 
 1650. July 24 [Cal. (C.A.M.) ii. p. 765]. Order by the C.A.M. for 
 sequestration for non-i^ayment of assessment. 
 
 1651. Jan. 1. Wren, complaining of the fraud, states that by 
 appointment of Sir Arth. Haslerigg he has again paid the 150/. to 
 Col. Wren, treasurer for co. Durham. Begs delivery of his bond and 
 remission of the interest. — Note that the Cou. Com. are to transmit 
 the money to the Treasury, compounder is to pay the interest and 
 then have his discharge. 
 
 1651. Jan. 31 [Cal. (C.A.M.) ii. p. 765]. Wren petitions the 
 C.A.M. that he cannot come up as summoned being aged, sickly, 
 and infirm, nor can he pay his assessment unless allowance is made 
 for debts due by him before 1642. — Order that, as on perusal of his 
 estate, his assessment is calculated at 198/., if he pay 99/. within 
 14 days he may be heard as to his debts. 
 
 1651. Jan. 31. The C.C. direct Sir John Lenthall, to keep his 
 prisoner, Edwd. Perrin, in Southampton prison, till the State has 
 obtained satisfaction for the 150/. received by him, for Wren's second 
 moiety. 
 
 1652. Jan. 21 [Cal. (C.A.M.) ii. p. 765]. Wren having paid the 
 99/. the Cou. Com. are to enquire about the debts, whether principal 
 or interest, and what he formerly paid for his fifth and twentieth. 
 
 1652. Jan. 30. Wren sequestered a second time, for non-payment 
 of the latter half of his fine. 
 
 1652. Mar. 12 [Cal. (C.A.M.) ii. p. 765]. Order on report from 
 the Cou. Com. that 49/. be repaid to Wren and that he be discharged 
 of all further payment of the assessment. 
 
 1652. May 14. Latter half of his fine paid and estate discharged. 
 
 1653. June 15. Wren petitions the Cou. Com. shewing that when 
 sequestered in 1646, the Scottish army were lying in the county, and 
 he had 50 soldiers and the officers of Lord Sinclair's regiment 
 quartered on him. Having nothing to maintain them he applied to 
 Sir Wm. Armyne, Sir Hen. Gibb and Richd. Burrowes [Barwise] then 
 at Newcastle, who ordered the soldiers to be maintained out of his 
 sequestered goods. The soldiers disposed of them as they liked and 
 the Cou. Com. came to take away the rest, but Lord Sinclair's Major 
 threatened to quarter the soldiers upon them if they removed the 
 goods. Then Lord Livingston's regiment was quartered upon him and 
 consumed 200/. more, which he borrowed, and which is more than.
 
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 the value of the goods left. Begs, therefore, discharge from his 
 supposed arrears and forbearance till he can plead his cause before 
 the C.C. 
 
 1653. Aug. 31. The Registrar ordered a search as to Wren's 
 pajTiient of his fine and unless there be cause to the contrary he is 
 to be no further troubled about arrears. 
 
 1653. Sept. 8. Full discharge ordered, the arrears being paid. 
 
 ANNE WYTHAM OF BISHOPWEARMOUTH.* 
 
 (Cal h: p. 2610.) 
 
 1650. Nov. 7. Anne, widow of "Wm. "Wytham, on behalf of her 
 six younger children, begs continuation of her third of an annuity of 
 250/. left her by her husband from saltpans at Sunderland, and 50/. 
 from Dalden manor, two-thii'ds being sequestered for her recusancy. 
 — Granted. 
 
 1653. Nov. 29. The C.C, touching the purchase of Grindon, 
 par. of Bishopwearmouth, from the Treason Trustees as part of the 
 estate of Geo. Collingwood, but sequestered as belonging to Anne 
 Wytham, a recusant, give orders that the said Anne do show cause 
 why the purchaser should not have possession. 
 
 1653. Dec. 29. Anne Wytham petitions that she is possessed of 
 Grindon l^y purchase from her younger brother, Geo. Collingwood, 
 for which she has paid a valuable consideration, that Cuth. Colling- 
 wood, her eldest brother, being a delinquent, pretended a title thereto, 
 and i^rocured the same to be surveyed as his estate, whereas he 
 never had any right or interest therein, and so Saml. Foxley, gent., 
 pretends to have purchased it. Begs examination of her title. — 
 Claim disallowed. 
 
 1654. Jan. 5. She begs to contract on the Recusants' Act of Oct. 
 13, 1653, for two-thirds of her late husband's sequestered estate. 
 
 1654. Nov. 7. Petition of Mary and Dorothy, the only surviving 
 daus. of Wm. Wytham, deed., being infants, by Richd. Trotter, esq., 
 their kinsman and guardian, that their grandfather, John Wj-tham 
 of Cliffe, settled lands in Durham, for raising portions for them, which 
 are sequestered as the estate of Anne, their mother. Beg examina- 
 tion of their title and that they may have the arrears. — Cou. Com. 
 to examine and certify. 
 
 * Petitioner was Anne, dau. of Geo Collingwood of Eslington, eo. Xorthd., 
 and Dalden, co. Durham, bj' Jane, dau. of Thos. Swinburne of Edlingham. 
 She married William, son of John Wytham of Cliffe, co. York. According 
 to Dugdale, she had three daus. (one of them, named Dorothy, became the 
 wife of Hillary, son of Edwd. (iray of Bitchburn) and five sons, the eldest of 
 whom, John Wytham, was slain at Preston in the second war, being then 
 lieut.-col. to Col. Ralph Pudsey, under the command of Sir Marmaduke Lang- 
 dale in the service of the kintr.
 
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 ANDREW (OR SIR ANDREW) YOUNG* 
 
 (Col. iv. p. 2764.) 
 
 1651. Mar. 27. Dame Mary, wife of Sir Andrew Young of Bourn, 
 •CO. York, begs an order to the Cou. Com. of the several counties 
 wherein her husband's sequestered estates lie, to pay a fifth for her- 
 self and small children, his engagements being so great that he can- 
 not clear himself by composition and she and the children are 
 destitute of means of support.— Granted with arrears since her tirst 
 demand, after deduction of taxes. 
 
 1651. July 25. Petition of Sir Andi'ew for discharge of a third 
 of his estate, sequestered upon pretence of delinquency, the other two- 
 thirds being sequestered for recusancy. He is not conscious of having 
 done anything to the disservice of the Parlt. that may render 
 him liable to sequestration for delinquency. — Cou. Com. to certify 
 what they know touching his delinquency. 
 
 1652. Nov. 18. The estates of Andrew Young, late called Sir 
 Andrew Young, knt., appear twice in the third Act for Sale, namely, 
 in Durham and Yorkshire. 
 
 1653. Jan. 13. Lady Young complains that the Cou. Com. of 
 Northd. will not pay the arrears from the time of the first demand, 
 but only from the time of the order and begs redress. — Cou. Com. 
 to certify date of first demand. 
 
 1653. May 25. Report from Mr. Brereton that Andrew Young 
 was lately seised of 5 small tenements in North Seaton, Northd., 
 with lands belonging, and of certain parcels in the common fields of 
 North Seaton, Y.V., 52/. lbs. Id., that to every farm eight stints on 
 the common moor belong, worth 1/. each ; that to Andrew Young six 
 of them belong, worth 6/. ; that the premises are let by the Cou. Com. 
 to Geo. Marshall on lease at iSI. p. ann., but worth, upon improve- 
 ment, 10/. 15«. Id. more. 
 
 Fine at two-sixths, 352/. 10s. Qd. 
 
 1653. July 19. Report from Mr. Brereton that Andrew Young 
 was lately possessed of a tenement in South Close, par. of Bedlington, 
 with 3 closes of land thereto belonging, Y.V., il. lis. id. ; that 
 Mich. Coleman holds these premises by lease dated Jan. 16, 1651, 
 granted by the Cou. Com. for 7 years at a yearly rent of 4/., but are 
 worth, upon improvement, 1-4.?. id. more. There is a rent of 13-s. id. 
 issuing out of said lands payable to the Crown. He was also 
 possessed of a tenement with appurtenances in Blith Panns, par. of 
 Bedlington, Y.Y., 10/. The salthouses are down at present and the 
 pans have been out of use about 5 years, but having coals adjacent, 
 would, being wrought, improve the said rent. Also 8 dwelling houses 
 in Comboys, par. of Bedlington, with lands, etc., in the occupations 
 
 * Most of the documents in this case relate to Young's estate in Yorkshire, 
 his residence being at Bourn, near Selbj% in that county. His property in 
 Durham and N orthd. came to him through his marriage with Mary, eldest dau. 
 of Sir Wm. Fen wick of Meldon.
 
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 of Wm. Dawson, Ralph Milford, John Hunter, Hen. Nicholson, 
 Margerie Garret, widow, Thos. Dawson and Cuth. Young, Y.V., as 
 Kjast up by the surveyors, 98/. Is. 8d., ' but as I account the same 
 96/. and no more.' Milford, Dawson, Young and Hunter, hold the 
 8 tenements from the Cou. Com. for 7 years, from Jan. 16, 1651, at 
 a rent of 70/. but are worth, upon improvement, 28/. Is. Sd. more. 
 There is a yearly rent of 12.?. i^d. formerly payable to the Bp. of 
 Durham for each farm, total 4/. I9s. 
 
 First fine at two-sixths, 24/. 6.5. ; second ditto, 18/. ; third ditto, 
 546/. 6s. 8d. 
 
 1653. Aug. 3. Andrew Young deposes that by indenture dated 
 Aug. 1, 1638, Hen. Mitford and Elizabeth, his wife, conveyed to him 
 ■2 messuages with appurtenances upon the east side of the Sand- 
 hill, Newcastle, in the occupations of Hen. Holmes, Edwd. Man, and 
 Mich. Greggs, and also a cellar or warehouse in Allhallows Bank, 
 in possession of Hen. Holmes, to l^e held till payment of 400/. and 
 32/. yearly by said Mitfords ; that he has not received the 400/., 
 that 288/. is due for arrears of the. 32/. rent, and that he has not 
 released the said sums, nor the mortgage, nor his interest in the said 
 messuages. 
 
 1653. Nov. 4. Order for discharge of the estates of Andrew 
 Young in Durham, the fines being paid. 
 
 {Cal. [C.A.M.] iii. p. 1465.) 
 
 1653. May 10. Information given by Col. Mich. Devereux that 
 Sir Andrew Young lent 400/. on security to Hen. Mitford of Gates- 
 liead, and Elizabeth, his wife, which is due to the State, Sir Andrew 
 being a delinquent excepted from pardon. 
 
 1653. May 12. Dorothy, widow of Edwd. Wood, draper, New- 
 castle, ordered to show cause why she should not pay to the State 
 400/. due to Young. — June 8. Young to appear also. 
 
 1653. July 22. Order on hearing both sides, that Mrs. Wood pay 
 the 400/. in 14 days, and Young bring in the deeds and writings. 
 
 1653. Sept. 6. Order repeated to Young on pain of his being 
 taken into custody, Mrs. Wood being assignee of Elizabeth, Avidow of 
 Hen. Mitford. 
 
 1653. Dec. 30. Col. Devereux applying for the 400/. in part 
 of his arrears the C.A.M. finding that Young was in the last Act for 
 Sale, before the discovery was made, cannot order payment of it 
 to Devereux. 
 
 1654. Jan. 4. Young to be brought up in custody for contempt 
 in not delivering up the writings. 
 
 1654. Jan. 25. Order recalled, the deeds having been given up 
 to the Treason Trustees, who are to send them to the C.A.M. and 
 Young to sign a release to Mrs. Wood. 
 
 1654. May 3. Col. Devereux petitions the Protector (Parlt. 
 feeing dissolved) for payment of the 400/. discovered by him at his 
 
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 own cost, towards his arrears of 4,374/. 15s. id. to be paid out of 
 papists' and delinquents' estates ; with order thereon to the treasurers 
 to pay the 400/. if they find the petition true. 
 
 1654. June 6. Dorothy Wood petitions that whereas the dis- 
 coveiy of the debt was made May 10, 1653, and Young did not 
 desire to compound until Aug. 4, 1653, whereby the debt is forfeit 
 to the State, and whereas Young, instead of coming to sign her 
 release has gone into France, whereby she has been obliged to leave 
 her eight children and come up 210 miles, though she and her 
 husband lost much by imprisonment and plundering when Newcastle 
 was taken by the Scots, the Trustees may be obliged to give up her 
 writings, and Young compelled to pay her costs in obtaining them. 
 — Order that she be discharged of the debt and the trustees are to 
 give up the writings.
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 THE SEQUESTRATION ORDINANCE. 
 
 (From Rushworth's Historical Collections, pt. iii., vol. ii., chap. 12.) 
 
 April 1, 1643. The Lords and Commons Assembled in Parlia- 
 ment, taking into their serious Considerations the heavy Pressures 
 and Calamities which now lie upon this Kingdom, by this Unnatural 
 "War raised against the Parliament ; and that notwithstanding all 
 their faithful and uncessant Endeavours for the preserving of His 
 Majesty, and the whole Kingdom, from the mischievous and restless 
 designs of Papists and ill affected Persons (whose aim is the extir- 
 pation of our Religion, Laws and Liberties), yet their Counsels and 
 Practices are still so prevalent with his Majesty, and the Hearts of 
 many People, so misled and beguiled by their false Pretences and 
 Insinuations that nothing can be expected but Ruin and Desolation, 
 unless God in Mercy prevent it, and incline his Majesty's Heart to 
 the faithful Advice of His Great Council of Parliament, which has 
 ever been, and is (under God) the chief support of His Royal Dignity, 
 and the security of all we have or can enjoy. And for that it is most 
 agreeable to Common Justice, that the Estates of such Notorious 
 Delinquents as have been the Causers or Instruments of the public 
 Calamities which have been hitherto employed, to the fomenting 
 and nourishing of these miserable Distractions, should be converted 
 and applied towards the supportation of the gi'eat Charges of the 
 Commonwealth, and for the easing of the good Subjects therein, 
 who have hitherto borne the greatest Shares in these Burthens. 
 
 Be it therefore enacted by the said Lords and Commons, That the 
 Estates, as well real as personal of the several Bishops hereafter 
 mentioned, and of all such Bishops, Deans, Deans and Chapters, 
 Prebends, Archdeacons, and of all other Person or Persons, Ecclesi- 
 astical or Temporal, as have raised, or shall raise Arms against the 
 Parliament, or have been, are or shall be in actual War against the 
 same, or have voluntarily contributed, or shall voluntarily contribute, 
 not being under the jjower of any part of the King's Army at the 
 time of such contributing, any Money, Horse, Plate, Arms, Munition, 
 or other Aid or Assistance, for or towards the maintenance of any 
 Forces raised against the Parliament, or for the opposing of any 
 Force or Power raised by Authority of Both Houses of Parliament, 
 or for the Rol)bing, Spoiling, Plundering or Destroying of any of the 
 King's Subjects who have willingly contril)uted or yielded Obedience 
 to the Commands of Both Houses of Parliament : And of all such as 
 have joined, or shall join in any Oath, or Act of Association against 
 the Parliament, or have Imposed, or shall Impose any Tax or Assess-
 
 401 
 
 ment upon His Majesty's Suljjects, for or towards the Maintenance 
 of any Forces against the Parliament, or have or shall use any Force 
 or Power to levy the same, shall be forthwith seized and sequestered 
 into the hands of the Sequestrators and Committees hereafter in this 
 Ordinance named : And of such other Persons as shall at any other 
 time hereafter be appointed and nominated by Both Houses of Parlia- 
 ment for any County, City, or Place within the Realm of England or 
 Dominion of Wales : Which said Sequestrators and Committees, or 
 any Two or more of them, in each several County, City, or Place 
 respectively, are hereby Authorized and Required by themselves, 
 their Agents and Deputies, to take and seize into their hands and 
 custodies, as well all the Money, Goods, Chattels, Debts and Personal 
 Estate, as also all and every the Manors, Lands, Tenements and Here- 
 ditaments, Rents, Arrearages of Rents, Revenues and Profits of all and 
 every the said Delinquents or Persons before specified, or which they 
 or any of them, or any other in trust for them or any of them, or to 
 their or any of their Use or Uses, have, hath, or shall have : And also 
 Two parts of all the Money, Goods, Chattels, Debts and Personal 
 Estate : And two parts of all and every the Manors, Lands, Tenements 
 and Hereditaments, Rents, Arrearages of Rents, Revenues and Profits 
 of all and every Papist, or which any other Person has in Trust for 
 any Papist, or to the Use or Uses of any Papists ; and to Let, Set, 
 and Demise the same, or any part thereof, as the respective Landlord 
 or Owner thereof may or might have done from year to year : And 
 shall have Power to call before them, or any Two of them, all 
 Stewards. Bailiffs, Rent-Gatherers, Auditors or other Officers or 
 Servants, as well of the said Archbishops, Bishops, Deans, Deans and 
 Chapters, Prebends, Archdeacons, as of all and every other of the 
 said Delinquents or Persons before Specified, and to send for or take 
 any Books of Accounts, Rentals, Copies of Court Roll, or other 
 Evidences, Writings, or Memorials touching the Premises, or any of 
 them : and thereby and by all other ways and means which to the 
 said Sequestrators, or any Two or more of them shall seem meet and 
 necessary to inform themselves as well of the said several Delin- 
 quents, and every of them, as of their several Estates and Possessions, 
 Rents, Arrearages of Rents, Revenues and Profits, Goods and 
 Chattels, Estates Real and Personal, and the true value thereof, 
 and of all things concerning the same, or any joart thereof, and to 
 appoint any Officer or Officers, or other Person or Persons under 
 them, for the better expediting of the Service : Which said Persons 
 are hereby Authorized and Enjoined to Perform and Execute all and 
 eveiy the Commands of the said Sequestrators or Committees, or 
 any two or more of them respectively, in and concerning the Prem- 
 ises ; and shall have such Allowances for their Pains and Charges in 
 that behalf as the said Sequestrators or Committees, or any Two or 
 more of them shall think fit ; and the said Sequestrators or Com- 
 mittees, or any Two or more of them respectively, their Agents and 
 Deputies within their several Limits, shall have Power, and are hereby
 
 405 
 
 Authorized and Requii-ed to enter into all and every such Manors, 
 Messuages, Lands, Tenements and Hereditaments of all and every the 
 said Delinquents or Persons before specified, and to receive such Rents, 
 Arrearages of Rents, Heriots, Issues, Profits, Sums of Money, Debts and 
 other Duties as aforesaid, to them or any of them, due or payable by 
 their, or any of their several and respective Tenants or other Person 
 or Persons : Which said Tenants and other Persons are hereby 
 required to pay the same to the said Sequestrators or Committees, or 
 any Two or more of them accordingly, and not to, or the use of the 
 said Delinquents, or any of them : Yet so, nevertheless, that in 
 respect of the hardness of the Times, and tke great Charges which 
 otherwise lie upon the said Tenants and others by occasion of this 
 present War, every such Tenant, which shall pay to the said 
 Sequestrators or Committees, or any Two of them as aforesaid, shall 
 upon their Obedience and Conformity to this Ordinance, be con- 
 sidered out of the said Rents, Revenues and Profits, and shall be dis- 
 charged of his whole Rent against his Landlord, or any other to 
 whom the same is due, being such Delinquents as aforesaid ; and 
 as well they the said Tenants, as every other Person or Persons, 
 which shall pay any Rent, Sum of Money, or other thing according 
 to this Ordinance, shall be Protected and saved harmless from any 
 Forfeiture, Penalty or Damage which he or they may incur by not 
 Payment of his or their said Rent, Sum of Money or other thing, 
 according to his or their Lease, Copy, or other Agreement by the 
 Power and Authority of Both Houses of Parliament. 
 
 And if any such Tenant or Tenants shall refuse to pay his or their 
 Rent or Rents to the said Sequestrators or Committees, their Agents 
 or Deputies, according to this Ordinance at such times and places as 
 the same shall become due and payable, the said Sequestrators, or 
 any Two or more of them, by themselves, their Agents or Deputies, 
 shall have Power to distrain for the same, and to take all other 
 Advantages for Nonpayment thereof as the Landlord might have 
 done. 
 
 And the said Sequestrators, or any Two or more of them, shall 
 have Power to sue for and recover any Debt, Sum of Money, or 
 other Duty owing to the said Delinquents, or Persons before 
 Specified, or any of them : As also to give Discharges and Acquit- 
 tances for any Rent, Sum of Money, Debts, Duty, or other thing 
 which they shall receive out of the Estates of the said Delinquents, 
 or any of them ; and shall Ije accountable from time to time for the 
 same, and for all such other things as shall be had or taken by them, 
 their Agents or Deputies, and for all their Receipts and Payments, 
 and other acts for or in respect of the Premises, to Both Houses of 
 Parliament, or to such as they shall appoint ; and shall pay in all 
 such Sums of Money as they, or any of them, shall receive out of 
 the said Estates, unto the Treasurers at Guild-Hail, London, and 
 shall keep Books of Accounts, and shall be from time to time subject 
 to the further Orders and Directions of Both Houses of Parliament,
 
 406 
 
 for allowance to the said Delinquents, or otherwise, as cause shall 
 require, of all their Receipts and Payments : And the said Seques- 
 trators or Committees, or any Two or more of them, their Agents 
 and Deputies, shall have Power to call to their Aid and Assistance the 
 Trained-Bands, Volunteers, or other Forces of or within their several 
 Counties, Cities or Places respectively, or any other Person or Persons 
 dwelling in or near the place to compel Obedience to this Ordinance, 
 where any resistance shall be made, or as often as need shall require : 
 And shall have Power to punish such Person or Persons as they shall 
 find refractory, negligent or faulty in the said service, by Fine and 
 Imprisonment, such Fine not exceeding the Sum of Twenty Pounds, 
 or to Certify their Names to the Committee of Lords and Commons, 
 appointed for this Service, who shall have Power to send for them, 
 and to commit them to such Prison and Places, and for so long time 
 as they shall think fit. And the said Trained-Bands, Volunteers, 
 and other Forces, their Commanders and Officers, and also the several 
 Constables, Headboroughs and Officers and other Persons within their 
 Limits, are hereby required and conjoined to be Aiding and Assisting 
 to the said Sequestrators, or any Two or more of them, as oft as they 
 shall be thereunto required. 
 
 And it is further Declared and Ordained by the Lords and 
 Commons, that all and every of the said Sums, Rents, Revenues and 
 Profits, Estate Real and Personal, of all and every the said Delin- 
 quents or Persons before specified shall be employed to the Use and 
 for the Maintaining of the Army and Forces raised by the Parliament, 
 and such other Uses as shall be directed Ijy Both Houses of Parlia- 
 ment for the benefit of the Commonwealth. 
 
 Lastly, It is Ordained, That all and every the said Sequestrators 
 and Committees shall have allowances for the necessary Charges and 
 Pains in and about the Premises as they shall be allowed by Both 
 Houses of Parliament : And that as well they, as all others who 
 shall be employed in the said Service, or shall do anything in 
 Execution or Performance of this Ordinance, shall be therein Pro- 
 tected and saved Harmless by the Power and Authority of Both the 
 said Houses : And if any Person or Persons shall find him or them- 
 selves aggi'ieved with any Act done by the said Sequestrators their 
 Agents or Deputies or any of them concerning the Premises, and shall 
 not therein be relieved by the said Sequestrators ujion Complaint 
 made to them, or any Two or more of them, then upon Information 
 thereof given to Both Houses of Parliament or to the said Com- 
 mittees of Lords and Commons before-mentioned, such further Order 
 shall be taken therein as shall be agreeable to Justice. Provided, 
 That where any former Ordinance hath been made by Both Houses 
 of Parliament for the seizing or Sequestering of the Estates of any 
 of the Delinquents before specified, within any County, City or Place, 
 and accordingly executed there, this present Ordinance shall not be 
 put in Execution till further Order be taken by Both Houses of 
 Parliament. Provided also. That all and every the said Estates of
 
 407 
 
 the said Delinquents shall be charcreable and liable for their propor- 
 tionable jDart of such other public Charges or Duties to be set or 
 allowed of Both Houses of Parliament as they ought to Pay if this 
 Ordinance had not been made ; and to all such other Charges, 
 Duties, Payments or other Rights which are or shall be due or pay- 
 able, or if right belonging to any other Person or Persons out of the 
 Premises, other than to such Delinquents as aforesaid, the same to 
 be paid and disbursed by these Sequestrators, or any Two of them 
 respectively. 
 
 Provided also. That where no Committees are named by this 
 Ordinance in any City or Town which is a County of itself, there 
 the Committees for the County at large next adjoining, may execute 
 this Ordinance within eveiy such City or Town, till other Committees 
 shall be named and appointed for the same by Both Houses of 
 Parliament. And that where no Committees are herein named for 
 any County, City or Place such other Persons as shall hereafter be 
 nominated by Both Houses, shall have the like Power to execute 
 this Ordinance within every such County, City or Place, as the Com- 
 mittees by this present Ordinance named have. 
 
 Provided also. That all and singular such Revenues Rents, Issues, 
 Fees, Profits, Sums of Money, and Allowances whatsoever, as have 
 heretofore been, and now ought to be paid, disposed unto, or for the 
 Maintenance of any College or Hospital whose Revenues, or any part 
 thereof, have not loeen employed for Maintenance of the War against 
 the Parliament, Grammar School or Scholars, or for or towards the 
 Reparation of any Church, Chapel, Highway, Causeway, Bridge, 
 Schoolhouse, or other charitable use, payable by any the Corpora- 
 tions or Persons whose Estates are to be sequestered by this Ordin- 
 ance, which are chargeable upon, or ought to issue out of, or to be 
 paid for or in respect of their Estates Lands or Possessions, or any of 
 ttem, other than such Delinquents as aforesaid, shall be and con- 
 tinue to be paid, disposed, and allowed by the said Sequestrators or 
 Two or more of them, as they were and have been hitherto, anything 
 in this Ordinance to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding. 
 
 THE SOLEMN LEAGUE AND COVENANT. 
 
 Printed and Published by Order of both Houses of Parliament, 
 dated Sept. 21, 1643. 
 
 (From lUisli worth's Historical Collections, pt. iii., vol. ii., chap. 13.) 
 
 We Noblemen, Barons, Knights, Gentlemen, Citizens, Burgesses, 
 Ministers of the Gospel and Commons of all sorts in the Kingdoms 
 of England, Scotland and Ireland, liy the Providence of God living 
 under one King and being of one Reformed Religion, having before 
 ■our eyes the Glory of God and the Advancement of the Kingdom 
 of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, the Honour and Happiness
 
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 of the Kintj's Majesty and his Posterity, and the true Public Liberty^ 
 Safety and Peace of the Kingdoms wherein every ones private Con- 
 dition is included ; and calling to mind the treacherous and bloody 
 Plots, Conspiracies, Attempts and Practices of the Enemies of God' 
 against the true Religion and Professors thereof in all places, 
 especially in these Three Kingdoms, ever since the Reformation of 
 Religion ; and how much their rage, power and jDresumption are of 
 late and at this time increased and exercised, whereof the deplorable 
 estate of the Church and Kingdom of Ireland, the distressed Estate 
 of the Church and Kingdom of England, and the dangerous Estate 
 of the Church and Kingdom of Scotland are present and public 
 Testimonies : We have (now at last) after other means of Supplica^- 
 tion, Remonstrance, Protestations and Sufferings, for the preserva- 
 tion of ourselves and our Religion from utter Ruin and Destruction, 
 according to the commendable practice of these Kingdoms in former 
 times, and the Example of God's people in other Nations, after mature 
 deliberation, resolved and determined to enter into a Mutual and 
 Solemn League and Covenant, wherein we all subscribe, and each one 
 of us for himself, with our hands lifted up to the most high God, 
 do swear, 
 
 I. 
 
 That we shall sincerely, really and constantly, through the Grace 
 of God endeavour in our several Places and Callings, the Preserva- 
 tion of the Reformed Religion in the Church of Scotland, in Doctrine, 
 Worship, Discipline and Government according to the Word of God 
 and the Example of the best Reformed Churches : and we shall 
 endeavour to bring the Churches of God in the Thi-ee Kingdoms to 
 the nearest Conjunction and Uniformity in Religion, Confessing of 
 Faith, Form of Church Government, Directory for Worship and 
 Catechising, that We and our Posterity after us, may, as Brethren, 
 live in Faith and Love, and the Lord may delight to dwell in the 
 midst of us. 
 
 IL 
 
 That we shall, in like manner, without respect of persons,, 
 endeavour the Extirpation of Popery, Prelacy (that is Church Govern- 
 ment by Archbishops, Bishops, their Chancellors and Commissaries, 
 Deans, Deans and Chapters, Archdeacons, and all other Ecclesiastical 
 Officers depending on that Hierarchy), Superstition, Heresy, Schism, 
 Profaneness, and whatsoever shall be found to be contrary to sound 
 Doctrine and the power of Godliness, lest we partake in other men's 
 Sins, and thereby be in danger to receive of their Plagues, and that 
 the Lord may be One, and his Name One in the Three Kingdoms. 
 
 in. 
 
 We shall with the same sincerity, reality and constancy, in our 
 several Vocations, endeavour with our Estates and Lives, mutually to
 
 409 
 
 preserve the Rights and Privileges of the Parliaments, and the 
 Liberties of the Kingdoms, and to preserve and defend the King's 
 Majesty's Person and Authority, in the Preservation and Defence of 
 the True Religion and Liberties of the Kingdoms, that the World 
 may bear witness with our Consciences of our Loyalty, and that we 
 have no thoughts or intentions to diminish his Majesty's just Power 
 and Greatness. 
 
 IV. 
 
 We shall also with all faithfulness endeavour the discovery of all 
 such as have been or shall be, Incendiaries, Malignants, or evil 
 Instruments by hindering the Reformation of Religion, dividing the 
 King from his People, or one of the Kingdoms from another, or 
 making any Faction or Parties amongst the people, contrary to the 
 League and Covenant, that they n)ay be brought to public Trial and 
 receive condign punishment, as the degree of their Offences shall 
 require or deserve, or the Supreme Judicatories of both Kingdoms 
 respectively, or others having power from them for that effect, shall 
 judge convenient. 
 
 Y. 
 
 And whereas the happiness of a blessed Peace between these 
 Kingdoms, denied in former times to our Progenitors, is by the good 
 Providence of God granted unto us, and hath been lately concluded 
 and settled by both Parliaments : We shall, each one of us, accord- 
 ing to our places and interest, endeavour that they may remain con- 
 joined in a firm Peace and Union to all Posterity, and that Justice 
 may be done upon the wilful Opposers thereof, in manner expressed 
 in the precedent Articles. 
 
 VI. 
 
 We shall also, according to our Places and Callings, in this 
 Common Cause of Religion, Liberty and Peace of the Kingdom, assist 
 and defend all those that enter into this League and Covenant in the 
 maintaining and pursuing thereof, and shall not suffer ourselves, 
 directly or indirectly, by whatsoever Combination, Persuasion, or 
 Terror to be divided and withdrawn from this I)lessed Union and 
 Conjunction, whether to make defection to the contrary part, or 
 give ourselves to a detestaljle Indift'erency or Neutrality in this 
 Cause, which so much concerneth the Glory of God, the Good of the 
 Kingdoms and the Honour of the King : l)ut shall all the days of our 
 lives zealously and constantly continue therein, against all opposition, 
 and promote the same according to our power, against all lefts and 
 impediments whatsoever ; and what we are not able ourselves to 
 suppress or overcome we shall reveal and make known, that it may 
 be timely prevented or removed : All which we shall do as in the 
 sight of God.
 
 410 
 
 And because these Kingdoms are guilty of many sins and provoca- 
 tions against God and his Son Jesus Christ, as is too manifest by our 
 present Distresses and Dangers, the fruits thereof : We profess and 
 declare, before God and the World, our unfeigned desire to be 
 humbled for our own sins and for the sins of these Kingdoms, 
 especially that we have not as we ought valued the inestimable 
 benefit of the Gospel ; that we have not lal:)Oured for the Purity and 
 Power thereof ; and that we have not endeavoured to receive Christ 
 in our hearts, nor to walk worthy of him in our lives, which are the 
 causes of other sins and transgressions, so much abounding amongst 
 us and our true and unfeigned purpose, desire and endeavour, for 
 ourselves, and all others under our Power and Charge, both in public 
 and in private, in all Duties we owe to God and Man, to amend our 
 lives and each one to go before another in the example of a real 
 Reformation, that the Lord may turn away his wrath and heavy 
 indignation and establish these Churches and Kingdoms in Truth and 
 Peace. And this Covenant we make in the presence of Almighty 
 God the Searcher of all hearts, with a true intention to perform the 
 same, as we shall answer at that Great Day when the secrets of all 
 heai'ts shall be disclosed : most humbly beseeching the Lord to 
 strengthen us by his holy Spirit for this end, and to bless our desires 
 and proceedings with such success as may be a Deliverance and Safety 
 to his People and encouragement to the Christian Churches groaning 
 under or in danger of the Yoke of Antichristian Tyranny, to join in 
 the same or like Association and Covenant, to the Glory of God, the 
 enlargement of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ, and the Peace and 
 Tranquillity of Christian Kingdoms and Commonwealths. 
 
 THE NATIONAL OATH. 
 
 House of Lords. Die Sabbati, 5° die Aprilis, 1645. 
 
 Be it Ordained, by the Lords and Commons in Parliament 
 assembled. That all and every Person, of what Degree or Quality 
 soever, that hath lived, or shall live, within the King's Quarters, or 
 been aiding, assisting, or adhering unto the Forces raised against 
 the Parliament, and hath or shall come to inhabit or reside under the 
 Power and Protection of the Parliament, shall swear upon the Holy 
 Evangelist, in Manner following : — - 
 
 I A.B. do swear from my Heart, that I will not, directly, nor 
 indirectly, adhere unto, or willingly assist, the King in this War, or 
 in this Cause, against the Parliament, nor any Forces raised without 
 the Consent of the Two Houses of Parliament, in this Cause or War. 
 And I do likewise swear, that my coming and submitting myself 
 under the Power and Protection of the Parliament is without any 
 Manner of Design whatsoever to the Prejudice of the Proceedings of 
 the Two Houses of this present Parliament ; and without the Direc-
 
 411 
 
 tion, Privity, or Advice, of tlie King, or any of His Council or Officers, 
 other than what I have now made known : So help me God, and the 
 Contents of this Work. 
 
 And be it further Ordained, by the Authority aforesaid, That 
 the Commissioners for the keeping of the Great Seal of England for 
 the Time being shall have Power, and are hereby authorized, to 
 tender and administer the said Oath unto any Peer, or Wife or 
 Widow of any Peer, so coming to inhabit as above said ; and it shall 
 be lawful to and for the Committee of the House of Commons for 
 Examinations, the Committe for the Militia in London, and all Com- 
 mittees of Parliament in the several Counties and Cities of the 
 Kingdom, to tender and administer the said Oath unto every other 
 Person so coming to inhabit as above said : And if any Person (not 
 being a Member of or Assistant unto either of the Houses of the 
 Parliament) shall refuse or neglect to take the said Oath, so duly 
 tendered unto him or her as above said, the said Commissioners 
 and Committees respectively shall and may commit the same Person 
 to some Prison, there to remain, without Bail or Mainprize, until he 
 shall conform thereunto. 
 
 THE OATH OF ABJURATION. 
 
 I A.B. do abjure and renounce the Pope's Supremacy and 
 Authority over the Catholic Church in general, and over myself in 
 particular, And I do Ijelieve that there is not any Transubstantiation 
 in the Sacraments of the Lord's Supper or in the Elements of Bread 
 ■and Wine after consecration thereof by any person whatsoever, And 
 I do also lielieve that there is not any Purgatory, and that the con- 
 secrated Host, Crucifixes or Images ought not to be worshipped, 
 neither that any worship is due unto any of them, And I also believe 
 that Salvation cannot be merited by Works, and all doctrines in 
 affirmation of the said points I do abjure and renounce without any 
 equivocation, mental reservation or secret evasion whatsoever, taking 
 the words by me spoken according to the common and usual meaning 
 •of them. 
 
 So help me God. 
 
 FORM OF PARDON. 
 
 Porm of Pardon to be granted to Delinquents upon their Com- 
 positions for their Delinquency, approved by both Houses of 
 Parliament and published in the Journals of the House of Lords. 
 
 Die Martis, 7° die Julii, 1646. 
 
 Rex omnilius ad quos, etc. Salutem : Sciatis quod Nos, de 
 'Gratia Nostra speciali, ac ex certa Scientia k, mero Motu Nostris,
 
 412 
 
 nee non de Advisamento, Assensu, & Consensu Procerum & Com- 
 munium in Parliaiuento Nostro Anglice aj^ud Westm. assemblato, 
 pardonaAunius, remisimus it relaxaA-imus, ac per priTesentes, pro 
 Nobis, Haeredibiis, & Successoribus Nostris, pardonavinius, remit- 
 timus, k, relaxamus, A. B. de C. in Com. seu quocunque alio 
 
 Nomine vel Cognomine, seu Additione Nominis vel Cognominis, 
 Officii, seu Loci, idem A.B. censeatur, vocetur, seu nuncupeter, aut tcV 
 nuper censebatur, vocabutur, seu nuncupabatur, omnes & singulos ' 
 Proditiones tani majores quam minores, ac Crimina Itespe 
 Majestatis, nee non Rebelliones, Insurrectiones, Conspirationes, 
 ac Misprisiones omnium & singulorum eorundem Proditionum k 
 Criminum laesae Majestatis a vicesimo Die Maii, Anno Domini 
 Millesimo, Sexcentesimo, Quadragesimo secundo, & ante Datum 
 praesentium per ipsum A.B. habit, commiss. sive perpetrat. pro 
 Guerra levata contra Nos, Parliamentum, & Regnum Nostrum 
 Anglice prsedict. aut pro conciliando, auxiliando sive assistendo in 
 eadem Guerra ; ac etiam omnia & omnimoda Homicid. Felon. Rober. 
 & Accessar. eorundem in Guerra priiedicta (ut prsefertur) habit, fact, 
 sive commiss. licet idem A.B. de prsemissis vel aliquo ^^raemissorum 
 indictat. rectat. adjudicat. utlagat. condemnat. convict, vel attinct. 
 existit, vel non existit ; ac etiam omnia k singula Judicia, Utlagaria, 
 k Convictiones, pro eisdem prsemissis, seu eoruni aliquo, habit, fact, 
 sive promulgat. sive imposterum promulgand. ac otnnes Poenas, 
 Punitiones, ac Poenalitates Corporales, pro eisdem jDrsemissis aut 
 eorum aliquo, ante Datum praesentium adjudicat. sive incurs. siv6' 
 imposterum adjudicand. vel incurrend. ; ita tamen quod stet rectus 
 in Curia si quis versus eum loqui voluerit. Cumque prsefatus A.B. 
 pro eo quod Guerram levavit contra Nos, Parliamentum k Regnum 
 Nostrum Anglice praedictum, per Proceres k Communes ejusdem 
 Parliamenti ad Finem suum adjudicatus k admissus fuit ; 
 
 sciatis ulterius, quod Nos, de consimili Gratia Nostra speciali, ac ex 
 certa Scientia k mero Motu Nostris, nee non de Advisamento, Con- 
 sensu, k Assensu praedictus, pro Nobis, Haeredibus k Successoribus 
 Nostris, damns k concedimus, nee non pardonamus, remittimus, k 
 relaxamus, praefato A.B. Haeredibus k Assignatis suis, omnia <fe- 
 singula hujusmodi Terr. Tenement, k Haereditament. Bona k Catalla, 
 debita Jura k Credita sua quaecunque ratione praemissorum 
 quovismodo forisfaet. sive deperdit. (k non alia neque diversa), pro ■ 
 quibus idem A.B. secundiim Particulare inde per ipsum Com- 
 missionariis apud Golclsmifhs Hal/, London, pro Levatione Monetae 
 sedent. exhibit. Finem praedictum fecit tt solutus fuit, secundum 
 Ordinationem per praedict. proceres k Communes in hoc praesente 
 Parliamento antehac fact. & ordinat. nee non omnia k singula 
 Redditus, Reventiones, Exitus, k Media Proficua eorundem 
 prfBmissorum, k eorum cujuslibet, a die , Anno Domini 
 
 , debit, et incurs, sive solubil. ; ac eundem A.B. Haeredes 
 & Assignatos suos, ad Stat, k Interesse sua in eisdem proemissis, 
 k eorum quolibet, plenarie, pro Nobis Haeredibus k Successoribus.
 
 413 
 
 -Nostris ; a Die & Anno priedictis, restituimus & restauramus per 
 priesentes ; except, tamen semper k extra banc prsesentem Con- 
 •cessionem & Pardonationem Nostram omuimodo reservat. omni Jure 
 Stat. & Interesse ejusdem A.B. in vel ad aliquam Advocationem, 
 Donationem, Prsesentationeni, aut Jus Patronat. ad aliquam 
 Ecclesiam, Capellam, seu Beneficium Ecclesiastic, de quo vel quibus 
 idem A.B. aut aliquis alius sive aliqui ad ejus Usum, vel in Con- 
 -fidentia pro eo, modo vel nuper seisitus vel possessionatus, seisiti vel 
 possessionati, existit vel existunt ; habendum & tenendum prsedicta 
 •omnia & singula prtemissa, cum suis Pertinen. (except. jDraeexcept.) 
 eidem A.B. secundimi Stat. & Interesse sua in prsemissis ante 
 Guerram praedictam levat. Et ulteriiis, de uberiori Gratia Nostra, 
 firmiter praecipimus omnibus & singulis Judicibus, Justiciariis, 
 Officiariis, &: aliis Ministris Nostris quilniscunque, quod haec praesens 
 Pardonatio Nostra, construatur k adjudicetur, in omnibus Curiis 
 Nostris & alibi, valid. & effectual, in Lege, pro Exoneratione prsefati 
 A.B. Terrarum, Tenementorum & Haereditamentorum, Bonorum, & 
 Catallorum suorum praedictorum, secundum veram Intentionem 
 praesentium ; aliquo Statuto, Actu, Ordinatione hujus Parliament! 
 Nostri praedict. Provisione sive Restrictione, in contrarium inde 
 antehac habit, fact. edit, ordinat. sive provis. in aliquo non obstante : 
 Proviso tamen semper, quod haec Concessio & Pardonatio Nostra non 
 extendat. ad acquietand. vel exonerand. praefat. A.B. ad ulteriorem 
 compositionem faciend. pro aliquibus aliis Terris, Tenementis, 
 Htereditamentis, Bonis vel Catallis suis, in Particular, joraedict. 
 eisdem Commissionar. (ut praefertur) exhibit. & deliberat. non 
 expressis k specificat. aut ad exonerand. praefat. A.B. Haeredes vel 
 Assignatos suos, si prtedict. Terr. Tenement. & caetera praemissa in 
 eodem Particular! mentionat. de major. Annuls Valoribus per Spatium 
 Trium Annorum ante Annum Domini Millesimum Sexcentesimum 
 Quadragesimum fuerunt, quam in praedicto Particular! mentionato 
 existit, de k ab hujusmodi ulterior. Fin. faciend. k solvend. pro 
 eisdem qual. per praedictos Proceres k Communes Parliament! 
 praedict! in ea parte appunctuat. fuerit : Proviso etiam. Quod haec 
 Concessio k Pardonatio Nostra non extendat k ad hal)iliend, praefat. 
 A.B. ad aliquod Officium. Functionem sive Locum Publicae Fiduciae in 
 Ecclesia sive Repul)lica habend. utend. vel exercend. quibus idem 
 A.B. per aliquam Ordinationem Parliament! habere, uti, vel exercere, 
 incapax sit vel fuerit declaratus, nisi in hujusmodi Modo it Forma 
 prout per eundem Ordinationem provisum sit vel fuerit ; aliquo in his 
 Praesentibus content, in contrar. inde non obstant. 
 In cuius Re! etc. Teste, etc.
 
 414 
 
 I N D E X. 
 
 An asterisk attached to a number denotes two or more references on the 
 same page. The letter ' h ' similarly placed indicates a footnote. Thick 
 figui'es show the page upon whicli the recital of each case begins. 
 
