A HISTORY OF DURHAM 



Garnitt of Egglcs- 

 cliffe. Azure three 

 grijfons* heads razed or. 



Pleasance brought the manor of Egglcscliffc in 

 marriage to Thomas de Aislaby,^'' lord of the adjacent 

 Aislaby.^' It remained with his descendants '*' until 

 1556, when William Astleysold it to James Garnett.'" 

 The purchaser is said in the recorded pedigree to 

 have come from Blasterficld in 

 Westmorland.'" His brother 

 William became rector of the 

 parish in 1561.'' James Gar- 

 nett died in l 564, holding the 

 manor, with two closes called 

 Castleholme and Holehouse, 

 and a fishery in the Tees. His 

 heir was his son Lawrence, 

 three years of age.'"' Lawrence 

 GarnettdiedinMarch 1605-6, 

 holding the same estate and 

 leaving a son Anthony, aged 

 sixteen.'" Anthony died in 



163 I, having by his will made provision for his wife and 

 his children, John, William, M.iry, and Elizabeth. John, 

 the elder son, was fifteen years of age at his father's 

 death.''- On the outbreak of the Civil War he took 

 the king's side, and was appointed captain of horse 

 in the regiment of Col. Heron. ''^ His estates were 

 sequestered in 1 644. In compounding two years 

 later, he stated that he had been an officer in arms 

 for the king at Scarborough, and when the castle 

 surrendered in 1645 he returned to Durham, but, 

 though conforming to the ordinances of Parliament, 

 had not been able to compound because of a wound. 

 He had taken the Covenant and the Negative Oath. 

 The manor of Egglesclifte was worth £c)0 a year. 

 His fine was £1^^, and the estate was discharged in 

 1650.** A water-mill, windmill and horse-mill 

 belonged to it.'"''' He recorded a pedigree in 1666, 

 when his only child, Alice, was twelve years old.'"' 

 She died in 1669, and a year later John Garnett and 

 his wife Anne sold the manor of EgglesclifFe to 

 Dr. Thomas Wood,'*' who was Bishop of Lichfield 

 from 1 67 1 till his death in 1692. In 1690 he 

 devised this manor to his nephew Henry Webb, who 

 was to take the name of Wood, and charged his 

 estate with j^zo a year for the prisoners for debt at 

 Durham gaol.'"' 



Henry Wood and Anne his wife made a conveyance 

 of the manor in 1695 to George Taylor.''" It 

 seems to have been purchased not long afterwards by 

 the Elstob family. Richard Elstob was called lord 



S T A N D I S H . 



three stanJitig 

 argent. 



Sahle 

 dishet 



of EgglesclifFe in 1717,^ and in 1726 Edward 

 Elstob, in selling the Mill Hill here to Peter Consett, 

 discharged it from the £io rent-charge mentioned 

 above.^* Twent)-four jears later John Elstob, Alice 

 Elstob and Anne Hope, who were said to hold the 

 interest of Henry Wood in the estate, sold the land 

 retained by Edward Elstob to Anthony Hall.*^ 

 Anthony Hall settled it in 1763 on the marriage ol 

 his son Anthony, whose son, another Anthony, 

 succeeded him.^^ The heir of the last-mentioned 

 Anthony was his son Frank, 

 who in I 8 I 2 succeeded to the 

 estates of his cousin Sir Frank 

 Standish, bart., of Duxbury 

 and took the name of Stand- 

 ish. ^^ Frank Hail Standish was 

 a principal landowner about 

 I 820 and died in 1841.^^ His 

 kinsman William Standish 

 Standish succeeded him and 

 died in 1856.** The family 

 estate in Egglesclifte was sold 

 in 1849, a large part being 

 bought by Thomas Meynell of 



Yarni, who already had land here and part of the 

 manor."' Thomas Meynell died in 1863 and is now 

 represented by his nephew Mr. Edgar Meynell,^' who 

 holds manorial rights at the present day. 



Among those who were said to hold part of the 

 manor in the early 19th century was John Waldy,** 

 whose estate here was inherited 

 by his third son Thomas 

 William.«> The Rev. ArthurG. 

 Waldy, son of Thomas William 

 Waldy, died in 1915 and 

 wai succeeded by Mr. John 

 Waldy, grandson of Thomas, 

 who now holds the property. 



