A HISTORY OF DURHAM 



most of the wapentake were in Stockton Ward about 1570.31 All that part 

 of Sadberge which is in the present ward of Stockton was popularly considered 

 as in Stockton Ward at that date.32 There appears to have been no coroner 

 for Sadberge in the reign of James I,^^ and for rating purposes the ward of 

 Stockton had its present extent early in the seventeenth century.^* Mickleton, 

 writing soon after the Restoration, speaks of Sadberge as * formerly a county 

 of itself and now in Stockton Ward.' ^^ The barony of Gainford and the 

 parish of Coniscliffe were probably incorporated in Darlington Ward when 

 the rest of the wapentake became part of Stockton.'" 



31 Exch. Dep. Mich. 28 & 29 Eliz. no. 13. 

 3- Sharp, Mem. of Rebellion of 1569, 250-1. 



^ Dur. Rec. cl. 3, no. 143. This is a bundle of inquisitions taken before the coroners of the 

 four wards. An inquisition at Greatham in Sadberge was tai:en before the Stockton coroner. 

 3* Egerton MS. 2877 ; Add. MS. 24096. 

 ^ Surtees, op. cit. iii, 265 n. 

 ^* Sharp, loc. cit. ; of. Spearman, op. cit. 49, 51. 



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