| Description | From: T Mayer; Bushell Annison; Levyn Bolders, Staple Inn (5 pieces) Robert Ord, London; Freeman Bower, Newington, Doncaster and Staple Inn (4 pieces); Robert Johnson, Stapleton; Richard Routh,York (2 pieces); R[?] Ward, Malton. relating to his will; estate for sale at Ravensworth and Whashton; lease of named parcels to Watson Benton; financial and legal matters, return relating to relief of the poor; lands at Killerby; 'Miss Charlotte's late transaction' and 'her Exploit'; Freemen Bower's father 'not likely to keep his place'; names of closes at Stapleton and floods there; Welham and Sutton estate; bankruptcy of Sill, Bridges and Blount, merchants and bankers in Hull; Dr Topham's 'paper war' with the dean (of York) - faults on both sides, but both aggravated by Mr Newton and Laurence Sterne's burleques on the Doctor and his family; attempted suicides of Captain Lee at Ugleforth, after his wife's elopement; Freeman Bowers; Aunt Perrot and the (law) Baron (Parrott). |