| Description | Marwood Estate title deeds relating to Little Busby 1544-1769, Great Busby 1569-1762, Stokesley 1626-1711, Potto 1555-1725, Wilberfoss 1624, Acomb Grange 1551-1810, Sedbergh 1200-1669, Nunthorpe 1577-1761, confirmation by Henry II to the nunnery at Wilberfoss 1175.
Metcalfe Estate title deeds relating to Northallerton 1284-1722, Landmoth 1431-1765, Catto 1432-1765, Kirby Sigston 1432-1765, Angram Grange 1679-1733, Sandhutton 1463-1781, Mowthorpe Grange 1712-1772, East Riding deeds 1659-1742 including Bridlington Quay, Catwick, Ellerby in Holderness and Wilberfoss, miscellaneous deeds 1200-1750 including Thornton le Beans, York City, Whorlton, Bedale, Ingleby Arncliffe, Stalling Busk, Romanby, Osmotherley and others.
Hitch Estate title deeds relating to Carlton (in Guiseley) 1546-1752, Menston 1240-1666, Yeadon 1629-1674, Burley 1617-1674, miscellaneous deeds 1701-1767.
Wills, settlements and mortgages 1611-1927.
Legal papers 1658-1928 including papers and accounts relating to Great Ayton Rectory, Leake Vicarage, tithes of Little Busby, cases involving Marwood v Turner family.
Trustee and Executor records 1861-1935.
Hitch family documents 1627-1802 including legal cases about the manor of Carlton, receipts for tithes and subsidies, letters and papers of Mrs A Maude, Mrs A Hitch and William Marwood.
Estate records including leases 1623-1866, surveys 1606-1843, rentals and accounts 1600-1935 including letters about 23 coins found when demolishing Egton Bridge "Mass House" and various drainage books, vouchers 1762-1935.
Records of public office and works including Quietus Roll of Henry Marwood 1674-1675, various records relating to Window Tax 1751-1764, military records 1779-1852 including a Quartermaster's account book, Ministry of Transport letters and papers 1925-1931, Middlesbrough improvement records 1841, North East Railway Company rules and regulations 1877.
Wapentake of Langbaurgh records including court rolls 1620-1660, copy of exemplification of proceedings in Quo Warranto in Exchequer 1615-1616, case as to the liability of Chief Bailiff to action at law in relating to his use of York Castle Prison 1830-1831, court papers 1706-1792, miscellaneous papers 1733-1785, other papers including bonds of deputy bailiffs, Langbaurgh Coroners Act and Coroners bonds 17th-19th century.
Personal papers of the Marwood family 1604-1932 including memoranda books, notebooks, letters, pamphlets, letters patent and a Royal Warrant.
Ecclesiastical records 1634-1800 including a book of 125 Briefs granted by Popes Alexander VII and Clement IX to the Grand Master of the Order of Knights Hospitallers 1661-1669, accounts of the income of the canons residentiary of Chichester Cathedral 1790-1800.
A poll of Northallerton taken by George Hazell 1723.
Inventories of furniture, plate and cellar books of Busby Hall 19th-20th century.
Charity records for Guiseley School and Leathley School 17th-18th century including title deeds, leases and other papers.
Maps and plans including an engraving of Yorkshire by Thomas Jeffreys 1771; plans of Busby 1760, Great Ayton estate 1761, Great Busby estate 1754-1831, Carlton in Guiseley 1708, Menston Moor 1704; architectural drawings of Busby Hall by John Carr n.d.; charts of the River Tees 1815-1824, River Thames 1796, England sea coasts n.d., Sussex 1799-1824, Chichester 1820, Kent and Somerset 1740, Great Yarmouth n.d., Germany 1794, River Rhine n.d., Paris 1731-1748, Holland 1695-1800, Bavaria 1740, Upper Saxony 1801, Hanover 1747, USA n.d., Petersburg 1746, Bruges Canal 1798; engravings 1783-1855; Crimean War lithographs 1854-1855; German colour prints 1825-1840; map of Cleveland 1843; Ordnance Survey maps 1797-1879. |
| Administrative history | The Busby Hall Archive contains the records of three families: Marwood, Metcalfe and Hitch. The Marwoods were established at Busby in the 16th or early 17th century. In the 17th century they purchased property at Wilberfoss in the East Riding and at Acomb Grange and Sedbergh in the West Riding. The property descended to Jane, wife of Cholmley Turner of Kirkleatham, who left it on her death in 1764 to her cousin William Metcalfe on condition that he changed his name to Marwood. The Marwood property was thus joined to that of the Metcalfes which lay in Northallerton, Landmoth, Catto and Kirby Sigston.
A few years later, Mrs Anna Maria Alathea Maude, widow of James Maude, died. She was the niece, devisee and heiress of Anne, widow of Henry Hitch, and had inherited the Hitch family property in the West Riding at Carlton, Mestonon, Leathley and Guiseley. On her death she left this estate to Henrietta Anne Catherine Metcalfe on condition that she changed her name to Hitch. But Henrietta died shortly afterwards, in 1781, leaving her brother William (now called Marwood) to deal with her affairs. For this reason, many of the Hitch family deeds and papers survive here (see particularly bundles 31-76, 87-92). Henry Hitch was Receiver General of Window Tax in the West Riding and City of York: his Quietus Rolls and Bonds are in bundles 123 and 124.
The Hitches were concerned with two charitable foundations; Guiseley Free School and Leathley School. For papers concerned with these charities see bundle 91.
The Marwoods were hereditary chief bailiffs of the Wapentake of Langbaurgh, for which an important series of court rolls and papers survives for the 17th and 18th centuries (bundles 129-157).
Other important documents in the archive are the charter of Henry II (bundle 10), the fine survey book of 1760 (bundle 82), the Quietus Roll of Henry Marwood as sheriff of Yorkshire 1674-1675 (bundle 122), the Papal Briefs 1661-1669 granted to the Knights Hospitallers (bundle 185). |
| Copies | Parts of this collection have been microfilmed [MIC 1294, 1295, 1296, 1297, 1298, 1299, 1303, 1304, 1306, 1325, 1754, 1982, 2259, 2405, 3121]. |