STOCKTON WARD 



STOCKTON ON TEES 



Bishopric of Dur- 

 ham. Azure a cross or 

 between Jour lions argent. 



in or about 1666 — John Wells two and Robert Jack- 

 son one." The former of these became the leading 

 Nonconformist of the town and died in 1709.'^ 



It seems probable that STOCKTON 



MANORS was included in the grant of Norton (q.v.) 



to St. Cuthbert made by Ulfcytel son of 



Osulf. Since the earliest references to it the manor 



has belonged to the see of Durham. 



In I I 84 the demesne of the vill was at farm and 

 the remaining land was held in tenures similar to those 

 of Norton. There were eleven 

 bondmen besides one who held 

 half in Stockton and half in 

 Hartburn, six farmers, three 

 cottiers, one free and one semi- 

 free tenant. The smith and 

 the pinder held respectively 

 one toft and 6 acres. The ferry 

 over the Tees brought in a rent 

 of zod. One oxgang belong- 

 ing to the vill was on the York- 

 shire side of the river.'^ 



In the Pipe Roll of 1197, 

 under the tallage of the vills, 

 Stockton is mentioned as con- 

 tributing £-j OS. 4^'.!'' The old wool of the town was 

 sold for ^173 6;. 8a'.'* 



During the 13th century the borough area was 

 separated from the agricultural manor.'"' A roll of 

 receipts of 1307 gives 2/. 6J. as the farm of Stockton 

 ferry boat " ; Alan was then reeve of Stockton, and 

 the issues of the manor amounted to £^z-^^ Wood- 

 lade amounting to zis. loid". was paid to the reeve. '^ 

 The accounts of part of i 3 1 i show receipts of 42/. <)d. 

 from pinders and from the ferry.-** 



The survey of about 1384 shows that 9 carucates of 

 land containing 810 acres belonged to the demesne. 

 Attached to the castle or manor-house were the park, 

 which was let for a rent of £S, and 140 acres of 

 meadow worth 3/. an acre lying in Northmede, Hay- 

 gate, Sundrenes, Westhalburn, Lusthorne, Lynehalgh, 

 Lyttelnes, Elvetmore, Campsyke, Cotegrene, Cold- 

 syke, Cotacredene, Esthalburn, Grenesmedow, Pyke- 

 sike, Hawbankes, Haybrigate, Halburnhevde, Knap- 

 dale, Bernerdmyre, Cronnerpole, Sandlandheved, 

 Mirehead and Pighill. The bondage tenants were 

 now ten in number, each with a normal tenement of 

 2 oxgangs. The remaining 3 oxgangs had become 

 ' exchequer land,' but were still liable to certain 

 bondage services. There were besides five other 

 parcels of exchequer lands of various extents. Two 

 farmers are mentioned holding three tenements, e.ich 

 of 1 oxgang. There were two cottier tenements, 

 one called ' Castleman.' The 6 acres which in 1184 

 were held by the pinder were now held in common 



by the tenants, who also held the common oven. They 

 paid 1 2</. a year for castle ward. The new holding of 

 the pinder consisted of meadow in Miresheved, Wyb- 

 bysgar, Porkside, Beligate and Jarmegate. The rent 

 from the ferry had risen to 5 3/. ^J.-^ 



Court rolls are preserved from i 348. The members 

 of the halmote district of Stockton were Hartburn, 

 Preston, Norton, Hardwick and Carlton. -'- 



The court rolls record various demises of demesne 

 lands, herbage, &c. In I 394 John Joyfull and others 

 took the Turfpits in the Bishopholme with the ' fog- 

 gage ' in Lustorn (Lustring) meadow and Elmetmire 

 for twelve years ; also 8 acres of meadow called Lus- 

 terend, which was not leased with the demesne.-' 

 The herbage of the park was in I 398 demised for 

 three years at a rent of 13 marks -^ ; in 1402 the 

 rent of the herbage of the demesne lands was j^2l." 

