Miscellaneous documents
Reference: D/X 196 Catalogue Title: Miscellaneous documents Area: Catalogue Category: Other Records Description: Durham City, Swalwell and Northumberland deeds and legal papers
Covering Dates: 1695-1815
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Ref: D/X 196/1
Copy of decree in Durham Chancery Court, 14 August 1695, concerning the right of Edward Nicholson and Christopher Mann 'common bakers of bread for sale ·... in the city and borough of Durham and Framwellgate to bake all their bread for sale at the oven of the ancient common bakehouse called the Bishop's Bakehouse situate in the parish of St. Nicholas ·... which is and time out of mind hath been the ancient common bakehouse of the Lord Bishop of Durham'. Contemporary copy, with note on dorse that copies of this decree were served on both Nicholas and Mann,.17 September 1695
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Ref: D/X 196/2Lease for 99 years at £20 annual rent by James Clavering, baronet, and John and Francis gents., his sons to Edward Harrison and William Bayles, merchants, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and John Wood, gent, of Middlesbrough of an 'old ruinous and decayed' water corn mill and mill steed with cottage belonging called Swalwell High Mill in Swalwell, 20 April 1703
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Ref: D/X 196/3Brief for the plaintiff, the Honorable Maria Radcliff against John Spearman, knight, in case concerning the breaking of an agreement made 17 March 1718 leasing to Robert Wright and John Spearman, knights, a piece of waste land 300 virgates in length at Blyth in the parish of Earsden, co. Northumberland with all cottages built on it and with 'the right to build wharves, quays, staithes, rinks, hovels, salt pans and all other things necessary for 'lodging placing and lodging coals for making saltt and placing it there and for building houses for their workmen to live in' Also 'sufficient way through her grounds in the manor of Newsham ... for leading their coals to be brought within the manor of West Hardford or any other place in Northumberland to their said wharfs, staiths or quays ... '1, n.d., post 1718
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Ref: D/X 196/4Note from Mr. Ralph Gowland at Durham to his son Samuel 'at his house in Cooks Court near Lincolns Inn, London'. Concerns viewing 'all the estate towards Hexham' and routine matters, 29 May 1725
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Ref: D/X 196/5Bank note for £5 issued by the Durham Bank to W. H. Simpson, 12 May 1815. On dorse is inscribed 'At Ward's Wheat Sheaf Inn Durham November 2nd 1815. Exhibited under a Commission of Bankruptcy against Messrs. Mowbray & Co.'.
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