Books published by Surtees Society

Estate and household accounts.

Features a selection of 50 from the 94 laws created by Sir Ambrose Crowley and his son John in the early eighteenth century for the governing of their ironworks, probably the largest in Europe in their day.

Documents dating 1603-1649. Indexes of wills and inventories, names and places. See volumes 2, 38, 112.

Journal of Sir William Brereton, 1635. Autobiography of Sir John Gibson, 1655. Jacob Bee's Chronicle. Mark Browell's Diary. The Family of Mark Akenside, the Poet. Two letters of Bishop Warburton. Northern Journeys of BishopRichard Pococke. Diary of John Dawson of Brunton. Each entry is preceded by an introduction. See volume 118.

Survey made 1377-1380 by Bishop Hatfield (1345-1382). Much more extensive than Boldon Buke. Contains full list of all tenants, with quantity of land they held and enumeration of services belonging to each manor. 'Singularly curious as a repertory of names during the fourteenth century.' Appendices include bailiff's roll of manor of Auckland 1337-8, bailiff's rolls for various episcopal manors, 1349-50, and a general receiver's roll for 1385-6.

Durham diocesan registry documents until 1580. Some Latin, mainly English, transcribed in full with occasional explanatory notes. Concludes with an account and Annual Report of the Surtees Society. See volumes 38, 112, 142.

Meditations and prayers, aged 14 to 23.

Personal/legal correspondence re Sunk Island; history and survey of the island, 1797.

Elizabethan survey of the state of religion after Marian reverses in the dioceses of York, Durham, Carlisle and Chester.

See volume 181. Three appendicies and indexes. I. Members of the Shipwrights Company (those who were apprenticed to members of the Shipwrights's company and those who were made free by servitude, patrimony or presentation, compiled from lists of indentures and dates of freedom given either in the registers or account books, II. Officers of the Company, III. Fines.

In 1646 Parliament negotiated a substantial loan from the city of London, secured by the sale of ecclesiastical temporalities. An ordinance was passed abolishing archbishops and bishops and transferring their lands and possessions for the use of the Commonwealth. These surveys represent the examinations conducted in this connection in the Darlington Ward of the bishopric, which at the time was beleaguered by the Scots. Covers the manors of Auckland, Darlington, Evenwood and Wolsingham. Significant in assessing the effects of the Civil War on grass-roots society in the North-East.

Orders made by the company, resolutions etc. passed at meetings, and selected annual accounts of the Company which illustrate the development and history of the company.

Presents accounts of Catholic country gentleman's household, detailing costs of food, clothing, domestic and estate items, wages, gifts and allowances, and more. This work provides insight into the functioning of a family and estate in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, and the state of the local economy.

Edition, with full explanatory apparatus, of wills and inventories from north-east England.

An edition, with introduction and notes, of the unique census for religious worship, in north-east England.

Journals of the natural world reveal fascinating details of life at the time.

The murkier side of eighteenth-century politics is vividly revealed in the letters edited here.