Notts on A held and Couplcmd. By M. Culley. 41 o 



that of 1795. George Sparrow, who purchased from the Kettilby 

 family in 1767 was dead, and his grandson George "Wingheld 

 of Mattingly, in the Co. Southampton, Esq., who took the name 

 of Sparrow, was Lord of Akeld. This George Wingheld (under 

 the name of Sparrow) conveyed in 1765, all the "Manor or 

 Lordship of Akeld, with its rights, etc., and all the Town, Town- 

 ship, Village, etc., of Akeld, and all those several farms in Akeld 

 formerly in the tenure of Anthony Compton, 1 his under-tenants 

 or assigns, afterwards in the occupation of Walter Kettilby, his 

 under-tenants, etc., late of George Davison, as under-tenant under 

 the said Walter Kettilby, now of Andrew Davison, as tenant 

 under the said George Sparrow, and also all those rights, stints, 

 etc.," to Matthew Culley, Lord of Denton, in Teesdale, the fifth 

 but eldest surviving son of Matthew Culley of Denton, Esq., (who 

 died in 1764) bj r Eleanor, second daughter of Edward Surtees, 

 of Mainsforth, Esq. (head of that ancient house), and of Jane 

 Surtees, youngest daughter and co-heiress of George Crosier, 

 eleventh Laird of Newbiggin. 2 The deed of conveyance bears, 

 date 23 Nov. 1795, and the parties to the deed besides Matthew 

 Culley, and George Sparrow, esquires, were George Culley, 

 (afterwards of Eowberry,) and John Bailey, esquires. 



Mention has already been made of Messrs Shanks and Grey's 

 "stints on the hilly pasture grounds " at Akeld. In 1773, John 

 Shanks, son and heir of James Shanks of Akeld, yeoman, 

 borrowed £170 of Thomas Tindall of Chatton, farmer; and in 

 1784, John Shanks, and Catherine his wife, released their land 

 at Akeld in trust to Henry Morton of West-Newton, gent., and 

 Edward Pringle of Ewart, gent. Two years later the same 

 freehold was sold for £525 to Andrew Grey of Longknowe, 

 shepherd, who mortgaged his property the same year to Thomas 

 Adams of Alnwick, gent. 3 



1 A member, doubtless, of the old family of Compton of Carham. 



2 The Crosiers came of one of the wildest of the Box-der clans, inhabiting 

 chiefly Liddesdale and the debatable lands. Their name recalls to one's 

 mind the betrayal and murder of Percival Eecd (mentioned above in con- 

 nection with the Halls of Reed-water) as well as many other scenes of 

 violence on the Borders. Sir Robert de Bynchestre, chevalier, died in 

 1362. Sir Robert de Bynchestre, son and heir, set. 21, 1363, to whom 

 Ralph, Lord Neville, gave the Manor of Newbiggin. Elizabeth de 

 Burnyuhyll, Lady of Newbiggin, granddaughter and heir of Robert de 

 Bynchestre, married Nicholas Crosier. 



:3 Akeld Title Deeds. 



