Reference code: GB-0033-GBV
Title: Gibson Papers
Dates of creation: 16th century - 1915
Extent: 1 metre
Held by: Durham University Library, Archives and Special Collections
Origination: Plans (1775-1870) of properties in Co. Durham, and legal precedent books, 16th-19th century, from the legal records of Sir William Gibson.
Language:
English
The large-scale maps and plans are of properties in the areas of Ryton, Chopwell, Stella and Winlaton, Co. Durham, many surveyed by the Bell family of surveyors (see R. Welford,
Men of Mark 'Twixt Tyne and Tweed, I, 244-8). They are dated between 1775 & 1870 with many undated, most are of the early 19th century.
The three volumes are mainly of precedents, proceedings, forms,
depositions, fees and items relating to courts c.1569-1733 mainly in the north of England: - Vice Admiralty Courts at Newcastle, York and elsewhere; Durham Consistory Court; the Archbishop of York's spiritual courts; Durham Chancery Court and Courts
of Pleas & Assizes; the High Court & Exchequer, Westminster.
The second volume is of depositions 1677-78 in Durham Chancery Court.
Given to the Department of Palaeography & Diplomatic, 3 November 1960 by Sir William Gibson of Newcastle upon Tyne.
The original arrangement of the plans in paper folders has been preserved though the system of continuous numbering here adopted disguises this. Nearly every folder contains some plans of small areas or plans which for other reasons are not worth
listing individually, though they might be useful for a detailed study of the area. These have been gathered together at the end of each folder and given one number, e.g. Nos. 13, 23, 38, etc.
Clayton and Gibson papers
Material deposited by Clayton and Gibson, solicitors, with whom Sir William Gibson worked.
See under Clayton and Gibson papers for whereabouts of connected material.
R. Welford,
Men of Mark 'Twixt Tyne and Tweed
Emsley & Fraser,
The Courts of the County Palatine of Durham, (Durham Co. Local Hist. Soc. 1984)
Maps and plansGBV.2
Plan of lands and premises at Winlaton and Blaydon sold by Peregrine E. Towneley and Charles Towneley, Esqrs, prior to 12 November 1836.
scale: 1 chain to 1 inch.
Digitised material for Gibson Plans 2 GBV.7
Plan of 2 farms at Star Gate in the parish of Ryton, the property of Thos. Eyre, Esq., occupied by Gerard Watson and William Kirkup as tenants, 1775.
scale: 4 chains to 1 inch.
Digitised material for Gibson Plans 7 GBV.11 20 February 1856
Letter from --- to John Clayton, concerning documents relating to Crowley's Works at or near Swalwell.
GBV.12
Abstract of part of lease of 26 March 1802, from Sir Thomas Clavering to Crowley & Co.
GBV.21
Large plan of estates of Sir William Clavering, "partnership" and John Bowes (in part) covering area from Rowlands Gill in the south to High Spen in the north, Lintz Ford in the west and High Sherburn Green in the east.
Digitised material for Gibson Plans 21 GBV.33
Plan of farm near Newcastle showing acreages and crops and the quantity of ground taken for Scotswood Bridge road. No date.
scale: 4 chains to 1 inch.
Digitised material for Gibson Plans 33 GBV.36
Plan of Winlaton Mill lane.
scale: 1 chain to 1 inch.
GBV.39
Plan of Winlaton and Blaydon estates in the parish of Ryton belonging to Thomas Richard Beaumont Esq. and Diana his wife.
Tenants and acreages stated.
Watermark 1817.
Digitised material for Gibson Plans 39 GBV.40
Plan of sundry cottages, garths and parcels of land in the township of Winlaton proposed to be exchanged between Miss Ann Simpson and Thomas Wentworth Beaumont, Esq.
Watermark 1817.
Digitised material for Gibson Plans 40 GBV.41
Plan of Blaydon Green and adjacent areas with note by Thomas Bell stating that this was the plan referred to in his award, 29 June 1829.
scale: 1 chain to 1 inch.
Digitised material for Gibson Plans 41GBV.41a
Inset: Plan of waste lands adjoining Blaydon and Winlaton Lane.
scale: 2 chains to 1 inch.
GBV.48
Swalwell Manufactory - reduced plan.