 Abbreviations, viii 
 
 Accle, Wm., 341 
 
 Acomb, 203/1 ; Mill, 191 
 
 Acts of Parliament, first issue of, 
 
 xxviift 
 Acton, 341 . , T. . ^ 
 
 Acts for Sale of Forfeited Estates, 
 
 xxxi, xxxii 
 Adams, Theophihis, 270 
 Adderstone (see Etherston) 
 Addison's Close, 301 
 Addy, Jno., 94 
 Adkins (see Atkins) 
 Adon (see Aydon) 
 Affray at Alnwick, 171« ; at Meldon, 
 
 347 n 
 Aiscough (see Ayscough) 
 Aiseby, — , 69 
 Aislaby, Aslaby, etc., 7, 19, 38*, 6/, 
 
 96/1*, 123, 212/1, 224/1, 225*, 227*, 
 
 228, 343/!. 
 Aislaby Holmes, 225* 
 Akeld, 347* 
 Akers, Edwd., 9 
 Aldborough, 289*, 289/i, 290 
 Aldcome, Wm., 376/;* 
 Aldersheeles, 152 
 Alexander, Jerom., 99 
 Allan, Allen, Aid., 69; Auth., 143; 
 
 Jno., 19; Rich., 19; Rob., 65; 
 
 Wm., 227 
 Allerbunie Spittle, 304* 
 Allerside Haugh, 103/;* 
 Allgood, Geo., 95 /i ; Lancelot, 78, 
 
 94*, 94/1, 95; Margt., 87, 95 
 Allington, 358* 
 Allinson, AUanson, etc., Anth., 96/i; 
 
 Jas., 18; Jno., 60, 61/i, 95; 
 
 Leonard, 18; Mary, 96/1*; Ra., 
 
 20, 21 60, 61h, 96*, 96/i*, 334*; 
 
 Capt. 'Ra.. 96/!, 335; Ra., esq., 
 
 177; Mr. Ra., 28*; Widow, 30 
 Allured, Col., 346 
 Alumouth, 199/i 
 
 Alnwick, 77, 77/), 78, 133, 135/i, 146, 
 171, 171/1, 173, 208, 211*, 211/i*, 
 217//, 298, 326/i, 358; Abbey, 78, 
 87, 92, 132, 133*, 133/i, 134/;, 144, 
 189, 306/i ; Abbey mills, 306// ; 
 Park, 133 
 
 Alston Moor, 314, 315 
 
 Alvey, Mr. Arth., 103; Mr., 103/i, 
 104/1* 
 
 Alwen, Edwd., 340 
 
 Alwent, 225, 340 
 
 Alwent, Anne, 119/i; Ra., 119/i 
 
 Alwinton, Alwenton, 358/i, 372, 373; 
 Mill, 372 
 
 Amble, Ambell, Colliery, 206, 208; 
 Hall, 208; Saltpans, 206, 208 
 
 Ammerstou, 2, 254 
 
 Ammunition for troops, xxv 
 
 Anderson, Adeline, 102, 153/i, 154/i; 
 Anne, 103/*, 104; Anth., 173; 
 Bertram, 77/i, 96, 96/;*, 97*, 98*, 
 99*, 100*, 103/i, 104, 294//, 319//; 
 Elizth., 103/i*, 104, 294//; Elizth., 
 daughters of, 104; Frances, 103/!, 
 104; Francis, 6, 103/i, 104//; 123/!, 
 223, 224*; Francis, esq., 68; Sir 
 Francis, xxiii*, 101, 103//, 104* 
 105*; Sir Francis, knt., 104, 105, 
 161; Sir Francis, M.P., lOl/i; 
 Geo., 103/i, 104; Giles, 103n, 104; 
 Hen., 96/1*, 101, 101/t, 103/i*, 
 270//, 294/i*, 329, 330//, 331; Mr. 
 Hen., 104; Sir Hen., xiv, 328*, 
 329*, 330*, 330/i, 331*, 332; 
 Isaac, 103/i, 104; Isabel, 270/i, 
 330//; Jane, 101//*, 103/!, 285//, 
 286, 294/1 ; Margt., 103/i, 104; 
 Mary, 103//; 104, 330//; Rob., 
 102*, 103, 103/1*. 104*, 285/1, 286, 
 329, 331; Aid. Rob., 96//*, lOl/i, 
 103/i*; Rob., esq., 102; Master 
 Rob., 103/i; Mr. Rob., 103n; 
 Roger, 101/i, 154/!*; Tho., 362; 
 Widow, 30; Wm., 103/!* 
 
 Anderton, — , 94; Rob., 207 
 
 Andrew, Martin, 30
 
 415 
 
 Andrew Auckland (see Auckland) 
 Andrew's House, 309 
 Angerton, 215/i 
 
 Anick, 188«, 203n; Grange, 203n 
 Anslow, Wm., 364 
 Anton hill, 151, 153 
 Antwerp, 320n 
 
 Apostle of Nonconformity, 42/1 
 Apostle of the North, 42/1 
 Appleby, Anne, 105; Cuth., 22, 34, 
 44, 56, 105*; Mary, 57, 65, 73 
 Appleton, 225, 228; East, 131n 
 Appleyard, Jane, 201/i 
 Arch, Chris., 372 
 
 Archdeacon Newton, 65, 119/i*, 121* 
 Archer, Jno., 28, 92 
 Argyle, Marquis of. 111 
 Armies in the Northern Counties, 
 XXV, 20, 39, 40, 42, 43, 46, 49, 51, 
 52, 53, 82, 84, 89, 90*, 91*, 97, 
 98, 99, 100, 116n, 129, 133, 145«, 
 148, 165, 168, 173, 176, 180, 200, 
 273, 274n, 275, 277, 298/i, 302/i, 
 319;i, 337, 340, 349, 350, 360/i, 
 370;!, 389, 398 
 Armorer, Ehpraim, 380; Geo., 337; 
 Jno., 44, 65, 105*; Tho., 105/(, 
 174n, 297/1 ; Wm., 105?(, 351 
 Armstrong, Edwd., 252/i; Jno., 24, 
 37; Nich., 351; Rich., 233*; Tho., 
 34; Wm., 1 
 Armyne, W^ill., 23; Sir Wm., ix, xvi, 
 xviin, 42, 43, 45*, 46/z, 59. 60, 61;?, 
 69*, 76, 85, 89*, 115*, 117;;, 119, 
 123, 137, 141, 185, 197, 241, 24l7i, 
 246, 253;;, 274, 283, 297;;, 303, 367, 
 391?), 393, 398 
 Arrom, Ra., 183 
 Arrowsmith, Dr. Jno., 108;;*; Wm., 
 
 15, 28 
 Ase money, 129 
 Ash, Ashe, etc., Jno., 99, 100; Mr. 
 
 Jno., 39; Mr., 100 
 Ashbumham, Mr. Wm., 212ft 
 Ashfield, Tho., 87 
 Ashton, Edmd., Sloii ; Elizth., 315h 
 Aske, 126ft 
 
 Askeugh, Alan, 326ft; Dorothy, 326ft 
 Askwith, Simon, 106* 
 Aslaby (see Aislaby) 
 Assessments ordered, xxx 
 Athowe, Chris., 290 
 Atherton Moor, 251 
 Atkins, Adkins, Jonathan, 218ft, 
 
 220 
 Atkinson's Close, 21 
 Atkinson, Geo., 5, 7, 12, 33, 34; 
 Isabel, 48ft; Jno., 14, 19, 29; 
 Margery, 136;i ; Rob., 48;i ; Capt. 
 Rob., 88 
 Attorney General, Mr., 169 
 
 Attorney General of Ireland, 354n 
 
 Auckland, 114, 211ft, 251, 396ft, 397; 
 Bishop, 39, 47ft, 60*, 95, 95ft, 96?i, 
 128, 142, 186, 237, 334ft, 343; 
 North, ,37, 107, 340; St. Andrew, 
 47ft, 108*, 136, 141, 142, 146, 179*, 
 254, 275ft, 396ft ; St. Helen, 66, 68, 
 142, 145, 146*, 293, 365ft; West, 
 184ft, 309ft, .345 
 
 Aude, Awde, Mark, 294; Rob., 14*,, 
 33 
 
 Auditor to see of Durham, 108 
 
 Average, allowance for, 90 
 
 Awards, The, 254 
 
 Awton, Rob., 94 
 
 Axwell, 333ft 
 
 Axwell Houses, 44, 157*, 160 
 
 Aycliffe, 136, 176, 258, 338 
 
 Aycliffe Wood, 18 
 
 Aydon, Adon, etc., 143, 145n ; 
 Castle, 145*, 191, 193; Shields, 315 
 
 Ayliffe, Sir Geo., 341* 
 
 Aynsley, Aysley, etc., Gawen, 325ft ; 
 Isabella, 325ft; Jas., 27; Rob., 60, 
 61ft, 107*; Wm., 357ft 
 
 Ayre, Jas., 18*, 253ft; Wm., 14, 19, 
 29 
 
 Ayreson, Jno., 92; Aid. Jno., 22, 
 312*; Mr. Jno., 232; Aid. Mr. 
 Jno., 37 
 
 Ayscough, Aiscough, etc., Alan, 
 106*, 106ft*; Alice, 106?;; Chris., 
 106;i; Dorothy, 106n ; Jas., xxxiii, 
 19, 20, 57, 65, 106*, 106;;*, 107*; 
 Mr. Jas., 7; Rob., 227 
 
 Aysley (see Aynsley) 
 
 Ayton, Rob., 26 
 
 E 
 
 Babington, Cath., 383ft; Philip, 
 383ft; Rob., 382; Urias, 269, 270* 
 
 Baddeley, Rich., 64, 68, 107*, 107ft; 
 Mr. Rich., 37 
 
 Bagraw, 315 
 
 Bailiffs of Hexham, 94;; 
 
 Bails, Dorothy, 194ft; Tho., 194h 
 
 Bainbrigg, Bainbrige, etc., Abra- 
 ham, 36; Anne, 119;;; Capt. Cuth., 
 18; Fran., 119h 
 
 Bakehouse at Barnard Castle, 199ft ; 
 Chester-lc-Strect, 294; Durham, 
 30 
 
 Baker, Elizth., 109ft; Geo., 109; Sir 
 Geo., 37, 109*; Oswald, 109ft; 
 Rich., 300, 301; Rob., 136 
 
 Balcanquall, Dr., 62, 63; Walter, 18 
 
 JJaldon, 321 
 
 Baldwyn Flatt, 321* 
 
 Balival family of Darlington, 109ft 
 
 Ballast Quavs. Wharves, etc., 53, 
 23G, 236ft, *312*, 313*
 
 41G 
 
 Bamboroiigh, Bamburg, 79, 171, 174, 
 
 220, 268*, 268/1*, 269; Castle, 147, 
 
 269 
 Banaster, Alice, 221/i 
 Banbrik, Jno., 396 
 Banckes, Edwd., 46/i; Margery, 46« 
 Banke Close, 35, 257 
 Bankedge, 151 
 Bankes House, 164 
 Bankhall, 206n 
 Banke Riggs, 208 
 Bank, Bankes, The, 3, 35, 221/(, 257 
 Barker's Lands, 217 
 Barmoor, 297, 297;(*, 298 
 Barmpton, 53 
 Barmston, Barmeton, etc., 8, 10, 18, 
 
 30, 61, 67, 67*, 73, 74, 238», 239*, 
 
 240, 318*. 318 «, 345*, 348 «, 349 
 Barnacre, 281 
 Barnard Castle, xii/(, 88, 101/(, 102, 
 
 199, 199/;, 224)1, 349 
 Barnarsteed, 153 
 
 Barn, compensation for burning, 360;i 
 Barnes, 56, 126*, 126/;, 127* 
 Barnes, Bp., 110?( ; Dorothy, 110/) ; 
 
 Elizth., 110/!; Hen., 109*, 109/;, 
 
 110/!*; Tho., 37, 110/!, 235*; Wni., 
 
 44, 109/), 110/!*, Ill*: Capt. Wm., 
 
 14/1, 111; Mr. Wm., 14; Sir Wm., 
 
 knt., 110/i 
 Barnett, Jno., 248 
 Baronet, the little lost, 347/i 
 Barrowburn Foot, 372 
 Barthropp, Jonathan, 170 
 Barton, 168, 169 
 Barton, Edwd., 106/!, 107; Edwd., 
 
 jnn., 106: Elizth., 158/! 
 Bartram, Geo., xxxiii., 113* 
 Barwick, Alice, 296/; ; Francis, 
 
 296/! ; Rob., 15 
 Barwise, Rich., xvii, xvii/;, 23, 117/!, 
 
 297/! , 398 
 Basire, Easier, etc.. Dr., 11, 17, 
 
 212/1 ; 253/!, 276; Dr. Isaac, 3; 
 
 Mrs., 212/! 
 Bassett, Elizth., 299/!; Rich., 367*; 
 
 Wm., 299/i 
 Bastle at the Fawnes, 351/! 
 Batehouse, The, 333 
 Bateman, Mr., 100* 
 Bate€, Cuth., 113/!*; Elizth., 113/i ; 
 
 Margt., 113/!; Ra., 113*, 114, 
 
 114/!* 
 
 Bathhurst, Dr., 6 
 
 Battersby, — , 335/1 
 
 Bavington, Little, 77/i 
 
 Baxter's Garth, 25, 341* 
 
 Baxterwoode, 37 
 
 Baxter, Jarvis. 246; Jno., 14*. 17, 
 
 33, 246*; Wm., 114*, 114/(, 115*, 
 
 352 
 
 Bay ley, Tho., 84 
 
 Baynsley Lonning, 273 
 
 Beadhoiises Charity, 95;i 
 
 Beadnall, Bednel, etc., Elizth., 386*, 
 Geo., 36, 103/!, 104. 167, 272, 287 n, 
 385, 386*, 386/!, 387*, 388*; Rob., 
 386* 
 
 Beal, 306 
 
 Beamish, xxxiii, 68, 185/!, 232n,, 243/?,, 
 254/!, 292/!, 388, 388/i*, 395* 
 
 Bearle, 300, 301 
 
 Bearparke, keeper of, 43 
 
 Beanfront, xxxiii, 79, 188*, 188n,, 
 190*, 191, 325/1 
 
 Beckley, 232/! 
 
 Beckwith, Wm., 352 
 
 Bedburn, Bedbourne, 64, 66, llO/i 
 
 Bedding for T^^lemouth Castle, 
 92 
 
 Bedell. Beedle, Mary, 90; Tho., 90, 
 90/!, 91 
 
 Bedford, Almond, 256 
 
 Bedlington, 67, 77*, 79" 113, 291*,' 
 301, 377*, 377/!, 400*; Mill, 72,-'' 
 377 
 
 Bedlingtonshire, 206/i 
 
 Bednel (see Beadnall) 
 
 Bedom's Flatt, 292*, 293 
 
 Bee. Anne, 185/* : Jane, 350/i ; Matt., 
 185/!, 350/!; Rich., 166, 272; Tho., 
 10. 
 
 Beedle (see Bedell) 
 
 Beggerlaw, 151/i, 153 
 
 Beggersicke, 153 
 
 Beltord. 105/!, 174//, 221, 297/i 
 
 Bell, Edwd., 376/!*; Geo., 191, 192; 
 Hen., 191: Isabel, 300; Ra,, 366; 
 Tho., 10, 381 
 
 Bellamy, 225 
 
 Bellamy, Rob., 31 
 
 Bellarby, Rob., 22 
 
 Bellasis, Belasyse, etc., Brvan, 
 327/! : Dorothy. 292/i; Elizth., 48/i, 
 115/!, 116/!, 118/!; Geo., 44, 65, 
 115, 115/!*; Hen., 118; Lord, 74, 
 75: Margt., 116/i; Martha, 118/i; 
 Mary, 342//; R., 39; Rich., 176/i, 
 229/!: Rich., M.A., 1187/; Sir 
 Rich. 44, 115, 116*, 116/1*, 117, 
 118, 262, 264; Wm., 60, 61/!, 
 118*; Sir Wm., 48/!, 115/?*, 116/i*, 
 118/!, 279, 280*, 292/!, 342/i 
 
 Belling, 153 
 
 Bellingham, 152 
 
 Bellingham, Sir Hen., 125/!* 
 
 Bellraven. Lord, 103 
 
 Bell's Close, 97/! 
 
 Bells for Staiudrop church, 198/i 
 
 Belshawe Rich., 103/1 
 
 Belly, Ra., 22 
 
 Belsay, 13, 291/i
 
 417 
 
 Belson, Eleanor, 388/i, 
 
 Belt, Sir Wm., 154 
 
 Benfield, 27 
 
 Bentley, 344/; 
 
 Benton, Little, 215*, 216; Long, 120, 
 
 216 
 Benwell, 224/1, 350, 351; Colliery, 
 
 193, 194, 350, 351 
 Berkley, Sir Rowland, xxiii/i 
 Berrington, 353* 
 Ber^vick passim ; Bridge, xxiii, 91, 
 
 296*. 301«, 302«, 353; Castle-fields, 
 
 296 ; Castle-hills, 295, 296 ; Church, 
 
 92; Garrison, 89; Walls, xxiii, 91 
 Berwick Hill, 196h 197, 197?i 
 Berryhill, 148, 149 
 Besibourne, 164 
 Best, Mr., 225; Wm., 228 
 Bethell, Elizth., 118n*;Sir Ra., knt., 
 
 118?i 
 Betson, Wm., 34 
 Beverley, Jno., esq., 256« 
 Bewick, 315*, 315/(*, 316; Moor, 316; 
 
 Old, 315n*, 316* 
 Bewick, Ellinor, 329, 331*; Rob., 
 
 161, 329 
 Bewley Grange, 22 
 Biddick, 10*, 26, 124n, 238«, 240; 
 
 North, 60, 149*, 239 
 Biddleston, 135/f, 221/), 242/;, 322//, 
 
 358 // 
 Bigg (barley) price of, 360// 
 Billet and Freequarter, xxv, 26, 40, 
 
 46, 53*, 79, 82, 145//, 176, 178//, 
 
 200, 301 
 Billing, 186* 
 Billingham, 2,' 3*, 11,*' 13*, ^15, 16, 
 
 18, 23, 33, 44, 61;, 6ln, 65,'^184*,- 
 -^247; Mill, 15, 184 
 Billingham, Tho., 65 
 Billinghurst, 237// 
 Bills drawn by Geo. Bilton, 83, 84; 
 
 treasurer Ledgard, 82 ; for Berwick 
 
 garrison, 89 
 Billy Hall, 397; Rawe, 397 
 Bilton, 134/1 
 
 Bilton, Geo., 83*; Mr., 84 
 Binchester, 47//*, 119/; 396*, 396//, 
 
 397, 397/!, 
 Bindloss, Bindlees, Rob., esq., 359n; 
 
 Sir Rob., 17//, 25; Sir Rob., bart., 
 
 359 359/1* 
 Bingfield, 188/i, 193, 230, 381, 382, 
 
 382//. 383// 
 Birkbeck Fells, 119// 
 Birkbeck, Birbeck, Anne, 119// ; 
 
 Capt., 337 ; Eleanor, 184// ; Hen., 
 
 184//; Rich., 119//; Tho., 38, 60, 
 
 61/i, 69, 119*, 119//; Mr. Tho., 129 
 Birkheads, 376/i, 377* 
 Birstall, 364// 
 
 Birtley, 240 
 
 Bishop Auckland (see Auckland) 
 
 Bishop Middleham, 8*, 340, 346// 
 
 Bishopprick, Geo., 34 
 
 Bishops meadows, 37 
 
 Bishops, speaking against, 276 
 
 Bishopton, Byshopptou, etc., 6, 7*, 
 13, 14*, 16, 19*, 29, 34*, 68, 74, 225, 
 282, 282//, 297, 297// 
 
 Bishopwearmouth, 18, 31, 37, 61, 170 
 215//, 245*, 246//, 335, 399* 
 
 Bitchburn, 399// 
 
 Bitchfield, xvii//, 217 
 
 Blackborne, Cuth., 315; Tho. 103//, 
 104 
 
 Blackbourne Colliery, 164, 165, 283 
 
 Black Callerton, 380 
 
 Blackett, Dorothy, 110/?; Edwd., 
 290// ; Sir Edwd. 202// ; Geo., 
 290// ; Hen., 22, 38*, 243*, 290/(*; 
 Aid. Mich., llO/i; Sir Wm., 101//, 
 110//, 202/1 
 
 Blackball, 37*, 136// 
 
 Blackheddon, 307*, 307*//, 352, 373*, 
 374, 374//, 375, 378//, 382n 
 
 Blackman, Wm., 14 
 
 Blackstone (see Blakiston) 
 
 Blackwell, 66, 73, 198, 349 
 
 Blackwell, Jno., 70, 72, 86 
 
 Blades, Geo., 63; Mr. Geo., 24; 
 Mr., 90 
 
 Blagdon, xxxiii, 203, 203//, 204 
 204/1, 220// 
 
 Blaigburne, Cuth., 193 
 
 Blake, Lady, 383// 
 
 Blakiston, 13*, 15, 19, 35, 68, 119/;, 
 126//, 168//, 180, 181, 367// 
 
 Blakiston, Blackstone, Blaxton, 
 etc., Anne, 224//, 229//; Barbara, 
 396*; Chris., 259//; Edwd., 224/*; 
 Eleanor, 119//*; Elizth., 119/i, 120, 
 120//, 126/i, 168/i, 334//, 365//, 
 367//; Frances, 119//, 334//, 396//; 
 Geo., 80/)*, 119//*; Mr. Geo., 341; 
 Hen, 96//, 119//, 121*, 122*, 
 396//; Hen., esq., 38; Mr. Hen., 
 4, 9; Jane, 119 n, 120//, 309/i*; 
 Joan, 119// ; Jno., xix, 126/), 168/), 
 296/), 379/) ; Jno., esq., M.P., 80/) ; 
 Jno., M.P., xiv., 277. 280; Mr. 
 Jno., 37, 121//, 335; Margt., 36, 
 119*. .396//; Dame Margt., 65, 73; 
 Mrs. Margt., 21, 103//; Marma- 
 duke, 96/), 127, 334, 379; Mary, 
 96//, 259/); Mr., xx ; Mrs., 104, 
 229, 300, 380, 381; Nich., 309/)*; 
 Nich., esq., 310; Peter, 96/), 334; 
 Ra., 37, 147, 309/) ; Ra., bart., 22; 
 Sir Ra.. 57, 119, 119/i*, 120*, 
 120/!, 121, 184/), 396/i ; Roger, 
 119/i; Susan, 80*, 81, 379, 379/!,
 
 418 
 
 380; Tho., 365 n ; Sir Tlio., bart., 
 170, 296n, 334; Wm., 119?i*, 120, 
 121*, 122, 147, 309, 309/;, 310*, 
 342/( ; Will., esq., 65*; Sir Wm., 
 56, 119«*, 120h*, 121*, 121n, 12 2*, 
 361«, 367n, 396«* ; Sir Wm., knt., 
 309« 
 
 Blanchland, 85*, 360« 
 
 Blaxton (see Blakiston) 
 
 Blaydon, 136« 
 
 Bleatarii, 116« 
 
 Blenheim, battle of, 200h 
 
 Blenkinsop, Tho., 271 
 
 Bligh, Major Jno., 363*, 364* 
 
 Blincoe, Geo., 229/; ; Mary, 229?i 
 
 Blount, Blunt, Anne, 348?;*; Sir 
 Chas., 348?) ; Sir Geo., 344n ; Jno., 
 208 
 
 Blytli, xiv, xvi, 178« ; Panns, 400 
 
 Bogg, 207 
 
 Boggest, Mr., 97 
 
 Boghall, 384; Close, 384 
 
 Bogle Hole, 236 
 
 Bohemia, Queen of, 2;/£>?; 
 
 Bolam, 214, 348 
 
 Bolam, Arch., 372; Chris., 372*; 
 Geo., 372; Jno., 372; Mich., 372; 
 Tho., 372 
 
 Boldon, 233*, 233«, 234; East, 233*, 
 234; Fight, 148; Hills, 148 
 
 Bolton, 355, 373; Southwood, 355, 
 386 
 
 Boltron, Humph., 109 
 
 Bomere Closes, 239 
 
 Bonds Farm, 184* 
 
 Bonner, Tho., xix, 213/; 
 
 Books, burnt by hangman, 394, 395; 
 damaged in Durham Cathedral, 
 42, 63 
 
 Boomer, AYm., 136 
 
 Booth, Abraham, 159h. 25on*; Sir 
 Geo., xxxiv, 75; Judith, 255n 
 
 Boothby, — , 293 
 
 Boroughbridge, 289/*, 354/; 
 
 Borwick Hall, 359/; 
 
 Bosnian, Jno., 35 
 
 Bothal, Bothell, 87,' 258,' 259*, 299n'; 
 300*,- 301 
 
 Bottle nose captain, 223?i 
 
 Boucher, Sir Jno., M.P., 278 
 
 Bourn, 206/(, 207, 219, 220, 400, 
 400/; 
 
 Bower, Jane, 101?/; Wm., lOl/i 
 
 Bowes, 200* 
 
 Bowes, Anne, 123/;, 125?i, 126, 126/!; 
 Cath., .365/i; Col., 335; Dorothy, 
 125, 126/i, 168?i; Eleanor, 123?/; 
 Elizth., 12671, 168n, 365?i.*; 
 Frances, 126?i; Francis, 127, 320, 
 365/;; Francis, esq., 68; Sir 
 Francis, 7, 38, 123«*, 253/i ; Sir 
 
 Francis, knt., 123*; Geo. 124n 
 127; Sir Geo., 65, 124*, 124n 
 125/;; Hen., 123n; Joan, 126n 
 127*; Jno., 194*; Lady, 124 
 Margt., 123/i; Lady Margt., 216 
 Mary, 124, 124//; Maud, 12671 
 Mr., 261; Ea., 65, 78, 124*, 125 
 126/i*, 127*, 271, 365/i ; Rich., 127 
 Mr. Roger, 103; Rob., 126/;*, 127 
 Talbot, 125/;; Tho., 44, 91, 125 
 125/;*, 126, 127, 170, 214/1 ; Tho. 
 esq., 36, 65; Mr. Tho., 337; Tobit 
 124; Toby, 10, 127; Wm. 12 6* 
 126/;*, 127*; Wm., jun.', 127 
 Wm., sen., 126, 127; Sir Wm., 
 126// 
 
 Bowlees, 19 
 
 Bowles, Edwd., 241// 
 
 Bowsden, 149/;, 297/;, 304* 
 
 Bowser, Rich., 60, 61/;, 128*, 343 
 
 Boynton, Col., 275 
 
 Braban, Adeline, 153/; ; Geo., 153n, 
 154/;; Jno., 154/; 
 
 Brack, Jno., 254; Lawrence, 340 
 
 Brackenbury, Jane, 128/; ; Jno., 
 45/;, 49, 69, 12 8*, 128/; 130*; 
 Rich., 128/; ; Sir Rob., 128/; 
 
 Bracken Hill, 239 
 
 Bradbury, 4*, 7, 7*, 13, 21*, 27* 
 
 Bradewood, 125 
 
 Bradford, Bradforth, etc., 174/;, 210, 
 227, 318 
 
 Bradford, Bradforth, etc., Jno., 228; 
 Mary, 174/;; Tho., 174; The, 
 esq., 174/; 
 
 Bradley, 37*, 65, 68, 94*, 101/;*, 124, 
 252/;; Hall, 124/;, 149, 1497i. 
 
 Bradley, Mark, 353; Wm., 353 
 
 Bradshaw, Jno., 59 
 
 Braithwaite, Brathwaite, etc., — , 
 6* ; Auiie, 106/; ; Frances, 130;i, 
 131/;*, 132; Mary, 131?;; Mr., 30; 
 Mrs., 257*; Rich., 130/;; Mr. 
 Rich., 34; Rob., 131/;; Tho., 
 xxxiii, 57, 65, 106/;, 13 0*, 130?i, 
 131*, 131/;, 132*, 255?;, 256, 257; 
 Mrs. Ursula, 257, 258 
 
 Brafferton, 19, 74, 114, 135, 136, 258*, 
 338 
 
 Brampton, 224 
 
 Braiicepeth, Branspeth, etc., 115, 
 136, 163. 163/;*, 164, 177, 21371, 
 214/;, 240, 254,. 346/;, 352; Castle, 
 153?;, 164 
 
 Brand. Mr. Jno., 180 
 
 Brandling, Anne, 87, 133/;, 134, 135*; 
 Chas., 78, 83, 13 2*, 133/;, 134*, 
 134?;, 135*, 135/;*, 306/; ; Col. Chas., 
 132?;; Mr. Chas., 123, 189*; Col., 
 92; Dorothy, 319/;; Edwd.. 174/i ; 
 Elizth., 306)1, 388/;; Lady Elizth.,
 
 419 
 
 306/1 ; Sir Francis, 133, 133n, 306, 
 
 306/1*, 355, 385, 386*; Sir Francis. 
 
 knt., 144*, 189, 341, 341 /i, 342; 
 
 Lady, 144*; Mr., 189; Rich., 17471 ; 
 
 Rob., 133/i, 135/;*, 174/i, 306//, 
 
 388/i; Lieut.-col. Rob., 211; Sir 
 
 Rob., 319/) 
 Brandon, 54, 67, 173/(, 347, 385/1 ; 
 
 East, 67, 347 
 Brankinholme, 257 
 Branspeth (see Brancepeth) 
 Branton, 171*, 172/i*, 173/)* 
 Brathwaite (see Braithwaite) 
 Brawler and scold, 387 
 Brass, Jno., 33, 35, 136/i*; Margt., 
 
 136/) ; Mary, 136/i ; Sam., 190 ; Wm., 
 
 33, 74*, 114*, 115*, 13 5*, 190. 258*; 
 
 Mr. Wm., 343 
 Brazen Eagle in Durham Cathedral, 62 
 Breamer, Lievit.-col., 161 
 Bredele, Mr., 215 
 Brenckhaugh, 362* 
 Breredge, 152* 
 Breerton, 2 
 Brereton, Mr. (C.C. counsellor), 
 
 jm-ssim 
 Brereton, Sir Wm., 194/), 223/) 
 Breridge,' 153 
 Brerish, 151/) 
 Brewen, Wm., 71* 
 Briarton, Bryertou, 34*, 251* 
 Bribery, charge of, 211 
 Brice, Jno., 10. 
 
 Bridges, method of repairing, 18 
 Brig, The, 372 
 Brigford, Bridgford, etc., 151, 151/i, 
 
 153 
 Brighouse, 134, 134/), 371, 372 
 Brigmill, 369 
 
 Briguell, Jno., 279; Tho., 13 6, 136/j* 
 Briggs, Nich., 159 
 Brimley, Rich., 19; Rob., 8 
 Briscoe, Edwd., 130, ]32 
 Bristol, 280*, 306 
 Bristol Articles of War, 281 
 Broad Close, 138. 
 Broadleaf New Close, 14 
 Broad Lee, 33 
 
 Broad Meadows, 14, 26, 199, 238 
 Brockenfield, 133 
 Brocksfield, 133, 134/), 306/), 323, 
 
 323)) ; Mill, 323 
 Brodeniires, 232/) 
 Broome, 135?), 303; Flatt, 172; Hall, 
 
 159 
 Broomehope, 375, 37571 
 Broomley, 87, 95, 95/) 
 Broompark, 373 
 Broomshields, 54. 66, 73 
 Broomyholme, 258* 
 Bromley, Rob., 11, 20, 24, 25* 
 
 Brough, 267, 309/)*, 335; Hall, 206//, 
 
 266/)*, 281/), 34S/) 
 Browell, Gilb., 93 
 Brown, Browne, Anth., 372; Cuth., 
 
 372; Dorothy, llO/i; Ellinor, 38; 
 
 Jno. ,30,372; Jno., sen. ,372; Martha, 
 
 235/), 236*; Mr., 234; Rich., 236*; 
 
 Sir Rich., 110/); Tho., 125, 135, 
 
 257; Widow, 17; Walter, 372; 
 
 Wm., vi, 4, 27 
 Brownell, Jno., 160, 223, 371, 372 
 Brownerigg, Dr., 108 
 Brownfield, 208 
 Broxfield (see Brocksfield) 
 Bruntoft, 2*, 3 
 Brunton, xiin, 203/1, 322/), 
 Bryan. Lord, 17, 24 
 Bryan's Leap, 232, 233// 
 Bryerton (see Briarton) 
 Buchanan, David, 89 
 Buck, Elizth., 110/); Mr. Geo., 30; 
 
 Jno., 7, 60, 61/), 110/), 13 7*, 227, 
 
 228 
 Buckle, Rob., 30 
 Buckton, 70, 221, 222, 223* 
 Buddie, Geo., 372; Jno., 372 
 Bulbecke, 109 
 Bulkley, Stephen, 107?) 
 Bullasee, Tho., 4, 24 
 Bullock, Mrs., 229; Tho., 19, 20, 21, 
 
 60, 6l7i, 137*, 137/); Mr. Tho., 30 
 Bulmer, 79, 293, 368* 
 Bulmer, Anth., xxxiii, 57, 13 7*, 
 
 137/), 220/1 ; Anth., esq., 65*, 73; 
 
 Mr. Anth., 25; Sir Bertram, 137/i*, 
 
 344/); Dorothy, 137/)*, 138; Hen., 
 
 161; Isabella, 137/); Jane, 139; 
 
 Margt., 220/), 344/); Ra., 233/); 
 
 Wm., 57, 65, 73, 137/)*, 138*, 139; 
 
 Wm., jun., 13 8* 
 Bulmer family, imjjoverishment of, 
 
 137/1 
 Burdhey, 371 
 Burdhope, 371 
 Burdon, 253; Little, 130/) 
 Burdon, Adam, 60, 61/), 138*; Rich., 
 
 25; Rob., 3, 20, 35; Rowland, 2, 
 
 7, 20*, 35 ; Mr. Rowland, 3 
 Burfoote Leazes, 257 
 Burlison, Bryan, 16; Rob., 16 
 Burn Crooks, 26 
 Burn, The, 236 
 Burne, Anth., 3 
 Burneshead, 130/), 131?) 
 Burnestou, 141 
 Burnctoft, 201*, 20l7i 
 Burnopfield Colliery, 233// 
 Burnup, Burnopp, Wm., 57, 87, 
 
 138* 
 Burradon, Burroden, etc., 301, 301/), 
 
 380
 
 420 
 
 Burrell, — , 145 h ; Geo., 381; Jane, 
 
 145?) ; Mr., 145* 
 Burroughs, Burrowes, Hugh, 396; 
 
 Rich., 398 
 Burstwick, 201/i 
 Burton, 169; Mill, 169?i 
 Burtree House, 6 
 Burwell, Tho., 18, 150, 150?i 
 Bury, Jno., 18 
 Busby, Hen., 16, 335; Rob., 74, 
 
 258*; Wm., 19 
 Butcher's Closes, 238; Field, 258 
 Buteland, xxxiii, 87, 369/!, 375*, 
 
 375h, 376* 
 Butler, Gregory, 314; Mr., 145; Mr. 
 
 Ra., 21; The, 161, 270; Wm., 41/i 
 Bvitlerage of wines, 397n 
 Butter for the garrison, 2; for the 
 
 Scots' army, 90, 90/! 
 Butter, Jno., 20 
 Butterby, 8, 21, 30, 65, 113?!, 348*, 
 
 348?i, 349/i 
 Butterwick. 5, 13, 21, 34 
 Buttery, Alice, 139/! ; Eleanor, 139/! ; 
 
 Jas., 139, 139/1*; Jno., 44, 65, 13 9*, 
 
 139/! ; Ra., 139/! ; Tho., 139/1 
 Buttsfield, East, 68, 74 
 Byerley, Anne, 139/! ; Anth., 139n, 
 
 140*, 141*, 142; Col. Anth., 139/i, 
 
 140, 140/!, 141; Chris., 132, 13 9*, 
 
 140, 141*, 142*, 146/!, 255*, 256*; 
 
 Chris., esq., 68; Mr. Chris., 14; 
 
 Clare, 142/i ; Jane, 139/1 ; Mr., 140 ; 
 
 Nich., 244; Rob., 141*, 142; Rob., 
 
 M.P., 139/i ; Wm., 57, 65, 73 
 Byerley 's bulldogs, 140/i 
 Byermoor, 232/! 
 Byers, Tho., 36 
 Bybfer, xxxiii, 182*, 182/!, 183, 265*, 
 
 265/1, 266, 266/!, 267 
 Byron, Sir Jno., 32 
 Bywell, 204*, 205, 205/1*, 224/!, 314; 
 
 St. Andrew, 224/i ; St. Peter, 95, 
 
 150, 314 
 
 Cable, loss of a, 90/i 
 
 Caistron. 376/! 
 
 Caldecotts, East, 377*; West, 377 
 
 Caldwell, Tho., 60. 61/(. 142* 
 
 Calf Close, 238, 257, 258, 375/! 
 
 Callaly, xxxiii, 155, 155/!*, 156, 157, 
 
 171, 327/! 
 Callender, Earl of, 167/i; Lord, 337* 
 Callerton, Calverton, etc.. Black, 
 
 380; Little, 194/!, 196, 197; Low 
 
 197/1 
 Calverley, Anne, 346/1 ; Barbara, 
 
 180/!, 320/1 ; Cath., .346/1; Elizth., 
 
 llO/i, 346, 346/1 ; Mr. Geo., 346; 
 
 Jno., esq., 256/!*; Sir Jno.,' llO/i, 
 
 177/), 346, 346/! ; Lady, 346; Margt., 
 177/1; Ra., ISO/i, 320/i 
 
 Cambo, 203/! 
 
 Cambois, Camboys, 400 
 
 Campbell, Sarah, 356/1 ; Sir Tho., 
 356/1 
 
 Campden House Committee, 160, 163 
 
 Candles for guards of Newcastle, 93 
 
 Cann, Cuth., 109 
 
 Canterbury, Archbishop of, 276 
 
 Capheaton, 68, 196, 209 /i, 266/i, 325/!,, I 
 347; 347/!, 348, 348/i, 350/!*, 352 L 
 
 Carey, Dame Elizth., 380; Sir Rob., 
 380 
 
 Carham, 210, 217* 
 
 Carlebury, 141/1, 142 
 
 Carletou, Carlton, 34*, 297/i 
 
 Carleton, Roger, 60, 6I/1, 65, 142 
 
 Carlisle, xvi. xvii, 118, 200, 217/!, 
 267, 288/!*, 294, 322/i 
 
 Carlisle, Earl of, 266/i 
 
 Carnaby, Anne, 145/!; Edwd., 145; 
 Ellinor, 145/1 ; Francis, xxxiii, 87, 
 14 3*, 144*; Sir Francis, 143/i ; 
 Jane, 143*, 143/!, 144, 145/i; Mrs. 
 Jane, 143/!; Kath., 145/1 ; Jno., 
 .378; Lancelot, 145/i; Mabel, 265 /i ; 
 Mr., 145; old Mrs., 145; Nich., 
 219; Ra., 145*, 145//; Reginald, 
 369 /! ; Sir Reginald, 265/i ; Rich., 
 143, 149/!, 190; Major Tho., 376/1 ; 
 Ursula, 369/1; Sir Wm., 87, 143/i, 
 275*, 277*; Sir Wm., knt., 143*, 
 144* 
 
 Carnehills, 362 
 
 Carnehouse, 372 
 
 Carpenter, Mr. Geo., 201 
 
 Carr, — , 276; Andrew, 353/1; Anne, 
 245, 245/1 ; Barbara, 365/! ; Clare, 
 142/1; Cuth., 68, 109, 142, 142/i, 
 145, 146, 365/i; Dorothy, 146/i; 
 Francis. 14 7*, 245*, 245i! ; Jas., 
 365/!; Jno., 78, 146*, 146/i, 234, 
 380*, 383/i; Capt. Jno., 368/1; Mr. 
 Jno., 105; Aid. Leonard, 167, 272; 
 Mr. Leo., 165; Ra., 147*, 278/!; 
 Rob., iv, 10, 60, 61/1, #4 8*, 148/i*, 
 149*, 297/1, 380; Capt. Rob., 352/i ; 
 Sir Rob., 149/i ; Roger, 7; Susan, 
 148/i, 383/i; Tho., 148, 148/i*, 
 216, 293*; Wm., 79, 147, 148/i, 
 149*, 149/i, 191, 383/1 
 
 Carraw Carrom, etc., xxxiii, 368*, 
 368/i* 
 
 Carrhouse, 145* 
 
 Carrington, Lord, 344/i 
 
 Carter, Bryan, 10; Margt., 129; 
 Peter, 128; Rich., 37; Wm., 346 
 
 Cartington. xxxiii, 87, lol/i, 358/!, 
 369, .369/1*, 370, 370/!*, 371, 372. 
 373/1 ; Castle, 35*^n 370?i ; Moor, 171
 
 421 
 
 Cassop, 16, 18, 19 
 
 Castle Eden, 184/1 
 
 Castle Rigg, 315 
 
 Catcherside, 203n 
 
 Catford Law, 149?! 
 
 Catterick, 131«*, 384 
 
 Catterick, Ea., 12, 33, 37. (See also 
 Katlierick) 
 
 Cattholes, 371, 372 
 
 Cattle, appraisements of, 25, 27, 28*, 
 29*; aiitliority to move, 17; sup- 
 plied to Earl of Newcastle, 227« 
 
 Causey, Cawsey, 102, 232/}, 394; 
 Park, 301*, 301/1 
 
 Cavendish, Frances, 300 ; Jane, 299, 
 300; Lady, 300; Margt., 300; Sir 
 Chas., 78*; Sir Chas., knt., 299« 
 
 Cavendish, Wm. (see Newcastle, Earl 
 of) 
 
 Cawston, Jno., 32 
 
 Cent Close, 257 
 
 Certificate of good service to Parlia- 
 ment, 24l7i 
 
 Chambers, Capt., 337*; Roger, 379n 
 
 Chamblett of ground, 209, 209 « 
 
 Chapel Garth, 273 
 
 Chapman, Jno., 19, 154, 161; Phillis, 
 190; Rob., 12, 21, 32, 33, 15 0*; 
 Tho.,3, 11, 12; Wm.,25, 37, 60,61/i., 
 150*, 161, 190 
 
 Chappelow, Chappyloe, Edmd, 6, 30* 
 
 Charlton, 151?; ; North, 146, 147, 248, 
 249, 250* 
 
 Charlton, Christian, 152; Edwd., 
 xxxiii, 15 0*, 151*, 151?!, 152*; 
 Edwd., esq., 153; Sir Edwd., 151/i, 
 153*, 370«*; Elizth., 151/;; Jno., 
 152; Kath., 151; Mabel, 153; 
 Margt., 152*; Mary, 151/!, 370/i : 
 Dame Mary, 370/* ; Mary, Lady, 
 153; Matt., 150, 151*, 152*; Roger, 
 151*, 152*; Wm., 150, 151*^, 151/i, 
 152*, 153*, 376, 382//, 383/; ; Wm., 
 sen., 151 
 Charles I. and parliament, xi; at 
 Bishop Auckland, 47/; ; gift of 
 2,000Z to, 166, 272; grant by, 59; 
 hatred of tobacco, 47 /( ; in New- 
 castle, xxiii, 101/i ; letter from, 
 91; loans to, 118, 140*, 227, 349; 
 petition to, 271 
 Charles Stuart (Chas. II.) declaration 
 
 from, 75; letter from, 118/( 
 Chatton, 156, 352, 353* 
 Chaytor, Chator, etc.. Agues, 268/;; 
 Anne, 153/(, 260; Hieronyma, 348/(, 
 Margt., 113/;; Nich., 153*, 153/?, 
 158/1, 260; Nich., esq., 60, 61//; 
 Mr. Nich., 30; Roger, 191; Tho.. 
 113/i, 348/(: Widow, 65; Sir Wm., 
 153/i, 268// 
 
 Cheate (see Clievet) 
 
 Cheater, Edwd., 372; Geo., 372; 
 
 Jno., 372 
 Cheese for Scots' army, 90, 90n 
 Cheeseburn Grange, 183n 
 Cheeseman, Francis, 362 
 Chester, battle of, 130 
 Chester-le-Street, 66, 74, 120n, 232, 
 233/i, 234*, 240, 242/i 258*, 292*, 
 293, 294*, 309// 
 Chester Deanery, 294; Mill, 293, 294; 
 
 Ward, 41, 49 
 Chesterfield, 12, 17 
 Chesterwood, 323?/ 
 Chevet, Cheate, 322, 323//, 372/1 
 Cheswick, 70, 223, 369 
 Cheviots, The, 237// 
 Chibburne, 381 
 Chigwell, 315// 
 Chillingham, xxxi, 198//, 215//*, 216, 
 
 220/(, 306// 
 Chilton, 229; Great, 224//, 229*, 340; 
 
 Little, 340 
 Chilton, Chris., 34; Tho., 26, 279; 
 
 Wm., 25 
 Chipchase, 204, 329, 348//, 358//, 374 
 Chipchase, Jno., 4, 4// ; Jno., jun., 
 24; Rob., 8; Tho., sen., 24; Wm., 
 15. 
 Chirton, xxxiii, 190, 316*, 316//*, 
 317*; Colliery, 316, 317; Middle, 
 .317* 
 Chollerton, 356//, 378//, 381*, 382 
 Cholmley, — , 376/;; Adeline, 153/(, 
 154//; Jas., 153*, 153//, 154//*, 
 161, 244, 328; Mr. Jas., 266//*; Sir 
 Hen., 154; Sir Hugh, 153//, 275 
 Cliolmondeley, Lord, 91 
 Chopridon Colliery, 165 
 Chopwell, 60, 120//*, 184*, 348?/ 357, 
 
 358* 
 Christofer, Rob., 3, 11, 12, 15 
 Churchyard glebe, 26 
 Chute, Jno., 191 
 Citter Bower, 33 
 Claighbrey (see Cloughbrae) 
 Clapton, Jno., 243* 
 Clare, Edwd., 89// 
 Clarewood, 145* 
 
 Clarke, Clark, etc.. Dr., 19, 46; Geo., 
 41; Geo., esq., 208; Jno., 193*, 
 328 ; Lancelot, 5, 11 ; Mrs. Mildred, 
 19; Ra., 271; Rob., 24; Tho., 60, 
 61//, 65, 155*; Wm., 130 
 Clarkson, Geo., 208 
 Clavcring, Anne, 355 ; Dame Anne, 
 57, 65, 73, 156*; Lady Anne, 15 6*; 
 Col., 43; Elizth., 156; Ellinor, 
 156*; Jane, 120/i, 156; Jas., 39, 
 93; Jas., esq., 260//*; Jno., 165*, 
 155//; Sir Jno., xxxiii, 155//*, 156*.
 
