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a most erroneous term, for he was, in very truth, a loyal and gallant gentleman, whose brave defence of Barnard Castle in a time of strife and rebellion perhaps saved England for Queen Elizabeth. But the Boweses have always, like most of our real old families, been a brave old race, and fully up to their motto: _In multis, in magnis, in bonis expertus_.

The Chaytors are descended from a certain John Chaytor, of Newcastle, merchant, whose widow remarried William Wilkinson, another merchant in the same old city.

The widow of both made her will on March 23, 1558-59, and in it, after desiring to be buried in All Saints’ Church, Newcastle, beside her last lord, mentions her two sons, Christopher and John, and her daughter, Jane Kirkhouse. John Chaytor the younger married a daughter of James Perkinson, and left two children, Elizabeth and John, living in 1579.

Christopher Chaytor became an important public man, and, besides acquiring the Manor of Butterby, near Durham, gathered into the family fold the great estate of the noble old house of Clervaux, of Croft, and founded the present Baronet Chaytors. His son Thomas married a daughter of Sir Nicholas Tempest, Bart., of Stella; and his son again, Nicholas Chaytor, was a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Royal Army under the famous fighting Marquess of Newcastle, and by his wife, a Lambton heiress, was father of Sir William, created a Baronet in 1671. This baronetcy became extinct on the death of the first holder in 1720, but was again revived when Sir William Chaytor was created a Baronet in 1801.

The Tempests, as already mentioned, were relatives of the Chaytors. They came into the county from Yorkshire, when Sir William Tempest, of Studley, married the heiress of the Washingtons of Washington. His natural son, Rowland, acquired a considerable estate by marrying one of the many coheirs of the great baronial family of Umphreville, and was ancestor of the various families of the name seated in this county.

Sir Nicholas Tempest, of Stella Hall, in the reign of James I., was created a Baronet, and was buried at Ryton in 1625.

[Illustration] Portrait of Sir George Bowes

(_From the painting at Streatlam Castle_)]

His younger brother, Rowland Tempest, was ancestor of the Tempests of the Isle and Old Durham, whose representative some hundred years later, John Tempest, who was many years M.P. for the city of Durham, left a daughter Frances, who became eventually heiress of this branch of the family. She married the Rev. Sir Henry Vane, Bart., Prebendary of Durham Cathedral, a descendant of the famous Sir Henry Vane the elder, and her son, assuming his mother’s name, became Sir Henry Vane-Tempest. He left an only daughter, Frances Anne Emily, who married the third Marquess of Londonderry as his second wife, and was grandmother of the present Marquess.

The Vanes, who descend from a common ancestor with the Earls of Westmorland, have only been connected with Durham since the reign of James I., when Sir Henry Vane, of Hadlo Castle, a Kentish knight, acquired Raby Castle by grant from the Crown. His youngest son was ancestor of the Marquesses of Londonderry, and his eldest son was ancestor of the late Duke of Cleveland and of the present Lord Barnard.

The Williamsons came into this county through a strange decree of fate. The estate of Monkwearmouth passed from its purchaser, Colonel George Fenwick, of Brinkburn, the well-known Puritan, to his daughter Dorothy, who married Sir Thomas Williamson, of East Markham, in Nottinghamshire. Sir Thomas belonged to a Cavalier family that had lost much in the Royal cause.

Sir William, the fourth Baronet, married a sister of Mrs. Lambton, of Lambton, and co-heiress of John Hedworth, of Harraton, whose wife was a descendant of William James, sometime Bishop of Durham. Whitburn Hall has for several generations been the family residence, and the present Baronet is the ninth.

Lord Boyne’s family are only recent settlers in Durham, and came here when Brancepeth Castle passed to the seventh Viscount upon his marriage with an heiress of the Russells. They have been Barons of Brancepeth since 1866.

Other old families still existent in the shire who should at least be mentioned are the Pembertons[32] of Belmont Hall, the Wilkinsons of Durham, the Fogg-Elliots of Elvet Hill, the Bateses of Wolsingham, the Trotters of Helmdon, and the Hutchinsons.

The Claverings of Axwell, a noble old race, have within the last few years died out in the male line, but the name and blood continue in the present owners of the old home.

Descendants of other old families doubtless linger on: Byerleys and Fawcetts, Darnells and Croudaces, Muschamps and Emersons, Morgans and Marleys, Ewbankes and Raines, Rippons and Maddisons, and many another race, inheriting to the full the traditions of our country, are to be found scattered up and down the county.