GBV.49 December 1845
Plan of premises at Derwent Haugh belonging to the owners of the partnership estate.
Surveyed by Thomas Bell & Sons.
scale: 2 chains to 1 inch.
Digitised material for Gibson Plans 49 GBV.56
Plan of roads in the same area.
GBV.57
Plan of Ash Tree Farm belonging to George Silvertop, Esq., and of West Thornley, Smeals and Low Spen Farms, one moiety whereof belongs to George Silvertop, Esq., and also of Beda Hills and Barlow Commons on which the above farms have a right of
common.
Watermark 1794.
Digitised material for Gibson Plans 57 GBV.61
Plan of an estate at Barlow in the County of Durham belonging to Thomas Richard Beaumont, Esq. and Diana his wife.
By Matthew Fleck, surveyor, March 1802.
Acreages given.
[This must be a copy plan since
the paper has a watermark 1822 and there appears to be some alteration in field boundaries.]
Digitised material for Gibson Plans 61 GBV.73 November 1823
Plan of Burn Banks, Scotland Green, Blaydon Green, etc., being part of the wastes of the Manor of Winlaton, parish of Ryton, Co. Durham.
Digitised material for Gibson Plans 73 GBV.74
Plan of the several parcels of common or waste ground, part of the Manor of Winlaton, lying in and near that village and also of the several cottages or buildings which have been erected on the said parcels of waste ground as allotted or divided
in pursuance of an Act of Parliament for inclosing the waste lands in the parish of Ryton.
Watermark 1823.
Digitised material for Gibson Plans 74 GBV.85
41 19th century plans of small areas of Blaydon and Winlaton are contained in this folder.
They could be useful for a detailed study, but are not worth listing individually.
Digitised material for Gibson Plans 85 GBV.90a
Plan of freehold, copyhold and leasehold lands in the township of Ryton Woodside and parish of Ryton, by Thomas Bell. No date.
scale: 4 chains to 1 inch.
Parchment. Coloured.
Digitised material for Gibson Plans 90GBV.90b
Key to the above plan and another plan not present.
GBV.92 1791
Plan of Reily Mires and Folley's Field in the parish of Ryton belonging to John Simpson, Esq., by John Fryer, surveyor.
scale: 4 chains to 1 inch.
Digitised material for Gibson Plans 92 GBV.93a-b
2 plans of Stanner House Farm in the township of Crawcrook in the parish of Ryton belonging to Miss Ann Simpson. Thomas Bell, surveyor.
One rough, the other fair copy and coloured.
scale: 4 chains to 1 inch.
Digitised material for Gibson Plans 93 GBV.101
Plan of the Township of Crawcrook, showing the lands upon which the rent charge agreed to be paid in lieu of tithes has been apportioned. Thomas Bell, surveyor.
scale: 6 chains to 1 inch.
Digitised material for Gibson Plans 101 GBV.110
[Copy] plan of an estate at Chopwell in the Co. Palatine of Durham belonging to the Right Hon. Earl Cowper.
Surveyed in March 1793 by John Fryer of Newcastle.
Watermark 1823.
scale: 6¼ chains to 1 inch.
Digitised material for Gibson Plans 110 GBV.111
Plan of Strother House and surrounding farm.
Surveyed October 1852, Thomas Bell & Sons.
Crops indicated. Field names given.
scale: 3 chains to 1 inch.
Digitised material for Gibson Plans 111 GBV.114 1852
Plan of that part of the township of Chopwell in the parish of Winlaton and County of Durham upon which the rent charge in lieu of tithes has been apportioned.
Compiled from various plans by Thomas Bell & Sons, surveyors.
scale: 12 chains to 1 inch.
Digitised material for Gibson Plans 114 GBV.118
Plan of West Chopwell estate in the parish of Winlaton belonging to William Taylor, Esq., surveyed June 1838 by Thomas Bell.
Field names and acreages given.
Crops included.
scale: 3 chains to 1 inch.
Digitised material for Gibson Plans 118 GBV.122
Table showing the field names, state of husbandry (1832), area and value of Hooker Gate and Beda Hills estate.
Valued by Thomas Bell, 21 August 1832.
[The numbers on this
schedule refer to the plan listed as
no. 68 ].
Digitised material for Gibson Plans 122 GBV.124
Plan of the western part of the Manor of Winlaton showing the farms and estates belonging to Peregrine Edward Townley, Esq.
