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Sanderson and other children. He is a barrister-at-law, a magistrate

and county alderman for Northumberland, M.A. of Cambridge

University and was high sheriff for Northumberland in 1893, being

the sixteenth lord of Jesmond who has served that office.

MATILDA EMERSON’S THIRD OF JESMOND MANOR.

complicated and are more difficult to trace than those relating,

either to the title of her elder sister Agnes, or to that of her younger

sister Jane. She was 23 years of age at the time of her father

Richard Emeldon's death in 1333, and was then the wife of Richard

Acton.4
Richard Acton's family came from Acton in Northumberland.

A genealogy of his family is contained in the seventh volume

recently published, of the New History of Northumberland under the

title of the Township of Acton. In March, 1334, the king's

escheator was ordered to deliver a third of Jesmond manor (subject

to Christiana Emeldon's dower interest) to Richard Acton and

Matilda his wife,5 and in September of the same year they settled

that property so that it should go, after their death, to Roger

Widdrington and Elizabeth, the daughter of the said Richard and

Matilda, and the heirs of their bodies, with remainder to the right

heirs of Matilda.6 If Matilda Acton, mother of Elizabeth Acton,

was really only 23 years of age at her father's death in 1333, her

daughter Elizabeth must have been very young in 1334, when the

settlement was made in contemplation of her marriage with Roger
4 Inq. p.m,, 7 Ed. III., first numbers, No. 38. New History of

Northumberland, vol. v. p. 445. Cal. of Close Rolls, 8 Ed, III., p. 238.

5 Cal. Close Rolls, 8 Ed, III,, p. 239.

Anderson Coulson Burdon Sanderson.

Widdrington's father, Richard Acton, died,7 and by 1351 8 his

widow, Matilda, had married her second husband. Sir Alexander

Hilton.
Sir Alexander Hilton, lord of Hilton in the county of Durham,

had summonses to Parliament in the sixth, seventh, eighth and

ninth years of Edward III. He served in the Scottish wars in 1333

under Lord Ralph Nevill, and died in 1361. By his first wife,

Eleanor daughter of William Felton, he had had a son, Robert,

who succeeded him.1 Matilda Hilton outlived not only her two

husbands (Richard Acton and Alexander Hilton) but her daughter

(Elizabeth Widdrington), and at her death in 1368 the latter's

children were her next heirs.2

soldier under William de Bohun and was also at the battle of

Neville's Cross, where he took one Makepeth a prisoner.3 He had

by her three children, namely. Sir John Widdrington, who was born

in 1345;4 Christiana, who by 1370 had married Sir Bertram

Monboucher, and Eleanor, who by that date had married Sir Robert

Umfreville.5 After his first wife's death, Roger Widdrington

married another wife, named Agnes, and had by her another son,

also named Sir John Widdrington, and a daughter named Barnaba,

who married John de Vaux.6 Roger Widdrington's first son John

must have predeceased his father, for the latter's second son John,
7 Lady Waterford’s MSS., Hist. MSS. Com, Report 11, Appendix, part VII.,

p. 70. Cal. Close Rolls, Ed. III., p. 139.

8 Hunter's Interleaved Bourne p. 83.

1 Dugdale's Baronage ; Banks' Baronia Anglica Concentrata, vol. i. p. 252 ;

Surtees's Durham, vol. ii. p. 26.

2 Cart. Ridley, 136, 137 ; Hodgson's Northumberland. part II., vol. i. p. 252 ;

3 Hodgson's Northumberland, part II., vol. ii. p. 233.

4 Inq. p.m., 42 Ed. III., first numbers. No. 48.

5 Rot. Fin., 42 Ed. III., Duke of Northumberland's Transcript, p. 108.

6 Hodgson's Northumberland, part II. , vol. ii. p. 251 , note 24.

80 AN ACCOUNT OF JESMOND.

Widdrington died in 1372 8 and this last named Sir John

Widdrington succeeded to his father's estates, but the estates of

Roger's first wife, Elizabeth Acton, went to her own children,

Christiana Monboucher and Eleanor Umfreville,9 who had become

her heiresses by the death without issue of their own brother. Sir

Pedigree shewing the Descent of Matilda Emeldon's Third of