10 July 1862 (1) Rev. James Carr, Master, and Brethren of Sherburn Hospital (2) Very Rev. George Waddington, Dean of Durham; John Henry Forster, esq., Mayor of Durham; Rowland Burdon, esq., Chairman of the Quarter Sessions; John Fawcett of Durham, esq. and William Lloyd Wharton of Dryburn, esq., 5 of the Governors of Sherburn Hospital (3) Matthew Coupland of West Wood House, Ebchester Counterpart lease for 21 years of all coal mines under the freehold lands in the parish of Ebchester with full right to work the coal seams, reserving all other minerals to the lessors Rent: £40 fixed rent for 2,000 fothers of coal; 5d. for each fother of coal in excess of the 2,000