Catalogue Item

Report on charities within the urban district of Auckland produced by J.J.E. Bradshaw, Charity Review Organiser, June 1970

Letter from J.J.E. Bradshaw, Charity Review Organiser, The Council for Social Service for Durham County, Hallgarth House, Hallgarth Street, Durham, to Rev. J.M. Harrison, The Parish Office, Lightfoot Institute, Kingsway, Bishop Auckland, concerning the status of various charities in Bishop Auckland, 9 September 1970

Details of the income of, and object of, the charities of Maltby, Thomas Pearson, Mrs. James Joplin, Frances Langstaffe, Jane Lyon, William Wall, John Addison , and Nutty Hagg, 9 September 1970

Correspondence between the Secretary, The Charity Commission, Liverpool, and the Rev. J.D.F. Anido, St. Andrew's Vicarage, Bishop Auckland, concerning the expenditure of the proceeds of certain charities on improving and extending the old parish hall in the Lightfoot Institute, 30 March 1981 - 3 June 1981

Notice on proceeds from the sale of church property, n.d.

Parochial charity accounts, 4 November 1921 - 1 January 1970

Report on the parochial charity funds accounts for the year ending 31 December 1968 Originally enclosed in EP/Au.SA 12/1

Correspondence and accounts relating to individual charities, 3 July 1936 - 19 September 1963

Accounts of the Charity Fund of the Parochial Church Council, 1967 - 1971

Balance sheets for the parochial charities, 1966-71

Copy of the further report of the Commissioners for Inquiring Concerning Charities concerning charities in the parishes of Auckland, St. Andrew, and Auckland, St. Helen, n.d. [31 January 1829 and 30 January 1830]

Copy of the further report of the enquiry of the Charity Commissioners [pp. 38-48] concerning the parish of Auckland, St. Andrew, 31 January 1829

Copy of a letter from G. Halford, The Charity Commission, London, to J. Heslop, Bishop Auckland, forwarded to the Rev. E. Price, St. Andrew's Vicarage, Bishop Auckland, concerning various charities at Auckland, St. Andrew, 29 February 1896

Reports to the Charity Commissioners on charities in the parish of Auckland, St. Andrew, 31 July 1902

Copy of Charity Commission scheme for the church hall in the former ecclesiastical parish of St. Andrew Auckland, 22 February 1978

Copy of Charity Commission scheme for the Lightfoot Institute in the ecclesiastical parish of St. Andrew with St. Anne, Bishop Auckland, 13 June 1979

Copy of Charity Commission scheme for the use of the proceeds of the sale of Fylands Mission Church, in the ecclesiastical parish of St. Andrew with St. Anne, Bishop Auckland, 14 June 1979

Copy of Charity Commission scheme for the use of the proceeds of the sale of St. Paul's, Toronto, Mission Church in the ecclesiastical parish of St. Andrew with St. Anne, Bishop Auckland, 14 June 1979

Scheme issued by the Charity Commission for the John Addison Charity, the Apprentice Fund, the Nutty Hagg Charity, the Charity of Jane Joplin, the Charity of Frances Longstaff, the Charity of Jane Lyon, the Maltby Charity, the Charity of Thomas Pearson, the Charities of William Wall, all in the parish of Auckland, St. Andrew, 9 March 1976

Scheme issued by the Charity Commission for the Bede House Charity in the parish of Auckland, St. Andrew, 20 December 1978

Correspondence from the Charity Commission, Whitehall, London, to the Rev. R. Long, The Vicarage, Auckland, St. Andrew, concerning the John Addison Charity, 15 December 1877 - 10 May 1878

Notes concerning the John Addison Charity by the Rev. E. Price, June 1901

1 May 1787 (1) John Bainbridge of Bishop Auckland, plumber and glazier (2) The Rev. Thomas Capstick, curate of Auckland, St. Andrew; Farrer Wren of Binchester, esq.; and Ralph Bowser of Bishop Auckland, esq. Bond in £100 for the payment in trust for apprenticing poor children Consideration: £50 plus interest

1 May 1787 (1) John Bainbridge of Bishop Auckland, plumber and glazier (2) Thomas Capstick of Bishop Auckland, clerk; Farrer Wren of Binchester, esq.; and Ralph Bowser of Bishop Auckland, esq. Bond for the payment of £200 in trust for the poor of the parish of Auckland, St. Andrew

Transcripts of the foundation charter of Bishop Auckland almshouses, 14 September 1669; transcripts made, n.d.

