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Surname	Longstaffe	Alternative Surname
First Name	John, of Bishop Auckland	Initial of Surname	L
Year of Birth/Baptism		Flourished	1663-65
Year of Death
Biographical Details	In 1663 he agreed to undertake mason’s work and to make chimneypieces for Bishop Auckland palace, then being repaired by Bishop Cosin (‘Corr of John Cosin’, Surtees Soc, vol 2). Two years later he was paid for building the porter’s lodge (Durham Cathedral Lib, Sharp, 163, in GPC). He may also have erected the pillar commemorating King Edward I (†1307) at Sands End, near Burgh by Sands, Cumberland, which was executed in 1685 by a mason named Thomas or John Langstaff, or Longstaff. Literary References: Darke 1991, 235-6 Archival References: Todd MS 7/3F191, St Edmund Hall Oxford (inf. Denis Perriam); GPC