EVENWOOD. John Haunsard, lord of Evenwood, eldest son of Gilbert Haunsard , grants to Thomas Haunsard of Toftes and Joan his wife, the whole of the land with messuages, &c., which the aforesaid Gilbert his father had granted to them for the term of their lives, paying annually three arrows for all service. And they may grind the third part of the whole of their corn growing in the aforesaid tenements in his mill of Evenwode. Also he grants pannage for 10 pigs in his woods of Evenwode. Dated the Monday on the feast of St. Peter 'in cathedra,' 1293.

WOTTON, ESCOUMB, and STANHOPE. Anthony [Bek], bishop of Durham , grants to Walter de Bermeton a toft and 127 acres of land of the waste in the fields of Wotton, Escoumb, and Stanhope, to hold the same for an annual rent of 62s. 3d. (c. 1290-1300.)

DURHAM (co.). Appointment of William Probec as an agent under John Weston under the provisions of an act of Parliament for the prevention of the exportation of wool; with ten signatures. Dated London, 24 April, 11 William III. (1699)

BERMETON, &o. John, son of the King, constable of England, warden of East March towards Scotland in pursuance of a grant by him by letters patent to Thomas Boteler of all his lands, tenements, &c. in the bishopric Durham, in the villages of Bermeton, Bisshopton, Newebyggyng, Little Staynton, and Hedley appoints Sir William Fulthorp, kt., and John Nonwyk, esq., his attorneys to deliver seisin of the same. Dated at the castle of Werkeworth, 14 May, 1 Hen. V.

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