Notices of Heathpool. By James Hardy. 403 



In 10 Henry VI., 1431, there is a document on the partition of the 

 possessions of Philip Darcy between his two daughters and heirs, Elizabeth 

 Strangeways and Margery Conyers. 



In 36 Henry VI., 1457, (35 Hen. VI., in Hodgson,) the Inquisition on 

 the death of Eleanor, widow of Philip Darcy, finds that she held in dower, 

 two parts of two parts of the moiety of the manors of Lowick, Wooler, 

 Hethpol, and Heatherslaw, of the heritage of her daughters, EJizabetb, 

 wife of James Strangeways, and Margery, wife of John Conyers.* 



An inquisition, 20 Edward IV., 1479-80, after the death of Thomas 

 Ilderton, finds that Thomas Ilderton, Thomas Grey, James Strangeways, 

 and John Conyers, hold Coupland, and 100 acres of land in chief as part of 

 the barony of Muschamp, together with the manors of Wooler, (blank, 

 probably Heathpol) Lowick, Belforth, Etall, Ford, Crookham and 

 Kimmerston by the service of 4 Knight's fees.f 



Hereafter we lose track of the rights of the descendants of Strangeways 

 and Conyers. The Darcy claims had been kept up in that family till 1539, 

 as we learn from the following document, wherein the King's right to the 

 manors was attempted to be awakened after a lengthened abeyance. 



In the Exchequer Easter Term, 10 James I., 1611, a plea was initiated 

 by the Attorney General against Sir Ralphe Graye, Knt., Sir William 

 Selbie, Knt., Claudius Forster, and Thomas Carr, Esquires, requiring them 

 to show cause why in prejudice of the King's rights they held the manors 

 of Wollore, Hethpoole, Belford, Yesington, Yarm, (sic) Lowick, and 

 Hederslaw in Co., Northd. It was stated that Edward III., in the 46th 

 year of his reign, (1371-2) granted these manors to Philip, Lord Darcy, 

 and his heirs male, and that they descended to John, Lord Darcy who was 

 attainted of high treason in the 31st year of K. Henry VIII. (1539) and 

 the lands were forfeited to his Majesty. The manors, it was alleged, were 

 " wrongfully taken," to the disinheritance of his Majesty by the parties 

 accused, " by coulor of some conveyance supposed to be made by the said 

 John Lord Darcye before his said attainder, to the ancestors of the said Sir 

 Ralphe Graye, &c," or to some other whose estates they claim to have. 

 They were summoned before the Court of Exchequer to exhibit their rights 

 and titles. The result is not given.J 



III. HUNTEROOMBE, LlLLEBURNE, CoUPLAND, ARUNDELL, HeTOX, 

 AND OTHERS. 



Isabella de Huntercombe, youngest daughter of Robert de Muschampe, 

 succeeded along with her husband to one third of the Barony, and after- 

 wards to her share of the portion of Isabella de Ford. It did not remain 

 long in the family. 



* Ford Tithe Case, Papers, MS., Nos. 70 and 72. 



t Ford Tithe Case, MS. Papers. Here Mr Dickson's date, 1461, is 

 wrong. B.N.C.P. iv., p. 22. For more about the Conyerses, see his 

 "Address," I.e. 



X Extract in writing in Ford Tithe Case. 



