A HISTORY OF DURHAM 



mile, meat and drink also being allowed ; but these 

 and other services were of little value. The fines on 

 death were certain in each holding. There were no 

 cottages. The tenants in Stockton township paid 8/. 

 'service silver,' and those in Hartburn the same. 

 There were no warrens or forests. The castle, manor, 

 &c., were sold to Col. William Underwood and James 

 Nelthorpe for ^6,165 10^. 2^^/. in March 164.7-8. 

 The s.ile included the rents, &c., of freehold and cus- 

 tomary lands in Stockton, Norton, Hartburn and 

 Carlton, the meadow called the Park and other closes, 

 the common bake-house in Stockton, the ferry boat, 

 shops under the tollbooth, anchorage and plankage 

 from vessels in the port or creek of Stockton and dues 

 on goods, the mill and two common ovens of Norton 

 with Ladykiln and Hermitage garth, the profits of the 

 courts, royalties for hunting, fishes roy.il and other 

 rights. The port dues had been granted by the bishop 

 to the Mayor and burgesses of Stockton in 1635 for 

 twenty-one years at 20s. a year.^" The manor was 

 regained by the see on the Restoration. 



About 1790 the copyhold court was held at the 

 ' Star and Garter.' ■" The manor is now in the hands 

 of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners in right of the see. 



The most important free tenant in Stockton about 

 1 1 84 was Adam son of Walter, who held a carucate 

 and an oxgang for half a mark.''- By 1384. 4 ox- 

 gangs of this were held by John de Ursall (Worsall), 

 two by William Osberne and two by Robert Culy.'" 

 John de Worsall, who was still the tenant in 1400,''^ 

 perhaps held in right of his wife Joan, who died a 

 widow in 1429 holding a ploughland (120 acres) in 

 Stockton, I 5 acres in the moor, meadow in ' Helve- 

 ton,' of which part had been made arable, and another 

 oxgang of land and some meadow by charter of Bishop 

 Philip (i 197-1208); her heir was her niece Agnes 

 wife of John Selby and daughter of Joan's sister Agnes, 

 aged sixty. ■'^ The rent was i mark, and a like estate 

 was recorded on the death of Agnes Selby in 1439. 

 Her heirs were her daughters, Cecily wife of Robert 

 Lawson of Fishburn and Alice wife of Thomas Hunt.^'^ 



William Osberne was in 1400 stated to have held 

 30 acres by knight's service and suit of court in con- 

 junction with John Worsall and John Culy, paying 

 3/. rent."" His son Richard held the same at his 

 death in 1 421, when William Osberne, chaplain, was 

 found to be his son and heir.''^ In 145 I the heirs of 

 William were Emm.i widow of William Elstob, Alice 

 widow of Robert Rand, Cecily wife of Adam Rung- 

 thwaite, Alice wife of Thomas Ashby, John Fowler, 

 son and heir of Joan sister of William Osberne, and 

 Robert Monk, son and heir of Agnes, another sister.'" 

 The history of their respective shares cannot be traced. 



The holding of the Culys belonged to John Culy 

 in 1400. In 1422 Robert Culy died in possession, 

 leaving a son and heir John, who died seised in 1426."* 

 William the son of John was succeeded by his brother 

 Thomas.'^' In 1478 Thomas had been succeeded by 

 his son Thomas.'- Ten years later Alice widow of 

 William Fowler, John Rushden and Agnes his wife, 

 John Thomson and Emma his wife, sisters and heirs 

 of William Culy, son and heir of Thomas Culy, 

 held a messuage and 2 oxgangs of land in Stockton 

 of the bishop by knight's service and a rent of 

 4^. 4</." 



Part of the estate apparently descended in the 

 Fowler family. In i486 William Fowler released to 

 his son John Fowler, chaplain, all his claim to 2 ox- 

 gangs in Stockton. ** Roger Fowler of Stockton in 

 1633 had a third part of the 2 oxgangs by a rent to 

 the bishop of 1 yr/. He left a son and heir Roger.'' 



What appears to be another third part of the Culy 

 estate was held in the 1 7th century by Percival, 

 Robert and William Bainbridge."* 



The land of the second free tenant mentioned in 

 I 184, Robert de Carabois, became the endowment of 

 the chapel.'' 



