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Miscellaneous documents

Reference: D/X 317 Catalogue Title: Miscellaneous documents Area: Catalogue Category: Other Records Description: Conyers, Surtees, Steel, Tempest families and other

Covering Dates: 1277-c.1910

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  • Miscellaneous documents
    • (Additional deposit) (Ref: D/X 317/31-42)

Catalogue Contents

Ref: D/X 317/1

Deeds of lands at Sherburn, 1652-1716
(4 parchments)

Ref: D/X 317/2

Deeds of Nicholson's Hill in Bondgate, Darlington, 1610-1687
(7 parhments)

Ref: D/X 317/3

Deeds of land at the Coney Warren, Sunderland, 1741-1789
(7 parchments)

Ref: D/X 317/4

Deeds of cottages, mansion house, lands and mill at Witton-le-Wear, 1764-1770
(6 parchments and papers)

Ref: D/X 317/5

Mortgage of two messuages and land at Witton-le-Wear, 1749, with copy of the will of Margaret Dongworth of Old Elvet, Durham, 1775
(2 parchments, 1 file)

Ref: D/X 317/6

Deeds of a farm at Little Stainton, 1649-1703
(16 parchments)

Ref: D/X 317/7

Papers of the Steel family - copy of a court entry of William Steel's admittance as freeman of Jedburgh, 1708; lease of a moiety of the Owmers Close, Gateshead, 1715; grant of administration of the will of Mary Steel to Eliza Steel of Newcastle, 1724
(3 parchments)

Ref: D/X 317/8

Copy of an extract from the records of the Prior of Durham - grant of lands in Bradley to William of Garmondsway, 1277
(1 paper)

Ref: D/X 317/9

Feoffment of the manor of Boulby, co. York., from Roger Peche of Seaton to John Peche, his son, and Alice de Benteley, his son's wife, 1414
(1 parchment)

Ref: D/X 317/10

Lease for 21 years of a burgage in Durham (endorsed as being the almshouse) from the churchwardens of St. Margaret's parish, to Antonye Haryson, also churchwarden, 1561-1562, with part of a bond
(2 parchments)

Ref: D/X 317/11

Feoffment of two strips of land at Ellis Leazes, Gilesgate, from Anthony Mydleton of Kepier to Richard Conyers of Durham, 1563
(1 parchment)

Ref: D/X 317/12

Copy of an entry from the Halmote rolls of a lease of a windmill at Whitburn from Barnabas Pilkington and others to John Calverley and others, 1592
(1 paper)

Ref: D/X 317/13

Assignment of lease of a cottage and lands in Gainford, 1608
(1 parchment)

Ref: D/X 317/14

Final concord re three cottages and land in Mainsforth and Thrislington, 1614
(1 parchment)

Ref: D/X 317/15

Copy of the appointment of John Tempest as vice-admiral of the County Palatine by Bishop Cosin, 1661
(1 file)

Ref: D/X 317/16

Copy of a document in Swedish, 1666
(1 paper)

Ref: D/X 317/17

Settlement of land in Bishopton, 1672
(1 parchment)

Ref: D/X 317/18

Award of arbitrators, Henry Blackett and Henry Wolfe, in a dispute between Ann Richardson of Framwellgate and John Richardson of Crossgate over lands at Caterhouse, 1687
(1 file)

Ref: D/X 317/19

Final concord re two messuages, eleven cottages and land in Apperley, Hindley and Bywell St. Peter, co. Northumberland, 1710
(1 parchment)

Ref: D/X 317/20

Assignment of lease from Edward Surtees of Mainsforth to Nathan Wetherall of Swalwell, of West Hall and lands in Stranton, 1728
(1 parchment)

Ref: D/X 317/21

Feoffment of East field close in Sunderland, 1730
(1 parchment)

Ref: D/X 317/22

Surrender of The Hill and lands in the manor of Hexham, co. Northumberland, 1746
(1 parchment)

Ref: D/X 317/23

Lease for a year of Stephens Hall, Ryton, from George Surtees of Mainsforth to the Earl of Carlisle, 1750
(1 parchment)

Ref: D/X 317/24

Assignment of lease of Newton Lands in Bishop Middleham to George Surtees, 1794
(1 parchment)

Ref: D/X 317/25

Conveyance upon trusts of lands in St. John's Chapel, Harthope Common, from Elizabeth Surtees to Robert Surtees of Mainsforth and George Surtees of Bishop Middleham, 1795
(1 parchment)

Ref: D/X 317/26

Lease for 21 years of quarries of millstones at Witton-le-Wear, 1796
(1 parchment)

Ref: D/X 317/27

Episcopal lease of a tenement at Mainsforth to Robert Surtees, 1800
(1 parchment)

Ref: D/X 317/28

Grant of administration of the will of John Bruce to Elizabeth Tate, 1800
(1 parchment)

Ref: D/X 317/29

Apprenticeship indenture of Lancelot Story to Enoch Thompson of South Shields, shipowner, 1819
(1 parchment)

Ref: D/X 317/30

Photograph of Marguerite ?, c. 1910
(1 photograph)

(Additional deposit) (Ref: D/X 317/31-42)Ref: D/X 317/31

Episcopal licence to Francis Tunstall to alienate Graystones estate, Haughton-le-Skerne, 1600
(1 parchment)

Ref: D/X 317/32

Episcopal licence to William Warmouth to alienate land in Bondgate, Darlington, 1610
(1 parchment)

Ref: D/X 317/33

Episcopal licence to Francis Foster to alienate 36 acres in Darlington, 1625
(1 parchment)

Ref: D/X 317/34

Episcopal licence to Ralph Hutton and Sir William Chaytor to alienate 4 messuages, 2 cottages and land in Mainsforth, 1629
(1 parchment)

Ref: D/X 317/35

Episcopal licence to Richard Heighington and his son, Robert, to alienate the manor of Graystones and Nesbitt Hall, 1629
(1 parchment)

Ref: D/X 317/36

Lease of a burgage in Elvet Barony from the Dean and Chapter to Ralph Hodgson of Elvet, 1631
(1 parchment)

Ref: D/X 317/37

Final concord re 2 messuages and land in Cowton and Barton, Co. York, 1687
(1 parchment)

Ref: D/X 317/38

Probate of will, 1674, of Robert Tatham of Little Stainton, 1676
(1 parchment)

Ref: D/X 317/39

Exemplification of a recovery of lands in Stainton, 1684
(1 parchment)

Ref: D/X 317/40

Exemplification of a recovery of lands in Stainton, 1697
(1 parchment)

Ref: D/X 317/41

Pass granted to Michael Harrison, a prisoner of war in Verdun to go out of the prison each day, with description of him (in French), 1809
(1 parchment)

Ref: D/X 317/42

Episcopal and royal seals, unattached
(2 seals)



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