Diploma, of William [II], king of England, notifying the agreement made by him between William [of St Calais], bishop of Durham, and Robert [de Mowbray], earl of Northumbria, by which Robert, in return for £100, quitclaimed to the bishop half the profits of theft and breach of the peace, everything in Claxton, Wolviston, Chilton, Stainton, Ricknall, Woodham, Aycliffe, Heworth, Preston [-le-Skerne], Brafferton, "Esmidebroc", Killerby, Ketton, Winston, Newhouse, Westwick and the other lands of St Cuthbert, the ferry outside the city of Durham, and anything claimed by him on the lands, customs and men of St Cuthbert.
Signa by: King William [II]; Walkelin, bishop [of Winchester]; Robert [de Mowbray], earl of Northumbria; Robert, steward; William, royal chancellor; Osmund, bishop of Salisbury; Hamo, steward; Ranulf, chaplain; Thurstan, abbot of Glastonbury; Robert de Montefort; Alan of Lincoln; William de Redvers; Richard de Courcy; Robert son of Gerald; Turald [de] Papeleon; Urso de Abetot.
Dated from William, Giffard's appointment as chancellor x Robert de Mowbray's rebellion [1094 x 1095]

[Spurious] charter, of William [I], king of England, taking the Priory of Durham under his protection, confirming that the priors should have the privileges of an abbot with a place under the bishop as the dean of York, and ordering that the prior should have a place equal to that of the priors of Canterbury and Winchester at coronations and councils, receiving 5s. a day from the royal purse when attending the royal court, an ordinary monk to have 2s. a day, and that they are only to be impleaded for any of their possessions which they had on the day of their foundation by William [of St Calais], bishop [of Durham] in his presence.
Signum by William [I]
Witnesses: Walkelin, bishop of Winchester; Osmund, bishop of Salisbury; Thurstan, abbot of Glastonbury; and many others.
Dated: Winchester, 12 [William I] [1077 x 1078]

Grant, by Henry [II], king of England, of protection to the Priory and monks of Durham, with their liberties, and their full court like the bishop of Durham's, and confirming the liberties, dignities and honours granted by W[illiam of St Calais], bishop [of Durham]
Witnesses: Robert [de Chesney], bishop of Lincoln; Robert [de Beaumont], earl of Leicester.
Dated: Winchester: (no date)

Renewal, by Richard [I], king of England of his grant of 9 January 6 [Richard I] [1195], to Hugh [of Le Puiset], bishop of Durham, of the service of William de Braose from two knights' fees in Hartness, of William son of Ranulf son of Walter from one knight's fee for Coniscliffe and Ulnaby, of William son of William for land of Hurworth and Neasham of 60s. a year and of Roger son of Gerard for Egglescliffe and Aislaby of 60s. a year, and also confirming the vills of Crayke and Cliffe[-on-Tees], with their woods.
Witnesses: Master Philip [of Poitou], archdeacon of Canterbury; Robert of Thornham, senescal of Anjou; William de Stagno; G[eoffrey] de Laley; Master Edmund, clerk of the lord of Canterbury; Master G. Costant'..
Dated: Brionne per manum:- Mag E[ustace], dean of Salisbury, vice-chancellor
Witnesses of the renewal: Master Mauger, archdeacon of Evreux; Robert and John, chaplains; William Marshal; Warin son of Gerald; Robert de Tresgoz.
Dated: Le Vaudreuil per manum:- Eustace, bishop of Ely, chancellor, 9 December 10 [Richard I] [1198]

Renewal, by R[ichard I], king of England of his delivery in free-alms to the church of Durham and H[ugh of Le Puiset], bishop of Durham, of the manor of Sadberge with the wapentake and knights' fees, which he previously granted for 600 m., which he has been given.
Witnesses: B[aldwin], archbishop of Canterbury; H[ubert Walter], bishop of Salisbury; Gilbert Pipard; Bertram of Verdun.
Dated Marseilles : per manum:- William son of Richard, 7 December 10 [Richard I] [1198]

