| Description | Papers relating to insolvent debtors, including:
- undated list of names of two insolvent debtors to be examined before the magistrates:
- Angus McBean of Upton near Whitby in the parish of Loftus
- Robert Bell of Kirklington near Bedale carpenter and publican
- order dated 5 April 1814 made by the Court for Relief of Insolvent Debtors held at the Guildhall of the city of Westminster that Angus McBean of Upton, a prisoner confined in the Castle of York, should be examined at Quarter Sessions. Annotated that a similar order has been made for Robert Bell of Kirklington
- petition dated 19 April 1814 of about 60 prisoners for debt in the Castle of York. They ask for the court to be adjourned to the Castle of York, so that they can be examined there, thus saving them the cost of travelling elsewhere |