ANTIQUITIES OF NORTHUMBERLAND. 271 



male in the latter end of the reign of K. Henry V (q), he was fuc- 

 ceeded in his eftate by his two daughters and coheirs, Agnes and 

 Alice, who were found by an inquifition to be in poflcflion of ir, 

 3 K. Henry VI ; the former firil married to John Hefclrigge, and 

 afterwards to William Lawfon; the latter to Nicholas Gobeford(rJ; 

 the Laivfons afterwards having the whole mcdiety ; William Laiv- 

 fon being pofTefled of it, 10 Q^_ Elizabeth (s) ; and Robert Lawfon, 

 Efq; 7 Q^ Ann, 1708, then high fheriff of Northumberland. 



About three miles from Cramlington, and a mile from the fea, 

 is 



Delaval-Caftle (t) or Seaton Delaval, a principal manour of the 

 barony of Dclaval, in which Guy Delaval was infeoiFed by K. Hen- 

 ry I. He married Dionifia, the fccond daughter of Robert Earl of 

 Moreton, brother by the mother's fide to K. William l(u). From 

 this royal ftem was defcendcd 



Gilbert 



(q) Efcaet. de anno 8 Hen. V. 



(r) Gulielmus Law/on, et Agnes> uxor cjus, nuper uxor Jobannls Hefehigge, et Alicia^ uxor 

 ejus, foror predift. dgn. filiae et haeredes Willielmi Cramlington, tenent duas partes manerii de 

 Cramlingtmi, cum hamlet, fuo de Whitlawe, in comit. Northumbr. de rege in capite per fervic. 

 quart, partis unius feodi militis. Rot. Mich. Fin. de anno 3 Hen, VI. 



(s) Willlelmus Lawfon fuit feifit. de et in medietate villae de Cramlington, cum terris in 

 Hartley. - Efcaet. de anno i o Eliz, 



(t) Delavale Cajlh^ 4 miles from Tyne-moutbe, and within a mile of the fliore. 



Lei. Itin. vol. vii. p. 59. 



(u) Robertas comes de Moreton, vel de Mortaing, frater uterinus Willielmi Conqueftoris, 

 habuit unicum filium Willieltnum, qui ei fucceflit, capt. apud Tenerichley anuo 6to Hen. I. 

 Idem Robertus habuit tres filias ; una (dgnes) duxit Andr. de Vitre ; fecunda, (Dionifia) Guida. 

 de Delavale; tertia, (Emma) comitem Thohfenum, expeditions Hitrofokntitana occifium, et 



ex 