Confirmation, by J[ohn], king of England, to the church of Durham and Philip [of Poitou], bishop of Durham, of the manor of Sadberge with the wapentake and knights' fees, and of the vills of Crayke and Cliffe[-on-Tees] with their woods, as in the charters of King Richard [I].
Witnesses: William Marshal, earl of Pembroke; William [de Longespée, earl of Salisbury; William de Braose; Robert son of Roger; Hugh Baard; William Briwerre; Hugh de Neville; Thomas Basset.
Dated: Windsor per manum Simon [de Camera], archdeacon of Wells, and John de Gray, archdeacon of Cleveland (no date)

(1) Letters patent, of Edward [III], king of England, confirming, by common counsel in parliament, to Robert [I], king of Scotland, the realm of Scotland, as on the death of Alexander [III], king of Scotland, free of subjection, servitude, claim or demand, Henry de Percy and William de la Zouche of Ashby being given full power and special mandate by other letters for its observance.
Dated: York, 1 March 2 [Edward III] [1328]

(2) [dorse] Renunciation, by Edward [III], king of England, of all proceedings, following the sentences against Robert [I], king of Scotland, and his subjects, by John [XXII], pope, and the legates Gaucelinus, cardinal-priest of SS Marcellinus and Peter, and Luke, cardinal-deacon of S. Maria in Via lata.
Dated: York, 1 March 2 [Edward III] [1328]

Confirmation, by John de Warenne, earl of Surrey, in the light of royal charters and the confirmation of Edward [I], king of England, to the church of Durham, of all liberties, that the Prior of Durham and the monks should have all their holdings in his vill of Stamford in free-alms, and that the Prior of Durham and his fellow-monk, the Prior of St Leonard's Stamford, should have their free court and fines of beer, but reserving corporal penalties.
Witnesses: Thomas of Sheffield, John of Heslarton, Alexander de Montfort, William de Baiouse, knights; Master Nicholas de Ros, John of Dunnington, clerks; John Pyk; John of Repps; John Spriggy; Eustace Malherbe; Henry of Silton; William of Apethorpe; Robert of Newark.
Dated: Grantham, 7 December 8 Edward [II] [1314]

Grant, by Edward [I], king of England, to the Prior and Convent of Durham, of £40 a year from the royal exchequer of Berwick-on-Tweed, on condition that on the two feasts of St Cuthbert, 3,000 poor should each be given 1d., the Convent should have 50s as a pittance, and during services, two candles, each of 20 lb wax, should burn by the High Altar, in front of the Feretrary, that each Sunday and major festival, two candles should burn before St Cuthbert's banner during services, and that every day, in the Galilee, a priest should say the Mass of St Cuthbert, with two candles burning.
Dated: Berwick-on-Tweed, 16 September 24 Edward [I] [1296]

