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THE WIGTONS

THE manor of Wigton gave its name to a family who held a position of considerable eminence in the county for two centuries. Its first Norman owner was Odard, sheriff of Carlisle, a man of great local repute said to have been seneschal of Ranulf Meschin and also sheriff of Northumberland. It is stated on the highest authority that Henry I. enfeoffed Odard with the manor of Wigton. Later evidences point to Waldeve, lord of Allerdale, as the grantor, a supposition not without force seeing that the manor was parcel of Waldeve's fee. Be that as it may, the jurors of the great inquest of 1212 looked upon the confirmation of the Crown as the source of Odard's title. The first owner of Wigton, called at an early period Odard de Logys for the sake of distinction, should not be confused with another Odard who flourished in the county at the same time, that is, Odard son Hildret, known in 1130 as Odard de Chaerleolio or Odard of Carlisle. It is disputable whether or not Odard de Bebbanburgh or Bamburgh, sheriff of Northumberland, was identical with Odard de Logys as the name was common in the northern counties at this period.¹

1 In the sheriff's inquisition of 1212 Henry I. is named as the grantor of Wigton to Odard the sheriff (Victoria History of Cumberland, i. 421). In a document among the 'Tower Miscellaneous Rolls' (No. 459/3; Bain, Calendar of Documents relating to Scotland, ii. 64) and also in the 'Chronicon Cumbrie' (Monasticon, iii. 584), statements not to be relied on unless supported by other evidence (Victoria Hist, Cumb. i. 297—8), Waldeve son of Gospatrick is named as the original grantor. In the Tower Roll Odard is called seneschal of Ranulf Meschin: in both documents he is called Odard de Logys or Logis. The distinction between contemporary Odards is of the highest importance. There is a deed in the Register of Wetberhal (pp. 143—7, ed. J. E. Prescott) which shows that Odard the sheriff was a different person from Odard son of Hildret de Carlel. This Odard of Carlisle was associated with William Meschin and Archbishop Thurstin when the priory of St. Bees was founded (Harleian MS. 434, lib. i. 2). Odard, 'vicecomes de Bebbanburgh,' witnessed the foundation charter of Selkirk granted by Earl David (Dalrymple, Collections, p. 405) and is called sheriff of Northumberland by Prior Richard of Hexham Memo-

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For several descents the family name of the owners of Wigton alternated between Odard and Adam, necessitating the closest attention. Little is known of the first Adam, the successor of Odard the sheriff, but he was probably his son. In 1181 William son of the first Odard had a recognition of right to three carucates of land against the second Odard son of Adam, for which he paid a fine of three marks.¹ The name of the second Odard is found often in the Pipe Rolls and elsewhere till his death in I208.² His wife's name was Milisent, who after his death married Reynold son of Adam de Carduil. It is evident that she was the same person as Milisent of Blakehale and that it was through her that the manors of Blakehall and perhaps of Melmorby were added to the possessions of this family.³

The second Adam son of the second Odard, succeeding in 1208, paid eighty marks for having his father's lands with the

rials, p. 62, Surtees Society) and by Symeon of Durham in 1121 (Opera, i. 116, Surtees Society). Odard was acting as sheriff of Northumberland in 1130 (Pipe Roll, p. 35, ed. J. Hunter). The late Mr. Hodgson Hinde regarded these three Odards as the same person (History of Northumberland, i. 203-4). Mr. Horace Round has argued for the identity of Odard de Logis and Odard de Bebbanburgh (Genealogist, v. 25, new ser.), and Archdeacon Prescott has stoutly pleaded for their distinction (Reg. of Wetherhal, pp. 145-6. In 1130 Symon Dispensator owed forty marks of silver for a plea which the king had against Odard de Chaerleolio his brother-in-law (Pipe Roll, p. 79).

