EDE/A, B, D: Mainly deeds of the lands and mineral rights of the Eden family of West Auckland, Co. Durham, and of families related to them
EDE/C: Family papers, including correspondence, diaries, legal, financial and other personal papers
EDE/A-B were originally deposited with the university by Sir Timothy Eden (8th and 6th Baronet) in the 1950s, and later donated by Lord Eden of Winton, in 2017. EDE/C-E were donated by Lord Eden in 2017-2019.
Deeds and leases reflecting the landowning activities of the Eden family of West Auckland, County Durham (and of families related to them), in County Durham, Yorkshire and Northumberland, also in Herefordshire, Kent, Lincolnshire, Norfolk,
Northamptonshire, Oxfordshire, Suffolk, Surrey, Westmorland, London. County Durham places which occur most frequently are Aycliffe, West Auckland, St Helen Auckland, Kirk Merrington, Middlestone, Middridge and Windlestone.
1956 deposit of deedsReference: EDE/AExtent: ½ metre
Most of the documents in this first deposit relate to land leased from the Dean and Chapter of Durham. See also the
records of leasehold estates within the Durham Cathedral
Archive.
Deposited 1 November 1956 by Sir Timothy Calvert Eden, 8th and 6th Baronet, and subsequently donated by Lord Eden of Winton, in October 2017
EDE/A1 28 September 1792 - 20 November 1862
Leases by the Dean and Chapter of Durham of a cottage and land at Aycliff in the County of Durham, for terms of 21 years at a rent of 5s.0d.
The last two name a consideration of £21.9s.3d.
Lessees:
(a) James Simpson of Great
Aickliff, yeoman
(b) Michael Scarth of Castle Eden, gent
(c) Thomas Ord of Newton Ketton, gent (3 leases)
(d) Benton Ord of Newton, then of Clarence Cottage, near Aycliffe, gent
(6 leases, 3 with plans)
The leases occur at 7 yearly intervals.
11 items
EDE/A2 20 November 1793 - 30 January 1864
Leases by the Dean and Chapter of Durham of messuages, lands and portions of tithe hay in Aycliffe in the County of Durham for terms of 21 years at a rent of £1.19s.8d., (altered to £1.19s.0d. as from 11 February 1860) with customary rents and
services.
The last two name considerations of £127.9s.6ds and £124.3s.0d. respectively.
Lessees:
(a) Benton Ord and Thomas Ord the younger of Newtown, yeomen (2 leases)
(b) Thomas Ord of Newton Ketton, gent (3 leases)
(c) Benton Ord of Newton Ketton and then of Clarence Cottage, near Aycliff, gent (6 leases and 1 counterpart; 4 leases and counterpart with plans)
The leases occur at intervals varying from 6 to 9 years.
12 items
EDE/A3 20 July 1863 - 6 October 1869
Leases by the Dean and Chapter of Durham to Benton Ord of Clarence Cottage, near Aycliff for terms of 21 years, with plans.
Property:
(a) Dwelling house and about 30 acres of land in Aycliff at a rent of 9s.7d., with customary
rents and services, naming considerations of £28.2s.6d. and £27.8s.1d. respectively (2 leases and 1 counterpart).
(b) Closes and houses at Aycliff at a rent of 5s.0d., and 10s.2d. in lieu of land tax, naming a consideration of £21.9s.3d. (1 lease and counterpart)
[See above: Bundle 1.]
Size: 5 items
EDE/A4 14 March - 4 May 1872
Documents concerned with the conveyance by Henry Shepherd of Norton and John Robert Ord of Houghton le Skerne (executors of Benton Ord) to Sir William Eden of Windlestone Hall of properties at Aycliff, held on lease from the Dean and Chapter of
Durham, at a purchase price of £1,600.
(Agreement for sale, licence to assign, assignment and abstract of title).
Size: 4 items
EDE/A5 28 September 1843 - 24 May 1871
Leases for terms of 21 years by the Dean and Chapter of Durham of properties at Merrington (viz.):
(1) 2 fields at a rent of 5s.0d. with customary rents and services, naming various considerations Lessees:
(a) Mary Dawson of
Merrington in the County of Durham, widow
(b) John Vickers of Newcastle upon Tyne, grocer
(c) George Tweddell of Houghton-le-Spring, Co. Durham, surgeon
(2 leases and counterpart)
(ii) Several fields at a rent of 8s.4d. with customary rents and services:
Consideration of £35.7s.6d.
Lessee: John Robinson Legge of Houghton-le-Spring, gent
(iii) Closes called Bishopley and West Forth at a rent of 6s.2d. with customary rents and services.
Consideration of £35.10s.9d.
Lessee: William Robinson of Houghton-le-Skerne, chemist
(iv) Dwelling house and fields at a rent of £1.14s.11d. with 19s.11d. in lieu of land tax.
Consideration £125.12s.7d.
Lessees: Nicholas Crosby Whorlton of Long Newton, farmer, and John Graham of Darlington, chemist.
(v) Field at a rent of 7s.6d. with customary rents and services, naming various considerations.
Lessees:
(a) George Walker the younger of the City of Durham, printer and Frances Walker, his wife.
(b) William Davison of Darlington, Co. Durham, gent
(c) William Goodburn of Houghton-le-Skerne, gent
(d) William Robinson of Houghton-le-Skerne, relieving officer and John Graham of Darlington, chemist (with counterpart)
Confirmation by the Dean and Chapter of Durham of a deed of settlement (19 September 1870) vesting premises at Merrington in Nicholas Crosby Whorlton of Long Newton, farmer, and John Graham of Darlington,
chemist.
Abstract of will of James Goodburn, butcher, deceased.
Abstract of title to a leasehold farm at Merrington belonging to the trustees of William Goodburn, deceased, contracted to be sold to Sir William Eden.
Assignment by John
Graham, Nicholas Crosby Whorlton, and Mary Ann Scott to Sir William Eden of Windlestone Hall of the above mentioned properties, nos. (iii), (iv) and (v) at a purchase price of £2,750.
These are the original Dean & Chapter leases and are annotated with Church Commission numbers. There are no copies of them among the Church Commission Durham Cathedral Estates deposit at the library, and the C.C. schedule is annotated by the
relevant numbers (handed back before dispatch here).
Size: 17 items
EDE/A6a 17 January 1820
Lease for a year of farmholds and lands in West Auckland and St. Helen Auckland, by the Rt. Hon. Sir Richard Richards, Lord Chief Baron of His Majesty's Court of Exchequer at Westminster, surviving trustee of John Moore, Archbishop of Canterbury,
deceased, to Sir Robert Johnson Eden.
EDE/A6b 1 June 1699
Will of John Stelling of Middleston, Co. Durham, yeoman; with probate, 24 April 1711.
EDE/A7 26 December 1800 - 13 August 1853
Conveyances by lease and release of 2 closes at Great Aycliffe in the County of Durham.
(a) Robert Robinson of Great Aycliffe, blacksmith to Daniel Turner of Hilton, yeoman.
Consideration £153.15s.0d.
(b) Daniel Turner now of Leeside, yeoman to his son Daniel Turner of Blagdon, Northumberland.
Consideration £270.
(c) Ann Turner of Briery Hill, Northumberland, spinster and Frederick Turner of Blagdon, Northumberland, landagent, and Thomas Aynsley of Jesmond Dean, Newcastle upon Tyne, yeoman, his wife Margaret, and George Joyeuse Jowsey of Wellington
Street, Chelsea, Middlesex, yeoman.
Consideration £260. (Release only.)
Abstract of title to the above property.
Copy of will (28 May 1856) and probate (1 May 1851) of Daniel
Turner of Blagdon, Northumberland, landagent.
Size: 7 items
EDE/A8 1788 - 15 May 1871
Documents concerned with premises at Merrington, Church Merrington and East Merrington comprised in 3 leases by the Dean and Chapter of Durham.
Probate of Mrs. Ann Roper of Cornforth.
Copy will and probate of George Burrell.
John Burrell and William Wheatley to Jane Burrell - copy assignment.
George Rudd to James Fenwick - mortgage.
James Fenwick, Sir Robert Johnson Eden and George Rudd to Mrs. Ann Strong - 3 licences to assign, and assignment.
