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Reference to Legal and Miscellaneous Details	Name
References from Family Papers
Chancery Proceedings	Bellamy Browne Dawson Gayteford, John of Laughton Manners Mirfin, William Newton Osborne	Parishe Pope, William Scott, Isaac Shirtcliffe, Thos. Stanley Thurnscoe, Nicholas Wagstaffe Waterhouse Whytyngton, Robert
Star Chamber	Cadman, Nicholas Fouljambe, Godfrey Laurence, Sir John	Leeke, Ralph Wodde, Peter
Parish Registers	Burgess, James Cole, Mary Davis, Wm.	Hadfield, Elizabeth Lowe, Sarah
Hull University Manuscripts and Archive Data Base
HUMAD2 (a)	Adams, Thomas Ayer, William and Lydia (wid) Bagnall, John Baird, John and Mary Boswell, William Cave, Richard Cleaver, John Crosdill, John Dan(s)cer, John and Elizabeth (sis.) Dawes, Sarah Jackson, Thomas Leicester,  George, Earl, and Charlotte, Countess of Lodge, Edmund Lonsdale, John Mainwaring-Ellerker, Barbara, Elizabeth and Harriet	Middleton, William Nevile, Katherine Onslow, Hon. Thomas Ord, John Rawson, Jeremiah Read, William Spencer, John Stanhope, John Steer, Elizabeth Thompson, Richard Tyton, John Waistell, Francis Watson, John Wood, James and Margaret Woodcock, Elborough Yorke, Phillip
HUMAD2 (b)	Beard, Henry Beever, Joseph Blanchard, Thomas, Peter, Edward, William and George  Charlesworth, Henry and Richard Downend, (Townend?) William Fawsitt, Rev. John Foss, William Gee, William Greene, Margarett Gylby, Margaret Haighe, John and Elizabeth Hilley, Phebe Hobson, John and Mathew Hope Sir J. H Hotham Robert and Sir John Ibotsonn, Elizabeth	Lord, Tho. Man, Robert Marsden, John Midgeley, Margaretta and Mary Morton, Thomas Plaxton, James Rich, Daniell Steers Miss Streese (Streete?), Mary Streete, Josias Swallow, William Wagstaffe, George Wainwright, William Walker, Robert Webster, John Wild John, Ralph and William Yeoman, Robert

References from Family Papers Sherwood Indexes Collected by WEF and RTF, mainly through the Sherwood Indexes, but not collated in any ordered way. Chancery Proceedings (1386-1714) Star Chamber Proceedings—1485-1558 Court of Requests—1485-1603 Exchequer Depositions 1647 Miscellaneous In addition to the litigious references supplied in the extracts of the Sherwood Indexes were miscellaneous citations from Parish Registers, Wills, and a listing of miscellaneous references. Parish Registers Wills Miscellanea Hull University Manuscripts and Archives Data Base These entries are the results of an online search by surname. The Data Base is well worth a visit! HUMAD2 (a) These are extracted from the records, entitled: "Miscellaneous Documents for Hull and the East Riding from the British Records Association". Content and Scope This large collection of items relating to Hull and the East Riding was deposited in the Brynmor Jones Library by the British Records Association in the 1940s. It is catalogued with a single numeric system, though embedded inside the collection along with the miscellaneous items are a number of discrete bundles of papers relating to particular places and families ... a batch of papers for Sunk Island...Most of the collection is composed of title and estate papers ... Reference code: DRA Dates of creation: 13th century-1950 Extent: circa 1300 items Finding aids: listed to item level Related material in repository: DDSQ; DDSQ(2); DDSQ(3); DDFA; DDFA(2); DDFA(3); DDFA(4); DDFA(5); DDFA(6) Access: Open HUMAD2 (b) These are extracted from various records, details of which follow: "The Bosville-Macdonald Family and Estate Papers" Content and Scope The family and estate papers of the Bosville-Macdonald family arrived in the Brynmor Jones Library in four separate deposits. By far the largest, DDBM, came via the East Riding Record Office in 1974, and three small deposits followed on 3 September 1985, 18 February 1986 and 6 January 1987. The papers remain the property of Sir Ian Macdonald of Sleat. The Bosville-Macdonald family owned lands in the West Riding centred on Gunthwaite and in the East Riding centred on Thorpe, near Scarborough and the estate papers for both Ridings are catalogued together alphabetically. They contain medieval charters, manorial records and title deeds, many of which have been printed in T Walter Hall, Land charters and court rolls from the Bosville collection (1930). Sections containing early material that is in print have been marked *. Reference code: DDBM; DDBM(2); DDBM(3); DDBM(4) Dates of creation: early 13th century-1939 Extent: circa 1400 items Finding aids: listed to item level Related material in repository: DP/167/1; DDX/60/238; DDKG/99-105, 166, 213 Access: Open "Papers of Crust Todd and Mills, Solicitors" Content and Scope The very extensive papers of Crust Todd and Mills, solicitors of Beverley, arrived in the Brynmor Jones Library in two deposits in 1974 from the East Riding Record Office. The papers largely comprise estate papers for the East Riding of Yorkshire as Crust Todd and Mills is an established and old firm, formerly called Shepherd Crust and Todd with connections in the early nineteenth century also to John Lockwood, solicitor (see DDJL and DDSH, DDSH[2] and DDSH[3]). The two deposits have been arranged slightly differently. DDCV, the larger deposit, has 182 sections on East Riding locations, followed by sections on York, the North Riding and the West Riding, then other counties, Jamaica, a few acts of parliament, bonds and miscellaneous legal documents, wills and eleven sections on East Riding landowning families or individuals. DDCV(2) has 52 sections on East Riding locations, followed immediately by 15 sections on the estate papers of East Riding landowning families and individuals, followed then by sections on other counties, at the end of which are the North and West Ridings, followed by some correspondence and miscellaneous legal documents, wills and a separate section for the records of the East Riding Clergy Charitable Society (1781-1963; see separate entry). Reference code: DDCV; DDCV (2) Dates of creation: 1240-1979 Extent: circa 15,000 items Finding aids: listed to item level Related material in repository: DDSH; DDSH(2); DDSH(3) Access: Open "Miscellaneous Landed Family and Estate Papers in DX" Content and Scope DX is an artificial group of miscellaneous donations of manuscripts and archives and it includes a few landed family and estate papers. Finding aids: listed to item level Access: Open "Papers of the Hotham Family of Scorborough and South Dalton" Content and Scope The archive of the Hotham family is one of the largest in the Brynmor Jones Library. It is ongoing. DDHO, the original deposit, was placed by the Right Honourable Lord Hotham in the East Riding Record Office in 1954 and transferred in 1974. DDHO(2) was deposited 1979-80 and DDHO(3) in 1987. The largest deposit is the original, numbering over 19,000 items, with the second two deposits bringing that total close to 24,000 items. There are some early estate records dating back to 1311, but the bulk of the collection spans the sixteenth century to the 1960s. DDHO comprises the correspondence, diaries and journals of various family members, followed by documents related to their estates, arranged alphabetically according to place name. Country estates are followed by documents relating to townships, and then settlements (including marriage settlements), bonds, documents described as 'various' and, finally, wills. Reference code: DDHO; DDHO(2); DDHO(3) Dates of creation: 1311-1965 Extent: circa 24,000 items Finding aids: listed to item level Related material in repository: DP/18-22; DP/106; DDBM/32/1-2; DDCB/12/8-9; DDCV/79/1; DDGE/3/39; DDGE/6/22, 26-29, 59-60; DDHA/5/2; DDLA/19/7; DDMC/18/3; DDMM/16/1 Access: Open

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