Notes on Akeld and Coupland. By M. Ouliey. 41 1 



Akeld estates to the Ogles of Kirkley. 1 The articles of agree- 

 ment for the sale bear date 13 Nov. 1713, 2 and are between 

 Kalph Wallis of Knaresdale Hall, Esq., and John Ogle of New- 

 castle-on-Tyne, Esq. The purchase was made by John Ogle, Esq. 

 on behalf of his son Chaloner Ogle, and the consideration money 

 was £2150. Ealph Wallis kept his lordship of Knaresdale and 

 the lands belonging to it till 1730, when he sold them to a 

 Newcastle merchant. 3 



In 1715, I find Indentures between the Ogles and Edward Ord, 

 of Newcastle, gent., relative to the mortgages on Akeld and 

 Coupland. This was the year of the memorable rising for 

 Prince James Stuart. The gentlemen of Northumberland were 

 deeply implicated in the rising, and the defeat of the Jacobite 

 party brought about the ruin of many of the oldest, as well as 

 wealthiest families of the county. 



The Greys of Chillingham, or rather their heirs and represen- 

 tatives the Bennets, Earls of Tankerville, still held their 

 possessions at Coupland and Akeld, but in 1734 they sold "all 

 the reputed Manor or Lordship of Coupland, and all the Town, 

 village, etc., of Coupland, and all the Mill called Coupland Mill, 

 and all that farm in Coupland, now or lately in the occupation, 

 etc., of Thomas and Edward "Weary " to Eobert Paul of Tower 

 Hill, London, Esq., the ancestor of the St Pauls of Ewart. 1 

 The Indenture of Sale is between Charles, Earl of Tankerville, 

 (who held in right of his wife Mary Grey, only daughter of Ford, 

 Lord Grey) Henry Grey of Billingbeare, Esq., Eobert Paul 

 of London, Esq., and James Barnett of London, Esq. 



The same year (1734) by virtue of powers under the settle- 

 ment made by Ealph, Lord Grey, in 1704, the Earl of Tankerville 

 sold the " Manor or Lordship of Akeld, with all its rights, etc., 

 and all the Town, Township, Village, or Hamlet of Akeld, and 

 all those five several farms in Akeld, in the occupation of Mary 

 Eodham, etc., etc." The purchaser was Samuel Kettilby of 

 Berwick-on-Tweed, Esq., and the consideration money was 

 £2400. 6 



In 1738, Samuel Kettilby and Elizabeth his wife, together 

 with their son Walter Kettilby, and Thomas Watson of Berwick, 



1 The Ogles had long ranked amongst the first families in Northumberland, 

 both by descent and possessions. 



2 Coupland Title Deeds, 3 Hodgson's Ped. of Wallace. 

 4 Coupland Title Deeds. 5 Akeld Title Deeds. 



