A HISTORY OF DURHAM 



in or about 1400, to 1 third grandson named Walter 

 (son of William). His daughter Agnes succeeded 

 him in 1410, she being nine years of age.** 



Agnes the heiress of Aislaby was in or before 1420 

 married to Hugh Astley, and with her husband was 

 pardoned for entering into her father's lands without 

 licence." She afterwards (by 1436) married John 

 Hawley, making a settlement of the manors of Afslaby 

 and EgglescllfFe.-''' She was the widow of John New- 

 port at her death about 1450, when the two manors 

 were taken into the bishop's hands and granted (1450) 

 to Henry and Robert Preston.'^ It then appeared 

 that a settlement had lately been made by which the 

 manor of EgglescllfFe was to be held by John Newport 

 for life with remainders to William Astley son of 

 Agnes and his issue, her daughters Agnes Hawley and 

 Margaret Newport, and to the heirs of Agnes their 

 mother. Aislaby was to go at once to William Astley 

 with remainders to Agnes and Margaret."'' William 

 Astley, 'esquire,' died in 1502, and seisin was given 

 to Thomas his son and heir.'' He had held lands in 

 Aislaby in conjunction with Margaret his wife,"* and 

 on her death (1506) the lands in the manors and 

 vills of EgglescllfFe and Aislaby, with a fishery in the 

 Tees, descended to Thomas Astley, then aged fifty."" 

 Thomas died in January 1524-5, and was succeeded 

 in the two manors by his son William, aged forty ''"'; 

 William at his death (1552) left a son and heir of the 

 same name.^ The heir soon afterwards sold his 

 estates, and in 1557 Robert Hindmarsh (Hindmers) 

 acquired Aislaby from him.- Robert died about a 

 year afterwards, his heir being 

 a brother, Reynold Hind- 

 marsh, clerk, aged fifty.' On 

 the death of Reynold Hind- 

 marsh, who was rector of 

 Langar (Notts.) ^ in 1575, the 

 manor of Aislaby passed to his 

 nephew John son of James 

 Hindmarsh,* who in 1578 did 

 homage for it and took the 

 oath of supremacy.* The 

 younger John died in 1589,''^ 

 when his sisters and represen- 

 tatives Helen Fetherstonhalgh, 

 Agnes Mayre, widow, Robert 

 Mayre, Eleanor Todd and her 

 son Michael Todd sold to Michael Pemberton, son of 

 Helen Fetherstonhalgh, the manor and two farms.' 

 Michael Pemberton, who recorded a pedigree in 161 5, 



Pe.mberton of Ais- 

 laby. Urgent a che'veron 

 ermine bet'weett three 

 griffom^ heatit sahle, cut 

 off at the neck^ 



died in January 1624-5, holding, in addition to the 

 manor of Aislaby, certain lands there and a burgage 

 in North Auckland." His son John, thirty-four years 

 of age, had livery of the manor on 1 1 February 

 1625-6.' He died in 1644, leaving as heir his 

 son Michael, who was a major in Colonel Conyers' 

 regiment, as well as two younger sons who were 

 captains in the king's service, one of them losing his 

 life in the war.*' The estates as a whole appear to 

 have escaped sequestration, but Michael's share, per- 

 haps before his father's death, was seized." He died 

 about 1652, and his eldest son Michael was in pos- 

 session in 1666, when he recorded a pedigree at the 

 visitation.'^ The manor was purchased of the Pem- 

 bertons before 1685 by Edward Trotter '•' of Park 

 House near Guisborough, V'orks, who settled it in 

 that year on himself for life with remainder to his 

 son John Trotter of Skelton Castle. In 1696 Edward 

 and John Trotter sold it to William Ward of Guis- 

 borough, under whose will of 1718 it passed to his 

 son John.''' John Ward was declared bankrupt in 

 1730 and the manor was conveyed by the assignees 

 in bankruptcy in 1749 to Ralph Ward. Under his 

 will of 1759 R*lph bequeathed the property to his 

 sister Hannah Jackson, who was succeeded in or about 

 1772 by her son George.''' Four years later George 

 sold the manor to Robert Raikes Fulthorpe, by whose 

 mortgagees it was sold in 1802 to Rowland Webster. 

