Reference code: GB-0033-DCD-Cart.1
Title: Durham Cathedral Archive: Cartulary I
Dates of creation: ca. 1400
Extent: x + 256 ff. (medieval foliation 1-249, wants 164-175)
Held by: Durham University Library, Archives and Special Collections
Origination: Durham Priory
Language:
Latin
Cartulary copies of charters etc. mainly papal, royal, episcopal etc. issues, with some later additions:
f.ir-42r Papal documents
f.42v-67r Royal documents
f.67v-124v Documents of the bishops of Durham
f.128r-137v Documents concerning the archdeacons of Durham
f.138r-147v Documents concerning the archdeacons of Northumberland
f.148r-152v Other documents
f.153r-161v Documents concerning the prior of Durham's archdeaconry
f.162r-163r Other documents
f.176r-186r Documents of the archbishops and chapter of York
f.186r-191v Evidences for the prior's temporal court
f.192r-197r Other documents
f.201r-247*v Private deeds concerning property
f.248r-249r Other documents
Placed in the University's care by the Dean and Chapter of Durham in 1948.
Permission to make any published use of material from the collection must be sought in advance from Durham Cathedral Library (library@durhamcathedral.co.uk). The Library will assist where possible with identifying copyright owners, but
responsibility for ensuring copyright clearance rests with the user of the material.
Digitised version available online
A negative microfilm is available at PGFilm 104
R. Surtees,
The History and Antiquities of the County Palatine of Durham i (1816)
f.ir-67r
Papal and royal documents
f.i-iii
Paper leaves, blank [modern]
f.iv
Paper stub, with earlier paper inset, blank
f.v
Paper stub, with paper backing, blank
f.v r [16th century]
List of indexes (i.e. contents-lists) in Cart.I
Digitised version f.vi r
Added on blank: {reference to f.148
r-v, 53
v, 59
r and 61
r below}
Digitised version f.vi v
Paper backing, blank
f.vii
Paper leaf with paper backing, blank
f.viii r 1824
Added: {note that the volume was produced in the Exchequer at the examination of witnesses in the case of James Miller, clerk v. Thomas Jackson and others, 11 Oct. 1824.}
Digitised version f.viii v [14th/15th century]
Added on blank: {note concerning a discussion of “obvenciones” in the Apparatus to the
Constitutiones of John [XXII] by Gescelinus de Tassanis}
Digitised version 1.1.Pap.12 f.2r
Cartulary copy, as
Cart.Vet. f.13r-v., with minor emendations. Added in lower margin: {sketch of rota, with note of papal subscription}. See also Misc.Ch. 7177, f.27r-v
Digitised version 1.1.Pap.14 f.3r-v
Cartulary copy, as
Cart.Vet. ff.15r-16v., with minor emendations. Added in lower margin, f.3v: {sketch of rota, with note of subscriptions of pope and 3 cardinals}.
Digitised version 1.1.Pap.18 f.3v-5r
Cartulary copy, as
Cart.Vet. ff.24r-26v., with emendations, mostly minor. Interlined, f.4r: {"the church of that vill (i.e. Pittington) and the other Pittington; 3 bovates of land in
Stainton}; added in lower margin, f.4v: {note of subscriptions}; interlined at end, f. 5r: {"Tours, by the hand of Herman, subdeacon of the Roman church and notary, 15 Oct. 1162"}.
Digitised version 1.1.Pap.1 f.7r-8v
Cartulary copy, as
Cart.Vet. ff.28v-31r., with emendations, mostly minor. Added in margin, f.8r: {"in Normanton the church and 5 carucates of land with meadow and 2 mills; in [Sutton]
Bonnington 5 bovates of land}; added in lower margin, f.8v: {date in full}.
Digitised version 3.1.Pap.1 f.8v-9r
Cartulary copy, as
Cart.Vet.ff.31r-33v., abbreviated, with minor emendations. Interlined at end: {Lateran, by the hand of Blaise, subdeacon of the Roman church and notary, 17 Mar.
1201}.
Digitised version 2.1.Pap.8 f.9v 10 March 1227
Cartulary copy of 2.1.Pap.8.
Confirmation by Honorius [III], pope, to the prior and convent of Durham, of the liberties and immunities from secular exactions, and of the lands, revenues, possessions and other goods granted to their church by
William I, king of England, and others.
Dated: Lateran
Digitised version 2.1.Pap.13 f.10v-11r 2 March 1227
Cartulary copy of 2.1.Pap.13.
Confirmation by Honorius [III], pope, to the prior and convent of Durham, of the liberties granted to their churches in the province of York by Thomas, archbishop of York, and later approved by Thurstan and
Roger, archbishops of York, his successors.
Dated: Lateran
Digitised version 2.1.Pap.31 f.11r 21 November 1239
Cartulary copy of 2.1.Pap.31.
Confirmation by Gregory [IX], pope, to the prior and convent of Durham, of the ancient and reasonable customs, liberties and immunities granted by previous popes and by kings, princes and others.
Dated: Lateran
Digitised version 2.1.Pap.39 f.11v-12v 11 February 1230
Cartulary copy of 2.1.Pap.39.
Confirmation by Gregory [IX], pope, to the prior and convent of Durham, of the composition (“Le Convenit”) between them and Richard [Poore], bishop of Durham, here exemplified:
as
1.4.Pont.2a..
Dated: Perugia
Digitised version 3.1.Pap.20 f.12v 29 January 1254
Cartulary copy of 3.1.Pap.20.
Confirmation by Innocent [IV], pope, to the prior and convent of Durham of the ancient and reasonable customs, liberties and immunities granted by previous popes, and of the liberties and immunities from secular
exactions granted by kings, princes and others.
Dated: Lateran
Digitised version 3.1.Pap.30 f.12v-13v 3 November 1253
Cartulary copy of 3.1.Pap.30.
Mandate by Innocent [IV], pope, to the prior and convent of Durham, reciting: Statute by Innocent [IV], pope, to all patrons of benefices, clerics and laymen, that henceforth all
ecclesiastical benefices shall be served by persons duly collated, elected or presented and confirmed, with protection for those already holding or expecting benefices under the terms of provisions, and exception of bishoprics, abbacies and other
regular dignities and ordering them to execute this.
Dated: Lateran
Digitised version 3.1.Pap.29 f.13v-14v 27 February 1254
Indult by Innocent [IV], pope, to the prior of the monastery of Durham, OSB, that he and his successors may grant to monks of the house and its cells dispensation from those statutes and precepts not of the substance of the Rule, and that they
shall also have the power in such matters to dispense from punishments and to absolve from any interdict, suspension or excommunication incurred in such matters, with the imposition of a suitable penance; they may also grant such powers to the
subprior and his successors.
Dated: Lateran
Digitised version 3.1.Pap.28 f.14r-v 27 February 1253
Mandate by Innocent [IV], pope, to the abbots of [St Mary's] York and Selby, to act as conservators of the powers granted to the prior of Durham, OSB, as in preceding item [3.1.Pap.29].
