360. Saturday after S. Martin in winter, 13 Edw. III. (13 November, 1339). Deed poll of John de Brinkelawe and Dionisia his wife, testifying that they have done due fealty to Thomas de Lomeley son of Waleran de Lomeley, burgess of Newcastle, and attorned to him in acknowledgment of his full seisin with one penny in part payment of a certain annual rent of 7s which they have granted to the same Thomas his heirs and assigns by their charter to that effect, to be received yearly from a messuage of theirs in Pampeden at Pentecost and S. Martin. Newcastle. (1. 1. Spec. 108)

See nos. 122, 123, and Durham Seals, no. 396.

The reference to fealty in this deed is anomalous.

361. Feast of S. Matthias 1341 (24 February, 1342). Quitclaim by Robert Godibour junior to Idonea Cragg her heirs and assigns, of a tenement which Adam Nynepenyes formerly held of John Cragg his heirs and assigns in fee of 6s 8d (in feodo sex solidorum et octo denariorum) in Pilgrim Street. Witnesses, ' dominus' Gilbert de Haw[1]iston, keeper of the town of Newcastle, Robert de Aliwell, John Wodemanne, William de Straham, John Raynald, Thomas Dawlyn, Alan Pouler, Newcastle. (4. 3. Spec. 24)

Durham Seals, no. 1080.

362.-3 September, 1369. Will of Nicholas Cok of Newcastle, made at Norham, whereby after directing that his body should be buried in the Churchyard of S. Nicholas, he bequeathed to Matilda his wife one third of his goods, and devised to her for life the house in which he lived, which on her death was to be sold by his executors, and the proceeds distributed for the health of his soul. To Agnes his daughter he gave £100, a silver cup, and all other his lands in Newcastle for her life, and afterwards to be sold as above; to Agnes his daughter of Evynwode £10, to John Maschall 100s, to the Carmelite brethren of Newcastle sixty stone of iron, to the Friars Preachers 26s 8d to the Friars Minor and the Austin Friars 20s each, to the high altar of S. Nicholas of Newcastle 20s to the altar of the blessed Mary of the same church 6s 8d, to the fabric of the church of S. John 13s 4d, to the fabric of the window in the Choir of S. Nicholas 20s, to John Jakys 13s 4d, to John Cok his brother 20 marks in goods (in catallis), to a priest for celebrations for his soul in the church of S. Nicholas £30, to the fabric of the bridge of Warthewyk 20 marks if built within two years, if not so built then to the bridge of Bolbec, to William de Dunelmo a girdle and 40s, to poor men twenty seven dozen of russet; the residue of his goods to be at the disposition of his executors, Matilda his wife, John Cok and William de Dunelmo. Witnesses, Thomas de Kellow, priest Gilbert de Bedelyngton, John de Whickham

a.d. xii Kal. Oct. (20 September) 1369. Will proved in the chapel of S. John, Newcastle. (1. 1. Spec. 70; Bourne, pp. 202, 203)

A portion of this will is printed by Bourne at p. 202, and again with additions at p. 203 as an extract from the will of John Coke.

Nicholas Coke was probably of the same family as Robert Cocus or 'le Keu' of Pilgrim Street, burgess of Newcastle, who with his son Thomas occurs several times in the Newminster Chartulary as owner of land in Stannington. He had land also at Blagdon (Hodgson, II, ii, p. 346).

Wallis in his History of Northumberland (ii, p. 355) treats Nicholas Coke's gift to the bridge of Warthewyk (Warwick, co. Cumberland) as a gift to Warkworth Bridge by John Coke, probably on the authority of Bourne, p. 203, who gives Warkwith' for Warthewyk.' The error is repeated by subsequent writers, e.g., Welford, i, p. 194; N.C.H., v, p.

142.

