REGISTER OF ESTATES OF ROMAN CATHOLICS IN NORTHUMBERLAND IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. I.-Register of the estates of SIR NICHOLAS SHIREBURNe* of STONYHURST IN THE COUNTY PALATINE OF LANCASTER, BART., dated 12 April, 1717. A tenement or farm at Cartington in possession of widow Hogg, Isack Bolham, and John Buddell, let at 27li. A tenement or farm in Snitter let to same at goli. Another tenement or farm at Snitter let to John Detchen at 26li. Another tenement or farm there let to George Lawson at 8li. 16s. Another tenement or farm there let to Ralph Prat at 8li. 16s. Another tenement or farm there let to Robert Gray at 8li. 16s. Another tenement or farm there let to John Lawson at 6li. 7s. 6d. Another tenement or farm there let to Edwin Gibbons and others at 8li. 16s. od. Another tenement or farm there let to Thomas Maughling at 10s. od. * Sir Cuthbert Radcliffe of Dilston, knight, succeeded to the castle and manor of Cartington through his mother Anne, daughter and sole heir of Sir John Cartington, the last heir male of that very ancient house. By a family arrangement the property was given in marriage with Mary, one of the daughters of Sir Francis Radcliffe, first baronet, to Roger Widdrington, a younger son of Edward Widdrington of Swinburn Castle; the marriage settlement being dated 18th November, 1601. He was succeeded by his son, Sir Edward Widdrington, created a baronet 8th August, 1642, who raised a regiment of horse in the service of Charles I, and whose estate was sequestered. He died in exile 13th July, 1671, aged 57, and was buried in the Capuchin church at Bruges. His wife, Christian Stuart, grand-daughter of [Francis], Earl of Bothwell, as a widow, resided in York, and made her will 17th February, 1678-9, in which she mentions her daughter Dame Mary Charlton, her daughter Catherine Hamond, her son-in-law Gervase Hamond, her grand-children Mary Charlton, Christian Talbot, Catherine Charlton, and John Talbot. Dame Christian Widdrington was buried at St. Maurice's, York, and her will was proved 8th December, 1684. Sir Edward Widdrington, having survived his son, was succeeded in Cartington by his eldest daughter, Mary, wife of Sir Edward Charlton of Hesleyside, who was created a baronet 6th March, 1645-6. Sir Edward Charlton was buried in the Cartington porch of Rothbury church on the 20th Jan., 1674-5, leaving issue four daughters and co-heiresses, viz. Elizabeth, wife of her cousin, William Charlton; Christian, wife of John Talbot; Catherine, wife of Sir Nicholas Shireburn of Stoneyhurst in Lancashire, created a baronet 4th February, 1685-6; and Mary, wife of Ralph Hardwick of London, described as merchant. cf. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle, 3 ser., vol. viii, pp. 21–34. A farm of tythe of Netherton in the parish of Alwenton let to Ralph Potts and William Buddle at 30li. A tenement or farm in Alwenton called New Hall let to Christopher Bolham at 16li. A tenement or farm there called Sheep-banks and let to John Alder at 15li. A tenement or farm at Park-head in the said parish of Alwenton let to Luke Clennell, esq., at Ios. od. Another tenement or farm there let to Robert Storrer at 15s. od. Thomas Selby, esq., for tithes, the yearly rack rent ili. 15s. Two tenements or farms called Windyhaugh and Dungo Burn in the parish of Alwenton let to Alexander Potts at 65li. A tenement or farm called Bygate Hall let to Andrew Henderson and George Potts at 62li. A tenement or farm in Alwenton parish called Lunges-know let to R bert Rutherford at 31li. A tenement or farm called Burdhope in Elsden parish let to Thomas Riddell at 17li. A tenement or farm called Fetherwood in Elsden