Dated: Lateran
Digitised version 3.1.Pap.21 f.14v 28 February 1254
Statute by Innocent [IV], pope, limiting to 4 marks the procurations which archbishops, bishops, archdeacons and other prelates may demand when visiting in person, with adjustments permitted according to the dignity of the prelate and the wealth
of the place and with provision for restitution in the case of excessive exactions.
Dated: Lateran
Digitised version 3.1.Pap.27 f.15r 12 August 1245
Confirmation by Innocent [IV], pope, to the prior and convent of Durham of the composition between them and Richard [Poore], late bishop of Durham, concerning temporal jurisdiction, commonly called “pleas of the crown”.
Dated: Lyons
Digitised version 4.1.Pap.7 f.15r-16v
Cartulary copy, as
Cart.Vet. ff.16v-18v., with emendations, mostly minor. Added in margin, f.15v: {"Hesledon, [Monk]wearmouth with the church of that vill}; interlined, f.16r: {"with
the archdeacons"}; interlined at end: {notes of subscriptions and date}.
Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, muniment drawer 31, no.88
Digitised version 4.1.Pap.24 f.17r 4 October 1256
Confirmation by Alexander [IV], pope, to the prior and convent of Durham, of the vicarages taxed in the churches of Aycliffe, Pittington, Norham and Bywell [St Peter], with fit portions assigned to the vicars, by Richard Marsh, Richard Poore,
Nicholas [of Farnham] and others formerly bishops of Durham.
Dated: Anagni
Digitised version 1.2.Pap.4 f.17r 4 May 1263
Indult by Urban [IV], pope, to the prior and convent of Durham, that in the time of a general interdict they may celebrate the divine office, behind closed doors, in low voices, without ringing bells, and having excluded all those under interdict
or excommunicate, provided that the house is not under a particular interdict.
Dated: Orvieto
Digitised version 3.2.Pap.8 f.17v-18v 23 July [1302]. Added erroneously:
{1304}
Decree
Debent by Boniface [VIII], pope, that the custom of single visitation claimed by the prior and chapter of Durham against A[ntony Bek], bishop of Durham, is contrary to the common good and unreasonable, as it
tends to restrict discovery of the truth; that it had been decreed by a general council that a notary or two suitable persons should be present to record proceedings; that monks are debarred by their profession from appearing in any legal actions
except cases of heresy nor are they suitable persons to act as notaries in the matter of correcting their own faults: that it detractsfrom the bishop's dignity to visit alone persons who are possibly suspect; that in order to prevent the bishop from
becoming oppressive, he must visit henceforth accompanied by two or three clerks of whom at least one must be a member of the Benedictine order, and by one notary, any custom or agreement to the contrary notwithstanding.
Dated: Anagni
Digitised version 4.2.Pap.9 f.18v 9 July 1281
Confirmation by Martin [IV], pope, to the prior and convent of Durham, of all liberties and immunities granted to them by previous popes, in privileges and other indulgences, and of the liberties and exemptions from secular exactions granted by
kings, princes and others.
Dated: Orvieto
Digitised version 1.2.Pap.14 f.18v 27 June 1364
Confirmation by Urban [V], pope, to the prior and convent of Durham, of all liberties and immunities granted to them by previous popes, in privileges and other indulgences and of the liberties and exemptions from secular exactions granted by
kings, princes and others.
Dated: Avignon
Digitised version 1.2.Pap.18 f.18v-19r 21 July 1379
Indult by Urban [VI], pope, to Robert [Walworth], prior and the chapter of Durham, that the prior and his successors may use the mitre, pastoral staff, ring, sandals and other pontificals, as and when any other priors of the Benedictine order in
English cathedrals do so, the constitution "Abbates" of Alexander IV, pope, and other papal constitutions notwith-standing.
Dated: Rome, St Peter's
Digitised version 3.2.Pap.20 f.19r 3 July 1393
Confirmation by Boniface [IX], pope, to the prior and chapter of Durham, of all liberties and immunities granted to them by previous popes, in privileges and other indulgences, and of the liberties and immunities from secular exactions granted by
kings, princes and others.
Dated: Perugia
Digitised version 3.2.Pap.14 f.19r-20r 20 April 1397
Decree by Boniface [IX], pope, that the death of Thomas [of Hatfield], bishop of Durham, has frustrated the bishop's plan, as explained by the prior and convent of Durham to Urban VI, late pope, for the foundation of a college at Oxford for 16
persons, of whom 8 would be monks of Durham and 8 secular clerks, all selected by the prior and chapter, who would study theology and arts; that Richard [II], king of England, being anxious that this plan should be fulfilled, granted the patronage
of the churches of Frampton, Bossall, Ruddington and Fishlake, in the dioceses of Lincoln and York, which belonged to the crown, for the endowment of the college; that Urban VI had granted, by mandate to the late bishop of Durham that these churches
might be appropriated to the college, which has taken place; that the prior and chapter of Durham have since deputed one of the 8 monks living at the college as prior there; that the archbishop of York and the bishop of Lincoln shall no longer
require the prior of the college to appear in person at their synods, on the occasion of visitations or convocations, but that he may send proctors in his place.
Added in margin: {note that this bull is kept in Oxford, with the foundation document of Durham College}
Dated: Rome, St Peter's
Identified as 3.2.Pap.14 at the time of the compilation of the Repertorium Magnum. It is the bull exemplified in the notarial instrument now at this number, formerly Loc.XXIV:78
Digitised version 3.2.Pap.12 f.20r 12 November 1396}
Added: {Indult by Boniface [IX}, pope, to the prior and chapter of Durham, that each monk's chosen confessor may grant him full remission on his death-bed of all sins of which he has repented and confessed, but that if the confessor has enjoined
him to make satisfaction, this must be performed; that if confidence of such remission leads to the commission of more sins, such remission should be granted.
Dated: Rome, St Peter's
Digitised version 2.2.Pap.10 f.20r-v 28 July 1414
Mandate by John [XXIII], pope, to the abbot of St Mary's York, in response to a petition from the prior and chapter of Durham, that he should summon appropriate persons and inspect personally the letters, privileges, muniments and instruments of
the prior and chapter, and, if these should seem to be genuine, to arrange for them to be transcribed in public instruments which shall have the same force at law as the originals.
Dated: Bologna
Digitised version 2.2.Pap.9 f.20v 28 July 1414
Indult by John [XXIII], pope, to the prior and chapter of Durham, that the prior and his successors may grant to monks of their church who attain their twenty-second year of age and who have no other canonical defects, licence to be promoted to
the priesthood.
Dated: Bologna
Also in DCD Reg.Parv.II, f.65v-66r and Loc.III:21.
Digitised version f.20v
Memorandum that at the General Council at Pisa, 1409, a bull (reference to bull of Alexander V: 4.1.Pap.27 ?) sought concerning full death-bed remission of sins for all monks then in Durham, the junior monk being Richard Fowne.
