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Petition from Ann Sawley
c1820
Memorial to Thomas Lister as Colonel of the Royal Craven Yeomanry Cavalry from Ann, widow of John Sawley of Swinden, requesting remuneration for having to leave goods at the property in Swinden she ha...
Probate of will of Francis Nevile of Chevet, esquire
11 Oct 1666
[Will dated 29 Mar 1666]; leaves all goods to Sandford Nevile, his eldest son and sole executor
Probate of the will of John Blackburne of Gisburn, yeoman
Apr 1663
Will dated 8 Jun 1661; leaves his messuage and land to nephew William Tippin for life, then to William's son John Tippin
Letter [to Barbara Lambert]
c1700
Letter dated ?28 December from Margaret ?Rangey to 'Madam Lambart at Calton Hall. Leave this at the posthouse in Skipton in Craven'
Copy of will of Mathew Wilson of Eshton Hall, dated 9 Nov 1717
c1720
Leaves property to his eldest son Mathew, whom he desires to be educated at Wakefield School, with bequests of £500 to his other children at the age of 21 or when they marry With note that this copy...
Copy will of Thomas Armistead of Cattall Magna
[16 Feb 1666]
Leaves his wife Elizabeth his messuage in Gisburn and a smithy there in the tenure of his brother Henry Armistead, with reversion to brothers Michael and Henry Armistead; also refers to his father Ri...
Obituary of Thomas Lister, 2nd Baron Ribblesdale
1832
Died at Leamington in his 43rd year by the rupture of a blood vessel, leaving an infant family of one son and two daughters [sic, he actually left three daughters]; his son, Lord Ribblesdale in his 5t...
Copy wills of the Rev Robert Foster, clerk at Battell, Sussex; later chaplin to the British Factory at Smyrna, [Turkey]
[c1796]
Copy of will made when at Battell, leaving property in Horton in Ribblesdale to his Foster and Blackburn relations in Horton and Settle, 1773; copy of will made when at Smyrna, referring to his estate...
Will of Sir John Assheton, Baronet, of Lower Hall
7 Apr 1697
Leaves estate in Barnoldswick, Gisburn, Coates, Rimington, Howgill, Horton, Swinden, Hellifield, Malham, Malham Moor and Kirkby Malhamdale to his his grandson, Thomas Lister of Arnoldsbigging Will sh...
Wills of Richard Scott of Gisburn
6 Feb 1675
Richard Scott leaves his land in Gisburn to his mother, Margaret Scott
Probate of will of Thomas Lawson of Kirkby in Malhamdale
13 Jan 1596
Will dated 12 Nov 1595; to be buried in Kirkby church; leaves wife Elizabeth all his lands and tenements in Kirkby for six years to pay his debts, then half to go to his son Richard; provision made f...
Letters to his mother
1890
Letters written mainly from Kuala Pilali, with references to making moves in society, rise in coffee prices due to affairs in Brazil and abolition of slavery, affairs of the Empire, his ill health and...