Diary of Thomas Bellingham, An Officer Under William III (1908)
The writer of this diary was one of a cadet branch of a family which took its name from Bellingham, a small market town in Northumberland, about 16 miles N N.W. of Hexham. Here the Bellinghams were lords of the manor from a very early period, and down to the latter part of the lyth century manorial quit rents were paid to them after the actual estates had passed into other hands. In 1715 these were held by the ill-fated Earl of Derwentwater, on whose attainder and execution they passed, by grant of the Crown, to Greenwich Hospital.
It is a striking instance of the tenacity of local tradition that Capt. Alan Bellingham, a descendant of the diarist, was welcomed, in 1807, by the inhabitants of Bellingham as one of the old race. He records in a journal in that year that in visiting Bellingham he was " constantly addressed by the title ' Lord,' as they declared I was the rightful Lord of the Manor there." He attended the Court of the Manor at Wark, where the inhabitants of Bellingham did suit and service, and says, " Upon the Heir of the last Alan Bellingham being called in Court, I immediately answered, and claimed the Manor and Royalties attached to Bellingham. Great civility and attention was shown me by Mr. Peters (the solicitor), who holds the Court for Greenwich Hospital, and by Mr. Walton, the principal Receiver. I was invited to dine at the Court Dinner."
What made the Bellinghams leave Northumberland, for Westmorland, was the marriage of a Richard Bellingham with Christian, or Margaret, daughter and heiress of Sir Gilbert de Burneshide or Burneshead, Knt., by which they acquired the lordship of Burneshead Hall, near Kendal, in the latter county, early in the i4th century. Very possibly they were not sorry to leave so unsettled and lawless a region as Tynedale, exposed to constant depredations from the Scots, for more peaceful quarters. At any rate, from that marriage they were Bellinghams of Burneshead Hall.
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It is a striking instance of the tenacity of local tradition that Capt. Alan Bellingham, a descendant of the diarist, was welcomed, in 1807, by the inhabitants of Bellingham as one of the old race. He records in a journal in that year that in visiting Bellingham he was " constantly addressed by the title ' Lord,' as they declared I was the rightful Lord of the Manor there." He attended the Court of the Manor at Wark, where the inhabitants of Bellingham did suit and service, and says, " Upon the Heir of the last Alan Bellingham being called in Court, I immediately answered, and claimed the Manor and Royalties attached to Bellingham. Great civility and attention was shown me by Mr. Peters (the solicitor), who holds the Court for Greenwich Hospital, and by Mr. Walton, the principal Receiver. I was invited to dine at the Court Dinner."
What made the Bellinghams leave Northumberland, for Westmorland, was the marriage of a Richard Bellingham with Christian, or Margaret, daughter and heiress of Sir Gilbert de Burneshide or Burneshead, Knt., by which they acquired the lordship of Burneshead Hall, near Kendal, in the latter county, early in the i4th century. Very possibly they were not sorry to leave so unsettled and lawless a region as Tynedale, exposed to constant depredations from the Scots, for more peaceful quarters. At any rate, from that marriage they were Bellinghams of Burneshead Hall.
Diary of Thomas Bellingham, An Officer Under William III (1908)
The writer of this diary was one of a cadet branch of a family which took its name from Bellingham, a small market town in Northumberland, about 16 miles N N.W. of Hexham. Here the Bellinghams were lords of the manor from a very early period, and down to the latter part of the lyth century manorial quit rents were paid to them after the actual estates had passed into other hands. In 1715 these were held by the ill-fated Earl of Derwentwater, on whose attainder and execution they passed, by grant of the Crown, to Greenwich Hospital.
It is a striking instance of the tenacity of local tradition that Capt. Alan Bellingham, a descendant of the diarist, was welcomed, in 1807, by the inhabitants of Bellingham as one of the old race. He records in a journal in that year that in visiting Bellingham he was " constantly addressed by the title ' Lord,' as they declared I was the rightful Lord of the Manor there." He attended the Court of the Manor at Wark, where the inhabitants of Bellingham did suit and service, and says, " Upon the Heir of the last Alan Bellingham being called in Court, I immediately answered, and claimed the Manor and Royalties attached to Bellingham. Great civility and attention was shown me by Mr. Peters (the solicitor), who holds the Court for Greenwich Hospital, and by Mr. Walton, the principal Receiver. I was invited to dine at the Court Dinner."
What made the Bellinghams leave Northumberland, for Westmorland, was the marriage of a Richard Bellingham with Christian, or Margaret, daughter and heiress of Sir Gilbert de Burneshide or Burneshead, Knt., by which they acquired the lordship of Burneshead Hall, near Kendal, in the latter county, early in the i4th century. Very possibly they were not sorry to leave so unsettled and lawless a region as Tynedale, exposed to constant depredations from the Scots, for more peaceful quarters. At any rate, from that marriage they were Bellinghams of Burneshead Hall.
It is a striking instance of the tenacity of local tradition that Capt. Alan Bellingham, a descendant of the diarist, was welcomed, in 1807, by the inhabitants of Bellingham as one of the old race. He records in a journal in that year that in visiting Bellingham he was " constantly addressed by the title ' Lord,' as they declared I was the rightful Lord of the Manor there." He attended the Court of the Manor at Wark, where the inhabitants of Bellingham did suit and service, and says, " Upon the Heir of the last Alan Bellingham being called in Court, I immediately answered, and claimed the Manor and Royalties attached to Bellingham. Great civility and attention was shown me by Mr. Peters (the solicitor), who holds the Court for Greenwich Hospital, and by Mr. Walton, the principal Receiver. I was invited to dine at the Court Dinner."
What made the Bellinghams leave Northumberland, for Westmorland, was the marriage of a Richard Bellingham with Christian, or Margaret, daughter and heiress of Sir Gilbert de Burneshide or Burneshead, Knt., by which they acquired the lordship of Burneshead Hall, near Kendal, in the latter county, early in the i4th century. Very possibly they were not sorry to leave so unsettled and lawless a region as Tynedale, exposed to constant depredations from the Scots, for more peaceful quarters. At any rate, from that marriage they were Bellinghams of Burneshead Hall.
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| Publisher: | tbooks |
| Publication date: | 12/29/2011 |
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