STOCKTON WARD 



LOW DINSDALK 



the like office for Sadberge Wapentake.*' When 

 Sir William Claxton and Sir William Bulmer went to 

 the French wars in 14.16, their wives became 'paying 

 guests ' at Dinsdale."' In Northumberland Sir Thomas 

 Surtees acted as sheriff for two years, 1420-2,*" and in 

 14.28 was recorded as holding the fourth part of a 

 Icnight's fee in North Gosforth.'^ He died in April 

 1435, desiring to be buried in St. Nicholas', Walm- 

 gatc, York.'- His heir was his son Thomas, twenty- 

 four years of age, who at once had livery of his lands ;"•' 

 like his father, he served as commissioner of array.** 

 Sir Thomas Surtees had in 1426 conveyed to Thomas 

 his son and his wife Margaret certain tenements in 

 Gateshead.*^ Margaret the widow, Thomas Surtees 

 the elder, Thomas Surtees the younger and Katherine 

 his wife and others in 1 446 had pardon for any trespass 

 in this matter.** In Northumberland Thomas Surtees 

 had held the manor of North Gosforth, in conjunction 

 with Margaret his wife, by grant of his father Sir 

 Thomas.*' Thomas Surtees died on Christmas Day 

 1443 ;his heir was a son Thomas, aged ten,**apparently 

 already the husband of Katherine Ascough. He died 

 in or about 1480,''' and his son Thomas succeeded 

 him.'" The inquisition taken after the death of the 

 latter in l 506 shows that he had given an annuity to his 

 brother William in i486 from the manor of Dinsdale 

 and another in 1492 to his sister Anne. The heir 

 was a son Thomas, aged thirty-nine.'' The widow 

 Elizabeth (a second wife) had dower assigned to her 

 in I 507 out of the manor of Dinsdale and other lands, 

 including Ingdale Close in Dinsdale."- The younger 

 Thomas, the last of the male line to hold the manor,'" 

 died in 151 1, leaving as heir his sister Katherine 

 second wife of John Place of Halnaby, Yorks.'^^ The 

 father had married a second time, having issue a son 

 Marmaduke, aged sixteen. The inquisition recites 

 various settlements of the estates made from the time 

 of the last Sir Thomas Surtees downwards."'' Margery, 

 the widow, had dower assigned to her in 1514.'* 



Owing to the inability of the ' half-blood ' to 

 inherit, Katherine succeeded to the manor. Prolonged 

 lawsuits followed, and ended in 1552 in an agree- 



ment betiveen the representatives of Katherine Place 

 and Marmaduke Surtees. The latter renounced all 

 right in the manors of Dinsdale and Stodhoe, Ponteys 

 Mill, the fishgarth, and various other estates, but 

 received the manor of Over Middleton and a moiety 

 of the manor of Morton Palmes.''' 



Katherine Place left a son Bernard, who died with- 

 out issue, and three daughters her co-heirs : Anne, 

 wife of Sir Robert Brandling, Elizabeth, wife of 

 Thomas Blakiston, and Dorothy, wife of William 

 WyclifFe," who left a son, Francis Wycliffe, to join in 

 the settlement of 1 5 ;»."*' Katherine's husband had 

 by a previous wife a son Rowland, to whom William 

 and Dorothy Wycliffe conveyed their third of the 

 manor in 1538.'* He died in 1538 and was 

 succeeded by George his son, who in the following 

 year obtained a conveyance of 'the manor' from 

 William Gaytherde, Elizabeth 

 his wife, George Fenny and 

 Marjory his wife."^ George 

 died without issue in 1 551, 

 when his lands passed to 

 Christopher his brother. "''' 

 Christopher Place obtained a 

 life interest in the manor of 

 Dinsdale from his uncle Ber- 

 nard in I 543, and purchased 

 Francis Wycliffe's third part.*"" 

 Christopher died in 1558 ; he 

 left five daughters and co- 

 heirs,*" but two of them, 



Dorothy Boynton and Elizabeth Forster, conveyed this 

 third part of the manor in 1 592 to the heir male, their 

 father's nephew, another Christopher Place, son of 

 Robert."- This Christopher acquired another third from 

 William Blakiston, grandson of Elizabeth Blakiston, in 

 1597 and the remaining third from Robert Brandling 

 three years later.*''' He was thus lord of the whole manor, 

 and in 1615 made a settlement of it in tail male on the 

 marriage of his son Christopher to Mary Constable.''* 

 Hedied in January 1623-4, '^'and his son died a month 

 later, leaving a son Rowland, who died in 1680."'' 



P L .* c E . A'zure a 

 chief argent xvith three 

 tvrealhs gules therein. 



^^ Defi. Keefier'i Rep. xxxiii, 102. He 

 was a justice of the peace, Ac, iu 1416-17 

 (ibid. 112, I+I, !97, 207. See also Cal. 

 Pat. 141 3-16, p. 294 ; 1416-22, p. 102). 



