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Registers of recognisances entered into by brewers, innholders etc re: sale of Ale, selling meat during Lent and playing unlawful games 3 volumes. Y/ENV/2/1/1/1 (1552-1564) Y/ENV/2/1/1/2 (1586-1595) Y/ENV/2/1/1/3 (1596-1605)

The assessments give the names of the persons assessed and the amount payable, and also the names of the Poor Folks and the amount paid to them. 6 volumes:

1: 1632-1644 (also includes the Ainsty for 1633)
2: 1644-1652
3: 1653-1660
4: 1661-1668

5. 1669-1678
6. 1715-1810 [Entries for years 1746-1810 lists names of overseers of the poor only]

Alehouse registers of recognizances for various dates and wards including the Ainsty as follows:

1. York and Ainsty alehouses 1646
2. Ainsty alehouses 164.
3. York and Ainsty licensed malsters 1646-1647
4. York and Ainsty alehouses 1647
5. Ainsty alehouses 1647
6. York and Ainsty alehouses 1648
7. Ainsty alehouses 1648
8. York and Ainsty alehouses 1656
9. York and Ainsty alehouses 1660
10. York and Ainsty alehouses 1662
11. York and Ainsty alehouses 1663
12. Ainsty alehouses collected fragments [undated]
13. York alehouses collected fragements [undated]
14. Alehouse licences with soliders billeted in houses 1720-1730s
15. York and Ainsty alehouses 1754 with soldiers billeted in houses 1754
16. York and Ainsty alehouses 1755
17. York and Ainsty alehouses 1756 with soldiers billeted in houses 1756
18. York alehouses [c.1755-1775]
19. Ainsty alehouses 1763
    20 York and Ainsty alphabetical list of alehousekeepers 1765
20. York and Ainsty alphabetical list of alehousekeepers 1766
21. York and Ainsty alphabetical list of alehousekeepers 1767
22. York and Ainsty alphabetical list of alehousekeepers 1768
    24.York and Ainsty alphabetical list of alehousekeepers 1769
23. York and Ainsty alphabetical list of alehousekeepers 1770
24. York and Ainsty alphabetical list of alehousekeepers 1771
25. York and Ainsty alphabetical list of alehousekeepers 1772
26. York and Ainsty alphabetical list of alehousekeepers 1773
27. York and Ainsty alphabetical list of alehousekeepers 1774
28. York and Ainsty alphabetical list of alehousekeepers 1775
29. York and Ainsty alphabetical list of alehousekeepers 1776
30. York and Ainsty alphabetical list of alehousekeepers 1777
31. York and Ainsty alphabetical list of alehousekeepers 1778
32. York and Ainsty alphabetical list of alehousekeepers 1779
33. York and Ainsty alphabetical list of alehousekeepers 1782
34. York and Ainsty alphabetical list of alehousekeepers 1783
35. York and Ainsty alphabetical list of alehousekeepers 1784
36. York and Ainsty alphabetical list of alehousekeepers 1785
37. York and Ainsty alphabetical list of alehousekeepers 1786
38. York and Ainsty alphabetical list of alehouseheepers 1787
39. York and Ainsty alphabetical list of alehousekeepers 1788
40. York and Ainsty alphabetical list of alehousekeepers 1789
41. York and Ainsty alphebetical list of alehousekeepers 1790
42. York and Ainsty alphabetical list of alehousekeepers 1792
43. York and Ainsty alphabetical list of alehousekeepers 1793
44. York and Ainsty alphabetical list of alehousekeepers 1794
45. York and Ainsty alphabetical list of alehousekeepers 1795
46. York and Ainsty alphebetical list of alehousekeepers 1796
47. York and AInsty alphabetical list of alehousekeepers 1803

Includes:
E83: Book containing receipts and payments in respect of cremitt monies, 1651-1660;
E84: Register book of persons entitled to 'cremitt' money and other charities; also extracts from wills, together with the names of persons in St Catherine's and St Thomas's Hospitals etc, 1719-1836.

One volume:

1: 1664-1665

Comprises plans relating to drainage and sanitary conditions of buildings; improvement and clearance plans; and plans of emergency and communal feeding facilities. Includes plans of Rowntree and Company Cocoa Works and Joseph Terry and Sons buildings.

Comprises plans relating to the construction and maintenance of sewers, culverts, and drainage pipes
and to the installation of infrastructre for utiliites, such as gas and electricity.

