STOCKTON WARD 



LONG NEWTON 



Dr. Henry Vane, sometime Fellow of Trinity 

 College, Cambridge,^^ was rector of Long Newton 



by marriage with 

 John Tempest of 



Vane of Loag New- 

 ton. Axure three left- 

 hand gauntlets or and a 

 quarter gules. 



and prebendary of Durham ; 

 Frances daughter and heir of 

 Sherburn he made a consider- 

 able increase in the family 

 estates, to which he succeeded 

 in 1793, having been made a 

 baronet in 1782.^^ He died 

 a year after succeeding, and his 

 son Sir Henry, who took the 

 additional surname of Tem- 

 pest, deserted Long Newton 

 for Wynyard, the mansion at 

 the former place going to 

 ruin.2'' He died in 181 3, 

 when the baronetcy became 

 extinct, and the estates de- 

 scended to his daughter 

 Frances Anne Emily, who in 



18 19 married Charles Stewart, third Marquess of 

 Londonderry ; from her they have descended to the 

 present marquess.^'' 



Only scattered notices occur of the various free 

 tenements recorded in the inquisition of Guy Earl 

 of Warwick. John de Cirezi was in 1307 found to 

 have held a messuage, five tofts and 300 acres in Long 

 Newton of the fee of Balliol ; Margaret his widow 

 held the lands as dower ; Walter was his son and 

 heir.^' Walter son of John de ' Cirseye ' occurs in 

 '335.^* Jofi" son of Walter ' Cirsy ' in 1345,'^ and 

 Walter in 1346 and 1350.*" An ancestor was 

 perhaps the Walter ' Arsy ' or ' Carsey ' who was one 

 of the bishop's knights in 1264.^^ 



CALDECOTE was in 1367 held by Goscelin 

 Surtees of the Earl of Warwick ; it contained 100 

 acres of land, and he also had another 8 acres in the 

 township.''- In the inquisition taken in 1378, after 

 the death of his nephew and heir Thomas Surtees 

 of Dinsdale, the 100 acres are said to be held of the 

 earl by 1 3/. 412'. rent and the 8 acres of William 

 Wawen by ^d. rent.^^ Alexander son of Thomas held 

 the same twelve years later." The 8 acres, but not 

 Caldecotes, occur again as held by Sir Thomas 

 Surtees in 1435.'* Caldecotes seems to have been 

 acquired by the Conyers family of Coatham Stob.^^ 



Robert Killinghall in 1508 had land here held of 

 the lord of Barnard Castle.''^ It appears to have 

 been acquired from Henry Killinghall by Richard 



" He became LL.D. in 1761. 



^* G.E.C, Complete Baronetage, v, 

 224. 



'^ Fordyce, Hist, and Antiq. of co. Palat. 

 of Dur. ii, 215. 



" See the account of Wynyard in 

 Grindon. 



^' Cal. Inq. p.m. (Edw. I), iv, 273. 



'» Reg. Palat. Dunclm. (Rolls Ser.), iii, 

 169. His brother Hugh was a deacon 

 (ibid. 196]. 



" Dep. Keeper's Rep. xxxi, App. 121. 



*^ Ibid. 121, 123. Thomas Cirezi was 

 rector of Redmarshall in 1374-5 (ibid, 

 xxxii, App. 271). 



*' Hutchinson, Hist, and Antipof Dur, 

 i, 221 ; Far, Coll. (Hist. MSS. Com.), ii, 

 88. 



" Dur. Rec. cl. 3, no. 2, fol. 76 d. 



" Ibid. fol. 99 d. 



" Ibid. fol. 10; d. 



« Ibid. fol. 273. 



*' See below under Coatham. 



*' Dur. Rec. cl. 3, file 172, no. 3. 



*'* Ibid. no. 6, fol. 58 ; R. 94, ni. 39, 

 4; ; file 183, no. 11, In 154^ Francis 

 Killinghall conveyed 2,100 acres of land 

 in Long Newton and several other places 

 then held by Eleanor Laylow, widow, 

 his mother, to William Wrenn (Ibid. cl. 

 12, no. I [i]). This may have included 

 Caldecote. 



*' Ibid, file 189, no. 8 ; Thomas, his 

 son and heir, was aged sixteen. Mattliew 

 was another son. 



■^" I'jlor Eat. (Rec. Com.), v, 85. 