Mrs. Ann Strong to Revd. J. Tyson - assignment.
Mrs. Ann Strong and Sir Robert Johnson Eden to Frances Strong - licence to assign.
Revd. J. Tyson and others to William Davison - assignment.
Dean and Chapter to George Walker - lease.
George Walker and wife to William Davison - licence to assign, and assignment.
Documents relating to death of William Davison - burial certificate, declaration re. relatives, admiinstration, and form for succession duty payable by William Goodburn.
Copy will of James Goodburn and certificates for succession duty paid by William Goodburn.
William Goodburn to Octavius Borrodaile Wooler - licence and copy settlement.
Octavius Borrodaile Wooler to William Robinson - assignment.
William Goodburn to William Robinson - copy settlement.
William Robinson to Messrs. Graham and Whalton - transfer of trust.
Burial certificate of William Goodburn.
Marriage certificate of George Briggs Scotson and Mary Ann Hunter.
Form for succession duty payable by Mary Ann Scotson.
Scotson v. Robinson - bill of complaint and 2 papers.
Size: 33 items
1958 deposit of deedsReference: EDE/B
In addition to deeds relating to Eden and related family estates in County Durham and elsewhere in the UK, a bundle of deeds relates to the mansion in Annapolis of the then Governor of Maryland, Sir Robert Eden, which was confiscated at the time
of the American War of Independence.
Deposited 26 March 1958 by Sir Timothy Calvert Eden, 8th and 6th Baronet, through Messrs Gates & Co. (Solicitors), Brighton, and subsequently donated by Lord Eden of Winton, in October 2017
Bundle 1
Formerly A/27
EDE/B1/1 23 February [1265]
Language: Latin
Grant by King Henry [III] to William Charles of a weekly Thursday market and an annual 3-day fair around St Matthew in Brignall and a weekly Tuesday market and an annual 3-day fair around St Edmund the King in Cliff, Yorks.; a weekly Wednesday
market and annual 3-day fair around St Barnabas at Grayingham, Lincs.; a weekly Friday market and 3-day fair around the Decollation of St John the Baptist at Sisland, Norfolk; a 3-day fair around the Nativity of St John the Baptist at Loddon,
Norfolk; and a weekly Wednesday market and 3-day fair around St Martin at Kettleburgh, Suffolk.
Witnesses: Hugh le Despenser justiciar of England, Peter de Montefort, Ralph de Cameys, Giles de Argentenum. Walter de Crepping, Robert de Insula, Ralph of Sandwich, William de Albiniaco, Bartholomew le Bigod.
Date: Westminster, 23 February 49 Henry [III].
Parchment, 1m, lined
Size: 190 x 240mm
Seal: blank plaited silk cords threaded through 3 holes in a turnup
EDE/B1/2 [10 July] 1281
Language: Latin
Ordinance by Kunegunda master and the convent of St Rupert at Bingen (Germany) of a chantry to the Holy Cross for the countess of Evirstein in honour of Jesus, the Virgin Mary, St John the apostle and evangelist, St Mary Magdalene, St Katherine
the virgin and martyr, and all the saints.
Date: 6 Id. July 1281.
Endorsed with German descriptions (14th & 18th centuries), and with an (English) sale catalogue (no.8023) description, with a price of 15s and mentioning part of an appendant seal (no longer present).
Parchment, 1m
Size: 220 x 205mm
Seal: blank [sealing] tongue, doubled back through a slit in the foot
EDE/B1/3 6 February [1416]
Language: Latin
Grant by Thomas Tailbus armiger and Hugh Evenwod to William Dalton and his wife Margaret, daughter of Henry Tailbus, of a messuage in Wackerfield, the messuage in Evenwood which Robert Belt now holds and a close
called Viwerleys Close in Evenwood.
Witnesses: Ralph of Eure, William of Eure, Thomas Surtees, all miles, Thomas Burdon, John del Hall of Wackerfield.
Date: 6 February 3 Henry V.
Parchment, 1m
Size: 190 x 240mm
Seal: unidentified on a parchment tag, with a further blank parchment tag, each through a slit in a turnup
EDE/B1/4 31 July [1460]
Language: Latin
Grant by Robert Ogle jr miles to Master William Eure clerk, Henry Eure and Thomas Harbottle jr armiger of his vill of Saltwick, Northumberland, and of all his lands etc there and in the
vills of Woodhorn and Seaton, and a messuage called Farnylawe in the same county, on condition that the three of them grant all these lands etc to Robert and his wife Joan within 20 days.
Date: 31 July 38 Henry VI.
Parchment, 1m, some staining
Size: 120 x 215mm
Seal: unidentified part, on a parchment tag, through a slit in a turnup
EDE/B1/5 [?10 August 1460]
Language: Latin
Grant by Master William Eure clerk, Henry Eure and Thomas Harbottle (Herbotyll) armiger to Robert Ogle jr miles and his wife Joan of all their lands etc in the
vills and territories of Windlestone, Middle Herrington and West Herrington, in Co Durham, and also their vill of Saltwick, in Northumberland, and all their rents etc there and in the vills of Woodhorn and Seaton, and a messuage called
Farnylaw in the same county, which they had been given and enfeoffed with by the same Robert, with remainder to Robert's heirs.
Date: St Felic' martyr 38 Henry VI.
Parchment, 1m, indented head, zig-zag
Size: 190 x 240mm
Seal: residue on 3 parchment tags recycled from other documents, each through a slit in a turnup
EDE/B1/6 7 September [1517]
Language: Latin
Grant by Robert Ogle miles, lord of Ogle and Bothal, to John Ogle armiger his brother for life of all his lands etc in the vills etc of Windlestone and Herrington in the bishoprick of
Durham and all the lands etc in South Dissington, Northumberland now held by Richard Coke, Nicholas Coke, Robert Coke and Robert Forstar, which John formerly had by the gift of their father Lord Ralph Ogle, formerly lord of Ogle and Bothal, as
appears in charters shown to Robert.
Witnesses: William Ogle armiger their brother, Eadmer Ogle, Cuthbert Ogle, Thomas Ogle, William Ogle.
Date: Norham, 7 September 9 Henry VIII.
Signed.
Parchment, 1m
Size: 110 x 295mm
Seal: unidentified on a parchment tag within a paper wrapper from a later 16th century letter with string, through 3 slits in a turnup
EDE/B1/7 1 October [1524]
Bargain and sale by Robert Ogle knight Lord Ogle to John Bentley gent for £144 of all his lands etc in the town and fields of Windlestone, Middle Herrington and West Herrington in the bishoprick of Durham, along with all his rights etc, and his
evidences etc, marriage settlements and wills concerning the lands, and Robert, his wife Anne and brother John shall do whatever Bentley's council deem necessary for this transaction at Lord Ogle's costs, with acknowledgement of Lord Ogle's bond in
£200 thereunto.
Date: 1 October 16 Henry VIII.
Signed, with some interlineations authorised by Robert Ogle.
Parchment, 1m, indented head, zig-zag, some staining, parts of the left edge gnawed
Size: 280 x 395mm
Seal: blank parchment [sealing] tag, through 3 slits in a turnup
EDE/B1/8 2 October [1524]
Language: Latin
Grant by Robert Ogle miles lord of Ogle, since his brother John Ogle holds for life 7 messuages, a cottage, 20 bovates of land, 80 acres of meadow, 6 acres of wood and 100 acres of pasture etc in Windlestone, Middle
Herrington and West Herrington in Co Durham with reversion to Robert after John's death, that they may revert rather to William Frankeleyn clerk, William Bulmer sr miles, William Eure miles,
Robert Bowes armiger, John Bentley gent, Christopher Weardale (Werdall) clerk and Thomas Bentley clerk, for the use of John Bentley and his heirs.
Date: 2 October 16 Henry VIII.
Signed.
Endorsed (in English) with witnesses (and signed by): Master John Ogle Robert's brother, William Tomlinson (Thomlyngson) bailiff of Gateshead, John Bednell.
