GRIMSTON FAMILY OF GRIMSTON GARTH AND KILNWICK

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GRIMSTON FAMILY OF GRIMSTON GARTH AND KILNWICK

1299-1915

Includes: Document relating to Aldbrough 1794 comprising certificate of minister, churchwardens and principal inhabitants of Aldbrough recommending Christopher Hobson as a suitable person to keep a public house 'an additional one being very much wanted in the parish'. Documents relating to Beswick 1750-1770 comprising assessment under act for granting an aid to the King and 'witnesses concerning the Outgang taken in by the parish of Beswick' (on boundary with Kilnwick). Documents relating to Beverley 1763-1770 comprising notice of Beverley Races, rules for Beverley Assembly Rooms and notice of concerts at Mr Southern's Rooms. Memorandum of queries on 'Cawkell Title' relating to Cawkeld 1833. Survey of Mrs Catherine Bacchus' freehold and copyhold lands at Cottingham and Southwood, Cottingham, 1760. Demand note for John Grimston's share of expenses of enclosure, East Newton, 1771. Deeds and documents relating to Etton 1689-1756 including memorandum of notice given to John Migson to quit farm at Etton. Petition to Quarter Sessions of the inhabitants of Fangfosse cum Spittle:- misdemeanours of John Holderness as constable and surveyors of highways, 1779. Deeds relating to Fordon 1587-1752. Deed relating to Gardham 1782. Deeds and documents relating to Garton with Grimston 1680-1901 including bundle of notes on Garton with Grimston church; Grimston family; company of volunteers raised by Capt. Grimston in 1745; excavations at Kilham etc; bundle of letters, accounts and specifications for building work on farms at Garton and Cawkell, and porch at Garton church. Deeds and document relating to Hull 1696-1747 including printed letter in which Richard Crowle offers himself to the Freemen of Hull as a candidate for the Parliamentary election. Deeds and documents relating to Hunmanby 1548-1700 including the return of jury of rents payable in the manor of Hunmanby. Deeds and other documents relating to Kilnwick 1721-1902 including list of common rights in Wilfholme belonging to Kilnwick; schedule of deeds relating to Kilnwick estate belonging to Lady du Cane. Deeds and documents relating to Manor of Kilnwick 1741-1822 including agreement for ploughing the Marr; verdict of jury on High Common Balk in Horhell Toft Field and trespass of William Keith; warrant for holding court; call roll and pain. Articles of agreement of the Lockington Cow Club 1810. Deeds and documents relating to Lund 1539-1816 including quietus discharging the rectory of Lund; parcel of possessions of Philip Dolman, a recusant delinquent, from sequestration; schedule of title deeds - Lund estate; Lund Enclosure Act; extracts from Lund Enclosure Award, as respects the estate of Thomas Grimston. Deed relating to Ringborough 1844. Deed relating to Sculcoates 1752. Notice of John Minshull of his intention not to pay for damages caused by his rabbits to ground of neighbours; to take land away from any tenants complaining of such damage; and to shoot any dogs going on Sunderlandwick Moor, mid 18th century. Deed relating to Tunstall 1689. Notice of Warter races 1771. Ground plan of farmhouse tenanted by B. Hewitson, Winestead 1760. Deeds and documents relating to York 1712-1770 including list of nobility and gentry who appeared at the Assembly Rooms during race week. Deeds and documents relating to Yorkshire (North Riding) 1748-1807 including plan of the lordship of Birkby and part of the lordship of Little Smeaton, belonging to John Grimston. Deed relating to Yorkshire (West Riding) 1718. Case relating to Yew Tree Farm at Belton in the Isle of Axholme; list of freemen in the borough of Grimsby relating to Lincolnshire 1741-1762. Bill of Mortality, London, 1754-1755. Deeds and documents relating to various townships 1543-1884 including rent account book - Lund, Rotsea, Kinwick. Accounts 1639-1822. Bonds 1601-1710. Commissions and appointments 1704-1803 including commission of Thomas Grimston as captain of a company of volunteer foot; commission of Thomas Grimston as Captain Commandant of the Grimston Yoemanry Cavalry; appointment by Mary Payler of John Grimston of Kilnwick as gamekeeper in her manors. Inquisitions post mortem 1299-1611. Legal deeds and documents 1590-1829 including an original bundle arising from work of members of the Grimston family as magistrates containing calendars of prisoners, lists, depositions, examinations (general, settlement, bastardy), warrants and summonses; calendars include York Assizes and York Castle Gaol Delivery, lists include special jury list, surveyors of highways in Hunsley Beacon and Bainton Beacon; chief constables in East Riding. Documents relating to Militia and volunteers 1758-1852 including heads of the Militia Act, 1758, list of men liable for militia service in Bainton Beacon Division; pages from guard duty book; list of men serving in the Volunteer Corps of Yeoman Cavalry; monthly returns of the troop of York East Riding Gentlemen and Yeomanry. Various deeds 1541-1856 including copy. Statutes of the Cathedral Church of York (copied by Rev. Marmaduke Cooke, canon of