 422 
 
 355, 385, 386*; Margt., 149 h ; 
 
 Mary, 120«, 156, 327 « ; Mr., 163; 
 
 Ra., U9n*, 156*, 327/( ; Rob., 44, 
 
 120«, 155n*, 156*, 157*, 331, 351; 
 
 Tho., xxxiii, 79, 156*, 157*; Wm., 
 
 156 
 Claxton, Anne, 269« ; Jno., esq., 11; 
 
 Mr., 5, 21, 27; Tho., 124; Wm., 
 
 269/1 
 Clay Flat, 235 
 Cleatham, 38* 
 Cleatlam, 124h, 251 
 Cleveland, 126/i, 225 
 Clews, 153 
 Cliff, 7, 74, 175n, 361, 363, 377, 399, 
 
 399/( 
 Clifford, Elizth., 365;i ; Hen., Lord, 
 
 365/1 ; Hugh, Lord, 344/i 
 Clifton, 371, 372 
 Clifton, Wm., 27 
 Clopton, Alice, 212n 
 Close, The, 2*, 12, 13 
 Close End, 27 
 
 Cloughbrae, Claighbrey, 371, 372 
 Clowcroft, 126, 126/?*, 127 
 Coal, assessment, 273, 274; cost of 
 
 carriage, 164 ; destroyed, 319/! ; 
 
 export limited, 263 ; prices, xv, xx, 
 
 263, 271; quarry of, 183; seized, 
 
 xix, 163, 319/( ; trade of Blyth, 
 
 xiv, xvi ; Newcastle, xiv, xvi ; 
 
 Sunderland, xiv, xvi 
 Coal seams, Benwell Main, 350 ; Five 
 
 Quarter, 393; Half Yard, 389; 
 
 Nine Quarter, 393 ; Three Quarter, 
 
 350, 389 
 Coastley, 315 
 Coathouse, 174/i 
 Coatham Mundeville, 43//, 255// 
 Coats; Rich., 27 
 Coatsworth, Cotesworth, Coatsfurth, 
 
 etc., Cuth., 88/1 ; Mich.', 88; Mr., 
 
 33*, 225; Ra., xxxiii, 13, 14*, 15, 
 
 17, 22, 57, 65, 158*, 158//*, 225, 
 
 227, 260, 389; Mr. Ra., 14, 28; 
 
 Rob., 28; Widow, 28; Wm. 158//., 
 
 260 
 Cock, Cocks, etc., Anne, 180?! ; 
 
 Garrett, 159//; Geo., 158*, Capt. 
 
 Geo., 158//, 159//; Jno. 255; Mr., 
 
 210; Ra., 109, 180// 
 Cockbum, Jno., 236/!, 315/1 
 Cocken, 26, 147*, 147/i, 245, 245/1 
 Cockermoiitli, 112 
 Cockfield, 130/!, 131, 132, 257 
 Cockin, Sir Chas., 8* 
 Cockley, 94, 191* 
 Cockley Park Tower, 301 
 Cockside House, 345 
 Cockson, Cookeson, etc., Ann, 57; 
 
 Anth., 159, 159/1; Chas., 159/i; 
 
 Dorothy 159*; Geo., 159/( ; 
 Xpofer, 65 
 
 Cocquet fees, 90 
 
 Colby, Rob., 396 
 
 Coldcoats, 194/! 
 
 Cold Hesleden, 9, 32, 263 
 
 Coldtown, 371, 372 
 
 Coldpike Hill, Colepighell, etc., 65, 
 73 159* 159/! 
 
 Cole' Jas.,'l54, 160*, 161, 161/i, 162*, 
 162/!*, 164/!; Mr. Jas., 37; Mr., 
 21; Nich., 163/!*, 272; Sir Nich., 
 64, 68; 163, 164/!, 271; Sir Nich., 
 bart., 160, 16 2*; Ra., 20*, 91, 
 104, 160, 160/!, 161, 162*, 162/!, 
 163*, 163/!, 164, 164/!*, 166, 166/!, 
 168, 269, 271*, 329, 331*; Ra., 
 esq., 20 ; Mr. Ra., xxiii*, 20 ; Tho., 
 26 
 
 Cole, rise and decay of the family, 
 163/1 
 
 Coleburne Colliery, 316 
 
 Coleman, Mich., 400 
 
 Colledge, Tho., 10 
 
 Collieries, etc., at Amble, 206, 208; 
 Benwell, 193, 194, 350, 351*; 
 Blackbourne, 164, 165, 283 ; Burn- 
 opfield, 233/!; Cliirton, 316, 317; 
 Chopridon, 165; Coleburne, 316; 
 Crawcrook, 102*; Crook, 233; 
 Denton, 102, 192, 193*; Fenham, 
 321; Gateshead, 246, 319, 319/!, 
 320 ; Gateshead in Jarrow, 165 ; 
 Haltwhistle 250; Harraton, 158, 
 254/!, 275/!, 277, 278, 280, 288/!, 
 388, 389*. 390/j*, 391/i, 392, 393, 
 395*, 396*; Hodgson's field, 163; 
 Jesmond, 154 ; Kippier, 102 ; 
 Lambton, 279*, 395; Ovington, 
 372; Plessy, 134; Ravenshelme, 
 273, 274/!; Ryton, 181, 284; Scre- 
 merston, 206; Sugley, 102; Sun- 
 derland, 263; Whickham, 102, 
 136/!, 163; Wilson's field, 165; 
 Winlaton, 102, 103//, 287* 
 
 Colliery engines broken, 319?! 
 
 Colling, Collin, Jno., 14, 14*; Ra., 
 20. 
 
 Collingwood, Agnes, 173 ; Alex., 331 ; 
 Anne, 399/i ; Barbara, 173; Bene- 
 dict, 169//; Cuth., xxxiii, 57, 87, 
 16 8, 168/!*, 170*, 327/!, 328, 
 329, 331, 399, Cuth., esq., 65, 
 169; Sir Cuth., 126/!, 168/?*; Sir 
 Cuth., bart., 145/!; Dan., 172/!*, 
 173/!*; Dorothy, 126//, 146/!, 168/! ; 
 Eleanor 170 173//; Gawyn, 316; 
 Geo., 35, 170*, 327//, 328, 363, 399, 
 399/! ; Mr. Geo., sen., 9, 10 ; Isabel, 
 170; Jane, 170, 399/!; Jno., 173/?, 
 373 ; Hen., 146 ; Kath., 145/!, 172/1 ;
 
 423 
 
 Martin, 87; Mich., 363; Mr., 10*, 
 32* ; Norman 173h ; Olive, 168« ; 
 Rebecca, 327/;*; Eob., 10, 24 31, 
 127, 170*, 172/i, 176, 325*, 327*, 
 328; Rob., esq., 169« ; Rob., jnn., 
 126; Sir Rob., xviin, 171, 172/;*, 
 173/( ; Sir Rob., knt., 171* ; Roger, 
 170; Tho., 10, 223*, 224; Tre- 
 vanion, 170; Truemau, 10; Wm., 
 18, 44, 65, 156, 17 2*, .330, .331*, 
 392 
 
 Collingwood's lands, 272, 273 
 
 Colson, Coleson, Nich., 248; Steph., 
 65; Tho., 14 
 
 Colston, Edwd., 277, 3.30; Mr., 173/;,; 
 Rich., 36; Wm., iv, 173*, 173n 
 
 Colt Cragg, 381, 383« 
 
 Colt Park, 376«, 377* 
 
 Colvill, Phil., 174* 
 
 Colwell, xxxiii, 368«*, 381*, 382, 
 382n, 383»*; Hall, 383/i 
 
 Committees, jiassim; Advance of 
 Money, xxx, xxxiii, 71?! ; Com- 
 pounding, xvii, xxiv-xxvii, 40n, 
 89 ; King's Revenue, xiii, 213/i* ; 
 Northern Affairs, xxvii, 89, 213«. ; 
 Removing obstructions, 70; Se- 
 questrations, xiii, xxxiv ; Sub- 
 scriptions, xiii ; Union of, xxx. 
 (See also County Committees) 
 
 Common land at Lanchester, value 
 of, 243 
 
 Common pasture, 207 
 
 Composition for life and safety, 163 
 
 Compounders, 2Ja.?.--!»i, ; lists of, 44, 
 45, 56, 57, 58, 60, 61, 61/i, 65-68, 
 73, 74, 78, 79, 87; pressure upon, 
 40, 43, 45-48, 51, 53, 55, 59, 60, 62, 
 70, 72, 76, 82, 83, 86 
 
 Compounding, regulations for, xx- 
 xxxiv, 41/1 
 
 Commonwealth, declaration of 
 fidelity to, 260« 
 
 Comyn, Martin, 17; Mary, 38 
 
 Coney Garth, 26, 295, 296; Warren, 
 107, 207, 208* 
 
 Coniscliffe, 70, 123h, 182, 251*, 253; 
 High, 74; Low, 227; Lower, 251; 
 Nether, 53 ; Over, 53, 67 ; Upper, 
 251 
 
 Consett prebend, 243*, 243n 
 
 Consett, Aid. Chris., 184/!; Frances, 
 184?i 
 
 Constable's Batt, 295 
 
 Controller of the Navy, 285ji 
 
 Conyers, Coniers, etc, — , 259?i; 
 Alice, 106*, 106/1*, 177 ; Ann, 175n; 
 Cath., 37, 175;); Cicely, 174/); 
 Cuth., 11*, 15, 37, 175, 175?) ; Col. 
 Cuth., 5*, 11, 12*, 13, 227; Mr. 
 Cuth., 3.3*; Edwd., 79, 174*, 
 
 174/); Elizth., 155/); EUinor, 11*, 
 
 57, 281/); Mrs. Ellinor, 12, 37; 
 
 Jane, 174/i ; Jno., 57, 65, 73, 106*, 
 
 106/), 17 5, 176; Sir Jno., 68, 117/), 
 
 176*, 176/), 177; Sir Jno., knt., 
 
 319/); Kath., xxxiii, 57, 65, 73, 
 
 175; Mrs. Kath., 12*, 13*; Lady, 
 
 12*, 57; Margt., 175?). 177/); 
 
 Mary, 174/)* ; Dame Mary, 65, 73 ; 
 
 Lady Mary, 33, 37; Mr., 15, 33, 
 
 225; Mrs. 12, 106; Ra., 281/i; Sir 
 
 Ra., 11*, 12, 33, 37, 175, 175/),; 
 
 Rob. 174/), .390, .390/); Tho., 44, 
 
 65, 177*, 177/)*; Thomisin, 174)); 
 
 Wm., 175*, 177/) 
 Conyers, impoverishment of the 
 
 family, 176/i 
 Cookeson (see Cockson) 
 Cooper, Jno., 335 
 Cooping and gauging oil, 89/i 
 Copes, etc., abstracted from Durham 
 
 Cathedral, 42, 62; from Mrs. 
 
 Wray, 392/), 
 Coplaw, 179 
 Copley, Col., 102 
 
 Coquet, The, 143/), 144, .358/), 385/i 
 Coquetdale, 143/) 
 Coquet Head, 144 
 Corby, 66, 326/i 
 Corbridge, 114/i, 145/i, 314*, 315, 
 
 378/1 
 Corkenhaugh, 296 
 Corker, Rich., 24 
 Corn, cheapness of (1654), 72 
 Corner, Jas., 25; Matt., 25; Tho. 
 
 341 
 Cornewell Field, 26 
 Cornfield, The, 186 
 Cornforth, Cornefoorth, etc., 8*, 27, 
 
 33*, 45, 68, 211*, 211/), 252, 2d2ii*, 
 
 339/),, 385*, 385/1 
 Cornhill, 44, 105, 105?), 106*, 352/i*, 
 
 353*; Mill, 106 
 Cornsay, 3.54/)* 
 Correspondence of Durham Cou. 
 
 Com., 39-75 
 Correspondence of Northd. Cou. 
 
 Com., 76-88 
 Coroner of Darlington Ward, llO/i 
 Corsenside, 151/), 371, 372 
 Cosin, Bishop, 95/), 334?i ; Dr., 22, 
 
 96?)*, 327?), 3.34; Frances, 334 ?i ; 
 
 Jno., xix; Dr. Jno., 2, 22, 38, 56, 
 
 65 
 CotesAvorth (see Coatsworth) 
 Cothill, 151 
 Cottenshope. 371, 372 
 Cotton, Sir Tho., bart., 251 
 Coulson, Geo., .300; Jno., 34; Mrs., 
 
 Margt., 173/).; Stephen, 114; Wm.. 
 
 154/1
 
 424 
 
 County certificates, required, xxi ; 
 
 withdrawn xxin 
 County Committees, appointed, 
 xiii., fined 20/., 48, 81; dismissed, 
 xxxiv, 41, 71; pressed for money, 
 xxiv-xxxi, 39-84; reorganised, 
 xxix, 41 « 
 County Palatine, representation of, 
 
 40// 
 Coupland, 79, 92, 347* 
 Covenant (see National League and 
 
 Solemn League) 
 Coveshouses, 60, 107* 
 Cowburne, And., 383«* 
 Cowclose, 31*, 32, 36, 257, 396 
 Cowdell, Eich., 126« 
 Cowen, Mr. Jos., M.P., 356«* 
 Cowledge Park, 306/( 
 Cowlin, Cowling, Simon, 5, 13, 34; 
 
 Wni., 12*, 32*, 33* 
 Cow grass, 10* ; pasture, 26, 207 
 Cowpen, Cowpon, 3, 5, 123?i, 215*, 
 
 216, 220«* 
 Cowper, Earl, 120/) 
 Cowton, Long, 330h, 331. 
 Coxlioe, Coxoe, 15, 17, 18, 61, 106/i, 
 
 259*, 259 /i 
 Coxon, Anne, 65 ; Archbold, 153 ; 
 Dorothv, 73; Geo., 372; Gerard, 
 383n; Matt., 372 
 Coy (see Decoy) 
 Crabtree Banks, 37 
 Cradock, Craddocke, etc., Jas., 142; 
 Jno., 136; Jos., 42, 68, 124, 178*, 
 237; Mr. Jos., 64; Sir Jos., knt., 
 124?!,; Margery, 237'n 
 Cragg, 372 
 Craggs, Jas., 340, 341 
 Craghead, 186 
 Cragsheeles, 153, 372 
 Crake Hill. High, 257 
 Cramlingtou, 153*, 153/1, 154, 154n, 
 178n, 266, 26Qn*, 267, 328; East, 
 267; Mill, 154 
 Cramlington, Jno., 178//; Rob. 
 
 xxxiii, 178*, 178n* 
 Crane, Margt., 149» ; Nich., 149// 
 Craster, 77/;, 210 
 Craster, Edmd., 77//, 361?/; Isabella, 
 
 77n; Geo., 350 
 Craven, Lord, 373//* 
 Crawcrook, 102*; Colliery, 102* 
 Crawhall, Crayhall, 79, 149*, U9n* 
 Craw Orchard, 21 
 Craw Sheel, 151?t 
 Craw, Geo., 34 
 
 Cresheld, Eich., 197; Tho., 197 
 Cresswell, 208*, 215 
 Crewe, Bishop, 48// 
 Crisp, And.. 92 
 Crockhill, 151 
 
 Croft, 6, 153n, 268;/* 
 
 Croft, Mary, 131// ; Eoger, 131n 
 
 Crofts Meadow, 19 
 
 Crofts, The, 19. 31 
 
 Croglin, Crogland, 161, 188, 248*, 
 248n, 250 « 
 
 Cromwell, Oliver, address to, 48/i ; 
 ajDpeal to, 391// ; dissolves C.C. 
 and Long Parlt., xxxiii; Durham 
 college, 288// ; entertained at 
 Eglingliam, 77//, at Newcastle, iv; 
 his forces in the North, 200 ; order 
 of protection from, 360//*; secre- 
 tary to, xxxiii;;. (See also Pro- 
 tector.) 
 
 Crook, 177, 233, 234, 235; Colliery, 
 233 
 
 Crookbank, 323;/ 
 
 Crookden, xxxiii, 87, 371, 372 
 
 Crookhall, 65, 109*, 109// 
 
 Crookham, 383;/* 
 
 Crookhouse, 304, 347 
 
 Crookhouses, 353 
 
 Crooks, Old, 27 
 
 Crosby, Brass, 136//; Bryan, 35; 
 Hercules, 136//; Jas., 340; Mary, 
 136;/ 
 
 Crouch, Dorothy, 328, 329; Gilb., 
 xxxiii;/, 107, 137, 156, 187, 191, 
 192, 194*, 197*, 202, 203, 209, 227*, 
 320*, 321, 325, 327*, 328*, 329*, 
 330, 331*, 356, 364, 381*, 382*, 382n, 
 396* 
 
 Crow, Edwd., 80, 350 
 
 Croxdale, 8*, 13, 21, 31, 61, 201, 311;/, 
 326, 327*, 327;/ 
 
 Cumberland, 50, 88*, 89;/, 113, 129, 
 198, 240, 248, 248//, 251//, 288n*, 
 297, 314, 315, 326*, 350/i 
 
 Cunningham, Mr. Geo., 20. 
 
 Cunney Close, 257 
 
 Cunny Garth, 31 
 
 Cups for Staiudrop church, 198n 
 
 Curlew, Matt., 209 
 
 Cvirry, Currye, etc.. Matt., 72, 377; 
 Wm., 103//, 104 
 
 Curtis, Curteis, Mary, 236;/; Rich., 
 236, 236;/ 
 
 Curwen, Sir Hen., 369;/, 380; Sir 
 Hen., knt., 118// ; Jane, 261;i, 
 Martha, 118;/*; Mary, 369;/; Sir 
 Nich., 261//; Mr. Tho., 103. 
 
 Cuthbert, Wm., 178// 
 
 Cutter Bower, 32 
 
 D 
 
 Daborne, Capt., 84 
 Dainty, Mr., 236 ,. / '^ y ?« 
 Dalden, xxxiii, 9* 10*, 31„35, 126n* 
 168, 168//, 170r 327;/^ 329, 399; 399n; ''' 
 Hermitage, 170 ;^"Tower, 327n "^
 
 425 
 
 Dalden, Maud de, 126r< ; Rob. de, 
 126h 
 
 Dale, Daile, etc., Anth., 7; Geo., 9, 
 10: Ea., 235 * . .^ 
 
 Daltof^, 9* 10, 22, 77n', I88n', 241, 
 .-- 282;r-, 290, 340 "^ 
 
 Dalton field, 31 
 
 Daltoii-in-the-Dale, 9 ^ 
 
 Dalton Percy, 25, 37*, 110, llOn 
 
 Dams, The, 326 
 
 Dam Meadow, 36 
 
 Dane Meadows, 32 
 
 Darby, Mr., 100; Mrs., 174 
 
 Darcy, Sir Wm., 116«, 178*, 178?)*, 
 179*, 179«, 337 
 
 Darcy and Conyers, Lord, 178/! 
 
 Darell, Phil., 89, 89« 
 
 Darley Hen., xvi, 89*, 130, 241?), 
 336 
 
 Darnell, W. N., 3n, 212n 
 
 Darras Hall, xxxiii, 189*, 190, 195?), 
 302, 303, 303?) 
 
 Darlington, Darneton, etc., 14, 42?), 
 44, 45, 67*, 70, 72, 73*, 111, 240, 
 251, 253, 275*. 307?). 335, 339; 
 Balival family, 109?/ . 110?) ; Coroner, 
 110??; Market, 112; Tolls, 111. 112. 
 
 Darneton, Rich., 28; Rob., 252?) 
 
 Dasies Houses, 3 64 
 
 Davenant, Wni., 140* 
 
 Da-vdson, Anne, 180?) ; Sir Alex., 13*, 
 15*, 16, 31, 161, 179?). ISO?)*, 261?), 
 320?); Barbara, 180?), 320?) ; Edwd., 
 ISO?); Jno., 19. 28, 32, 376?); Jos., 
 180?); Lady, 181; Margt., 4, 180?), 
 261??; Marmaduke, 15; Mr., 14*, 
 15; Ea., 17 9*, 180*, 180??,, 181*, 
 181??; Capt. Ra., 15; Mr. Ra., 39; 
 Rich., 3, 11, 12; Rob., 372; Sam., 
 38*, 68, 17 9, 180?), 181; Tho., 34, 
 91, 179*, 180*, 180?)*, 181*, 181?)*, 
 356*, 369; Col. Tho., 7; Lieut.- 
 col. Tlio., 13*, 15*, 19, 35*; Mr. 
 Tho., 8, 39; Sir Tho., 261?) ; Wm., 
 5, 12 
 
 Dawden, Dawdon, 31*, 65, 328, 329 
 
 Dawdenhaugh, 254 
 Dawes, Geo., 90*; Sarah, 90 
 Dawson, Geo., xix, 99, 109 ; Hen., 
 xix, 99, 101, 275?) ; Tho., 166, 401; 
 Treasurer, 228, 274; Wm., xix, 99, 
 167, 272, 401* 
 Days' work of Meadow and Arable, 
 
 208 
 Deaf and Dumb applicants, 151 
 Deane, Geo., 34; Mr., 20, 21 
 Deanham (see Dcnham) 
 Deckham Hall, 294?) 
 Deckham, Elizth., 294?) 
 Decov for wild fowl, 194?) 
 Dedchant, Ea., 14 
 
 Deere Close, 207 
 Delaval, 48?) 
 
 Delaval, — , 376?); Alice, 102*, 216; 
 Barbara, ' 216 ; Dorothy, 324?) ; 
 Elizth., 216; Jno., 195?), 215; Sir 
 Jno., knt., 195?); Margt., 123??; 
 Marv, 124?); Ea., 114, 161*, 365, 
 366;"'Sir Ea., 47/1, 124?),, 181*, 181?), 
 324?); Eob., 48?), 123??; Tho. 
 xxxiv, 46, 47, 47?), 48?)*, 49*, 51*, 
 52* 53* 55*, 56, 58*, 60*, 61, 62*, 
 64, 65, 68, 69*, 70, 71, 72*, 74, 147, 
 287, 341 
 
 Delinquents, passim ; first so named, 
 xii, xii?) ; lists of, 44, 56, 57, 58, 69, 
 73, 78, 87; most notorious in co. 
 Durham, 18; refusing to com- 
 pound, 230?) ; year's receipts from, 
 56 
 
 Demurrage, -allowance for, 90 
 
 Dendy, F. W., x. (See also List of 
 Authors, etc.) 
 
 Dene Close, 207 
 
 Denham, Deanham, 218*, 220n* ; 
 Close, 32, 33 ; Farnr, 33 ; New, 218 
 
 Denham, Deneham, etc., Francis, 15, 
 33; Jno., 57, 65, 73, 182*, 182?) 
 
 Dent Hen., 182*; Jane, 101?), 182; 
 Jno., 101?) ; Kath., 182*; Margery, 
 183*; Eob., xxxiii, 182*, 183*; 
 Tho., 109, 310. 
 
 Dent's Hole, 182?), 183* 
 
 Denton, 68, 102, 188?), 192*, 193*, 
 194*, 195, 195?), 268??, 328, 364, 
 365*, 365?), 366*, 380, 397 ; Colliery, 
 102, 192, 193; East, xxxii, 87, 
 192*, 193?), 194; West, 79*, 189, 
 190*, 193?), 195 
 
 Deuwick, 134?), 383?) 
 
 Derwentwater, Earl of, 206?), 266?), 
 289?), 315 
 
 Dethicke, Maftyn, 254 
 
 Devereux, Col. Mich., 401* 
 
 Dickson, Jno. 27 
 
 Dike Nooke, 37 
 
 Dilston, xxxii, 165, 206?), 207??, 313?), 
 314, 369?/, 370, 370?/ 
 
 Dingley, Hen., 197; 
 
 Dinsdale, 4, 106*, 106?), 107, 130?), 
 227, 256?), 309*, -^09?) ;^ Over, 106 
 
 Diprige Close, 199 
 
 Disbursements in Durham and 
 Northd., 89-93 
 
 Dissington, 195?/ 
 
 Ditchburn West, 78, 146*, 146?), 
 147*, 147?) 
 
 Ditchfield. Edwd., 59 
 
 Dixon, Nidi., 191*; Eob., 19, 248 
 
 Dobbin, Ann, 14, 33 
 
 Dobson, Ann, 14; Geo., 10, 26; 
 Eich. 65
 
 426 
 
 Bodd, Anth., 153; Christobella, 
 153; David, 153; Rowland, 153 
 
 Dodgson, Dodsliou, Jno., 21, 33; 
 Nich., 17, 19, 38; Mr., 27; Ea., 
 21 
 
 Dodsworth, Aiitli., 60, 61n, 183*, 
 183*; Mr. Antli., 103; Eleanor, 
 183n ; Eob., 219*, 351 
 
 Dogstones, 207 
 
 Dogtayles, 239 
 
 Dolemaii, Philip, 6*, 30, 30h ; Mr. 
 Philip, 34 
 
 Doorkeeper to Northern Committee, 
 93 
 
 Dossie, Capt., 117, 118* 
 
 Dotland, 332*; Park, 203/i 
 
 Doughty, Mr., 14 
 
 Douglas, Jas., 295*, 296*; Jno., 
 202;; ; Oley, 202/; 
 
 Douthwaite, Jno., 224, 225 
 
 Dovecott, 174?!; Meadow Close, 174;i 
 
 Downes, Geo., 178 
 
 Dowthwaite, Jno., 227* 
 
 Draper, Dorothy, 184« ; Eleanor, 
 184«*; Hen., 39, 60, 61«, rzS, 
 184*, 184/i; Jno., 22; Susan, 
 184/1 ; Tho., 184/i ; Tim., 184?!; 
 Mr. Tim., 103 
 
 Dromonby Grange, 252, 253, 283 
 
 Drueridge, 380 
 
 Drum beating for recruits, 297/i 
 
 Drunk in Durham Cathedral, 241?! 
 
 Duddo, 65, 73, 155*, 155?!, 156*, 
 376/i* 
 
 Dudley, Ambrose, 120?? ; Jane, 120?? ; 
 Tobias, esq., 60, 61?i; Toby, 120, 
 184* 
 
 Due, Arthur, 90 
 
 Duels, Selby and Trollop, 333?i, 
 367?! ; Carr and Swinhoe, 353?i 
 
 Dugglastes, 272 
 
 Dunbar fight, 346 
 
 Dunn. Dun, etc.. Dr., 238?! ; Rich., 
 16; Rob., 1, 340; Wm., 369 
 
 Duncan, » Dunkin, etc.. Col. Sir 
 Edmd., 3; Dr., 8, 17; Eleazar, 
 42??; Dr. Eleazar, 63; Mr., 42; 
 Peter, 243* 
 
 Dunghope, 371, 372 
 
 Dunterley, 151?!, 153 
 
 Durham, ^^a-^si"???. ; Bishop's lands, 
 rents, etc., 16*, 36, 37, 58, 179*, 
 179/1; Castle, 396; Cathedral, 44*, 
 62*, 63* ; Cathedral library, ix, 42, 
 107?!, 291?! ; Chancery, 105?!, 109??; 
 Claypath, 21 ; County Committee 
 reorganised, 71, 73; Correspond- 
 ence, 39-75 ; Dean of, vi, 18, 62, 63, 
 90, 150; Dean and Chapter lands 
 sold, 70: Earls of, 392?! ; Elvet 74, 
 346; fortified, 140; Gaol, 118, 278; 
 
 Gilligate, 5, 7*, 8*, 20 ; Grammar 
 School, 343?! ; High Commission 
 Court. 241?!, 276; Hunter MSS., 
 ix ; Market Cross, 241?! ; Mayors, 
 48?!, 237?!, 240, 243*; M.P.'s, 275n, 
 354?! ; Penance for drunkenness, 
 241?!; Revenues of the See con- 
 fiscated, xiii ; St. Giles', 356?!, 
 365?! ; St. Margaret's, 30*, 125/i, 
 209; St. Mary-le-Bow, 139??; St. 
 Mary the Less, 145?; ; St. Oswald's, 
 19, 116?!, 137?!*. 247*, 254 
 
 Durham, Old, 44, 68*, 135??, 236??, 
 354* 
 
 Durham, AVm., 295 
 
 Dyall Hill, 32 
 
 Dyeing house at Haltwhistle, 250 
 
 EaglesclifiE, Egglescliff, Eggscliff, 
 etc., 3*,' 7*, 11*, 17, 22 27, 35*, 38, 
 68, 96?i, 212* 212?!, 225, 227; Mill, 
 27 
 
 Earl, 237?! 
 
 Earle, Isabel, 12, 34; Rob., 12, 34 
 
 Earsdon, 113?!, 316?i; Hills, 301* 
 
 Easington, 9*. 16*, 19, 30, 41, 115, 
 176*; 241, 335 
 
 East Appleton, 131?! 
 
 East Boldon, 233*, 234 
 
 East Brandon, 67, 347 
 
 East Buttsfield, 68, 74 
 
 East Caldecotts, 377 
 
 East Close. 172 
 
 East Cramlington, 267 
 
 East Denton, xxxii, 87, 192*, 193?i, 
 194 
 
 East Errington, 191, 192 
 
 Easter book of Alnwick, 133 
 
 Easter Ellingham, 151 
 
 Easter, Jno., 114 
 
 Easter Newbiggin, 352?! 
 
 Eastfield, 32, 234, 235, 238 
 
 Eastgate in Weardale, 187 
 
 East Gibside, 73 
 
 East Harford, 114?! 
 
 East Herrington, 26, 31, 37* 
 
 Easthorp, Mr., 335, 335n; Reuben, 
 386 
 
 East Jamleazes, 225 
 
 East Lilburn, 315?!, 316 
 
 Eastmaines, 362 
 
 East Matfen, 202?!, 203?i 
 
 East Morton, 4, 14 
 
 East Murton, 21 
 
 East Newbiggin, 7, 19, 35 
 
 Easton, 335 
 
 Easton Bassett, 239 
 
 East Orde. 95?( 
 
 East Park Pale field, 31
 
 427 
 
 East Eainton, 20, 26 
 
 East Renton, 335* 
 
 East and West Parks, 239 
 
 Eastwood, 357, 358 
 
 Eccleshill, 364«, 365/; 
 
 Eden, 209; Little, 9, 236n 
 
 Eden, Anne, 185«, 309« ; Capt., 184n, 
 
 227; Dorothy, 185n; Gascoigne, 
 25, 44, 61, 61/i, 65, 184*, 185n ; 
 
 Capt. Gascoigne, 2, 11, 12, 15, 18, 
 
 23; Isabel, 312; Jno.. 184/?, 185/i; 
 
 Rob., 13, 69, 142, 185*, 185/i 309«, 
 
 312*; Col. Rob., 184« ; Rob., esq., 
 60, 61?i; Sir Rob.. M.P., 185?i ; 
 
 Wm., 8, 27; Mr. Wm., 8, 33 
 Edene's land, 164 
 Edgehill, battle of, 277 
 Edinburgh. 81, 89* 
 Edington, 218 
 Edlingham. 348/;, 350, 351*, 399?i; 
 
 Castle, 350, 350h, 351; Mill, 350; 
 
 North demesne, 350; South 
 
 demesne, 350 
 Edwards, And., 55 
 Egglescliff (see Eaglescliff) 
 Egglestone, 66, 197, 198, 198?i 
 Eglingham, 77//*, 80/;, 92, 147, 171, 
 
 171?/, 172/1, 315/1, 316 
 Eighton, 70; Loning End, 165; 
 
 Xether, 273; Over, 272 
 Eland, Hall, 196*, 197; Little, 196 
 Ellebrig, 297/i 
 Ellerton, 118// 
 Ellingham, 151//; Easter, 151; 
 
 Nether, 153 ; Over, 153 ; Wester, 151 
 Ellington, 380, 381 
 Ellis, Rob., 56, 65; Capt. Rob., 15*, 
 
 33; Mr. Rob.. 34 
 Ellison, Jno., 10; Rob., xix, xx, 99, 
 
 109, 160. 213n, 272; Rob., M.P., 
 
 101//; Tho., 21, 23*, 241*, 241/i*, 
 
 242*. .335 
 Eliot, Margt., 152; Wm., 152 
 Elmeden (see Embleton) 
 Elsden, 208 
 
 Elstob, .34, 61, 185, 297//. 
 Elstob, Chas., 15, 33*, 61 61/i 185, 
 
 185//*; Dr. Chas., 185/? ;'Mr. Chas , 
 
 3. 22. 23, 33; Edwd., 61, 61//, 185, 
 
 185/1*; Elizth., 185?i; Jane, 1857i; 
 
 Jno., 185/?; Mr., 3; Ra., 185n*; 
 
 Wm., 185// 
 Elswick, xxxiii, 87, 97?/, 102, 113*, 
 
 148, 193, 194, 197/1, 245, 245n 
 Elsyng, Hen., 108?? 
 Elton, xxxiii, 3, 7, 22 35*, 66, 225*, 
 
 227, 229?? 
 Elvet, 74, 346 
 Xhvick, xxxiii, 2*, 11*. 20. 24, 25*, 34, 
 
 36, 37*, 67, 201, .340*; Hall, 2, 13, 
 
 332 
 
 Elwood, Ellinor, 257; Matt., 6* 
 
 Embleton, 10, 24, 33, 37*, 210, 
 344*, 344/j ; Hall, 4, 21 ; High, 24, 
 25, 137; Low, 4, 11*, 21, 34 
 
 Emerson, Anth., 7; Chris., 187; 
 Elizth., 57, 66, 73, 185*, 186*, 
 187*; Geo., 186*, 187* ; Hen., 256?? ; 
 Kath., 187*; Jno., 124, 167, 185, 
 186, 272 ; Leonard, 225, 227 ; Nich., 
 34 186; Rich., 185*, 187*; Rob., 
 xxxiii, 57, 66, 185*, 186*, 187; 
 Tho., 21, 57, 111, 126??, 
 
 Emerson's Close, 112 
 
 English, Christian, 89; Rob., 89 
 
 Epitaphs, Sir Alex. Davison 180?/; 
 Thos. Liddell, 268?? : Timothy 
 Tyzack, 289?? ; Mark Shafto, 336/i 
 
 Eppleton, 26, 27, 96??, 334*, 335 
 
 Errata, list of, iv 
 
 Eryholme, 110?/, 256??. 
 
 Ernehouse, 172 
 
 Errington, 10, 314, .325// ; East, 191, 
 192; West, 94, 190*, 191 
 
 Errington, — , 227; Adinel, 230; 
 Anth., 19. 103*. 192; Anth., sen., 
 19; Mrs. Barbara, 368; Chas., 192; 
 Col., 3'5*, 227; Cuth.. 187*, 195/?; 
 David, 79, 188*, 188//; Major 
 David, 191; Dorothy, 125/?, 194?i, 
 325??; Edwd., 152; Elizth., 381; 
 Francis, 193, 194?? ; Geo., 160, 188*, 
 188??, 189*; Capt. Geo., 188??*; 
 Gilb., 79, 190*, 194??*, 195*, 195??, 
 196, 197, .363, 377; Major Gilb., 
 188??; Hen. xxxii, 150, 153, 190*, 
 191*, 194??, 195*, 196, 325; Hen., 
 esq., 191, 380; Humph., 193*; 
 Jane, 325??; Jno., xxxiii, 66* 96?/, 
 190*, 225, 325??, 368; Col. Jno., 3, 
 22; Jno., jun., 57, 229; Jno., jun., 
 esq., 7; Jno., sen., 35*, 57; Mr. 
 Jno., 35; Kath., 195; Lancelot, 
 xxxii, 87, 191, 192*, 193*, 193??, 
 194, 195??, 230*; Mabel, 187, 188*; 
 Margt., 19 2*, 194??* ; Mark, 66, 79, 
 188?/, 189*, 192*, 193*, 193//, 194*, 
 194/?, 195*, 195??, 197??; Mrs. 
 Mary, 22; Mr., 35; Nich., xxxii, 
 194?/, 195, 195/?. 196*. 197, 197?i ; 
 Ra., 193, 194, 195, 195/?. 196, 382??; 
 Ra., esq.. 286*; Rich., 17; Rob., 
 195??*; Roger, 194, 194/?, 195, 
 195??, 196; Tho., 82, 204?? 
 
 Escomb, 1.36 
 
 Esh, 31, 37, 67*, 344*, 344??, 345 
 
 Esh, Anth., 344?? ; Margt., 344n 
 
 Eshot, 383?? 
 
 Eshtrees, 371, 372 
 
 Eslington, 87, 126/?, 145??, 157, 168*, 
 169, 170, 171??, 327??, 399??; Mill, 
 169//
 
 428 
 
 Essex, Earl of, 160, 272*, 276, 334 
 Espley, 208 
 
 Estwicke, Sampson, 321; Steph., 82 
 Etal, 148*; Beriyhill, 148; New, 
 
 148*, 149*, 1497! ; Mills, 148*; Old, 
 
 148, 149*, 149h 
 Etherington, Jnc, 24, 197* 334; 
 
 Wm., 24, 197 
 Etherley, 343* 
 Etherston, Atlierston, etc., 79*, 203/i, 
 
 209*, 209h, 210*, 298 
 Eure, Cath., 175n ; Lord, 175«, 213h, 
 
 214; Margt., 252 « ; Mary, 283; 
 
 Tho., 124, 283*; Wm., 124, 283; 
 
 Lord Wm., 252?i ; Sir Wm., 283 
 Evans, — , 64 
 Evenvvood, 64, 178* 
 Everard, Elizth., 213» ; Eicli.. 2l3n 
 Ewbank, Anne, 197/i; Elizth., 197n; 
 
 Hen., A.M., 197?; ; Mary, 198n ; 
 
 Tobias, 61n ■ Toby, 197, 197?i, 
 
 198*. 198« ; Toby, esq., 66 
 Ewe Close, 257, 326* 
 Ewhurst, 354* 
 Eysdale, Dr., 320« ; Jane, 320?) 
 
 Faircliaise, Mrs., 129 
 
 Fairfax, Ann, 176; Col. Chas., 93; 
 Col., 62; Frances, 336?;; Ferdin- 
 ando, 336?;, 343 ; Lord, xv, xx, 89*, 
 141, 199, 209?;, 264, 373; Lord 
 General, 241/;; Tlio., 176; Sir 
 Tho., knt., 110?i* 
 
 Fairhaire, Mr. Jno., 8 
 
 Fairholme, 186* 
 
 Falconbridge, Lord, 118 
 
 Fallowfield, 190, 191*, 203n 
 
 Farewell, Mr., 395 
 
 Farmer, Geo., 34 
 
 Farnacres, 67*, 73, 269*, 269?? ; 
 chantry, 269, 270 
 
 Fames, The, 318?? 
 
 Farnham, Fernham, 143??*, 144; 
 Long, 112 
 
 Farnsey, 111 
 
 Farr Hnngerhill, 257 
 
 Farrer, Jno., 340 
 
 Farrow, Geo., 287; Eob., 13; Row- 
 land, 19; Tho., 25; Wm., 10 
 
 Fawcett, Jas., 199*. 199??*, 200, 
 200?? ; Jas., .jun., 199?! ; Jas., sen., 
 199??; Mr., 199?/ ; Rob., 397 
 
 Fawdon, xii?? 
 
 Fawdon Edge, 134 
 
 Fawdon, Rob.. 4, 27 
 
 Fawe-head, 186 
 
 Fawell, Edwd., 32 
 
 Fawnes, The, 350, 351*, 351?? 
 
 Fawside, 68, 74 
 
 Fawtherley, 332; High, 332; Low, 
 332 
 
 Featherstone, Geo., 3, 7, 27 
 
 Featherstouehaugli, Fetherston- 
 
 halgh, etc., Alice, 201?) ; Anne, 
 322?i; Col., 201n; Francis, 201; 
 Jane, 201??; Jno., 44, 161, 200*, 
 201, 201?*; Jno., esq., 66; Mary, 
 185??; Ra., 44, 56 66, 185?;, 201*, 
 201??, 322?;; Tho., 135?i* 
 
 Feggerhonses, 272, 273 
 
 Felkington, 304??, 305?i* 
 
 Fell, Edwd., 10; Geo.. 10 
 
 Felling, Fellin, 174??, 189*, 306, 306?;, 
 388?i 
 
 Felton, 135??, 282, 282?; 
 
 Fence, The, 31 
 
 Fence Close, 239 
 
 Fenham, 97, 98, 99, 155??, 180??, 
 318??*, 320?/ ; Colliery, 321 
 
 Fenkelloe, 36* 
 
 Fenwick, 70, 156. 203??, 221, 221??, 
 222, 223*; Closes, 208; Demesne, 
 202n ; Tower, 202?; 
 
 Fenwick, Anne, 145??; Cath., 206??, 
 207, 220?i, 224??, 266??, 348??, 368?? ; 
 Col., 42, 85* 92; Dorothy, 206?), 
 207*, 219; Edwd., 149, 216, 363, 
 364; Elizth., 85, 206??, 207*; 
 Francis, 216; Geo., xix, 76, 86*, 
 87, 146, 187*, 214??, 219, 255??, 329, 
 331*; Col. Geo., 81, 312*, 335, 393; 
 Gerard, 242?? ; Grace, 203?( ; Isabel, 
 207, 220; Isabella, 206??; Jno., 
 xxxiii, 87, 103?;, 193, 351; Lieut. - 
 col. Jno., 46; Sir Jno., 88, 191, 
 203??*, 204*, 205*, 205??, 368??, 380; 
 Sir Jno., knt., 151; Sir Jno., 
 M.P., 76, 203; Kath., 216, 217; 
 Lancelot, 201, 202*, 202??; Major, 
 92; Margt., 119??*, 204, 205??; 
 Martin, 206, 207*, 208, 219* ; Mary, 
 206??, 207, 220??, 400??; Mr., 
 86, 88; Mrs., 224??, 245??; Nich., 
 191, 192, 206, 219 ; Percival, 203?? ; 
 Ra., 207; Mr. Ra., 202?;; Randal, 
 216, 218. 220?; ; Rob., xvii, xrii??, 
 XX, xxxiii, 23, 76, 77??, 88, 91, 92, 
 117??, 2 01, 202*, 202?!*, 203??, 227, 
 228*, 229*, 241??, 297?;, 301*, 377*, 
 377?? ; Mr. Rob., 202??*, Rob., M.P., 
 172?? ; Tho., xxxiii, 94, 202*, 203; 
 Tristram, 229?? ; Wm., xxxiii, 77?;, 
 87 88, 92, 103??, 152, 166, 202?;, 
 203*, 203??, 204*, 204??*, 205*, 272, 
 350, 360, 364, 373 ; Wm., esq., 151 ; 
 Wm., jnn., 204; Wm., sen., 203; 
 Sir Wm., xxxiii, 56, 66, 103??, 104, 
 119??*, 143??, 145??, 161, 202??*, 203??, 
 205*, 205?!, 206*, 207*, 208*, 220?!, 
 242?!, 246?!, 248??, 371, 388??, 400??
 
