Copies of bonds for loans, precepts, indictments, and other legal documents chiefly relating to the city and citizens of York, tempp. Hen. VII.-Hen. VIII.

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MS. Rawl. B. 451, fols. 40–57

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The following may be specially noticed:

(fol. 44b) Appointment by Thomas Berkeley, esq., bailiff of the lordship of Sheriff-Hutton, of Thomas Redman as his deputy; 1530.
(fol. 54b) Manumission of a villein by Richard Stukey of Stukey.
(fol. 55) Presentation by the lord mayor of William Metcalf to the chantry of St. Nicholas in the church of the Holy Trinity, Gotheram-gate, vacant by the death of Alan Birkhed; 1518.
(fol. 56b) Letter from the mayor, etc. recommending a poor woman undertaking a pilgrimage to the abbey of St. Cornelius in Compiegne for the cure of the falling sickness, to the charity of all Christian people; 1496.
(fol. 56b) Inventory of the goods of John Manors; 1525.
(fol. 56b) Wages paid to workmen at Pocklington in 1526.
(fol. 57b) Form of holding the court of the manor of Sutton, Yorkshire; 1503.

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MS. Rawl. B. 451, fols. 40–57

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