Short title: Williamson v Bishop of Durham. Plaintiff(s): Sir Thomas Williamson,...

Short title: Williamson v Bishop of Durham.

Plaintiff(s): Sir Thomas Williamson, bart and his wife Dame Dorothy, Sir Thomas Haslerige, bart (an infant, under the age of one and twenty years), by Richard Verney, esquire, his guardian and next friend.

Defendant(s): The Right Revd Father in God Nathaniel Lord Bishop of Durham, George French.

Subject of depositions: Rivers, ports, of Tees, Weare, Tyne, Blythe, Camboys, and Holly Island (Durham), and the manors, adjoining upon those rivers, particularly as to the manors, belonging to Monk Wearmouth alias North Wearmouth, Sunderland, South Bydwick, Pencheir, Harraton alias Harburton, Suddick, Lambton, Hilton, Pallion, and Bishops Wearmouth. Metes and bounds, and customs of manors, etc. Customs, rights, priveleges, and jurisdiction of the bishops of Durham as to wrecks of the sea, etc. Metes and bounds of the county palatine of Durham. Right and title to the waste between high and low water mark. Building of wharfs, etc. Anchorage. Also touching the late priory or cell of Monk Wearmouth.

County/place: Newcastle-upon-Tyne; Durham.

Date of commission: 8 July 1685.

Additional information: interrogatories and depositions taken 9 October 1685 at Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

Deponent(s): William Anderson; Charles Chambers; Richard Newton; Richard Carr; Thomas Smart; Thomas Harle; Edward ? Rowe; John Swallwell; Ann Todd (2); Henry Lambton (2); Abraham Robinson; Thomas Davison; Robert Browne; George Liddle; Michael Bryan; John Richardson; Thomas Bulmer; John Reed; John Shipheardson; Thomas Wake; John Goodchild (2); Henry Armestrong (2); Thomas Collier (2); Edward Lee (2); John Rumford (2); William Parkinson (2); John Lambert; Lawrence Thompson; George Williamson; Robert Johnson; John Sympson (2); Daniel Richardson (2); William Cole (2); Robert Storye; George Usher; Thosmas Blackett (2); Cuthbert Young (2); John Rochester; Richard Shiipperdson; John Harrison; Robert Nicholson; Thomas Newby; Thomas Ayre; Humphrey Pybus; Robert Adamson; George Barkas; George Kirby; Thomas Wilson.