Memorials of old Durham

Part 21

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Ceolfrid, Abbot, 149, 150

Chancery Proceedings, Durham, 241

Chanter, John the, 149, 161

Chapel, "Galilee," 122

---- Lady, 122, 138

---- Nine Altars, 125, 135

---- of St. Hilda, first, 36

---- St. John’s, 42

Charter, Bishop Hugh Pudsey’s, Durham, 30

Chaytor family, 240, 254

Chester-le-Street, 5, 32, 108, 109, 130, 131

---- Church, 177, 186

Cheyne, John, sculptor, 187

Christian the Mason, 195

"Churchgoer, Butterby," 64

Churches at Monkwearmouth and Jarrow, Saxon, 147

---- of Durham, parish, 162-181

Civil War, outbreak of, 20

Claverings of Axwell, 256

Cleatlam Hall, 221

Clergy, secular, 109

Cleughs, 95-96

Cleve’s Cross, 68

Clopton, John, 220

_Club, Hell-fire_, 204

Codex Amiatinus, 151

Coldingham, Richard de, 173

College, Ushaw, 192

Commission, Ecclesiastical, 18, 23

Common, 105

Coniscliffe, Church of St. Edwin, 172

Convent of SS. Peter and Paul, 147

Conyers falchion, 75, 217

---- family, 247

---- Nicolas, 195

Conyers, Ralph, 223

---- Sir John, 74

Copt Hill, Houghton-le-Spring, 182

Cosin, Bishop, 20, 120, 179

Cotham Conyers, 222

---- Stob, 222

Council of the North, 16

Cow, the Dun, 66-67

Coxhoe Hall, 224

Cradock family, 222

Craft gilds, 31

Craggs family, 83

Crawford, Jack, 35

Crayke, 108

Crewe, Bishop, 21, 204

Cross at Darlington Market, 25, 26

---- at Ravensworth, 212

---- Battle of Neville’s, 41

---- Butter, 212

---- Cleve’s, 28, 68

---- Neville’s, 55, 58

Crosses, 107

---- Anglo-Saxon memorial, 183

---- Billingham pre-Conquest, 172

---- Saxon, 26

Cumin, Robert, Earl of Northumberland, 29

Curfew Bell, Durham, 63

Cuthbert, St., 5, 133, 152, 155

---- Feast of the Translation of St., 29

---- Patrimony of St., 5, 6, 17

---- sanctuary of St., 24

Dalden Tower, 216

Dale, Helen Pelham, 234

---- _Life and Letters of Thomas Pelham_, 234

---- Miss Margaret, 230

---- of Dalton-le-Dale, family of, 238

---- of Tunstall, Edward, 230

---- Rev. Thomas, 229

---- Rev. Thomas Pelham, 229

Dales, name-places in the Durham, 79-107

Dalton Church, 175

Darcy, Lady Maxwell, 235

Darlington Church tower, 166

---- market-cross at, 25, 26

---- rood-loft, 167

---- St. Cuthbert’s Church, 165

"Darnton Trod," 24

Day, New Year’s, 56

Days, lucky, 57

Death, portents of, 51

"Death, power of life and," 1, 11

Delavale, Peter, 194

Denes, 91

Dens, 101

Derwentdale Plot, 21

Dinsdale, 217

---- Church brass, 190

Dog-tooth ornament, only instance of, 167

Douthwaite family, 222

Duck, Sir John, 63, 227

Dun Cow, the, 66-67

Durham, 5-6, 28, 109

---- Bishopric of, 1-2

---- Castle, 204-207

---- Cathedral: altar of Our Lady of Pity, 124; altar screen, 121; altars in north transept, 124; Bede’s tomb, 123; Bishop’s throne, 123; brasses, 190-191; Carileph’s choir, 113; chapter-house, 127; choir, 114-115; cloister, 127-128; crypt, 111-113; doorways, 113; fresco paintings, 123; Galilee Chapel, 122; Hatfield’s tomb, 121; ironwork, 118; Lady Chapel, 122; library, 127-128; local lore of, 63; monks’ dormitory, 128; nave, 114; Neville chantry, 124; Neville screen, 122; nine altars, 125-126; refectory, 111, 127-128; sanctuary knocker, 118; towers, 120; transepts, 116; treasury, 127