Parchment, 1m
Size: 175 x 330mm
Seal: blank parchment [sealing] tag, through 3 slits in a turnup
EDE/B1/9 2 October [1524]
Language: Latin
Appointment by John Ogle brother of Lord Ogle of William Frankeleyn clerk, William Bulmer sr miles, William Eure miles, Robert Bowes armiger, John Bentley
gent, Christopher Weardale (Werdall) clerk and Thomas Bentley clerk, to whom he has given 2d, as his attornies to receive the reversion as granted him by his brother in his deed of the same date.
Date: 2 October 16 Henry VIII.
Signed.
Parchment, 1m
Size: 125 x 330mm
Seal: unidentified, on a parchment tag, through 3 slits in a turnup
EDE/B1/10 2 October [1524]
Language: Latin
Bond by Robert Ogle miles, lord of Ogle and Bothal, to John Bentley gent in £200 for merchandise bought from him to be paid at All Saints next.
Sealed with the seals of himself and the mayor of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
Date: 2 October 16 Henry VIII.
Signed.
Parchment, 1m
Size: 110 x 310mm
Seal: parts of 2 unidentified, each ona tongue, with a [wrapping tie] stub below
EDE/B1/11 4 October [1524]
Language: Latin
Quitclaim by John Ogle brother of Robert Ogle miles lord Ogle to William Frankeleyn clerk, William Bulmer sr miles, William Eure miles, Robert Bowes
armiger, John Bentley gent, Christopher Weardale (Werdall) clerk and Thomas Bentley clerk of his right to lands whose reversion had been granted them by Robert Ogle, with the appointment by
John Ogle of William Rakett and William Malhom of Tudhoe as his attorneys to deliver seisin.
Date: 4 October 16 Henry VIII.
Parchment, 1m
Size: 280 x 315mm
Seal: unidentified, part, on a parchment tag, through 3 slits in a turnup
EDE/B1/12 5 December [1524]
Language: Latin
Quitclaim by Robert Ogle miles lord of Ogle and Bothal to William Frankeleyn clerk, William Bulmer sr miles, William Eure miles, Robert Bowes
armiger, John Bentley of Trillisden, Christopher Weardale (Werdall) clerk and Thomas Bentley clerk of his right to the lands granted them by him.
Date: 5 December 16 Henry VIII.
Signed.
Parchment, 1m
Size: 210 x 360mm
Seal: unidentified, part, on a parchment tag, through 3 slits in a turnup
EDE/B1/13 20 December [1524]
Language: Latin
Receipt by Robert Ogle miles, lord of Ogle and Bothal, to John Bentley gent for £144 for the sale of all the lands in Windlestone, West Herrington and Middle Herrington Co Durham to him by Robert Ogle and his brother
John Ogle.
Date: 20 December 16 Henry VIII.
Signed.
Parchment, 1m
Size: 130 x 340mm
Seal: unidentified, fragment, on a tongue
EDE/B1/14 [27 March 1525]
Language: Latin
Final concord before Antony Fitzherbert justice of the King's Bench and William Frankeleyn clerk chancellor, between William Frankeleyn clerk, William Bulmer sr miles, William Eure miles,
Robert Bowes armiger, John Bentley, Christopher Weardale (Wardall) clerk and Thomas Bentley clerk, querulents, against Robert Ogle lord of Ogle and Bothal and his wife Ann, deforciants, over
8 messuages, 2 cottages, 4 crofts, 260 acres of land, 40 acres of meadow, 100 acres of pasture, 40 acres of moor and 13s 4d rent in Windlestone, West Herrington and Middle Herrington, which Robert and Ann recognised as belonging to and quitclaimed
to the defendants.
Date: Durham, Monday after the Annunciation of the BVM Pont. 2 [Wolsey].
Parchment, 1m, indented head and right side, wavy, letters cut through
Size: 155 x 350mm
EDE/B1/15 [27 March 1525]
Language: Latin
Final concord before Antony Fitzherbert justice of the King's Bench and William Frankeleyn clerk chancellor, between William Frankeleyn clerk, William Bulmer sr miles, William Eure miles,
Robert Bowes armiger, John Bentley, Christopher Weardale (Wardall) clerk and Thomas Bentley clerk, querulents, against Robert Ogle lord of Ogle and Bothal and his wife Ann, deforciants, over
8 messuages, 2 cottages, 4 crofts, 260 acres of land, 40 acres of meadow, 100 acres of pasture, 40 acres of moor and 13s 4d rent in Windlestone, West Herrington and Middle Herrington, which Robert and Ann recognised as belonging to and quitclaimed
to the defendants.
Date: Durham, Monday after the Annunciation of the BVM Pont. 2 [Wolsey].
Parchment, 1m, indented head and left side, wavy, letters cut through
Size: 155 x 350mm
EDE/B1/16 10 December [1528]
Language: Latin
Inspeximus by Thomas [Wolsey], cardinal, archbishop of York, papal legate, primate and chancellor of England, and bishop of Durham of the process of a case in his court before Antony Fitzherbert miles and Thomas
Fairfax his itinerant justices on Monday before St Lawrence Pont. 3 and 17 Henry VIII (7 August 1525) whereby William Bulmer jr miles, Richard Bellasis gent, and Ralph Billingham, by their attorney William Balez,
recovered from William Frankelyn clerk John Bentley, 8 messuages, 2 cottages, 4 crofts, 260 acres of land, 40 acres of meadow, 100 acres of pasture, 40 acres of moor and 13s 4d rent in Windlestone, West Herrington and Middle Herrington, with
Frankelyn and Bentley to recover from Robert Ogle, who was to recover from Thomas Brikelbanke.
Witness: William Frankeleyn clerk chancellor.
Date: Durham, 10 December Pont. [Wolsey] 6.
Parchment, 1m
Size: 230 x 420mm
Seal: Thomas Wolsey great seal in chancery, damaged and repaired, on a parchment tag, through 3 slits in a turnup
EDE/B1/17 10 December [1534]
Language: Latin
Grant by Thomas Bentley clerk, brother and heir of John Bentley of Trillesden deceased, to Anthony Esh armiger, William Bentley alias William Balez, Peter Balez clerk, and William Eden of Durham mercer, of all his
lands etc in the city of Durham and its suburb, and the bishoprick of Durham, and the county of York, which descended to Thomas Bentley on his brother's death, to the use of William Bentley and his heirs, with Richard Swalwell chaplain and John
Smith chaplain appointed as his attorneys to deliver seisin.
Date: 10 December 26 Henry VIII.
Signed.
Endorsed with a memorandum that seisin was delivered of a burgage in the Durham market place in the tenure of Matilda Balez widow, in the presence of Lancelot Smith, Lionel Fethirstonehalgh of Thornley, John Londisdall of Durham shoemaker,
Leonard Rane of the same shoemaker, Humphrey Taylor of Esh, Lancelot Wright of the same, William Greenwell of the same, Robert Greenwell of ?Hugh by Esh, Robert Stoddell of Skerningham, Richard Wedderell of the same, Edward Simpson of Trillisden,
and Henry Younger of Durham son of John Younger ?worster, on 26 January 27 Henry VIII [1536].
Parchment, 1m
Size: 180 x 300mm
Seal: residue, on a parchment tag with a silk tie round it, through 3 slits in a turnup
EDE/B1/18 1 July [1537]
Language: Latin
Grant by Thomas Bentley clerk to Richard Crosby, John Capper of Durham chaplain, and Richard Swalwell chaplain, of all his lands etc in Windlestone, Eaglescliffe (Eggyscliff), Layton and Redmarshall, Co Durham, and
all his lands etc in Yorkshire and Co Durham, on condition that within 10 days they grant them to Bentley for his life with remainder to John Eden son of William Eden of Durham merchant and the heirs male of John, with reversion to Peter Eden
brother of John Eden and his heirs male, and then to Cuthbert Eden brother of John Eden and his heirs male, and then to the right heirs of Bentley.
Date: 1 July 29 Henry VIII.
Signed.
Parchment, 1m
Size: 145 x 280mm
Seal: fragment, on a parchment tag, through 3 slits in a turnup
EDE/B1/19 3 July [1537]
Language: Latin
Enfeoffment by Richard Crosby auditor, John Capper chaplain and Richard Chaplain to Thomas Bentley clerk, of all the lands etc in Windlestone, Eaglescliffe (Eggyscliff), Layton and Redmarshall, Co Durham, and all his
lands etc in Yorkshire and Co Durham, given them by him, for life, with remainder to John Eden son of William Eden of Durham merchant and the heirs male of John, with reversion to Peter Eden brother of John Eden and his heirs male, and then to
Cuthbert Eden brother of John Eden and his heirs male, and then to the right heirs of Bentley.
