| Description | Title deeds including mediaeval charters relating to Hackness and district c.1180-1480, deeds relating to the Manor of Hackness 1563-1792, tithes 1550-1792, Hackness 1543-1792, Manor of Ruston 1617-1717, Pickhill cum Roxby, Northallerton etc 1753-1761, Broxa 1388-1639, Burniston 1796-1797, Harwooddale 1601-1801, Scarborough c.1650, Suffield 1608, Whitby 1464-1679, Malton 1599, Wintringham 1581-1725, London: New River Works 1667-1792, and other counties including Berkshire 1792, Lincolnshire 1704-1792, Somerset 1688-1690, Suffolk 1702, abstracts and lists.
Wills, settlements and mortgages 1573-1821.
Manorial documents including court papers 1580-1788 and Hackness bounders 1624-1676.
Estate papers including rentals 1605-1722, disbursements 1662-1664, surveys and valuations 16th century-1796, and leases 1592-1645.
Taxes for Royal aid 1666-1669.
Enclosure 1771-1778.
Legal papers 1597-1791.
Financial affairs including bonds, financial and personal papers of Abraham Vanden Bempde of St Martin in the Fields and his son John as chief creditors of Huntingdon Hastings Corney, agent to the Marquess of Ormond and others 1617-1725 and miscellaneous documents 1601-1793.
Maps, plans, enclosure records and tithe apportionments covering Hackness, Scalby, Hutton Bushel, Harwood Dale, Wykeham, Scarborough, Scampston and Knapton, 1724-1857.
Correspondence 1622-1821.
Aldborough election papers 1572-1675.
Miscellaneous wills 1680-1707.
Newspaper 1770.
Printed Pamphlet on Scarborough Canal 1794.
Insurance records 1802.
Hackness (Fortescue) papers including the papers of Sir Thomas Posthumous Hoby and his wife Margaret, papers of Abraham van den Bempde, papers relating to Aldborough elections, letters and papers of John van den Bempde, papers relating to the purchase and early years of ownership of Hackness estate by John van den Bempde, papers of the Marquis of Annandale, letters and papers of Temerance van den Bempde, papers relating to a legal case over the will of Elizabeth Bempde, and Johnstone family papers 1596-1799. |
| Copies | Parts of this collection have been microfilmed [MIC 0951, 1432, 1504, 1633, 2485, 2889, 3250, 3775, 4056]. |