Durham Cathedral Archive: medieval extraneous material
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Catalogue
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.

Contents

Miscellaneous collections of (chiefly) medieval material, historically retained with the Durham Cathedral Archive but not originally part of it.

Accession details

In the custody of Durham University since 1948

Conditions of access

Open for consultation

Copyright and copying

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.

Related material

See also Wolviston Guild Book for 1480-1520 at DCD Misc. Ch. 7233 and DCD Loc.X:6.

Catalogue

Bishops' Registers
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.

Register of Bishops Bury (frag.) and Hatfield
Reference: DCD Reg.Hat.
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).

Register of Bishop Langley
Reference: DCD Reg.Lang.
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).

Register of recognizances
Reference: DCD Lib.recog.
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

Collections of Deeds
Dates of creation: ca.1138-1525
Miscellaneous private deeds deposited with the priory or [given] to the Dean and Chapter
In addition to the Claxton family deeds within the Miscellaneous Charters series (see under Haswell Deeds), DCD Misc.Ch.5243 is a single document relating to property in Ireland, not part of the priory estate.

Haswell Deeds
Reference: DCD Hasw.
Dates of creation: 12th century - 1457
Extent: c.100 items
Claxton family deeds, probably deposited with the priory in the 15th century together with Claxton deeds now in DCD Misc.Ch (see Haswell Deeds catalogue for list).
Calendared by R.H. Britnell, Haswell deeds (1997)

Sherburn Hospital Deeds
Reference: DCD Sherb.H.
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.
Calendared, with index of persons and places, by M.G. Snape, Sherburn Hospital Deeds (1988), with introduction recording other items which have either been lost or are now in Durham County Record Office.