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Notes and extracts made March 1826.

Includes extracts and notes on works of Enlgish History and Topography.

Includes lists for six counties.

[Extracts from Torrs' Manuscripts relating to Bridlington Priory and Parish].

Notebook, mainly including notes of births, deaths, and aristocratic appointments, as well as notes on elections and ballots.

Handwritten account, including a description of the parish, notes on its history, lists of patrons and rectors, and notes relating to land ownership and distribution.

15 lists and booklets containing information about flowers shrubs and trees, including (amongst others):
Genera of Evergreen and Climbing Shrubs
Ornamental planting
Limnoria Terebrans
Hardy annual flowers
Perennial flowers
A list of hardy herbaceous flowers arranged according to their height, time of flowering and colour
General catalogue of orniamental flowering shrubs
List of such of the orniamental flowering shrubs names in the London's Encyclopoedia of Hardening as are in Backhouses sale list
Genera of Deciduiys shrubs
Evergreen trees and shrubs
Deciduous trees and shrubs

[Infomation is mainly extracted from London's Encyclopedia of Gardening, with prices from Backhouse's sale list, 1887]

Two lists marking the price or value of each type of shell. One list is marked as 'March 15 1827, received of Mr. J. Phillips for shells £4 3s 6d'.

Includes notes on anatomical parts of birds. Also includes notes about plents and astronomy on the front of the booklet.

Notebook inluding lists and notes about characters in the Illiad. At the other end of the volume are written notes about Greek theatre. Also includes loose sheets with notes from Roman authors and a list of French Marshalls General.

Four packets of notes, extracts and transacriptions from and about legal cases in various courts, including the King's Bench and Common Pleas. Includes packets titled 'Edward the First years, written out', 'Edward the First generally, written out', 'Henry the Third, written out', and 'Chronological list of judges'.

Copy made from the translation in the possession of Baker Esq. of Acomb Grange. The original Letters Patent were issued [15 July 1609].

Also includes lists of medieval authors and chroniclers.

Also includes a list of church drawings.

Various letters, official and personal documents relating to the Whitehead, or Whytehead, family as well as additional records relating to Thomas Bowman.

Letter concerning business and family news, as well as parochial duties undertaken by him and his son Henry.

Includes entries relating to expenses of moving house, estate improvements, receipts from rents, investments, receipts from medical practise, and planting memoranda. The outside of the volume has been marked Revd. Thomas Bowman.

Colour sketch made from life, Christmas 1838-1839.

Passport issued by the French embassy, to allow travel through France to Belgium and Switzerland. The passport include personal details about Dr Whitehead, and stamps from places travelled to.

Includes manuscript notes and typescript addenda. Many of the documents listed in YPS/9 have been used to reference this text.

Three letters regarding donations to the museum.

Volume compile by Obadiah Yates [Rector of Bolton, Cumberland, 1710-1752, Vicar of Bromfield, Cumberland, l752-l765], and possibly by his family. The entries have been organised alphabetically in the first instance. The entries include notes of everyday expenses, including the payment of wages, payments for agricultural work and weaving, property maintenance, shoe repairs, the purchase of newspapers, and other such expenses. Although Obediah Yates died in 1765, entries continue after this date.

Some letters, notes, and a pedigree relating to Obadiah Yates have been inserted into the volume, probably by R.Y. Whytehead in the early 20th century.

The certificate states that Thomas Bowman subscribed to the 39 Articles and took the oath of allegiance before the Archibishop of York.

Signed and sealed before the Archbishop of York on the occaison of his appointment to the vicarage of Hessle in the County of York.

Signed and sealed by the Archbishop of York. Also includes signed statements showing when and where the certificate was exhibited.

By virtue of this instrument one Thomas Wakefield inducted the Rev. Thomas Bowman into the Vicarage of Hessle, 2nd December 1757.
Signed. Thos. Wakefield, Rector of Rowley.

Signed by two parishioners and two churchwardens of Hessle.

Includes attached wax seal. Crayke was governed by the Bishop of Durham, but is physically located in North Yorkshire.