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Includes papers relating to James Raine, Angelo Raine and William Powell Frith, including notebooks and papers, historical notes, sketches, heraldic devices, correspondence, wills and inventories, pedigrees, genealogical information, letters from John Birkbeck and others, and letters from William Powell Frith. Please see series level descriptions for more detailed information about the contents of this collection.

Papers of James Raine including antiquarian notes and cuttings, collected records and extracts from various wills. Also includes notebooks and papers of Rev. W. H. Dixon.

Members of the Church of York. Also includes loose notes.

Members of the Church of York, includes loose pages..

A collection of newspaper cuttings, extracts, notes, documents and sketches relating to various York events, court proceedings and buildings.

Extracts from the Yorkshire Gazette on various topics including the Castlegate stone, the 1745 rebellion, the execution of Dick Turpin, the execution of Scottish rebels at York in 1746, and the attampt to remove the bar walls.

Notes on various notable people and York churches, including St. Dennis' (Walmgate), St Margaret's Church, St. Crux, St. Saviours, Lord Latimer, Dick Turpin and the Barton Family.

Architects' drawings of various old houses, including the Red Lion (demolished in 1857), and an old house in Fetter Lane (demolished 1860).

Sketches relating to various churches, including St. Michael (Spurriergate), St. Sampson, St. Michael le Belfrey, St. Saviours, St. Mary (Castlegate), and St. Maurice. Also includes sketches of shields and plaques from various churches, and sketches of Bolton Church and Haddon Hall.

Various notes on churches and architecture in York, including notes on persons buried in St. Crux, the finding of Roman remains at the Mount (1807), the storm damage to St Mary's (Castlegate) in 1864, notes on St. Maurice's Church, and plans and sketchesof York's Walls and towers. Also includes notes on the de la Pole Family.

Various notes on the foundations of Fountain's Abbey, the stained gladd windows in the Guildhall and various meeting minutes of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society. Also includes reports of papers on the York Cap of Maintenance and Scriveners' Play.

Biographical information on the Yorke and Cholmely family, and notes on the restoration of St. John's (Ousebridge). Also includes plans and sketches of Holy Trinity Priory and the Dominican Friary at Gloucester.

Notes on various people, places and events. Includes biographical notes on the death of Roger de Ripon, the Neville family and the Duke of Cornwall (later Prince of Wales). Also includes list of items taken from the Minster in the Great Rebellion, references to a sketch of Pontefract Castle, and notes on the Earls of Warwick and Lincoln, and Elizabeth of York.

Printed extracts from the Yorkshire Gazette, concerning the Fabric Rolls of York Minster, the opening of St. Wilfred's by Cardinal Wiseman, Knaresborough Castle, the Plague and Roman exacavations at Malton.

Various sketch plans inlcuding a plan of the hall and chapel of the Vicars Choral in Bedern, and fifteenth century prayer to St. Leonard "made at York".

Various documents relating to different events/people in York, including an appeal from starving prisoners in the Ouse Bridge Low Gaol, football forbidden in York (1726), the parents of Guy Fawkes, the stealing of heads from Micklegate Bar, extracts from Chamberlain's account books (1449 and 1559),l and the expenses of Lord Mayor, Aldermen and their ladies on Midsummer Eve 1584.

Various historical notes on the history of York (1570-1594), and extracts from the York Parish registers concerning the number of deaths in the plague epidemics of 1550-1551 and 1604. Also includes various hieraldic shields and sketches.

Descriptions of the restoration of various York churches, including St. Dennis (Walmgate), St. Olave's (1722), St. Michael's (Spurriergate, 1868), St. Crux (1867) and St. Mary's (Castlegate, 1868).

Headstone inscriptions from St. Lawrence's (York), accounts from an unspecified parish (1689 - 1723) and an account of the execution of two murderers from York Gazette (1849).

Plans and sketches of various churches, including St. Mary's (Bishophill), St. Dennis, St Andrew's, St. Mary's Tower and the Abbey wall in Marygate and Bootham Roadway (at the west end of St. Mary's Bishophill).