Digitised version 1.8.Pont.11 ? f.21r [1390s]
Declaration by Boniface [IX], pope, in response to a request from Walter [of Skirlaw], bishop of Durham, and in consideration of the terms of a bull of Boniface VIII, formerly pope, that at his visitation of the prior and chapter of Durham the
bishop of Durham may be accompanied by a monk of that chapter or of any other house of the [Benedictine] order.
Added in margin: {note that the bishop holds this bull 3 May 1396}
Rome, St Peter's
1.8.Pont.10 ? f.21v-22r 20 April 1397
Declaration by Boniface [IX], pope, revoking the preceding declaration, in response to objections by the prior and chapter of Durham that it is unreasonable to change practices which have acquired a time-honoured interpretation, and stating that
accordingly the bishop of Durham shall visit the community accompanied only by a member of that chapter and of no other monastic house.
Dated: Rome, St Peter's
Digitised version 2.2.Pap.8 f.22r-27r 7 December 1412
Declaration by John [XXIII], pope, in response to a petition by the prior and chapter of Durham, confirming the final sentence of the commissary of Henry [Bowet], archbishop of York, in a case between the archbishop and the prior and chapter
concerning their title to certain churches in the diocese of York appropriated to Durham priory and Durham College Oxford, and further confirming that this sentence shall have full legal force in any future disputes, so that the prior and chapter
need not produce their original deeds, which may be harmed by repeated travelling, and reciting in full the final sentence in the archbishop's court at York (ff.23r-27r: 3.2.Archiep.1, omitting the last 2 notarial eschatocols).
Dated: Rome, St Peter's
Digitised version 1.2.Pap.17 f.27r-28r 6 November 1385
Mandate by Urban [VI], pope, to [John Fordham], bishop of Durham, to expedite the appropriation of the churches of Frampton, Bossall, Ruddington and Fishlake, in the dioceses of Lincoln and York, to Durham College Oxford, and to the use of the 16
persons studying there in accordance with the plan of Thomas [Hatfield], late bishop of Durham, the patronage of these churches having been granted by Richard [II], king of England, to the monks of Durham for the endowment of the college.
Added in margin, f.27r: {note that this bull is kept in Oxford, with the foundation document of Durham College}
Dated: Genoa
Another copy in: DCD 2.5.Ebor.3a.
3.2.Pap.10 f.28r-29r 1 April 1404
Declaration by Boniface [IX], pope, in response to a petition by the prior and convent of Durham, that the mandate of Urban VI, the preceding item, and subsequent documentation in the matter of the appropriation of the churches of Frampton,
Bossall, Ruddington and Fishlake to Durham College Oxford, shall have full legal force, certain errors in wording notwithstanding; confirmation of the foundation and appropriations.
Dated: Rome, St Peter's
Digitised version f.29v-30r 30 January 1408
Notarial instrument by Thomas of Ryhall: transumpt of the preceding item, abbreviated.
Marginal note that the bull sent to Oxford.
Dated: Durham
Digitised version 3.2.Pap.18 f.30r-v
Cartulary copy, as
3.2.Pap.18., first item.
Identified as 3.2.Pap.18 at the time of the compilation of the Repertorium Magnum. The notarial exemplification now at this number formerly Loc.XXIV:29
Digitised version 2.1.Pap.2 f.30v 8 April (1186 x 1187)}
Added: {Indult by Urban [III], pope, to Hugh [of le Puiset], bishop of Durham, that no case concerning the inhabitants of his bishopric shall be committed to judges outside the province of York.
Dated: Verona
4.2.Pap.12 f.31r 25 September 1419
Confirmation by Martin [V], pope, to the prior and chapter of Durham, of an indult of Urban VI, late pope, to the prior of Durham to use the mitre, pastoral staff, ring, sandals and other pontificals as and when other priors of the [Benedictine]
order in English cathedrals use them.
Dated: Florence
Digitised version 3.1.Pap.3 f.31r-v [1199]
Added: {Confirmation by Innocent [III], pope, to the prior and convent of Durham, of the liberties, immunities and approved customs, in courts and other matters, granted to them by William [of St Calais] and Hugh [of le Puiset], formerly bishops
of Durham, 22 May 1214}.
Dated: Lateran
Digitised version 3.1.Pap.3 f.31v 6 April 1199
Confirmation by Innocent [III], pope, to the prior and convent of Durham, of the liberties, ancient immunities and reasonable customs granted to them by previous popes and bishops of Durham.
Dated: Lateran
Digitised version 2.1.Pap.41 f.31v-32v 11 January 1228
Confirmation by Gregory [IX], pope, to all archbishops, bishops and other prelates throughout England of: Confirmation by Innocent [III], pope, of: Grant by John, king of
England, of free election of prelates in the churches and monasteries of England, royal licence to elect being sought before the election and royal assent after.
London 15 January 1215 Lateran 30 March 1215 Dated: Lateran
Digitised version 4.1.Pap.23 f.33r 4 October 1256
Indult by Alexander [IV], pope, to the prior and convent of Durham that henceforth they will not be bound to receive or to provide a pension for anyone bearing letters [of provision] of the pope or papal legates, unless such letters mention this
indult specifically.
Dated: Anagni
3.2.Pap.1 f.34v-35v 30 November 1301
Mandate by Boniface [VIII], pope, to [Thomas of Corbridge], archbishop of York, [ ], bishop of Teano and [John of Halton], bishop of Carlisle, to restore Richard [of Hoton] to corporal possession of the priorate of Durham, of which he had been
deprived for defiance in the matter of the visitation of the priory by the commissaries of Antony [Bek], bishop of Durham, and to which the same had appointed, uncanonically, Henry of Lusby, monk of Durham, which appointment is hereby annulled.
Dated: Lateran
Digitised version 1.2.Pap.23 f.35v-36r 25 October 1305
Revocation by Clement [V], pope, of his earlier removal of Richard of Hoton, prior of Durham, from the administration in temporals and spirituals of the church of Durham and the committee of that administration to Antony [Bek], patriarch of
Jerusalem and bishop of Durham; restoration to Hoton of full powers of administration.
Dated: ? near Bordeaux
Digitised version 1.2.Pap.16 f.36v 5 January 1368
Mandate of Urban [V], pope, to the abbot of Newminster, dioc. Durham, to warn all those concealing and withholding tithes, revenues, customs, bequests, lands, houses, meadows, groves, draught-beasts, lambs, fisheries, rights and jurisdiction
belonging to the prior and convent of Holy Island, to reveal and restore the same within a suitable term and, if they fail to do so, to pronounce sentence of general excommunication upon them.
Dated: Rome, St Peter's
Digitised version f.38
Folio missing
4.1.Pap.6 f.39v-40r 14 May 1406
Mandate by Innocent [VII], pope, to the chapter of Durham, to admit as their bishop Thomas [Langley], formerly dean of York, whom the pope has provided to the see of Durham, vacant by the death of Walter [of Skirlaw], late bishop, and to show him
obedience and due reverence.
