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Mortgage
GDC/247/10 · Item · 24 October 1791
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Mortgage for £00 by Mann Horsfield of Thorpe Green in the county of York, Esquire, to John Carrack of the city of York, leather seller and fellmonger.

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Dawson family, Colliergate
GDC/295 · Series · 1657-1791
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Includes schedule of deeds and writings relating to the property in Collier Street (Colliergate), release for legacies of the Dawson family, artiles of agreement and lease and release. Please see item level descriptions for more detailed information about the contents of this series.

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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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Lease
GDC/195/3 · Item · 12 March 1792
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Lease of a farm at Holdgate from Jeremiah Barstow of Wakefield to Thomas Burton of Holdgate, farmer, at £50 per annum for three years until the end of nine years.

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Sale Simpson to Shepherd
GDC/265/8 · Item · 17 May 1792
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House in Bedern fronting Bedern Gates and a piece of ground sold by James Simpson of York, gentleman to Joseph Shepherd of York, schoolmaster for £150.

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Marriage Settlement
GDC/205/1 · Item · 30 May 1792
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Attested copy of a settlement previous to the marriage of the Reverend Thomas Comber of Jesus College, Cambridge, with Elizabeth Coote of the parish of St Mary Islington, spinster.

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Confirmation of mortgage
GDC/307/6 · File · 4 August 1792
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Confirmation of mortgage. William Walker of York, butcher and Margaret his wife to Joseph Wolstenholme of York, gentleman. Two messuages have been pulled down and replaced by a new messuage and a coach house with rooms over. On the north side of Fossgate adjoining Fossgate Bridge. Includes a bond for £375 by William Walker to Joseph Wolstenholme.

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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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Mortgage
GDC/42/3 · Item · 13 November 1792
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Mortgage of a house and close at Sheriff Hutton by William Davill of Farlington, butcher to John Tomlinson of Whenby, husbandman for £150.

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GDC/360 · File · 1711-1792
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Deeds relating to Thursday Market; some relating to Kings Head Inn, Blue Bell Inn (1774-1792); Swinegate, Patrick Pool and Jubbergate (1795); malt kiln and premises in Walmgate and Clifton, 1762-1847. Also includes a marriage settlement for Hartley/Todd (1772).

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Foss Bridge
GDC/307 · Series · 1748-1792
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Includes lease and release, assignments of mortgages and confirmation of a mortgage. Please see item level descriptions for more detailed information about the contents of this series.

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Lease
GDC/236/4 · Item · 21 March 1793
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Lease of a house in Minster Yard, York for 40 years by John Fountayne, Dean of the Minster to John Smith, one of the vergers of the Minster.

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Mortgage
GDC/278/3 · Item · 5 April 1793
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Mortgage for £130 by demise of a moiety of a close in Clifton by William Reynold of Knaresborough, flax dresser (devisee in the will of Ellen Orrell) to Sarah Ellis of Copgrove, spinster. Townend Close or Townend Street Close being about 5 acres.

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Bargain and sale
GDC/49/2 · Item · 23 April 1793
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Bargain and sale of copyhold premises at Newlands by William Williamson of Kingston upon Hull, Esquire and Thomas Williamson of Welton, Esquire (devisees in trust under the will of Joseph Williamson) to Ann Howard of George Street in Sculcoates, spinster.

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Release by way of mortgage
GDC/122/3 · File · 16 June 1793-17 June 1793
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Release by way of mortgage in fee for securing £2000 and interest, from Mr John Wormald to Messrs Garforth & Co. Also includes a lease for a year from Mr John Wormald to Messrs Garforth & Co.

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Lease and Release
GDC/130/3 · File · 20 June 1793-21 June 1793
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Lease and release of Hall Fields by executors of the last will and testament of the late John Clough of York, esquire, to Thomas Withers of York, doctor of Physick, and trustee.

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Probate of a will
GDC/420/26 · Item · 3 October 1793
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Grant of probate of the will of Thomas Weatherill late of the parish of St. Crux in the City and Diocese of York, Joiner. Mary Weatherill , widow and relict sole executrix and universal legatee.

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Receipt
GDC/203/6 · Item · 22 January 1794
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Receipt for £5-1s-10d paid by Edmund Robinson to John Darnbrough for legal services, including the fee for drawing and ingrossing a conveyance. Signed Peter Rigg, Clerk to Mr Darnbrough, Ripon.

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Lease
GDC/46/1 · Item · 26 March 1794
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Lease of Warren farm and lands at Huggate for a year by William Tufnell Jolliff of Nun Monkton, esquire to Robert Brigham of Fridaythorpe, yeoman.