^{1 Pipe Roll, 27 Hen. II.
^{2 In 1186 Odard son of Adam was fined half a mark because he had not
whom he pledged (Pipe Roll, 32 Hen. II.), and in 1201 he paid 100s. that
he might not go beyond the sea (ne transfretent) and five marks as
scutage in 1203 (Rotuli de Obletis, p. 145, ed. Hardy: Pipe Rolls,
3 & 5 John). John Denton, who wrote about the year 1620, failing to
notice the intermediate link in the pedigree, mistook Odard the grandson for
Odard the sheriff, and in consequence was obliged to make the latter live
'above an hundred years' (History of Cumberknd, p. 62, ed. R. S.
Ferguson). The second Odard died in 1208, for in that year his son succeeded
(Pipe Roll, 10 John).
^{3 The identity of Milisent is a point of considerable interest. It is
stated on the same roll that Reynold owed forty marks for having to wife
Milisent widow of Odard son of Adam, and that Milisent de Blakehale was engaged
in pleas of the forest at the same time (Pipe Roll, 11 John). That was
1209, the year after Odard's death. As Milisent was mother of Adam, the next
owner of Wigton, it is not improbable that the manor of Blackhall descended in
this way to the Wigton family. It was reckoned among the possessions of Odard de
Wigton who died thirty years later (Inq. p.m. incert. temp. Hen. III. No.
251). John Denton was of opinion that 'Blachall or Blackhill commonly called
Bleckall' was 'given by Henry I. to Odard de Logis baron of Wigton ' (Hist,
of Cumb. p. 103), but he gave no authority for the
statement.}}}

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pertinents which ought to descend to him by inheritance.¹ As the heir of Odard the sheriff, he was the owner in 1212 when the great inquest of fees was made for the whole of the county, and was the first that we have found who adopted the territorial name of Wyggeton or Wigton. He was known as Adam de Wigton, a style afterwards continued by his descendants. In 1221 and 1222 he was employed with others in taking a view of the forest of Cumberland for the purpose of reporting its condition to the Crown.² He must have died about 1225, for in that year Odard son of Adam de Wigeton, that is the third Odard, did homage for the land he held in chief and paid ten marks for his relief.³ This was the Odard son of Adam who made a grant of pasture in his domain to the monks of Holmcultram and confirmed the gifts of Adam son of Lambert and Elyas his son to the same house.* Dying in 1238, his lands, heir and widow were delivered in ward to Walter, Bishop of Carlisle.⁵ It was upheld in law that the custody of the lands of Odard de Wigentona in the county of Cumberland remained with the king because the said Odard was a tenant-in-chief by the serjeanty of going with him in the army against Scotland in the vanguard, and on its return in the rearguard, a service which was declared by inquisition to be grand serjeanty, and besides because he paid cornage which in English was called horngeld.⁶ Odard left a widow Christine and a son Adam about two years of age. Two months after Odard's death another boy Walter was born.⁷

At a tender age the third Adam was married to Isabel de Forde, daughter of Sir Odonell de Forde and Cecily his wife, one of the three co-heiresses of Robert de Muscampis who owned large possessions in Northumberland. But the boy did not live to succeed to his father's manors as he died in 1250-1 about the age of fourteen years. In 1253 Isabella the youthful widow of Adam de Wigton put in a plea in the king's court for a third part of the manors of Wigton and Stainton, excepting one carucate and fourteen acres of land

^{1 Pipe Roll, 10 John; Rotuli de Fintbus, 9 John, p. 422,
ed. Hardy.
2 Patent Rolls (1216-25), 313, 325, Rolls Series.
^{3 Fine Roll, 10 Hen. III. m. 9 (Excerpta, i. 134-5, ed.
C. Roberts).
^{4 Register of Holmcultram, MS. ff. 79-80.
^{5 Originalia, 22 Hen. III. m. 3 ; Bain, Calendar of
Documents,i. . (1438-43).
^{6 Bractons Note Book, No. 1270, ed. F. W. Maitland.
7 Inq. p.m. incert. temp. Hen. III. No. 251.}}}}
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and a third of seventy-two acres and two bovates in Melmorby which she
claimed as dower. John le Fraunceys, guardian of the heir and the estates
admitted her title to a widow's portion.¹}

Walter came of age and succeeded Odard his father in 1258. The sheriff of the county certified to the justices in June of that year that Odard, father of Walter, held of William de Fortibus, Earl of Albemarle, the manor of Wigton by cornage and of the king in chief the manor of Melmorby with its pertinents, Steynton, Blakhille and Wardwyk, and also that Walter his son, the next heir, would be twenty two years of age on August 15 next, Walter's age having been verified by a jury of his neighbours.² This member of the family played a considerable part in local and military affairs during his tenure of the estates. His dealings with the neighbouring monastery of Holmcultram were friendly if not benevolent and generous. In 1265 he confirmed the possessions of the monks within his manor of Wigton, and in 1270 he came to an agreement with H[enry], abbot of the house, about certain purprestures and improvements, at the same time giving him power to inclose a wood at Aykehevid, called Aykehevidscawe.³ He also granted the monastery certain way-leaves 'in his barony of Wyggeton.'⁴ In 1266 Walter of Wigton petitioned for quittance of puture of the forest and horngeld in respect of his manors of Wigton and Blackhall, but the privilege was denied on the ground that it would be injurious to the king's interest.⁵ But he was more fortunate in the following year, for he was allowed to assart and