Date: 3 July 29 Henry VIII.
Signed by each above their seals.
Parchment, 1m
Size: 120 x 270mm
Seal: 3 unidentified (all parts only), each on a parchment tag, through 3 slits in a turnup
EDE/B1/20 20 March [1539]
Language: Latin
Pardon by Cuthbert [Tunstall] bishop of Durham to John Eden of Durham, son of William Eden of Durham merchant, of all donations etc by Thomas Bentley clerk of lands in Co Durham formerly of John Bentley formerly of Trillesden deceased held of the
bishop in chief.
Witness: Robert Hyndmer clerk, chancellor.
Date: Durham, 20 March 10 [Pont. Tunstall].
Parchment, 1m, some holes
Size: 210 x 340mm
Seal: G&B No.3170 (part), on a parchment tag, through 3 slits in a turnup
Bundle 2Dates of creation: 1313-1739
Feoffments, bonds, surrenders of an admissions to copyhold, fines, marriage settlement, inquisition, schedule of deeds etc., relating to Evenwood, West Auckland, North Auckland, Bondgate in Auckland, parish of St. Andrew Auckland, Windlestone,
Brancepeth, Thorpe near Esyngton, co. Durham.
Also Old and New Malton, Yorks., Rykledom(?) and Newby, Yorks; Redburn (Durham), Forest of Estalewent, Gateshead, Chester, Darlington (Durham, Escombe, Ryton (Durham), Huntington and Westaluwort.
Formerly A/32
EDE/B2/1-10
EDE/B2/11
11. Evenwood, 9 documents
EDE/B2/11/1 [early 14th century]
Language: Latin
Quitclaim by John Haunsarde, firstborn son of Lord Gilbert Haunsard, to Geoffrey de Henkenoll, son of John de Henkenoll, of his right to lands in the vill and field of Evenwood and in Le Spytellefeld by Wackerfield,
and in Le Foure, with which John Henkenoll had been enfeoffed by Gilbert Haunsard.
Witnesses: Lord Thomas de Wythewourd and Lord Walter of Wessington milites, John Coyners, Robert de Heppale, Nicholas Pollard, William of Binchester, Walter de Lotrengton, Humphrey of Sockburn, William de Kylnerby,
William de Menyel, William of Newbiggin, Thomas Haunsard, John Stywardeman of Evenwood.
Parchment, 1m
EDE/B2/11/2 26 March 1313
Language: Latin
Grant by Richard [Kellaw] bishop of Durham to Geoffrey de Henneknoll of 30 acres of moor and waste in the bishop's manor of Evenwood, that is 22 acres at Stirkesfald with bounds beginning at the cultivated land of
Evenwood and descending northwards as the barony of Evenwood is separated from the bishop's fee of Coupland in West Auckland, and thence from Quenildecrosse to Gamiles stream, and thence by Labdelsik to the old ditch of Evenwood field, and along the ditch to Le Salgh, and then along the highway by the old ditch back to Quenildecrosse to the north, and also a certain waste of moor and pasture in the South Moor of Evenwood containing 8 acres of land, beginning at Le Parkebulkes and descending along the old ditch,
and thence north along Bernard Castellgate to a small fishpond (vivarium), then to Heltonrode, and from Heltonrode east up to the
pool of the small fishpond, rendering annually at the exchequer in Durham 10s at the four usual annual terms.
Witnesses: Lords Robert of Hilton, Robert Haunsard, Walter of Wessington, Robert of Nevill, Thomas of Whitworth, Odinell Heroun milites, and John de Amundevill, William of Brackenbury, and William de Kylnerby.
Date: Stockton, 26 March 1313 Pont. 2.
Endorsed (17th century) as evidence of Padockmyre and Stirksfolde in Evenwood.
Parchment, 1m
EDE/B2/11/3 [13 March 1363]
Quitclaim by John son of Walter de Henkenoll to William de Metham and his wife Margaret of his right to lands formerly held by the said Walter in Evenwood for life by demise of Geoffrey de Henkenoll, William de Metham and his wife Margaret, with
reversion to Margaret, which reversion occured on the death of Walter.
Witnesses: Master Ralph of Beverley of Seaton, William of Hornsea clerk, Stephen Forster, Robert Curtays, John Hopper, Richard Hopper, Thomas of Wilton.
Date: Hornsea Burton (Hornseburton), Monday before St Cuthbert 37 Edward III.
Parchment, 1m
EDE/B2/11/4 15 August [1368]
Grant by Thomas [Hatfield] bishop of Durham to John Chaundler of all the lands which John Henknoll of Evenwood held in Evenwood which escheated to the bishop on the death of William Spymer chaplain whom John Henknoll feloniously killed.
Date: Durham, by the hand of John of Kingston the bishop's clerk, 15 August Pont. 24.
By letter of privy seal.
Parchment, 1m
EDE/B2/11/5 26 September [1395]
Quitclaim by Richard de Metham to John of Dalton of Auckland of his right to the lands which were held by Geoffrey de Henknoll sr of Walter de Henknoll in the vill and territory of Evenwood.
Witnesses: Ralph of Eure and William of Bowes milites, Gilbert of Elvet, John of Killinghall (Kelynghale), Robert of Belasis.
Date: Evenwood, 26 September 19 Richard II.
Parchment, 1m
EDE/B2/11/6 4 February [1456]
Appointment by John Dalton of Malton, Yorks, of Richard Dalton and Thomas Witton as his attornies to deliver seisin to Roger Witton of a tenement in Evenwood where Thomas Stevenson lives, with all its lands in the field of Evenwood, according to
his charter.
Date: Evenwood, 4 February 34 Henry VI.
Parchment, 1m
Bundle 3Dates of creation: 1521-1764
Deeds relating to manors of Brignall [Yorks?] and Windlestone, and property in Windlestone, co. Durham.
Formerly A/21
EDE/B3/1 3 December [1521]
Language: Latin
Grant by Thomas Marton of Marton in Craven in Yorkshire, gent, to William Wren of ?Shebrun in Co Durham, Richard Parkinson of Beaumont Hill (Beamondhill) and William Rakett of Durham, of a messuage, 50 acres of land
and 2 acres of meadow in Windlestone (Wyndilston) Co Durham, currently held by Robert Durnton, with Richard Cotisfurth of Windlestone and Henry Lawson of Sherburn appointed as his attornies to deliver seisin.
Date: 3 December 12 Henry VIII.
Endorsed (contemporary) enrolled on the dorse of the Chancery Close roll of Bishop Thomas [Ruthall] Pont. 1.
Parchment, 1m, some staining, indented head, zigzag
Seal: Residue, on a parchment tag, through 3 slits in a turnup
EDE/B3/2 20 March [1523]
Language: Latin
Grant by Thomas Marton to William Wren steward of Sherburn of a messuage etc in the vill of Windlestone (Wyndyllston) in the tenure of Henry Peyrson, in perpetuity for the use and profit of the said William, with
Henry Peyrson appointed as his attorney to deliver seisin.
Date: 20 March 14 Henry VIII.
Endorsed (contemporary) enrolled on the dorse of the Chancery Close roll of Bishop Thomas [Ruthall] Pont. 1.