*' ;.. and P. Hen. rlll, xv, g. 8 3 I (64) ; 

 xvi, g. 678 (2;) ; xix (1), g. 444 (10). 



"Ibid, xxi (2); g. 648 (25). 



" Falor Ecel. (Rec. Com.), v, 322. 



=■' Ibid. 310. 



" Harl. R. (B.M.), D 36, m. 6. 



'' Pat. II Jas. I, pt. XXV. 



'" Chan. Proc. (Ser. 2), bdle. 8, no. 41. 



Maddock, who died in 1611.''* John Hartburn of 

 Carlton (d. 1619) '*'■' had 2 oxgangs held of the king. 



A small amount of land in Long Newton was 

 held by the hospital of St. James at Northallerton."^ 

 On the suppression of the house it was granted by 

 the Crown in 1540 to Richard Moryson,"'' but it was 

 afterwards repurchased and given to Christ Church, 

 Oxford.^- Rent here belonged to St. Margaret's 

 chapel in Barnard Castle *' and to Neasham Priory.'^ 

 The Hospitallers had a rent of 12a'." 



A fulling-mill in Long Newton was sold by the 

 Crown in 161 3 to William Whitmore and others."*^ 



A claim to the office of bailiff in the township was 

 made early in Elizabeth's reign by Stephen Bracken- 

 bury, one of the queen's gentlemen ushers. He said 

 that the office had been granted to him by 

 Edward VI, with its fee of 30/. ja". and other 

 perquisites ; after he had enjoyed it for three years 

 his Letters Patent were stolen, and after a time came 

 into the hands of Ralph Pollard and Christopher Hall, 

 who refused to surrender them, whereupon he 

 appealed to the chancellor.*'' 



COATHAM STOB (Cotom, xiii-xvi cent. ; 

 Cottam, xvi cent.), otherwise COATHAM CON- 

 I'ERS, was apparently part of the Surtees fee. A 

 rent of 61. from the manor belonged to the lords of 

 Dinsdale in the 14th century.'** Appurten.inces in 

 Long Newton are mentioned in a conveyance of 

 part of the manor of Dinsdale in 1549'''' which may 

 be the rent and right of overlordship in Coatham. 



The tenant in demesne in the late 13th century 

 was Ralph de Coatham, who died in 1298 holding 

 besides this manor land in Northumberland. His 

 heirs were his daughter Alice and John de Conyers, 

 son of his second daughter, Scolastica.''" The 

 Conyers family appears to have inherited the whole 

 of Coatham. John Conyers 'of Stubhouse ' made a 

 grant of land in Cronkley (Northumberland) in 

 1306.''' His son Robert had apparently succeeded 

 him by 1323.^- The latter may have been the 

 father of Robert Conyers, the next tenant. By his 

 marriage with Juliana daughter and heir of John 

 Percy the younger Robert became lord of Ormesby 

 in Cleveland."--' He died in 1390, leaving by her a 

 son Robert, who was heir to his estates in Coatham 

 and Ormesby. ''2 The younger Robert was already 

 settled at 'Stubhouse' in February 1382-3, when 

 Elizabeth his wife was co-executrix with Sir Robert 

 Conyers of the will of Goscelin Surtees.^*' The heir 



*' Dur. Rec. cl. 3, no. 2, fol. 99 d., 

 10; d., 1 12 d. 



»9 Ibid. cl. 12, no. I (i). 



«" Cal. Inj, p.m. (Edw. I), iii, 383-4 ; 

 Cal. Fine R. 1272-1307, pp. 403, 424, 

 432. Christian widow of Ralph was to 

 receive assignment of dower in 1299 

 [Cal. Close, 1296-1302, p. 281). 



" Hist, of Northumh. (Northumb. Co. 

 Hist. Soc), vi, 208. He was probably 

 a younger son of the house of Conyers of 

 Sockburn. 



" De Banco R. Mich. 17 Edw. Ill, 

 m. 301, 311. A Robert dc Conyers 01 

 'Stubhouse' occurs about 1340 {Dep, 

 Keeper's Rep. xxxi, .-^pp. 54). 



"a Chan. Misc. bdlc. 86, file 32. no. 870. 



«schan. Misc. bdle. 86, file 32, no. 

 870; Dep. Keeper's Rep. xlv, 166, 175; 

 r.C.H. rorks. A'. R, ii, 278 ; cf. ffUiby 

 Ckartul. (Surt. Soc), 507. 



''a De Banco R. 433, m. 467. 



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