Short history of the Arms of the City of York; research of Bellasis Arms from 1987-2002; loose hand written notes detailing where arms are displayed in the city and Carpenter geneology and arms.
Includes details of Heslington Hall and its owners, as well as an introduction to blazoning and Papworth. Also includes revisions to heraldry and family history seminars.
Entitled 'The heraldic zoo'. Also includes details of the enamel glass painters of York, northern stained glass 1550-1800, Heraldry and Sheriff Hutton, and an introduction to heraldry.
Includes heraldic accessories, blazoning II; the zoo, Heraldry (1985), 'Lecture 4' (24 slides of families), 'Hatchments' (includes long lists), 'Animals in Heraldry' and 'Christmas and religious heraldry'.
File of correspondence with Kenneth Laybourn of Gilling West regarding the Gascoigne family and other linkage from Hugh Murray.
Includes Quartering, Heraldry (1980, 1982), heraldic accessories, hatchments, Heraldry of Family History I, Heraldry 3, Pricy and Clifford and Heraldic History.
Includes Ecclesiastical heraldry, Family History and heraldry, Blazoning I, Royal Arms and Marshalling Royal Arms, as well as miscellaneous loose papers.
Includes 'A brief calendar of the Crusades'; notes for YAYAS visit, 'Stained Glass in the environs of York'; correspondence about Hugh Murray's booklet 'Heraldry from its historic origins'; Heraldry in York City Churches - worksheets and notes; Historic Heraldry (another copy); Australian State Heraldry and other notes and letters.
Includes photocopies of A3 manuscripts, including Ripon - East Window of the Choir; catalogue of the rectory of Thornton Wallop and arms in St Helen's, Stonegate.
Very miscellaneous, including notes and photocopies regarding Watts, Verney, Walter, Archbishop Rotherham, Waterton, Mowbray, heraldic playing cards, two typescripts of 'The Peerage, the Bearage and the S&T Departments', correspondence with Sherrif Hutton and French railway heraldry.
Includes papers relating to the City of London, Merchant Adventurers, United Society of Brushmakers, Boast of Heraldry (lecture, list and 66 thumbnail illustrations) and herald and geneaologist photocopies from 1866 onwards.
Grouped by Hugh Murray as 'Miscellaneous Heraldry'. Includes typescript note of York's corporate arms; John Warren, Bishop of Bangor; Scottish royalty; photocopies and notes nationwide.
Includes three copies of a manuscript entitled 'Historic Heraldry': compiled by Hugh Murray in 1986, each with annotations. Also includes a series of notes - the whole grouped by Hugh Murray as 'Historic Heraldry'.
Includes 'The Coultharts of Coulthart' photocopy of paper; The Worshipful Company of Cooks, Arms of Merchant Adventurer Companies; The Royal Haemophilia - descent from Queen Victoria; and other notes.
Includes papers relating to Darlington, Denton, Drumlanrig, Danby, Darlington - Lawson, Debden Hall - Essex and Durham.
Historical notes by K. Laybourn on the Parish Church of Gilling West.
Includes papers relating to Eccles, Ecclesfield, Edgemont, Elingham, Elland, Ellerton, Ely (Denham), Embleton and Exeter.
Includes Farley Hungerford, Farnley, Fawsley Hall - Burrell, Fountains Hall and Fryering.
Includes Glynde - Sussex, Goldborough, Graythwaite, Grinton, Grindleford - Maynard and Guiseley.
Includes Hauxwell - Dalton, Healaugh, Heslington, Hickleton, High Melton, Howden, Hengrave, Huntington - Waddington/Driffield, Hunmanby, Husthwaite, Hunsingore, Halifax and the Heraldry Society.
Includes Kedlestone, Keighley St. Andrew, Kildwick, Kippax, Kirk Bramwith, Kirk Hammerton and Kirkby Lonsdale.
Includes Lanercost, Lavenham, Leeds Hospital - Fairburn and Heaton, Lichfield, Llangollen, Llanmihangel Place, Lockington - Estoft, Longleat and Lydiard Trego Z - St. John.
Includes Mawdesley, Measham - Leicestershire, Mere - Wiltshire, Middlesborough, Midhopestones, Monk Fryston, Moffat, Moor Monkton and Mull.
Includes Newstead Abbey, Normanton, New Romney, North Walsham, Northiam and Norwich Union.
Includes Oxford - Jesus College, Orchardleigh, Ordsall Hall, Oxburgh, Owston and Oxford - Oriel College.
Includes Penistone, Penrhyn Castle, Pocklington, Prestbury and Preston Patrick.
Notes by K. Laybourn of heraldic monuments at Gilling West Parish Church.
Includes Raby, Reigate, Ribston Hall, Rothwell, Ripley, Ripon and Rochdale.
Manuscript notes and typed notes on various locations and heraldry: Almondberry, Azerley Hall, Acaster Malbis, Aldborough, Allerton Park, Appleby (Clifford Family) and other areas.