Confirmation (perhaps spurious) in free-alms, by Richard [I], king of England, to the Prior and monks there, of all lands, tithes and churches belonging to the Priory of Durham; their lands in Durham, land and wood in the west of Durham, beyond the Wear as far as the Browney, the vill with garden on that side of the Wear, Elvet with the wood, church, chapels of Croxdale and Witton [Gilbert], and the new borough in Elvethaugh, Shincliffe with the wood, the two Raintons, Moorsley, Cocken, the hermitage of Finchale, Pittington with the church, the other Pittington, Dalton [-le-Dale] with the church, Hesledon, Hesleden with the church and chapels of Eden and Hardwick, land in Eden, lands in Hartlepool, Ferryhill, the church of St John with its vill [of Kirk Merrington], the two Merringtons, the church of [Bishop] Middleham, Muggleswick, Aycliffe with the church and the chapel of Ketton, Ketton, Woodham, the church of Heighington, Barmpton, Skerningham, Burdon, the vill of Newton which Hugh [of Le Puiset], bishop of Durham, had from Eustace de Baillol in exchange for Westwick and forty marks and granted to the Prior and monks of Durham in free-alms, Staindrop with the church, Staindropshire, Blakeston, Billingham with the church and the chapel of Wolviston, Wolviston, Cowpen [Bewley], the wood of Heworth from the mouth of Mereburn in the Tyne towards the sea, the fisheries on that side of the river towards the sea, Heworth and the other Heworth, Hebburn, Hedworth, Follingsby, Monkton, Preston, Simonside, Jarrow with the church and chapels of Wallsend and Heworth, the church of St Hild [South Shields], Westoe, Harton, Wearmouth with the church and the chapel of Hylton, Southwick, Fulwell and the fisheries on that side of the river [ Wear ];
in Northumbria : the church of Norham with land in that vill and the chapel of Cornhill, the vill of Shoreswood, the land between Norham and Shoreswood called Witherig with the turbary of the vill of Shoreswood, the west part of Holy Island and the church with the chapels of Lowick, Ancroft, Kyloe, Tweedmouth and Fenham, the vill of Fenham, their land in Elwick, Heatherslaw, one carrucate in Bowsden, the church of Branxton, the fishery of Hallowstell in the Tweed, the church of Edlingham with the chapel of Bolton, the church of Bywell, the church of Ellingham with the chapel of Charlton, the church of Bedlington with adjacent land and the chapel of Cambois, Willington, Wallsend with the chapel and fisheries: their land in Cramlington :
beyond the Tees : the church of Allerton with adjacent land, the church of Mother Brompton, the chapel of Deighton, the church of Worsall, the church of [Kirkby] Sigston, the vill of Hemingbrough with the church and mill, 2 carrucates in Brackenholme with adjacent woods and waters, one carrucate in Grimsthorpe with adjacent wood and water, the church of Skipwith with 2 bovates, the church of Howden with one carrucate in that vill and the chapel of Eastrington, the church of Brantingham with the chapels of Ellerker and Blacktoft, Hunsley and "Midilhil", the church of Welton, the church of Walkington,
in York, the churches of All Saints, St Peter and Holy Trinity with lands and other possessions there, the church of Holtby with 3 carrucates, 4 carrucates in Everthorpe, 6 carrucates in Cave, 14½ bovates in Brantingham, 1½ carrucates in Yokefleet, 2 carrucates in Cliffe, a mill in Appleton, 2 carrucates and a mill in Drewton,
in Lincoln the land which was Ulfget's and the land given by Humphrey with his nephew, 6 bovates at Cleatham, the church and 10 bovates in Blyborough, 3 bovates, a mill, 16 acres of land and as much of meadow in Stainton, the church of Kirkby [-on-Bain] with the chapel of Birchwood and 9 bovates from the lay fee with wood and meadow, the church of Biscathorpe, the mill in that vill, their tithes of Wispington, one tenement in Torksey, at Stamford the church of St Mary by the bridge with 8 tenements, ½ carrucate with the adjacent meadow, outside the borough the monastery of St Leonard, ½ carrucate, the lesser church of St Mary [in Binewerk ];
in Nottinghamshire: two carrucates with meadow in Gotham, 6 bovates with meadow in Costock, the church, 5 carrucates with meadow and two mills in Normanton [-upon-Soar], 10 bovates with meadow in [Sutton] Bonnington, 5½ carrucates in Kingston [-on-Soar], 1 carrucate with meadow in Barton [in Fabis], the land of Oincar son of Alnoth the moneyer and 2 tenements given by Azur son of Ulfag in Nottingham, and one carrucate called Nunwick Thorns, the Island of Farne with other adjacent Islands, together with all grants of the kings of England or the bishops of Durham, with sake and soke, toll and team, infangthief, waifs and wreck, exempt from royal exactions, free from any impleading for the possessions of which they were seised on the death of King Henry [I] or of Ranulf [Flambard] with their full court, as in the charter of Henry [II].
Witnesses: Master Philip [of Poitou, bishop-]elect of Durham; Master Mauger, treasurer of Normandy; Master Walter, chaplain; Otto, son of the duke [of Saxony], the king's nephew; Robert de Thornham, seneschal of Anjou; William de Stagno; Brice, chamberlain.
Dated: Chinon, per manum Master Eustace, dean of Salisbury, vice Chancellor: 4 February 6 [Richard I] [1196 (4 February 6 Richard I would fall in 1195, but 1196 is the only year compatible with the appearance of Philip of Poitou as bishop-elect of Durham as a witness. ?1197 Poitou bearing news of Longchamps' death.)]

