In Harbottle, Eardhope, and Peels, in the parishes of Hallystone and Allenton: A castle and its scite, Harbotle Parke, with cottages and lands, let by my late father, on lease for 21 years, to Mr. John Alder at 150li. a year, and 5li. 7s. 6d., a fine paid to Dame Mary Gascoigne, my late mother, deceased, on the execution of the said lease.

In Burradon: A messuage, &c., let to George Willons at Ioli. rent; another let to Thomas Willons at 1oli.; another let to Thomas Potts at 5li.; another let to John Willons at Ioli.

In Allenton Hough: A close let to Alexander Brown at 17s. 4d.; and another let to Mary Wilkinson at 9s. rent.

Of all which I, the said Sir Edward Gascoigne, am seised of an estate of inheritance, to me and my heirs for ever, chargeable, however, with a modus of 10s. payable to Sir Reginald Graham in lieu of all tithes in Erdope; a free rent of 10S. 1od. out of Harbottle Castle to the lord of the manor of Ridsdale; 2s. out of Eardope to said lord of the manor; 12li. out of Harbottle Castle and Peeles to Thomas Selby, esq., and 2s. 7d. out of Burradon to said Thomas Selby; likewise, by deed of the late Sir John Gascoigne and Dame Mary his wife, subject to 3,000li. as part of his and her daughters their portions.

Power of Attorney, 16 August, 1723, to John Alder of Harbottle, gent., John Willons and George Willons, both of Burradon, yeomen. [Enrolled 9 October, 1723.]

XCVI.-Register of the estate of MARY SELBY* OF EARLE alias YARDHILL, WIDOW OF WILLIAM SELBY OF THE SAME PLACE, GENT., DECEASED, dated 11 November, 1723.

Three and a half farmholds at Earle alias Yardhill in the parish of Dorrington, now in my possession, unlet but valued at 21li. 6s. 8d. a year, which I claim by descent.

he sold Harbottle Castle to Luke Clennell of Clennell. He died at Cambrai 24th May, 1750. See Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle, 3 ser., vol. viii, pp. 21-34; Dugdale's Visitation of Yorkshire with Additions, by J. W. Clay, vol. iii, p. 102; and History of Barwick-in-Elmet, p. 155 (Thoresby Soc., No. xvii).

*The lady whose register is abstracted in the text was Mary, daughter and coheir of Swinburne of Earle, or Yearle, in the chapelry of Doddington, and widow of William Selby, jure uxoris, of Earle. Immediately after registering her estate she became the second wife of George Ilderton of Ilderton, the bond of marriage being dated 19th September, 1723. By a deed dated 7th January, 1728, made between George Ilderton of Ilderton, esq., and Mary his wife, which Mary was widow and relict of William Selby of Yearle Hill, of the first part, Charles Selby, eldest son and heir of the said Mary by the William Selby her first husband of the second part, Ralph Clavering of Callaley and Thomas Alder Belford of the third part, a third part of Yearle was charged for a provision for the younger children of the said Mary. On the 19th August, 1735, Mary Ilderton, then widow of George Ilderton of Ilderton, esq., her son Charles Selby, with George Handasyde of Wooler, entered into an agreement with Ephraim Selby of Stanton to divide Yearle. Papers enrolled at Quarter Sessions at Moot-hall, Newcastle,

One third part of Earle alias Yardhill mill let to James Vardy alias Varty at 6li. 13s. 4d., all of which I claim by descent.

Enrolled 16 November, 1723.

XCVII. Register of the estate of ELINOR THIRLWALL* OF WARWICK-HALL, CUMBERLAND, GENTLEWOMAN, dated 3 January, 1723.

Hexham Parish: A capital messuage, &c., called Newbegin, let to Mr. John Mackay and Lancelot Tone, on lease parole, from year to year, as long as they are pleased, at 5oli.

A tenement, &c., at Lambsheele, let to William Stawpert and Joseph Forster, on lease parole, 64li. [?].

A water corn mill with lands, called Linnell mill, let to Thomas Simpson, on lease parole, 1Ili.

A fulling mill let to James White, on lease parole, 5li.

A messuage and lands at the Birks, let to Thomas Kirkley, on lease parole, gli.

A messuage and lands at the Birks, let to Anne Hubbeck, on lease parole, 8li.

A messuage, &c., called Throslinghall, let to Elizabeth Davison, on lease parole, 3li.

A messuage, &c., called Howtley, let to John Oxley and William Carr, on lease parole, 21li.

A messuage, &c., called Hole-house, let to John Oxley, on lease parole, 6li.

A messuage, &c., called Whinnetley-house, let to George Farbridge, on lease parole, 4li.

A messuage, &c., called Ground-ridge, let to John Charleton, on lease parole, 27li.