Manuscript notes and typed notes on various locations and heraldry: Ashton-Under-Lyne, Armagh, Aston, Barnby Dun, Barnsley and other areas.
Manuscript notes and typed notes on various locations and heraldry: Bentall, Belton, Bedale, Beverley (St. Mary's), Beverley Minster, Bilton, Birkin, Birdforth, Bishop Thornton, Birchington and other areas.
Correspondence and cuttings on heraldry for the Archbishops of York at Bishopthorpe.
Manuscript notes and typed notes on various locations and heraldry: Blyth, Bottesford, Bradford, Bramhall, Bramhope, Bredon, Brinsop, Bristol, Brocklesby, Brympton d'Evercey, Cambridge (Corpus Christi) and Canterbury.
Manuscript notes and typed notes on various locations and heraldry: Carlton Towers, Capesthrone Hall, Cawood, Chester Cathedral, Coxwold and Cheshire.
Includes extracts, manuscript notes and drawings of St. Martin's church, and Bowness on Windermere.
Includes extracts, manuscript notes and drawings of St. Martin's Church, Bowness on Windermere, including coats of arms in East Window.
Newspaper cuttings of Hugh Bayley MP presented with railway crest, as well as North Eastern Railway article by Bill Fawcett (IEEE Review 1991), envelope containing manuscript notes and family trees of companies amalgamated to form North Eastern Railway (multiple copies of some) and of other companies eg. Condon of Birmingham; Midland Railway; Great Western Railway; London companies and Eastern Region constituent companies. Also includes images of crests and shields.
Lecture to York College of Art 1978. Includes text for a walk through streets and past buildings of interest - railway stations old and new, Hudson, Leeman, war memorials, York Minster and its principal monuments, Stonegate, Lendal and King's Manor, finishing at Elm Bank Hotel.
Includes photocopies from North Eastern magazine covering coats of arms and north eastern region railways. Also includes a humorous article on a railwayman's reactions to coat of arms, images of crests, correspondence, copies of poster for a memorial fund (York memorial), manuscript notes on seals, description of APT train and locomotive, correspondence, newspaper cuttings; and manuscript notes on heraldic ties (some duplicates).
Includes manuscript notes on railway heraldry and insignia, picture of GER gates at Bishopsgate (multiple copies) and correspondence about them, especially with John Dixon and PWB Semmens. Also includes manuscript notes on Caledonian railway, photocopies of pictures of bridges, stations which include heraldic devices (some multiple copies).
Includes family trees: Sharford family tree; St Paule family tree; Maynard family tree (St Albans); Jenkinson (St Davids); Walker (Sand Hutton) family trees; Selby Abbey heraldry; Sheffield Cathedral heraldry; Shibden Hall; Neville family tree and heraldry (Sloley); Sheriff Hutton heraldry and Plumer family tree.
Snaith families; Dawnay family tree; Sprotborough Church heraldry; Cromwell pedigree; manuscript notes in HM's hand on the church and Copley pedigree. See reverse for a reference request from Hong Kong police, proofs, letters; Clarell pedigree; Hamilton pedigree; Stockport: list of names; Stonegrave Church: correspondence, heraldry: Comber/Thornton; Thornton/Wandesford.
Tattershall Castle: photocopy of 1016 letter from Clayton Bell to Lord (Carl) Curzon of Kedleston. Temple Newsam. Note about the hatchment (Irvine). Thetford: manuscript notes. Thorganby. Dunnington - Jefferson pedigree. Tong and Holme Wood. Pedigrees and heraldry. Saville family; Tempest family. Twickenham, Strawberry Hill. Correspondence; Walpole/Waldegrave, shorter, Burwell family pedigrees.
Skipwith family pedigree; Lowther of Swillington; Thoroton's Nottinghamshire bookplate description (Wollaston White), picture and family pedigree. Trent (Steple) Gerard family pedigree; Coker (ditto). Twycross: church window heraldry list. Curzon/Howe family; Charlton family; Holland family. The Vine - Chute. Manuscript notes; Aylmer pedigree. Wastdale: Rawson pedigree. Well manuscript notes on church heraldry.
Wellow: Popham pedigree (reverse: a list of talks by Hugh Murray). Burgh of Stowe Hall: description of heraldry. Wentworth family pedigree; photocopy of article on the Strafford vault in York Minster. Wensley manuscript notes. Scrope pedigree - Weston Hall: photocopy from Burke's peerage of Dawson family; manuscript notes Massey-Lopes family (Westbury). Westwood: Horton, Bushe family pedigrees; Kibblethwaite pedigrees. Widdiall, Herts. heraldry. Dame Margaret Plumbe (brass rubbing copy). Wighill: Sheepshanks/York family pedigree.
