STOCKTON WARD 



GRINDON 



FuLTHORPE. Argent 

 a millrind croil sable. 



descendants.^' Roger's son and heir Alan succeeded 

 while still a minor ;^" he died in or about 1374, 

 leaving a son and heir, another Alan, a minor.-' The 

 younger Alan died seised of the whole m.inor in or 

 about 1407, leaving a son 

 Thomas, aged fourteen.*'' 

 Thomas had livery in 1409, 

 and in 141 5 settled the manor 

 on himself and his wife 

 Margaret daughter of Thomas 

 de Crathorne and their issue.-' 

 He died in 1439-^ and 

 Margaret only lived until 

 October of the following 

 year.*' Their son and heir was 

 Thomas, then a minor,-" who 

 left a son Alan.*^ Alan died in 



1485, when his son and heir Christopher was twenty 

 years old.** Christophersettled the manor in February 

 1 5 14— 5 on his son James and Elizabeth Place his 

 wife, for their lives and the life of the survivor.*' It 

 subsequently reverted to the heirs of his eldest son 

 John, who died in 1556, leaving daughters and co-heirs 

 Anne and Cecily.''" They married respectively Francis 

 and Christopher, brothers of the family of Wandes- 

 ford of Kirklington.'^ In I 566 half the manor of 

 Fulthorpe was settled on Christopher Wandesforde 

 and his wife Cecily, with remainder to Francis, 

 Henry and Thom.is Wandesforde their sons in tail.^* 

 In 1586, however, a partition of the lands of John 

 Fulthorpe was made between Christopher and Francis 

 Wandesforde, husband and son of Cecily, and Anne 

 Nevill, widow of Francis Wandesforde, and her son 

 Christopher. By this agreement Anne received for 

 her share, inter alia, the manor of Fulthorpe and 

 Grindon, which she settled to her own use for life 

 with remainder to her son Sir Christopher Wandes- 

 forde.^' Christopher's son Sir George sold it in 

 I 596 to Thomas Blakiston of Blakiston,^^ who in 1 6 I 7 

 conveyed it to Arthur and Humphrey Robinson. '* 

 Nineteen years later Arthur Robinson, with Henry 

 Robinson, senior, his brother, and Henry, son and heir 

 of Henry Robinson, conveyed it to Alexander Davison,'^ 

 who acquired the manor of Blakiston at about 

 the same time. Fulthorpe was sequestered in 1644 

 for the delinquency of Alexander Davison and his son 

 Thomas.^' Thomas was in possession of the manor 

 in 1657,58 and it appears to have followed subse- 



quently the descent of Blakiston. The present owner 

 is Viscount Boyne. 



The vill of THORPE THElf'LES (Thorp, xii- 

 xiii cent. ; Thorpp Thewles, 1265 ; Thorpe Theules, 

 xiv cent.) belonged in the Izth century to the 

 family of Thorpe. The Geoffrey de Thorpe, who in 

 1166 held half a knight's fee in the bishopric," was 

 probably lord of this manor, and was perhaps 

 identical with Geoffrey son of Godfrey de Thorpe, 

 who between 1180 and 1 194 granted to his sister 

 Maud 3 oxgangs of land here." John son of 

 Geoffrey de Thorpe made grants to Finchale Priory 

 in the early years of the 13th century and answered 

 for half a knight's fee in the bishop's fcodary of 

 I 249-60." He had two sons, Geoffrey and William, 

 of whom Geoffrey appears to have been the elder." 

 Geoffrey confirmed grants to Finchale " and apparently 

 died without issue. His brother William *' granted land 

 in Thorpe Thewles to Alan de Thorpe, clerk, who in 

 1265 granted it to Finchale Priory." The heir 

 of William was his son Robert de Thorpe," whose 

 widow Aveline in 1305 held one-third of the m.inor 

 in dower." The remaining two-thirds were in the 

 hands of the bishop, presumably by escheat, and the 

 whole manor was claimed as early as I 304 by John 

 son of John de Maidstone as his inheritance from his 

 father.*' The bishop's defence was that John was a 

 bastard." In 1307 the matter was settled by a 

 release to Bishop Bek from John de Maid-tone.'" 



The history of the manor during the first half of 

 the 14th century is very obscure. In 1335 land 

 here was held of Sir Robert Conyers, in 1339 other 

 land was held of Richard de Sayton." A charter 

 was made to Finchale by John Ward of Thorpe 

 Thewles," and Ralph Ward of Thorpe Thewles 

 acknowledged a debt to Roger de Fulthorpe in 1 346." 

 The history of the manor becomes clear again with a 

 release of it in 1346 to this Roger de Fulthorpe from 

 Maud widow of Nicholas Gower of Skutterskelfe." 