A tenement and land there let to Thomas Storey, on lease parole, 12li. 10S.

A tenement there let to Henry Giles, on lease parole, 12li. IOS. A tenement, &c., called Cooks-house, let to Thomas Errington, on lease parole, 8li.

* William Thirlwall, the last heir male of the very ancient house of Thirlwall of Thirlwall, was living in 1702, and dead before 1710. By his first wife, Frances, daughter of Sir Francis Salkeld of White-hall in Cumberland, whom he married in 1686, he had issue an only daughter, Mary Thirlwall, who, in 1716, sold her interest to her stepmother, became a nun in France, was still alive in 1752. William Thirlwall married secondly, in 1699, Lucy, daughter of Thomas Warwick of Warwick in Cumberland, who bore him two daughters, of whom Eleanor Thirlwall, whose register is abstracted in the text, was the sole survivor.

Before her marriage in 1738, when she could be no longer young, she seems to have resided with her maternal kinsfolk at Warwick-hall. Her husband was Matthew Swinburne, second son of Sir William Swinburne of Capheaton, bart. Having no issue, she and her husband sold her estates. She died at Cambrai on the 14th December, 1777, and her husband at the same place in the following year. For a pedigree of Thirlwall of Thirlwall and Newbiggin in Hexhamshire see new History of Northumberland, vol. iv, p. 35.

A tenement, &c., called Upper Ardley, let to Ralph Bell and Richard Errington, on lease parole, 16li.

[Love-lady] Sheel, let to Richard Nicholson, on lease parole, Ili. IOS.

Parish of Haltwhistle: A tenement at Thirlwall Castle, let to Ridley, 23li.

A tenement, &c., called New Hall and Stone Gap, let to John Smith, on lease parole, 21li.

A tenement, &c., called Farglaw, let to Thomas Rutherford, on lease parole, 7li.

Another tenement, &c., at Farglaw, tenement let to Wm. Allen, on lease parole, 7li.

A tenement, &c., called Hunter Crook, let to Francis Graham, on lease parole, 5li.

Tenements, &c., called Moss petterell and Cromwell, and the corn tithes of the manor of Thirlwall, let to William Carrick, 21li. 5s. Tenements called Bittlestones and Bowman's Gap, let to George Thirlwall, on lease parole, 12li.

Thirlwall water corn mill with lands, &c., farmed by John Forster, on lease parole, &c., 7li.

A tenement, &c., called Cross Gates, let to William Bowman, 4li. 17s. 6d.

A tenement, &c., called the Crooks, let to William Carrick [?]. A tenement, &c., called White-side, let to Ann Ladley, 8li. Certain customary tenements in the manor of Thirlwall, which pay the yearly antient rents following:

Wardrew, the estate of William Carrick, 6s. 8d.
Dirthouse, the estate of John Carrick, 6s. 8d.

Crooks, the estate of John Snawdon, Is. 4d.
Crooks, the estate of Mary Carrick, 10s.

Wardoughan [sic], the estate of Edward Pingey, 10s.
Gapp, the estate of John Blaikburn, 8s.

Fowltown, the estate of Thomas Thirlwall, 7s. 4d.
Fowltown, the estate of Thomas Carrick, gent., 8s. 4d.
Gallow Side, the estate of William Blakeburn, Is. 8d.
Barronhouse, the estate of John Blakeburn, 10s.

A tenement in Haltwhistle, the property of George Marshall, 2s. 2d.

A tenement in Haltwhistle, the property of Christopher Bell, 6d. A tenement in Haltwhistle, the property of Thomas Pratt, Is. 4d. A tenement in Haltwhistle, the property of John Ridley, 2s. 10d. A tenement in Haltwhistle, the property of Cuthbert Lethatt, 2s. Iod.

A tenement in Haltwhistle, the property of George Johnson, IS. 6d.

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A modus of 5s. a year for corn-tithe of Baron-house belonging to Mrs. Teasdale.

A modus of 10s. a year for corn-tithe in Baron-house belonging to John Curry.

A modus of 20d. for corn-tithe of a tenement there belonging to John Blakeburn.

An antient rent out of a free tenement called Temmon, late the estate of Mr. Philip Thirlwall, deceased, IOS.

For which several customary tenements above named there is paid to the lord or lady of the said manor of Thirlwall, for the time being, for each tenement a twenty pence fine on the death of the lord or tenant, and on the death of every tenant a twenty penny fine, and an harriott, or 40s., at the election of the lord or lady of the manor; and to the lord or lady of the said manor a twenty penny fine on every alienation, and each tenant is to perform yearly a mow-dargue and two sheer-dargues, and one catch [sic] yearly from Thirlwall Castle to Newbegin*; and each tenant is to spin gratis, yearly, one pound of line or wowl, at the request of such lord or lady as aforesaid.