 429 
 
 Fern, Elizth., 118/i ; Jno., 98, II8/1 
 Ferryboat, South Ty"^> 315* 
 Ferryhill, Ferriehil'l, 135/!, 196, 240, 
 
 339, 339«, 340* 
 Ferrysliields, 250 
 Fetherwood, 371, 372 
 Fewler (see Fowler) 
 Fighting for the Crown, 159 /!, 217n, 
 
 385/1 
 Filpott, Jno., 26 
 Finch, Elizth., 103/;, 104 ; Peter, 
 
 3 
 Findon Hill, 232/i 
 Fines of 7,000/, 394 
 Finley, Rich., 128 
 Finster, Jno., 196, 197 
 Fishburne, 5, 11*, 12*, 13*, 14*, 19, 
 
 21, 25, 33*, 37* 
 Fishbv, Eobt., 27 
 Fisher, Francis, 269*, 270*; Mr., 17; 
 
 Susan, 270* 
 Fisheries, Amble, 208; Bvker, 183; 
 
 Cresswell, 208; By\vell,'204, 204/?, 
 
 205; Hartlepool, 1; Ovington, 
 
 372; Tees, 227; Tweed, 268 
 Fishgarth, 3* 
 Fitch, Col., 92 
 Flass, 33, 135/1 
 Flatworth, 161, 355. 355/(* 
 Fletcher, Baronet, 129; Sir Geo., 68; 
 
 Sir Hen., 128, 129* 130*; Lady 
 
 Kath., 45/1, 129; Lady, 130*; 
 
 Wm., 372 
 Floss, 257 
 Flowerpiece, 257 
 Floweryfield Quarter, 344 
 Foals, appraisement of, 28 
 Fogerfoord, 125 
 Fogg Close, 31 ; West, 33 
 Follansby, 238, 239*, 240 
 Follensby, Chris., 38 
 Forcer, Fossour, Eleanor, 159; Geo., 
 
 209//; Jane, 209//; Joan, 209//; 
 
 Jno., xxxii, 57, 208, 209, 209//; 
 
 Jno., esq., 66, 208; Lieut.-col. 
 
 Jno., 18, 19, 208/1 ; Kath., 57, 66; 
 
 Tho., 186 
 Ford (Dur.), 26, 238, 2.38//*, 239, 240, 
 
 241, 275/(, 277, 279*. 280 
 Ford (Northd.), 148, 383/!* 
 Ford Brockes. 239 
 Ford, Wm., 182 
 Foreman, Jane, 231/i 
 Form of Pardon, 411 
 Forster, Agnes, 268/;; Capt., 368//; 
 
 Grace, 203 /» ; Lady Elizth., 77; 
 
 Jane, 80 /i ; Jno., 105/(, 298; Jno., 
 
 jun., 210*; Jno., sen., 209*; Sir 
 
 Jno., 203// ; Lady, 85*, 85//*; Mr., 
 
 225; Nich., 80//; Rich., 57, 297; 
 
 Tho., 209/). 210*, 250 
 
 Foster, — , 153; Anne, 153; Arth., 
 
 368; Frances, 268; Geo., 10, 31, 
 
 161; Jno., 32, 34, 372*; Jno., jun., 
 
 79 ; Jno., sen., 79 ; Nich., 216, 268 ; 
 
 Rich., 9, 256/! ; Rich., esq., 66, 73; 
 
 Roger, 372; Tlio., 79, 153* 210; 
 
 Wm., 268* 
 Fosterfields, 112 
 Fossour (see Forcer) 
 Fowberry, 347 
 Power Closes, 257 
 Fowle, Mr., 279*; Tho., 363; Mr. 
 
 Tho., 135 
 Fowler, Fewler, Cuth., 35 ; Ra., xix, 
 
 99; Tho., 227*; Wm., .34 
 Foxholes, 302 
 Foxley, Sam., 170*, 197*, 208, 230*, 
 
 376, 388/!, 396, 399 
 Foxton, 5, 6, 12, 13, 21, 34*, 61, 185, 
 
 185r!, 310 
 Francklin, Mr. H., 341* 
 Frankland Wood, 37* 
 ' Freeborn John,' 125/i,* 
 Freeman, — , 103; Tho., 396 
 Freequarter (see Billet) 
 Freight to Newcastle, 91*; to 
 
 Sunderland, 90 
 French lockrams for Scots' armv, 
 
 90 ^ 
 
 French wine, price of, 161 
 French, Arth., 49*, 69; Grace, 69; 
 
 Mr., 54 
 Freville, Elizth., 210//, 346//; Geo., 
 
 210/1; Margt., 210//; Mary, 210//; 
 
 Mr., 5; Nich., 210*, 210//; Nich., 
 
 esq., 61, 61/! ; Rich., 346// 
 Friarside, 253 ; Over, xxxiii, 66, 
 
 232*, 232//, 233, 234 
 Frith in Stanhop Park, 186* 
 Frizell, Freisell, etc., Wm., 8, 33, 
 
 44, 57, 66, 211*, 211/1*, 212 
 Fulling mills, Alwinton, 372 ; Halt- 
 whistle, 250 
 Fulthorpe, 13*, 14, 15, 19, 35, 180 
 Fulthorpe, Chris., 39; Clem., 39*, 
 
 41, 44, 112; Col. Clem., 18; Jno., 
 
 359/!, Wm., 31 
 Fulthorpes of Tunstall, 339/! 
 Fulwell, 240 
 Furloe (permit) to travel, 129 
 
 G 
 
 Gage, Edwd., 344/i ; Margt., 344n 
 Gainford, 119//, 128, 128ji, 129* J 
 Gainsford, Rob., 87 
 Gainslaw, 295, 296 
 Gaitcs, Wm., 20 
 Gale. Wm., 134 
 Galley, Nich., 395, 396 
 Gallilee, Jno., 2.33
 
 430 
 
 Gallon Galon, etc., Edwd., 211n* ; 
 Jno., 211*, 211n*, 212; Justice, 
 211n; The, 211*; Wm., 211;! 
 
 Gallowhill, Galle Hill, etc., 87, 347n, 
 361, 363* 
 
 Gaola thronged, 41 
 
 Garbett, Jno., 11, 35 
 
 Gardner, Elizth., 174n ; Ra., 288n, 
 316*, 316«, 317 
 
 Garends Fields, 257* 
 
 Gareslieele, 314 
 
 Garforth, Jane, 70 
 
 Gargrave, Wm., 66, 66 
 
 Garland, Wm., 365, 366 
 
 Garmont Hall, 191 
 
 Garnett, Anth., 212h ; Capt., 212n; 
 Elizth., 27, 212; Mrs. Elizth., 27; 
 Geo., 57, 66, 73; Jno., 68, 212*, 
 256/(*, 294; Capt. Jno., 35; Mr. 
 Jno., 27; Lawrence, 212, 212/1; 
 Mary, 27, 212, 212« ; Mr., 212?i*; 
 Tho., 212; Wm., 27, 35 
 
 Garret, Margerie, 401 
 
 Garrison Meadows, 295, 296 
 
 Garths, 124 ; High, 31, 32, 33 ; Long, 
 33 ; Low, 32 
 
 Garth, Jno., 61, 61/,, 128*, 213*; 
 Tho., 69; Wm., 64, 66, 310* 
 
 Gascoigne, Sir Wm., 183 ;, 
 
 Gascoyne, Mich., 364 
 
 Gatecastle in Stanhope Park, 186 
 
 Gates, Wm., 256/( 
 
 Gateshead, Gateside, etc., 36, 46h, 
 66 67 68, 70 74, 123, 155/!, 160, 
 161*, 163/,, 164, 231*, 233/,, 240, 
 248/!, 268/!, 282, 289/,*, 294*, 319, 
 319/1 320*, 321, 376?i ; Bottle bank, 
 165 ; Colliery, 165*, 319, 320*, 321 ; 
 damaged by^the Scots, 319/i ; Deck- 
 ham Hall, 294/j; epitaph, 289/1 ; 
 Field Houses, 246, 246/,*; garri- 
 son, xxvi; Mills, 165*, 319, 320*; 
 Marygate, 164; St. Edmond's, 319, 
 319/!, 320*; St. Mary's, 231/! 
 
 Gauden, Dennis, 90 
 
 Gauging and cooping oil, 89?i 
 
 Gay, Mr., 104 
 
 Geese, appraisement of, 28 
 
 Gellesficld, 136/,* 
 
 Gelson, Wm., 15, 23, 34 
 
 Gerrard, Sir Gilb., 89 
 
 Gesmond (see Jesmond) 
 
 Geslinge Mere, 257 
 
 Gibb, xVnne, 213/, ; Dame Anne, 
 213/,*; Lady Ann, 213*; Edwd., 
 213/! ; Ladv, 214 ; Frances, 213// ; 
 Hen., 213/!"; Hen., esq., 213/, ; Sir 
 Hon., 103, 125/,*. 165, 213, 213/!*, 
 214, 214/,*, 398 ; Sir Ea., knt., 213/i 
 
 Gibbrideing, 272 
 
 Gibside, 22, 37*, 65*, 73, 103«, 119, 
 
 119/!*, 120, 122*, 309/!*, 310, 357n. 
 
 396/!*; East, 73 
 Gibson Close, 257 
 Gibson, Anth., 2*; Gawen, 203, 
 
 203/!; Jno., 18; Tho., 315 
 Gilbourne, Sir Nich., 297?! 
 Giles, Elizth., 294/!.; Sir Edwd., 294/i 
 Gilling Castle, 209/, 
 Gilpin, Bernard, 42/,; Isaac, 41. 42/,, 
 
 43;,, 62*, 63*, 263, 275; Dr. Rich., 
 
 42/!, 43;/; Mr., 63 
 Girlington, Jno., 246*, 269*; Mr.. 
 
 254* 
 Girsbye, 259 
 Glarensides, 112 
 Glass, price of, xv ; works on Tyne,. 
 
 289/!, 
 Glenham, Sir Tho., 140, 385;! 
 Glororum Close, 239 
 Glover, Jno., 58 
 Glover-pasture, 112 
 Godfrey, Francis, 348n 
 Godly ministers jjrovided, xviii 
 God'spenny, 261;! 
 Goldsbrough, Jno., 30 
 Goldsmiths' Hall Committee, fMs- 
 
 sim: powers of, xvii, xx, xxi 
 Good husbands to the State, 80 
 Goodrick, Goodericke, Philip, 70, 
 
 189, 269 
 Goodwin, Rob., 241?! 
 Goodyeare, Hen., 340; Capt. Hen., 
 
 114, 115* 
 Gosforth, X, xii;!, 306/!; North and 
 
 South, 239, 306/, 
 Gospel, propagation of the, 70, 71, 
 
 72 
 Goswick, 199*, 199n*. 200//, 297/!, 
 
 352/!* 
 Gotham, 139;, 
 Gower, Agnes, 311/,, 369/,; Sir 
 
 Edwd., 311/1 ; 369/! 
 Graham, Wm., 249*, 363 
 Grandison, Wm., Lord, 341 
 Grange, Matt., 243 
 Grange Close, 32, 36; West, 164 
 Grant, Wm., 256* 
 Grassam, Margt., 34*; Rich., 34* 
 Gratuity for delivering 15,000/ to the' 
 
 Scots, 90, 90/! 
 Graunt, Wm., 132* 
 Gray (see Grey) 
 
 Gray of Wark, Lord, 100, 209, 210 
 Grayson, Geo., 41/, 
 Graystones, 13 
 
 Great Chilton, 224;,, 229*, 340 
 Great Field, 186 
 Greathani, Greetliam, 1*, 16, 19; 
 
 Hospital, 46, 46;,* 
 Great Hart, 20 
 Great Haswell, 9
 
 431 
 
 Great Lumley, 185« 
 
 Great Oxe Close, 257 
 
 Great Pasture, 234 
 
 Great Eyle, 146 
 
 Great Stainton, xxxiii, 13, 14, 15, 17, 
 22, 65*. 67, 73, 158*, 175, 226. 227, 
 234, 260, 207 
 
 Great Summer Fields, 35 
 
 Great Swinburne, 325??, 381, 383?; 
 
 Great Usworth, 238, 239, 240, 241 
 
 Great Whinney Pasture, 183* 
 
 Great Whittington, 145* 
 
 Great Winter Fields, 35 
 
 Great Yarmouth, 161 
 
 Green Greene, Edwd., 321; Isabel, 
 368; Jas., 13, 15; Mr., 8; Mrs. 
 Mary Anne Everett, ix, x; Eob. 
 368, 369; Tlio., 87, 214*, 214« 
 
 Green Chesters, 371, 372 
 
 Greencroft, xxxiii, 66*. 73, 139, 159, 
 229*, 229??, 230*, 230?? 
 
 Greene, Greenes, 32, 153, 239 
 
 Greenhaugh, 153 
 
 Greenhauglihead, 153 
 
 Greenhill, Jno., 257 
 
 Greenlaw, 156* 
 
 Greenleighton, 203?? 
 
 Greenwell, Grinwell, etc., Tlio., 54, 
 57, 66, 73, 177; Wm., 38, 57, 66, 
 73 
 
 Greenwell's lands, 272 
 
 Greenwich Hospital, 314?? 
 
 Greetham (see Greatliam) 
 
 Greggs, Mich., 401 
 
 Gregory, Elizth., Ill* 
 
 Gresham, Rich., 6 
 
 Grey, Gray, Sir Arth., 206??, 219, 
 219??, 220??*; Cath., 220??., 315??; 
 Col., 171, 2177?; Dor/)thy, 220?*, 
 399??; Dr., 78; Edwd., xxxi, 87, 
 198, 215*, 215??*, 216*, 217*, 
 217n*, 219, 220??, 315??, 325??*, 
 362*, 399??; Col. Edwd., 211, 215??, 
 220??*; Edwd., esq., 219; Sir 
 Edwd., knt., 220?? ; Elizth., 87, 
 218*, 219, 220??*, 306??, 325?;, 371; 
 Geo., 10, 39, 44, 159. 254?*, 262*, 
 262??, 263*, 277, 278*, 279, 280*, 
 311, 324, 324??, 389, 390??, 391??*, 
 392, 395*, 396; Geo., jun., 391??; 
 Mr. Geo., 26, 263*; Hen., 198??, 
 318?? ; Hillary, 399?? ; Isabel, 220?? ; 
 Isabella, 206??; Margt., 215??, 
 219*, 220, 220?), 318??, 323?? ; Dame 
 Margt., 87, 219*, 220??; Marma- 
 duke, 2^0n; Mary, 198?(, 216, 217; 
 Mr., 103??, 210, 389 ; Mrs., 174, 318 ; 
 Ea., xxxiii, 66, 74, 220*, 221*, 
 318, 391??; Sir Ra., 198??, 215?i, 
 306??, 323?? ; Sir Ea., knt., 220?)*; 
 Rich., 392; Eob., 220/?*, 221*, 301. 
 
 320; Dr. Eob., 215n; Sir Roger.. 
 
 219*, 220?? ; Susan, 254?? ; Tho.., 
 
 220??, 221 
 Greybeck, 257 
 Greyndon, 305 
 Grieve, Geo., 350 
 Grindon, Grundon, 5, 8, 13, 37*, 
 
 126??, 323??, 399; Farm, 170; 
 
 Leazes, 14, 33 
 Groatlington, 191* 
 Grubham, Eich., 35 
 Guevarra, Dorothy, 353?( ; Sir Hen., 
 
 knt., 352??; Lady, 353?? ; Mary, 156. 
 Guunerton, 203??, 205?? 
 Gurdon, Mr., 100 
 Guy. Rob., 35 
 
 Haberdashers' Hall Committee, xxx* 
 
 Hacker, Col., 346, 360?? ; Col. Francis, 
 390*, 390/?, 393, 395, 396 
 
 Hackness, 161, 323?? 
 
 Hadston, 133, 143/?, 144* 
 
 Haggerston, xxxi, 66, 143/?, 221*, 
 221/?, 223*, 245??, 295 
 
 Haggerston, Alice 221/?*, 223; Col., 
 222*; Ellen, 221?i, 223; Jane, 
 143??; Jno., 221/?; Margt., 221??. 
 223, 245??; Rob. de, 221??; Tlio., 
 103??, 104, 221/?, 223; Col. Tho., 
 esq., 221; Tho., esq., 199??, 223; 
 Sir Tho., xxxi, 57, 66, 95, 143??, 
 221, 222, 222??, 223*, 245/1 ; Wm., 
 221 
 
 Hagg Flatt, 37 
 
 Hagghouse, 209 
 
 Haiueing Ridge, 151/i 
 
 Halhill, 354?? 
 
 Hall, Alex., 372; Anne, 224/?, 229?), 
 235/?, 236; Auth., 206, 214; Cath., 
 224/?; Chris., 158*, 158/?, 2 24*, 
 224??*, 225*, 226*, 227*, 228*, 229*, 
 229/?; Chris., jun. and sen., 225*; 
 Francis, 224, 224??, 225*; Gerard. 
 208*; Isabel, 135/?; Jas., 209; 
 Jane, 185?? ; Jno., 5, 20, 22, 25, 35, 
 208, 224?), 351; Aid. Jno. 22; 
 Lodowick. 224?), 229*; Margt., 
 224/? ; Mark, 3*, 7*, 19 ; Mich., 161*, 
 372; Mr., 341; Nich., 11, 24, 25*, 
 36, 37; Nich, jun., 20; E;i., 229. 
 229?), 230*, 230?): Ea., esq., 6G, 
 73; Eob., 35; Eoger, 376??; Tho., 
 10, 24, 224, 225*, 226*, 228, 229; 
 Wm., xxxiii, 18. 24, 28. 57, 66, 
 185?). 224?), 2 2 9*, 230*, 230?), 372; 
 Mr. Xjjo., 27 
 
 Hallbaucks, 362* 
 
 Hall Dvkes, 32 
 
 Hall Garth, 30
 
 132 
 
 Halladay, Geo., 18* 
 Hallington, 208; Mill, 208 
 Halliwell, 113*, 113/(, 114;(*, 350/i, 
 
 352* 
 Hall Pasture, 32 
 Halsopp, Wra., 372 . , 
 
 Halton, 143/1 ; Castle, 369n ; Sheeles, 
 
 145* 
 Hallystone, 371, 372, 373. (See also 
 
 Holystone) ^^ 
 Halton, 145*, 145h 
 Haltwhistle, 149, 248*, 250, 250h, 
 
 323 «* ; Mill, 250 
 Hambleton, Margery, 199;( ; Sir 
 
 Eob., knt., 199?( 
 Hamilton, Clandius, 44, 46, 231*, 
 231/( ; Duke, xxviiin, 125/i, 340, 
 347, 384; Jno., 231* 
 Hamsterley Chapel, 179 
 Hangeney Banks, 207 
 Harbot [HarbottleP] Geo., 74 
 Harbottle, 195n*, 369, 369h, 370, 372, 
 
 381 
 Harbottle's lands, 272 
 Harbottle, Eliztli., 300; Geo., 66, 
 74, 232*; Capt. Hen., 171*; Eob., 
 300; Eoger, 248, 248n, 249; Tlio., 
 207 
 Harbour House, Haberhouse, etc., 
 
 xxxii, 66, 208, 209*, 209/i 
 Hardriding, 79, 322*. 322;i 
 Hardwick, 5*, 21, 32*, 36, 61, 67*, 
 
 70, 73*, 210, 210?) , 281«, 282*, 341 
 Hardwick Dean House, 32 
 Hardwick, Col., 97; Ea., 201 
 Harewood, 203n 
 Harford, East, 114/( 
 Hargobuziers, troop of, 360/( 
 Harle Little, 216, 217, 220«, 325;i ; 
 
 West, 87, 368, 368/i, 382h 
 Harley Fields, 272 
 Hamham, xxxiii, 383*, 383;;*, 384 
 Harnhous, 371 
 
 Harper, Jane, 7 ; Eoger, 254, 391 
 Harperley, 42, 63, 68, 124 
 Harraton, 10, 44, 66, 73, 124, 158, 
 254*, 254;i*, 255n, 280, 288n, 312, 
 324*, 324?i, 365h, 392;;, 396; Hall, 
 392n' 
 Harraton Collieiy (see Collieries) 
 Harrigate, Jno., 159 
 Harris, Edwd., 90 
 
 Harrison, Agnes, 232?;, 244 n ; Anne, 
 232, 233, 234*; Chris., 53; Dority, 
 161; Edwd., 166, 272; Elizth, 
 233/i ; Geo., 121*; Jane, 233;) ; Jno., 
 4, 5, 7. 12, 27, 61, 61«, 232*, 
 233;i*, 244;;; Jos., 340; Mr., 4; 
 Mrs., 244;; ; Phillis, 333; Ea., 233, 
 233;**, 234*; Eich., xxxiii, 22, 30, 
 56, 66, 23 2* 233*, 2.33;i, 234*; 
 
 Eob., 25. 92, 233; Mr. Eob., 178*; 
 Eowland, 22; Simon, 2*, 34; 
 Tho., 15, 17*, 161, 233, 233n*, 257, 
 333; Wm., 9, 53, 232;^* 
 Hart, 1*, 8, 11, 17, 19, llO/i* ; Great. 
 
 20 ; Mill, 1 ; North, 1 ,JJ^ l\ 
 
 Hart, Jno., 32; Wm., 24 z''"}^-^ 
 
 Hartburn, Hartborne, etc^ 158,; 
 205;), 208, 218, 224*, 224;i^ 225*/ 
 227, 377; West. 15, 224, 228 
 Hartburn, Hartborne, etc.. Capt., 
 22; Dorothy, 57, 66, 234*, 235*; 
 Eich., 234*, 234;), 235; Capt. 
 Eich., 25; Mr. Eich., 15*; Capt. 
 Eob., 13 
 Hartford, West, 217 
 Hartlepool, 92, 93, 183/), 240, 264; 
 
 fishing of, 1 ; Eectory, 281 
 Hartleybourne, 250 
 Hartley Wespall, 135 
 Hartside, 170 
 Harvesting expenses, 30 
 Harvey, Wm., 315;) 
 Haslehead (see Hesleyhead) 
 Haslerigg, Heselrige, etc., Arth., 
 55, 195;) ; Sir Arth., xii;), xvi, 
 xxiii, xxvii, xxix, 41/), 42, 44;i, 
 50, 51*, 64*, 76*, 78, 79, 81*, 86, 
 91, 92, 93, 100, 112*, 113*, 114*, 
 117*, 118, 142, 146*, 1587), 164;;, 
 168, 169*, 169;), 170*, 172;i, 187, 
 194, 197*, 217;), 237, 248, 253, 262, 
 265, 268, 274, 274;;, 275, 278, 288/), 
 293, 335*, 355, 390*, 390;/, 391;/*, 
 392, 393*, 394, 395, 398; Sir Arth., 
 bart., 104, 105*; Bertinus, 169/); 
 Bridget, 169; Isabella, 169?/; 
 Miles, 169; Mr. Eob., 197?i; Tho., 
 46, 385 
 Hasleside (see Hesleyside) 
 Haswell, 115, 270;) ; Great, 9 
 Hatcher, Tho., xvi 
 Hatton, Sir Chris., xxiii/i 
 Haugh, Anne, 235, 236; Mrs., 
 
 235/), 236 i 
 
 Haughton, 6*, 7, 112*; Parsonage, "J 
 
 17 : Eectory, 42;/ \ , J 
 
 Haughton le Side, 182;/ 
 Haughton le Skerne, 118;) ; 229;/ - 
 Hawdon, Cuth., 358 
 Hawick, 203/i, 218 
 Hawkes, Steph., 89// 
 Hawkesley Sheep Close, 14 
 Hawkwell, 134/), 203/) 
 Hawthorn, 32*, 263, 340 
 Hay, appraisements of, 27, 28, 29; 
 for troops, 287/), 288;i, 360/): 
 spoiled, 20, 21, 319;/ 
 Hay Close, 362 
 Hayndon (see Hindon) 
 Haydon Bridge, 315 ; Mills, 144, 315*
 
 433 
 
 Haygarth Close, 207 
 Haymaking expenses, 30 
 Headlam, 60, 64, 66, 184*, 184/i, 213* 
 Headlani, Joan, 126;; ; Wni., 126?i 
 Headshope, Hideshope, 371, 372 
 Healey, 79, 332* ; Nether, 369 
 Heath, Elizth., 291h, 354 n ; Jno., 18, 
 
 49*, 128, 236*, 236«, 354/;; Jno., 
 
 esq., 37, '64, 68; Judge, 276; Nich., 
 
 39; Sir Rob., 236/!; Tho., 291/i 
 Heathani Slacks, 257* 
 Heathpoole, 210 
 Heaton, 215*, 215??, 216 ; Mill, 203?i, 
 
 215?i, 
 Hebbnrn (Dur.), 37*, 66, 73, 209/!, 
 
 221/!, 242?!, 245*, 265/i, 327?!, 367?! ; 
 
 North, 245 
 Hebburn (Northd.), 237*, 300*; Mill, 
 
 237/1 
 Hebburn, Ea., 237*; Col. Ra., esq., 
 
 237* 
 Heckley, 134/! ; Grange, 133 
 Heddon-on-the-Wall, 325 v 
 Heddon, Geo., 13, 25 
 Hedley, Hidley, Anth., 372; Chris., 
 
 120/i; Elizth., 242?i; Dan., 372; 
 
 Nich., 242/1 ; Percival, 372; Tho., 
 
 372 
 Hedleyhope, 252, 287. 287?i 
 Hedley Old Park, 362 
 Hedrington (see Hetherington) 
 Hedworth, — , 280 ; Anne, 57, 392/i ; 
 
 Dorothy, 324;;, 392 ; Dame Dorothy, 
 
 66, 73; Elizth., 120, 392; Isabel, 
 
 365»; Jno., 2.54?i, 312, 324*, 324/i, 
 
 389*, 390*, 391, 391?!*, 392, 392/?, 
 
 396; Sir Jno., 390/i* ; Marmaduke, 
 
 211?!*; Mary, 324/! ; Ra., 66, 294*; 
 
 Rich., 120*, 120?! ; Rob., 365/i 
 Hedworth, imjDoverishnient of the 
 
 family. 390?! 
 Hefford La we, 133 
 Heighington, 141, 210??, 365?? 
 Heighington, Cuth., 38; Geo., 19, .35, 
 
 38*; Hen., 141 
 Heighlev. Tho., 53 
 Helbeck Hall, 18 
 Heleyfield, 244 
 
 Helmsley Castle, taking of, 342 
 Hembleton Hall, 4 
 Hencotts, 94 
 Henderson, Mrs. Dorothy, 103; Jas., 
 
 215; Ra.. 10 
 Henderskelf Castle, 220 
 Heneage, Tho., 273?? ; Sir Tho., knt., 
 
 273?! 
 Henknoll, 47?(. 396/! 
 Hennigrigg, 153 
 Henrysf)n, Dr. Rob., 46/i 
 Hensey, .323?! 
 Henshaw, .323?? 
 
 Hepple, Hepwell, 301 
 
 Hepscott, 217, 220?!. 
 
 Herdiston (see Etherston) 
 
 Herdman, Wm., 30 
 
 Hereford, Earl of, 291 
 
 Hermitage, 32, 378 
 
 Heroism of Royalist lady, 47?i 
 
 Heron, Cuth., 204, 328*, 348?;, .374*; 
 
 Mr. Cuth., 103; Dorothy, 348n,; 
 
 Col. Geo., 212?!; Sir Geo., knt., 
 
 358?! ; Thomasine, 358?i 
 Heron's Close, 205?!., 208 
 Herring, Mich., 299 
 Herrington, 26, 61, 150, 240, 345*; 
 
 East, 26, 31, 37*; Middle, 26, 31, 
 
 37*; West, 26, 367 /i 
 Hesleden, Hesilden, etc., 36, 1.36;i, 
 
 263; Dene, 139??; Hall, 8. (See 
 
 also Cold Hesleden and Monk 
 
 Hesleden) 
 Heslerton, Hugh, 191 
 Heslewood, 151/? 
 
 Hesleyhead, Haslehead, 152*, 153 
 Hesleyside, Hasleside, etc., xxxiii, 
 
 150, 151?!*, 152*, 153, 382/1 ; Mill, 
 
 151 
 Hester, Jno., 64, 66 
 Hett, 252, 253 
 Hetherington, Hedrington, Wm., 
 
 54, 66; Wm., jun. and sen., 57, 73 
 Hetton, 26, 48//*; Mill, 26 
 Hetton-in-le-Hole, 31 
 Heugh Town, 202/i 
 Heworth, 74, 141, .327??, 
 Hexham, 65, 78*, 87*, 94*. 95??, 124, 
 
 125, 138, 188, 191, 192, 203/i*, 205, 
 
 255*, 265/1, 301, 314, 315, .359*, 
 
 378/!*; Mills, 203??. 
 Hexhamshire, 190, 191 
 Heyclose, 27 
 Heyinge. 26 
 Hickson (see Hixon) 
 Hide, Sir Edwd.. knt., 341 
 Highaan Dykes, 215*, 215?!, 216* 
 Higham Gobions, 262??. 
 High Birke Carr, 257 
 High Birkhead, .377* 
 High Close 19, 31, 257 
 High Coniscliffe, 74 
 High Crake Hill, 257 
 High Eiiiblcton, 24. 25, 137 
 High Fawthcrley, 332 
 Highfiold. 32 
 High fJarthes, 31, 32, 33 
 Higli House, 37 
 Highlaws, 134?! 
 
 Highways, method of repairing, 18 
 Hilclose House, 225 
 Hilcnck, Jas., 122 
 Hildvard, Chris., 247; Mr., 91 
 Hill "Farm, 315 
 
 28
 
 434 
 
 Hill, Francis, 229* 
 
 Hillliouse, 153 
 
 Hillocks, 371, 372 
 
 Hilly Closes, 208 y. , 
 
 Hilton, xxxiift 44^48/^, 64, 66, 67", 74, 
 124, 237, 238, 239*, 240*, 241 
 
 Hilton, Alice, 239; Mrs. Barbara, 
 161 ; Col., 227, 275, 276*, 277 ; Hen., 
 237/(, 238«*, 239*, 240*, 279* : Jane, 
 48;* ; Jno., xxxiii, 44, 124, 237, 237 ;i, 
 238«*, 239*, 240*, 241, 277, 
 279; John. Baron, 23 7, 279; 
 Jno., esq., 66, 74, 239; Margt., 
 238, 240, 279; Mary, 133.H ; Mr., 
 238/1 ; Eob., 237/;*, 238, 240*, 279; 
 Tho., 48« ; Tlio., Baron,' 133/i ; 
 Wm., 46 
 
 Hiltous, impoverishment of the 
 family, 238// 
 
 Hilton Wood, 239 
 
 Hindale, 256« 
 
 Hinde, Jno. Hodgson, 244 « ; Wm., 
 300 
 
 Hinderusins, Albertus, 242/; 
 
 Hindhouse, 375 
 
 Hindon, Hinedon, 131, 132*, 256, 257* 
 
 Hirdman, Wm., 1 
 
 Hither Grange, 20; Sands, 27 
 
 Hixon, Hickson, etc., Angiistine, 
 25*; Isabel, 66, 73, 241, 242*; 
 Joan, 242; Jno., 17; Margery, 242; 
 Mr.. 10. 22, 241; Eich.. 4, 196*; 
 Rich., esq., 242*; Tho., 340; Wm.. 
 241h ; Xpofer. 27 
 
 Hobson, Jno., 252; Paul, 74*, 75; 
 Lieut.-col. Paul, 391 
 
 Hodgson. Hodshon, etc., Adeline, 
 154«*; Agnes, 232// ; Albert, 57. 
 73, 88, 205. 24 2, 242/(, 243, 292*; 
 Alice, 245« ; Anne, 204, 245;;, 246*. 
 265?(; Chris., 35; Dan., 269*, 270, 
 273 ; Dorothy, 244, 367h ; Dr. 
 Eleazar, 269*; Ellinor, 244; 
 Elizth., 73, 242n, 244, 292, 293; 
 Sir Francis, knt., 245// ; Geo., 
 136//. 227, 232//. 244//, 266; Hen.. 
 61, 61//, 244*, 244//; Jno., 12. 57, 
 66, 154//*, 161, 165, 204, 243*. 
 243//, 244*, 244//, 245//, 388// ; Jno., 
 Crawford, x. (See also List of 
 Authors, etc.) Lancelot, 154//*, 
 221//; Mary, 327//, 330; Matt., 
 351; Margt., 221//; Mr., 38; Ra., 
 242// ; Rich., 242//*, 243//*, 244//*. 
 245//, 246//; Rob., 245//*, 246//. 
 265//, 327//; Sir Rob., 245*; 
 245//*, 246*. 246//. 367//; Sam., 
 244?/; Susan, 330; Tho., 212; 
 Wm., 57, 66, 87, 114, 221//, 243//*, 
 245*, 245/i, 246*, 356// ; Mr. Wm., 
 36 
 
 Hodgson's Field Colliery, 163 
 
 Hodgson Holes, 384 
 
 Hokestie, 153 
 
 Hogg, Elizth., 372; Geo., 372 
 
 Holdsworth, Jos., 247 
 
 Holemires, 66, 74, 232*, 232r/* 
 
 HoUingbush, 272, 273 
 
 Hollyman, — , 277; Margt., 239; 
 
 Tho., 41//, 238, Sir Tho., 238//; 
 
 Wm., 311*, 311//, 312*, 324, 389 
 Holme, Low, 326; West, 224, 225* 
 
 227 
 Holmes, Hen., 401*; Ra., 18*, 31* 
 
 61. 61//, 246*, 246//*, 335; Tho. 
 
 193 
 Holmeshaw Mill, 381 
 Holmside, 346, 354// 
 Holt, Wm., 10 
 Holtby, Geo., 367//; Isabel, 367n : 
 
 Major, 49 
 Holyday, Rob., 36 / ,^ 
 Holv Island, 91, 92, 155, 22l 222 
 
 222//, 223*i 223/), 318//, 353^ 
 Holystone, 143//. (See also Hally 
 
 stone.) 
 Homeldon, 126, 126//*, 127 
 Hope, Wm., 26 
 Hoppen, 79, 174*, 174// 
 Hopper, Cuth., 114; Jane, 247* 
 
 Mrs. Jane, 38*, 247; Jno., 8, 19 
 
 Matt., 288//, Mr., 8; Rob., 247// 
 
 Tho., 8, 38*, 57, 66, 247*; Mr. 
 
 Tho., 8* 
 Hoppyland, 290// 
 Hopkins, the witch finder, 77//* 
 Hopton, 79, 174 , J 
 Horden, 9,176*, 177 -3==^^ 
 
 Hornby, 119//, 224; Castle, 129 
 Home, North, 341 
 Home, Edmd., 24; Jno., 31 
 Horner's Hill, 26 
 Hornesby, Jno., 10 
 Hornsteed, 323// 
 Horseboat at Neasham, 58* 
 Horse Close, 207* 
 Horseman's Batt, 295 
 Horseman Meadows, 295 
 Horse Mill in Newcastle, 97, 99* 
 Horse races suppressed, 172// 
 Horses, cost of maintenance, 360// 
 Horses' grass, 26 
 Horsley, 329 ; Long, 301, 302 
 Horsley, Hen., 55, 72, 77*, 77//*, 
 
 78, 80*, 81*, 82*, 83*, 84, 85*, 
 
 86*, 98, 194, 376, 382; Jno., 77//, 
 
 195//; Margt., 77//; Mr., 83, 139; 
 
 Rebecca, 328//, 330; Tho., .328*, 
 
 329*, 330, 331, 377, 383; Tho., sen., 
 
 361// ; Sir Tho. 330 
 Hort, Wm., 227 
 Horth, Mr. Tho., 161
 
 435 
 
 Horton, 218, 220/i 
 
 Horton, Col., 300 
 
 Hotham, Capt., 276, 278; Col., 279; 
 Isabel, 3.30n ; Sir Jno., 330«* 
 
 Hough, 345 
 
 Houglitell, 347* 
 
 Houghton, US, 20, 31, 50*, 65, 73, 172, 
 240, 247;- 260, 335*> 345 ; Little, 
 xxxiii, 323*, 323/(*; Long, 92, 
 133, 134h, 306//, 368// 
 
 Houghton Field, 158// 
 
 Houghton, Gillibert, 297// ; Sir. 
 Eich., 297// 
 
 Houghton le Spring, 10, 26*, ll5n, 
 116//, 149, 335,-335// 
 
 Houghton, Little, xxxiii, 323*, 
 323//* 
 
 Houghton Tower, 297// 
 
 Hould Meadow, 21 
 
 Hovinghani, 201 
 
 How, Tho., 372 
 
 Howard, Chas., 249, 375; Col. Clias., 
 375; Major-gen. Chas., 251; Mr. 
 Chas., 188*; Sir Chas., xxxiii, 87. 
 248*, 248// 249*, 250*; Sir Chas., 
 bart., 161; Col., 25, 252//; 
 Dorothy. 248, 248//, 249; Dame 
 Dorothy, 87; Lady Dorothy, 250*, 
 250// ; Elizth., 249, 251// ; Francis, 
 30 ; Sir Francis, 6, 30, 34*, 57, 58, 
 66, 248//, 251*, 252//, 364; Kath., 
 266// ; J., 361// ; Margt., 57, 66, 73, 
 251//, 252, 252//*, 253*; Mary, 
 248//; 251//; Lady Mary, 251*; 
 Mr., 8, 27, 28; Mrs., 16//. 33, 
 252//*; Philip, 124; Tho., 251//, 
 252*; Capt. Tho.. 248; Col. Tho., 
 252; Tho., esq.. 252//; Wm., 249, 
 250*, 250//, 251; Belted Will, 
 248//, 266// ; Lord Wm., 248, 248n, 
 249*, 250, 251//, 252, 252/;.*; Sir 
 Wm., 252//, 266// 
 
 Howards of Corby, 251// 
 
 Howdon Hill, 26* ; Panns, 289/; 
 
 Howes Close, 7 
 
 Howes Job, 109 
 
 Howick, 210, 215//, 297// 
 
 Howlincarhouse, 18 
 
 Hoyle, Mr., 100 
 
 Hubbuck. Tim., 21 
 
 Hudleston, Grace, 129 
 
 Hudson, Margt., 173; Rob., 90 
 
 Hudspeth, Wm., 315* 
 
 Hulam, 334 
 
 Hull, xii//, 89, 91, 109//, 264*, 330//, 
 , 397// 
 
 Hull, Ann, 17, 38; Elizth, 17, 38 
 
 Hulne, Abbey, 326// ; Park, 77//, 133, 
 306// 
 
 Humber river, 288// 
 
 Humble, Tho., 135// 
 
 Humfray, Tlio., 35 
 
 Humshaugh, 381 
 
 Hungerhill, Hungryhill, 132* 256*, 
 257* 
 
 Hunt, Elizth., 150*; Dr. Eich., 150, 
 150// ; Rob., 240 
 
 Hunter, Jno., 401*; Mathias, 146, 
 358 
 
 Hunter MSS. at Durham, ix, 1 
 
 Huntley, And., 61, 61//, 253; 
 Elizth., 57, 66; Nich., 89; Ea., 57, 
 66; Eich. Hodgson, 244// ; Wm., 25 
 
 Hunton Hall, 321// 
 
 Hunwick, 70 
 
 Hurd, Geo., 158, 227, 315, 377 
 
 Hurst, 68, 380 . 
 
 Hurworth, xxxiii, 4, 6*, 22, 28, 34*, v ■ 
 68, 74 105, 130, 130//, 131*, 131/i, 
 132*, 231*, 231/), 255, 256, 256//*, 
 257*, 327*, 327/i ; White, 11, 23, 
 24. 37, 67 ^ j 
 
 Husband, Augustine, 21; Jno., 3*, ' 
 
 7*, 13, 15, 18*, 19, 19*, 24*, 25*, 
 27 44. 58, 66, 234, 253*, 253//*, 
 335; Mr. Jno., 19 
 
 Hutchinson, Jno., 5, 11; Leon, 57, 
 66, 73; Peter, 340; Tho., 8, 37, 
 252//*; Wm., 16, 17, 32, 87 
 
 Hutton, 32*, 36, 129 
 
 Hutton Bushell, 323// 
 
 Hutton Henry, 32, 281 
 
 Hutton, Archbp., 346// ; Anne, 346// ; 
 Dorothy, 57, 66, 73; Jno., 132*, 
 143, 144, 301, 381 ; Ea., 124 ; Matt., 
 esq., 66; Mr. Eob., 26 
 
 Hymers, Geo., 215 
 
 Igtham, 332// 
 
 Iley, Ileys, Jno., 21, Eob., 22 
 Incendiary and Invective person, 78 
 Informers encouraged, xxvi, xxxi, 
 
 187//, 228*, 229 
 Ingdaile Closes, 257 
 Ingcs, Eob., 214 
 Ingleby, Frances, 245//; Jas., 134; 
 
 Jno., 28* 
 Inglcdew, Jno., 27 
 Inglcton, 60, 339* • 
 Ingmires, 257 
 Ingram, 170 
 
 Insurrection, Booth's, xxxiv, 75. 
 Intack, Intakes, etc., 160, 177, 257. 
 
 273 
 Inventories, Tho. Bullockc, 30 ; Ea. 
 
 Coatsworth, 28; Col. Cuth. Con- 
 
 vers, 12: Wm. Eden, 27; Chris. 
 
 Hall, 225; Ea. Holmes, 31; Mr. 
 
 Howard. 27, 28; Dr. Marshall, 31; 
 
 Dr. Navlor, 25; Geo. Eeed, 28;
 
 436 
 
 Avary Eobinson, 31;Wm. Eickaby, 
 29; Mrs. Salvin, 28; Hen. and 
 Matt. Smyth, 27; Lance Todd, 29; 
 Nieh. Todd, 31; Trollops (3), 27; 
 Mr. Swinburne, 30; Hen. Wilkin- 
 son, 28 
 
 Irby, Sir Anth., 108/t 
 
 Irchester, 210« 
 
 Islandshire, 156, 206n*, 214, 220h, 
 221?], 318, 352n 
 
 Isle, The, 10, 12, 21, 33, 36*, 354n, 
 357 
 
 I vest on, 66, 73 
 
 Jackson, 126, 127; Barnard, 2*; 
 Gabriel, 114*. 115*, 253; Mr. 
 Gamble, 178; Hen., 255; Jno., 24, 
 30, 44, 61, 61?!, 66, 127, 254*, 392; 
 Col. Jno., 390?! ; Lieut. -col. Jno., 
 iv, 2*, 10, 18, 254*, 254?? ; Mr. Jno., 
 34; Sir Jno., 254??*; Col. Sir Jno., 
 324?i; Judith, 255?? ; Lawrence, 33; 
 Leonard, 225; Mr. 126; Rich., 254; 
 Tho., 20, 30, 79, 254??, 2 5 5*, 255?!*; 
 Widow, 30; Wm., 255?? 
 
 James, Mrs. Ann, 22; Bishop, 48n*, 
 396??; Fran., 48?;*; Mr., 33; Wm., 
 56, 392?? ; Mr. Wm., 17, 22 
 
 Jamleazes, East, 225 
 
 Jamson, Rob., 34 
 
 Jarrow, 165*, 213, 213??, 214 
 
 Jarvis, Ra., 18 
 
 Jeckell, Jno., 3, 12. 15 
 
 Jefferson. Philip, 87, 255*, 255?!*; 
 Rob., 225, 227, 228;Tho., 87, 255*, 
 255?!*; Tho., jiin., 225 
 
 Jenison, Jeuyson, etc., Anne, 131??, 
 256??, 269?); Elizth., 210??, 256??, 
 269?i, 270; Hen., 131?*, 256??: Mr. 
 Hen., 6; Jas., 256??; Jane, 256?!*; 
 Jno., 141*, 142; Jno., jun., 256?i; 
 Jno., sen., 141* ; Mary, 210??, 256?! ; 
 Mr., 34, 257*; Ea., 97?? ; Ra., esq., 
 197??; Rob., 61, 61?!, 2 5 5*; Tho., 
 210?!, 256?!*; Wm., 57 66, 73, 131, 
 131?!, 132*, 255*, 255??, 256*, 
 256??*, 257, 269; Aid. Wm., 269?i 
 
 Jenison's lands, 30 
 
 Jenner, Mr., 100 
 
 Jerome, Jno., 178 
 
 Jesmond, Gesmond, etc., 102*, 133, 
 154*, 154?!*, 161*, 239, 306?i; Col- 
 liery, 154 
 
 Joblin, Jno., 118 
 
 Johnson, Anne, 57, 66, 73, 74, 2 5 8*, 
 BajDtist, 340; CajDt., 91; Geo., 31*; 
 Hamery, .35; Hen., 15, 19, 57, 66, 
 73, 166, 272; Rev. Hen., 258, 
 259*. 272: Jno., 10. 14, 18, 26, 31, 
 69, 111; Mr. Jno., 4, 5; Mich., 26, 
 
 74,258*; Mich., jiin., 258; Rich., 
 
 15, 19, 20, 35, 67, 73; Rob., 4, 14, 
 
 16, 38. 57, 67, 73, 136, 341; Aid. 
 Tho.. 235; Wm., xxxiv, 9, 87, 372 
 
 Jolly, Hen., 362 
 
 Jonson, Ben., 299?? 
 
