STOCKTON WARD 



HURWORTH 



Wrightson of Cu8- 

 worth. Or a feiit cheeky 

 argent and azure between 

 three griffoni* heads 

 razed azure. 



the estate devolved on his nephew William Henry 

 Battle Wrightson. Mr. Robert Cecil Battle Wright- 

 son, son of the latter, succeeded his father, but owing 

 to questions between him and the rector as to the 

 ownership of the lordship, all 

 rights in the manor of Hur- 

 worth have been made over to 

 the Parish Council."" 



George Ward did homage 

 to the bishop in 1578 for his 

 moiety of the manor, and took 

 the oath of supremacy.' This 

 moiety, which consisted of 10 

 oxgangs, descended in January 

 1607-8, after the death of 

 George Ward, to his son John, 

 then aged fifty, in accordance 

 with a settlement made in 

 1579 on the occasion of the 

 son's marriage with Joan 

 Charnley.' John Ward was in 163 I succeeded by two 

 granddaughters, namely his son George's children 

 Frances wife of Francis Anderson and Anne Ward, 

 aged fifteen and eleven.' Francis Anderson and Frances 

 his wife leased land in 1637 to John Burnett for 

 4. years"*; and Anne with Cuthbert Appleby her 

 husband conveyed meadow land to Anthony Lodge 

 in 1661."' Francis Anderson, Thomas Aislaby and 

 Elizabeth his wife were vouchees in a recovery of 

 a fourth part of the manor of Hurworth in 1660, 

 and eight years later Cuthbert Appleby and Anne 

 his wife conveyed a messuage and land here to William 

 Place.' A fourth part of the manor was sold to 

 Robert Hilton in 1702' by the heirs of Cuthbert 

 Marley and Anne his wife and by John Pemberton 

 and Mary his wife, daughter of Christopher and niece 

 of William Place who had died without issue. In 

 1 75 I Mary Harrison conveyed a fourth part of the 

 manor with four messuages, 300 acres of land, and 

 £^0 rent to William Hutchinson.* There docs not 

 seem to be any later record of this part of the manor. 

 The capital messuage with lands, &c., sold in 1750 

 by George Hobson and his daughters by Mary Pyatt 

 his late wife to Francis Murgatroyd may have been 

 attached to it.' 



Sir Thomas de Inglebyand Katherine his wife had 

 the bishop's pardon in February 1376-7 for acquiring 

 half an acre in Hurworth held in chief.' It was 



Ingleby. Sable 

 star argent. 



probably at about the same time that Sir Thomas 

 acquired the land held of the lords of Hurworth, 

 which was subsequently known as INGLEBTS 

 MA^^OR. Thomas died in or before 1380, and it 

 was found that he had held in conjunction with 

 Katherine his wife half an acre in Hurworth of the 

 bishop and eight messuages and eight score acres of 

 Walter Tailbois by fealty. Henry his son and heir was 

 of full age.' Henry de Ingleby, clerk, was in 1383 

 found to have held land in Sadberge ; his brother 

 John, aged twenty-four, was 

 heir.'° John Ingleby of Rip- 

 ley, Yorks, in 1409 vvas re- 

 corded to hold the half-acre of 

 the bishop and six messuages, 

 3 1 oxgangs of land. Sec, of 

 Walter Tailbois by fealty ; his 

 son Thomas was of full age." 

 Thomas died in 141 5 holding 

 the same estate ; his son and 

 heir William was eight years 

 old." William, son and heir 

 of Thomas son and heir of John 

 Ingleby, in 1442 held land in 



Hurworth of VValter Tailbois ; his heir was a son John 

 aged eight." John Ingleby died 21 September 1456, 

 just after coming of age '^ ; he left a son and heir 

 William, who came of age in 1476 and hadlivery of his 

 lands." He took part in the expedition into Scotland 

 in 1482 and was made a knight there by the Duke 

 of Gloucester, afterwards Richard III." He died in 

 I 501 leaving a son John, aged twenty-four, as heir." 

