Catalogue

10 and 11 November 1790 (1) Cuthbert Johnson of Easby House, near Richmond, Yorkshire, esq., and Jane his wife, only child of Robert Peverell of Barnard Castle, dec'd (2) John Raw of Barnard Castle, maltster and brewer Settlement, by lease and release, from (1) to (2), in trust for (1) and their heirs, of a messuage known by the sign of the Red Lion, in the Market Place, Barnard Castle, now occupied by Ralph Bell, tenant, another messuage on the back side thereof, and several allotments of land, late part of the town fields of Barnard Castle [as specified]; also Gallgate or Gallowgate Close and Haremire Close or Field, Barnard Castle; also one other messuage, garth and two beastgates in Bowes Cow Close, in Bowes, Yorkshire

14 December 1872 (1) John Holt Skinner of Moray House, Morden Road, Blackheath, Kent, esq., and Anne his wife (2) John Stephenson of East Murton, parish of Sedgefield, farmer, and the said John Holt Skinner (3) Mary Ann Quarton of Heworth, Yorkshire, widow (4) Joseph Allison of Middlesbrough, Yorkshire, provision dealer Conveyance from (1) and (3) to (4) of buildings lately used as an iron foundry and 2,800 sq. yards of land at Haverton Hill, parish of Billingham, bounded on the west by the Clarence Railway [other boundaries specified]; subject to the right of (2) to carry coal from the railway siding on part of the premises to the public highway, on payment of 6d. per ton Consideration: £500 from (4) with consent of (3) to (2)

22 August I Anne [1702] William Taylor and Thomas Fenwicke, sen., plaintiffs John Spearman, gent., son and heir of Charles Spearman, gent., dec'd, deforceants Final concord whereby the deforceants acknowledge 12a. land called the Comlins and a third part of 2 messuages, 100a. land, 100a. meadow, 200a. pasture, 300a. moor and coal mines in Birtley, parish of Chester-le-Street, to be the right of the plaintiffs Consideration: 100 marks of silver

22 February 1726 (1) Jane Mowbray of the city of Durham, spinster; Margaret Mowbray of the same place, spinster; and Anne Mowbray of the same place, spinster (2) John Mowbray of the city of Durham, gent. Lease for a year of a messuage in Owengate, city of Durham, in which John Mowbray, gent, father of (2), lived at the time of his death, and now in the tenure of John Lamb, esq., bounding on the high street on the south, the house of (2) on the north, the house in possession of William Cooper, gent., on the west, and another little house in possession of John Richardson, gent., on the east

4 July 1741 (1) Matilda Hill of Canterbury, Kent, widow of Thomas Hill, late of Clements Hill, Middlesex, gent., also executrix of Matilda Elstob of Canterbury, dec'd., widow of Rev. Charles Elstob (2) Jane Roddam of Newcastle upon Tyne, widow (3) William Johnson of Newcastle upon Tyne, hoastman Counterpart assignment for the residue of a term of 900 years, subject to the covenants of a lease dated 23 December 1709, from (1) to (3) in trust for (2), of the manor and mansion place called Pesspool, and two messuages and malthouses in Newcastle upon Tyne Consideration: £1015 2s.6d.

9 June 1795 (1) The Hon. Henry Fitzroy Stanhope of North Row, Park Lane, parish of St. George, Hanover Square, Middlesex, and the Hon. Elizabeth Stanhope, his wife (2) Robert Drummond and Andrew Berkeley Drummond, both of Charing Cross, Middlesex, esqs. Settlement, by assignment from (1) to (2), of a sum of £10,000 and interest secured on the estates of William Harry, Earl of Darlington, in Staindrop and Piercebridge, by mortgage dated February 1794, upon trust to pay the interest to (1) and the survivor of them for life, and after their decease, to stand possessed of the £10,000 and interest in trust for the children of (1) Endorsed: appointment of Charles Drummond as trustee in place of Robert Drummond