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Administrative records of the original York Musical Society, which operated between 1767 and c.1855. Each volume includes three main elements: minutes of meetings, largely concerning proposals and admittance of members; accounts showing balance sheets, principally relating to the payment of fines by members but also showing stock accounts; and registers of attendance at meetings, including the names of visitors brought by members.

Includes abstract of mortgage and copy abstract of title relating to lands and property in Bilbrough in possession of William Agar, as well as abstract of title of William Waite Esquire to the Manor of Craike. Please see file and item level descriptions for more detailed information about the contents of this series.

Papers relating to the administration of the Manor of Cawood, arranged by family member rather than type of document. Arranged by date. Many of the documents relate to legal transactions. Please see file and item level descriptions for more detailed information about the contents of this series.

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Includes bargain and sale, disentailing deed and conveyance and appointment of premises. Please see item level descriptions for more detailed information about the contents of this series.

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Includes copies of the wills of William Tomlinson and John Harrison, as well as lease and release, bond and conveyance of a house in Fossgate. Please see item level descriptions for more detailed information about the contents of this series.

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Includes correspondence between Mr Yoward, attorney in York, and others, and jottings regarding properties in the Ouseburn area. Please see file level descriptions for more detailed information about the contents of this series.

Includes sale documentation, leases and releases and assignment of title. Please see item level descriptions for more detailed information about the contents of this series.

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Photographs of York and the surrounding area, primarily gifted to the Archives as small accessions. Please see the individual descriptions for more information. The items in this series were received at various dates but were all catalogued during 2020.

Includes probate, leases, deeds of settlement, deeds of family arrangement, releases and other legal documents. Please see file and item level descriptions for more detailed information about the contents of this series.

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Dispute with Corporation papers concerning nomination of pasturemasters, and wardmotes courts post-1835. A map of each stray from 1772, by John Lund.

Includes mortgage, marriage settlement, probate, deed of covenants, lease, appointments of trustees, abstract of title, assignment of leasehold, disclaimer, accounts book, inventory and index cards.

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Includes copies of wills, probate documents, abstract of title, release of leasehold, assignment, extract of a will and codicil, leases and letters and dilapidations.

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Includes deed and leases and releases relating to property in Fossgate. Please see item level descriptions for more detailed information about the contents of this series.

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Includes the will of William Bolton, letter regarding the proving of the will, and receipts for tithes. Please see file and item level descriptions for more detailed information about the contents of this series.

Includes marriage settlement between James Wiggins of York and Isabell Bacon; conveyances; memorandum of purchase; release; probate of the will of Mary Watson of Hunmanby; deed of convenant and list relating to the executors of Miss Frances Plumbe. Please see file and item level descriptions for more detailed information about the contents of this series.

Probates of the wills of various clients of Gray, Dodsworth and Co. Please see file and item level descriptions for more detailed information about those individuals covered in this series.

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Papers of Edward Pigott. Includes:
-First Astronomical Journal 1773-1789
-Astronomical Journal 1769-1801
-Book of Transit Observations 1781-1790
-Celestial Atlas Atlas, Celeste de Flamsteed, annotated, 1776-1815
-Papers by Edward Pigott read before the Royal Society 1779-1815
-Notebook- Transit Observations of Herchell's Planet reduced (Uranus) 1781-1782
-Folder of Observations, Drawings and Letters on Comets 1782-1786
-Calculations on the Declination of Venus 1782-1786
-Results of the Observations of Herchell's Planet (Uranus) 1782-1783
-Folder Declinations and Right Ascensions of Stars Observed 1782-1785
-Notebook Reductions of the Georgian Sidus (Uranus) 1783-1785
-Calculations of the Right Ascension and Declination of Pigott's Comet and of the Longitude of York 1781-1785

Includes page of shorthand relating to Anne Paver, probate of the wills of Joseph Simpson, Anne Clapham and William Henry Nicholson, discharge from Miss Susannah Wormald, mortgage and marriage settlement. Please see item level descriptions for more detailed information about the contents of this series.

Letters of John Goodricke and Nathaniel and Edward Pigott. Includes:
-Goodricke's Communications to the Royal Society 1783-1785
-Goodricke's Other Letters 1783-1784
-Letters and Memoranda of Nathaniel and Edward Pigott 1774-1812

Account books of William Gray and Faith Gray including household and personal accounting information.

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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Bound copy of act

Includes documents, leaflets and other published materials which were not intended to be sold. See individual items entries for more detailed information.

Includes mortgage for 1000 years, deed of release, deed of indemnity and conveyance. Please see item level descriptions for more detailed information about the contents of this series.