Copied by John Archer Forster from a survey made by John Fryer, 1808 and
1809.
Some field names given.
Acreages stated.
scale: 4 chains to 1 inch.
Digitised material for Gibson Plans 124 GBV.127
Plan of ground called The Strothers in the parish of Ryton, the property of the Rector of Ryton.
Surveyed 15 July 1795, by Matthew Fleck.
scale: 2 chains to 1 inch.
Digitised material for Gibson Plans 127 GBV.130 15 July 1795
Plan of a field called Starflat in the parish of Ryton, the property of the Rector of Ryton.
Surveyed by Matthew Fleck.
scale: 2 chains to 1 inch.
Digitised material for Gibson Plans 130 GBV.139
[Copy] plan of Stevens Hall and part of Run-head Farms in the parish of Ryton belonging to Joseph Lamb, Esq.
Surveyed 12 October 1773, by Henry Fleck.
scale: 2½ chains to 1 inch.
Digitised material for Gibson Plans 139 GBV.140
[Copy] plan of Howburn and part of Run-head Farms in the parish of Ryton belonging to Joseph Lamb, Esq.
Surveyed 12 October 1773, by Henry Fleck.
scale: 2½ chains to 1 inch.
Digitised material for Gibson Plans 140 GBV.151
Plan of the eastern part of the township of Ryton copied from sundry surveys and plans by Thomas George Bell.
Owners and acreages stated.
Watermark 1827.
scale: 4 chains to 1 inch.
Digitised material for Gibson Plans 151 GBV.154a-b
Plan of French's Close in the parish of Ryton belonging to the heirs of the late Robert Lynn, Esq., from a survey by William Stephenson, October 1799.
Enclosed:
Paper with particulars of the area of each field.
scale: 2 chains to 1 inch.
Digitised material for Gibson Plans 154 GBV.156 4 November 1825
Plan of an estate at Coalburn in the parish of Ryton belonging to Mr. Robert Richardson.
Surveyed by Thomas Reed, 4 November 1825.
scale: 2 chains to 1 inch.
Digitised material for Gibson Plans 156 GBV.157 4 November 1825
Plan of an estate at Coalburn in the parish of Ryton belonging to Mr. Robert Richardson.
Surveyed by Thomas Reed. Another copy with a few additional details.
Digitised material for Gibson Plans 157 GBV.159
[Copy] plan of estate belonging to William Fairlambe at Bucksnook in the parish of Ryton, surveyed 2 November 1825, by John Lawson.
In 1840 this estate belonged to Thomas Johnson
and Elizabeth his wife.
Digitised material for Gibson Plans 159 GBV.162
Plan of Stephen's Hall, Star Gate, Bewe's Hills, Liddell's Fell and Greenwell's Field Farms in the township of Ryton Woodside belonging to Peregrine Edward Townley, Esq.
Watermark 1817.
scale: 4 chains to 1 inch.
Digitised material for Gibson Plans 162 GBV.163
Plan of Stephen's Hall Estate in the parish of Ryton belonging to the Rt. Hon. Lord Widdrington, copied from a plan and survey by Henry Fleck of Stella, 21 May 1766.
scale: 3 chains to 1 inch.
Digitised material for Gibson Plans 163 GBV.164 July 1839
Plan of that part of the township of Stella on which the rent charge agreed to be paid in lieu of tithes has been apportioned.
Thomas Bell, surveyor.
scale: 4 chains to 1 inch.
Digitised material for Gibson Plans 164 GBV.167
Plan of Old Kyo Estate in the parish of Ryton, the property of John Silvertop, Esq. Surveyed by H. Todd, 3 November 1792.
scale: 3 chains to 1 inch.
Digitised material for Gibson Plans 167 GBV.176 1791
Plan of Heath Field, Ricklas and Folly Hills Farms belonging to Henry Mordaunt Clavering, Esq. and also of Reily Mires and Jollys Field Farms belonging to John Simpson, Esq., by John Fryer.
scale: 6 chains to 1 inch.
Digitised material for Gibson Plans 176 GBV.180
Plan of Sealburns Farm in the parish of Ryton being the property of the Rector of Ryton, surveyed 15 July 1795, by Matthew Fleck.
scale: 2 chains to 1 inch.