 Jopling, Chas., 37; Jno., 74*, 75, 93 
 
 Joyce, Mr. Nich.. 26 
 
 Jurdon, Wm., 147 
 
 K 
 
 Katcherhaugh, 151 
 
 Katherick, Ra., 57. (See also Cat- 
 
 terick) 
 KeepershiiJ of Stanhope Park, 187 
 Keephill, 396 
 Keepwick, Keepick, 188??, 192; Mill, 
 
 192 
 Kell, Tho., 314 
 Kellaw, Agnes de, 209??; Wm. de, 
 
 209?! 
 Kelloe, 17, 18*, 20, 23, 31*, 66, 107, 
 
 124, 208, 209, 209??*, 367??, 
 Kellow grounds, 209 
 Kelly Quarter, 381 
 Kelsey Hill. 35 
 Kelsnnke Cothill, 151 
 Kendall, Alice, 177?i; Anth., 177?? 
 Kendrith, — , 254 
 Kennett, Dorothy, 106??; Jno., 259*, 
 
 259??; Jno., esc]., 61, 61??; Major 
 
 Jno., 18; Major, 17; Mary, 258, 
 
 259, 259??; Sam., 259??; Troath, 
 
 259??; Wm., 259?!*; Sir Wm., 106?!, 
 
 259?!, 260 
 Kenton, 157, 187??, 206, 207, 219 
 Kepier, Keepyeare, etc., 21*, 36, 68, 
 
 236?!*; Grange, 20*, 291??; Hos- 
 pital, 163?!, 164 
 KepjDey, 353 
 
 Ketton, xxxiii, 33, 68, 137*, 137?i 
 Keverston. 64, 66 
 Key, Luke, .340; Wm., 136 
 Keymers, Geo., 215 
 Keymish, Sir Clias., 91 
 Kibblesworth, 232?? 
 Kilhowe, 304?? 
 Killerby, 38* 
 Killinghall, Hen., 15S?! ; Jno., 158?!, 
 
 260*; Jno., esq., 61, 61??,; Mr. 
 
 Jno., 7, 260; Margt., 260 260??*; 
 
 Mr., .33; Tho., 20, 260??; Wm., 19 
 
 20; Mr. Wm., 14 
 Killingworth, 92 
 Killingworth, Luke, 92 
 Kilmorey, Visct., 91 
 Kiluflatt, .32 
 Kilton Lodge, 226 
 Kimmerston, 383?? 
 Kine, appraisements of, 21, 25 27, 
 
 28*, 29*
 
 437 
 
 King, Elizth., 32 
 
 King's land, 163 
 
 Kipling, Rob., 387 
 
 Kippier, Little, 102 
 
 Kirby Fleetham, 343« 
 
 Kirby Moorside, 12, 17 
 
 Kirkby, Geo., 234 ; Roger, 41?i 
 
 Kirkclose. 272 
 
 Kirkliarle, 218 
 
 Kirkhovise, Jane, 290n 
 
 Kirkley, 363, 364 
 
 Kirknewton. 79, 92, 347, 353* ; Mill, 
 
 347 
 Kirkpeere, 19 
 
 Kirkwhelpington, 205?;, 217, 351 
 Kitchin, Fran., 24: Wm., 15, 24 
 Kiopeth, Kiopey, (see Kyo) 
 Knaggs, Jno., 28 
 Knaresborough, 139«, 342 
 Knaresdale, 250 
 Knebbles Close, 199 
 Kneeling in House of Commons, 
 
 xii, 172?) , 379h, 394?i 
 Knight, Rich., 190 
 Knottingley, ISdn 
 Kyloe, 44, 220?;*, 221 «*, 318*, 318« 
 Kyo, 67, 73, 2657! 
 
 Laboiirne, Wm., 8 
 
 Lackenbie, Symon, 18, 24, 28 
 
 Laith Close, 257 
 
 Laithough, 370 
 
 Laken, Ra., 226 
 
 Lamb, Lancelot, 7, 15*, 20, 23; The, 
 28; Wm., sen., 14 
 
 Lambe-fawe, 186* 
 
 Lambert, Major-gen., 217h ; Mrs., 
 201; The, 264« 
 
 Lambton, 116/i, 119;?, 210n, 261*, 
 261«, 262, 279*, 320, 3Un, 360, 
 365n; Castle, 392/i 
 
 Lambton, Lampton, Anne, 153/;, 
 260; Cath., 261;;; Capt. lieut., 
 261;; ; Dorothy, 392;; ; Eleanor, 
 292, 293 : Elizth, 261;?, 344?; ; Jane. 
 119;;, 261;;; Joan, 119;;; Jno., 
 365;;; Helen, 365;*; Hen., 180;;, 
 2 61*, 261?;*, 262, 280, 321*, 360; 
 Hen., esq., 10; Mr. Hen., 39; 
 Lady Kath., 300; Margt., 116?;, 
 158;i, 180;;, 210;(, 260, 261;;, 292, 
 293; Ra., 26, 276*, 277, 279*, 280*, 
 280;;; 392;;*; Rob., 19, 119;); Sir 
 Tho., 210;;; Wm., 153;;, 158, 158;;*, 
 261;)*, 292, 344;; ; Auld Will, 261?;; 
 Sir Wm., 10, 49, 118, 210;;, 263*, 
 276*, 280, 334, 380 ; Sir Wm., bart., 
 138; Sir Wm., knt., 116 n , 261;;*, 
 292*, 361 
 
 Lamedon (see Lemington) 
 
 Lamesley, 165, 233;;, 268;;*, 272*, 
 273*; Mill, 273 
 
 Lamplugh, Tho., 92 
 
 Lancaster Boundies, 207 
 
 Lancaster, Mr. Hen., 128 
 
 Lanchester, 38*, 44, 70, 109, 109n, 
 154n, 230, 230;;, 234, 240, 243, 243*, 
 243?;*, 244*, 265;;, 290;; ,353,' 354?;,- 
 388;; 
 
 Lanchester Common, value of, 243 
 
 Lang Close, 258 
 
 Lang dickes, 301, 302 
 
 Langdale, Sir Marmaduke, xxviii?;, 
 118, 125n, 198, 217;;, 322«, 356;;, 
 385;;, 399;; 
 
 Langhope, 315 
 
 Langhorne, Rich., 207 
 
 Langlands, Lone, 257; Over, 257 
 
 Langlev, 114, 153, 243*, 243;;, 253, 
 254, 315*, 344;;, 375 
 
 Langley. Sir Wm., 44, 262*, 262;;* 
 263*, 264* ; Sir Wm., bart., 262 
 
 Langleydale, 44, 105* 
 
 Langley-shanke, 153 
 
 Lanton, 347* 
 
 Lartington, 65, 281?; 
 
 Lasam, Roger, 159 
 
 Lascelles, Mr., 108 
 
 Latage, 355 
 
 Latimore Flat, 234 
 
 Laton, 225 
 
 Law, Wm., 5* 
 
 Lawes, Wm., 57, 67, 73, 2 6 5* 
 
 Lawes Closes, 164 
 
 Lawfield, 238 
 
 Lawrence, Laurence, Edwd., 151; 
 Jno., 26, 31; Rob., 26; Simon, 3 
 
 Lawson, And., 371; Agnes, 130;;; 
 Anne, 131?;, 154, 245;;, 319;i ; Cath., 
 206/i, 265, 266;)*; Dorothy, 309;;; 
 Edwd., 322;; ; Ellinor, 87 ; Frances, 
 130;;, 131;;, 132; Geo., 79, 265*, 
 265;;, 300; Hen., 130?i*, 207, 227, 
 265;;*, 266, 266;), 309;), 348?; ; Hen., 
 jun., 265;; ; Sir Hen., 206;; ; Isabel, 
 348;;; Isabella, 266;;; Jas., 6*, 34, 
 130?!*, 131;;, 132, 256*; Aid. Jas., 
 130/;*, 242;;; Jane, 130;;, 265*; 
 Jno., xxxii, 74, 194;;, 258*, 265, 
 265;; 266*, 266;;*, 267*, 267?;* ; Sir 
 Jno.,' 266;;*; Kath., 266, 266/;; 
 Mabel, 265;) ; Margt., 194?;, 350?i; 
 Mary, 322/;; Mr., 30/;, 267/;*; 
 Tho., 103;), 104, 233; Wilfrid, 
 350;;; Wm., 319/) 
 
 Lawson's lands, 6 
 
 Laythhaugh, 372 
 
 Layton, 5*, 12*. 14, 32, 33*. 37*, 65, 
 73*, 175, 175/), 227. 281;) 
 
 Leadl)ittor. Tho., 87
 
 438 
 
 Leadgaite, 323/1 
 
 Leadmines at Alston, 314 
 
 Lead shipments, 89 
 
 Leafe, Geo., 158, 227 
 
 Leakehill, 153 
 
 Leaking, Eob., 227 
 
 Learn, 152, 153; Nether, 151 ?i 
 
 Learchild, xxxiii, 79, 157, 157n 
 
 Learmouth, 210, 217 
 
 Leasowes, 207 
 
 Leckhill, Lekehill, 151«, 152 
 
 Ledgard, Aid., 274« ; Mr., 353; 
 The, xix, xxvii, 99; Aid. Tlio., 82, 
 91, 92*, 93*, 336n 
 
 Lee, Edwd., 70, 71, 335 ; Lady, 345*; 
 Mary, 344 n ; Eich., 22; Sir Rich., 
 344/1 
 
 Leech, J no., 193, 298 
 
 Leeclose, 32 
 
 Leeclough, 372 
 
 Leefield, 235, 239 
 
 Leehoiises, 205/( 
 
 Lee Malyn, Mealinge, 151, 153 
 
 Leeward Islands, Governor of, 210/! 
 
 Leigh's land, 272 
 
 Leith, 83, 296 
 
 Leman, Wm., 70, 72 
 
 Lemington, Lemonden, etc., xxxiii, 
 192, 193, 194, 355*, 385*, 386*, 
 386/i, 387 
 
 Lenthall, Sir Jno., 398; Wm., 275 
 
 Lentrenside, Lenterne Clough, 371, 
 372 
 
 Lesbury, 134/i, 146* 146/i, 380 
 
 Lesley, Leslie, General, 49, 163, 
 167/! ; Sir Jas., 347 
 
 Letemer, Jno., 34 
 
 Leven, Earl of, 141, 338; Gen., 241//, 
 274 ; Lord, xix 
 
 Lever, — , 276 
 
 Leving, Capt., 267* 
 
 Levitt, Jno., D.C.L., 395; Col. Wm., 
 363, 364 
 
 Lewis Bourne, 372 
 
 Leyfields, 177 
 
 Ley ton, Rob., 126 
 
 Lian Briggs (see Lynbridge) 
 
 Librarian at Durham Cathedral, 42 
 
 License to crenellate, 221/i 
 
 Liddell, Liddle, Agnes, 268*, 268/!*; 
 Barbara, 287//; Bridget, 273//; 
 Lady Bridget, 273*; Eleanor, 
 184//: Elizth., 67, 73, 109/!, 268/!, 
 269 269/!, 270, 365//; Sir Francis, 
 79, 268*, 268/!*, 365/! ; Hen., 268//, 
 2 6 9*. 269/!, 270, 270/! ; Isabel, 
 270/! ; Jane, 268/!, 285/! ; Jno., 11; 
 Margt., 268/! ; Roger, 255/! ; Tho., 
 10*, 31, 57, 67, 109/!, 160, 161, 
 268/!*, 269*, 270*, 270/!, 271*, 285/!, 
 287/! ; Sir Tho., 18, 91, 268/i*, 269/i, 
 
 270*, 270/!, 271/!, 272, 273//*, 
 274/!, 275*, 277; Sir Tho., bart., 
 109/!, 184/!, 273*; Sir Tho., jun., 
 277; Sir Tho., sen., xxi ; Wm., 269 
 
 Lightharnesse, Jane, 351 
 
 Lighton, Tho., 9 
 
 Lilburn, East, 315/!, 316 
 
 Lilbnrn, Capt., 84 ; Geo., 18, 24, 36*, 
 39, 44*, 45, 49, 50, 118, 159//, 253/!, 
 262*, 262/!*, 263*, 264, 2 7 5*, 
 275/!*, 276, 277*, 278*, 279*, 280*, 
 334//*, 335, 336*, 391, 392*, 392/!, 
 393, 395*; Aid. Geo., 275/!; Geo., 
 esq., 36, 393; Geo., J. P., 277, 278, 
 279; Mr. Geo., 263*; Geo., M.P., 
 275/1.; Lieut.-col. Hen., 114; Major 
 Hen., 6, 7; Jno., 125/!, 391/i, 392//, 
 394/!, 395; ' Freeborn John,' 275/! ; 
 Lieut.-col., 91, 92, 213, 394; Mr., 
 19, 30, 389; Rich., 24, 39*, 41, 44, 
 45, 49, 50, 91, 92, 263*, 277, 388, 
 393/!; Rob., 75; Col. Rob. 275/i ; 
 Capt. Tho., 6, 7, 136, 340 
 
 Lilburns, the uncontrollable, 391/1 
 
 Lily Crooke Hills, 358 
 
 Lindley, Mr., 17 
 
 Lindsey, Earl of, 91 ; James, 93 
 
 Linen for Scots' Army, 90, 90/! 
 
 Lingrass, Nether and Over, 323// 
 
 Linhead, 371, 372 
 
 Linsheeles, 370, 371 
 
 Linton, 380 
 
 Lintz, Lints, 205, 242//*, 292*, 354*; 
 Hall, 73, 242* ; Upper, 242 
 
 Lisle, Talbot, 10, 57, 67, 73 
 
 Lister, Martin, 227; Tho., 241/i 
 
 List of Authors and Books, 460 
 
 Little Barrington, 77/! 
 
 Little Benton, 215, 216 
 
 Little Burdon, 130/! 
 
 Littleburn, Littleborne, 68, 177/i, 
 346*, 346/1 
 
 Little Callerton, 194//, 196, 197 
 
 Little Chilton, 340 
 
 Little Eden, 9, 236/* 
 
 Little Eland, 196 
 
 Little Harle, 216, 217, 220/!, 325/i 
 
 Little Houghton, xxxiii, 323*, 323/1* 
 
 Little Midgbarn, 321 
 
 Little Newton, 5* 
 
 Little Oxe Close, 257 
 
 Little Park, 31 
 
 Little Stainton, 7, 15, 17, 19, 35, 66, 
 67, 73 
 
 Little Swinburne, 383/i 
 
 Littlethorpe, 9 
 
 Littletown, 22* 
 
 Little Usworth, 265/! 
 
 Little Winter Fields, 35 
 
 Litster, — , 334*; Sir Jno., 6; Wm., 
 16, 335
 
 439 
 
 Xively, Mr. Edwd., 108 
 
 Livingston, Lord, 398 
 
 Xocal burdens, relief of, xxv, xxvi 
 
 Local Tribunals, xiii 
 
 Lockington, 330/i ^ 
 
 Loncksty, 151 
 
 London, passim; Campden House, 
 160; Clerkenwell, 68; Drury Lane, 
 303; Eastcheap, Little, 98; Fleet 
 prison, 394; Furnival's Inn, 160; 
 Gratious St., 98; Gray's Inn, 109, 
 123, 180, 25bn, 261, 270, 332, 
 336, 364, 365; Gra^^ s Inn Lane, 
 109, 360 ; Lambeth House, 159;* ; 
 Lond(5n Ho., 273 ; Lincoln's Inn, 83, 
 285, 320;( ; Lord Mayor, etc., xi, 
 xiv, xvi, 136h*, 237«, 240*, 356« ; 
 Mercht. Adv.. 159?? ; Newgate, 303; 
 Middle Temple, 229n, 306« ; St. 
 Andrew's, Holborn, .365; St. Dun- 
 stan's in the West, 190; St. Giles's 
 235/! ; St. Martin's, 197; St. Nicho- 
 las Olaves, Bread St., 186; St. 
 Olave's, Hart St., 286/i ; Seething 
 Lane, 286/( ; Southwark, 97, 280; 
 Southwark Compter, 109/), 159, 
 159/), 160 ; Tower, 319«, 330//, .352/), 
 394/) ; Wapping, feU 
 
 Lone Langlands, 257 
 
 Long Acres, 235, 273 
 
 Longbank, 325* 
 
 Long Benton, 120, 216 
 
 LongCowton, 330/). 331 
 
 Long Farneham, 112 
 
 Long Garths, 33 
 
 Longhorsley, 301, 302 
 
 Longisknow (see Loungesknowe) 
 
 liongridge, 67, 304*, 305*, 305/i* 
 
 Long Biding, 44. ,305* 
 
 Long Marton, 115/i 
 
 Long Newton, 20*, 46/?, 224/), 225, 
 227 
 
 Long Parliament (see Parliament) 
 
 Long Riggs, 207 
 
 LongTey, 372 
 
 Lougueville, Sir Tho., 206/1 
 
 Longwitton, 203/) 
 
 Lonanghoad, 201 
 
 Lorraine, 289// 
 
 Lorraine, Loreyne, etc., Ambrose, 
 380; Jane, 380; Tho., 98 
 
 Lords and Commons at variance, 
 xxiv, XXV 
 
 Loughgrounds, 141 
 
 Lough riggs, 370 
 
 Loungesknowe, Longisknow 371 372 
 
 Love, Capt. Tho., 155 
 
 Low Birke Carr, 257 
 
 Low Callcrton, 197/i 
 
 Low Coniseliffc, 227 
 
 Low Crake Hill, 257 
 
 Low Embleton, 4, 11*, 21, 34 
 
 Low Fawtherley, 332 
 
 Low Garthes, 32 
 
 Lowhaugh, 21*, 239 
 
 Low Highlaws, ]34/i 
 
 Low Holme, 326 
 
 Low Meadow, 2.38 
 
 Low Pasture, 234 
 
 Lowden, Lord, 111 
 
 Lower Coniscliffe, 251 
 
 Lowick. 297, 304*, 304/), 350, 351 
 
 Lucas, Sir Chas., 299?i ; Margt., 299?/. 
 
 Lucker, 174, 174/t 
 
 Ludwell, xxxiii, 66*, 73, 185*, 186*, 
 
 187* 
 Ludworth, 116, 116/) 
 Lugge Eale, 186 
 Lumley, 24, 61, 240, 262, 281, 337; 
 
 Castle, 263 ; Great, 185/) 
 Lumley, Elizth., 262/); Jno., 280, 
 
 281* ; Lady, 281 ; Lord, 1, 242, 264, 
 
 280, 280/), 281*; Lord Rich., 19; 
 
 Rich., Visct., 242, 262/), 280; 
 
 Rich., Lord Visct., 64; Wm., 10, 
 
 61, 61/), 281 
 Lumpton Hill, 320 
 Lumsdain's Anney, 295, 296 
 Lumsden, And., 342 
 Lunacy of Sir Rob. Hodgson, 246 
 Luney Rakehills, 207 
 Lunton Hill, 125 
 Lyme Kill, 21 
 Lymergreen, 151 
 Lyn, Rich., 4 
 Lynbridge, 143/), 144 
 Lynn, Jno., xxiii/) 
 
 M 
 
 Mabbot, Gilb., 192, 193, 194* 
 
 Machell, Jno., 264, 264/)* 
 
 Mackendall, Percival, 114 
 
 Maddison, Eleanor, 123/) ; Elizth., 
 183/) ; Gertrude, 365/) ; Hen., 
 123/), 167, 183/!, 272, 365/) ; Lionel, 
 39; Sir Lionel, 161; Ra., 388/i; 
 Wm., 10 
 
 Mainsforth, 8 
 
 Mainsforth, Mainchfoorth, Jno., 2; 
 Kath., 7 
 
 Mainwaring, Tho., 216*, 217* 
 
 Maior, Tho., 32; Mr. Tho., 36* 
 
 Maire, Mayre, etc., Alice, 201/) ; 
 And., 281, 282, 282/) ; Eleanor, 
 281/) ; Frances, 281/) ; Grace, 281/),; 
 Jno., 67, 73, 281/), 282/i ; Margt., 
 282/) ; Rol)., 281/)*, 282, 347; Tho., 
 67, 73. 281, 281/), 282*; Wm., 
 282/), 341. (See also Mayer.) 
 
 Maison, Mr. Marmadukc, 26; Ra., 
 14, 26 
 
 Malabar, Tho., 102, 103//
 
 440 
 
 Malam, Eicli., 1*, 19 
 
 Maland (see Maylaud) 
 
 Mallory, Jno., ^282*; Philij), 22; 
 
 Mr. Philip, 24 
 Malpas, battle of, 11, 175n 
 Maltby, Tho., 340 
 Maltkiln in North Seaton, 194 
 Maltmill at Chester le Street, 294 
 Maltoii, 12, 17, 342/! ; Old, 96«, 342« 
 Man, Edwd., xix, xx, 99, 401; Rob., 
 
 30: Sam., 108/;*; Tho., 89 
 Manby, Geo., 28 2 
 Manley, Tho., 89 
 Manor House, 38, 66, 154n, 243*, 
 
 243?!. 244, 388n 
 Mapledurham, 34Sn 
 Marke laud, 304* 
 Market days in co. Durham, 54 
 Markham, Geo., 3 ; Jno., 46* 
 Markindale, Jno., 38, 60, 61?i, 69, 
 
 252?i*. 283*; Jno., jun., 252n, 
 
 283 ; Mary, 283 
 Marley, Elizth., 119n ; Hen., 64, 67; 
 
 Sir Jno., xxxi, 117??, 148, 163?i, 
 
 188n, 271*, 283. 336. 337*, 338*, 
 
 345; Sir Jno., knt., 160. 167?i, 283*, 
 
 2837«*, 284; Sir Jno., M.P., lOln; 
 
 Eich., 119?i; Rob., 188 n ; Wm., 
 
 283?;. (See also Morley.) 
 Marley Coate Walles, 94 
 Marley Hill, 37* 
 Marrick, 65, 73, 138 
 Marrowlee, 301 
 Marsfen (see Mason) 
 Marsh, Tho., 70 
 Marshall, Cuth., 20; Dr., 31; Geo., 
 
 134, 400; Gilb., 21, 128n ; Hen., 
 
 366*, Jno., 255*, 263* 264; Rich., 
 
 37, 247*; Wm., 3 
 Marshall's Close, 112 
 Marshall Meadows, 295, 296 
 Marsham, Mr.. 89; Thos., 89n 
 Marske, 66, 177// 
 Marston Moor, battle of, 143?;. 259??, 
 
 261?!, 277, 307, 334, 370?;, 379?; 
 Martin. Geo., 19, 67; Mr. Geo., 20 
 Martindaile, Jos., 19 
 Martou, 106, 115?!, 256?; ; Long, 115/1 
 Marwood, Hen., 324 
 Mascall, Tho., 260?; 
 Mason, Marsfen, etc., 194?!, 196*, 
 
 197?; ; East Houses, 197 ; West, 
 
 xxxiii, 197 
 Mason. Capt. Jno., 266, 267; Mr. 
 
 Marmaduke, 26; Ea.. 4, 5; Rich., 
 
 4*, 37 
 Maughan, Eich., 215 
 Matfen, 201, 201?;. 202; East, 202/;, 
 
 203?;; West, 202*, 202?;*, 372; 
 
 Mills, 202?!. 
 Maudlinfield, 295, 296 
 
 Mauleverer, Col. Tho., 92, 93 
 
 Mawer, Geo., 34; Jno., 15*; Eich.,. 
 258; Tho., 14, 30 
 
 Maxton, Anne, 125?; ; Anth., 42, 
 63*,, 64, 67, 125?!, 269*, 284* ; Jane, 
 201*, 201?; ; Mr., 3*, 17 
 
 Maxwell, Anne, 124 
 
 Maydenstanhall, 243?; 
 
 Mayer, Jno., 32; Mr. Jno., 32*; 
 Tho., 57. (See also Maire.) 
 
 Mayers, Col., 390?! 
 
 Maylaud, Maland, xxxiii, 67, 292,. 
 293* 
 
 Meaborne, Ann., 67, 233*, 233?/ ; 
 Anth, 187. 233*, 233?;, 234; 
 Kath., 57, 233; Jno., 232, 233*„ 
 233//; Mr., 38 
 
 Meadow Cow Close, 257 
 
 Meadow Crooke, 235 
 
 Meadow Haugh, 239 
 
 Meadow. Eob., 351 
 
 Meadyes Close, 291 
 
 Meames, Geo., 16 
 
 Medonisley, 94 
 
 Meldon, xxxiii, 161, 205, 205//*, 
 207*, 242/;. 266/;, 347?;, 348/;, 362, 
 400?! 
 
 Melkridge, 323/; 
 
 Melson, Rich., 15 
 
 Melsonby, Rich., 19 
 
 Melton, Lady, 173 
 
 Melton Mowbray fight, 206?/, 266?! 
 
 Meunes, Dame"^ Jane, 285?!, 286; 
 Lady Jane, 102, 286?;, 287, 287n ; 
 Jno., esq., 286; Sir Jno., xxiii*, 
 xxxiii, 36, 56, 67, 74, 104, 285*, 
 285?;*, 286*, 286?;*, 287*; Sir 
 Matt., K.B., 285* 
 
 Merrington, 229?;, 340* 
 
 Merscough, 282/; 
 
 Mery, Rob., 35 
 
 Metcalfe, Agnes, 369/;; Anth., 
 289*, 290: Barbary, 67, 73; Bar- 
 bara, 290*, 290/!; Ellinor, 289, 
 290; Elizth., 289, 289/;; Geo. 289, 
 289/!, 290*; Isabell. 289; Jas., 
 290*, 369//; Mary, 289; Mr., 17, 
 290; Rebecca, 392; Rich.. 290*; 
 Mr. Rich., 289; Toby, 155; Capt. 
 Wm., 19. (See also Midcalf.) 
 
 Metham, 344/! 
 
 Metham, Cath., 344/!; Tlio., 226; 
 Sir Tlio., 344/! 
 
 Meynell, Meuall, Geo., 235*, 282/1,. 
 
 290*; Margt., 282?; ; Walter, 242 
 Mickle Deale Mouth, 257 
 Mickleton. Chris., 45*, 64, 111, 243*, 
 252?!. 290?!. 291*, 291?; ; Jas., 291; 
 Mr., 108; MSS., 107?;. 291?? 
 Midcalf, Jno.. 20; Mr., 15. (See 
 also Metcalfe.)
 
 441 
 
 Middle, The, 151?; 
 
 Middle Chirtou, 317* 
 
 Middle Field, 31, 208, 239 
 
 Middleham, 5, 8 
 
 Middle Herrington, 26, 31, 37* 
 
 Middle Marches, 77?) 
 
 Middleton, 24; Hall, 207, 207?i, 208, 
 
 349*; House, 383/i, 384; North, 
 
 205/!, 301 
 Middleton George, xsxiii, 4, 7, 19, 
 
 20, 35*, 61, 67, 260, 260n*, 311* 
 Middleton in Teesdale, 17, 61, 
 
 307 
 Middleton One Row, xxxiii, 19, 20, 
 
 65, 67, 73, 106*, 106/! 
 Middleton St. George (see Middleton 
 
 George) 
 Middleton, Elizth., 291n ; Fenwick, 
 
 135/(; Francis, 120*, 147, 335; 
 
 Geo., 61, 61n, 291*, 29l7i, 335; 
 
 Jnc, 14*, 41?i, 45, 58, 391?i; Tho., 
 
 4, 12, 14; Sir Tho., xxxiv; Wm., 
 
 384 
 Middleton Whitefield, 207 
 Midford, Barbara, 57; Elizth., 401*; 
 
 Jane, 268«, 285« ; Aid. Hen., 
 
 268n; Tho., 41, 44, 49, 50, 335; 
 
 Col. Tho., 118. (See also Mitford.) 
 Midgbarn, Little, 321 
 Midridge, 61, 140n, 141, 254*, 258; 
 
 Grange, 68, 139, 141, 255 
 Midwife, a, 202« 
 
 Milbank, Mark, 102, 161; Ra., 178 
 Milbiirne, Milboiirne, etc., 113;i, 
 
 lUn, 361, 363, 364* ; Grange, 77^1*, 
 
 80, 218; South, 113 
 Milburn, Milborne, etc.. Hen., 67, 
 
 79, 2 91*; Humph., 153; Mr., 
 
 316*; Tho., 80, 351; Wm., 351 
 Mildmay, Sir Humph., 91 
 Mileage for collecting fines, 72 
 Milfield, 79, 92, 347* 
 Milford, Ra., 401* 
 Milkhouse, farm, 199h ; grounds, 
 
 199 
 Milkridge, 323 n 
 Militia Commissioners' taxation, 
 
 55, 60 
 Mill Car, 14, 33 
 Miller, Margt., 302 
 Miller Piece, 32 
 Millett, Jane, 57 
 Mill Farm, 30 
 Millhill, 33, 323h; Field, 33; 
 
 Quarter, 344 
 Millot, Mylott, Dorothy, 67, 292, 
 
 292n; Elizth., 242 h, 292*; Jane, 
 
 67, 73, 294; Margt., 73, 294*; 
 
 Mary, 292*; Ra., xxxiii, 57, 67, 
 
 242«, 292*. 292/), 293*; Rob., 
 
 242?), 292*, 292/), 293*; Tho., 292 
 
 Mills (Horse, Water, Wind, etc.) at» 
 Acomb, 191; Alnwick, 133; Aln- 
 wick Abbey, 306/) ; Alwinton, 372 ; 
 Bedlington, 72, 377 ; Berwick, 
 295; Billingham, 15, 23, 184; Bin- 
 chester, 397; Bingfield, 382n, 
 Broxfield, 323; Burton, 169; By- 
 well, 204, 204/), 205, 205/), 314; 
 Chester-le-Street, 293, 294; Cop- 
 law, 179; Cornhill, 106; Cram- 
 lington, 154/) ; Durham (near), 
 107; Edlingham, 350; EggsclifE, 
 27; Eslington, 169/!; Etal, 148; 
 Gateshead, 165*, 319, 320*; Gib- 
 side, 37; Hallington, 208; Halt- 
 whistle, 250; Hart, 1; Haydon 
 Bridge, 144, 315; Heaton, 203/1, 
 215; Hebburn, 237/); Hesleyside, 
 151; Hetton, 26; Hexham, 203?); 
 Holmeshaw, 381 ; Keepick, 192 ; 
 Kepier, 36, 164 ; Kirknewton, 
 347; Lamesley, 273; Milbourne, 
 South, 113 ; Marley Hill, 37 ; M.&t- 
 fen, 202/); Morwick, 208; Nether- 
 witton, 362* ; Newbottle, 27 ; New- 
 castle, 97, 99*, 133, 216; Norton, 
 13; Pensher, 26; Plessey, 134; 
 Ponteland, 196, 197, 197?/; Rain- 
 ton, 27; Seaham, 31; Skirming- 
 ham, 326/) : Sunderland, 18*, 36, 
 253/) ; Tlirounton, 169/) ; Trim- 
 don, 32; Wansbeck (on the) 208; 
 Whickham, 269; Whitley, 314; 
 Whittell, 314; Whittingham, 169n; 
 Winyard, 15, 34; Wolverton, 180; 
 Wolviston, 15, 34, 35; Woodhall, 
 314 
 
 Mills, And., 136)/; Dorothy, 103)), 104 
 
 Milium Castle, 350?) , 351 
 
 Milne Close, 326* 
 
 Milne Hall, 27 
 
 Minsteracres, 281/) 
 
 Mints, Sir John (see Mennes) 
 
 Mitchelgrove, 237/), 238?) 
 
 Mitford, 173/), 218, 369?) 
 
 Mitford, Chris., 294?)*; Col., 342 
 388: Eleanor, 135/), 173/); Elizth. 
 294*, 295; Hen., 294/)*, 401* 
 Jane, 294?/*; Mabel, 187, 188* 
 Mary, 216*; Oswald, 187, 188 
 Rob., 173/1, 215, 216*, 294?/; Tho., 
 277*, 388, 389, 393/). (Sec also 
 Midford.) 
 
 Molins, Wm., 394, 395 
 
 Money, dipt and base, 52 
 
 Monk, General, iv, 75 
 
 Monk Heslcdcn, 8, 139/) 
 
 Monkton, Mun'ckton, 214 
 
 Monkwearmouth. 44, 53, 150, 237, 
 237/) 239, 240. 311*, 311/), 312*, 
 313, 324, 369/), 389, 395
 
 U2 
 
 Monny Lawes, 210 
 
 Montrose, Earl of, 347* 
 
 Moor, The, 31, 32, 235, 341; North, 
 
 31; West, 19 
 Moore, Dorothy, 110//, 206n ; Edwd., 
 
 206// ; Francis, 221 ; Geo., 267 ; Dr. 
 
 Jno., 110/i ; Rob., 19 
 Mooreclose Dean, 357* 
 Moorecroft, Ferdinand, 9; Hen., 340 
 Moore Daile, 235* 
 Moorehonses, 26 
 
 Mooresley, 26, 27, 172; Close, 20, 21 
 Moorespotts, 14 
 Moralee, 301 
 Moralecze, 232* 
 Morden, 25 
 
 Mordington, Lord, 56, 67, 2 9 5*, 296* 
 Mordon, 5, 11*, 12*, 21, 25, 241*, 
 
 241 //, 242 
 Morehouse, 134 
 Morgan, Rob., 204* 
 Morland, Chris., 243//; Jno., Ill, 
 
 135/i* 
 Morley. Jas., 392; Mr. Jas., 388, 
 
 389; Sir Jno., 56, 67, 74, 76, 97, 
 
 98; Tho., 17, 29. (See also Marley) 
 Morpeth, 79, 87*, 143/(, 155//, 196, 
 
 208, 215, 215;/*, 217*, 219, 220//, 
 
 300, 301, 315//, 325//, 341, 342, 356//, 
 
 369//, 376, 376/1*, 378; Castle, 157, 
 
 220// 
 Morpeth, Alice, 296//; Chris., 296/?, 
 
 297, 297// ; Margt., 296// ; Rich., 
 
 13, '64, 68, 296*; Mr. Rich., 15 
 Morten Moore, 341 
 Morton, 5, 9*, 10, 21, 22*, 26. 141, 
 
 256//, 335, 342/1 ; East, 4, 14; West, 
 
 11 
 Morton, Bp., 107//, 179, 179//, 327/i 
 Morton Honse, 48//, 60, 115//*, 118, 
 
 118//, 292//, 327// 
 Morton Tinmouth, 60, 119, 119//, 141 
 Morwick, 137//*; Walkmill, 208 
 Moseley, Jas., 301 
 Mosstroopers, 84 
 Mountney, Mrs., 378//; Tho., 369//; 
 
 Ursula, 369//, 375, 378// 
 Mousen, 352/i 
 
 Mowbray, Tho., 38; Wm., 187 
 Mowson, Nich., 93 
 
 Moyer, Sam., 69, 83, 99; Wm., 369 
 Muggleswick, 244 
 Mulgrave Castle, 145 
 Munkester, Randal, 387 
 Murton, East and West, 21 
 Muschamp, Elizth., 297// ; Dame 
 
 Elizth., 208; Geo., 298//, 299*; 
 
 Geo., esq., 199// ; Sir Geo., 297*, 
 
 297//*, 298; Gillibert, 297//; Lady 
 
 Gillibert, 298; Lady, 298*, 299; 
 
 Mary, 199//, 297//, 298; Ra., 298; 
 
 Tho., 298; Wm.. 298; Sir Wm., 
 
 297// ; Sir Wm., knt., 298 
 Musgrave, Sir Edwd., knt., 172; Sir 
 
 Philip, 322//, 385// 
 Muskets for Scots' army, 91 
 Myerscough, 308, 309 
 Myles Field, 153 
 Mylne Close, 26 
 Mylott (see Millot) 
 
 N 
 Nafferton, xxxiii, 347//, 350, 350//,*, 
 
 351* 
 Nailer, Vicar, 154//, 
 Names, interchangeable, 261// 
 Nappa in Wenslcydalc, 369// 
 Nasborough (see Knaresborough) 
 Naseby, battle of, 14:i, 169//, 261//, 
 
 311// 
 National League and Covenant, xxii 
 Nattress, Edwd., 236// 
 Naworth, 188, 248//. 249, 251*, 266//, 
 Naylor, Dr., 4*, 5, 17; Mrs. Dulce- 
 
 bella, 23*; Jos., D.D., 1, 23, 25; 
 
 Mrs., 21, 26 
 Neale, Sir Paul, 38 
 Neasham, Neasam, etc., 6*, 30*, 34*, j 
 
 130//*, 131//, 225, 242//, 255, 256, : «' 
 
 256/(*, 257*, 266// ; Abbey, 30, 73, • 
 
 66, 106//, 130//, 131*, 132*, 256, 257; . 
 
 Nunnery, 257 
 Nedgtield, 31 
 
 Negative Oath (see Oaths, Abjuration) 
 Neighbours, troublesome, 387 
 Neile, Anne, 135/(*; Arclibp., 133/i ; 
 
 Bp., 42//, 187; Rich., 135//*; Sir 
 
 Rich., knt., 133// 
 Nelson, Humph., 27 
 Nelston. 19 
 Nesbit, Nesbett, etc., 13, 44, 65, 139*, 
 
 139/1 
 Nether ConisclifEe, 53 
 Nether Eighton, 273 
 Netherfield Hoiise, 36 
 Netherhall, 288//, 
 Nether Healey, 369 
 Netherhouses, 371, 372 
 Nether Leame, 151// 
 Nether Lingrass, 323// 
 Nether Throston, 24* 
 Netherton, 291, 371, 372 
 Netherwittou, xxxiii, 249, 359*, 
 
 360//* 361, 362*, 363*, 377 
 Nettlesworth, 68, 176*, 177 
 Nevill, Francis, 323//. 372, 372/i; 
 
 Francis, esq., 322; Mr., 322 
 Newark Articles of War, 133, 215 
 New Bewick, 315//. 316 
 Newbiggin, Newbegin, etc., 15, 20, 
 
 35*, 70, 73, 141, 304//, 305, 305r/,, 
 
 314, 380; East, 7, 19, 35; West, 7
 
 U3 
 
 Newbottle, 10, 26, 27, 31 ; Mill, 27 
 
 Newbrough, 191, 368-** 
 
 Newburn, 97/;, 196 
 
 Newbiirn fight, xi 
 
 Newby Grange, 33 
 
 Newby, Widow, 26 
 
 Newcastle, pa-''<im ; Allhallows, All 
 Saints', Church, 103/(*,173/i*,2887(, 
 308/(, 360/), 365h, 379 h ; Allhallows 
 Bank, 401 ; Anderson Place, lOlo ; 
 butlerage, 397*; Cale Cross, 231/!; 
 Castle ijurchased, 92; Castle 
 Garth, 93; Close, 165; Cou. Com., 
 xix, xxxiv ; County, 82 ; Customer, 
 184/) ; Custom House, 288/) ; Free- 
 dom, xvii/), 288/) ; Garrison, 174, 
 280 ; Gaol, 337 ; Glasshouses, 289/) ; 
 Grand Lease, 244 ; Guildhall, 359/) ; 
 house burning, 168 ; Hostmens 
 Co., 162, 244/), 288/) ; Maison Dieu, 
 360/) ; Magdalen Hosp., 102; Maud- 
 land Deane, 133 ; Mayors, xxvii, 
 48/), 100, 101, 101/), 103/), 117/), 
 121/), 130/), 155/), 160. 163/)*, 167/), 
 179/), 182/), 242/), 243/), 268/)*, 270/), 
 271*, 275/), 283/), 294/), 319/), 330, 
 330/i,336/j,359/) ;Mayor'sCourt,101 ; 
 Mercht. Adv. Co., 101, 159/) ; Mills, 
 97, 99*, 133*, 216; monopolies, 
 316/); M.P.'s, xii/), xiv, 80/), 155/), 
 244/), 294/), 319/), 330/), 359/), 379/i ; 
 Newgate, 145/); Nunnery, 130/), 
 156, 157; Nun's Moor, 133; pay- 
 ment at church porch, 135/) ; Pil- 
 grim St., 173/i; Pilgrim St. Gate, 
 188/); Postmaster, 204/); preaching 
 license, 386// ; Quay, 160, 231/) ; 
 Quay master, 96/) ; Recorders, 109/), 
 155/), 178/), 320/), 336/)*; Rectory, 
 294, 294/), 295; reducing of, xiv, 
 XXV, 162, 148, 222 ; relief of, 164/) ; 
 Royalists disfranchised, etc., xix, 
 110/), 164/i. 271/), 283/), St. 
 Andrew's, 301/), 338/); St. John's 
 118/), 194, 255/); St. Margaret's 
 chapel, 231, 231/) ; St. Nich., 
 48/1, 103/), 116/), 135/), 154/), 
 ISO/), 215, 231/), 247/), 268/), 270/), 
 306/i, 332/), 355/); Sandgate, 173, 
 279, 288/), 376/); Sandhill, 401; 
 Sheelefields, 267; Side. 231, 231/); 
 Sidgate, 338; siege, xvii, 145/), 173, 
 180/), 188/), 189, 240, 270/), 271/), 
 319/), 346/) ; storming, xviii, 301, 
 320/i, 346/) ; suicide, 338/) ; Sword 
 bearer, 345/) ; taken by Scots, xi, 
 159, 159/), 274, 341*; Town clerk, 
 255/) ; Town's physician, 46/) ; Vir- 
 gin Mary Hosp., 97, 102, 197/) ; 
 Walls, xx/) ; Westgate, 376/) 
 
 Newcastle, Duke of, 299/;; Earl of. 
 
 xiv, xvi, 42, 43, 49, 78*, SO, 80/i, 
 87 113, 113/), 128*, 139/), 140*, 
 153/), 159, 160*, 164/). 166, 180, 
 189, 198, 221/), 227*, 259, 261, 263, 
 264* 271*, 272*, 275, 276*, 277*, 
 278, '279, 280, 291, 297/), 299*, 
 299/)*, 300*, 301, 334, 336, 339*, 
 340*, 346, 347, 349, 360/), 365, 
 379/)*, 381, 397; Lord, 370/1 ; 
 Marquis, 128, 299/;, 320/(, 322n, 
 379/) 
 
 New Deanham, 218 
 
 New Etal, 148*, 149*, 149/) 
 
 Newfield, 233, 234 
 
 Newhall, 301 
 
 Newham, 218, 297/) ; West, 208 
 
 Newhouses, 134*, 134/1 
 
 Newlands, 60, 367* 
 
 Newman, Gerard, 362 
 
 New Meadow, 234 
 
 Newminster, 341, 341/) ; Abbey, 144, 
 198/) 
 
 New Park, 362 
 
 Newshani, xxxiii, 19, 66, 73, 178/), 
 224*, 244/!*, 225 ; Hall, 178 
 
 Newton, 38, 265, 361/! ; Farm, 208 ; 
 Grange, 208 ; Little, 5* ; Long, 20*, 
 46/), 224/), 225 227; West, 347 
 
 Newton by the Sea, 79, 208, 265* 
 
 Newton Cap, 136, 342*, 343, 397 
 
 Newton Carr, 238 
 
 Newton Hall, 300, 301, 314, 365/i 
 
 Newton Hansart, 2 
 
 Newton in Coquet, 376/i 
 
 Newton Ketton, 158/i 
 
 Newton on the Moor, 210 
 
 Newton Underwood, 370 
 
 Newton, Chas., 148, 249, 301 ; Isaac, 
 154; Jno., 245; Margt., 94; Matt., 
 113, 300, 301 
 
 Newtown, 31, 141. 350- Tower, 351 
 
 New Water Haugh, 295, 296 
 
 NichoUs, Tho., 351 
 
 Nicholson, Chris., xix, 99; Hen., 401 
 
 Nicksou, Chrishope, 153 
 
 Night, Closes, 207; Fold, 207 
 
 Ninebanks, 185/i 
 
 Noble, Wm., 153/) 
 
 Nonconformity, apostle of, 42/i. 
 
 Nonington, 286/), 
 
 Norham, 65,' 156,' 304, 305*, 353; 
 Castle, 353 
 
 Norhamshire, 155, 206/) 
 
 Northallerton, 311/), 327/) 
 
 North Auckland (see Auckland) 
 
 Northbank, 384 
 
 North Hiddick, 60, 149*, 239 
 
 North British Railway, 244/) 
 
 North Charlton, 146, 147, 248, 249, 
 250* 
 
 Northends, 273
 
 444 
 
 Northfield, 31, 208 
 
 North Gosforth, 239, 306n 
 
 North Hart, 1 
 
 North Hebborn, 245 
 
 North Horue, 341 
 
 North Middleton, 205n, 301 
 
 North Moor, 31 
 
 North Pittington, 339« 
 
 North Seaton, 193*, 194*, 376, 278n, 
 400* 
 
 North Shields, 79, 161*, 316«*, 318*, 
 355/1 
 
 Northumberland, jMssim ; Corre- 
 spondence of Cou. Com., 76-88; 
 Earl of, 91, 174, 271, 285«, 301?), 
 368, 368n; M.P.'s xviin, 369?!, 
 378?i; rates and rentals, 77?i, 95?!, 
 97n, 114?!, 134?!, 143?!, 149?!, 151?!, 
 154n, 173?i*, 197?!, 202??, 203?!, 209?!, 
 215?!, 237?!, 266?!, 307?!, 323?!, 325?!, 
 368?i 
 
 North wastes, 209 
 
 North Weetslade, 187, 188 
 
 Norton, 3*, 7, 13, 24, 46?! ; Mill, 13 
 
 Norton, Tho., 362?! 
 
