1. THE PRIVILEGES OF THE PRINCE BISHOP INCLUDED Immunity from taxation The right to have an Episcopal mint Chancery for the issue of charters and writs Right to appoint justices of the peace The right to outlaw or pardon life and limb of persons convicted in the bishop's courts The keeping of gallows, tumbrel and pillories Wardship of the estates of minors after death of tenants Escheat, which is the acquiring of estates left when a tenant dies intestate Deodand - the right to seize an object that had caused the death of a human being Treasure Trove; The right to royal fish and wreck Free warren (the right to hunt and kill game) Forest Law, protecting vert and venison for the bishop's use Control of hunting, mining, timber and fuel in the bishop's forests and on common ground Proprietorship of all mines, base, precious or coal Right to seize lands forfeited for treason

2. RECTORY Garb tithe of 13 townships£107 13s 4d Tithes of lambs and wool £6 13s 4d Pension from Newminster Priory (in lieu of tithes from Horton Grange) £11 6s 4d Total income of Rectory£126 13s 4d Plus one third of Glebe = 9 acres of arable land VICARAGE Small tithes -hay £5 6s 4d flax £1 6s 6d mills £1 6s 4d curtilages 10s 0d calves £2 10s 0d geese 10s 0d hens 6s 0d pigs 2s 0d swans 15s 6d foals 2s 6d bees 2s 0d doves 1s 0d merchants, smiths, weavers & brewers 5s 0d £13 3s 2d Altarage -Holy Bread 6s 6d weddings 3s 4d christenings & churchings 4s 4d burials & mortuaries £4 0s 0d oblations £2 14s 4d £7 8s 6d Land of Milbourne Chapel £1 0s 0d Total income of Vicarage £21 11s 8d Plus two thirds of Glebe = 18 acres or arable land OUTGOINGS OF VICARAGE Parish chaplain £4 0s 0d Chaplain of Milbourne £3 6s 8d Deacon £2 0s 0d Clerk £1 6s 8d Synodals 2s 0d Procurations 13s 4d Wax, lamps, wine, frankincense 13s 4d Total outgoings £12 2s 0d Net Value of Vicarage = £9 9s 8d REVENUE OF PONTELAND PARISH, 1303

3. EARLIEST RECORDS OF COAL MINING BY MONKS IN DURHAM Escomb1188 Wickham1356 Railey Fell1383 Hett1293 Lumley1360 Aldengrange1397 Wardley1303 Moorhousefield1360 Ryton1403 Chester-le-Street1307 Winlaton1360 West Rainton1430 Coxhoe1327 Heworth1360 Tursdale1447 Ferryhill1327 Gateshead1364 Bearpark1456 Lanchester 1333 Kimblesworth1368 Broom1495 Rainton1347 Nether Heworth1374 Eighton1528 Coundon1350 Cockfield1375 Ravensworth1528 Softley1354 Spennymoor1377 Chopwell1536 Wingate1354 Evenwood1380 Stella1566 EARLIEST RECORDS OF COAL MINING BY MONKS IN NORTHUMBERLAND Middlewood, Morpeth1236Shoresworth (Shoreswood)1314Denton & Benwell1439 Fenham1238Marden1315Fenham, Holy Island1440 Newcastle1239Bedlington & Cowpen1315Fallowfield, Hexham 1449 Plessey, Morpeth1253``Elswick1330North Sunderland1455 Tynemouth1269Holborn, Holy Island1347Bilton, Alnwick1473 Hartley1291Earsdon1376Scremerston1473 Wylam1292Bamburgh1384Shilbottle1473 Ford1314Buckton1429Tweedmouth1509