STOCKTON WARD 



REDMARSHALL 



n 1426 and later received 46/. %J. from the 'manor' 

 there/* but in 1479-80 an exchange was made with 

 Lionel Claxton by which this estate passed from the 

 priory." The monks of Durham had a rent here." 



CJRLTON (Carltun, xii cent.) was one of the 

 vills given by Bishop Aldhun with his daughter 

 Egfrida to Uctred son of Earl Waltheof. Uctred 

 afterwards repudiated her, and she married a Yorkshire 

 thegn, Kilvert son of Ligulf, by whom she had a 

 daughter Sigrid. She was again repudiated, and became 

 a nun. Sigrid married Arkil, who, after her death, 

 restored Carlton to the bishopric.** 



The vill was occupied in 11 84 by twenty-three 

 ' firmars,' each holding 2 oxgangs, and various other 

 tenants more or less free. The 'firmars' paid a 

 money rent of 10/. and dues of hens and eggs, pro- 

 vided a c.irt for carrying corn for six days and owed 

 four boondays in the autumn. Of the other tenants 

 all but one paid the money rent, but were quit of the 

 services, one at the bishop's will, one while he was in 

 the bishop's service, and another, the miller, in return 

 for an extra payment of 2/. William son of Orm, 

 who held a carucate of land, was possibly a drengage 

 tenant. He paid a rent of 10/. quit of all service 

 except attending the bishop's great hunt with a 

 hunting dog.'' 



Carlton was considered a member of the manor of 

 Stockton, the reeve of which for the half-yenr ending 

 at Michaelmas i 349 received 44;. it/, from twenty-six 

 malmen (i.e., ' firmars ') of Carlton in lieu of boon- 

 works.'^ In 1385-6 tlie receipts from Carlton were 

 £27 15/. 2</. in the ordinary' issues, 26/. 6i/. from 

 the court, and 16/. 4^/. other issues." 



The holding of William son of Orm was appa- 

 rently broken up. In 1339 it was found that Ralph 

 de Rounton (Rungeton) had held 53 acres, &c., in 

 Carlton of the bishop by a rent of 4J. 5(2'.,"* and his 

 son William de Blakiston held the same estate in 

 1349.'' ^" '3+9 i' was found that John Emmeson 

 held 67 acres of the bishop by homage and suit of 

 court and a rent of 11/.^" John de Redmarshall in 

 1375 held 63 acres of the bishop by suit of court and 

 5/. rent " ; his son William succeeded. 



About 1384 the tenants in drengage were the 

 above-named William son of John de Redm.irshall and 

 Simon Chamber {Je cnmera), each holding by charter 

 4 oxgangs of land (60 acres) by 5/. rent and attending 

 the hunt with his greyhounds. The free tenants were 

 Thomas son of John Gower, Hugh de Laton of 

 Thorp and Thomas de Cramblington, each holding 

 a rood of meadow at ^d. or ?iJ. rent. The ' firmars ' 

 holding by services resembling those of i 184 were in 

 1384 called bondmen. These services were now, 

 however, commuted for a money rent, i 3;. jJ. being 

 the normal rent for a tenement of 2 oxgangs. The 

 services of repairing the mill and Stockton manor- 



house, which do not appear in Boldon Book, are here 

 mentioned. The holdings range from i to 4 oxgangs 

 in extent. The tenants as a body held the mill for 

 £6, the oven for 2/. and the brewing for is. The 

 forge was outside their tenure and was not arrented. 

 A native living away at Seaton Carew paid 5/. to the 

 lord. There were eight exchequer tenements ren- 

 dering from zd. to lid. each.'^ 



Robert CuUey had acquired one of the above- 

 described drengage tenements before his death in 

 1422, for it was found that he had held 60 acres in 

 Carlton of the bishop.^^ In the inquisitions held after 

 the death of his son John in 1426 and his grandson 

 William in 1428 the tenement is described as 4 oxgangs 

 of land in Carlton, held by knights' service and going 

 with the bishop to his great chase provided with 

 dogs." 



