STOCKTON WARD 



Alice Baard were said to have presented to that part 

 of the advowson which the Cambcs subsequently 

 held.'' It seems probable, therefore, that they were 

 the heirs of Ralph son of Godfrey B.iard, and that 

 they had married Walter and Robert de Cambe.'" 

 Walter de Cambe seems to have been succeeded 

 by Hugh called de Middleton."^ His heir is not 

 certainly known, but may have been the John de 

 Cambe who before 1312 presented his son John to 

 the vicarage."*' 



Robert de Cambe was in 1337 found to have 

 held of the bishop the moiety of a messuage and 

 30 acres in Nether Middleton by I3</. for castle ward 

 and suit at the court of Sadberge ; John his son and 

 heir was twenty-two years of age.**' In I 341 John 

 de Cambe of Nether Middleton entered into various 

 recognizances,'*- and in 1353 John son and heir of 

 John de Cambe proved his age.*' Gocelin Surtees 

 in 1367 was s.iid to have held 6 oxgangs of land in 

 Nether Middleton of the heirs of John de Cambe 

 by a rent of i lb. of cummin and 2^d. "* ; Alexander 

 Surtees in 1380 also held of the heirs of John de 

 Cambe. '^ A later Gocelin Surtees (1383) held three 

 messuages and 6 oxgangs of land of the same heirs 

 by I lb. of cummin.*''' Matania de Cambe, sister of 

 John, in 1385 held her messuage and 12 oxgangs of 

 land of the bishop by knight's service, a rent of 13a'. 

 and suit of court ; Walter de Cambe, aged thirty, 

 was the heir, but his kinship is not recorded.**' 

 Walter de Cambe succeeded,*** but was dead in June 

 1397, when it was found that he had held a 

 capital messuage and 10 oxgangs of land, &c., 

 in Nether Middleton in fee tail and a messuage and 2 

 oxgangs in fee simple ; all were held of the bishop by 

 knight's service, suit of court at Sadberge and i 3</. 

 rent. His heir was a son John, aged twenty-six.*' 

 Robert Cambe, perhaps a brother of John, held the 

 estate in 1408, when his son William, aged seven, 

 was found to be the heir.'*^ He proved his age 

 in February 1422-3 ^' and died shortly before 

 1430-1,"^ leaving a widow Katherine, who soon 

 afterwards married John Scman.^' The next to 

 appear is William Cambe, after whose death in 

 1 5 1 1 it was found that his son Thomas was 

 heir of his lands in Middleton St. George.^* Being 

 twenty-four years of age Thomas had livery,'-** 

 and in 15 19 he sold his estate in Shildon to Eliza- 

 beth Killinghall.'*' She was then described as of 

 Middleton St. George, and had probably already 

 purchased his land here. 



Elizabeth was the widow of Robert Killinghall, 



MIDDLETON 

 ST. GEORGE 



who in I 508 had held lands in Sadberge and else- 

 where,"' and Robert may have been the son of John 

 Killinghall who acquired lands in Bishopton (? New- 

 biggin) in 1482.'*' She died in 1541 holding her 

 husband's estate and a third part of the manor of 

 Middleton St. George, with lands and tenements 

 therein, the advowson of the rectory, and a fishery in 

 the Tees, all held of the bishop by knight's service." 

 William, her son and heir, then thirty-six years of 

 age, died in 1559,"" when his brother John suc- 

 ceeded, and he dying in 1574 was followed by his 

 son Henry,' who, as related above, afterwards 

 acquired the Baard Manor and the advowson of the 

 sinecure rectory. It seems probable that the greater 

 part of the manor followed the descent in his family 

 which is given above. In 1607, however, Henry 

 Killinghall made a settlement of all his manor of 

 Middleton St. George on himself and Anne his wife 

 for their lives, with remainder to William Killinghall 

 and his issue.- At Henry's death in 1620 he was said 

 to hold only a third part,' but these fractional ex- 

 pressions are very loosely used. 



