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Schedule of writings
GDC/228/8 · Item · 19 December 1770
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Schedule of writings belonging to Sykes Close in Thorp Underwood purchased by Mr Horsfield of Isaac Webster and Ann his wife. Covers the history of the property to 1692.

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Search of lease
GDC/201/2 · Item · 1670
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A search of the leases of Serjeants Inn in Fleet Street, London, where Robert Mellish has to surrender his lease to the previous lessees. This document mentions 'the late dreadfull fire, which happened in London'.

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GDC/137/8 · Item · 18 January 1834
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Second probate of the will of Sarah Ramsey late of Acomb, spinster. Executors: Jonathan Gray and Henry Robert Spence. Former grant 1 May 1833.

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GDC/260/5 · Item · 8 June 1815
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Second probate of the will of Robert Bewlay late without Micklegate Bar, esquire. Mentions property in Burton Fields in the parish of Catton, Dringhouses, Baggergate Lane near Micklegate Bar.

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Security on settlement
GDC/94/3 · Item · March 1888
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Schedule of property at Preston on the Hill in the County of Chester proposed as security for the sum to be settled by Mr Barker.

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Settlement
GDC/183/2 · Item · 2 November 1719
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Settlement by William Moor of Oswaldkirk in the County of York concerning an estate at Stonegrave and Oswaldkirk, in favour of his daughter.

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Settlement
GDC/222/8 · Item · 20 September 1854
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Settlement on the intended marriage of Edward Lloyd of Stockton Hall in County of York, esquire and Rosabelle Susan Lloyd of Cowesby Hall in the same county, spinster, aged 20. On 20 September 1878 and 6 November 1889 new trustees to the settlement were appointed: Yarburgh George Lloyd Greame and Guy St Mann Palmes.

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Settlement
GDC/240/7 · Item · 5 December 1860
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Settlement in contemplation of the marriage of Henry Robert Markham of York, esquire with Elizabeth Macbean of Thirsk by Henry Robert Markham, esquire to Joseph Charlton Parr and William Driffield, esquire.

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Settlement
GDC/65/4 · Item · 1859
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Settlement of £13,000 by Henry Stafford Thompson of Fairfield Lodge in the parish of Skelton, esquire & Harriot his wife and Reverend Thomas Hutton Croft of Hutton Bushel & others to Anna Rita Thompson of Fairfield Lodge, spinster.

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Settlement
GDC/110/2 · Item · 2 March 1816
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Settlement prior to the marriage of Thomas Nelson Champney and Ann Brocksopp.

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GDC/91/1 · File · 27 May 1810-28 May 1810
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Settlement (lease and indenture) previous to the marriage of James Willis and Anne Metcalfe made between Anne Metcalfe of Dunnington, spinster of the first part, Reverend James Willis of the suburbs of the City of York, Clerk of the second part.

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Settlement deed
GDC/108/1 · Item · 25 January 1837
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Settlement deed on the intended marriage of Mr Charles Gregory Fairfax the younter Esquire to Miss Mary Tasburgh.

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GDC/427/2 · Item · 13 August 1828
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Settlement of personal estate on the marriage of Ann Whaley of York, spinster and Oswald Allan of York, esquire. Includes a loose page dated March 1842 about Mrs Allen's Trust.

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GDC/51/1 · Item · 14 February 1810
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Settlement of stock and securities on the intended marriage of Reverend Claudius Buchanan of St Mary le Bone in Middlesex and Mary Thompson of Kirby Hall in the parish of Little Ouseburn.

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GDC/253/3 · Item · 7 July 1830
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Settlement by Sir George Cayley of Brompton, Baronet, on the marriage of Digby Cayley his only son with Dorothy Allanson of Ripon, spinster.

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GDC/427/7 · File · 24 September 1860
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Settlement on the part of Marian Catherine Hague of York, spinster, in contemplation of her marriage with Christopher Richardson the younger of Grey's Inn London, barrister at law. Mentions property in St Leonard's Place. Includes two receipts for money.

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GDC/334/11 · Item · 10 May 1847
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William Pape of York, gentleman to Luke Thompson of York, gentleman and Benjamin Agar of York, currier his trustee. One third of Grove House and land. £366-13s-4d.

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Shillito to Overend
GDC/263/2 · Item · 13 October 1752
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James Shillito and Faith his wife to Richard Overend (second son of Roger Overend).

