A HISTORY OF DURHAM 



when Robert de Brus held 230 acres of demesne there 

 as part of Hartness.'*' Seaton was not, however, held 

 of the Brus fee. It was stated in the 13th century 

 that Robert de Carew, ancestor of the family from 

 which the place took its name, held his land in Oughton 

 which belonged to his fee of Seaton in the reign of 

 Henry I.''"* This was evidently the Robert de Carew 

 who in 1 166 answered to the king for a knight's fee 

 of 5 carucates in the county of Northumberland, a 

 third of which was held by his brother William.^' 

 Robert, who was living in 1 171, had a son and heir 

 Peter.^^ In 1 1 89 Richard I granted to Bishop 

 Pudsey, among the other appurtenances of the wapen- 

 take of Sadberge, the services of Peter Carew and his 

 heirs for one knight's fee in Seaton and Oughton. *- 

 The fee owed castle service of I 3/. \ti. to Sadberge 

 Castle.*'* Peter de Carew witnessed a charter of 1 197 

 or later,^* and in 1200 his son Walter obtained from 

 the Prior of Guisborougli a grant of a perpetual 

 chantry in the chapel of Seaton, and in return granted 

 to the monastery 60 acres of land and pasturages for 

 100 sheep and their lambs in Seaton.** About 1212 

 Robert de Burg.ite had custody of the heir of Walter 

 de Carew and of one knight's fee which Walter had 

 held in the wapentake of Sadberge.*'' This heir must 

 have been Walter's son Thomas, who held the fee in 

 the time of Bishop Walter de Kirkham (i 249^1 260) 

 and in 1269.^' Walter, said to have been the son of 

 Thomas,^'-* was the father of John de Carew, who 

 was found on 15 May 1337 to have died holding 

 for a quarter of a knight's fee the manor of 

 Seaton Carew, his heir being his son John, aged 

 twenty-one,*" who obtained a grant of free warren at 

 Seaton Carew in 1340.*^ In 1342 John de Carew 

 acknowledged that a whale which had been cast ashore 

 at Seaton Carew was a royal fish, and belonged of 

 right to the Bishop of Durham ; he paid a fine of 

 100 marks for dividing it among his friends."" 

 Thomas son of John de Carew died in his father's 

 lifetime, and on 20 September 1379 it was found that 

 John's heir was his grandson John son of Thomas dc 

 Carew, aged nineteen.''' The wardship of two-thirds 

 of his lands was granted to Alan Lambard and John 

 de Se.iton of Hartlepool."- In 1380-1 a deed was 

 enrolled by which lands and salt mines in Seaton 

 Carew were settled upon John son of Thomas de 

 Carew, kt., and Isabel his wife."^ It appears that 

 John granted a rent from land and a saltpit in Seaton 

 Carew to Robert de Lumlcy, whose brother Ralph 

 was found to be heir to the property on 3 May 

 1 38 1."' John de Carew died childless before 

 20 September 1387.''* His widow Isabel married 



Robert Umfraville, with whom she leased land in 

 Seaton Carew to Thomas Lumley."" She held in 

 dower eight messuages, twelve cottages, seventeen 

 saltpits, 200 acres of arable and 12 of me.idow in 

 Seaton Carew, and had by settlement a life interest 

 in four messuages, 4 oxgangs and four saltpits."' 

 The heirs of John de Carew in the manor were the 

 representatives of his four aunts, sisters of his father, 

 Sir Thomas. These sisters were Alice wife of John 

 de Whitworth, Isabel wife of Thomas Porter, Avice 

 wife of Thomas de Embleton, and Joan, who was un- 

 married at the time of her nephew's death, but after- 

 wards became the wife of Richard Hayton."'* No 

 partition was made of the manor. During the life- 

 time of Isabel Umfraville, Joan daughter and heir of 

 Alice de Whitworth, with her husband John de Hoton, 

 conveyed her share to Ralph Earl of Westmorland,"' 

 who in March 1418-19 granted it to his nephew 

 Sir John Lumlcy.'" William Porter, son of Isabel, 

 granted his share also to Sir John Lumlcy," who at 

 his death in or about 142 1 was said to hold two fourth 

 parts of the manor and also a third part which Isabel 

 Umfraville held for life in dower, 'receiving therefrom 

 43 marks per annum,' of which third part a moiety 

 was of the inheritance of John.'- The actual state of 

 affairs seems to have been that John Lumley held two 

 separate fourths, part of which was included in the 

 dower third held for life by Isabel Umfraville."' On 

 her death in 1437 Thomas Lumley, son and heir of 

 John, succeeded to half her part of the manor," while 

 the other half passed to the representatives of Avice 

 and Joan dc Carew.'* 



The Lumleys' share of Seaton Carew followed the 

 descent of their manor of Stranton (q.v.) till the division 

 among the three co-heirs of Sir William Reade.'" 

