Photocopies of the Hildyard ledger books of the seventeenth century

Reference No:
U DDX/58/30-33
Dates:
1971-1979
Description:
The archival material at DDX/58/30-33 comprises 4 folders of photocopied sheets purchased on 13 April 1971 and 23 August 1979 from R W S Norfolk. DDX/58/30 is a very full photocopy of the 'Hildyard Leager Book' of the seventeenth century, the original of which was used by Norman James Miller to write Winestead and its lords (1932) and which is not in a public repository. The book contains pedigrees of the Tyson, Preston, Scures, Hilton and Meaux families as well as armorial and biographical notes on the Hildyard family of Winestead. It includes transcripts of title deeds for places in the East Riding, including Hedon, Garton, Ottringham, Howden, Beverley, Winestead, Patrington, as well as Normanby and half a dozen other villages in Lincolnshire (13th to the 17th centuries). Photocopies of a similar seventeenth-century volume make up the contents of DDX/58/31, including extensive biographical notes on members of the Hildyard family and observations of a solar eclipse in Rome in 1654. DDX/58/32 comprises photocopies of summaries of deeds relating to the Hildyard family and DDX/58/33 contains photocopies of transcripts of letters to Sir Robert Hildyard from Robert and Christopher Hildyard dated 4-9 February 1727.
Extent:
4 files
Language:
Access Conditions:
Access will be granted to any accredited reader
Repository:
Hull University Archives
Collection:
Miscellaneous Local History Collection