Reference code: GB-0033-FRM
Title: Frosterley Manorial Documents
Dates of creation: most of the papers belong to the twentieth century, but there are two court books (items 28 & 29) which cover the years 1465-1938, with many gaps.
Extent: 1 metre.
Held by: Durham University Library, Archives and Special Collections
Origination: records of the manor of Frosterley, Co. Durham.
Language:
English
Before the dissolution of monastic houses, Frosterley formed part of the estates of Kepier Hospital. The first Court Book contains transcripts of courts held in the times of the following Masters of Kepier Hospital, Henry Gillow 1465, Roger
Layburn in 1502 and 1503, John Boerius 1504 and 1508 and William Frankeleyn 1518, 1522, 1530 and 1537. Shortly after the dissolution, Kepier Hospital and its possessions, the manors of Gilesgate and Frosterley, passed to John Heath, who held the
Frosterley court in the 1560s and 1570s. He died in 1591. In 1599 Anthony Vasey held Frosterley, as did his nephew and heir John, until about 1630 when the manor was acquired by Henry Maddison, who died in 1634. He was followed as lord of the manor
by his son Sir Lionel Maddison who died in 1646. His only child Elizabeth married Sir George Vane. She died in 1684 and her son, Lionel Vane, held the Frosterley courts till at least 1686. In 1711 John Stephenson, a Newcastle merchant, held
Frosterley and his daughter and co-heir Margaret, married Cuthbert Swinburn. She lived till 1760, but in 1776 her son, John Swinburn, held the court, dying in 1773 without children. By 1774 William Gibson had obtained Frosterley, probably from John
Swinburn's brother and heir William. Gibson held courts in 1775 and 1783 also. In 1791 Robert Wright was lord of the manor and in 1798, 1804 and 1808 William Skinner held courts as trustee of Wright's heirs. By 1817 Skinner himself was the Lord, but
about 1825 he sold out to Cuthbert Rippon. His grandson, Valentine Rippon sold the manor to the Pease family after 1894. This list is probably incomplete, owing to gaps in the records.
The Wolsingham inclosure award of 1767 gives a good indication of the boundary of Frosterley manor.
Copyholders became entitled to enfranchise their property, (to extinguish the landlord's right to manorial incidents,) by a payment, under the Copyhold Acts of 1894 and 1922. As time went on landlords became eager to encourage remaining
copyholders to make compensation agreements. In much of the correspondence accompanying the agreements here, the initiative came from the copyholder, or from the lawyer of an intending purchaser, asking for extinguishment, but in other cases e.g.
nos. 38, 41 and 66 the Steward of the Manor suggested it. The amount of compensation to be paid depended on the value of the property, according to set tables. The amount required by the Steward was rarely questioned, as it was in no. 44. The
compensation agreements in this collection are either copies or drafts. After an agreement was made, the Peases' agent in the estate office, Mr. Hudson or Mr. Glover, was asked to mark appropriately the copy of the plan of the estate in the estate
office.
Documents relating to the title of the Rippon & Pease families to Frosterley Manor and the Rogerley Hall Estate, Stanhope parish, Co. Durham, court books and papers relating to Frosterley manor court and the extinguishment of manorial
incidents, compensation and other agreements, papers relating to specific properties arranged by street, controversy over the "Bawkhouse", Dam Hill Frosterley, plans, rentals and correspondence.
Most of this collection of documents dates from the third and fourth decades of the twentieth century, when copyhold land was being enfranchised. The papers were in the possession of Messrs. Lucas, Hutchinson and Meek and other lawyers who were
successive Stewards of the Manor for Pease and Partners, not in the estate office, which was presided over by Mr. Hudson and Mr. Glover. Most of the compensation agreements contain plans of the properties involved.
Deposited on loan by Mr. Leonard Pattinson of the solicitors Hodgson & Angus of Stanhope in 1980.
The documents were received unarranged. Items which obviously belonged together have been listed so. Items found tied together have been usually listed together, although occasionally the connection between them is not always immediately
apparent. Many of these agreements and other deeds appear also in the later court book. Where the word "owner" is used in the list this refers to the (ex) copyholder (not the lord of the manor). The items in this list are nearly all in good
condition and made of paper unless otherwise stated. Occasionally the call number is marked on the dorse of a deed, but the manor being small, such numbers were not found so useful as on larger manors.
Durham Bishopric Halmote Court
For the boundary of Frosterley Manor, see the Wolsingham Inclosure Award, 1767.
A: Documents relating to the title of the Rippon and Pease families to Frosterley Manor and Rogerley.FRM/1 1908
"Rough Statement of Facts" of the legal history and problems of Frosterley Manor after 1876.
Paper 3ff.
FRM/2 22 April 1908
Opinion of Herbert Mackay on the legal standing of members of the Pease family in relation to Frosterley Manor.
8ff.
FRM/3 n.d. [c. 1909]
Schedule of 20 deeds relating to Rogerley Hall Estate, 1825-1909.
Paper 1f.
FRM/4 n.d. [c. 1934]
List of 7 deeds relating to the Rippons, Peases and Frosterley, 1863-1934.
Paper 1f.
FRM/5 1940
List of 10 securities held by the National Provincial Bank, Darlington, for Mrs. Julia Kate Rippon in 1940.
Paper 1f.
B: Memoranda on procedure and information useful for the general administration of Frosterley Manor.
For the procedure in making compensation agreements, see Section E.
FRM/6 [c. 1905]
Frosterley Manor - directions for carrying on.
Paper 4ff.