Parchment, 1m, one hole and some staining
Seal: Unidentified fragment, on a parchment tag labelled as Thomas Marton, through 3 slits in a turnup
EDE/B3/3 16 July [1523]
Grant by William Wren of Sherburn House to Thomas Marton of Marton in Craven, Yorks, gent, reciting that Thomas Marton on 8 June 13 Henry VIII (1521) sold to Geoffrey Wren, clerk, master of Sherburn Hospital, and to William Wren, for £41 13s 4d,
a messuage, 50 acres of land and 2 acres of meadow in Windlestone, occupied by Robert Dernton, and also Thomas Marton on 2 April 13 Henry VIII (1522) sold to William Wren steward of Sherburn Hospital for £26 a messuage with 40 acres of land and
meadow in Windlestone, occupied by Richard Cottisfurth, and also Thomas Marton on 20 March 14 Henry VIII (1523) sold to William Wren for 40 marks a messuage with 32 acres of land and meadow in Windlestyone late held by Henry Peirson, now Thomas
Marton has sold to William Wren for £22 6s 8d a messuage and 32 acres of and and meadow held by Thomas Robinson with half a kiln, and Thomas Marton has granted to William Wren for a certain sum of money a cottage and his other lands called Foreland
in Windlestone on 10 June 13 Henry VIII (1521), now Thomas Marton covenants to do whatever William Wren's counsel might require by way of enfeoffment, for all of which lands Marton has received from Wren £118 13s 4d, and marton will deliver up to
Wren all the relevant documents, wherefore Marton agrees to be bound to Wren in £200.
Date: 16 July 15 Henry VIII.
Parchment, 1m, indented head, zig-zag
Seal: Unidentified, on a parchment tag, through 3 slits in a turnup
EDE/B3/4 15 August [1523]
Language: Latin
Grant by Thomas Marton of Marton in Craven, Yorks, gent, for £22, to Thomas Wren of Sherburn House of a messuage, 30 acres of land, an acre of meadow, 10 acres of pasture, and half a klin in Windlestone, held by Thomas Robinson, with Henry
Peirson of Windlestone and Henry Lawson of Sherburn House appointed as his attornies to deliver seisin.
Date: 15 August 15 Henry VIII.
Endorsed (contemporary) enrolled on the dorse of the Chancery Close roll of Bishop Thomas [Ruthall] Pont. 1.
Parchment, 1m, some staining
Seal: blank parchment [sealing] tag, through 3 slits in a turnup
Bundles 4-53EDE/B4 1582; 1672-1938
Loose deeds etc., relating to lands in West Auckland, Wingate, Woodhamburn in the parish of Great Aycliffe, Chilton, Windlestone, Herrington, Coundon, Crook, Chester le Street, and Whickham, co. Durham;
Manors of Whitfield and Bulbeck,
Shilford, and Broomhaugh, Northumberland;
Manor of Cotherston, and Hunderthwaite Moor, Yorks.
Formerly A/53
EDE/B5 1603-1795
Deeds, will, schedule relating to property in West Auckland and Manor of the same in co. Durham
Formerly A/4
EDE/B6 1607-1827
Deeds etc., relating to lands in the township of West Auckland in the parish of St. Andrew Auckland, Westerton in the same parish, Lutterington and Evenwood, co. Durham; and in Cayton and Scarborough, Yorks.
Formerly A/45
EDE/B7 1609/10-1684
Deeds relating to territories in Romanby Northallerton, Yorks.
Formerly A/33
EDE/B8 1616-1809
2 separate bundles of deeds relating to lands in West Auckland, Evenwood, Bishopley, Redburn, Newton Cap. Lynesack, Cookfield, Windlestone and Bondgate in Auckland, co. Durham.
Formerly A/47
EDE/B9 1622-1762
Deeds relating to 4 separate pieces of land in West Auckland, co. Durham.
Formerly A/46
EDE/B10 1684-1739
Deeds relating to premises in the City of Durham.
Formerly A/15
EDE/B11 1708/9-1811
Conveyances and bonds relating to lands in West Auckland, co. Durham.
Formerly A/44
EDE/B12 1713-1739
Marriage settlement, mortgages and deeds, relating to Hellanby, Maltby, Rawmarsh, co. York.
Formerly A/6
EDE/B13 1718-1864
Deeds relating to lands at West Auckland, co. Durham.
George Vickers to Cuthbert Apedale - mortgage, 1718.
Ann Stothart to George Vickers - 2 lease and settlement documents, 1718.
Ann Stothart to George Vickers - 2 lease and release documents, 1718.
George Vickers to Jonathan Goundry - 2 lease and release documents, 1725.
George Vickers to John Wreay - 2 lease and release documents, 1727.
George Vickers to Thomas Sanderson - 3 lease and release documents, 1729.
George Birford to William Warmouth - 2 lease and release documents, 1731.
George Vickers to Laurence Brokett - 2 lease and release documents, 1732.
George Vickers to Laurence Brokett - 2 lease and release docuemnts, 1733.
Probate of the will of George Crabtree, 1738.
William Vickers to Ralph Hodgson - lease and release, 1753.
William Brockett to John James - lease and release, 1753.
Probate of John James' Will, 1769.
Size: 16 items
Formerly A/26
EDE/B14 1720/1-1903
Deeds relating to lands in Middridge and Middridge Moor in the parish of St. Andrew, Auckland.
Formerly A/50
EDE/B15 1723-1867
Abstract, deeds, wills, relating to West Auckland, co. Durham.
Formerly A/7
EDE/B16 1742-1758
Deeds etc., relating to land at Hollaby Maltby.
Formerly A/23
EDE/B17 1747-1749
Bond, deeds relating to lands and premises in Hollaby co. Durham and Hellaby Maltby and Rawmarsh, Yorks.
Formerly A/18
EDE/B18 1753-1887
Deeds etc., relating to three dwellinghouses at West Auckland, co. Durham.
Formerly A/35
EDE/B19 1761-1865
Copies of surrenders of admittances to copyhold, conveyances, abstracts of title etc., relating to lands in West Auckland, parish of St. Mary Le Bow, Newlandside, Crossgate, Old Elvet Witton Gilbert, co. Durham.
Formerly A/31
EDE/B20 1764
Three deeds relating to West Auckland, St. Helen Auckland, and Preston-upon-Teas, co. Durham.
Formerly A/8
EDE/B21 1767-1776
Deeds relating to land at Heighton and Aycliff, co. Durham.
Formerly A/20
EDE/B22 1770-1859
Deeds relating to lands and premises in Great Chilton, co. Durham.
Formerly A/16
EDE/B23 1771-1794
Deeds relating to lands at Hellaby and Maltby, co. Yorks.
Formerly A/19
EDE/B24 1 February 1772
Lease of property in Middlestone, co. Durham.
Formerly A/10
EDE/B25 1772-1814
Deeds, etc., relating to lands and premises in Kirk Merrington alias Church Merrington and Westerton alias West Merrington, co. Durham.
Formerly A/1
EDE/B25 1776
Conveyance of a house and lands in Middlestone, co. Durham.
Formerly A/36
EDE/B27 1776-1863
Abstract of title and conveyances of a tenement and land in Middridge, co. Durham.
Formerly A/41
EDE/B28 1781-1799, 1872
Deeds etc., relating to lands and premises at Woodham, co. Durham (Low Field Estate).
Formerly A/25
EDE/B29 1788, 1852-1855
Separate bundle of surrenders and admittances relating to Middridge.
Schedule of deeds, letter, plan of Diddrige Estate, and conveyances relating to estates in the parishes of St. Andrew Auckland, Heighington and Aycliffe, co. Durham, known as the Middridge Estate, the School Aycliffe Estate, The Syms Pasture
Estate and The Woodham Burn Estate.
Also land in Bishop Middleham.
Formerly A/34
EDE/B30 1788-1862
Deeds relating to lands in Merrington, Middlestone Aycliffe, Co. Durham.
Formerly A/38
EDE/B31 1795-1814
Miscellaneous accounts and receipts.
Formerly A/51
EDE/B32 1800-1803
Abstract of title, deeds relating to property in Merrington, co. Durham.
Formerly A/13
EDE/B33 18th century to 1829
Documents as follows:
Separate bundle of letter etc., referring to case in Chancery of Hougham v. Sandys relating to lands in Northborne, Kent and estates in Yorks, 1800-1829
2 pedigrees, 18th century
2 deeds mentioning lands in the parishes of Nether Hardres and Upper Hardres, Kent, and lands "in the County of the City of York", also manor of North Court, Kent, 1823-1828
Formerly A/37
EDE/B34 1803-1804
2 conveyances of fee farm rents relating to lands in:
Yarm, Yorks.;
Ovingham alias Ovington Hall Lands, Northumberland;
Hurworth, St. Helens Auckland, Bushblades alias Brussplatts, Concliffe, Coatham alias Cottam, Nether Coniscliff,
Cockfield Pethraw, Darlington, Crossgate, Durham, Old and New Elvet Durham, Owengate Durham, Easington, Eggleston, Frosterley, Langley, Nether-Couille, Middleton, Nesham, Shildon, Stockton alias Stockley, Stranton, Kelloe Thorpthewles, Windlestone,
North Auckland, Wardale Hawthorn, Redworth, Thornley Hedleythorpe, Walkerfield, Coundon, all in co. Durham.
