DURHAM - MANUSCRIPT DEEDS Collection of c.20 manuscript deeds and grants, sixteen dating from th...

DURHAM - MANUSCRIPT DEEDS Collection of c.20 manuscript deeds and grants, sixteen dating from the fourteenth- to sixteenth-centuries, relating to lands and property in Silksworth, Durham, including the earliest from c.1313 granting lands from William de Silksworth, King's Sergeant, to his brother Robert, others mentioning landowners Robert de Silksworth (1313), John de Meneville (1321), Thomas de Hawthorn (1343), Sir John de St Evelyn and Lady Maude (1362), Isabel de Claxton (1414), Sir John Middleton to his brother Thomas Middleton (granting his third part of the manor of Silksworth in exchange for half of the manor of Belsay, Northumberland,1422, three pendant seals), the last dated 1501 (licence from Richard Fox, Bishop of Durham to Thomas Middleton), on vellum, docketed, dust-staining and discolouration, sixteen with twentieth-century handwritten labels and reference numbers in red, six with seals or remains of seals, various sizes, [c.1313 to 1501]; with five other later documents and indentures and a seal fragment (c.1790 according to the label); held in a surplice box from Whippell & Co., Cathedral Yard, Exeter (quantity) Footnotes: Provenance: A letter included with the lot indicates that this group is likely to have come from the collection of The Rev. Canon Stanley Lawrence Greenslade (1905-1977), Canon at Durham Cathedral, respected theologian and ecclesiastical historian. Each of the sixteen early deeds bear a carefully handwritten label with a reference number – consecutively from 1-10, 13-15, 20, 38, 83-84, indicating that the sequence is incomplete. The collection was retained in the family until recently. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing