or occupac'on of Robert Sharpe, or his assignes. And alsoe one cottage or ten'te, with th'app'ten'nc's, in Newbottle aforesaid, now or late in the tenure or occupac'on of William Surrett, or his assignes.

"And alsoe the mannor, farme or towneshippe of Moreton, with the rights, members and app'ten'nc's thereof, in the said countie of Durham, nowe or late in the tenure or occupation of Sir Richard Bellasis,* Knight, or his assignes; and all coale mynes, quarries of stone, and other mines and quarries opened and not opened, with their and everie of their appurten'nc's, within the said farme or towneshippe of Moreton aforesaid, now or late in the tenure or occupac'on of the said Sir Richard Bellasis, or his assigns;—which last menc'oned p'misses are menc'oned in the said p'ticular to be of the present yearely valew of thirty and six pounds, seaventeene shillings and three pence, and to be upon improvem1 of the yearly valew of one hundred sixty one pounds over and above the said p'sent yearely valew.

"And also all and singular messuages, cottages, tofts, crofts, mills, dovehouses, houses, edifices, buildings, barns, stables, orchards, gardens, and curtilages, lands, ten'ts, coppyhold or customary lands, meadows, leasowes, pastures, feedings, lands arrable, woods, underwoods, tymber

Eldest son and heir of Sir William Belasyse, above-named. He married, first, Elizabeth Spooner, daughter of . . . . . . of Chancery Lane, London, by whom he had two sons-William Belasyse, of Owton, Esq., and Richard, who died s. p. ; and one daughter, Catharine, wife of Henry Talbot, of Burroby, Yorkshire, Esq. Sir Richard married, secondly, Margaret, daughter of the gallant Sir William Lambton, of Lambton, Knt., by whom he had a daughter, Margaret, and one son, Sir Henry Belasyse, of Brancepeth, Knt, M. P. for the city of Durham, in the parliaments of 1701, 1702, 1705, and 1710, and governor of Berwick-upon-Tweed, who died Dec. 16, 1717, aged 70.

trees and other trees, heaths, moores, marshes, marshe grounds, furrs, wayes, passages, easements, com'ons, grounds used for com'on, wasts, wast grounds, rivers, streams, waters, watercourses, weares, dams, stancks, milpooles, sluces, floodgates, fishponds, fishing, hawking, hunting, fowlinge, viewes franckepledge, what to view of franckepledge app'teyneth, courts leete, law days, courts baron, hallmott courts, sherifs turne courts and all other courts whatsoever, services, franchises, customes, custome works, forfeitures, wardshipps, marriages, escheates, releifes, heriotts, fines, issues, amerciam, perquisitts and p'fitts of the said courts and leetes and of every of them, goods and chattels of felons, and fugitives, felons of themselves, outlawed p'sons, clerks convicted and of p'sons past in exigent, wayfes, estraies, deodands, mynes opened and not opened, quarries, wrecks of the sea, rights, royalties, jurisdic❜ons, liberties, priviledges, im'unities, p'fitts, commodities, advantages, emolumts, possessions and hereditaments whatsoever, with their and everie of their appurtenances, of what nature and quallity soever they be, to the foresaid burrough of Sunderland, and to the foresaid mannor or mannors of Houghton-in-le-Springe and Moreton or either of them, or to the said mills, messuages or ten'ts, and other the lands and pemisses above mentioned, and to everie or any of them belonging or in anywise appertayning, or with them or any of them, or any of them or any p'te or p'cell of them, or any of them respectively demised, leased, used, occupied or enjoyed as p'te, p'cell or member of them or any of them, and as amply and fully as any late bishopp of Durham, in right of the late bishoppricke of Durham, or any other p'son or p'sons, ten'nte or ten'nts, clayminge by, from, or under

him, them, or any of them, his, their, or any of their estates, at any time within the space of tenn yeares next before the begin'ing of this p°sent parliament, or sithence had held, used, or enjoyed, within the said burrowe, mannor, and p'misses, or in right of the said borough, mannor, and other the p°misses above menc'oned, and everie of them, or any parte or p'cell of them or any of them :which last menc'oned p'misses are menc'oned in the said p'ticular to be of the p'sent yearely value of tenn pounds. And the reverc'on and reverc'ons, remainder and remainders, of the said mannor, borough, lands & pemisses, & of everie parte and parcell thereof. All which said mannor, borough, lands & pemisses late were parcell of the possessions of the late bishoppricke of Durham.