parish let to Thomas Story at 21li. A tenement or farm called Cottenshope and Mile-Quarter in Elsden parish let to Ralph Herne and Mark Headley at 115li. A cottage at Snitter let to Thomas Nichols [...] Of all which (except some lands holden by lease of the Duke of Somerset) the said Sir Nicholas Shireburne is seised in fee simple, but subject to the following outgoing Rents:— To the Duke of Somerset for Newhall and Sheepbanks, 24li.; to the said Duke of Somerset for lands in Snitter, holden by lease for 21 years, 12li. 17s. 1d. yearly; a Crown, or viscountall-rent 7s.; to the parson of Rothbury for Snitter tithe hay, 19s. 6d.; to the said parson of Rothbury for other customary rents for lands in Snitter, 5li. 6s. 8d.; paid yearly at Rothbury for assoigne pennys, 2s. 8d.; paid yearly to Mrs. Howard for fee-farm rents for Windy-haugh, Dungo Burne, Cottenshope and Burdhope, 1oli. 16s.; paid yearly to the parson of Alwenton, 2li. 15s.; paid yearly to the Crown a certain rent due out of Alwenton rectory, 7li. 5s.; payable to the Widows Almhouse at Cartington, 6li. Power of Attorney, 9 April, 1717, to Ford Gray of Alnwick, gent., and Edward Ward of Morpeth, gent., or either of them, to sign certificate. Enrolled 2 May, 1717. II.-Register of the estate of GILBERT ERRINGTON* OF HEXHAM, GENT., dated 10 April, 1717. All that hamlet or grange called Portgate in the parish of St. John Lee let on a lease to George Jopling and Thomas Cooke by lease for nine years beginning 1 May, 1715, at 6oli. a year, “for which noe fine is paid." Power of Attorney, 23 April, 1717, to John Aynsley of Hexham, gent., Edward Ward of Morpeth, gent., and Thomas Marr of Morpeth, gent., or one of them, to sign certificate. Enrolled I May, 1717. III. Register of the estate of ROBERT WILSON† OF MORPETH, GENT., dated 15 April, 1717. A messuage with mault-kill, &c., in Newgate Street, Morpeth, let to Faith Wilson, widow, at the rent of 6li. Power of Attorney, 11 April, 1717, to Edward Ward of Morpeth, gent., Nicholas Stephenson of Morpeth, gent., and Robert Widrington of Plasey, or one of them to sign certificate. Enrolled I May, 1717. IV. Register of the estate of JOHN HESLOPP‡ OF GLANTON, YEOMAN, dated 17 April, 1717. A messuage, in Glanton, in possession of said John Heslop at the yearly value of 12li., chargeable with a fee-farm to the King of 20s. a year, and a rent-charge to John Clavering of Callalee of Ili. 18s. Power of Attorney, 15 April, 1717, to Ford Grey of Alnwick, gent., and Edward Ward of Morpeth, gent., or either of them, to sign certificate. Enrolled 3 May, 1717. * Gilbert Errington, second son of Richard Errington of Beukley and Portgate, received Portgate under his father's will dated 11th July, 1670; he was also brother and heir of Edward Errington of Beukley, who died circa 1721. Dying unmarried, he was buried at St. John Lee, 31st December, 1725, and by a death-bed will made two days before, he gave Portgate to his sister's son, Edward Widdrington of Colt-park and Ritton Whitehouse. cf.pedigree of Errington of Portgate, new History of Northumberland, vol. iv, P. 213. † He may have been an unidentified member of a family of Wilson coming from the neighbourhood of Shap in Westmorland, and seated at Hepscot in the parish of Morpeth, from 1667, and also at Ulgham, until the nineteenth century. On the 1st May, 1721, John Heslop and Mary his wife, by indentures, declared the uses of a fine of lands in Glanton, which lands the said John Heslop, then residing at Hebburn in the adjoining parish of Chillingham, on the 6th December, 1738, mortgaged to Edward Gallon of Alnwick, gent. He had further dealings with the property on the 30th October, 1753. |