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Section 'A' 'River Hull and Beverley Beck'
1 Label
2 Lease for 11 years at £3 5s rent: Beverley Corporation to Roger Dawson of Beverley collier
Property: Tyle Kilne Close and lands called Tyle Kilne Bank and Old Beck Bank on North side of Beverley Beck near Pyble Hall
Witness: James Mihill 22 Apr 1725
3 Bond for performance of covenants of 2
4 Rough note relating to house in Toll Gavel nd
5 Letter from W Wilberforce, Hull to Alderman Johnson, Beverley the mayor and aldermen of Hull having resolved to proceed against people owing money to the Corporation, he asks that such people shall not be granted the freedom of Beverley 7 Nov 1740
6, 11 Certificates of conviction of Francis Denton maltster and Robert Thompson labourer both of Beverley :-using carts 'which did not contain the full breadth of nine Inches in the Felley' 8 Oct 1745; 9 Feb 1746
7, 8, 9, 10 Certificates of Conviction of Richard Elliott and son William, and William Wright all of Beverley keelmen :-not paying tolls at Beverley Beck (mentions vessels called Providence, Speed well and Hopewell) 28 Oct 1755; 6 Nov 1746
12 Draft lease for 4 years: Beverley Corporation to James Fenton gentleman
Property: tolls of Beverley Beck Mar 1747
13 Lease for 11 years at £110 rent: Beverley Corporation to Thomas Wrightson carpenter and Matthew Spencer master mariner both of Beverley
Property: tolls of Beverley Beck 4 May 1752
14 Counterpart of 13
15 Bond for performance of covenants of 13-14 May 1752
16 Renewal of Lease as 13-14 for 7 years 4 Jul 1763
17 Bond for performance of covenants of 16
18 Lease for 11 years at £40 rent: Beverley Corporation to Thomas Wrightson (as 13) and Michael Farthing coal merchant
Property: tolls of Beverley Beck 7 May 1770
19 Draft lease: Beverley Corporation to Henry Thompson of Beverley merchant
Property: tolls of Beverley Beck 1781
20 Affidavit of Stephen Ward mariner relating to tolls paid at Northend Bridge, Hull 11 Mar 1783
21-22 Orders of Hull Corporation relating to tolls at Northend Bridge, Hull 28 Jul; 15 Aug 1783
Sections 'B' and 'C' missing
Section 'D'
1-12 Copy of Writ and Inquisition Post Mortem of Thomas Wake of Lydell
Property: manors of Cottingham, Winesor, Buttercrumbe, Wyveton, Kirkeby Moresheved, Aton and Hemelyngton. A ruinous capital messuage with an orchard used as herbage and lands (each carucate of which is worth 33/4 annually and no more-on the account of the pestilence and mortality of men and poverty in those parts) 299 and a half acres meadow (each acre worth 12d annually); agistment of meadow called le Saltinges (the rent from Michaelmas to the Purification of Blessed Virgin Mary being worth 3/4d annually); pastures worth £12 2 7d; a park (agistment valued 6/8d annually); underwood £10 yearly; three windmills and one watermill (value £10 annually) all in Cottingham. Passage across the water at Hessell (value 66/8d annually) and Stanferie 6/8d; rent of £4 yearly due from the burgesses of Beverley from le Dynges; rents of 4 lbs pepper, price 2/-d; 3 lbs cummin, price 6d; and 22 horseshoes, price 11d
Taken at Cottingham 6 Jul 1349
Section 'E' 'Mayors Elections and Expenses 1742 and 1743'
1 'A note of my (Ramsden Barnard?) Expences on Account of being mayor' 1792- 1793
2 Lists of guests and menus at dinners Oct 1742-Feb 1742/3
3-5 'A note of my Expences on Account of Electing a New Mayor (John Bowman) for the Dinner and two Sundays afterwards Sep-Oct 1743
Section 'F' 'Sessions Recognizances and Papers'
1 Recognizance for Isabel Maddison spinster to appear at next Sessions and to be of good behaviour towards Susannah wife of Phillip Wilkinson 10 Aug 1714
2-3 Orders of sessions 11 Jan 1724/5
4 Recognizance for Matthew Bowser of Bainton to appear at next Sessions 10 Aug 1725
5 Recognizance for Hugh Poster of Bainton to appear at next Sessions 10 Aug 1725
6 Recognizance for Rosamond Gurley of Beverley spinster to appear at next Sessions 4 Aug 1725
7 Precept for holding court (4 Oct 1725) 27 Sep 1725
8-9 Orders of Sessions 4 Oct 1725
10 Recognizance of William Tong to appear at Quarter Sessions and keep peace towards Mary Taylor widow 5 Oct 1725
11 Bastardy Examination of Mary Jackson of parish St, Mary's singlewoman 9 Nov 1725
12 Recognizance of William Thorpe of Beverley and Edward Gossop butcher to appear at next Sessions (putative father, as 11) 20 Nov 1725
13 Recognizance of John Tadman of Beverley barber to appear at next Sessions 4 Dec 1725
14 Precept for holding court (10 Jan 1725/6)
Section 'G' 'Tolls'
1-18 Exceptions to answers of William Taylor, William Eldrington and Tristram Kirkman defendants in case relating to tolls 18th century
19-20 Information of William Wigglesworth of Beverley shopkeeper relating to tolls paid by freemen of Hull 24 Jun 1808
21 Memorandum of evidence of toll-keepers of Beverley, watermark 1815
23 Memorandum relating to tolls c.1816
24 Notice authorising Samuel Sunman tenant of Beverley Corporation to detain goods of persons refusing to pay tolls, watermark 1814
25 Affidavit of John Tomlinson relating to payment of tolls to Mr Wrigglesworth 30 Jul 1816
26 Draft case for payment of tolls, watermark 1818
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