Catalogue

Admittance, out of the Halmote Court (at Durham) of James Wall to a messuage of 4 acres of meadow called Thomas Close, in Newton Cap, originally surrendered by Robert Surtees on 11 July 1611. 19 September 1611

The humble petition of Sir Robert Heath, Knt., on behalf of himself, and other to interested parties, to the Lords of the 1639 Privy Council, against the ban on casting ballast on the Ballast Shore at South Shields. n.d., c.1638-1639

Admittance, out of the (Halmote) Court of the City of Durham of John Bacon esq. to a parcel of land of 9 acres upon the west side of a lane from Bishop Auckland to Hunwick, being 1/3 part of a tenure in Newton Cap originally surrenered by Charles Wrenn esq. to Robert Wright esq. 26 April 1749

Abstract of title, reciting trust deeds of post 1716, 1749, 1770, 1772, 1773 and 1793 of 1793 John and Anne Hall Stevenson and Joseph William and Anne Hall for a messuage called Manner alias Manstead House alias Maidenstead Hall with appurtenance, including tithes, in the parish of Lanchester, part of the late dissolved Monastery of Hexham, with dues from copy hold lands at Burnopside and Hamsteels; copy hold land of 16 acres and a close of 1 acre called Roberts Estate, both in Parish of Lanchester, all rights of common there; together with all rights in the Deanery of Lanchester and freehold tenements at Catley; exceptions are lands at Bitchburn, Witton-le-Wear, Wolsingham, Ebchester, Crawcrook, Ryton, Stotfield in the parish of Elwick, otherwise Elwick Hall, and Paradise near the City of Durham; also mentions land at Byerside, the manor houses of Burnopside, Newbiggin, Lanchester, Hurbeck, Woodside, Roughside, Cooper Haugh, Bishops Meadows, also The Buts, otherwise Six Riggs, together with lands at Edmundbyers and within manors of Lanchester and Wolsingham. n.d., post 1793

Petition of Holy Island fishermen (names appended) to Parliament, against a proposed bill entitled An Act for reclaiming from the sea certain sands in the neighbourhood of Holy Island in the County of Northumberland, stating that it could destroy the mussel beds and anchorage in the harbour. n.d., 19thC