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Lease for a year forming part of a conveyance by lease and release for which see D/X 2324/2 24 November 1775

Conveyance by release and covenant to surrender copyhold land Parties: (1) Thomas Joy of Smeaton (Yorkshire), clerk (brother and heir of Charles Joy, gentleman, deceased); (2) William Colling of Heighington, yeoman; (3) William Colling of Stappleton Field House, Barton, St Mary's (Yorkshire), yeoman (eldest son and heir apparent of (2)); (4) John Colling of Walworth Moor, Heighington, yeoman (son of (2)) Reciting - (2) had agreed with (1) for purchase of (a) to the use of (3) and (4) Operative Part - (2) paid £2,180 to (1); - (1) released (a) to (2) Property: (a) dwellinghouse in Heighington formerly in occupation of George Loone, now of Thomas Newcomb; (b) land in Heighington formerly in occupation of George Loone, now of Thomas Newcomb as follows: Fawell or Tywell High Field; Fawell or Tywell Low Field; High Well Field; Low Well Field; Dean Becks; North Low Pasture; South Low Pasture; The Meadows or Meadow Hill; The Dean Field; Two Bracks Closes; Two Dormans Stile Closes containing together 78 acres; (c) Bean Lands Close, Heighington, containing 9 acres adjoining lands late of John Richmond and Christopher Rumford N, lands late of Christopher Richmond W, lands late of William Rumford E and (d)S; (d) close called The Meadows, Heighington, containing 6 acres adjoining lands late of Christopher Richmond W; (c) N; lands late of Thomas Shepherd, gentleman E and S Habendum: - (a)-(b) except Two Dormans Stile Closes containing together 14½ acres to (2) to the use of (3) for ever; - Two Dormans Stile Closes to (2) to the use of (4) for ever; - (c)-(d) to (3) Further Habendum: - (1) covenanted with (2) to surrender to (2) (c)-(d) held of the Manor of Bondgate in Auckland formerly held by (1) or Charles Joy, deceased, from John Burrell, esquire, deceased their former owner or from Susannah, his widow, deceased Witnesses: - Thomas Hutchinson; - Ra[lph?] Hodgson 25 November 1775

Copy surrender of 8 November 1839 - Manor of Bondgate in Darlington; - by Joseph Watson of Newcastle upon Tyne (Northumberland), gentleman and William Chartres of Newcastle upon Tyne, gentleman, (out of court before Richard Perkins, Thomas Tudor Trevor and Henry Hutchinson, deputies of Alexander Atherton Park, steward); - of close of 4a 1r 3p in Bondgate, Darlington formerly part of Bank Close bounding another part of the close N, land of William Allan, esquire S and W and road from Darlington to Croft E; - as in surrenders of 14 May 1789 George William Sutton of Elton, esquire and Thomas Henry Faber of Stockton, gentleman trustees under the will of Samuel Smith of Stockton; 26 January 1797 by Thomas Bowman of Darlington, auctioneer and Francis Mewburn of Darlington, gentleman, trustees of Robert Claxton of Stockton, then of Darlington, gentleman, who survived John Stapylton Raisbeck of Stockton, gentleman; 17 April 1810 John Wilson of Middle Temple, London, esquire (eldest son and heir of William Wilson of Stockton, merchant and of Norton, gentleman who survived William Sleigh of Stockton) and Leonard Raisbeck of Stockton, esquire (who survived William Sleigh) - all to the use of Joseph Watson and William Chartres; - to the use of Joseph Watson and William Chartres as trustees under the will of William Falkons of Gateshead, draper, in default to the use of William Falkons as covenanted in conveyance of even date between (1) George William Sutton and Thomas Henry Faber, (2) George Smith Hubback and Robert Gamwell Hubback, (3) William Falkons, (4) Joseph Watson and William Chartres in consideration of £950 paid by (4) into the Bank of England in a chancery case ex parte purchasers of the devised estate of late Samuel Smith; - examined by Thomas Griffith, deputy clerk of the Halmot Courts; - fine 3s 4d

Copy surrender of 10 May 1841 - Manor of Bondgate in Darlington; - by William Chater of Newcastle upon Tyne (Northumberland), gentleman (out of court before Thomas Chater, gentleman, deputy of Alexander Atherton Park, steward); - of close of 4a 1r 3p in Bondgate, Darlington formerly part of Bank Close bounding another part of the close N, land of William Allan, esquire S and W and road from Darlington to Croft E; - previously surrendered by Joseph Watson of Newcastle upon Tyne, gentleman, William Chartres of Newcastle upon Tyne, gentleman and William Falkons of Gateshead, draper to the use of William Chater; - to the use of William Chater in trust under the will of William Falkons, in default to the use of William Falkons; - examined by Thomas Griffith, deputy clerk of the Halmot Courts - fine 3s 4d