Formerly A/29
EDE/B35 1808-1812
Assignment and release, lands at Merrington, co. Durham.
Formerly A/22
EDE/B36 1808-1860
Deeds, abstracts etc., relating to property in Woodhamburn in Great Aycliffe, co. Durham.
Formerly A/3
EDE/B37 1814-1860
Abstract of title, leases and deeds relating to cornmill and land, West Auckland, co. Durham.
Formerly A/14
EDE/B38 1827-1858
Copy of will of Thomas Henderson, legacy receipts, assignments, etc., relating to lands in Lowfield, Cherrington Grance, Merrington and East Merrington, co. Durham.
Formerly A/30
EDE/B39 N.D.
Deeds relating to West Aukland, St. Helen Auckland, North Redburn, Redworth, Preston-upon-Skene, Hamsterly, Windleston, West Brand Elvett St. Oswald, co. Durham.
Marriage settlement of Mr. Eden and Mrs. Catherine Shaftoe, wills, legal
papers.
Formerly A/5
EDE/B40 1831-1860
Deeds relating to copyhold premises at Middridge in the manor of Bondgate in Auckland, co. Durham.
Formerly A/11
EDE/B41 1834-1872
Deeds, mortgages, abstract, requisition, will, etc., relating to property in Coundon, co. Durham.
Formerly A/2
EDE/B42 1848-1916
Deeds etc., relating to lands and premises at Coundon, St. Andrew Auckland, St. Helen Auckland, Bildershaw, Beamish East Moor, Auckland Chilton, Bondgate in Auckland, Evenwood, Merrington, West Auckland, Chester le Street, Evenwood, Merrington
Lane, co. Durham.
Formerly A/24
EDE/B43 1852
2 copies deed of release and assignment, relating to property in Windlestone, West Auckland, St. Helens Auckland, Bishops Auckland, co. Durham; Brignal, Hamsterly, Windleston, West Brand, Elvett St. Oswald, co. York.?
Marriage settlement of
Mr. Eden and Mrs. Catherine Shaftoe, wills, legal papers.
Formerly A/9
EDE/B44 1858-1880
Deeds relating to lands and premises in West Auckland co. Durham.
Formerly A/17
EDE/B45 1868
Conveyance and Abstract of Title relating to land in Merrington, co. Durham.
Formerly A/28
EDE/B46 1875
Lease and counterpart, and letter relating to a piece of land at Leasingthorne. co. Durham, as a site for a Chapel and school.
Formerly A/42
EDE/B47 1875-1876
Lease and papers relating to a piece of land in Leasingthorne, co. Durham.
Formerly A/39
EDE/B48 1877
Conveyance of land in town of Woodham in the parish of Aycliffe, co. Durham.
Formerly A/40
EDE/B49 22 October 1881
Lease of Brewery, West Auckland, co. Durham.
Formerly A/12
EDE/B50 1888, 1920-1928
Leases and surrender of lease, etc., relating to Rook Colliery, Spennymoor, in the parish of Merrington, co. Durham.
Formerly A/43
EDE/B51 1893-1931
Deeds relating to a mine in Windlestone Royalty in Windlestone and Chilton, co. Durham.
Formerly A/48
EDE/B52 1904
Deeds relating to land near Finchale Cottages in Great Aycliffe, co. Durham.
Formerly A/49
EDE/B53 1931-1938
Deeds relating to lands in West Auckland, St. Helen, and Windlestone.
Formerly A/52
Bundle 54Reference: EDE/B54Dates of creation: early 14th century, 1434-1785
Deeds, etc., relating to lands in West Auckland, St. Helen Auckland, Bishop Auckland, Evenwood, Chester, Bondgate in Auckland, Escomb, Coundon, Durham, Thorpe, Gateshead, Wolsingham, Church Merrington, Luttrington, Humberbeck in West Auckland,
Little Nesham in the parish of Winston, Newsham & Kelloe, all in co. Durham;
Newby, Letham, Gargrave and Thornton, Yorks.
Formerly B/14
EDE/B54/1 20 July [1434]
Language: Latin
Grant by William Dalton of Burne to Thomas Dalton of West Auckland (Awkeland) of a waste in West Auckland on Hede Raw at the west end of the vill between the tenements of the bishop of
Durham called Rasch Place to the south and the said William to the north, now held by Nicholas Wedderard and extending from the highway up to a certain close of the said William behind, rendering annually 3s 4d in equal
portions at Pentecost and St Martin, with distraint if the rent is unpaid for 40 days, and the said Thomas is not to fell any trees in the waste without the licence of the said William.
Witnesses: Hugh Forester, William Stoddard, Richard Dalton, William Rakett, Thomas Lax.
Date: West Auckland, 20 July [12] Henry VI.
Parchment, 1m, indented head, wavy with lettering cut through, some damage with a few letters lost
Seal: Blank parchment [sealing] tag through a slit in a turnup
EDE/B54/2 20 February [1435]
Language: Latin
Grant by Thomas Dalton of West Auckland in the bishoprick of Durham to William Dalton of Burne, Yorks, and his wife Alice, of a tenement in West Auckland on the north of the vill between the waste of the bishop of Durham to the east and the
tenement of [blank] Parkynson to the west.
Witnesses: Hugh Forester, William Stoddard, Richard Dalton, William Rakett, Thomas Lax.
Date: West Auckland, 20 February 13 Henry VI.
Parchment, 1m, pattern of arches along part of the head, some staining
Seal: unidentified, on a parchment tag through a slit in a turnup
EDE/B54/3 26 February [1435]
Language: Latin
Appointment by William Dalton of Burne and his wife Alice of Richard Dalton and John Dalton as their attornies to receive seisin of a tenement in West Auckland as detailed in a charter of feoffment of Thomas Dalton.
Date: Burne, 26 February 13 Henry VI.
Parchment, 1m
Seal: 2 [sealing] tongues, with a [wrapping tie] stub below
EDE/B54/4 28 October [1489]
Grant by Robert Dalton of West Auckland esq to Sir Thomas Badyrsby, Ralph Dalton clerk and Christopher Barwick gent of all his lands in Co Durham and Yorkshire to perform his will and thereby to enfeoff his wife Alice of her due third in
Yorkshire for life except for a tenement of 13s 4d farm in Old Malton with which he wishes them to enfeoff Guisborough priory, if it pleases the king, and John Dalton, alias John Laurence the younger, is to have 4 marks annually until he is married,
whereafter he and his wife and heirs are to have an estate from his lands worth 6 marks, and the feoffees are to provide for a chantry chaplain for Robert's soul from his estate in Co Durham for 2 or 3 years, and then this is to go to the said John
with John's mother to receive 26s 8d during her life.
Date: West Auckland, 28 October 5 Henry VII.
Parchment, 1m, indented head, zig-zag
Seal: unidentified, on a parchment tag through 3 slits in a turnup
EDE/B54/5 28 October [1489]
Counterpart to EDE/B54/4.
Parchment, 1m, indented head, zig-zag
Seal: unidentified, on a parchment tag through 3 slits in a turnup
EDE/B54/6 6 April [1492]
Arbitration of Richard Hansard and Robert Tempest esq, appointed by Master Sir John Chyney, between John Lowrance of Pittington and his wife Isabella, sister and heir to Robert Dalton of West Auckland gent, and John Lowrance the younger, alias
John Dalton, and Elizabeth Kelynghall his wife to be, over the lands etc in Yorkshire and Co Durham late of Robert Dalton newly deceased, with both parties bound in £40 to adhere to the award, whereby John Lowrance alias John Dalton and Elizabeth
and the heirs of their bodies are to have all the lands of Robert and to pay to John Lowrance the elder and Isabella an annual rent of 40s in equal portions at St Peter Lammas and the Purification of the BVM, and all the chekerlands of Robert Dalton
in the bishoprick of Durham now held by Alison, Robert Dalton's widow, shall go after her death to Isabella Lawrence, wife of John Lowrance the elder as heir to her brother, for life, with remainder to John Lowrance alias John Dalton.