William Culley left a brother and heir Thomas, 

 whose son William Culley was the tenant in 1478.*** 

 William seems to have been succeeded by Thomas 

 Culley and he by his daughter Agnes, wife of one 

 Bainbridge ; Agnes died some time during the reign 

 of Henry VIII, and it is uncertain whether her son 

 and heir John Bainbridge survived her."'' Percival 

 son of John was a man of 40 in 1577,**'^ but nothing 

 more is known of the history of this holding. 



In 1 408 the bishop demised to Thomas Red- 

 marshall 12J messuages and 25 oxgangs of land — 

 nearly half the vill — which had been lying waste for 

 sixteen years for lack of tenants ; Thomas took this 

 for twelve years at ^^8 rent." Bishop Booth demised 

 the vill to Thomas Caldbeck in 1472 on a three 

 years' lease.** In 1476 a nine years' lease of the 

 whole vill was granted to William Hartburn at a rent 

 o( £10 ; the previous rent had been £i(>-'^' William 

 was probably the son of John Hartburn mentioned 

 above who in 1478 died holding the second drengage 

 tenement in Carlton, his son being forty years old.** 

 This land descended in the family to John Hartburn 

 who died in I 586 leaving a daughter Margaret, wife 

 of Robert Forrest.**" Margaret was succeeded in 

 March 161 5 -16 by William her son, but he died in 

 the following December, when William Forrest his 

 son was little more than a year old.*''' William 

 obtained livery of his inheritance in 1636.*''= 



The Blakiston fimily held lands here as in Red- 

 marshall.*' Christopher Place In 1 6 24 had land in 

 Carlton in conjunction with his part of the manor of 

 Redmarshall.^o 



The freeholders in 1684 were William Forrest, 

 recusant, William Newton and Anne Stelling." 



About 1200 Robert de Amundeville granted to 

 Ralph deHamsterley 2 oxgangs of land in STILLING- 

 TON (Stillyngton, xiii cent.) that had belonged to 

 Robert son of Huchtred."- The whole ' manor ' was 

 in 1 268 acquired by Walter de Merton from Thomas 



" Finchale Priory (Surt. Soc), p. cxciii, 

 &c. 



" Ibid. p. cccilv. For Lionel Claxton 

 of Horden see Dtp. Ketfer's Rtf. xxxy, 

 135 ; xxxvi, App. i, 5. 



^^ Dtp. Keeper's Rep. xxxvi, App. i, 41. 

 It may be the Finchale rent. 



** Simeon of Dur. Opera (Rolls Ser.), 

 i, 215-20. 



" V.C.H. Dur. i, 337. For the 'un- 

 free ' condition of the firmars sec ibid, 

 280. 



^ Haifield't Surv. (Surt, Soc), 241. 



" Ibid. 265. 



" Dur. Rec. cl. 3, no. 2, fol. 18. 

 " Ibid. fol. 43 d. 

 <» Ibid. fol. 36 d. 

 " Ibid. fol. 93. 



'- HaifieU', Suiv. (Surt. Soc), 177-8- 

 " Dur. Rec. cl. 3, no. 2, fol. 218. 

 " Ibid. fol. 234 ; no. 4, fol. 72. See 

 Redmarshall for this family. 



"" Ibid. fol. 237 d. ; no. 4, fol. 72. 



'"> IbiJ. tile 191, no. 59. 



«'<: Ibid. 



" Dur. Rec. cl. 3, no. 14, fol. 237. 



'• Ibid. no. 16, fol. 263 d. 



«■ Ibid. fol. 211 d. 



<* Ibid. no. 4, fol. 72. 



^a Ibid, file 191, no. 117; fi'* '9-i 

 no. 16. 



«*'■ Ibid, file 184, no. 44, 62 ; cf. R. 97, 

 no. 32. 



««<: Ibid. R. loS, m. 24. 



«'Ibid. fol. 319. 



■» Ibid. fol. 487. 



"' Surtecs, op. cit. iii, 73. 



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