Description
These are draft transcriptions of the custodians' accounts for the Templars' property in Northumberland and Co. Durham, covering the years 1308-10. The accounts are preserved at Kew: The National Archives of the UK : a draft account for 1308-10 in E 199/33/3; a series of enrolled accounts in the Exchequer Records, E 358/18-20, which cover the period from the Templars' arrest until March 1310; and a statement of debts owed to the Templars at E 142/119 mems 36-37. The 1308-10 summary is a draft of the enrolled accounts at E 358/18 rot. 52(2) and E 358/20 rot. 38 dorse. It has been transcribed by Dr Myra Bom and checked and translated by Helen J. Nicholson, and appears here by permission of Dr Bom. The enrolled accounts are: TNA E 358/18 rot 6 dorse and E 358/20 rot. 5: Robert of Fandon accounts for the Templars' property in Northumberland and rents from Co. Durham for the period 12 January 1308 to 16 November 1308, when he handed the properties over to Guychard Charon. The whole Latin text appears here with a translation of the accounts for Jan.- Sept. 1308. E 358/20 rot. 38 dorse and E 358/18 rot 52(2): Guychard Charon, sheriff of Northumberland, accounts for Thornton and its dependencies from 16 November 1308 to Michaelmas 1309 and from Michaelmas 1309 to 15 March 1310, when he handed the properties over to Richard of Horsley. There is a Latin transcription here. The documents in the National Archives are covered by an Open Government Licence for public sector information, which allows everyone to copy, publish, distribute and transmit the documents in their archives: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/ . However, copyright on this transcription of the documents is reserved to the transcribers. The cover picture shows the modern buildings on the site of Temple Thornton.
Northumberland and Co. Durham: January to November 1308
