Quintin Publications

The Surtees Society

The Surtees Society was established in 1834 in honor of Robert Surtees, of Mainsforth, Esquire, the author of the History of the County Palatine of Durham, and in accordance with his pursuits and plans; having for its object the publication of inedited Manuscripts, illustrative of the intellectual, the moral, the religious, and the social condition of those parts of England and Scotland included on the east between the Humber and the Firth of Forth, and on the west between the Mersey and the Clyde, a region which constituted the ancient Kingdom of Northumbria. It would today cover the counties of York, Nottingham, Northumberland, Cumberland, and Westmorland.

Topics Covered

1. Wills and Inventories

2. Charters of Endowment

3. Biographies

4. Diaries and autobiographies  (16th and 17th centuries)

5. Early Church History

6. Anglo-Norman Chronicles

7. Description of Ancient Monuments

8. Psalters

9. Household books

10. Lists of Freeman

11. Visitations and Heraldic Visits

12. Cartularies

13. Chantry surveys

14. Churchwarden Accounts

15. Household books

16. Bishop's Registers

17. Protestations

18. Guild and Union documents