Short title: Haslerigg v Bishop of Durham. Plaintiff(s): Sir Thomas Heslerigg, bart...

Short title: Haslerigg v Bishop of Durham.

Plaintiff(s): Sir Thomas Heslerigg, bart (an infant), by Richard Verney, esq, his guardian and next friend, and Sir Thomas Williamson, baronet, and his wife Dame Dorothy.

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

Subject of depositions: Rivers, ports, of Tees, Weare, Tyne, Blythe, Camboys, and Holly 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, Hilton, Lambton, Suddick, and Pallion, and Bishop Wearmouth. Metes and bounds. Customs of manors. Customs, rights, privileges, and jurisdiction of the Bishops of Durham as to wrecks of the sea. [See also 1 James 2. Michaelmas, Number 37].

County/place: Durham.

Date of commission: 12 February 1686.

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

Deponent(s): Richard Adamson; Nicholas Bell (2); Daniel Richardson; John Ratlife; Theador Taylor; Richard Rose; George Snawdon; William Heppell (2); Henry Busby; Robert Grey.