A HISTORY OF DURHAM 



Lancton of Wyn- 

 yard. Argent a lion 

 lahU anJ a border gulet 

 engraiUJ, 



gave in 1 283 to Sir Henry de Lisle, who also acquired 

 kedmarshall.'" Henry's heir was his brother John,'' 

 who had a grant of Laderancia's share of the manor 

 from her husband Peter Wykes, and gave all his land 

 here to his daughter Katherine, wife of Alan de 

 Langton.'^ Alan was described as lord of Wynyard 

 in 1311, when his wife Katherine was still living.^' 

 It appears that she was dead 

 in the next year, for Alan de 

 Langton granted to his son 

 Henry all the lands in Wyn- 

 yard which he held for life, 

 receiving in return an annuity 

 of 10 lbs. of silver and an 

 undertaking that Henry would 

 support him with one servant 

 at Wynyard.''' Henry with 

 Margery his wife had a grant 

 of a fourth part of the manor 

 in I 3 1 6 from Roger Fulthorpe 

 and Alice his wife.'' This, 

 which was evidently one of the 



shares of the Capella heiresses, Roger and Alice had 

 acquired from Philip de Cuylly.'^ In 1328 Henry 

 Langton had a release of the manor from John son of 

 John de Lisle,'' whose heir he was found to be in 

 1342.'" With his son William de Langton Henry 

 obtained a grant of free warren in Wynyard in I 3 + 5.'' 

 The manor at that date was lield by Henry for life 

 with remainder in tail to William,''" who, however, 

 came into full possession before his father's death. He 

 died seised in or about 13+9, his heir apparently 

 being his brother John, who paid a fine for relief 

 in that year.'" John Langton was dead in November 

 1350.''- The manorof Wynyard is not mentioned in 

 his inquisition, but it appears that it reverted on 

 his death to his father Henry.'" In 1 351 Henry 

 Langton had licence to grant to another son Simon 

 and Alice his wife land in the vill of Wynyard.''^ 

 Simon died seised of the manor in or about 1379,^* 

 leaving a son Thomas, aged thirteen.''* In 1433 

 Thomas Langton granted the manor to John Drawles 

 and Thomas Tracy for settlement on his wife Sybil 

 for her life.''' She died in possession in 1438, when 

 the ne.xt heir was Sybil daughter of William Langton, 

 brother of Thomas.** The younger Sybil married 

 Sir Roger Conyers, a younger son of the Conyers of 

 Hornby,'^ and had a son and heir William. ^'-^ Sybil, 

 daughter and heir of William, married Ralph Claxton, 

 who died in 1524 holding the manor in right of his 

 wife.*" He left a son and heir Ralph," who settled 

 Wynyard in January 1542-3 on his son William and 



Margery his wife and their issue."' William did 

 homage for the manor in or about I 578," and died in 

 1597, leaving as his heirs his daughters Alice and 

 Anne, married respectively to William Blakiston and 

 William Jennison, and Cassandra wife of Lancelot 

 Claxton, and afterwards of Francis Marley, daughter 

 of an elder daughter Elizabeth, who had married 

 Josias Lambert.'^ The manor had been settled on 

 these heirs in i 595.'' 



All three shares were acquired during the first half 

 of the 17th century by Alexander Davison. In 

 1629 William Jennison and 

 his son Henry conveyed to 

 him their third.'" In the same 

 year he had a grant of another 

 third from Sir Thomas Blakis- 

 ton bart., son of Alice and 

 William, and Ralph Blakiston 

 his heir." The third share 

 had been granted in March 

 1609-10 by Cassandra Clax- 

 ton and her second husband 

 Francis Marley to William 

 Jennison,'" who after con- 

 veying certain lands here to 

 Edward Ewbank" and John 



his son in 1621 and 1627, settled it on his daughter 

 Elizabeth, on her marriage with Henry Liddell.''" In 

 1633 Henry Liddell and Elizabeth, with Thomas son 

 and heir apparent of Henry, granted it to Alexander 

 Davison.''' Davison also acquired two messuages and 

 320 acres of meadow, pasture and moorland in 1629 

 from John Ewbank and Philadelphia his wife.''^ 



jxn: 



Daviion. Or ajesie 

 ivavy btnveen six cinq- 

 foils gules. 



