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10 February 1829 (1) John Griffith, gent., tenant (2) John Scafe, esq., vouchee Exemplification of recovery for three messuages, cottages, stables, cowhouses, outhouses, gardens; two curtilages; seventy acres of land, meadow and pasture; twenty acres of wood and common of pasture, mines of coal and all other mines and minerals in the chapelry of Tanfield in the parish of Chester-le-Street

13 May 1854 (1) Executors of the will of the late Marquis of Bute (2) John Viret Gooch of London, esq., and Alfred Staff Prior of London, coal merchant Draft lease for 63 years by (1) to (2) of wayleave over part of Tanfield Moor for conveyance of coals and other minerals from the collieries of the Lintz Estate [Draft agreed by lessees, 4 July 1854] Consideration: £100 p.a. plus ls. 6d. per ton on quantities exceeding 2,000 tons

2 April 1855 (1) Robert Laycock, Joseph Laycock and Richard 1aycock, all of Winlaton, esquires (2) John Virct Gooch of London, esq., and Alfred Staff Prior of London, coal merchant Lease for 42 years by (1) to (2) of collieries and mineral rights under the Lintz Estate (by estimation 404a.) except under Lintz Hall and other farm buildings, with rights of wayleave Consideration: £500 p.a. except in first year plus 20s. per ton in first year and in subsequent years for quantities exceeding 500 tons. Also 6s. per ton for coals drawn from outstrokes of collieires not forming part of the estate Includes: plan of Lintz Estate Scale: 8 chains to 1 inch [1:6336]

25 September 1855 (1) John Eden of Beamish Hall, esq. (2) John Viret Gooch of Berkley Street, Middlesex, esq. Lease for 21 years by (1) to (2) of a house and 3a. of garden and grassland at Burnopfield Consideration: £30 p.a.

14 June 1856 (1) John Addison and William Addison, both of Bolton, Cumberland, colliery owners (2) John Viret Gooch of Berkeley Street, Middlesex, esq. Lease for 21 years by (1) to (2) of mineral rights in and under the High Fryer Side estate in the chapelry of Tanfield by estimation to 50a. Consideration: £60 p.a. plus rent of £40 p.a. if working of the coals is not begun by end of the second year. Also 18s. per ten for every agreed additional ten of coals and sixpence per ton for fireclay and ironstone

14 April 1857 (1) John Viret Gooch of London, esq. (2) Alfred Staff Prior of London, coal merchant (3) William Wagstaff of Westminster, gent. (4) Lintz Colliery Company Agreement by (1) to (3) and (4) for sale of the Lintz Hall colliery and other works Consideration: £15,660 10s. 4d.

31 May 1862 (1) Lintz Colliery Company Limited (2) William Barber Buddicom of Penbedw, County of Denbigh, esq. Mortgage debenture [with form of transfer from (2) above to Beaumont Cottam of Walsall, grocer, 28 January 1868] Consideration: £1,000

31 May 1862 (1) Lintz Colliery Company Limited (2) Alexander Ogilvie of Westminster, esq. Mortgage debenture Consideration: £800

31 May 1862 (1) Lintz Colliery Company Limited (2) William Wagstaff of Westminster, gent. Mortgage debenture Consideration: £500

4 February 1863 (1) Nathaniel Clark of Beamish Park, land agent, for Jemima Ellison of Priestfield Lodge, widow (2) George Henry Gooch of Burnopfield, agent for the Lintz Colliery Co. Agreement between (1) and (2) for a lease for 21 years of coalmines and seams of coal, ironstone and fireclay within and under the farm called Priestfield in the chapelry of Tanfield Consideration: £50 p.a. plus ls. 6d. per ton as outstroke rent on all coals other than 'Priestfield Coals' led through the property

25 September 1866 (1) John Ions of Hobson in the chapelry of Tanfield (2) Lintz Colliery Company Agreement to lease for 7 years of five cottages at Lintz Colliery Consideration: £25 p.a.

31 December 1867 (1) John Viret Gooch of Berkley Street, Middlesex, esq. (2) James Blekinsop of Westminster, gent., and Herbert Henry Swift of Portland Place, Middlesex (3) Thomas Brassey, Alexander Ogilvie and William Wagstaff, all of Great George Street, Middlesex, gents., and William Barber Buddicome of Pembedu, County of Denbigh and Henry Lindo of Paris, esq. (4) Lintz Colliery Company (5) John Robinson McLean of Westminster, engineer, and John Nurthall Brown of Birmingham, engineer (6) Beaumont Cottam of Walsall, grocer Mortgage by (1) and others to (6) of 4,909 sq. yds. of land with 38 houses at Lintz in the chapelry of Tanfield Consideration: £2,000 Includes: plan of property No scale

17 March 1868 (1) William Barber Buddicom of Pembedu, County of Denbigh, and Henry Lindo of Paris (2) Lintz Colliery Company Limited (3) Beaumont Cottam of Walsall, grocer Deed of transfer of mortgage debentures by (1) to (3) Consideration: £1,200

Abstract of title, 2 September 1862 - 10 October 1862, of the Lintz Colliery Company Limited to land and machinery at Fairfield, reciting deeds, 1869

29 January 1870 (1) William Barber Buddicom of Pembedu, County of Flint, and John Nurthall Brown of Handsworth, liquidators of the Lintz Colliery Company Limited (2) John Robinson McClean of Westminister, M.P. Copy of contract for the sale by (1) to (2) of messuages, buildings, mines, minerals, steam engines, coke ovens, firebrick works, railroads, wagons, trams, tools, stocks of coal, pitwood etc. with farms, crops, tillage belonging to Lintz Colliery Company Limited Consideration: a sum sufficient to pay all the debts and liabilities of the company

17 July 1882 (1) Catherine Marion Richardson of Shotley Bridge, widow, and executrix of the late Thomas Richardson, iron merchant and coalowner (2) Francis McClean of Westminister, esq. Assignment by (1) to (2) of leasehold mines and premises at Middle Fryerside in the parish of Tanfield Consideration: £500

31 May 1862 (1) Lintz Colliery Company Limited (2) Henry Lindo of Paris, esq. Mortgage debenture [with form of transfer from (2) above to Beaumont Cottam of Walsall, grocer, 28 January 1868] Consideration: £200

Letter from Messrs. Hargrave & Co., 3 Victoria Street, Westminster Abbey, SW to Frank McLean, esq., forwarding documents (1874-1882) relating to Lintz, 1882

Book of Remembrance presented to Rev John Bagot Stack M.A. on his retirement, 29 September 1934 Curate: 1893-1897 Vicar: 1897-1934 Includes photograph of Mr Bagot Stack and names of: Parochial Church Council Communicants Street collectors Subscribers by street address Special donors

Valuation of lands in the parish of Chester le Street belonging to Sir Thomas Henry Liddell, 1811 Includes plans and schedules of farms, field names, acreages, names of tenants etc. Chowdean Foot Farm Chowdean Hall Farm Chowdean Farm Greenwell & Bounder House Farm Harlow Green Farm Low Eighton Farm High Eighton & Eighton Banks