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Elizabethan survey of the state of religion after Marian reverses in the dioceses of York, Durham, Carlisle and Chester.

Text and facing translation of one of the most important chronicles of medieval England.

Durham diocesan registry documents until 1580. Some Latin, mainly English, transcribed in full with occasional explanatory notes. Concludes with an account and Annual Report of the Surtees Society. See volumes 38, 112, 142.

Includes all those songs from the manuscript collection of John Bell which throw light on the way of life of the majority of the population of North-East England and the Eastern Borders. Each piece derives from the life and work of those men and women who were obliged to work for a living, usually with their hands.

'The documents _ provide illustrations of the practical difficulties of life in the north of England during the fourteenth century.' Each section has a short historical introduction and each petition, in French, is preceded by acalendar of its contents and followed by its approximate date and an editorial comment on its relation to other known material. Areas covered include trade, defence, compensation, war damage, franchises, legal petitions, financial petitions, clerical petitions etc.. See volume 176.

Journal of Sir William Brereton, 1635. Autobiography of Sir John Gibson, 1655. Jacob Bee's Chronicle. Mark Browell's Diary. The Family of Mark Akenside, the Poet. Two letters of Bishop Warburton. Northern Journeys of BishopRichard Pococke. Diary of John Dawson of Brunton. Each entry is preceded by an introduction. See volume 118.

Edition, with full explanatory apparatus, of wills and inventories from north-east England.

An edition, with introduction and notes, of the unique census for religious worship, in north-east England.

Journals of the natural world reveal fascinating details of life at the time.

Memoir of north of England childhood of James Raine (1791-1858), antiquary and local historian, with later letters and family papers.

The murkier side of eighteenth-century politics is vividly revealed in the letters edited here.

First modern edition of a major source of evidence for life in a cathedral immediately prior to the Dissolution.

The notebooks of bishops of Carlisle reveal a wealth of detail concerning clerical life at the time.

Edition, with full notes and introduction, of documents fundamental for our understanding of a major group of workers.

Survey made 1377-1380 by Bishop Hatfield (1345-1382). Much more extensive than Boldon Buke. Contains full list of all tenants, with quantity of land they held and enumeration of services belonging to each manor. 'Singularly curious as a repertory of names during the fourteenth century.' Appendices include bailiff's roll of manor of Auckland 1337-8, bailiff's rolls for various episcopal manors, 1349-50, and a general receiver's roll for 1385-6.

Personal/legal correspondence re Sunk Island; history and survey of the island, 1797.

Description of Cumberland in the late seventeenth century, with associated material.

Contains ordinances of the city's craft guilds, descriptions of the city boundaries, amounts collected from parishes towards the Fifteenth and Tenth, deeds, leases of city property and many other items relating to civic administration and the trade and life of York, from the fourteenth to the sixteenth centuries.

See volume 181. Three appendicies and indexes. I. Members of the Shipwrights Company (those who were apprenticed to members of the Shipwrights's company and those who were made free by servitude, patrimony or presentation, compiled from lists of indentures and dates of freedom given either in the registers or account books, II. Officers of the Company, III. Fines.

In 1646 Parliament negotiated a substantial loan from the city of London, secured by the sale of ecclesiastical temporalities. An ordinance was passed abolishing archbishops and bishops and transferring their lands and possessions for the use of the Commonwealth. These surveys represent the examinations conducted in this connection in the Darlington Ward of the bishopric, which at the time was beleaguered by the Scots. Covers the manors of Auckland, Darlington, Evenwood and Wolsingham. Significant in assessing the effects of the Civil War on grass-roots society in the North-East.

Orders made by the company, resolutions etc. passed at meetings, and selected annual accounts of the Company which illustrate the development and history of the company.

Presents accounts of Catholic country gentleman's household, detailing costs of food, clothing, domestic and estate items, wages, gifts and allowances, and more. This work provides insight into the functioning of a family and estate in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, and the state of the local economy.

All the available court records for an important part of medieval Durham, presented with notes and apparatus.

Presented as Volume XI in the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society's Record Series, this work featues an introduction that provides the historical background to the priory, its patrons and the economy of Gilsland. It includes information on the making, content, history and transcripts of the cartulary.

Sixteen Latin accounts, including two concerning litigation with the abbot and convent of St Mary's on the vexed issue of the many fishgarths which were obstructing river traffic on the Ouse. Detailed introduction and full list of the relevant Mayors and Chamberlains.

Development of Whitehaven, family commercial speculations.

Entries for 1427-1435, from folios 294v-304v of the register of Bishop Langley's vicars-general. Substantial index of persons, places and subjects for all volumes of the register. See volumes 164, 166, 169, 170, 177.

Sir James Clavering (1680-1748) was a typical member of the lesser gentry in County Durham, but he had widespread family connections throughout the North East and became interested in national politics and the coal-trade. Collection contains letters from Anne Clavering, Thomas Yorke and John Yorke, miscellaneous business letters, letters from his wife, Catherine and to his son, George.

I. Durham Recusants' Estates 1717-1778, Part II, edited by C. Roy Hudleston. See volume 173. Continuation in alphabetical order from Edwar Salvin. Appendix of 6 registrations from 1717-22. II. Durham Estates on the Recusants'Roll 1636-7.

Entries for 1421-26, folios 110-174. Latin transcription with English (editorial) descriptive headings and occasional calendaring of entries in common form in English. See Volumes 164, 166, 170, 177, 182.