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missioner for the Northumberland estates of the Howard family. 

 Though not freeholders in Ulgham, his descendants acquired 

 estates in neighbouring parishes, viz., at Hepscott in the parish 

 of Morpeth, at Duddoe in Stannington, at Tritliugton, and at 

 Morpeth itself. Thebestknown member of the family was Richard 

 Wilson of Lincoln's Inn FieLls, who acquired a large fortune 

 in the practice of his profession as a solicitor in London. A 

 member of the Beef Steak Club, and Pursebearer to Lord 

 Eldon when Lord Chancellor, he was known familiarly as 

 ' Morpeth Dick.' The long association of the Wilson family 

 with Ulgham ended in 18. ., and though there are descendants 

 through the females, the male line is believed to be extinct. 



The Township of Ulgpiam Grange, a fine estate of over 

 700 acres, was one of the earliest possessions, and an original 

 endowment of Newminster. In the charter of 1138 Ealph de 

 Merlay says : " At Wlacam I have given them [the Cistercian 

 monks] to build their granges upon, from the Eagle's Nest to 

 the well of Egard, and as the stream of that well runs into the 

 Lina, and as the Lina runs as far as tlie march of Forum."*' 

 Though the Cistercian monks wero an order devoted to farming 

 and trading, and not much to missionary work (as that term is 

 now used) they would doubtless have a little chapel at their 

 grange. The latter stood on a spur on the edge of their lands 

 on the sloping banks of the Line. In the old pasture field may 

 be seen high and wide ridges, probably unbroken and in the 

 same form as when they were cultivated by the monks. 



The value of the Grange at the Dissolution was £13 6s 8d, and 

 it remained in the Crown until 1601, after which it came into 

 the hands of the great Northumbrian house of Gre3\ It was 

 apparently granted by Sir Ealph Grey of Horton and Chilling- 

 ham to the two sons of his second marriage with Dorothy, 

 daughter of Sir Thomas Mallet, viz : — Kobert Grey, D.D., 

 rector of Bishopwearmouth, and Edward Grey of Gray's 

 Inn.§ 



1638, 10th March, Edward Grey of Chillingham, esq., and Robert 

 Grey, clerk, his brother, conveyed Ulgham Grange. 



* Newminster Chartulary, pp. 1, 2. 



§ Edward Grey, son of Sir Ralph Grey of Chillingham. knight, was 

 entered at Grey's Inn, 3 Ang. 1629. — Porster, Oray's Inn Register, 



