Memorials of St. Giles's, Durham : being grassmen's accounts and other parish records, together with documents relating to the hospitals of Kepier and St. Mary Magdalene.

  • St. Giles (Parish : Durham, England)
Date:
1896
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Memorials of St. Giles's, Durham : being grassmen's accounts and other parish records, together with documents relating to the hospitals of Kepier and St. Mary Magdalene. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    See from which they already had tithes, and also granting free burgage in the street of St. Giles {liherum burgagium in vico S. Egidii), exempt from in-toU and out-toll, and from all aids and services, customs, vexations, and exactions, for ever. This was the origin of the Manor of St. Giles. 3. (Ill) Another Charter of the same granting to the Hospital the vill of Clifton,^ a thrave of corn from every carucate in the demesne lands of the bishopric, with tithes of all his lands recently brought into cultivation {de omnibus novalibus nostris) ; and exempting the church of St. Giles for ever from synodals and other customs which are wont to be exacted by the archdeacon or the dean or any of their officers. 4. (VII) Another Charter of the same, addressed to the Prior and Convent, confirms endowments of the Hospital in Weardale, comprising Whiteleys and Sivyneleys (the boundaries being accurately defined) ; a mine of lead for covering the church of St. Mary and All Saints and also the Infirmary of the Hospital ; a mine of iron in Rokehope for making ploughs ; a toft designated as De Laundene ; the tithes of Bradewode et Besunkedis usque ad Wycheles ; the tithes of all novalia {i.e., newly reclaimed lands) ; a thrave of corn from every caruca in Werdale ; and also pasture for all the cattle of the house, with the peculiar privilege—significant of the prevalent cruel custom, as well as of the wild state of the surrounding country—that the feet of the dogs were not to be maimed, but that the shepherds were to lead them bound for the protection of the flocks against wolves. 5. (XVI) A Composition was made, with the approval of Bishop Pudsey, dated 1197. between the Prior (Germanus) and Convent of Durham on the one part and Adam as Proctor for the Master and brethren of the Hospital on the other, whereby the latter were released from 'The^omposition. which appears below [5. (xvi)], with regard to the ^,Tf?^P™hi; to the church of St. Oswald, and to the_sheaves of of St. Oswald.