A HISTORY OF DURHAM 



Elton, Long Newton, EgglesclifFe, Middleton St. George, Low Dinsdale, 

 Hurworth with the townships of Coatham Mundeville and Sadberge.^" The 

 parish of Coniscliffe," now in Darlington Ward, also belonged to it, as did 

 Gainford with its barony, though the latter developed an organization of its 

 own which rendered it independent of wards and wapentakes.^^ 



When Sadberge was purchased from Richard I by Bishop Hugh Pudsey 



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Index Map to the Ward of Stockton 



nearly all the land in the wapentake was held by free tenants.^^ It did not 

 therefore fit easily into the organization of the palatinate. For some time 

 it was regarded as a separate county, in which the bishop had the same regal 

 authority as he had in his county of Durham. There seems to have been 



*• This list is compiled from the Inquisitions post mortem {Dep. Keeper's Rep. xliv-v). See 

 also Testa de Nevill (Rec. Com.), 395. 

 ^ Ibid. 



'^ Cf. Dep. Keeper's Rep. xxxvi, App. i, 48. 

 " Cal. Chart. 1300-26, pp. 393-4. See under the different vills. 



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