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Release
GDC/318/1 · Item · 9 April 1794
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Release by William Dobson of Beverley, maltster and Mary (formerly Elizabeth Birch) his wife to John Smith of Bugthorpe, yeoman of a moiety of a house with yard garden stable or building now used as a coopers shop behind near the bridge in Fossgate. £105.

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Property deed
GDC/318/2 · Item · 10 April 1794
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John Smith of Bugthorpe, yeoman and Elizabeth his wife to William Hessay of York, inn keeper. House with a yard garden stable or building now used as a cooper's shop behind and other conveniences near the bridge in Fossgate adjoining premises formerly known as the Huntsman, also a stable. £120

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Lease
GDC/12/5 · Item · 25 April 1794
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Lease for a year by Robert Lakeland of Ripon, esquire (son of Robert Lakeland of York, deceased) and others to William Bilton of York, gentleman of Ing Field otherwise Tin Field.

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GDC/316/3 · Item · 11 May 1794-12 May 1794
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Cornelius Smith of York, flax dresser and Mary his wife to Mary Weatherill of York, widow. Messuage tenement or dwelling house on the west side of Fossgate between two other premises belonging to Mary Weatherill.

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Release
GDC/30/1 · Item · 20 June 1794
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General Release by William Thompson (formerly Meyer) of Kirk Hammerton, esquire to Reverend John Fountayne, Henry Duncombe, esquire and Others. Mentions Leonard Pickard.

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GDC/15 · File · 24 July 1794
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Probate of the will of Reverend Joseph Stoney late of the parish of Trelawney in the county of Cornwall and Island (of Jamaica). Attested by appending the Broad Seal of this Island (Jamaica) the 16th day of May 1797 by The Right Honourable Alexander Earl of Balearres Lieutenant Governor and Commander in Chief in and over this His Majesty’s Island of Jamaica and other the Territories thereon by appending the Broad Seal of this Island. Large heavy round seal attached. He gives his slaves to Joanna Adams, a free mulatto woman, with instructions that on her death one of them is to be freed and paid £10 current money of Jamaica per year. Mentions the Stoney family of Pateley Bridge in Yorkshire.

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Abstract of title
GDC/56/9 · Item · 1741-1794
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Abstract of Title of Thomas hardisty to an allotment at Haxby copyhold of the Manor of Strensall.

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Properties in York
GDC/372 · File · 1794
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Conveyances; messuage warehouse in Thursday Market and Three Crane Lane; messuage in Swinegate and Patrick Pool; messuage in Jubbergate (1794).

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Lease and release
GDC/278/4 · Item · 2 January 1795-3 January 1795
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Lease and release of a moiety of a close at Clifton for securing to John Calverley of Scriven with Tentergate (Knaresborough), linen manufacturer (£150) by Abraham Bean the younger of Ferrybridge, raff merchant and Ann his wife.

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Articles of agreement
GDC/287/1 · Item · 24 February 1795
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Articles of agreement on the marriage of John Roper of Little Tower Street in London, malt factor and Sarah Fell of Norwich, spinster daughter of William Fell.

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Lease and release
GDC/278/6 · File · 1 June 1795-2 June 1795
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Lease and release by Willy Renald of Knaresborough, flax dresser and Mary his wife and Abraham Bean the younger of Ferrybridge, raff merchant and Ann his wife (formerly Ann Renald) and their mortgagees (Sarah Ellis of Copgrove, spinster and John Calverley).

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Declaration of trust
GDC/278/7 · Item · 2 June 1795
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Declaration of Trust by Richard Erskine of York, sadler and William Gray of York, gentleman to Elias Ellis of Clifton, gentleman.

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Assignment
GDC/236/5 · Item · 31 August 1795
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Assignment between Reverend John Fountayne of Melton on the Hill, Yorkshire and John Smith, one of the vergers of York Minster to William Mills of York, gentleman. The assignment covers a leasehold house in Minster Yard, York.

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Lease
GDC/236/6 · Item · 8 September 1795
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Lease of a house in Minster Yard, York for 40 years by John Fountayne, Dean of the Minster to William Mills of York, gentleman.

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GDC/278/8 · Item · 18 September 1795-19 September 1795
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Lease and release of premises purchased by Richard Erskine of York, sadler and William Gray of York, gentleman (by direction of Elias Ellis of Clifton, gentleman) to Thomas Bernard of Iver in the County of Buckinghamshire, esquire and his trustee.

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Marriage settlement
GDC/24 · Item · 16 November 1795
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Settlement on the marriage of John Robinson Foulis of Buckton, esquire and Decima Hester Beatrix Sykes of Sledmere, spinster (eldest daughter of Sir Christopher Sykes). 10 pages.

