CITY OF DURHAM 



L I D D E L L. Argent 

 frctty gules and a chief 

 guUs uitb three leopards' 

 beads or. 



Blakiston and Martha his wife, William Bothell, 



Thomas Hincks and Elizabeth his wife, and 



John Tempest and Elizabeth his wife, conveyed 



the manor to Sir Thomas Liddell, bart. of 



Ravensworth.'' His son Henry made it his 



home from 1676-94''" and represented Durham 



in the Parliament in 1688-9 ^^^ '^95-''^ ^^ 



succeeded to his father's baronetcy in 1697 and 



died in 1723*^ leaving a grandson and heir, 



Sir Henry, created Lord Ravensworth in 1747.*^ 



On his death in 1784, the 



peerage became extinct, but 



the baronetcy and lands 



were inherited by his 



nephew Sir Henry George 



Liddell," from whom they 



passed in 1791 to his son 



Thomas Henry.** Sir 



Thomas, who was M.P. 



for Durham in 1806-7,** 



sold Newton to William 



Russell, whose property it 



was in 1824 and 1840.'" 



At a later date it was converted into a branch 



of the County Lunatic Asylum. In 1926 the 



house was pulled down. 



From the fragments of evidence that remain 

 for the early history of RELLEY (Rylley 

 xiv cent.) it is evident that it was at one time 

 in the hands of the family of Amundevill. 

 Robert de Amundevill gave his vill of Relley to 

 John de Hamilton,*' this being possibly a 

 feoffment, as the family retained a yearly rent of 

 4_f. from Brunespittell until 1322.'" Richard de 

 Marsh granted the vill to Simon his brother and 

 he afterwards sold it to William son of Richard ; 

 the new owner then conveyed it to John de 

 Hamilton.^ John conveyed his interest to 

 Gilbert de Graystanes, a clerk and probably a 

 trustee.** In 1326 William son of William 



3' Dur. Rec. cl. 12, no. 8, m. 2 ; Bp. Cosines Corr. 

 (Surt. Soc), ii, 265. 



■"' Surtees, loc. cit. 146 n. 



*^ N. Co. Diaries (Surt. Soc), i, 53 ; Sharpe, 

 List of Knights . . . who have represented . . . Durham, 



25- 



*2 It was conveyed to him probably for the purpose 

 of a settlement under the name of the manor of High 

 Newton in the parish of St. Oswald by Robert Liddell 

 and Thomas his son and heir (Dur. Rec. cl. 12, no. 16, 

 m. 3). 



■•' G.E.C. Baronetage, ii, 205. 



" Hutchinson, Dur. ii, 218. 



« G.E.C. loc. cit. 



*« Ibid. 



*' Allan, Hist, and Descriptive View of the City of 

 Dur. 131 ; Surtees, op. cit. 146. 



** Surtees, Dur. iv (2), 103. The charters from which 

 the following particulars are derived are in 3a 14 Spec. 

 in the Treasury of the Dean and Chapter of Durham. 



*' Surtees, op. cit. 103 n. 



«» Ibid. " Ibid. 



Esshe of Durham gave the vill to Maud his 

 daughter, who married Roger, son and heir of 

 Gilbert de Colley, lord of Biddick. Roger 

 granted it to Richard son of Gilbert de Durham 

 in 1343,*^ and in 1359 Sir Thomas Gray kt. 

 exchanged it with William Dalden for a moiety 

 of the manors of Felkington and Allerden.*' 

 In 1365 William Dalden granted the manor of 

 Relley to Richard de Barnard Castle, clerk, and 

 he obtained a grant of free warren in his demesne 

 lands here some two years later." It was 

 conveyed by him to John his brother, the rector 

 of Gateshead, and in 1378-9 the Priory of Dur- 

 ham obtained licence for its acquisition.** The 

 manor was assigned to the department of the 

 cellarer for the purchase of butter and cheese,** 

 and since March 1854-5 has formed part of the 

 corpus of the ninth stall of the Cathedral church.*' 

 SHINCLIFFE is mentioned among the 

 possessions of the Prior and Convent of Durham 

 in Henry H's confirmation charter,** and it also 

 occurs in the forged charters of Bishop St. 

 Calais.*^ It was one of the Prior's vills* and 

 the tenants appeared at the assize of weights 

 and measures held in the borough of Elvet." 

 In 1305 the Prior accused one of the Bishop's 

 servants of carrying off a horse from the vill of 

 Shincliffe toDurhamCastle and refusing to return 

 or pay for it.^ The villeins of Shincliffe paid a 

 rent of hens," and rendered carrying services 

 which are frequently mentioned in the Account 

 Rolls of the Convent.^ In 1355-6 three bond- 

 men there paid 2s. instead of mowing and 8^. for 

 autumn works, but they still made and carted 

 the hay.** In 1536-7 the tenants of Shincliffe 

 leased a meadow from the Prior for 10/.** The 

 vill formed part of the endowment of Durham 

 Cathedral in 1541," and a full list of the lease- 

 holders there is given in a rental of 1580.** On 

 7 November 1650 a farm in Shincliffe was sold 

 by the trustees for the sale of Dean and Chapter 

 lands to Richard Marshall,*' but after the 

 Restoration the whole returned to the Dean 

 and Chapter, who are the present lords of the 



*2 Ibid. ; Dur. Rec. cl. 3, no. 29, m. 10, 12 d. 



*3 Surtees, loc. cit. 



** Ibid. ; Dur. Rec. cl. 3, no. 31, m. 4 d. 



** Ibid. m. 13. 



** Dur. Acct. R. (Surt. Soc), i, 67 ; iii, 683. 



*' Rec. of the D. and C. of Dur. c. iv, 33, fol. 148. 



** Feod. Prior. Dunelm. (Surt. Soc), p. Ixzzui. 



*' Ibid. pp. ih, Iv. 



60 Dur. Acct. R. (Surt. Soc), i, 121. 



*i Ibid, ii, 349. 



6^ Reg. Pal. Dun. (R. Ser.), iv, 73. 



*3 Dur. Acct. R. (Surt. Soc), i, 45. 



** Ibid, i, no, u6, 152, 241 ; ii, 296, 297. 



«*Ibid. i, 121. 



«« Ibid, iii, 685. 



6' L. and P. Hen. fill, xvi, g. 878 (33). 



*« Halmota Prior. Dun. (Surt. Soc), 207, 216-7. 



*9 Close R. 1650, pt. iiix, 2. 



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