A HISTORY OF DURHAM 



KlLLINCHALLof 



Middleton St, George, 

 GuUt a ragged bind 

 argent befween three 

 ihea'vet or. 



was twenty-t«o years old.^'' The rent is only 3. third 

 of the old rent, but possibly dower or the portions of 

 younger children account for this ; West H.irtburn 

 is not mentioned. Livery was granted to the heir, 

 after an inquiry in which the 

 tenure was found to be soc- 

 age.'" John died in 1442 

 holding the manor and leaving 

 a son of the same name, aged 

 thirty,^" who in 1453 con- 

 veyed his lands in Middleton 

 to his son Thomas and Isabel 

 his wife." He died in 1485, 

 leaving an augmented estate, 

 his son Thomas being forty- 

 eight years of age.'"* Thomas 

 died in Febru.iry 1493-4, 

 leaving a son Hugh as heir ; 

 his wife Isabel survived him.''^ 

 Hugh in I 509 was found to 



have held two-thirds of the manor of Nether Middle- 

 ton, and the advowson of the church for a rent of 

 3/. 31/., lands in Middleton One Row, Somercloses and 

 Fogcloses in West Hartburn, and various other lands. 

 His heir was his son William, aged fifteen.^" Eliza- 

 beth, his widow, had dower assigned to her, and 

 married Edward Oglethorp.'' William Killinghall 

 died in 1526, leaving by his wife Eleanor a son 

 Francis, aged eight. He had held two-thirds of the 

 manor of Nether Middleton of the bishop by a rent 

 of zs. \d. for the whole, the advowson of the church, 

 lands in Middleton One Row of the heirs of 

 Thomas Surtces, the manor of West Hartburn of 

 the bishop by knight's service, and other lands. '^ 

 Eleanor had dower assigned out of the manors. •''' 



Francis Killinghall, who was a captain in the 

 garrison of Berwick, died in 1587, having sold his 

 estate.^'^ Ralph Tailbois of Thornton acquired the 

 manor of Nether Middleton from him in 1569,''' and 

 in 1573 sold it to Roland Johnson.'* Roland Johnson 

 at his death in 1583 was seised of two-thirds of 

 the manor.'^ His son Cuthbert '' appears to have 

 sold his estate in parcels to Ninian Girlington, 

 Richard Maddock and John Gaines. Girlington 

 acquired the ' Grange ' and the manorial rights,*''* 

 Maddock the ' Red House,' *' and Gaines a capital 

 messuage and various closes."'^ In I 599 John Girling- 

 ton,^' while retaining the Grange, sold the manor 

 and advowson to Richard Heighington.^- Heigh- 

 ington seems to have sold them to Henry Killing- 



hall, on whom, with Anne his wife, Richard 

 Maddock settled the manor in 1606, with remainder 

 in tail to their son William. '^^ Henry died in 1 620 *'* 

 and William in 1644 ; John son of William Kill- 

 inghall, as a Royalist, had his lands sequestered in 

 that year and compounded, taking the Negative 

 Oath. He died in 1652, his widow Margaret 

 taking the Engagement in the same year.'"'' His 

 son William recorded a pedigree in 1666, when 

 he was twenty-seven years of age."' He died in 

 1695 ^^ and his eldest son William in 1703, leaving 

 a sister and heir Margaret (d. 1706) ; the estates on 

 her death passed to her cousin, Robert Killinghall, 

 son of John, and he held them until his death in 

 ,7j8 66a ]-ijs son John '^' died unmarried in 1762,*'^ 

 having bequeathed his estates to a cousin, William 

 Pemberton, son of William, son of Elizabeth, sister 

 of Robert Killinghall. He died in 1778 and his 

 son William in 1801 .^"^ This last William bequeathed 

 his estates to his maternal aunts, of the family of 

 Cocks of Plymouth, and, though the Killinghall heir 

 (George Allan of Blackwell Grange) claimed, the be- 

 quest was held valid.'''* From the parish registers it 

 appears that Elizabeth and Sally, daughters of Elisha 

 Cocks of Plymouth Dock, changed their name to 

 Pemberton on inheriting in 1801 ; they were buried 

 at Middleton in 1809 and 181 1 respectively.**^ 

 Henry Cocks was proprietor in 1833 '■'' and H. A. W. 

 Cocks in 1848 and until about 1898. The hall was 

 sold in 1895. Since 1902 the principal landowners 

 h.ive been Mr. A. G. Rudd of Stockton-on-Tces and 

 Dr. Robert Smith. 



