Catalogue description Ripon documents

This record is held by North Yorkshire County Record Office

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Reference: DC/RIC
Title: Ripon documents
Description:

Ripon town book 1598 [MIC 3934]; Ripon corporation minutes 1607-1972 [MIC 892, 919-921, 970-984, 992-4, 1405-1408, 2088]; [N.B. See TD 32 for Ripon Corporation minutes 1601-1605]; Ripon corporation draft & copy minutes, orders & resolutions 1608-1834 [MIC 2504]

 

Ripon council committee minutes 1882-1972 [MIC 970-984]

 

Gas committee minutes 1883-1896 [MIC 3817]

 

Pinfold Close committee 1850-52; lighting committee 1850-51; reduction of expenditure committee 1850; common lodging houses committee 1851-52; charity estates committee 1851 [MIC 3817]

 

Ripon Gazettes 1867-70, 1874-77, 1892-3, 1895-1900, 1917-19, 1936, 1941-2

 

Ripon & Richmond Chronicle 1855-1865 [MIC 867-8, 872, 904, 927, 929, 1262, 1587, 2130, 2337, 3027-8, 3895, 3932]

 

Average awards, surveys of commons 1595-1777 [MIC 1589]

 

Account of average rents 1788-1790 [MIC 3470]

 

Ripon: miscellaneous leases 1743, 1792, 1913 (including lease of land for theatre 1792) [MIC 2056, 2058]

 

Ripon city valuation list 1933 [MIC 3548]

 

Ripon corporation correspondence files 1935-1973 [MIC 1854, 1914-16, 1929]

 

Ripon corporation: mayors' accounts 1656-1969 [MIC 2140, 2149, 2184]

 

Petitions & memorials to & from the corporation 1664-1950; ordinances & proclamations 1608-98; weights & measures 1784-1888 [MIC 2058]

 

Ripon corporation: valuation books, lists etc 1859-1891; district rate books 1881-84; rate estimates 1850-52; compounding agreements for rates 1894-1926 [MIC 2148, 2151]

 

Ripon Town Clerk's general correspondence and papers 1831-1839 [MIC 4053]

 

Papers relating to members & officers of the corporation: oaths & declarations 1662-1986; appointments, resignations of members & officers 1662-1865; burgess rolls 1835-1890; municipal elections campaigns 1835-87; elections of mayors 1627-1671; election of auditors & assessors 1836; miscellaneous handbills 1865 & n.d.; lists & papers 1666-1887 [MIC 2128, 2138, 2140]

 

Parliamentary representation: burgage voters 1775-90; register of electors 1832-85; election campaigns 1796-1874; constituency boundary 1832-1918; list of M.P.'s 1553-1806 [MIC 2128, 2148]

 

Names of those in favour of reform 1832 [MIC 2557]

 

Ripon Grammar school: deed of enfranchisement 1829 [MIC 2106]

 

Ripon corporation register of bonds 1603-1632; mayor's bonds 1646-1745 [MIC 1286, 2058]

 

Agreement for the admission of freemen 1666; freemen's rolls & registers 1758-1979; lists of freemen 1608-1835 [MIC 2056, 2128, 2138]

 

Ripon charities: charity commissioners reports & returns 1837, 1898; Ripon Municipal charities 1774-1900; Jepson's Hospital 1672/3-1958; Provision society/Poor Relief fund 1838-1922; Coal society 1853; SS Mary Magdalen & John the Baptist Hospitals 1866; Charity Organisation society 1907-12; Judson's Homes 1911; British Legion Unity Relief fund 1921-25; Aldfield & Studley Poor charities 1675-1925; Ann Day's charity, Bishopton 1851-1974 [MIC 2214, 2215, 2298, 2304, 2317]

 

Various documents given to Ripon corporation 1662-1872, including transcript of proceedings at the archbishop's court at Ripon, with list of burgage holders 1675, & title deeds to 4 & 5 Park Street 1720-1872 [MIC 2236, 2244]

 

Public notices, circulars etc. 1792-1941; playbills 1816-1871 [MIC 2056, 2058]

 

Swale & Ouse navigation act 1767 [MIC 1508]

 

Plans of the Ure navigation n.d. & 1767-1844 and general maps of the navigable canals of northern & southern England & Wales 1906-8 [MIC 1926]

