Catalogue

n.d. [c. 1300] (1) Alexander de Balliol, Lord of Cavres (2) John de Insula and Melior his wife Gift of lands called Scottlyne in Middelton in Tesedale. Warranty Clause. Witnesses: Hugh de Eure, Knight, Thomas de Fisseburn, 'John de Hoton', Hugh de Lilleford, Robert de Menyl, John de le Despens, Walter de Holt-hale

Report of R. Herbert, Surveyor General to the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury, relative to the annexed petition of Elizabeth Vane of St Andrew Holborn, Middlesex, spinster, seeking a renewal of her lease of the herbage and pannage of certain woods in the Manor of Chopwell, with authorisation from the Treasury, 5 February 1750 - 12 December 1753

7 April 1808 (1) The Rt. Hon. Charles William, Earl of Sefton (2) John Ord of Lincoln's Inn, Middlesex, Esquire Copy surrender by (2) to (1) of a lease of 30 October 1788. Lease by (1) to (2) of coal under 590a. of land at Lanchester Fell bounded by Fines House, the South Moor Colliery ground, the Durham to Hexham road, Green Croft Hall and Lanchester Burn as specified for a term of 21 years from 24 December 1807 Rent: £900 p.a. plus tentale rents as specified

24 January 1831 (1) The Rt. Rev. (William) Lord Bishop of Durham (2) Charles Smythe of Brambridge House, Hampshire, Esquire Lease by (1) to (2) for 21 years of coal, iron and lead mines, and slate and stone quarries within the moors and commons of Ushaw and Flash Moor, Underside, Ash Edge, Ash Land, the Haugh, Margate, Hamsteels Fell, Cornsey Raw Rags Path, Rairden Knoll, Tow Law, Broom Heads, Ousan Law, E. and W. Butsfield Fells, Broad Wood Fell, Cope Hill, Humber Moor and Newbiggin Fells, Cold Rowley Fell, Beerey Edge, Medomsley Fell and Lanchester Fell Rent: £10 p.a. plus other rents as specified (parchment, 1 membrane, pendent seal of (1))

1832 (1) Charles Smythe of Brambridge House, Esquire (2) William Harrison of the Grange, near Monkwearmouth, Esquire; John Fairweather Harrison of London, Esquire; Thomas Barnard of London, Esquire, co-partners in the Stanhope and Tyne Rail Road Company Draft sub-lease from (1) to (2) of all those mines and quarries demised by D/X 651/4 within recited comprising the Pontop Colliery for a term expiring on 14 January 1852 Rent: £1300 p.a. plus tentale rent as specified

December 1832 - January 1833 (1) Mary Ann Fitzherbert of Tilney Street, Middlesex, widow, sister and executrix of Charles Smythe, deceased (2) Sir Frederick Hutchison Hervey Bathhurst of Clarendon Park, Wiltshire, Baronet, and Dame Louisa Mary his wife (formerley Mary Smythe) (3) Charlotte Georgina Harriet Smythe, spinster (4) Robert Pearson of Newcastle upon Tyne, trustee for sale under indentures of 15-16 August 1755 Draft assignment by (1), with the consent of (2) and (3), to (4) for the remainder of a term of 21 years of the property demised in D/X 651/4, reciting the settlements of the Smythe and Errington families 1755-1831

1834 (1) Mary Ann Fitzherbert aforesaid (2) The Bishop of Durham Draft surrenders of the lease granted by D/X 651/4

1833-1834 (1) The Rt. Hon. (William) Lord Bishop of Durham (2) Sir Frederick Hutchison Hervey Bathurst, Bart Draft lease by (1) to (2) of mines and quarries in the parishes of Esh, Lanchester etc. as specified in D/X 651/4 for a term of 21 years Rental: £10 p.a. plus 13/4d p.a. for every going pit of coals and 1/- p.a. for the lead and iron mines and quarries etc.

Abstract of the will of William Smythe of 1 August 1785, n.d. [1833-1834]

Copy of the case and opinion of Mr Richmond of Lincoln's Inn as to Smythe's title to coal mines, 19 December 1831

Draft Abstract of Title (1755-1832) to the coalmines, with miscellaneous statements and queries on title, December 1832

List of deeds 1755-1807 in an abstract relating to the Lanchester collieries, n.d. [1833-1834]

Account of Francis Bradshaw Taylor, the receiver appointed for certain collieries and quarries in County Durham, 1832

Opinion of Messrs Washington and Hall as to the proposed lease of Pontop Colliery, 15 November 1833

Paper sent by Mr Griffiths with the draft of the new lease from the Bishop of Durham, n.d. [1833-1834]

Proviso to be substituted in the draft lease to Sir F. H. Hervey Bathurst, Bart, n.d. [1833-1834]

Notes by T. Fenwick, the colliery viewer of the Bishop of Durham, on the description of property in the proposed Lanchester colliery lease, 31 January 1834

Copies of letters from Messrs Griffiths, solicitors at Durham, and F. B. Taylor at Aldin Grange, to Thomas Ryder approving the new draft lease of coal at Lanchester, 6-8 February 1834

Copy of the will of Mary Smythe of Great Pulteney Street, Bath, Somerset, making various bequests to her Haggerston and Errington relations, devising the Hill House estate at Altcar, Lancashire and a messuage, water and wind mills called Tarbuck Mills in Lancashire to her brother Henry Errington upon trust for her sons John, Charles and Henry Smythe. Charitable bequests to various Roman Catholic chapels and religious orders. Devises land at Highbridge, Hampshire. Note of probate, 7 February 1817. 10 September 1798