CITY OF DURHAM 



l^Al^ 



Heath. Party cbtve- 

 ron:vise or and sable xcitb 

 tzio mohts tn tbe cbief 

 and a beathcock in tbe 

 foot all counter-coloured. 



quitclaimed it to the King a few months later,^' 

 and it was immediately afterwards leased to 

 John Frankeleyne for a term of years.-' In 1552 

 the hospital with the manors of Gilligate and 

 Old Durham was granted to John Cockburn,-' 

 lord of Ormiston, who sold them to John Heath 

 merchant and Warden of the Fleet, in 1568.-' 



John Heath and his family settled at Kepier, 

 and on his death in 1590 he was buried at St. 

 Giles.'" By his will he 

 divided the Kepier pro- 

 perty among his sons, the 

 hospital, the East Grange, 

 Gilligate and Old Durham 

 being left to John Heath, 

 the eldest son, while Ram- 

 side was bequeathed to the 

 younger son Edward.^^ A 

 settlement of the manors of 

 Kepier and Old Durham 

 was made in 1604,^- and in 

 August 161 7 John settled 

 the manor of Kepier on 

 himself for life with remainder to his sons John 

 and Thomas in tail male.^^ John Heath died in 

 January 1617-18, John, his eldest son and suc- 

 cessor, being then a man of 49.^ Thomas, the 

 only son of the younger John, had died in 1594, 

 and the title to Kepier was vested in John's 

 brother Thomas Heath of Far Grange.^* 



In 1629 Thomas Heath and John, his son and 

 heir, sold the reversion of the capital messuage of 

 Kepier with the Hither, or West, Grange and 

 certain other tenements to Ralph Cole,^ but 

 John Heath continued to live at Kepier until his 

 death in January 1639-40." 



Ralph Cole, a merchant of Newcastle, also 

 bought Brancepeth Castle (q.v.), but his eldest 

 son Ralph seems to have been living here in 1651 

 and 1654.^8 Kepier followed the descent of 

 Brancepeth until 1674, when Sir Ralph Cole, 

 bart., sold it to Sir Christopher Musgrave, of 

 Carlisle, forj^4,8oo.^' Sir Christopher succeeded 



«• Feet of F. Dur. Trin. 38 Hen. VIII. 

 " L. and P. Hen. VIII, xxi (2), p. 439. 



28 Pat. 6 Edvv. VI, pt. vii. Printed by Surtees (Dur. 

 iv(2),65). 



29 Dur. Rec. cl. 12 (1-2) ; Foster, Visit. Ped. 31. 



^ Dur. Rec. cl. 3, file 191, no. 150 (i) ; Mem. of 

 St. Giles (Surt. See), 132. Printed by Surtees, Dur. 

 iv(2), 71. 



'1 Ibid. See below. 



^ Feet of F. Dur. Trin. 2 Jas. I. 



33 Dur. Rec. cl. 3, ptfl. 184, no. 94. 3* Ibid. 



35 Mem. of St. Giles (Sun. Sec), 133. 



3* Dur. Rec. cl. 3, no. 106, m. 4 d. ; cf . m. 1 2 d. 



3' Mem. of St. Giles (Surt. See), 136. He was aged 



71. 38 JbiJ J2g 



39 Dur. Rec. cl. 3, R. 118, no. 12. Certain portions 

 of the estate were sold to the families of Tempest and 

 Carr (Mackenzie and Ross, Dur. ii, 435). G.E.C. 

 Baronetage, i, 32. 



MUSGRAVE. 



six rings or. 



Azure 



3 



to his brother's baronetcy and Edenhall estates 



in or about 1687. He died in 1704, when he was 



succeeded by Christopher his grandson and 



heir." Sir Christopher was M.P. for Carlisle 



in 1713-15, and for Cumberland in 1722-7. He 



died in January 1735-6. His son and successor, 



Sir Philip Musgrave, sat as 



M.P. for Westmorland in 



1 741-7, and on his death in 



1795 was succeeded by Sir 



John Chardin Musgrave. 



Sir Philip Musgrave, his 



son, succeeded him in 1806. 



He represented Petersfield 



in Parliament in 1820-5, 



and Carlisle in the two 



following years. He died 



without issue male in 1827, 



and the baronetcy and estates were inherited by 



Christopher John Musgrave, his brother. He 



also died without leaving a son, and Kepier 



passed to his brother Sir George. On his death 



in 1872 the estate passed to his son Sir Richard 



Courtenay Musgrave, on whose death in 1881 it 



was inherited by his son Sir Richard George 



Musgrave, bart., the present owner. 



In 1 1 12 the viU of CLIFTON (Clyvedone, 

 Clyftone, xi cent., Clifton xvii cent.) was 

 within the Bishop's demesne.*^ Bishop Hugh 

 Pudsey gave it to the hospital by his second 

 charter,*^ and in 1301 it was accounted a manor 

 and was said to lie to the east of Kepier.** 

 Clifton was no longer accounted a manor in 

 1552, but the name still occurs in 1642 as applied 

 to closes attached to the East Grange.'" 



The EJST, FAR, OR POH'DEN, GRJXGE 

 (Poulton, Powlton grange, xvii cent.) is first 

 mentioned in the i6th century ; it was apparently 

 given by John Heath, the second of that name, to 

 Thomas, his son, who was living here in 1607.** 

 It followed the descent of Old Durham** (q.v.), 

 and is now in the possession of the Marquess of 

 Londonderry. 



By his will of August 1589 John Heath the 

 elder left his grange of RJMSIDE to his 

 youngest son Edward*' in tail male. Edward 



*« Ibid. 



*i Mem. oJSt. Giles (Surt. See), 195. *2 Ibid. 196. 



*3 Ibid. 216. The hospital granted a rent charge of 

 6o.f. from the manors of Caldecotes and Clifton to 

 Durham Priory in exchange for the advovvson of 

 Hunstanworth church. 



** Dur. Rec. cl. 3, no. 109, m. 30 ; cf. m. 2 ; no. 106, 

 m. 12 d. See also cl. 12, no. 2, m. I. 



« Mem. of St. Giles (Surt. See), 125. 



** Dur. Rec. cl. 3, no. 129, m. 12. It was leased for 

 21 years to Henry Smith and George Middleton in 

 1642 (Ibid. no. 9, m. 38 d.). 



*' Surtees, Dur. iv (2), 71. With contingent re- 

 mainders to John Heath, the eldest son in tail male ; 

 to Nicholas, the second son in tall male ; and to the 

 right heirs of John the elder. 



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