STOCKTON WARD 



SEDGEFIELD 



Trollop and Robert his son sold land here to Robert 

 Shutwell in December 1544. In 1586 Thomas 

 Shutwell granted two messuages and 52 acres in 

 Mordon to his son Thomas,'^ who was succeeded 

 in 1622 by his son Bartholomew.'* Thomas Shutwell 

 of the Red House with Isabel his wife, Robert 

 Shutwell his son, and other members of his family 

 were parties to an indenture with Robert Reed of 

 Framvvellgate in 1686, and in 1692 Robert Shutwell 

 conveyed Mordon Red House to William Reed of 

 Framwellgate.'* A further conveyance was made by 

 Robert Shutwell and his step-sister Margaret to 

 Thomas Thompson in 1 706, and three years later 

 Thompson conveyed the property to Peter Marley 

 jun. of Gateshead. The trustees of the will of John 

 Marley of Gateshead sold it to Thomas Reed of 

 Framwellgate in March I 736-7, ^^^ and this land also 

 came into the possession of Lord Eldon. 



Richard Elstob of Mordon bought a messuage and 

 2 oxgangs from Robert Bowes in 1575-6.'^ Robert 

 Elstob, perhaps his heir, purchased a messuage and 21 

 acres in or before 1602 from Cuthbert Robinson.'' In 

 1692 the Elstob estate was left by John Elstob to his 

 son John, who conveyed a part of it about 1750 to 

 John Reed of Framwellgate."* 



Richard Reed of Mordon died in or about 1680 

 having left part of his estate at Mordon to his son 

 Nicholas.i^^ In 1723 Richard Reed of Ferry Hill, 

 son of Nicholas, and Anne his wife conveyed two 

 messuages and 200 acres in Mordon to Richard Reed 

 of Durham," who appears to have been the repre- 

 sentative of the older branch. This land formed the 

 marriage settlement of William Reed of Holywell and 

 Hannah Reay in 1757, William being son and heir 

 of Thomas Reed of Framwellgate and nephew and 

 devisee of John Reed."^ In 1771 Mrs. Reed was an 

 important landowner in Mordon.-** The estate was 

 broken up in the early years of the 19th century by 

 the widow and co-heirs of William ReeJ of Holywell. 

 Part of it was purchased by William Sleigh, as 

 mentioned above, and partly by William Russell of 

 Brancepeth,-' whose representative, the present 

 Viscount Boyne, still holds land here. Another part, 

 afterwards known as the Harpington Hill estate, was 

 acquired in 1 804 by George Harrington, afterwards 

 Viscount Barrington.-- He died in 1829, and after 

 the death of his widow Elizabeth his trustees sold the 

 estate in 184.6 to Lord Eldon ^-* ; this estate is now- 

 held by the present Earl of Eldon. 



A grant of two messuages and 320 acres of ar.ible 

 land, me.idow, pasture and marsh was made by 

 William and George Mordon in 1564 to Edward 



Hixon.^' In 1632 William Hixon of Mordon died 

 seised of a capital messuage and 4 oxgangs.^* The 

 possessions of his son and heir Augustine were under 

 sequestration in 1645,-' as were the lands here of 

 Richard ' Hickson."' In 1736 the land of William 

 Hixon in Mordon was mortgaged to John Reed, but 

 it was redeemed by William son of William Hixon in 

 1749. William acquired other land in 1763 from 

 Roljert Chaloner, grandson and heir of John Hodshon. 

 By his will of 1808 William bequeathed his estates to 

 William his son, who obtained probate in 1810. 

 William died intestate in 1842 leaving two daughters 

 and co-heirs, Elizabeth Anne Arrowsmith and Mary 

 wife of John Corner. They sold the property to 

 John Earl of Eldon in 1869.2'^ 



In 1732 George and Joseph Smith and their wires 

 conveyed a messuage and 300 acres in Mordon to 

 William Randolph.*' 



The manor of EJST MORTON (East Murton, 

 xvi cent.), which was held of the Hansards of 

 Walworth (q.v.) by a rent of iJ.,'^''^ was purchased 

 by William jieErnbleton from Robert de VVassingley 

 before 1339.-* ^' followed the descent of Embleton 

 (q.v.) in the Embleton and Bulmer families*' 

 till 1623, when Sir Bertram Bulmer and his wife 

 Isabel and William Bulmer sold it to Christopher 

 Byerley and Richard Lockwood.'" The lands here 

 of Christopher Byerley, a delinquent, are mentioned 

 in 1644.^' Robert, one of his twin sons, had a 

 daughter and heir Jane, wjio married Gilbert Clarke 

 of Somershall, Derby .^- This may be the Clarke 

 who was in possession of the manor in 1670.'' 

