Yorkshire Almanac 2026

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At a Court held on the 22nd of December, 1666, the following Order was made, relative to the Corporate and other documents, which, having become dispersed during the period of the civil war, had fallen into various hands:-—

“Whereas by the wickednes of an Intestin warr, sundry Deeds, Evidences, and other Escripts, (bothe of publique and pious vse and Interreste) are dispersed and kept secret in private hands and possessions; by reason whereof, the intents and good purposes of the respective donors are wholy disapointed, and the pious vses thereby arriseigne, altogeather misimployed, contrary to the wholsome & charitable Lawes and Statuts in that behalfe made. For Remedy whereof, It is ordered by this Court, that all and every pe’son or persons of what State, Quality, or Condic’on soever, he or they be within the sd Burrough, that have any deeds or writeings in his hands, custody, possession, or knowledge, that doe any way touch or concerne any publique or piovs vse or gift, that he or they, doe within tenn dayes after publicac’on hereof, bring and deliver vpp the same vnto the p’sent Maior of this Burrough, to th’end a formall Alphebet or Table may be thereof made & the sd deeds or writeings safely keept & secured in such publique cheste or truncke & vnder such Locks & Keyes as the Maior, Aldermen, and Reverend Viccar for the time being, shall thinke meete & conveniant. And it is moreover declared by this Court, that if any p’son or p’sons after the time aforesd shall keepe & detaine any of the sd deeds or writeings with intent to conceale the same, that then such speedy course be taken against him or them, as his Maties Courts of Equity have appoynted & p’vided for Releife in cases of this nature.”

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