 Nose, a remarkable, 223?! 
 
 Nottliehurst, 372 
 
 Nova Scotia baronets, 151?!, 213?; 
 
 Nunbush, 378?!* 
 
 Nunnykirk, Nunakers, etc. 215, 
 215?!, 216 
 
 Nun's Loaning, 257 
 
 Nunstainton, 70, 344?i, 345* 
 
 Nunthorpe, 126?! 
 
 Nunwick, 94?! 
 
 Nunwood, 306?! 
 
 Oard (see Orde) 
 
 Oaths, Abjuration, x, xxii, 70, 410; 
 fidelity, xviii ; National, x, 410 ; 
 refused, 76 ; to levy war, 272 ; un- 
 lawful, 166, 166?? 
 
 Oats, appraisement of, 29; price of, 
 360?i 
 
 Obstructions, committee for remov- 
 ing, 70 
 
 Octogenarian combatant, 180?! 
 
 Offerton, 126?i, 291??, 335, 340, 345 
 
 Ogilvie, Pat., 111?!, 112*; Capt. 
 Pat., Ill 
 
 Ogle Castle, 301 
 
 Ogle, — , 372; Cuth., 299?!, 3837i; 
 Capt., 267?!, 303; Chris., 215, 
 383?!* ; Dorothy, 348?! ; Earl, 299?! ; 
 Eleanor, 383?! ; Elizth., 113?! ; 
 Edwd., 301, 302 ; Geo., 383/! ; Hen., 
 55, 77*, 77?!*, 78, 80?!, 81*, 83, 92, 
 98, 171, 172?!*, 195?! ; Jas., xxiii, 
 91, 3 01*, 302/!*, 353; Jane, 301?!, 
 
 302; Jno., 78, 80, 80?i, 82*, 83, 85*,. 
 
 86, 189, 190, 194, I95n, 318, 348?!,. 
 
 363; Mr. Jno., 139; Lady, 300*; 
 
 Lancelot, 189*, 195/i*, 301?i, 302*; 
 
 Lord, 299?!, 348?!; Luke, 77?!; 
 
 Nich., 157; Phyllis, 333??; Eob., 
 
 171?!, 172?!*; Susanna, 303, 303?!; 
 
 Tho., xxxiii, 189*, 190, 3 2*, 303,. 
 
 303/!, 304; Capt. Tho., 303*; Wm., 
 
 301?!, 361/! 
 Oils, cooping, etc., 89*, 89?i 
 Old Acres, 4, 21, 126?? 
 Old Bewick, 315?!*, 316* 
 Old Crooks, 27 
 Old Durham, 44, 68*. 135?!, 236?i,. 
 
 354* 
 Old Etal, 148, 149*, 149?/ 
 Old Malton, 96?!, 342?! 
 Old Park, 60, 283*, 362 
 Oldtowne, 371, 372 
 ' Old True Blue,' 261?/ 
 Oldyees Leasowes, 207 
 Orde, East and West, 95?i 
 Orde, Oard, Ord, etc., Anne, 304?/, 
 
 306; Clara, 306; Dorothy, 95//,. 
 
 155; Edwd., 304//; Eleanor, 87, 
 
 156*, 157, 306; Geo., 37, 79, 3 0**, 
 
 305/1, 352?!; Hen., 95?!, 304?i*; 
 
 Isabel, 304/i; Jas., 304//, 306; Jno.,. 
 
 79, 156, 304*, 304/!*, 305//, 306; 
 
 Aid. Jno., 306; Lionel, 28, 252// ; 
 
 Luke, 304; Mabel, 95*; Margt., 
 
 352/! ; Mrs., 95; Tho., 44, 67, 95//,. 
 
 3 04*, 304/!*, 305*, 305/?*; Wm., 
 
 252/!*; 304/!, 305*, 305?!*, 306*; 
 
 Aid. Wm., 44, 92, 305 
 Ordinances of Parliament changed to 
 
 Acts, xxvii?! 
 Ormeston, lord of, 236?! 
 Ormskirk fight, 221?! 
 Orpin, Capt. Edwd., 300 
 Orsnebe, Jno., 248 
 Osborne, Rob., 3 06*, 306?! 
 Oswald, Elizth., 67, 73, 3 7*; Jane,. 
 
 67, 73; Hen., 307??; Jno., 57; 
 
 Mary, 57; Rich., 227, 228 
 Ougliam, (see L'lgham) 
 Oulton, 349 
 Oustons, 201* 
 Outchester (see Ulchester) 
 Out Moore, 257 
 Over Coniscliffe, 53, 67 
 Over Dinsdale, 106 
 Over Eighton, 272 
 Over Friarside, xxxiii, 66, 232*,. 
 
 232?t, 233, 234 
 Overhouse Garth, 272 
 Over Langlands, 257 
 Over Lingrass, 323/? 
 Over Meadows, 186 
 Over Rachester, 372
 
 445 
 
 ■Overton, Col., 154 
 
 'Ovingham, 77 n, 314* 
 
 •Ovington, 371, 372 
 
 •Oviugton, Antb., 65, 73, 175*, 175yi, 
 
 176; Kath., 175 
 ■Owton, 116/1 
 ■Oxeclose 32, 131, 257, 258; Great, 
 
 257; Little, 257 
 Oxen, appraisements of, 25, 28 
 Oxenfield, 101« 
 
 Oxford, 37, 119«, 197, 210, 302, 306 
 •Oxford, Articles of War, 49, 110, 
 
 224/1, 236*; Merton Coll., 235*, 
 
 297; Queen's Coll., 10; siege of, 
 
 110, 367/1 
 
 P— , Capt., 15 
 
 Pack, Mr., 100 
 
 Paddock, Paddocks, 186, 272 
 
 Paddocknooke House, 186 
 
 Page, Anth., 10*; Hen., 26 
 
 Palmer, Sir Matt., 302* 
 
 Pan Burn, 353/i 
 
 Panthead Close, 164 
 
 Papists, i^assim; lists of, 57, 58, 73, 
 
 87 ; payment for convicting, 93 
 Pardon, form of, x, 411-413 ; ordin- 
 ance, xxii 
 Pardon and Oblivion Act, xxxi 
 Parish, Wm., 251 
 Park, 35, 207; Little, 31; Old, 60, 
 
 283*, 362 ; West, 306/; 
 Parker, Eliztb., 115/! 
 Parkin, Wm., 24 
 Parkinson, Edwd., 30, 260/i; Fran., 
 
 173/1 ; Hugh, 32 
 Parlerside, 372 
 Parliament, passim ; the Long, xi, 
 
 xxxiii ; Healing, or Convention, 
 
 lOln 
 Parliamentary Commissioners in co. 
 
 Durham, 1-38 
 Parliamentary Sermon, 108/i 
 Parmonley, Jno., 18, 61, 61/;, 3 07* 
 Parsons, Mr. Jno., 108 
 Paston, Aaron, 307, 307//, 308*; 
 
 Dorothy, 307, 308 /; ; Hen., 307*, 
 
 307n, 308 
 Pasture Haugh, 239 
 Pattison, Jno., 24; Mr. Mark, 166; 
 
 Eob., 18 
 Paul, Capt. Tho.. 334 
 Paulberbourne, 34 
 Paxton, Geo., 32 
 Paynchford, 371 
 Peacock, Eob., 189; Wm., 14 
 Pearson, Peirson, Anth., 44/;, 63, 
 
 64 78, 92, 93*, 112, 186, 301; Mrs. 
 
 Elizth., 38*, 247; Geo., 103/(, 104; 
 
 Jane, 308, 308/i; Mrs. Jane, 8*; 
 Mr., 72, 389*; Nich.. 17, 256/i; 
 Roger, 61, 61/i, 3 08*; Tho., 
 308*, 310; Wm., 33 
 Pearsbridge (see Piercebridge) 
 Peas, for Scots' army, 90 ; price of, 
 
 360/; 
 Pease, Geo., 27 
 Peaselands, 257 
 Peckhall, 189/i 
 Pedgebank, 115 
 Pegsworth, 300. 301* 
 Peleflatt, Pieldflatt, 36*, 383 
 Peltington, 305, 306 
 Pelton, 234, 292, 293* 
 Pemberton, Jno., 212/; ; Mary, 212/i; 
 Mich., 7, 67, 212//, 227*; Rob., 387 
 Pen, Sir Wm., 286/i 
 Penyman, Sir Jas., 136 
 Pennywell Field, 239 
 Pensher, Pencher, 10, 26*, 27, 240; 
 
 Mill, 26 
 Percy, Lord Josceline, 301/( 
 Percy shrine, 154//, 
 Perrin, Edwd., 398* 
 Pescod, Geo., 36; Eob., 310 
 Peshley, 116n 
 Peterside, .371 
 
 Philiphaugh, battle of, 347 
 Philipps, Arth., 67 
 Pickall, 141 
 
 Pickering, agent, 276; Tho., 3 
 Picton, 7, 22 
 Pictrey, 262 
 
 Piddinghall Garth, 342// 
 Piercebridge, 6, 53, 59. 128, 396/; 
 Piercebridge fight, 252/;, 253, 259 /i 
 Pierepont, Fran., 241;; 
 Pigdon, 328 
 Piukney, Pinckney. Jas., 30, 34; 
 
 Lancelot, 225; Lawrence, 226; 
 
 Margery, 225*, 226*, 228*; Mr., 
 
 27; Phillis, 202/1; Tho., 54, 57, 
 
 67, 73 
 Piracy, 117, 118 
 Pitt, Baldwin. .306/;; Edmd., 306/i*; 
 
 Wm., 135, 306; Mr. Wm., 144* 
 Pittington, 5, 19, 22*. 70*, 71*, 247, 
 
 247/;, 339/;., 340, 342/;*; North, 
 
 339/) 
 Pittington-hall-garth, 342/; 
 Place, Alice, 212;;; Chris., 212/;; 
 
 Dorothy, 43/; : Francis, 309/; ; Rob., 
 
 309*; Rowland, 227*, 256, 256/1 
 Plains, The, 183 
 
 Plate hidden in garden, 42. 62, 63 
 Plessy, 133;;*, 134*, 134;;. 311/;. .313, 
 
 369/;; Colliery, 134; Mill, 1.34/i 
 Plessy Newhouses. 134* 
 Plenmeller, xxxiii, 87, 248*, 249*, 
 
 2.50*, 2.50/;
 
 U6 
 
 Ploughing restricted, 25, 186 
 Plumpton, Sir Edwd., 289, 290; Jno., 
 
 139, 243; Wm., 243 
 Pluralist, a notable, 197// 
 Pockerley, 120*. 120// 
 Points, Col., 121//* 
 Pollard, — 224/* 
 Pond Close, 367 
 Pontefract, Pomfret, 129, 342; 
 
 Castle, 128, 154 v i 
 
 Ponteland, Pont Island, xxxiij, 173*, 
 
 173//, 194 194*, 194//, 195/?;' 196*,- 
 
 197*; 197/>-, 203, 377*; Hall, 197, 
 
 197// ; Mills, 196, 197// 
 Pontop, 38*, 67, 187, 232, 233*, 233?!, 
 
 234*, 290// 
 Poore, Mr. Wm., 6 
 Porter, Anne, 57, 67, 3 9*, 309//, 
 
 310; Anth., 326//.; Jane, 309//. 
 
 310*; Mich., 310*; Nich., 310: 
 
 Wm., 249*. 309*. 309//, 310*, 326, 
 
 326// ; Wm., jun., 309 
 Portgate, 188//, 314 
 Postal address, a puzzling, 235// 
 Postmaster to the Cou. Com., 58 
 Pott Anth., 372*; Geo., 208. 370; 
 
 Isabel, 372; Mark, 372*; Mich., 
 
 372; Rob., 372; Tho., 372; Wm., 
 
 372*, 376 
 Potter, Dr. Barnaby, 294, 294// ; 
 
 Chris., 226; Dr. Chris., 37; Dr., 
 
 25; Elizth., 294; Margery, 226*; 
 
 Mrs.. 226 
 Pottfield, 264;/ 
 
 Potts, Wm., jun., and sen., 203?/ 
 Pound close, 367 
 Powder and Match for the Scots' 
 
 army, 91 
 Power, Tho., 310; Wm., xxxiii, 13, 
 
 57, 67, 310*; Mr. Wm., 34 
 Poyfield, 203// 
 Pratt, Mich., 376// 
 Prayers superstitious, 276 
 Preston', 19, 20*, 35*, 64, 66, 73, 74. 
 
 176, 177, 226, 227 
 Preston, battle of, 82, 191, 335, 
 
 339?^ 
 Preston Leazes, 183* 
 Preston-le-Skerne, 196 
 Preston-on-Tees, 224//, 226 
 Preston, Edwd., 6, 30; Jno., esq., 
 
 251// : Margt.. 251// 
 Prestwick, xxxiii, 202*, 202//*, 203, 
 
 203//*; Hall, 202//* 
 Pretty, Col. Hen., 246 
 Price" Mr. Herbert, 378?/ ; Mr. 379// 
 Priestley, Prestlye, Frances, 184// ; 
 
 Jno., 284 
 Prieet's close, 207 
 Priest's Leazes, .371, 372 
 Primage, allowed, 90 
 
 Primatt, Josiah, 389, 390*, 390//, 
 
 391//, 392, 393, 394 
 Pringle, Pringell, Alex., 270; 
 
 Eleanor, 80// ; Rob., 80// 
 Prior's Close, 36 
 Prior's Hall, 22 
 Priorthornes, 203/; 
 Prisage of wines, 397// 
 Privilege, breach of, 394 
 Prizes taken in the Tyne, xviii, xix 
 Procter, Proctor, Cuth., 173, 173//, 
 
 233 ; Dorothy, 173// ; Ellinor, 173// ; 
 
 Isabel, 173, 173// ; Margt., 173//* 
 Protector, Lord, 172// ; Act of Grace 
 
 and Pardon, 148; ordinances of, 
 
 71, 72, 86*; petitions to, 218*, 329, 
 
 374, 401 
 Provisions for Scots' army, 90, 91 
 Prudhoe, 87 
 Pryclose, 32* 36 
 Pudsey, Ambrose, 311// ; Anne, 135?/ ; 
 
 Elizth., 74, 135, 311//, 312, 313; 
 
 Jane, 311// ; Mary, 311// ; Mich., 
 
 xxxiii, 7, 19, 56, 67, 311*, 311//*; 
 
 Capt. Mich., 35; Mr. Mich. 22; 
 
 Mrs., 312; Ra., xxxii, 13371*, 134*, 
 
 311*, 311//*, 312*. 313; Col. Ea., 
 
 399// ; Ra., esq., 67, 74 
 Punshon, Sibill, 234* 
 Purefoy, Philip, 170, 250* 
 Pye, — , .315; Francis, 300*, 372; 
 
 Jno., 84*, 351. 383, 387; Mr., 215; 
 
 Tho., 301. 302. 351*, 383*, 387 
 
 Q 
 
 Quarry House, 97, 97//, 98, 99 
 Quested, Mrs. Elizth., 161 
 
 R 
 
 Raby, xii//, 177, 210//; Castle, 48, 
 59, 342, 346// 
 
 Rachester, Over, 372 
 
 Rackwood Hill, 67, 73, 290*, 290?i* 
 
 Radcliffe, RatclifEe, etc.. Baronet, 
 165; Cath., 207; Dame Clare, 313; 
 Cuth., 360// ; Sir Edwd., xxxii, 
 144*, 206//, 315; Sir Edwd., bart., 
 313*, 314*; Elizth., 206// ; Francis, 
 207, 266//, 369//, 370, 370//, 371; 
 Sir Francis, 206// ; 207, 289// ; Jane, 
 360//; Jno., 148//*, 304, 377*, 385, 
 386* ; Mary, 369// ; Susan, 148?/ ; 
 Col. Tho., 178// ; Wm., 249*, 360* 
 
 Radcliffes, ruin of the, 314// 
 
 Raine, Wm., 38 
 
 Rainton, 31, 240; East, 20, 26; Mill, 
 27 ; West, 27 
 
 Rainton, Jas., 34
 
 447 
 
 Ramsay, Ramsey, Mrs. Alice, 3157? ; 
 
 Elizth., 315n; Geo., 315« ; Jno., 
 
 79, 92*, 315, 350; Kath., 3157i ; 
 
 Margt., 315/(*; Mary, 315/i ; Rob., 
 
 315//, 316 
 Ramshope, 381 
 Ramside, 236;; 
 Rand, Dr., 184; Edwd., 163; Mr. 
 
 Edwd., 165 ; Jas., A. M., 46/i* ; Mr. 
 
 Jno., 4; Dr. Sam., 46*, 46/i* 
 Ranson, Jno., 335; Rob., 27; Tho., 
 
 159 ; Widow, 201 
 Ranson's land, 2, 3 
 Raredon, Rareton, etc., 44, 68, 353*, 
 
 353/(, 354, 354/( 
 Rascality in power, 172//* 
 RatclifFe (see Radcliffe) 
 Rattenflatt, 20 
 Ravensflatt, 21 
 Ravenswortli, Ravenshelme, 101?i, 
 
 109/(, 161, 163//, 268//, 269/r, 272; 
 
 Castle, 272, 285// ; Colliery, 273 
 Rawe, Margery, 232//; Roger, 184?i; 
 
 Tho., 24 
 Rawlings, lien., 167, 272; Jas., 2, 
 
 3*, 232; Jno., 2*, 5, 12, 13, 34* 
 Rawson, Agnes, 268// 
 Ravne, Cuth., 74; Edwd., 128; 
 
 Nich., 211// ; Rob., 321 
 Rea, Jno., 301 
 
 Read, Reed, etc.. Arch., 372; Cle- 
 ment, 372; Edwd., 372*; Eleanor, 
 
 368; Francis, 27; Gawin, 372; 
 
 Geo., 18, 30, 31, 372; Gilb., 368; 
 
 Jno., 24, 372; Kath., 190; Margt., 
 
 372; Mr., 316*; Peter, 372; Ra., 
 
 xxxiii, 190*, 316*, 317*; Ra., 
 
 jun., 317; Roger, 79, 318*; Tho., 
 
 5; Wm., 44, 318*, 329*, 331, 372; 
 
 Wm., jun., 318 
 Reading, Mr. (C.C. counsellor), 
 
 '/)a.sN//// 
 Readshill, 207 
 Reaping corn, cost of, 30 
 Reasley, Chris., 161 
 Reay, Wm., 255 
 Rebellion of the Earls, 236// 
 Recusants' auditor, 89 
 Receiver suspended, 88 
 Recruits, drum Ideating for, 297/? 
 Recurrent l)a]:tismal names, 193/i 
 Redesdale, 381 
 Redhead. Tho., 25 
 Redheugh, 268, 269, 365 
 Redhouse, 60, 153 
 Redman, Sir Jno., 128, 129 
 Redniarshall. 34*, 2.34//, 297, 297//* 
 Redshavv Readshaw, etc.. Fortune, 
 
 86; Geo., 77. 78, 82, 84*, 85^ 86. 
 
 122; Jno., 22, .37, 243, 244; Tho., 
 
 282 
 
 Reedswood, 151//, 152, 153 
 
 Reeth, 137// 
 
 Remington, Mary, 330// ; Rich., 
 330// ; Tim., 331, 332 
 
 Renington, 323// 
 
 Rennison, Rennyson, Ra., 386; Rob., 
 10 
 
 Rent days in co. Durham, 47, 51, 
 54; in Northumberland, 80, 81 
 
 Renton, East, 335 
 
 Rent seek, 236 
 
 Rents of delinquents' estates, 54n 
 
 Rents in the Treasury, 59* 
 
 Reuthen, General, 110// 
 
 Revely, 173// 
 
 Revely, Reavely, etc., Bertram, 369//, 
 370; Edwd., 370*; Rosamond, 
 369//, 370, 371 
 
 Reynolds, Isaac, 123, 261 
 
 Rich., Edwd., 123; Mr., 395 
 
 Richardson, Alice, 70; Bryan, 30, 
 67; Capt., 84; Edwd., 3; Elizth., 
 311// ; Jno., 10, 11, 34, 61, 61//, 134, 
 257, 282//, 311//, 318*; Capt. Jno., 
 10, 30, 318//; Mr. Jno., 103; Mr., 
 36; Nich., 32; Philip, 16, 16//, 17, 
 252// ; Ra., 13, 34; Rob., 4, 11, 33, 
 219, 340; Tho., 30, 136; Wm., 70, 
 395, 396; Xpofer, 14*, 33 
 
 Richmond, 124//, 131//, 184 
 
 Richmondshire, 139//, 287//, 311, 
 388 
 
 Rickaby, Riccarby, etc., Jno. 14*, 
 15, 17, 19, 28, 29*, .33; Wm., 14* 
 15, 17, 22, 33*. 57, 67, 73, 226* 
 
 Rickleden, Rickleton, 10, 254 
 
 Ricknall's Grange, 179* 
 
 Ricknowle, 14 
 
 Riddell, Anne, 155//, 319// ; Barbara, 
 180//, 319//, 320/( ; Dame Barbara, 
 320; Dorothy, 319// ; Elizth., 319// ; 
 Geo., 320*, 320/( ; Isabel, 321// ; 
 Jane, 209//, 320*, 320//; Capt. 
 Jno., 18; Kath., 248//, 321;/ ; Peter, 
 319// ; Sir Peter, 216, 319// ; Rob., 
 320; Tho., 156, 180//, 319//, 334; 
 Sir Tho., 24, 37*. 56, 64, 67, 68, 
 140*. 155//*, 275, 277, 319, 319//*, 
 320//, 321*, ?21//, 342; Sir 
 , jun., xxxi, 18, 24, 118, 227, 
 275, 319//*, .320, 320//, 321*; Sir 
 Tho., knt., 209//, 320; Sir Tho., 
 sen., xxxi, 319//. 320; Sir Tho., 
 sen., knt., 319, 320; Win., 195//, 
 319//*, 321// : Sir Wm., 67, 74, 216, 
 248, 321*, 321//; Sir Wm., knt., 
 IGl, 195//, 319//* 
 
 Ridding, 371 
 
 Riding. Rvding. 151//, 152, 153, 157; 
 Long, 44, 305* 
 
 Ridley, 323//*; Hall, 323// 
 
 320, 
 Tho.
 
 448 
 
 Hidley, Rydley, etc., Anne, 322« ; 
 Bp., 322«; Chris., 248; Francis, 
 248, 248/j ; Hugh, 323« ; Jno., 79, 
 150, 153, 208, 248, 298, 3 2 2*, 322/* ; 
 Mary, 322/1 ; Musgrave, xxxiii, 87, 
 322*, 323n; Nich., 248*, 248 « ; 
 Walter, 248n*, \Ym., 149«, 248*, 
 248?!*, 323 « ; Wm., esq., 149/i 
 
 Hipliugton, 360, 362*, 363* 
 
 Eipon, 268h, 282n 
 
 Eippon, Eipon, Frances, 278;j ; Met- 
 calfe, 278h, 280; Wm., 278/1 
 
 Eiseingham, 371, 372 
 
 Eiton (see Ryton) 
 
 Eitton, xxxiii, 87, 369, 375;?, 376*, 
 376/1*, 377* 
 
 Eobinson, — , 334 ; And., fS3 ; Avery, 
 20; Edwd., 21; Francis, 323/i; 
 Jeffrey, 153 ; Jno., 4, 27; Margery, 
 32; Mich., 153, 335; Pat., 153; 
 Ra., 26; Eeynold, 153; Eob., 14, 
 21, 233/(, 334; Tho., 30, 32, 34; 
 The, jiin., 32; Wm., 18 
 
 Eobson, Lucy, 368; Mrs., 108; Eow- 
 land, 368, 369; The, 29, 114, 187; 
 Wm., 10, 109, 368, 369. 188/) 
 
 Eock, 77/), 171, 172/), 190, 266/), 316, 
 316/), 348/), 352/1 
 
 Eodbeard, Tho., 90 
 
 Eoddam, 32.S/)* 
 
 Eoddam, Edmd., 323/) ; Jno., xxxiii, 
 3 23*. 323/) ; Margt., 323/) 
 
 Eoded Eigge, 36 
 
 Eoehills, 207 
 
 Eokeby, Eooksby, etc., Davie, 10; 
 Dorothy, 324*, 324/); Ea., 3 24*, 
 390, 391/), 392, 392/), .396; Ea., 
 jun. and sen., 324/) ; Eob., esq., 
 195/1 
 
 Eoleston, Mr., 128 
 
 Eoop, Eop, Eob., 17, 24, 25; Eob., 
 jun., 16 
 
 Eoper, Eooper, Eob., 5, 18, 19, 28, 
 32; Eob., sen., 359/) 
 
 Eothbury, xxxiii, 156, 356?i, 358*, 
 358/) 
 
 Eotherford, Tho., xxxiii, 87. (See 
 also Eiitherford) 
 
 Eothley, 203/) 
 
 Eoughhead, 153 
 
 Roughside, 347 
 
 Bound Close, 2.57 
 
 Bound Hill, 257, 258 
 
 Bowe, Dorothy, 184 )i ; Aid. Eoger, 
 184/); Wra., 241/i 
 
 Eowell, Jno., 19, 93 
 
 Eowley, 345 
 
 Bowntree, W^m., 7 
 
 Eoyalists in Newcastle disfranch- 
 ised, xix. 109)), 164)). 271)(, 283/) 
 
 Eoyal Oak knights, 185/), 292/), 354/i 
 
 Bubens, visit to England, 285/) 
 Eudby, 66 
 Eudstones, 15 
 Eugely Wood, 390/) 
 Eugge, Capt. Bob., 222, 223, 223/i 
 Eussell, Heu., 6; Jas., 394, 395 
 Eushworth, Jno., xxxiii?), 83, 152, 
 153, 156, 191, 192, 209, 267, 301, 
 
 321, 345*, 356, 357, 372*, 381, 382, 
 382/) 
 
 Euston, 161 
 
 Rutchester, Rootchester, etc., xxxiii, 
 87, .325*, 325/), 376/) 
 
 Rutherford, And., 370; Elizth., 
 325/); Gawen, 325*, 325//; Grace, 
 ; 325/) ; Isabella, 325/) ; Jane, 325?i ; 
 I Tho., 325*, 325?); Wm., 325?i 
 
 Rutland, Earl, xvi, 368?i 
 
 Rutter, Rob., 9 
 
 Ryal, 203)) 
 
 Ryding (see Riding) 
 
 Rve, appraisement of, 29 ; jjrice of, 
 360?) 
 
 Ryle, Great, 146 
 
 Ryhope, 126* 
 
 Ryton, Riton, 17, 101?)*, 102*, 233/), 
 
 322, 355/)*, 357/)*; Colliery, 181, 
 284 
 
 Ryton AVoodside, 65 
 
 Sadberge, Sadbergh, 4, 6, 7, 60, 65, 
 
 110/), 123/), 137, 158/), 227* 
 Sadie Flatt, 257 
 Sadler, Jno., 7, 57, 67, 73 
 Safe conduct, form of, 110?i 
 Sailors rewarded, xvii?i 
 St. Andrew Auckland (see Auckland) 
 St. Andrew, Jane, 139?) ; Wm., 139?) 
 St. Anthonys, xxxii, 266, 266/), 267 
 St. Helen's Auckland (see Auckland) 
 St. John Lee, Ley, 314, 378/), 381, 
 
 382 
 St. John, Lord, 83 ; Oliver, 83 
 St. Nicholas (near Richmond), 388/) 
 Saints' names discontinued, 108?i 
 Saire, Rich., 387 
 Salcocke, 261 
 
 Salkeld, Sakield, etc., Anne, 57, 67; 
 Col., 77?) ; Dorothy, 326*, 326?) ; 
 Francis, 326, 326?) : Sir Francis, 
 326?); Kath., 190; Jno., 77, 77?i, 
 171*, 172?), 190, 208, 316, 316?), 317, 
 348?), 350/) : Jno., jun., 172/), 317; 
 Lieut. -col. Jno., 171; Lancelot, 
 xxxiii, 57, 67, 326*, 326/); Mary, 
 74; Mr., 144; Mrs., 129; Nich., 
 .326?); Ra., 301; Major Wm., 143 
 Sallaway, Rich., M.P., 97 
 Saltholme, 22
 
 449 
 
 Saltpans, Amble, 206, 208; Blyth, 
 400; Chirton, 317; Jarrow, 214*; 
 Monkwearmonth, 25 ; North 
 Shields, 318; Sunderland, 399 
 
 Salt, price of, xv 
 
 Salvin, Ann, 328*; Anth., 320; 
 Bryan, 3 2 6*, 327?i ; Cath., 327?); 
 Chas., 320; Dorothy, 328; Elizth., 
 328; Francis, 11, 18, 24, 67, 246*; 
 Francisco, 23; Gerard, 142, 311h, 
 3 2 7*, 327«*, 328; Jerrard, 34*; 
 Mr. Jerrard, 31; Jerrard, esq., 
 13*, 21, 61, 61« ; Jas., 311, 320; 
 Jnc, 74, 246, 3 2 7*, 327/i*, 328*; 
 Major, 128; Margt., 154; Mary, 
 154, 311?i, 327n*; Mr., 201; Mrs., 
 23, 28, 329*, 330, 331*, 332; 
 Eebecca, xxxiiin, 57, 67, 74, 327n, 
 328*, 329*, 330*. 331*; Eebecca, 
 sen., 330; Tho., 327/;, 328, 328?!, 
 330; Major Tho., 129; Wm., 327?i 
 
 Salwey, Mr., xxviii; Major Eich., 82 
 
 Sameshonse, 79, 304*, 364/(* 
 
 Sampson, Anne, 197?i ; Mary, 3097i ; 
 Tho., 197n 
 
 Sanderson, Jno., 325, 33 2*; Major, 
 217?i*; Sam., 287;i ; Tho., 41n, 
 252, 287* 
 
 Sandhoe, 203n 
 
 Sands, The, 149, 149/1 
 
 Sandwich, 285n, 286/( 
 
 Sandybank, 305?i 
 
 Sankey, Wm., esq., 352 
 
 Sansom, Jno., 360, 364 
 
 Saunders, Francis, 269* 
 
 Saunder's Cottage, 272 
 
 Saunderson, Jno., 79, 314, 371* 
 
 Sapwith, Cuth., 360*, 362, 364* 
 
 Satley, 354, 354??. 
 
 Saugh Close, 239 
 
 Saiighrigg, 371 
 
 Savage, Geo., 390 
 
 Sayer, Dorothy, 137?r ; Geo., 20; 
 Gertrude, 19; Lawrence, 57, 158, 
 224«., 225*, 226*, 227, 253?) , 329, 
 330, 332, 343?? ; Lawrence, esq., 3, 
 6*, 7, 30, 67, 74, 06?!; Mr. Law- 
 rence, 24, 33* 
 
 Saxon scholars born in Newcastle, 
 185?i 
 
 Scabbs Eale, 186 
 
 Scarborough, 161, 346; Castle, 212 
 
 Scarfield Garths, 272 
 
 Scargill, 333?;, 388/1 
 
 Scawen, Mr., xviii ; Eob., 91 
 
 Schoolmasters, i^rovision for, 70 
 
 Scoole Acliffe, 338 
 
 Scotch minister of Hurworth, 231?? 
 
 Scots, 2Jffl.s.5?/?i ; blue capps, 160; 
 damages by (see Soldiers); in- 
 vasions and services, xi, xiv, xvi, 
 
 xvii ; payments to, 24, 41, 43, 82, 
 89, 90*, 91 ; refusal to surrender 
 fugitives, 385/? 
 
 Scots House, 164 
 
 Scremerston, xxxiii, 66, 87 171, 
 206/i*, 207, 208, 214*, 214?? 352/?; 
 Colliery, 206 
 
 Scriven, 368/? 
 
 Scrivener's shops, 215 
 
 Scroggs, Tho., 106, 107 
 
 Scroope, Lady, 124 
 
 Scurfield, Wm., 10. (See also Skir- 
 field) 
 
 Sea, sending money by, 82 / 
 
 Seaham, 9; IQ*, 18,^^24*, 31, 35, 68, 
 170,"^ 197* «- 
 
 Seaton (Dur.), 10. 120, 126n, 291 
 
 Seaton (Northd.), 314 
 
 Seaton Carew, 235 
 
 Seaton Delaval, 124/?, 161, 181*, 324?? 
 
 Seaton, North, 193*, 194*, 376, 37871, 
 400* 
 
 Seeker, Mrs., 108 
 
 Sedgefield. 1*, 4*, 5*, 7. 10. 11* 13, 
 16, 21, 23*, 25*, 33*, 34, 36 2l'0/(*, 
 310, 354, 357; Parsonage, 17, 23 
 
 Sedgwick, Anth., 136; Geo., 136; 
 Mr. Wm., 236 
 
 Selaby, 45?), 69, 128*, 128/?* 129* . 
 
 Selby, 400?i 
 
 Selby, Chas., 223; Elizth., 67, 74, 
 383; Ellen, 221??; Geo., 57. 67, 74, 
 332, 33271, 333*, 333//, 334; Sir Geo., 
 332, 332?!, 333*, 333?/; Sir Geo., 
 knt., 115?i, 388??; Hugh, 128??.; 
 388n ; Jane, 128/? ; Jno., 219, 332/; ; 
 Sir Jno., 332?) ; Lady, 58; Margt., 
 20571, 332/?, 358?! ;DameMargt.,333*; 
 Lady Margt., 103/!, 104, 333; Mr., 
 36; Eich., 106; Tho., 135/?*, 242/?, 
 358, 396; Wm., 205/!, 221/?, 223, 
 332/1*, 333, 333/!, 351, 388/?; Wm., 
 esq., 367/?; Sir Wm., 3 3 2*, 333* 
 
 Sellendge, 259r? 
 
 Senhouse, Jno., esq., 288/! 
 
 Sequestration, passim; difficulties, 
 40-59; ordinance, x, 403; practice, 
 xii, xiii, xv, xvi. xvii, xviii, 1-24, 
 40, 45-64, 71 ; refusing to aid, 17 
 
 Sessments, jsrcssurc of, 16, 22 31 40 
 79, 82, 273, 298?? 
 
 Seven Pound Close, 238 
 
 Sewer Commissioners, 69 
 
 Shackerton, 367/! 
 
 Shadforth, 9, 24, 54, 66*, 73*, 197* 
 
 Shadforth, Mr. Anth., 26; Chris., 
 188/?; Jno., 21; Mr., 335; Nich., 
 263*, 264; TIio., 18, 39, 44, 96/?, 112, 
 275*. 276*, 334*, 334/!*, 335*, 336; 
 Mr. Tlio., 9. 26, 334 
 
 Shaftoe, 333/i. 357/?; West, 325/? 
 
 •29
 
 450 
 
 Shafto, Shaftoe, Anne, 22in ; Mrs. 
 Barbara, 20:iii ; Capt., 221, 222, 
 223: Cath., 336/1 ; Geo., 333; Isabel, 
 136/( : Jas., 136/; ; Jan., jiui., 136*i : 
 Joan, 222*; Jnc, 191 : Mark, 1147*, 
 3 3 6*, 336/?, 337*, 338*, 365/1 ; Mr. 
 Mark, 103 ; ' Six Bottle Mark ' 
 336/(; Mr., 139, 172/i ; Rob., 224/;, 
 351: Rob., esq.. 350; Mr. Rob., 
 103/), 104; Sir Rob., 336//; Tho., 
 67, 333/! ; Wm., 10, 55, 77*, 77/(, 78, 
 80, 81*, 82*, 83, 85, 88, 98, 171, 
 189, 190, 195/(, 333/( 
 Shalcrosse, Humph., 144, 144// ; Mr., 
 
 215 
 Shambles at Barnardcastle, 199/) 
 Sharp, Sharpe, Capt., 18, 28; Jno., 
 211/)*; Rob., 15, 28, 41, 340; Capt. 
 Rob., 15, 22, 234 
 Sharper, Elizth., 338/?, 339; Rowland, 
 3 3 8, 339; Tho., 109, 3 3 8*, 339*; 
 Capt. Tho., 338/? 
 Shaw, The 151/?, 153 
 Shaw, Shawe, Capt., 340*; Chris., 
 60, 61/?, 339*; Geo., 340; Jno., 8, 
 14, 339, 339/?; Cajit. Jno., 339, 
 339??, 340; Wm., 339?? 
 Shawdon, 173/? 
 Shawter, Matt., 257 
 Sheep, authority to remove, 17 ; ap- 
 praisements of, 25, 27, 28, 29; 
 Ijrice of, 13, 360/? 
 SheejDbanks, 301 
 Sheepsclose, 112 
 Shelley Hay Close, 362 
 Shelley, Lady Jane, 238?? 
 Shepheard, Shipperd, etc., Alice, 38; 
 
 Tho., 3, 11, 15; Wm., 17 
 Sheppardson, Capt. Adam, 340; 
 Edwd., 342/?, 395*, 396*; Xpofer, 
 10 
 Sheraton, 8, 24 
 
 Sheraton, Wm., xxxiii, 25, 57, 67, 
 340*, 341; Capt. Wm., 11, 37, 340?( 
 Sherburn, Shirbiirue, etc., 19, 102; 
 Hospital, 6*, 8*, 17, 18, 35, 46, 154, 
 181 
 Sherry wine, price of, 161 
 Sherstone (sec Shoreston) 
 Sherwiu, Auditor, 84, 363, 377, 387 ; 
 
 Rich., 193??*, 351 
 Sherwood, Anne, 212/?; Wm., 212?? 
 Shcyres Mr. Geo., 108 
 Shield Row, 67, 309*, 309/? 
 Shields, 25, 190, 214; North, 79, 161*, 
 318??*, 318*, 355?( ; South, 60, 150*, 
 155/i, 236, 236?/, 240: West, 362 
 Shilbottle, 134?^ 
 Shildon, 141 
 Shillope, 372 
 Shilmore, 371, 372 
 
 Shinclifte, Shinckliff, etc., 5, 8*, 19,. 
 
 38*, 66, 247*, 247?? 
 Shincliffe Garth, 14 
 Shipley, 74, 87 
 Shipmar-hills, 234 
 Shipmoney, 276, 278, 279 
 Shipperdson (see Sheppardson) 
 Ships named the ' Adventure,' 91 
 ' Concord,' 339 ; ' Covertine,' 285/! 
 'Daniel,' 90*; ' Dolphine,' 163 
 165; 'Elizabeth,' 188??; ' Elsa 
 beth,' 165, 166, 339; 'Garland, 
 285/! ; ' Georg,' 160 ; ' Hawkes, 
 103/! ; ' Hector,' 90, 90/?*, 91 
 ' Katherine,' 159 ; ' Lemmon,' 102 
 ' Mary,' .339 ; ' Mayflower,' 159 
 339 ; ' Nathan,' 189 ; ' Fetter,' 166 
 'Ralph,' 165: 'Red Lion,' 285?? 
 ' Rose,' 166?? ; ' Samuel and Just 
 ina,' 90*, 90?(, 91, 148, 352?? 
 ' Swallow,' 285?? ; ' Unity,' 90, 102 
 'Vang'uard,' 285/?; 'Victory,' 
 285??* 
 Ships sunk in the harbour of the 
 Tyne, 160, 164??. 167; fired at 
 Sunderland, 168 
 Ships taken as prizes, xviii 
 Shirburn (see Sherburn) 
 Shoes sent to Sunderland, 90 
 Shoreston, Sherstone, etc., 215/?, 221, 
 
 268 
 Shortflatt, 87, 204, 383 
 Shotton (Dur.), 4, 9, 21 
 Shotton (Northd.), 134, 134??, 135/? 
 Shotton Edge, 134*, 135/? 
 Shoulder breakneck, 27 
 Shrewsbury, Lady, 300 
 Shrievalty expenses, 348/? 
 Sibthorp, Hen., 341, 341//, 342 
 Sidney, Col., 91 
 Sidgswicke Farm, 14 
 Sidgswick, Sidgewick, Jno., 15*, 
 
 Wm., Ill 
 Silksworth, 61, 137/!, 138*, 247/!, 
 
 291*, 291??, 335 
 Silver for Scots' Army, 90/? 
 Silvertops, The, 281?? 
 Simonburn, 152, 381 
 Simpson, Sympson, Jno., 6, 34; Hen., 
 342/!*; Capt. Hen., 343; Margt., 
 342?/; Midwife, 202?? ; Mr., 343; 
 Ra., 396; Tho., 342*, 342//; Mr, 
 Tho., 343* 
 Sinclair, Lieut. -col., 188/i ; Lord, 
 
 398* 
 Singleton, of Cresswell, 215; Feter, 
 
 232* ; Ra., 232 
 Sittenham, 369?? 
 Six Acres, 201 
 ' Six Bottle Mark,' 336?? 
 Skannel, Simon, 91
 
 451 
 
 Skelton Castle, 343/! 
 
 Skelton, Mary, 202 
 
 Skerne river, cleansing, 69 
 
 Skeughsby, 326/1 
 
 Skirfield, Elizth., 96n ; Jno., 96n ; 
 Wm., 37 
 
 Skirmingham, xxxiii, 67, 326*, 326n ; 
 Mill, 326* 
 
 Skurry, Chris., 30: Fran., 19 
 
 Slaley, 94 
 
 Slayter, Slaytor, Jno., 38* 
 
 Sledwich, Sledwisli, 65*, 68, 74, 329 
 
 Sleekburu, 291 
 
 Sleigh, Jno., 297h 
 
 Slinger, — , 254 
 
 Slingley, 211?) 
 
 Slingsby, Anne, 368?! ; Hen., 368/! 
 Sir Hen., 368?! ; Tho., 368, 368?? 
 
 Smart, Jno., 140*, 336, 337, 351 
 Mrs., 303?! ; Peter, 150??, 303 
 303?!*, Rob., 350, 351; Susanna 
 303/! ; Tho., 351 
 
 Smathwaite, Sam., 311, 311?! 
 
 Smeate, 141 
 
 Smeaton, 256?! 
 
 Smelt, Jno., 343?!; Margt.. 343n; 
 Matt., 343; Rich., 343?!, 344; 
 Tho., 343*, 344* 
 
 Smith, Adam, 221; Anne, 232; 
 Anth., 9; Capt. Anth., 340; Cath., 
 344?! ; Sir Chas., 344?! ; Dorothy, 
 108; Edwd., 344, 344?!*, 345*; 
 Sir Edwd., 344?? ; Francis, 298*, 
 299; Geo., 58, 69, 70, 344, 344?i*, 
 345*; Geo., esq., 67; Grace, 281?i ; 
 Hen., 150, 281?!, 345*; Hen., esq., 
 61, 61/! ; Dr. Jas., 286?! ; Jno., 30, 
 57, 67, 344*, 344?!*, 345; Sir 
 Jno. 344?! ; Lady, 240* ; Leonard, 
 335;' Margt., 344?!*; Mary, 239, 
 344/1*; Lady Mary, 240; Matt., 58, 
 67, 74, 252?!; Mrs., 235?!; Ra., 5; 
 Rich., 335; Sir Rich., 344??; 
 Sybil, 232, 234; Tho., 232, 233, 
 233?!, 234, 344/!; Wm., 94, 283, 
 344, 344?!*, 369*; Counsellor Wm., 
 109/!; Sir Wm., 277; Sir Wm., 
 bart., 239*, 240*, 279 
 
 Smoring Crooke, 321 
 
 Smyth, Elizth., 13*; Edwd., 26; 
 Francis, 17 ; Francis, jun. and 
 sen., 38; Geo., 30, 31, 32; Geo., 
 esq.,' 37*; Hen., 27; Capt. Hen., 
 13; Jno., esq., 10, 11*, 33; Mr. 
 Jno., esq., 37; Leonard, 20, 34*; 
 Matt., 8, 27, 33; Mr., 31; Mrs., 
 26; Ra., 12; Rich.. 16, 36; Robt., 
 4, 7, 12, 13, 34; The, 31*, 37 
 Suaith, Ra., 11, 33 
 
 Snape, The, 315 
 Snape, Nath., 109 
 
 Snitter, 371*, 372 
 
 Snowden, Snawdon, Gawin, 376n ; 
 
 Peter, 372; Tho., 7*, 20* 
 Snuke, Snuck, 295, 296 
 Soardhope, 372 
 Sockburn, 4, 6, 259/!, 319/i 
 Softley, 125, 250, 321* 
 Soldiers, destruction by, 20, 21, 25, 
 
 40, 43, 49, 53, 63, 83, 84, 97, 133. 
 