22 February 1823 (1) Shute, Bishop of Durham (2) George, Viscount Barrington; the Rev. Dr. Robert Price; and Barrington Price of Bibebury, Gloucestershire, esq. Draft declaration of trusts in respect of £30,000 3 per cent reduced annuities purchased by (1), to include annual disbursements of £5 to each of four beadsmen and beadswomen at Bishop Auckland, and £3 to each of eight beadsmen and women at Durham, with the residue applied for the support of schools for poor children in the diocese of Durham

Annual receipts of the Bishop Auckland Bedesmen and Bedeswomen, 1848 and 1864

Sealed order of the Board of the Charity Commission concerning publication of the names and addresses of the trustees of the Bede House Charity, 23 July 1855

Certificate of the Board of the Charity Commission concerning the trustees and the gross annual income of the Bede House Charity, 26 October 1855

12 May 1860 (1) The Trustees of Bede House Charity, Bishop Auckland (2) The Bishop Auckland Town Hall and Market Company Ltd. Memorandum of agreement for the lease for 1,000 years by (1) to (2) of messuages and buildings in the Market Place, Bishop Auckland

27 October 1862 (1) The Trustees of Bede House Charity, Bishop Auckland (2) The Bishop Auckland Town Hall and Market Company Limited Lease for 1,000 years by (1) to (2) of "that large Building now in course of erection intended to be used as a Town Hall" with shops, reading and other rooms and covered market, at Bishop Auckland Consideration: £30 p.a.

25 October 1865 (1) The Trustees of the Mechanics' Institute (2) The Trustees of the Bede House Charity Memorandum of agreement concerning a party wall in Silver Street, Bishop Auckland

Letter from the Secretary to the Charity Commission, London, to the Rev. R. Long, The Vicarage, Bishop Auckland, concerning financial arrangements for reconstructing Bede House, 22 August 1877

31 October 1887 (1) Trustees of the Bede House Charity (2) John William Frost of Bishop Auckland, postman Tenancy agreement for a dwelling house, garden and orchard near Silver Street, Bishop Auckland Rent: £10 10s. p.a.

Correspondence concerning the enquiry of the Charity Commissioners into the Bede House Charity as part of the investigation into the charities of County Durham, 5 January 1888 - 13 January 1901

19 June 1896 (1) The Trustees of the Bede House Charity (2) Frederick Shaw Rickerby, hotel proprietor Memorandum of agreement for the sale by (1) to (2) of a house, garden and orchard (2r. 1p.) to the north of Silver Street, Bishop Auckland Consideration: £250

Order of the Board of the Charity Commission authorising the Trustees of the Bede House Charity to sell 2r. 1p. of land north of Silver Street, Bishop Auckland, 26 January 1897

Brief description of the Bede House Charity, June 1901

Papers concerning the trustees and property of the Bede House Charity, 6 March 1855 - 22 January 1921

Letter from Messrs. Trotter, Bruce & Loft, 56 North Bondgate, Bishop Auckland, to the Rev. W.R. Tinniswood, The Vicarage, Bishop Auckland, concerning money received from the Lord Crewe Charity intended for the purchase of footwear for children attending the Barrington School, and the possibility of being able to use it in other ways, 12 October 1964

Scheme for the Regulation and Management of the Charities of Lord Crewe and the Rev. John Sharp, 1875

Scheme for the future regulation of the Lord Crewe and the Rev. John Sharp Charities, 1875

Letter from C. Rowlandson, Durham, to the Rev. E. Price, The Vicarage, Bishop Auckland, referring to the effect of the variation of the Lord Crewe charity scheme on payments made to individual almsmen and women, children, orphans and widows, 10 September 1898

Correspondence between the Charity Commission, Whitehall, London, and the vicar and churchwardens of Auckland, St. Andrew, concerning the establishment of the Charity of Mrs. June Joplin, 14 February 1887 - 25 May 1887

Notes on the Joplin Charity by the Rev. E. Price, n.d. [c. 1901]

Papers relating to the transfer of funds invested on behalf of Frances Langstaffe's Charity, 10 March 1858 - 5 December 1866

Letters from the Charity Commission, Whitehall, London, to the Rev. E. Price, The Vicarage, Bishop Auckland, concerning Langstaffe's Charity and 'the Apprentice Fund', 10 - 21 June 1901

Brief notes on the Langstaffe Charity, June 1901

Notes made by the Rev. E. Price and the Rev. H. Gouldsmith concerning the 'apprentice charity', June 1901 - 3 April 1906

24 March 1713/14 (1) John Hutchinson of Framwellgate, gent. (2) Thomas Peirson, jun., of Coundon, gent. Assignment by (1) to (2) for the unexpired term of 21 years of a messuage, with a moiety of grass and garth, and various named closes, at Westerton Consideration: £406