Dated: Rome, St Peter's
Digitised version 3.1.Pap.10 f.40r 24 March 1199
Added: {Mandate by Innocent [III], pope, to the dean, precentor and treasurer of York, to warn those harassing the prior and convent of Durham, who are exempted by papal indult from all exactions, aids, hospitality and other impositions of
bishops, archdeacons and their officials, to desist and to make due satisfaction and, should they fail to do so, to compel them by ecclesiastical censure, 24 March 1199}.
Dated: Lateran
Digitised version 2.2.Pap.11 f.40r 17 December 1411
Declaration by John [XXIII], pope, that the warden and scholars of Durham College Oxford may henceforth bury members of the college who die there in their chapel, dedicated to St Cuthbert, or in the ante-chapel (
in
vestibulo), a right which they have not enjoyed hitherto.
Dated: Added: {Rome, St Peter's 17 December 1411}
Digitised version f.40v 15 December [1153]
Added: {Indulgence of Anastasius [IV], pope, to all visiting the church of St Cuthbert and making offerings towards the support of the monks there, of forty days. 15 December [1153]}
Added in margin: {note that the original is held by the feretrar}
Dated: Lateran
Digitised version 1.3.Pap.7 f.41v 21 March 1438
Indult by Eugenius [IV], pope, to the prior and monks of Durham, that each monk's chosen confessor may grant him full remission on his death-bed of all sins which he has repented and has confessed, but that if the confessor has already enjoined
him to make satisfaction, this must be performed; that if confidence of such remission leads to the commission of more sins, no such remission should be granted; that for one year from the receipt of this indult they must fast weekly on Fridays or,
if they are already bound to fast then by precept of the church, by their Rule or by penance or vow, then on some other day weekly, and that if they cannot complete this in one year they must do so in the next; that if they cannot fulfil such fast,
their confessor must substitute other works of piety, or this indult will be void.
Interlined at end: {note that this bull obtained by John Wessington, prior [of Durham]}
Dated: Ferrara
Digitised version 1.3.Pap.1 f.41v-42r 27 February 1440
Declaration by Eugenius [IV], pope, that the prior and subprior of Durham and their successors shall have power to grant dispensations, the prior to all monks of the church and its cells, the subprior to the prior, for all additional statutes,
mandates and punishments not of the substance of the Rule, and similarly to absolve from all sentences of excommunication incurred in such matters and to enjoin a suitable penance and to grant dispensations to any who have incurred such sentences by
celebrating or attending masses celebrated not on contempt of the keys, the constitutions of the legates Otto and Ottobuono and of provincial councils and synods on all these matters notwithstanding.
Added at end: {note that this bull obtained by John Wessington, prior [of Durham]}
Dated: Florence
Digitised version f.43
Folio missing
f.44v [mid 15th century]
{Explanation of Old English terms relating to tenures, beg. "Soke, Hoc est secta de hominibus vestris ..."}
Digitised version f.44v [mid 15th century]
{Explanation of types of fee, beg. "Feoda firma quando homo tenet de aliquo ..."}
Digitised version 1.1.Reg.2b f.45v
Cartulary copy of
1.1.Reg.2b.: omitting all but first 2 signa. Added in upper margin: {note that one copy of this charter is kept at Stamford}
Digitised version 2.1.Reg.1 f.46r-v
Cartulary copy of
2.1.Reg.1. : omitting all signa, but added: {note concerning signa}. Added in margin: {reference to f.53r below}
Digitised version 3.1.Reg.3 f.50r
Notification by Henry [II], king of England, to his justices, sheriffs and other ministers of Northumberland and Yorkshire, that with the licence of the bishop of Durham he is sending his justices into the liberty of St Cuthbert on this occasion,
that justice may be done in accordance with the assize of thieves, murderers and robbers (i.e. the assize of Clarendon), but that this is not to set a precedent.
Witnesses: Geoffrey, archbishop of 'Canterbury' (error for ' York'); Richard [of Ilchester], archdeacon of Poitiers; Earl Geoffrey; Richard de Lucy.
Dated: Woodstock
Digitised version 2.3.Reg.2 f.56v
Added in lower margin: {note that the first charter of confirmation issued by E[dward] III, king of England, is missing at this point}.
Digitised version f.57v-58r 22 March 1381
Cartulary copy of
3.4.Reg.6., beginning and end only. The original is damaged at the end; the cartulary supplies the lacuna partially: Inspeximus by Richard [II],
king of England, with the consent of his council, confirming all the charters and letters herein recited, the statute of mortmain and any forfeitures made in consequence thereof notwithstanding, and despite any non-user hitherto, certain specified
clauses excepted.
Witnesses: S[imon of Sudbury], archbishop of Canterbury, primate of all England, chancellor; W[illiam Courtenay], bishop of London; W[illiam of Wykeham], bishop of Winchester; T[homas Brantingham], bishop of Exeter;
J[ohn of Gaunt], king of Castille and Leon, duke of Lancaster; Edmund [of Langley], earl of Cambridge; Thomas earl Warenne; William of Ufford, earl of Suffolk; Robert [Hales], prior of the hospital of St John of Jerusalem in England, treasurer;
Aubrey de Vere, chamberlain; Hugh Segrave, steward of the household; John of Fordham, keeper of the privy seal.
Dated: Westminster
Digitised version 3.4.Reg.6 f.58r-v
Abstract of charters (the second of "two long charters": see Repertorium Magnum) contained in inspeximus by Richard [II], king of England, to the prior and chapter of Durham, confirming: Licence by Edward III,
king of England, to appropriate the church of Hemingborough. 2.3.Reg.5Licence by Edward III, king of England, to
appropriate the church of Brantingham. 1.4.Reg.9Licence by Edward III, king of England, to appropriate the church
of Appleby. 1.3.Reg.11Confirmation by Edmund Langley, earl of Cambridge, of charters of liberties pertaining to
the cell of Stamford. 1.4.Ebor.1The "principal charter" by William [of St Calais], bishop of Durham, concerning
spiritual privileges and temporal liberties. ?1.1.Pont.1Licences by Richard [of Bury] and Thomas [of Hatfield],
bishops of Durham to acquire in mortmain lands from various donors in the vills of Wolviston, Billingham, Great Burdon, Aycliffe, Ferryhill, Monk Hesledon, Edmondbyers, Durham, Hett, Hebburn, Spennymoor, Relley, Aldin Grange, Elvet and the Old
Borough, Durham. As Cart.II, ff.288r-289r: 3.9.Pont.13Licence by Thomas [Hatfield], bishop of Durham, to acquire in
mortmain from John of Bamburgh lands which he had by grant of various persons, to the value of 100 marks, for lights and a chantry at the altar of SS Nicholas and Giles. 3.9.Pont.10Renewed grant of £40 from the royal exchequer at Berwick, although this formerly annulled. 2.3.Reg.7Exchange with John of Bellasis of Henknowl for lands and tenements in Wolviston. 2.3.Pont.14Indenture between the prior of Durham and John of Bellasis concerning the conditions of the preceding exchange. 2.10.Spec.4
Digitised version 3.3.Reg.6 f.58v 22 March 1381
Inspeximus (as preceding item on f.58r) by Richard [II], king of England, confirming letters patent by Edward [III], king of England, etc., the statute of mortmain and any forfeitures made in consequence thereof notwithstanding.
