STOCKTON WARD 



HART 



and Temple Garth are mentioned in 1633." Quali- 

 mour, or Qualimour Close, occurs in 1725.'^ There 

 are still remains of i6th and 17th-century houses in 

 the village of Elwick.'^ Place-names of the village 

 in 1653 were the Town Street, Thrum's Lane, the 

 Town Wyde, North Home, and Three Nooke Close. '^ 



The Anglo-Saxon crosses and sundial in the church 

 of Hart show that the vill existed before the Con- 

 quest.'* The late D. H. Haigh in his work on The 

 Anglo-Saxon Sagas (1861) elaborated the theory that 

 Hart was the site of Heort or Heorot, the hall of 

 Hrothgar in the Beowulf Saga. He identified the 

 mere and hill-stream of the Saga with a large pool 

 now drained called Bottomless Carr and the How 

 Beck which used to flow from it."' The identification, 

 however, has not been generally accepted. 



Thomas Ellerker (1738-95), a Jesuit, who was 

 ' one of the ablest professors of theology that the 

 English province ever produced,' was born at Hart." 



In the Rising of the North in 1 569 seventeen 

 men from Hart joined the rebels, and four were 

 executed. '"* In 1587 the parish suffered severely 

 from the plague, and it was noted in the parish register 

 that ' 8g corses were buried, whereof tenne were 

 strangers.' In 1652 it was noted that John Pasmore 

 was buried 'On Black Monday 29 March. There 

 was a star appeared in the South-east, ye sun 

 eclipsed.' 



In 1666, on the alarm of a Dutch invasion. Hart 

 was one of the places where beacons were erected." 

 A windmill at Hart is mentioned in 1314,2" 1361,-' 

 and later. "- Elwick mill, which is still standing, is 

 mentioned in 1606.'' A mill at Dalton Piercy is 

 mentioned in a charter of c. 1270."'' 



A deed of about 1 1 50 sets forth 

 MANORS, tfc. that in DALTON there were 265 

 acres in demesne held by the 

 Bruses.-* Hence it appears that at that time Dalton 

 was held by Robert de Brus, but later it seems to 

 have passed to the Balliols of Barnard Castle.-'' 

 Ingram de Balliol, a member of a younger branch, 

 was apparently enfeoffed by the main branch of the 

 family, and held the manor early in the 13th century 

 for four parts of a knight's fee.'-'" The overlordship 

 of the lords of Barnard Castle continued till the 

 1 6th century.^' Ingram's daughter Ellen was the 

 second wife of William de Percy, and brought as her 

 dowry Dalton in Hartness.*^ After her husband's 

 death in I 245 she granted the vill to her second son 

 Ingram and his issue, with remainder to her sons 

 Walter and William Percy. Ingram died childless 



in 1262,"^ and the manor was divided between 

 William and Walter Percy. 



William Percy was a canon of 'Vork. He granted 

 j^4 rent from certain lands in Dalton Piercy for 

 life to Master Richard de St. Lawrence.^' Later he 

 made over his half of the manor to his brother 

 Walter, to be held by the service of a pair of 

 white gloves at the Nativity of St. John Baptist, 

 with reversion to William if Walter died childless.'^ 

 Walter evidently died without issue, and his own 

 moiety of the manor came again into the possession of 

 his mother, who granted it to her nephew Henry de 

 Balliol in trust for the heir of her eldest son Henry 

 Percy.5' Henry Balliol transferred the tru^t to 

 William Percy the canon, who already held the half 

 of the manor which he had previously granted to 

 Walter. He conveyed the whole to Henry son of 

 Henry de Percy, probably on his coming of age.^* 

 Dalton was thus united again to the honour of Percy, 

 to which the younger Henry succeeded in 1284. 

 After the death of his son Henry de Percy in 

 1352, Dalton Piercy was held in dower by his 

 widow Idonia, who granted it to her younger son 

 Roger, her eldest son Henry confirming the grant on 

 7 September 1354.'' Roger, however, died child- 

 less, and the manor reverted to Henry. 