The estate sold to Richard Maddock was by him 

 conveyed in 1596 to Thomas B.ink,™ who sold it 

 ten years later to William Allanson."' Its later 

 history is not known. The Grange was sold by 

 John Girlington in 1610 to Christopher Wyvill 

 and William Carr.'- They conveyed it in 16 14 

 to Sir Conyers Darcy of Hornby Castle, Yorks./' 

 who in 161 8 sold a messuage and 320 acres here to 

 John Lord Darcy, with whom was associated Sir 

 Thomas Bellasis and Sir William Lister.'* 



The sixth part of a knight's fee which had been 

 held by Godfrey Baard and his son seems to have 

 come before 1 193 to Walter and Robert de Cambc 

 (de Cadomo, de Caen, de Kam, de Cham).'° They 

 were the nephews of Simon the chamberlain of 

 Bishop Hugh Pudsey and acquired land in Cornsay 

 and Hedley ''^ (q.v.). The nature of their interest in 

 Middleton is uncertain, but in 1240 Muriel and 



i78d. 



<s Ibid. 



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



*^ Ibid. R. 35, m. 9-10 d. 



"> Ibid, file 16+, no. 47. 



<' Ibid, file 168, no. 2, 3, 



*' Ibid, file 169, no. 62. 



i" Ibid. no. 2, fol. I. ^' Ibid. fol. 3, 9. 



^- Ibid, file 174, no. 1 1. 



'' Dtp. Kecper'i Rep. xliv, 445 ; Close, 

 38 Hen. 'VIII, pt. ii, no. 55. 



"» Surtees, Dur. iii, 222. 



" Dur. Rec. cl. 12, no. 1 (2) ; cl. 3, 

 R. 84, no. 38 ; R. 156, m. 34. 



"Dur, Rec. cl. 3, R. 156, m. 46; 

 Arch. Ael. (New Ser.), ii, 81. 



'•^ Dur. Rec. cl. 3, file 191, no. 107, 



" Ibid, 



'* Surtees, op. cit. iii, 222. *' Ibid, 



™ Dur, Rec. cl. 3, R. 99, no. 2. 



*' John Girlington burdened his estates 

 here and in Yorkshire with an annuity of 

 j^90 to Robert Comyn, who endowed 



with it Chilcott's Free School at Tiverton 

 [Char. Com. Rep. [Devon], 191 1, p. 756), 

 " Dur, Rec. cl. 3, R, 92, m. 21, 

 ^ Surtees, loc. cit, Henry conveyed 

 \ manor to John and Thomas Killinghall 

 without licence, probably in connexion 

 with this settlement (Dur, Rec. cl, 3, 

 ptfl. 182, no. 38 ; cf. 39). 



"3 The Reg. of Middleton St. George 

 (Dur. and North. Par. Reg. Soc), 44. 



" Arch. All. (New Ser.), 69 et seq. ; 

 Rec. Com. for Comp, (Surt. Soc), 260, 61, 

 ^^ Foster, op. cit. 199. 

 "^ The Reg. of Middleton St. George 

 (Dur. and North. Par. Reg. Soc), 52. In 

 June 1 69 1 he conveyed to John Spear- 

 man the manor, 



"^ Arch. Ael. (New Ser.), ii, 97-101, 

 ^" Dur. Rec. cl. 3, R. 125, no. 17, 

 •'a The Reg. of Middleton St. George 

 (Dur. and North, Par. Reg. Soc), 60. 



"b Ibid, 65 ; Arch. Ael. loc cit. 101- 

 104. 



^ Arch. Ael. loc. cit, ; Surtees, op, cit, 

 iii, 223, The Pembertons were of 

 Aislaby. 



'»=> The Reg. of Middleton St. George 

 (Dur. and North. Par. Reg. Soc), 67. 



^ Mackenzie and Ross, f^ietv of co. 

 Dur. ii, 77, 



^^ Surtees, op. cit. iii, 222. 



" Dur. Rec. cl. 3, R. loi, m. 25, 



" Ibid. R. 94, m, 35. 



'•* Ibid. R. 96, no. 22. 



" Ibid. R. 101, no. 18; ibid. cl. 12, 

 no. 3 (2). 



"•^ Pipe R. 7 Ric. I, m. 2 ; 1 John, 

 m. 8 d. ; 2 John, m. i ; Testa de Ne-vill 

 (Rec. Com.), 39;. 



'^ Rot. Lit. Claus. (Rec. Com.), 2 lA, 40 ; 

 cf. Rentals and Surv. (Gen, Ser.), ptfl. 21, 

 no. 29, fol. 104 d. 



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