Survey made 1377-1380 by Bishop Hatfield (1345-1382). Much more extensive than Boldon Buke. Contains full list of all tenants, with quantity of land they held and enumeration of services belonging to each manor. 'Singularly curious as a repertory of…
Sir James Clavering (1680-1748) was a typical member of the lesser gentry in County Durham, but he had widespread family connections throughout the North East and became interested in national politics and the coal-trade. Collection contains letters…
Forty-six deathbed wills and fifty-seven inventories of fifty-eight persons, seven of whom were women. Introduction covers areas such as the documents, the making of the wills and inventories, family and executors, the religious preamble, charitable…
In 1355, Sir Thomas Gray, a Northumbrian knight and constable of Norham castle, was ambushed and captured by the Scots. Imprisoned in Edinburgh castle, he whiled away the hours by writing a chronicle charting the history of Britain from the Creation…
The importance of the Rites of Durham as a description of a monastic cathedral on the eve of the Dissolution has long been recognized. This new edition, the first for over a century, includes an introduction, placing the Rites in the context of the…
This volume contains full transcripts of all the wills and probate inventories (and one rare record, an exceptionally detailed probate account) which survive from Sunderland and its environs (the parishes of Bishopwearmouth and Monkwearmouth, Co. Du…
Entries for 1427-1435, from folios 294v-304v of the register of Bishop Langley's vicars-general. Substantial index of persons, places and subjects for all volumes of the register. See volumes 164, 166, 169, 170, 177.
I. Durham Recusants' Estates: ii. 1717-1778 Continuation from SS 173 (o/p). II. Durham Estates on the Recusants' Roll 1636-7.
This record of the meditations and prayers of the independent and high-spirited daughter of Sir James Livingston, Viscount Newburgh, was written between the ages of fourteen and twenty-three, to assist self-examination and repentance of sins. They d…
In 1851, for the only time in British history, a count of those attending any place of religious worship was held alongside the usual decenial census of population. This volume is an edition of the census for the counties of Northumberland and Durha…
Entries for 1421-26, folios 110-174. Latin transcription with English (editorial) descriptive headings and occasional calendaring of entries in common form in English. See Volumes 164, 166, 170, 177, 182.
This volume prints for the first time the 'perambulation' of Cumberland compiled by the lawyer, Thomas Denton, for Sir John Lowther of Lowther in 1687-8. Denton's manuscript provides the most detailed surviving description of the county in the seven…
Also printed as Volume XI in the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society's Record Series.An introduction provides the historical background to the priory (which was founded c. 1169 by Robert I de Vaux), its patrons and the…
Complete editorial team: Joan Briggs, Rita McGhee, John Smith, Jennifer Tindell, Ann Tumman, Xenia Webster What was to become the town of Sunderland emerged in the earlier seventeenth century from two parishes north and south of the river Wear, Monk…
John Denton's history of Cumberland, compiled in the first decade of the seventeenth century, formed the basis of almost all antiquarian writing on Cumberland for some two hundred years, and continues to be cited. It is the earliest known attempt to…
This volume provides a closely edited text of all the manorial accounts surviving from Durham Priory estates before 1310. These include twelve accounts for individual manors (the two earliest being from 1277-8), together with enrolled manorial accou…
Edition of James Raine the Elder's memoir of his northern England childhood and other family materials, prepared by his great-grand-daughter, Angela Marsden. Printed in the year of the bicentenary of his birth. Contains: Memoir of his Childhood, by…
An introduction to the office of bursar and its records precedes the five documents dating from the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries. Covers the period of transition in the management of estates when, between 1350 and 1418, the direct exploitat…
Selection of 50 from the 94 laws created by Sir Ambrose Crowley and his son John in the early eighteenth century for the governing of their ironworks, probably the largest in Europe in their day. They 'anticipated by many generations the patriachal…
Original records contained in 13 volumes. Presented in three sections: Orders made by the company, reproduced almost in entirety, Resolutions etc. passed at meetings, and Annual Accounts of the Company, a selection of those which best illustrate the…
John Young was a Sunderland chemist. His diary was prompted by his desire to record his inner life, and the subjective passages reveal the thoughts and feelings of an early Victorian evangelical. However, his comments on his social, religious and bu…
This book provides an edition of the letters of George Davenport, an Anglican clergyman in the north of England whose adult career covered the period of the Interregnum and the Restoration. Many of the letters are to his former Cambridge tutor, Will…
Papers cover 1632-1637 and 1639-1644 and consist of letters, notebooks and miscellaneous documents. Significant for information on Lowther family, early history of Whitehaven and its coal industry, Irish economic history, English internal and overse…
Letters, dating 1799-1804, of Rev. John Lonsdale concerning his efforts to secure a new lease of the Crown estate of Sunk Island in the River Humber in which he had acquired an interest by marriage, and letters to his wife Elizabeth while he resided…
Includes all those songs from the manuscript collection of John Bell (d. 1864) which throw light on the way of life of the majority of the population of North-East England and the Eastern Borders. Each piece derives ultimately from the life and work…
Journal of Sir William Brereton, 1635. Autobiography of Sir John Gibson, 1655. Jacob Bee's Chronicle. Mark Browell's Diary. The Family of Mark Akenside, the Poet. Two letters of Bishop Warburton. Northern Journeys of Bishop Richard Pococke. Diary of…
Originally known as B/Y, now classified as E20A. Contains ordinances of the city's craft guilds, descriptions of the city boundaries, amounts collected from parishes towards the Fifteenth and Tenth, deeds, leases of city property and many other item…
Accounts of Catholic country gentleman's household, detailing costs of food, clothing, domestic and estate items, wages, gifts and allowances etc. Provides insight into the functioning of a family and estate in the late seventeenth and early eightee…
In 1851, for the only time in British history, a count of those attending any place of religious worship was held alongside the usual decennial census of the population. Its purpose was to investigate the extent of church and chapel attendance, and…
Introduction for volumes 152 and 153, includes general account of Archbishop Greenfield and his family: vol. I, folios 326-248d, vol. ii, folios 230-314d. Included as appendices: Register of Vacant See 1315-17 and Itinerary of Archbishop Greenfield.…
William Harvey's Visitation in 1552 and Lawrence Dalton's Visitation in 1558. Pedigrees collected in 1560-61 by Dalton or his deputies. Appendix of 7 illustrative documents. See volumes 133, 144, 146.
