Catalogue

Abel Chapman (for the Newcastle, Shields & Sunderland Bank) v Robert Croft of Barnard Castle, innkeeper. Affidavit of service and summons, 13 February 1846

Copy probate will of John Highmoor (dated 4 March 1837). Proved 14 September 1837

Draft abstract of title (11 February 1784 - 4 March 1837) of George Highmoor to property in Bowes and Cotherstone, Yorks., [1846]

April 1847 (1) Edward Backhouse of Sunderland and others (2) G. Highmoor and others Draft memorandum of agreement for letting to (2) of Bowes Cross Farm for 1 year and instructions for drawing up of above Consideration: £45

1847 (1) Edward Backhouse of Sunderland and John Backhouse, William Backhouse, John Church Backhouse and Edmund Backhouse of Darlington, bankers (2) G. Highmoor of Bowes Cross Farm, Yorks., farmer and cattle dealer Draft release by (1) of (2) from a debt of £1,988 8s.7d. upon the assignment by (2) to (1) of his equity of redemption in property at Bowes

1846-47 (1) G. Highmoor (2) Mary Highmoor of Bowes, widow (3) Eleanor Highmoor of Bowes, spinster (4) E. Backhouse and others Drafts of a conveyance by (1), (2) and (3) to (4) of closes called Higher and Little Kilmonds and messuages called Bowes Cross, all in Bowes, Yorks., to discharge a debt of £1,988 8s. 7d. owed to (4) by (1)

Schedules of title deeds and memorandum of deposit of deeds to Highmoor's property, 2 February 1845 - May 1847

Backhouse v Highmoor. Draft notices, declaration, affidavits of service, instructions, pleas and summons and costs. In the Exchequer of Pleas, November 1846 - January 1847

Calculations of Highmoor's debt to Messrs. Backhouse, 1846

Correspondence of William Highmoor of Laws Hill, George Highmoor of Bowes Cross, J.C. Monkhouse of Barnard Castle and W. & W. Watson of Barnard Castle with T. Wheldon regarding Highmoor's debt to Backhouse & Co., and the sale of his property, November 1846 - April 1847

Notice of sale of property at Cotherstone, Yorks., 1 December 1846

Correspondence between J.D. Holmes,G. Dixon, London, Richard Barnes, Barnard Castle and William Kipling regarding Barnes v Kipling, Mr. Kelly's opinion, Coulthard and related matters, 17 November 1854 - 30 April 1873

Correspondence between A.W. Headlam, Whorlton, J.A. Macrae and Hamilton, Kinnear & Co., Edinburgh, J. Bailey Langhorne, Richmond and others and J.D. Holmes concerning the dispute of Mr. Ross of Stone- haven and Headlam over the education of Ross's son, proposals for arbitration, problems with Scotch law and low opinion of Scotch lawyers, 21 March 1861 - 21 January 1862

9 November 1869 (1) Richard Peel of Barnard Castle, grocer (2) Robert Fawcett Thompson, Francis Winpenny, John Byrne and R. Peel Copy of memorandum of agreement for the purchase of a moiety of field no.284 (3.5a.) part of the Lendings Estate, Startforth by (1) and (2), with fishing rights Covenant regarding a stone quarry in field no.284 Recites agreement of October 1869

John Heslop, John Milburn Marshall, James Peacock Dalston, John Kirtley, Abraham Hilton, William Hooker, Robert Lodge, Francis Winpenny, Richard Peel, George Graham, Thomas Wilson, Joseph Kirtley, Annie Teasdale, (The Guardians of the Teesdale Union), Rt. Hon. Thomas Emerson Headlam and Morley Headlam, Plaintiffs John Byrne, Defendant Concerning the quarrying of stone at Lendings, Startforth, Yorks., contrary to previous injunction. Briefs for plaintiffs, court orders, transcripts of proceedings, affidavits of plaintiffs, defendant and others, instructions to counsel, opinions of James F. Oswald and George Dixon of Bedford Row, and various plans of disputed quarrying. In Chancery, 1874 - 1879

Heslop and others v Byrne Perpetual injunction awarded against Byrne to restrain him from quarrying stone on disputed land except as might be agreed by plaintiffs, 4 January 1879

Heslop and others v Byrne Taxed bill of plaintiffs' costs under order of 2 December 1878, 1874 - 1879

Heslop and others v Byrne Copy of correspondence between J.D. Holmes, J. Heslop, Startforth, J. Byrne, Barnard Castle and Steavenson and Meak, Darlington, 9 October 1874 - 10 July 1877

Authorisations for J.D. Holmes to execute John Byrne's assignment for the benefit of his creditors, 3 June 1879

Heslop and others v Byrne Copy of extracts from Byrne's ledger, 3 June 1876 - 17 September 1878