In 1 63 I Ralph Eure, John 

 Pemberton, Mary Garnett, 

 and John Garnett, then lord of 

 themanor.sold to Ralph Allan- 

 son 70 acres of meadow and 70 

 of pasture in EgglesclifFe and 

 Aislaby with a fishery in the 

 Tees which was an appurtenance of the manor of 

 Egglesclifte. '1 Allanson, who already had land in 

 Aislaby, sold two messuages and 250 acres in the two 

 vills in 1636 to Laurence Sayer and John Errington.'" 



Waldy. Or a hend 

 betiveen three leopardC 

 heads azure vjith a peli- 

 can or upon the bend. 



" Assize R. 224, m. 5 ; Finchale Priory 

 (Surt. Soc), 82. ^' Assize R. 224, m. 2 d. 



'« Reg. Palal. Dunelm. (Rolls Ser.), iv, 

 278 ; De[>. Keeper's Rep. xlv, App. 244, ttc. 

 The mill was held by William de Aislaby 

 as early as 1313 {R'g- Palat. Dunelm. 

 [Rolls Ser. ], il, 1240). 



•' Dur. Rec. cl. 12, no. 1 (1). The 

 deeds were dated 11 Aug. 1554 and 10 

 Jan. 1 5 5 5-6, according to James Garnett's 

 inquisition (ibid. cl. 3, no. 6, fol. 25,48). 



''* Foster, Dur. Fisit. Ped. 133. 



^' Surtecs, op. cit. iii, 198, 200. 



^^ Dur. Rec. cl. 3, no. 6, fol. 48. James 

 Garnett's will (1564) is printed in Dur. 

 IVills and In'vent. (Surt. Soc), i, 217. 



" Dur. Rec. cl. 3, file 182, no. 23. 

 The inquisition gives particulars of annui- 

 ties for Anne Ashley and William (for 

 Anne) Claxton, charged on Egglescliffe ; 

 it also mentions Laurence's wife Anne and 

 younger children, 



*' Ibid, file 186, no, 57. See also ibid. 

 R. 108, no. 75. " Foster, loc. cit. 



** Royalist Comp. in Dur. (Surt. Soc), 

 212, His lands were let in 1644; the 

 total rents and dues appear to have been 

 ,^74 (ibid. 27). They were let again in 

 1645 at ,^55 loj. rent (ibid. 35). 



" Ibid. 27. 



*• Foster, loc. cit. See also Surtecs, 

 op. cit. iii, 198. 



*' Surtecs, loc. cit. ; Dur. Rec cl. i 2, 

 no. 8 (2) J cl. 3, R. 117, no. 16 d. 

 Michael I'embcrton of Aislaby sold his 

 interest in the manor to Dr. Wood in 

 July 1670 (ibid. cl. 12, no. 8 [2] ). 



*■ Will in Surtces, op. cit. 197 \ see 

 also Dur. Rec cl. 3, R. 127, no. 20. 



" Dur. Rec. cl. 12, no. 14 (4). 



^" Inform, from the rector. 



*' Dur. Rec cl. 3, R. 120, no. 8; 

 Surtees, op. cit. iii, 197. 



" Dur. Rec. cl. ;, R. 127, no. 20. 



224 



" Ibid. ; Surtees, op. cit. iv (2), 1 54. 



^* Burke, Commoners, iv, 643 ; Surtees, 

 loc. cit. 



" Surtees, op. cit. iii, 198 ; Burke, 

 Landed Gentry. 



'* Burke, Landed Gentry. 



"' Inform, from rector ; Surtees, loc. 

 cit. 



•'^ Burke, Landed Gentry. 



*' Surtees, loc. cit. 



*> Fordyce, Hist, and Anli-j. of the Co. 

 Palat. of Dur. ii, 221. 



" Dur. Rec. cl. 12, no. 4 (2) ; cl. 3, 

 R. 106, m. 19, no. 60 ; cf. ibid, file 186, 

 no. 57 ; Surtees, loc. cit. 



'- Dur. Rec. cl. 12, no. 4 (4) ; cl. 3, 

 R. loS, no. 51. Laurence Sayer con- 

 veyed the Great and Little Castle Holmes 

 and other closes in EgglcsclifTe and Aislaby 

 to Sir Thomas and Jordan Melham in 

 1636 ; a recovery of these lands was 

 suffered in 1701 (ibid. R. 119, m. 2d.). 



