Also includes counterpart. To be levied by Chris Harbert, before the feast of St John the Baptist next, to John Manley and Thos Hemsworth, gent., to the use of the said Chris Harbert, then to the use of Ric. Harbart, his second son and the heirs male of his body begotten, in default thereof to Chris. Harbart, jun., his younger and the heirs male of his body begotten in default thereof to Thos. Harbert, his eldest son, and the heirs male of his body begotten, remainder to himself and his heirs. Concerning a messuage, garden and yard in the Pavement now in the tenure of Thos Harbert, and another messuage and stable there in the tenure of Isabel Leppington, widow, a messuage in Thursday Market in tenure of Thos Wrothe, a messuage in St Andrewgate in the tenure of Wm Horner, 2 messuages in Awdwarke in the several tenures of John Harkett and Mary Barker, a messuage with a garth in Walmgate in the tenure of Thos. Robinson, another messuage with a garth in Wamgate in the tenure of Bart. Shawe, a messuage with an orchard and garth without Walmgate Barr called the Ace Howse, in the tenure of Chris. Buttrye, a barn with a garth and 3 lands without Wamgate Barr and Haworth garths in the tenure of the said Chris Harbert.
From Robt. Squire for £22 4s 5¼ and £25 respectively, paid by Sir Wm Robinson towards the lead works in Arklegarthdale and the law suits.
Robinson; familyAlso includes a copy, giving acreage, annual rent and value of all property, his wife’s jointure, legacies and bonds. Total assets amounted to £14, 073.
Accounts of the produce of Rowcliffe Ings and Unthank Close, estimates of the profits thereof, costs of foddering horses, summer pasture on the Manor Shore, amounts of manure let to Unthank Close.
Includes Terrier of Rentall of York and Acomb (1738), note of purchases made at York (to 30 December 1740), contents of land at York and Acomb (1740). Terrier of Rentall of York and Acomb (1746), Terrier of Clifton (1746) and Clifton Rentall (1746).
Incomplete series.
For rents received for Lord Gratham and disbursements made.
Includes rent for Ascrigg Mill, land tax for lands in Clifton, Strensall, Towthorpe, Earswick, Haxby. Osbaldwick and Murton, tradesmen’s bills, grocer’s accounts, salaries of the Vicars of St Olave’s and Strensall, his sister’s (Mary Robinson’s) annuity, payment for a rampart at Walmgate Bar, carriage duty, fee farm rent, rents to the Vicar of Skelton and the Archbishop, glazing Osbaldwick church windows, repairing Skelton churchyard fence, repairing and leading the windows at Giles House without Bootham Bar, and for Sir Tancred Robinson’s monument made by John Carr.
Receipts for keeping Clifton Court. 11 receipts of Wm. Bowes for £1 1s. p.a. received from Sir Tancred Robinson for holding Clifton Court each Michaelmas.
For land tax, window duty, poor assessment of Mint Yard, church dues and (17 Apr 1734) the rebuilding of Skip Bridge and transportation of felons, payable for Sir Wm. Robinson’s house in Blake Street.
For payments by Sir Wm. Robinson and Sir Tancred Robinson of land tax assessemnts, poor, church and highway dues for various properties in Clifton. (on the dorse of a receipt dated 10 Mar 1701/2 are Wm Etty’s receipts for the several sums of £25, £5 and £15 received by him in 1702 for work done at Sir Wm Robinson’s house).
For 12s p.a. rent paid by Sir Wm Robinson to Lord Viscount Irwin for a piece of waste ground, (Windmill Hill, Abbey Mill Bank and ground adjoining the Foss) for a highway. Includes a memo. 22 Oct. 1737 stating 'This rent is now paid by the town of Clifton'.
Of the curates of St Olave’s for their salary.
Incomplete series. Three bundles of receipts for payments of £39 18s 5d per annum.
Bundle of receipts for £7.7s p.a. payable at Thomas Mascall’s, the Griffin and Ball, Castlegate, Black Swan, Coney Street, White Horse, Coppergate or White Swan, Petergate.
