An AccouxT of the GENEALOGY, AND OTHER MEMOIRS Concerning the FAlULY of L O R A I N E, OF -TOWER IN THE County of ;

WITH R E M A R K s upon fome others, (obiter) .Anno Dom. 1788.

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OF N~"'CASTLE-UPO:S-TYNE,

A LL~EAL DESCE..~DANT OF THE ANTIENT _UiD

HONOURABLE FAMILY OF WHICH THE

PRES&"'T TRACT G1'-ES AN OLD GEl\~ALOGICAL ACCOUNT,

IS DEDICATED BY THE EDITOR.

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~ c> a. IR. at J0e\llrastle, , tbiS 3(ul~e, mbrrr~lbiij. l AN ACCOUNT OF THE

GENEALOGY, and other Memoirs,

CONCERNING

The Family of LORA/1.VE, of Kirkharle• Tower, in the County of 1.Vorthumberland; with REMARKS upon some others, (obiter) Anno Dom. 1738.

Obert, the first of this Family in Eng­ land, came an Officer in the Army of JVilliam, the Conquerer, who, for his Service in that Expedition, and after in the sixth \ ...ear of the Reign of his Son William II. against !JIalcolra King of Seo-ts~ (a va­ liant Prince) whom the English Rebels in the North join,d in his Excurtion into Northumberland, 10

whereby many Estates in that County and Duraam were forfeited to the Crown, was rewarded with several Hides of Land in U.fferton, East, Muldle and West Harrington; with free Fishings in Aqua de Were, to him and his Heirs for ever, to be holden in Knights Service : Where he settled himself and Family, and whose Descendants intermarried with some of the ancient and chief Families of the Gentry in that County. He was ( as well as a Soldier) a considerable Scholar for that age; as recorded in Baker's Chronicle, amongst the Men of Note in that Reign, for epitomizing the Chronicle of :JIaria nus Scot'US. He liv~ in the said County of Durham till the Reign of Henry V. about which Time there was one William def-Strother, presum'd of the Natives and ancient Inhabitants of the County of Northumberland, who was a ),fan of great Power and Posse~ions, and had his chief Seat and Mansion-house at Kirkharle­ Tower in the said County, distant fourteen miles from N eu:~le-upon-T!ln,e; situate upon the Bank, and over-looking a spacious Lake ; surrounded with Tim­ ber and Under-wood; interspersed with Apertures, Lawns and Savanas; cloathed with the finest Herb­ age: . \Vhich Willia1n Del-Strother died without lssue- m~e, leaving only three Daughters, m. Jooo1W1,Q, 11

Alicia, and Maria, to whom all his Estate descend­ ed; who, out of their Piety and Devotion, at their joint Expence, repair"d the Church of Kirkharle, then under a Decay; standing from their Father"s House about a Furlong : Which JoM11/n,a, eldest Daughetr and Co-heir of the said Strother, William Loraine, Heir of this Fa­ mily, married, having then a considerable Estate in the County of Durkam : By ,vhom he had Issue Sons and Daughters. Alicia, the second Daughter and Co-heir, married one John Nickolson in the County of NorthurnlMrwnd. Jokn FenuJiclc, 0£ F8'11,wu;lc-Tower in N orthuml>er­ l,a,nd, married Maria, the third Daughter and Co-heir 0£ the said Strother; who with their three Wives, enjoy'd all the said Estate, in common and undivided, till the said Nicholson, with his wife and Son, relea.sed all their Right and Title to the Father"s Estate to Loraine and Fenwick; in consideration of having for their Share thereof the Manor of Bahingt<>n, alias Ba'Dingt

heritance, Coal-mines; others consisting oi Chattels, Eccles~tical Leases, &c. Being in their respectiv~ Generations generally l\len of Learning, Virtue and Sobrietv.- EDWARD succeeded, who m3rrie

