STOCKTON WARD 



SEDGF.FIELD 



de Aycrmin, Bishop of Norwich, then in the king's 

 hands.''' The next tenant whose name is recorded 

 is William de la Pole, who had a grant of free warren 

 here in i 347.'" He settled the manor, which was 

 held for a quarter of a knight's fee,'' on himself and 

 his wife Katharine in tail,^'^ and died in 1365 or 

 1366, leaving a son and heir Michael. Katharine 

 died before March 1381-2.*" Michael was summoned 

 to Parliament as a baron in January 1365-6, and was 

 created Earl of Suffolk in 1385.*' He was found 

 guilty of high treason by Parliament in 1387-8.*- 

 His son Michael in 1391 claimed the manor of 

 Bradbury under the settlement on William de la Pole,*' 

 and was created Earl of Suffolk in 1399.^ He con- 

 veyed the manors of Bradbury, The Isle and lands in 

 Foxton, Stillington, Fishburn, Bolum, Preston on 

 Skerne, and Great Chilton to feoffees in 1 396, 

 and died at Harfleur in 141 5, his son Michael sur- 

 viving him by only a month.*' The younger Michael 

 had three daughters and co-heirs, Katherine, Elizabeth 

 and Isabel. His heir male was his brother William.*^ 

 When Isabel died in 142 1 the manor was in the 

 bishop's hands on account of the minority of her sisters 

 and herself"' Elizabeth died in 1422,** and in the 

 next year Katherine, at the age of thirteen, entered 

 the house of the Minoresses in Brusiard as a nun.*' 

 William finally succeeded, and released the manor in 

 1434 to Roger Thornton the younger of Newcastle.^" 



Roger Thornton died seised of the manor in 147 1, 

 leaving a daughter and heir Elizabeth, the wife of 

 George Lumley,^^ afterwards Lord Lumley. Her right 

 to her inheritance was disputed by her bastard brother 

 Giles Thornton, who was slain by Lord Lumley in a 

 quarrel."- Bradbury followed the descent of Little 

 Lumley till I 569, when John Lord Lumley and Jane 

 his wife conveyed it to Sir George Bowes of Streatlam."' 

 Sir George Bowes did homage for the manor in i 578.^^ 

 His son Sir William surrendered it to the Crown about 

 1586,'' and in 1606 it was granted to John Ramsay 

 and his heirs.'^ This grant was superseded by another 

 made in 1616 or 1 61 7 to Thomas Emerson for 1,000 

 years.'' Emerson's interest was acquired by Edward 

 Manning, to whom a fresh grant was made in 

 1637-8."* A fee-farm rent of _{'550 was reserved on 

 the manors of Bradbury and Hilton." 



In 1653 Edward and Henry Manning sold BraJ- 



Ord of Sands. SatU 

 three talmon rinng argent 

 and a quarter argent. 



bury to John Farrer, who with his son of the same 



name sold half of it in 1670 to Thomas Farrer, 



brother of the younger John."*' Thomas Farrer, son 



of Thomas, sold this moiety in 1719 to Benjamin Ord 



of Sedgefield,' who also acquired the mansion-house in 



Sedgetield called Sands.^ He died in 174 1, his fourth 



son Robert succeeding him at Sands and Sedgefield.' 



Robert's son Ralph ■* was one of the landowners of 



Bradbury in 1771, the other being Richard Wright.' 



Richard Ord, fourth son of 



Ralph, purchased the Ord 



moiety from the devisees of 



his father, who died in I 806,^ 



and, having already acquired 



the Wright moiety,' took the 



name of Wright in 1 8 14.* He 



died intestate in 1851, his 



heir being his brother the 



Rev. Ralph Ord, who agreed 



to sell the manor of Bradbury 



to his nephew Mark son of 



Mark Ord. Mark Ord died 



in 1863 ; his eldest son Mark 



died unmarried in 1876, and 



was succeeded by his brother Richard,' who died in 



1920 ; the present owners are his daughters, Mrs. 