Francis Thomas Stevenson v the Guardians of the Poor for the Teesdale Union Claim for his bill of costs as solicitor to the committee which previous to 1872 attempted to create a sewerage system for Gainford. Copy of summons, court orders (including judgement for plaintiff in £90), extracts from proceedings and correspondence between J.D. Holmes; Shum, Crossman, Crossman & Prichard, Bedford Row, London; J.F. Steavenson, Darlington; and Adam Burne, Doctors Commons, London. In the Common Pleas Division, 27 January 1876 - 14 November 1878

Correspondence concerning Jones v Huddleston between: J.H. Holmes; Richard Holmes; Henry R. Jones Cromer, Norfolk, tenant; Mary Esther Huddleston, Teignmouth, Devon, landlord; Thomas Pensam, Eldersfield Court; George Dutton, Gloucester; Belfrage and Company, London; George H. Piper, Ledbury, Herefordshire; Edwin Shipton, Hill Farm, Eldersfield; James Essex, Malvern, Worcs.; Moores and Romney, Tewkesbury, Glos.; Thomas W. Wood, Eldersfield Vicarage; and others, concerning dispute between Jones and Huddleston over rent for Cromer farm at Eldersfield, agricultural depression, distraint upon Jones's property, finding new tenant, taxes and tithe due on the farm, arbitration etc. January 1877 - 21 January 1882

Correspondence between J.D. Holmes, Charles Sutton, Bedford Row, London, J.J. Bailey (for the Barnard Castle Gas Company) and Joseph Kyle, Barnard Castle, concerning Kyle's claim for damages from gas company, including draft particulars of the claim, 1877 - 1878

Copy of part of a decree in Fenwick v Lamb, 1727

Abstract of title to premises in Whorlton (23 April 1714 - 10 October 1735). Wycliffe v Bacon, in Chancery, 1742

Copy of the address of the defendant (William Perry) to the jury at Bristol Quarter Sessions [he is charged under a statute of 1488, with abducting a woman and marrying her against her will], n.d. [18th century]

Report on case Micklefield v Hepgin, in the Exchequer before Baron Eyre, n.d. [18th century]

Rough notes concerning William Barnes v Joseph Hodgson and Thomas Watsons administrators v Joseph Hodgson and another, n.d. [c.1814]

Letter of Robert Nilson, Darlington, to Thomas Hobson, Boldron threatening, on behalf of Mr. Todd, to indict him for perjury unless he apologises by means of advertisement, 10 January 1816

Rex (on the prosecution of Robert Groves) v Henry Myers . Brief for the prosectuion. Durham Quarter Session, April 1824

List of orders made at Durham Quarter Sessions, with copy of report on prosecution's costs. Midsummer Sessions, 1828

Rough memorandum on the matter of William Wallace v Jonathan Wood Pybus. In the Court of Chancery at Durham, 31 May 1832

Seymour Deighton v John Warren Edger Writ and complaint. Court of Pleas at Durham, 12 June 1832

Copy of the declaration in the case of Allison v Constantine, n.d. [c.1832]

Copy of declaration of Isaac Milner, 31 May 1836

Copy of order by J.B. Bosanquet in the matter of Browne v Wilkinson and others, 20 June 1837

List of papers sent to Mr. Dixon re Wheldon v Browne, July 1838

Rough notes concerning trespass at Barnard Castle and encroachment at Stainton, 30 April 1851

Notice of judgement and order in Weld v Knight in Chancery, November 1871

Thomas Bradley v Thorne and others Office copy of decree, and report of William Wingfield pursuant to it. In Chancery, 1873

Copy of the Auckland Chronicle with article concerning Alderson v Simpson, 25 May 1888

Draft of instructions for the prosecution in the case of Rex v Charles Raine, with related newspaper cutting, November 1908

Rex v John Sayer Papers in this case concerning horses straying onto the highway, 12 - 19 April 1939

Case for the opinion of counsel as to the legality of the Association of Cotton Weavers for limiting the number of apprentices, prepared by Thomas Wheldon of Barnard Castle, and copy opinion of J. Scarlet, Temple, London, 22 February 1810

Resolutions of a meeting of delegates from the different parts of Great Britain and Ireland, held at Carlisle, Cumberland, to consider the present state of the Association of Weavers throughout the United Kingdom, and to establish a general uniformity, 25 June 1810 Endorsed: this was delivered to the magistrates by Henry Raine of Barnard Castle, weaver, appointed by the Barnard Castle Society as a delegate to Carlisle, 1 August 1810

Resolutions of a meeting of delegates from the different parts of Great Britain and Ireland, held at Carlisle, Cumberland, to consider the present state of the Association of Weavers throughout the United Kingdom, and to establish a general uniformity, 25 June 1810

Address to the operative weavers of Barnard Castle, communicating the present state and future prospects of the General Association, following the meeting of the committee of delegates at Carlisle, Cumberland, and including a list of regulations to be observed by the operative weavers, 19 July 1810