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Wigginton
GDC/369 · File · 1885
Part of Gray, Dodsworth & Cobb, York solicitors

Mortgage of equity of redemption between Abell and Cattley.

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Acts and charters
GDC/375 · File · 1665-1721
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17pp handwritten in Latin and English Translation, dated '16 Charles Second'.. folio 10 refers to election of Sheriffs; folio 12 to election of an Alderman. Reverse of final page lists Acts dating from King George I and King George II concerning the River Ouse, and from King George II preventing abuses in weighing and packing of butter in the City. 1721/22 Act for the better preventing abuses committed in weighing and packing butter in the City of York. Printed with MS annotations.

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Bundle of legal documents
GDC/378 · File · 1710-1834
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Includes brief for Commissioners in the 'matter of Edward Horsman, gent a supposed lunatic'; Miss Dorothy Wilson's will and codicils (1710 and 1716); George Burnell of York, Spirit Merchant Assignments.

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GDC/380 · File · 1695-1785
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Includes 1695 release relating to Monk Bar Without. Also includes documents concerning the marriage settlement of Elizabeth Coppendale; Weightman/Preston /Lavorate(?) marriage settlement 1705; documents relating to property (names mentioned include Robinson, Preston, Dove). Preston document 1753 relates to Preston's Monkgate Brewery.

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Bundle of legal documents
GDC/383 · File · 17th century-19th century
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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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Wills
GDC/386 · File · 1750-1846
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Includes an examined copy of Henry Garbutt's will (St.Denys' Parish); probate of the will of Ann Beckwith; and assignment devised under the will of the late John Roper.

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Wills
GDC/402 · File · 1890-1917
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Bundle of wills relating to York individuals, most likely lodged by clients of Gray, Dodsworth & Co.

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Wills
GDC/403 · File · 1743-1859
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Bundle of wills relating to York individuals, most likely lodged by clients of Gray, Dodsworth & Co.

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Wills
GDC/404 · File · 1894-1905
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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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Wills
GDC/405 · File · 1860-1888
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Bundle of wills relating to York individuals, most likely lodged by clients of Gray, Dodsworth & Co.

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Inland Revenue accounts
GDC/81/7 · File · October 1918
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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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GDC/90/8 · File · 1759
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Final agreement between Joseph Simpson, plaintiff and Edward Turner and Jane his wife and Robert Silversides and Elizabeth his wife and Dinah Bell, spinster, deforcients. The agreement relates to lands in Stillingfleet. 2 copies.

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Mortgage
GDC/91/5 · File · 8 May 1869
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Mortgage for securing £1000 and interest by Leonard Thompson of Sheriff Hutton Park, esquire to William Gray of York, gentleman and Shepley Watson of York, gentleman. Farm at Rufforth. Includes a map. Reconveyance on 17 January 1877.

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Correspondence
GDC/94/7 · File · 1910-1925
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Bundle of corrspondence between Solicitors and the family relating to Transfer etc.

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GDC/101/8 · File · 18 May 1739
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William Buskill of Scarborough to John Lazenby of Huntington, yeoman. Court record of transfer of land in the Manor of Strensall. (Also records for: 45th year George III: land and property in parish of Kirk Deighton; 53rd year George III; and other lands.

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Final Agreement
GDC/114/1 · File · 19th century
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Final agreement between William Clough and William Linfoot of the parish of Wigginton. 2 copies.

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Mortgage
GDC/124/2 · File · 19 April 1811 - 20 April 1811
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Mortgage and year Lease of Freehold and Copyhold premises known as Birthwaite Hall etc in the County of York for securing £18,000 and interest by Sir Edward Smith of Newland Park in the County of York to Bryan Cooke of Owston, esquire and Reverend John Eyre of Babworth in the County of Nottingham, the two surviving trustees. Also contains a Bond as a collateral security.

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Lease and conveyance
GDC/131/3 · File · 11 February 1840-12 February 1840
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Lease and conveyance upon trust to sell two sixth parts in messuages and hereditaments in Micklegate for securing £70 and interest by James Beal of the Soho Antwerp Steamer of London, seaman, to William Napier Dibb of York, gentleman.

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GDC/136/2 · File · 31 December 1810-1 January 1811
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Lease and release and appointments of an estate at Bilborough in the County of York by William Agar of Lincoln's Inn in Middlesex, Esquire, to Reverend Robert Stephen Thompson of Bilborough and his trustee.

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Lease and Release
GDC/136/7 · File · 23 April 1829-24 April 1829
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Lease and release of premises at Crakehall by John Clapham of Huddlestone Hall in the Parish of Sherburn, gentleman, to the Honourable and Reverend Thomas Monson of Bedale under the will of Reverend Frederick Dodsworth.

