STOCKTON WARD 



ELWICK HALL 



Morrison, daughter of the late Mr. J. Stapylton 

 Sutton, in memory of her parents. A painted figure 

 of the Virgin and Child was erected at the north-east 

 corner of the nave, as a memorial of the Peace of 

 1919. 



In the floor of the chancel is a stone to Mary, wife 

 of Henry Doughty, rector, who died in 1683, and on 

 the north wall a tablet to John Sutton of Stockton, 

 who died in I 792.'' 



The plate consists of a silver chalice of I 570, made 

 at York, a plated paten, and a flagon made from a 

 plated cup.'* 



The registers begin in 1573. 



The advowson was anciently an 

 ADyOPFSON appurtenance of the manor, though 

 it seems to have been in dispute as 

 early as 1185 when William de Howden paid 2 

 marks for licence 

 to cancel an agree- 

 ment whereby he 

 quitclaimed it to 

 Peter de Humez ; 

 the church was 

 then endowed with 

 an oxgang of 

 land."* Bishop 

 Philip (1 197- 

 1208) appears to 

 have claimed it, 

 perhaps regarding 

 Elton as a depen- 

 dency of Norton, 

 for he gave a formal 

 release to William 

 de Humez of all 

 right in the advow- 

 son of the ch.ipel 

 (not church) of 

 Elton, as being 

 William's by here- 

 ditary right accord- 

 ing to the verdict 

 vicinity 



William Bowes had two and 



Gower the third.*"- 



Elton Church from ihk SouTH-wtsT 



of the lawful men of the 

 In 13 16 the king presented because of 

 his custody of the lands and heir of Robert de 

 Clifford, deceased.^" The king .igain presented in 

 I 346 by reason of his custody of the lands and heir 

 of William Gower." In 1435 it was found on in- 

 quiry that out of three turns of presentation Sir 



The advowson of Elton church was included in the 

 conveyance to Henry Wethereld made in 1552 by 

 Richard and .Margaret Stoughton .'"'-* 



A third part of the advowson was acquired, pre- 

 sumably from the heirs of George Bowes, by Robert 

 Conyers of Coatham Stob, and with land in Elton is 

 mentioned in his will of l^SSS'^ It was forfeited 

 with the manor of Coatham Stob by his elder son 

 Ralph in 1569.''^ In January 1572-3 it was granted 

 to Roger Manners," from whom it was probably 

 purchased by the Errington family. In 1667 John 

 Jefferson and John Errington were said to present 

 alternately,'"' but in 1758 it appeared that the suc- 

 cessors of the Erringtons were entitled to two thirds, 

 while Miss Ann Jefferson had one "•' 



The Shafto right was sold to Wade along with the 



manor, and descen- 

 ded to the Rev. Al- 

 bany Wade, whose 

 represen ta t ives 

 about 1870 sold to 

 Mrs. Elizabeth 

 Milner.^* The ex- 

 ecutors of thislajy 

 have now the larger 

 share (two turns) 

 and Mr. J. E. 

 Jefferson Hogg of 

 Norton the smaller 

 (one turn). 



The rectory was 

 valued at £\ 6s. 8</. 

 in I 291,''^ but this 

 was reduced as in 

 other cases before 

 1318, when £2 

 was the value.'" By 

 1535 this had risen 

 to £j u. sK^' 

 An acre of land 

 given for the maintenance of a light was in the 

 tenure of John Sayer in February 1562-3 when 

 it was leased to Christopher Chaytor ; this land 

 was included in a Crown sale of former church lands 

 in 1609."^ 



There are apparently no endowed charities in this 

 parish. 



ELWICK HALL 



Ailewic (xii cent.) ; Elwyk (xiii cent.) ; EUevvvk 

 (xiv cent.). 



The parish is bounded by Elwick on the north 

 and Dalton Piercy on the north-east, both within the 

 parish of Hart. On the east Elwick Hall borders upon 



Brierton, in the parish of Stranton, and on the town- 

 ship of Claxton, from which it is divided by Claxton 

 Beck. On the south-east and south the boundary is 

 the North Burn, dividing Elwick Hall from the town- 

 ships of Newton Bewley and Wolviston. On the 



*' The moaumcntal inscriptions in the 

 old church are given in Surteea, op, cit. 

 iii, 210. 



^^ Proc, Soc. Antiq, Nrwcatile^ iv, 

 151. 



'**Pifc R. 31 Hin. II (Pipe R. Soc), 

 152. 



^' Madox, Form. Angl. (ed. 1702), 370, 

 no. 663. 



^ Cal. Pat. IJ13-17, p. 550. 



" Ibid. 1 345-8, p. 214. 



" Hutchinson, op. cit. iii, 1 66, quoting 

 Dur. Epis. Langlcy Reg. fol. 303. 



•'» Dur. Rec. cl. 12, no. 1(1). 



" Dur. fy.lU anJ Invent. (Surt. Soc), 

 iii, 35 ; Surtees, op. cit. iii, 219. 



" Eich. K.R. Misc. Bits, xixviii, 



244-?- 



"^ Pat. 15 Eli«. pt. viii, m. 23, together 

 with the lands of Robert Conyera. 



•* Hutchinson, op. cit. iii, 166. 



^ Ibid. See also Dur. Rec. cl. 3, R. 1 31 

 no. 10, and cf. Inst. Bks. (P.R.O.). 



•^ Inform, of the Rev. H. S. Milner 

 M.A., rector. 



" Pafc Nich. Tax. (Rec. Com.), 3 1 5. 



■"Ibid. 330. 



" rahr Eicl. (Rec. Com.), v, 330. 



•^ Aug. Of}'. Partic. for Leases, file 34, 

 no. ;9 ; Pat. 7 Jas. I, pt. x. 



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