Evenwood
Let it be recorded that on the second day of March in the second year of the reign of our Lord George [1716], by the grace of God now King of Great Britain etc, came John Handsom outside the court in the city of Durham, before John Rudd esquire, deputy of Lancelot Hilton, gentleman steward; and with the lord’s permission through the said steward he took from the lord’s waste one recently built house three virgates long and three virgates wide, and one piece of land called a frontstead twelve virgates long and eight virgates wide, and one garden (in English, a Garth) adjoining it at the back twelve virgates long and eight virgates wide, with recently built stables, abutting onto the house of Thomas Hanson on the south side, the house of Robert White on the north side, the King’s Highway on the east side, and the land called Old Walls on the west side; to hold to the same John Handsom and his descendants by right according to the custom of the court as a new [...], paying thenceforth each year to the Lord Bishop of Durham and his successors one penny of lawful money of Great Britain on the Feast of St Martin the Bishop in Hyeme [11 Nov] and at Pentecost [Whitsunday] in equal portions, beyond the lord’s rent and the services thence due; and he gave to the lord as an entry fine 20 pence.