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Copy of marriage settlement
GDC/315/11 · File · 24 December 1795-25 December 1795
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Copy of settlement on the intended marriage of Mary Weatherill of York, widow with William Fowler of York, gentleman. Two houses (formerly one) and stable, a stable and warehouse converted into a chaise house but now a warehouse and two stables, a house adjoining the Old Naggs Head Inn or Tavern all in Fossgate. Also a stable and yard or garden in in Walmgate, as well as six acres of meadow or pasture adjoining the roads from York to Heslington and Hull. In trust to Dudley Rockett of York, clerk and William Clark of York, gentleman and Thomas Lund of York, gentleman. 2 copies.

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Lease and release
GDC/317/2 · Item · 24 December 1795-25 December 1795
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Lease and release of a house on the corner of Fossgate and Hosier Lane (and the right to a certain pew in St Crux church) by Ann Bunting of York, widow (daughter of William Tomlinson deceased) to Alexander Harrison of York, brewer who is providing the money for John Blacker of York, ale draper.

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Agreement
GDC/278/5 · File · 1795
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Final agreement between John Baines plaintiff and Abraham Bean the younger and Ann his wife deforcients of a moiety of five acres of meadow in Clifton. 2 copies.

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Declaration of trust
GDC/74/1 · Item · 9 January 1796
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Declaration of trust regarding £2,000 received from the executors of Reverend Edward Stillingfleet.

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Lease
GDC/131/2 · Item · 30 January 1796
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Lease of a farm of about 40 acres at Holgate for three years at £50 per annum by Jeremiah Barstow of York, gentleman, to Thomas Burton of Holgate, farmer. Includes a receipt for £100 dated 25 March 1797 by Thomas Burton from John and George Telford, seedsmen and nurserymen.

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Copy lease
GDC/195/4 · Item · 30 January 1796
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Copy lease of a farm at Holdgate by Jeremiah Barstow of York, gentleman to Thomas Burton of Holgate, farmer, for three years at £50 per annum to commence from Lady Day last past.

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GDC/143/10 · Item · 13 April 1796
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Case for the opinion of counsel, tending to show the discharge of £4,000 charged on the East Lilling and Little Cowden estates by Benjamin Hall in the Year of 1739.

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Declaration of trust
GDC/74/3 · Item · 10 May 1796
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Declaration of trust regarding an annuity of £20 payable to Mary Stillingfleet of Claines in the county of Worcester and release of the estate of the late Edward Stillingfleet from the payment of the annuity.

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Conveyance of Land
GDC/111/2 · File · 23 May 1796-24 May 1796
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These documents detail the conveyence of land in Crakehall and Langthorne by Sir Charles Turner of Kirkleatham and Anthony Hardolph Eyre of Grove (Nottinghamshire) to Matthew Dodsworth.

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Legal document
GDC/56/10 · Item · 3 June 1796
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Richard Sanderson of Towthorpe, yeoman and mortgagee of Thomas Hardisty of Haxby, yeoman to Thomas Arminson of Haxby, yeoman.

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Assignment
GDC/236/7 · Item · 9 September 1796
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Assignment of a house in Petergate for 40 years by Frederick Atkinson of York, silk mercer to William Mills of York, gentleman.

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Land in trust
GDC/288/5 · Item · 15 October 1796
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George Myers of Osbaldwick, gentleman (administrator of Thomas Humphrey formerly of Kiplin but later of Scorton deceased) to James Fryer the younger of York, gentleman and Thomas Brook in trust for John Brook. Assignment of a residue of 500 years.

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Mortgage
GDC/45/1 · Item · 14 December 1796
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Mortgage by demise by William Tufnell Jolliff of Nun Monkton, esquire to Anna Allanson of Ripon, spinster. Property in Nun Monkton.

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Document
GDC/149/2 · Item · 1796
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Only part of a document relating to the Manor of Dowham. Includes a transcript.

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GDC/278/9 · Item · 12 March 1797
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Deed of Covenant and declaration leasing the use of one moiety of a close of land at Clifton by Willy Renald of Knaresborough, flax dresser and Mary his wife to Thomas Bernard lately of Iver in the County of Buckinghamshire but now of the Foundling Hospital.

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Conveyance in Trust
GDC/262/1 · Item · 12 April 1797-13 April 1797
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Conveyance in Trust by Morley Steers of Gate Fulford, merchant to Trustees.

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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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Probate of a will
GDC/420/58 · Item · 2 May 1797
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Grant of probate of the estate of Michael Eastburn late of Bootham in the suburbs of the City of York, Gentleman. Joint Executors: Henry Eastburn and Michael Eastburn, sons of the deceased. See also GDC/420/67.

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Receipt
GDC/267/12 · Item · 8 May 1797
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Receipt from William Hill and Elizabeth Catherine his wife for legacy of £1,000 under the will of Samuel Waud.

