STOCKTON WARD 



William Emerson, the mathematician, who died in 

 1782. The inscription has been recut."* 



There is a ring of six bells, by Taylor of Lough- 

 borough, cast in 1872, given in June of that year 

 by Lucy Jane Colling in memory of her husband, 

 Thomas Colling. An old bell by Samuel Smith of 

 York has been preserved : it bears the inscription, 

 ' Gloria in Excelsis Deo. Leonard Wastell Rectour 

 1682. S : O : C : E : churchwardens.' ' 



The plate is all modern, and consists of two chalices, 

 a flagon, and an almsdish of 1 869 and two patens 

 of 1873, all presented by the Misses Williamson in 

 memory of their father.^ There are also two chalices, 

 two patens, a flagon and an almsdish presented in 

 1889 under the will of Robert Henry Allan of Black- 

 well Hall, Darlington. 



The registers begin in 1 559. 



In the churchyard is a memorial cross to those who 

 fell in the Great War which was erected from sub- 

 scriptions raised by the women and children of the 

 parish. 



The advowson of the church was 

 yiDFOirSON anciently appurtenant to the prin- 

 cipal manor of Hurworth. Thus 

 Luke Tailbois and Robert de Hcpple joined in pre- 

 sentation about 1315^; the king in 1363 presented 

 a rector by reason of his wardship of the heir of 

 Robert de Ogle ■* ; and in 1479 Sir Robert Tailbois 

 obtained a recognition of his right as patron.^ The 

 advowson was included with the manor in the sale by 

 Wymbish to Beckwith in 1550,'' but excepted in the 

 sale by Roger Beckwith to Lawson and Ward in 

 1577.' A moiety was, however, prob.ibly sold to 

 Henry Lawson at th.it due, for ' Lawson of Neasham ' 

 was the patron shortly afterwards,'* and in 1607 

 Henry Lawson was said to have held the advowson,^ 

 as was his son in 1631.^*' The Jenisons inherited 

 the Lawsons' share,'* which was acquired in the early 

 1 8th century by Dr. Johnson, the rector from 1 7 14 

 to 1761."^ Thomas Johnson, presumably his repre- 

 sentative, presented in 1784.*- This part w-as later 

 held by William Hogg, who sold it to the Rev. R. H. 

 Williamson, rector 1832-91.'' The other moiety 

 was acquired by Robert Byerley of Middridge Grange, 

 to whom in 1693 Edward Beckwith of Elvet in 

 Durham, described as grandson and heir of Roger 



MIDDLETON 

 ST. GEORGE 



Beckwith, released all right in the advowson.''' Robert 

 Byerley presented in 1712.'^ This moiety was 

 afterwards acquired by the Carr family, and Ralph 

 Carr of Cocken presented in 1761 ; it descended 

 to the Milbankes, and was then sold to Robert 

 Hopper Williamson of Whickham, who was one of 

 the patrons in 1823, — Johnson being the other." 

 Mr. Williamson's son was the rector named above 

 who purchased the other moiety, and thus became 

 sole patron. He died in 1891, and was succeeded 

 by his nephew, Mr. W. H. Williamson. The 

 patronage was acquired by Mr. T. H. Faber in 

 1899 and is now in the gift of the Church Associa- 

 tion Trust."" 



The chapel of St. Oswald in the parish church was 

 endowed with a bovate in the common fields, where 

 other pieces of ground were assigned to the mainten- 

 ance of lights ; all these plots were granted by the 

 Crown in March i 579-80 to Edward Earl of Lincoln 

 and others."* 



In 1 29 1 the benefice was taxed as worth £^\ a 

 year,"* but after the Scottish devastations of the time 

 of Edward II this was reduced to ^^30 6s. 8^'." 

 In 1535 the estimated value was ^^27 7/. 4a'., of 

 which 21. was paid to the archdeacon."" The tithe of 

 hay belonged to Sherburn Hospital.-' 



The Poor's House Charity formerly 



CHARITIES consisted of the Church Row House, 



acquired in 1730 for the use of the 



poor. The property was sold in 1840, the proceeds 



being invested in ;^l82 8;. ()d. consols. 



William Andrews — as stated in the Parliamentary 

 Returns of 1786 — left ^^20 for the poor, now repre- 

 sented by j^2i I 3x. 9//. consols. 



The sums of stock belonging to these charities are 

 held by the official trustees. The annual dividends, 

 amounting together to £5 is. Si/., are distributed to 

 the poor in sums of 10/. each. 



The Mingay Fund. — In 1859 Mary Mingay by 

 her will bequeathed j^ioo, the income thereof to be 

 distributed in warm clothing at Christmas to poor old 

 men and women. The legacy, less duty, was invested 

 in j^g4 14/. 9^. consols, with the official trustees. 

 The annual dividends, amounting to £z js. \d., are 

 distributed in articles in kind. 



The National school has been dealt with already.^* 



MIDDLETON ST. GEORGE 



Mideltone, 1200 ; Middeltone, 1230. 



This parish contains but one township. It lies 

 on the left bank of the Tees, which here flows east 

 and south-east ; the adjacent parishes are Low Dins- 

 dale on the west, Haughton le Skerne and Long 



Newton on the north, and Egglescliffe on the east. 

 The area is 2,516 acres, of which 15 acres are 

 covered by inland water. The principal industry is 

 agriculture, the land being thus occupied : arable, 

 986J acres; permanent grass, i,i8i| ; woods and 



'*^ The monumental Inscriptions ia the 

 old church arc given in Surtees, op. cit. 

 ili, 255-6, and in Hutchinson, op. cit. 

 iii, 185-7. 



' Proc. Soc. Antiq, Ne'wcastlr, iii, 287. 



* Ibid. This plate was given in place 

 of a former pewter set. 



' Reg. PaUi. Duntlm. (Rolls Ser.), ii, 

 712. 



* Cat. Pal. 1 36 1-4, p. 4.01. 



' Dur. Rec. cl. 3, R. 55, m. 2. 



* Add. Chart. 19,419 ; Dur. Rec. cl. 3, 

 R. 78, no. 2. 



' Add. Chart. 19421. 



'* 5/>. Bjrn^t' Injunc. (Surt. Soc), 4. 



s Dur. Rec. cl. 3, tile 182, no. 36. 



'" Dtp. Kteprr't Rep. xliv, 460. 



'' — Pincknev presented in 1714 ; 

 Inst. Bks. (P.R.6.J. 



"a M.I. to Dr. Johnion (Surtees, op. 

 cit. iii, 253). 



'* Surtees, op. cit. iii, 256. 



" Fordyce, op. cit. i, 502. 



'« Add. Chart. 19432. 



1* Inst. Bks. (P.R.O.); cf. Surtees, op. 

 cit. iii, 256 n. In 1752 Richard Richard- 

 son purchased the interest of Jane Ellison 

 spinster of New Elvet in the advowson 



293 



of Hurworth church (Close R. 26 Geo. 

 II, pt. xvi, m. 35]. 



"■Surtees, loc. cit. In 1731 Robert 

 Carr left all his messuages in Hurworth 

 to his sister Elizabeth Ellison (Carr, Hiir, 

 of the Carr Fam. it (3), chap. i). 



" Inform, from the rector. 



'■'a Pat. 22 Eliz. pt. vii, m. 4 ; cf. Aug. 

 Office Particulars for Leases, file 34, no. 59. 



'' Pofie Nick. Tax. (Rec. Com.), 3 1 5. 



" Ibid. 330. 



»" ralor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), v, 317. 



" Ibid. 308. 



" See ' Schools,' r.C.H. Dur. i, 407. 



