STOCKTON WARD 



SEDGEFIELD 



and heir of Henry married Robert Mason." Land 

 here charged for a charitable purpose by William 

 Mason in i6g6 belonged in 1830 to John Chilton, 

 John Richardson and William licckwith."" Jane, 

 Anne and Joan Mason, spinsters, conveyed 120 acres 

 in Fishburn to George Wardell in 1722.'' 



In or about 1350 John Heron died seised of a 

 messuage and 6 oxgangs in Fishburn held of the lord 

 of Fishburn by a rent of 2/.^^ This holding subse- 

 quently descended with the manor of Great Chilton 

 in Merrington parish (q.v.) in the families of Boys 

 and Bowes till the 1 6th century."' In 1524 Margery 

 Bowes died holding the Bowes moiety in dower, the 

 reversion belonging to her grandson George Bowes. "^ 

 Before 1558 this had been acquired by Robert Ayton," 

 the descent of whose l.inds '^^ it subsequently fol- 

 lowed. Robert Ayton was also seised of a messuage 

 and 80 acres held of the heirs of Robert Claxton 

 for a rent of 1 21/., which may represent the Boyes' 

 moiety.-'"* 



Two messuages and 230 acres of arable, meadow 

 and pasture in Fishburn were acquired in 1633 by 

 Richard Read, sen. and jun., from Thomas Bone and 

 Margaret his wife, who had purchased them from 

 John and Margery Eden.^' 



Another unconnected conveyance is that of two 

 messuages and 600 acres made by Edward Shippcrdson 

 and Margaret his wife in right of Margaret to William 

 Pye in 1741.'" 



Land in Fishburn which had belonged to the 

 collegiate church of St. Andrew, Auckland, was con- 

 veyed in 1607 by Anthony Cradocke and William 

 Williamson to Lionel Ord of Fishburn," who granted 

 it in the next year to his son Mark Ord.'- In 1699 

 part of this land was sold by William Ord to Richard 

 Thompson of BiUingham.'' 



In 1359 the 'lordship' of the vill of FOXTON 

 (Foxden to xvi cent.), with los. rent from free 

 tenants, was held in chief by Thomas de Seton,'^ 

 whose grandson John de Carrow died in possession of 

 the rent in or about 1386.'^ His heirs, the families 

 of Seton and Sayer,'^ continued to hold the manorial 

 rights here.'' Thomas Seton conveyed his share to 

 William Hoton of Hardwick in 1426.'* John 



Sayer of Worsall (Yorks.) received a rent of 9/. from 

 land in Foiton as late as 1635." 



William de la Pole received a grant of free land 

 on his land here and elsewhere in 1 346, and the 

 tenants in demesne of the land in the vill of Foxton in 

 1387 were Michael de la Pole, who paid a rent of 2/., 

 John Elstob, who paid 6s. 61I., Robert Elstob, who paid 

 J!., and Richard Raper, who paid 4/. 6J*" The Elstob 

 family, the nucleus of whose holding may have been 

 land granted by Walter and his son Robert de 

 Bervcclose to John Elstob in 1302,'" seem to have ac- 

 quired by degrees most of the vill. In the early i 5th 

 century *^ John Elstob bought a messuage and 36 acres 

 of land from Walterde Bcaulieu and a messuage and 24 

 acres from Thomas Dyson.'" These lands were given 

 by a John Elstob"" to his son Robert, who in 1454 

 conveyed them to John Chapman. *' William Elstob, 

 probably an elder son of John and head of the family, 

 then put in a claim. The matter was submitted to 

 arbitration, with the result that John Chapman retained 

 the lands for life, with reversion in default of his issue 

 to William Elstob. ""^ 



Between 1470 and 1535 the lands in Foxton held 

 in 1387 by Michael de la Pole, which amounted to 

 1 1 5 acres and 2 oxgangs and had descended with the 

 manor of Bradbury "" (q.v.), came into the possession 

 of the Elstob family. Ralph Elstob, son of Robert and 

 perhaps grandson of William, 



married Elizabeth daughter of 



John Sayer of Worsall and was 

 the tenant in 1535.""' John his 

 son and heir^^ made an agree- 

 ment in 1542 not to dispose of 

 his lands without the consent 

 of John Sayer.*" John Elstob 

 died in 1600 or 1601, leaving 

 a son and heir also called 

 John *' ; his lands in Foxton 

 were extended at 2 2 8 acres and 

 2 oxgangs.^' Charles Elstob, 

 son of the younger John,*' 

 compounded for his estates 



herein 1645.** He died in 1666 and was succeeded 

 by his son John,'* whose son John died unmarried 



Elstob of Foxton. 

