CLARK AND CO, SOLICITORS, SNAITH

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CLARK AND CO, SOLICITORS, SNAITH

1359-1962

Includes: Manorial records 1359-1937 including Snaith and Cowick (part of the Duchy of Lancaster, subsequently leased to Lord Downe), court rolls of the manor of Snaith, later Snaith and Cowick 1359-1724. Great court baron and sheriff's turn or view of frankpledge; Snaith and Cowick Court books and general business of the Court; Manor of Snaith and Cowick: administration, rentals etc; miscellaneous business of tenants; augmentation in Snaith; granary fee in Snaith; surrenders of tenants etc; Carlton and Camblesforth, records relating to the court, rentals, boundaries etc of the manor, records relating to tenants of the manor; Rawcliffe (Lords of the manor: Adams, Boynton and Creyke families) court rolls, court business, surveys, tenants, general business, business of tenants; Hensall (Lord of the manor William Crowder, subsequently John Bean). Local public records (including records of voluntary associations) Snaith Town Book 1777-1855 including minutes of town meetings regarding business of overseers, highway surveyors, constables; copy of return of inhabitants of the township of Snaith made for the census of 1811. Snaith reading room 1949. Snaith tennis club 1936-1941 including minute book, cash notebook, vouchers. Snaith Town Institute 1919-1937 including trustees minute book, minutes of committee meetings. Feeding and shelter station (at the Methodist Chapel, Snaith) 1939-1944 including admission and discharge book; book for particulars of refugees. Government evacuation scheme 1939-1941. Snaith Advisory Board and Evening Institute Youth Club 1958-1962. Public Coffee Rooms, Snaith 1881. Petty Sessional Papers of the Wapentake of Lower Osgoldcross 1831-1897 including poor law administration; constables; surveyors of highways; Brewster Sessions Papers; papers of Commissioners and Assessed Taxes; Bastardy papers; court papers. Enclosure Acts 1752-1811 including Kirk Smeaton Enclosure Act; an examined copy of the Act of Parliament for Inclosing the Commons of Snaith etc. Enclosure Awards 1754-1879 including manuscript copy of the Cliffe cum Lund Enclosure Award 1863; manuscript copy of the Womersley Enclosure Award and plan; an original bound Rawcliffe Award with plan; Draft Ousefleet Enclosure Award; draft Thorne Moor Award 1879. Rawcliffe Enclosure 1786-1854 including copies of the Doncaster, Nottingham and Lincoln Gazette. Papers of Snaith and Cowick Police Association 1847-1858 . Records of the Snaith Association for the Prosecution of Felons 1815-1857 including deed of regulations; roll of members, their place of residence and amounts of their subscriptions; notice warning intending felons and containing a list of members, 1840 and 1847; bundle of papers relating to Cowick fire, 1847. Records of Snaith Cattle Protection Society 1847-1848 including two copies of deed of regulations; minute book of committee meetings. Papers relating to Cattle Plague 1865-1866 including circulars from Privy Council; Quarter Sessions papers; licences to remove cattle. Tithes, papers relating to Rawcliffe Tithe Commutation 1818-1868 including Rawcliffe tithe books, 1818-1828; bundle of newspapers containing notices relating to the tithe commutation proceedings. Records of Sykehouse School Board 1870-1895 including papers relating to transfer of Sykehouse Endowed School to School Board as approved by Education Department, 1870-1887. Volume of assessments for rating 1772-1863 including valuation of Carlton, 1830; valuation of township of Drax, 1863; survey of township of Newland, 1864; Hensall Rate for Poor Assessments; a survey of the township of Camblesforth. Printed material relating to local affairs 1732-1857. Local acts of parliament including act for improving the navigation of the River Ouse, 1732; act for uniting the townships of Snaith and Cowick and for other parochial