Digitised material for Gibson Plans 180 GBV.185a-b
2 plans of Ryton Willows and the intercommon lands called Paddock Hill Field, the Hall Banks and the Parson's Haugh.
Watermark 1821, 1822.
scale: 4 chains to 1 inch.
Digitised material for Gibson Plans 185 GBV.200
The following were found wrapped together:
Digitised material for Gibson Plans 200GBV.200a
Plan of freehold, copyhold and leasehold lands in the township of Ryton Woodside and parish of Ryton.
(Plan No. 6.)
scale: 4 chains to 1 inch.
GBV.200b
Plan of lands at Ryton Woodside belonging to Mr. William Herdman from a survey by John Fryer.
scale: 4 chains to 1 inch.
GBV.200c
Outline plan of Herdman's land.
scale: 6 chains to 1 inch.
GBV.200d 1915
Correspondence concerning Townley estates, with plan.
GBV.206/1-76
These plans concern the areas covered by the rest of the collection. They are large-scale paper plans of small areas, carefully drawn, many lacking place names, which have been supplied in this list. Proprietors' names are common, orientations
are rarely given. Some are apparently copies of the local tithe plans with annotations, but tithe plans were often put together from existing plans already in the surveyors' possession, so these similarities could just as well mean that they predate
as postdate the tithe plan. The Ryton tithe plan of 1841 was made explicitly from earlier surveys.
Some groupings of plans of different properties on one sheet probably show an individual's holdings. Few of the plans are dated, but there are some watermarks. Some were made about the time of the planning and making of the railway along the Tyne
from Newcastle to Hexham, the Ryton section of which is shown complete in the tithe plan of 1841.
Digitised material for Gibson Plans 206/1-76GBV.206/1 [mid 19th century]
Ryton Woodside, Greenside & Burnhills, watermark 1843.
GBV.206/2 [mid 19th century]
Ryton Woodside, and Greenside.
scale: 6 chains
GBV.206/3 [mid 19th century]
Ryton Woodside, west side from Bradley Mill to Buck's Nook.
GBV.206/4 [mid 19th century]
(left) Ryton Woodside premises along the road from Woodside to Ryton, north of Gingler Lane and including Low Well.
(right) not identified.
GBV.206/5 [mid 19th century]
Ryton Woodside, Old, New & West Kyo.
scale: 6 chains
GBV.206/6 [mid 19th century]
Ryton Woodside, Old, New & West Kyo.
scale: 6 chains
GBV.206/7 [mid 19th century]
Ryton Woodside, Burnhills.
scale: 6 chains
GBV.206/8 [mid 19th century]
Ryton Woodside, Long Row Closes.
GBV.206/9 [mid 19th century]
Ryton Woodside, Stephen's Hall.
scale: 6 chains
GBV.206/10 [mid 19th century]
Ryton Woodside, Long Row Closes.
scale: 6 chains
GBV.206/11 [mid 19th century]
Ryton Woodside, French's Close, watermark 1821.
GBV.206/12 [mid 19th century]
Ryton Woodside, Glebe, watermark 1821.
scale: 6 chains
GBV.206/13 [mid 19th century]
Ryton Woodside, fields north & south of Woodhouse.
GBV.206/14 [mid 19th century]
Ryton Woodside, Glebe.
scale: 6 chains
GBV.206/15 [mid 19th century]
Ryton Woodside, Stephen's Hall, Herdsman's House & Buck's Nook.
scale: 6 chains
GBV.206/16 [mid 19th century]
Ryton Woodside, Mr Forster's garth.
scale: 6 chains
GBV.206/17 [mid 19th century]
Place not identified.
GBV.206/18 [mid 19th century]
Ryton Woodside, Reiley Mires, Jolly's Field, watermark 1821.
scale: 6 chains
GBV.206/19 [mid 19th century]
Ryton Woodside, Blaydon Burn.
scale: 6 chains
GBV.206/20 [mid 19th century]
Ryton Woodside, Nat. Grace Esq.'s farm.
GBV.206/21 [mid 19th century]
Place not identified.
GBV.206/22 [mid 19th century]
Ryton Woodside, Greenside, Marshall's property.