FRM/7 n.d. [19th cent.]
Red-backed small notebook entitled
“Manor of Frosterley Order for proceeding at the opening and closing of the Court with copy of the boundary roll” [of 1745 ].
24ff.
FRM/8 n.d. [c. 1900]
Formularies found loose inside the cover of the later court book (
item 29)
(a) how to certify a copy of a surrender.
(b) how to certify an office copy.
(c) how to certify that a deed was entered on the court rolls.
(d) how to enter a deed on the court rolls.
(e) part of another formulary written on the back of a form used at Wolsingham Petty Sessions, for recording the statement of the charged.
Paper 1f. each
FRM/9 n.d. [19 cent.]
Formulary - how to certify that a deed was entered on the court rolls.
Paper 1f.
FRM/10
10 tied together in a bundle with Nos.
16,
17,
18,
84.
FRM/10.(a)
Draft notice of entitlement to enfranchisement under the Copyhold Act of 1894.
1f
FRM/10(b) 1900
Draft form of admittance.
Paper 1f.
FRM/10(c) 1904
Draft summons of a juryman for Frosterley Manor, modelled on a printed notice made for the Manor of Hutton Henry.
Paper 1f.
FRM/10(d) 1904
Draft notice of a perambulation of the manor, to be followed by a meeting of the Court Leet, view of the Frankpledge and Court Baron, modelled on a printed notice for the manor of Hutton Henry.
Paper 1f.
FRM/10(e) 1904
As (d) but modelled on a boldly printed handbill.
1f
FRM/11 n.d. [c. 1904]
Extracts from the Wolsingham Common Inclosure Award [of 1767,] concerning its boundary and disputes about it.
Paper 1f.
FRM/12 1858
A printed Parliamentary Bill for
“the future Appropriation of the Tithe.... of Lead Ores in the Parishes of Stanhope and Wolsingham....” .
Paper 6ff.
Section C: Appointments of Stewards to Frosterley Manor and deputations made by them.
Nos. 16, 17, 18, 84 and 10 were found tied together. There are more deputations with the papers belonging to individual properties.
FRM/13 3 January 1764
Deputation by Edward Stewart, Steward of Frosterley Manor, of John Westgarth of Unthank and George Chapman of Frosterley, for business including Soutre House and Soutre Croft.
(for Soutre Croft see also Section H.)
1f
FRM/14 n.d. 19th cent.
Draft of part of a deputation by William Thomas Knaggs, Steward of Frosterley Manor, of Alfred Jobson, to take the acknowledgement of a fine from Sir. J.A. Pease. The draft is written on the back of a form for certifying the Costs of Prosecution
at Wolsingham Petty Sessions.
1f
FRM/15 14 May 1904
Appointment of Ernest Edwin Meek as Steward of Frosterley Manor.
Parchment 2ff.
FRM/16
Draft of 15.
4ff
FRM/17 c. 1904
Deputation (draft) by Ernest Edwin Meek, Steward of Frosterley Manor, of Gideon Hingley, schoolmaster and Henry Thompson, income tax collector, for property on the village green in 1904.
The draft has been used
again to deputise William Ridley and Alfred Macadam.
(For the village green area, see also Section K.)
Paper 1f.
FRM/18 30 October 1904
Deputation (draft) by Ernest Edwin Meek, Steward of Frosterley Manor, of Norman Dewhurst, solicitor of Bishop Auckland, for business involving Ridley, Humble, Ogilvie & Thompson.
Paper 1f.
FRM/19 26 September 1906
Deputation of Ernest Edwin Meek, Steward of Frosterley Manor, of George Vickers Head of Stanhope, for Soutre Croft.
(For Soutre Croft, see also Section H)
Paper 2ff.
FRM/20 4 March 1908
Appointment of Arthur Percy Whitwell as Steward of Frosterley Manor.
Parchment 2ff.
FRM/21
Draft of 20.
Paper 4ff.
FRM/22 27 August 1908
Deputation by Arthur Percy Whitwell, Steward of Frosterley Manor, of George Vickers Head of Stanhope, for Soutre Croft.
(For Soutre Croft, see also Section H)
Paper 2ff.
FRM/23 1 November 1910
Deputation by Arthur Percy Whitwell, Steward of Frosterley Manor, of George Horseman Todd of Darlington, Woodrow Dennis of Leighton Buzzard and Albert Farquar of Hurworth upon Tees, for land south of the Lobley Hill road in Frosterley.
Paper 2ff.
FRM/24
Draft of 23.
Paper 3ff.
FRM/25 27 December 1910
Deputation by Arthur Percy Whitwell, Steward of Frosterley Manor, of Charles Todd of Darlington, for land south of the Lobley Hill road in Frosterley.
Paper 2ff.
FRM/26
Draft of 25.
Paper 3ff.
FRM/27 8 November 1920
Deputation by Arthur Percy Whitwell, Steward of Frosterley Manor, of Joseph James Devey of Wolsingham for a house and butcher's shop in Frosterley.
(See also
no. 44)
Paper 2ff.
D: Frosterley Court Books and one jury list.FRM/28
Manor of Frosterley. Court Book. 1465-1808
17th century and later.
This book is a mixture of:
(a) business copied from older court rolls long after the event
(b) business enrolled about the time it was transacted
(c) numerous pages left blank.
"Out of court" business began to be transacted early in the seventeenth century, but its manner of enrollment varied. Sometimes it was written up as it occurred, after the business of the last court held. Other times such business was
written up with the proceedings of the court next held after the "out of court" business occurred (which might be years later,) in order that the record in the Court book could be signed by the homage. This entering of chronologically-spread
business under one date, means that business in this book was more evenly spread out than the guide to dates of entries on the following page might suggest.