Wimborne. Ashley pedigree; Woolley: Woodrove/Wentworth pedigrees; photocopy from Yorks Archaeology J. 1926 on Woolley Manor and church [on reverse typescript about tramlines in York]. Wortherbury: Puleston pedigree. Wytheham Sackville family pedigree and heraldry. York Minster Library. Heraldic shields, Holy Trinity Goodramgate heraldry, 'lost' heraldry; Bootham School heraldry; York Minster heraldry; Merchant Taylors.
York heraldry: St Lawrence notes. York Minster Nicholas Wanton monument. Stanhope, Norfolk: Seymour pedigree. Photocopy of fuuneral monuments, York Minster (17th century). Laxton/Wanton family pedigrees. Layer family of Suffolk pedigree. Laxton pedigree; Calthrop family shield; Thorpe/Bacon family pedigree; Darley/Montfort; Coney Street: Beckett family armorial bearings.
Three colour photographic prints of Hugh Murray and Archbishop Habgood, and one colour print out of a stained glass conservator at work. Also includes soft bound print-outs of resources relating to 'Seals and Processional Rolls' with original annotations.
Similar talk to the Advanced English Course, University, 1979 (includes some heraldic moments in slides).
Handwritten notes and sources relating to the 'Heraldry of the See of York'. Transcripts and manuscripts of 'Heraldry of the See of York' by Hugh Murray 1987.
Bound notes relating to other Sees and research for the 'Heraldry of the See of York'.
Material relating to Hampton Court Palace including notes and a guidebook.
Correspondence file of letters to and from Hugh Murray with Ripon Cathedral, Windsor Castle, British Library, Balliol College relating to heraldry. Also includes invoices for photographs.
Various letters relating to the granting of Arms to John Murray and Hugh Murray.
Newspaper cuttings relating to the above topics.
Two bundles of card with city coats of arms and explanations of the design. One bundle covers Abergavenny to Kirkintilloch, whilst the second bundle covers Lancaster to York.
Also includes details of the artists.
The coats of arms were most likely removed from books and other documents.
These materials were originally stored as loose items alongside the collection, due to their size. They have been grouped together by the archivist. Please see item level descriptions for more detailed information about the contents of this series.
Sans titreThe original notification grants Albert Edward Jelson the rank of Second Lieutenant in the Royal Air Force. Marked 'Temporary.'
The poster shows 'The most famous and fayre Citie Yorke described 1610'.
Made by Parkinson and W Oates for the Commissioners under the York Improvement Act.
Twentieth century colour reproduction of a city map from 1610.
Colour print of an original plan.
The plan shows the façade facing the gardens. Reproduction of the original.
Black and white print of an original plan.
By F Consitt. Photocopy of an earlier map, most likely 18th century.
By Francis White. The map forms part of the third edition of the survey of the County of York. Also includes a smaller map of Hatfield Chase and Crowle in one corner.
The map shows the area around Coney Street, the River Ouse, Bridge Street and Low Ousegate. Sheet SE 6051 NW.
Includes St Andrew's Church, St Saviour's, All Saint's Pavement, St Mary's, St Michael's and St Sampson's, as well as possibly sites of a number of redundant churches.
The section shows the area around Hungate, with the proposed new Exchange at Hungate marked in red.
The item was produced by York Art Gallery.
The plan shows the house numbres and prominent buildings, as well as the layout of St Mary's rectory.
Hand-drawn sketch of the layout of the city of York in the fifteenth century, with prominent monastic buildings marked.
Hand-drawn sketch of the layout of the city of York in the later Middle Ages, with prominent monastic buildings and churches marked.
Hand-drawn plans of Aldwark, possibly at different dates (although neither plan is dated), showing street numbering and prominent buildings. Poor quality photocopies.
By J K Dodds.
One-sided leaflet produced by City of York Council.
The plan was privately published by a printer in Acomb. Annotated photocopy.
The leaflet has information about the College, as well as a campus map for the Lord Mayor's Walk campus.
The map shows the city centre, Dringhouses, Ashkam Richard, Colton and Appleton Roebuck. Photocopy only. The original image appears to have been in sections.
General plan of the gas works in Layerthorpe and Foss Bank, showing the old and new walls. 2 copies. Photocopy only.
Includes the area around York Railway Station, and the train lines in particular.
Colour plan showing a proposed large scale venue.
Colour print.
The item is in the form of a laminated poster.
Black and white photograph of the plan. Copyright YAYAS. The original plan is likely to be 19th century.
The plan shows the School for the Blind and land owned by the Philosophical Society. The original plan is dated c.1840. Copyright YAYAS.
Poster produced by the Yorkshire Dales (North Riding) National Parks Committee.
The image is from the Eveleyn Collection (copyright YAYAS) and the original plan is dated 1829.
Includes plan and section. Black and white print of a plan dated 28 November 1846. Copyright YAYAS.
Black and white print of a tracing showing the house numbers and some owners. Copyright YAYAS.
The original hand-drawn plan was created in 1782. Black and white print. Copyright YAYAS.