A HISTORY OF DURHAM 



Robert Chilton, Ralph Bradley and Robert Harrison 

 occur as freeholders.'- The manor of Seaton Carew, 

 again with 700 acres attached to it, was conveyed by 

 Robert Henry M.icJonald and Mary his wife and 

 James Huntley and Anne his wife to Nicholas Chilton 

 in 1795." 



Land in Seaton Carew w.is settled in 1 706 on 

 Thomas Davison and his wife Anne daughter of Sir 

 John Bland. In 17 19 this land passed in cxch.inge 

 to John Porrett, who, with Faith his wife, sold it in 

 that year to Nicholas Bradley of Greatham. Nicholas 

 bequeathed it in 1 742 to his son Ralph, who 

 purchased another estate here called Salvin Flat or 

 Admire Flat in I 759 from William Croxdale. Ralph 

 sold these estates in 1778 to John Horsley, whose 

 assignees in bankruptcy sold them in i 789 to Tliomas 

 Short. In 1800 Short sold to John Sanderson fif 

 Stockton, who became a bankrupt in i8oz. His 

 trustees sold the estate to Willi.im Robinson, on whose 

 de.uh in 1807 his son Edward succeeded. Edward 

 sold the property to his youngest brother Wllli.im, 

 who became a bankrupt in 1830, and his assignees 

 sold the estate in I 831 to John Lord Eldon."''' 



Merton College, Oxford, holds an estate in Seaton 

 Carew which originated in a grant from Bishop Robert 

 Stichill in 126S of 8 oxgangs here, which he had of 

 the grant of Walter de Carew.'* This ' manor ' was 

 sequestered for the recusancy of a lessee in 1 654, but 

 the college successfully claimed it.'-"' In 1698 half the 

 manor of Stillington (q.v.), with lands in Seaton, was 

 leased by the college to Sir Ralph Jennison, and again 

 in 1791 we find it in lease to Robert Preston.'^ 



Land here called ' Maisterionland ' was held in the 

 14th century of the lords of the manor by the fimily 

 of Scton. Thom.is Seton, who died in or about 1359, 

 had a daughter and heir Alice, who married Sir 

 Thomas Carew and became the mother of John Carew, 

 the last heir male of the family.'' On the death of 

 John in i 387 it was found that his heirs on the motlier's 

 side were the descendants of Adam, the younger 

 brother of his grandfather Thomas de Seton. This 

 Adam had two daughters, Agnes, who married a Sayer, 

 and Jo.in, who married John son of Laurence de Seton. 

 The whole of the estate, which consisted of a waste 

 messuage, six cottages and 100 acres, was held by 

 Isabel Umfraville in dower,''' though [ohn son of 

 Laurence de Seton was said in 1 404 to h.ive died in 

 possession of a portion of it in right of his wife Joan." 

 His son Thomas conveyed his right in it during the 

 lifetime of Is.ibel to John Lumley, whose heir was his 

 son Thomas. 2" On the death of Isabel ' Maisterion- 



land ' consequently passed to Thomas Lumley and John 

 Sayer, the representative of Agnes." The Lumley por- 

 tion no doubt folloivcd the descent of Thomas's share 

 in the manor.-- The other remained in the hands 

 of the Sayer family of Worsall (Yoiks.) =' till 1638, 

 when Laurence Sayer had licence to grant two mes- 

 suages and 280 acres in Seaton Carew to Robert 

 Johnson.-* It was thus united to another part of the 

 manor. 



Another small estate here, consisting of one mes- 

 suage, 2 oxgangs 6 acres and a saltpit, was held in 

 I 345 by John Kelioe of Seaton -' of John de Carew. 

