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 The Howe manuscript (MSS) collection of early Durham Bishop's transcripts has an interesting history and enables us to understand the recording of the transcript collection for the diocese over recent centuries.
+= The Discovery =
+The documents forming this collection were discovered on 27 October 1998 in the Dean and Chapter Library of Durham Cathedral in tray numbered 6a . The Howe manuscripts as they are known were transferred that day to the Durham University Library (DUL) which houses the main surviving series of parish register transcripts for the diocese of Durham, among the Durham Diocesan Records (DDR) together with some stray transcripts from parishes and chapelries in the Durham ecclesiastical peculiars in Yorkshire among the Muniments of the Dean and Chapter of Durham (DCD)
+= Cuthbert Mills Carlton =
+Carlton was a journalist, antiquarian and genealogist who was a native of Durham and who died on 19 January 1892. By his will made on 21 July 1890 and proved at Durham on 5 February 1892, he left to his friend John Howe for life “all my volumes of MSS as belong to me and are marked [for Howe]” with a request that after Howe’s death “all such manuscripts and papers” should be handed to the secretary of the Newcastle Society of Antiquaries”.