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Sir Samuel Crompton
GDC/95 · Series · 1829-1896
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Includes one marriage settlement, and two documents appointing trustees to the settlement.

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Solicitors' correspondence
GDC/99/14 · File · 1916-1917
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Bundle of correspondence between Solicitors Messrs. Gray Dodsworth of York and Tasker Hart and Munby of Scarborough.

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Special administration
GDC/23/3 · Item · 2 October 1840
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Special administration (with the will and codicil annexed) of the effects of Marianne Wray wife of Reverend Cecil Daniel Wray, deceased. Died 27 July 1839. Under £1,500.

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Statement of transactions
GDC/30/2 · Item · 27 December 1805
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Statement of the transactions under the will of the late Leonard Pickard esquire and of the conveyances appropriation and arrangement of real and personal estate which have taken place thereupon between the several trustees and parties beneficially interested.

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Statutory Declaration
GDC/417/9 · Item · 8 September 1826
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Statutory Declaration made by Catherine Wade of Acomb, in the County of the City of York, concerning the age at death and marital status of Theophilus Garencieres, son of the late Theophilus Davye Gerencieres and Prudence Elizabeth, his wife, deceased, both of the City of York.

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Statutory declaration
GDC/211/7 · Item · 2 April 1853
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Statutory Declaration by Thomas Beale of York, innkeeper as to his knowledge of two houses and shops in Micklegate, York, in the respective occupations of Mr Fawdington and Mr Anderson with the warehouse and the house behind. The document includes details of the Beale family.

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Stead and Gell to Bateman
GDC/263/17 · Item · 22 April 1875
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Henry Stead and Thomas Gell (surviving devisees of William Stead the younger) to Henry Bateman of Acomb, esquire.

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GDC/74 · Series · 1786-1841
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Includes declarations of trust, marriage settlements, leases and releases, conveyances, abstracts of title, map, deeds of appointment, sales of land and associated correspondence.

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GDC/64/13 · Item · 3 May 1739
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Thomas Stockdale & William Stockdale (his brother) & Letitia Stockdale (his sister) & another to Henry Slingsby of Scriven & Peter Johnson of York, Esquire in trust.

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Succession Duty
GDC/258/22 · Item · 25 August 1885
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An Inland Revenue account of the succession duty in real property of Guy Fairfax of Bilborough Hall upon the death of Thomas Ferdinand Fairfax.

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Summons
GDC/148/4 · Item · 15 July 1815
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Summons for (no names) to appear at the Quarter Sessions at Northallerton on 25 July 1815 to testify in the case of Christopher Cooper against John Bower and Ralph Burton, Commissioners for Kilburn Inclosure.

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Summons
GDC/140 · Item · 25 June 1806
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Summons for Thomas Hunt, Peter West the younger, John Bowman, and Reverend John … to appear in court to give evidence in the action of Thomas Davye vs John Skelton of Elvington.

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Surrender
GDC/16/3 · Item · 30 December 1875
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Surrender endorsed on the last recited lease of 19 October 1839. The lease relates to William Thomas Marriott and Alfred Marriott both of Wrenthorpe Colliery, and George Lane Fox the younger.

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Surrender
GDC/45/5 · Item · 3 June 1808
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Surrender by Anna Allanson of Ripon, spinster to trustees under the will of William Tufnell Jolliff of Nun Monkton, esquire. Property in Nun Monkton.

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Surrender
GDC/210/6 · Item · 1 July 1807
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Surrender of a messuage and land at Thorp Green between Ann Dring of York, spinster of the first part and Elizabeth Robinson of Thorpe Green, widow of Edmund Robinson, and Jane Robinson of Thorpe Green, spinster and sister of Edmund Robinson, of the second part.

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Surrender
GDC/17/3 · Item · 30 December 1875
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Surrender endorsed on the last recited lease of 1 October 1858 - William Thomas Marriott and Alfred Marriott to George Lane Fox the younger.

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Surrender of a lease
GDC/271/17 · Item · 3 November 1860
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Surrender of a lease for lives in hereditaments in Little Blake Street by Reverend Joseph Thomas Monson of Bedale and another to the Local Board of Health in York for £654. Formerly the Prebendal Mansion House of the Prebendary of Dunnington in Petergate.

