A HISTORY OF DURHAM 



3 oxgangs)," Nicholas Jackson (i oxgang),-' Richard 

 Mawer (3 oxgangs),'' Thomas Aire (2 J oxgangs),-'' 

 Ralph Johnson (about 5 oxgangs),-' Anthony Buckle 

 (the mill and milldam).'-* The Mawers, Aires, 

 Buckles, and Jacksons were still among the freeholders 

 in 1684, when the others were the heirs of Richard 

 Croft, George Todd (owner of the Castle Hill), John 

 Rippon, Thomas Pearson, and Thomasine Beverley, 

 widow.-' 



In 1742 an estate here was sold for j{^6,ooo by 

 George Spearman to Morton Davison.^" 



Roger Gelett (1392) held 89 acres of land here of 

 John Conyers,'' and was succeeded by his brother 

 William Gelett,^- whose nephew and heir John, in 

 conjunction with his son Robert, in 1403 sold to 

 Henry de Percy, son of the Earl of Northumberland.-" 

 Very soon afterwards the lands were forfeited for 

 Percy's rebellion,'^ and as ' Gillet's lands' were in 

 1440 granted to Roger son of Thornton. ^^ This 

 must have been the estate held by Richard Lumley, 

 heir of the Thorntons, in I 5 10, and sold in 1569 by 

 John Lord Lumley to John Hedworth.^" Richard 

 Strangways died seised of a messuage and 100 acres 

 here, held of Sir George Conyers, in 1558.'' 



Some religious houses had lands in Bishopton. 

 Roger son of Roger de Conyers gave 1 7 acres there, 

 in the time of Bishop Pudsey, 

 to St. Mary's, Neasham, with 

 the right of common pertain- 

 ing to an oxgang of 24 acres. ^"^ 

 Roger de Conyersgave 30 acres 

 of land to Guisborough, ac- 

 cording to a confirmation in 

 1311.^' The Templars also 

 had land there at that time '" ; 

 it was probably the source of 

 the 10^. rent afterwards paid 

 to the Hospitallers, Lancelot 

 Nevill being tenant in I 5 5 2.'" 

 The lands of the Hospitallers 

 were sold by Queen Elizabeth 



to Stephen Holford and John Jenkins, who sold to 

 Thomas Jackson.^- Mount Grace Priory had a rent 

 of 61/. 6d'. from Bishopton at the Dissolution.'^ 



Woogra appears to be the Walgravc where John 

 de Conjers of Sockburn (1395) had the reversion 

 of certain land with other land in Bishopton proper. 

 Little Stainton, and East Newbiggin in Little Stainton, 



^» Dur. Rec. cl. 3, file 183, no. 55; 

 R. 1 10, m. I ; cl. 12, no. 2 (3). 



" Ibid. cl. 12, no. 2 (3); cl. 3, file 

 189, no. i;8. He died in 1626, leaving 

 a son Leonard. 



" Ibid. cl. II, no. 2 (3); cl. 3, file 

 188, no. 74. Richard left a son Thomas 

 Mawer at his death in 1635. 



" Ibid. cl. 12, no. 2 (3) ; cl. 3, R. lol, 

 no. 133. He left a son William (ibid. 

 cl. 3, file 189, no. 1 1 3). 



" Ibid. cl. 12, no. 2 (3) ; cl. 3, R. 95, 

 m. 17. 



" Ibid. cl. 3, file 189, no. 73 ; R. 96, 

 m. 21. He conveyed the mill and milldam 

 before 1622 to Anthony Fewler (ibid.). 



" Surtees, op, cit. iii, 68. 



'" Dur. Rec. cl. 3, R. 121, m. 21. 

 Morton John Davison of Beamish held 

 in 1820 the lands of the Todd family 

 including Castle Hill. According to 

 Surtees (op, cit. iii, 68) these had been 

 sold to his ancestor Timothy Davison. 



" Dur. Rec. cl. 3, no. 2, fol. 1 19. 



Guisborough 

 Priorv. Argent a lion 

 azure ivith a henJ git/e^ 

 over all. 



all held of his own manor of Bishopton by knight's 

 service, suit of court at Bishopton, and a rent of 2;.'" 

