Lease of coal mines under Berkley and Andrews House Farms and the liberty of making railways to carry coal to the Tyne, Derwent and Team for 14 years from Sir Thomas Clavering to Lord Ravensworth and others, 4 July 1748, produced in Chancery

Bundle of deeds and papers re the Bishop of Durham's claim to royalties under Washington and Birtley commons

Indenture of covenants and counterpart re a lease from the Bishop of Durham and John Fawcett re lands and coalmines in Washington and Chester le Street, between William Ord and John Fawcett

Declaration of trust re coal mines at Washington and Chester le Street belonging to the Bishop of Durham and leased to John Fawcett between William Ord and Lord Ravensworth and others

Lease of lands and coal under Friar's Goose farm for 9 years from John Harris to Lord Ravensworth and others

Declaration of trust re Birtley Colliery between the Earl of Carlisle and Lord Ravensworth and others

Release of coal mines at Longbenton for 41 years from the Earl of Carlisle to Lord Ravensworth and others

Lease of collieries at Claxton's, Gateshead for 9 years from John Harris to Lord Ravensworth and others

Lease of collieries and wayleave at Kipfield, Tanfield for 63 years from Thomas Dawson to Lord Ravensworth and others

Lease of wayleaves at Kipfield, Tanfield from Thomas Dawson to Lord Ravensworth and others

Articles of agreement re working coal at Longbenton between the Earl of Carlisle and Lord Ravensworth and others

Articles of agreement re a wayleave from Dipton Colliery between William Cotesworth and Richard Ridley

Lease of coal mines at Whinney House for 31 years from Thomas Turnbull to Lord Ravensworth and others

Agreement re wayleaves at North and Middle Causey held under lease dated 1728 between 1. Edward Wortley and George Bowes and 2. Anne Clavering and Robert Smith

Declaration of trust re Birtley Colliery between William Ord and Lord Ravensworth and others

Lease and release of lands at Mount Farm and Spring Farm, Great Usworth, part of the estate of John Hylton from George Bowes of Streatham to William Leaton of Gibside

Articles of agreement re a lease of Longbenton Colliery for 41 years between the Earl of Carlisle and Lord Ravensworth and others

Lease of lands and coal mines at Spring Farm and Mount Farm for 21 years from Lord Ravensworth, Edward Wortley and George Bowes to Thomas Donnison

Agreement re a wayleave over lands at Whickham between Ralph Carr and Edward Wortley and others

Lease of a moiety of coal mines at Heaton for 21 years from Robert Midford to Sir Henry Liddell and others

Counterpart lease of Longbenton Colliery for 20 years from Rev Newton Ogle to Lord Ravensworth and others

Articles of agreement re lands and coal mines at North and Middle Causey between Sir Thomas Clavering and Edward Wortley and George Bowes

Lease of a house and cabinet makers shop at St Mary's Gate, Berwick for 15 years from Elizabeth Oswald to William Davidson

Agreement re wayleaves held under lease dated 1726 in the parish of Whickham between Rev William Williamson, guardian of Francis Barrass and Sydney Wortley and others

Articles of agreement re rents for wayleaves at North and Middle Causey between Cuthbert and Margaret Smith and Edward Wortley and George Bowes

Lease and counterpart of a wayleave over lands at Willington and Longbenton to the Tyne for 42 years from Hannah Hindmarsh and others to Lord Ravensworth and others

Reversion of a lease of coal mines at Stanley for 63 years from Marmaduke Langdale, son of Lord Langdale and devisee under the will of William Tempest Widdrington to Lord Ravensworth and Mrs Mary Bowes

Lease of Shield Row Colliery for 31 years from John Scafe to Lord Ravensworth and Mrs Mary Bowes

Lease of a wayleave over land at Willington for 21 years from Sir Robert Bewicke and George Craster to Lord Ravensworth and Mrs Mary Bowes

Lease of Holystone Farm for 20 years from Ralph William Grey to Lord Ravensworth and Mrs Mary Bowes

Lease of a wayleave over land in Washington and staithroom for 31 years from Sir Wilfred Lawson to Lord Ravensworth and others

Lease of a moiety of Shield Row Farm reserving coal seams for 21 years from John Scafe to Lord Ravensworth and others

Agreement re coal mines at Byker held under lease dated 1734 between Lord Ravensworth, Earl of Bute and Mary Bowes and Matthew Ridley

Lease of land and coal mines in the parish of Gateshead from Thomas Riddell to the Earl of Bute, Mary Bowes and Lord Ravensworth

Lease of a wayleave from Andrews House Colliery to Dunston Staith for 10 years from Lord Ravensworth and others to Thomas Clavering

Missing.

