Papers of the Kay family of Woodsome, Yorkshire [manuscript], ca. 1561-1642.

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Papers of the Kay family of Woodsome, Yorkshire [manuscript], ca. 1561-1642.

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These manuscripts illustrate the ways in which the Kays of Woodsome, Yorkshire, with great industry and perseverance over several generations, tried to improve their family fortunes, building, farming and acquiring land for the benefit of their House. Original (X.d.) and 18th century copies (W.b.). Contains: account book, ca. 1561-ca. 1592 (X.d.446); note of rental book, 1582 (X.d.448, p. 1, W.b.482, p. 1); rental books, 1583 (X.d.449), and 1594 (W.b.482, p. 37); rents and duties owed by the lord of Woodsome, 1583 (W.b.482, p. 26); administrative divisions in certain parishes adjacent to Woodsome (W.b.482, p. 3); memoranda of improvements carried out on their properties by Arthur, John, Robert, John and John Kay with particular reference to church matters, building, land buying, expenses, good husbandry and law suits (X.d.446, 448-449, W.b.482). Recognizances and other documents arising out of John Kay's duties as a J.P., 1620-1622, incomplete (X.d.447). Verses by John Kay, son of Arthur Kay, embodying his experiences as a land owner and husbandman and often taking the form of moral and practical precepts to his heir, "A little book of husbandry to be observed [month by month] very needful for the heir or lord of Woodsome . . . in homely metre" (W.b.483, X.d.446) and a note of it (X.d.448, p. 1); a disputation betwixt Wisdom and folly divided into a dialog (X.d.445, leaf 6; W.b.484, p. 20); A Christenmas welcome for guests (X.d.445, leaf 4v, W.b.484, p. 31); A fatherly farewell, 1576 (W.b.484) and a note of it (X.d.448, p. 11); and other verses (X.d.445-446, 448-449, W.b.482-484).

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Wilson, John, 1719-1783

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