24 March 1713 [recte 1714] (1) John Hutchinson of Framwelgate, gent. (2) Thomas Peirson, the younger, of Coundon Bond for the performance of covenants in assignment of even date Consideration: £80

8 November 1722 (1) Frances Peirson of Coundon, widow, and William Challoner, minister of Auckland, St. Andrew (2) Thomas Rumford of Coundon, yeo. Lease for six years by (1) to (2) of a tenement, with several closes, in Westerton Rent: £25

10 May 1728 (1) William Challoner, minister of Auckland, St. Andrew, clerk, and devisee of the will of Thomas Pearson, the younger, late of Coundon, yeo., for the use of the poor (2) Thomas Rumford of Westerton, yeo. Lease for six years by (1) to (2) of a farm with several closes in Westerton Rent: £25 p.a.

25 April 1753 (1) Rev. John Warcopp of Bishop Auckland, devisee in trust under the will of Thomas Pearson of Coundon, deceased (2) George Routledge of Westerton, yeoman Lease for 15 years of a messuage and farm at Westerton Rent: £25 p.a.

14 May 1789 (1) Rev. Thomas Capstick, devisee in trust under the will of Thomas Pearson, the younger of Coundon (2) Martin Dickinson of Witton le Wear, farmer, and Elizabeth Parkin of Westerton, widow Lease for 6 years of a messuage and farm at Westerton Rent: £27 p.a.

4 June 1803 (1) Rev. Robert Thomas Capstick, devisee in trust under the will of Thomas Pearson of Coundon, deceased (2) Henry Parkin of Westerton, farmer Lease for 12 years of a messuage and farm at Westerton Rent: £40 p.a.

A scheme of husbandry for Henry Parkin's farm at Westerton, 1807 - 1813, n.d. [post 1805]

Copy of a certified extract from vol. 21, p. 46, of the Further Report of the Charity Commissioners concerning Pearson's Charity, 31 January 1829; copy made, n.d.

Plan of a farm at Westerton n.d. [1840] No scale

Letter from Charles Wood, Howlish Hall, Bishop Auckland, to the Rev. G. H. Wilkinson, The Parsonage, Bishop Auckland, concerning the possible sale of land at Westerton, and returning a completed application to the Charity Commissioners for authorisation to proceed with the sale, 19 February - 22 March 1865

Copy of the completed form addressed to the Charity Commissioners applying for permission for the Trustees of Pearson's Charity to sell land at Westerton to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, 8 November 1872

Letter from the Ecclesiastical Commission, 10 Whitehall Place, London, to the Rev. Henry A. Milton, The Vicarage, Bishop Auckland, agreeing to purchase the leasehold interest in 88a. 1r. 2p. of land, 6 December 1872

20 May 1873 (1) The Rev. Arthur Milton of Bishop Auckland, clerk (2) Robert Holmes White of 6 Whitehall Place, Middlesex, gent., and agent for the Ecclesiastical Commissioners Articles of agreement for the sale and purchase of a farm (88a.1r.2p.) at Westerton Consideration: £825

Letters from the Charity Commission, 8 York Street, St. James's Square, London, to the Rev. H. A. Milton, Bishop Auckland, and R. Bower, Bishop Auckland, concerning the proposed sale of Westerton Farm to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, 20 November 1872 - 31 October 1873

Letter from the Official Trustees' Department of the Charity Commission, 8 York Street, St. James's Square, London, to the Rev. Henry Milton, The Vicarage, Auckland, St. Andrew, forwarding stock receipts arising from the sale of unexpired leasehold interest in a farm at Westerton, 6 - 22 November 1873

Notes concerning Pearson's Charity by the Rev. E. Price, n.d. [1901]

Correspondence between the Official Custodian for Charities, 57-60 Haymarket, London, and the Rev. J.D.F. Anido, Bishop Auckland, concerning the John Proud charity, 19 November 1976 - 5 January 1977

Copy of the Charity Commission Scheme for incorporating ten parochial charities in the St. Andrew Auckland Relief in Need charity, 9 March 1976

Correspondence between Messrs. Smith, Roddam & Co., 56 North Bondgate, solicitors; the Charity Commission, Derby Square, Liverpool; and the Rev. J.D.F. Anido, St. Andrew's Vicarage, Bishop Auckland, concerning the Bede House charity and its incorporation in the St. Andrew Auckland Relief in Need Charity, 5 May 1977 - 20 December 1978

Income and expenditure accounts for the St. Andrew Auckland Relief in Need Charity, 1978, 1982

Printed notice inviting applications to the St. Andrew Auckland Relief in Need Charity, n.d.