 Two-thirds of it were in the possession of George Lord 

 Berkeley in January 1673-4,"' but its later history is 

 disconnected. In 1697 John and Christopher Ful- 

 thorpe conveyed a third part of a moiety of the manor 

 and other lands to Thomas Craggs, who left part of it 

 to his son Thomas in 1714.'" The younger Thomas 

 sold it in 1 725 to his brother Joseph, who in 1747 

 conveyed it to William, Robert and Joseph Preston. 

 Robert Preston acquired the rights of both his 

 brothers,'^ and must have bought more of the manor 

 from other tenants, for in 1766 he had three-eighths 

 of the whole.*" In 1769 he bought the remainder of 

 the Craggs estate, which had been left by Thomas 

 Craggs in 1714 to his wife Elizabeth. She sold it to 

 William Ransom, whose devisee was Elizabeth Ran- 

 som. William Elstob, son of Elizabeth Ransom, sold 

 it to Robert Preston in 1769.*' Another portion was 



^^ Guishro' Chartul. (Surt. Soc), ii, 323. 



^Oa Assize R. 224, ni. 4. 



»' Red Bk. Exch. (Rolls Ser.), 444. 



^'^ Ibid. 53 ; Feod. Prior. Dumlm. 

 (Surt. Soc), 121 n. 



°'' Hist. Durtclm. Script. Tres (Surt. 

 Soc), p. Ix. 



" Bp. Hatfield'! Surv. (Surt. Soc), 1 98. 



^* Feod. Prior. Dunelm. (Surt. Soc), 

 150 n. 



^■' Exch. Dep. Spec. Com. no. 3773 ; 

 Hutchinson, Hist, and Antiq. of Dur. iii, 

 41. The land given by Walter de Carew 

 is mentioned in tlie Gulsborough Rental 

 of 1299 {Guisbr' Chartul. \%\m. Soc], 

 ii, 437). See also Assize R, 224, m. 4 ; 

 Red Bk. Exch. (Rolls Ser.), 178. 



" Testa de NeviU (Rec Com.), 395. 



^^ Assize R. 224, m. 4 ; Surtees, op. 

 cit. i, p. cxxviii. 



*^a Surtees, op. cit. iii, I 30. 



^'^ Dur. Rec. cl. 3, no. 2, fol. 6. 



^'■> Reg. Palat. Dunelm. (Rolls Ser.), iii, 



''"' Dur. Rec. cl. 3, R. 30, m. 14. 



''■' Ibid. no. 2, fol. 102 d., 153 d. 



''• Ibid. R. 31, ni. 12. 



" Ibid. 



'^ Ibid. no. 2, fol. 107. 



«^ Ibid. fol. I57d. 



'^'- Ibid. R. 37, m. 6d. 



'•' Ibid. no. 2, fol. 297 i R. 31, m. 12 ; 

 R. 46, m. 5. 



^ Dep. Keeper's Rep. xxxii, 311 ; Dur. 

 Rec. cl. 3, no. 2, fol. 233. 



*' Dur. Rec. cl. 3, no. 2, fol. 297. 



" Anct. D. (P.R.O.), D 423. 



" Dur. Rec. cl. 3, no. 2, fol. 297. 



'^ Ibid. fol. 299 d. It is also stated 

 that one of the fourth parts had belonged 

 to Ralph Lumley, father of John. This 

 cannot be reconciled with the above facts. 



" Cf. ibid. fnl. 297. 



'* Ibid. 



'^ Ibid. 



'I* Dur. Rec. cl. 3, no. 3, fol. 5 ; no. 6, 

 fol. 53 ; Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cxcii, 

 II ; Dur. Rec. cl. 3, file 189, no. 66, 



^' Dur. Rec. cl. 12, no. 9 (i). 



''^ Surtees, op, cit. iii, 132. 



" Ibid. 



*" Dur. Rec. cl. 2, no. 132, fol. 45, 



74- 



''• Surtees, loc cit. 



368 