Enrolled 15 January, 1723-4.

XCVIII. Register of the estates of RALPH CLAVERING†
OF CALLALEY, ESQ. [No date.]

The manor of Callaley, except a tenement called High-houses farm: The mansion house of Callaley with lands, &c., formerly let to Andrew Pringle and George Snawdon, and now in my own possession, valued at 140li.

Callaley mill let to Laury Harvey, miller, as tenant at will, at 12li. Part of Todly moor and three closes called Fatting pasture, Ferny-flatt, and Mare Meadowfield, let to John Hunter, 86li. Messuages, &c., in Callalee town, let to several poor persons at 22li. Of which I have an estate only for life. The said manor of Callaley is charged with a mortgage of 3,500li., to a vicountal rent of 2li. 13s. 4d., a quit rent and also rents due to the Dean and Chapter of Carlisle, &c.

Enrolled 13 January, 1723–4.

*The family seem to have deserted their ancestral castle of Thirlwall soon after the union of the Crowns for Newbegin in Hexhamshire.

† Ralph Clavering of Callaly, only son of John Clavering of that place (see Register No. XL), is stated to have been born circa 1695. He married, in 1723, Mary, daughter of Nicholas Stapleton alias Errington of Ponteland and of Carlton near Pontefract (see Register No. xXXII), by whom he had a numerous issue. He is stated to have died in April, 1748. His will, dated 8th December, 1746, was enrolled at Quarter Sessions. Ralph Clavering subsequently enrolled a revised or corrective register. See Register No. cxvII.

XCIX.-Register of the estate of ELIZABETH Ord,* late of WeteWOOD BUT NOW of Gateshead, SPINSTER, dated 4 January, 1723-4.

The tithes under mentioned, viz.: of corne in Bolsdon, Barmore, and Gatherick, demised by the Dean and Chapter of Durham by lease dated 18 January, 1716, to Richard Simpson of Goosmargh [sic] in the county of Lancaster, gentleman, &c.,for 21 years, at gli. 6s. 8d. rent, which Richard Simpson by indenture of defeazance, dated 19 January, 1716, covenanted with said Elizabeth Ord that, upon payment of 40oli. and interest, he would convey all the said tithes to her, her heirs, and assigns. That John Crowther of Lowick has the tithes of Barmore, Barmore Ridge, Gatherick Woodend, Brenkenside, Woodside, and Barmore mill, part of the above demised tithes, by lease of 8 August, 1717, between Richard Stow of Berwick upon Tweed, gentleman (by virtue of a letter of attorney from said Richard Simpson), of the one part, and John Crowther of the other part, for 42li. a year. And that Edward Nealson of Berwick upon Tweed, alderman, has the tithes of Bolsdon, the Liquor, and Crookhouse (being the other part of the said premises), by lease dated 8 August, 1717, made between said Richard Stow, by virtue of a letter of attorney from the said Richard Simpson, of the one part, and Edward Nealson of the other, at 43li. a year. All which premises still stand charged with said sum of 400li. to the said Richard Simpson. A fine of 26li. 13s. 4d. was paid to the Dean and Chapter of Durham.

Witness, Mary Hodshon.

Enrolled 25 January, 1723-4.

C.-Register of the estate of RICHARD ELLIS† OF HEXHAM, GENT., dated 2 January, 1723–4.

I am seised for life, by copy of court roll of the manor of Anick Grange, of a stone house, a thatched house, &c., let at 30s., in Hexham, occupied by myself and a tenant, and also of an acre of ground in Hexham town-field, by copy of court roll of the manor

* Elizabeth Ord, whose register is abstracted in the text, was of the family of Ord of Weetwood. See Register No. LXXIV. By her will, dated 31st September, 1732, she gave £30 per annum to her brother, Lancelot Ord, until she should regain his estate at Weetwood, and made her niece, Mary Butler, her executrix. The latter, Mrs. Mary Butler, daughter of Henry Butler of Rawcliffe in Lancashire, dying 2nd March, 1752, gave certain tithes to the Provincial of the Society of Jesus for the support of a priest to reside at or near Sturton Grange, who was to say mass every month for the souls of Lancelot Ord, esq., and Margaret his wife, Mrs. Elizabeth Ord, and for the donor. See Foley, Records of the English Province, S. J., ser. xii, p. 643; Estcourt and Payne, English Catholic Nonjurors, p. 209; new History of Northumberland, vol. v, pp. 244-247; Arch. Ael., 3 ser., vol. xii, p. 63.

† Richard Ellis, gentleman, occurs on a list of reputed Papists in the borough of Hexham, September, 1745. New History of Northumberland, vol. iii, p. 257.