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WWM - Wentworth and Fitzwilliam families of Wentworth Woodhouse (also known as the Wentworth Woodhouse Muniments)
A - Account books and rentals - includes rentals and accounts for English and Irish estates, household, farm, stable and colliery accounts, executors' accounts and inventories
AH - American Handbills
AN - American Newspapers
Alb - Letters and papers of Willem Anne Van Keppel (1702-1754), 2nd Earl of Albemarle
BkP - Papers of Edmund Burke (1729-1797)
BrP - Papers of the Bright Family of Carbrook, Sheffield, and Badsworth (1623-1752)
C - Manorial court rolls and papers for the manors of Tinsley, Wath upon Dearne, Newall Grange, Thornhill Hall, Greasbrough and Barbot Hall, Hooton Roberts, Wentworth, Tankersley, Ecclesall and others
D - Deeds relating to English and Irish estates, including wills and settlements
E - Papers relating to Yorkshire and other elections
EDonc - East Doncaster Estates Company (Cantley Hall estate)
F - Papers of William Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, 4th Earl Fitzwilliam (1748-1833)
G - Papers of Charles Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, 5th Earl Fitzwilliam (1786-1857)
Gov - Papers of Sir John Wentworth (1737-1820) of New Hampshire, USA; Lady Frances Wentworth (his wife) (1745-1813) and Sir Charles Mary Wentworth (his son) (1775-1844)
H - Handbills
M - Papers of Thomas Watson-Wentworth, 1st Marquess of Rockingham (1693-1750)
MP - Maps and plans
MS - Manuscript volumes and treatises
Misc - Miscellaneous papers
N - Newspapers (English, Scottish, Irish, French and Australian)
O - Opencast mining papers
P - Pamphlets and books
1 - Acts of Parliament
1 - An Act of the Commons in Parliament assembled for the sale of the honors, manors and lands heretofore belonging to the late King, Queen and Prince, 17 July, 1649
2 - An additional Act for providing maintenance for ministers and other pious uses, 5 April, 1650
3 - Various Acts
4 - An Act of generall pardon and oblivion, 24 February, 1651
5 - An ordinance for the better maintenance and encouragement of preaching ministers and for uniting of parishes
6 - An Act for an assessment upon England at the rate of sixty thousand pounds by the moneth, for three moneths, from the twenty fifth day of March, 1657 to the twenty fourth day of June then next ensuing
7 - An Act for granting to His Majesty the sum of one million four hundred eighty four thousand and fifteen pounds, one shilling, elevenpence three farthings, for disbanding the army, providing for the Navy and for other necessary occasions
8 - An Act for making navigable the River Darwent [River Derwent]
9 - An Act for appointing commissioners [for put] ting in Execution an Act of Parliament intitled An ... aid ... n
10 - An Act for granting and applying certain stamp duties and other duties in the British colonies and plantations in America ...
11 - An Act for the better preservation of game in that part of Great Britain called England
12 - An Act for applying the money granted in this session of Parliament, towards defraying the charge of the pay of the Militia of that part of Great Britain called England, when unembodied and of the cloathing of the part of the said militia now unembodied, for one year, beginning the 25th day of March, 1762
13 - An Act for amending and widening the road from the south end of the town of Rotherham, in the county of York, to the present turnpike road near Pleasley in the county of Derby [Derbyshire]; and also the road from the north end of the said town of Rotherham into the present turnpike road on the east side of Tankersley Park, in the said county of York
14 - An Act for amending and widening the road from Tinsley, in the county of York, to the town of Doncaster, in the said county
15 - A Bill to quiet the present possessors of leases from Ecclesiastical persons and bodies politic, corporate, and collegiate, of tythes, tolls, and other incorporeal hereditaments, for lives of terms of years in the enjoyment of such leases; and to enable ecclesiatical persons and bodies politic, corporate and collegiate, to grant leases of such incorporeal hereditaments; with a remedy to recover the respective rents reserved
16 - East India Company
17 - A Bill for the more perfectly uniting to the Crown the Principality of Wales, and the County Palatine of Chester, and for the more commodious Administration of justice within the same ...
