| Description | Leather bound volume containing:-
ff 1-19 terrier.
20-23 list of inhabitants and shops in Thirsk, with rates levied for relief of poor, 12 Jun 1630.
24 blank, except for scrobbled figures.
25 list of aged and impotent poor, widows and children, with relief granted weekly, 2 Jul 1630.
25 v.-31 assessment for poor relief, notes of receipts and distraints, 1630-1640.
32 copy of warrant from Sir Thomas Posthumous Hoby to the churchwardens and overseers of the poor of Thirsk and William Bell ordering making of lists of poor etc, 26 Oct 1629.
33-35 list of beggars over 21 in Thirsk with ages and notes.
36-37 list of beggars between 7 and 21 in Thirsk with ages and notes.
38 list of beggars under 7 in Thirsk with ages and notes.
39-43 list of beggars in Sowerby, Carlton Miniott and Sandhutton.
44-56 list of beggars of Sowerby with notes; assessment made for Thirsk poor; 'List of incorrigible persons' with occupations; list of money given for use of poor 1621-22, and request that it might be laid out in land or fee farm rents; list of persons in Thirsk fit to relieve the poor, with occupations, street by street, and of persons fit neither to beg nor to give to others, or indifferent persons.
57 blank.
58-77 terrier: Thirsk fields and Carlton Butts.
78-80 names of enclosures on East and West sides of river and Wooddell Field, with valuations, and gates in Hoggburye How.
81-84 copy of preface to Sir Walter Raleigh's History of the World. 'Some things coppied out of my Lord Fauconberge his booke for the business of the country' in a bound book of 39 folios, foolscap size.
'A pound rate for the raiseing of the some of five pounds within the wapentake of Birdforth....'
List of townships and assessments, 1653.
Assessment made by Thomas White and Richard Gudger for the Constabulary of Sutton under Whitestonecliff, for raising £135 18s 4d: list of names and amounts, 1704.
A pound rate assessment for Thirsk: names, acreages and amounts, 1735.
To £100 estreated for the whole North Riding Birdforth wapentake: list of townships and amounts, 1740.
'An assessment granted to the overseers of the poor of Sowerby at the rate of 2d per pound rent': list of names and amounts, 1748.
Papists: returns of papists in Birdforth wapentake, 12 Mar 1744, 3 Oct 1745.
'The out payments which the Roman Catholics gave in upon oath when the hundred thousand pound was laid on them' and other papers, nd; Return of J Talbot of Longford, Salop, esquire, to the Clerk of the Peace of the North Riding of lands held in the North Riding under Act to oblige papists to register their names and real estates (1 Geo. I and 3 Geo. I): manors of Atclay, Long Cowton, South Cowton, Whitwell, Raskelfe, Great Broughton, with names of all farmer and other tenants and acreages and rents [a paper roll 16.5 feet long] c1716.
Quakers: the substance of a trial at Wakefield Sessions about Quakers paying burial fees, marriages and churching fees, 5 Dec 1741. |