. The Archaeological journal. or thaiwhen he died an old man he still wore old-fashioned armour,we may stretch twenty years forward, and still be a quarterof a century from the earliesl Blakistons of any repute In all probability a Park intervened betweenGeoffrey of 1264 and Richard of 1323, and might well ownthe monument, [f this was do! the case, it may be assignedto Richard; but, as the features are do! aged, it must, inthai event, have been prepared in bis lifetime. The twoshields behind the head are both, perhaps, arms of alliance,and if there was originally a coal on the la
. The Archaeological journal. or thaiwhen he died an old man he still wore old-fashioned armour,we may stretch twenty years forward, and still be a quarterof a century from the earliesl Blakistons of any repute In all probability a Park intervened betweenGeoffrey of 1264 and Richard of 1323, and might well ownthe monument, [f this was do! the case, it may be assignedto Richard; but, as the features are do! aged, it must, inthai event, have been prepared in bis lifetime. The twoshields behind the head are both, perhaps, arms of alliance,and if there was originally a coal on the large shield (andBurely there must have been), the substitution of the arms <»lI llaki iton was an acl of g real meanne The Blakistons were uol ungrateful to the memory oiI rue Coctu. They wore red cock-in their shields, andmounted a cock for their crest. The heralds call thesebirds dunghill-cocks. One would have though! thai black-cocks wmiM have been ;i better allusion Roberl Blakiston, NORTON CI1UKC1I, COUNTY DURHAM. 151. a priest, of Stainton in Cleveland, in 1522, had a brotherRobert. The latter made heraldry and ancestral remem-brances tell for convenience, and called himself Robert do not know the boundaries of Blakiston Manor, but Ihave sometimes thought that an earlystone cross (with the usual imitationsof gems (?) in the form of small roundprotuberances), discovered, and stillstanding near a farm-house1 in theneighbourhood, had some reference tothem. What remains of the church-yard cross of Norton, a plain squareshaft, chamfered at the angles, lies onthe wall next to a stile at the south-west corner of the churchyard. The vicarage house is modern. Itspredecessor, said to have been built by VlCar SisSOll (1746-1773), is figured Cross at Colpitts Farm, near Norton. in Hutchinsons Durham. In 1415, Vicar Robert Bromley leaves the residue of his estate to hisexecutors to spend, according to the bishops directions, inpayment of his debts, at the amount of which he g
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