 Pcrty guUt and -vert a 

 Jieur dc hi argenf. 



*' Surtecs, loc. cit. For an earlier 

 holding of the Masons ice Dur. Rec. cl. 3, 

 R. 118, no. 28. Francis Mason gent, 

 and Elizabeth his wife joined with John 

 Morland and Thomasine his wife in con- 

 veying a messuage, a barn, a garden, and 

 8 acres of meadow here to Thomas Bell 

 in 1667 (ibid. cl. 12, no. 7 [3]), 

 and in the following year William Mason 

 conveyed a messuage and 200 acres of 

 arable, meadow, and pasture to John 

 Sudbury, D.D., Dean of Durham (ibid. 

 no. 7 [4]). 



"^ Char, Com. Rep. xxiii, Io8. 



" Dur. Rec. cl. 12, no. 21 (5). 



" Ibid. cl. 3, no. 2, fol. 47. 



»» Ibid. fol. 46 d., 52, 84, 161 d., 165 d., 

 198 d., 211, 267 d.; file 166, no. 26; 

 file 168, no. 20, 16 i file 171, no. t ; no. 3, 

 fo'- '2. " Ibid, file 174, no. 4. 



" Ibid, file 178, no. 52. 



" See above. 



"*• Dur. Rec. cl. 3, file 178, no. 52. 



" Ibid. R. 107, no. 49, 65. 



" Dur. Rec. cl. 12, no. 26 (l). 

 Margaret was the sister and heir of 

 William Simpson of Pittington (q.v.). 



" Surtces, op. cit. iii, 52. 



" Ibid. ; Dur. Rec. cl. 3, R. 94, 

 m. 31 d. " Surtees, loc. cit. 



" Dur. Rec. cl. 3, no. 2, fol. 62. 



'■'■ Ibid. fol. I57d. 



"^ Ibid. ; see Preston on Tees. 



'' Dur. Rec. cl. 3, no. 2, fol. 133d. 

 (William S.nyer is here said to hold only 

 a fourth part of the manor) ; fol. 142. 



" Ibid. R. 38, m. 14. 



'" Ibid, file 166, no. 10; file 169, no. 1 1 ; 

 file 188, no. 72 ; file 191, no. no. 



*" Ibid. R. 30, m. 2d.; 32, m. 9 d. 



** Surtees, op. cit. iii, 46. 



*^ Ibid. 47, gives the date of the pur- 

 chase from Beaulieu as 1402. 



" Dur. Rec. cl. 3, R. 50, m. 7 d. 



" Son of the preceding John according 

 to Surtees (op, cit. iii, 47), who gives the 

 followmg pedigree : — 



John (purchaser 1302) 



John 



I 



I 

 Williamz 



^ 



Robert 



John Chipman^ Joan. 



" Dur. Rec. cl. 3, R. 50, m. 7 d. 



•« Ibid. 



*' Ibid. R. 30, m. 2 d. ; no. 2, fol. 77 d., 

 I74J-. 184,221 d. ; no. 4, fol. 35 i R. 50, 

 m. 1 3. 



" Ibid, file 177, no. 23 ; Foster, op. 

 cit. 113. The Sayers' rent of 91. wat 

 due from him in that year. It is else- 

 where said to be paid by the De la Poles 

 (Dur. Rec. cl. 3, file 169, no. 1 1 ; file 1(8, 

 no. 72). 



*^ Foster, loc. cit. 



'" Surtees, op. cit. iii, 46, He is said 

 (ibid. 47) to have made a settlement of 

 his 'manor of Foxton* in 1545 on hit 

 wife, Barbara Palmer. 



" Dur. Rec. cl. 3, file 182, no. Ji ; 

 R. 95, no. 73. 13 acres of this amount 

 were held of the king as of the Priory 

 of St. Joho of Jerusalem, 



» Ibid. 



" Foster, loc. cit. 



" Rec. Com. for Comp. (Surt. Soc), 61, 

 18;. 



" Foster, loc. cit. John was uncle 

 of the distinguished Saion scholar, 

 Elizabeth Elstob (Surtees, op. ciL iii, 

 47)- 



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