THE MANOR OF BEAL 299 



On the 12th of November, 1584, John Palmer of Clerk- 

 en well, Middlesex, the assignee of the Crown-grantees by 

 Indenture of Bargain and Sales in consideration of a certain 

 sum of money paid John Orde of Berwick, conveyed to the 

 said Orde, 



All thafc moiety or whole half of the manor of Beal by the name of 

 the moiety or whole half of all those, his messuages, edifioes, build- 

 ings, gardens, lands, tenements, rents, meadows, pastures, feedings, 

 moors, wastes and hereditaments to the said manor belonging, and 

 then in the peaceable occupation of the said John Orde.'^^ 

 And on the 2nd of May, following. Palmer granted 

 by Indentures of Bargain and Sale the other moiety of the 

 manor of Beal, described in similer words, to the said John 

 Orde and Margaret Ryvely of Ancroft, widow.i^ 



BEALE RENTAL 1631.1^ 



William Orde, Esq. and Oliver Selby for divers 



messuages and land in Beall ... ... 32s. 



Oliver Selby^^ for a tenement late Thomas Grayes 2s. 7d. 



William Orde Esq. for Edward Keavly's land ... 7s. 6d. 



The scanty evidence available suggests that the parties to 

 whom John Palmer, in 1584, conveyed the manor and the 

 lands which he had acquired from the Crown-grantees were 

 in themselves already seised of lands in Beal, Be this as it 

 may, on the 1st June, 1588, under the description of 

 John Ord of Berwick, burgess, Ord entered into covenants with 

 James Swynhoe of Berwick, gentleman, and Margaret, liis wife, 

 and Oliver Selby of Beal, gentleman, to partition the Ten 

 Pound Lands in Beal, the following parcels being allotted to 

 the said Oliver Selby : — 



" On the South side of the town beginning on the West side of 

 Harry Steal's onstead and extending Westwards to the gate called 

 Lydgate, together also with one other cottage allotted to said Oliver 

 Selby, situate and being at the West end of the South side of the 

 town adjoining upon a cottage of the said James Swinhoe and 

 Margaret, his wife, on the West, and George Ryveley's land on the 



i« Abstract of Title. 



" Ibid. 



^'^Raine, North Durham. Appendix p. 156. 



19 Oliver Selby died 10th Feb., 1633. Raine, North Durham p. 338. 



