STOCKTON WARD 



GRINDON 



land, meadow and moor held in thief by knight's 

 service.*! Robert TvveJdell, his brother and heir,*^ 

 conveyed a third of the manor in February 162 1-2 

 to his brother Francis.*^ Francis' son Francis was 

 described as of Thorpe Thewles in 1656 and 1673,*^ 

 and Robert, younger son of the younger Francis, had 

 land here in 1684.** His nephew George made a 

 settlement of his estate in Thorpe Thewles in 1724.** 

 The late history of this portion of the estate is 

 unknown. 



The lands of Finchale Priory in Thorpe Thewles 

 included the 3 oxgangs which Geoffrey de Thorpe 

 granted to his sister Maud.*' With her husband 

 William de Stotfold she granted them to Stephen de 

 Elwick, clerk,** who conveyed them to the priory.** 

 )ohn de Thorpe granted 3 oxgangs, Robert de 

 Minsterton 3 oxgangs, and Alan de Thorpe 8 acres.!** 

 The prior had a manor-house here, frequently 

 mentioned in the accounts of the priory. ^ In 1495 

 tliis manor of Thorpe Thewles was granted to Henry 

 Howes and Eleanor his wife for thirty years in ex- 

 change for land in Monkwearmouth and elsewhere.^ 

 In 1 52 1 all the prior's lands here were finally ex- 

 changed for Sir William and Sir John Bulmer's lands 

 in Durham and Monkwe.irmouth.* It has already 

 been suggested that these lands ultimately came into 

 the h.inds of the Blakistons. 



There was a mill at Thorpe Thewles in the 13th 

 century,* and a water-mill here is mentioned in 

 1570.^ In 1857 there was a flour-mill. 



Nine oxgangs in IVHITTON (Witton, Wytton, 

 xii cent.) were granted by Bishop Hugh Pudsey 

 (1153-95) to Sherburn Hospital by its foundation 

 charter.^ Seven of these had been purchased from 

 Alberic and Geoffrey son of Richard, and the other 

 two formed the endowment of the chapel of 

 the vill. Geoffrey de Whitton made a grant to the 

 church of Grindon of 2 oxgangs here, in return for the 

 9 marks given him by Bishop Hugh for his journey 

 to Jerusalem. He also confirmed to the church 

 2 oxgangs which Alberic had held of him and had 

 given.' These 4 oxgangs were probably part of the 

 holding already granted by the bishop. Between 

 1245 and 1269 William de Hamsterley gave to the 

 hospital a piece of land 48 ft. by 1 8 ft. next his 

 capital messuage of Whitton, between the land of 

 Hugh de Cliveland and the land of John son of 

 Libya.* Lands of the hospital in Whitton were 

 held on lease in 1617 by John Buckle.* In 1717 

 its estate here consisted of three holdings, each rented 

 at £z \is. 8(2'.'" The hospital still has an estate 

 here. 



Robert son of Adam de Whitton, who witnessed 

 the charter of William de Hamsterley, and also a 

 charter of William de Thorpe to Finchale Priory," 

 was possibly the ancestor of Thomas Adamson of 

 Whitton, mentioned in 1400.'- In 1418 land 

 here was held by the Blakistons of Anne widow of 

 Thomas Adamson." Her heirs held this lordship in 

 1468 and 1483,'^ and in 1533 it belonged to Roger 

 Kirkman." In or about i 598 Roger Kirkman died 

 seised of a messuage or cottage and 70 acres in 

 Whitton, leaving an heir Thomas Kirkman.'" The 

 later descent of this holding cannot be traced. 



The Blakistons' land here followed the descent of 

 their manor of Blakiston till I 533 at least.'" It may 

 have passed to Robert Ayton, who in 1539 granted 

 land here to Thomas Chipchase.'** Thomas had a 

 son Robert, grandson Thomas and great-great-grand- 

 son Thomas Chipchase.'* The last-named Thomas 

 died in 1763. His sister and co-heir Anne, with her 

 husband John Metcalf and George Atkinson, son of 

 her sister Elizabeth, conveyed the estate in 1764 to 

 Edward Davison of Durham, whose son Edward, a 

 clerk in Holy Orders, was holding it in 1823.-" 



