A HISTORY OF DURHAM 



Joan wife of William Constable, daughters of Thomas 

 Fulthorpe, and Ralph Radclyffc son of his daughter 

 Isabel." 



The share of Philippa descended to her son 

 Ralph,'" who had two daughters and co-heirs Anne 

 and Joan. 



Anne married Thomas Fulthorpe, and Joan 

 married George Smith, by whom she left a 

 daughter and heir Anne wife of John Swinburn 

 of Chopvvell." The Fulthorpes apparently released 

 their cl.iim and John Swinburn came into posses- 

 sion of this third of the manor. He obtained a 

 release, applying in form to the whole manor, from 

 Francis Constable in 1566." At his attainder in 

 1570 John Swinburn was in possession of one- 

 third, which accordingly passed to the Crown." 

 Leases of it were made in succession to John Watson, 

 Roger Rante, John Warde, Thomas Holford and 

 Edward Shelton." In 1611 it was granted in fee 

 to John ElJred and William Whitmore," ' fishing 

 grantees,' against whom it was claimed in 1620 by 

 Christopher Fulthorpe as great-grandson and heir of 

 Thomas Fulthorpe and Anne Booth.'" The result of 

 the case is not known, but in 1629"" land here and 

 elsewhere was sold by Christopher Fulthorpe and 

 Mary his wife to Sir William Blakiston of Blakiston, 

 in Hurworth, head of a family which for centuries had 

 slowly accumulated a freehold here. In 1339 

 William Blakiston succeeded to a messuage and an 

 oxgang" ; in 1424 another William Blakiston had a 

 messuage, 10 acres and 2 roods." John Blakiston 

 died in January 1 586-7 seised of a messuage, a cottage 

 and 60 acres of land here." They passed under his 

 will to his son William," who by his marriage with the 

 daughter and co-heir of William Claxton of Wynyard " 

 acquired a small freehold in Thorpe Thewles which 

 had belonged to that family." The Blakistons may 

 also have acquired the Finchale lands in Thorpe 

 Thewles, which arc not otherwise accounted for."' 

 In 1616 Sir Thomas Blakiston sold part of his estate 

 here to John Shaw, who in 1603 had obtained from 

 Andrew Davison and Janet his wife a conveyance of 

 land here and in Carlton and Whitton." In 1623 

 his estate coniisted of 160 acres and was worth j^6o 

 a year."* In 1634 ^^ conveyed all his 'lands called 

 Thorpe Thewles ' to Alexander Davison, who two 

 years later was pardoned for acquiring from him 

 3 messuages 4 tofts and 300 acres.'' Land here 



with a rental of £So was sequestered among the 

 Davisons' estates in 1645," and John Davison of 

 Blakiston was among the freeholders in 1684." 

 Thomas and Musgrave Davison conveyed land here 

 and in Beaton Carew to John Porrett in 171 5."" 

 A private act obtained in 171 8-19 freed this land 

 from the uses of the marriage settlement of Thomas 

 Davison and in exchange Porrett gave to Davison 

 Thorpe woods and Fulthorpe woods in Grindon, 

 which had been sold to him by Thomas Davison, 

 father of the tenant."'' In I 740 and 174 1 Thomas 

 Davison and Mary his wife granted a rent of ;^loo 

 from ' the manor of Thorpe Thewles ' to Richard 

 Ireland for a term of years." By 1776 property in 

 Thorpe Thewles had come into the possession of 

 Tempest of Wynyard, with which estate it came to 

 the Marquess of Londonderry, the principal land- 

 owner in I 834." 



The share in the manor held by Joan wife of 

 William Constable passed to her grandson Francis 

 Constable of Caythorpe in Rudston (Yorks.).™ He 

 appears to have sold it to a member of the family of 

 Kendal," probably the William Kendal who was 

 described as of Thorpe Thewles in 1575.'" William's 

 grandson John Kendal " was probably the freeholder 

 of that name who took part in the partition of the 

 common fields about 1 600 and 

 made a conveyance of lands 

 here to William Watson in 

 1634." John's son Anthony 

 was in possession of land here 

 in 1666," his son William in 

 1684.*' William had a son 

 and heir George, buried at 

 Grindon in 1718," but the 

 later history of this estate is 

 uncertain. It may have been 

 bought up by the Davison 

 family. 