In I 370 it was stated that Sir Henry de Percy, lord of 

 Alnwick, son of Henry above mentioned, had granted 

 the manor of Dalton Piercy to John de Neville, lord of 

 Raby, who appointed attorneys to receive seisin of 

 it.'^ In June 1 371 John de Nevill granted the 

 manor of Dalton Piercy with rents from free tenants 

 and bondmen and the mills to feoffees" whom in 1372 

 he authorized to deliver seisin of the manor to John , 

 D'Ogle and Margaret his wife for their lives. ^ 



The manor descended to Ralph son of John de 

 Nevill, created Earl of Westmorland in 1397.^* On 

 12 January 1 440-1, after the death of Joan 

 Countess of Westmorland, widow, it was found that 

 the late earl had demised Dalton next Elwick and 

 other manors for the term of his life to William 

 Tunstall and others. '^ It descended in the Earls of 

 Westmorland until the forfeiture of 1569.^" The 

 lands late of the Earl of Westmorland in Dalton 

 Piercy and elsewhere were granted in 1605 to 

 Thomas Lord Ellesmere and others for 500 years, 

 evidently in trust for Charles Duke of York,^* to 

 whom as Prince of Wales they were granted in 

 161 6. ''i^ They were granted in 1628 to Edward 

 Ditchfield and others trustees for the Corporation 

 of London.''- In 1645 Dr. Christopher Potter had 



11 Exch. Dcp. Dur. Mich. 9 Chas. I, 

 no. 31. 



" Proc. Soe. Antiq. Nt-wcaitU (Scr. 3), 

 iv, 156. 



" Ibid. (New Scr.), vi, 178. 



'* Royalist Comp. in Dur. and Nor thumb, 

 (Surt. Soc), iii, 341. 



'5 y.C.H. Dur. i, 132, 2+0. 



" D. H. Haigh, The Anglo-Saxon Sagas, 

 20 et seq. 



" Diet. Nat. Biog. 



" Sharp, Mem. of the Rebellion oj 1569, 

 p. 250. 



" Arei. Ael. (Old Scr.), i, 196-7. 



"> Reg. Palat. Dunelm. (Rolls Ser.), ii, 

 126;. 



" Chan. Inq. p.m. 36 Edw. Ill, pt. i, 

 no. 52. 



" Chan. Inq. p.m. 13 Ric. II, no. 14 ; 

 15 Hen. VI, no. 55. 



" Surtees, Hist, and Antiq. of Co. Palat, 

 of Dur. iii, 97 n. 



" Percy Chart. (Surt. Soc), 14. 



^' Guishro* Chartul. (Surt. Soc), ii, 323. 



=« See Barnard Castle. 



" Reg. Palat. Dunelm. (Rolli Scr.), ii, 

 801. 



"Ca/. Inj. p.m. (Edw. II), v, 411 ; 

 Dur. Rec cl. 3, file 168, no. 14 ; Exch. 

 Misc. Bks. xxxvii, 314. 



^^ Percy Chart. (Surt. Soc), pp. vi, 375. 



'» Ibid. 376 n. 



" Ibid. 375. " Ibid. 14. 



" Ibid. 374-;. " Ibid. 374. 



" Ibid. 214 ; cf. Cat. Close, 1349-54, 



422. 



'« Anct. D. (P.R.O.), B 3782. 

 " Ibid. B 3778. 

 ^'^ Ibid. D 1040. 

 " Dur. Rec. cl. 3, file 164, no. 17^. 



<» Ibid, file 168, no. 14; file 169, 

 no. 31 ; file 177, no. 82 ; Reg. vi, 18, 

 42 ; Exch. Misc. Bks. xxxvii, fol. 313. 



" Pat. 3 Jas. I, pt. vii, m. 2 ; Dur. 

 Rec. cl. 3, Reg. ii, 228J; see Cal. S. P. 

 Dom. 1603-10, pp. 40:, 540, e,^z ; 

 Dalton Piercy was surveyed w ith Brance- 

 peth in 1607 (Ld. Rev. Misc. Bks. 

 cxcii, 35), and its boundaries ascertained 

 in 1614 (Exch. Spec Com. 3765). 



<'a Pat. 14 Jas. I, pt. x, no. I (m. 9) ; 

 cf. Dur. Rec. cl. 2, no. 2 (3). 



" Pat. 4 Chas. I, pt. xxxiii, m. 1 5. 

 Ditchfield conveyed to Geo. Clay and 

 Humph. Shalcrosse in 1630 (Close, 9 

 Chas. I, pt. xviii, no. 22). In 1748 the fee 

 farm rent was conveyed by William 

 Ashe (formerly Wyndham) and Edward 

 Goddard to Francis Filmer. Com. Pleas 

 D. Enr. Trin. 21-2 Geo. II, m. 95. 



