Street, in the city of Durham, breeches maker, all the same premises, and by the same description. To have to the said John Marshall, and his sequels in right, according to the custom of the court, rendering, &c. And he was thereupon admitted tenant. Defeazanced in the first place for securing unto the said Edward Hincks, his executors, administrators, and assigns, the payment of the sum of £400, with interest, on the 2nd August, 1776, and subject the said premises should be upon such trusts as Mary Howlding wife of Anthony Howlding, of Dunnington, in the county of York, gentleman, should, whether sole or married, by her last will direct or appoint, and in default thereof, in trust for the said Mary Howlding and her sequels in right. On the 29th August, 1776, a surrender was executed by the said John Marshall, Edward Hincks, and Anthony Howlding and Mary his wife, to John Pemberton, of Sunderland-near-the-Sea, gentleman, and Thomas Wilkinson, of Monkwearmouth, gentleman, of all the same premises and by the same description. To have to the said John Pemberton, and Thomas Wilkinson, and their sequels in right, according to the custom, &c. And they were thereupon admitted tenants. Defeazanced upon the trusts of a deed of fcur parts, dated August 19, 1776, between Anthony Howlding and Mary his wife of the first part, the said Edward Hincks of the had just then built the tower or look-out at Deptford popularly called "Biss's Folly," he thus accosted him :

Some day, when I am able,

I'll come and see your Tower of Babel.

To which Mr. Biss replied:

Any time, when the weather's fair,

I will be glad to see you there.

second part, the said John Pemberton of the third part, and the said Thomas Wilkinson of the fourth part, so as the estates, intents, and purposes, powers, provisors, limitations, and agreements are agreeable to the nature and consistent to the custom of the manor of Houghton, of which the same is parcel. On the 23rd September, 1777, the said Thomas Wilkinson, who had survived the said John Pemberton, and Anthony Howlding and Mary his wife, surrendered to William Dawson, of Grindon, in the parish of Bishopwearmouth, yeoman, all the same premises and by the same description. To have to the said William Dawson, and his sequels in right, according to the custom of the court, rendering, &c. And he was thereupon admitted tenant. Defeazanced upon condition that if the said Anthony Howlding, and Mary his wife, or either of them, their or either of their heirs, executors, or administrators, should pay unto the said William Dawson, his executors, administrators, or assigns, the sum of £500, with interest, then the said William Dawson would surrender the said premises unto the said Anthony Howlding and Mary his wife, and their sequels in right, at his, her, or their costs and charges. March 2, 1779, Anthony Howlding and Mary his wife surrendered to Henry Ladler, of the city of Durham, gentleman, all the same premises and by the same description. To have to the said Henry Ladler, and his sequels in right, according to the custom of the court, rendering, &c. And he was thereupon admitted tenant. Defeazanced in the first place for securing to the said William Dawson the sum of £500 by surrender of 23rd September, 1777. In the next place, for will of Mary Howlding, and in default thereof in trust for her sequels

in right. And it was also thereby declared that the said Henry Ladler should receive the rents and profits of the said premises during the natural life of the said Anthony Howlding, and to pay the interest of the said £500 to the said William Dawson, and from time to time to pay the surplus of the said rents and profits to the said Mary Howlding, and her receipt to be a sufficient discharge. On the 20th November, 1783, a surrender was executed by the said Anthony Howlding and Mary his wife, and Henry Ladler, to John Walton Elliot, of Gainford, in the county of Durham, Esq., and William Hay, of Sunderland-near-the-Sea, gentleman, of all the same premises and by the same description. To have to the said John Walton Elliot and William Hay, and their sequels in right, according to the custom of the court, rendering, &c. And they were thereupon admitted tenants. Defeazanced in trust for securing to the said W. Dawson the sum of £500 by said surrender of 23rd September, 1777, and subject thereto, in trust for John Thornhill, of Thornhill, Bishopwearmouth, Esq. (who had agreed for the purchase of the said premises), by his will should direct or appoint, and in default thereof, in trust for the said John Thornhill, his heirs and sequels in right. February 9, 1788, the said William Dawson surrendered to the said John Walton Elliot and William Hay all the same premises and by the same description. To have to the said J. W. Elliot and W. Hay, and their sequels in right, according to the custom of the court, rendering, &c. And they were thereupon admitted tenants. Defeazanced in trust for the said John Thornhill, his heirs and sequels in right. On the 25th August, 1812, Christopher Thornhill Thornhill, of Thornhill, near

Bishopwearmouth, Esq. (lately called Christopher Thornhill Camm), and then of the Island of Antigua, cousin and devisee of John Thornhill, deceased, the said John Walton Elliot, who had survived the said William Hay, Charles Simpson, of Bishopwearmouth, Esq., which said J. W. Elliot and C. Simpson were the devisees and trustees under the will of the said John Thornhill, surrendered to George Wood, of Sunderland, gentleman, "All that messuage or dwelling-house known by the sign of 'The

Ship,' in the Pottery Bank, with the small DEMISE, 2D. coal-houses immediately behind the same, situate, standing, and being at the east end of Sunderland, on a quay there commonly called the Commissioners' Quay, then in the occupation of Anne Tate, Joseph Kay, and George Crowther, as tenants thereof, containing in length, from east to west at the north side thereof, twelve yards and two feet or thereabouts, and at the south side thereof eleven yards two feet ten inches, and in breadth, from north to south, ten yards and nine inches or thereabouts, be the same more or less, boundering on a messuage or tenement belonging to Christopher Thornhill Thornhill, then in the occupation of Edward Rowntree and others, on or towards the east, on another messuage or tenement belonging to the said C. T. Thornhill, in the occupation of John Brewis and William Pallister, on or towards the west, the said quay called the Commissioners' Quay, on or towards the north, and on a waste part of Sunderland Moor, on or towards the south, being part and parcel of divers messuages and tenements comprised in the surrender of 9thFebruary, 1788, from W. Dawson to J. W. Elliot and W. Hay in trust for John Thornhill. To have to the

said George Wood, and his sequels in right, according to the custom of the court, rendering. &c. And thereupon he was admitted tenant. Defeazanced in trust for John

Taylor, of Monkwearmouth Shore, common brewer (who had purchased the same for £500), his heirs, sequels in right, and assigns". On the 18th June, 1823, the said John Walton Elliot, who had survived the said William Hay, surrendered to Maria Fisher, the wife of Joseph Fisher, late of Old Red Lion Square, Middlesex, and then of Little Braithwaite, Cumberland, Esq. (which said Maria Fisher was before her marriage with the said Joseph Fisher called Maria Camm, [but better known as Miss Thornhill,] spinster), all that piece or parcel of ground situate at the east end of Sunderland, and formerly lying between the high and low water-mark of DEMISE, 6D. the river Wear, on part of which has been erected part of a key commonly called the Commissioners' Quay, with all houses, quays, edifices, and erections now built upon the same formerly in the possession of Edward Hincks, gentleman, and abutting upon part of a quay called the Commissioners' Quay, formerly in the possession of Stephen Shafto on the west, and onthe Pier on the east, and all and singular the rights and appurtenances to the said premises belonging or appertaining (save and except such part of the said piece or parcel of ground and the erections thereon as were sold and surrendered by one surrender bearing date 25th August, 1812, to or in trust for John Taylor). To have to the said Maria Fisher, and her sequels in right, according to the custom of the court, rendering, &c. And she was thereupon admitted tenant. And it was thereby declared that the said surrender was so made and passed