William Watson of Thorpe Thewles and Elizabeth 

 his wife had acquired land here, the extent of which 

 is not known, from Sir William Gascoigne in January 

 1609-10.^' They conveyed two messuages and 200 

 acres of land, meadow and pasture in Whitton to 

 Roger Tocketts in 1614 for a term of 60 years.-i" 

 The freeholders of the vill in 1684 were Anthony 

 Watson, William Watson, Thomas Davison, Thomas 

 Chipchase and Thomas Buckle.-'^ 



The earliest known owners of the manor of 

 IITNTARD (Wyneiard, xiii cent. ; Wynhyard, xiv 

 cent.), which was held in chief for half a knight's 

 fee,-' were the family of Chapel or Capella. Robert 

 de Capella witnessed a charter of the time of Bishop 

 Pudsey (1153-95) and answered for half a knight's 

 fee in the bishopric, ' of new feoffment,' in 1166.-'^ 

 Hugh dc Capella and Robert his son witnessed a 

 charter concerning land in Thorpe Thewles in the 

 early 13th century." This was perhaps the Hugh 

 who in 1237 was disputing possession of the vill of 

 Wynyard with Randolf de Fishburn.^s ^ i^ter Hugh, 

 who lived in the reign of Edward I, and was perhaps 

 the Sir Hugh de Chapell living here in i 264," is said 

 to have had five daughters and co-heirs, Cecily wife of 

 Richard Daldcn, Laderancia wife of Peter Wykes, and 

 Orfanca, Elizabeth, and Amice.-- His widow Joan 

 married as a second husband John de Denthorpe, who 

 had the wardship of two of the daughters and secured 

 for himself various lands in the manor.'* These he 



" Dur. Rcc. cl. ij, file 182, no. 41. 

 The lands ot" Brian Palmes were said in 

 1620 to have been formerly in the occu- 

 pation of Radclirte and to be now in the 

 hands of Tweddell (Exch, Dep, Mich, 

 18 Jas. I, no. 5). 



"" Dur. Rcc. cl. 3, file 182, no. 41. 



'"Ibid, file 1S9, no. 99; R. loi, 

 no. 105 ; cl. 12, no. 5 (2). 



^^ Surtces, op. cit. iii, 82. 



"Ibid. 81, 82. 



«« Ibid. 82. 



^^ Egerton Chart. 514. See above. 



9* Ibid. 512. 



^ Surtees, op. cit. iii, 80. 



^^ Finchale Priory (Surt. Soc), 1 36-43, 



' Ibid. App. paisim. 



' Dur. Rec. cl. 3, R. 62, m. 1 d. 



^ Surtees, op. cit. iii, 80. 



• Finchale Priory (Surt. Soc), 140. 



' Exch. K..R. Misc. Bks. xixviii, fol. 

 214. 



*" Allan, CoUectiortifor Sherburn Hospiial. 



' Hutchinson, op. cit. iii, 86 n, 



' Allan, op, cit. 



' Chan. Proc. (Scr. 2), bdle. 436, 

 no. 9. 



"> Allan, op. cit. 



" Allan, op. cit.; Finchale Priory (Surt, 

 Soc), 143. 



'- Dur. Rec. cl. 3, R. 33, m. 25. 



" Dtp. Kcepet'i Rep. xlv, 167. 



" Dur. Rcc. cl, 3, file 166, no, 36 ; 

 file 167, no. 1 2. 



" Ibid, file 177, no. 8. 



" Ibid, file 169, no. 53. 



251 



" Dep. Keeper' i Rep. xlv, 167 ; Dur. 

 Rec. cl. 3, file 166, no. 36; file 167, 

 no. 12 ; file 177, no. 8, 



'* Surtees, op, cit, iii, 83. 



'9 Ibid. 



'" Ibid, 



•I Dur. Rcc. cl, 3, R. 94, m. 29. 



2'a Ibid. cl. 12, no. 2 (3). 



•» Surtees, op, cit, iii, 84. 



" Dur. Rec cl. 3, no. 2, fol. 103, 

 300 d. ; file 178, no. 30, 



w Finchale Priory (Surt, Soc), 2 ; ReJ 

 Bk. Exch. (Rolls Ser.), 418. 



" Finchale Priory (Surt. Soc), 139, 



»" Cat. Pal. 1232-47, p. 197. 



»' Haijieht's Suri: (Surt. Soc), p. xv. 



" Surtees, op. cit. iii, 77. 



»' Ibid. 