---- curfew bell, 63

---- fall of abbey, 16

---- first Lord, 209

---- Lewis Beaumont, Bishop-elect of, 27, 28

---- local volunteer companies, 206

---- North Gate, 13

---- Palatinate of, 9, 19

---- prosperity of Methodism in, 22

---- St. Giles’s Church, 173, 185

---- St. Margaret’s Church, 173, 185

---- St. Oswald’s Church, 172

---- School, 22, 23

---- spires, 166

---- trades, 21, 22

---- University of, 22, 23

"Eade stones," 80

Eales, 99

Earl of Northumberland, Robert Cumin, 29

Earls, rebellion of the, 18

Easington Church, 175, 186

Ebchester, Roman camp at, 4

Ecclesiastical Commission, 18, 23

Eden family, 240, 248-249

Edmundbyres Cross, 107

Effigy at Bishopwearmouth, 185

---- at Norton, 187

---- of Euphemia de Neville, 169

---- of Isabel de Neville, 169

---- of Isabella, sister of Robert Bruce, 196

---- in Barnard Castle Church, 185

---- Lanchester Church, 187

---- St. Giles’s Church, Durham, 185

---- Whitburn Church, singular, 188

Effigies in Easington Church, 175, 186

---- in Hurworth Church, 186

---- in Redmarshall Church, 172, 188

---- stone and wood, 185-189

Egelwin, Bishop, 29

Egglescliffe Church, 172

Elizabethan Poor Law, 19

Elvet, 28, 30

Epitaph of Regina, wife of Barates the Palmyrene, 182, 183

---- of Tidfirth, Bishop of Hexham, 184

Epitaphs, punning, 197

Escomb Church, 159, 163

Estfelde, William, 189

Eures family, 239

Evenwood, 39

Ewbanke family, 221

Fairy Hills, Castleton, 45

Falchion, Conyers, 75, 217

Families of Durham, Old, 239-256

Fast, St. Agnes’s, 53

Feast of the Translation of St. Cuthbert, 29

Fell, 105

Fen Hall, 224

Ferryhill, 28

Ferry, Roger de, 68

"Fig sue," 57

Finchale Priory, 130-145

Fire festivals, 44

First charter of incorporation, Durham, 31

First lifeboat built at South Shields, 36

---- passenger railway-line, 26

Flambard, Bishop Ralph, 8, 40, 118, 133

Flask, the, 101

Flodden, banner of St. Cuthbert at, 15

Fogg-Elliots of Elvet Hill, 256

Folk-lore, Durham, 44-64

Font, Sedgefield, 167

---- Staindrop, 169

Ford Hall, 226

Forest of Weardale, 39

Fothergill, G. A., 224

Fox, Bishop Richard, 14

Framwellgate, 29

Frosterley, 84

Furmety, 59

Gabriel Hounds, 45

Gainford Church, 171

---- grave-cover, 193

---- Hall, 222

Galilee Chapel, Durham, 122

"Garland, maiden," 52

Gateshead, 32

---- St. Mary’s, Church, 176

---- grave-covers, 193

Gibside, 212

Gild, craft, 31

Gills, 95-97

Gilpin, altar-tomb of Bernard, 194, 195

Glory, Hand of, 45

Godric, St., 130-132, 173

---- shrine of St., 138

Goodchild of Pallion, John, 230

Grace, Pilgrimage of, 16

Grains, 91-92

Grange, Lambton, 209

---- Midridge, 224

---- Raby, 222

Grave-covers, 192-193

---- stones, Roman, 182

Great Aycliffe, 27

Greatham Hospital, 189

---- old chapel at, 186

Great North Road, 24

Greenwell arms, 225

Greenwell family, 244-246

Greenwells of Broomshields, 247

"Guisers," or mummers, 58

Hall, Bishop Middleham, 222

---- Blakiston, 222

Hall, Cleatlam, 221

---- Cotham Conyers, 222, 223

---- Coxhoe, 224

---- Fen, 224

---- Ford, 226

---- Gainford, 222

---- Holmside, 219

---- Houghton-le-Spring, 228

---- Kibblesworth, 227

---- Middleton St. George, 224

---- Pallion, 226

---- School Aycliffe, 224

---- Sledwish, 220

---- Snotterton, 221

---- Staindrop, 221

---- Stanhope, 199

---- Stella, 228

---- Thornton, 224

---- Thorpe Thewles, old, 222

---- Washington, 225