 

Papers re. Ripon Spa 1900-1923 [MIC 2424]

 

Records of Ripon societies, including: Ripon Dancing Assemblies 17991829, Ripon National Schools 1824-1904, the 'Orange' Committee 1832-1835, the Ure Navigation Company 1835-46, Ripon Scientific Society 1865-95, Ripon Grammar School 1748-1930, Ripon Congregational Church 1869-1945, 27th Yorks. West Riding Rifle Volunteers 1877-78, Ripon Naturalists' Society 1882-1904, Ripon & Wakefield Diocesan Training College 1898-99, 'Perseverance' Lodge of Druids 1907, Leeds Philosophical & Literary Society 1865, Yorkshire Archaeological & Topographical Association 1874, Yorkshire Archaeological Society 1896 [MIC 1723, 1729]

 

Dean & Chapter: copy grant of collegiate status to Ripon minster 1604; copy grant of all prebends in Givendale 1609; declarations of conformity 1828, 1859; copy deed of exchange 1864 [MIC 2520]

 

Archbishop of York's jurisdiction: rent roll of rents belonging to the Archbishop of York within the town of Ripon 1622; abstract of burgage holders from 1622 rent roll n.d.; transcript of part of court roll of Archbishop's court held at Ripon 1675; copy rental of 1708-11 of property in Ripon held under the Archbishop [MIC 2520]

 

Liberty of Ripon: duplicate land tax returns 1732, 1747, 1805; quarter sessions minute & order book 1765-1785; valuation of the liberty of Ripon by Thomas Bradley 1833-34; abstract of accounts 1856-57; copy description of the boundaries 1481 [MIC 2520]

 

Ripon township: overseers' accounts 1739-1777 & legal bills 1790-1858; lease of a poor house 1776; vestry minutes 1817-1833, 1857; members of the select vestry 1844; highways accounts 1833-34, 1843-44, 1859-60; rating & valuation 1792-1839; Aismunderby with Bondgate township: overseers' accounts & papers 1826-1882; rate books 1834-1884; vestry 1850-1869; highways 1795, 1823; Aldfield township: survey of Aldfield n.d. [MIC 2520]; Baldersby township: overseers of the poor papers 1877-1881; poor rate books 1876-1881 [MIC 2504, 2520]

 

Bishop Monkton township: copy poor rate book 1838; Bishop Thornton township: copy poor rate book 1838; Bishopton township: overseers' account book 1807-1850; vestry 1854-1892; poor rates 1838, 1886; highway rates 1859, 1881-82; valuations 1852, 1895; plan of Bishopton late 19th cent.; Clotherholme township: agreement to pull down a cottage 1901; Copt Hewick township: copy poor rate book 1838; Grantley township: parish apprentices 1806, 1814; Hutton Conyers township: poor rate book 1880; Kirby Malzeard township: rate book for Kirby Malzeard, Grewelthorpe & Laverton 1835; copy poor rate book 1837; Lindrick with Studley Royal & Fountains township: overseers' receipts 1881 & n.d.; poor rate books 1879-1884; highway rate books 1877-1881; Markenfield township: overseers' papers 1796; Markington with Wallerthwaite township: copy poor rate book 1838; Sawley township: copy poor rate book 1838; Sharow township: copy poor rate book 1838; North Stainley with Sleningford township: copy poor rate book 1838; Studley Roger township: poor rate books 1838, 1840, 1869-1872; survey of Studley Roger 1838; Whitcliffe with Thorpe township: poor rate books 1838, 1886; receipts 1888-89; registration 1888-89; Ripon Board of Guardians, R.D.C. and Wath R.D.C. joint year books 1904-5, 1907-8; [MIC 2504]

 

Published works on the history of Ripon 1733-1875 Notes on Ripon's history, insignia etc Antiquarian notes & papers [MIC 2169]; Maps & plans [MIC 2236, 2237]

Date: 1598-1972
Held by: North Yorkshire County Record Office, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Access conditions:

Open

Subjects:
  • Bradley, Thomas, fl 1805-1848, surveyor
  • Ripon, North Riding of Yorkshire
  • Richmond, North Riding of Yorkshire
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