A HISTORY OF DURHAM 



Radcliff. .-Itgfnt 

 a bend entailed sable. 



Philippa.'^ All his lands were divided between these 

 two'* and a third daughter Jane, who was not men- 

 tioned in 1468, the division being completed by 

 1501-2." 



The eldest daughter Isabel married Henry Rad- 

 cliff/" Her heir in 1 500 was her son Ralph Rad- 

 cliff," who left an only daughter Margaret in 1 512."* 

 Before 1527-8 she had been married to Brian 

 Palmes,'* but he was attainted for taking part in the 

 Rising of the North in 1569, and she died childless."" 

 Her heir was her cousin Roger Radcliff,"' who died 

 early in 1589/2 His brothers William and Ralph 

 Radcliff and his cousin Charles Radcliff "^ had a pardon 

 enrolled in the same year for 

 settling a moiety of the manor 

 of Tunstall nigh Stranton and 

 other lands on William Rad- 

 cliff and his heirs, and in de- 

 fault of heirs on Charles."* 

 The moiety of Tunstall was 

 held by Charles Radcliff in 

 1607-8."' It seems to have 

 been transferred to Thomas 

 \'iscount Fairfax of Emley, who 

 sold it on 5 October 1632 to 

 Thomas RiddellofGateshead'" 

 (q.v.). The estate was seques- 

 tered from Thomas Riddell's son Sir Thomas Riddell, 

 kt., a Royalist, in 164.4-5,"' and finally sold to John 

 Tonge on 18 March 165 1."" After this it cannot be 

 traced further; possibly it was bought by the Kulthorpes. 



It will be observed that the portion of Tunstall 

 belonging to the Radcliffs is usually called a moiety."' 

 The manor seems to have been shared between the 

 two elder daughters of Thomas Fulthorpe, Isabel and 

 Philippa, Jane the younger no doubt receiving com- 

 pensation in lands elsewhere. Philippa was the wife 

 of Richard Booth of Durham. Their son Ralph 

 Booth died in the lifetime of his parents,"'' leaving 

 (5 October i 506) two daughters Anne and Jane, who 

 were the co-heirs of their grandparents. Jane married 

 George Smith of Nunstanton in Aycliffe, -and had an 

 only daughter Anne, who married John Swinburne.''' 

 In I 546 the Swinburnes conveyed their portion of 

 Tunstall in Stranton to George Orde for the purpose 

 of a settlement on Anne and her issue with remainder 

 to Cuthbert Smith and his brothers William and 

 George in tail male.'' Anne the sister of Jane Smith 

 married her distant cousin Thomas Fulthorpe, a 

 younger son of the elder branch of the family.*'' 

 Their son Christopher Fulthorpe married Mary 

 daughter of William Blakeston of Coxhoe, and died 

 before 1578-9,''' when his son Nicholas Fulthorpe 

 did homage for Tunstall.'-'* In 158 1-2 a deed was 

 enrolled settling a third of the manor of Tunstall 



Fulthorpe of Tun- 

 stall. Argent a miH- 

 rind cross sable. 



upon Anne Carson, widow, for life with remainder to 

 Nicholas Fulthorpe.*" Anne Carson (nee Booth), 

 who had married again, was the grandmother of 

 Nicholas. '•*' In 161 2 Christopher Fulthorpe, son of 

 Nicholas, received a grant from the Crown of a moiety 

 of the manor of Tunstall, then in his own occupation.'" 

 Nicholas died seised of ' the manor or half the manor ' 

 in 1618.** Christopher made 

 a settlement of the manor in 

 1629.'"** He married Mary 

 daughter of Clement Colmore, 

 Chancellor of the Diocese of 

 Durham, and died on 25 Feb- 

 ruary 1661. He was succeeded 

 by his son Clement Fulthorpe, 

 who married Isabel daughter of 

 Sir John Calverley, kt., of 

 Littleburn, Durham. They 

 had a large family, of whom 

 the most important forTunstall 

 Manor were John, the eldest 

 son, and Christopher, the third 



son.' John's only son died in his father's lifetime, 

 and Christopher Fulthorpe, who had a surviving 

 son, bought the estate of Tunstall from his brother. 

