Accounts kept by the Relieving Officer of the Bishopthorpe Out-Relief Union.
Records weekly sums of money received by the Relieving Officer from the Treasurer, and total amounts of relief charged to each parish or ward.
Summary acccounts for each financial quarter are recorded in the back of each volume.
See PLU/3/5/1/5; PLU/3/5/1/7; PLU/3/5/1/9; PLU/3/5/1/11; and PLU/3/5/1/13 for pre-1897 records for the rural district of the York Union, which includes the area later covered by the Bishopthorpe Out-Relief Union.