CITY OF DURHAM 



liberty of conscience for three years, until being 

 frequently insulted [by two schoolfellows] with the 

 opprobrious name of Papist, a violent quarrel arose 

 between us, in which I knocked one of them down, 

 and on that account I was expelled. [He then went to 

 St. Omers and Rome, desiring to embrace the ecclesi- 

 astical state and returned as a priest to England.] 

 I have two brothers, of whom one, who is my senior 

 and enjoys the paternal inheritance, nearly five years 

 ago married the daughter of Mr. Robert Hodgson, 

 a gentleman of family, he professes, defends, and 

 cherishes the Catholic faith ... I have three sisters, 

 one married, the others unmarried, all of whom, 

 except the married one, together with my younger 

 brother, were Catholically and poUtely brought up 

 in the house of my mother called Butterwick. The 

 majority of my friends, uncles, and paternal aunts are 

 Catholics. 



Ralph was ordained priest in 1624 and entered 

 the Society of Jesus the following year, but died 

 of consumption in 1627, while still a novice. 



The Salvins were both Roman Catholic 

 Recusants and Royalists and Gerard, eldest son 

 of the lord of Croxdale by his first wife, while 

 serving the King as lieutenant-colonel in Sir 

 John Tempest's regiment of foot, was slain at 

 Northallerton in 1644. Bryan, the eldest son 

 of the second wife, having also died in his father's 

 lifetime, the heir was Bryan's son Gerard, still 

 a child at his grandfather's death in 1663-4.'* 



Gerard son of Bryan Salvin registered his 

 estate as a 'Papist' in 1717,'* but before this 

 date he had settled the family lands at Wolviston 

 on Bryan his son and heir.** Gerard died in 

 February 1722-3 ;** Bryan, who had similarly 

 registered his life estate of ^400,*^ died in 1751, 

 when he was succeeded by William his son.*^ 

 William made conveyances of the manor in 1752 

 and in 1758** and died in 1800 having sur- 

 vived Gerard his eldest son.^ His son and 

 heir William Thomas married Anna Maria 

 daughter of John Webbe Weston and died in 

 1842. His son Mr. Gerard Salvin inherited the 

 Weston family seat of Sutton Place near Guild- 

 ford and died in 1870, when Croxdale passed to 

 his son Mr. Henry Thomas Thornton Salvin. 

 He at his death in 1897 was succeeded by his 

 son Mr. Gerard Thornton Salvin, on whose 

 death in 1921 his brother Lieut. -Col. H. C. J. 

 Salvin became lord of the manor. 



'8 5^. Oswald's Par. Reg. (ed. Headlam), 124; 

 Hutchinson, Dur. ii, 329 : Foster, Visit, of Dur. 

 275. 



'* Estcourt and Payne, Engl. Cath. Nonjurors, 54. 



8" Ibid. 43, 46 ; Surtees, Dur. iv (2), 119. 



" St. Oswald's Par. Reg. (ed. Headlam), 244. 



8- Estcourt and Payne, op. cit. 43. 



8' Com. Pleas Recov. R. Hil. 25 Geo. II, m. 52. 



8* Feet of F. Dur. Mich. 32 Geo. II ; cf. Com. 

 Pleas Recov. R. Hil. 25 Geo. II, m. 52. 



^ Foster, Visit, of Dur. 2J^ ; Surtees, op. cit. iv 

 (2), 117-20; h\it\i.e, Landed Gentry (1904). 



The known history of DRTBURN (Dri- 

 burgh houses, Driburnhouse xiv cent.) begins in 

 January 1352-3, when the free land next Durham 

 with the messuages called Dryburn houses was 

 granted by the bishop to Isabel daughter of 

 Robert de Leicester.'* Before 1383 it came into 

 the hands of John de Bamborough, who then 

 held it by rent and foreign service.*' It seems 

 possible that John died without leaving an heir, 

 for some five years later ' the whole tenement 

 called Driburn hous,' lately of John de Bam- 

 borough, was granted to Peter Dryng,** and from 

 this time the tenure appears to have been lease- 

 hold. Peter Dryng died in 1404 without issue 

 male*' and in 141 1 the holding was granted to 

 William Chancellor.'* It afterwards passed into 

 the hands of William Bolat, and in 1448 it was 

 granted by the lord to Robert Foster and John 

 and William his sons for a term of years." In 

 the following year the Fosters surrendered their 

 lease to Geoffrey Bukley, chaplain,*''^ who was 

 perhaps acting as trustee for Thomas Claxton 

 of Durham, as he obtained a lease for 9 years in 

 1453.'^ In 1470 the tenement was held by 

 William Plumer'^and in 1491 the bishop granted 

 it for 21 years to John Raket of Durham.'* 



Though nothing definite is known concerning 

 the history of Dryburn until 1571, it must have 

 been inherited by Alice and EHzabeth daughters 

 of Christina Rawlings on her death in 1563,** 

 for in 1 571" Alice and her husband Robert 

 Farrow'* settled one half of 100 acres of land 

 and other tenements in ' Drawden '" on 

 Robert their son and heir. Robert Farrow and 

 Matthew Fareles, representative of Elizabeth's 

 interest,^ sold the whole messuage to Richard 

 Hutchinson of Durham, tanner, before 1596 

 when he received pardon for having completed 

 the transaction without licence.^ Richard, who 

 also had two burgages in FramweUgate,' died 



** Dur. Rec. cl. 3, no. 12, fol. 79 d. Robert's 

 name occurs in recognizances of 1335, 1336 and 1339 

 (Ibid. no. 29, m. 2, 3 d., 7 d.). 



*' Hatfield's Sur-i'. (Surt. Soc), 85. 



** Dur. Rec. cl. 3, no. 13, fol. 9. 



*' Ibid. fol. 415b, 420b ; no. 15, fol. 34. 



'0 Ibid. no. 14, fol. 397. 



'1 Ibid. no. 15, fol. 425. 



»2 Ibid. fol. 467. 



«3 Ibid. fol. 659. 



'* Ibid. no. 16, fol. 216. 



'^ Ibid. no. 10, fol. 11. 



'« Ibid. no. 6, fol. 7 d. 



"Ibid. cl. 12(1-2). 



98 Ibid. 



" EUzabeth Danby (see Shincliffe) died in possession 

 of I acre in Framwellgate called Drawedon in March 

 1473-4 (ibid. ptfl. 166, no. 14). 



* She had married William Heighington (Inq. p.m. 

 on Christina). 



* Dur. Rec. cl. 3, no. 92, m. 9. 

 3 Ibid. m. 23 d. 



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