John de Elvet or Elwick held freely about 1384 

 by a rent of 20/. 4 oxgangs which were perhaps for- 

 merly land of the farmers. His wife Denise held 

 jointly with him. Their heir was a son Gilbert,'* 

 who settled the estate on his daughter Maud with 

 remainder to Alice wife of John de Aislaby." John 

 de Aislaby, son of Alice, had livery in 1429. It de- 

 scended, like part of Aislaby (q.v.), to the Highfields'* 

 and Brandlings.'" 



In 1608-9 Robert Brandling sold to Thomas 

 Lambert a messuage and 4^ oxgangs in Stockton, with 

 a fishery in the Tees. '^^ In 161 5 Thomas Lambert 

 was summoned to the heralds' visitation, but dis- 

 claimed,^' yet his arms were confirmed.** He died in 

 16 19 or earlier holding his land partly of the king 

 and partly of the bishop. He had other lands in 

 Thornaby and Preston. His heir was his son Ralph, 

 aged fourteen."' Ralph married Eleanor Hicks in 

 1625, and, dying a year or two later, left the same 

 estate to his infant son Thomas."''' 



Another messuage with I J oxgangs in Stockton was 

 sold by Robert Brandling to Thomas Burdon,*^' appa- 

 rently the son of William Burdon, who about 1552 

 held land here formerly belonging to the Hospitallers, 

 and in his will of 1587 mentions his sons William, 

 Henry, Roger and Thomas."^^ In 1620 Thomas 

 Burdon had licence to alienate to Rowland Wetherell 

 I oxgang of land in Stockton. ""^ Rowland Burdon 

 was prominent in the Commonwealth time.'" The 



*" Close, R. 3401, pt. ir, no. 37. See 

 also Ree. Com. for Camp. (Surt. Soc), 36. 



*^ Brewster, op. cit. 84, 



« y.C.H. DuT. i, 337. 



« HatfitU'i Sur-v. (Surt. Soc), 166. 



" Dur. Rec. cl. 3, no. 2, fol. 135. 



^ Ibid. fol. 243 ; Dcp. Kttpcr'i Rep. 

 xxxiii, App. 204. 



'^ Dur. Rec. cl. 3, no. 2, fol. 295 d. ; 

 Dcp. Kccpcr'% Rtf. xzxiv, App. 234. 



" Dur. Rec. cl. 3, no. 2, fol. 135. 



" Ibid. fol. 208 d. ; Dtp. Kteperi Rep. 

 xxxiii, App. 197. 



•^ Dcp. Keeper's Rep. xxiiv, App. 252 ; 

 Dur. Rec. cl. 3, file 164, no. 103. 



»» Dur. Rec. cl. 3, no. 2, fol. 21 «. 



" Ibid. fol. 234, 237 d. 



^' Ibid. no. 4, fol. 72. 



" Ibid. no. 18, fol. 88. 



^' Ibid. R. 56, m. 2d. 



" Ibid, file 188, no. 31. 



" Ibid, file 182, no. 13, 27 ; file 188, 

 no. 32. 



*' See below. 



" Dcp. Keeper', Rep. x.\v, App. 188. 



" Ibid, xxxiii, App. 183. 



«° Dur. Rec. cl. 3, file 164, no. 112 ; 

 Dep. Keeper's Rep. xliv, App. 414, 416. 



*1 Dep. Keeper's Rep. xxxvii, App. 

 129. 



" Dur. Rec. cl. 3, R. 94, m. 25. 



^^ Foster, Dur. yisit. Fed. 244. 



*< Ibid, 202. 



" Dep. Keeper's Rep. xliv, App. 457. 



•' Ibid. 459. See Topog. anJ Gen. ii, 74. 



^'" Dur. Rec. cl. 3, R. 94, m. 25. 



" Harl. R. D 36, m. 5/.; Dur. fTslls 

 and Invent. (Surt. Soc), 125. 



•^ Dur. Rec. cl. 3, R. loi, no. 91. 

 Giles Wetherell in 1638 left a son 

 Henry as heir (fiep. Keeper's Rep. xliv, 

 App. 542). 



'^ Rec. Com. for Comp. (Surt. Soc), 2, 7. 

 Henry son of Rowland Burdon was one 

 of the trustees of the Presbyterian chapel 

 in 1709 (Richmond, Prot. Nonconf. in 

 Stociron^ 10). His granddaughter married 

 William Webster of Stockton. His elder 

 brother George Burden was ancestor of 

 the Burdons of Castle Eden (Surtecs, op. 

 cit. iii, 416). 



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