Dated: Westminster
Digitised version f.58v
Added in lower margin: {reference to: (i) ff.192r-194r below (given as "192"); (ii) f.194r below}
Digitised version 2.4.Reg.3 f.59r 18 February 1386
Confirmation by Richard [II], king of England, of the liberties granted to the prior and convent of Durham by his predecessors, kings of England, namely that they shall be free of tolls and transport dues in all places, and that they shall have
their free court with sac and soc, tol and team and infangenethef and wreck, wherever they hold lands in England, and that they shall be free of all forest dues, pannage, hundreds, ridings and wapentakes and all other royal customs; they are to
enjoy these liberties despite any non-user hitherto, according to this confirmation.
Dated: Westminster
Digitised version f.60
Folio missing
f.64-66
Folios now missing.
f.67v-163r
Documents of the bishops of Durham and the archdeaconries
f.70r-71r
Cartulary copy of
1.1.Pont.2a., omitting 28 witnesses.
Added in margin, f.70r: {reference to 1.1.Pont.2b and to a third copy, unidentified}
Digitised version f.71r
Added in lower margin, f.71r: {reference to: (i) 1.1.Pont.4a/b, cf. f.82r-v, below; (ii) ff.82v-83v below}
f.73v
Added in lower margin: {reference to: (i) 2.4.Pont.7; (ii) ff.184-189 below}
Digitised version 2.4.Pont.3 f.75v-76r 24 August 1353
Inspeximus by Thomas [Hatfield], bishop of Durham, confirming the
Convenit between Richard [Poore], formerly bishop, and the prior and convent of Durham, reciting as f.74r-v above, between "a" and "b".
Dated: Durham
Other copies: DCD 1.5.Pont.3 m.1; TNA Durh 3/30 m.20.
Described:
English Episcopal Acta 25: Durham 1196-1237, ed M.G. Snape (Oxford 2002), p.285.
Digitised version 4.1.Spec.42 f.76r-v 26 June 1334
Precept by Richard [of Bury], bishop of Durham, to the sheriff of Norham, to permit the prior of Durham to have his court in the case of John Wydewson, tenant of the prior, according to the terms of the charter of Richard [Poore], bishop of
Durham, concerning jurisdiction over men from the lands and fee of the prior.
Dated: Durham
Digitised version f.76v
Added in lower margin: {reference to: (i) 2.4.Pont.8; (ii) as ff.11v-12r above(2.1.Pap.39), as f.51r above (3.1.Pap.27), 2.4.Pont.7; (iii) 1.9.Pont.}
Digitised version 3.2.Pont.2 f.92r 1 January 1260
Grant by Walter [Kirkham] bishop of Durham, to Hugh [of Darlington] prior and the convent of Durham, of licence to enclose their wood in their vill of Muggleswick, with the adjacent land, and to make there a free park, without deer-leap, having
the following boundaries: from
Flaynardsburg westward until opposite the church, then north to the manor of the prior and convent, then westward to the high road called
Balyofgate and from
there northward to Thorald's Bridge and along the river Derwent eastward to
Flaynards-burg; no-one is to enter the park to hunt or capture any beast without licence from the prior.
Witnesses: John Balliol, Robert Neville, Marmaduke son of Geoffrey and William de Feugeres, knights; Master Robert [of St Agatha] archdeacon of Durham; Master William of Merrow; Master Roger of Seaton; John Gilet of
Egglescliffe bishop's steward; John le Bosce.
Dated: [Bishop] Middleham, 1 January Pont.11 1259/60.
Other copies: DCD Cart.II, f.94r; Reg.I, f.ii,11r-v.
Printed:
English Episcopal Acta 29: Durham 1241-1283, ed P.M. Hoskin (Oxford 2005), p.71-72.
Digitised version f.92v [16 September] 1277
Grant by Robert [of Holy Island], bishop of Durham, to Thomas of Herrington, of free warren in all his lands not within the bishop's forest, in both Herringtons, Harraton and Houghall; no-one may enter these lands to take anything pertaining to
warren without licence from Thomas, under penalty of a fine of £10.
Dated: [Bishop] Middleham, 16 Kal. October 1277 Pont.3.
Original: DCD 4.3.Pont.2 (missing).
Another copy: DCD Reg.I, f.ii.46r-v.
Printed: (abbreviated) R. Surtees,
History and Antiquities of Durham I part ii, p.181;
English Episcopal Acta 29: Durham 1241-1283, ed P.M. Hoskin (Oxford 2005), p.214-215.
Digitised version f.96r-v
Cartulary copy of
2.7.Pont.1e. : the first item of the original is so badly damaged that Cart.I provides the earliest legible text.
Digitised version f.96r-v 16 May 1337
Mandate by Richard [of Bury], bishop of Durham, to the prior and convent of Durham, to attend his visitation in their chapter house on 30 June [1337].
Dated: York
Digitised version f.98r 18 February 1397
Cartulary copy of unidentified mandate by Walter [of Skirlaw], bishop of Durham, to the prior and chapter of Durham, to attend his visitation in their chapter house on 2 Apr. [1397].
Dated: Auckland
Digitised version f.98r-v 16 June 1397 [Ought to be 1398 ?]
Cartulary copy of unidentified commission by Walter [of Skirlaw], bishop of Durham, to Master John of Dalton, his official, to adjourn until 10 Oct. [1397] the visitation of the church of Durham which the bishop had prorogued until the next
law-day after the feast of St John the Baptist (24 June or 29 Aug.), but which he is prevented from attending.
Dated: Wheel Hall
Digitised version f.112r
Cartulary copy of unidentified instrument by Thomas of Ryhall, notary public, recording the presentation to William of Greystones, sacrist of Durham, by Thomas Newton alias Clerk, of Newcastle upon Tyne, of a bay palfrey as a mortuary at the
funeral of Oswald, bishop of Whithorn, who died in the house of the rector of [St Mary in] the North Bailey [Durham], 20 Feb. 1418, and buried in the nave of Durham cathedral, 22 Feb. 1418, mass being celebrated at the altar beneath the great cross
by John [Wessington], prior of Durham.
Witnesses: Master William Doncaster, B.C.L.; Master Robert Berall and Master Thomas Tang, notaries public.
Digitised version f.112v 24 May 1418
Cartulary copy of unidentified instrument by Thomas of Ryhall, notary public, recording: Protestation by Thomas of Hazlerigg, monk and subsacrist of Durham, that the bishop ought, as in the previous 5 years, to pay to him a pension of 6s 8d at
Easter, in return for which the subsacrist will administer oil and chrism to the clergy of the diocese, otherwise this task will revert to the bishop, whose responsibility it is by ancient tradition.