G. F. Hastings Ord and Miss Muriel Ord. 



The second moiety was inherited by Rebecca 

 daughter of John Farrer the younger and wife of 

 Robert Wren of Binchester.'" Her son and heir 

 Farrer Wren sold it to Richard Wright of Sedgefield, 

 by whose will it was left to his grand-nephew Richard 

 Ord, fourth son of Ralph Ord of Sands." Richard 

 united the first moiety to this by purchase about 

 1806.12 



John Claxton died seised of a messuage and 1 00 acres 

 in Bradbury in or before 1392, the reversion of which 

 belonged to William de Claxton of Claxton and 

 Isabella his wife." Before the death of Isabella a 

 cert.'.in Thomas Cook claimed and entered upon this 

 land.'^ 



About 1183 BUTTERlf'ICK (Baterwyk, xii cent.) 

 was held of the bishop in drengage '* by a tenant 

 whose name is not given in the entry in Boldon Book 

 dealing with Butterwick itself. Under Sedgefield, 

 however, it is recorded that Utred de Butterwick paid 



" Ca!. Par. 1327-30, pp. 65, 241. 



^' Dep. Keeper' I Rep. xxxi, I 54. 



'^ Dur. Rec. cl. 3, no. 2, fol. 77 d., 

 150 ; no. 4, fol. 35. 



'9 Cal. Pat. 158S-92, p. 517. 



'" Dur. Rcc. cl. 3, no. 2, fol. 150. 



" G.E.C. Peerage, vii, 303. 



" Ibid. 304 ; Chan. Inq. p.m. I 5 Ric. II, 

 pt. i, no. 1 14. 



«» Cal. Par. 1388-92, p. 517. 



^ G.E.C. Peerage, vii, 305. 



" Close R. 19 Ric. II, m. 8 d. ; Dur. 

 Rec. cl. 3, no. 2, fol. 174 d., 184. Both 

 widows had dower (Dtp. Keeper's Rep. 

 xxxiii, 1 10). 



*• Dur. Rcc. cl. 3, no. 2, fol. 184. 



" Ibid. fol. 221 d. 



*8 Ibid. fol. 222. 



»' Ibid. fol. 223. 



*■ Ibid. R. 36, m. 7. Roger had at the 

 same time a conveyance from the trustees 

 of Mich.iel de la Pole (ibid.). 



»' Dur. Rec. cl. 3, no. 4, fol. 3;. The 

 manor was extended at 10 messuages, 1 1 

 cottages, 350 acres of arable land, 44 



acres of meadow, 300 acres of pasture 

 and swamp, and 71. 9^.^. rent from 

 various free tenements here and at Pres- 

 ton on Skerne. 



*> G.E.C. Peerage, v, 177. 



» Dur. Rec. cl. 12, no. I (2). He 

 made a conveyance of the manor and 

 lands to Edmund Groxh;im in I 572 (ibid.). 



•>' Ibid. cl. 3, R. 8^, m. I. 



^•' Pat. 30 Eliz. pt. xvi, m. I ; Exch. 

 Dep. Spec. Com. no. 760. It was sur- 

 veyed in that year by the queen's com- 

 missioners, probably with a view to pur- 

 chase. 



** Pat. 4 Jas. I, pt. viii. 



'• Cal. S. P. Dom. 1637-S, p. 14-. 



» Ibid. 



^ Ibid. The reversion of this rent 

 after the death of Katherine Queen 

 Dowager and George Marquess of Hali- 

 fax was granted in 1695 to Henry Earl 

 of Romncy (Pat. 7 Will. Ill, pt. ii, 

 no. 12). 



'™ Surtecs, op. cit. lii, 40. 



' Dur. Rec. cl. 1 2, no. 10 (4). 



* Surtees, op. cit. iii, 41. 

 ' Ibid. 42. 



* Ibid. Robert was struck dead by 

 lightning in 1761 [Gent. Mag. 1761, 



P- 3 34)- 



' Exch. Dec. and Orders (Ser. 4), xxx 

 no. 7 (Mich. 1771). 



' Surtees, op. cit. iii, 40, 42. 



' See below. 



' PhiUimore and Ft)', Changes of Name 



354- 



' D. in the poss. of the Earl of Eldoo ; 

 Burke, Landed Gentry. 



*^ Surtecs, op. cit. iii, 40. A lawsuit 

 concerning Bradbur>' was proceeding in 

 1 720—6 between Mary Farrer, spinster, 

 and Robert Wren and others (Dur. Rec. 

 cl. 8, no. 29). Rebecca Wren left the 

 interest of ^^30 to the poor of the parish 

 in 1744 (Surtees, op. cit. iii, 59). 



" Surtees, op. cit. iii, 40. 



'* See above. 



" Dur. Rcc. cl. 3, no. 2, fol. 115. 



" Ibid. fol. 201 d., 256 d. 

 y.C.H. Dur.i, 331. 



