STOCKTON WARD 



recorded in the Yorkshire Visitation of that year.-" 

 He was a Royalist in the Civil War and his estates 

 were sequestered ; his son James, ' a Papist,' appears 

 to have been seated at MidJleton One Row, and his 

 goods were sequestered by the Parliament in 164.4,2** 

 and the estate put in the third Act for Sale in 1652.^' 

 In the following year the manor was discharged 

 from sequestration, having been purchased from the 

 Treason Trustees in 1 6 5 4 by Gilbert Crouch.^- It was 

 recovered in part at least, and Francis Ayscough 

 seems to have succeeded his brother James, being 

 named as a freeholder in 1684.-' Alan Ayscough 

 and Katherine his wife with Thomas Ayscough and 

 Susan his wife conveyed the manor and lands here 

 to Thomas Maynard in 1 702.*'* Alan Ayscough, son 

 of Alan and great-nephew of Francis, had two mes- 

 suages, &c., in Middleton St. George, which as a 

 'Papist' he registered in 1717 -'' ; in i 720 a convey- 

 ance of the manor was made by him and by Katherine 

 Ayscough, Thomas Ayscough and other member! of 

 the family to William Denton."'' It afterwards dis- 

 appears from view, and the estate was probably sold 

 in parcels. 



The hind sold to Anthony Felton did not include 

 the whole of the Surtees estate, for in 1566 Marma- 

 duke Surtees conveyed two messuages and nine ox- 

 gangs of land here held of the bishop by knight service 

 to John Hedworth of Harraton for the purposes of a 

 settlement on John and Anne his wife, daughter of 

 George and Jane Hall.-^' John Hedworth died in 

 1603, and on the death of Anne in March 161 7-8 

 the land passed to Ralph their son, then a middle- 

 aged man.-*'' Ralph and Eleanor his wife conveyed 

 the property to William AUanson and James Dale in 

 1619.25': 



The second moiety called NETHER MIDDLE- 

 TON 01 MIDDLETON ST. GEORGE was answered 

 for in 1 1 66 by Godfrey Baiard or Baard, who stated 

 in answer to the king's writ that he held the third 

 part of a knight's fee in Northumberl.)nd ; he had 

 half the inheritance of two sisters, the other half 

 being held by Roland Baard with one of the sisters.-* 

 Godfrey occurs in the Pipe Rolls from i 160,-" and in 

 1165 paid 33/. 4^/. for relief of his lands.-* He was 

 dead in 1 i 86, when his land was in custody. Ralph 

 Baard, his heir, rendered scutage in the next year.-' 