** Surtees, op. cit. iii, 251. 



'I P.R.O. U,to/ Sheriff,, 98. 



" FeuJ. Ai.h, iv, S3. 



^"^ Dur. Rec. cl. 3; no. 2, fol. 273 ; 

 Teit. Ehor. (Surt. Soc), ii, 45. His will 

 was dated 12 and proved 19 April 14,5. 

 The executors included Tliomas, his son 

 and heir, and a daughter Elizabeth is named. 



*' Ibid. ; Dep, Keeper's Rep. xxxiii, App. 

 .63. 



" Ibid. 



'^ Dur. Rec. cl. 3, file 164, no. 54; 

 Exch. Inq. p.m. (Ser. i), file 178, no. 6. 



" Dur. Rec. cl. 3, R. 4;, m. 5. 



•' Chan. Inq. p.m. 22 Hen. 'VI, no. 8; 

 Cal. Pat. 1 44 1 -6, p. 310. 



'■• Dep. Keeper's Re/>. loc. cit. 



*' Dur. Rec. cl. 3, no. 55, m. 5. 



'" Ibid. no. 54, m. 12. Katherine his 

 widow was living in 1496 {Oep. Keeper's 

 Rep. xliv, App. ^00). She was a daughter 

 of William Ayscough (Dur. Rec. cl. 3. file 

 171, no. I 3). In Testj Ebor. (Surt. Soc), 

 iii, 292 n., is printed a letter 01 Sir 

 James Strangeways concerning .t marriage 

 between Thomas Surtees and Elizabeth 

 daughter of Sir Christopher Conyers ; they 



were near akin, and the pope's dispensa- 

 tion would be required. 



"' Dur. Rec. cl. 3, file 171, no. 13. 



"' Dep. Keeper's Rep. xliv, 50 1 ; xxxvi, 

 App. 76- 



'^ He had livery in 1508 (ibid, xxxvi, 

 App. I, 90). 



"'^ I'isit, ofTorks. (Harl. Soc), 252 n. ; 

 r.C.H. Torks. N.R. i, 165. 



"' Dur. Rec. cl. 3, file 173, no. ^; ; 

 no. 3, fol. 16. The printed inquisition 

 [Dep. Keeper's /?f^. xliv, App. 50 1 ) requires 

 correction by the omission of 'their son ' 

 on line b, and the insertion of another 

 'son of Thomas * on line 7. The settle- 

 ment here quoted on Thomas Surtees and 

 his wife .-Mice seems to he that of 1344 

 (sec above), though thepedigreegivenin the 

 inquisition makes it refer to the Thomas 

 on whom with his wife Margaret a settle- 

 ment was made in 1426. A mistake of 

 three generations seems to have been made. 



^■' Dep. Keeper's Rep. xliv, App. 502. 



''' Dur. Rec. cl. 3, no. 148 ; cl. 1 2, no. i 

 (i). See also the account in Surtees (op. 

 cit.iii,232),derived in part from the Lamb- 

 ton title-deeds. The account in the 

 text follows Surtees in the later descent. 

 Marmaduke Surtees and Anne his wife 

 conveyed lands to James Lawion in 

 1 539-40 (Dur. Rec. cl. 12, no. 1 [i] ). 



219 



■■ Star Chamb. Proc. (Hen. VIII), v, 

 fol. 22. 



"' Surtees, loc. cit. 



■'Foster, yisit. of Dur. PeJ. 257-8; 

 Surtees, loc. cit. The will of Rowland's 

 son, .-Anthony Place (i 570), described as 

 ' of Dinsdale,' is printed in Dur. Ifills and 

 Im-eni. (Surt. Soc), i, 3 14. See also Chan. 

 Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), Ixiii, 46. 



"» Dur. Rec cl. 12, no. 1(1). 



'»'' Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), xclii, 5S. 



'" Surtees, loc. cit. 



*' Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), xciii, 58 ; 

 cxvi, 69. 



*• Dur. Rec cl. 12, no. i (3) ; Surtees 

 (loc cit.) gives the date as 1571. 



*" Dur. Rec. cl. 12, no. 2 (1). Johnson 

 of Elizabeth Bl.ikiston of Blakiston (l 596) 

 held a third of the manors of Dinsdale and 

 Stodhoe of the queen {Dep. Keeper's Rep. 

 xliv, App. 339). Dur. Rec. cl. 3, file 191, 

 no. 70 j cl. 12, no. I (2). His son was 

 William Blakiston. -Robert Brindlyng 

 and Anne his wife sold their third in 1549 

 (ibid. no. I [i] ). 



*' Dep. Keeper's Rep. xliv, App. 487. 



" Dur. Rec. cl. 3, file 189, no. 147. 



»« Ibid. : Reg. of . . . Dinsdale (Soc. 

 Antiq. of Newcastle), 2i, 22. For writ of 

 amoveas manus in favour of Rowland Place 

 see Fine Roll, 1S-2; Chas. I, pt. i, no. 35 



