Miscellaneous documents
Reference: D/X 1635 Catalogue Title: Miscellaneous documents Area: Catalogue Category: Other Records Description: Thomas Colpitts, Gainford corn tithes
Covering Dates: 1785-1788
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Records purchased:5 February 2008 Acc: 7097
Catalogue Contents
Ref: D/X 1635/1
Account of receipts and expenditure, Thomas Colpitts' Gainford corn tithes, 26 August 1785 - 14 March 1787
(1 volume, card bound)
Ref: D/X 1635/2Account of receipts and expenditure, Thomas Colpitts' Gainford corn tithes, 13 January 1787 - 22 October 1788
(1 booklet)
Ref: D/X 1635/3Account of receipts and expenditure, extracted from Thomas Colpitts' Gainford corn tithes account book, 26 August 1785 - 14 March 1787, 25 October - 3 December 1786
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 1635/4Letter from Thomas Colpitts, Cockfield, to Charles Wren, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, concerning a £70 tithe payment, and his absence due to the abduction of Lady Strathmore by her estranged husband, Mr. Stoney [Andrew Robinson Stoney], 29 November 1786
' ... in pursuit of Mr. Stoney and L[ad]y S[trathmore] who you would hear was taken near Darlington on Monday the 20th inst. Her L[ad]y set out immediately for Town, and arrived safe on Monday morning the 21st. Mr. Stoney was not removed from Darlington by the Messengers till fryday in the afternoon, on ac[coun]t of a wound he reced on his head, when he was taken', 29 November 1786
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 1635/5Letter from Thomas Colpitts, Cockfield, to Charles Wren, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, concerning the Gainford tithe rents up to 30 December 1786; the advertised letting of farms at Streatlam and Marwood; and the refusal of Newby and Davis, tenant farmers at Shipley in Marwood, in the parish of Gainford, to pay their tithes, 10 January 1787
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 1635/6Letter from Thomas Colpitts, Cockfield, to Charles Wren, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, concerning the problem of the collection of the tithe rent from Newby, a tenant farmer at Alwent [Shipley in Marwood] in the parish of Gainford, 17 January 1787
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 1635/7Letter from John Wilson, bursar, Trinity College, Cambridge, to Charles Wren, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, concerning £86 6s.1d. the tithe rent for the Rectory of Gainford, 16 April 1787
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 1635/8Letter from Thomas Colpitts, Cockfield, to Messrs. Wren and Airey, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, concerning £461 0s.0d., The Gainford tithes of George Jackson, 4 October 1787
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 1635/9Letter from Thomas Colpitts, Cockfield, to Charles Wren, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, concerning an enclosed draft upon Smith, Wright and Gray, bankers, London, of £200, for Gainford tithes; the cost of carrying money to Newcastle by George Jackson, a Staindrop carrier, 20 September 1788
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 1635/10Letter from Thomas Colpitts, Cockfield to Charles Wren, Newcastle- upon-Tyne, concerning an enclosed draft upon Mr. Ben, leather factor in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, for £106 13s. on account of Gainford tithes, 26 September 1788
(1 paper)
