SLINGSBY FAMILY OF SCRIVEN RECORDS
Contains digital mediaDetails
Type of record: Archive
Title: SLINGSBY FAMILY OF SCRIVEN RECORDS
Classmark: YAS/DD56
Date(s): 13th century-20th century
Language: English; Latin; French
Size and medium: 57 boxes, 2 part boxes
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/444124
Collection group(s): Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society
Description
Papers of the Slingsby family of Scriven Park relating mainly to estates in the honour of Knaresborough but also to Bolton Percy, Harswell, Howthorpe, Hutton Rudby, Kirkleatham, Kirby Sigston, Moor Monkton, Naburn, Great Ouseburn, Stainsby and Staveley and to Cornwall, Devon, Durham, Kent, London and Somerset 13th-20th century
Includes deeds for many places 13th-20th century notably for lands of St. Robert's priory, Knaresborough [13th]-19th century. Some of these are published in Yorkshire Record Series 39 (1907), 50 (1913) and 111 (1946)
Extracts from Knaresborough court rolls 15th-19th century
Papers relating to the prebend of Beechill 16th-19th century, including court rolls of the manor of Beechill 1540-1719
Rentals and surveys 16th-19th century
Stewards' accounts 16th-19th century
Enclosure and other papers relating to the forest of Knaresborough 13th-18th century
Papers relating to waterworks, railways, canals and gas undertakings 18th-19th century
Maps and plans 16th-19th centuries, notably plan of Knaresborough by Solomon Swale, 1629
Papers relating to various public office, military commissions in the Knaresborough Yeomanry Cavalry, etc. 16th-19th centuries
Slingsby family correspondence and personal papers 15th-19th century
Account rolls of Selby Abbey 1411 - 1414, 1420-1421
Papal bull addressed to the abbot of Egglestone, 1250
Including illuminated indulgences from St Robert's Priory, Knaresborough 15th cent, copy letters patent to Ripon School n.d., indenture re forestership of Knaresborough 1601, agreement regarding printing Coke's 'Institutes of the Laws of England' 1641, and a manuscript copy of the diary of Sir Henry Slingsby, Baronet, 1638-1649.
Please note, only part of the collection is catalogued online. Please see the attached media document for the remainder of the collection which begins at YAS/DD56/G5 (p. 52 in handlist).
Physical characteristics
Measurement details: YAHS Survey: Outsize measurements have not been recorded as part of survey. REB 09.10.2018
Access and usage
Access
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