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Lease and reconveyance
GDC/143/9 · File · 27 August 1792-28 August 1792
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Lease and release of mortgaged premises at Newton in the Willows by William Prest, Gentleman, to Matthew Dodsworth of Crakehall, Esquire.

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Legacy duty form
GDC/145/8 · File · 6 March 1828
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Form No.3 dealing with Legacy Duty in the estate of John Robinson Foulis of Heslerton, Yorkshire, who died 29 April 1826. Includes a valuation of his efforts and receipt for duty.

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Inland Revenue Forms
GDC/417/69 · File · 29 July 1818
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Inland Revenue forms relating to legacy duty in relation to the probate of the will of James Benson who died 22 June 1818.

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York Gas Bill
GDC/418/2 · File · 1936
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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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Deed of Settlement
GDC/420/6 · File · 25 April 1848
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Deed of Settlement on the marriage of Ann Lockwood with Thomas Laycock Esq. 'Bond and Disposition on Security by Thomas Laycock in favour of The Trustees under his marriage Settlement' registered in Edinburgh in January 1871.

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Probate of a will
GDC/420/53 · File · 27 October 1819
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Grant of probate of the will of Joseph Mollet late of the City of York deceased. Executors: James Benson; Martha Benson (daughter of the deceased). Also includes a bill for proving Mr Mollet's will.

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Affadavit and correspondence
GDC/420/89 · File · 24 March 1945
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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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Telegrams
GDC/423/4 · File · 1908
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Bundle of copy telegrams to Guy, Lendal, York. They are instructions to buy and sell stock.

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Baker family
GDC/426/1 · File · 1740-1928
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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.

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Dent family
GDC/426/3 · File · 1852-1 December 1954
Part of Gray, Dodsworth & Cobb, York solicitors

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.

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Legal papers
GDC/426/12 · File · 1859
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Includes appointment by Sir Digby Caley and Dame Dorothy, in favour of their second son Digby Caley Esquire; and marriage settlement between Digby Caley and Miss Charlotte Philadelphia Bower.

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Assignment
GDC/31/1 · File · 13 February 1734-21 March 1786
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Assignment of Eastallgarth in the County of York by William Hick of Sculcoates, gentleman (administrator of Elizabeth Clough late of Beverley widow, deceased) to Robert Hudson of Beverley, esquire & Elizabeth his wife. Enclosed with this deed is (1) an Indenture dated 13 February 1734 between John Fox of Otteringham, yeoman to Thomas Clough of Beverley, apothecary, being Deed of Feoffment of piece of ground in Beverley (2) Bond dated 9 September 1775 of Francis Boynton of Cherry Burton, esquire bound to Elizabeth Clough of Beverley for £500.

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GDC/33/1 · File · 3 March 1905
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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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Appointment
GDC/66/12 · File · 19 February 1875
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Appointment by Amelia Hotham under the will of Elizabeth Anne Mary Hawksworth in favour of her son Arthur Hotham, esquire. Includes a grubby bit of paper bearing 'A Hotham's mortgage paid off. Appointment within might be sent to A H.'

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GDC/74/21 · File · September 1839-May 1840
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List of charges totalling £29-5s-3d headed Edward S Cayley, esquire MP to Alfred Simpson. Includes copy of burial certificate of Robert Piper of Pickering on 29 September 1830, aged 55.

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GDC/75/5 · File · 7 November 1822-8 November 1822
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Lease and Release of a mortgage in fee on an estate in Snainton by Ambrose Gray of Staveley, gentleman to the asignees of William Moorsom of Scarborough, banker and a bankrupt and their trustee.

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Lease and Conveyance
GDC/78/12 · File · 25 July 1838-26 July 1838
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Lease and conveyance in fee of three closes of land at Snainton by Henry Pearson of West Ayton, esquire to William Duesbury Thornton Duesbury of Beverley, esquire and trustee.

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Lease and release
GDC/79/9 · File · 19 September 1815-20 September 1815
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Lease and release by Beauchamp Harvey of Farnham, Lieutenant in his Majesty's 20th regiment of Light Dragoons to Robert Harvey of Farnham, esquire, of one third of the lands for £250.

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GDC/287/16 · File · 18 April 1853
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Mortgage for securing £5,000 and interest by John Roper of Clifton Croft, common brewer (eldest brother of William Fell Roper deceased) to John Robert Mills of York, proctor and Henry Newton of York, solicitor. Includes maps of properties in Walmgate.

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Lease and release
GDC/301/3 · File · 13 May 1811-14 May 1811
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Lease and release by Thomas Hartley of Bonython in the parish of Cury in Cornwall (son and heir of Thomas Hartley of Heslington deceased), esquire to John Roper of York, common brewer. Two messuages or tenements with the yards etc in or near Davygate. £470. Also a document appointing William Ellis as administrator of his father's effects.