Comprises plans of proposed new streets and roads, street widenings, changes in street layout, street resurfacing, changes to street furniture, and slum clearances.

Comprises plans relating to public transport (including trams)
improvements to river navigation (including canals and locks)
and bridge plans (including structural drawings).

Includes plans of civic and private buildings, parks, recreation grounds and facilities, social housing, and other property that the City of York Council and its predecessor bodies either owned or had an interest in.

Comprises boundary plans of York (including plans for changes to municipal and electoral boundaries), plans of strays, parishes and other plans/maps of the York area. Also includes templates for signage.

Arranged roughly chronologically by date.

Incomplete series of registers of electors eligible to vote in parliamentary elections. Please note, these items are a duplicate set of registers - our full set of registers can be found in the Archives Reading Room.

This series includes three catalogues of books held in the York Subscription Library, as well as a pen and ink sketch of the interior of the building.

The notebooks contain information on water levels, soundsing and dredging the river around Naburn Lock.

Includes report of the Ouse Navigation Committee to York City Council, with a map of the river, September 1881; plan of the Ouse from York to Hull; report by Thoman Rhodes, C.E with map of River Ouse from Linton Lock to Selby, 1834; report by Thomas Rhode

Comprises returns of pauper lunatics. The returns include personal details of patients.

Registers of electors eligible to vote in municipal elections. Please note, these items are a duplicate set of registers - our full set of registers can be found in the Archives Reading Room.

Includes copies of Canal Boat Acts, reports into the usage of British Waterways, Royal Commission reports and papers relating to companies who passed through Naburn Lock.

Operational records and photographs of York Public Library, including drawings, stock books, accessions registers and papers regarding the foundation of the library in 1892. Also includes papers regarding the new premises for the library in Museum Street.

Includes minutes of meetings of the Committee of York School of Art, covering issues of concern to the management of the school.

Comprises correspondence; conveyances and other legal papers regarding the conveyance of land and street improvements in Jubbergate.

Includes a pamphlet 'A friendly Parting Shot at the Defeated and Discomfited Free Library Committee' (with covering letter), a flyer entitled 'Mr. George Leeman's Last Words to his Fellow Citizens, November 11th, 1881', one catalogue of books held in the library, a collection of newspaper articles collected by the York Free Library Committee, correspondence files and architectural drawings.

Papers concerning the widening of streets and construction of new streets in the Castlegate and Water Lanes area.

General correspondence files relating to the work of the School of Art.

Comprises a list of names of York Streets and a public notice.

Town Clerk's correspondence concerning the accommodation and maintenance of pauper lunatics.

Includes plans and associated correspondence papers relating to sewage systems in York.

Papers relating to the widening and improvement of Little Blake Street (Duncombe Place).

Comprises petitions and counsel opinions regarding lunacy.

Notebooks kept by the recorder of the Quarter Sessions of the Peace, detailing particular cases heard by the court.

Papers of the Local Board of Health regarding an enquiry into the erection of a public slaughterhouse in York. Includes initial enquiry and replies from other local authorities; list of complaints against private slaughterhouses in York; particulars of animals slaughtered in York; reports of the Sub-Committee on Slaughterhouses; and a petition from butchers in York against the erection of a public slaughterhouse.

Contains information on owners, rivers the boats used, cargo, size and subsequent owners.

Instructions to presiding officers and poll clerks

Letter to the Municipal electors of Bootham Ward from Ralph Davison and Robert Marchant

Reports on typhoid fever outbreaks in York.

Includes correspondence; provisional orders; plans of improvements; book of reference; lists of properties and owners/occupier; and a copy of the improvement notice in the London Gazette.

Include returns of births and deaths

Includes returns of births and deaths

Miscellaneous receipts and vouchers relating to expenses incurred by the York School of Art.

Comprises sales particulars and a printed public notice regarding land surplus to the street widening of Skeldergate.

Includes correspondence; conveyances; plans; arbitration papers; valuations and other legal papers relating to the improvement of Gillygate.

Includes returns of births and deaths

Register of licences granted in the licensing district of the county of the City of York. Includes street and parish, sign of house, description of licence, value of premises, holder of licence and changes. Contain index by name of licence holder.