Godfrey Heathcote at Chesterfield to Sir Wm Robinson expressing surprise that the latter should now appear to be insisting on a sole right to the manor and royalty of Rainton and the wastes, waifs and strays. He had always understood that the manor was divided equally between the Robinsons and the Duke of Devonshire’s family. Sir Wm. had not denied this in his last letter dealing with the proposed exchanged and enclosure of lands. The Duke’s title to the manor was derived from a royal grant to the trustees of the Countess of Shrewsbury, 44 Eliz. If Sir Wm brought an action against John Seward for taking up a stray beast, as Mr Ellis, his Steward, had threatened, he wood defend it on the Duke’s account. Enclosed. Memo. John Seward of Rainton had inpounded a Scotch Ox which he had found trespassing in his close and then sent it to the Duke of Devonshire’s bailiff at Baldersby. The bailiff had paid the messengers 1s for bringing it.
For land tax, window duty, church and constable’s dues and fee farm rent, for lands in Dishforth, Newby, Asenby and Rainton, and for wages, tradesmen’s bills and hotel, stable and traveling expenses.
Held by Sir Tancred Robinson of Mr Squire, £9 10s p.a.
Towards the Royal Aid and Additional supply – with amounts assessed on each constabulary and the names of the sub-collectors.
For Newby at £7 18s p.a. (1713-35 in a small notebook).
Paid to the Earl of Northumberland, the Duke of Somerset (post 1690), or the Earl of Egremont, (post 1751) as Lord of the Manor of Topcliffe, 'for respite of service at the Court Leet and Court Baron of Topcliffe', (1634, 1636, 1639, 1690, 1691, 1693, 1694, 1713, 1735-49, 1751-3)
Also includes demand notes, 'for fines and wards to Richmond Castle', at the rate of 1s p.a. (1632, 1634-6, 1660-5, 1688-1705, 1738-42, 1744-50).
Includes those he exchanged with Sir Wm Robinson.
For 40 acres in Clifton held of the Manor of Acomb at £1 p.a.
Receipts of Richard Blanshard for £20 from Sir Wm Robinson, his fine for succeeding to Sir Metcalfe Robinson’s lands held of the manor of Acomb.
Effected by word only. He was considered it would be good in law. But was slender security and recommended that it be confirmed in chancery. Sir Wm (Robinson) had exchanged lands in Clifton with several freeholders some 12 years ago.
William Robinson of Rawcliffe, Esq., Mary, his wife, and Tankred Robinson, Gent, his brother, to John Witty of Beverley, Gent. A messuage called Thorne Tree in Castlegate, formerly in the tenure of Edward Grant, then of Christopher Tayler and now of John Witty, together with the place called the cockpitt. Conson £270 15s.
Richard Plewman alias Love, plaintiff, and Richard Smerthwayt and Ellen, his wife, defendants. Concerning 1 toft, 1 barn, 20 acres of land and 1 acre of pasture in Clyfton, and 1 acre of meadow in Acam. Fine £80 (Latin)
Between Mary Waide of Clifton, widow, and William Duglasse of Newby, gent for the assignment of her title to property in Clifton, leased from Sir Metcalfe Robinson, kt and Bart. Conson. £120. Rent. £8 p.a. to Mary Waide during her life. If the rent was increased this payment was to be proportionately reduced. Endorsed 9 Oct. 1686, Mary Waide assigned to Robert. Caris of Clifton, yeoman, in her interest in the annual payment therein mentioned. Paper.
Sir William Robinson, to John Burton of Clifton, husbandman. 5 acres, 1 rood of land in the Bultynes, 3 acres 3 roods in Fosfield, 3 closes called Chappell Closes and a little garth in the tenure of the said John Burton. All the lands lay within Clifton lordship. Term. 21 years. Rent. £10 5s p.a. John Burton was to repair the hedges and ditches. He was not to plough and sow the 3 closes unless he paid 40 s. per acre. Ploughed in any one year; and was to pay all tithes and Church dues; except the tithes due to the lessor. Agreement reached before the sealing o the deed, that the final half year’s rent should be allowed to John Burton let to Sir Wm Robinson the Milestone butts for 28s p.a. and 3 leas and a frontstead in Wm Goodricke’s backside for 37s. p.a.