---- West Boldon, 226

---- Westholme, 222

---- West Rainton, 227

Hallow E’en sports, 58

Halls and Castles of Durham, 198-228

Halmote Rolls, 241

Hand of Glory, 45

Harding the Chronicler, Ralph, 218

Hartlepool, 37

---- Church, 163

---- ---- brass, 191

---- West, 38

Hatfield, Bishop, 3

---- Survey, 241

Haugh, 105

Haughton-le-Skerne Church, 171

Havelock, birthplace of General, 226

---- Sir Henry, 35

Heatheryburn Cave, 79

Heighington Church, 171, 186

_Hell-Fire Club_, the, 204

Hell Kettles, 24

Heraldry, the Manche in, 251

Heralds’ Visitations, 239

Heslerigg, Sir Arthur, 201

High Barnes, Sunderland, 226

Highwaymen of the North, 24

Hilda, 4

---- first religious house of St., 36

Hilton Castle, 187, 210, 211

---- John, 210

---- Sir Thomas, 210

---- the Cau’d Lad of, 71-73

Hilton’s tomb, Monkwearmouth, 187

Hob of Pelaw, 64

Hodgson, Rev. J. F., 167

Holden, Sir Thomas, 218

Hole, 106

Hollinside, 218

Holms, 100

Holmside Hall, 219

Hooks, 106

Hopes, 88-92

Hopper, J. T. H., 200

"Hot cross buns," 57

Hot Hill, 101

Hoton brass, William, 168, 190

Houghton-le-Spring, 34

---- Church, 174

---- Hall, 228

Hounds, Gabriel, 45

Hulme, Nicholas, 189

Hunter family, 249

Hurworth Church, 172, 186

Hutchinson family, 256

Hutton, Robert, 195, 228

Incorporation, Durham’s first charter of, 31

Inn, Baydale, 24

Inscriptions, monumental, 182-197

Intake, 107

Isabella, sister of Robert Bruce, effigy of, 196

Isle, The, 220

James, Bishop, 206

James family, 225

Jarrow, 146-161

Jarrow, monastery of, 4, 16

John the Chanter, 149, 161

Kellaw, Bishop, 24

Kelyng, John, 189

Kerns, 98

Kettles, Hell, 24

Kibblesworth Hall, 227

Killhope Cross, 107

---- Moor, 42

Knocker, sanctuary, 118-119

Lady Byron’s Well, Seaham, 55

Lady Chapel, Durham, 122, 138

Lad of Hilton, the Cau’d, 71-73

Lambton Castle, 74, 209

---- Grange, 209

---- William Henry, 209

---- Worm, the, 73, 74, 134

---- ---- Well, 54

Lambtons of Lambton, 240, 243-244

Lanchester Church, 171, 179

---- Roman camp at, 4

Langley, Bishop, 31, 34

Law, Elizabethan Poor, 19

Lawrence of Durham, 8

---- Rev. John, 230

Lee, Mary, 194

Legends of Durham, 65-78

Leighton, Henry, 209

Letters of John Wesley to Margaret Dale, 231-237

Lewen, Margaret, 231, 233

Ley, 103

Liddell family, 240, 252

"Life and death, power of," 1, 11

Lifeboat, first, 36

Lilburne family, 35

Lindisfarne, 108, 152

---- monastery of, 4, 5

Linns, 98

Little Eden Tower, 216

Local lore of Durham Cathedral, 63

Londonderry, Marquess of, 220

Low Barnes, Sunderland, 226

Luck, spitting for, 61

Lucky and unlucky things, 59-61

---- days, 57

Ludworth Tower, 218

Lumley arms, 242

---- Castle, 207, 208

---- tombs, Chester-le-Street, 178, 186

Lumleys of Lumley, 241-243

"Maiden garland," 52

Manche in heraldry, the, 251

Market-cross at Darlington, 25, 26

Mark, Vigil of St., 51

Material for tombstones, 196-197

Mathew, Michael, 189

Mea, 106

"Mell-supper," 58

Melsamby, Prior Thomas of, 135

Memorial brasses, Billingham, 172

---- crosses, Anglo-Saxon, 183

Methodism in Durham, 22

Middleton, brass of William de, 189

---- of Silksworth, George, 230

---- St. George, 224

---- Sir Gilbert, 28

---- Thomas, of Chillingham, 185

Midridge Grange, 224

Mitford family, 70

Monkchester, 156

Monkwearmouth, 36, 146-161

Monumental brass, Haughton-le-Skerne, 171

---- brasses, 189