 His son and heir Adam -^ seems to have died without 

 issue, and another son John succeeded. The latter 

 had a son, another John, who died in or about 1407, 

 leaving a daughter and heir Alice, who married Robert 

 Lambton.^" Her estate followed the descent of the 

 Lambton moiety of Stainton (q.v.) till at least 1612.^* 

 In 1461 and 1598 it included a capital messuage.-' 



It has already been stated that STRy4NTON formed 

 part of Hartness. About 11 46-5 I Robert de Brus 

 held 231 acres of demesne in Stranton.^" The manor 

 is mentioned in the fine of 1 200-1 between Peter 

 de Brus, Baron of Skelton, and William de Brus of 

 Annandale and Hart." In 1279 t^i^re was a fine 

 between Robert de Brus of Annandale, ' the compe- 

 titor,' and John Fitz Marmaduke, by which Robert 

 granted to John 9 oxgangs of land with appurtenances 

 in Stranton, to be held by John and Isabel his wife 

 and their issue. ^' 



Apparently Cristiana,'' widow of Robert, claimed 

 dower in the manor of Stranton against John 

 Fitz Marmaduke in 1296.^* John died in 131 1, 

 and in the inventory taken at his death a list of 

 the goods at his manor of Stranton is given.'^ He 

 was lord of Ravensworth (q.v.), and his descendants 

 were the Lumleys of Ravensworth. They continued 

 to hold a manor in Stranton, which was called the 

 West Manor "' to distinguish it from the vill of 

 Stranton, which was held by the Lumleys of Lumley 

 Castle.'' The West Manor remained in the possession 

 successively of the Lumleys, Boyntons and Gascoignes 

 until the beginning of the 17th century. In 1607 

 Anthony Dodsworth had a grant of the manor of 

 Stranton from Sir William Gascoigne, kt., and Barbara 

 his wife.'** 



On 4 August 1627 it was found that Anthonj- 

 Dodsworth, aged sixteen, was the son and heir of 

 Anthony Dodsworth of Stranton.'' Anthony Dods- 

 worth of Stranton compounded for his estate in 1645, 

 and received a pardon in 1651.*" He was buried at 



" Decrees and Orders (Exch. K.R.) 

 (Ser. 4), no. 30 ; Mich. 1771, no. 5. 



" Dur. Rec. cl. 12, no. 39 (3). This 

 was apparently a release from the heirs 

 of Mary and Anne. 



"a D. fenis the Earl of Eldon. 



'* Deeds of Merton College at the 

 Bursary ; cf. Assize R. zz;, m. i d. 



'^ CaL Com, for Comp. iv, 2797. 



" Chan. Decree R. 171 1, no. 6 ; D. 

 ptnei the Earl of Eldon. 



" Dtp. Keeper' i Rep. xlv, 259. 



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



"Ibid. fol. 144. 



'» Ibid. fol. 297. 



^' Ibid. '-^ See above. 



'^ Dur. Rc-c. cl. 3, no. 4, fol. 57 j (file 

 169, no. II ; ("lie 173, no. 41 ; (ile 177, 

 no. 79 ; file 18S, no. 72, 



" Ibid. R. 109, no. 13. 



'■' Reg. Palar. Dunelm. (Rolls Ser.), iv, 

 370; Chan. Misc. Inq. bdle. 57, hie :, 

 no. 17. 



'" Ibid. 



■' See Stainton. 



'' Dur. Rec. cl. 3, R. 46, m. 22-3 ; 

 file 168, no. 4; file 166, no. 52; file 

 183, no. 66; Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), 

 dcxliii, 14, 



*■' Dur. Rec. cl. 3, file 166, no. 52 ; 

 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), dcxliii, 14. 



■^" Guiihro' Chartul. (Surt, Soc.), ii, 323. 



■*' Feet of F. Northumb. Trin. 2 John. 

 See Hart. 



" Dur. Rec. cl. 3, R. 92, m. 16 d. 



■*■* Sec Ravensworth, Lamesley parish ; 

 Douglas, Peerage of ScolUnJ (cd. Paul), 

 432 n. 



'' Cal. Close, 1288-96, p. 514. In 

 1279 Robert de Brus gave lands in 

 Stranton to John Fitz Marmaduke and 

 Isabel his wife and their issue, with re- 

 version to Robert on the death of survivor 

 in default of issue. John was to provide 

 an archer for 40 days when war happened 

 between the Tync and the Tees and do 

 foreign service (Lansd. MS. 902, fol. 

 216 d.). 



»' Dur. H^ilh and Invent. (Surt. Soc), 

 i, 19. 



'• Dur. Rec. cl. 3, no. 2, fol. 1 17 d. 



*^ See below. 



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



■*^ Ibid, file 189, no. 174. 



*" Rec. Com. for Comp. (Surt. Soc), 60, 

 183 n. ; cf. Recov. R. Mich. 1650, 

 m. 134. 