 The park and demesne lands were leased to Adam 

 Barne in 1 410 at a rent of j£2 5 ji. ^.d.'^'^ Place-names 

 which occur in these rolls are Brigplace, Saltamleys, 

 Kelesike, Overcourtfield. William Storird was in 

 1465 fined for not doing his part of Burnsbrig.-' A 

 demise of the mill ' at the ancient farm as before ' 

 was made in 1351.-" The ferry, with its boat, was 

 demised to Ralph de Hardwick in 1349 ^' ^'- ^'^- ^ 

 year for three years,^' and in 141 6 John del Row had 

 the boat for two years, with all suits of the same, 

 entry and exit and passages over the water.'" The 

 grant was renewed to him in 1417 at a rent of 

 73/. 4rf'. unless someone else would pay ^^4 or more." 

 The anchor belonging to the boat was valued at half 

 a mark in 1420.'- There were numerous leases of 

 fisheries or fishgarths in the Tees. One at Tining- 

 holmend was in 1413 demised at 5/. a year instead of 

 the old rent of 40<i'.,'^ and William Culy had leave to 

 make a new one at Outsandgole, 40 tt. long, at 2/. 

 rent.'^ Fisheries called Tillingholme and Saltholm- 

 side, each with four nets, in 1438 and later paid rents 

 of 6s. Sd.^^ In 1472 the fishery for sparling at 

 Tillingholmeside was demised at 3/. ^d. and not more, 

 because it had been completely destroyed by the water, 

 and had therefore remained in the lord's hands for 

 twelve years past.'* A year later the rent of Tilling- 

 holme weir was 6s. Sd.,^^ but about 1490 Tilling- 

 holmeside was untenanted for several years.'* 



In 1518 the bishop's stock at this manor comprised 

 20 great fat oxen, 20 smaller ones, 30 fat cows and 

 200 fat wethers, valued at about £.77-^^ The survey 

 of the manor made in 1647 states that the bishop had 

 royalties of the Tees, whales, sturgeon and porpoises, 

 within the manor of Stockton, and all wrecks of the 

 sea. The copyholders were bound to do suit and 

 service at the courts, carry the lord's provisions and 

 household stuft'from the castle to Durham or Bishop 

 Auckland at the rate of id.i bushel for corn and \d. a 



" Boyne, Trade Tokens (cd. William- 

 son), i, 106. 



'- T. Richmond, Hist. Pror. Nonconf. in 

 Stockton, 18. 



" r.C.H. Dur. i, 337. 



*^ BoLion Bk. (Surt. Soc), App. p. vi. 



'* Ibid. p. V. *® Sec above. 



^' Boldon Bk. (Surt. Soc), p. xxvi. 



^^ Ibid. p. xxxii. 



'' Ibid. p. XXXV. 



'" Mins. Accts. bdle. 1144, no. 17; 

 Reg. Palat. Dunelm. (Rolls Set.), iv, 90, 91. 



" Haifeifs Surv. (Surt. Soc), 1 66-70. 



-' Dur. Rec cl. 3, no, i i-ii, fassim. 



-' Ibid. no. 13, fol. 126. Another in 

 fol. 413. 



" Ibid. fol. 27+2. Another in no. 14, 

 p. 117 ; rent 12 ni.irks. 



'■" Ibid. no. 13, fol. 413. Another in 

 no. 14, p. 336. 



" Ibid. no. 14, p. 375. Again, p. 834. 



" Ibid. no. 16, fol. 146 d. 



"Ibid. no. 12, fol. 51 d. This mill 

 was probably at Norton. 



'* Ibid. fol. 24. See also no. 13, fol. 

 71, 365 d.; no. 14, p. 153. 



'" IbiJ. no. 14, p. 766. 



'^' Ibid. p. SS9. Later leases are in 



357 



no. i|;, p. 26 (rent 461. 8./.), p, 771 

 (5 1 J.); no. 16, p. 277 (5"- *d.). 



" Ibid. no. 14, p. iiSi. 



" Ibid. p. 578. 



" Ibid. p. 592. Another, p. 810 



" Ibid. no. 1;, pp. 13, 82, 485. 

 ibid. p. 500 (Linghalghsidc), p 

 (Calisisgarth next Linhalows), p. 

 no. 16, fol. 57. 



" Ibid. no. 16, fol. 263 d. 



'• Ibid. fol. 277 d. 



»* Ibid. no. i8, fol. 102 d 

 fol. 28. 



» L. and P. Hen. nil, ii, 4258 



Also 



567 

 632; 



no. 19, 



