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 I 68 HISTOBY OF BISHOP AUCKLAND. The parts of WUliamson and Downes by seyend Mesne Conveyanoes came to Jam'* Carr who died aeized and the same descended to Cathbert Carr his son and heir. The said two fourth parts of the Edens descended to Bobert Eden son and heir of John Eden the elder (who was the survivor) and Bobert Eden conveys the same to Christopher Byerley in fee upon whose death the s^ Edens^ share descended to Anthony Byerley the son of s^ Christopher. During the Commonwealth, other rights and estates belonging to the Church were disposed of by the Crown to various individuals. The Deanery lands were purchased by Sir Arthur Haslerigg, at the same time as he bought Auckland Castle ; but, after his attainder, they were granted to Bishop Cosin, who annexed them to the See of Durham for ever. He, also, endowed the living of St Andrew's with a moiety of the Prebend of Bondgate ; and his successor. Lord Crewe, ako added £30 a-year to the same. Bishop Barrington presented the house in the Market-place, now occupied by the Eev. H. A. Mitton, to the Vicar of the Parish and his suc- cessors for ever, there having been no residence attached to the living since the period of the dissolution. The names of the various rectors, deans, and vicars, fix>m the time of William the Conqueror down to the present are extant, and are recorded on two boards hung under the tower of the Parish Church. The list is appended : — Rbctobs. — XJthred, 1085; Meldred de Adet, 1129, Mon. AngL ; Maldredns, d. et Gregorius, 1147; Walter de Kirkham, 1253 ; Adam de Breniton, or Breropton, 1270. YiCAiL — Robert de ALbawyke, afterwards created the first Dean. Dbans. — ^Robt. de Albuwyke ; Thos. de Clyfford, S.T.P., 1311 ; John de Insula, time uncertain ; William de Westlie, 1360 ; John Kyngeston, 1362 ; Richard de Castro B'nardi, 1369 ; John de Newthorp de Pontefracto— -William de Wal- worth, 1378; Hugh de Westwyk, 1388; John Burgeys, 1395; Thos. Lyes, 1409; Thos. Hebbeden, LL.D., 1431; Wm. Doncastre, S.T.P. ; Robert Thwaitea, S.T.P. ; Bartholomew Radclyff, 1466 ; John Kelyng, 1476 ; John Newcourt— Wil- liam Sherwode, 1485; William Thomeson, S.T.P., 1498; Thomas Patenson, 1611; William Strangways, December, 1520 ; Robert Hyndmer, LL.D., 1641. YiCASS. — ^William Stote, 1532 ; James Edward, 1658 ; Thomas Wrangham, 1565 ; Richard Qaitskarthe, 1665 ; George Cook— Nicholas Samcott, 1571; John Robson, 1576; Miles Cosse; John Fell; John Wilkinson, 1610; Thomas Glover, 1613; Charles Vincent, 1615; Thomas Stock, 1624; John Stockdayle, A.M., 1638; Richard Frankland, A.M., (an intruder); Thomas Belt, L.C.B., 1662; John Hutchinson, 1671; Leonard Featherstone, 1685; John Tong, A.M., 1689; John Stackhouse, 1695; William Chaloner, 1714; John Warcop, A.M., 1751; Abraham Smith, 1766 ; Thomas Capstick, 1804 ; John Bacon, 1804 ; George Fielding, 1827 ; John Patrick Eden, 1845 ; George Edward Green, B.A., 1848; George Howard Wilkinson, M.A., 1863 ; Henry A. Mitton, M.A., 1868. The attentive reader will have observed that the two first Rectors mentioned in this list are the identical individuals who signed the two documents referred to in the early pages of this work, and in which Auckland is first mentioned. The first of these documents is dated 1085, which is only ninety-five years after the first establishment of the See of Durham by Bishop Aldune, and from this circumstance it seems probable (nay, almost certain) that to Bishop William de Carilepho, and the Monks whom he expelled from Durham, we owe the foundation of the present Church of St. Andrew. We append the following description of this fine old fabric, from the report of a sub-committee of the Architectural and Archaeological Society of Durham and Northumberland, who visited it in the year 1868 : — The Yicar and Churchwardens of this noble and yery interesting church having recently intimated their wish that the Society should visit the building, and report as to any further works of restoration that appeared to be desirable, it was with much pleasure that the Society acceded to their request, and a sub-eommittee having been appointed and having visited the church, on the 3rd of October, it has since agreed on the following report, which is submitted for the consideration of the Vicar and Churchwardens. It may be as well, in the first instance, to speak briefly of the general plan and architectural character of the edifice. It is crudfoim, and is said to be the largest parish church in the diocese. Its internal length is about 157 feet, and the width across the transepts is about half the extreme length. Erected apparently about the year 1200, the church preserves intact its original ground plAn. It was a very dignified composition ol the Early English style, lighted entirely by lancet windows, which, on the south side of the chancel, formed a continuous arcade, as at Houghton-le-Spring and other churches in the diocese. The nave arcade, of five bays, is supported on richly clustered piers, alternating with Digitized by Google