Dated: Durham cathedral
Digitised version f.115v-116r 22 September 1382
Cartulary copy of unidentified instrument by Roger of Catterick, notary public, recording the installation of John of Fordham, bishop of Durham, in the choir and the chapter house of Durham cathedral by Robert of Walworth, prior of Durham,
reciting the declaration of the prior and the oath of the bishop and recording the reception by John Abell, sacrist of Durham, of offerings made by the bishop.
Present as witnesses: Henry Percy, earl of Northumberland; Richard Scrope, Roger of Fulthorpe, Matthew Redman and John Darcy, knights; Master Thomas of Shirford, chancellor of the bishop; Master William Burgeys,
registrar of the bishop; Master John Hackthorpe, senior, proctor of the court of Durham.
Digitised version f.118r 2 October 1390
Cartulary copy of unidentified instrument by William Barton, notary public, recording the installation of Walter [of Skirlaw], bishop of Durham in the choir and the chapter house of Durham cathedral by Robert of Walworth, prior of Durham, the
appropriate declaration being made and oath taken.
Witnesses: Master John Fishburn and Master William Thrislington, clerks.
Dated: Durham Cathedral
Digitised version 1.7.Pont.4 f.118v-120r 4 September 1407
Instrument by Richard of Ripon, notary public, recording the installation of Thomas [Langley], bishop of Durham, in the choir and the chapter house of Durham cathedral by John of Hemingborough, prior of Durham, and reciting the declaration of the
prior and the oath of the bishop.
Present in Durham cathedral for the ceremony: William Strickland, bishop of Carlisle; the abbots of Alnwick, Blanchland, Jervaulx and Egglestone; Master Richard Holme, canon of York; Master John of Cocken, official
[of the bishop] of Durham, dean of Lanchester; Master Thomas of Hexham, dean of Chester le Street; Master John of Dalton, licenciate in law; Master William Brenkley; Master Thomas Lyes; Prince John, son of Henry [IV], king of England, warden of the
eastern march and constable of England; Ralph Neville, earl of Westmorland; John, his elder son and heir; Lord Mauley; Lord Dacre; Baron Hilton; Gilbert Umfraville, John of Lumley, Ralph Eure, Thomas Gray of Hetton, Richard Redman, Robert
Umfraville, Robert Ogle, William Fulthorpe, Marmaduke Lumley, Robert Lisle (Lill'), William Claxton, Robert Hilton, Robert Conyers and William Tempest, knights; Thomas Clerk of Elvet; Robert Berall, John Crayk, chaplain, and Richard Ripon, notaries;
John Runcorn and William Winlaton, literates.
Digitised version 1.14.Pont.10 f.122v 26 November 1312
Appointment by Richard [of Kelloe], bishop of Durham, of the prior of Durham and the dean of Auckland, jointly and singly, as vicars-general in the see and diocese of Durham with full powers, saving collations to benefices in the bishop's
patronage or devolved to him by lapse of time.
Dated: [North]allerton
Digitised version f.123v-124r
{As Register of Thomas of Hatfield, bishop of Durham, ff. 152v-153v, abbreviated.}
Digitised version f.125-127
Folios missing
f.137v
Added: {On the office of archdeacon, ending with mention of the archdeacon of Richmond.}
Digitised version f.150-151
Folios missing
f.157r-v 29 April [1402]
Cartulary copy of unidentified certification by the official of the prior of Durham to the official of the bishop of Durham, that on 24 Apr. [1402] he received his mandate as follows: Mandate by the official of
the bishop of Durham to the official of the prior of Durham, archdeacon in his own churches, in accordance with the bishop's mandate containing the tenor of the king's writ for summoning parliament at Westminster for 7 May [1402], to summon the
prior to attend in person, the chapter by one proctor and the clergy of the archdeaconry by another proctor.
Durham 23 April 1402 and that he has so summoned the prior, the chapter and the clergy of the archdeaconry.
Dated: Pittington
Digitised version f.157v 3 January 1419
Cartulary copy of unidentified notification by John [of Hemingborough], prior of Durham, ordinary of the spirituality of the liberty of St Cuthbert in Howden and Howdenshire, dioc. York, that he received the following mandate from Henry [Bowet],
archbishop of York, primate of England and papal legate: Mandate by Henry [Bowet], archbishop of York, primate of England and papal legate to John [of Hemingborough], prior of Durham and ordinary of the spirituality
of the liberty of St Cuthbert in Howden and Howdenshire, to induct Master John Selowe, priest, licenciate in decretis, into the canonry and prebend of Howden in the collegiate church of Howden, vacant by the resignation of Thomas Haxhy, of which
prebend the prior and convent are patrons.
Cawood 28 December 1418 and that he has so inducted Master John Selowe.
Dated: Howden
Digitised version f.157v-158r 10 February 1419
Cartulary copy of unidentified mandate by John [of Hemingborough], prior of Durham, ordinary of the spirituality of the liberty of St Cuthbert in Howden and Howdenshire, dioc. York, to Master Richard Arnall, canon of York, Master Nicholas Newton,
rector of Thweng, and Master John Carlton, rector of Escrick, to enquire into dilapidations in the canonry and prebend of Howden, in the collegiate church of Howden, during the incumbency of Thomas Haxhey and to sequestrate his goods to the value of
any dilapidations.
Dated: Durham
Digitised version f.160r 8 November 1414
Cartulary copy of unidentified mandate by John [Wessington], prior of Durham, vicar-general of Thomas [Langley], bishop of Durham, to [John Wessington], prior of Durham, archdeacon in the churches appropriated to him and the chapter in the
diocese of Durham, to induct Master John Holderness, B.C.L., to the perpetual vicarage of St Oswald's, Durham, now vacant by the resignation of William Caton, in exchange for the vicarage of Giggleswick, dioc. York, and to which he has been
presented by the prior and convent of Durham.
Dated Durham
Digitised version f.160v 8 June 1419
Cartulary copy of unidentified admission and institution by Thomas Lyes, dean of Auckland, vicar-general of Thomas [Langley], bishop of Durham, of William Winlaton, priest, to the perpetual vicarage of Pittington, dioc. Durham, vacant by the
resignation of John Appleby, and to which he presented by the prior and convent of Durham.
Dated: Durham
f.161r-v 14 January 1413
Cartulary copy of unidentified mandate by the official of the archdeacon of Durham to the parochial chaplain of the collegiate church of Darlington, to declare in that church the sentence of excommunication pronounced by the official of the
archidiaconal jurisdiction of the prior of Durham, against Margaret, a resident of the parish of Darlington, lately concubine of John Barbour of the parish of St Margaret, Durham, for her repeated contumacy, and to summon her to appear before the
prior's official on Wednesday [1 Feb. 1413] in the church of St Oswald by Durham, to receive correction concerning alleged adultery and fornication.