The following list is a guide to the pages, on or near which, business relating to the years specified, may be found.
| | |
| 1465 | p. 253 |
| 1502 | p. 22 |
| 1503 | p. 16 |
| 1504 | p. 20 |
| 1508 | p. 6 |
| 1518 | p. 9 |
| 1522 | p. 3 |
| 1529 | p. 53 & 68 |
| 1530 | p. 253 |
| 1537 | p. 1 |
| 1567 | p. 254 |
| 1579 | p. 255 |
| 1599 | p. 255 |
| 1605 | p. 37 |
| 1607 | p. 38 |
| 1608 | p. 41 |
| 1609 | p. 44 |
| 1610 | p. 46 |
| 1611 | p. 48 |
| 1612 | p. 50 & 64 |
| 1613 | p. 55 |
| 1614 | p. 64 & 258 |
| 1615 | p. 56 |
| 1617 | p. 57 |
| 1621 | p. 58 |
| 1626 | p. 71 & 75 |
| 1629 | p. 73 & 81 |
| 1634 | p. 88 |
| 1635 | p. 91 |
| 1642 | p. 97 |
| 1648 | p. 107 |
| 1650 | p. 113 |
| 1651 | p. 117 |
| 1652 | p. 122 |
| 1655 | p. 125 |
| 1659 | p. 128 |
| 1663 | p. 133 |
| 1676 | p. 137 |
| 1686 | p. 143 |
| 1711 | p. 147 |
| 1725 | p. 153 |
| 1730 | p. 157 |
| 1745 | p. 159 |
| 1750 | p. 165 |
| 1754 | p. 173 |
| 1765 | p. 177 |
| 1774 | p. 181 |
| 1775 | p. 195 |
| 1782 | p. 328-9 |
| 1783 | p. 201 |
| 1791 | p. 207 |
| 1794 | p. 215 |
| 1797 | p. 328 |
| 1798 | p. 221 |
| 1804 | p. 263 |
| 1808 | p. 287 |
The contents fall into the following sections:
329 pp.
Binding: Rough calf, back board with front-covering flap
FRM/28/1 pp. 1-27 1502-1537
This section is in one hand of the early seventeenth century. The selected entries are not in chronological order.
FRM/28/2 pp. 37-101 1605-1642
This section, which is mainly in chronological order, is in one hand of the early-mid seventeenth century, but the variations suggest it was written over a period of time.
FRM/28/3 pp. 107-124 1648-1652
This section is in contemporary hand, in chronological order.
FRM/28/4 pp. 125-146 1655-1686
This section is in one contemporary hand in chronological order.
FRM/28/5 pp. 147-234 1711-1798
This section is in chronological order in a series of different contemporary hands.
FRM/28/6 pp. 253-261 1465-1635
These selected entries are in chronological order, copied out in one hand, perhaps in 1635.
Frosterley Manor formed part of the estates of St. Giles Hospital of Kepier, Durham, before the Dissolution.
FRM/28/7 pp. 263-293 1804-1808
Contemporary transactions in and out of court.
FRM/28/8 p. 321 n.d. (17th century)
List of reserved rents.
FRM/28/9 p. 328
Arrears 1782 and 1797.
FRM/28/10 p. 329 n.d. [c. 1782]
List of copyhold and out rents.
FRM/29
Manor of Frosterley. Court Book. 1808-1938
19th century.
Business was enrolled in this Court Book as it occurred. From 1808-1856 Courts Baron were held by the Lords of the Manor including Valentine
Rippon, who died in 1881. "Out of court" business took place too. The Rippons sold most of the property to the Peases and Valentine Arthur Rippon acted as their Steward. After 1881 all the business in this book was transacted "out of court". (A
court projected in 1904, see
no. 10, is not mentioned in this volume). The following Courts Baron were held.
| | |
| 1808 | p. 1 |
| 1826 | p. 47 |
| 1817 | p. 9 |
| 1846 | p. 69 |
| 1821 | p. 23 |
| 1856 | p. 95 & 199 |
| 1824 | p. 39 |
Valentine Rippon's will, proved 1881 and relevant documents were enrolled at p. 263. After a gap until 1900, manorial business and related affairs were again enrolled, often with maps attached. Copies of other individual documents in this collection
have been enrolled in this volume.
paginated 1-473, rest blank.
Binding: Rough calf
FRM/30
Index (incomplete) Manor of Frosterley Court Rolls [1808-1938] 19th century.
14ff
Binding: Exercise book with marbled card cover.
FRM/31 n.d. mid 18th century
List of the [Frosterley] Jury.
1f
E: General papers relating to the extinguishment of manorial incidents, compensation and other agreements.FRM/32 early 20th century
Draft notices concerning enfranchisement under the Copyhold Act together with duplicate typescript copies, with and without headings and with and without the stamped signature of A.P. Whitwell, Steward of Frosterley Manor.
16ff.
FRM/33
A collection of papers concerning the extinguishment of manorial incidents.
FRM/33(a) 1929-30
Correspondence between G.M. Sladden, Registrar of the Halmote Court Office, Durham and Arthur Whitwell, Steward of Frosterley Manor.
Sladden's scale of charges is included.
8ff
FRM/33(b) 6 December 1935
Four copies of a circular letter to tenants in Frosterley from Arthur Whitwell, Steward, encouraging them to extinguish incidents before the end of 1935.
