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1647, lOfch June, Edward Grey of Cowpen, esq., conveyed Ul^ham 

 Grange to Robert Grey of Little Langton, in the county of York, 

 clerk, to secure £500. 



1647 [? 164|] 18th March, Edward Grey of Cowpen, esq., leased 

 Ulghara Grange to Roger Fenwick and Ralph Fenwick his brother, 

 both of that place, yeomen, for 9 years at £100 a-year. 



With the Greys of Howick the Grange continued until 18. ., 

 when it was purchased by Mr Cresswell. 



The Fenwick family continued at the Grange until 1849. 

 Unless any descendants survive in Australia, the family is 

 extinct so far as the male line goes, but this is not the place 

 to deal with their detailed history.* 



Of Stobswood, the most northerly part of the chapelry, it is 

 not necessary to say much. It was held in 1715 by six tenants 

 whose farms were of nearly equal value, four paying £4 each, 

 and two £5 each per annum. Five years later a memorandum 

 appears in the Churchwardens' books, of the liability of 

 Stobswood to repair 30 yards of the churchyard wall. 



The carriage road from Ulgham to Tritlington, on the south 

 side of the sedgy Line, passes Ulgham Fence, and Ulgham 

 Cockles; it leaves Cockle Park Tower on the left. Tritlington lay 

 within the confines of the ancient forest of Earsdon. In the 

 possession of the writer is a beautifully engrossed pre-Eeforma- 

 tion deed on vellum, with two seals pendent, one being that of 

 John, Lord Lumley, apparently a pelican and her young ; the 

 other that of the chantry priest showing a Maltese cross. It is 

 dated 15th August 1533, and is a lease, granted by Sir John 

 Furies, priest of Lumley's chantry, within the parish church of 

 Chester-le-Street, to Sir William Ogle of Cockle Tower, knight, 

 of three husband-lands, and Woodhorn Close, with pasturage 

 within the town and forest of Earsdon, and a stone house in 

 Tritlington, to hold for 81 years at the rent of 32s. a-year, to 

 be paid to Sir John Furies and his successors, priests of the 

 said chantry.f 



The only family of exceptional interest connected with 

 Tritlington is that of Threlkeld. A portion of the township 

 seems to have been acquired about the beginning of the 

 eighteenth century by Deodatus Threlkeld, the eldest son 



* For incidental notices of this family of Fenwick, see vol. xii., p. 517. 

 t For the text of the deed, see Proc. of Soc. of Antiq. of Newcastle, 

 vol. v., p. 156. 



