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Conveyance and Assignment of Term of Years 10 December 1745 Parties: (1) Richard Clerk of Sunderland near the Sea, apothecary; (2) Christopher Thompson of Sunderland near the Sea, gentleman; John Tempest of Winyard, esquire; Matthew Carr of Sunderland near the Sea, anchor smith (devisees and executors of William Maling of Sunderland near the Sea, gentleman another executor of Christopher Thompson the younger of Sunderland near the Sea, colefiller); (3) Gordon Lewen, late of Wolsingham, now of Durham, draper; (4) John Dodshon of Durham, merchant; (5) John Heighington of Durham, merchant Reciting: - mortgage by demise for 500 years to secure £150 of 17 June 1738 from (i) Gordon Lewen, late of Rayden, then of Wolsingham, gentleman to (ii) John Denton of Durham, periwig maker of (a); - assignment of mortgage and further advance of 21 July 1739 between (i) Gordon Lewen, (ii) Rev John Thompson of Queen's College, Oxford and George Smith of Burnhall, esquire, (iii) Thomas Cowley of Layton, yeoman, (iv) John Denton, (v) Christopher Thompson the younger and (vi) Richard Clerk in which (i) assigned (a), then late in occupation of Thomas Taylor, and a fifth part of a rectory and tithes to (vi) in trust for (v), subject to equity of redemption by (i) on payment of £600; - death of Christopher Thompson the younger and his will devising all real estate for which he was mortgagee to (2) which was proved by Christopher Thompson (testator's father) when John Tempest and Matthew Carr refused to act; - £734.14.0 was now owing to Christopher Thompson; - (4) had purchased (a) from (3) [see D/X 2337/2] for £230 out of which it was agreed to pay £119.14 to Christopher Thompson in part discharge of the mortgage, the residue of which was to be paid by George Smith, esquire, who had purchased the fifth part of the rectory Operative Part - (4) paid £119.14.0 to Christopher Thompson by nomination of John Tempest, Matthew Carr, William Maling and (3); - (4) paid £110.6.0 to (3); - (5) paid 5 shillings to (1); - (1), by direction of (2), (3) and (4) assigned (a) to (5) for residue of 500 years in trust for (4) Property: (a) messuage and shop in Fleshergate [Saddler Street], Durham i.e. a shop with a little cellar on backside and great chamber above the shop; with little kitchen on backside of the chamber; coal hole at the stairhead; great chamber above the great chamber with little chamber adjoining on the back; two great garrets above the chambers, one looking into the forestreet of Fleshergate and the other into the courtyard; little chamber over the chamber situate upon the kitchen, standing on the stairhead and looking into the courtyard; little stable with hayloft above; half a brewhouse; half the courtyard; half the little house of office upon the stairhead Witnesses: - John Hutton; - Pexall Forster

Conveyance 10 December 1745 Parties: (1) Christopher Thompson of Sunderland near the Sea, gentleman; John Tempest of Winyard, equire; Matthew Carr of Sunderland near the Sea. Anchor smith (devisees and executors of William Maling of Sunderland near the Sea, another executor of will of Christopher Thompson the younger of Sunderland near the Sea, colefiller); (2) Gordon Lewen, lare of Wolsingham, maltster, now of Durham, draper; (3) John Dodshon of Durham, merchant Reciting: - £734.14.0 was owing to Christopher Thompson as only acting executor of Christopher Thompson the younger (his son) on mortgage from (2); - (3) had purchased (a) from (2) [see D/X 2337/1] for £230 out of which it was agreed to pay £119.14 to Christopher Thompson in part discharge of the mortgage, the residue of which was to be paid by George Smith, esquire, who had purchased the fifth part of a rectory also owned by (2) Operative Part - (3) paid £119.14.0 to Christopher Thompson by nomination of John Tempest, Matthew Carr, William Maling and (2); - (3) paid £110.6.0 to (3); - (1), by direction of (2), released (a) to (3) Property: (a) messuage and shop in Fleshergate [Saddler Street], Durham i.e. a shop with a little cellar on backside and great chamber above the shop; with little kitchen on backside of the chamber; coal hole at the stairhead; great chamber above the great chamber with little chamber adjoining on the back; two great garrets above the chambers, one looking into the forestreet of Fleshergate and the other into the courtyard; little chamber over the chamber situate upon the kitchen, standing on the stairhead and looking into the courtyard; little stable with hayloft above; half a brewhouse; half the courtyard; half the little house of office upon the stairhead Habendum: - to (3) for ever, discharged from mortgage Witnesses: - John Hutton; - Pexall Forster