 When Richard I granted the wapentake of S.idberge to 

 Bishop Hugh in 1189 he stated that he included 

 therein the service of the son of Godfrey Baard, 

 evidently Ralph, for two-thirds of a knight's fee in 

 Middleton and Hartburn.'** The service is that of 



MIDDLETON 

 ST. GEORGE 



Surtees and Baard together, so that either the former 

 name has been omitted, or else Baard was then re- 

 sponsible to the king for the whole service. In 1197 the 

 son of Roland Baard answered for part of the bishop's 

 debt." It seems probable that he also was a Ralph. '- 

 One of the Baard shares descended in the family 

 till the 14th century. There is little evidence to 

 indicate which this was, but the succession of Ralphs 

 and Rolands suggests that it was Roland's de- 

 scendants who continued in the male line. Ralph 

 Baard was holding a sixth part of a knight's fee in 

 Nether Middleton about l2lo,^andin 1235-6 a local 

 jury returned that Ralph son of Roland Baard was a 

 minor who ought to be in the bishop's custody, but 

 that the wardship had been granted by the bishop to 

 Richard de Wykes ; Roland's land was worth .^4.''* 

 In 1240 Roland Baard presented to a moiety of the 

 church.'* His estate descended to Ralph Baard, who 

 presented to his moiety of the rectory some time before 

 1312,'* and was living in 1313."'' Roland Baard 

 died in or before 1320 holding a moiety of the 

 'manor' of Nether Middleton and Hartburn by 

 fealty and a rent of 2/. 3^'., doing suit at the wapen- 

 take court of Sadberge. His heir was his son Ralph, 

 aged twenty-seven.'' In 1345 the king ordered an 

 inquiry as to the age of Roland son and heir of 

 Ralph Baard, and it was proved that he was of full 

 age. He had been baptized at Middleton. The 

 moiety of the manor of Middleton St. George and a 

 moiety of the church were held of the bishop by 

 suit at Sadberge Wapentake and 1 3</. rent at the 

 exchequer of Durham ; two messuages and 4 oxgangs 

 of land in West Hartburn were held by 13^'. rent.'* 

 Livery was granted to the heir." In 1352-3 the 

 wardship and marriage of Ralph son and heir of 

 Ralph Baard were granted to John de Birland and 

 Margery his wife.^" The heir seems to have died 

 without issue, for in 1364 Roland Baard was found 

 to have held the above moieties by fealty and a rent 

 of 2/. z^J. at the exchequer ; Ralph his son and heir 

 was twenty years of age.'" Ralph was in possession 

 in 1367, but had been succeeded by William 

 Walworth before 1378.^- This is believed to be 

 the Sir William already mentioned, whose brother 

 Thomas Walworth calls Thomas Baard his cousin in 

 1409." 



The next step is uncertain. John Killinghall in 

 1 41 6 was recorded to hold the manor of Nether 

 Middleton of the bishop in socage by g^d. rent and 

 also four messuages and 8 oxgangs of land in Over 

 Middleton of Sir Thomas Surtees; his son John 



'" Dugdale, Fisit. of rsrh. (Surt. Soc), 



345- 



"a Ric, Com. for Comj>. (Surt. Soc), 



106. 



" Ibid. 106-7 ) Dugdale, loc. cit. 



*' Ric. Com. for Comf. (Surt. Soc), 

 106-7 ) Close R. 1654, [t. niv, m. 27. 



" Surtees, op. cit. iii, 226—7. Dorothy 

 Ayscough made a conveyance of lands 

 here to Ralph Stephenson, Margaret his 

 daughter and William Bierman in 1663 

 (Dur. Rcc cl. 12, no. 6 [2]). 



"a Dur. Rec cl. 12, no. 16 (3). 



" Surtees, op. cit. iii, 227 ; Estcourt and 

 Payne, Engl. Carh. t>^on~juror%y 57. His 

 mother Catherine had an annuity out of 

 the estate (ibid. 50). 



'■■ Dur. Rec. cl. 12, no. 20 (4). 



"a Ibid, cl. 3, tile 184, no. 109. 



'"> Ibid. no. 69 J cf. ibid, R. 94, m. 48. 



"c Ibid. R, loi, m. 29; cf. ibid. cl. 12, 

 no. 2 (3). 



'« Red Bk. of Exch. (Rolls Ser.), 442 ; 

 cf. Pift R. 14 Hen. Il{Pi^i: R. Soc), 172, 



'■ Pipe R. 7 Hen. II (Pipe R. Soc), 25. 

 In the roll tor 1 161-2 he is associated with 

 William sonof Aluric (of Dilston, North- 

 umberland) for the payment of scutage 

 (ibid. 8 Hen. II, 10). 



'» Ibid. 1 1 Hen. II, 27. 



" Hodgson, Hill, of Northumb. iii {3), 



^^ Surtees, op. cit. i, p. cxxvii ; CaL 

 Chjrt. R. 1300-26, p. 394. 



" BoUon Bk. (Surt. Soc), App. p. v. 



" He is probably to be identified either 

 with the Ralph Bard de Middleton or with 

 Ralph Bard de Hartburn, who together 



295 



witnessed a charter in the late 12th 

 century (Feod. Prior. Dunelm. [ Surt. Soc], 

 1 $0 n. ; Surtees, op. cit. iii, 229). 



" Tes!a de Xevill (Rec Com.), 395, 



"» Assize R. 224, m. 2. 



" Archhp. Grays Reg. (Surt. Soc), 

 87-8. 



^ Reg. Palat. Dunelm. (Rolls Ser.), ii, 

 1167. ^ Ibid. 1240. 



'' Dur. Rec cl. 3, no. 2, fol. i. 



»* Reg. Palar. Dunelm. (Rolls Ser.), iv, 

 365. 



" Dep. Keeper's Rep. xxxi, App. p. 52. 



"Ibid. 118. 



" Dur. Rec. cl. ;, no. 2, fol. 71. 



" Cf. the tenure of Cocelin Surtees 

 with that of his nephew Thomas (Dep. 

 Keeper I Rep. xlv, App. 260-1). 



" Test. Ehor, (SurL Soc), i, 354. 



