404 Notes on Akeld, and Coupland. By M. Culley. 



de Bolesdun, along with Walter de Selebi, Henry Teysam, and 

 others. 1 



At this time, and shortly before it, there occurs in the im- 

 mediate neighbourhood, a family bearing the local name of 

 Coupland, but not, so far as I can make out, holding any land 

 within the Manor of Coupland. At the time of the Testa de 

 Nevill (Henry III. and Edward I.,) Stephen de Coupland held 

 a small portion of land in Heathpool " de novo feoffamento ." (He 

 had been more recently enfeoffed than the time of Henry I.) 

 In the Inq. 34 Henry III., on the death of Robert de Manners, 

 Sampson de Coupland 2 was one of the jurors along with Thomas 

 de Akilde. He appears again amongst the host of witnesses to 

 the grant of land in Heathpool, to the Monastery of Melrose, by 

 Robert de Muschamp. A little later, two others of the name 

 appear. Inq. 1 8 April, 1 306, at Wooler, on Nicholas de Graham ; 

 amongst the jurors we had Simon de Coupland, and about the 

 same time a David de Coupland appears upon another jury. To 

 this stock may possibly have belonged the celebrated Sir John de 

 Coupland, who took David of Scotland a prisoner at the battle of 

 Neville's Cross. Sir John was Governor of Wark Castle, on the 

 Tweed, which fact rather supports the assertion that he was of a 

 local family ; at the same time it cannot be ascertained that he 

 or any of his name ever owned any land within the territory of 

 Coupland. 



At this early period there occurs another family bearing a local 

 name, that of Langton (Lanton,) and holding small portions of 

 land both in Coupland and Lanton. 3 Inq. p. m. 17 Edward II. 

 " David de Langeton et Elizabetha uxor ejus ...... 



Coupeland, una car. terr Langton, ununi 



messuag. et 5 bovat. terr.," besides lands in various other places, 

 so that they were considerable holders. At Coupland they may 

 have been under-tenants of the Akelds. 



About this time we lose sight of the Akeld family, and find 



1 In Hugh, son of John de Haggai-deson, we have an interesting mention 

 at this early period of a member of the ancient family of Haggerstone ; and 

 in Walter de Selebi an equally interesting notice of an ancestor of the 

 Selbys, perhaps a direct " forebear " of the ancient Biddlestone family, for it 

 was to a Walter de Selby that Edward I. made a grant of Biddlestone in 1272. 

 Henry Teysam I take to have been a member of the knightly house of 

 Surtees, who spelt their name in Norman-French, Surteys, and in Latin, 

 Super- Teysam. 



- Hodgson's Hist. Northd. 3 Hodgson's Hist. Northd 



