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Includes correspondence, solicitor's bill of costs, Inland Revenue Form C.1 relating to estate duty, and correspondence with Estate Duty Office regarding the duty. Also includes a schedule of securities sent to Yorkshire Penny Bank Ltd., Coney Street, York, Inland Revenue form A.6 (Inland Revenue Affidavit) and details of a cash account.

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Collection of correspondence between solicitors and the executor and beneficiaries dealing with the transfer of shares, payment of legacies, and usual probate matters.

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Various letters relating to the marriage settlement of Sarah Jane Mills and William Levi Esq (enclosed with GDC/414/1).

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Securities deposited with Lloyds Bank Ltd, dividend certificates and transfers and associated correspondence.

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Collection of correspondence between solicitors and the executor and beneficiaries dealing with the transfer of shares, payment of legacies, and usual probate matters.

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Schedules of securities comprised in the settlement - lists husband's and wife's trust funds.

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Comprises correspondence, legal documents, sale of properties and land. Latter include Moor Farm, Wigginton; land on The Mount; property in High Petergate and in The Crescent; Aldersyde, Dringhouses.

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Includes property papers and probate documentation. Partial list of the contents is inside the first box.

Correspondence with Inland Revenue Estate Duty Office as to Succession Duty.

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Bundle of letters and papers relating to claim by the Dean and Chapter of York Minster under the will of Sir Arthur Ingham, for sum of money to provide candles to light the Minster.

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Includes estate papers of Bannister Dent, legal papers, messuages at Clifton, papers relating to Wenlock Terrace, land in Gate Fulford (Ann Street) and personal family papers. Includes a complete list of the contents in each box.

Inland Revenue Affadavit of Benjamin Dodsworth and correspondence concerning the affairs of Jane Dodsworth, deceased, who died 6 March 1945. Copy will also enclosed.

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Bundle of printed documents entitled 'List of Sheriffs and under Sheriffs Deputies and Agents etc.'

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Bundle of copies of 'York Gas. A Bill as amended in Committee). The bill was 'To confer upon the York Gas Company powers with reference to the making of provision for supplies of gas in certain cases and for other purposes.'

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Minutes of proceedings taken before the Select Commitee on Private Bills on the York Gas Bill, 1936.

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She died on 16 July 1930.

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Documents relating to an auction sale in Leeds of freehold properties known as 6 and 10 Grosvenor Place in the City of Leeds - Vendor George Shann. Comprises contracts for sale and purchase, abstracts of title and also relating to freehold properties known as 10 Grosvenor Place and 14 Grosvenor Place, Leeds, together with file of correspondence (Note - No sale was effected).

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Includes:
Copyhold Rentals 1768 - List of Poppleton Quit Rents
Copy of Tithe Rent List - 07.05.1776
Copyhold Rentals 1790
Copyhold Rentals 1817
Copyhold Rentals, undated, x 2
Copyhold Rentals 1863
Copyhold Rentals 1878 x2
Copyhold Rentals 1896
Copyhold Rentals 1899
Copyhold Rentals 1902
Copyhold Rentals 1905 x2
Copyhold Rentals 1908
Copyhold Rentals 1911
Copyhold Rentals 1914
Copyhold Rentals 1917
Copyhold Rentals 1920
Copyhold Rentals 1923
Copyhold Rentals 1929

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Handwritten and printed schedules of horses running in York Races August 1929.

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Includes abstracts of title, conveyances, probate documentation, mortgages and other legal papers relating to the Baker and Ventress families. Full list of the contents is inside the first box.

Envelope of papers relating to the trust of Mrs Elizabeth Clifton as well as the payment of estate duty payable on the death of Miss Laura Willis who died on 14 May 1928 age 95. Under the will of Elizabeth Clifton of Barton Lode she was entitled to an income of £1000.

File of corrspondence made between solicitors dealing with explanations to acreage etc regarding the Manor of Helperby.

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Bundle of corrspondence between Solicitors and the family relating to Transfer etc.

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Two stock transactions regarding Nicholson's Trust.

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Includes deeds for Silver Street, Jubbergate, Starthwaite Lane, Thursday Market, New Market Trustees, Skeldergate area (includes rough plan (undated) of Thomas Fairfax to north of Skeldergate. Also shows adjoining property owners. Scale 240' : 1''). Also includes a document of 1691 regarding a peppercorn rent; marriage settlement 1814 (relates to Elephant and Castle Inn), documents relating to Spen Lane, land and property in parishes of St. Crux (1819); St John del Pike (1817); St.Sampson's parsonage house (1821), St. Leonard's Place (1815) regarding lease of the De Grey rooms; 17 St.Paul's Square (1923) schedule of documents handed over upon completion (from 1849); completion account (undated).

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Three receipts relating to stock, shares and the railways. Only one has been conclusively identified, and is in the name of Mrs M E Webber.

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Collection of correspondence regarding the claim against South Austrian Lombards Railway and information on claims against Austrian debtors.