The twelfth part of a knight's fee in Middleton 

 which was held about 1 2 10 by Robert de Cambe or 

 Middleton * is not subsequently treated as part of 

 the manor, and cannot be traced with certainty. It 

 may possibly be identified with Goosepool.' 



irEST HARTBURN (Hartburn, Hertburn, 

 c. 1200 ; West Hertburn, xiv cent.) was held with 

 Nether Middleton as one estate, and part of it 



consequently descended in the Baard and Cambe 



families. The Baard share 



was sold in 1548 by Francis 



Killinghall to William Wrenn,* 



who died in 1559, leaving a 



son and heir Anthony.' An- 

 thony died in 1595 seised of 



half of a messuage and 400 



acres in West Hartburn.* His 



son Sir Charles Wrenn of 



Binchester^ was succeeded in 



March 1 620-1 by a son and 



heir Lindley Wrenn, who 



sold the estate in 1628 to 



Francis Forster and George 



his son.i" John Forster, son of 



Francis, held it in 1694,*^ and 



in 1 7 1 7 registered his freehold 



in West Hartburn as worth 



/71 10/. ayear.*^ It was sold by — Bowlby in 1763 to 



— Masterman, whose granddaughter. Miss Glanville, 



Wrinn. Argent a 

 cheTeron tahle betvteen 

 three liom^ headi razed 

 lable ivith three Virerts 

 argent on the cheveron 

 and a chief guUt charged 

 tuilb three croiilett or. 



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

 87-8. 



'* If this conjecture is correct it seems 

 that two heiresses married two brothers 

 twice in the history of Middleton. See 

 above. 



" Surtees, op. cit. ii, 340. 



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

 1 1 67. 



*' Dur. Rec. cl. 3, no. 2, fol. i\b. 



'^ Dep. Keeper's Rep. xxxi, App. 54-5. 



^ Ibid, iv, App. 133. 



"' Dur. Rec. cl. 3, no. z, fol. y6b. 



»•■' Ibid. fol. 105*. *« Ibid. fol. 151*. 



*' Ibid. fol. 154*. 



" Ibid. fol. 1 56A. The heir was Alice 

 wife of Richard de Scouacle, aged thirty. 



«» Ibid. fol. 128. '■•» Ibid. fol. 163. 



" Ibid. fol. 21S. Livery was given 

 {Def, Keeper's Rep. xxxiii, App. 174). 



"' Dep. Keeper's Rep. xxxiii, App. 14S. 



" Ibid. 149. 



" Dur. Rec. cl. 3, no. 3, fol. 16. 



'■■' D,p. Keeper's Rep. xxxvi, App. 99. 



9' Dur. Rec. cl. 3, R. 71, m. 8 d. He 

 is here described as of Theddlcthorpe 

 (Lines.). 



"' Dep. Keeper's Rep. xliv, 444. 



'' Ibid. 324. 



•'' Dur. Rec. cl. 3, file 177, no. 56. 

 Her will, dated 1527, is printed by Long- 

 stafte {.-irch. .-lei. [New Ser.], ii, 83). She 

 had presented to the rectory in 1531 

 (Surtees, op. cit. iii, 224). 



'"" Dur. Rec. cl. 3, no. 6, fol. 58. 



' Arch. Ael. (New Ser.), ii, S6, where 

 Longstarte prints John's will, dated 1 572. 



' Dur. Rec. cl. 3, R. 93, m. I2 ; cf. file 

 182, no. 38. 



^ Ibid, file 189, no. 34, 



297 



* Sec above. 



* See below. 



•i Dur. Rec. cl. 12, no. i (1). 

 Katherine wife of Francis Killinghall 

 and Alice wife of John Harrison, with 

 their respective husbands, had sold a 

 messuage and some 290 acres of land on 

 the east tide of West Hartburn to Wrenn 

 in the previous year (Ibid.). 



^ Surtees, op. cit. iii, 226. 



^ Dur. Rec. cl. 3, file 192, no. 59. 



' Ibid. He had joined with his father 

 and mother in a conveyance of this land 

 in August 1595 (Dur. Rec. cl. 12, 

 no. 2 [I]). 



'" Dur. Rec. cl. 3, porlfl. 189, no. 43 ; 

 R. 102, no. 25 ; cl. 12, no. 4 (2). 



" Surtees, loc. cit. 



" Estcourt and Payne, Engl. Cath. 



Nonjuror Sj 52, 



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