A HISTORY OF DURHAM 



half 3 mark for the land which he held there.'^ It 

 seems probable that Utrcd was the dreng, and tli.it he 

 was responsible to the bishop for the services of the 

 villeins — that is, 32/. gj. cornage, one milch cow, 

 8 scot chalders of malt and the same measure of meal 

 and o.its ; he also owed certain hunting services. '^ 



At some time in the first half of the I 3th century 

 the drengage tenant, Roger son of William de 

 Butterwick, released all claim to the vill to William 

 son of William de Sadberge. Bishop Nicholas 

 Farnham (i 24.1-9) took this opportunity of chang- 

 ing the tenure, and granted the vill to William 

 at a free rent of 10 marks." William de Sadberge 

 granted the vill to his nephew Robert son of Richard 

 de Hoton, liis brother Hugh confirming the grant. '° 

 About 1335 John do Hoton died seised of the manor 

 of Butterwick, held in chief for 10 marks rent."" His 

 heir w.is his brother Robert, possibly identical with the 

 Robert de Stainton whose widow Joan held a third of 

 the manor in dower in 1 378 of the inheritance of John 

 son of Robert de Butterwick. 2' John de Butterwick 

 was dead in the next year.-^ His heirs and the heirs of 

 Joan were Joan the wife of Henry Pillokand her sister 

 Anne the wife of John de Rome.-'' Joan Pillok died 

 a tew months later seised of a moiety of the manor, 

 which passed to her sister."^ Anne probably married 

 as her second husband William de Horsley, for in 

 1408 land in Butterwick was held of William de 

 Horsley and Anne his wife,^'' and in 1428 they con- 

 veyed the manor to William Bcllasis and Cecily his 

 wife, who agreed to pay them an annuity of 4 marks 

 during the life of Anne.-" William Bellasis granted 

 Butterwick in 1 436 to his sister Catharine :ind her 

 husband William Young of 

 Acklington (co. Northumb.) 

 and the issue of Catharine 

 with reversion to himself.^' 

 William Belasis of Henknowle 

 granted the reversion in 1462 

 to Richard Bainbridge,-'* to 

 whom in 1469 Roger Young, 

 son of Catharine, conveyed the 

 manor. -^ Richard Bainbridge, 

 who died in I498,-''' had a 

 son and heir John Bainbridge 

 of Snotterton in Staindrop 

 parish. Butterwick then fol- 

 lowed the descent of Snotter- 

 ton in the Bainbridge family" till 1573, when George 

 Bainbridge conveyed it to Gerald Salvin of Croxdale.'- 



^~^ 



Salvin. ^-trgent ii 



chief iiii/le xtitA rufo 

 rno.'ers or therein. 



Since that date Butterwick has remained in the posses 

 sion of the Salvins of Croxdale ^' (q.v.), Mr. Gerard 

 Salvin being the present owner. 



The land of St. Katharine's ch.mtry in Butterwick 

 was granted in I 591 to Edmund Downing and Roger 

 Rant, the fishing grantees.''^ They sold it to William 

 Fisher, who conveyed it to Anthony Wood of York.^' 

 In 1612 Anthony Wood sold his estate in Butterwick 

 to Ralph Butler,^'' lord of Oldacres (q.v.). It 

 subsequently descended with Oldacres.^" 



In 1199 King John confirmed EMBLETON 

 (Elmedon to xvii cent.) to Gilbert de Hansard, whose 

 father Gilbert had held it by grant of John de Lacy, 

 Constable of Chester.''* The descendants of John de 

 l^acy, afterwards Earls of Lincoln,'"* retained an over- 

 lordship.'"' In 1290 Gilbert Hansard granted to his 

 son Robert the manor of Newton Hansard with the 

 vills of Embleton and Swainston.'" A large part of 

 the vill must have been already in the hands of free 

 tenants, one of whom was probably the William son 

 of Jordan de Embleton who witnessed this deed,'" 

 but twenty messuages, 40 oxgangs, 80 acres of meadow 

 and 100 acres of moor followed the descent of Newton 

 Hansard into the possession of John Nevill of Raby.*' 

 He granted this holding before 1400 to the Emble- 

 ton family,''^ who thus became tenants of practically 

 the whole vill. 



