STOCKTON WARD 



STRANTON 



had the manor in his own hands,'' and from that date 

 till 1652 it followed the descent of the manor of 

 Coniscliffe '* (q.v.). In 1 65 3 Mary wife of Sir 

 Francis Howard, for whose delinquency it was seques- 

 tered, obtained her fifth for the support of herself and 

 her nine young children." After this the descent of 

 Brierton is doubtful for some years. In 1669 Robert 

 and Brian Roper, who had speculated in sequestered 

 lands during the Commonwealth,-" quitclaimed Brier- 

 ton to Francis Howard and Anne his wife.-' In 

 1699 Charles Turner purchased the manor of Brierton 

 from Sir William Blackett, bart.-^ The Turners used 

 most of the property to endow the school in con- 

 nexion with Kirltleatham Hospital in Cleveland, 

 Yorkshire,-' which had been founded in 1676 by Sir 

 William Turner, bart.,-^ and the hospital still owns a 

 large est.ue in Brierton. 



The little manor ofMORLESTOX (Morleston next 

 Tunstall.xvcent., xvii cent.) lay in the north of Stranton 

 parish on the boundary between Stranton and Hart. 

 Its situation is now so completely forgotten that it is 

 impossible to say in which township it lay. It is not 

 marked on the ordnance maps, and the county his- 

 torians at the beginning of the 19th century do not 

 seem to have known where it was. In 1344. Morle- 

 ston was held of Robert de Clifford for life by Sir 

 Richard de Aldeburg.-* In 1352-3 it was found that 

 Andrew de Markenfield -'■ had enfeoffed Nicholas 

 Gaston, chaplain, of seven messuages and 14 oxgangs of 

 land in Morleston and Throston, and had afterwards 

 joined with Joan widow of Richard de Aldeburgh in 

 wrongfully disseising him.-' In 1389 Sir Thomas de 

 Markenfield, kt., held land in Morleston of Sir Roger 

 de Clifford, kt.-* Sir Thomas de Markenfield, kt., 

 Denise his wife, Thomas his son and Beatrice his son's 

 wife quitclaimed to four trustees ten messuages, 

 20 oxgangs 8 acres of meadow and 20 acres of pasture 

 in Hart, Morleston and Nether Throston in 1396.-' 

 This was probably part of a sale to Sir William 

 Fulthorpe, kt., who held Morleston of Maud de 

 Clifford in 1403.'" After this Morleston followed 

 the descent of Tunstall, into which it was absorbed. 

 Morleston is mentioned by name for the last time in 

 the sale by Fairfax to Riddell in 1632.'' 



OUGHTON (Ovetun, xii cent. ; Oueton, xiii 

 cent. ; Oweton, xv cent. ; Owlton, Owton, xvi cent.) 

 is first mentioned in 1146-51, when Robert de Brus 

 held in demesne at Seaton 90 acres which were 

 anciently in the field of Oughton, and in Oughton 

 itself 220 acres.'- 



In 1189 Peter Carcw held one knight's fee in 

 Seaton and Oughton,'*' but there is no connected 

 descent of the manor. Between 1 2 18 and 1234 

 Avice de Clare obtained licence from Michael the 

 Prior and the convent of Guisborough to have a 

 chantry in ihe chapel of Oughton as long as she lived. '^ 

 Thomas de Carew (Carrow) claimed two-thirds of two 

 carucates except one oxgang against Avice in 1269 ; it 

 does not appear with what success**^ In 1358 a 

 deed was enrolled by which Robert son of John de 

 Sheraton granted to Richard Aske an annuity of j^io 

 from his lands in Oughton.'^ 



In 143 1-2 Thomas Lambert held the manor of 

 Oughton, and had held it for some yean. Although 

 there are several links missing in the pedigree, it 

 teems probable that he was the ancestor of Robert 

 Lambert of Oughton, who in 1 524 received a general 

 pardon and gave sureties forgood behaviour.''' In 1543 

 Nicholas Lambert, the son of Robert, settled Oughton 

 in tail upon his sons Robert, George and Clement 

 successively.'" Robert, the eldest son, was attainted for 

 taking part in the Rising of the North, and narrowly 

 escaped execution ; his lands here, including a windmill 

 and a manor-house of stone roofed with slate, were for- 

 feited to the Crown.'* Oughton was leased in Sep- 

 tember I 571 for thirty-one years to William Knolls." 