Annual report and income and expenditure account for St. Andrew Auckland Relief in Need Charity, 1984

Copy of the will, dated 24 September 1679, of William Wall of Bishop Auckland, made by William Pye, notary public and deputy registrar, n.d.

Notes on Wall's charity by the Rev. E. Price, June 1901

Papers concerning the charity of William Wall, 6 May 1904 - 2 July 1903

Correspondence and papers concerning the sale of St. Andrew's house and permission of Charity Commissioners for the use of some of the proceeds for the purchase of 16 Cleveland Avenue, 10 July 1963 - 21 February 1966 (1 file)

Correspondence between the Secretary, Diocesan Office, The College, Durham, and the Rev. W.R. Tinniswood, The Vicarage, Bishop Auckland, concerning a bequest under the will of the late Miss M.A. James, 2 September 1963 - 18 December 1963

Letter from the Deputy Treasurer of the Parochial Church Council, 239 Newgate Street, Bishop Auckland, to the Rev. W.R. Tinniswood, The Vicarage, Bishop Auckland, concerning the distribution of charity money before Christmas, n.d.

18 February 1651/2 (1) John Laxe of Westerton, yeoman, and Anthony Laxe of Westerton, yeoman (2) Cuthbert Markendale of Old Parke, gent. Bargain and sale by (1) to (2) of a tenement called the Slate house and garth with the fold yard and barn on the south side together with the moiety of a grass garth to the south and south east; a garth called Horner garth; a parcel of ground called the West field (14a.); a close called Ox close (28a.); a moiety of the common of pasture on Spennymoore, all in Westerton Consideration: £365

9 July 1692 (1) William Walton of Bishop Auckland, tailor (2) John Spark of Bishop Auckland, grocer, and trustee to the poor Mortgage by (1) to (2) of a messuage and orchard in Newgate, Bishop Auckland Consideration: £30 and interest

Letter from Christopher Johnson, Durham, to Farrer Wren, Binchester, concerning the taking of the receipient's acknowledgement to the surrenders of the lands of the late Mr. Hodgson, 18 January 1766

Tracing of a plan of the dwelling house, garden and parcel of ground, adjacent to Bishop Auckland Market Place, endorsed on a conveyance, dated 5 April 1809, n.d. (1 plan, 47cm. x 40cm. waxed cloth]

25 February 1823 (1) Shute, bishop of Durham (2) The Rev. George, viscount Barrington; the hon. William Keppel Barrington; the hon. Augustus Barrington; the hon. Russell Barrington, sons of (1) Copy of conveyance by (1) to (2), in trust, of the Barrington School in Bishop Auckland, together with £436 p.a. towards its support

An account of the fine and fees payable to the Dean and Chapter of Durham for renewal of the lease of land at Westerton demised to the Rev. George Fielding of Bishop Auckland, 11 September 1847

Abstract of the will, dated 19 February 1856, of Elizabeth Hall of Bishop Auckland, 1859

Letter from the Secretary of the Charity Commission, 8 York Street, St. James's Square, London, to Messrs. Bowser & Ward, Bishop Auckland, solicitors, returning an amended warrant for payment of dividends upon purchase money invested in charitable funds for the benefit of the Master of the Free Grammar School, 22 November 1862

Letters to the Rev. R. Long and the Rev. E. Price from various parties concerning the Lyon Charity, 20 December 1876 - 21 March 1904

Papers relating to the establishment of the Charity of William Armstrong, 26 March 1901 - 15 April 1904

Notes by the Rev. E. Price on the Maltby Charity, June 1901

Papers relating to a legacy of £500 under the will of John Proud of Bankside, Bishop Auckland, 30 October 1905 - 30 December 1905

Statement from the Ecclesiastical Commission, 1 Millbank, Westminster, SW1, to the Rev. A. B. Parry-Evans, The Vicarage, Bishop Auckland, concerning the sale of stock held in trust, 21 February 1927

27 June 1930 (1) The Rev. Ernest Hudson, 3 Baker Street, Lancaster, Lancashire (2) The vicar and churchwardens of Auckland, St. Andrew Agreement relating to the investment of the capital of, and use of the income of, the Ernest Hudson Fund

6 August 1948 (1) The vicar and churchwardens of Auckland, St. Andrew (2) Joseph Lingford & Son Ltd., Bishop Auckland Lease for 7 years by (1) to (2) of South Church School Rent: £50 p.a.