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Deed
GDC/267/11 · Item · 7 May 1797-8 May 1797
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Samuel Wilkes Waud of Killingbeck, esquire to Robert Sinclair and James Saunders. The document relates to a dwelling house and garden in Castlegate, also that ancient building commonly called of known by the name of Cliffords Tower, a house in Micklegate and other property.

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Probate of a will
GDC/420/67 · Item · 11 May 1797
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Grant of probate of the estate of Michael Eastburn late of Bootham in the suburbs of the City of York, Gentleman. Joint Executors: Henry Eastburn and Michael Eastburn, sons of the deceased. (See also GDC/420/58).

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Lease and conveyance
GDC/315/12 · Item · 1 June 1797-2 June 1797
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Lease and conveyace by William Fowler of York, gentleman (his wife mary has died) to Thomas Weatherill of York, gentleman (Mary's only son). All her properties in Fossgate, subject to an annuity of £50 to William Fowler.

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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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Mortgage
GDC/273/15 · Item · 31 July 1797
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Mortgage by Thomas Tate of Monkgate, gentleman to the executors and trustees of David Russell of York, printer deceased.

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Lease
GDC/32/1 · Item · 19 October 1797
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Lease for a year by Robert Harvey of Farnham, esquire to James Collins of Knaresborough, gentleman.

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Deed of appointment
GDC/32/2 · Item · 20 October 1797
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Deed of appointment and grant and release by Robert Harvey of Farnham, esquire & Elizabeth his wife to James Collins of Knaresborough, gentleman who paid £800.

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GDC/278/10 · File · 1797
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Final agreement between Thomas Bernard and Scrope Bernard plaintiffs and Willy Renald and Mary his wife deforcients of a moiety of five acres of land, five acres of meadow and five acres of pasture with the appurtenances in Clifton. 2 copies.

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GDC/315 · Series · 1709-1797
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Includes the will of Simon Sisson, correspondence, articles of agreement, deeds, lease and conveyances, mortgage documentation and copy marriage settlement, as well as additional legal papers relating to properties in Fossgate. Please see item level descriptions for more detailed information about the contents of this series.

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Release of equity
GDC/318/3 · Item · 22 February 1798
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Release of the equity of redemption by William Walker of York, butcher to Thomas Bramley of Wyton in Holderness, gentleman. Two messuages formerly then divided into and occupied as three dwelling houses adjoining each other on the north side of Fossgate adjoining Foss bridge. Also three stables and shed in yard behind. £528-14s-6d with interest.

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Schedule of Title Deeds
GDC/130/4 · Item · 26 March 1798
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Schedule of the title deeds delivered to Mr Lancelot Tasker as mortgagee of a messuage of land without Layerthorpe Postern belonging to Mr John Dale.

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Declaration of trust
GDC/74/6 · Item · 29 May 1798
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Declaration of trust regarding annuities payable to Elizabeth Sheriff and Mary Stillingfleet and Mary Wilkins.

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GDC/74/5 · Item · 29 May 1798
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Release to make a tenant to the precipe and declare the uses of a recovery of Elizabeth Sarah Stillingfleet's Herefordshire estates on the intended marriage with John Cayley the younger of Brompton, esquire (only son of John Cayley).

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Assignment
GDC/222/1 · Item · 8 December 1798
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Assignment of term in an estate at Great Ouseburn between Mary Gray of Thornton Bridge in the county of York, widow and administratrix of Ambrose Gray deceased, to Reverend Godfrey Wolley, vicar of Hutton Bushell. Godfrey Wolley was also a trustee for Richard Metcalfe of York, esquire and Edmund Robinson of Thorpe Green, esquire and Edward Wolley of York, gentleman, who were executors under the will of Mann Horsfield late of Thorpe Green.

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Clifton transactions
GDC/278 · Series · 1774-1798
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Includes probates of wills, conveyance, mortgage, lease and release, agreement, declaration of trust, deed of covenant and final agreement, all relating to land in Clifton. Please see item level descriptions for more detailed information about the contents of this series.

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Fossgate
GDC/318 · Series · 1794-1798
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Includes release, release of equity and property deed relating to property in Fossgate. Please see item level descriptions for more detailed information about the contents of this series.

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GDC/262 · Series · 1797-1798
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Bundle wrapped in brown paper. Includes conveyance in trust, deed of composition, abstract of conveyance and list of covenants. Please see item level descriptions for more detailed information about the contents of this series.

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Probate of John Harker
GDC/102/3 · Item · 18 January 1799
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Probate of the will of John Harker late of the City of York, plumber and glazier. Joint executors: John Hepworth, Francis Theakstone and Eleanor Harker his widow.

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