Miscellaneous documents
Reference: D/X 076 Catalogue Title: Miscellaneous documents Area: Catalogue Category: Other Records Description: Williamson records: monastic deeds and hawking treatise
Covering Dates: 1467-1855
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WILLIAMSON RECORDS (Ref: D/X 76/1-10)Ref: D/X 76/1
Letters Patent. Latin
23 July 1467
To Sir John Hodeiston
Lands etc. in Skelton and Lamonby [Cumberland] formerly those of Lord Clifford, and in Kirkby, Doverdale and Wrighington [Lancashire]
For 24 pence
Seal is the second Great Seal of Edward IV
(1 parchment)
Ref: D/X 76/2Letters Patent.
18 June 1545
To Thomas Whitehed
The site of the cell of Wearmouth with the buildings and fields (named), formerly belonging to the monastery of Durham, and property in Darlington
For 161a.2r.7p. paying 15s.1.5d. rent.
Seal (broken) is the third Great Seal of Henry VIII
(1 parchment)
Ref: D/X 76/3Inspeximus. Latin
6 May 1553
Petition in Chancery case between Sir Hugh Ascue and Brigitt, his wife, daughter of Sir John Hudleston, and Sir William Thorneborowe concerning property at Whitbeck, Millom and Bothel [Cumberland] said to have been illegally siezed by Thorneborowe
(1 parchment)
Ref: D/X 76/4Feoffment. Latin
16 September 1597
William Whiteheide of Monkwearmouth, his wife, Katherine, and his daughters, Barbara and Anne, to Robert Woodrington of Placie [Plessey, Northumberland]
Messuages in Monkwearmouth and Sunderland formerly belonging to the cell of Wearmouth
(1 parchment)
Ref: D/X 76/5Final Concord. Latin
9 November 1672
Sir Robert Markham et al. querens, Sir Thomas Williamson and Dorothy, his wife, deforceants.
A moiety of the cell of the dissolved monastery of Monkwearmouth
(1 parchment)
Ref: D/X 76/6Letter from the Duke of Newcastle to the Deputy Lieutenants of County Durham acquainting them with the actions taken to meet the rebel invasion, 25 September 1745
(1 paper)
Ref: D/X 76/7-8Part of a treatise on hawking with marginal illumination, English, 15th century
See Bror Danielsson, 'The Durham Treatise of Falconry', in Stockholm Studies in Modern Philology, new series, vol.4 (1972), pp.22-36
With letter from W.H.D. Longstaffe, 1855
(1 parchment roll, 1 paper)
Ref: D/X 76/9Part of a copy of a description of the County of Cumberland written c.1550 [probably 18th century]
(1 manuscript booklet)
Ref: D/X 76/10Seal (broken) of the Court of Common Pleas, in skippet, [tempore George I?]
