A HISTORY OF DURHAM 



manor. Part of Quarrington moor was attached 

 to the vill of Shincliffe, and it was probably 

 grazing rights in this place which Sir Richard de 

 Routhberry, lord of Croxdale, and Peter of 

 Tursdale released in 1320 to the Prior of 

 Durham.'* In 1443-4 the Prior recovered his 

 right of common pasture on this part of the moor 

 by means of a suit with Sir William Elmeden, 

 then lord of Tursdale.'^ 



There were a few free tenements in Shincliffe. 

 In the early part of the 14th century Gilbert 

 Warde held land in Shincliffe, which descended 

 to his son Robert and Margery his wife.'* 

 Robert dying childless, the land was inherited 

 by his nephew Robert Warde, the son of Gilbert 

 Warde's daughter Lucy, Margery holding her 

 dower third." In 1347 Robert Warde the 

 younger granted to John de Elvet the reversion 

 of Margery's dower-land, and 2/. rent out of his 

 own land in Shincliffe.'* John de Elvet died in 

 or about 1382, when his heir was his son Gilbert, 

 aged 23,'* but the history of this holding cannot 

 be traced further. Alice widow of John Aislaby 

 in 1429 died seised of land in Shincliffe held of 

 the Prior of Durham, John being her son and 

 heir." John left two daughters and co-heirs 

 Elizabeth and Alice." 



Elizabeth married Robert Danby of Thorpe 

 Perrow, Yorks,'* and survived him, dying in 

 March 1473-4." Her son 

 Sir James Danby was 

 knighted by the Duke of 

 Gloucester while serving in 

 Scotland in 1482*" and died 

 in 1497." His son Chris- 

 topher was knighted on 

 Flodden field ;*^ he died in 

 March 1 5 1 7-8, leaving a son 

 and heir Christopher,*^ a 

 boy of 15, married to Eliza- 

 beth daughter of Richard 

 (Nevill) Lord Latimer.** 

 The family connexion with 

 the Nevills was further strengthened by the mar- 

 riage of Thomas, son and heir of Christopher, to 

 Mary daughter of Ralph Earl of Westmorland.** 

 It was possibly this relationship that made the 



" Surtees, loc. cit. 106. 



'^ DuT. Acct. R. (Surt. Soc), i, 144-5 ; see Tursdale, 

 parish of Kelloe. 

 '- Dur. Rec. cl. 3, no. 30, m. 12 d. 

 '3 Ibid. '■« Ibid. 



'5 Ibid. no. 32, fol. 151 d. 

 '6 Ibid. fol. 241. 

 " Ibid. fol. 267. 



'8 Ibid. ptfl. 166, no. 14. '9 Ibid. 



*<* Shaw, Kts. of Engl, ii, 17, 20. 

 *i Test. Ebor. (Surt. Soc), iv, 122. 

 82 Shaw, Kts. of Engl, ii, 38. 

 ^ Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), xxxiv, 47. 

 " Ibid, clvii, 68. 85 Ibid. 



Danby. Argent 



fretty sable and a chief 

 sable zcith three molets 

 argent therein. 



Government suspect him of disaffection in 1565.** 

 Sir Christopher*' died in 1 571 and was succeeded 

 by Sir Thomas Danby,** who had been knighted 

 as long ago as 1 547 when serving in Scotland with 

 Edward Duke of Somerset.** Sir Thomas died 

 in 1590 when Christopher Danby his grandson 

 and heir was still a minor.*" Christopher sold 

 Shincliffe to John Hedvvorth of Durham at some 

 date before 161 2*' when Hedworth conveyed it 

 to George Martin of the same city.*- He 

 suffered the sequestration of his lands as a 

 Royalist in 1644,** two years after the marriage 

 of Mary his daughter and heir to Henry Eden of 

 Newcastle.** George Martin died in 1650** and 

 Henry son of Henry and Mary Eden had 

 succeeded to the property by 1675.** His only 

 child Jane was baptised in this year*' and 

 presumably inherited the Shincliffe property on 

 her father's death in 1702,** though its further 

 descent cannot be traced. 



The family longest settled in Shincliffe was 

 that of the Hoppers. John Hopper was a lease- 

 holder in 1580 ;** he married Jane Bell in 1589^ 

 and died in 1612.^ The 

 lease seems to have been re- 

 newed to Sampson Hopper, 

 probably his son, to whom it 

 was again renewed in 1630.^ 

 John son of Sampson Hop- 

 per was baptised in April 

 1 61 6,* and Sampson him- 

 self died in 1639.* John 

 Hopper of Shincliffe in- 

 herited his father's lease* 

 and was appointed a se- 

 questrator in 1644;' his 

 son Robert was baptised in October 1654,* and 

 he himself died in 1677.* Robert Hopper married 



*« Acts ofP.C. 1558-70, pp. 268, 287. 



*' He was knighted at the Coronation of Anne 

 Boleyn in 1533 (Shaw, op. cit. 49). 



** Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), clvii, 68. 



»^ S\i3LW, Kts. of Engl, i'l, 61. 



** Dur. Rec. cl. 3, file 192, no. 95 ; Chan. Inq. 

 p.m. (Ser. 2), ccxxxi, 96. Thomas father of Chris- 

 topher died in January 1 581-2 (ibid, cxcix, 74). 



*■■ Surtees, Dur. iv (2), 106. ^ Ibid. 



«3 Royalist Comp. P. (Surt. Soc), 19. 



»■» Headlam, Par. Reg. of St. Oswald's, 99. 



»3 Ibid. 106. 



** Poll Sheets in the Library of the Soc. of Antiq. 

 of Newcastle. His father died in February 1664-5 

 (Headlam, op. cit.). 



*' Headlam, op. cit. 143. ** Ibid. 197. 



** Halmota Prior. Dun. (Surt. Soc), 216. 



1 Headlam, op. cit. 33. * Ibid. 51. 



' Close R. 1650, xxix, 2. 



* Headlam, op. cit. 56. * Ibid. 94. 



* Close R. 1650, xxix, 2. 



' Royalist Comp. P. (Surt. Soc), 8. 



* Headlam, op. cit. 1 1 2. 



* Ibid. 145. 



Hopper. Gyronny 

 sable and ermine a castle 

 argent. 



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