Letters patent, of Edward [III], king of England, granting licence despite the Statute of Mortmain, to the prior and convent of Durham, to appropriate the church of Hemingbrough, the advowson being theirs, on condition that one monk or chaplain should celebrate daily in the Galilee for E[dward I] and the king's progenitors, one at St Cuthbert's altar and another in Hemingbrough for the king, Philippa his queen and his heirs, that on Sundays, apostles' feasts and other principal feasts, during Mass at the High Altar, matins and other hours, two candles of 20 lb should burn with two smaller candles by the high altar before the feretrary of St Cuthbert, and two before the banner of St Cuthbert, and that on the king's anniversary there should be solemn celebration with at least five copes in the choir, a pittance of 60s to the convent, and a distribution, to take place on St Cuthbert's day before the king's death, of 1d to 1,000 poor, the conditions being delayed until the Prior and Convent have full possession of the church of Hemingbrough.
Dated: Westminster, 8 March 30 Edward [III] [1356]

Grant, by Edward [I], king of England, to the prior and convent of Durham, of £40 a year (as in 1.3.Reg.2.) undated.

Writ, of [Edward III], king [of England], to the Treasurer and the Barons of the Exchequer, to stay the demand for £109 from the Prior of Durham for food bought at Newcastle from his father, [Edward II], and himself in accordance with his letters patent ( 1.3.Reg.9. ) and acquit him.
Dated: Tower of London 18 April 10 [Edward III] [1336].

(2) Writ, of [Edward III], king [of England] to the sheriff of York, to stay the demand for £109 from the Prior of Durham, for food bought at Newcastle from his father [Edward II], and himself, and relax any distraint.
Witness: H[enry] le Scrope
Dated: York 15 May 10 [Edward III] [1336].

(3) Entry, on Great Roll [of the Pipe] for 9 E[dward] III, [1335], recording quittance of Prior of Durham's debt of £100, remaining from £207.5s for food bought at Newcastle, as in the account of Roger Waltham, keeper of the Wardrobe to E[dward II], in accordance with the King's writ ( (1) above.) [9 Edward III [1335] ?]

Letters patent, of Thomas [Hatfield], bishop of Durham, granting to William del Orchard, his clerk, a messuage with a garden on Palace Green, Durham for 18d a year.
Dated: Durham, per manum John of Kingston, his clerk, 2 April Pont.19 [1364]

Letters patent, of Thomas [Hatfield], bishop of Durham, granting to Master John of Hagthorpe, a plot on Palace Green, Durham, between the plot once William of Westley's and the gate towards the graveyard of Durham Cathedral ... [for 12d a year *]
Dated: Durham, per manum John of ... [Kingston, his clerk *]: 27 September Pont.21 [1365]