^{1 Coram Rege Roll, 37 Hen. III. No. 91, m. 13; Bain, i.
1933. Adam de Wigton must have been dead before May 4, 1251, for in that year an
'extent' of the lands in Northumberland belonging to Isabella widow of Adam de
Wygeton was made {Inq. p.m. 35 Hen. III. No. 41). The widow was sixteen
years of age and is called the daughter of the first begotten daughter of Robert
de Muscampis (Calendarium Genealogicum, i. 37). Next year she had licence
to marry whom she pleased (Pipe Roll, 36 Hen. III. m. 11d.: Bain
i. 1856). In one of the inquisitions it is said that Isabella was married to
a certain boy (puero) called Adam de Wyginton : she was fifteen years of
age and her husband of the age of thirteen or fourteen years: both were wards of
William de Huntercumbe (Inq. p.m. 39 Hen. III. No. 40; Bain, i.
1967,
P- 372).
2 Coram Rege Roll, 42 & 43 Hen. III. No. 106 ; Bain, i.
2129.
^{3 Harleian MS. 3911, ff. 54, 56.
^{4 Reg. of Holmcultram, MS. f. 77.
^{5 Inq. p.m. 50 Hen. III. No. 28.}}}
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impact his woods in the same manors.¹ He was often employed on the
king's service in the Welsh wars from 1276 till his death, and was summoned to
the parliament which met at Shrewsbury in 1283, together with other barons of
the kingdom.² Walter of Wigton died in 1286, and was succeeded by
John, his son and heir, who was twenty two years of age.³}

Sir John of Wigton, baron of Wigton, the last heir male of his line, spent most of his life in active service in parliament and the field. As knight of the shire of Cumberland he was returned to serve in the parliaments which met at Lincoln in 1301 and Westminster in 1305 and 1313.⁴ His military services in the Welsh and Scottish wars of Edward I. were many and various.⁵ On the border he was a tower of strength as a conservator of the peace at home and as the indefatigable pursuer of Robert de Brus through the southern shires of Scotland. In 1295-6 Sir John caused William de Wytyngham to be attached at Bolton and imprisoned as a Scottish traitor in that he had absented himself from his lands to avoid service in the army against the Scots, the said William being a kinsman of John 'Rede' Comyn, the king's enemy.⁶ While King Edward was at Lanercost on his last journey to Scotland, he ordered him in 1306—7 to levy 200 stout footmen in Cumberland and bring them to Carlisle for the purpose of pursuing Robert de Brus and his accomplices.⁷On that business he was often engaged. It would be tedious to recount his services in war, as he was mixed up in most of the assays and expeditions of this troublesome period. Little

^{1 Patent Roll, 51 Hen. III. The rise of the vill of Wigton about
this time as a centre of industry and commerce is evident from the king's grant
in 1262 of a weekly market on Tuesdays and a yearly fair on the 7th, 8th and 9th
of September (Charter Roll, 46 Hen. III. pt. i. No. 5; Placita de Quo
Waranto, p. 116, Record Commission).
^{3 Patent Rolls, 4 Edw. I. m. 2, 5 Edw. I. m. 14 ; Foedera, i.
537-8, 608, 630, new edit.; Palgrave, Parliamentary Writs, i. 15,
194, 223, 226, 246; Dignity of a Peer, iii. 37, 40, 44, 47, 49.
^{3 Inq. p.m. 14 Edw. I. No. 15 ; Calend. Geneal. i. 368 ;
Fine Roll, 14 Edw. I. m. 13 ; Originalia, 14 Edw. I. m. 4 (i. 51,
Record Commission).
^{4 Parliaments of England, i. 13, 18, 43, Blue Book ;
Parliamentary Writs, i. 102, 156-7, etc.
5 Foedera, i. 675, etc. ii. 8, 78 ; Dignity of a Peer, iii.
51, 54-5, etc.; Parl. Writs, ii. div. iii. 1611—2.
^{6 Bain, ii. 189. .
7 Pat. Roll, 35 Edw. I. m. 32 ; Bain, ii.
1902.}}}}
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reward did he receive from the great Edward, though we find him among the
petitioners for lands or preferment in Scotland in I305.¹ Edward II.
however gave him the custody of the barony of Liddel, which Joan widow of John
Wake held.²}