Date: Durham, 6 April 7 Henry VII.
Parchment, 1m, stained
Seal: residue, on a parchment tag through 3 slits in a turnup
EDE/B54/7 [c.1300]
Language: Latin
Grant by Jordan de Assarta to John son of Walter Coupeman of West Auckland of a toft and croft and a bovate of land in the vill and territory of West Auckland which Ralph of the Chamber formerly held, for a sum of money, to be held of the bishop
of Durham etc, rendering annually a pair of gloves or 1d at Christmas, with warranty against all men and women.
Witnesses: Dom William of St Botulph steward, Ralph of Warsop (Waryshope) sheriff, Geoffrey de ?Henknol, William Pollart, Walter de Loterington, William de Lonysdale, Robert ?Kyche, John of Sockburn (Sokeborne), ?Hugh of Peebles clerk.
Parchment, 1m, stained
Seal: blank parchment [sealing] tag through 3 slits in a turnup
Bundle 55Reference: EDE/B55Dates of creation: 1382, 1608-1687
Deeds relating to West Auckland, co. Durham.
Formerly B/47
EDE/B55/1 [25 May] 1382
Lease by John Auckland to Alexander Coly of a tenement in West Auckland for 20 years, rendering annually 12d in equla portions at Pentecost and St Martin, with payment to begin at Pentecost 1388, with distraint if the rent is unpaid for 40 days,
and with Coly allowed to fell trees growing on the tenement for timber for any building work by view of 2 faithful men without making any waste thereby, and with Auckland not to make any alienation against Coly on pain of 10 marks payabale within a
fortnight.
Date: West Auckland, Pentecost 1382.
Parchment, 1m, indented head, zig-zag, ?aabbccddeeff cut through, some staining
Seal: unidentified, on a tongue reattached by sewing thread, with a wrapping tie below
Bundle 56Reference: EDE/B56Dates of creation: 1456-1773
Deeds relating to lands in St. Helen Auckland.
Formerly B/32
EDE/B56/1 6 January [1456]
Language: Latin
Grant by John of Townend to John Hobson and his wife Emmotta, and Emmotta's heirs of her body, for 8 marks, of a cottage with a garden in Auckland St Helen between his principal messuage on the east and the messuage of the dean of the collegiate
church of Auckland St Andrew on the west.
Witnesses: William Bland, Thomas Bichburn, Richard Hows, William Bettys, John Marsdan of Darlington.
Date: Darlington, 6 January 34 Henry VI.
Parchment, 1m
Seal: blank parchment [sealing] tag recycled from another document
EDE/B56/2 14 March 1462
Language: Latin
Grant by John Townend of Hylton to Emmotta Hobson his sister, wife of John Hobson of Auckland St Helen, of a tenement in the said vill, between the tenements of the dean on the west and formerly John a Lane on the east, where John Hobson now
lives, to Emmotta and her heirs in perpetuity, rendering annually a red rose at the Nativity of St John the Baptist, if asked for.
Wintesses: John Parkinson, Peter Scathlok, Robert Lax.
Date: 14 March 2 Edward IV, 1462.
Parchment, 1m, stained
Seal: unidentified, on a tongue
EDE/B56/3 [2 June] 1471
Language: Latin
Quitclaim by John Aleyn of Bishop Auckland, butcher, to Thomas Poplay arm of his right in all the lands etc formerly of John Townsend in the vill and territory of Auckland St Helen in the bishoprick of Durham.
Date: Pentecost 1471.
Parchment, 1m, gnawed
Seal: unidentified fragment, on a tongue, through 3 slits in a turnup
Bundles 57-80EDE/B57 1544, 1721-1898
Miscellaneous, loose deeds, receipts, etc., relating to West Auckland, Middridge, Middlestone, the Woodham Burn estate in the parish of Aycliffe, and Merrington, co. Durham; also to Maltby, Mowthorpe and Kirby Grindalyth, co. Yorks.
Formerly B/42
EDE/B58 1550, 1610-1705, 1772
Deeds relating to lands in Windleston, co. Durham and Whitfield, co. Northumberland.
Formerly B/5
EDE/B59 1606-1723
Deeds relating to School Aycliffe in the parish of Heighington, the coalmines in Aycliffe, co. Durham;
Quarrington, co. Lincs.;
in Carham and Budle, co. Northumberland;
Parks of Bowbush and Shelley, co. Sussex.
Formerly B/2
EDE/B60 1609/10-1664
Deeds relating to the Prebend of West Auckland and tithes of St. Andrew Auckland, co. Durham.
Formerly B/1
EDE/B61 1611-1790
Deeds relating to land in West Auckland and St. Helen Auckland, co. Durham.
With an undated (? mid 13th century) private deed relating to Evenwood, co. Durham.
Formerly B/13
EDE/B62 1651-1743
Deeds relating to lands in Middridge, Blackwell and Auckland, co. Durham.
Formerly B/3
EDE/B63 1656-1777
Deeds, wills, etc., relating to lands in School Aycliffe in the parish of Heighington, co. Durham, and in Newcastle.
Formerly B/20
EDE/B64 1658-1752
Deeds relating to Windlestone, Haughton, Heighington and South Church, co. Durham.
Formerly B/18
EDE/B65 1661-1788
Deeds relating to an estate in Middridge, and to lands in School Aycliffe and Bishop Middleham, co. Durham.
Formerly B/46
EDE/B66 1668-1753
Deeds relating to the tithes of 4 prebends in respect of lands in Eldon, Windlestone, Middridge and Evenwood.
Formerly B/40
EDE/B67 1668-1820
3 separate bundles of deeds relating to lands in Aycliffe and School Aycliffe, co. Durham.
Also 1 document undated, containing declarations relating to Middridge, co. Durham.
Formerly B/12
EDE/B68 1671-1737
Deeds relating to land in School Aycliffe, co. Durham.
Formerly B/68
EDE/B69 1685-1700
Deeds relating to Diddridge Closes in Heighington, co. Durham.
Formerly B/25
EDE/B70 1685-1730
Deeds and depositions relating to Windlestone Moor, Woodham Moor and Eldon Moor, co. Durham.
Includes deed regarding the division of Windlestone Moor, 9 July 1723.
Formerly B/45
EDE/B71 1698-1796
Marriage settlements and probates relating to lands in Whitfield, Northumberland; Preston on Tees, West Auckland, St. Helen Auckland and East Merrington, co. Durham;
Bishops Hill Newer, Arkendale, Arkendale Lofthouse, Minskip, Hamsthwaite,
Killinghall, Hellaby, and parishes of St. Lawrence and of St. Mary Castlegate, Yorks.
Maltby, Lincs.;
Northbourne, Shoulden, Ripple, Sutton and Tilmanstone, Kent.
Formerly B/9
EDE/B72 1706-1788
Deeds relating to land in Middridge, Darlington, School Aycliffe, Great Aycliffe, Owengate, Heighington, Woodham and Eldon, co. Durham;
Gatherley in Moulton, Yafforth, Guirsby, Lowfields and Rummonby, Yorks.
Formerly B/10
EDE/B73 1708-1837
Deeds relating to an estate called Howlish in Coundon, and also to lands in Newton Gap, Gainsford and Bishop Auckland, co. Durham.
Formerly B/22
EDE/B74 1713-1727
Deeds relating to lands in School Aycliffe and in Headlam, Ingleton, and Gainford, co. Durham;
also in Middleton Tyas, Yorks.
Formerly B/48
EDE/B75 1716-1740
Deeds relating to Dean and Chapter Close in Great Aycliffe, co. Durham.
Formerly B/41
EDE/B76 1718/19-1849
2 copies of earlier wills, copied in 1884.
Deeds, wills, etc., relating to lands in Owengate, Middridge, Bishop Middleham, School Aycliffe, Great Aycliffe, Heighington, Woodham and Eldon, co. Durham;
Natland, Westmorland;
Berrington,
Hereford;
Cathill in Tandridge, Surrey;
King St. in the parish of St. James, Westminster;
Coring, Oxon;
Chamber in Lincoln's Inn.