 John Fulthorpe died in 1698, and Christopher's 

 right to the property was disputed by the represent- 

 atives of John's daughters on the grounds that 

 Christopher had taken advantage of his brother's 

 melancholy after the death of his son to obtain the 

 property for a very inadequate consideration. The 

 case was tried in Chancery, but was decided in 

 favour of Christopher, whose son, however, also 

 died. By will dated 13 June 1707 Christopher 

 Fulthorpe left his property to his three granddaughters 

 Mary, Elizabeth and Margaret Ellis, subject to an 

 endowment for a free school,- which was not estab- 

 lished until 1841,^ and with the provision that his 

 granddaughters should either marry persons of the 

 name of Fulthorpe or assume the name on their 

 marriage.' One of the co-heirs married Robert 

 Raikes of Northallerton, and her son took the name of 

 Robert Raikes Fulthorpe. He inherited the estate, 

 but sold or mortgaged almost the whole of it in 

 separate portions, and the descent cannot be traced 

 further. They seem to have been bought during 

 the 19th century by Earl Egerton of Tatton (Ches.), 

 who sold to Messrs. E. and W. Richardson, the pre- 

 sent proprietors, in 1906. 



The origin of the borough of WEST HARTLE- 

 POOL has already been described.' The borough 

 was incorporated on 12 July 1887, when it was 

 divided into six wards. In 1901 the North- West 

 Ward was subdivided into three. The corporation 

 now consists of a mayor, eight aldermen and twenty- 



'' Foiter, loc. cit. ; Dur. Rec. cl. 3, no. 

 4, fol. 33. See Hurworth, Kelloe pariah. 



^' Dur. Rec. cl. 3, R. 51, m. 3. 



" Ibid. R. 61, m. 24. 



'* Foster, op. cit. 131. 



" Dur. Rec. cl. 3, file 169, no. 45. 



'* Ibid. R. 70, m. 15 ; file 173, no. 50. 



"Ibid. R. 72, m. 15. 



"° See Red Hurwortli, Kelloe parish. 



*' Foster, op. cit. 267. 



" Dur. fTill, and In-vtni. (Surt. See), 

 ii, 325 n. 



"^ Surteei, op. cit. iii, 128-9; Fo"er, 

 op, cit. 267. 



•" Dur. Rec. cl. 3, R. 86, m. 3 d. 



»^ Ibid. R. 93, m. II. 



^ Surtees, op. cit. iii, 130 ; Dur. Rec. 

 cl. 3, R. 107, no. 8 ; cl. 12, no. 4 (2). 



"' Rec. Com. for Comp. (Surt.Soc), 24, 37. 



'^^ Cal. Com. for Comp. iii, 2037. 



" Dur. Rec. cl. 3, R. 70, m. 12. 



*" Sec Black Hurworth, Kelloe parish. 



" Ibid. 



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

 6, fol. 36. Swinburne had no lands here 

 at his forfeiture in 1570. 



^^ Foster, op. cit. 131, See also Dur. 

 Rec. cl. 12, no. I (1). 



^ Fu3ter, op. cit, 131. 



3^ Dur. Rec. cl. 3, R. 85, m. 6. 



*^Ibid. R, 84, m. II. 



^' Exch. Dtp. Mich. 18 Jai. I, 

 no. 5. 



^^ Pat. 10 Jas. I, pt. viii. 



*^ See Black. Hurworth, Kelloe pariah. 



'"" Dur. Rec. cl. 3, R. 106, no. 13 ; cl. 

 12, no. 4 (2). 



' Foster, op. cit. 131. 



* Surtees, op. cit. iii, 130. 



* Fordyce, op. cit. ii, 285. 



* Surtees, op. cit. iii, 131. 

 ^ See Hartlepool, 