finding defa.e''d, and broken down, erected a, new one in its· Place, engraven with the same Aceount. This unfortllll8,te Gentleman about the fourteenth of Henry VIII. married Margaret Daughter of Rd>erl BOUJeS of the Bishoprick of Durham,, Esq; and had Is.sue Sons and Daughters. WILiAM succeeded, and married Agnes, a Daugh­ ter of Sir William, Waters of the County of Y orl, Knight ; who became a Widow, and married Jol,,11, Li,sle of Acton in Nortk-uml>erland, Esq; By which Agnes, the said William had Issue one Son and two Da~~rs, Tlwmm, Ursilla and Doro{h!J ; which Dor­ tl,,y married T1wmas Ogle of Kirlcley in Nortl,,um!Jer­ land, Esq;. THOMAS came in by Descent, and married Tlwm­ asin, eldest Daughter of Tlwrnas Walter 0£ Wl,,itwell in the County of Duraam, Gentleman ; and died the fifteenth of Jacohi Regis, leaving two Sons, Thomas and William, Infants: Whose Widow married John Hylton in the County of Durkam, Esq;. THOMAS succeeded, and married EUzalJeth, "\iVi.­ dow and Relict of Tlunnas Bewick of Olose-lwuse in NorthumlJerland, Esq; By whom he had Issue only one Son, called T/wr1UJ,S. The said Thomas the Father, out of his Piety, find­ ing the slated Roof of the Quire of Kirkharle Church fallen into Decay, took it down, and timber"d it a-new 15 with Iris/,,~ and eover"d it with Lead; all at his own charge: And some Time after prevail"d with the Parishoners to take down the slated Roof of the Chure~ and timber" d it with Oak, and cover' d the same with Lead also. He was likewise SQ great a Lover or Learning (though then the sole male Heir of his Family) that he continued with that learned Gentleman, Mr. Mede of 'IUlon, (Lord Mayor in the Si.c/rn,ess Year calI'd) who died in three Years. leaving him no I~ne. His second Wife was .Anne, only Daughter of B~nard, Smith of Preston in the County of Bucks, Esq; and Sister to Rickard, Smith 0£ EnderlJy in the County of Leicester, Esq; who followed King Caarles II. Beyond Sea all the Time of his l\Iisfortunes and Exile; and returned with him at his Restoration, was made Clerk of the Cheque : In which Place he be­ haved himself so well, that he was continued therein till his Death. By whose Daughter, now living, he had Issue five Sons and four Daughters ; whereof there are now liv­ ing two Sons and two Daughters. His Daughter Grace was married to Forster aluirle­ ton of L~hall in the County of Norlau/niherlaniJ, Gentleman ; who died leaving him IS$11e three Sons and one Daughter. He manied Ckarles his younger Son to Miss Ma,-. garet Lam/Jton, sister to Henry Lamhton in the County of Durham, Esq;. He was made Justice of Peace for Nortkumherlanil 18 in the Reign or William and JIa,y, and hath been continued so, through all the Reigns since, to the present. He was made a Deputy-Lieuten!lllt there, by Rickard Earl of Scarhorougk, in the eighth Year of King WiJlia111, III. which was renewed by the same Earl the first of Queen Anne. He was chosen a l\f ember of the House or Com­ mons £or the said County in the Reign of King William, purely by the Love of his Country. He is competent in Judgment, of Architecture and Physick, exemplary in Planting and Incloeure ; having f'rom the Year 1694 to 1738 inclusirce, planted of Forest-Trees Twenty four thousand, and of Quick­ Sets above Four hundred and eighty eight thousand; and being skilfnl in the Frnit-Garden, planted or Fruit-Trees Five hundred and eighty. Who by his various Industry besides; as dividing the Grounds, building new Farms upon them, drain­ ing l\Iorasses,. clearing the Lands of ponderous, m~ and hard Stones, to prepare them for Tillage ; By which l\Ieans (with the Assist.a.nee of his ,Vives Por­ tions) he hath redeemed a good Part of his Estate, adding some others to it of his own Purchase. By straggling with, and the assiduous Application or above fifty Years, he hath reduced his Family to pretty easy Circumstances, from difficult and numer­ ous Troubles and Incumbrances. 19 He pav'd with Free-Stone all the Quire or Kirl:­ Aarle Church, (before an Earthen Floor) arch'd the East ,vindow, eoop,d and repair,d the Roof', Pillars and \Valls thereof; made an Altar-Rail built a new Pulpit, set 11pon a hewn Pillar of Stone, a Desk, four new Pews, for himselC and Family, and two in the Church : And by his good Example and Persuasion, preva.iI'd with the Parishoners to pave the Church with Free-stone also, and make decent Pews through­ out the same. He likewise built the ,vest Gable, Porch, and Bell-Cope, ( all ruinous) at his own Charge. He also built a new ifansion-house ( of his own Plan and Contrivance) with all the Offices, Out­ Houses, Gardens, Fountains, Fish-Ponds, &c, (th3 first regular ones ever were in that Country) belong­ ing to them. The Heirs of the Family having the Misfortune, during those dreadful and pernicious Times of Court of ,v ards and Liveries, of falling three Times suc­ cessively into ,vardship, ~iz, Willia1n in the Twenty sixth of Queen Elizahtth, at eighteen Years old; Ro­ bert in the Thirty fifth of the said Queen, at two Years old and eight months ; Thmnas in the Reign of King James, at two Years old, "·ere defrauded by covetous and perfidious Guardians, and others, from time to time, of several considerable llembers of their Estates, in both the said Counties. 20 And particularly the present Gentleman~s Prede­ cessor, by hls imprudent Credulity, was circwnvented and defrauded of one, to the Amount of the best Part of Twenty thousand Pounds ; by a certain Gentleman ( whose honourable and laudable Character ( flPtAnfr-4) was Douhle tongued Jemrn!J, in an ancient and worthy Corporation in the North, which he lived near, where William, Rufus finished a Castle (pardon the LEiiigm,a,). And this he pract.ised under the greatest Confidence, Trust, and seeming Friendship imaginable, and the Relation cf an Uncle. Note, Naboth"s Vine-!Jard; tke Estate l9-i'11g near }tis own, House. The truth is, he was a Man of good Parts, whioh he studiously employ''d to accomplish his worldly In­ terest~ quoqUJJm.od6 an Allegator of ~lens Estates, as experienced by those who had the l\Iisfortune to deal with him de teri~is & tenementis. The Author of this Collection, upon Perusal of many ancient Deeds in the Possesion of the Family, finds it Owners of Estates and Effects, now, and in former Generations, ttiz. in the county of Durlta11,, their original Estates in ; as Ufferton, South­ Field, East, J.lliddle and 1Vest Harrington, with free Fishings in ...4 qna de 1f"ere, W ode-Hall, Lands and Houses in Chester le Street, Whitu:ell, Pancker, IJ9er 1noor and Collery, and another at Ryt

And within the Verge and Boundery of N

Sword also, on the Sinister, engraven, with hand­ some Flourishes on the Top of each Staff: '\\'... hich Dr. Hunter, Herald at Arms, supposes to have been Knights-Templars of the Ord,er of St. Joan of Jerus­ alem. Given under his Hand. I have subjoin"d the Coat or Arms oCthe Family, with the Crest and Motto blazon'd; by which it ap­ pears to have been obtained by some Action in the Field or Battle, for which there is the Authority of Tradition in the Family, and what is implied in the Crest and Motto themselves.