Letters to Sir Christopher Sykes, 2nd Bt., from George Britton, Sledmere

Reference No:: U DDSY/101/66
Dates:: Jan 1799-Sep 1801
Description:: Wintery conditions (1799); militia & yeomanry (orders to Paymaster General to issue £648, being £9 each, for 72 'non-Commissioned officer and privateers of the Troop of Yorkshire Wolds Gentlemen and Yeomanry Cavalry... to fit the troop with clothing & appointments in proper condition for service'; nominal return; enrolment of volunteers); deaths of Tatton Sykes & Mr. Rose (1799); growing 'sparrow grass'; fence and road-making; estate & farming matters; agricultural improvements; horses; planting & gardens at Sledmere; horse-chaise arrived- it was 'ill packed the Rats while on Shipboard have eaten the greatest Part of the leather trunk behind the Chair'; Sledmere, Croome & Thirkleby tithes; Lincolnshire estate; nightingales at Sledmere; appointment of Clerk to Commissioners of Piers (for Scarborough), with copy of ballot; servants; intended inclosure of Luttons, Weaverthorpe & Helperthorpe, and at Middleton; building at Tibthorpe; etc.
Format:: Archive Item
Extent:: 37 items
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Access Conditions:: Access will be granted to any accredited reader
Repository:: Hull University Archives
Collection:: Papers of the Sykes family of Sledmere