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Total number of records: 1335

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Archives1166
Books and printed items168
Art items1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
charity laws and legislation38
education38
poor38
poor laws38
heraldry14
manuscripts5
baronetage4
antiquities3
mottoes3
travel3

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
Great Britain69
England51
Leeds; Yorkshire West Riding8
Yorkshire5
Yorkshire (England)5
Leeds (England)4
Wakefield (England)4
Garton; Yorkshire East Riding3
Scriven; Knaresborough; Yorkshire West Riding3
Batley; Yorkshire West Riding2

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Great Britain. Commissioners Appointed To Inquire Into the Education of the Poor38
Hunter, Joseph (1783-1861)4
Playfair, William (1759-1823)4
York Minster4
Burke, John (1787-1848)3
Burke, Sir Bernard (1814-1892)3
Thoresby, Ralph (1658-1725)3
Thwaite Mills Society3
Akerman, John Yonge (1806-1873)2
Baring-Gould, S (1834-1924)2

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Earliest dateCount
From 10002
From 11008
From 120018
From 130019
From 140019
From 150094
From 1600245
From 1700264
From 1800420
From 1900188
From 20005

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Up to 1699165
Up to 1799221
Up to 1899494
Up to 1999342
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Archive Sub-collection

Papers

1666-1921

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Papers

1736-1817

1736-68. Papers in dispute for payment of £1300: Rev. Robert Gilbert D.D. (Prebendary) v. Joshua Peele, Sir Savile Slingsby and others. Draft papers in the suit, Counsel's Opinion and copy decree ...

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Papers

Papers collected concerning the Prebend of Knaresborough [or of Beechill and Knaresborough]. [See DD56/F2/36 for a summary to 1736]

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Papers

Papers, many of them copy documents, which appear to have been collected towards the end of the 17th century by Sir Thomas Slingsby in the course of administration of the 3 bundles, and some loose doc...

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Financial papers

1920s

Bank passbooks, letters regarding securities

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Legal papers

1825-1826

Papers in the case Richard Bleazard v Robert Tomlinson [defendant]

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Harden papers

17th century

A bundle of 7 small papers concerning Harden

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Overseers' papers

1814-1831

Assessment for relief of the poor in Horton, 1814 Form for census statistics, giving number of houses, families, males, females and trades in Gisburn, 1831

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Estate papers

1552-1946

Correspondence relating to estate affairs in general: see Correspondence subsection

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Miscellaneous papers

18th-early 19th century

Memoranda and notes by Dr Collins relating to Swinden free rents and tithes, c.1787-1800 including list of rent arrears 1796; notes on the Marsden estate, rectory of Gisburn and the manors of Grangeme...

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Estate papers

c1829-1849

Original bundle of papers including copy of particulars of land in exchange between Lord Ribblesdale and Richard Croasdill, 1829; valuation of wood at Hengill and Thornhill, 1838; letters of James Cro...

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Calamine Papers

1791-1833

Calamine and other minerals were mined on Malham Moor

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