 Roger was lord of Tunstall in the parish of Stranton. 

 He rented land in Thorpe Thewles from the Prior 

 of Finchale in 1375-6," and forfeited the manor 

 in 1388 among his other lands. It was granted in 

 I 389 to his son William," and followed the descent of 

 Tunstall till 1462, when Thomas Fulthorpe settled it 

 for life on Elizabeth wife of Richard Conyers, and 

 subsequently of Robert Pilkington." On her death 

 in 1507 '" it passed to Philippa wife of Richard Booth, 



" Dur. Rec. cl. 3, no. 2, fol. 311. 



'" Ibid. fol. I2d. ; cl. 20, no. 2. 



" Ibid. cl. 3, R. 31, m. 7. 



" Ibid. no. 2, fol. 161. The value of 

 the manor was given in his inquisition 

 (ibid.) as £6 13s. 4^/., exactly twice the 

 value of Roger de Fulthorpe's moiety in 

 ■336-7 ('bid. fol. 1 2d.). 



" Ibid. R. 35, m. 3 ; deed printed by 

 McCall in Family of IVandesforJe, 195. 



'* Dur. Rec. cl. 3, no. 2, Vol. 297. 



" Ibid. fol. 311. 



^* Ibid. fol. 297, 31 1. 



" Early Chan. Proc. bdle. 38, no. 28 1. 



'8 Dur. Rec. cl. 3, file 168, no. 7. 



" Ibid. no. 3, fol. 45 i Dep. Kciper'i 

 Rep. xxxvi, 103. 



'" McCall, op. cit. 203, 237-8 ; Chan. 

 Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cix, 4;. 



»l McCall, Family of Wandcifordt, 33, 

 47. 237-S. 



" Dur. Rec. cl. 12, no. i (2); deed 

 printed by M<:Call, op. cit, 225. 



" Ibid. 237-8. 



'^ Dur. Rec. cl. 12, no. 2 (i); cl. 3, 

 R. 92, m. II. Thomas was created a 

 baronet in 16 15 (G.E.C. Barore'agey i, 

 107). According to Chan. Proc. (Ser. 2), 

 bdle. 409, no. 57, Sir William, father of 

 Thomas, was in possession in 1605. 



'■' Dur. Rec. cl. 3, R. 97, no. 68 ; cl. 1 2, 

 no. 3(2); Chan. Proc. (Ser. 2), bdle. 301, 

 no. 4 ; bdle. 323, no. 2 ; bdle. 409, no. 57. 



'* Dur. Rrc. cl. 12, no. 4 (4); 

 cl. 3, R. 109, m. 18, no. 39 ; Chan. 

 Proc. (Ser. 2), bdle. 323, no. 2. 



'■" Ree. Com. for Cr.mp. {Sutt. Soc), 13, 

 14, 19, 180. 



"''Com. Pleas, D. Enr. East. 1657, 

 m. 9. 



3' Red Bk. ofExeh. (Rolls Ser.), 1,417. 



*** Egerton Chart. ^14. Maud married 

 William son of Roger de Stodfold 

 (Egerton Chart. 512). 



" Finchale Priory (Surt. Soc.), 138-41 ; 

 Surtees, op. cit. iii, 80 ; i (i), p. cxxviii. 



249 



" Finchale Priory (Surt. Soc), 140, 

 142, 146. " Ibid. 142, 146. 



" Ibid. 143. " Ibid. 



*'' Hutchinson, Hiit. and Antiq. of Dur, 

 iii, 90 ; Surtees, op. cit. iii, 71. 



" Reg. Palar. Dunelm. (Rolls Ser.), It, 



12-13 i ^"l- ^"'^ '3°'-7i r- 4"4- 



*^ Ibid. Isabel wife of Jchn was asso- 

 ciated with him (Cj/.C/oj^, 1202-7, p. ' 5 6). 



" Reg. Palar. Dunelm. (Rolls Ser.), iv, 

 12-13. »" Cott. Chart, xii, 48. 



" Dur. Rec. cl. 3, no. 2, fol. 8, 18. 



^' Hutchinson, loc. cit. 



■'■' Dur. Rec. cl. 3, R. 30, m. 1. 



'• Arc/t. Ael. (Ser. 3), vii, 34. 



^^ Finchale Priory (Surt. Soc), App. 

 p. xcv. 



" Cal. Par. 138S-92, p. 168. 



>" Dur. Rec. cl. 3, file 171, no. 8. She 

 was one of the daughters and co heirs of 

 Robert Claxton of Claxton (ibid, file 167, 

 no. 32). 



'9 Dur. Rec cl. 3, file 171, no. 8. 



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