Cartulary of the manor of Whixley, Yorkshire

Item date: 14th - 15th century
Grant Value: 5,000
Item cost: 20,583
Item date acquired: 1996
Item institution: Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society
Town/City: York
County: Yorkshire

A document of great importance for Yorkshire history and the study of open field systems and land division. A secular cartulary, probably drawn up for Thomas Bank of Bank Newton, c. 1433. The survey describes and names the open fields of the manor of Whixley and their subdivisions or flatts and lists the holders of each selion or strip of land within the flatts

Item Provenance
Ribston Hall, until deposited with the Society in 1947