William Robinson, to William Turner of York, innholder. Lands in the Little Millfield, Clifton, beginning at Pilly Close and adjoining Jas Lumley’s new hedge, and in the present occupation of Wm Robinson. Term. 21 years. Rent. £36 p.a. The lessee was to repair the premises, and not to plough or sow the land during the last 7 years of the term. He was to be quit of all tithes due to Wm Robinson and all assessments other than constables’, church and poor rates.
Sir William Robinson to Mr Geo Gibson of York innholder. A messuage with an adjacent croft containing ½ acre; a close in 2 divisions called Fox Closes being part of the socars, or (Soacars) and containing 4 acres; another close containing 6 acres called the Seaven Lease, adjoining the Cross Fence which divides the common and the Forest of Gaulters; 2 acres of meadow or pasture in Foss Field and another close in 2 divisions called Gallowbroatt Close containing 15 acres, lately in the possession of Luke Goodall and now of the George Gibson. Term. 21 years. Rent. £27 4s p.a. Proviso as in CLY/1/16/105. Paper.
Sir William Robinson of Newbye upon Swale, Kt., to Philip Eshe of York, Gent. Coverley Farm and Town End Farm, with a messuage, tenement and barn and a messuage formerly occupied by Henry Wood, deceased; Coates Close, Moore Close and Geldart Garth; and 4 closed called Bardike Closes in Newbiggin n the suburbs of York. Term. 21 years. Rent. £45. 13s 4d. p.a. The lessee was to maintain the property, except great timber, and to plant 10 ashes and 10 ‘wilfes’ yearly. He was not to cut timber except for repair of the premises. Endorsed. It was agreed between the parties that if Sir William Robinson wished to exchange any ground with Philip Eshe, William Gooderick, Thomas Goodaile and John Burton were to apportion it. Seal missing.
William Robinson of York, Alderman, and William Robinson, his son, to Dorothy Daile of Clifton, widow, and John Daile, labourer, her son, a cottage in Clifton in the tenure of the lessees. Conson. £6 13s. 4d. Term 21 years. Rent. 8s. 8d. p.a. to be paid to William Robinson, sen. at his house on the Pavement, or if he should die, to his son, and suit of court and service at the manorial court of Clifton. The lessees were to do all necessary repairs, set thorn hedges, and plant 4 ash trees and 4 ‘wilfes’ (Willows) each year.
Arthur, Lord Viscount Irwin in the Kingdom of Scotland to Sir William Robinson of Newby Bart, Abbot Mill Dam on the Foss, on the east side of the highway from York to Earsley Bridge, and the ground called Abbot Mill Dam Bank near the Foss, extending from the stone bridge near the dam northward to a close in the possession of Isaac Johnson of York, baker; and the ground called the Windmill Hill opposite the dam on the west side of the said land and adjoining a close belonging to William Robinson and in the tenure of Thomas Hawton, innholder. Term. 21 years. Rent. 12s. p.a. Endorsed not executed. Paper.
Elizabeth Fothergill of York, widow, Thomas Goodall of Clifton, Gent and Mary, his wife, to Sir William Robinson of Newby, Bart. A close called Tyle House Hole with two adjacent tofts, crofts or garths in Clifton, in the tenure of William Lockwood. Conson: £85. Signed and sealed by Elizabeth Fothergill, Thomas Goodall and Mary Goodall.
Thomas Pickering, Esq., Alderman of York, and Anthony Beverley of York, Gent, to Sir William Robinson of Newby, Bart. and Metcalfe Robinson, esq, his son and heir, Town End Close and the Farr Pittlands containing 10 acres, in the tenure of John Brown and John Lee. Reciting the mortgage of 28 Jan, 1708 as in CLY/1/14/4, whereon the principal of £150 and £25 interest was yet unpaid. Conson. £175 to Thomas Pickering and £95 to Anthony Beverley. Signed and sealed by Thomas Pickering and Anthony Beverley.
Anthony Beverley to Thomas Pickering. Relating to two closes in Clifton called Town End Close and Farr Pittlands, containing 10 acres, in the several tenures of John Brown and John Lee, as security for the payment of £150 with interest on or before 28 July next. Reciting the agreement dated 12 Jan. last, (as in CLY/1/14/2). It was hereby agreed that all the property on which the fine was levied should henceforth be held by Thomas Pickering as security for the repayment of the said sum. Signed and sealed by Anthony Beverley.