Release 23 November 1822 Parties: (1) Christopher Potter of Durham, gentleman; (2) John Cummins of Durham, innkeeper Reciting: - lease and release of 13 and 14 December 1819 from (i) John Wilburn to (ii) Christopher Potter of (a) subject to mortgage of 29-30 September 1818 for £600 to John Griffith of Durham, gentleman - mortgage by lease and release of 14-15 December 1819 from (i) Christopher Potter to (ii) John Cummins for £300 secured on (a), still subject to the £600 mortgage to John Griffith; - £300 remained outstanding but all interest paid; - (1) had agreed sale of (a) to (2) for £900 out of which the £300 owing to (2) was a part Operative Part - (1) released (a) to (2) for £600, which (2) undertook to use to pay off the mortgage to John Griffith, £300 which (2) retained to pay off the mortgage owed to him and 10 shillings paid to (1) Property: (a) messuage and shop in Fleshergate alias Saddler Street, Durham bounded by: street E messuage late of William Pearson, now of Mark Jackson W and N; messuage late of William Pearson, now of Robert Hall S; formerly in occupation of John Wilburn and Robert Dixon, now of Christopher Hammond and Robert Dixon [the property can identified as 80 Saddler Street] Habendum: - to (2) for ever, subject to the mortgage of £600 to John Griffith Witnesses: - Henry Anderson, clerk to Messrs Griffith of Durham, solicitors; - Charles Griffith, clerk to Messrs Griffith

Copy pro-forma conveyance 5 February 1870 Parties: (1) Haswell Shotton and Easington Coal and Coke Company Limited; (2) William Meek of Great Lumley, smith Reciting: - (1) were seized of (a); - in order to allow workmen employed at the colliery to provide themselves with houses 'which shall be their own property' (1) had set out sites for the houses and roads on (a) and numbered them 1 to 122; - (1) had contracted sale to (2) Operative Part - (1) conveyed (a) to (2) for £5.4.3 Property [as shown on included plan]: (a) Site 55, part of Laws Close (the close as a whole containing 10 acres, 3 roods, 30 perches and divided into 122 sites), part of Haswell Moor Farm at Great Haswell alias Haswell on the Hill in the parish of Easington; measuring 17 feet, 3 inches in breadth and 31 feet, 3 inches in length and containing 69 square yards [the plan showing it in Thornley Road, Haswell Plough in an area where the houses were subsequently demolished] Witness: - John Liskman, mining superintendent, Haswell Colliery, Fencehouses

Pro-forma conveyance 9 May 1878 Parties: (1) Anthony John Moore the younger of Sunderland, gentleman; (2) John Dalgleish of Sunderland, builder Operative Part - (1) conveyed (a) to (2) in consideration of rent and covenants Property: (a) land in Southwick containing in length N-S 60 feet, 9 inches and in breadth E-W 18 feet bounding on: Arthur Street N; Back Street S; property built by another purchaser W and vacant land E Habendum: - to (2) at perpetual annual ground rent of £1.15.0 Witnesses: - J. E. Parker, clerk to A. J. Moore, solicitor

Copy surrender and defeasance - Manor of Easington Rectory 21 December 1888 - admittance of John Charles Wilford of Sunderland, gentleman, out of court before John Charles Wilford, the younger, deputy of John Booth, esquire; - to 2 closes on Easington Moor allotted in right of a cottage and garth at Easington and containing together 8 acres bounded by land formerly of Paxton Taylor N, Hall Field E, lands formerly of Robert Shepherd S and lane leading to Houghton W - formerly in occupation of Robert Surtees; - on surrender by James Herring, gentleman and John Taylor Todd, butcher; - rent 3 shillings; - fine 1s 6d; - reciting surrender of 17 May 1856 from William Donnison Maughan, Thomas Thompson, Thomas Cleasby and Joseph Cleasby to Robert Surtees; - reciting will of Robert Surtees of 19 December 1871 devising and bequeathing all real and personal estate to his wife Mary for her life, remainder to James Herring and John Taylor Todd in trust; - death of Robert Surtees on 31 July 1873 and proof of his will in Principal Probate Registry; - death of Mary Surtees on 29 May 1886; - order in Chancery of 31 July 1886 in suit which John Albert Garthwaite (now dead) and Margaret, his wife, were plaintiffs and James Herring and John Taylor Todd and Mary Ann Surtees (now dead) were defendants ordering sale of the real estate of Robert Surtees; - James Herring and John Taylor Todd were admitted tenants on 1 September 1887; - the real estate of Robert Surtees was put up for sale by auction at Empress Hotel, Sunderland on 27 April 1887 at which the reserve price was not met and the lots withdrawn; - James Herring and John Taylor Todd agreed private sale to Jane Surtees of the above land, along with others, for £650; - confirmation of the sale contract by Chancery on 25 July 1887; - surrender made to John Charles Wilford was as trustee of Jane Surtees of Newcastle upon Tyne, spinster; - examined by John Booth, steward