 In February 1574-5 the queen granted the reversion 

 to Edward Gresham and Percival Gunston,^'^ who in 

 1585 received licence to alienate it to Richard Brook- 

 man.^' Brookman sold Oughton in 1588 to Richard 

 Belhisis,^- who settled it on his nephew James in tail- 

 male with remainder to his other nephews Bryan and 

 Charles.'" Sir Richard Bellasis, grandson of Bryan, 

 Thomas Swinburne and Isabel Bellasis, widow, con- 

 veyed it in 1642 to Gerard Salvin and William 

 Killinghall, possibly for a mortgage, as it had been 

 settled on Sir Richard's son William in 1640.'*^ 

 There were further conveyances by William Bellasis, 

 junior, and Katherine his wife to Nicholas Salvin in 

 1670,''^ and by Sir Henry Bellasis and Katherine 

 Bellasis, widow, to Anthony Salvin in 1682.''* It 

 remained in the family of Salvin (see Croxdale in 

 Auckland)''" until the beginning of the 1 9th century, 

 when William Thomas Salvin sold it to George 

 Fletcher.^* Before 1857 it had been purchased by 

 Ralph Watson of Middleton House, West Hartlepool," 

 and it is now the property of Thomas Swinburne. 



SEJTOS C/fREIf (Setone, xii cent. ; Sethon, 

 xiii cent. ; Seton Carrewe, xiv cent. ; Seton Kerrowe, 

 XV cent.) is first mentioned between 1 146 and 1151, 



" Dur. Rec. cl. 3, R. 29, m. 17 d. 



"Ibid. no. 2, lol. 62, 142, iS6d., 

 280 d. ; no. 3, fol. 44 ; file 172, no. 4 ; 

 file 174, no. 7 ; no. 6, fol. 24, 41 ; £xch. 

 Dcp. East. 10 Jas. I, no. 37 ; Dur. Rcc. 

 cl. 3, R. 86, m. 14 ; HousehoU Bookt of 

 Lord IViUiam Ho'warJ (SurL Soc), 396, 

 409, 414 ; Cdl. Com. for Comp. iv, 2588 J 

 Rec. Com. for Comp. (Surt. Soc), 34. 



'" Rcc. Com. for Comp. (Surt. Soc), 251. 



•" Sec Trimdon parish. 



" Dur. Rec cl. 12, no. 8 (i). 



" Feet of F. Hil. 10 Will. III. 



" Surtees, op. cit. iii, 133. 



-^ Graves, Hiit. of CUvelanJ^ 392 ; 

 Char. Com. Rep. viii, 738. 



" Cal. Inf. p.m. (Edw. Ill), viii, 384. 



-^ In 1343 Sir Andrew dc Markenfield, 

 kt., obtained a pardon for the outlawry 

 which he had incurred by failing to appear 

 before the justices in answer to an accusa- 



tion of trespass brought against him by 

 Elias son of Gilbert Crust of Morleston 

 and Agnes his wife (Dur. Rec. cl. 3,R. 29, 

 m. 147). *■ Ibid. R. 92, m. 16 d. 



-* Chan. Inq. p.m. 13 Ric. II, no. 14. 



" Dur. Rec cl. 3, R. 92, m. i6d. 



*' Chan. Inq. p.m. 4 Hen. IV, no. 37. 



" See Tunstall below. 



"^ Guiikro' Chart. (Surt. Soc), ii, 323, 

 and see Hart. 



" Hist. Dunelm. Script. Trei (Surt. 

 Soc), p. be. 



'* Guisbro' Chartu!. (Surt. Soc), ii, 326. 



""Assize R. 224, m. 4. 



'^ Dur. Rec cl. 3, R. 30, m. 12. In 

 146S a niessu.ige here held in chief for 

 one-tenth of a knight's fee belonged to 

 Thomas Fulthorpe (ibid. no. 4, fol. 33). 



^_ Dur. Rec. cl. 3, R. 73, m. 20. 



'' Surtees, op. cit. iii, 132-3 ; Foster, 

 Dur. risit. PeJ. 201. 



''' Sharp, op. cit. 44 n. ; Cal. S. P. 

 Dim. 1566-79, p. 280; Exch. K.R. 

 Misc. Bks. xjcxviii, fol. 234. 



'' Pat. 13 Elir. pt. vii, m. 29. 



*" Ibid. 17 Eliz. pt. xiii, m. 18. 



*' Ibid. 27 Eliz. pt. xiii, m. 14. 



'- Ibid. 31 Eliz. pt. xiv, m. 12. 



" Dur. Rec. cl. 3, file 192, no. 25 ; 

 Surtees, op. cit. iii, 132, 



" Dur. Rec cl. 12, no. 5 (2) j cl. 3, 

 R. 1 1 7, no. II. See Morton, in Houghton- 

 le-Spring, for this family, 



" Dur. Rec cl. 12, no. 8 (2) ; cl. 3, 

 R. 1 17, no. 11 J cf. Recov. R. East. 1654, 

 m. II. 



" Dur. Rec. cl. i 2, no. 1 1 (2). 



" Com. Pleas D. Enr. East. 28 Geo. II, 

 m. 34. 



'■^ Surtees, loc. cit. 



" Fordyce, Hiit. of Co. Pa/at. 0/ Dur. 



367 