Leases of a colliery and wayleave at Derwent Crook for 31 years from Rt Hon Robert Ord to Lord Ravensworth and others

Lease of Urpeth Colliery from Robert Bewicke to Lord Ravensworth, the Earl of Bute and Mrs Bowes

Bill of legal costs for a case in Chancery between the Earl of Bute and partners v. Davison

Assignment of the residue of a lease for 21 years of North Thorn Colliery from Nicholas Halhead to Lord Ravensworth

Lease and counterpart of coal mines under Lanchester Fell for 20 years from William Fenwick to Lord Ravensworth and John Bowes, Earl of Strathmore

Bond for the performance of articles of agreement between William Watson and Robert Hill, fitters of Sunderland, Matthew Carr and Christopher Hill and Lord Ravensworth and others

Articles of agreement between the parties NRO 3410/Les/125 re coal sales at Sunderland

Renewal of a lease of Longbenton Colliery for 21 years from Fredrick, Earl of Carlisle to Lord Ravensworth and others

Final concord re lands, wharfs and collieries at Gateshead between Lord Ravensworth and others and Ralph, Peter and Mary Clavering

Bundle containing papers re an agreement with Mr Davison re Pockerly, 1727 - 1728, receipts from corvers for iron bows, 20 Oct 1775, apprenticeship indentures for William Bell, apprentice viewer and John Carlton, John Dobson, Martin Bell, William Stokoe, Robert Clark, William Tinkler and Adam Maughan, 1771 - 1778, opinion of Mr Hopper re the partnership agreement and schedule of papers and books at Mount Moor Colliery, 1779

Agreement for a lease of the winning and working of Mount Moor Colliery by tentale for 5 years from Lord Ravensworth and others to John Morrison

As NRO 3410/LES/36

Bond for the performance of agreement NRO 3410/Les/130

Lease of a house in the Close, Newcastle from George Stephenson of Elswick to Lord Ravensworth and others

Lease of coal mines at Longbenton for 21 years from the Earl of Carlisle to Lord Ravensworth and others

Lease of workshops and sheds in Pipewellgate, Gateshead from Jane and William Barras to Ralph Harrison

Counterpart lease of a wayleave and staith at Dunston for 42 years from Lord Ravensworth and others to Lord Cardiff and Lord Beauchamp

Bundle of papers re a dispute re the ownership of coal at Eighton Bank, Birtley Fell between Ralph William Grey and John Hunter, James Lawson and George Green, workmen for Lord Ravensworth including detailed plan of the area by John Fryer marking pits and land owners, scale 15ch: 1", abstracts of title and statements of the case

Lease of a wayleave over lands at Willington for 32 years from Matthew and Richard Bell and William Brown to Lord Ravensworth and the Earl of Bute

Lease of a wayleave over lands at Longbenton for 21 years from Calverley Bewick and David Craster to Lord Ravensworth and others

Lease of coal mines at North Thorn, Tanfield for 21 years, from the Bishop of Durham to Lord Ravensworth

Lease of coal mines at Willington for 22 years from Matthew and Richard Bell and William Brown to Lord Ravensworth and the Earl of Bute, including plan showing the area leased, scale 8ch: 1"

Lease of a wayleave over lands at Willington for 22 years from Thomas Charles Bigge to Lord Ravensworth

Licence to work through barriers of coal at Longbenton, from Francis Gregg, agent to the Earl of Carlisle to Lord Ravensworth and others

Assignment of a lease of premises at Eighton Banks from George Davy and Andrew Aughton to Robert Hutchinson, merchant and George Hepple, brewer

Agreement to work the landsale colliery at Cross Moor, Whickham by James Fiddes

Bundle of surrenders and addmittances of copyheld premises in the Manor of Whickham

Bundle of annual leases of the Manor of Whickham to Sir Thomas Henry Liddell, Lord Ravensworth and others

Licence to sub-let a tract of coal at Longbenton Colliery from the Earl of Carlisle to the Earl of Bute, including plan of the area to be let

Articles of agreement re the working of Mount Moor Colliery between George Burdon, for Henry George Liddell of Ravensworth and John Morrison

Evidence for the defence in a case at the Court of Exchequer of a complaint by Robert Hill, fitter of Sunderland against the Earl of Bute and others

Lease and counterpart of a moiety of Shield Row Farm, with a wayleave for 21 years from William Scafe to the Earl of Bute and others

Lease of land and collieries at Longbenton for 21 years from Calverley Bewicke and Shafto Craster to Hugh Brodie, innkeeper

Lease of a wayleave over lands at Willington from Robert Clark for George Liddell and others to John Morrison

Assignment of a lease of land and houses at Eighton Banks from Robert Hutchinson to James Hepple

Lease of a moiety of Shield Row Farm from William Scafe and George Baker and others

Lease of minerals under lands at Killingworth for 31 years from Henry Joseph Reay to Sir Thomas Henry Liddell and others

