| Description | Includes notes and memorandum. Purchased of Marmaduke Best his moiety of Eastoft for £7,400 (registered at Wakefield) and refers to supporting documentation to prove he is the heir at law, includes brief reference to the pedigrees of Eastoft family.
Statement by grandmother Constable on her family history, including her father, mother, brothers and sisters. Also of her husband and children and mentions that a monument was set up in their memory and a rail in Beverley Minster.
Includes Goxhill rents per annum (with tenants' name and amount), notes on a recovery of land involving Sir Marmaduke Best and Mr Richard Burton. Notes on land bought, including Hornsea, Southorp, Leven and Catwick and monies paid out, general estate matters,
'Statement of my debts', Jan 1776, a note of an annuity to his sister, Rosamond; estate work and maintenance carried out at Wassand and Goxhill, 1770-1775 and work on the house at Wassand and tenants' homes.
Note of raising Holderness estate rents in 1772. Other notes on Goxhill tenants, Wassand, debts.
Note that he buried his box of writings under the manger in the stable, 1797 after Admiral Duncan's victory. The documents were very damaged but purchases were recorded as an abstract by the late lawyer, Cayley of Hull.
Note that 10 Sep 1826 Peter Hornby hung himself from a tree.
Lists the servants who are in his service and when they started. Memo that the house at Wassand dated from the reign of Charles I.
Notes on Wassand estate (not the whole township) from its purchase 1530 from Robert Hodgson with further pedigree information on the Constable family giving dates of marriages, births and deaths.
Note that Lucy Constable died at York in May 1839.
Note that in 1776 he has been a JP for 10 years and that his brother has been rector of Sigglesthorne for 10 years.
List of the high sheriffs of Yorkshire
Copy of an inscription on the monument in Lockington church regarding John Estoft who died 1694.
Transcript of a letter from Henry VIII after the Battle of Flodden Field to Sir Marmaduke Constable for doing good service there with four of his sons who were knighted by the king, 26 Nov 1514.
Transcript of the will of William Constable, parson of West Rasen, 16 Mar 1555.
Copy of an inscription on a brass plate in Flamborough church relating to Marmaduke Constable of Flamborough.
'Additions and improvements made to the estates left me by my father...', 1792 which gives alterations and repairs to barns, cottagers houses.
Land purchasers made in Holderness from 1770-1792.
An account of the pictures in the house at Wassand, 1794, gives sitter, artist and location in the house.
Notes on family deaths taken from a 'copy of my grandmother Constable's handwriting'.
Transcript extracts of 16the century deeds relating to land at Wassand, Seaton.
Handwritten account of 'The case of Seaton' by Marmaduke Constable, Oct 1792 |