York). Wills 1650-1858. Miscellaneous deeds and documents including Acts of Parliament 1699-1842 with extracts from act to prevent exportation of wool from England and Ireland and for the encouragement of wool manufacture in England; act to enable officers and soldiers in the late war to exercise trades and for officers to account with their soldiers; Scarborough Pier and Harbour Amendment Act and Parish Constables Act. Catalogues 1726-1764 including entire collection of William Sykes, painter, deceased, to be sold at Mr Cooper's house in the Great Piazza, Covent Garden. Drawings, illustrations and plans 1758-1812 including illustration - frontpiece for the London Magazine, illustration of facade of church in Antwerp, plan of proposed additions to a court house and gaol. Inventories 1821-1851 including inventory of china etc at Grimston. Pedigrees and heraldic material 1066-19th century including pedigree and genealogy of Grimston family; also coat of arms 'probably by W. Dade. Poems 18th century-20th century including dialogue between the Pope and Mother Church relating to the persecution of protestants in France. Printed materials 1621-1905 including proposals of Richard Lambert to the governors of Newcastle Infirmary - free innoculations of children of the poor, playbill: 'Caractacus' at Theatre Royal, York, for the benefit of Mr Suett; order reserving post horses for coaches carrying M Grimston and his valet from Turin to Lyons; instructions for preparation of plans under Tithe Commutation Act. Recipes 18th century preserving strawberries; ink; remedies; milk punch; blacking for shoes; cowslip wine; treatments for disorders in horses; to make bronze; cement for repairing china. Routes of journeys 18th century-19th century. Various documents early 17th century-1915 including copy of speech in House of Lords against a bill for granting an aid to Charles II; a list of voters for the Register of the East Riding, list of the Grand Jury in York; copy of resolutions against the Hull Sufferance Quays, made at a meeting of landowners; alphabetical list of books in a library, times of departure of ferry boats between Hull and Barton. Deeds and documents relating to Vice-Admiral Henry Medley 1687-1750 including letters, commissions and orders from the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, including 92 not listed in the HMC report; letter from the Board of Ordnance; survey of defective beer, butter and cheese on 'York'; act for suppressing piracy, playing card (King of Hearts) endorsed with drawing of coat of arms of Legard family; signals to be made by the officers at the look-out upon Cape Vado; petition to Henry Medley from crew of privateer, shipwrecked and imprisoned at Tangier. Deeds and documents relating to Chevalier de Caylus 1717-1744 including signal book for squadron of five vessels at Toulon; print of royal ordinance concerning disarmament of vessels; peace treaty between France and Tripoli; list of vessels belonging to the republic of Algiers; memorandum on the war against the Sallee rovers; method of preparing tobacco and list of signs of the zodiac and their stones. Deeds and documents relating to Thomas Grimston 1702-1752 including original bundles on family and financial affairs; annuities; description of towns in Hollan and opinion relating to hawkers taking rooms for the sale of goods; matters relating to family wills. Deeds and documents relating to John Grimston 1725-1780 including letters relating to subjects including recipe for a cold cure; death of the Queen; the mayor and Aldermen of Hull design bringing an auction...for pulling down the White Fryer Gate by a vast load of goods belonging to John Grimston; rare English birds, mentions puffins and another 'found plentifully..near the turnpike house between Beverley and Hull', method of stuffing and preserving specimens; a letter mentioning that women in the south (of England) use 'so much paint..you might as well kiss a plaistered wall'; a humorous letter on the virtues of white and red meat. Letters relating to Thomas Grimston 1753-1821 including letters on attendance on grand jury; times of tides at Hull; letter mentioning Hull 'never free from annoyance...the hot weather and whale blubber being over, we now have dirty streets and the smell of the Sugar Houses to succeed them'; letter mentioning 2,000 Welsh volunteers in Shrewsbury 'very quiet and very good looking men'; letter mentioning 'if you want a young male elephant to turn down into your paddock there is one advertised for that purpose price 1000 pounds or guineas'. Letters relating to Charles Grimston 1791-1859 including letters from J Haggard, Doctors Commons on matters including Graham Steamboat crossing Humber; funeral of Duke of York; comment that the King's 'legs are astonishingly thin, quite like those of a Robin-redbreast in comparison to the superstructure they have to support...late illness..diminished his circumference 18 inches'. Miscellaneous correspondence 1687-1876 including letters to William Groves (Secretary of Admiral Henry Medley) on board 'Russell', Villefranche and Vado Bay from Arthur Villettes, Nice and Turin.

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