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Messuage and premise called "The Royal Hotel" in Blake Street reciting the will of Thomas Etridge dated 31 Jan 1848, the bill filed in Chancery 13 Jan 1857 and the decree of the Court 23 July 1857, ordering the testator's estate to be sold.

Abstract of title of T Barstow of a close of land in Clifton, contracted to be sold to the Guardians of the York Poor Law Union [printed, 78 pages]

Contains summary information for a small number of the complete volumes of Application and Report Books (see ref: PLU/3/1/1). Records details of individuals who applied for relief to the York Poor Law Union.

Includes name of applicant; age; reason for applying for relief; relief given and duration of relief. Also records decisions to send individuals to the workhouse or other institutions.

Registers of accounts relating to the administration of the City Institution/The Grange (formerly the workhouse)

Comprises accounts, inventories, registers of artices required by the Master; and register of visitors.

Includes copies of some outgoing correspondence

Acknowledges that the ventilating window on his premises, overlooking Guardians land is there on sufferance and not by right and he agrees to pay one shilling per annum

Comprises contracts for tradesmen; certificates of amounts due from tradesmen; bills of costs from tradesmen; account of bills; cash paid and total costs of buildings.

Includes name; age; religion; date admitted; date discharged and diagnosis. Entries listed in chronological order of admission.

Includes name; diagnosis; date admitted; date discharged and where discharged to.

Entries listed in alphabetical order.

Includes name; date of birth; date of admission; date of discharge; and pension provider (if any).

Entries listed in alphabetical order.

Admission and discharge books kept by the Master of the York Workhouse and successor institutions.
Includes name; age; occupation; religion; parish/ward; date of admission and discharge; and other observations.

Admission and discharge books kept by the Master of City Institution/The Grange (previously York Workhouse).
The terms 'vagrants', 'casuals' or 'the casual poor' were used in reference to individuals who were homeless, destitute and wandered (tramped) from place to place.

Entries include name; age; gender; occupation; place of sleeping the previous night; date of admission and date of discharge; next destination; in some cases the task performed to earn relief is recorded.

Records admission and discharges of patients/inmates along with diagnoses

Between the Guardians of the York Poor Law Union and Henry Newton

Boundary wall to separate land recently purchased from Henry Newton

Endorsed with receipt for £53 3s 2d. Signed by Oglesy

To erect a fence wall, and for division of land at the workhouse

Between the Guardians of the York Poor Law Union and Thomas and Jonathan Pulleyn

Agreement between the Guardians and George Edwin Boynton

Consideration £210
The Guardians of the York Poor Law Union to Lord Wenlock

Agreement regarding eatage from field adjoining Haxby Road, near the Workhouse

Agreement between York Urban Sanitary Authority and York Rural Sanitary Authority regarding drainage works.

Agreement between the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and citizens of the City of York (i.e. the Corporation)and the York Out-Relief Union, that the City Fever Hospital for treating infectious diseases shall treat pauper and destitute patients at a cost of 1 guinea per person per week, to be paid by the York Out-Relief Union.

Agreement between William Taylor (builder) and the York Rural Sanitary Authority for the construction of drainage works on Haxby Rd.

Agreement between the Guardians and George Edwin Boynton

Agreement between Robert Penty and the Guardians of the York Poor Law Union, to rent a field for 30 guineas per annum with provision for Guardians to erect a temporary Fever Hospital

Agreement to sell: T Barstow to the Guardians of the York Poor Law Union of four acres in Clifton; consideration £1050

Between Guardians of the York Poor Law Union and William Bellerby

Agreement between the Boarding-Out Committee of the Whitby Union and the Boarding-Out Committee of the York Union that the Whitby Committee would supervise homes and parents of two children boarded-out by the York Committee in the Whitby area.

Agreement between the York Rural Sanitary Authority and owners of property in Belle Vue Street, Apollo Street, Phoenix Street, Alne Terrace, Union Street, Fitzroy Terrace, and Saint Ann Street all in Gate Fulford to empty their drains into the new sewer.

Agreements for buildign work at the Workhouse kitchen and dining hall

Letter from Edward Young, Wheldrake to Henry Brearey explaining his division of the property into lots

Comprises summary accounts of amounts received and expended from the poor rate by the parish overseers and Board of Guardians of the Bishopthorpe Out-Relief Union. Some returns include balance sheets of the parish overseers.

Comprises summary accounts of amounts received and expended from the poor rate by the parish overseers and Board of Guardians of the Flaxton Out-Relief Union. Some returns include balance sheets of the parish overseers.

Comprises summary accounts of amounts received and expended from the poor rate by the parish overseers and Board of Guardians of the York Out-Relief Union. Some returns include balance sheets of the parish overseers.

Comprises annual returns of the poor rate for York Out-Relief Union; Bishopthorpe Out-Relief Union and Flaxton Out-Relief Union.

Date of application (if given): 2 September 1874
Age of applicant: 0
Address: Water Lane
Occupation (if given): None
Dependents: None.
Relief given (if documented): Provisions, 1s 6d.
Ward name or number: St Mary, Castlegate

Age of applicant: 4
Address: Haxby
Occupation (if given):
Dependents: None.
Relief given (if documented): None.
Ward name or number: 0

Date of application (if given): 20 February 1875
Age of applicant: 59
Address: On Tramp
Occupation (if given):
Dependents: None
Relief given (if documented): Ordered to Workhouse
Ward name or number: St Wilfred

Date of application (if given): 9 July 1874
Age of applicant: 60
Address: None
Occupation (if given): Tramp
Dependents: None.
Relief given (if documented): Ordered to Workhouse.
Ward name or number: St Wilfred