Levied in the octave of St. Hillary 6 Anne, (1708) between Thomas Pickering, plaintiff, and Anthony Beverley, and Dorothy, his wife, defendants. Concerning 2 messuages, 50 acres of land, 50 acres of meadow and 50 acres of pasture in Clifton. Fine £60.
John Burton of Clifton, yeoman, and Jane his wife, Joseph Burton of Clifton, glasier, and Mary his wife, Richard Burton of York, brazier, and Elizabeth his wife, Matthew Gower of York, tailor and Jane his wife, and Mary Burton of York, spinster, to Sir William Robinson of Newby, Bart. 3½ acres of arable land in Fose Field, Clifton, adjoining the lands of Sir William Robinson on the north and south. The lane called the Horsefaire on the west and Whitecrosse Lane on the east. A fine was to be levied on the land before Easter next. Mary Burton was to seal and execute the deed on reaching the age of 21 years. Conson £42. Signed and sealed by the releasors.
Queen Elizabeth to Richard Swayne, Esq. and Richard Ryves, Gent, both of the Middle Temple, London. The manor of Clifton with appurtenances in Clifton and York, of an annual value of £39. 7s 10½d, 24 hens and 300 eggs, formerly belonging to St Mary’s Abbey and lately in the tenure of various persons; Acton alias Ayon Close in Clifton in the tenure of Jas. Siddell and Alice his wife at an annual rent of 20s.; the profits of the court of the manor of Clifton, valued at 3s 4d p.a. and all appurtenances and manorial rights including the Court Leet, View of Frank pledge, lawdays, assize of bread, wine and ale, forfeits of felons, knights’ fees, wardship, marriage, escheat, relief and free warren; reserving to the Crown all advowsons and £7. 7s p.a. rent from 49 acres of meadow belonging to the manor. Also moiety of a tenement and ruined water-mill in Skeby (Skeeby) in the Archdeaconry of Richmond, of an annual value of 56s 8d. formerly belonging to the Priory of Egleston (Egglestone) and lately in the tenure of Robert Cooke; and the other moiety of the said tenement and water-mill, of an annual value of £56s. 8d. lately in the tenure of Margery Cooke. The premises to be held as of the royal manor of East Greenwich by common socage. Conson. £1418 12s 6d. Rent. £39. 18s 5d p.a. The document then receipts 15 other letters patent dating from 23 June 1578 to July 1591.
Of William Weddell, on behalf of Margery Weddell, to Sir William Robinson, for £43 the annual rent for Newton Farm. Signed by William Weddell.
Margery Weddell of Clifton and William Weddell, her son, to William Scott, merchant, and William Hodgson, gent., to the use of Margery Weddell for life, remainder of the use of Leonard Weddell of Clifton, her son, brother of William. Lands as in CLY/1/1/24 and CLY/1/1/25). Endorsed witnesses to livery of seisin, date as above. (Latin)
Margery Weddell of Clifton, widow, and Robert Weddell, her son, gent to William (Scott) Stott, of York, merchant, to William Hodgson of Bowthome, yeoman, to the use of Margery Weddell, son of Margery and brother of Robert. 18½ acres of arable land and 4½ acres of meadow in Clifton lately belonging to Leonard Weddell and which he bought from William Harrington, Gent, (CLY/1/1/23). Endorsed witnesses to livery of seisin, 13 July 1611 (Latin)
Between William Harrington, plauntiff, and John Blythman, and Margaret, his wife, defendants. Concerning 18½ acres of arable land and 4½ acres of meadow in Clifton, (as in CLY/1/1/19). Conson £74. Signed and sealed by William Harryngton.
Between William Harryngton, gent, plaintiff and Robert Hall, merchant, and Jane, his wife, defendants. Concerning 18½ acres of land and 4½ acres of meadow in Clyfton, held by the said Robert and Jane for the term of her life with the reversion to John Blythman and Margaret his wife, as granted by the said William. (Latin)
Between John Redman, plaintiff, and Henry Dobson, defendant, concerning 24 acres of land and 6 acres of meadow in Clyfton. Fine £40 (Latin). 2 copies.