INDEX

Abbey, Durham, 158

---- of Durham dissolved, 16

Acre, 107

Agnes’s Fast, St., 53

Alanshields of Alanshields, 249

Aldhun, Bishop, 109

"All Fools’ Day," 57

Alston, 41

Altars at Bolihope, Roman, 80

Altar-screen, Durham, 121-122, 138

Altar-tomb, Neville, 170

---- of Bernard Gilpin, 194, 195

Amiatinus, the Codex, 151

Anglo-Saxon memorial crosses, 183

Arms, Greenwell, 225

---- Lumley, 242

Associations of John Wesley, Durham, 229-238

Asylum, Sunderland Orphan, 35

Auckland, brasses in St. Andrew’s, 180, 189

---- brass in St. Helen’s, 180, 190

Aucklandshire, 39

Aycliffe Church, 171

Baker, Mrs. Sarah, 194

Bale Hill, 218

Balliol, Bernard de, 213

---- John, sometime King of Scotland, 213

Ballads, Robert Surtees’, 65

Bank, 105

Barbara, Bishop William de St., 30

Barnard Castle, 40, 213

---- ---- Church, 170, 185

Barnes, Mrs. Fridesmond, 189

Baronial houses, 239

Barons of the Bishopric, 3, 11

Barrow at Copt Hill, 182

Bateses of Wolsingham, 256

Battle of Neville’s Cross, 41

Baydale inn, 24

Bayley, K. C., 7

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

Bede, Venerable, 4, 36

---- at Monkwearmouth and Jarrow, 146-151

Bede’s chair, Jarrow, 54

---- tomb, 123

---- Well, Monkton, 55

Bellasis, 218

Bell, Durham Curfew, 63

---- Pancake, 56

Billingham Church, 172

Binchester, Roman camp at, 4

---- Roman epitaph at, 183

Birthdays folk-lore, 46

Biscop, Benedict, 4, 36, 147, 149, 150

Bishop Aldhun, 109

---- Auckland, 39

---- ---- Palace, 200

---- Cosin, 20, 120, 179

---- Crewe, 21, 204

---- Flambard, 8, 40, 118, 133

---- James, 206

---- Middleham, 222

---- ---- Church, 180

---- Philip de Pictavia, 172

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

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

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

Bishopric, Barons of the, 3, 11

---- of Durham, 1, 2, 81

Bishop’s revenue, 11

Bishopwearmouth effigy, 185

Black Death, the, 12-13

Blackett family, 252

---- Sir Edward, 75

Blakeston of Blakeston, 188

Blakiston, 222

---- Sir William, 212

Blenkinsopps of Hoppyland, 252

Boar, the Pollard, 68-71, 74

Bogs, 101

Boldon Book, 9, 30, 38, 39, 42, 241

---- Church, 176

Bolihope, 91

---- Roman altars at, 80

Bowes of Streatlam, 253

---- Sir George, 41

---- Sir William, 214, 216

Boyne, Lord, 255

Bradley, Ralph, 194

Brae, 105

Brag, the Picktree, 76-78

Brancepeth, 41

---- Castle, 203

---- Church, 179

Brass, Chester-le-Street Church, 190

---- Haughton-le-Skerne, 191

---- Hoton, William, 168, 190

---- Houghton-le-Spring, 191

---- Brasses, monumental, 189

---- Sedgefield Church, 168, 190, 191, 192, 193

Bridge, Prebend’s, 52

---- Tyne, 34

Brigantes, occupation by, 4

Brocks, 91-92

Bronze Age, 182

Brow, 105

Brown, Dame Dorothy, 26

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 224

Bruce, Robert de, 37

---- tombs, 196

Brunskill, Thomas, 222

Bruses (De), tomb of, 165

Bulmer, Bertram de, 203

---- family, 247

---- stone, 25

Burdon family, 251

---- John, 224

Burns, 91-92

Butler, Bishop, 22

"Butterby churchgoer," 64

"Butter Cross," Ravensworth, 212

Byerley, Colonel Anthony, 224

"Byerley’s Bull Dogs," 224

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

Carling Sunday, 57

Castle Barnard, 213

---- Brancepeth, 203

---- Durham, 204-207

---- Eden, 216

---- Hilton, 187, 210, 211

---- Lambton, 74, 209

---- Lumley, 207-208

---- Raby, 214, 215

---- Ravensworth, 211, 212

---- Stanhope, 198

---- Streatlam, 213, 214

---- Walworth, 215

---- Witton, 199

Castles and Halls of Durham, 198-228

---- the, 79

Cathedral brasses, Durham, 190-191

---- Durham, 3, 7, 12, 18, 108-129

---- local lore of Durham, 63

Cau’d Lad of Hilton, the, 71-73

Cave, Heatheryburn, 79

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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