Dated: Durham
Digitised version f.161v 18 July 1413
Cartulary copy of unidentified mandate by the official of the archdeacon of Durham to the parochial chaplain of Whitburn, to declare in that church the sentence of suspension pronounced by the official of the archidiaconal jurisdiction of the
prior of Durham on John Skyndylby, chaplain, formerly subject to that jurisdiction but now resident in the parish of Whitburn, for his repeated contumacy, and to summon him to appear before the prior's official in the chapel of St Andrew on Elvet
Bridge (the "new bridge") in Durham on 29 July [1413], to answer certain articles.
Dated: Durham
Digitised version f.162r 5 February 1497
Added: {Cartulary copy of unidentified memorandum that on 5 Feb. 1497, Thomas Swalwell, B.C.L., monk, chancellor of Durham [priory], in the name of the Ven. Master Ralph Booth, archdeacon of Durham, chancellor of John Sherwood, late bishop of
Durham, brought the bishop's two seals which, in accordance with the ancient custom of Durham, he offered at the altar at the head of the shrine of St Cuthbert and then delivered to Robert Bailey, feretrar of Durham, to be converted into a chalice
or two cruets for the use of the monastery.
Present: William Brown, subprior; Robert Bailey, feretrar; John Rakett, clerk of the exchequer of the bishop of Durham; Richard Emerson, scribe of the register of the prior of Durham, notary; William Smithers
(Smeders), keeper of the gaol of the bishop of Durham; Richard Batmanson, servant of John Rakett. Also that as a memorial of such offerings verses were inscribed on the foot of a chalice made from the seals of Richard of Bury, bishop of Durham
(recited) and similarly on an image standing on the shrine of St Cuthbert made from the seals of Thomas Hatfield, bishop of Durham (recited).} [15th/16th century]
Digitised version f.162v-163r [16th century]
{Table of charters confirmed in Misc.Ch. 7178, with reference to copies in Cart."I" (now Cart.II), Cart."II" (now Cart.I) and Cart.III}
Digitised version f.164-175
Folios missing
f.176r-249r
Documents of the archbishops of York etc and private deeds
2.1.Archiep.9 (abbreviated) f.177r 17 August 1253
Notification by Walter [of Kirkham], bishop of Durham, that he has inspected letters of S[imon of Apulia], dean, and the chapter of York, directed to I[nnocent III], pope, as follows: Notification by S[imon of
Apulia], dean, and the chapter of York to I[nnocent III], pope, that they have inspected certain original charters of the church of Durham, of which they send full transcripts as follows: Grant of Thurstan,
archbishop of York, to the prior and monks of St Cuthbert etc.
Interlined: {reference to Cart.III.i f.1} Dated: Auckland
Digitised version 1.1.Archiep.9 f.183v
Mandate by Thomas [I], archbishop of York, to Algar the clerk that he and all priests in Teviotdale are to refrain from using chrism and oil which Algar has distributed there contrary to instructions to take it to the church of Glasgow, and that
they are to obtain chrism from the church of Durham, according to custom.
Digitised version ? 2.4.Pont.5. f.186r 1 August 1402
Notification by Walter [Skirlaw], bishop of Durham, that in response to a request by the prior and convent of Durham for the reform of injuries done to them by the bishop, his justices, bailiffs and ministers in the matters of dimidiations of
fines of tenants and wardship of heirs who are minors and their estates on the fee of the prior and convent of Durham; and that after consultation with Richard Norton and John Conyers, his justices, he has granted, for himself and his successors,
that the prior and convent shall receive half of every amercement, fine, revenue and profit from tenants of their fee before the bishop's sheriff, escheator or justices, but reserving to the bishop wardship and marriages of heirs who are minors on
the fee of the prior and convent, who hold anything by knight-service.
Dated: Auckland
Other versions of this purported grant are: 1.5.Pont.9 (? first draft), 2.4.Pont.5a (? second draft), 2.4.Pont.5b (? fair copy), Misc.Ch. 5117 (? copy). None of these is the item catalogued in
the Repertorium Magnum as 2.4.Pont.5
Digitised version f.186r-v
As 2.4.Pont.5c, but later altered:
Declaration by Richard Norton and John Conyers that the prior and convent shall have dimidiations from tenants resident on their fee, while the bishop shall have wardship of heirs on that fee {who are minors}, who hold anything of the bishop by
knight-service, {but the prior and convent are to have the entire revenue from the estates within their fee.} (The copy entered in Cart.I does not now agree precisely with any surviving form of this text: cf. Misc.Ch. 6746; 1.5.Pont.3, item 9;
Reg.III, f.180v.)
Digitised version f.190r-191v
{Evidences for the temporal court of the prior of Durham}: extracts from or copies of grants: from 1.1.Pont.1afrom 3.1.Pont.1from 2.2.Pont.1from 1.1.Reg.1from 1.1.Reg.11from 2.1.Reg.4bfrom 2.1.Reg.1, with reference to: ? as f.51r above 3.1.Reg.13from as Cart.Vet.
f.48r; cf. 3.1.Reg.25(ii): original untraced2.4.Pont.81.5.Pont.10(ii): later emended from 2.5.Pont.10 or 1.5.Pont.10(iii)from ? TNA, Durham 20/114/8: may be later addition
probably one roll, similar to others surviving in 1.5.Pont., but not itemised in the Repertorium Magnum
Digitised version f.194r 12 August 1208
Added: {Grant by John, king of England, to the knights and free tenants of Haliwarfolc, that they may defend themselves according to the common assize of England if they are impleaded concerning their tenements, or if any of them wishes to seek
his right, or if they are impleaded for any matter in the court of the bishop of Durham; that they may not be impleaded concerning their free tenements except by writ of the king or his chief justiciar, as in the time of Henry [II], king [of
England]; that if they incur forfeiture to the bishop they shall be amerced according to the assize of the bishopric; that if the bishop of Durham takes amercements and holds them as security, the sheriff of Northumberland shall replevy them; that
they shall have the liberties and easements in the forest of the bishop of Durham which they had in the time of Henry [II], king [of England], and Hugh [of Le Puiset] bishop [of Durham]; that they are not to be impeded in their use of these assizes,
liberties, uses and easements in the name of any custom or use in Haliwarfolc which is not rightful and common in the kingdom, saving the rightful liberties of the bishopric.
Witnesses: William, earl of Salisbury; William, earl Warenne [of Surrey]; Roger de Lacy, constable of Chester; Gilbert fitz Reinfrid; William de Cantilupe; Roger of Mowbray; Simon of Pateshull; James "de Petrina".
Note that the keeper of this charter is Lord Rannulph Neville.
Given by the hand of Hugh of Wells, archdeacon of Wells, Kirby in Kendale
Digitised version f.199
Folio missing
f.201v 5 October 1358
Cartulary copy of unidentified grant by Robert Luclyn and Robert of Ormsby, chaplains, to Thomas Greathead, of all the lands and tenements in Castle Eden which they hold by grant and feoffment of Thomas, to hold for life for a rent of 10s p.a.,
with due services to the chief lords of the fee, reserving to the donors right of distraint.
Witnesses: John of Lumley, knight; John of Carew; Lawrence of Kelloe; William de Burntoft of Hartlepool; Stephen Udard.