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Includes probate of wills, grants of administration, family details relating to the Fairfax family and succession duty papers. Please see file level descriptions for more detailed information about the contents of this series.

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Includes marriage settlement, conveyance of land, lease and conveyance for Crakehall Estate and release of a legacy. Please see file level descriptions for more detailed information about the contents of this series.

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The letters are from Mrs C Taylor and John Forth. Please see item level descriptions for more detailed information about the contents of this series, including full transcripts of each letter.

This series currently comprises family newspapers only.

Mortgages and conveyance relating to properties in Fossgate. Please see item level descriptions for more detailed information about the contents of this series.

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The volumes for 1779 and 1780 are missing.

Includes three leases and releases.

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Includes letters of administration relating to the estate of Elizabeth Terry of York, lease of a farm at Holgate, lease and conveyance regarding messuages in Micklegate, insurance policy in the name of William Gray of York, and conveyance of the vicarage of St Olave's with St Giles on Reverend William Wallis Dodsworth. Please see file level descriptions for more detailed information about the contents of this series.

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Legal papers relating to the lands at Farnham in the county of York.

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Letters, legal documents, notices, policies etc regarding various legal matters not connected to property and land. Includes:
-Copy of last will and testament of George Earle 28.11.1777
-Letter re payment of compensation of ten guineas to Jonathan Hopwood to Viscount Irwin for trespasses and damages to Foss Island 09.01.1779
-Extracts from will of Henry Waite, deceased, free 30.05.1781
-Probate of last will and testament of Jonathan Hopwood 20.05.1784
-Copy of letters of administration to the effects of Margaret Hopwood granted to her daughters 08.10.1787
-Copy of extract from will of John Atkinson, deceased, 08.04.1807
-Minute regarding grounds of exemption of the close outside Peasholme Green Postern from the payment of tithes resulting from the demand of tithes made on William Gray 18.06.1809
-Extract from will of James Whitwell March 1816
-Acknowledgement by William and George Lawton to William Gray re windows and potential trespass on his property adjoining theirs in Postern Close 03.02.1825
-Copy of last will and testament of George Earle 15.02.1825
-Extract from General Meeting Book of the Market Committee re meeting of the trustees of Harle and Barley 26.08.1833
-Probate of the will of John Johnson, deceased, 02.11.1833
-Certificate of payment to the court by Harle and Barley 17.05.1834
-Copy of affidavit orders to Harle and Barley 05.08.1834
-Administration of the effects of Richard Waite 22.02.1836
-Fire and Life Insurance Policy for three dwellings in Powell Place 26.02.1836
-Extract from General Meeting Book of the Market Committee - order for sales involving Lockwood and trustees and also Waite and Hard 30.01.1837.
-Fire and Life Insurance Policies for dwelling houses in Patrick Pool, Church Street and Carmelite Street, taken out by John Powell and George Chlomley 28.11.1837
-Loan agreement for loan of £3,182/10/6 from John Powell to George Leeman in connection with planned erection of a bridge over the River Wharf 20.04.1838
-Fire and Life Insurance Policies on properties on Parliament Street and Church Street (includes Albion Hotel), taken out by John Powell and George Chlomley 28.10.1839
-Fire and Life Insurance Policies on properties on Parliament Street and Church Street (includes Albion Hotel), taken out by John Powell and George Chlomley 29.09.1840
-Certificate to show that Elizabeth Aitken was of full age and competent understanding in relation to a mortgage agreement 03.04.1844
-Account with Richard Powell from George Leeman 24.11.1844
-Extract from the Registry of the Prerogative Court of York - administration of the goods of Rachel Wilson, deceased, 09.01.1845
-Legacy receipt of stamps and taxes for the estate of George Earle 14.08.1847
-Release relating to trust legacy of £200 bequeathed by the late Ann Elin to George Leeman 19.12.1874
-Copy of will of John Johnson 07.09.1875
-Copy of last will and testament of George Leeman 26.07.1882

Includes one act for vesting part of the estate of William Weddell, bill of costs drawn up by Timothy Mortimer, deed of assignment, probate of the will of John Corner and marriage settlement.

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Includes abstract of title and conveyance of land. Please see item level descriptions for more detailed information about the contents of this series.

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Includes household account books and bills and receipts for particular expenditure.

Includes marriage settlements, assignments, mortgate and trustee documents.

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Includes leases and mortgages relating to properties in the York area. Also includes the probate of the will of William Bilton.

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Includes one appointment and one conveyance.

