| Description | Papers relating to the renewal of a licence for a lunatic asylum in Osbaldwick, including:
- notice dated 30 September 1865 given to the Secretary of the Commissioners of Lunacy and the Clerk of the Peace by Elizabeth Tose of the township and parish of Osbaldwick widow that she intends to apply at the next Quarter Sessions for the renewal of her licence to keep a house in Osbaldwick, which is copyhold under the manor of Strensall, for the reception of a maximum of ten insane women. Includes a statement naming the eight women then detained:
- Sarah Pilling
- Jane Skelton
- Hannah Newburn
- Mary Pawson
- Margaret Salvin
- Hannah Waddington
- Elizabeth Okely
- Mary Ann Allen
- draft licence dated 18 October 1865 for Elizabeth Tose of the township and parish of Osbaldwick to use her house for the reception of ten female lunatics as private patients |