Lease of Shield Row Colliery for 31 years from William Scafe to George Baker and others

Lease of a liberty to work coal under lands at Shield Row for 31 years, from William Scafe to George Baker and others

Missing

Agreement for the erection of a steam engine at Shield Row Colliery between James Watt and Matthew Boulton, engineers and Sir Thomas Henry Liddell and others, detailed specification of dimesions and costs

Lease of coal under part of Lanchester Fell for 20 years from the Earl of Sefton to Sir Thomas Henry Liddell and others

Counterpart lease of wayleaves and staithroom at Dunston from Sir Thomas Henry Liddell and others to John Ord

Award by Nicholas Ridley re a dispute re boundaries of collieries at Heaton between Sir Thomas Henry Liddell, Henry Pulliene and Robert Smith and William Row

Deed of submission to the arbitrators decision in the case NRO 3410/Les/163

Memoranda of an agreement re a lease of a field at Longbenton where the William Pit has been sunk, between Thomas Ismay for Sir Thomas Henry Liddell and others and Messrs Bells and Brown

Proposal from Johnson, Row and Co to work the coal under Longbenton belonging to Lord Carlisle

Assignment of a lease of premises at Eighton Banks for a residue of a term of 21 years from John Rewcastle to Sir Henry Liddell and others

Lease of a wayleave over lands at Willington from Calverly Bewicke and Shafto Craster to Sir Thomas Henry Liddell and others

Lease of a wayleave over lands at Willington from John Ord and others to Sir Thomas Henry Liddell and others

Statement of royalty rent accounts by the Heaton Owners in account with Sir Thomas Henry Liddell and others

Declaration of trust re a lease of Mount Moor Colliery between Sir Thomas Henry Liddell, Augustus Cunnyngham and Lord Strathmore

Deed of submission to an arbitrator in a dispute re payments of rents for wayleaves in Washington and Chester le Street between J. Hudson and others and Sir Thomas Henry Liddell and others

Statement of conditions for a lease of coal under glebe lands at Longbenton from Rev John Slapp to Sir Thomas Henry Liddell and others

Award by Thomas Fenwick re dispute NRO 3410/Les/172

Award by R.H. Williamson re a dispute re shipping between the owners of the ship Bucephalis and Scott and Forster, freighters

Bond between William Ludlow and Mark Henderson, ship builders and Richard Lambert colliery agent re the purchase of a vessel

Bundle of letters and papers re payment of rents for Killingworth Colliery, leased by Sir Thomas Henry Liddell, including payments to Thomas Bonner and Mrs Peareth

Containing reports, valuations, estimates and boring accounts of Richard Peck and others, 1685 - 1735

19th Cent list of contents at back signed "N. Wood"

Original folio numbers retained.

Volume containing plans, reports and boring and other accounts of William Unthank and others, 1757 - 1772.

Report book of John George Weeks containing reports and valuations by Weeks and others, 1778, 1821 - 1898

Inside front cover.

Newspaper cutting re septennial averages for lythe communtation, from the Newcastle Journal, 5 Jan 1882

Newspaper cutting re the formation of the Cowpen Coal Company giving list of shareholders, from the Newcastle Journal, 3 March 1884

List of documents required for the valuation of Thornley Collieries, n.d. c.1871

Extracts from a report and valuation of Penyfan Colliery, Llanelly, by James McMurtire, Mining Engineer, Bath, 24 Dec 1894. Printed.

Broadsheet advertising Thompson's Calorimeter for ascertaining the heating power of fuel, manufactured by Stephen Humble, 9 Victoria Street, London, with drawing of apparatus, n.d. Printed

Strata book of John George Weeks containing copy, sinkings and borings, 1735 - 1913

Loose in volume.

List of freemen of the Barkes and Tanners Guild, 1656. 19th cent copy.

Account of sinking of Fanny Pit, Longframlington Colliery, 1866, 1867, and plan and section of face, 4 April 1894.

Brochure for the visit of the North of England Mining Institute to the Aniche Company, France, giving details of their collieries and other works, 5 June 1878. Printed

Brochure re the manufacture of coal bricketts by Messrs Dehaynin, Somain, France, 1878. Printed.

5 photographs showing ? trials of various coal haulage systems, showing systems of Walker Brothers, Wigan, Whitburn Coal Co, Harton Coal Co, Lowca Engineering Whitehaven, Castle Eden Colliery, Hodbarrow Iron Ore Mines, Tyne Coal Co, Bedlington Colliery, Hartlepool Ropery, n.d.

Inside front cover.

Newspaper cutting re deep mining shafts in Britain and Europe, giving depths of some of the deepest mines, from the Midland and Northern Iron and Coal Trades Review, 26 Jan 1881

Note re contours on the O.S. plans of the Hersey area, from The Water Supply of England and Wales, by C.E.D. Rance, 1882