18 - A Bill for the better regulation of His Majesty's civil establishments, and of certain public offices; for the limitation of persons, and the suppression of sundry useless, expensive and inconvenient places; and for applying the monies saved thereby to the public service
19 - An Act for dividing, inclosing and improving the several commons and waste grounds within the manor of Horley in the Parish of Almondbury, in the county of York; and for abolishing or settling certain other rights or claims within the said manor
20 - A Bill for the better govern ent of the territorial possessions and dependencies in India
21 - A Bill intituled an Act for establishing certain regulations for the better management of the territories, revenues and commerce of this Kingdom in the East Indies
22 - An Act for granting an aid to His Majesty by a Land Tax to be raised in Great Britain for the service of the year 1784
23 - East India Company
24 - A Bill for the relief of the East India Company, with respect to the payment of certain sums due to the public and to the acceptance of certain bills drawn upon the said company; and for regulating the dividend to be made by the said company
25 - A Bill for finally regulating the intercourse and commerce between Great Britain and Ireland on permanent and equitable principles for the mutual benefit of both Kingdoms
26 - A Bill intituled an act for removing any doubt respecting the power of the Commissioners for the affairs of India, to direct that the expense of raising, transporting and maintaining such troops as may be judged necessary for the security of the British territories and possessions in the East Indies, should be defrayed out of the revenues arising from the said territories and possessions ...
27 - An Act for effectuating certain exchanges between the Rt. Hon. the Earl Fitzwilliam and Francis Ferrand Foljambe Esquire, and between the Rt. Hon. The Lord Hawke and the said Francis Ferrand Foljambe and to enable trustees to make future exchanges of a detached part of the estates of the said Francis Ferrand Foljambe
28 - An Act for building a bridge over the river Derwent, at or near Bubwith ferry, in the East Riding of the county of York, and making proper approaches thereto
29 - A Bill for indemnifying such persons as have acted since the first day of January, 1795 for the preservation of the public peace and suppression of the insurrections prevailing in some parts of this Kingdom, 28th January, 1796
30 - A Bill for more effectually preventing insurrections, tumults and riots by persons stiling themselves defenders, and other disorderly persons, 28th January, 1796
31 - An Act for altering, varying and amending and Act passed in the thirty fourth year of the reign of His present Majesty, for dividing, inclosing, draining and improving the open fields, ings, pastures and commons and waste grounds within the manor and parish of Old Malton in the North Riding of the county of York
32 - An Act for indemnifying persons serving in volunteer corps, who have omitted to take out certificates for wearing hair powder; and to amend so much of an Act, made in the 35th year of the reign of His present Majesty, intituled, An Act for granting to His Majesty a duty on certificates issued for using hair powder, as relates to the exempting persons serving in Volunteer Corps, and certain officers in His Majesty's navy, serving on the establishment of the Royal Hospital at Greenwich, from the said duty; and for obliging persons claiming to be exempt from the duties on horses, provided and furnished for Volunteer Corps to deliver certificates thereof to the proper officers, 24th April, 1800
33 - Dearne and Dore Canal
34 - An Act for draining, embanking and preserving divers tracts of land within the township of Muston, in the parish of Hunmanby and also within sundry other parishes, townships or places adjoining or near to the rivers Derwent and Harford in the East and North Ridings of the county of York
35 - An Act passed in the Parliament Ireland to revive with amendments an Act passed last session of Parliament, intituled, An Act for the suppression of the Rebellion which still unhappily exists within this Kingdom and for the protection of the persons and properties of His Majesty's faithful subjects within the same
36 - An Act passed in the Parliament of Ireland for the suppression of the rebellion which still unhappily exists within this Kingdom and for the protection of the persons and properties of His Majesty's faithful subjects
37 - A Bill intituled An Act for amending and further continuing until 24th June, 1801, two Acts passed in that part of the United Kingdom called Ireland, in the 39th and 40th years of the reign of His present Majesty, for the suppression of the rebellion which still exists within that Kingdom, and for the protection of the persons and properties of His Majesty's faithful subjects within the same