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This collection consists almost entirely of letters about the affairs of the Yorkshire Association not previously printed, though it includes a very few which were included by Wyvill in his political papers, and also a few draft paragraphs which appeared in print in York newspapers. There is considerable correspondence about the collection of signatures to the petition for economical reform and to the Association in 1780, and to the petition for parliamentary reform in 1783. Many letters of Wyvill to William Gray, the clerk to the Committee of the Association, illustrate Wyvill’s organization of propaganda in the York newspapers, and can be connected with paragraphs appearing in the Chronicle and in the Courant; some of them throw light on his opinion at different times of the progress of the campaign for reform.

Includes details of rooms hired, printing costs, postal services, advertising of meetings and expenses for travelling to London.

Copies, usually printed, of the resolutions agreed at Association meetings.

Includes the wapentakes of Birdforth and Allertonshire, Bulmer, Langbargh, Pickering Lyth, Ryedale, Skyrack, Staincliffe and Ewecross and Whitby Strand.

Includes signatures of supporters, arranged by geographical area as submitted to the Committee.

Includes two mortgages and one assurance, relating to various lands in the County of York. Please see file and item level descriptions for more detailed information about the contents of this series.

Includes copy conveyance, copy admission, leases, agreement, probate of the wills of John Croft and Susannah Flint, transfer of mortgaeg and trust account relating to William Gray esquire. Please see item level descriptions for more detailed information about the contents of this series.

The items in this series were created by members of the extended Knowles family, however they can no longer be attributed to one family member in particular.

Business correspondence, mainly received by Robert. Kite & Co., London, and Miln Haswell & Co, Agent at Batavia, Java. Also includes copies of some legal documents.

Includes legal agreement between Matthias Skilbeck and William Benson, leases and releases relating to land at Great Ouseburn and Little Ouseburn, abstract of title of John Abbey and assignment from Richard Wilkinson to Reverend Godfrey Wolley. Please see file and item level descriptions for more detailed information about the contents of this series.

Includes conveyances, release, probabe of will and codicil, property coveyance and lease, reconveyance, assignment of effects and deed of covenant. Please see item-level descriptions for more detailed information about the contents of this series.

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Includes marriage settlement, deed of separation and appointments. Please see item level descriptions for more detailed information about the contents of this series.

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Original published lists of felons convicted at the York Assizes and moved to York Castle for their sentences to be carried out. The lists include names, ages, details of their crimes and the sentence passed. All lists are numbered and arranged by date of the offence.

1. 1785-99
2. 1800-1819
3. 1820-1841
4. 1842-51

These records are retrived as binders, not individual items.

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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Includes assignment, agreement, counterpart mortgage, probate of the will and codicil of Marianne Wray, release by Stephen William Croft of Farlington and release by Evan Charles Sutherland.

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Includes correspondence received by William Gray, solicitor, as well as a note about interest on death, draft agreement relating to a property in Micklegate, demand note for Poor Rate, maps and a lease. These documents relate to various clients of Grays solicitors. Please see file and item level descriptions for more detailed information about the contents of this series.

Includes lease and conveyance, certificate, release of farm rents payable from an estate at Thorpewood, revocation and new appointment relating to Weddington Hall, counterpart lease of Pither's Farm in Berkshire. Please see file level descriptions for more detailed information about the contents of this series.

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Includes mortgage and lease, bond, abstract of title, receipt, reconveyance, burial certificates and handwritten note. Please see file and item level descriptions for more detailed information about the contents of this series.

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Includes lease and release relating to land at Full Sutton, as well as probate of the wills of John Menzies and Hall Plumer. Please see file and item level descriptions for more detailed information about the contents of this series.

Includes copies of the will and probate of Richard Craven, copy of the will of Thomas Craven, indentures of fine, mortgage by demise of lands, copy of the burial record of Thomas Craven, release of legacies, receipts, release paperwork for hereditaments.

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Includes deeds, bonds, counsel opinion, covenants, releases, settlements and other legal papers, relating to various parties who were clients of Teasdale solicitors. Please see item level descriptions for more detailed information about the contents of this series.

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Includes one marriage settlement, conveyance and two letters of administration.

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Includes papers of Jane Lumley, and other members of the family, including Louisa Lumley and Sara Kirk. Please see subseries and file level descriptions for more detailed information.

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Two bound copies of act

Includes papers relating to the Manor of Cottingham Richmond and Manor of the Prebend of Strensall, as well as lease and release, lease for a year, bill and receipt and papers relating to tithes at Old Byland. See item descriptions for more detailed information.

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Includes documents produced in Chancery, bargain and sale of premises at Newlands, and documents relating to the Manor of Cottingham Sarum.

