History of the family of Seton during eight centuries > Volume 2

758 SEATON-CARROWE
John Sayer of Worsall was owner of Elvet Myers in 1588. The
Sayers derived that property from their remote maternal ancestors, the
Setons ; for Isabel, wife of Thomas de Seton, held dower of a third part of
Elvet Myer. — Surtees' Durham, iii. 197, note.
On the part of the Bishop, commission to inquire against John de
Carrowe and other malefactors, who had entered ' our Castle of Stockton,'
vi et armis, and forcibly took away John, son and heir of Alice, daughter
and heiress of Thomas Seton, being under age and in ward of the Bishop
— 18th October 1376. — 31 Hatfield, ibid. p. 403.
Seaton-Carrowe (corruptly Carew, a Cornish name) is situated on the
coast, about three miles to the south of Hartlepool. The prefix appears to
have been formerly spelt Seton. It has long been a place of considerable
resort in summer, and possesses a well-known golf links. There are no
remains of the ancient chapel of Seaton, dedicated to St. Thomas the
Martyr (Becket), and given by Brus, with the mother church of Stranton,
to Guisbrough Abbey. In 1200, Ronald, Prior of Guisb rough, granted a
chantry within Seaton Chapel to Walter Carrowe; and in 13 12 Prior
Geoffrey determined that the Vicar of Stranton was bound to provide for
the maintenance of Seaton Chapel. — Ibid. p. 130.
Some Roman antiquities were found on the sands to the north of
Seaton-Carrowe by Mr. Edward Pease of Darlington ; and at another
Seaton (in the parish of Seaham) other Roman remains were found several
years ago. — Ibid. p. 402.
Arms — Seton, a fesse between three birds, and a bordure engrailed
(tinctures not given) ; Sayer, gules, a chevron between three seamews
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3. Co. York.
The surname of Seton (or Seaton) turns up very frequently in
the public records and elsewhere in connection with Yorkshire, and the
Rev. Prebendary Douglas Seaton, Vicar of Goodrich, Herefordshire (to be
afterwards referred to), has most kindly supplied me with a great deal of
interesting information on the subject.
The annexed pedigree relates to an important branch of the family,
originally in Nottinghamshire, and afterwards at Doncaster, Pontefract, and
other places in the county of York.
Grimethorpe Hall, a curious old brick residence in the township of
Brierly, was built by Robert Seaton, who is said to have been a Quaker,
in the seventeenth century. It passed from the possession of the Seatons
about a hundred years ago, and is now the property of Mr. John Farrar
Crookes of Tunbridge Wells.
1 The following blazon for the name of Seton and azure, and per fesse gules, three such piles
is given in Holmes' Accadeinie of Armory, i. x. in point argent.
105 (1688) : — Parted per pale indented ermine