CATALOGUE OF ANCIENT CHAETERS, ETC., IN 
THE POSSESSION OF THE 
YORKSHIRE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 
The greater part of the Charters on the following list have 
been in the possession of the Society for many years. Among 
them there are many very interesting documents, and several rare 
and valuable seals. 
This list is printed to show what early documents the Society 
possesses. It may also, it is to be hoped, be the means of saving 
some Original Charters and papers from the destruction which is 
going on almost every day. It is very much to be desired that gentle¬ 
men who are in possession of ancient documents relating to this City 
and County for which they have no use, will, instead of destroying 
them, place them in such repositories as York Minster Library, or 
the York Museum where they will be taken care of. The history 
of the past is to be found to a great extent in such evidences as 
these which are being constantly destroyed. 
ALLESPATH. Grant from Wm. de Stependon to Walter de Allespath, 
of the land which the said Walter held of Edith Whiting. Scbc. xii. With 
Seal. (Mr. W. H. Rudston-Read.) 
ARKSEY. Doncaster, 8th April. 35th Edw. III. (1361). Grant from 
Oliver de Holme to Dan Richard de Fayser, Yicar of Broddesworth, of ten acres 
of meadow, in the meadows of Arksay, in a place called Mikeltong. With Seal 
of Arms. 
BARDSEY. 20th October. 36th Hen. VIII. (15-44). Sale hy Robert 
Admergyll, and Elizabeth his wife, to Henry Burton, of Bardsa-hyll, in the 
parish of Bardsey, late the property of the dissolved monastery of Kirkestall, and 
leased by them to the said Robert, July 8th. 30th Hen. YIII. Seal go7te. {J.R.) 
BIRDFORTH and ALLERTOXSHIRE. Parchment Roll containing the 
Subsidy granted to Queen Elizabeth, 2nd April, Anno 13 regni (loll), by the 
inhabitants of the Wapentake of Birdforth, and the Liberties of Allerton and 
Allertonshire, Thomas Layton and Michael Wandesford, Esquires, being the 
Commissioners. {Mr. Eustachius Strickland.) 