On the death of Sir John de Wigton all his estates escheated pending the declaration of the rightful heir. The inquisitions of 1315 were at variance, and a long suit in law ensued. Soon after his marriage Sir John was separated from the Lady Dionyse de Luvetot his wife, and ultimately obtained a divorce in the ecclesiastical court of Carlisle. A daughter Margaret was born of the marriage. On Sir John's death the manors were claimed by Margaret his only child and also by his five sisters and their heirs. The Somerset jurors declared in favour of Margaret formerly wife of John de Crokedak, but the Cumberland jurors supported the claims of the five sisters.³ The dispute was referred to the lay as well as the ecclesiastical courts. Margaret and her mother moved the provincial court of York to set aside the divorce, as it had been obtained irregularly in the court below.⁴ Their opponents pleaded that John and his wife were divorced on account of the precontract of Dionyse to one John Paynel. In 1320 the court accepted a certificate from the Bishop of London of Margaret's legitimacy, whereupon she was adjudged the lawful heir and seizin was given her.⁵

The Lady Margaret de Wigton, who succeeded her father, was the last of the family to use the name or own the manor. Though she was married four times, she died childless, and the estates not alienated during her lifetime reverted to the lord of the fee or to the Crown. As her mother had maintained her right to a widow's portion of Sir John's lands,⁸the divorce obtained in the diocesan court of Carlisle must have been set aside. To meet the expenses of defending her title, Margaret was obliged to sell her manors of Melmorby,

^{1 Palgrave, Documents and Records, p. 308.
^{2 Originalia, 3 Edw. II. m. 6 (i. 168, Rec.
Commission).
^{3 lnq.p.m. 8 Edw. II. No. 61.
^{4 Register of B.p.. Halton, MS. ff. 176-9, 180-1.
^{5 Abbrev. Placit. p. 336, Record Commission. The issue was
confused by Sir John's demise of the estates 'to his nearer relations' under
licence in 1311 (Pat. Roll, 4 Edw. II. pt. ii. m. 5).
6 Pat. Roll, 6 Edw. III. pt. i. m. 12 ; Inq. p.m. 5 Edw.
III. pt. ii. No. 135 ; Monasticon, v. 599.}}}}
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Blackhall and Stainton to Robert Parvyng, the king's
serjeant-at-law.¹ In 1332 she granted land in Wigton, with the
advowson of the church, to the monastery of Holmcultram for the health of her
soul. She survived her four husbands,²and died in 1348. In spite of
the verdict of the inquisition after death, which declared Richard son of Walter
de Kirkbride to be her heir, the manor of Wigton escheated to Thomas son of
Anthony de Lucy, lord of the honour of Cockermouth, from whom it had been
held.³ Henceforth the manor became merged in that lordship.

II. THE LEVINGTONS
Henry I. assigned the manor of Leventon, Levinton, or
Levington, situated between Carlisle and the Scottish border, to Richard de
Boyvill at an annual cornage rent. It is doubtful whether this Richard should be
identified with Richard the knight, who appears in the Pipe Roll of 1130 as
discharging a portion of the debt due to the Crown for lands demised to him. The
Richard of the Pipe Roll appears to be the same person as Richard Ridere, the
ancestor of the Tilliols, who received the grant of the adjoining manor of
Scaleby from the same king. Richard de Boyvill was succeeded by his son Adam,
who occurs first in the Pipe Roll of 1170 in amercement for swine taken in the
forest. Adam son of Richer or Richard must have died before 1177, for in that
year Adam his son paid a fine of ten marks that the king might take his homage.
Juliane his wife survived him, and was living in 1183.

