Reference code: GB-0033-DCD
Title: Durham Cathedral Archive: medieval extraneous material
Dates of creation: ca.1138-1525
Extent: 1 metre
Held by: Durham University Library, Archives and Special Collections
Origination: various Bishops of Durham and private individuals
Language: Most documents are written in Latin.
Miscellaneous collections of (chiefly) medieval material, historically retained with the Durham Cathedral Archive but not originally part of it.
In the custody of Durham University since 1948
Open for consultation
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.
See also Wolviston Guild Book for 1480-1520 at
DCD Misc. Ch. 7233 and
DCD
Loc.X:6.
Dates of creation: 1343-1437
For later episcopal registers, see
Durham Diocesan Records (DDR/EA/ACT/1). A register of acts
sede vacante for 1406 is at DCD
Misc.Ch.5723.
Reference: Dates of creation: 1343-1380
Register of Richard Bury, 1343-1344 (8 ff.). Printed as G.W. Kitchin (ed), Richard d'Aungerville of Bury: fragments of his register and other documents (Surtees Society no.119, 1910), pp. 22-64
Register of Thomas Hatfield, 1350-1380 (with gaps), i+viii+183+iii ff. A negative microfilm is available for copying at PGFilm 124.
Summarily described: D.M. Smith,
Guide to Bishops' Registers of England and Wales, (London, 1981), pp. 267-8 (Bury) and 268-9 (Hatfield).
Reference:
Dates of creation: 1406-1437
Extent: iii+iv+i+299+i+iv+iii ff.
Summarily described: D.M. Smith,
Guide to Bishops' Registers of England and Wales, (London, 1981), pp. 369-70.
Edited, with index:
The Register of Thomas Langley, Bishop of Durham, 1406-1437, ed. R.L. Storey, (Surtees Soc. 164, 166, 169, 170, 177 and 182, 1956-70).
Reference: Dates of creation: Late 15th century
More or less current record of undertakings and similar business in the bishop of Durham's chancery, 1462-76
Reference: Dates of creation: 12th century - 1457
Extent: c.100 items
Claxton family deeds, probably deposited with the priory in the 15th century at the same time as Claxton deeds now in DCD Misc.Ch.
Calendared by R.H. Britnell,
Haswell deeds (1997). This catalogue also lists Claxton material now in DCD Misc.Ch.
In addition to the Claxton family deeds within the Miscellaneous Charters series, DCD Misc.Ch.5243 is a single document relating to property in Ireland, not part of the priory estate.
Dates of creation: ca.1138-1525
Other small collections of deeds have been given to the Dean and Chapter during the 20th century. Although historically listed alongside the medieval material within Durham Cathedral Archive, these collections are not part of the cathedral
archive and are now referenced separately as indicated (without a DCD prefix).
Reference: Dates of creation: c.1138-1525 but mostly 13th century
Extent: c.100 items
Deeds concerning property in Co. Durham (Whitwell, Sherburn and Quarrington Moor, Whitton, with Stillington and Thorpe Thewles, Garmondsway, Raisby and Quarrington, Bishopton and Grindon, Redmarshall and Smallmoor, Cassop, Hartlepool, Gateshead,
Coxhoe, and Bishop Auckland) belonging to the hospital founded near Durham c.1183; deeds transferred to the Dean & Chapter c.1900.
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Reference: Dates of creation: 1335-1642 (earlier items only as 18th century copies)
Extent: 1 box, 15 items
Medieval deeds for property within Hunstanworth belonging to Kepier Hospital until its dissolution in 1539, then to Sir William Paget and later lay owners
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Reference: Dates of creation: 15th - 19th century
Extent: c.250 items
Deeds concerning property in Silksworth, Sunderland, Stainton, Bishopwearmouth and other nearby parishes, belonging to the Middleton and Ettrick families, also materials relating to Robert Hilton's charity for the poor
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Reference: Dates of creation: 1647-1828
Extent: ½ box
Deeds relating to property in Auckland, Durham, Eighton Banks, Hartlepool and York, and to coal mines between Harraton and East Birtley
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