Includes correspondence; a detailed statement of the Hope Street Area Improvement Scheme, including occupations of tenants; plan of the clearance area; printed resolutions of York Council committees, 1924; copy of the Hope Street Improvement Order, 1925; lists of properties and occupiers/owners; blank forms; newspapers with printed public notices of schemes; two copies of the Medical Officer of Health's 'Report on the Sanitary Conditions of Hungate, 1908'; objections; notes from interviews with Ministry of Health officials; procedures to follow to enact an order; draft copies of wording for the Hope Street Improvement Scheme; printed lists of Freemen for Micklegate Ward (1890s); rough notes on unhealthy houses; estimates of costs; summaries of housing in the area; and rough notes; and death and disease rates in the area.

Includes returns of births and deaths

Includes reports to the Markets, Ouse and Foss Watch Committee, Ouse and Foss Committee reports and River Manager report books.

Registers of premises, dairymen and cowkeepers

Registers of electors eligible to vote in parochial elections. Please note, these items are a duplicate set of registers - our full set of registers can be found in the Archives Reading Room.

Comprises undated reports and detached pages of reports from the Medical Officer of Health. All reports are signed by Dr Robert Cattley.

Papers for an enquiry by the Inspector of Nuisances regarding the erection of a public slaughterhouse in York. Includes correspondence with, and replies from other towns; a Report on the Sanitary Conditions of Slaughterhouses in York; and a Royal Commission Report on the danger to man of tuberculosis from animal food.

Comprises records of the system of house numbering and renumbering for York's streets.

Includes place of registration, masters name and owners name and address. First volume missing.

Details of the registration of the boats 'Evelyn' and 'Beatrice.'

Includes various published sets of bye-laws and rules concerning lights, signals and ways to avoid collisions, as well as towing regulations and tide tables.

Annual returns of all lunatics by the Clerk of the York Board of Guardians. Lists name, age, gender and residence (for example, name of asylum or other residence) of all lunatics chargeable to the York Poor Law Union.

Includes publications, printed conference proceedings and reports relating to smoke abatement, chiefly those printed by the Smoke Abatement League and its successor organisation, the Smoke Abatement Society. Includes the Journal of the Smoke Abatement Society [1930-1934]; Smokeless Air, The Smoke Abatement Journal [1943-1948]; as well as other publications. Includes a small number of covering letters.

Includes returns regarding traffic through Naburn lock. Also includes details of commodities, tonnage and dues, as well as some quarterly and annual returns.

Lists name of lunatic, name of poor law union paying the charges, and date of admission. Includes pauper lunatics as well as private and criminal patients. From 1918 returns include a list of 'Service lunatics' from WW1 [note that there are gaps in the series]

This series primarily includes rules and bye-laws pertaining to the Humber Conservancy.

Comprises records concerning the opening of the asylum; governance; staffing; and buildings.

Comprises correspondence and associated papers concerning regulation, licensing, humane slaughter, public abattoir, and condemned meat.

Includes descriptions of each job done, names of staff carrying it out, National Insurance contributions and total wages paid.

The magazine was initially published four times per year and included articles about the school, staff, pupils and school clubs. By 1949 was being published annually in July. Editions for 1912-1914, 1916-1921, 1925-1928, 1932-1939, 1948, 1955 and are missing.

town Clerk's papers concerning clearance programmes in York .

Comprises records of house inspections under the Housing Acts 1909 to 1925. Information recorded includes: address; name of owner and occupier; and date of inspection. May also include condition of property, sketch of property; and details of action taken. Includes records for the following streets: Aldwark; Alexandra Yard, Walmgate; Alne Terrace; Apollo Street; Bowman's Yard; Bay Horse Yard; Bishopgate Street; Bishophill; Back Butlers Buildings; Beckett's Yard; Beedham's Court; Blossom Street; Bootham Square; Bootham Row; Britton's Yard; Brunswick Row; Brunswick Terrace; Brunswick Place; Cemetery Road; Clark's Yard; Constitution Place; Clementhorpe; Carleton's Court; The Cottages, Heworth; Dale Street; Dennis Street; Dixon's Yard; Dundas Street; Ebor Court; Fetter Lane (Scrivens Court).

General administrative papers concerning clearance areas. Includes correspondence; committee papers; reports; summaries; and housing programme papers.

Clearance papers for specific slum clearance programmes in York.

Includes correspondence, circulars, minutes, and other associated papers related to the housing and care of those with learning disabilities following the introduction of the Mental Deficiency Act of 1913. Includes correspondence regarding specific patients and cases. The earlier files from 1914 to the early 1920s are in rough chronological order only.

Includes monthly accounts for dues and towage, as well as returns from the Ouse Navigation Company for Hull and York.