CITY OF DURHAM 



bishop of Durham ; he was, moreover, a dis- 

 tinguished scholar and edited an edition of 

 Bede that held the field for many years. He 

 died in 1756,''' having survived his eldest son 

 John, that ' young phisition ' mentioned in one 

 of the local diaries."^ George Smith, son of 

 John, was living at (New) Burnhall in 1787, but 

 before 1813"^ he sold it to Bryan John Salvin, 

 younger son of William Salvin of Croxdale/'' 

 Mr. Salvin died in 1842 and Burn Hall then 

 passed to his nephew, Marmaduke Charles 

 Salvin.*^ In 1885 the property was inherited 

 by his eldest son, Mr. Bryan John Francis 

 Salvin, on whose death in 1902 it came to his 

 brother and heir, Mr. Marmaduke Henry Salvin. 

 Mr. M. H. Salvin died in 1924, and in 1926 Burn 

 Hall was sold to St. Joseph's Society for Foreign 

 Missions, which has established a boys' school 

 there. 



Posthumous Smith, registrar of the Dean 

 and Chapter,"^ was succeeded at OLD BURN 

 HALL by John his son. John died without 

 issue in 1744,*^ his co-heirs being his sisters 

 Grace, Mary and Elizabeth. EHzabeth, the 

 second daughter, married Dr. John Bedford 

 and died in childbirth in 1750,'* leaving a son 

 and heir Hilkiah Bedford."* Hilkiah Bedford, 

 while thus inheriting a third of Burnhall from his 

 mother, also obtained one-sixth from his aunt 

 Grace Middleton in 1771.'° Mary, the third 

 sister, married Braema Wheler and in the same 

 year received one-sixth of the manor from her 

 sister Grace.'^ By her will dated in that 

 year Mary devised this sixth to her husband's 

 kinsman Charles Granville Wheler, her own 

 third descending to Hilkiah Bedford. Hilkiah 

 died unmarried in 1779," ^'^ ^^'i' being his 

 sister Alice, wife of John Hall, who purchased 

 the share of Charles Granville Wheler in 1801. 

 Five years later she sold the property to William 

 Thomas Salvin," and it has since followed the 

 descent of his manor of Croxdale (q.v.). 



Very little is known of the early history of 

 BUTTERBT (Beautrove xiii — xv cent., Beau- 

 treby, Butterbey xvi cent.), but it appears to 

 have been originally among the lands of the 

 Priory of Durham.'* 



«i M.I. in St. Oswald's. 



62Musgrave, Obit. (Harl. Soc.) ; A'. Co. Diaries 

 (Surt. Soc), 179. 



63 l^ieta of the City of Dur. (181 3), 67 ; Surtees, 

 op. cit. 96. 



^ Burke, Landed Gentry (1906). 



'^ Younger son of William Thomas Salvin of 

 Croxdale (ibid.). 



** Chapter Act. Bks. vol. iv (1690-1729), fol. 91. 



" Surtees, op. cit. iv (2), 96. 



«8 iV. Co. Diaries (Surt. Soc), i, 181. 



°° Surtees, Dur. iv (2), 99. 



'0 Ibid. '1 Ibid. 



»2 Ibid. 99. '3 Ibid. 96. '■» Ibid. 109 n. 



3 161 



Its earliest known lords were members of the 

 family of Andri. Roger de Andri held 2 knights' 

 fees of the Bishop of Durham in 1166" and in 

 1 1 89 paid a mark for having a mill pond on the 

 demesne land of the neighbouring vill of Sunder- 

 land Bridge." He was probably the predecessor 

 of the Sir Roger de Andri, kt., who with Walter 

 his brother gave evidence in the action brought 

 by Bishop Richard le Poor against the Prior 

 and Convent in 1228." It is also probable that 

 it was this Sir Roger who built at Butterby a 

 chapel for which he obtained the privileges of 

 a chantry.'* Walter de Andri was holding the 

 family fee shortly after 1228," but no further 

 connexion of the family with this place has been 

 found. 



Before 1381 the manor had passed into the 

 hands of the family of Lumley of Lumley 

 Castle'" (q.v.), with which it descended until 

 1566, when John, Lord Lumley, sold it to Chris- 

 topher Chaytor." The new owner was the 

 son of John Chaytor, a Newcastle merchant,'^ 

 and filled various responsible posts under the 

 Crown and Bishopric, being Registrar in 1577 

 and 1581.*' 



He married Elizabeth Clervaux, and in view 

 of their eldest son's inheritance of the Clervaux 

 estate in Croft, Yorkshire,** he settled Butterby 

 on Thomas, their younger son, in or about 

 1589.®-' Christopher Chaytor, 'one of hyr 

 maiestes Justeces of Peace of thage of Ixxxvij 

 years' died in 1592,'^ and Thomas held the 

 property until his death in 1618." Henry 

 Chaytor his son and heir died in 1629 ** while 

 still a minor and was succeeded by his brother 



'5 Red Bk. of the Exch. (Surt. Soc), i, 416. His 

 name frequently appears among those of witnesses 

 to Pudsey's charters. 



'« Boldon Bk. (Surt. Soc), 35. 



" Feod. Prior. Dun. (Surt. Soc), 230. 



'* Surtees, Dur. iv (2), 109 n. 



'9 Ibid, i, 503. 



*" Dep. Keeper's Rep. xlv, 229, xliv, 451, 453, 454 ; 

 Chan. Inq. p.m. I Hen. IV (pt. ii), no. 2b ; ibid, 

 (ser. 2), clxxiii, 44. Lands here and at Stranton were 

 assigned by Henry IV to Eleanor, widow of Ralph 

 de Lumley, for the sustenance of herself and her 

 twelve children {Cal. Pat. 1 399-1401, p. 219, 281). 



*i Dur. Rec. cl. 12 (1-2) ; Surtees, op. cit. no. 



8- Harl. MS. 1540, fol. 31 d. ; Foster, Dur. Pedigrees, 

 69. 



*3 Injunctions . . . of Bp. Barnes (Surt. Soc), 

 II, 64, 65-6, 102, 108. 



^ Elizabeth died in 1 584 (Headlam, St. OstvaWs 

 Par. Reg. 29). 



*5 Surtees, loc cit.; Dur. Rec. cl. 3, no. 86, m. 16; 

 Foster, loc. cit. 



*' Headlam, op. cit. 36; cf. Hutchinson, Dur.u, 

 328, where his age is given as 98. 



*' Headlam, op. cit. 60 ; Dur. Rec. cl. 3, ptfl. 189, 

 no. I. 



88 Ibid. 



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