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Includes copies of marriage settlements (one is a draft), declaration of trust, estimate of estate, memorandum, correspondence regarding clients, indenture and instructions to counsel in a legal case. Please see file and item level descriptions for more detailed information about the contents of this series.

Includes legal paperwork, transactions and leases relating to property owned by the Nicholson and Cawood families. Also includes probate of the will of Elizabeth Nicholson and associated paperwork.

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Two copies.

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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Includes papers relating to members of the Milner and Jolliff families, including probate documents, agreements and grant paperwork.

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Includes probate of the wills of Mrs Hannah Ward deceased, Mr John Lund deceased, William Blanchard deceased and William Brown deceased. Please see item level descriptions for more detailed information about the contents of this series.

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Includes one general release, one statement of transactions and one deed of partition.

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Includes articles of agreement, articles of partnership, declaration of trust, leases and mortgages, deed of dissolution of partnership, deed of covenant, probates of wills, deed of arrangement and releases. Please see item level descriptions for more detailed information about the contents of this series.

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Account books for individual prisoners held in York debtors prison, as well as books and invoices of small businesses. The account books often have the trial date at York Castle written on the cover. The final box in the series contains account books which are currently unidentified, although professions have been noted. Please note that this collection does not include account books for all debtors held in the prison.

The books are arranged alphabetically by surname, and include:
John James Anderson; William Armitage; James Barra; William Barwick; Henry Bell; Thomas Belt; Thomas Benn; James Binnington; David Brocklebank; John Cariss; Joseph Cole; Right Honorable John Dales (Lord Mayor); George Dalton; William Darbyshire; Austin Dawson; John Dawson; William Dobson; Thomas Dove; Thomas Fisher; John Harrison; Joseph Hepworth; John Heslington; Thomas Hesp; John Hick; Henry Holmes; George Hustwick (the elder); Henry Inglis; James Jackson; John Jackson; R Johnson; Marcy Kemp; HC (or Frances) Kilby / Kirby; John Robson Lambert; Charles Linfoot;
Thomas Luckhurst; William Mangles; John Masser(?); John Morton; Thomas Musgrave; George Nicholson; Robert Oake(s); James Oates; Richard Palfreyman; William Foster Percevell; R Perkins; George Pinder; George Pulleyn; John Rippon; Frances Robwson; Thomas Scowby; William Shiletto; Benjamin Sivres; Nathaniel Smith; Thomas Spaven; James Stone; John Stephenson; William Stoker; Thomas Taylor; W Turner; Robert Walker; William Whitwell(?); and James Wilson.

Includes probate of the will of John Arminson, marriage settlements and one lease and conveyance.

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Includes letter from L Cartledge, extract of letters of administration of William Pearson of York, envelope addressed to Edwin Gray, and part of a document. Please see file level descriptions for more detailed information about the contents of this series.

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Journals & descriptions of tours by William Gray , Jonathan Gray and Margaret Gray to various national and international locations.

Papers relating to Nun Monkton village and its properties.

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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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Includes petitions, dispute papers, deeds and property transactions.

Includes correspondence and accounts relating to the Grimston Estate, College Street and other properties. Please see file and item level descriptions for more detailed information about the contents of this series.

Includes assignment, appointment, counterpart lease, mortgage, releases, list of charges, conveyance and probate of the wills of Slingsby Duncombe and Charlotte Thomson. Please see item level descriptions for more detailed information about the contents of this series.

Includes land agreement and property deed relating to propert in Fulford. Please see item level descriptions for more detailed information about the contents of this series.

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Legal papers relating to land purchase for school areas, and additional purchases and abstracts of title.

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Various notebooks and lists compiled by Eustace Strickland, principally relating to history, statistical and demographic information, literature, and antiquarian matters. Also includes some notes relating to flora and fauna, and the natural world.

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Includes a marriage settlement, deed of appointment and schedule of deeds. See individual item descriptions for more detailed information.

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The inner wrapper says 'Deeds up to 1839' relating to a close at Askham Richard purchased off Mr J Calvert’s Trustees.

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Includes land tax certificate, bill of costs by John Haynes and authorisation of appointment relating to Jonathan Gray. Please see item level descriptions for more detailed information about the contents of this series.

Includes feoffment, leases and releases and agreement, all relating to land at Little Ouseburn and Thorp Green. Please see item level descriptions for more detailed information about the contents of this series.

Includes a lease and conveyance, release in fee, further mortgage and conveyance of George Ward of Acomb.

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At present this series only comprises one list of the prize winners at the annual speech day, and one programme for the Christmas concert in 1954.