8ff
FRM/33(c) September 1935
Short particulars of surrenders on the Court Rolls and relevant compensation agreements.
4ff
FRM/33(d) November 1935
Short particulars of surrenders on the Court Rolls and relevant compensation agreements.
Paper 3ff.
FRM/33(e) January 1933
Printed notice of the scales of charges for compensation agreements on the Ecclesiastical Commissioners' Durham Manors.
1f
FRM/33(f) n.d. c. 1933
Note about Stamp Duty on compensation agreements.
1f
FRM/33(g) 1938
Printed pamphlet from the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries about extinguishment of manorial incidents.
Paper 2ff.
FRM/33(h) n.d. early 20th century
Notice to copyholders in Frosterley from A. Whitwell, Steward, about enfranchisement (as
no. 32).
1f
FRM/34 n.d. c. 1924
Return of unextinguished manorial incidents, under the Property Acts 1922 and 1924.
Two printed blank forms for return to the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries.
2ff. each
FRM/35
Lists, stapled together of:-
5ff.
FRM/35(a)
The manorial incidents as stated by the Copyhold Act of 1922.
FRM/35(b)
Short particulars of surrenders on the Frosterley Court Rolls concerning the extinguishment of manorial incidents, 1816-1920.
FRM/35(c) n.d. c. 1935
Compensation agreements completed 1930-35.
5ff
FRM/36 n.d. c. 1938
List of names and properties in Frosterley for which compensation agreements were made, 1930-38.
Paper 2ff.
FRM/37 n.d. c. 1938
List of eight miscellaneous agreements made 1914-38, about Post Office struts etc.
1f
F: Documents concerning specific properties:- Rogerley Quarry etc. Frosterley.FRM/38 (a) 31 December 1935
Compensation agreement (draft).
3ff and plan
FRM/38 (b) 1935-6
Correspondence, about land at Intake, north of Rogerley Quarry, Frosterley, owner Matthew Golightly.
10ff
FRM/39 (a) 1937
Abstract of title to land at Dam Hill.
4ff
FRM/39 (b) 1936-42
Correspondence, about 7 plots of land, owned by the trustees of C.E. Morgan, being the old mill, cottages, gardens, part of Intake Farm, Rogerley Quarry, Dam Hill and Western Hill, Frosterley.
(Compensation agreement is not present, but dated
4 August 1937).
33ff
G: Documents relating to specific properties:- Front St., Frosterley, north side
East of Frosterley Post Office lies a block of land, a plan of which, with no relevant papers, is in
no. 70, which is correspondence relating to nos. 1-6 Front Street, nearly opposite.
FRM/40. (a) 29 April 1901
Duplicate Order made in the High Court of Justice, Chancery Division, concerning the "Hare & Hounds", Frosterley and the estate of William Peacock whose will was proved 1897.
Paper 2ff.
FRM/40 (b)
Certificate of enrollment on the Frosterley Rolls.
1f
FRM/41. (a) 31 December 1935
Compensation agreement (draft).
3ff and plan
FRM/41 (b) 1935-37
Correspondence, in which the lord's valuation of the "Hare & Hounds", Frosterley, was queried by the owners, J.W. Cameron & Co., brewers.
22ff
FRM/42. (a) 4 August 1938
Compensation agreement (draft).
3ff and plan
FRM/42 (b) 1938
Correspondence, about a house next to the "Hare & Hounds", Frosterley, occupied by George Gardner and owned by John James Peacock.
11ff
FRM/43. (a) 20 December 1935
Compensation agreement (draft).
3ff and plan
FRM/43 (b) 1935-6
Correspondence about a house in Front St., Frosterley, owned by James Edward Barton.
11ff
FRM/44. (a)
Copy will of Matthew Lee dated 18 June 1888.
[He owned a house and butcher's shop on the north side of the Lobley Hill turnpike road.]
Paper 2ff.
FRM/44 (b) 1910
Correspondence.
15ff
FRM/44 (c) n.d. 1910
Draft deputation by Arthur Percy Whitwell, Steward of Frosterley Manor, of Ewart Richardson of Middlesborough for a house and late butcher's shop in Frosterley.
Paper 2ff.
FRM/44 (d) 17 September 1910
Surrender.
Sir Joseph Walton and John Walton to Matthew Lee.
Paper 2ff.
FRM/44 (e)
Copy draft of 44 (d).
Paper 3ff.
FRM/44 (f) 1920-21
Correspondence.
10ff
FRM/44 (g) 8 November 1920
Draft deputation by Arthur Percy Whitwell, Steward of Frosterley Manor of Joseph James Devey of Wolsingham, for a house and late butcher's shop.
Paper 3ff.
FRM/44 (h) 9 November 1920
Copy surrender and defeazance, Matthew Lee to James E. Barton, property as 44 (g).
Paper 3ff.
FRM/45 9 November 1920
Surrender.
James Edward Barton admitted to property as no. 44.
Paper 2ff.
FRM/46. (a) 15 January 1933
Compensation agreement (draft).
3ff and plan.
FRM/46 (b) 1932-33
Correspondence, about land east of the "Railway Tavern", Frosterley, owned by North Eastern Breweries.
16ff and plan
H: Documents concerning specific properties:- Front St, and Soutre Croft, Frosterley, behind Front St.
See also Section I for Croft Terrace East and Croft Terrace West. See also no. 13
FRM/47 25 September 1876
Copy surrender and defeazance, Joseph Vipond etc. to J.W. Pease etc. of two copyhold dwelling houses and land in Soutre Croft.