GBV.206/23 [mid 19th century]
Ryton Woodside, Glebe & Sealburns.
scale: 6 chains
GBV.206/24 [mid 19th century]
Ryton Woodside, Glebe & Sealburns.
scale: 3 chains
GBV.206/25 [mid 19th century]
Place not identified.
GBV.206/26 [mid 19th century]
Ryton Woodside, Coalburns, Richardson's property.
scale: 6 chains
GBV.206/27 [mid 19th century]
(a) Ryton Woodside, Lynn's estate.
(b) Place not identified.
scale: 6 chains
GBV.206/28 [mid 19th century]
Place not identified.
GBV.206/29 [mid 19th century]
Prudhoe, "Railway through Wylam Wood Estate".
scale: 6 chains
GBV.206/30 [mid 19th century]
Ryton, land in the angle of West Lane, No. 19 on Ryton tithe plan, [c.1824 ].
scale: half a chain
GBV.206/31 [mid 19th century]
Ryton, land between Bar Moor Road and Ryton West Lane, Nos. 20 & 21 on Ryton tithe plan, watermark 1824.
scale: 2 chains
GBV.206/32 [mid 19th century]
Ryton, land between Ryton & Stella villages.
GBV.206/33 November 1840
Ryton, part of the village surveyed November 1840.
scale: 6 chains
GBV.206/34 [mid 19th century]
Ryton "from Railway Survey", Nos. 1 & 2 on Ryton tithe plan.
scale: 2 chains
GBV.206/35 [mid 19th century]
Ryton, West Lane, west of the parish church.
GBV.206/36 [mid 19th century]
(top) Ryton, land between the river Tyne and West Lane, Nos. 29 & 30 on Ryton tithe plan.
(bottom) Ryton, land between Bar Moor road and West Lane, Nos. 20-22 & 247 on tithe plan.
GBV.206/37 [mid 19th century]
Ryton, area called The Willows, south of the river Tyne, fields named, Nos. (approx.) 35, 242, 243, 239 & 240 on the Ryton tithe plan, watermark 1820 and before the railway.
scale: 6 chains
GBV.206/38 [mid 19th century]
Ryton, Bar Moor and the SW corner of the township.
GBV.206/39 [mid 19th century]
Ryton, land by the railways, Nos. 179-180 and adjoining plots on Ryton tithe plan.
GBV.206/40 [mid 19th century]
(a) Ryton, land west of Water Lane, on the bank of the river Tyne, Mr Hutchinson's.
(b) Mr Newbiggin's, n.d., 1 chain.
scale: 6 chains
GBV.206/41 [mid 19th century]
Ryton, land NE of the village along the line of the proposed railway, "received ... from Mr Blakemire 1832 ".
GBV.206/42 [mid 19th century]
Place not identified.
GBV.206/43 [approximately 1832]
Ryton, Ryton Haugh, east of the Newburn ferry road "Robert Surtees Esq.", No. 196 on Ryton tithe plan.
scale: 4 chains
GBV.206/44 [mid 19th century]
(a) Ryton, land north of Holburn Lane, Nos. 207-8 & 166 on Ryton tithe plan.
(b) Ryton, land east of Holburn Lane, No. 156 on Ryton tithe plan.
scale: 4 chains
GBV.206/45 [mid 19th century]
Ryton, plots north-east of Ryton village, Nos. 199 & 202-5 on Ryton tithe plan.
The one shown as 6 acres 2.10 is probably No.105 (Ryton Haugh) on the tithe plan.
The two, 4 acres and 3 acres 3.34, are 116-117 on the tithe
plan.
The one acre piece has not been identified.
GBV.206/46 [mid 19th century]
(a) Ryton, Hedgefield Orchard and the two fields to the south, Nos. 111, 137 & 139 on Ryton tithe plan, n.d., 4 chains.
(b) Ryton, land at the east end of the village in the angle between Ryton Haugh Lane & Holburn Lane, Nos. 206,
208-210 etc. on the Ryton tithe plan.
scale: 4 chains
GBV.206/47 [mid 19th century]
(right) Ryton, Friar's Closes in the village, Nos. 221-3 on the Ryton tithe plan.
(left) Place not identified.
(centre) Ryton, land at the west end of the village, Nos. 37, 40 etc. on the tithe plan.