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GDC/310/3 · File · 15 March 1742
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Probate of the will of Thomas Godson late of York, flax dresser. Sole executrix: Mary Godson his widow. Includes two receipts for legacies in 1749 and 1750.

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Grant of annuity
GDC/315/13 · File · 3 June 1797
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Grant of an annuity of £50 by Thomas Weatherill of York, gentleman to William Fowler of York gentleman. Also the sale of houses, stables, shops and the messuage known as the Bluebell in Fossgate to enable the £50 to be raised. Enclosed are the following: Note (on reverse of receipt) that William Fowler died 25 April 1806, buried St Michael le Belfrey, Sheriff in 1793-4; 6 receipts (stiched together) by William Fowler for payments of annuity; refund of annuity pertaining to time after his death; buildings insurance policy from 1797.(Describes what the buildings are made of); three receipts on policy 157892; four receipts (stitched together) on policy number 157909.

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Bills
GDC/320/2 · File · October 1807
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Three bills from Robert Clayton to Messrs Weatherill and Sunman for work done in respect of the rebuilding of the house and for the lease.

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Mortgage by demise
GDC/322/1 · File · 29 June 1820
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Mortgage for £300 by demise by Thomas Weatherill of York, gentleman (son and heir of Mary Weatherill deceased) and Ann his wife to John Turner of Market Weighton, gentleman. House on the west side of Fossgate. Includes a bond by Thomas Weatherill to John Turner.

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Correspondence
GDC/414/3 · File · 19th century-20th century
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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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Probate of a will
GDC/416/3 · File · 30 January 1792
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Probate of the will of Mr Richard Vevers deceased, blacksmith. Executors: Jane Vevers his widow and relict and Henry Gill his nephew. Includes various documents regarding legacies, as well as agreement for sale of a legacy; receipt for legacy duty paid; family letters; receipt for deeds deposited with York Union Banking Co. dated 13 March 1868 relating to property in Petergate and Grape Lane, York.

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GDC/416/10 · File · 2 September 1885
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Release Indemnity and Account re legacies: George Frederick Herring and others, Robert Smith, Emily Elizabeth Herring. Includes the birth certificate of Emily Elizabeth Herring; and a sealed envelope endorsed 'Copy Will of the late J. Westland'.

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Lease and release
GDC/226/4 · File · 26 March 1761-27 March 1761
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Lease and release by William Read of Sand Hutton, Esquire, (cousin and heir of John Read, deceased) to Mann Horsfield of Thorp Green, Esquire. Selling Marshall Closes for £270.

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Lease and release
GDC/228/7 · File · 22 June 1769-23 June 1769
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Lease and release of Sykes Close in Thorp Underwood by Isaac Webster of Thorp Underwood and Ann his wife to Mann Horsfield of Thorp Green, esquire for £300.

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Lease and release
GDC/229/5 · File · 15 March 1737-16 March 1737
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Lease and release of lands in Great Usburn by (1) Isabell Surr of Great Usburn in the County of York widow, George Hall of Thorp Woods in the County of York, yeoman and Isabell his wife, Thomas Jackson of Low Dunsforth yeoman and Dorothy his wife, William Deighton of Moor Monkton yeoman and Sarah his wife, Margaret Simpson of Great Usburn widow to (2) Sarah Horsfield of York, widow.

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Lease and release
GDC/230/6 · File · 1 January 1748-2 January 1748
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Lease and release between Sarah Horsfield of York, widow and relict of Jeremiah Horsfield and Mann Horsfield of York, esquire and Solomon Fell of Castle Yard, London. The documents deal with properties in Thorp Underwood, Thorp Green, Kirby Cattall and the parish of Little Ousebourn and in Rusholme and the parish of Drax.

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GDC/253/6 · File · 8 November 1884-1906
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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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Deed of Composition
GDC/262/2 · File · 13 April 1797
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Deed of Composition between Morley Steers of Gate Fulford, merchant and his creditors. Includes a letter addressed to William Grey in Stonegate listing the creditors and amounts.

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GDC/273/7 · File · 23 September 1829
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Appointment of a piece of ground at Clifton by Henry Bruce Beckwith lately residing in Pisa in Italy but now of York, esquire to Reverend John Overton of Clifton and his trustee. Includes a schedule of deeds since 1677.

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Estates in Clifton
GDC/277/9 · File · 1789
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Thomas Hartley of York, brewer, plaintiff, and Edward Addison and Gerard Tuce and Jane his wife deforcients. Estates in Clifton. 2 copies.