Various summaries of accounts and four letters.

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Three Lloyds Bank Passbooks made up to date of death, and thereafter in the name of the Executor of Mrs M.E.Webber, deceased. Also envelope of cleared cheques and receipts.

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His will was proved 8 November 1884.

1819: Probate and five codicils of Mrs Mary Burgh; 1823: probate of the will of John Fothergill; 1920/21: letters of administration to the estate of Mrs Elizabeth Blair.

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Rough copy of the estate accounts and associated letter.

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Includes a few receipts from other years.

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File of correspondence dealing with probate matters.

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Accounts paid by trustees.

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Deeds and documents relating mainly to the Babthorpe Estate in the East Riding of the County of York. Also includes an 1892 schedule of title deeds relating to estates at Grimston and Dunnington in the County of York - Watkinson to Mills. Filed amongst Mills' papers is a Yorkshire Club debeture (No.109) in the name of George Dundas Yeomans Esq.

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Inland Revenue Accounts for the succession to personal property where the Possession Duty is payable on capital.

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License to purchase a Motor Spirit booklet, plus notes and cheque.

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Bundle of wills relating to York individuals, most likely lodged by clients of Gray, Dodsworth & Co.

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Bundle of correspondence between Solicitors Messrs. Gray Dodsworth of York and Tasker Hart and Munby of Scarborough.

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Includes settlement on the marriage of Peter Fairbairn and Mrs Rachel Ann Bell, declaration of trust between Andrew Fairbairn and Lady Fairbairn and her trustees, deed of covenant between William Ford Hulton and William Clough Esquire, conveyance between the Inclosure Commissioners for England and Wales and Edward Lloyd Esq, settlement on the marriage of Reverend John James Pulleyn and Miss Elizabeth Esther Hincks, appointment of Trustees of the will of Mrs Jane Reynolds deceased, memorandum by Lord and Lady Cathcart, settlement on the marriage of Thomas Leigh Hare Esqure with Lady Ada Cathcart, marriage certificate of Joseph Bishop Battrick and Jane Tomlinson, Slingsby settlement papers, release under the marriage settlement of Captain Thomas Slingsby, accounts volume 1895-1917 and tax assessments 1945 and notification of shareholders meetings 1894.

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Copy release by Sir George Everard Arthur Cayley of Tempe Woodbridge in Suffolk and another to Richard Frederick Birch of Maes Elwy St Asaph in the County of Flint, esquire. Includes four letters dated 1915.

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Incomplete Inland Revenue account on the death of Thomas Wingfield Webber who died on 7 May 1914. Includes associated correspondence.

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Includes typescript inventory of the contents of the house, and lease of the premises.

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Includes a few receipts from 1911.

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Includes quitclaim for £750 of all actions which might be suffered as a result of a Bill of York United Gas Light Company for extending the supply district of the company and enabling it to construct additional works and raise additional capital. William Dove of Crown Cottage, Heworth, J.P. and Henry John Ware of Heworth Croft, gentleman to the above company for area bordered by the Foss, Monk Bridge. Also includes 1911 draft case for opinion of counsel, petition of York Corporation to parliament against bill of York United Gas Light Company (1912).

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Probate of the will and codicil of Elizabeth Clifton of Barton Lodge in the County of Nottinghamshire, widow. The executors listed in the probate were Edwin Gray and Richard Harington and the gross estate totalled £109,903-12s-5d. Enclosed are two notices to the trustees of the will of Elizabeth Clifton. The first is dated 26 June 1908 and is from Frederic Bell esquire to Yorkshire Insurance Company Ltd. The second is dated 11 December 1912 and is a settlement made on the marriage of Captain Frederic Bell and Miss Madge Stanyforth.

File of correspondence relating to mortgage of the life policy of Reverend T G Baillie and Thomas E Yorke Esquire.

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Seventeen documents concerning the revisionary interest under the will of Emily Mary Cuthbert and notices to trustees.

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Bundle of copy telegrams to Guy, Lendal, York. They are instructions to buy and sell stock.

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Grant of Letters of Administration (1900) and Grant of Letters of Administration de bonis non of Miss Margaret Eva Overton deceased, late of 31 Queen Anne's Grove, Bedford Park, Chiswick in the County of Middlesex who died 29th December 1899, intestate and without real estate. Letters of Administration granted at the Principal Probate Registry to Jane Elizabeth Overton, widow her natural and lawful mother, who died 17th May 1908 leaving part of the estate unadministered. Letters of Administration (1908) granted to Edith Mary Overton, spinster and natural lawful sister.

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Includes two fragments on parchment (undated); document dating back to 1708 concerning Willian Parratt and his sons [of Selby?]; probate of the will of Peter Rymer of York (1841) and associated documents (1852 and 1871); draft reconveyance documents (1906 and 1907).

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File of loose correspondence, arranged chronologically.

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Arranged chronologically.

