II.  Elizabeth.
III.  Mary,  married  to  the  Rev.  John  Lawson,  incumbent
of  Seaton  Carew,  co.  Durham,  brother  to  Mr.  Lavvson  of  Aid-
borough,  CO.  York.    (See  that  family  in  Burke's  Commoners.)

80th.  The  Welbanks.  This  family  owned  No.  8,  Paradise
Row,  and  matched  with  Brown.
George  Welbank,  of  Stockton,  was  living  1744;  but  the
male  line  expired,  or  left  the  place;  and  some  aged  maiden  ladies
at  length  becossing  possessed  of  that  property,  it  was  sold  after
their  death  to  William  Bayley,  Esq.  of  Stockton,  solicitor,  se-
cond son  of  William  Batchelor  Bayley,  Esq-  of  North  Allerton,
M.D.  and  banker.     This  was  prior  to  1819.
8lst.  The  Clarkes.
The  late  Robert  Clarke,  Esq.  was  an  eminent  solicitor  at
Stockton.  After  the  dissolution  of  Frank  and  Rowntree's  part-
nership, he  succeeded  the  latter;  while  Frank  (who  was  the
nephew  and  biographer  of  Ritson),  after  long  practising  alone,
was  succeeded  by  Jackson,  a  son  of  Jackson  of  Normanby.
(See  art.  Duckett  in  Baronetage.)     Clarke  became  partner  with


HISTORY  OF  STOCKTON  UPON  TEES.  H/

Grey  :  about  1821  the  firm  became  Clarke,  Grey,  and  Bayley;
then  Clarke  and  Bayley ;  now  Bayley  and  Newby.  q  Mr.
Clarke  died  in  the  South,  advanced  in  years,  about  1843.  His
personal  representative  in  Stockton  is  Robert  Rayson,  Esq.
his  nephew,  who  married  Miss  Phyllis  Harbottle,  of  the  North,
and  has  issue.
82nd.  The  Chipchases.
Thomas  Chipchase  lived  at  Norton  in  1658.  The  family
subsequently  settled  in  Stockton,  and  appears  to  have  matched
with  the  Stocks  of  that  place,  a  flimily  of  schoolmasters.  At  last

William  Chipchase,  living  1760  (or  a  near  relative),  mar-
ried one  of  the  daughter-coheirs  of  John  R  utter  the  Quaker,
and  thence  the  family  adopted  the  doctrines  of  that  sect.  From
that  marriage  proceeded

I.  James  Chipchase.