 Jane and Gilbert had a daughter and heir Elizabeth,'* 

 probably that Elizabeth Clarke, called a widow, 

 who held the manor in 1689.^^ She married 

 Thomas Jervoise, and in 1 729 inherited Middridge 

 Grange (q.v.). East Morton was probably alienated 

 by her or her descendants, tenants of Middridge 

 Grange. Before the end of this century the manor 

 came into the possession of the Maires of Lartington '' 

 (q.v.). 



The earliest known tenant of PTEST MORTON 

 is Jordan de Escolland, who lived at the end of the 

 1 2th century ^' and granted this manor in free marriage 

 with his daughter Marjory to Roger de V^aloignes.'* 

 He may, however, have retained the rent charge of 

 20s. in lieu of all services which from 1 40 1 to the 

 forfeiture of Charles Earl of Westmorland in the 

 1 6th century was received by the Nevills of Raby.^' 

 John son of Roger de \'aloignes succeeded, and granted 

 two parts of a toft and croft here to Hugh de 

 Valoignes, his son and heir.''" Hugh de \'aloignes of 



" Dur. Rec. cl. 3, file 192, no. 144 ; 

 R. 86, m. 8. 



'« Ibid, file 189, no. 188 ; R. 101, 

 no. 111. 



'* D. in the posi. of the Eirl of Eldon; 

 Surtees, loc. cit. 



'" D. in the poss. of the Earl of Eldon. 



'*' Surtees, loc. cit. 



'■ Dur. Rec. cl. 3, R. 92, m. 36. 



*^ Surtees, loc. cit. 



'*» D. in the pos!. of the E»rl of Eldon. 



" Dur. Rec. cl. 12, no. 21 (3). 



>'» D. in the pos«. of the Earl of Eldon. 



"> Exch. K..R. Deer, and Orders (Ser. 4), 

 XXX, no. 6 {Mich. 1771). 



•' Surtees, loc, cit, 



» Ibid. 



"* D, in the poss. of the Earl of Eldon, 



" Dur. Rec. cl. 12, no. i (2). 



" Ibid. 3, file 188, no. 77 ; R. 112. 



'^ Rec. Com. for Comp. (Surt. Soc), 



" Ibid. 241-2. Richard Lord Lumley 

 claimed a rent from this estate as Mori 

 of the fee.' This was presumably part of 

 a fee-farm rent reserved by the Crown on 

 the grant of Trollop's estate. 



"a D. in the poss. of the Earl of Eldon. 



" Dur. Rec. cl. 12, no. 23 (4). 



"a The Hansards appear to have held 

 it with Embleton of the Lacy family 

 (ibid. cl. 3, no. 2, lol. 147). 



>« Ibid. 3, no. 2, fol. i8d. 



" Ibid. fol. 147 ; file 164, no. 42, 83 ; 

 file 171, no. 2 ; cl. 12, no. 1 (i) in. 



'" Our. Rec. cL 3, R. loi, no, 121, 



335 



^* Rec. Com. for Comp. (Surt. Soc), 14, 

 141. 



" Foster, op. cit. 61 ; Surtees, op. cit. 

 iii, 313. 



" Surtees, op. cit. iii, 57, 



** See account of Middridge Grange. 



" Surtees, loc. cit. 



'* Hutchinson, op. cit. iii, 51, 74. 



'' Ptfe R. (Newcastle Soc. of Antiq.), 

 203. 



" Surtees, op. cit. iii, 55 (from original 

 charters). 



'^ Dur. Rec. cl. 3, no. z, fol. 139, Z32 ; 

 file 169, no. 32 ; file 177, fol. 82, no. 6, 

 fol. 18; no. 4, fol. 16; Exch. K.R. 

 Misc. Bks. xxxvii, fol. 312 d.; Surtees, 

 op. cit. iii, 56 n. 



^ Surtees, loc. cit. 