 Rowland mortgaged it in 1807 to John Russell 

 Rowntree of Stockton. He died in 1809 and was 

 succeeded by Rowland Webster his son.'* Rowland 

 and his brother William became bankrupt in 1821, 

 and in 1825 their trustees sold the manor of Aislaby 

 to John Russell Rowntree, of whom it was purchased 

 in 1830 by John Earl of Eldon," whose descendants 

 still hold the greater portion of the manor. 



Henry de Aislaby, whose daughter Alice married 

 John son of William de Aislaby 1343, appears to have 

 died in 1344, his widow Ismania receiving dower on 

 undertaking not to marry without the bishop's 

 licence.'* A valuation of Henry's lands in Aislaby was 

 made in 1350.'" Possibly a cousin was the John son 

 of William son of Henry de Aislaby, who occurs in 

 1 342-4,-" and died in or about 1363, holding two 

 messuages and 4 oxgangs of land, parcel of the 

 manor of Aislaby.-' John had acquired the 4 oxgangs 

 from his namesake John lord of Aislaby in 1354 

 without the bishop's licence. His heir was a son 

 John, aged ten years. -- 



The heirs of John Aislaby in 1432 were his 



'^ Dur. Rcc. cl. 3, no. 2, fol. 165, and 

 1 34 d. Alice wife of John, the grandson, 

 appears to have married (2) William de 

 Ludcnham, (3) — de Percy, by whom 

 she had a son and heir William, aged 

 twenty-four in 14.00, and (4) John de 

 Norton, surviving him also. John de 

 Aislaby the elder was living in 1385 

 {Dep. Keeper'i Rep. xxxii, App. i, 301). 



» Dur. Rec. cl. 3, R. 38, m. 5 d. 



9< Ibid. R. 36, m. 12. 



'■'' Ibid. R. 44, m. 1 1. 



"^ Ibid. m. 15, 17. 



"Ibid, file 170, no. 11. His will is 

 printed in Bp. Barnes^ Injunct. (Surt. Soc), 

 p. xxxvii. 



" Dur. Rec. cl. 3, file 170, no. 11. 



" Ibid, file 177, no. 12. 



'^Ibid. file 174, no. 24; file 178, 

 no. 47. 



' Ibid, file 178, no. 108. 



' Ibid, file 177, no. 81; R. i ; ;, m. 4 ; 

 cl. 12, no. I (i) ; Lansd. MS. 902, fol. 390. 



' Dur. Rec. cl. 3, file 177, no. 81. 



' I'alor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), v, 169. 



■^ Dep. Keeper'i Rep. xxxvii, App. 83 ; 

 Dur. Rec. cl. 3, file 191, no. 52. 



« Ibid. R. 8;, m. 14. 



''"Dur. Rec. cl. 3, file 191, no. 149. 

 His heirs were his sisters Helen, Agnes, 

 Eleanor and Florence. Florence married 

 William Spencclcy, but must have died 

 childless before the conveyance. 



' Ibid, file 191, no. 149 ; Dep. Keeper^ 

 Rep. xxxvii, App. III. 



" Dur. Rec. cl. 3, file 189, no. 131. 



' Ibid. ; Fine R. i Chas. I, pt. ii, no. 29 ; 

 Dur. Rec. cl. 12, no. 5 (2). 



'" Foster, Dur. yuit. 25 1 ; Capt. John 

 Pemberton was buried at Leeds in 1643, 



226 



and Capt. Henry at Newcastle, 1644 

 Ibid. 



• ' Royalist Comp, Rec. Dur, and Northumh. 

 (Surt. Soc), 7, 67, 227. 



^^ Foster, loc. cit. Sec also Dur. Rec. 

 cl. 12, no. 7 (4) ; ibid. no. 10 (4). 



" In 1680 Edward Trotter obtained a 

 conveyance of messuages and lands from 

 John Fewler, Jane his wife, Robert 

 Jackson and Mary his wife (Ibid. no. 

 .of.]). 



'• From deeds in the possession of the 

 Earl of Eldon. 



" Ibid. >ii Ibid. " Ibid. 



'» Reg. Palat. Duneltn. (Rolls Ser.), iv, 

 356. 



" Dur. Rec. cl. 3, no. 2, fol. 41 d. 



™ Dep. Keeper's Rep. xxxi, App. 42-3. 



" Dur. Rec. cl. 3, no. 2, fol. 71 d. 



'- Ibid. no. 12, fol. 145 ; no. 2, fol. 71 d. 