GBV.206/48 [mid 19th century]
Ryton, plan of the village from near Oakfield on the west to the railway line on the east.
GBV.206/49 [approximately 1841]
Ryton, copy of part of the tithe plan from west of Water Lane on the west, to east of Runhead on the east and from the railway on the north to below the turnpike road to Hexham on the south.
scale: 4 chains
GBV.206/50 [mid 19th century]
Ryton, part of the east end of the village street and fields southwards to No. 92 on Ryton tithe plan.
Signed repeatedly by W. Armstrong.
scale: 4 chains
GBV.206/51 [mid 19th century]
Ryton, land round the junction of Ryton Haugh Road and Parson's Haugh Road, marked with the alignments of the two [proposed] railway lines.
GBV.206/52 [mid 19th century]
Place not identified.
GBV.206/53 [mid 19th century]
Ryton, the east of the township, from west of Runhead on the west, to Stella village on the east and from Ryton Haugh in the north to Beweshill in the south, watermark 1822.
GBV.206/54 [mid 19th century]
Ryton, Sayer's Close, sold by John Burdis to Archdeacon Thorpe in 1837.
scale: 2 chains
GBV.206/55 [mid 19th century]
Plan of unidentified land with a railway alignment drawn in.
GBV.206/56 [mid 19th century]
Ryton, the north-east part of the township, Ryton Haugh drawn fully, areas to its west and south sketched in, watermark 1837.
GBV.206/57 [mid 19th century]
Ryton, the south-west part of the township, Barmoor area.
The triangular field in the south is No. 66 on the Ryton tithe plan, watermark 1822.
GBV.206/58 [mid 19th century]
Ryton, Star Flat in the south-east corner of the township, No.109 on Ryton tithe plan.
scale: 4 chains
GBV.206/59 [mid 19th century]
Ryton, sketch of the bank of the river Tyne opposite Ryton Island.
The fields marked "Lamb" & "Fenwick" are Nos. 34 & 29 on the Ryton tithe plan.
GBV.206/60 [mid 19th century]
Ryton, plan of the bank of the river Tyne opposite Ryton Island from Dr Stanner's Close (Simpson) to the glebe.
scale: 4 chains
GBV.206/61 [mid 19th century]
Ryton, part of the village street.
GBV.206/62 [mid 19th century]
Ryton, allotments & land at Bar Moor, north of the Bar Moor Road.
The field marked 2 acres 3.12 is No.21 on the Ryton tithe plan, watermark 1826.
GBV.206/63 [mid 19th century]
Ryton "Cox's lands at Crook Hill" etc., 4 acres.
(left) fields south-west of Ryton Lane Head, Nos. 54-57 on Ryton tithe plan.
(centre) Crook Hill House and surrounding fields, Nos.118-123 on Ryton tithe plan.
(top right) Cox's fields
south-west of Runhead, Nos.161-162 on Ryton tithe plan.
(bottom right) Bar Moor Closes, Nos.58-59 on Ryton tithe plan.
scale: 4 chains
GBV.206/64 [mid 19th century]
Ryton, 3 areas.
(left) land south-west of Runhead, Nos.161-163 on Ryton tithe plan.
(centre) field in the angle of Parson's and Ryton Haugh Roads, No.101 on Ryton tithe plan.
(right) Crook Hill House and surrounding fields,
Nos.118-128 on Ryton tithe plan.
All three are ringed in purple on the tithe plan.
GBV.206/65 [mid 19th century]
Ryton "Glebe West Fields", No.19 on Ryton tithe plan.
scale: 4 chains
GBV.206/66 [mid 19th century]
Ryton and Ryton Woodside, land east of Woodside Lane.
The northern-most field is No.54 on the Ryton tithe plan and the southern block No.49 on the Ryton Woodside tithe plan.
GBV.206/67 [mid 19th century]
Ryton, Runhead Closes & Crook Hill, Nos. 145-147 & 118-123 on Ryton tithe plan.
scale: 4 chains
GBV.206/68 [mid 19th century]
Ryton, land about Shorty Crofts Cottage, near Stangate, Nos.96-97 & 110-111 on Ryton tithe plan.
GBV.206/69 [mid 19th century]
Ryton, north-west area of the township from Ryton West Field to Holburn Lane watering place, watermark 1822.