A later Nicholas Coke of Newcastle was keeper of the Bishop's coal in Gateshead and Whickham c. 1372 (32 D.K.R., appx., i, p. 269), had pardon for breach of forest laws in Weardale c. 1380 (ib.), and was collector of pontage in Newcastle in 1394 and 1395 (Cal. Pat., 1391-96, pp. 387, 552).

363.-Morrow of the Circumcision 1369 (2 January, 1370). Letters testimonial (in French) of Robert de Angerton mayor and Stephen Whitgray, sheriff, testifying that on that day John Cok and William de Duresme, executors of Nicholas Cok, late burgess of the town, sold and delivered to William de Bishopdal burgess of the same town all the moneys goods and chattels personal and real (les deniers biens et chateux moblez et nyentmoblez) in their hands or in the hands of others, of the goods of the said Nicholas, except the moiety of all the moneys goods chattels and debts which belonged to the said Nicholas on the day of his death, which moiety the said John and William there delivered to Maud who was the wife of the said Nicholas as her own property by reason that she was the wife of the said Nicholas together with all the household goods (toutz les biens et chateux appelles houshald) by reason that Nicholas devised the same to her. The said John and William undertook to collect at the cost of the said William de Bishopdal the debts and chattels due to the said Nicholas and to deliver them to him from time to time as they could best be collected and recovered (come ils purront meuth estre coillez ou recoverez) except £20 of John Tyncler of Penrith, £23 of Thomas del Castell and £10 10s of John Potter of Newcastle Witnesses, John Howell, John, son of Thomas de Bishopdale, John de Houden, Robert Oliver, Thomas de Corbrig, Laurence de Acton. (M.C. 6882)

Durham Seals, nos. 77, 3739.

For a note on William de Bishopdale see no. 367.

364. Feast of the Apostles Simon, and Jude (28 October) 1374. Grant by John de Brampton of Newcastle to William his son of a messuage in Newcastle between a messuage formerly of

Matilda de Acton and a messuage of William de Carliolo, fuller, to hold of the chief lords of the fee, etc., rendering to the grantor during his life 33s 4d at Pentecost and Martinmas by equal portions. Power to re-enter; warranty. Witnesses, John de Refham, mayor, Thomas Graper, Laurence de Acton, Thomas Wodeman, Thomas Thribley, bailiffs, John Houden, Adam Cant, Ralph Marchall, John Wethirmelok. Newcastle. (M.C. 6621)

365.-Saturday after the feast of S. Margaret (21 July) 1375. Release and quitclaim by John Fayt, burgess and mercer of Newcastle, to John de Bishopdal, burgess, of all actions and claims, etc., from the beginning of the world to date of execution of these presents. Newcastle. (M.C. 6622)

Some details regarding the family of Fayt are to be found in N.C.H. x (see index s.v. Fait) and in a bound volume of deeds in the vestry of S. Margaret's, Durham.

366.-12 February, 20 Ric. II. (1397). Grant for life by William Bishopdale, burgess of Newcastle, to William Stevenson, cook, of a tenement next to and behind the Cokestolebothes between a tenement of William de Wraa on the north and a tenement of Anabell de Rouchester on the south, rendering therefor yearly 16d at Pentecost and Martinmas. Power to re-enter if any waste be not repaired within half a year of its making. Covenant to repair. Witnesses, Sampson Hardyng, mayor, William de Redmershill, John de Coket, Robert Gabyfore, Roger Thornton, bailiffs, Thomas Desse, Robert Roos, John Hirnyng, William York, John de Eghton. Newcastle. (1. 1. Spec. 87)

William Stevenson cook is called Cok Cuke in no. 367, and William Cook in no. 370.

Cokestoleboothes (cooks' stell booths, i.e., fixed booths) were situated in the Market street, now Newgate Street, on the east side. Brand gives a reference to land opposite les Coksour Bothes in the vicus fori in 1355 (i, p. 13). At the inquisition on the death of Alice widow of Nicholas Sabram in 1399 it was found that she owned two shops in the Cukstelbothes (Inq. p.m., 22 Ric. II, no. 40).

