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Charity Commission order authorising the sale of 1a. Or. 23p. of land in Chester-le-Street, belonging to Elizabeth Tewart's charity and abutting in the rear on other land of the said charity, 7 November 1884

Charity Commission notices of the transfer of funds produced from the sale of stock belonging to Elizabeth Tewart's charity, also notice of the investment of proceeds from the sale of 2 pieces of garden in Chester-le-Street, 17 March 1887 - 25 July 1889 Originally enclosed in EP/CS 4/114 - 117

Charity Commission orders for the appropriation of funds from Elizabeth Tewart's Charity for the erection of a parsonage house for Chester-le-Street (on a site conveyed to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners by Charles Hylton Jolliffe), with related correspondence, and architect's summary of tenders for the contract to erect boundary walls, fencing and roads, 14 July 1886 - 23 September 1889 Originally enclosed in EP/CS 4/114 - 117

Letter from William Booth of Durham to the Rev Canon Blunt enclosing an attested copy of the conveyance [of Tewart's charity land] to Chester-le-Street Co-operative Society and a print of the Charity Commission order for sale [not found], advising that he has remitted the purchase money to the Charity Commissioners, and hoping that the latter will soon have a comfortable rectory house, 7 March 1885

Letter from the Charity Commission, Whitehall, London, to the Rev Canon Blunt of Chester-le-Street, enclosing a receipt for £1,857 6s.10d. India £ 3 per cent Stock, purchased for Elizabeth Tewart's charity with £ 1,660 from the sale of land at Chester-le-Street to the Co-operative Society, 16 and 27 March 1885

Letter from Bray and Company 57 Great Russell Street, Bloomsbury [London], to the churchwardens of Chester-le-Street, concerning the reletting of the Longstock estate by Mr Smith's trustees, and enclosing a copy of the surveyor's report on the farm at Longstock leased to Edward Ranger, 15 February 1836 Originally enclosed in pp. 307-8 of EP/CS 4/96

Statement for the guidance of parishes interested in Henry Smith's charity, n.d. [post 1894] Originally enclosed in EP/CS 4/97

Letter from Warrens, 5 Bedford Square, London, to W. Rhodes of Chester-le-Street regarding the Longstock estate, part of Smith's charity estates, 27 January 1919 Originally enclosed in EP/CS4/97

Letters from Lambton and Hetton Collieries Limited, Fence Houses, to W.G. Rhodes, 25 Lancaster Terrace, Chester-le-Street, regarding allowances of firewood made in place of the usual allowance of coal to the churchwardens of Chester-le-Street for charitable purposes, on account of the grave shortage of coal, 13 November 1918 - 18 March 1919 Originally enclosed in EP/CS 4/97

Letter from Rodger Watson, for the rector and churchwardens of Chester-le-Street, to Mr Stobart of Lambton Collieries Ltd, Fencehouses, requesting an annual donation of charity coals, 26 November 1925 Originally enclosed in EP/CS 4/97