Newcastle upon Tyne, Durham and the surrounding areas
A quantity of legal documents, mostly on vellum
£1,260
Auction: 05 February 2025 from 10:00 GMT
Description
including: 1541 lease of tenement with garden called Pompdene in Newcastle, 22 x 29cm;
1582 will of William Henrysome, keelman of Pandon and Sandgate, 19.5 x 27.5cm;
16th-century copy of the foundation of a chantry chapel in memory of the souls of Beatrice and Gilbert Haukyn in All Saints churchyard, N'cle…, 31 x 41cm;
1606 letter of attorney: Edward Clark boother of Newcastle appoints Francis Leighton yeoman of N'cle to take seisin of his tenement “in Gatesade in the Battle bank”, 16.5 x 30cm;
1653 “Gilbert Otway and his wife Issabel daughter of Thomas Ridley late butcher of N'cle grant bargain to sell property in Keyside to Thomas Warriner of Morpeth tanner”, 52 x 70cm;
1656 arbitration between Robert Peacock master and mariner to keep to the “award, order, doome and judgement” of John Rumney and Thomas Erringtoe regarding a stone wall, 29 x 54cm;
1711 lease of the fore shop and back in Sandgate, N'cle with house from Robert Strother of Fowtray in N'land gent., to John Stephenson younger of N'cle merchant giving an inventory of locks, keys, bolts, staples, hinges, heirlooms, implements and utensils therein, 43 x 62cm;
“A Repository of the Close Rolls of the Court of Chancery of Durham”, on paper, no date;
and approx. 30 others (approx. 38 documents)
Provenance
Purchased in 1993 from the Border Stamp Centre.