Books published by Surtees Society

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.

Edited accounts from the estates of Durham Priory provide a rich vein of information for the economic history of the time.

Letters from two farming brothers provide fascinating insights into rural life at the turn of the eighteenth century.

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

Cartulary of prosperous community of Byland, with lands in the North Riding of Yorkshire, Westmorland, and the south of Yorkshire and early interest in iron mining.

Land and financial activities, building work and family affairs.

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

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

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

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.

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

Accounts for the years 1471-1473, 1510-1512, 1555-1557, 1596-1618, 1622, 1624-1625; preceded by an introduction to the Durham Quarter Session, Commissions of the Peace and Business in Quarter Sessions.

An introduction to the office of bursar and its records precedes the five documents dating from the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries. Covers the period of transition in the management of estates when, between 1350 and 1418,the direct exploitation of demesnes gave way to a system of leasing. The five documents are: I. Valuation, [c. 1230?]; II. Rent-roll, Pentecost 1270; III. Bursar's Rental, 1340-1 and Sale of Tithes, 1343; IV. Bursar's Rental, 1396-7; V. Bursar's Rent-Book, 1495-6. Ends with a gazeteer giving a description of all the properties accounted for, under the headings of temporalities, spiritualities and obedientiary property.

A vivid picture of the labyrinthine workings of the Newcastle coal trade.

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 diary of an able young doctor working in an extensive colliery practice in Newcastle in the 1820s; with detail on coal-mining, medical facilities, social life, societies, libraries and transport.

Tew as lone magistrate in violent Sunderland/South Shields area deals with problems such as vagrancy, employment, theft, assault etc - resolving issues largely in his own home rather than in court.

Botanical notebook of William Nicolson (1655-1727), Bishop of Carlisle and noted historian and antiquarian, with notes on the manuscripts, on Nicolson's life, and on field botanising in the late 17th century.

'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.

John Young was a Sunderland chemist. His diary was prompted by his desire to record his inner life, and the passages reveal the thoughts and feelings of an early Victorian evangelical. His comments on his social, religious and business life make his diary an interesting social document, offering vignettes of life in Sunderland in the early 1840s.

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.

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.