(with added memoranda that 2492 sq. yds. of the said property was surrendered to Matthew Dowson on the
26 September 1900.)
Paper 2ff.
FRM/48 26 September 1900
Surrender and defeazance, Sir J.W Pease etc. to Matthew Dowson, part of a garth called Soutre Croft.
3ff and plan
FRM/49. (a) 1908
Agreement (draft) between Pease & Partners Ltd. and Albert Lee for Lee's purchase of three cottages on part of Soutre Croft.
plan and 4ff
FRM/49 (b) 1908-1911
Correspondence. This includes a letter of 19 August 1908 from Lucas, Hutchinson & Meek of Darlington to G.Y. Wall of Durham Halmote Office, asking about customs of Bishopric manors and another of
31 December 1910, about the insufficiency of a female witness to Maud Pease's signature.
16ff
FRM/50 30 July 1910
Draft admittance, Sir Alfred Edward Pease, Joseph Albert Pease and Maud Mary Pease, devisees of Sir Joseph Whitwell Pease, admitted to a fourth part of Soutre Croft and cottages, Frosterley.
4ff
FRM/51 30 July 1910
Draft admittance, Sir Alfred Edward Pease, Joseph Albert Pease and Maud Mary Pease, devisees of Sir Joseph Whitwell Pease, admitted to a fourth part of Soutre Croft and cottages, Frosterley.
Paper 3ff.
FRM/52 30 July 1910
Draft admittance, Arthur Francis Pease and Herbert Pike Pease, devisees of Arthur Pease, admitted to a fourth part of Soutre Croft and cottages, Frosterley.
Paper 3ff.
FRM/53 30 July 1910
Draft admittance, Sir James Backhouse Dale and Anne Marion Stuart Hutchinson, devisees of Sir David Dale, admitted to a fourth part of Soutre Croft and cottages, Frosterley.
4ff
FRM/54 2 November 1910
Surrender, Matthew Dowson to F.H. Thompson in trust for John Joseph Reed and George Reed, contractors, of part of a close called Soutre Croft.
4ff incl. plan
FRM/55 2 November 1910
Surrender, Sir A.E. Pease etc. to James Anthony Parker in trust for Pease and Partners Ltd., part of Soutre Croft.
plan and 4ff
FRM/56. (a)
Copy surrender as 55.
plan and 9ff
FRM/56 (b) 1910
Correspondence.
Paper 3ff.
FRM/57. (a) 28 December 1910
Surrender, J.A. Parker to Albert Lee, part of Soutre Croft.
22ff incl. plan
FRM/57 (b)
Draft of 57 (a).
4ff and plan
FRM/58. (a) 21 December 1928
Conveyance (copy) J.A. Hewitson to J.T. Armstrong of part of Soutre Croft.
Paper 3ff.
FRM/(b) 1928
Correspondence.
Paper 3ff.
FRM/59. (a) 31 December 1935
Compensation agreement (draft).
3ff and plan
FRM/59 (b) 1935-36
Correspondence, about part of Soutre Croft containing a house, shop, two cottages and a garden belonging to Albert Lee.
[See also
no. 103 ].
12ff and plan
I: Documents concerning specific properties:- Croft Terrace East and Croft Terrace West behind Front St., Frosterley
For Soutre Croft before the building of these Terraces, see Section H. The numbering of these properties may appear inconsistent. The premises have been dealt with in topographical order, north to
south along Croft Terrace East them similarly along Croft Terrace West.
FRM/60. (a) 27 July 1933
Compensation agreement (draft).
3ff and plan
FRM/60 (b) 1932
Correspondence, about a workshop and premises, [adjoining no. 1] Croft Terrace East, belonging to J.T. Gardner.
plan and 10ff
FRM/61. (a) 19 November 1932
Compensation agreement (draft) for 1 Croft Terr. East.
plan and 3ff
FRM/61 (b) 19 November 1932
Compensation agreement (draft) for 2 Croft Terr. East.
plan and 3ff
FRM/(c) 1932
Correspondence, with the owners, G.H. Waller etc, representatives of Jos. and M.H. Waller, deceased.
15ff
FRM/62. (a) 31 May 1935
Compensation agreement (draft).
plan and 3ff
FRM/62 (b) 1935
Correspondence, about 3 Croft Terrace, belonging to Thomas Gardner etc. representatives of Thomas Airey deceased.
18ff
FRM/63. (a) 31 December 1935
Compensation agreement (draft).
2 plans and 3ff
FRM/63 (b) 1935
Correspondence, about no. 4 Croft Terrace East and a piece of land at the Batts, Frosterley, both owned by Joseph Dennison.
15ff
FRM/64. (a) 28 August 1930
Compensation agreement (draft).
plan and 3ff
FRM/64 (b) 1930
Correspondence, concerning nos. 5, 8 and 12 Croft Terrace which belonged to Elizabeth Waller, who died before May 1930.
1 and 18ff
FRM/65. (a) 31 December 1935
Compensation agreement (draft).
plan and 3ff
FRM/65 (b) 1935-6
Correspondence, about 6 Croft Terrace East, owner John Thomas Gardner.
13ff
FRM/66. (a) 31 December 1935
Compensation agreement (draft)
plan and 3ff
FRM/66 (b) 1935-37
Correspondence, about no. 2 [recte 9] Croft Terrace West, owner Thomas Armstrong.