or township purposes; Pontefract Quarter Sessions reports and orders, 1853. Legal cases and copies of documents relating to Hatfield Chase 1639-1824 including tracing of a plan of Hatfield Chase surveyed in 1639 by Josias Arelebout. Thorne Moors Drainage and Improvement 1630-1863 including copy decree concerning Thorne Moors and other areas; Thorne Moor Drainage and Improvement Act, 1848. Marshland Warping 1811-1870 including Marshland Warping Account Book; Marshland Warping, Statement of Assessments. Drainage 1812-1933 including act for draining and improving lands within the Level of Hatfield Chase, 1812-1813; an account of lands in the Townships of Snaith, Cowick and Pollington liable to floods etc, 1825. Rivers and canals 1804-1929 comprising Aire and Calder Navigation including Aire and Calder Navigation Acts, 1820, 1889, 1899, 1908; West Riding of Yorkshire Rivers Act, 1894. Churches and schools 1709-1956 including letters and other documents relating to the churches at Balne, Cowick, Hensall and Pollington built by Lord Downe, 1851-1930; glebe lands; Snaith Glebe; Balne Church; Balne Church Repair Fund; Balne School; Camblesforth School; Cowick Church (Holy Trinity); Cowick School; Drax Schools, Reade Charity; East Coatham; Goole; Heck Church; Hensall Church (St Pauls); Hensall School; Sheffield Diocesan Trust and Board of Finance; Pollington Church; Wykeham School. General election 1892. Business and industrial records including brewer's ledger, giving ale and porter sold to clients in places including Hull, York and Selby, 1795-1809. Snaith Gas Company 1847-1930 including minutes of general meeting and committee meetings, 1847, 1905 and 1924. Railways 1685-1891 including Goole Keadby and Haxey Junction Railway; Great Northern Railway; Halesowen Railway Company; Hull and Barnsley Railway; Hull and Doncaster Railway; Levis (Quebec) and Kennebec Railway Company; Regents' Canal, City and Docks Railway; Heck and Wentbridge Railway Company. Rawcliffe Brick Company 1818-1895 including title deeds, agreements and other records of the directors; Hall's valuation of Rawcliffe Brick Company Plant, 1888. Coal Boring - Yorkshire Boring Company Limited and Pease and Partners Limited 1908-1938 including map of the area showing the proposed colliery development, existing collieries, transport systems and places. Documents relating to W.J.Morley of Rawcliffe (land agent) 1853-1862. Account book relating to Lister and England, brick and tile makers 1853-1854. Account book and some vouchers relating to Thomas Lee, butcher, 1856-1861. Account book and nine vouchers relating to William Boulton, miller of Hensall, 1861-1863. Farm account book relating to C.H.Hall, Beevers Bridge, East Cowick, farmer 1944-1949. Prospectus, plan of the works and list of machinery etc relating to North Wales Carriage and Wagon Company Limited, Padeswood near Mold. Estate records of the Stapletons of Carlton (from 1840 Barons Beaumont) 1827-1864 including rentals, accounts etc; personal deeds and wills. Estate records of the Creykes of Marton and Rawcliffe including deeds of East Riding estates; deeds to the Rawcliffe Estate; further bundle of settlements of the Boynton estate; Manor of Hatfield. Admissions; lands at Hook and Goole; land on Snaith and Cowick Moors; land on Thorne Moors; draft and copy deeds affecting land in various parts of the Creyke Estates; the Blanshard Settlement; local public matters in which the Creykes were interested. Eadon family deeds 1797-1938 including bundle of miscellaneous deeds and papers pertaining to the Eadon family. Viscount Downe family and estate papers etc 1752-1873 including deeds, settlements, wills etc; Manor of Marchington (Staffordshire); Kilburn Estate; Manor of Augmentation, Snaith; Folly Hall Manor, Balne; Land at Ashwell (Rutland); Great Bookham Advowson; mixed papers; Meynell Ingram to Viscount Downe; advowsons; farm agreements; railways passing through the estate