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367.-2 February, 1398. Will of William de Byschopdale, burgess of Newcastle upon Tyne, languens in extremis,' whereby after commending his soul to Almighty God, and directing his body to be buried in the church of the Friars Minor of the town, he bequeathed to his wife Elizabeth a bed upholstered with tapestry (unum lectum couchide de Tapiterwark), to Robert de Swynhowe a silver sword; to William de Swynhowe a doublet of felt; to Robert Buthe a silken doublet; to Johanna and Margaret his daughters a pair of silver Beedes each, and a dozen silver spoons; to John Mounford a silver girdle; to Thomas Mounford a silvered poniard (baslardum); to Elizabeth Mounford a dozen silver spoons; to the church of Bolton-on-Swale a 'Jak' of silver silken cloth; to John

Barbour a cloak furred with calaber (calebr'); to William Dees his servant a silvered poniard with a black hilt (manibrium) together with 13s 4d rent for life from his lands in Richmondshire, viz., from a small tenement in Northallerton 5s and from all his lands in Maundby and Kirkebywisk 88 6d; to Cok Cuke his servant a tenement in Newcastle on the east of the highway going towards Newgate (ex orientali parte alte vie ambulando versus le Newyate) for life, rendering yearly to testator's assigns 16d; to Elizabeth his wife a dozen of his best silver spoons, and for her life, the tenement in which he dwelt. He willed that all his lands and tenements in Newcastle, and all reversions, viz., of the tenement which gave to Cok Cuke and of the rent which he gave to William Dees and of the house which he gave to his wife, and all his lands in the City of Durham, the town of Northallerton and in other towns and places in Richmondshire, should remain to his daughters Johanna and Margaret and the heirs of their bodies, remainder to Isabella his sister for life, remainder to John de Pykbourne, son of Isabella, and the heirs of his body, remainder to Richard de Pykbourne, son of Isabella and brother of John, and his heirs for ever, so nevertheless that the said lands tenements and reversions should never come to Thomas de Pykbourne the eldest son of Isabella so long as any younger son of hers, or an heir of any such son should be living. He directed that £20 which he owed to Robert de Wycliff should be paid. He bequeathed to the Friars of the order of the Minorites of Newcastle a felt jacket. He appointed his wife Elizabeth, Gilbert de Elvett, Henry de Byngfeld and Thomas Dees to be his executors. Witnesses, sir Thomas de Lavendall, priest, Nicholas de Parke, William Dees.

Proved in the Church of S. Nicholas of Newcastle, 3 January, 1402. (1. 1. Spec. 64; Arch. Ael. 1 ser. iii. p. 78)

William de Bishopdale, whose surname is derived from Bishopdale near Askrigg in the North Riding, was a son of Thomas de Bishopdale. He was a bailiff of the town in 1377, mayor several times between 1379 and 1392, and represented the town in Parliament five times between 1378 and 1391. In 1378 he was appointed deputy chief butler in the port of Newcastle (Cal. Pat., 1377-81, p. 282) and subsequently held_other public appointments in the town, such as controller of customs and collector of the subsidy on wine (Cal. Pat., passim). In 1387 he obtained a licence, with John de Bulkham and Robert Oliver, to equip a balinger of war for destroying the king's enemies of France and Scotland, with power to take what they could from the enemy without rendering account (Cal. Pat., 1385-89, p. 342). In 1391 there was a grant to him as mayor, and to subsequent mayors, to have a sword borne before them, which sword the king agreed to give him (Cal. Pat., 1388-92, p. 378; Welford, i, p. 212). The sword given by king Richard has disappeared, and the older of the two state swords now owned by the Lord Mayors of Newcastle for the period of their office dates from about 1460 (Proc. Soc. Antiq. Lond., 2 ser., xiii, p. 350).