GBV.206/70 [mid 19th century]
Ryton, 2 plots with names and acreages.
(left) Hedgefield Orchard and two fields to the south.
(right) premises at the east end of Ryton village street between Ryton Haugh Lane & Holburn Lane, watermark 1830.
GBV.206/71 [mid 19th century]
Ryton Woodside, plan of named fields with acreages marked, Liddell's Closes, Wild Cat Field etc.
GBV.206/72 [mid 19th century]
Ryton Woodside, the township west of Greenside with the state of cultivation marked on each field except Kyo (not a copy of the Ryton Woodside tithe plan).
GBV.206/73 [mid 19th century]
Ryton Woodside:
(a) central, southern part of the township between Coalburn and Strothers in the south, to Dog Leap in the east and to High Greenside in the north.
(b. left
inset) unidentified small area.
(c. right inset) Greenside and fields to the north and south.
scale: (a) 3 chains; (b) and (c) 6 chains
Size: large patched irregular plan, 4′ 4″ x 2′ 9″
GBV.206/74 [mid 19th century]
Ryton Woodside, 7 areas.
(top left and centre foot) premises at the Folly on the road to Newcastle upon Tyne.
(bottom left) premises at Dog Leap between Greenside & Stephen's Hall.
(centre) premises on the road between Kyo and
Newcastle between Rockwood Hill and Greenside.
(top right) premises somewhere along the road to Newcastle.
(middle & bottom right) cottages somewhere along the road to Newcastle. 1 chain.
GBV.206/75 4 November 1837
?Ryton. Plan of an unamed Dean north of the road between Ryton and Newcastle upon Tyne, surveyed by Thomas Bell.
scale: 2 chains
GBV.206/76 [mid 19th century]
Ryton, fields in the angle of Ryton West Lane and Bar Moor Road, Nos. 247 & 20-22 on Ryton tithe plan.
scale: 2 chains
VolumesGBV.Volume I [16th and 17th century; 1569-1706]
Language: many items are in Latin; English.
A miscellaneous volume of MS. forms, proceedings, mandates, citations, etc., dating from c.1569-1576 (pp.99-118 - mainly High Court rather than local cases for the sixteenth century) and
1650-1706.
Those forms etc. chiefly concern the court of Vice-Admiralty of the County Palatine (or, under the Commonwealth, the county) of Durham but include business of the High Court of Admiralty and of
other local Admiralty courts at Newcastle, York and elsewhere, and also certain acts of the Consistory Court of Durham (c.1650-1706) and the spiritual courts of the archbishop of York.
Emsley & Fraser in
The Courts of the County Palatine of Durham, pp.68-70 (published by Durham Co. Local Hist. Soc. 1984) in the chapter on the Admiralty court describe Gibson MS.I as a book of precedents compiled by Richard Mathew, on
the grounds that it records not only Admiralty cases but also examples of cases in the Durham consistory court (pp.62-63, 147, 188, 437-65) and suits in the Newcastle court of vice-admiralty (pp.174-75, 186-87, 194, 339-41, 389, 425-26), where
Mathew also had interests.
The first half of the book (pp.i-iv, 1-204) has been written in volume form; the second half consists of individual papers bound together. Neither half is arranged chronologically.
Digitised material for Court book of court of Vice-Admiralty of the County Palatine of Durham and others - Gibson Volume I GBV.Volume IILanguage: many items are in Latin; English.
Calf-bound volume entitled
“Durham Court of Chancery” and containing MS. depositions of witnesses in Chancery cases, October 1677 - October 1678.
These were taken by Ralph Tonstall, gentleman,
deputy examiner of the Durham Court of Chancery, who signs each heading. Topics mentioned in the depositions include disputes over guilds in Durham (f.14) and Gateshead (f.178), coal-mines (ff.30, 52, 156, 186, 201), Nether Heworth quarries (f.188),
tithes at Monkton etc. (f.88), deforestation and fishing rights in Harraton (f.56), lands in Rowley which were alleged to be freehold (f.110), competing mills in Wolsingham (f.146) and the activities of a financial agent (ff.74, 96), as well as
cases over debts, dowries and land boundaries. Entries include the age, occupation, address and signature of deponents and at the front of the volume there is an index of names of complainants and defendants.
