A HISTORY OF DURHAM 



leases, these generally being to a son or other 

 relative of the prebendary in possession.'* 



Before St. Godric built his hermitage here 

 early in the 12th century FINCHALE (Fin- 

 chale xii cent., Fynchall, Fynkaloo, Fynchallaye 

 xvi cent., Fencalley xvii cent.) was part of the 

 Bishop's hunting field. The development of 

 the hermitage into a cell of Durham Priory and 

 its absorption of the endowments of the Austin 

 Canonry of Baxterwood have been traced 

 elsewhere.^' Durham Priory made its surrender 

 to the Crown in 1540,^ and in the following 

 March the manor of Finchale, with its demesne 

 lands and water mill, was leased to Avery 

 Burnett, a member of the Royal Household." 

 In May it, like other lands of the Priory, was 

 assigned to the Dean and Chapter of the 

 Cathedral Church,'- and by Queen Mary it was 

 made the corpus of the 7th stall in March 

 1554-5.** Except for the time when it was in 

 the hands of the Parliamentary trustees** and 

 their assigns it has remained in the possession 

 of the Dean and Chapter to the present day. 



In 1 31 1 HARBOURHOUSE (Harbaroes, 

 Harbarus, Harbarowes xiv cent., Harbarhous 

 XV cent.) was part of the waste on the 

 bishop's fee, and as such it was then given by 

 Bishop Richard Kellaw to Patrick his brother.** 

 A settlement of the land was made in 13 13 on 

 Patrick and Cecily his wife** and two years later 

 Patrick made a conveyance of ' The manor ' to 

 John de Carlisle, chaplain.*' In 1381 it was 

 settled with part of Kelloe by William de Kellaw, 

 Patrick's great-nephew,** and it then descended 

 with his lands in Kelloe to the family of Forcer,** 



^* These leases will be found in the Act Books of 

 the D. and C. 



w V.C.H. DuT. ii, 103, 109 ; cf. The Charters of 

 Endo'jjment . . . of Finchale Priory (Surt. Sec), xi ; 

 Cal. Chart. 1327-41, p. 323. 



^ r.C.H.Dur.'u, lol. 



*i L. and P. Hen. Fill, xvi, p. 726. Burnett was 

 still in possession when the Dean and Chapter leased 

 it to Robert Dalton and Percival Lambton in 1 55 1 

 (Reg. A. of the D. and C. fol. 201). 



«2 L. and P. Hen. Fill, xvi, g. 878 (33). 



** Rec. of the D. and C. of Durham, c. iv, 33, 

 fol. 148. 



** It was sold by them to Adam Shipperdson in 

 1650 (Close R. 1650, pt. xxxii, no. 17). 



** Lans. MS. 902, fol. 369. 



** Kelloe Deeds {penes Rev. Canon Greenwell), Bk. 

 D, no. 38. 



*' Ibid. no. 39. ** Ibid. no. 59. 



69 Hatfield's Surv. (Surt. Soc.), 77; Dur. Rec. cl. 3, 

 no. 2, fol. 180 d., 266 ; no. 47, m. 22 d. ; ptfl. 166, no. 

 13,31; no. 4, fol. 30; no. 1 1, fol. 2d. ; ptfl. 169, no. 52, 

 no. 6, m. 35 ; no. 78, m. 2 ; ptfl. 177, no. 7 ; no. 78, 

 m. 2 ; ptfl. 191, no. 153 ; ptfl. 189, no. 33, 59, 168 ; 

 no. no, m. 2, no. 7, 23, 25, 105 d. ; ptfl. 190, 

 no. 6 ; Cal. S. P. Dom. 1623-5, p. 571 ; Royalist 

 Comp. P. (Surt. Soc.), 208 ; Feet of F. Dur. Trin. 

 18 Chas. II ; Dur. Rec. cl. 12 (i-i). 



FopcER. Sable a 

 chevcron engrailed or 

 between three leopards* 

 heads argent tcith three 

 rings sable on the 

 cheveron. 



who held it until the i8th century. The Forcers 

 were Roman Catholic recusants and suffered 

 accordingly.'* Basil Forcer, 

 the last male of his line, 

 died in 1774, after having 

 settled Harbourhouse on 

 his sister Barbara for her 

 life." Mistress Barbara 

 died unmarried at her 

 house in Old Elvet in 

 1776'^ and the property 

 then passed under her 

 brother's will to Thomas 

 Waterton, with remainder 

 to his sons in tail male.'* 

 Thomas Waterton was suc- 

 ceeded by his son Charles 

 Waterton of Walton Hall, Yorks, and he, with 

 the sole surviving trustee, after breaking entail 

 in 1805,'* sold the estate in the following year to 

 WiUiam Donald, of Aspatria, Cumberland.'* It 

 was inherited by his son, George Donald,'* who 

 sold it shortly before 1834 to Thomas Fenwick, 

 the Newcastle banker." 



The later descent of the property has not been 

 traced. It seems to have been divided among 

 various holders. 



Beyond a chance reference to John Othehag- 

 house in 1350'* nothing is known of the 

 earlier mediaeval history of THE HAGG or 

 HAG HOUSE (Hagge House, le Hagg house 

 xvii cent.). It was apparently part of lands 

 reckoned as in Newton, for in 1421 the Hagfield, 

 with the Strother and Stankhead, were held by 

 Maud, widow of William de Bowes, of the Bishop 

 by knight service." It must have descended 

 with Newton and Streatlam (q.v.), for in 1564 

 Robert Bowes conveyed the capital messuage 

 called the Hagghouse and tenements in 

 'Cadehouse' field. West Wastes and Stank 

 closes to William Parkinson and Christopher 

 Atkinson, yeomen.*" Parkinson and Atkinson 

 divided the property, the former retaining the 

 northern portion of the lands on which he built 

 ' the mansion called Hagghouse.' *^ William 

 Parkinson died in 1605 and was succeeded by 



'0 Royalist Comp. P. (Surt. Soc.), 208. The manor 

 was sold in 1653 by the ParUamentary trustees to 

 Gilbert Crouch of Clement's Inn and John Rushworth 

 of Lincoln's Inn, the historian. Close R. 1654, 

 pt. .xii, no. 17 ; Diet. Nat. Biog. 



'^ Surtees, Dur. iv (2), 148 n. 



'2 A'. Co. Diaries (Surt. Soc), 228. 



'* Surtees, loc. cit: '* Ibid. 



'5 Fordyce, Dur. i, 386. 



'* Mackenzie and Ross, Dur. ii, 437. 



" Fordyce, Dur. i, 386. 



'* Dur. Rec. cl. 3, no. 12, fol. 60. 



'* Ibid. no. 2, fol. 202 d. 



*<• Surtees, Dur. iv (2), 143. 



*i Dur. Rec. cl. 3, file 182, no. 25. 



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