Dated: Castle Eden
Digitised version 1.15.Spec.1 f.206v 19 July 1378
Grant with warranty by William Hett of Durham and Dionisia his wife, to Thomas of Claxton and William of Hutton, of 2 adjacent burgages in Gilesgate in Durham, between the burgage of Thomas of Cockerton to the east and the burgage of Henry Turner
to the west, and 3 rods of meadow lying together in the lands (territorium) of Durham, of which one head abuts on the two burgages aforesaid, and the other head abuts on the lane called Kepier Way.
Witnesses: Richard Walker; Adam Spuret; John Custesson; Hugh Slater (Sclater); Thomas Goldsmith (Goldsmyth).
Dated: Durham
Digitised version f.208-212
Folios missing
f.213r
Added in upper margin: {note that here begins the cartulary of items omitted in the earlier cartulary (i.e. Cart.II) and of those newly-acquired.}
Digitised version 3.3.Spec.4 f.216r 17 November 1348
Receipt by John of Sculthorpe, receiver of Thomas [Hatfield], bishop of Durham, to William Syre and William "Enocson", both of Gateshead, for £62 13s 4d for the farm of the fishery of Gateshead granted to them for 2 years prior to this date.
Added in margin: {note that this is void}
Dated: Durham
Digitised version 3.3.Spec.5 f.216r 5 February 1337
Declaration by Elena, daughter and heiress of Alan of Willington, and William her son, that they have leased from William Syre of Jarrow, burgess of Newcastle upon Tyne, a tenement in Pipewellgate, Gateshead, between the tenement of Roger Rede
and the tenement of John Dyer (Tinctor), until Easter [1337], for 40d rent to be paid then.
Added in margin: {note that this is void}
Dated: Gateshead
Digitised version 3.3.Spec.29 f.221r 20 June 1334
Renunciation by Robert of Ketton, cook, of all lawsuits against the prior and convent of Durham.
Witnesses: Waleran of Lumley; Richard of Acton; John of Alnwick.
Dated: Newcastle upon Tyne
Digitised version f.221v-222r
Cartulary copy of
3.3.Spec.34b.. Added in margin: {note that this is void, with reference to a "better" version, f.222r-v below}
Digitised version 4.3.Spec.10 f.223v-224r 21 December 1365
Grant with warranty by John of Lytham and William of Greystones, chaplains, to William Toller of Gateshead and Cecilia his wife, of 2 messuages in Pipewellgate, Gateshead, of which one lies between the tenement of Hugh of Mitford to the east and
the tenement formerly Roger Rede's to the west, running from the ditch called "Bischopdyk" to the river Tyne, and the other lies between the tenement formerly Roger Rede's to the east and the tenement formerly Roger of Heworth's to the west, for a
rent of 20s p.a., with responsibility for maintenance, reserving to the donors rights of distraint in case of default, and of entry in cases of waste or alienation.
Added in margin, f.223v: {note that the prior holds this land}
Witnesses: Walter of Hesledon and John Plummer, then bailiffs of the vill of Gateshead; William of Beddingham; William of "Spiryden"; John of Leyburn; John Southern (Sutheron); Thomas Vescy.
Dated: Durham
Digitised version 4.3.Spec.18 f.225v-226r
Testament of William Sire of Pipewellgate, 14 May 1349, bequeathing: his soul to God, the Blessed Virgin Mary and all the saints, and his body to be buried in the church of cemetery of St Mary, Gateshead, with his best cloth as a mortuary; to the
high altar of that church, 6s 8d; to the altar of St Mary in the north porch there, 3s 4d; for lights [? at the altar of] St Catherine there, 3s 4d; to the chaplains and clerks of that church, 6s 8d; for funeral expenses and distribution to the
poor, £20; to the prior and convent of Durham, £20; to the prior and convent of Tynemouth, 20s; to the master and monks of Jarrow, 5 marks; to the four orders of friars in Newcastle upon Tyne, 26s 8d in equal shares; to William his elder son, 20
marks, a rent of 4s p.a. from the tenement in which Robert son of Elena dwells, a tenement in Pipewellgate lying lengthwise between the land of Roger Rede and that of Roger of Heworth, and between the bishop's ditch at one end and the "grund ebbe"
of the River Tyne at the other, and a second-best cobel; to William his younger son and William his elder son, all his arms to be divided equally, with first choice to William the younger, his heir; to Ida his wife, all his lands, revenues and
tenements in Pipewellgate and elsewhere and all his fisheries in the river Tyne, for life, with reversion to William his younger son and his heirs, and if he dies without legitimate heir, then to Alice his daughter and her heirs, and if she dies
without legitimate heir, then to William son of Elyas for life and then to the testator's right heirs; to each of his grandchildren, 6d; to Simon of Lucker, ½ mark and a livery; to Cuthbert the clerk, 12d; to Ida his wife and William his younger
son, the residue of his goods; to Alice his daughter, a tenement in Pipewellgate lying between the land formerly Roger Mascillon's and that formerly Alexander Quarreour's; appointing as executors: Ida his wife and William son of Elyas.
Witnesses: William son of Euota; Cuthbert the clerk.
Added in margin: {note that this is void}
Digitised version 1.11.Spec.13 f.231r
Grant in free alms by Richard Surtees to the prior and monks of St Cuthbert of Durham of land between the road from Pounteys [Bridge] to Sadberge and "Gildussit", going up from "Gildussit" along the syke between "Morkerflat" and (?) Tower Hill
("the castlery") to the road, to build a hospice thereon.
Witnesses: P[hilip of Poitou], bishop of Durham; Leo of Heriz, sheriff; William Brus; William Bardolf; Robert fitz Meldred; William Brito; Peter Carew; Roger son of Hugh; Roger son of Gerard; Ralph Bard of Hartburn;
Ralph Bard of Middleton; Walter and Robert of Caen; Jolan of Langton; Ralph of "Chot"; Walter Postel; John and William, parsons of Middleton; William of Harton; Richard "de Broc".
Digitised version 1.12.Spec.10 f.233v-234r
Enumeration of the parcels of land in Nunstainton belonging to the prior of Durham.
Digitised version 1.12.Spec.4 f.235v-237v 26 June 1392
Grant with warranty by John [of Hemingborough], prior, and the convent of Durham, to Margaret Fairfax (Fayrfax), prioress, and the convent of Nun Monkton, of a messuage and 2 bovates of land and meadow, containing 42 acres and 1 rod, in the vill
and fields of Nunstainton (enumerated selion by selion), to hold without diminution or ploughing of the balks for 200 years for a rent of 33s 4d p.a., reserving to the less s right of distraint for arrears. The lessees to maintain certain buildings,
viz.: "le firehouse", 2 granges and a small house to the west of "le firehouse".
Memorandum concerning: (i) a change in the design of the common seal of the prioress and convent since the sealing of an earlier lease in 1265; (ii) agreement that the current tenant of the land, John Smythson, shall continue in occupation
according to the terms of his lease from the prior and convent.
Dated: Durham
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