Notes on various topics, including the value of estates in Yorkshire held by gentlement of the projected Order of the Royal Oak (1660) and details of the cost of a feast held at Conisbrough in 1321. Also includes notes on a letter from Mary Queen of Scots to Elizabeth I (1586), and notes on the Tyscough family.

Captions for exhibits in the Local Government Exhibition in an envelope addressed to Rev. Angelo Raine.

Documents relating to faith and heresy, including declaration of faith from former heretic, Gilbert Johnson (1528); an accusation of heresy against Giles Vanbellen, and his retraction; and a similar retraction by Lambert Sparrow.

Various notes relating to architectural work, including Steeton Hall (Sherburn, Elmet), drawings by Architect John Carter, Ripon Mister Library, the ancient well at the back on Monk Bar and St. Mary's (Castlegate). Also includes 'The Worthy Conservatives', a ballard mocking notable conservatives of the district, and an extract of a letter from Thomas Stockdale to Lord Fairfax (1641).

Collection of notes on the churches and churchyards of York. Contains notes on the repairing and costs of repairs of 13 churches: All Saints (Pavement), St. Dennis, St. Martin (Coney St), St. Michael le Belfrey, St. Sampson, All Saints (North St.), St. John (Micklegate), St. Martin cum Gregory, St. Savious, Holy Trinity, Goodramgate, St. Crux, St. Helen (Stonegate), St. Margaret, St. Olave, Holy Trinity (Micklegate).

Documents and notes relating to various families, notes on various histories and extracts from wills.

Printed volume of St. Crux and Christ Church Parish Magasines.

Volume containing accounts of James Danby, Steward to Hon. Charles Howard (1646 - 1705), letters to Sir Thos. Rokeby, letter from Browne Willia to Dr John Burton, and a letter from Miss Burton to her brother.

Extracts from Archbishop's Papers at Bishopthorpe. This volume contains notes by a Vicar, Choral. Also includes a contract for York Minster organ, pew and great chair, and notes of books and papers lent by R. E. Smithson in 1882.

Notebook titled "Eboracensia", containing notes and extracts on various topics. Including: extracts form the Burneston, Topcliffe, Pickhill, Kirby Wiske and Well parish registers; notes on the Thompson Family of Scargill, and extracts from the title deeds of Cotescue Park, COverham in the possession of Ralph and Geo. Place Robinson (c.1600-c.1700).

Notebook titled "Eboracensia", containing notes, deeds, letters and extracts on various topics. Including: extracts relating to the Mickleton Family of Mickleton; letters found in the Registry at Richmond, and extracts from the parish registers of Middleham, Wensley, Tanfield, Thornton Watlass and Masham.

Extracts from Archbishop's Papers at Bishopthorpe. This volume contains documents relating to Hexham.

Extracts from Archbishop's Papers at Bishopthorpe, "done for Church History of York".

Notebook containing records relating to Durham Cathedral and Monastry, including charters, deeds and wills. Also includes monumental incriptions in Forcett Banwick Churches, and other notes and family trees.

A collection of volumes with handwritten copies of various wills from Richmond, Yorkshire and Durham.

Handwritten volumes containing copies of Richmondshire wills.

Handwritten volume of coppies of Wensleydale Wills. Also includes some presentments before a Church Court (1618 - 1628), especially of the Beckwith family.

Handwritten volume containing copies of Lancashire wills.

Handwritten volume containing copies of Richmond, Durham and Yorkshire wills.

Handwritten volumes containing copies of wills referring to various places in Durham and York Registries.

Various notes, documents and correspondence relating to the Raine, Peacock and Champan families.

Notes and documents relating to the pedigree of the Raine family.

Letter addressed to Revd. James Raine from Christopher Clarkson, containing baptisms, burials and marriages of members of the Raine Family. Also includes typed copy.

Notes on leases of Christopher Wraine/Rayne (1641 and 1680), transcriptions of gravestones of Charles Raine and Margaret (wife of James Raine) and other notes regarding Sarah Hutton, Mary Hutton and Christopher Raine.

Correspondence and notes on the Raine, Peacock and Chapman Families.