12ff
FRM/67 28 August 1908
Surrender, Frederick Henry Thompson etc. to John Mansfield and Thomas Readshaw in trust for Robert Davis, of part of Soutre Croft [10 Croft Terr. West].
3ff incl. plan
FRM/68. (a) 28 December 1935
Compensation agreement (draft).
plan and 3ff
FRM/68 (b) 1935-6
Correspondence, concerning no. 9 [recte 11] Croft Terrace West, which belonged to Mary Jane Gardner, not Mrs. Jane Bainbridge.
19ff
FRM/69. (a) 31 December 1935
Compensation agreement (draft).
plan and 3ff
FRM/69 (b) 1936-40
Correspondence, about a house [no. 13] Croft Terrace West, otherwise known as West Croft, Souter Croft or Holmfield, which belonged to Isabella Hurd.
17ff
J: Documents concerning specific properties:- Front Street, Frosterley, south sideFRM/70 1930
Correspondence, concerning three houses and other premises, nos. 1-6 Front Street, belonging to Mrs. Elizabeth Humble and the late Jane Ann Roddam.
With this bundle of correspondence is a plan, seemingly irrelevant, of a large block of
property on the north side of Front Street, almost opposite nos. 1-6 lying east of the Post Office.
6ff and plan, 1f
FRM/71. (a) 13 May 1932
Compensation agreement (draft).
plan and 2ff
FRM/71 (b) 1931-32
Correspondence, about no. 1 Front Street, a house and shop belonging to Thomas Airey.
13ff
FRM/72. (a) 17 August 1931
Compensation agreement (draft).
plan and 3ff
FRM/72 (b) 1930-31
Correspondence, about houses, nos. 2 and 3 Front St., owned by Mrs. E.E. Gowland etc. (Harrison Gowland deceased).
14ff
FRM/73. (a) 1 July 1931
Compensation agreement (draft) for nos. 4 and 5 Front St., made with Mrs. Agnes Taylor.
plan and 3ff
FRM/73 (b) 1 July 1931
Compensation agreement (draft) for no. 6 Front Street made with Robert Greenwell.
plan and 3ff
FRM/73 (c) 1930-31
Correspondence, about nos. 4-6 Front Street and a house at Dam Hill.
19ff
FRM/74. (a) 27 August 1929
Conveyance (copy) of no. 6 Front Street from Thomas Airey to Robert Greenwell.
Paper 3ff.
FRM/74 (b) 1929
Correspondence.
4ff
FRM/75. (a) 31 December 1935
Compensation agreement (draft).
plan and 3ff
FRM/75 (b) 1935-36
Correspondence, about a house and shop in Front St., [? no. 7, next to no. 6] owned by William Moffatt and others.
Mrs. Ward, the owner of neighbouring freehold property was approached first, by mistake.
15ff
FRM/76. (a) 24 February 1931
Compensation agreement (draft).
plan and 3ff
FRM/76 (b) 1930-31
Correspondence, about a house and shop in Front Street, just west of the village green, owner Charles Simpson.
15ff
FRM/77. (a) 15 June 1937
Compensation agreement (draft).
plan and 3ff
FRM/77 (b) 1935-37
Correspondence about 3 houses in Front Street, just west of the village green, owner Alfred Macadam, but once Ann Ridley and Elizabeth Humble.
18ff
FRM/78. (a) 31 October 1930
Compensation agreement (draft).
plan and 3ff
FRM/78 (b) 20 September 1930
Assent (copy) to vesting.
4ff
FRM/78 (c) 22 September 1930
Assent (copy) to vesting.
4ff
FRM/78 (d) 1930
Correspondence, relating to 2 dwelling houses in Front Street, just west of the village green, owned by Mary Sanderson, a widow who died in 1930. Widow's free bench is mentioned.
26ff
K: Documents concerning specific properties in Front Street, Frosterley continued:- the village green and properties lying to the south of it.
See also items 76-78.
FRM/79. (a) 31 December 1935
Extinguishment of quit rent for Frosterley Village Green.
plan and 1f
FRM/79 (b) 1935-36
Correspondence, with Stanhope Parish Council.
The Lords of the Manor refused to include the Pinfold.
11ff
FRM/80. (a) 4 April 1930
Compensation agreement (draft).
plan and 3ff
FRM/80 (b) 1929-30
Correspondence, about 2 houses and the Pinfold, Front Street, Frosterley, owned by William Gregory, (who died before December 1929) before him by George Maddison from 1870-1921 and before them by Nancy Watson, John Harrison Watson, Thomas Watson and Henry Edmund Cartwright.
19ff
FRM/80 (c)
Compensation agreement (draft).
plan and 3ff
FRM/81 1933-34
Correspondence, about a house and premises at the east end of Frosterley Green, owned by D.A. Slack, previously by William Gregory and earlier by Charleton Elliott Morgan.
17ff
FRM/82
Documents concerning a house and premises on land, measuring 108ft from east to west and 53ft 6in from north to south, lying south of Frosterley village green (no plans.)
FRM/82 (a) 22 May 1903
Statutory declaration (copy) of John O. Morgan.
Paper 2ff.
FRM/82 (b) 26 May 1903
Conveyance (copy), trustees of C.E. Morgan deceased to Jane Ann Ridley and Isabella Humble.
Paper 2ff.
FRM/82 (c) 30 October 1904
Deputation by Ernest Edwin Meek, Steward of Frosterley Manor, of Norman Dewhurst of Bishop Auckland.
Paper 2ff.
FRM/82 (d) 9 November 1904
Surrender, Ridley and Humble to J.F. Oglivie and H. Thompson in trust.