Ralph Radcliffe's share in 

 the manor was inherited by his daughter and heir 

 Margaret, who married Brian Palmes, attainted in 

 1569." This third passed like Swinburn's to the 

 Crown, but Christopher Radclifte was the tenant in 

 1569 and Roger RadclifTe, Margaret's cousin, was 

 allowed to succeed in i 5 8 1 ." He seems to have sold it 

 to Nicholas Tweddell, who was a freeholder in 1600,'° 

 and died in 1607 in possession of 300 acres of arable 



Kenhal. Party bend- 

 zvise indented argent and 

 table. 



" Dur. Rcc. cl. 3, file 171, no. 8 ; 

 Dep. Keeper^ Rep. xxxvi, 74. 



'" Foster, Dur. Viiit. Fed. 3 1 ; Exch. 

 Dep. Mich. 18 Jas. I, no. 5. 



"Foster, op. cit. 131; Exch. Dep. 

 Mich. 18 Jas. I, no. 5. 



*^ Dur. Rcc. cl. 12, no. i (2) ; cl. 3, 

 R. 82, m. 6. 



«8 Exch. K.R. Misc. Bks. xxxviii, fol. 

 214. 



'• Aug. Office Parfic. for Leases, file 

 35, no. 67 ; Pat. 15 Eliz. pt. i, m. 24 ; 

 pt. xi, m. 3 1 8 d. ; 31 Eliz. pt. xi, m. 2 1 j 

 Exch. Plea R. 412, m. 24. 



^^ Pat. 9 Jas. I, pt. vi, no. 9. 



^ Exch. Dep. Mich. 18 Jas. I, no. 5 ; 

 cf. ibid. East. 19 Jas. I, no. 16 



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



'' Ibid. cl. 3, no. 2, fol. iS. 



6»lbid. fol. 224 d., 265 d. 



'' Ibid, file 178, no. 50 ; file 191, no. 23. 



™ Ibid. ; Dur. ffill, and Invent. (Surt. 

 Soc), ii, 145. 



" Dur. Rec. cl. 3, file 192, no. 74. 



" Ibid, file 174, no. ; ; file 178, no. 30 ; 

 cf. Chan. Proc. (Ser. 2), bdle. 375, no. 17 j 

 bdle. 301, no. 4. " Sec below. 



'< Chan. Proc. (Ser. 2), bdle. 380, 

 no. 29 ; Dur. Rec. cl. 3, file i 86, no. 72 ; 

 ibid. cl. 12, no. 2 (2); cf. no. 3 (2); 

 Royalist Comp. P. Dur. and Northumb, 

 (Surt. Soc), 14. 



'^a Valuation printed Surtees, op. cit. 

 iii, 77. Cf. ibid, i, 199 n. 



'' Dur. Rec. cl. 3, R. 107, no. 5 d. ; 

 R. 108, no. 62 ; cl. 12, no. 4 (3). 



'•' Royalist Comp. P. Dur. and Northumb, 

 (Surt. Soc), 35, 180. 



" Surtees, op. cit. iii, 81. 



"» Dur. Rec. cl. 12, no. 19 (3). 



"•> D. in the poss. of the Earl of Eldon. 

 Porrett's land seems to have been in 

 Seaton Carew. 



'" Dur. Rec. cl. 12, no. 26 (l). 



"Ibid. cl. 3, R, 129, no. 12; Mac- 

 kenzie and Ross, Vieiv of Co. Dur. i, 450. 



250 



8° Cf. Test. Ehor. (Surt. Soc), vi, 106. 



*" Exch. Dep. Mich. 18 J.ts. I, no. 5. 



** Foster, Dur. I'isit. PcJ. 195. They 

 were cadets of the Kendals of Ripon who 

 * descended of a younger brother of the 

 house of Kendall beside Lichfield ' and 

 differenced their arms with a crescent on 

 a molet. ^ Ibid. 



^' Exch. Dep. Spec Com. no. 3745 ; 

 Dur. Rec. cl. 12, no. 4 (2). His father 

 Anthony, who had a grant of 320 acres 

 from Charles Wrenn in li;99 (Dur. Rec. 

 cl. 12, no. 2 [i]), is said to have lived 

 till 1630 (Foster, loc. cit.). 



^^ Foster, loc. cit. 



^ Ibid. ; Surtees, op. cit. iii, 81. 



^' Surtees, loc. cit. 



** Foster, Dur. Fisit. Ped. 267 ; Exch. 

 K.R. Misc. Bki. xxxviii, fol. 244 d. 



s'See Tunstall; Exch. K.R. Miic, 

 Bks. xxxviii, fol. 244 d.; Dur. Rec. cl. 3, 

 file 191, no. 94, 101. 



'" Exch. Dep. Spec. Com. no. 3745. 