 173, 200, 302, 319, 340, 349, 350, 
 
 360?!, 370?!, 398 
 Solemn League and Covenant, x, 
 
 xxii?i, 407 
 Solicitor suspended, 88 
 Somersett, Sir Jno., 38, 67 
 Sonkey, Ann, 8 
 Soppett, Mr., 109 
 Soppit, 371, 372 
 Sothern, Tho. 350* 
 Soulby, Geo., 16, 16?? ; Rich., 36 
 Soulsby, Matt., 87 
 Southamjjton prison, 398 
 South Bank, 384 
 South Close, 400 
 Southcote, Sir Geo., 344?! 
 Southerby. Mr., 98 
 Southey, Jno., 332, 333 
 Southgate, Emanuel, 33, 235 
 South Gosforth, 239, 306?i 
 South Milburne, 113 
 South Shields, 60, 150*, 155?!, 236, 
 
 236?!, 240 
 Southwick, 254?!, 324?!, 390 
 Si>ackman, Nich., 59 
 Spartalee, Spartaley, 185, 186 
 Speaker, letter to the, 116?i 
 Spearman, Jno., 367?! 
 Spearman MSS, 202?! 
 Speed, Jno., 184/i* ; Susan, 184r! 
 Speed's Farm, 272 
 Spence, Mr. Clias. Jno., 316/! 
 Spennymoor, 252/! 
 Spindleston, 87, 206/!, 215/?, 219, 
 
 220??* 
 Spittle upon Staynmoore, 129 
 Spooner, Elizth., 116/1 
 Squibbe, Arth., 394, 395 
 Stackhill, 151, 153 
 Stafford, 337 
 Staindrop, 37*, 198,'l98n*, 236, 23671, 
 
 337,' 339 
 Staine, 257 
 Stainton, 35, 158, 158??, 227; Great, 
 
 xxxiii 13 14, 15, 17, 22, 65*, 67, 
 
 73, 158*. 175, 226, 227, 234, 260, 
 
 297; Little, 7, 15, 17, 19. 35, 66, 
 
 67, 73 
 Stainton in the Street, 225 
 Stainton Magna, 14, 28 
 Stamfordham, Stannerton, 201/1, 
 
 202. 202?!, 217. 307. 307?i, 373, 374
 
 452 
 
 Standish, 251/! 
 
 Standish, Edwd., 2oln ; Eliztli., 2ol/( 
 
 Standley Ling, 33 
 
 Stanhope, 46, 66, 13on, 161. 174, 185, 
 
 185?!, 200*, 200?i, 201*; Hall, 200«, 
 
 201* 201/!, 322: Park, 186 
 Stanley, 45, 68*, 230/!, 355. 356//, 357* 
 Stannerton (see Stamfordham) 
 Stannington, 376/!* 
 Stanstead, 281 
 Stanton, 149, 291, 364 
 Stanton, Geo., 211 
 Staniipp, Katli., 194// 
 Stapleton, xxxii, 67, 134, 311*, 311/! 
 Stapleton, Rob., 170 
 Star Chamber sentences, 125// 
 Staveley, "Wm., 158/1, 
 Staynmoore, 129 
 Steavenson, Stevenson, etc., Anth., 
 
 6, 30*, 34; Geo. 357; Hen.. 5*, 7, 
 
 11, 16, 25; Jno., 30, 34; Ea., 8; 
 
 Eob., 26; Tho., 30; Xpofer, 30. 
 
 (See also Stephenson) 
 Stcedman, Roger. 263* 
 Steele, The, 375, 375?i 
 Steele Close, 354 
 Steele, Rowland. 3 4 5* 
 Stella, Stelloe, etc., xxsi, 33, 38, 68, 
 
 138, 195/!, 245/1, 25971, 327?i, 348n, 
 
 356*, 356/)* 
 Stelling, 375/1 
 Stephenson, Isabel, 136/i ; Jno., 
 
 136n*; Margery, 136/(. (See also 
 
 Steavenson) 
 Stevens, Wm., 303 
 Stevensons of Bverside. 243/! 
 Stewart Col., 346*, 347*; Elizth., 
 
 346*; Jane, 346; Wm., 346*: 
 
 Col. Wm., 346* 
 Steukley, Stewkley, 45, 355/1 
 Stichell. 80/! 
 Stickle Hills, 239 
 Still. Geo., 345/! 
 Stillington, 13. 15*, 22. 25, 64. 66, 68, 
 
 234*, 234?/, 235*, 296*, 296/;, 297*, 
 
 297n* 
 Stillington Brigge Close, 297/! 
 Stirks, appraisements of, 28, 29 
 Stobbalee. Stobbylee, etc., 38, 151, 
 
 153; West, 67, 73 
 Stobbs, Jno., 173; Tho., 256/! 
 Stobert, Anne, 249* ; Rich., 198// 
 Stockdale Margery, 182*, 183*; 
 
 Rob., 182, 183 
 Stocke, Widow, 70 
 Stockley, 70 
 
 Stocksfield, 120// 4 J / 
 
 Stockton. 2*, 3: 7*, 24,^34. -35*, 36*, 
 
 136n, 158, 224/!, 227, 275*. 296; 
 
 Castle, 3/1,' 110//; W^ard, 16* 
 Stockton Commons division, llO/i 
 
 Stoddert, — , 12; Wm., 1.'5 
 
 Stoddoe, 30 
 
 Stokesley, 73 
 
 Stokoe, Rich.. .372 
 
 Stonecroft, 87, 369«, 375, 378*, 378ji* 
 
 Stonehouse, 153, 358 
 
 Stone qiiarries, 107 
 
 Stoppleton, 74 
 
 Storms, great, 301, .302/i 
 
 Story Xpofer, 30; Wm., 71 
 
 Stote, Sir Rich., 315/i 
 
 Stotfold. 2, 332, 333, 333?/ 
 
 Stotley, 125 
 
 Stott, Mr. Edwd., 103//; Geo. 36; 
 
 Leonard. 24: Mr., 104; Rowland, 
 
 20*; Tho., 27; Wm„ 27 
 Stowhoiise, 354/i 
 Straiford, Earl of, xii 
 Stranton, 60, 183*, 183// 
 Streatlam, 44, 65, 125*, 125/i, 126?/, 
 
 365/! 
 Strickland, Mr., 117; Sir Wm., 171?i 
 Strother, Jno., 317; Mr. Lyonell, 
 
 .347; Wm., 79, 92, .317, 347*, 361/1 
 Stnart, Wm., esq., 68 
 Studley Royal, 354/(, 
 Styford, 220/i 
 Suddick, Emanuel, 12, 32 
 SnfPolk, Earl of, 106, 149, 305*, 353, 
 
 381 ; Lord, 155, 305 /! 
 Sugley. 102 
 Sunderland, xiv. xvii, 8. 16, 18*, 36, 
 
 44. 46/!*, 53. 60*, 61, 61/!*. 65*, 66, 
 
 90*, 127*, 142*, 148*, 155, 1.59/!, 
 
 168, 232*, 240, 241/!. 246/!, 253, 
 
 253/!, 262. 263*, 268. 275, 275//*, 
 
 335, 336, 337*, 346, 389, 399; Mills, 
 
 18*, 253/1 
 Siinton, Rich., 14 
 Sussex, Earl of, 210/! 
 Swainston, 2, 5, 10, 11, 21, 33*, 38, 
 
 354*, .354/! 
 Swaiiham, 119// 
 Swalwell, 160, 3.33/r 
 Swalwell, Elizth., 17, 38 
 Swan, Ensign Tho., 188?i 
 Swanlinge, Clias., 97 
 Swatman's, Sweatman, 27 
 Sweethope, 203/! 
 Swinburne. 325; Castle, 369/1 ; Great, 
 
 325/1, 381, 383/!; Little, 383/1 ; 
 
 West, 381 
 Swinburne, Allan, 352 : Anne, .348// ; 
 
 Dorothy, 348/!*; Grace, 325//; 
 
 Hieronyma, 348/1 ; Isabel, 348/1 ; 
 
 Isabella, 266/1, 348/1 ; Jane, 350/i, 
 
 399; Jno., 266/1, 347*, .347/1, .348/1, 
 
 350/!*, 365/1*: Jno., esq., 347; Sir 
 
 Jno., 202//, 348/1; Margt.. 350//; 
 
 Mary. -365; Matt., 352; Mr., 30; 
 
 The, 18, .325/1, 348*, 348/1, 349*,
 
 453 
 
 350?i, 352, 399n; Tho., esq., iv., 21, 
 136, 349;i: Sir Tho., 77, 85*, 85/(, 
 348?i; Wm., xxxiii, 196, 347//, 
 350*, 350/1*, 351*, 352, 374*; 
 Wm., esq., 68, 352; Wm., jiin. and 
 sen., 352* 
 
 Swine, appraisements of, 27, 29* 
 
 Swinhoe, Dorothy, 156*, 157, .352« ; 
 Gilb., xxiii, 91, 156, 302/(*, 3 5 2, 
 352?i*, 353, 353n ; Jas., 352*, 3 5 3*, 
 353?i; Kath., 199/i; Margt., 352/;; 
 Margery, 1997i ; Mary, 199/1, 297/i ; 
 Wm., esq., 199?; 
 
 Swinston Close, 14 
 
 Swynnymaw Hogg, 153 
 
 Swynnymaw Haugh, 153 
 
 Sympson (see Simpson) 
 
 Talbot, Anne, 139// ; Jno., 139// 
 
 Tancred, Sir Tho., bart., 354/( 
 
 Tanfield, 102, 232/*, 233, 233/i, 234*, 
 309/1*, 354, 356/i, 395* 
 
 Tanfield Lea, 67 
 
 Tanners at Hexham, 94 
 
 Tatum, Rob., 340 
 
 Taylerson, Jno., 27, 35*; Rowland, 27 
 
 Taylor's Close, 138, 359 
 
 Taylor, Tailer, etc., Geo., 38, 54; 
 Jno., 161, 248, 354, 359; Mr. Jno., 
 161; Lancelot, 354 ; Ra., 358; Rob., 
 44, 68, 3 5 3*; Tho., 243; Tho., 
 esq., 354/i 
 
 Teddington, 285 
 
 Tees river, 288/t 
 
 Tempest, Alice, 230n, 245//; Cath., 
 32771 ; Chas., 357?i; Col., 217/(*, 
 334; Elizth., 354//, 357; Sir Fran., 
 356?/; Hen., 33, 325, 356, 357*; 
 Isabella, 137//, 348//; Jno., 44, 
 135/**, 3 54, 368/1 ; Jno., esq., 68; 
 Mary, 357//, 358*; Nich., 45, 68, 
 161, 3 5 5*, 355//, 356/i, 368 /i ; Sir 
 Nich., 103//, 104, 161, 355*, 357/i, 
 374*. 385; Sir Nich., knt., 355« ; 
 Sir Nich., bart., 137// ; Sir Rich., 
 56, 68, 356*, 356//*, 357; Rob., 
 246/1, 35771 ; Sarah, 356/t ; Sir — , 
 38; Tho., 45, 68, 230//, 357; Sir 
 Tho., 10, 11, 12, 18, 33, 36, 38, 136, 
 138*, 140, 245//, 259//, 327//, 348//, 
 356/i, 357*; Sir Tho., knt., 354// ; 
 Sir Tho., bart., 195// ; Troath. 
 259//; Lady Troath, 138*; Wni., 
 68, 74, 246/i, 310, 3 5 7*, 357//, 358* 
 
 Temple Mill, 208 
 
 Temple Mill AUers, 208 
 
 Temple Thornton, 207 
 
 Test Close, 164 
 
 Tctherings, The, 160 
 
 Thaine, Eleanor, 119n ; Jno., 119// 
 
 Thernam, 143*, 143/i* 
 
 Thew, Eleanor, 383 « ; Wm., 383// 
 
 Thickley, 365*, 365/i, 366* ; West, 365 
 
 Thicklev Puuchardon, 275/i 
 
 ThirlwaU, 358/i 
 
 Thirlwall, Geo., xxxiii, 3 58*, 358/1*; 
 
 Jno., 358 ; Lancelot, 358/i ; Margt., 
 
 358/1 ; Mary, 358// ; Thomasine, 
 
 358// 
 Thirsk, 366 
 Thisley Close, 32 
 Thistlerigg, 306* 
 Thockrington, 208//, 369 
 Thomas, Sir Edwd., xxiii// 
 Thomlinson, Col., 360// ; EUinor, 
 
 145// ; Jno., 145// 
 Thompson, Thomson, — , 6; Anth., 
 
 61, 61/i, 129, 359*; Chris., 6, 34*; 
 
 Cuth., 25, 387*; Dorothy, 359*; 
 
 Ellen, 19; Geo., 18, 24; Jno., 32, 
 
 33, 136, 301; Jno., B.A., 259*; 
 
 Matt., 35; Mr., 4, 6; Ra., 5, 12*, 
 
 32, 33, 37; Rich., 10, 36; Rob., 
 359; Steph., 68; Tho.. 136; Wm., 
 16, 58, 68, 74, 3 5 9*; XjDofer, 24 
 
 Thornbeckhill, 111*, 112 
 
 Thornborough, 314, 315 
 
 Thornethwaite, 315 
 
 Thorney Close, 272 
 
 Thorngrafton, 323 // 
 
 Thornhouse Close, 35 
 
 Thornley, 19, 27, 32, 68*, 74*, 180, 
 
 180/1, 281n, 297n, 333//, 355//, 357*, 
 
 357/1, 358*, 366 
 Thornton, 68, 123, 207, 365// ; Hall. 
 
 123//, 327//; West, 360, 364 
 Thornton brass in All Saints Church, 
 
 Newcastle, 360// 
 Thornton-in-the-Strect, 139// 
 Thornton, Anne, 362*, 363*; Ladv 
 
 Anne, 359, 361, 364*; Cuth., 362"; 
 
 Eleanor, 363; Frances, 363; Hen., 
 
 361* 361/1*. 362, 363; Jane, 361; 
 
 Jno.', 361, 361/1*, 362*, 363*, 364; 
 
 Lady, 360*; Leonard, 364; Mary, 
 
 363; Nich., 87, 347//, 360//, 361*. 
 
 362*, 363*, 364*; Nich., sen., 362; 
 
 Sir 'Nich., xxxiii, 359*, 360. 
 
 360n*, 361//*, 362*, 363*, 364*; 
 
 Roger, 359//, 360/i, 362; Wm., 
 
 360//*, 363 
 Thorold, Sir Anth., 380 
 Thorpe, 13, 176*, 181 
 Thorpe Buhner, 20, 141, 249 
 Thorpe, Kob., 301; Col. Rob., 352 
 Thorpthewles, 8*, 13*. 14, 15*, 23, 
 
 33, 35*, 111*, 180; Moor, 15, 16 
 Threakeston, 141 
 
 Three Nooke Close. 341 
 Thrislington, 339//*
 
 454 
 
 Throckley, 289, 315 
 
 Throphill, 370 
 
 Thropton, 372 
 
 Throston, 37*, 137«, 320; Nether, 
 
 24* 
 Tlirownton, 169* ; Mill, 169n 
 Thriimpitt, 153 
 Thrum's Lane. 341 
 Thursby, Mr. Thos., 19; Wm., 70 
 Thickell. Capt., Wm., 288?i 
 Tilslev, Col., 129 
 Tinsley, Col., 128 
 Tindale, barony, 322/1 
 Tiplady, Jno., 30 
 Tirrisdaile, 66, 73. (See also Turs- 
 
 dale) 
 Tithe barn at Cowpeu, 5 
 Titlington, 329 
 Tittory family, 289/i 
 Tocketts, Eoger, esq., 310* 
 Todburn, 362, 363* 
 Todd, Chris., 14; Jno., 31; Lancelot, 
 
 14, 29, 34, 58; Nich., 10, 24, 31, 
 
 35, 68, 335*; Tho., 9, 10, 114, 334; 
 
 Wm., 136; X^jofer, 13, 68, 74 
 Toft, 44, 201*; Hall, 384 
 Tof thill, 11 
 Tofts, 66 
 Togston, Togsden, etc., xxxiii, 87*. 
 
 143*, 143/(*, 144*, 265*, 266 
 Tolhurst, Elizth., 288/i ; Grace, 
 
 288/1 ; Jeremiah, 285/1, 285/!*; Mr., 
 
 Jeremiah, 288//; Major Jeremiah, 
 
 287*, 287/(, 288/1 ; Major, 62, 287, 
 
 288/1, 390/1 
 Tolls in Barnard Castle, 199, 199/i ; 
 
 Bowes, 200 
 Tolsby, 225 
 
 Tomkins, Mr. Jno., 103 
 Tomlinson, Geo., 158// ; W. W., x. 
 
 (See also List of Authors, etc.) 
 Tone House, 381, 383/i 
 Tonge, Barbara, 365/;; Cath., 365//; 
 
 Elizth., 268/i; 365/;*, 366; Geo., 
 
 329, 331, 3 6 4*, 365*, 365/1*, 366*; 
 
 Geo., esq., 68, 328; Sir Geo., 366; 
 
 Sir Geo., knt., 268/i; Gertrude, 
 
 365//; Isabel, 365//; Jno., 170,' 
 
 320, 365//, 366; Lady, 365*, 366*; 
 
 Mary, 365/;; Mr., 365; Eich., 
 
 365/) ; Wm., 365 /i, 365/;* 
 Tonstall, 320, 335; Jno., 343; Mar- 
 
 maduke, 68. (See also Tunstall) 
 Too Flatts. 257 
 Topping, Major, 188/i* 
 Tossen, 371, 372 
 Tosthill, 35 
 
 Towerson, Erasmus, 103// 
 Town End Fields, 112 
 Town Kelloe, 18* 
 Town Pasture, 207 
 
 Town wyde. The, 341 
 
 Towthorpe. 106/(, 
 
 Tradath, storming of, 312 
 
 Trafford Hill, 35*, 38* . 
 
 Tragedy and Triumph, 135/i 
 
 Treason, new definition of, xxxi 
 
 Treasurers at War, assignment by, 
 85 ; bills on, 82, 83 ; payments to, 
 47, 49, 50*, 54, 55*, 58, 60, 62, 64*, 
 69, 70, 72. 76, 86* 
 
 Trembett, Barn. 301 
 
 Trewhit, Trewhet, 156, 369/i ; Upper, 
 156 
 
 Trewittlee, 362 
 
 Trilby, 262 
 
 Trimdon, 5, 13, 15, 16*, 17*, 19, 24, 
 32*, 68*, 74*, 359*, 359/i* 
 
 Triplett, Mr., 17 
 
 Trollop, Anne, 296//, 297// ; Dorothy, 
 367//; Elizth, 367/;; Frances, 
 281//; Francis, 297//, 333//; Isabel, 
 367/i ; Jno., 58, 68, 74, 281//, 333/i, 
 3 66*, 367*, 367/i*; Jno., jun., 
 367/;*; Mr. Jno., esq., 27; CoL 
 Mich.. 367/;*; Mr., 367//; Samp- 
 son, 281/;; Mr. Tlio., 161; Capt. 
 Wm., 367/!* 
 
 Trollop, misfortunes of the family, 
 366// 
 
 Trotter, Mary, 343/;; Eich., 399; 
 Tho., 351 
 
 Troughen, 372 
 
 Troughead, 371 
 
 Trumbell. Edwd., 376 
 
 Trumble Hill, xxxiii, 66, 74, 220*, 
 220/; , 221* 
 
 Trybley, 280 
 
 Tudhoe, 340 
 
 Tunstall, 24*, 37*. 339/;, 359/; 
 
 Tunstall, Anne, 42/; ; Frances, 388/i 
 Francis, 388//; Sir Francis, 333/; 
 Margt., 224/) ; Marmaduke, 335 
 Ea., 42//; Tho., 43// ; Mr. Wm., 25. 
 (See also Tonstall.) 
 
 Turbett, Eich., 4, 27* 
 
 Turubull, Ea., 221* 
 
 Turney, Wm., 353 
 
 Turnemill, 272 
 
 Tursdale, 28*, 31, 137/;, 220/;, 252*, 
 252/;*, 253*, 344/;. (See also 
 Tirrisdaile.) 
 
 Tweed river, 302// ; fishings in, 268 
 
 Twizell, Twisel. etc. (Dur.), 258, 
 258/) ; (Northd.) 332//*, 360 
 
 Two Lee Closes, 257 
 
 Tiverton free school, 311 
 
 Tyne bank, 183* 
 
 Tvne river, 167*, 182/;, 183*, 272, 
 "288/;, 315* 
 
 Tynemouth, 178, 317, 380; Castle, 
 114, 117/;, 188/;, 227, 320/i, 334, 338;
 
 455 
 
 Cliurcli, 215; Garrison, xxvi ; 
 Haven, 148; Harbour moiitli, 160 
 Tyzack, Antli., 290 ; Elizth., 289, 290 ; 
 Tim., 289, 289/t* 
 
 U 
 
 Ufferton, 26, 27, 127* 
 
 Ulchester, 215h, 219*, 220, 220/t* ; 
 
 Grange, 220 
 Ulgham, 215; Grange, 215, 215/1*, 
 
 216 
 Ulnaby, 38, 68 
 Umfraville, Sir Eob., 270 
 Undersettle, 341 
 Unthank, 304;;, 
 Untliank, Jnc, 32 
 Upper Coniscliffe, 53, 251 
 Upper Lintz, 242 
 Upper Trewliet, 156 
 Upsall, 367 
 Upton, 357 
 Urwin, Urwen, Edwd., 8*, 15, 16, 19, 
 
 35 
 Ushaw, 73, 345 
 Usher, Wm., 35 
 Usworth, 238, 239, 240, 350;i; 
 
 Great, 238, 239, 240, 241; Little, 
 
 265n 
 
 Valentine, Jno., 396 
 
 Vane, Clias., esq., 358*; Chris., 227; 
 G., 39; Sir Geo., 129, 337; Hen., 
 xxi, 39; Sir Hen., 43, 59, 60, 61?i, 
 69*, 89, 95, 96, 107, 113, 118, 128, 
 137, 138, 142, 149, 155, 183, 184*, 
 185, 198*, 198/;, 200, 210, 232, 244, 
 253, 254, 255, 259, 260, 27l7i, 274, 
 274/1, 281, 307, 308, 318, 327, 337*, 
 339, 345, 359; Sir Hen., jun., xii?i, 
 xvi, 59, 83, 274, 390/i; Sir Hen., 
 sen., xii/i, 59*, 91, 390/i; Wm., 
 390/1 
 
 Vanlas, Mr., 90 
 
 Vasey, Vasie, Jno., 60, 61/i, 69, 
 3 6 7*; Rich., 228 
 
 Ventris, Ventrice, Frances, 126n, 
 127* 
 
 Viccars, Jno., 37 
 
 Vicontial rent, 147 
 
 Victuals for Scots' army, 90, 90/t 
 
 Vincent, Jno., 23; Hen., 10, 24 
 
 Vindobala, 325 
 
 Vllshaw (see Ushaw) 
 
 W 
 Wadley, Rich., 15 
 Waistell, Rob., 30 
 VVaister, Jno., 10 
 
 Waitinge, Wm.. 6* 
 
 Wake, Nich., 17, 38 
 
 Wakefield fight, 261/!. 
 
 Wakefield, Simon, 37 
 
 Waldridge, Wallrigg, etc., 233/i, 307, 
 
 307/!* 
 Walford, Franklyn, x 
 Walker, 203/i 
 Walker, Marmaduke, 34 ; Peter, 5, 
 
 11, 33. 38; Sam., 11, 33 ; Tho., 34 
 Walk Mill Closes, 208 
 Wall, 203/! 
 
 Wallas of Caistron, 376// 
 Wall Nooke, 26 
 Waller, Ambrose, 158/i; Sir Wm., 
 
 397, 397/!, 
 Walliugton, 77//, 92, 119/i*, 145/i, 
 
 151, 203, 203/!*, 205/i, 360, 368?i 
 Wallsend, 123 
 Walter, Capt., 342 
 Walton, 368/! 
 Walton, Jno., esq., 260/i* ; Ra., 
 
 290/! ; Tho., 32 
 Walworth, 53, 141*, 142, 210/!, 247 /i, 
 
 345 
 Waninge Close, 258 
 Wanlofte, Anth., 372 
 Wansbeck river, 208 
 War, first and second, defined, 
 
 xxviii/! 
 Ward, Cuth., 22; Geo., 10, 204*, 357, 
 
 358; Jno., 252 n ; Mr. Jno., 8*; 
 
 Jos., 68; Rob., 70; Tho., jun. and 
 
 sen., 3; Wm., 293, 307, 378/i 
 Wardall, 69 
 Warden Law, 26 
 Warden of the Fleet, 236/i 
 Wardlaw, Col. Jas., 91 
 Wardley, 165 
 
 Waring, Aid.. 299; Rich., 82, 97 
 Wark, 151/!, 368/! 
 Warlctonne, 153 
 Warmouth, Hen., xix ; Aid. Hen., 
 
 160; Hen., esq., 272 
 Warrants to sequester, 1-24 
 Warren, rent 1; coney, 207, 208* 
 Warton, 371, 372, 376/! 
 Warwick, Earl of, xv, 160, 285/!*, 
 
 286/1 
 Washington, 197/!, 318, 392// ; par- 
 sonage, 17 
 Wastell, Wastall, Leonard, B.A., 
 
 231/! ; Mr. Luke, 136 
 Waterfurrs, 26 
 Watergatcs. 151/!, 152, 153 
 Waterpits, 392 
 Watcrton, 368/! 
 Watcrton, Anne, 368/! ; Thos., xxxiii, 
 
 3 6 8*, 368/!* 
 Watiug, Wm., 30* 
 Watkins, Sir David, xxx, 100*
 
 456 
 
 Watson, Anth., 137« ; Jno., 283; Aid. 
 
 Jno., 268/1 ; Margt., lUn, 268n; 
 
 Mich., 26; Ra., 114; Dr. Rich., 
 
 42n; Eob., 16, 20, 26, 252/!*; 
 
 Stephen 13, 34; Tho., 24, 114n ; 
 
 Wm., 9; Mr. Wm., 8 
 Weardaile, Wardaile, Jno., 2; Geo., 
 
 21 
 Weardale, 185, 200, 2'Jni 
 Wearmouth, 126*, 240 
 Wearmouth, Jno., juu. and sen., 33: 
 
 Tho., 12 
 Wear river, 288h 
 
 Weather, extraordinariness of, 301 
 Webb, F., xviii; Capt. Rich., 92 
 Wedding incidents, 365/;, 376n 
 Wedding ring confiscated, 392?i 
 Wedparke, 151 
 Weede Park, 153 
 Weenies, Geo.. 16h, 252 « ; Rob., 16, 
 
 58, 68, 74, 359 
 Weetshide, xii;/ ; North. 187, 188 
 Welbeck, 134, 299n* 
 Welburn, Simon, 243/( 
 Welbury, Anth., 184 « ; Jno., 139« ; 
 
 Margery, 184/i 
 Weldon, 77/1 ; Hall, 77/( ; Tower, 77n 
 Weldon, Col., 337; Mich., 77, 77r!*, 
 
 117;i (See also Welton) 
 Welfoot, Tho., 12, 14, 17; Mr. Tlio., 
 
 5*. 6 
 Welford, Tho., 16, 19, 20*, 22; Rich., 
 
 x; Mr. Rich., M.A., vi ; Tho.. esq., 
 
 353 
 Wellbancks, 27 
 Well Close, 183*, 207, 239 
 Wellgarths, 234 
 Welton, Tho. de, 77?) ; Simon de, 
 
 77n*. (See also Weldon) 
 Welsh, Cuth., 26; Wm., 26 
 Wentworth, Sir Geo., 371; Mich., 
 
 369/;; Rosamond, ' 369;; ; Tho., 
 
 Lord, 371 
 Wessingham, 293 
 West Auckland (see Auckland) 
 Westburnhope, 203n 
 West Caldecotts, 377 
 West Denton, 79*, 189, 190*, 193n, 
 
 195 
 West Ditchburn, 78, 146*, 146«, 147*, 
 
 147?! 
 West Errington, 94, 190*, 191 
 Wester Newbiggen, 304??*, 305n 
 Westfield, 238 
 W^est Fogg, 33 
 West Grange, 164 
 West Harle, 87, 368, 368??, 382?? 
 West Hartburn, 15, 224, 228 
 West Hartford, 217 
 West Herrington, 26, .367/? 
 West Holme, 224, 225*, 227 
 
 West Manor, 183?? 
 
 West Marsfin (Mason) xxxiii, 197 
 
 West Matfen, 202*, 202??*, 372; High 
 
 Hall, 202 
 West Meadows, 32 
 Westminster, 150??, 192, 358 
 Westmorland, 6, 18, 50, 88*, 89n. 
 
 113, 115??, 116??, 119??, 129, 130?i, 
 
 131??*, 198, 251??, 288??, 337 
 Westmorland, Earl of, 114??, 198??. 
 
 245??, 333?? 
 Westmoor pasture, 19 
 Westmost Close, 207 
 West Murton, 21 
 West Newham, 208 
 West Newton, 347 
 West Orde, 95?? 
 West Park, 306?? 
 West Rainton, 27 
 West Shaftoe, 325n 
 West Shields, 362 
 West Stobbalee, 66, 73 
 West Swinburne, 381 
 West Thickley, 365 
 West Thornton, 360, 364 
 West Whelpington, 205?? 
 Westwood, 79, 304*, 304??, 355, 386 
 Westwood, And., 173?? 
 Westwood Farm, 314 
 West Woodborne, 152 
 West, Jno., 32; Mr. Jno., 103 
 Wetherald, Tlio., 93 
 Wetherell, Jno., 19; Jno., jun. and' 
 
 sen., 35 
 Wetlieret, Jno., 7* 
 Wettman, Wm., 208 
 Wetwang. Fran., 92, 93*, 136??; 
 
 Wm., 93 
 Whalton, 208*, 360, 362; parsonage, 
 
 114 
 Wharnlev, 191 
 Wharrington, 20, 21, 28*, 96 
 Wharton, Chris., 291?? ; Elizth., 
 
 291?i; Humph., 359;?; Lord, 359??; 
 
 Sir Nich., xxiii?i ; Philip, Lord, 
 
 359??; Tho., 197, 208, 270*, 359??; 
 
 Sir Tho., knt., 359?( 
 Wheat, apjiraisement of, 29 
 Wheatley Hill, 16, 25, 31, 252*, 
 
 252??*. 253 
 Wheatlev Lawfield, 355, 386 
 Wheatley, Jno., 335; Wm., 114 
 Wheatlyes, 272 
 Wheat, market price of, 72?? 
 Wheeler, Elizth., ;306?) 
 Whelpington West, 205?? 
 Whesso, 349 
 Whickham, Wickham, etc., 61, 102, 
 
 123, 136, 136??*, 157, 163, 197??, 231, 
 
 232??, 244*, 244?), 245/?, 247/?, 269.. 
 
 321, 333, 333??
 
 457 
 
 Whinhouse, 5, 11*, 21, 34, 37 
 
 Whinney. 207; Close. 183, 29771, 
 384; Field, 208, 258; Pasture, 183* 
 
 Whitburiie Moor, 157 
 
 Whitby, 145«, 153*, 154 
 
 Whitchester, 318 
 
 White Miles, 32; Wm., 89 
 
 Whitefield, Middle, 207 
 
 Whitehall, 244, 326, 3267i 
 
 Whitehall Dyke Nook, 333n, 3677i 
 
 Whitehead, Geo., 79, 3 68*; Jas., 
 134*; Margt., 378n ; Nich., 360n, 
 378n 
 
 Whitehill, Whithill. 174;;, 24271, 
 292*, 292 n, 293* 
 
 Whitehouse, 80?;, 103?;, llSji, 165, 
 332*, 332», 333«, 36871, 369*, 38871 
 
 White Hurworth, 11, 23, 24, 37, 67 
 
 White Leases, 21 
 
 Whitesfield. 201 
 
 Whitesheeles, 87 
 
 Wliiteside, 143?/ 
 
 Whiteside La we, 381 
 
 Whitfield, Tho., 248; Wm., 22 
 
 Whitsheilds, 322 
 
 Whitsum, Cath., 383/i; Dan., 38371 
 
 Whittall Mill, 314 
 
 Whittingrham, 168, 169, 170; Mill, 
 169?; ; rectory, 156, 170 ; Vale, 3857i 
 
 Whittingham, Cath., 346/1 ; Tim., 
 39, 335 ; Sir Tim., 346« 
 
 Whittingstall, 314 
 
 Whittington, 145, 3787i ; Great, 145* 
 
 Whittington Coat Sheels, 143« 
 
 Whittle Burn, 777i 
 
 Whittol, 67, 73 
 
 Whitton, 8*, 33 
 
 Whitwell House, 19, 20, 21, 30, 60, 
 137, 13771 
 
 Whitworth, 114, 114n. 115, 336/1* 
 
 Wieke, Tlie, 26 
 
 Widdifield, 254 
 
 Widdifield, Jno., 5*, 37* 
 
 Widdowes, Jno., 29; John, sen., 8 
 Eob., 8, 25, 33 
 
 Widdrington, 87, 151, 248/i, 2617! 
 31l7( , 32171, 36971, 378, 380 ; Castle 
 xxxi 
 
 Widdrington, Agnes, 31l7i, 369n,* 
 Anne, 87, 133?;, 134*, 135*, 31l7i 
 360/1, 362, 368, 368/i, 369*, 382/i 
 Mrs. Ann 134; Anth., 380; Benj. 
 375; Cath, 261/i*, 33671, 375*, 376 
 Christine, 370, 373; Dame Chris 
 tina, 370?/; Dorothy, 248/i, 325/) 
 375, 376; Edwd., lS5n, 325n 
 369/7, 371, 380; Sir Edwd., xxxiii 
 87, 151/)*, 263, 342, 343*, 3 6 9* 
 369/i, 370*, 370/i, 371*, 372, 3727( 
 373/*,*; Eleanor. 1837i; Elizth. 
 311/1 ; Ephraim, 376. 377, 380 
 
 Sir Ephraim, 369?i, 376, 377; Geo., 
 372/1; Hen., xxxiii, 87, 150, 151, 
 202, 325, 350, 351, 352, 369//, 371, 
 372, 373*, 374*, 374/1, 375*, 376, 
 376n*, 377*, 380*, 382/i ; Sir Hen., 
 152, 248/i, 249, 25l7i, 261 /i, 315n, 
 321/1, 360/1, 369/i, 374//, 378/i*, 
 380*; Sir Hen., knt., 151; Isabel, 
 312, 375; Jno., 56, 68, 72, 74, 87, 
 312, 369/(, 371, 3 7 7*, 3 78*, 37871*, 
 382/1; Sir Jno., 369/i ; Sir Jno., 
 knt.,311/( ; Kath., 248/i, 321?/ ; Lady, 
 300, 380; Lewis, 183/i; Lord, 251, 
 361/1*, 378/1*. 383/;; Margt., 315//.; 
 Mary, 151/!, 248/!, 25l7i. 311, 31l7i, 
 369/i, 370/!, 371, 375, 376, 378, 380; 
 Mr., 303, 376; Oswald, 371; Ka., 
 xxxiii, 368//, 380, 381*, 382*, 38271*, 
 38371; Sir Ra., 369 /i ; Rob., 133/!, 
 134*, 135, 311, 311/1, 312*, 313, 
 368n', 369/i, 382//; Roger, 195//, 
 368/1, 369/!, 370*, 371*, 373/!, 380; 
 Roger, esq., 195/i ; Rosamond, 
 36971 370; Rowland, 381, 382, 
 38371 '; Tho., 371*, 382/1, 386*; Sir 
 Tlio., xii/i, xxiii, xxvii, 91, 108, 
 1217!, 144, 213/i, 373, 385; Sir Tho., 
 336/!; Ursula, 360, 369/i*, 375; 
 Wm., 377, 380*, 381, 382 /i ; Sir 
 Wm., xxviii, xxxi, 80, 87, 140*, 
 146, 160, 218, 249, 271, 272, 300, 
 306/i, 360*, 363*, 371*, 3 78*, 378/!, 
 379/i*, 380*, 381*, 382, 382/! ; Wm., 
 Lord, 301/i, 356/!, 360/!*, 369/i, 
 370/i 
 
 Widdrop, Wm., 16/i 
 
 Wigan fight, 367/i. 379/i 
 
 Wild, — , 137/! ; Rob., 64 ; Rob., esq., 
 68. (See also Wyld.) 
 
 Wildbore, Gilb., 141; Tho., 139/i 
 
 W^ild fowl, decoy for, 194/i 
 
 Wildman, Major Jno., 314*, 315 
 
 Wilkinson, Ann (alia-'^ Sonkey), 8; 
 Elizth, 252/!; Edwd., 311/1; Geo., 
 358; Hen., 14, 15, 17, 28; Jas., 21; 
 Jane, 311/1 ; Jno.. 5, 12, 13, 21, 32, 
 34; Mr., 215; Ra., 17, 20, 335; 
 Rich., 7*, 15, 20, 22, 34; Rowland, 
 354//; Tho., 252/(. 340, 341; Wm., 
 12, 32, 33, 166. 211/!, 272 
 
 Willdon, Sir Hen., 184 
 
 Willie, Rich., 19 
 
 William, Peter, 68 
 
 Williams Close, 235 
 
 Williams, Wm., 396 
 
 Williamson, Ann, 247/i ; Dr., 247/!; 
 Elizth., 392/!; Jno., 3, 20; Mary, 
 315/i*: Rob., Hopper, 247//; Sir 
 Wm., 392/!* 
 
 Willimoteswick, xxxiii. 322*. 322/1, 
 323/!
 
 458 
 
 Willingtou (Durh.), 67, 73 
 
 Willington (Northd.), 355/i* 
 
 Willoughby, — , 376/i 
 
 Wills, Roger, 154 
 
 Wills, Anderson, Eob., 103h ; Brig- 
 nell, Tho., 136/i ; Calverley, Sir 
 Jno., 346« ; Conyers, Ea., 11; 
 Conyers, Rob., 174/i ; Errington 
 Mark, 194 h ; Harrison, Ra., 233/; ; 
 Hilton, Hen., 237/i ; Horsley,Hen., 
 77/( ; Jenison, Wm., 256n; Mit- 
 ford, Jane, 294n ; Orde, Jno., 
 304« ; Procter, Cutli., 173n ; Swin- 
 burne, Sir Tlio., Son ; Widdring- 
 ton, Jno., 378/1 
 
 Wills, no settled course for proving, 
 63 
 
 Willy Close, 257 
 
 Willy, Jno., 340 
 
 Wilson, Cuth., 34; Dorothy, 30; 
 Edwd., 70; Jane, 136; Jno., 136, 
 263; Marmaduke, 30; Mary, .30; 
 Wm., 10, 27 
 
 Winchester, prebendary of, 42« 
 
 Winchester, Jno., 134 
 
 Windagaites. Mich., 376n* 
 
 Windleston. 60. 69, 185* 
 
 Windmill Stubb, 138 
 
 Wine, butlerage and prisage of, 
 397/1; French, 161; Sherry, 161 
 
 Winkle, Wrinkle, Chas., 384; 
 Eleanor, 383// ; Ellen, 384* ; 
 Griffin, 383//, 384; Jno., 383//, 384; 
 Mary., 383/; ; Susan, 383// ; Tho., 
 xxxiii, 383*, 383/(, 384*; Wm., 
 383 // 
 
 Wing, Mr., 210 
 
 Wingate, Windgate, etc., 17*, 19, 
 31, 181, 362; Grange, 31, 17*, 38*, 
 180/), 181, 291//; Vill, 38 
 
 Winlaton, xxxiii. 36*, 67*. 74*, 102*, 
 103/i*, 154/(, 245, 245/i, 285//, 287*, 
 356?/, 357/) 
 
 Winlinton, 38 
 
 Winslow, Edwd., 394, 395 
 
 Winston. 197//, 225 
 
 Winter, Jno., 58, 68, 74; Wm., 209 
 
 Winton, 158/! ; Castle, 281 
 
 Winyard, 13*, 15, 19, 35, 180, 181. 
 (See also Wyuyard.) 
 
 Winyard mill, 15, 34 
 
 Witham, Anne, 58, 68, 74, 329; 
 Anth., 58, 68, 69; Isabel, 74; Jane, 
 361*, .363, 377; Jno., 58, 74*, 175/), 
 361, .363, 377; Jno., esq., 38; 
 Margt., 175/1 ; Mr., 35, 59; Peter, 
 58. (See also Wytliam.) 
 
 Witton, 71, 178, 179*, 337, 362; 
 Castle, 178, 178//, 361n*, .362; 
 chapel, 179 
 
 Witton le Wear. 109* 
 
 Witton on the Water, 362* 
 
 Witton upon Wear, 37 
 
 Witton Shields, 362 
 
 Wives married after sec[uestration, 
 81 
 
 Wivall, Wm., 56, 68, 74. (See also 
 WyviU.) 
 
 Wogan, Capt., .385// 
 
 Wolfe Woolfe, Jno., 26, 161; Rich., 
 37 
 
 Wolfe Cleugh, 186 
 
 Wollaston, Sir Jno., 60, 62, 64, 82 
 
 Wolley in Bywell, 314 
 
 Wolsingham, 38*, 60, 61/), 64, 65, 
 67, 142, 247/1, 284; parsonage, 17 
 
 Wolverton, 206// ; Mill, 180 
 
 Wolviston, Woolveston, etc., 2*, 
 3*, 15, 20; Mill, 15, 34, 35 
 
 Wood, Dorothy, 401/), 402; Edwd., 
 xix, 99, 401; Geo., 295*; Mrs., 
 401*; Symond, 14*, 17, 29, 33; 
 Wm., 7 
 
 Woodborne, West, 152 
 
 Wood Ends, 207 
 
 AYoodhall, 149//; Farm, 314; Mill, 
 314 
 
 Woodham, 53, 345 
 
 W'oodhorn, 300*, 314, 376, 378//, 380 
 
 Woodhouse, 300; Close, 397 
 
 Woodhouse, Jno., 68, 385*; Nich., 
 45, 385*, 385/); Peter, 27; Wm., 
 385 
 
 Woodhouses, 153, 371, 372 
 
 Woodleazes. 2.38 
 
 Woodlow, .371 
 
 Woodman, Anth., 84, 86 
 
 Woodrent, 123 
 
 Woodward, Edwd., 273/) 
 
 Woolawes, 372 
 
 Wooler, 171, 207 
 
 Woolley, Wolly, etc., 44, 65, 177*, 
 177/1 
 
 Woolsington, 196*, 197//; Grange, 
 196; House, 197; West Close, 197 
 
 Wooperton, 92, 315/), 316* 
 
 Worcester, battle of, 379// 
 
 W^orkington, 118n, 261/1, 369/i, 
 
 Worley, 369/) 
 
 Wormeley, Rob., 6*; W^m., 68 
 
 Worrall, Rob., 68 
 
 Worsall, 3, 6*, 96/), 224n 
 
 Wray, — , 280; Capt. Chris., 227; 
 Dorothy, 185//, 292// ; Eleanor, 
 388/); Elizth., 387, 388//; Geo., 
 xxxiii, 355*, 385*, 385/), 386*, 
 387*, 388*, .388//; Col. Geo., 385//; 
 Frances. .388// ; Francis, .396 ; Jane, 
 388//; Jane, Lady, 325; Mr.. 27, 
 163, 389*, 391n*; Mrs., 392n; Tho., 
 xxxiii, 243//, 254/), 275//, 324n, 
 385/), 388 .388/!*, .389*. 390*, 390/1,
 
 459 
 
 392*, 392;i*, 393, 395*, 396; Tho., 
 esq., 68; Mr. Tho., 389; Wm., 
 185/1 ; Sir Wm., 2927i; Sir Wra., 
 knt., 292, 388/1 
 
 Wreighill, Wrighill, 358, 358/i 
 
 Wren, Barbara, 47?i, 396n*, 397*; 
 Chas., 247; Sir Chas., 47n, 119/!, 
 396n; Col., 49, 118, 200, 342, 398; 
 Frances, 119n, 396n; Francis, 
 xxxiv, 39, 46, 47*, 47n*, 48/i, 49*, 
 51*, 52*, 53*, 55*, 56* 58*, 60*, 61, 
 62*, 64, 65, 68, 69*, 70, 71, 72*, 74, 
 147, 287, 341, 396n; Col. Francis, 
 46, 93*, 343*, 393 ; Gertrude, 47n ; 
 Lindley, 47n*, 142, 3 96*, 396n*, 
 397n, 398*, 399; Lindley, jun., 
 398* 
 
 Wrinkle (see Winkle) 
 
 W>ard, Eob., 91 
 
 Wylam, 348/i 
 
 WyclifEe, 68 
 
 W'yld, Isabel, 321// ; Eob., 321//. (See 
 alsq Wild) 
 
 Wyndmillhill, 112 
 
 W^nyard, 8, 9, 269/i. (See also Win- 
 yard.) 
 