"Except and alwaies reserved out of this pesent bargaine, sale and conveyance, all messuages and cottages with their app'ten'nc's respectively, and all lands and ten'ts with the said messuages or cottages respectively demised, p'cell of or belonginge to the said mannor of Houghton-in-le-Springe and not p'ticularly menc'oned in this posent indenture. And alsoe except all advowsons of parsonages or viccaridges, all rights of p'sentac'on to any church or chappell, all parsonages, impropriate tythes and porc'ons of tythes, oblac'ons, obvenc'ons, publicke chappells, churchyards and places used for burialls, donatives, and all such other things as in & by the said ordinances or any of them are saved or excepted or appointed to be saved or excepted or not to be sould.

"To have and to hold the said manor, borough, lands, ten'ts & hereditam, and all and singular other the pemisses, before, in, and by theise p'sents granted, aliened, bargained, or sold, or meant, menc'oned, or intended to

be hereby granted, aliened, bargained, or sold, with their and everie of their rights, members, and app'ten'nces (except before excepted) unto the said George Fenwicke, his heires and assignes for ever, to the only use and behoofe of the said George Fenwicke, his heires and assignes for ever, as amply as the said Trustees, by any the severall Ordinances of Parliam', for sale of the lands and possessions of the late archbishopps and bishopps ought to have held and enjoyed, and are thereby enabled to convey the same, discharged of all demands, paymts, and incombrances, as amply as is ordeyned by any of the said severall ordinances of parliament made in that behalfe.

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"En Witness whereof, the p'ties aforesaid to theise Endentures interchangeably have put their hands & seales, the day and yeare first above written. "And be it remembered, that on the twentieth day of November, in the year aforesaid, the said Stephen Estwick came before the Keepers of the Liberties of England by authority of Parliament, in chancery, and acknowledged the said indenture, and all and singular the matters therein contained. and specified in manner aforesaid."*

AYLETT.

COLONEL GEORGE FENWICK, above named, was the eldest son of George Fenwick, of Brinkburne, by his wife Dorothy, daughter of John Forster, of Newham, in the county of Northumberland. He was twelve years old in 1615, in which year he had a legacy of £100 by

From the Original in the Public Record Office, Rolls' Chapel, Rolls' Yard, Chancery Lane, London.

the will of his uncle Gregory Fenwick, of Brinkburne.* He was an active parliamentary officer; served in Ireland, where, in May, 1647, his troop "defeated a party under the Earl of Westmeath on great disadvantage, where Captain Farrington, one lieutenant, one ensign and sixty souldiers of the parliaments were slain, and the rebels lost three hundred." For this and other gallant services, the parliament (August 18) passed an "order for a day of thanksgiving for the great success in Ireland, and for £1000 for Col. Jones, £1000 to Col. Fenwicke, and other gratuities to other officers in this service."‡ Returning from Ireland, the next year, 1648, he and Col. Robert Lilburne and Major Sanderson defeated Sir Richard Tempest, and took several officers and gentlemen of note prisoners (see pp. 457-464). Early in September, Col. Fenwick, with his "horse and some dragoons, relieved Holy Island, near Berwick-uponTweed, and stormed Fenham Castle, in which was a garrison of Scotts."§ In the following month (Oct. 30), letters were received petitioning, inter alia, " for pay for 1200 foot in Berwick, and a regiment of horse under Col. Fenwick."|| On the 23rd May, 1648, mention occurs of an ordinance to settle the militia in the northern counties; George Fenwick, Esq., Sir Arthur Haslerigg, Bart., and others being upon the committee appointed for the town and county of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.¶

Hodgson's Northumberland, part 2, vol. ii. p. 115.

+ Whitelocke's Memorials, p. 253.

Ibid, p. 268.

§ Ibid, p. 330.

|| Ibid, p. 341.

Brand's Newcastle, vol. ii. p. 474.