George Porrett: Surrender 1755


Durham Bishopric Halmote Court Records, Original Surrenders:

Middleham Manor:

DHC2/M4/261:

Be it Remembred that the third Day of May in the Twenty Eighth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Second now King of Great Britain and so forth And in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven HUndred and fifty five Came George Porret out of Court at the City of Durham Before David HIlton Esquire Steward and took of the Lord All those three Dwelling Houses scituate and being in Middleham aforesaid and now in the several possessions of Anthony Baines and Henry Fishburne as Tenants thereof And also a Garth or Garden on the backside thereof as the same is now marked out and now in the possession of Thomas Brunskill containing in length from East to West Twenty five yards or thereabouts and in breadth from North to South at the West end thereof Seventeen Yards and at the East end thereof Twenty four Yards or thereabouts formerly in the Tenure of Peter Ward and late in the possession of Thomas Brunskill deceased being part and parcell of certain premises comprized in the several Admittances of Thomas Brunskill as son and Heir of the said Thomas Brunskill deceased (scored through.. bearing date the Fourth Day of May in the year of our Lord one Thousand seven hundred and fifty two ..) In which the said Thomas Brunskill the Son therein having Right his whole Right Estate Title Claim Interest and Demand hath Surrendered and quit Claimed into the Hands of the Lord to the use and behoof of the said George Porret To Have to the said George Porret To Have to the said George Porret and his Sequels in right according to the Custom of the Court rendring therefore by the Year at the usual Terms as before was wont to be rendred and doing to the Lord and the Neighbours the Dutys and Services accustomed by Pledges and so forth  And thereupon he is thereof Admitted Tenant

Signed Thomas Brunskill
David Hilton Steward

Note in margin:
Demise six pence



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transcript Dave King, published 30.5.2009