[Spurious] confirmation, by William [I], king of England, to the Prior and monks of St Cuthbert, of all liberties and customs granted to the Saint's guardians by former English kings, of free disposition of their lands and churches, of the archdeaconry of Prior Turgot and his successors, and of all dignities and liberties in the bishopric of Durham, granted by William [of St Calais], bishop of Durham, under his protection.
Witnesses: Thomas [I], archbishop of York; Remigius, bishop of Lincoln; Maurice, bishop of London; Gandulf, bishop of Rochester; John bishop; William & Henry, earls, sons of the King; Robert [de Beaumont], count of Meulan; Alan, count of Brittany; Robert son of Hamo; Odo, bishop of Bayeux; Urso de Abetot.
Dated: Westminster, (Turgot prior of Durham, but William I absent from England from 1086 until death!) [1087]

Grants of John de Cotum, chaplain, of the manor of Edmondbyers and the advowson of the church of that manor, of a bovate of land and half an acre of meadow in Tursdale, of a messuage in the South Bailey, Durham, and of an acre of land in Hett, and by Adam Bette, chaplain, of a messuage in the Bailey, Durham ; granting that any lapsed liberty should be revived without impediment, except freedom from impending only as in the past.
Witnesses: R[ichard of Bury], bishop of Durham, chancellor; H[enry Burghersh], bishop of Lincoln, treasurer; John of Eltham, earl of Cornwall; Thomas Beauchamp, earl of Warwick; Henry de Percy; Gilbert Talbot; Ralph de Neville, steward of the household.
Dated: Roxburgh, 31 January 9 [Edward III] [1335]

Pipe Roll 6 Henry VII : Yorkshire
Showing the Warden and Scholars of Durham College, Oxford, quit, by virtue of the exemption of colleges and collegiate halls in the University of Oxford, of £6.13s.4d, due as the royal tenth from the clergy of the province of York on the account of the Prior and convent of Kirkham, collectors in the archdeaconry of the East Riding, for Brantingham church, certified as theirs by T[homas Rotherham], archbishop of York. [1490 x 1491]

Pipe Roll 7 Henry VII : Oxfordshire and Berkshire.
Showing them similarly quit of £66s.8d, due on the account of the Prior and convent of Newstead, collectors in the archdeaconry of Nottingham, for their church of Ruddington in Bingham deanery. [1491 x 1492]

Pipe Roll 7 Henry VII : Oxfordshire and Berkshire.
Showing them similarly quit of £4, due on the account of the Prior and convent of Drax, collectors in the archdeaconry of York, for their church of Fishlake in Doncaster deanery. [1491 x 1492]

Clerical Subsidy Roll.
Showing them similarly quit of 40s, due on the account of the Abbot of Whitby, collector in the archdeaconry of Cleveland, for their church of Bossall. No date.

Grant by letters patent, by Richard [II], king of England, despite the Statute of Mortmain, to the Prior and convent of Durham, and their new College in the University of Oxford of his foundation, of three bovates in Ruddington and Claxton and the advowsons of the churches of Ruddington, Bossall and Fishlake, with power to appropriate them to help sustain eight monks and eight secular scholars studying there and celebrating for the King, his grandfather, E[dward III], his other progenitors and heirs, Philippa, once Queen of England, and all the faithful departed.
Dated: Westminster, 10 October 10 [Richard II] [1386]

Grant, by Calixtus III, pope to William [Ebchester], prior of Durham, at his petition and that of John Lax, Leg.Doc., papal secretary, of an indult that he and his successors should have licence and authority to confer all minor orders on professed monks of his church and to bless chalices, corporal cloths, altar-cloths and other ecclesiastical ornaments without episcopal or other licence, notwithstanding the constitutions of popes and his legates, Otto and Ottobuono.
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Dated: Rome 6 Kal July [26 June] 1456 2 [Calixtus III].

Writ, by W[illiam II], king of England, to T[homas], archbishop, H., sheriff, and all of Yorkshire, that the land of St Cuthbert should be free of all castle-work and gelds as in his father's time and at the death of William [of St Calais], bishop of Durham.
Witnesses: W[illiam Giffard], chancellor; Fulk, chaplain
Dated: Pont de l'Arche [1087 x 1100].