Adam son of Richer and Juliane his wife had two sons,
1 Pat. Rolls, 7 Edw. III. pt. ii. m. 29, 8 Edw. III. pt. i. m.
21.^{2 Much confusion has arisen over the matrimonial
alliances of Margaret or Wigton. John de Crokedayk was her first husband, from
whom she inherited a widow's portion of the manor of Crokedayk and other lands
(Inq. p.m. 23 Edw. III. pt. i. No. 86). John de Denoum or Denum was the
second (Parl. Petitions, No. 2513 ; Bain, iii. 896). In the deeds
of the transfer of the advowson of Wigton church to the monks of Holmcultram,
John de Denum is spoken of as formerly her husband, and Sir John Gernon appears
at a later stage of the negotiations, so that the third marriage must have taken
taken place in 1331-2 (Reg. of Bp. Kirby, MS. ff. 245-9). In 1336 John de
Weston was fined for marrying her without licence (Pat. Roll, 10 Edw.
III. pt. i. m. 32).
^{3 Inq. p.m. 23 Edw. III. pt. i. No. 86;
Originalia, 23 Edw. III. m. 20 (ii. 201, Record Commission).}}

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Adam, who succeeded to the barony in 1177, and William, who was settled at
Westham or Westleventon, now called Westlinton. In 1179 Adam son of Adam son of
Richer endeavoured to dispossess his brother of his inheritance, but William
appealed and paid a fine of forty marks for a fair trial. William was still in
possession in 1204. Adam assumed the name of his manor and was returned to the
scutage in 1205 and succeeding years as Adam de Levinton. He was succeeded by
Richard de Levinton, who paid three hundred marks and three palfreys in 1211 for
having his land in the preceding year. In the Red Book inquisitions Adam and
Richard are returned as holding by cornage, the latter being possessed of three
vills in demesne and a half by homage.
Sir Richard de Levinton, Adam's son, is a familiar figure in the transactions
of the period in which he lived. Like many of the barons of the northern
counties, he was implicated in the barons' resistance¹ to King John,
but he returned to his allegiance in 1217. The sheriff was ordered to cancel his
attendance on the army at Bedford in 1224, for the reason that he held his lands
by cornage and not by military service.²As a justice he was often
employed on the king's business in the counties of Cumberland and Westmorland.
He held assizes of novel disseizin at Carlisle and Appleby in 1236, and was one
of the assessors in the international settlement of 1237-42 in satisfaction of
the hereditary claims of Scotland on the counties of Cumberland and
Northumberland.³ A dispute arising between him and his neighbour
Peter de Tilliol, a suit lay in the king's court in 1227 for the adjustment of
the boundaries between their respective manors of Levinton and Scales. Richard
complained that Peter had appropriated four carucates of land, whereof Richer,
his father's grandfather, was seised in demesne in the time of King Henry, the
grandfather. Peter, on the other hand, asserted that he claimed no more than
what his ancestors died seised of, from father to son, from their first
acquisition (a primo conquestu), and the enfeoffment of their ancestors.
The sheriff was ordered to take a view and set bounds and let them decide by a
great assize or a duel.⁴
Richard is said to

