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(Continued from Page 28.) ago, -a hundred and ninety-five years before the birth of Chaucer-four hundred and thirty-one years before the birth of Shakspere-and seven hundred and thirtyodd years before the establishment of courts of arbitration in the iron trade, Middlesbrough set an example to the world by settling her disputes by arbitration. Having inentioned that as early as 1133, the mother church of Stainton gave up all claim on Middlesbrough, I must here point out an error into which my brotherhistorians of Cleveland, Graves and Ord, have both fallen, the witnesses to a "written deed," whereby "Matilda, In the year 1221, Roger of Middlesbrough was one of daughter of Henry Percy, of Battersby, formerly wife of William Grundy, gave up, and quit-claimed all her dower in the land which the aforesaid William her Lord had at In the year 1133,-when Henry the First was visiting that Normandy from whose Dukes he derived his paternal blood, though a Yorkshireman by birth, and his elder brother, Robert, was gradually siuking under his long and cruel captivity in Cardiff Castle; when Athelwulph was founding the see of Carlisle, of which he was the first bishop; and the cell at Middles-in stating Middlesbrough to be in the parish of Acklam. brough had existed only some thirteen years,―a dispute Ever since the formation of the Benedictine cell, about took place between the prior and canons of Gisbrough the year 1120, Middlesbrough has been an independent and the abbot and monks of Whitby, regarding certain parish. The rather remarkable fact of the Revs. Robert temporalities-tithes, mortuaries, and such like-which Burrell (1699), Philip Kitchen (1725), Nicholas Richthe Benedictines at Whitby claimed because Robert de ards (1729), John Grenside (1739), William Moore Brus. of Skelton Castle, had given them the chapel at (1769), William Michael Stevenson Preston (1816), Middlesbrough to form a cell, (as we have seen at page and Isaac Benson (1823), being all seven presented in 27.) and which the Augustines at Gisbrough also claim- succession at the same time to both benefices, was cered because their founder, the said Robert de Brus, had tainly enough to give the ignorant multitude the idea that given them the church at Stainton, to which MiddlesMiddlesbrough was a portion of Acklam parish; but brough appears previously to have been a chapel-of-local historians like Graves and Ord, knowing that the ease. The matter was settled by arbitration, by Robert Archbishop of York had in each case presented to Acklam, de Brus, the founder of both cell and priory; assisted and the Hustler family to Middlesbrough,* ought to by his two sons, Adam de Brus, afterwards lord of have been aware that a double presentation could not be Skelton, and Robert de Brus, afterwards lord of Annanrequired for one parish. dale (and ancestor of the royal Bruces of Scotland); and by Hugh, archdeacon of Cleveland; Arnold de Perey, and his two sons; and others; in the presence of William de Brus, first prior of Gisbrough, and Nicholas, the second abbot of Whitby, who agreed to the same. Since the formation of their cell at Middlesbrough, the Yngwall, to Lord John the Abbot, and convent of Whitby, monks of Whitby had received all the tithes and all for ten shillings by them to her in hand paid." This the parish dues, except for burials, of twelve carucates Roger, otherwise Roger de Scarbrough, passed several of land, particularized hereafter; and the canons of Gisbrough had not only received the fees for the burials John of Evesham, the seventh abbot of Whitby, in 1222, years at the Middlesbrough cell; and, on the death of of the dead belonging to these twelve carucates of land, (the year following the witnessing of the deed just menbut now sought to dispossess the monks of all the tithes tioned,) was chosen to succeed him, and ruled the nonand parish dues as well. Whereupon it was decided, astery until his death in 1244. "In his time," says that henceforth the monks should enjoy their chapel at YOUNG, "the abbey received a great accession of territory Middlesbrough as a mother church, without any claim and wealth, and was then in the zenith of its grandeur." from Stainton whatever. That to prevent all future Many of the grants to the Middlesbrough cell appear to squabbles between the Benedictine monks and Augustine have taken place in Roger's time. In 1227, we find him canons, the former should have allotted all the tithes, compelling the abbot Roger and monks of Rievaulx to parish dues, and burial fees, belonging to their own car-desist from encroaching on the lands of the monastery ucate at Middlesbrough, the four carucates which were then the freehold of John Ingleram at Airsome, and the carucate at Linthorpe then the freehold of Malet, who was the homager of Roger de Mowbray. And to the canons of Gisbrough were allotted the three carucates in Acklam, which were then the freehold of Alfred the homager of Robert de Brus; that carucate in Acklam which was then the freehold of Robert Esturmith; that carucate which was then the freehold of Malet, and for which he was the homager of Robert de Brus; and also that carucate which was their own property in Airsome. So that seven hundred and thirty-eight years of Whitby at Cayton, setting "their authentic seal" to the deed in the presence of Michael, the prior of Gisbrough; William de Mowbray, lord of Tameton, or Tauton; and others. He had also a law-suit with the prioress Susanna and the nuns of Basedale, about "the tithes of corn for Ingleflat and Plumtreflat, in the territory of Nunthorp, and the tithes of the mill belonging This was altered in 1860, when the patronage of, or right of nomination to, the benefice at Acklam was transferred from the Archbishop of York to Thomas Hustler, Esq., J P., his heirs and assigns for ever, and, in return, the Archbishops of York were henceforth to present to Middlesbrough. |