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 Dame Dorothy his wife, and Sir Thomas Heslerigge, bart (an infant), under the age of one and twenty yeares, 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 Holy Island (Durham), and the manors, adjoining upon those rivers, particularly the manors, belonging to Monk Wearmouth alias North Wearmouth, Sunderland, South Bydwick, Pencheir, Harraton alias Harburton, Lambton, Suddick, Hilton, Pallion, and Bishops Wearmouth. Metes and bounds. Customs of manors. Rights, privileges, and jurisdiction of the Bishops of Durham as to wrecks of the sea. Right and title to the waste between high and low water mark. Building of wharfs thereon. Anchorage. Metes and bounds of the county palatine of Durham. Touching also the possessions, of the late dissolved priory or cell of Monk Wearmouth. [See also 1 James 2. Michaelmas Number 37].

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

Date of commission: 28 November 1685.

Additional information: interrogatories and depositions taken 25 January 1686 at Durham.

Deponent(s): Edmond Bell; William Browne; James Hobbs; Daniel Leek; Daniel Richardson; Ralph Wilson; John Young; Anthony Coates; John Mannard; John Wilson; John Coulson; John Morland; William Wilkinson; Richard Adamson; John Simpson; Daniel Richardson; Robert Spearman; Michael Spearman.