These two journals, kept by Quakers in north-east and north-west England respectively, record in careful detail weather and agricultural events of their time and regions. But they also observe all manner of other things and events. The journal of Jo…
William Flower, Norroy King of Arms' visitation of Yorkshire in 1563-64 (MS. Ashmole 834, Part III) and pedigrees of Yorkshire and adjacent counties collected by him in 1567 (MS. Anstis c.9). See volumes 122, 144, 146.
Latin transcripts, with English abstracts and marginal notes. Includes itineraries for both archbishops and the registers for the vacancies before and after Archbishop Newark.
Rolls for 1471-1473 in Latin, thereafter in English. Preceded by an introduction to the Durham Quarter Session, the Durham Commissions of the Peace and the Business in Quarter Sessions. Accounts for the years 1471-1473, 1510-1512, 1555-1557, 1596-16…
Henry Liddell, Esq., c. 1673-1717. Younger son of the Liddells of Ravensworth. Became the supervisor of the family's extensive interests in the Durham coalfield and thereby one of the leading figures in the coal-trade.William Cotesworth of Gateshead…
Botanical notebook of William Nicolson (1655-1727), Bishop of Carlisle and noted historian and antiquarian. Introduction covers field botanising in the 17th century.
Two MSS printed here for the first time yield information not only on Lowther family, but on the north as a whole in the seventeenth century. Contain estate memoranda books, or 'diaries', of land and financial transactions, building work and family…
Sections of the register relating to the archdeaconries of Cleveland and East Riding: vol. i, folios 157-224d, vol.ii, folios 115-163d. Mainly Latin with some marginal notes and calendaring in English. See volumes 145, 149, 152, 153.
See volume 181. Three appendicies and indexes. I. Members of the Shipwrights Company (those who were apprenticed to members of the Shipwrights's company and those who were made free by servitude, patrimony or presentation, compiled from lists of ind…
Sections of the register relating to the archdeaconries of Nottingham and Richmond and, for the first six years of Greenfield's episcopate, the miscellaneous section headed Intrinseca Camere, dealing mainly with financial transactions, but containin…
The Cistercian community that finally settled at New Byland in Yorkshire had a turbulent start, fighting and feuding with neighbours, but after 1177 a more settled period followed, and Byland grew to enjoy considerable prosperity through the lands i…
This volume contains 122 carefully-edited manuscripts and printed texts written about, for, on behalf of and by pit-village men and women, accompanied by notes, indices and a bibliography. In the introduction, the editor argues that the original pit…
This collection of 153 wills and inventories provides a vivid insight into the socio-economic life of the small Yorkshire market town of Northallerton during a time of growing prosperity, when its position on the main road to the north also enabled…
See Volume 183. Covers the manors of Chester-le-Street, Wickham, Gateshead, Houghton-le-Spring, Easington and Bishop Middleham and the collieries of Gateshead and Whickham in the Chester, Easington and Stockton Wards.
In the mid-eighteenth century, the borough of Morpeth, in Northumberland, was one of many where established vested interests, whether corporate or aristocratic, faced challenges from below. The documents collected here illustrate the struggle betwee…
The volume presents three nineteenth-century manuscripts originally created for the use of bishops of Carlisle: Walter Fletcher's "Diocesan Book", written between 1814 and 1845, and Bishop Hugh Percy's two parish notebooks, compiled between 1828 and…
Edmund Tew's notebook is a remarkable if cryptic record of the troublesome relationships of local people in a rapidly developing area of North-East England. In the coal-exporting towns of Sunderland and South Shields, notorious for the collective vi…