 During the 1 7th and part of the 1 8th century Woogra 

 was held with an estate in Elstob (q.v.) by the 

 Scurfield and Spearman families.*''^ It was sold in 

 1710 with Elstob South Farm by Gilbert Spearman 

 to Richard Smith.«'' 



EJSTJND IfESTNElfBlGGlN (Newbiggyng, 

 xiv cent.), otherwise called Newbiggin by Sadberge 

 to distinguish it from the place of the same name near 

 Redworth, appears from references already given to 

 have been considered sometimes as part of Little 

 Stainton. The land was held of the bishop as of his 

 Sadberge lordship by free tenants. In 1 2 1 2 John 

 de Newbiggin had 2 oxgangs of land by a rent of 

 3/. 6i/., but they had been given by him to the 

 hospital of Northallerton with the consent of Bishop 

 Philip and the king,'" and in 1535 the hospital had 

 a rent of 10;. from Newbiggin."' About i 359 William 

 de Newbiggin acquired a messuage and land from 

 Thomas Hode.-*' According to Hatfield's Survey in 

 1384 Gilbert de Newbiggin and his fellows held 48 

 acres by rendering 24/. ; the free tenants also ren- 

 dered I 3/. 4^'., and paid 3/. 8</. for a meadow called 

 Hawing. •"* Gilbert's son Thomas de Newbiggin 

 (1413) held a messuage and 30 acres in Newbiggin 

 by a rent of is. 6ii., and another tenement of the 

 same size jointly with his wife Elizabeth ; his son John, 

 aged twelve, was his heir.'" This was the Thomas 

 Gibson or Gilbertson of Newbiggin whose heirs in 

 1 41 6 were the representatives of his aunts, Richard 

 Wright, Robert Faucon, and John Hay, all over 

 thirty.^'' Robert Faucon (1434) held lands in New- 

 biggin next Sadberge." The wardship and marriage 

 of his son Robert Faucon was in 1435 granted to 

 John Hartburn.^2 Robert was dead in 1442.*' 

 Thomas Hay had held land in Newbiggin before 

 1405 ; his heir was a son John,°' probably the John 

 above-mentioned. Lawrence Hay (1498) was stated 

 to have held his lands partly in chief, partly of 

 Christopher Conyers.'' 



William Houwetson (1365) held three messuages 

 and 23 acres by \od. rent ; his heirs were his 

 daughter Joan, afterwards wife of John de Redmarshall, 

 William Cowper, John Gowcr, and William Laton.^^ 

 John Cusson (1583) held lands in East and West 

 Newbiggin of John Conyers,*' and Richard Cusson 

 (1632) had 6 oxgangs in West Newbiggin.'"' 



" Ibid. fol. ii9d. 



" Ibid. R. 33, ni. 29. John is said to 

 be the brother of William in this grant, 

 though In the inquisition he is described 

 as son of John brother of William. 



" Cal. Pat. 1401-;, p. 406. Lands In 

 Newbiggin and: Little Stainton were In- 

 cluded. 



■'■' Ibid. 1456-41, p. 379. 



'" Dur. Rec. cl. 3, no. 3, fol. 5 ; Feet 

 of F. Dur. Trin. 4 cS: 5 Phil, and Mary. 



'' Ibid, file 177, no. 101. 



'* Surtees, op. cit. Hi, 258 (from the 

 charter at Neasham). The priory had a 

 rent of 51. from land in Bishopton [Valor 

 Eccl. [Rec. Com.], v, 310). 



" Reg. Palat. Dunelm. (Rolls Ser.), ii, 

 1 135. The priory had a rent of 13^/, 

 from it. 



'"Ibid. 857-8. 



" Harl. R. D 36, m. 6. 



" Dur. Rec. cl. 3, no. 186 (20, 43). 



" Harl. R. D 36, m. 6h ; I'ahrEccl. 

 (Rec, Com.), v, 84, gives ihc rent as 401. 



" Dur. Rec. cl. 3, no. 2, fol. 128, 



"a Ibid, file 189, no, 175; R, 102, 

 m. 8 ; Exch, Dep, Trin, 9 .I 10 Geo, I, 

 no, 9 ; Hil. 12 Geo. I, no. 26. 



**b Lord Eldon's Muniments ; EUtob. 



" Testa de Nevill (Rec. Com.), 396. 



« Valor Ecd. (Rec. Com.), v, 85. 



'" Dur. Rec. cl. 3, no. 12, fol. 227 d. 



<9 Hatfield's Sur'v. (Surt. Soc), 198. 



•' Dur. Rec. cl. 3, no. 2, fol. 170. 



'" Ibid. fol. 1 80. The sisters of Gilbert 

 were Sibyl, whose grandson was Richard 

 Wright of Topcliffe ; Cecily, who had a 

 son William Faucon, father of Robert ; 

 and Agnes, mother of Emma del Hay, 

 mother of John. 



■■■> Ibid. fol. 272. 



" Ibid. R. 36, m. 10. 



'-* Ibid, file 164, no. 38. 



'* Ibid. no. 2, fol. 144 d. 



" Ibid, file 169, no. 53, 



"• I'oid. no. 2, fol. 7;, 81 h. 



" Dep. Keeper's Rep. xliv, 361. 



»• Dur. Rec. cl. 3, file 188, no. 14. 



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