---- inscriptions, 182-197

Moor, Killhope, 42

Mortham, Robert de, 185

Motto, the Jameses’, 206

Mulberry Inn, Felling, 226

Names of streams, 83

Naunton, Elizabeth, Prioress of Neasham, 171

"Need-fire," working for, 54

Neile, Bishop, 19, 20

Neolithic men, 182

Neville family, 239

---- Geoffrey de, 203

---- Henry, Earl of Northumberland, 170

---- monuments, Staindrop, 168

---- Ralph, Earl of Northumberland, 170, 214

---- screen, 121-122, 138

---- tombs, Staindrop, 185

Neville’s Cross, 12, 55, 58

---- ---- Battle of, 41

New Year’s Day, 56

Nine Altars Chapel, 125, 135

"Nominy sayer," 50

Norman tower, Jarrow, 161

North, Council of the, 16

---- Gate, Durham, 13

Northumberland, Robert Cumin, Earl of, 29

Norton Church, 172

---- effigy at, 187

Old Families of Durham, 239-256

Ords of Sands Hall, 252

Orphan Asylum, Sunderland, 35

Palace, Bishop Auckland, 200

Palatinate of Durham, 9, 19

Pallion Hall, 226

Pancake Bell, 56

---- Tuesday, 56

Parish churches of Durham, 162-181

Park (De) arms, 188

"Parson, the Pickled," 76

Passenger railway-line, first, 26

Patrimony of St. Cuthbert, 5-6, 17

Pelaw, Hob of, 64

Pemberton of Bainbridge, John, 230

Pembertons of Belmont Hall, 256

Pictavia, Bishop Philip de, 172

Pictree Brag, the, 76-78

Pike, 105

Pilgrimage of Grace, 16

Pittington Church, 173

Place, Francis, 224

Plain, 105

Plot, Derwentdale, 21

Pollard Boar, the, 68-71, 74

---- family, 68, 71

Pools, 98

Poor Law, Elizabethan, 19

Portents of death, 51

"Power of life and death," 1, 11

Prebendaries of Durham, 19

Prebend’s Bridge, Durham, 52

Pre-Reformation chancel screen, Staindrop, 169

Prior Thomas of Melsamby, 135

Priory, Finchale, 130-145

Pudsey, Bishop, 9, 33, 37, 38, 134, 166, 195, 202, 241

---- Durham Charter of, 30

---- Henry de, 134

Pulpit, Heighington Church, 186

Punning epitaphs, 197

Quaint sepulchral inscriptions, 194

Raby Castle, 214, 215

---- Grange, 222

Railway-line, first passenger, 26

Ravenshelm, 212

Ravensworth Castle, 211, 212

---- cross at, 212

Rebellion of the Earls, 18

Redmarshall Church, 172

Revenue, Bishop’s, 11

Ridding, 102

Rig, 105

Road, Great North, 24

Rolls, Halmote, 241

Roman altars at Bolihope, 80

---- camps in Durham, 4

---- gravestones, 182

---- roads, 4, 130

Rood-loft, Darlington, 167

---- Staindrop, 169

Roses, Wars of the, 14

Royal Oak Day, 57

Rudde brass, John, 192

Rushyford, 27

Ruthall, Bishop, 15

Ryton Church, 177

Sadberge, wapentake of, 9-14, 38

St. Cuthbert’s Church, Darlington, 165

St. Mary’s Church, Monkwearmouth, 149

Salvins of Croxdale, 240, 251

Sanctuary knocker, 118-119

---- of St. Cuthbert, 24

Saxon chancel, Jarrow, 161

---- church at Escomb, 157

---- churches at Monkwearmouth and Jarrow, 147

---- crosses, 26

---- suffixes, 81

"Sayer, Nominy," 50

School Aycliffe, 224

---- Durham, 22, 23

Screen, Neville, 121-122, 138

Seat, 104

Secular clergy, 109

Sedgefield, 38

---- Church, 167

---- ---- brasses in, 190, 191, 192, 193

---- Rectory, 76

Seventh sons, 49

"Shafto, Bobby," 42

---- family, 250

Shaftos of Tanfield Leigh, 250

Shaw, 101

Sherburn Hospital, 189

Shield Lawe, 36

Shields, South, 36

---- ---- St. Hilda’s Church, 176

"Shout the mell," 58

Shrine of St. Godric, 138

Side, 106

Sikes or Sykes, 95-98

Skelton, Roger, 72

Snotterton Hall, 221

Sockburn, 217

---- Worm, the, 74-76

Solomon’s Temple, 148

