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Includes minutes; plaint books; court books and papers; declarations, pleadings and other documents; recognizances; calendars of prisoners; and judgement papers

Records relating to poor relief prior to the Poor Law Amendment Act, 1834. Further historical and modern records will be added to this section as they are catalogued.

Includes minutes; accounts and relief assessments.

See ref: PLU for poor relief records relating to the York Poor Law Union and the Public Assistance Committtee (1837-1960s).

Records of gilds (guilds), fraternities and mysteries. Though not formally part of the Corporation, there were very strong links in terms of membership, activities and enforcement. Copies of gild material can also be found in the register books in the Y/COU/1/4 series.

Regulations on trade including alehouses, brewers, malters and meat.

This is a selection of the civic archive containing the records which are currently available for access only. Further historical and modern records will be added to this section as they are catalogued, including further alehouse licensing registers.

Comprises records relating to welfare and support services in York.

The conveyance relates to a messuage in Helket, York.

There is no extant charter surviving relating to this seal. Natural wax, badly discoloured. Condition: chipped at top. Impression: fair. Noted in Birch, Volume 1, 490, p.54.

The conveyance relates to a messuage in Bishopthorpe.

The conveyance relates to a tenement.

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E64: Names of able bodied and their arms and horses (c. 1509-1547)

E41: Muster roll of 102 soldiers sent to aid in war against Scotland (1543) and list of able bodied in the City and Ainsty and their arms.

E47: Names of persons, horses, weapons, armour in City and Ainsty plus deer parks and horse breeding (1573)

E41A: Muster roll of men chosen to be soldiers in 1584 and 1587 plus an assessment upon the Ainsty towards the cost of two light horseman to serve in Ireland 1578

E47A: Names of persons in Ainsty with weapons (1666)

E87: Names of soldiers appointed by ordinance of 23 May 1648

E41C: Names of men enlisted to serve in land and marine forces 1708-1711

E125: Commissioners for York and Ainsty minutes re: apprehension of men for army and Navy 1744-1745.

E41B: Minutes, accounts, etc connected to raising militia against Scotland 1745

E42: Minutes of Lieutenancy re: raising additional militia pursuant to 1797 Act.

E42A: Names of ballot in pursuance of Militia Act 1806.

E43: Minutes of Lieutenacy re: cavalry pursuant to 1797 Act.

E92: Raising of forces for defence of city in 1745, orders relating to vagrants, carriages impressed for royal service 1805

Records of civil and military defence including militia and muster rolls, assessments for ships and royal aid. Includes local voluntary corps established in the eighteenth century for local defence and the preservation of order. For non-military assessments see Y/FIN. Includes civil defences measure enacted during World War II.

This is a selection of the civic archive containing the records which are currently available for access only. Further historical and modern records will be added to this section as they are catalogued.

Copy of foundation document.

The conveyance relates to a garden or orchard near St Martin's Lane.

The conveyance relates to a messuage and moat on the north side of Monk Bar.

Includes:
E48: Book of Subsidy granted to King Henry VIII and contributed by Persons, Corporations, Fraternities, Gilds etc, according to certain values, 1547-8;
E49 Book of Subsidy granted to King Edward VI, 1547-8 (bound with E48);
E50: Book of Subsidy granted to King Edward VI and Elizabeth I, 1550-1559;
E51: Book of Subsidy granted to Elizabeth I, 1563-1582.
E59: Assessment on the City and Ainsty, 1582;
E59a: Assessments on the City and Ainsty, 1585-1600

The conveyance relates to an unidentified messuage.

This is a selection of the civic archive containing the records which are currently available for access only. Further historical and modern records will be added to this section as they are catalogued.

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)

Register made by Sir William Pinder, hospital clerk, Master of the Hospital of St Thomas the Apostle without Micklegate Bar. The register includes:
Ordinances of the hospital, 1552,
Minutes of the meetings held by the Maister and Bretheren, 1552-1583,
Accounts for the year 1575,
Survey of the lands etc belonging to the hospital at Stamforth Bridge and associated memoranda (1558) and
'Copie of the Docquett certified by Mr Atturney Generall under the King's Bill signed,' relating to the acquisition by the Corporation of some of the messuages in the City of York, part of the estate of the hospital.

The conveyance relates to an unidentified premises.

The conveyance relates to a messuage in Spurriergate.

The conveyance relates to a tenement in Spurriergate.

The conveyance relates to houses etc Without Micklegate Bar.

The accounts are in respect of the Poor Folks in three Hospitals in the City - St Thomas's, St Anthony's and another.

Account rolls of St Thomas' Hospital for years 1575, 1580, 1591, 1597, 1604, 1607.

This is a selection of the civic archive containing the records which are currently available for access only. Further historical and modern records will be added to this section as they are catalogued.