The first Embleton about whom anything definite 

 is known was William, who died in or about 1339 

 seised of one messuage 5 oxgangs in Embleton held of 

 the Earl of Lincoln, one messuage 3 oxgangs held of 

 the heirs of Gilbert de Heworth, and one messuage, 

 10 oxgangs, a garden, and eight mesSu.iges, 16 oxgangs, 

 all held of the heirs of Gilbert Hansard.'" His son 

 and heir William''^ married, apparently as his second 

 wife, Joan, one of the daughters and co-heirs of John 

 Randolf,'"^ and it was her inheritance in East Brandon, 

 Holywell (q.v.) and elsewhere which was granted to 

 (ohn Nevill in exchange for his land in Embleton.^' 

 In 1366 William made a settlement on himself and 

 Joan and their issue of the manor ofTursdale in Kelloe 

 parish, with remainder to his sons William and 

 Thomas and their issue successively. '"'■' John, another 

 son of William, released all claim on Tursdale to 

 William and Joan in 1371.'" It appears from the 

 inquisition on William's death taken in or about 1400 

 that twenty-four messuages, 80 oxgangs and 50 acres 

 of meadow in Embleton had been settled in tail like 

 the manor ofTursdale, \\hile the land purchased from 

 John Nevill was held by William for life only, as of 



'• r.C.H. Dur. i, 330. 



" Ibid. 331. 



"■ Surtees, op. cit. iii, 50 (from original 

 charters), 



'» Ibid. 



*> Dur. Rtc. cl. 3, no. 2, fol. 8. 



•' Ibid, and fol. 99. " Ibid. fol. 99. 



" Ibid. fols. 8, 99, 102. 



'* Ibid. fol. 102. Henry was still living 

 in 1391 (D. in poss. of Canon Greenwell, 

 Bk. DI, no. 56). 



" Dur. Rec. cl. 3, no. 2, fol. 165. The 

 coroner's roll of 141 3 gives William 

 Horsley as tenant of Butterwiclc (Eccl. 

 Coram. Rec. 188879). 



« far. Coll. (Hist. MSS. Com.), ii, 18 ; 

 cf. Eccl. Comm. Rec. 18889;. 



*' Surtees, op. cit. iii, 50. 



" Ibid. ; cf. Dur. Rec. cl. 3, file 169, 

 no. J 6. 



'^ Surtees, loc. cit. 



'" Dur. Rec. cl. 3, file 169, no. 33. 



" Ibid, file 173, no. 40 ; file 174, no. 

 26 ; file 177, no. 105 ; no. 6, fol. 27 ; 

 R. 61, m. 25 ; R. 62, m. 4 ; R. 68, 

 m. 31. 



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

 Keeper^ s Rep. xxxvii, 91. 



■*^ Dur. Rec. cl. 3, file 193, nos. 16, 

 22 ; Rec. Cum. for Co^np. (Surt. See), 

 I 3 ; Com. Pleas D. Enr. Hil. 25 Geo. II, 

 m. 52. 



" Pat. 1372, m. 18. 



^* Surtees, op. cit. iii, 50. 



"Ibid.; Dur. Rec. cl. 12, no. 2 



(3)'. 



^' Surtees, loc. cit. 



" C<j/. Rat. Chart. 1199-1216 (Rec. 

 Com.), 23. 



" G.E.C. Peerage, T, 90 et seq. 



« Reg. Valat. Diinelm. (Rolls Ser.), ii, 

 1237 J Dur. Rec. cl. 3, no. 2, fol. 18 d., 

 147, 179 d. 



*' Reg. PaLit. Dunelm. (Rolls Ser.), ii, 

 1237. 



"Ibid. 1238. Jordan de Embleton, 

 son of Ralf, and Dcnise his wife acquired 

 land in Kelloe in 1256 (D. in poss. of 

 Canon Greenwell, Bk. DI, no. 6). 



^^ Madox, Form. Atigl. no, 380. 



" Dur. Rec. cl. 3, no, 2, fol, 147, 

 179 d. J ice below. 

 ,«» Ibid. fol. i8d. 



" Ibid. 



" Dep. Keeper's Rep. xlv, 254. 



" Dur. Rec. cl. 3, no, 2, fol, I79d. 



*5 Ibid. R. 31, m. I. 



»" Ibid. m. 3 d. 'William was sheriff 

 of Durham in 1375 (Thornley D. penei 

 Canon Greenwell, no. 18). 



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