About October, 1391, William de Bishopdale, then mayor, married Agnes, widow of John de Heselrig, daughter and co-heir of Thomas Graper, and with her had a grant from Peter Graper her uncle of the

manor of Swarland and lands in Sidgate and Castle Field in Newcastle, and in Jesmond and Elswick. The limitations contained in this grant are not known, but after the death of Agnes in 1392 or 1393, Bishopdale had an assurance of an annual rent of £20 out of her lands in Northumberland (Lansdowne MSS., vol. 326, fos. 107, 110). second wife was Elizabeth.

The name of his

His brother John de Bishopdale, burgess of Newcastle, married Katherine Fossour a relative of John Fossour prior of Durham, and, apparently of the Sires of Jarrow and Pipewellgate (No. 332 note). There are numerous deeds in the Durham Treasury relating to the Sire lands in Pipewellgate, Whickham and Hebburn which formed the subject of grants by William Sire, and his successors in title, to the Priory of Durham (Feod. Pri. Dun., pp. 4, 5, 12; 32 D.K.R., appx. iii, p. 275). Some of Sire's lands were later in the possession of John de Bishopdale and his wife (4. 3. Spec. 13, 25; 2. 3. Spec. 9, printed in Bourne, p. 203). John de Bishopdale by his will (undated) proved on 30 August, 1380, gave to the Prior and Convent the reversion of his tenements in Pipewellgate of Gateshead formerly of William Sire, and one halling of Arras work (unam aulam de opere de arrays) (4. 3. Spec. 25). After his death his brother William de Bishopdale brought a writ of novel disseisin against William de Graystanes and William Couton, priests, who then held the property in trust, claiming the lands of William Sire in Gateshead, Pipewellgate in Gateshead, and in Whickham which afterwards belonged to John de Bishopdale. The action was compromised and William de Bishopdale quitclaimed his interest to the defendants (Dur. Treas., Cart. ii, fo. 74) who in 1388 obtained licence to convey the lands to the Prior (32 D.K.R., appx. iii, p. 314).

On 21 January, 1378, William de Bishopdale acquired from Sir Robert Charlys, lord of Clyf, land in Maunby-on-Swale, Kirkby Wiske and Newsham, in Richmondshire (Cal. Close, 1377-81, p. 226).

368.-1 August, 3 Hen. IV (1402). Grant by Richard Cliderhowe to Ralph, earl of Westmorland, Henry Byngfeld and John Lascy of all his estate in the house in Pilgrim street in which he lately resided, and all his other lands and tenements in co. Lincoln and in Newcastle. Witnesses, Richard Beverlay, Henry Baker, John Wadyngton. Newcastle. (1. 1. Spec. 88)

Durham Seals, no. 648.

Richard Cliderhowe (Clitherhoe), owner of land in Newcastle and in co. Lincoln, was in 1401 appointed controller of the wine subsidy in the ports between Berwick and Scarborough, and in the following year he was deputy butler and commissioner as to concealed customs in Newcastle (Cal. Pat., 1399-1401, p. 467; 1401-05, pp. 119, 198). He was Escheator for Northumberland 1403-1405. In 1403 he was living in his house in Pilgrim Street (No. 372), but had ceased to do so in 1422 (No. 376). He was dead by 1431 when his widow under the name of Margery de Longforth made a grant at Chesterfield to Hugh Cliderhowe of Hull (Nos. 378, 379, 380). Henry Cliderhowe, brother of Richard, and John Lascy another relative, granted the house in Pilgrim Street to Hugh in 1432 (No. 381), who in the same year conveyed it to his son Robert and others (No. 382).

Richard was probably the same person as the Richard Cliderhowe who with his wife Elizabeth, daughter of William Swinhoe, was plaintiff in an action in 1399 concerning a house in the Bigg Market in Newcastle (Arch. Ael., 3 ser. vi, p. 66; 2 ser. i, pp. 29, 30). Richard Cliderhowe of Newcastle was not however the same person as Richard son of Richard