Paper 2ff.
FRM/82 (e)
Draft of (d).
Paper 3ff.
FRM/82 (f) 9 December 1926
Conveyance (copy) representatives of Emily Mary Bird deceased to Joseph L. Bird.
4ff
FRM/82 (g) 16 May 1927
Conveyance (copy) Joseph Bird to Charles Simpson.
Paper 3ff.
FRM/82 (h) 17 May 1927
Mortgage (copy) Charles Simpson to J.L. Bird.
4ff
FRM/82 (i) 1926
Correspondence.
5ff
FRM/82 (j) 1927
Correspondence.
6ff
FRM/83
Documents concerning various properties all south of Frosterley village green.
FRM/83 (a) 30 June 1904
Admittance (draft) of Jane Ann Ridley and Elizabeth Humble to a plot 108ft from east to west and 53ft 6in from north to south.
Paper 3ff.
FRM/(b) 31 March 1905
Deputation by Ernest Edwin Meek, Steward of Frosterley Manor of Gideon Hingley and Henry Thompson for business concerning a parcel of ground 35ft 9in from east to west and 53ft 6in from north to south.
Paper 2ff.
FRM/83 (c) 31 March 1905
Deputation by the same of William Ridley and Alfred Macadam for the same plot of land.
Paper 2ff.
FRM/83 (d) 31 March 1905
Surrender James Finlay Ogilvie and others to William House and Thomas Readshaw, trustees of James Sanderson, of a plot measuring 35ft 9in from east to west and 53ft 6 in from north to south.
4ff incl. plan
FRM/83 (e) 30 September 1926
Copy vacating receipt relating to (d).
Paper 2ff.
FRM/83 (f) 1927
Correspondence relating to (d) and (e).
5ff
FRM/84
Notes of fees to be charged for two pieces of business (property not specified).
(a) J.A. Ridley and E. Humble, June 1900.
(b) J.A. Ridley to J.F. Ogilvie, October 1900.
Paper 2ff.
(Nos. 10, 16-18 and 84 were found tied together)
L: Documents concerning specific properties:- Dam Hill, Frosterley
The items are arranged from west to east along Dam Hill.
See also items 39, 73, 90 and Section O.
FRM/85. (a) 1 July 1931
Compensation agreement (draft).
plan and 3ff
FRM/85 (b) 1930-31
Correspondence, concerning a house [no. 1] at Dam Hill owned and occupied by Thomas Proud and earlier, about 1870, surrendered by Nancy Watson, John Harrison, Thomas Watson and Henry Edmund Cartwright to George Maddison, along with the rest of
the row.
plan and 5ff
FRM/86. (a) 23 December 1935
Compensation agreement (draft).
plan and 3ff
FRM/86 (b) 1935-36
Correspondence, concerning a house [no. 2] at Dam Hill owned by Thomas Albert Madgin, next to Mr. Proud.
plan and 11ff
FRM/87. (a) 3 August 1935
Compensation agreement (draft).
plan and 3ff
FRM/87 (b) 1935
Correspondence, concerning no. 3 Dam Hill, owned by Thomas Proud.
plan and 14ff
FRM/88. (a) 19 June 1931
Compensation agreement (draft).
plan and 3ff
FRM/88 (b) 1931
Correspondence, about a house at Dam Hill owned by Arthur Newton (Thomas and Eleanor Newton deceased).
17ff
FRM/89. (a) 20 November 1928
Conveyance (copy).
Thomas Dowson to Jane Simpson, of no. 5 Dam Hill.
plan and 3ff
FRM/89 (b) 1928
Correspondence concerning (a).
4ff
FRM/89 (c) 21 November 1934
Compensation agreement (draft).
plan and 3ff
FRM/89 (d) 1934
Correspondence, concerning Jane Simpson's house, including observations about compensation for the extinguishing of manorial incidents after 1926.
16ff
M: Documents concerning specific properties:- at and near the Batts, Frosterley
The property concerned was five pieces of land mainly at the east end of Frosterley, at the Batts and on both sides of the railway.
See also
no. 63
FRM/90. (a) 31 December 1935
Compensation agreement (draft).
plan and 3ff
FRM/90 (b) 1935-36
Correspondence, with Thomas Gibson's executor William Pattinson, about a house and garth at Crag Cottages [west of the Batts] and a piggery at Dam Hill.
Gibson owned also a bungalow, garage and Bridge End Farm. [See also
no. 104].
14ff
FRM/91. (a) 31 December 1935
Extinguishment of quit rent.
plan and 1f
FRM/91 (b) 1935-36
Correspondence about Hannah Walton's garden (late W. Walton) at Frosterley Batts.
A house at Bridge End was concerned first by mistake.
10ff
FRM/92. (a) 31 December 1935
Compensation agreement (draft).
plan and 3ff
FRM/92 (b) 1935-36
Correspondence, about a house at the Batts owned by Henry Robson.
11ff
FRM/93. (a) 31 December 1935
Compensation agreement (draft).
plan and 3ff
FRM/93 (b) 1935-38
Correspondence, about Joseph Proud's house and garth, which had been dealt with as freehold.
13ff
FRM/94. (a) 4 August 1937
Compensation agreement (draft).
plan and 3ff
FRM/94 (b) 4 August 1937
Draft of (a).
Paper 2ff.
N: Frosterley:- location unspecified.FRM/95 1908
Correspondence, concerning a surrender by Thompson and others to Mansfield and Readshaw.