Formerly B/7
EDE/B77 1723-1767
Deeds, receipts etc., relating to copyhold lands in Middridge, co. Durham.
Formerly B/39
EDE/B78 1727-1804
Deeds, lawyers' opinions, wills, plan, etc., relating to lands in Hamsterly, Bishop Auckland and Bildershaw in West Auckland.
Formerly B/36
EDE/B79 1732-1774
Copies of wills, bonds and deeds relating to Middridge, co. Durham.
Formerly B/11
EDE/B80 1732-1936
Loose unrelated deeds relating to lands in Great Aycliffe, Heighington, Middridge, coal mines in Chilton and Windlestone, lands in Bondgate in Auckland, Spennymoor, Brandon and West Brandon in Brancepeth, Bishop Auckland, Evenwood, West Auckland,
Crosgate, Framwelgate, Preston on Tees in Stockton and Norton, co. Durham;
Bishops Hill Newer, Yorks, and York;
Northbourne, Shoulden, Ripple, Sutton, Deal, Tillmanstone, Great and Little Mougham and Stonebridge, Kent.
Formerly B/27
Bundle 81Reference: EDE/B81Dates of creation: 1761
Formerly B/58
EDE/B81/
Lease of a house and lands at the Watercrook in Natland, Westmorland.
EDE/B81/ 1809
Schedule of goods of Mrs. Elizabeth Halliman, sold by auction.
EDE/B81/ 1889
Lease of mines and quarries in the manor of Bondgate in Auckland, co. Durham.
EDE/B81/ 1901
Conveyance of the Wheat Sheaf Inn at West Auckland, co. Durham.
EDE/B81/ 1910
Release of restrictions relating to mining at Chilton, co. Durham.
EDE/B81/ 1936
2 letters relating to the Windlestone Estate, co. Durham.
Not held here: returned to owner.
EDE/B81/ 1941
Vesting deed and conveyance relating to minerals in Great Aycliffe, co. Durham.
Bundles 82-111EDE/B82 1763-1779
Deeds relating to lands in Evenwood, and West Auckland.
Formerly B/23
EDE/B83 1764-1775
Deeds etc., relating to a house at Annapolis, Maryland, U.S.A., and to lands in Billingham, co. Durham.
Formerly B/34
EDE/B84 1774, 1843
Deeds relating to lands in Middridge, co. Durham.
Formerly B/30
EDE/B85 c.1785
5 notebooks containing copies of:
[1] will (2 copies)
[2] marriage settlement
[3] account of the property
[4] field book
of Nicholas Halhead.
The lands referred to are in Natland, Westmorland;
Middridge, School Aycliffe, Heighington, Woodham, Eldon, Bishop Middleham, St. Mary N. Bailey, Durham, Owengate, Durham, in co. Durham.
Formerly B/44
EDE/B86 1794-1863
Deeds, etc., relating to lands in Middlestone, Merrington, Cockfield, Binchester, Newton Oak, Brancepeth, Willington, co. Durham;
Includes draft or copy of Middlestone tithe apportionment and plan, 1843.
Holmdon, Northants.
Formerly B/19
EDE/B87 1796-1836
Deeds relating to lands in Bishops Hill Newer, Yorks.
Northbourne, Kent;
Hawkswick Oldcoates, Coniston, Arnscliffe, Burnsall, Litton and Kirbymalhamsdale, Yorks.
Formerly B/29
EDE/B88 1801-1862
Deeds, death certificates, etc., relating to lands in West Auckland and Evenwood, co. Durham.
Formerly B/35
EDE/B89 1813-1859
Letters and deeds relating to coalmines in West Auckland and St. Helen Auckland, co. Durham.
Formerly B/33
EDE/B90 1836
Printed conditions of sale of 2 coalfields, one in Westerton, Middlestone and Merrington, the second in Leasing Thorne, co. Durham.
Also of the manor and houses in Chilton, co. Durham.
Formerly B/56
EDE/B91 1841-1870
Deeds and receipts relating to lands in Middlestone and Merrington, co. Durham.
Formerly B/21
EDE/B92 1843-1855
Deeds relating to the Blackburn Fell Colliery in the parish of Chester le Street, co. Durham.
Formerly B/38
EDE/B93 1847, 1860
2 deeds relating to the limestone quarries in Middridge and Middridge Moor, co. Durham.
Formerly B/38
EDE/B94 1853
A conveyance of tithes arising from lands in Middridge and Coundon, co. Durham.
Formerly B/54
EDE/B95 1858-1859
2 conveyances relating to lands in Middridge, co. Durham.
Formerly B/26
EDE/B96 1860
Deeds relating to land in West Auckland, co. Durham.
Formerly B/16
EDE/B97 1866
Deeds relating to various pieces of land in West Auckland, Evenwood and Bondgate in Bishop Auckland, co. Durham.
Formerly B/49
EDE/B98 1870-1872
Deeds relating to lands in Middlestone, co. Durham.
Formerly B/31
EDE/B99 1873-1915
Typed inventory, valuations for estate duty of the contents of Windlestone Hall, co. Durham.
Formerly B/55
Not held here: returned to owner
EDE/B100 1877
1 conveyance relating to the Chilton Grange Estate, Chilton, co. Durham.
Formerly B/17
EDE/B101 1877
Agreement and letters relating to the schooner "Constance".
Formerly B/43
EDE/B102 1877-1899
Deeds relating to lands in Great Aycliffe and Aycliffe, co. Durham.
Formerly B/4
EDE/B103 1879-1891
Deeds relating to lands in Great Aycliffe and Aycliffe, co. Durham.
Formerly B/4
EDE/B104 1879, 1899
Deeds relating to lands in West Auckland and Windlestone, co. Durham.
Formerly B/52
EDE/B105 1880-1899
Deeds relating to lands in West Auckland and Windlestone, co. Durham.
Formerly B/50
EDE/B106 1881
1 lease relating to the coalmines and lands in Chilton and Windlestone, co. Durham.
EDE/B107 1884, 1904
2 deeds relating to the granting of a right of way at Spennymoor, co. Durham.
Formerly B/57
EDE/B108 1887-1891
Deeds relating to Beamish East Moor, Co. Durham.
Formerly B/53
EDE/B109 1889-1938
Deeds relating to the coalmines at West Auckland, Merrington, Leasingthorne nr. Bishop Auckland, Chilton, Windlestone and Middridge, co. Durham.
Formerly B/15
EDE/B110 1903-1915
Conveyance and abstract of title relating to lands at Merrington, co. Durham.
Formerly B/6
EDE/B111 1906
1 deed relating to the erection of electricity poles in Merrington, Middlestone and Windlestone, co. Durham.
Formerly B/37
Eden Family papers span eight generations of the Eden family. Papers include correspondence, diaries, legal and political papers. The papers cover many members of the family and their professional affairs in Britain as well as their various
postings overseas, with particularly extensive holdings relating to the Maryland property of
(6th
Baronet, of West Auckland, and 4th Baronet, of Maryland).
, although estate or household items more closely associated with particular family members are included within this section.
Some of the family papers are only sparsely listed, notably papers of Timothy Calvert Eden (8th/6th Baronet) and Nicholas Eden (2nd Earl of Avon), and pocket diaries of General William Thomas Eden and William Eden (6th/4th Baronet). These and
other sections of this catalogue will be expanded in due course.
EDE/C includes items from a number of different donations, all made by Lord Eden of Winton, viz:
The internal version of the catalogue specifies which items were acquired in 2018 or 2019, with the remainder being part of the August 2017 donation.
Note that an earlier version of this list included the following additional references, for items which are now catalogued elsewhere under EDE/C or EDE/D references. If you have noted any of these references, please check the current catalogue or
get in touch to confirm the current reference for the item.
Additionally, reference EDE/C29 is not used.
Papers of individual members of the Eden family are listed under their respective branch, alongside papers of their spouses and spouses' families, in approximate chronological order.
General records of Windlestone Hall and other Eden property, excluding deeds and leases (listed at
Other estate items are included within the family papers listed under EDE/C, notably:
See also survey and plan of West Auckland estates, ca.1760, at