including Great North of England Railway Company, Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company, North Eastern Railway Company, Thirsk and Malton Branch Railway, Wakefield, Pontefract and Goole Railway Company; Manor of Snaith and Cowick. Shearburn Estates 1826-1956 comprising the Snaith Estate, title deeds and papers; drafts relating to the estate (except the house and park); title deeds relating to lands in the County of Surrey; Twigg and Shearburn; Spa Well Farm, Snaith and Cowick; farms, lands etc forming the Trust Estates; property at Godalming; White's and Shearburn's settlements; marriage settlement; James White's marriage settlement; trustees of wills of W. Shearburn and Mrs. E.M. White; re the Misses White; Miss Mary Louisa White; R.F. White and Son (advertising agents); re Dr. Frank Faulder White; property deeds and other documents. Documents relating to Henry Carr and Mary Holmes Carr 1895-1960. Scothrop, Tayle, Cooke and Bullas 1774-1933. Routh papers 1799-1929 including copy of the Doncaster Chronicle dated 16 March, 1883; Leeds Stock Exchange Daily Share List, 1904. Hepworth estate records and family papers 1853-1868. Baines estate records and family papers 1826-1858 including lists, certificates and papers relating to the Baines family. Lister papers 1821-1869. Daniels papers 1844-1874 including letters, papers. Samuel Nicholson papers 1820-1870 including executors bank accounts. Gillard papers 1853-1886 including accounts of the trustees for the children; letters regarding Gillard family. Ramsey (partnership) papers 1941-1949. Account book relating to Thomas Jackson, John Jackson and their trustees 1816-1838. Simpson papers 1876-1881. England papers 1878-1914. Welburn papers 1931-1940. Shearburn-Clark settlement 1874. Title deeds and other papers relating to land in the East Riding 1724-1881 including Barmby on the Marsh, Breighton, Eastrington, Hive, Howden, Kilham, Kilpin, Kingston upon Hull, Osgodby, Riccall, Saltmarshe, Sandholme, Spaldington. Title deeds and other papers relating to land in the North Riding 1674-1872 including Great and Little Broughton, Clifton, Kilburn, Sessay and Dalton, Strensall. Title deeds and other papers relating to land in the West Riding including Airmyn, Balne, Beal, Bentley, Braithwaite, Camblesforth, Carlton, Cowick, Darton, Dowsthorpe, Drax, Fenwick, Fishlake, Goole, Gowdall, Hatfield, Heck, Hensall, Hepworth, Hook, Kellingley, Kellington, Kirk Branwith, Knottingley, Masborough, Moss or Moseley, Newland, Norton, Ousefleet, Pollington, Pontefract, Rawcliffe, Seacroft, Selby, Snaith, Swinefleet, Thorne, Whitley. Title deeds and other papers relating to land in Lincolnshire including Alkborough, Crowle, Whapload, Wilsthorpe and Braceborough, Wintringham, Yaddlethorpe. Deeds relating to New Windsor (Berkshire) 1825. Deed relating to Barlbrough (Derbyshire) 1792. Deeds relating to Ashton under Lyne (Lancashire) 1748-1866. Deed relating to Leicestershire 1718. Deeds relating to Farnham (Surrey) 1796-1871; Walton on Thames (Surrey) 1853-1873; Weybridge (Surrey) 1700-1890. Wills. Sale plans 1850-1946 including Snaith Hall, plans and particulars. Clark and Co. firm's records and family papers 1842-1922. Acts of Parliament 1778-1901 including Bawtry and Selby Turnpike Acts; acts relating to the Land Tax; act for improving the streets and water supply of Pontefract; volume of church building acts. Orders, fee scales etc 1802-1893 including order respecting renewal of leases in the Duchy of Lancaster; Goole Law Society - scale of conveyancing costs. Printed forms 1870-1880 including Tramway Share Market - Duncan's Weekly List of Prices. Papers in respect of court cases 1759-1863. Miscellaneous papers etc 1742-1948 including Farnley Iron Company - drawings of their chimney pots, ridge tiles, copings etc; the Mothers' Union Workers' Paper, 1948. Maps and plans 1775-1950.

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79 cubic feet