Manuscript deeds and estate correspondence, archive of the Ingilby family of Ripley

One of the most important and extensive family archives from the West Riding of Yorkshire. The Ingilby family has lived at Ripley since the 14th century and the archives reflect a long and continuous pattern of landholding and estate administration in the area. Amongst the family and estate correspondence is a small group of papers relating to the affairs of Sir William Ingilby during the Civil War when, according to family tradition, he and his sister Trooper Jane (disguised as a soldier) fought for the King at Marston Moor. The collection also includes a charter for the foundation of a Carthusian Priory, Mount Grace, at Bordelby, near Northallerton by Thomas de Holand, Duke of Surrey and nephew of Richard II about 1398. The charter is finely decorated and illuminated and bears a nearly perfect impression of de Holands seal. Illustrated as frontispiece of AR