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Kirk-Harte, one of the manours of the barony of Bolbeck ; 

 which, with a mediety of the barony, and a mediety of Shotley- 

 Jhire, belonged to Sir Robert de Hark, fon of William de Hark, in 

 the reign of K. Ed-ward III, as was found by an inquifirion, sStli 

 of the fame reign (o). It was afterwards poffeflcd by the antient 

 family of the Lorrains ; by Robert Lorrain in the reigns of King 

 Edward 'VI, Q^Mary, and part of Q^Elizabeth (p), who was infi- 

 dioufly and cruelly flain near his own houfe by the banditti, 

 called, Mofs-troopers, for his manly and fpirited endeavours to 

 bring them to jufticc ; a ftone-pillar eredted in memory of ir, 

 full ftanding : by Thomas Lot-rain, -.his fon and heir, a firm and 

 zealous friend to K. Charles I (qj ; who died, 24th Oclobcr, i K. 

 jCiiarJes II, at the age of 35, and was interred in the fouth iile of 

 St. Nicholas's church in Neivcajile upon Tyne : by his fon, Thomas 

 Lorrain, who was created a baronet, 26th September, \G K. 

 'Charles II, 1^4. He married Grace the eldeft daughter of Sir 

 William Fewvnck, of Wallington, Bart, by whom he had fourteen 

 fons, and live daughters. His fon and heir, Sir William Lorrain, 

 Bart, firft married the daughter of Sir 'John Laurence, by whom 

 he had no ifTue. He afterwards married the daughter of Richard 



(o) Robertas de Harle, miles, filius et hares Williclnu, obiit feifitus de et in medietate ba- 

 Toniae de Bolbeck, viz. Bywell, de et in medietate de Styford, Brome-haugh, Shotley, villa de 

 Heley, et manerio de Kirk-harle, &c. Efcaet. de anno 38 Ed. Ill, 



JVillielmus baro de Greyjlock, filius et hasre* Radulphi, dedit Roberto de Harle, militi, me- 

 dittatcm de Shotleyjljire in Efcambium pro medietate villae de Angertm. 



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(p) Robertas Lorrain fuit feifitus d et in manerio de Kirk Harle, cum gleba ecclefiz ibi- 

 dem, cumterris in Trevo'uk. Efcaet. de anno 



(q) Thomas Lorrain, filias Robert!, tenet de rege, ut de baronia de Bolbeck, per fervicium 

 milit. manerium fivecapitale mefluagium de Kirk Harle, ac unum mefluagium five tenem. in 

 Cf-eat^lawt, ac tertiam partem villae de TreivJiet, ac duo mefluagia et terras ibidem. 



Efcaet, de anno 14 Car. I. 



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