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the third part of two parts of the manor of Eugeley with pertinents in 

 the same county, to be held in respect of the same Agnes for the lands, 

 etc., and took homage, etc., and therefore. (lb. ii., p. 89.) 32 Edward III. 

 1357-8. It is directed to William de Nessefelde, eschaetor of the king in 

 Northumberhmd, that on receiving security from John de Clifford, son 

 and heir of Hobert and Elizabeth de Clifford deceased, for his reasonable 

 relief, he permit the same John to have full [seizin] of certain tenements 

 in Elyngeham with pertinents. (lb. ii., p. 248.) 



The Church of St. Maurice, Ei.lingham. 



This new cruciform church, erected by the Rev. Charles Thorp, in 

 1862, replaced a modern church, which had fallen into disrepair. Of 

 both there are views in Mr F. E. Wilson's " Chui'chea of Lindisfarne." 

 The original church here was founded by Sir Ralph de Guagy, in time of 

 Hugh Pudsey, bishop of Durham. There are tablets to Sir Carnaby 

 Haggerstone, Bart. : to Winifred, wife of Thos. Uagger.ston, Esq. ; Edward 

 Haggerston, Esq., and others ; and the west window is filled with stained 

 glass to the memory of Mary, wife of William Spoors, Esq., Charlton Hall. 



Old Vicar. — The Seal of the Abbot of the Church of Alnwick is 

 attached to a note of obligation from Mag. Roger de Burton, to pay to 

 the convent of Durham 15 marcs annually, for the church of Ellingham, 

 which he farms of them : it is of date prior to 1239 when Burton died. A 

 third seal of the Abbot of Alnwick is appended to a commission of 

 enquiry by Mag. Alan, archdeacon of Northumberland, date 1239, by 

 order of the Archbishop of York, as to the church of Ellingham, vacant 

 by the death of Mr Roger de Burton. (Tate, ii., 19-20.) 



(I.) Preston Tower. 



The early proprietors of Preston were the Batailles, the Middletons, 

 and Sir John Strivelyn, some details of whose history, particularly of the 

 Batailles, is given in the Club's Hist. vol. x., pp. 550-553, in connection with 

 their other properties. Mr Cadwallader Bates in his "Border Holds," 

 in the Archaeologia -iEliana, vol. xiv., takes up the manorial history 

 at this point, where he gives his account of Preston Tower, pp. 195-198, 

 when it had been acquired by Robert Harbottle, who marries Marjorie, 

 daughter of Sir Robert Ogle. Sir Robert Harbottle, who was sheriff of 

 Northumberland in 1439, in that year settled his manor of Preston and 

 the town of Walden (Waldenburn passes through the ground) on his son 

 Bertram, and Jane his wife, daughter of Sir Thomas Lumley. Bertram 

 Harbottle, who was sheriff in 1447, died in 1462 ; and was succeeded by 

 his sou. Sir Ralph Harbottle, who on the 12th May, 1499, granted a lease 

 of the tower, manor, and town of Preston to John Harbottle of Fallodon, 

 gentleman, for the term of 13 years, at the annual rent of £8 13s. 4d. 

 John Harbottle bound himself at his own cost ' to set a Roofe upon the 

 said Tower, and thack the same with hather, flags or strawe,' while Sir 

 Ralph was to hnd the timber for the roof. (Arch, .^liana.) 