^{1 Close Roll, 2 Hen. III. p. 374b, Record Commission.
^{2 Ibid. 8 Hen. III. pp. 614b, 639b.
^{3 Bain, Calendar of Documents, i. 234, 236, 257, etc.
^{4 Coram Rege Roll, 11 Hen. III. No. 27, m. 4; Bain, Calendar,
etc. i. 176.}}}}
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have acted as a justice itinerant for Cumberland and
Westmorland in 1225 and for Lancashire some years later.
Richard de Levinton, dying¹ in 1250, was succeeded
by his brother Ralf, who had inherited by his marriage with Ada de Morvill a
moiety of the Morvill lands, viz. six carucates in Kirkoswald and three
carucates in Lazonby worth yearly twenty-four marks.² By this
marriage he became brother-in-law to Richard de Vernun, husband of Helewise de
Morvill, Ada's sister. In 1247 Richard de Vernun and Ralf de Levinton did homage
for the Morvill estates lately belonging to Joan de Morvill, mother of Helewise
and Ada. The year before, an agreement was made between Ralf de Levinton and
Alan de Chartres for a certain rent in Gamelsby and Glassanby which Eve had
given to Alan before she married him.³ Ralf died in 1253, a few years
after his brother, and all his property was taken into the king's hand till the
lawful heir was declared,⁴ except of course the land assigned in
dower to Ada his widow.
Helewise, only child of Ralf and Ada de Levinton, was placed in
the custody of Sanchia Countess of Cornwall,⁵ with all her lands, her mother afterwards marrying
William de Furnivall,⁶ who died in 1264. Helewise de Levinton married
Eustace de Balliol, who enjoyed the Levinton property for a short period. They
had a grant of a weekly market⁷ on Thursday and a yearly fair on June
28 and two following days at their manor of 'Levyngton' in 1271. Balliol had
licence to lease his manors of Levyngton, Skelton, Gamalsby, Glassanby and
Quorlyngton for four years after Michaelmas, 1270, as he was about to set out
with Prince Edward for the Holy Land.⁸ Helewise died childless in
1272, in the twenty-fourth year of her age, and the Levinton estates passed to
co-heiresses.
^{1 Fine Rolls, ii. 80, Record Commission ; Inq.
p.m. 34 Hen. III. No. 47 ; Originalia, 34 Hen. III. m. 7.
^{2 Fine Rolls, ii. 10; Pipe Roll, 31 Hen.
III. m. 8 ; Inq. p.m. 31 Hen. III. No. 32.
^{3 Feet of Fines, 30 Hen. III. (Cumberland), No. 48.
^{4 Fine Rolls, ii. 176.
^{5 Originalia, i. 12 b, Record Commission.
6 Fine Rolls, ii. 414, 507, 525.}}}^{7 Charter Roll, 46 Hen. III. m. 5 ; Placita de
Quo Waranto, p. 1294, Record Commission.

Pat. Roll, 54 Hen. III. m. 10.}}

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The heirs of this great property were found on inquisition to be the six
aunts of Helewise de Balliol, sisters of Sir Richard de Levinton. The jurors,
among whom were Sir William de Boyvill and Roger de Levinton, returned an
exhaustive survey of all the deceased lady's lands, including the manors of
Levington and Skelton, together with lands and rents in Kirkandrews, Glassanby,
Gamelsby, Staffal, Aikton, Burgh-by-Sands, Bewcastle, Kirkoswald and Lazonby.
The Lady Helewise was found to hold two parts of Levington, Skelton and
Kirkandrews in barony, making suit to the county of Cumberland.
The partition of these estates is of the greatest interest in the territorial
history of the county. The moieties in Aikton, Burgh-by-sands, Kirkoswald,
Lazonby and Hoff, which were the Morvill lands brought into the family by the
marriage of Ada de Morvill with Ralf de Levinton, were awarded to Thomas, son of
Thomas de Multon of Gillesland, as the next heir, but the barony of Levinton, or
Kirklinton, as it was afterwards called, passed to the six daughters of Adam son
of Adam son of Richer, sisters of Sir Richard de Levinton, Helewise's uncle.
From the inquisition of 1272¹ we learn that these sister co-heiresses were Eupheme de Kirkbride,
Isabel de Twynham, Agnes de Corry, Margory de Hampton, Juliane de Carrick and
Eve de Suthayk, all of whom were living in Scotland except Robert son and heir
of Margory de Hampton, who was of full age, and Richard, the heir of Eupheme de
Kirkbride, in the county of Cumberland, a minor. The division of the Levington
lands was made m six equal portions: Robert de Hampton received the capital
messuage of Skelton and other details ; Patrick and Roland de Carrick, details;
Walter de Twynham, who appointed Eudes de Beauchamp to receive his share, land
in Unthank, Staffold, Bewcastle and Skelton ; Richard son of Richard de
Kirkbride, a minor, the manor of Levington, with other lands ; Walter de Corry,
details ; and Patrick de Suthayk, who appointed Walter de Twynham to receive his
portion, Kirkandrews and details. The church advowsons and knights' fees and the
dower of Sarra, wife of Robert de Paveley, formerly wife of Richard de Levinton,
were not divided at that time. All the
^{1 Inq. p.m. 56 Hen. III. No. 35 ; Close Roll, I Edw. I.
m. 10; ibid, 2 Edw. I. m. 4d, 3 Edw. I. m. 25, 30.

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heirs did homage on receiving their portions with the exception of Richard de
Kirkbride, who was under age, and Patrick de Suthayk. The dower of Sara de
Paveley was divided on her death in 1300 among the heirs of the six coparceners
above mentioned. Much of the Levinton property was confiscated during the
Scottish war of independence, as several of the heirs were Scotsmen and opposed
the English claims.
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