 John died in 1502, his heir being his son William, 

 aged nine." The wardship was granted by the 

 bishop to Thomas Berkeley and Eleanor his wife, 

 widow of John Ingleby." William died in 1528 

 holding lands in Hurworth of George Tailbois and the 

 bishop ; his son and heir William was ten years of 

 age.-° Cecily the widow, a daughter of George 

 T.iilbois, had dower assigned to her." John Fawcett, 

 clerk, sold an estate in Hurworth, perhaps Ingleby's 

 manor, to Henry Lawson of Neasham in 1 567. " 

 Henry Lawson in 1607 held the manor in Hunvorth 

 late of William Ingleby and 8 o.\gangs belonging to 

 it." The manorial rights subsequently descended 

 with the Lawson estates. 



Another part of the land attached to the Ingleby 

 Manor was acquired by William Wormeley, who in 



•»« Inform, from Rev. A. T. Fabcr, 

 rector. 



' Dur. Rec. cl. 3, R. 85, m. 2. 



' Dur. Rcc. cl. 3, file 182, no. 

 48. 



' Ibid, file 186, no. 59. In addition 

 to a moiety of Hurworth he had a fourth 

 part of Stodhoc in Dinsdalc. 



'a Ibid. cl. 12, no. 5 (l). 



»blbid. no. 5 (4). 



« Ibid. no. 7 (4) ; Rccov. R. Trin. 12 

 Chas. II, m. 19. 



' Surtces, op. cit. iii, 253 n. 



' Dur. Rcc. cl. 12, no. 28 (4). 



' Ibid. cl. 3, R. 122. 



' Ibid. R. 31, m. 10. In i349Thonias 

 and Katherine, in right of Katherine, 

 were holding the manor of Newsham in 

 the parish of Appleton-le-Street, Yorks. 

 (Harl. Chart. 112, A 29). In 1279 

 Andrew de Stanley paid a mark for licence 

 to agree wiih Adam son of Walter de 

 Hurworth regarding lands in Hurworth 



(Assize R. 225, m. 3 d.). No eridence, 

 however, has been found to connect this 

 holding with that of the Inglebys. 



' Dur. Rec. cl. 3, no. 2, fol. 106 d. 

 There is another inquisition on fol. 106. 

 Thomas was living in Fcbruar)* 1379-80 

 (Cat. Pat. 1577-81, p. 465). The 

 family was seated in Yorkshire and 

 there are other inquisitions in the general 

 series. See also Foster, Torks. Pedj, 

 *Ingilby of Ripley' ; Torks Fisit. (Harl. 

 Soc), 171. 



'" Dur. Rec. cl. 3, no. 2, fol. 152. 



" Ibid. fol. 163. 



" Ibid. fol. 173*. The half-acre is here 

 said to be held of the bishop by knight 

 service. 



" Ibid. ; De/>. Keeper's Ref. xliv, 436. 

 For the custody of the heir see Dur. 

 Rec. cl. 3, R. 42, m. 17. 



'* Chan. Inq. p.m. 35 Hen. VI, 

 no. II. Some of his lands were still 

 in the king's hands. Margery, widow 



289 



of John, had dower out of the Durham 

 lands [Dep. Keeper's Rep. xxxv, 1 I 9). 



1^ Dur. Rec. cl. 3, R. 49, m. 12. 



"^ Shaw, op. cit. ii, i8. 



" Cal, Inj. p.m. Hen. VII, ii, 321, 



3+7- 



'* Cal. Inq. p.m. Hen. Vll, ii, 352. The 

 Durham inquisition makes the date of 

 his death 12 November 1502 (Dur. Rec. 

 cl. 3, file 170, no. 11). 



" Def. Keeper', Rep. xxxvi, 60. The 

 widow had dower (ibid. 72). 



'" Dur. Rec. cl. 3, file 174, no. 15. 

 His will is recited in the inquisition. 



" Dep. Keeper's Rep. xxxvi, 151; yilit. 

 of Yorks. (Harl. Soc), 172. 



" It comprised more than 4,000 acres 

 here and in Neasham, L/ttle Burdon, 

 Hyndon, Cockfield and Dinsdale (Dur. 

 Rec. c'. 1 2, no. i [2]). In 1578,4 oxgangs 

 were sold to Henri' Lawson by Robert 

 Brown of Hewick (Add. Chart. 19422). 



" Dur. Rec. cl. 3, file 1S2, no. 36. 



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