Loose in the volume is a letter from Tho[mas] Hugo, [rector of West Hackney, Stoke Newington] to Mr. M. Mackey Jun[io]r, written at Ilfracombe, 18 October 1876. Thomas Hugo, 1820-1876, was the author of three works
on the wood-engravers, Thomas and John Bewick and was well known for his collection of Bewick material. See
Dictionary of National Biography. This concerns the wood-blocks and the identification of some of the engravings of Bewick [?Thomas Bewick, wood-engraver, 1753-1828 or his brother, John Bewick, wood-engraver,
1760-1795].
v + 209ff.
Stuck on to the inside front cover are the book-plate of Edward Arthur White, F.S.A. and a printed sale description of the volume. Inside the front cover there is also a note: "Lot 313. Purchased by me at sale of Richard Welford's Books April
1920. C.O.P. Gibson Bywell Castle Stocksfield Northumberland."
Digitised material for Durham Court of Chancery depositions of witnesses 1677-1678 - GBV.2 GBV.Volume III [18th century]
Language: English; some items are in Latin.
Vellum-bound volume, drawn up c. mid-eighteenth century, entitled
“Old Pleadings & Rules of Court Ra. Robson”, and containing (ff. 2 et seq. and f.51) examples of legal documents issued by the Durham courts of Chancery, Pleas and Assizes, with records of some pleas in these
courts, temp. George I and George II and n.d., and (ff.14, 52) pleas before the Exchequer Barons at Westminster, 1729-1733. The volume also includes lists of fees and orders of episcopal courts and officials. The items are undated unless otherwise
stated:-
f.34r. Fees due to the York Prerogative Court for wills etc.
f.35r. “A Table of the King's Silver”, i.e. a fine paid for a royal licence of concord taxed on writs of coven[an]t and entry, according to the yearly value of the lands concerned.
f.35v. Rates or fines on original writs and other ordinary processes paid to the bishop's officers.
f.35v. Fees due to the steward and clerk of the Halmote office.
f.36r. Durham Chancery fees.
f.36v. Fees due to the chancellor.
f.37r. Fees due to the clerk of the Assize and Court of Pleas at Durham, the 'Prothonotary Plilazer [sic]. ['Philazer', a form of 'filacerr', meaning an officer who filed original writs and issued processes thereon.] Custos Br[ev]ium
Exegenter & Clerk of the Fines'.
f.37r. Fees due for fines.
f.37v. Fees due for recoveries, 1661.
f.37v. Fees due to the prothonotary for the levying of fines.
f.38r. "Used & accustomed" fees due in the sheriff's office, [?temp. Bishop Crewe 1674-1721].
f.38v. Fees due to the keeper of Durham jail.
f.38v. Fines for writs.
f.39r. Fees due to the clerk of peace [temp. R[ichard] Hutton, appointed chancellor in 1617 under Bishop William James 1606-1617, although his position was only confirmed in 1626; he died in 1639.]
f.39v. Fees to be paid on the "suing out" of patents, writs of coven[an]t, entry etc. and writs for removing cases from one court to another.
f.39v. Curitor's [cursitor's] fees for inrollments, [?temp. Bishop Cosin 1660-1672].
f.42r. "Orders for the better and more Exact Expedition and proceedings in Suits" in Chancery, [temp. Robert Dormer, chancellor 1693-1719].
f.42v. Orders revived and established in Chancery in open court, 1665-1728.
f.45r. Orders for the Court of Pleas, n.d. [temp. J. Otway, chancellor 1675-93] and 1724.
f.46r. Fees for taking a fine before a justice of the Court of Pleas and by commission.
f.46r. Notes on concords of fine, n.d. and 1732-1733.
f.48r. Rules and orders to be observed in the Durham County Court, [temp. Charles II], 1702 and 1689.
f.50v. Orders issuing from cases in the Court of Pleas, temp. George II.
This volume also contains (ff. 53v.-54v.) an account of "A Procession of the Funeral of the Corps of S[i]r R[alph] M[ilbanke] 1748".
54ff.
Inside the front cover is the signature 'Ra Robson' and on f.1r. is the note: 'W. Hylton Dyer Longstaffe from J.[?I] Wilkinson Esq. 1855'.
Digitised material for Durham courts of Chancery, Pleas and Assizes cases and rules, earlier 18th century - Gibson volume III