 Wynyard, Tho., 358 
 
 "Wytham, — , 7; Anne, 170, 3 99*; 
 Dorothy, 399, 399/;; Jno., 399, 
 
 399/); Mary, 399; Wm., 399*, 
 399//. (See also Witham.) 
 Wyvill, Chris., esq., 168n;; Olive, 
 168//; Solomon, 126. (See also 
 Wivall.) 
 
 Y 
 
 Yarm, Yarrom, etc., 6*, 67, 74, 168, 
 212, 224/1, 225*, 253/i, 278/i, 329 
 
 Yarmouth, Great. 161 
 
 Yarrow, Anth., 372 ; Jno., 372; Wm., 
 372 
 
 Yeavering, 79, 347* 
 
 Yetlington, 156* 
 
 York, 49, 101, 107, 113/i, 118, 128, 
 134, 166, 176, 199, 201, 229, 276, 
 320//, 359, 397/1 ; Assizes, 323/1 ; 
 Castle, 279; Cathedral, 42// ; re- 
 ducing of, 146 ; siege of, xvii, 140, 
 141, 241// 
 
 York Articles of War, 218* 
 
 Young, And., 400*, 401*, 402*; Sir 
 And., 56, 68, 206//, 207, 219, 220, 
 220//, 400*, 401*; Sir And., knt., 
 400; Anth., 9, 26; Cuth., 401*; 
 Jno., 15, 70, 71; Lady, 400; Mary, 
 206, 207, 220n, 400// ; Dame Mary, 
 400; Wm., 9 
 
 Younger, Tho., 36
 
 460 
 
 LIST OF AUTHORS AND BOOKS QUOTED. 
 
 ( The paginal references indicate foot-notes. ) 
 
 Archo'ologia Aeliana, 176, 180, 205, 244, 246, 289, 311, 314, 316, 360, 386. 
 
 Arrowsmith, Dr. Jno., A Great Wonder in Heaven, 108. 
 
 Atkinson, Geo., Worthies of Westmorland, 294. 
 
 Baddeley, Rich., Life of Bp. Morton, 107. 
 
 Bates, C. J., Arch. Aeliana, 201 ; Border Holds, 143, 217, 221, 368, 370. 
 
 Bourne, Hen., Hist. Newcastle, 103, 154, 188, 289. 
 
 Boyle, J. R. , and Knowles, W. H. , Vestiges of Old Newcastle and Gateshead, 289- 
 
 Boys, Wm., Hist. Sandwich, 286. 
 
 Braithwaite, Rich., Drtmken Barnaby, 130, 131. , 
 
 Brand, Rev. Jno., Hist. Neivcastle, 96. 
 
 Brereton, Sir Wm., Notes of a Journey through Durham and Northumberland' 
 
 (1635), 194, 223, 396. 
 Burke, Landed Gentry, 113 ; Vicissitudes of Families, 176. 
 Calendars of Parliamentary Committees, passim. 
 Carlyle, T., Oliver GromivelVs Letters and Speeches. Title page. 
 Gary, Memorials of the Great Civil War, 41. 
 Charnock, Naval Biography, 286. 
 Clarendon, Rebellion and Civil Wars, xii, 379. 
 Cosin, Bp. , Correspondence, 291, 334, 354. 
 
 Darnell, W. N., Correspondence of Iscmc Basire, D.D., 3, 212. 
 De Adoratione Dei versus Altar e, 42. 
 Dendy, F. VV., Deeds, 154; Surtees Society Publications, 43, 96, 101, 159, 162, 
 
 173, 244, 255, 264, 278, 288, 289, 303. 355, 397. 
 Denham, Poetic Epistles, 286. 
 Diary of Alary Countess Cowper, 120. 
 Diet. National Biography, xii, xvii, xxxiii, 286, 309. 
 Dixon, D. D., Whittingham Vale, 155, 169. 
 Dodd, J. J., Hist. Spennymoor, 336. 
 Dugdale, Visitations, 322, 343. 
 
 Eggleston, W. M., Stanhope and its Neighbourhood, 201. 
 Emerson, P. H., The English Emersons, 186. 
 Feet of Fines, Northumberland, 169. 
 Fleetwood, Chronicon Preciosum, 72. 
 
 Foster, Jos., Visitations, 113, 145, 176 ; Yorkshire Pedigrees, 115, 116. 
 Gardner, Ralph, England's Grievance Discovered in Relation to the Coal Trade,. 
 
 11, 316. 
 Gilpin, Dr. Rich., Satan's Temptations, 43. 
 Gilpin, Wm., Memoirs of Dr. Rich. GilpiJi, 43. 
 Graves, Rev. Jno., Hist. Cleveland, 116, 176. 
 Gray, Wm., Chorographia, 96, 103. 
 
 Grazebrook, H. S., Noble Families of Henzey Tyltery and Tuzack, 289. 
 Hedworth, Jno., The Opjwessed Man's Oidcry, 288, 324, 390, 391, 392. 
 History of the Family of Car r, 145, 147. 
 
 Hodgson, Rev. Jno., Hist. Northumberland., passim; MSS. , 382. 
 Hodgson, Jno. Crawford, Arch. Aeliana, 178, 237; ex. inf., 173, 315, 383;. 
 
 New Hist. Northumherland, 11, 133, 157, 188, 205, 358, 368, 382, 386. 
 Hunter MS. at Durham, ix, 1.
 
 461 
 
 Hutchinson, Wm., Hist. Cumberland, 326; Hist. Durham, 42, 44, 116, 150, 
 
 275, -^84. 
 ■Journals of Houses of Commons and Lords, passim. 
 Lilburn, John, A Jxist Reproof to Haberdashers Hall, 394. 
 Lilburne Tryed and Cast, 392. 
 LongstafiFe, W. H. D., Arch. Aeliana, 158, 260; Hist. Darlinyton, 45, 110, 158, 
 
 253, 307 ; Memoirs of Ambrose Barnes, 43, 338. 
 Mackenzie, E., Hist. Northumberland, 202, 307. 
 Maddison, D., Prestivick Carr, 203. 
 Merrie Neioes from Epsom Wells, 286. 
 Milbank MS., 188. 
 
 Milner, E., Records of the Lumleys of Lumley Castle, 281. 
 Musariim JDelicue, 286. 
 
 Musgrave Muzzled, or the Traducer Gagged, 391. 
 Nelson, Ra., Notes on Wren of B inchest er, 47. 
 Nicolson and Burn, Hist. Westmorland, 119, 131. 
 Northumberland, New History of, passim. 
 Ogle, Sir Hen., Oy/e and Bothal, 77, 80, 301, 303. 
 Pepys, Diary, 285, 286, 288. 
 
 Primatt, Josiah, Humble Petition and Appeal, 394. 
 Proceedings of the Newcastle Society of Antiquaries, 133, 203. 
 Raine, Jas., Arch. Aeliana, 177,311; Hist. Auckland Castle, 4"] ; Hist. North 
 Dtirham, 95, 105, 155, 199, 206, 215, 220, 221, 222, 297, 304, 305, 318, 332, 
 352, 353, 377. 
 Richardson, Ctco. Bouchier, Life of Mrs. Dorothy Lawson of St. Antony's, 266. 
 Richardson, M. A., Rare Tracts, iv, xiv, 327, 391. 
 Richley, Matthew, Hist. Bp. Auckland, 47, 95, 140 
 Rushworth, John, Collections, xxi, xxxiii, 217, 261, 403, 407. 
 Scott, John, Hist. Berwick, 296, 297, 302. 
 
 Sharp, Sir Cuth., Chronicon Mirahile, 288 ; Hist. Hartlepool, 261 ; Knights and 
 Burgesses of Durham, 275, 354; Memorials of the Rebellion of 15G9, 124, 
 125 ; Rare Tracts, 47, 77. 
 Spence, C. J., Paper in Arch. Aeliana, 316. 
 Stephens, Jas., Commentaries on the Laws of England, 397. 
 Summers, J. W. , Hist. Sunderland, 253, 275. 
 Surtees, Rob. , Hist. Durham, piassim. 
 Tate, Geo., Hist. Alnwick, 1.33, 211. 
 Thompson, John, Notes on Wren of B inchest er, 47. 
 
 Thurloe, State Papers, 188, 376. 
 
 Tomlinson, W. W., Denton Hall and its Associations, 188. 
 
 Tragedy of the Unhapjpy Fair Irene, 353. 
 
 Walbran, J. R., Antiquities of Gainford, 119, 213, 365. 
 
 Wallis, John, Antiquities of Northumberland, 77, 178. 
 
 Walpole, Catalogue of Enqr avers, 309. 
 
 Welford, R., Men of Mark, 271, 283, 316. 
 
 Whitlock, Memarials, xvii. 
 
 Wood, Anthony, Athence Oxon., 286. 
 
 Yorkshire Royalist Composition Papers, 131.
 
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 -^ io8. Beverley Chapter Act Book. Vol. II. jos. Edituil by Mr. \. F. Leach. 
 
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 2. The Consuetudinary of St. Marv's Abbey, York. To be edited by the Rev. F. \. 
 
 Gasquet. D.D., and Mr. Edmund Bishop. 
 
 V A Volume from the Quarter Sessions Records of the County ot Durham. To be edited 
 by Mr. F. W. Dendy. 
 
 4. Wills relatingf to Xottinjafhamshire and the tour Northern Counties. I\> be edited bv 
 
 Mr. J. W. Clay. 
 
 5. The Register of Thomas de Hatfield. Bishop of Durham. To be edited by the Rev . Dr. 
 
 Gee. 
 
 6. The Chartulary of St. Bees. To be edited by the Rev. James Wilson. 
 
 7. The Horse Eboracenses. To be edited by the Rev. Canon Wordswi^rth. 
 
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 q. Wills and Inventories. Vol. IH. To be edited by Mr. J. Crawford Hodgson. 
 
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 \i. \'isilalions of the -Vrchdeaconry of Richnioiul in the iiitli and i7lh Centuries. From the 
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 14. Durham School. To be edited by Mr. A. F. Leach. 

 
 LIST OF OFFICERS & MEMBERS, 1905. 
 
 PATRON AND PRESIDENT. 
 His Grace the Dlke oe NoKTiiLMBEKLANn, K.G. 
 
 VICE-PRESIDENTS. 
 
 Sir GE(.irge Akmytage, Bart., Kirkloes Park, Brig-liousK. 
 
 Lord Barnard, Raby Castle, Darliiij^^ion. 
 
 Sir Thomas Brooke, Bart., Arniilai;v Bridge, Hiuldersfif Id. 
 
 Rev. William Brown, Old Elvei, burhain. 
 
 S. J. Chadwick, Lyndhursl, Dewsbiiry. 
 
 J. W. Clay, Rastrick House, Brig-house. 
 
 Francis Cc)LLINS, M.D., Pateley Bridge. 
 
 ¥. W. Dendy, Osborne Road, Newcastie-ou-Tyiie. 
 
 Rev. Canlin Fc^wler, Durliam. 
 
 Rev. Dr. Gee, Durham. 
 
 Rev. William Greenwell, Durham. 
 
 The Very Rev. W. G. Henderson, Dean ot Carlisle. 
 
 Richard Oliver Heslop, Newcastle-oti-Tyne. 
 
 Thomas Hodgkin, Newcaslle-on-Tyne. 
 
 J. Craweord Hodgson, Alnwick. 
 
 J. G. Hodgson, Newxastle-on-Tyne. 
 
 The Very Rev. G. W. Kitchin, Dean ol' Durham. 
 
 Rev. J. M. Marshall, Croft Rectory, Darlington. 
 
 W. W. MORRELL, West Mount, York. 
 
 The Very Rev. .A. P. Purey-Cust, Dean of York. 
 
 Rev. Charles Slingsbv, Scriven Park, Knaresborough. 
 
 Rev. Canon Tristram, Durham. 
 
 R. B. Tlrton, Kildale Hall, Grosmont, York. 
 
 Richard Weleord, Gosforth, Newcastle-on-Tyne. 
 
 Rev. F. G. Wesley, Hamsteels V^icarag^e, Durham. 
 
 SECRETARY. 
 William Brown, Whilehouse, Northallerton. 
 
 TREASURER. 
 
 John George Gradon, Durham. 
 
 MEMBERS, WITH THE DATES OF THEIR ADMISSION.* 
 
 Rev. C. E. Adamson, Westoe, South Shields. 4th December, 1898. 
 Laurence W. Adamson, Linden House, Ackiington. 3rd December, 1901. 
 Lord Aklenham, St. Dunstan's, Regent's Park, London. 15th December, 
 
 Lord Amheivst of Hackney, Didlinglon Hall, Brandon, Norfolk. ist 
 
 December, 1868. 
 Andrews and Co., Sadler Street, Durham. 5th March, i8g6. 
 
 " Tlio miinliLr ot three luindred and fifty members, to which the Society is limited, is 
 fTcncr.iUy full. Juds^iiif; friiiii past experience, there will be ten or twelve vacancies every year, 
 and tliese will tie rey:iilarly filled up. New members will be elected by the Council according 
 to priority of application, unless the son or representative of a deceased member wishes to be 
 chosen in his place. This list is corrected up to July, J905.
 
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 Lord Arinstroiisj, Crag-siile, Rothbiirw 3rd December, igoi. 
 
 Sir Geors^e Armylaj^'e, B;irt., F.S.A., Kiiklet-s, Hrig^lioiise. 2nd June. 
 
 1S68. (Vicr-PiTsidcn(, 1905.) 
 Sir J, E. Backhouse, Bart., Darlini^ton. 5II1 June, 1S77. 
 Thos. H. Barker, 36, The Judges Dri\e, Xewshain Park, Liveipool. 
 
 4th December, 1902. 
 Lord Barnard, Raby Castle, Darlin^^ton. 6th December, 1892. ( Vice- 
 
 Prcsidcnt, 1900-1905). 
 Edward Bateson, 12, Oxford and Cambridije Mansions. X.W. 4th Decem- 
 ber, 1894. 
 Keimett C. Bayle\-, Durham. 1st December, 1903. 
 
 Etiward Boll, York Street, Covenl Garden, London. 3rd March, i8yi. 
 John Bilson, Hessle, Hull. 5th March, 1895. 
 
 E;dmund Bishop, 4, Great Ormond Street, W'.C. 1st December, 1874. 
 Thomas M. Blatfg', 25, Carterij;-ale, Xewark-on-Trent. 4th December, 1898. 
 Lord Bolton, Bolton Hall, Wensley. 5th March, 1889. 
 Viscount Boyne, Brancepeth Castle, Durham. 4th Jime, 1873. 
 Thomas Boynton, Norman House, Bridlius^'ton Oiiav. iwA December, 1884. 
 Noel P. \V. Brady, Ferryside, Twickenham, isl December, 1903. 
 Sir Thomas Brooke, Bart., F.S.A., Armitati;-e Bridge, Hudilerstield. 14th 
 
 December, i860. (Vice-President, 1881-1905.) 
 Rev. William Brown, Old El vet, Durham. 3n.l December, 1889. ( Vice- 
 President, 1897-1905.) 
 VV'illiam Brown, Whitehouse, Northallerton. 3ril December, 1889. 
 
 ( Sec ret a ry , 1 89 7 - 1 905 . ) 
 The Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry. 7lh December, 1886. 
 George Buchanan, Whitby. 6th June, 1876. 
 Rev. E. Buckler, Mailland Park, Haverslock Hill, London. 5tli >Lirch, 
 
 1889. 
 The Prince of Bulgaria, Sophia Palace, Bulgaria. 4tli ^hirch, 1902. 
 Robert Anthony Burrell, Fairthorne, Botley, Hants. 17th June, t86i. 
 The Earl of Carlisle, Castle Howard, York. 2nd Dei-ember, 1879. 
 William Carr, M.A., Ditchingliam .^Llnor, Bungay. 5th December, 1865. 
 S. J. Chadwick, Lyndhurst, Oxford Roail, Dewshury. 6th December, 1881 
 
 ( Vice-President , 1901-1905). 
 William Chadwick, Arkse\-, Doncasler. 5th L)ecenibi'i, 1865. 
 Col. R. Chaloner, Giiisborough Hall, Guisborough. 3rd March, 1903. 
 J. E. Champney, Abchurch Chambers, London, W. 3rii December, 1895. 
 H. AL Chapman, St. Martin's Priory, Canterbury. 6th June, 1882. 
 Oswin J. Charlton, 37, Eldon Street, Newcastle. 5lh March, 1895. 
 Thomas Chorltoii, },i, Brazenose Street, Manchester. 2nd December, 1879. 
 Eiiwaril Thomas Clark, Cowick, Selb\-. 7lh December, 1880. 
 G. D. A. Clark, Belford Hall, Belford'. ist December, 1874. 
 John Willis Clark, ALA., Scroope House, Cambridge. 5th June, 1902. 
 J. W. Clay, Rastrick, Brighouse. 2nd June, 1868. ( Vice-President, 1900 
 
 •905). 
 Mrs. Cla\ton, The Cheslers, Hexham. 2tu1 DiHemiuM-, i8()o. 
 E. F. Coates, c/o E. Almack, 99, Greshani St reel, Loiulon, V.X' . 4II1 
 
 ALirch, 1901. 
 Re\-. Cams \';ile Collii-r, Ivist H.irlsey, .Xoitl.allerlon. ,',ii.i Deiembi'r, 
 
 1897. 
 PVancis Collins, M.D., C".rassfu-ld, P.iteley Briilge. 7lii Decemiu-r, 188O. 
 
 ( Vice-President, i8<)7-i905. ) 
 John B. Cot>kson, Meldon j'ark, Mori)elli. v*' Maich, 1902. 
 Lady Cowell, Clifton CaslU-, Bedale. 5lh March, iS()5. 
 
 The Earl of Crawforil anil iialcarres, Haigli I lall, W'igan. 7tli March, u^5. 
 The Earl of Crewe, Fryston H.ill, i'oniefract. 30th December, 1858.
 
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 Lord Crewe's Truslees, e/o C. Rowhmdsoii, The Collej^'e, Durham. 2nd 
 
 June, 1891. 
 Ralph Creyke, RawcHtfe Hall, Selh\-. ytli December, 1880. 
 Rev. jNIattliew CiiUey, St. Mary's, Whittinvjluim, Xorthnmberlaiul. 5lh 
 
 June, i()OJ. 
 Robert Richardson Dees, Wallseiid, Newcastle-on-Tytie. 15th December, 
 
 1859. 
 
 F. W. Dendy, Eldon House, Osborne Road, Ne\vcastle-on-Tyne. 4th 
 
 December, 1S94. ( Vice-President , 1897- 1905.) 
 Sir Lewis T. Dibdin, D.C.L., Chancellor oi Durham, 15, Old Square, 
 
 Liicoln's Inn. 3rd March, 1891. 
 James Norton Dickons, Heaton, Bradt'oid. 41!] June, 1873. 
 Karl of Duriiam, Lambton Castle, Fence Houses. 1st December, igoi. 
 Rev. Robert A. Eden, 58, Oakley Square, London, N.W. 7th March, 1905. 
 R. H. Edleston, D.C.L., Rhaiietjund Buildinifs, Cambridg'i'. 3rd December, 
 
 John Eland, u, Xew Court, Lincoln's Inn, \\\C. 6th March, 1900. 
 
 Rev. H. Ellersliaw, Bishop Hatfield's Hall, Durham. 1st March, 1892. 
 
 Mrs. Elliot, Elvel Hill, Durham. 6th March, 1883. 
 
 C. E. Elmhirst, York. 4th December, 1894. 
 
 Rev. Chancellor Espin, D.D., Wolsing'ham Rectory, Darlins^jton. 3rd 
 
 December, 1889. 
 T. M. Fallow, Coatham, Redcai'. 4tli December, 1883. 
 
 G. Foyle Fawce't, 29, Beaumont Street, Liverpool. 6th June, 1905. 
 J. W. Fawcett, Satley, Darling-ton. 4lh June, 1903, 
 
 George Anthon}" Fenwick, Bywell Hall, Stockslield-on-Tyne. 3rd 
 
 December, 1889. 
 Mrs. Hugh Fenwick, Krinkburn Priory, Morpeth. 3rtl June, 1897. 
 Rev. Canon P'owler, M.A., D.C.L., F.S.A., Bishop Hatfield's Hall, Durham. 
 
 4th June, 1872. {Vice-President, 1872 1905. Treasurer, 1883-88.) 
 Sir Alfred Scott Gatty, \'ork Herald, Heralds' College, London. 7lh 
 
 March, 1876. 
 Rev. H. Gee, D. D., University College, Durham. 3rd June, 1902. 
 
 ( Vice-President, 1905.) 
 The Right Rev. Bishop Gordon, Bishop's House, Leeds. 3rd March, 
 
 1 89 1. 
 John George Gradon, Lynton House, Durham. 3rtl Akirch, 1891. 
 
 ( Treasurer, 1 89 1 - 1 905. ) 
 Rev. William Greenwell, D.C.L. , F.R.S., &c., Durham. 28th September, 
 
 1843. (Treasurer, 1843-49. Vice-President, 1849-1905.) 
 Earl Grey, Howick Hall, Northumberland, ist December, 1901. 
 Charles Haigh, Film Court, Temple, London. 6th March, 1883. 
 C. O. Hall, W'hitwell Hall, York. 4th December, 1900. 
 William Harding, Darlington. 7th June, 1892. 
 Lord Hawkesbury, Kirkham Abbey, York. 7lh December, 1886. 
 The \^ery Rev. W. G. Henderson, D.D.. Dean ot Carlisle. 31st I\Liy, 1849. 
 
 {Secretary, 1849-52. Vice-Presidoit, 1872-1905.) 
 Richard Oliver Heslop, Akenside Hill, Newcaslle-on-Tyne. 6th June, 1899. 
 
 ( Vice-President, 1905). 
 liev. A. E. Hillard, The School House, Durham. 2nd December, 1902. 
 Thomas Hodgkin, D.C.L., Newcastle-on-Tyiie. 5th June, 1883. {Vice- 
 President, 1 890- 1 905. ) 
 J. C. Hodgson, Abbey Collage, Alnwick, falh December, 1892. ( Vice- 
 President, 1899 1905.) 
 J. G. Hodgson, Northern Counties Club, Newcastle-oii-Tyne. 14th 
 
 .August, 1885. {Vice-President, 1897-1905.) 
 John E. Jefferson Hogg, 59, Elm Park Gardens, London, S.W. 1st 
 
 December, 1903.
 
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 Rev. Henry Holden, D.n., Boscobol, Sliealluun LiMiinioii, Lotuioii, S.W. 
 
 i6tli June, iiS^8. 
 Rev. H. C. Holmes, Birkby Reetoi y, Xoi thallerton. 4II1 December, 1S77. 
 W. H. St. John Hope, Society of AiUiqiiaries, Biirlinijtoii House, Piccadilly, 
 
 London, W. 4II1 Decembi-r, 1883. 
 Lord Hotliam, Dalton Holme, Hull, 3rd December, 187J. 
 R. Hovenden, Heathcote, Park Hill Road, Croydon. 5tli ALircli, 1S89. 
 Henry Arthur Hudson, Clifton, York. 7th March, 1865. 
 William Essint^^ton Hug-hes, 89. .Alexandra Road, St. John's W'ooil, Lonilon. 
 
 7th March, 1865. 
 Edward Hutchinson, Darling-ton. 7lh December, 1869. 
 Sir Henry Ingilby, Bart., Ripley Castle, Ripon. 15th Deiember, 1859. 
 W. A. James, 1, Eleet Street, London. 2nd March, 1897. 
 Sir Hubert Jerningliam, K.C.VLG., Longridge Towers, Ber\vick-on-T\\eed. 
 
 6th June, 1899. 
 Rev. J. Johnson, Hutton Rudby, Yarm. iith December, 1856. 
 J. Burgo\iie Johnson, Greencrofi, Lanchester. 2nd June, 1903. 
 Sir James Joicey, Bart., ^LP., Longhirsl Hall, Morpeth. :;tli December, 
 
 1882. 
 Thomas Jones, Durham. 7lh I^ecember, 1880. 
 A. B. Kempe, K.C., Chancellor of Xewcaslle, 2, Paper Buiklings, Temple, 
 
 London. 5th March, 1889. 
 C. E. Kempe, 28, Xottingham Place, London. 5th Decembei-, 1893. 
 H. F. Killick, King's House, Thelford. 5th December, 1899. 
 R. L. Kirby, Linthorpe, Middlesbrough. 5th March, iS8(). 
 The Very Rev. G. W. Kitchin, Dean of Durham. 3th Maicli, i8():;. ( I'lci'- 
 
 Prcsidcii t , 1 895- 1 905 ). 
 .\. L. Knight, Water Lane Works, Leeds. 41I1 December, 1900. 
 Hugh l-aing-, Sunderland. 7lh March, 1905. 
 
 W\ T. Lancaster, 35, Caledonian Road, Leeils. 4th December, 1883. 
 The Hon. and Rev. Stephen Willoughby Lawley, M.A., Spurliclil, 
 
 Exniinster, Exeter. 8th December, 1863. [Vicc-Presidcnl, 1888 1905. ) 
 -Vndrew S. Lawson, Aldborough Manor, Boroughbridge. ^ih December, 
 
 .Arthur F. Leach, Charily Commission Olfice, Whitehall, Li>ndon. isl 
 
 December, iSgi. 
 William Lees, 10, Norfolk Street, Manchester, ist December, 1874. 
 J. Wickham Legg, I\LD., F.S..A., 47, Green Street, Park Lane, LondiMi. 
 
 2nd December, 1890. 
 Rev. Robert Lippe, LL.D., The Royal Inlirniary, .\beidet-n. yd Dei I'niher. 
 
 1889. 
 The Marquess of Londonderry, Wynyaril, Durham. 7th December, 1886. 
 Matthew Mackey, Jun., 8, Milton Street, rsewcastle-on-T%iie. 3i-d June. 
 
 1890. 
 Messrs. Macmillan and Bowes, Cambritlge. 7tli March. iMt)^. 
 Sir Clements R. ^NLirkham, K.C.B., Ecck-stiMi Sijuari', Litniloii. isi 
 
 Deci-mber, 1891. 
 Thomas W. ALtrley, ALirlon Gro\».-, i')arlinglon. 4lh Jime, i8()5. 
 Rev. J. W. Maishall, Croft Rectory, l^arlington. 5th March, 1889, (Vin- 
 
 Prcsidcnl , i88() 1905). 
 James Melrose, Clifion Croft, A'ork. 7th December, 1875. 
 J. T. Mickletlnvaite, F.S..\., 1, \'icloiia Street, Lonilon, S.W. isl 
 
 !')ei-ember, 1874. 
 R. Middlemas, Alnwick. i\\\.\ IX-crrubcr, 1873. 
 James Mills, lieverli'v. 5II1 Di'ccinbcr, 181)3. 
 Joseph M. Moore, llarton. South Shirlils. 7tli Man li, |S()3. 
 John William Morkill, .\uslhorpe Loilge, W'hitkiik, Li'eils. ist Deci'mber, 
 
 1 89 1.
 
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 Walter Morrison, M.F., 77, Cromwell Ro.ici, London. 1st March, 1864. 
 
 Lord Nortlibourne, Kellosliang^er, Sandwioli. 71]) ALarcli, 1893. 
 
 The Duke of Northiunberland, Alnwick Castle. 6th June, 1865. 
 
 Wni. I'aye, The While House, St. Peter's, St. Alban's. 1st December, 
 
 1885. 
 Howard Pease, Otterburii I own, Wootlbur-n. 3rd Deceuil^er, 1901. 
 John S. Cj. Pemberton, M.P., Belmont Hall, Durham. 3rtl December, 1901, 
 Sir Francis S. Powell, Bart., ALP., Old llorton Hall, Bradford. 7th June, 
 
 1864. 
 John Proud, Bishop Auckland, Durham. 6tli June, 1871. 
 The Very Rev. Arthur P. Purej-Cusl, D.D., Dean of York. 7th December, 
 
 1 880. ( Vice-President, 1 887- 1 905. ) 
 Freilerick Raimes, Hartburn Lodye, .Stockton. 3rd December, igoi. 
 Sir J. W. Ramsden, Bart., B^'rom Hall, South Milford, Yorkshire. 14th 
 
 March, 1862. 
 Angelo Raine, Duri House, Minsterworth. ist December, 1903. 
 Mrs. Redpath, Montreal. 5th March, 1895. 
 
 Col. Godfrey Rhodes, Westiiaujjh, Pontelract. 1st March, 1864. 
 Viscount Ridley, Blagdon, Xewcastle-on-Tyne. 3rd March, iSgi. 
 The Marquess of Ripon, Sludley Royal, Ripon. 151!! December, 1859. 
 Simpson Rostron, i. Hare Court, Temple, London. 6th ALirch, 1883. 
 W. H. Rylands, F.S.A., ii. Hart Street, Bloomsbur\', London, ^th June, 
 
 1883. 
 Philip Saltmarshe, Lt.-Col., Mount House, Maidstone. 4lh December, 1894. 
 J. B, Sampson, York. 6th December, 1887. 
 Rev. H. E. Savag^e, Rectory, Halifax. 3rcl December, 1897. 
 Slingsby Shafto, Beamish Park, Beamish. 7th March, 1905. 
 Michael' Sheard, Sutton, Isle of Ely. 7th June, 1887. 
 G. R. Sheraton, ALD., Sedgefield. 4lh June, 1901. 
 J. B. Simpson, Bradley Hall, Wvlam-oii-Tyne. 3rd December, igoi. 
 Rev. C. S. Slingsbv, Scriven Park, Knaresborough. ( Vice-President, 1905.) 
 F. W. Sliiigsbv, Thorpe Undei"wood Hall, Ouseburn, York. 3rtl December, 
 
 1878. 
 Philip Vernon Smith, 4, Stone Buildings, Lincoln's Inn, W.C. 1st December, 
 
 1903. 
 Henry Sotheran, 140, Strand, W.C. 3rd March, 1903. 
 John T. Spalding, 22, \'illa Road, Nottingham. 5th December, 1899. 
 John Stansfeld, \\'oodville. Clarendon Road, Leeds. 4th March, i8go. 
 Joseph Henry Straker, Howden Dene, Corbridge-on-Tyne. ist March 
 
 1892. 
 The F3arl of Strathmore, Streatlam Castle, Barnard Castle. 2nd March, 
 
 1866. 
 H. P. Surtees, 2>h^ Bedford Row, W.C. 6th June, 1899. 
 Siward Surtees, Soinersham, Maidenhead. 3rd December, 1895. 
 Sir John Swinburne, Bart., Capheaton, Newcastle-on-Tyne. 5th June, 1866. 
 Thos. Taylor, Chipchase Castle, Wark-on-Tjne. 3rd March, 1902. 
 Rev. R. Fetzler Taylor, Hedenham Rector)-, Bungay, Suffolk, ist December, 
 
 igo3. 
 A. C. Tempest, Coleby Hall, Lmcoln. y^X Jnne, i87g. 
 Sir Tristram T. Tempest, Bart., Tong Hall, Dudley Hill, Bradford. 7th 
 
 March, i8g3. 
 F. J. Thairlwall, 12, Uppei" Park Road, Hampstead, London. 3rd 
 
 December, 1875. 
 Legh Tolson, Elm Lea, Dalton, Hutklersfield. 7th December, 1886. 
 Rev. Canon Tristram, D. D., Dmliam. Olh June, 1876. {Vice-President, 
 
 1897-1905.) 
 Robert B. Turton, Kildale Hall, Giosmoni, \ ork. 2nd March, 1897. {Vice- 
 President, 1903 1905).
 
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 Robert Charles De Grey Vyner, Newby Hall, Ripon. 3rd December, 1895. 
 
 Henrj' Wag^ner, F.S.A., 13, Half Moon Street, Piecatlill\-, London. 4th 
 December, 1877. 
 
 Rev. John Walker, Whalton Rectory, Newcastle. 5th December, 1899. 
 
 George Young Wall, Grang'e House, Darlington. 3rd December. 1S89. 
 
 Rev. Walter Walsh, Folkington Rectorv, Polegvtte, Sussex. 2nd December, 
 1879. 
 
 W^illiam Warde-Aldam, Frickley Hall, Doncasler. 3rd March, 1891. 
 
 Ernest Webster, Unthank Hall, Haltwhistle. 4th December, 1900. 
 
 Geo. E. Weddell, Thoi-nlon House, Gilbersdike. 5th Juno, 1904. 
 
 Richard Welford, Gosforth, Xewcastie-on-Tyne. ist March, 1892. (Vire- 
 President, 1894 1905.) 
 
 Rev. Y. G. Wesley, Hamsteels V'icarag'e, Durham. 5th December, 1882. 
 ( Vice-President , 1 899- 1 905. ) 
 
 Rev. W'. Stuart White, He.iley X'icarage, Rochdale. 3rd March, 1899. 
 
 T. B. Whytehead, Acomb, York. isl March, 1887. 
 
 Sir Hetlworth Williamson, Bart., Whitburn Hall, Sunderland. 3rd Decem- 
 ber, 1895. 
 
 Rev. B. Wilson, Grammar School, Sedberg'h. 3rd December, 1895. 
 
 Rev. W. R. Wilson, Bolsterstoiie Vicarage, Sheffield. 6th December, 1898. 
 
 Rev. Jas. Wilson, Dalston \Mcarage, Cmnberland. 4th June, 1903. 
 
 H. M. W'ood, County Chambers, Sunderland. 4th March, 1902. 
 
 Rev. Canon Wordsworth, St. Peter's Rectorv, Marlborough, ^ih December, 
 1893. 
 
 The Lord Archbishop ot York, Bishopthorpe, \ ork. 5lh December, 1893. 
 
 Thomas Edward Yorke, Bewerle\- Hall, Paleley Bridge. 5th June, i89_|. 
 
 Hem-y Young, 12, South Castle Street, Livei-pool. 5th March, 1895. 
 
 Libraries and Piblic Instititions : — 
 
 The University of Aberdeen, ist March, iSSi. 
 
 The Library of Ampleforth Monastery, near ^'ork. 3rd December, 1895. 
 
 The Johns Hopkins University, Balliuiore. 5th June, 1883. 
 
 The Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore. 3rd Dei-ember, 1889. 
 
 The Barrow-in-Furness Public Libiar\'. 3rd Dec-ember, 1901. 
 
 The Battersea Central Library. 3rd December, 1901. 
 
 The Queen's College, Belfast. 7th December, 1886. 
 
 The Imperial Library, Berlin. 14th IVLarch, 1863. 
 
 The Birmingham Free Librar)-. 3rd March, 1874. 
 
 St. Thomas' Abbe}-, Erdington, Birmingham. 311! December, 1901. 
 
 The Bolton Public Library. 4th March, 1884. 
 
 The Boston Athenaeum, U.S.A. ist March, 1870. 
 
 The Pcabody Institute, Boston, U.S.A. 4th March, 1873. 
 
 The Boston Public Library, U.S.A. 7th December, 1886. 
 
 \ew England Historic (xenealogical Society, Boston, U.S.A. 6th March, 
 
 1903. 
 The Bradford Free Library. 5th June, 18S3. 
 The Historical am.! Aiiti(|uarian Societ\-, Bradford. 2nd Dei-fnd)er, 
 
 1890. 
 Bristol Public Libraries. 2nd Dci-ember, 1902. 
 
 The Society of Boliandist I'"athers, Biussels. 3rd December, 1805. 
 The Buffalo Public Library, Buffalo, New York, ist March, 18.S7. 
 Grosvenor Library, Buffalo, New Wirk. 6ih March, 1904. 
 The University o'i California, Berkley, U.S.A. ^ih Mai-ch, 11)03. 
 Christ's College, Cambridge. 13th Dei-ember, 1862. 
 Trinity C\)llege, Cambriilge. 5lh June, 1866. 
 The Public Library, Cardiff". 4lh IX-cember, i8()o. 
 The Carlisle Free Library, TuUie House, Carlisle, ist March, 1892. 
 The Chelsea Public Lii)raiies. ist March, i8i)2.
 
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 The Dean and Chapter of Chester, ist March, 1887. 
 
 The Chica,i,'-o Public Library, U.S.A. ist March, 1887. 
 
 The NewbeiTy Librar\', Chicai>-o, U.S.A. 6tli December, 1S92. 
 
 The Universit}- of Chica.^o, U.S.A. 3rd June, 1902. 
 
 University Librai y, Chiistiania. 7th Marcli, 1903. 
 
 Cincinnati Public Library, U.S.A. 3rd December, 1901. 
 
 Royal Library, Copenhag'en. 7th M.arch, 1905. 
 
 The Darlintifton Public Librar\-. 2nd June, 188:^. 
 
 The Public'Library, Detroit, Michig-an, U.S.A." 7lh June, 1887. 
 
 The Dewsbury Public Library. 2nd June, i8gi. 
 
 The Doiicaster Public Library. 4th December, 1883. 
 
 The National Library of Ireland, Dublin. 3rd June, 1884. 
 
 The Dean and Chapter ot Durham, ist June, 1869. 
 
 The L'niversit}' of Durham. 16th June, 1858. 
 
 The Advocates' Library, Edinburg-h. 13th March, 1851. 
 
 The Signet Library, Edinburgh. 6th December, 1864. 
 
 The University of Etlinbiirgh. 5th June, 1883. 
 
 The Public Library, li^tiinburgli. 3rd ALirch, 1896. 
 
 St. Benedict's Abbey, Fort Augustus, N.R. 4th ALai'ch, igo2. 
 
 The Gateshead Public Library. 3rd December, 1889. 
 
 The Mitchell Librarv, Glasgow. 4th December, 1877. 
 
 The University of Glasgow. 3rd March, 1874. 
 
 The Universit}' of Goitingen. Sth December, 1863. 
 
 The Public Library, Harrogate. 3rd March, 1S96. 
 
 The Harvartl College Librarv, Cambridge, Mass., U.S.A. ist March, 
 
 ,887. 
 The Free Library, Hawick, X.B. 3rd March, i88g. 
 The Public Librar}-, Huddersfield. 3rd December, 1903. 
 The Public Libraries, Hull. 5th March, 1895. 
 The Hull Subscription Librarv. 14th March, 1862. 
 The Central Free Public Library, Leeds. 7th June, 1898. 
 The Leeds Institute of Science, ist December, 1903. 
 The Leeds Library, Connnercial Street, Leeds. 11th December, 1856. 
 The Library of the Church Institute, Leeds. 7th June, 1892. 
 The Thoresby Society, Leeds. 7th June, 1892. 
 The Dean and Chapter of Lincoln. 7th June, 18S2. 
 The Liverpool Athenjeum. 6th June, 1855. 
 The Liverpool Free Library. 3rd March, 1874. 
 The .Societ}' of Antiquaries, London, ist March, 1864. 
 The Athenaeum Club, Pall Mall, London. i2lh December, 1861. 
 Constitutional Club, \oi-thunibcrland Avenue, Lontlon. 3rd December, 
 
 1 90 1. 
 The Honourable Society ot Gray's Inn, London. 2nd June, 1874. 
 The Guildhall Library, London, ist December, 1874. 
 The Honourable Society of the Inner Temple, Lontlon. "^rd December, 
 
 1867. 
 The Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn, London, iith M.irch, 1831. 
 The Honourable Societ\- of the Middle Temple, London, ist December, 
 
 1 868. 
 The Law Society, Chancery L;ine, London, W.C. 7th Mai-ch, 1905. 
 The London Library, 12, St. James's Square, London. 13th March, 1851. 
 The Library of the Oratory, South Kensington, London. 71I1 June, 1881. 
 The Librarj' of the Public Rt'cord Office, Feller Lane, London. 4th 
 
 December, 1894. 
 The Reform Club, London. 3ril December, 1895. 
 The Royal Institution, LotuIou. 4th Jime, 1872. 
 
 The Dean -And ChaiMi-r of St. Paul's, London. 4th December, 18S3. 
 Sion College, London. De;-einber, 1837.
 
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 Tlio Library, University Colleije, London. 7th December, 1886. 
 
 The Xew Universit\- Club, St. James's Street, London. ist December, 
 
 1891. 
 Dr. Williams' Library, GiMclon Square, London, W'.C ist December, 
 
 1903. 
 Westfield Colleg^e, Hampstead, London, N. 3ril December, 1901. 
 The University of Lund, Sweden. 3rd March, 1891. 
 Chetliam s Libraiy, Manchester. December, 1857. ■ 
 The John R\lands Library, Manchester. 4th December, iqoo. 
 The Manchester Free Library. 3rd December, 1867. 
 Owen s College, Manchester. 7th March, 1871. 
 Ihe Public Librar}-, Melbourne. 4th June, 1895. 
 L'niversitv of Michig-an. ^tli Jime, 1904. 
 The Middlesbroug-h Free Library. 6th March, 1883. 
 The Royal Libi'ar}', Munich. 14th Maich, 1863. 
 The Cathedral Library, Newcastle-on-Tyne. 2nd June, 1S91. 
 The Public Libraries, Xewcastle-on-Tyne. 4th December, 1883. 
 The Society ot Antiquaries, Newcasile-on-Tyne. 24th September, 18^-?. 
 The Litei-aryand I'hilosophical Society, Newcastle-on-T\ne. 17th March, 
 
 '853- 
 The Librar\' of Piinceton L'niversitv, New Jersey, LT.S.A. ist Maich 
 
 1887. 
 The Brooklyn Library, New York. 41 h December, 1883. 
 The Cornell LInisersity, Ithaca, New York. 4th Decembm-, 1883. 
 The New York State Librarv, Albany, New York, ist ALirch, 1887. 
 The New York Public Library. ist March, 18S7. 
 
 The Syracuse Public Library, New York State. 3rii l")eci'mber, u)oi. 
 The Nottingham Free Library, ist March, 1881. 
 The Oxford Union Societ\-. 4th March, 1902. 
 Exeter Colleg:e, Oxford. '5tli ALarch, 1878. 
 St. John's College, Oxford. 14th March, 1863. 
 Magdalen College, Oxfortl. 18th June, 1862. 
 Queen's College, Oxford. 2nd March, 1875. 
 Bibliotheque National, Paris. 6th June, 1905. 
 
 The Library Company, Philadelphia, U.S.A. 5II1 December, 1882. 
 Dr. Shephenl's Library, Preston. 6th December, 1864. 
 St. Augustine's Abbey, Ramsgate. 3rd Decembei-, 1901. 
 The Dean and Chapter of Ripon. 3rd March, 1874. 
 The Rochdale Public Library. 41 h ALarch, 1884. 
 The Rotherliam Vree Librarw 3rd June, 1884. 
 The University of St. Andrew's. 7th December, 18S6. 
 The Imperial Library, St. Petersburg-. 14th March, 1863. 
 The Mechanics' and Literar\- Institute, Scarborough. :;lli Dec-ember, 1899 
 The Sheffield Free Library." ist March, 1881. 
 
 The Literary aiul Philosophical Socit'ty, SheHu'ld. 41 li Maiili, iSSi. 
 The North Shields Free Library. 3rd I^ecember, i8S(). 
 The South Shields Free Librarv. ist June, 1875. 
 The Abbe}- of Solesmes, .Xppi'ldui comln-, W'roxall, Isle ol Wight. 
 
 3rd December, 1S95. 
 The Stoi'kton-on-Tees I'^rt'e Lihrar\-. znd Mai-i-h, 1897. 
 St. John's (."ollege, Ston\hurst. 4th March, 1873. 
 The Universit\- Libiary, Strasburg. 4th June, 1895. 
 The Sunderland Fvcc Libi-ary. 5lh Jime, 1883. 
 The Subscription Library, Fawcett Street, Sunderl;ind. 3ril December, 
 
 1 889. 
 The Free library, Tort>nto ist March, i8()2. 
 The University oi' Upsala, Swedi-n. 2nd June, i8c)i. 
 The Presiilent ot Si. Culhberl s L'ollege, Ushaw, Durham. September 
 
 1838.
 
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 The Imperial Library, Vienna. 14th March, 1863. 
 
 The Library of the Cong-ress, Washing-ton, U.S.A. 2nd December, 1873. 
 
 The Public Library, West Hartlepool. 3rd March, 1896. 
 
 The Librar\- of the Church House, Dean's Yard, Westminster. 4th June, 
 
 1895. 
 Tiie Wigan Free Public Library. 3rd December, 1901. 
 The Royal Library, Windsor. 7th December, 1S86. 
 The Norman Williams Public Library, Woodstock, Vermont, U.S.A. 7th 
 
 June, 1887. 
 The Yale College, Connecticut, U.S.A. 7th March, 1876. 
 The Corporation of York. 6th March, 1888. 
 The Dean antl Chapter of York. 13th March, 1S57. 
 The Literar\- and Philosophical Society, York. 7lh Decembei-, 1880. 
 Tiie Public Librar\', \'ork. 6th March, 1894. 
 Tiie Subscription Librar}-, York. i6th ALaich, 1861. 
 The Yorkshire Archa?olog"ical Association. 3rd Maich, 1868. 
 The Yorkshire Architectural Society. 7th March, 1871. 
 \e\v York Historical Societ\-. 7th Marcii, 1905.
 
 
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