A HISTORY OF DURHAM 



ton.** John Micklcton in his will dated 1720 

 directed that Crook Hall should be sold for the 

 payment of debts.** The manor was bought 

 by the Hoppers of Shincliffe and in February 

 1736-7,*' and again in 1748, it was the subject of 

 conveyances in favour of Henry Hopper, the 

 entail being cut in the later year.** Elizabeth 

 widow of Henry Hopper died in 1793 when the 

 manor descended to her husband's nephew 

 Robert Hopper, William's son, who died in 

 1835.*' Crook Hall was usually let to tenants, of 

 whom the most distinguished was the Rev. 

 James Raine, the antiquary,*" who was living here 

 in 1857 when the owner was the Rev. Robert 

 Hopper.*^ The estate was afterwards bought by 

 the late Arthur Pattison, Alderman of Durham. 

 The earHest known lord of CROXDALE 

 (Crokysdale xvi cent.) was the Robert de 

 Whalton who in 1362 was made steward of 

 Barnard Castle.*^ Ten years later Robert had 

 licence to grant the manor of Croxdale to trustees 

 who should regrant it to himself and his wife 

 Joan and their issue, a further conveyance of the 

 manor being made in 1383.*^ Croxdale came at 

 a later date into the possession of Joan, wife of 

 William de Risby, and in March 1393-4 they 

 had licence to grant the manor to trustees,** 

 who in 1395-6 had regranted it to Joan, then a 

 widow.** On her death in or about 1402 Joan 

 held the manor of the bishop by the service of 

 rendering suit at the three principal courts of 

 Durham ; ** she left a daughter and heir Agnes.*' 

 Agnes married Gerard, son of Gerard Salvin of 

 Harswell, one of the most important squires of 



** He was associated with his father and mother 

 in a settlement of the manor in 1686 (Feet of F. 

 Dur. Trin. 3 Jas. II). 



** Surtees, Dur. iv (2), 138. 



*' Ibid. 



*8 Feet of F. Dur. East. 10 Geo. I ; Dur. Rec. cl. 3, 

 no. 121, m. 43. 



*' Surtees, loc. cit. ; Burke, Landed, Gentry (1914). 

 He married Ann, daughter of Dr. William WiUiamson, 

 and assumed the additional name of Williamson by 

 royal licence in 1829. 



*" Diet. Nat. Biog. For other tenants see An Acct. 

 of Dur. (1804), 41 ; Allan, Hist, and Descr. View of . . . 

 Dur. (1824), 130. 



*i Fordyce, Dur. i, 385. 



*- Surtees, Dur. iv (2), 116. He obtained land in 

 Northallerton from Sir Robert de Hastynges in 

 1363 and from Thomas son of Joscelin Dayvill in 

 Deighton, in 1370 (ibid. 121 n.). Both these places 

 are within the Bishop of Durham's Yorkshire soke 

 of Northallerton. 



*3 Dur. Rec. cl. 3, no. 31, m. 4; Surtees, loc. cit. 



*■• Dur. Rec. cl. 3, no. 33, m. 14 d. Piers de Buckton, 

 one of these trustees, resigned his interest in 1 395. 

 Surtees, loc. cit. 121. 



*5 Dur. Rec. cl. 3, no. 2, fol. 140. 



** Ibid. 33, m. 15. 



*' Ibid. 



St? 



Salvin of Croxdale. 

 Argent a chief sable wilh 

 two moleti or therein. 



the East Riding, and he in her right had livery 

 of the manor in 1402 ; ** Agnes married secondly 

 John Mauleverer, and she died in March 

 1449-50 seised of Croxdale Manor. Her heir 

 was her grandson Gerard, son of Gerard Salvin.*' 

 At his death in March 1473-4 he was succeeded 

 by his son Gerard,'" a young man of 21, and 

 probably that Gerard Salvin who in 1498 had 

 enfeoffed his son Gerard 

 and the latter's wife of his 

 land." A Gerard Salvin 

 ' the elder ' in 1533 settled 

 the manor of Croxdale on 

 himself for life with 

 remainder of one half to 

 his wife Joan for life and 

 of the other half to 

 Gerard Salvin his son and 

 heir. This son is the Gerard 

 who died in 1563, when 

 Gerard his son and heir was 

 forty-three years of age.'- The latter died in 

 February 1 570-1 and left a son and heir Gerard j'^ 

 Gerard was ' a gentleman of greate welthe and 

 verie much frended in the . . . countrye by 

 reason of his allyance there,' his wife being 

 Joan daughter of Richard Conyers of Norton 

 Conyers, an important North Riding gentleman, 

 while his eldest son was married to Ann daughter 

 of Humphrey Blakiston of Blakiston.'*^ He 

 died in 1587,''' and his son and heir Gerard died 

 in 1602.'* This last Gerard was succeeded by 

 his son Gerard, a boy of 12, who had livery in 

 1 61 2 of his father's lands.'* His brother Ralph, 

 at his entry to the English College in Rome in 

 1620, gave the following account of himself:" 



I was not born at my father's house called Croxdale 

 . . . but in a less noted place called Chillox, because 

 (as I have been informed) the plague was raging 

 near my father's house ; after the pestilence had 

 subsided, I was carried home, and there brought up 

 both in the Catholic faith and in such learning as is 

 usual to boys of my class. I made my humanity 

 course of studies at Durham, in the greatest peace and 



** Ibid. m. 27. 



*' Ibid. pifl. 164, no. 104 ; no. 50, m. 18. 



"> Ibid. no. 4, fol. 28 d. 



'1 Ibid. ptfl. 169, no. 54. 



'■- Ibid. no. 6, fol. 13. 



'^ Ibid. ptfl. 191, no. 24. Gerard is described as 

 ' agid ' in St. Oswald's Par. Reg. (ed. Headlam), 19. 



"a Dur. Rec. cl. 3, ptfl. 193, no. 16 ; Chan. Proc. 

 (Ser. 2), bdle. 173, no. 38 ; Foster, Visit, of Dur. 275. 



'■* Dur. Rec. cl. 3, ptfl. 193, no. 16. 



'* Ibid. no. 22. 



'* Dep. Keeper's Rep. xl, 511. 



" Gerard's brother Ralph entered the Society of 

 Jesus (Foley, Rec. S.J. i, 298, 300). Another brother 

 Francis was a colonel and was killed at the battle of 

 Marston Moor in 1644. The Salvin estates were 

 sequestrated by the Commonwealth {Cal. of Com. for 

 Compounding, 513, 2895). 



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