7ff
FRM/96 1929
Correspondence, including a vacating receipt of 11 June 1929, relating to property belonging to J. Jopling and G.W. Hodgson.
[No location is given here or in the larger Court Roll at p. 385].
7ff
O: Papers relating to a controversy over the "Bawkhouse" near Dam Hill, FrosterleyFRM/97 May 1909
Letters from Robert Gowland and George Gregory, members of Frosterley Council, to Messrs. Lucas, Hutchinson and Meek, agents for Pease & Partners, about inspecting Frosterley Manor Court Rolls for entries concerning Dam Hill.
6ff
FRM/98 3, 7 and 11 May 1909
Three memoranda headed "Mr. G.E. Jannings" concerning Mr. Gowland's request to inspect Frosterley Manor Court Rolls on behalf of the Parish Council.
Paper 3ff.
FRM/99. (a) n.d.
Note about Elliot Morgan's enclosure of parts of Dam Hill and his filling up of one of the dams.
1f
FRM/99 (b) n.d.
Note of Elliot Morgan's solicitor.
1f
FRM/100 n.d.
Notes of entries on the court rolls concerning the "Bawkhouse", 1774-1856.
4ff
FRM/101 n.d.
Notes about a charity, its trustees and concern over a piece of land called either the "Bawkhouse, Dam Hill or Barkside".
1f
P: Plans
Some of these show signs of once having been attached to deeds.
Most of the compensation agreements include plans, see earlier sections.
FRM/102 n.d. [19th cent.]
Plan [of Frosterley Manor] based on the 6" O.S. first edition Durham sheets 24 and 32, with annotations from the 1844 tithe plan of Stanhope parish, Newlandside Quarter.
Shiny cloth, good condition.
Size: 1′4″ x 1′8″
FRM/103 [ c. 1920]
Ordnance Survey 25", Durham sheet 24.15, 3rd edition, annotated.
Paper, linen backed and folded, good condition.
Size: 2′2″ x 3′2″
FRM/104 n.d. [19th cent.]
Three copies (a-c) of part of a map based on 6" O.S. sheets Durham 24 and 32, showing the area West Newlands, Lea Side to East Biggins. A plot east and south of Lea Side, near the Batts is marked red.
[See
no. 90
].
Paper, good condition.
Size: 8¾" x 1′6″
FRM/105 n.d. [early 20th cent.]
Plan [of Souter or Soutre Croft, Frosterley] with part outlined in red [part of the property in
no. 59.]
Shiny cloth, good condition.
Size: 11¾" x 12¼"
FRM/106 n.d. [early 20th cent.]
Plan of a part of Frosterley village from Souter Croft to Dam Hill, sketched with names of proprietors, measurements and tenure.
Paper, fair condition.
Size: 10½" x 8"
FRM/107 n.d. [19th cent.]
Plan of Frosterley, north of the Wear, marked "Plan referred to in the annexed Indenture of Release" - no longer annexed.
Field names and acreages are given in a settlement of 23 April 1828.
Shiny cloth, good condition.
Size: 1′11″ x 1′5″
FRM/108 n.d. [19th cent.]
Outline plan of Frosterley and its Common, marking the surrounding properties.
Paper, good condition.
Size: 1′7″ x 2′3″
FRM/109 n.d. [19th cent.]
Plan of lands in Frosterley round Kiln House, north of the road to Stanhope, possibly based on the tithe plan [for Newlandside Quarter.]
Shiny cloth, good condition.
Size: 9" x 9"
Q: Lists of payers and payments due, mainly rents, FrosterleyFRM/110 n.d. 19th cent.
List of rents received yearly, taken from 9th page from the end of the Old Roll [f. 321 of
no. 28 ].
Paper 3ff.
FRM/111 c. 1900
Copyhold of the Manor of Frosterley, detailed list, scarcely begun.
4ff
FRM/112 c. 1901
Freehold of the Manor of Frosterley, detailed list of only three properties.
Paper 2ff.
FRM/113 23 November 1904
Rents and acknowledgements due to the Manor of Rogerley [sic].
Paper 2ff.
FRM/114
Note by J.G. Todd that the Rent Book was sent to Pease & Partners on 7 November 1905.
1f
FRM/115 n.d. [early 19th cent.].
Lists of names, numbers, properties and amounts of money [relating to Frosterley Manor.]
The numbers refer to a sketch plan on the back of p. 5.
4ff
FRM/116. (a) n.d. [early 19th cent.]
Manor of Frosterley, list of owners and occupiers... at the date of the Tithe Commutation Act [
recte , the Award, 1844 ] with reference to a plan of the district.
booklet 6ff
FRM/116 (b) 30 July 1912
Covering letter.
1f
FRM/117
Book, with a marbled cover, of receipts and counterfoils for rents and acknowledgements received for Frosterley Manor.
All the receipts have been detached.
Two are present, filled in but not signed by the bailiff.
Many of the
counterfoils had been cut out and had become scattered among other papers, but have now been replaced.
R: Miscellaneous correspondence etc.FRM/118
Large manilla envelope addressed to Messrs. Geo. W. Hodgson & Angus, Solicitors.
n.d. 6d stamp of George VI
FRM/119 1904-06
Patent wooden file of routine, legal correspondence, divided up by alphabet cards.
Included are accounts of the Frosterley Steward's fees for various people's business, a letter from Frosterley North Council School, letters from William
Morley Egglestone and others about Frosterley boundary (under E & W), various local solicitors including G.W. Jennings of Bishop Auckland about perambulating the boundary in 1904.
Excluding the dividers 58 items.