Tempest. Argent a 

 bend engrailed bettveen 

 six martlets sable. 



Stewart, Marqucaa 

 of Londonderry. Or a 

 bend cheeky argent and 

 azure between two lions 

 gules. 



Wynyard was sequestered among the lands of 

 Alexander Davison and his son Thomas in 1644.^^ 

 Thomas had a son Alexander, to whose younger son 



^•^ Surtccs, op. cit. iii, 77 j cf. Reg. 

 Palat. Dunelm. (Rolls Ser.), ii, 1198-1200. 

 *' Surteea, op. cit. iii, 43. 



" Ibid. 43, 77. 



'» Reg. Palat. Dunelm. (Rolls Ser.), i, 40, 



73- 



'' Ibid, ii, 1 198-1200. 



'' Surtecs, op. cit. iii, 77. 



" Ibid. 



" Ibid. 77 n. 



*' Dur. Rcc. cl. 3, no. 2, fol. 21 d. 



'« Reg. Palat. Dunelm. (Rolls Ser.), iv, 

 327. *» Ibid. 



" Dur. Rcc. cl. 5, no. 2, fol. 45 ; 

 no. 12, fol. 30 d. 'The last entry makes 

 it evident that the mention of ' Josn 

 daughter of Henry de Langton ' as the 

 Kcir of William is a mistake for John, 

 son of Henry. 



" Ibid. no. 2, fol. 48. 



*' Ibid. no. 12, fol. 48 d. John's heir 

 was his brother Henry (ibid. no. 2, fol. 48). 



*' Ibid. R. 30, m. 7d. 



*' Ibid. no. 2, fol. 103. 



*" Ibid. John Nevill of Raby is said 

 (ibid. fol. 1 10) to have died in possession 

 of the manor in 1 388. He was probably 

 the guardian of Thomas. 



*' Ibid. R. 36, m. 12. 



'" Ibid. no. 2, fol. 300 d. 



" Foster, Dur. Fisir. PeJ. 203 ; Dr[>. 

 Keeper i Rep. xxxvi, 4. 



"> Dur. Rec. cl. 3, file 174, no. 5. 



» Ibid. 



i' Ibid. 



*' Ibid, file 178, no. 30. 



'^ Dep. Keeper's Rep. xxxvii, 94. 



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



252 



85 ; R. 94, m. 24 J tVilU and Invent. 

 (Surt. Soc), ii, 272. 



" Dur. Rec. cl. 3, file 192, no. 74, 85 ; 

 cf. cl. 12, no. 2 (l). 



" Ibid. R. 106, no. 23 ; cl. 12, no. 4 (2). 



" Ibid. cl. 12, no. 4 (2) ; cl. 3, R. 106, 

 no. 24 ; Chan. Proc. (Ser. 2), bdle. 375, 

 no. 17; cf. Dur. Rcc. cl. 3, file 189, 

 no. 69 \ file 184, no. 99. 



'* Dur. Rec. cl. 3, R. 94, no. 13. 



" Ibid. cl. 12, no. 3 (1). 



'" Ibid. cl. 3, R. 102, m, 9 ; no. 4 

 (2); Surtees, op. cit. iii, 78. 



" Dur. Rec. cl. 3, R. 107, no. 61 ; cl. 

 12, no. 4 (3). 



" Ibid. cl. 12, no. 4 (2); cl. 3, R. 

 106, no. 14. 



" Rec. Com. for Comf. (Surt. Soc), 13, 

 '5. "91 3S- 