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Probate of the will of Edward Stillingfleet Cayley late of Wydale in the county of York, esquire. Probate was granted to Ellen Louisa Cayley, his widow and others. Gross estate £33513 0s 10d. Includes two letters regarding the Yorkshire Insurance company dated 1897 and 1906.

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Arranged chronologically.

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Arranged chronologically.

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File of loose correspondence, arranged chronologically.

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Bundle of wills relating to York individuals, most likely lodged by clients of Gray, Dodsworth & Co. Also includes a blue envelope of miscellaneous notes and letters from the 1890s.

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Agreement for sale and purchase of the right or easement of constructing and maintaining an Aqueduct or Aqueducts and other works in or upon land in the Township of Clint in the West Riding of the County of York. Also Copy Draft Agreement for sale and purchase, Copy queries and Observations on Title on behalf of the Corporation and Replies. Completed draft/Grant, Abstract of Title, Plan showing Easement.

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Arranged chronologically.

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Unidentified legal deeds.

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Notices to trustees.

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Appointment in favour of Captain Oswald Thomas O'Kelly Webber of a sum of £100 and surrender of life interest therein (in the trusts of the settlement made on the marriage of Thomas Wingfield Webber and Matilda Emily his wife). Also draft copy.

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Appointment in favour of Miss Alice Matilda Mary Webber of a sum of £200 and surrender of life interest therein (in the trusts of the settlement made on the marriage of Thomas Wingfield Webber and Matilda Emily his wife). Also draft copy.

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Two letters from Lloyds Bank Limited in London to Gray and Dodsworth of York about New Zealand stocks.

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Includes printed list of benefactors to the two charity schools of York (Blue Coat Boys and Grey Coat Girls, handwritten list of York churches extracted from Torres MSS and signed Wm. Hudson, Deputy Registrar (undated) and map of area between Scarcroft Lane and Nunnery Lane 'Traced from Deed on Lease, Hornsey and Monkman September 15th 1903'.

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Correspondence between Gray Dodsworth Solicitors acting for Nicholson Trustees relating to an application for and advance of £200 from Yorkshire Insurance Company.

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Agreement to let the coach house and stables between John P. Guy (The Landlord) and George Flower (Tenant) situate beyond No. 22 The Mount, together with notice to quit.

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Includes extracts from the register of St James' Parish in Westminster, abstract of title relating to a messuage outside Micklegate Bar, copy of The Times (21 June 1827), copy of The Times (25 June 1827), copy of the Newcastle Courant (23 June 1827), note relating to Mr Collins legacy, appointment of Trustees for a marriage settlement of Reverened Francis Simpson and Anne his wife, settlement made on the marriage of The Reverend William Hague Barnby and Miss Mary Elizabeth Chalmers Francis, and Chinese Imperial Guaranteed bonds.

Certificates of search on behalf of Francis Drake Leslie, Randall Thomas Lord Bishop of Winchester and Driffield family relating to Earswick and Huntington; 1894 conveyance from York Vicars Choral to William Driffield; insurance policy relating to 'Huntington Hall' (Driffield Estate); 1896 papers relating to Manor of Strensall.

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Includes papers and documents relating to the Driffield family, especially Olive Susan Driffield (Christian) and to the Manor of Strensall; one relating to Huntington.

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Conveyances, searches and other property papers relating to Driffield family estates, Huntington, the Mount and others.

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Plus assorted papers relating to the two estates.

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Index cards of box contents.

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Includes City of York Charter of nomination (fifth year of reign of King James) - handwritten in Latin; City of York: Abstract of Order 'to prevent all clandestine indentures Apprenticeship' in the city; copy of an Act concerning Common Recoveries suffered in Copyhold or Customary Courts by Attorney (17 July 1807); York Festival September 1823: handwritten note of numbers attending events in the Minster and the Assembly Rooms; poster for raising subscriptions for performance by Madame Catalani [c. 1828].

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Relates to the vicarage at Rufforth. 2 copies.

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Final agreement between William Clough and William Linfoot of the parish of Wigginton. 2 copies.

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Bundles of various receipts and notes to J P Guy.

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Includes Inland Revenue affidavit with accompanying schedules, corrective affidavits, list of debts, estate accounts and bank book.

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Bundle of documents relating to the execution of the estate of Jane Lumley.

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Comprising mainly deeds and a small number of will and probate documents. The deeds include transactions relating to a) property on Heworth Moor/Heworth Green b) Wesley Place (1860) c) Mansion House at Heworth Green (1844, 1850 and 1864). The documents are arranged chronologically in the bundles.

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Legal papers relating to James Meek. These documents have previously been very badly water damaged before transfer to the archives service, and therefore currently cannot be produced.

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Deeds and correspondence. Includes two deeds concerning a messuage formerly in possession of Lord Widdrington (1725) and parcel of land near the Deanery (1825); deeds and correspondence relating to the Treasurer's House and Gray's Court, parties include Jacques Sterne, Francis Topham and William Gray; plans of house in Minster Yard and Petergate of William Hudson for road widening (1839).

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