The Court of the County of Durham was a court that exercised jurisdiction within the County Palatine of Durham. It was abolished,[1] subject to certain savings, on 5 July 1836.[2]
The sole roll of this court known not to have been lost is DCM Misc Ch 5722.[3] It includes material from the years 1403 and 1404.[4]
- ^ The Durham (County Palatine) Act 1836, section 2
- ^ The Durham (County Palatine) Act 1836, section 8
- ^ This abbreviation stands for "Durham Cathedral Muniments, Miscellaneous Charters"
- ^ Christian Drummond Liddy, The Bishopric of Durham in the Late Middle Ages, 2008, p 200. Christian Drummond Liddy and Richard H Britnell (eds), North-east England in the Later Middle Ages, The Boydell Press, 2005 p 107. J S Hamilton (ed), Fourteenth Century England, The Boydell Press, 2006, vol 4, p 66. Matthew L Holford and K J Stringer, Border Liberties and Loyalties, Edinburgh University Press, 2010, p 59.