38 - An Act to enable the justices of the peace for the West Riding of the County of York to provide convenient court houses for holding the general quarter sessions of the peace within the said Riding
39 - An Act for regulating the proceedings in the courts Baron of the Manors of Sheffield and Ecclesall in the County of York
40 - A Bill to alter and amend an Act passed in the 15th year of His late Majesty, King Charles the Second, for settling the draining of the Great Level of the fens, called Bedford Level
41 - Watching and Warding
42 - An Act to render more effectual an Act passed in the 37th year of His present Majesty, for preventing the administering or taking unlawful oaths, 9 July, 1812
43 - Preservation of the Peace
44 - A Bill intituled An Act for indemnifying persons who, since the first day of January, 1817, have acted in apprehending and imprisoning or detaining in custody persons suspected of High Treason or treasonable practices and in the suppression of tumultuous and unlawful assemblies
45 - A Bill intituled An Act to diminish the inconvenience and espense of commissions in the nature of writs De lunatico inquirendo; and to provide for the better care and treatment of idiots, lunatics and persons of unsound mind, found such by inquisition
46 - Poor Relief (Ireland) Bill: A Bill intituled An Act to amend the Acts for the more effectual relief of the destitute poor in Ireland
47 - A Bill intituled An Act to exclude the borough of Grampound in the County of Cornwall from sending burgesses to serve in Parliament and to enable the borough of Leeds in the county of York to send two Burgesses to serve in Parliament in lieu thereof
48 - A Bill intituled An Act to regulate the amount of presentments by grand juries, for payment of the public officers of the several counties in Ireland
49 - An Act for making and maintaining a road from Rotherham to Swinton in the West Riding of the County of York
50 - An Act for inclosing lands in Darrington in the county of York
51 - A Bill for the better management of the landed revenue of the Crown in future
52 - Old Malton enclosure
53 - A Bill for dividing and enclosing the common fields, undivided enclosures, commons and waste grounds, within the township of Kimberworth, in the parish of Rotherham in the West Riding of the county of York
54 - A Bill for draining, embanking and preserving certain tracts of low lands within the several parishes, townships or places of Muston ... in the East Riding of the county of York, and within the several parishes, townships or places of Old Malton.... in the North Riding of the said county
55 - A Bill for the further regulation of the mode of election of Knights of the Shire for the county of York
56 - A Bill to make amended provision for the sale and purchase of land in Ireland
57 - An Act for sale of part of the estate of Daniel, late Earl of Winchelsea and Nottingham; deceased, for payment of debts and incumbrances charged upon and affecting the same; and for other purposes therein mentioned
58 - An Act for amending and rendering effectual the powers of sale and revocation of uses contained in the marriage articles and settlement of Richard Sterne, Esquire, and Mary his wife, of divers messuages, lands and hereditaments in the county of York, therein comprised
59 - An Act for dividing and inclosing the open common fields, meadows, dales and common fen within the parish of Billinghay in the county of Lincoln; and for draining and preserving the said dales and common fen and also certain enclosed low lands thereto adjoining in the said parish
60 - An Act for enlarging the term and powers of two acts of the fourth and fourteenth years of His present Majesty, so sar as relates to the road from the north end of the town of Rotherham to the east side of Tankersley Park in the county of York
2 - Anti-Slavery
3 - Canals, etc
4 - East India Company and Indian affairs
5 - Economic Matters
6 - Elections
7 - Literary and Miscellaneous
8 - Medicine
9 - Parliamentary Affairs
10 - Periodicals
11 - Petitions, etc
12 - Political Affairs
13 - Poor Law
14 - Prisons
15 - Horse Racing
16 - Reports etc., of institutions, charities, societies, hospitals, etc.
17 - Sale Catalogues
18 - Sale Plans
19 - Sermons
R - Papers of Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham (1730-1782)
StrP - Papers of Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford (1593-1641)
StwP - Stewards' correspondence and papers
T - Papers of William Thomas Spencer Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, 6th Earl Fitzwilliam (1815-1902)
Vouchers - Vouchers to accounts - includes estate and household vouchers etc, and vouchers for personal and family expenses
Y - Papers relating to West Riding Militia, Yeomanry and Volunteers
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