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GDC/159/4 · File · May 1859
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Contains a Valuation (copy) made by John Oliver of Bramwith Woodhouse near Doncaster in the County of York, farmer and Licensed Valuer on 27 April 1859, described as being a small piece of land being part of a field of Glebe land in the Parish of Thorne.

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Invoice
GDC/169/6 · File · 12 December 1824
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Invoice for £10-0s-5d from the Governors of the York Lunatic Asylum to Rev J Testing for the maintenance of T Porteus. Also includes receipt for payment.

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Invoice
GDC/169/8 · File · 28 May 1825
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Invoice for £11-15s-1d from the Governors of the York Lunatic Asylum to Rev J Testing for the maintenance of Thomas Porteus. Also includes receipt for payment.

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Valuation
GDC/174/1 · File · c.1732
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Valuation of The Chambers in Sergeants Inn, and notes of comparison with the value of other properties in the neighborhood of a similar nature in other Inns of Court.

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Bundle of receipts
GDC/174/9 · File · 1863
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Three receipts are for paying the Poor Rate at the local parish of Saint Martin cum Gregory, five for income tax in the same parish and one for paying the church rate.

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Lease and release
GDC/179/2 · File · 11 May 1784-12 May 1784
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Lease and release of a messuage and lands at Great Ouseburn, with covenant to levy a fine. The documents are between William Benson of Ripley, gentleman and only son and heir of the late Edward Benson, who was a son of Peter Benson, and Mary his wife to Matthias Skilbeck of Healaugh, farmer.

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Lease and release
GDC/203/2 · File · 4 April 1774-5 April 1774
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Lease and release of Waterside Close in Great Ouseburn, between John Sharper of Great Ouseburn, joiner and Jane Watson of the same place, widow, to William Barker of Great Ouseburn, yeoman.

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Conveyance
GDC/203/5 · File · 27 April 1791-28 April 1791
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Conveyance by William Barker to Edmund Robinson of land at Great Ouseburn with an assignment of a term. The document is signed by Dorothy Atkinson of Ripon, widow, William Barker of Great Ouseburn, yeoman, Robert Tesseyman, servant to Mann Horsefield of Thorpe Green, esquire, Edmund Robinson of Thorpe Green, esquire and Thomas Atkinson of Thorpe Green, farmer.

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Instructions to Council
GDC/205/8 · File · 1857
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Instructions to Counsel for Indictment in the case of Regina v. The Inhabitants of the Township of Stirton with Thorlby for the want of repairs of the road leading from Skipton to Gargrave. The instructions also include an accompanying document confirming that the length of the Keighley and Kendal Turnpike Road in the township of Stirton with Thorlby repaired by the Trustees (2572 linear yards, measured 15 February 1857 by Robert Bradley, surveyor). The document also contains two letters to W. Gray, Solicitor, York with instructions to lay information and to lay indictment.

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Abstract of Title
GDC/207/3 · File · 1850
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Abstract of the title of William Waite esquire to the Manor of Craike in the County of Durham and to a freehold and copyhold estate there. The document goes back to 1710 and includes several family names; Thompson, Crofts, Sunderland, Seward, Spence, Sparrow, Groves, Lief, Coulson and Gillow.

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Lease and release
GDC/209/1 · File · 6 April 1789-7 April 1789
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Lease and release by Robert Quarton of Full Sutton, gentleman and Charity his wife, and William Catton of Fangfoss, yeoman, and Mary his wife, to John Ramsey of Beverley, gentleman. The document concerns two closes of land at Full Sutton.

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Lease and release
GDC/213/4 · File · 16 June 1807-17 June 1807
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Lease and release of estates in the County of York, late of Mann Horsfield, esquire, deceased. The lease and release are between the executors of Mann Horsfield and Elizabeth Robinson of Thorp Green, widow and Jane Robinson, sister of the late Edmund Robinson.

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Lease and release
GDC/214/4 · File · 7 October 1800-8 October 1800
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Lease and release for £189 of a newly erected cottage at Little Ouseburn by Thomas Cundall of Easingwold, yeoman to Elizabeth Robinson of Thorp Green, widow and Jane Robinson of Thorp Green, spinster.

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GDC/218/6 · File · 7 October 1808-8 October 1808
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Deed of Lease and Release of Lyland's farm and lands at Little Ouseburn for £2,400 by Thomas Thornton of Kenyon House, Middlesex esquire to Elizabeth Robinson, widow and Jane Robinson, spinster both of Thorp Green in severalty. Goes back to 1712.

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Release and receipts
GDC/222/5 · File · 2 September 1847
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Release from the children of the marriage of John Perfect and Elizabeth Crowder to the trustees under the settlement executed on such marriage, on a final division of the trust property. The file includes a bundle of 21 receipts and a list of the 11 children and their dates of birth.

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