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1-2, 4 Biblical and latin quotations and a note of Timothy Whittingham's birth.
3 Copy letter from Timothy Whittingham to Patrick Dunkin offering to pay five poor Lanchester parishioners to attend the church, and a note of the scheme's failure, 1649.
5-224 Accounts, chiefly of rents due from lands at Holmside, Broome, and a house in Durham, the latter two purchased 1657-1658, but also giving servants by name, the number of cattle on the moor, receipts from sale of crops, 1636-1714.
6 A list of those townships responsible for the upkeep of the churchyard wall with the extent of their responsibility.
12-19 Receipts.
20-24 Astrological quotations.
46 Not of payments for his son's schooling at Durham.
72-73, 82, 83, 91, 110, 111, 119, 194, 215 Leases.
115, 156 Tithes of Holmside, 1662, 1670.
120 Note of his over assessment because of disaffection, 1663.
124a Loose leaf with a list of parishes followed in a name.
130 Diary for 1664-1665 recordin Bishop of Durham's restriction on Timothy Whittingham's movements.
225 Copy of a deposition concerning poaching, December 1753.
232 An alphabetical order of 24 parishioners of Lanchester, 1718.
236 'An account of our souls'.
243-253 'The names of such persons as I have married', 1652-1656.
254 An account of delivery of props, 1757.
255-258 Account of money collected from Durham parishes for the purpose of Christmas in Poland, for which the High Sheriff was responsible, April-May 1658.
263 Letter to a doctor, 9 February 1680.
265-268 Copies of letters and warrents concerning Timothy Whittingham, imprisonment and release for good behaviour by the Bishop of Durham, February 1662.
269 Copy of an order for eradicating and removing rogues from the county, 2 March 1665.
270 Copy of an order by Timothy Whittingham for prevention of drinking and frequenting ale houses on Sunday, 1656-1658.
271-272 Recipies. |