| Description | Includes
Executorship papers of John Yorke of Richmond, inc. Wills (copies) of Yorke and his wife; sale particular of property at Richmond; rent accounts and extent of property at Richmond
Whitefield, Wathcoat, Skeeby, Newton Morrell, Cleasby, Aldbrough, Teakston, Bewerley, Heathfield, Ramsgill, Fountains Earth and Craven Keld (Co York); letters from R M Atkinson of Croft and Aldbrough (William Chaytor executor), 1812-1816
With same: Case and opinion re tithe payable from Nidderdale to the Vicar of Kirby Malzeard (co York), 1771 [61 files and papers]
[D/Ch/F 1060-1120]
Abstracts and draft conveyance of property at Richmond, Newton Morrell, Barton, and Wathcoat (co York), conveyed to John Yorke under the will of John Yorke (William Chaytor trustee), 1814
[D/Ch/F 1121-1124]
Papers re lease for 21 years from Thomas Yorke of Bewerley (co York) to William Chaytor of leadmines at Appletreewick (co York), inc draft lease, lease (copy) of 1758 to William Wood, and letters from Yorke and Thomas Hoyle Oddie of Middleham (co York), 1766-1768 [14 papers]
[D/Ch/F 553-566]
John Yorke, Bewerley (co York) and Teignmouth (co Devon). Re leadmines in Nidderdale, at Craven Cross and Merryfield, in which the writer had interests and on which he sought Chaytor's legal opinion. Smelting mill, stamp mill and smelting-house for copper mentioned, and boundary dispute with the freeholders of Coniston. Refs. to county business (Yorke being Sheriff in 1789), sea-bathing at Blackpool, the division of Whitcliffe Pasture in Richmond. Inc. drafts of Yorke's will, abstract of title to the manor of Bewerley 1799-1800, pedigree of the Yorke family, papers in Yorke v. the King and the Foresters of Knaresborough, 1773, letters and papers re suit John Williamson and John Barnbrough v. John Wood, Sir Thomas Woolaston White and others, 1800-1804, inc. lease (copy) of mining rights on Craven Moor, 1755. Inc. also letters to Chaytor from George Jackson, Richmond, 1782, enclosing plan of the area between Knaresborough Forest, the Liberty of Bewerley, Grimwith and Gaitup, and Appletreewick Pasture, showing lead and coal shafts. Also letters dated 1803-1809 showing lead and coal shafts. Also letters dated 1803-1809 from Thomas Yorke, Halton Place (co. York) to Chaytor re his brother John's oncerns, 1776-1812
[105 files and papers]
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