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still float, it is incredible that the guardians of the body of 

 the Saint would adopt such a precarious method of conveyance, 

 when a journey by land was preferable, and a bier for that 

 purpose was actually in their possession. 



With reference to the lands of Twizell, the Testa de Nevill 

 makes mention of Thomas de Twysill as holding the lands 

 of Dud ho we, and his son Richard as alienating the manor 

 of Twysell, with the mill of Heton and Tillmoue, to Sir William 

 de Redei of Tilmouth, and his wife, Alice. In 1316, Robert, 

 the son of this Richard, conveyed to the same 

 Lands of parties two tofts and four bovates of land in 

 Twizell. Twizell, the last remnant of his family's estate. 



At this point ceases in the vill the local surname 

 of Twisell. The said Sir William Riddell, whose stone effigy 

 may be seen in Norham Church, died in or before 1325, 

 possessed, inter alia, of the manor of Twysill, and the hamlets 

 of Dudhow and old Grendon, and leaving three daughters. 

 Contantia, the second of them, became the wife of Sir John 

 de Kyngeston Knt., and died in 1368, seized of the manor 

 of Twisell, save that she had granted out of it a life-rent 

 of 100s. to Henry de Esselington, leaving Sir Thomas de 

 Kyngeston Knt. her son and heir. In 1385 the manor of 

 Twysill and a fourth of the manor of Tillmouth were settled upon 

 Sir Gerai'd Heron Knt., in whose family the estate continued for 

 a long period. At length in the reign of Henry VIII., William 

 Heron of Ford granted a life interest in it to William Selby of 

 Branxton and John Selby, his son and heir. This line of Selby 

 became shortly afterwards owners of the estate, and ended in 

 two sisters and heiresses, both of them of the name of Elizabeth, 

 and both married to persons of their own name and kindred. 

 George Selby, the husband of the younger, appears to have 

 purchased the interest of the elder sister in Twizell, and his 

 line terminated also in two heiresses, between whom in 1685 

 a division of the estates was made, when Twizell with its 

 members was awarded to Frances, the younger, who along 

 with her husband conveyed the manor of Twisell, including 

 the farms of Tiptoe and Tindle-house, to Sir Francis Blake. 

 The estate so acquired was settled by Sir Francis Blake upon 