Spires, Durham, 166

"Spitting for luck," 61

Spring, legend of Sir John le, 65

Staindrop, 40

---- Church, 168

---- Hall, 221

Stanhope, 42, 84, 85

---- Castle, 198

---- Hall, 199

---- treasure of, 79

Stanley, Andrew de, 168

Stella Hall, 228

Stevenson family, 249

Stockton, 38

Stone and wood effigies, 185-189

---- Bulmer, 25

---- cross, 28

---- crosses, 107

Streams, names of, 83

Streatlam Castle, 213, 214

Sunderland, 34

---- Orphan Asylum, 35

---- of Dinsdale, 247-248

---- Robert, 28, 246, 248

Surtees, Robert, ballads, 65

Symbolism on grave-covers, 193

Symeon of Durham, 111

Tailbois, family of, 224

Tempest, Colonel John, 220

---- family, 219, 254

Temple, Solomon’s, 148

Theodore of Tarsus, 162

Things lucky and unlucky, 59-61

Thornton Hall, 224

Thorpe Thewles old hall, 222

Tidfirth, Bishop of Hexham, epitaph, 184

---- of a deacon in Ryton Church, 188

Tomb of De Bruses, 165

---- Venerable Bede’s, 123

Tombs, Bruce, 196

---- Lumley, Chester-le-Street, 178, 186

---- Neville, 185

Tombstones, material for, 196-197

Tower, Dalden, 216

---- Darlington Church, 166

---- Little Eden, 216

---- Ludworth, 218

---- Monkwearmouth Church, 153

---- Staindrop Church, 169

Trades, Durham, 21, 22

Translation of St. Cuthbert, Feast of the, 29

Trotters of Helmdon, 256

Tunstall, Bishop of Durham, 16

Tyne Bridge, 34

University of Durham, 22, 23

Unlucky, things lucky and, 59

Ushaw College, 192

Vane family, 240

Van Mildert, Dr., 75

Vigil of St. Mark, 51

Visitation of Northumberland, 240

---- of Shropshire, 240

---- of York, 240

Visitations, Heralds’, 239

Walcher, Bishop, 6, 7, 30, 32, 36, 156

Waltheof, Earl of Northumbria, 6

Walworth Castle, 215

Warbeck, advance of, 15

War, Civil, 20

Wars of the Roses, 14

Washington Hall, 225

Washingtons of Washington, 254

Watson, Edward, 222

Weardale, 79

---- Forest of, 39

Wearmouth, 34

---- monastery of, 4, 16

Weather-lore, 55

Weddings, 50

Well, Lady Byron’s, 55

---- Lambton Worm, 54, 73, 74

---- Venerable Bede’s, 55

Wells, 94-95

Wesley, Durham associations of John, 22, 229-238

West Boldon Hall, 226

West Rainton Hall, 227

Westholme Hall, 222

Wharton family, 240, 251

Whitburn Church, 176

Whitefield, George, 235

Whittingham, William, Dean of Durham, 220

Wilkinsons of Durham, 256

William of St. Carileph, Bishop, 7, 30, 110, 114, 118, 158, 166

Williamson family, 255

Wills, 241

Winston Church, 171

Witchcraft, 45

Witton Castle, 199

Wolsingham, 42

Wood and stone effigies, 185-189

---- punning epitaph on Ralph, 197

Worm, the Lambton, 73, 74, 134

---- the Sockburn, 74-76

---- Well, the, 54, 73, 74

"Yule dollies," 59

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Edited by ALICE DRYDEN.

Memorials of Old Lincolnshire.

Edited by E. MANSEL SYMPSON, M.A., M.D.

Memorials of Old Surrey.

Edited by the Rev. J. CHARLES COX, LL.D., F.S.A.

_The following volumes are in preparation_:--

Memorials of Old Gloucestershire.

Edited by the Rev. P. H. DITCHFIELD, M.A., F.S.A.

Memorials of Old Worcestershire.

Edited by F. B. ANDREWS, F.R.I.B.A.

Memorials of Old Nottinghamshire.

Edited by P. W. P. PHILLIMORE, M.A., B.C.L.

Memorials of North Wales.

Edited by E. ALFRED JONES.

Memorials of Old Berkshire.

Edited by the Rev. P. H. DITCHFIELD, M.A., F.S.A.

Memorials of Old Monmouthshire.

Edited by Colonel BRADNEY, F.S.A., and J. KYRLE FLETCHER.