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Surrender of a mortgage
GDC/321/3 · Item · 16 May 1829
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Surrender of a mortgage term of 500 years in a house and hereditaments in Fossgate by William Cass of Newton Moor House, farmer and Charles Jepson of Overton, farmer to John Ward of York, brewer.

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Surrender of a mortgage
GDC/227/7 · Item · 14 October 1809
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Surrender of a mortgage term in a farm at Thorp Head by Benjamin Gray to Elizabeth Robinson, widow, and Jane Robinson, spinster.

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Surrender of a mortgage
GDC/32/12 · Item · 6 August 1817
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Surrender of a mortgage term affecting hereditaments at Farnham by Thomas Cass of Whixley, yeoman to Robert Harvey of Farnham, esquire. Thomas Cass received £500.

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Surrender of a mortgage
GDC/32/13 · Item · 7 August 1817
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Surrender of a mortgage by Richard Terry of Knaresborough, esquire & Joseph Beevers Terry of Ripon, esquire & Lepton Dobson of Leeds, esquire to Robert Harvey of Farnham, esquire who paid £600.

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Surrender of a mortgage
GDC/32/15 · Item · 15 August 1817
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Surrender of a mortgage term affecting hereditaments at Farnham by James Collins of Knaresborough, gentleman to Robert Harvey of Farnham, esquire. James Collins received £2,200.

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GDC/322/4 · Item · 12 September 1846
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Surrender of a term of 500 years in a messuage in Fossgate by Reverend James Richardson of the suburbs of York to Henry Weatherill of York, teacher and Francis Plummer of York, currier.

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Surrender of mortgage
GDC/249/5 · Item · 3 April 1866
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Surrender of mortgage, from Messrs William and Henry Newton to Edmund Robinson of York esquire. Relates to land at Thorp Hall and Thorp Green.

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GDC/265/6 · Item · 18 February 1734
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Mary Lowther of Swillington, spinster and others to Joseph Simpson of York, linene draper and George Jackson of York, merchant taylor - two messuages in Bartle Yard in Beddern for £150.

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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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The Huntsman in Fossgate
GDC/313 · Series · 1763-1764
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Includes two leases and releases relating to the property. Please see item level descriptions for more detailed information about the contents of this series.

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GDC/415 · Series · 1923-1925
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Includes probate of the will of The Right Reverend Robert Jarratt Crosthwaite of Bolton Percy, legal correspondence and vacation of a pension. Please see file and item level descriptions for more information about the contents of this series.

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Thomas and Elizabeth Wilson
GDC/76 · Series · 1809-1817
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Includes lease and release, bond, assignment and lease and assignment. Please see file and item level descriptions for more detailed information about this series.

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GDC/243/8 · File · 11 May 1882
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Probate of Thomas Dennison formerly of Bishopthorpe Road in the suburbs of York but late of Lilling in the County of York, yeoman. Died 15 March 1882 at Lilling. Executors Albinus James Dennison and George Styan Dennison his nephews. Includes four letters.

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Thomas Smith of Dunnington
GDC/243/2 · Item · 11 February 1863
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Probate of the will of Thomas Smith late of Dunnington in the County of York, butcher. Died 25 January 1863. Sole Executor Thomas Smith, his nephew.

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GDC/153/1 · Item · 27 August 1608
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In Latin. Thomas Wetherall of Aberforth, gentleman to John Hendill and Thomas Hordhill of Partington in the County of York, husbandmen. All that holding of 50 acres of arable meadow and pasture in the village and fields of Aberforth for 40s-0d per year.

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Thompson and Lambert
GDC/265/4 · Item · 30 April 1726
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Mrs Ann Thompson has left two leases of tenements in the Beddern plus purchase of assignment plus deed of mortgage with William Lambert.

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Thompson to Lambert
GDC/265/3 · Item · 30 April 1726
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Ann Thompson of York, widow (executrix of will of Savile Thompson) to William Lambert of Gate Foulford, gentleman. Mortgage tenements in the Beddern.

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Thornton Family of Watlas[s]
GDC/261 · Series · 1801-1806
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Includes feoffment and marriage settlement. Please see item level descriptions for more detailed information about the contents of this series.

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GDC/107 · Series · 1756-21 April 1803
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Includes release, copy deed of surrender, lease, deed of appointment, deed of release, lease of the prebend of Ampleforth and copies of a printed act. Please see file and item level descriptions for more detailed information about the contents of this series.

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