A HISTORY OF DURHAM 



in or about 1604, and was succeeded by 

 Christopher his son.* 



In 1 607 Christopher Hutchinson and Elizabeth 

 his wife conveyed Dryburn, in the parish of St. 

 Margaret, to Oswald Baker and Mary his wife, 

 and that Mary married as her second husband 

 William Smith,^ with whom she conveyed 

 Dryburn to Nicholas Hutchinson in 1612.' 

 In 1621 Nicholas settled his lands in Bitchburn 

 on Hugh Hutchinson his eldest son and in the 

 following year he demised his Plawsworth lands 

 to his second son Nicholas, while Dryburn fell 

 to the lot of his third son Cuthbert Hutchinson.' 

 Cuthbert Hutchinson died in 1647* and was 

 succeeded by his son of the same name,* who in 

 1 701 sold Dryburn to his kinsman John 

 Hutchinson.^" John died two years later,^^ 

 his heir being his son John Hutchinson, Mayor of 

 Durham in 17 14, the year before his death. 

 His son and successor created some scandal by 

 his reconciliation with the Church of Rome, 

 though as the local diarist expressed it ' little 

 was got or lost by changing sides. '^* In 1749 

 he died and was ' buried in Crosgate church 

 about 12 a clock at night ' without any bearers 

 or ceremony performed at the grave." His son 

 the fourth John Hutchinson was in possession of 

 this property in 1 760, but it afterwards came into 

 the hands of the family of Wharton.^* In 1840 

 it was the property of Sarah widow of the Rev. 

 Robert Wharton, Chancellor of Lincoln Cathe- 

 dral and Archdeacon of Stow.*^ Her son 

 William Lloyd Wharton^* succeeded to the 

 property" and lived here until his death in 

 1871.^* His son and successor the Rt. Hon. 

 John Lloyd Wharton, P.C., represented Durham 

 in Parliament 1871-4 and was M.P. for Ripon 

 1886-96. He died in 1912, when the property 

 descended to his only child Mary Dorothea, 

 widow of Colonel Charles Waring Darwin, the 

 present owner. 



* Dur. Rec. cl. 3, ptfl. 182, no. 6. 

 ' Ibid. cl. 12, no. 2, m. 2 ; Surtees, Dur. iv (2), 143. 

 « Dur. Rec. cl. 3, R. 96, no. 88 ; cl. 12 (2-3). 

 Surtees gives the date as 1610. 

 ' Ibid. ptfl. 186, no. 48 ; Surtees, op. cit. 143, 



155- 



^ Surtees, op. cit. 155. 



» Ibid. 



" Ibid. 143, 155. 



" N. Co. Diaries (Surt. See), ii, 167. John was J. P. 

 and attorney at law. 



12 Ibid, i, 173. 13 Ibid. 



" Surtees, op. cit. 143. 



1* Surtees, loc. cit. 



1" Ricliard son of Alderman Wharton married in 

 1750 Miss Lloyd, granddaughter of Bishop Lloyd 

 of Worcester, ' a lady of ;£s,ooo fortune ' {N. Co. 

 Diaries [Surt. Soc], i, 182). 



1' Fordyce, Dur. i, 385. 



1' Burke, Landed Gejitry (1906). He was living 

 here in 1 834 (Mackenzie and Ross, Dur. ii, 437). 



The origin of the name of OLD DURHAM 

 (Vctvii Dunelm xiii cent., Olduresme xv cent., 

 Aldurham xvi cent., Owd Durm xviii cent.) is 

 unknown, but that there was a settlement here 

 at an early date seems probable, as traces have 

 been found of a neighbouring ford across the 

 Wear. In the 14th century Old Durham was 

 part of the glebe of St. Nicholas, Durham.** 

 Bishop Robert Neville impropriated the rectory 

 to the Hospital of Kepier^" and in 1479^* Ralph 

 Booth, master of the hospital, leased Old 

 Durham for 99 years to Richard his brother.^^ 



The Hospital of St. Giles was dissolved in 

 January 1545-6^' ^.nd. Old Durham followed the 

 descent of its site^ until the latter was sold in 

 1629 to Ralph Cole. Old Durham remained 

 in the hands of the Heath family and in January 

 1629-30 was settled on John son of Thomas 

 Heath and Margaret his wife for their lives with 

 remainder to John Heath of Gray's Inn.^^ John 

 Heath the elder was still, however, in possession 

 and in February 1630-1 he made a settlement 

 of this manor on himself for life."* He died in 

 January 1639-40 and John Heath his nephew 

 succeeded him." Elizabeth, John's only child,'^ 

 married John, son of Sir Thomas Tempest of 

 The Isle, in 1642 when a settlement of the manor 

 was executed.-' Old Durham does not appear 

 among the estates for which John Heath com- 

 pounded as a delinquent in 1647,^' nor yet among 

 those of his son-in-law when he compounded 

 for his delinquency in the second war in 1649 f- 

 both men were among the most notorious 

 delinquents in the county.^- John Heath, 



I'Dur. Rec. cl. 3, no. 2, fol. 139, 177 d., 241. Court 

 rolls of the manor for 1376 are transcribed in Lans. 

 MS. 902. 



20 Mem. of St. Giles (Surt. Soc), App. A.I, p. 208. 



21 Cf. Dur. Rec. cl. 3, ptfl. 177, no. 70. 



22A/m. of St. Giles (Surt. Soc), App. D, 260. 

 Robert Booth of Old Durham, grandson of the 

 original lessee (Foster, Fisil. Ped. 31), bought a house 

 in Elvet for his wife and left it to her for life or 

 widowhood with remainder to his sons (Dur. Wills 

 and Invent. [Surt. Soc], ii, 207). For another member 

 of the family see Dur. Rec. cl. 3, ptfl. 184, no. 104 (i). 



^^ F.C.H.Dur.n, 113. 



2* See St. Giles. The Crown leased it to John 

 Frankelayne in 1546 {L. and P. Hen. Fill, xxi [ii], 

 p. 439). See settlements between Ingram Taylor 

 and John Franklin and John Heath in 1600 (Dur. 

 Rec. cl. 12, no. 2, m. l) and by John Heath, senior, 

 and Thomas Heath in 1619 (ibid. no. 3, m. 2). 



25 Ibid. cl. 3, no. 109, m. z. 



28 Ibid. no. 106, m. 12 d. 



2' Surtees, loc. cit. 28 JbJJ. 



29 Dur. Rec. cl. 3, no. 109, m. 30, 37 ; cl. 12, no. 

 5, m. 2 ; Feet of F. Dur. Trin. l8 Chas. I. 



30 Cal. of Com. for Compounding, ii, 1558 ; Royalist 

 Camp. P. (Surt. Soc), 236. 



31 Royalist Comp. P. (Surt. Soc), 354. 



32 Ibid. 18. 



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