University Archives
Crust, Todd and Mills, solicitors, of Beverley
Crust, Todd and Mills is a firm of Beverley solicitors with historical roots in the partnerships of John Shepherd and John Lockwood. There are circa 15,000 items (1240-1979) in the archive, largely comprising sale documents, title deeds, marriage settlements, wills, enclosure awards and some rentals for East Yorkshire. There are some manorial records, for example, for the manor of Wetwang (1701-1898). Estate papers, wills and marriage settlements for Beverley (1370-1929) are considerable and include material relating to the union of St Mary's and St Nicholas' parish, material relating to the purchase and building of the Hotham house in Eastgate in 1714-23, assignments of several pews in St Mary's, acts, plans, election broadsheets, the minute book of the committee to consider alterations in the organ screen at Beverley Minster, a large volume of the manuscript notes of George Poulson, Beverley antiquarian, containing papers on charities, churches, the corporation, grammar school, religious establishments and lists of tolls (1787), an abstract of the title of the estates of Michael Warton, the records of the Beverley Lying-In Charity, the minute and account books of Charles Warton's charity, material on the 1835, 1847, 1852, 1854, 1857, 1859 parliamentary elections, 1875 plans by Sir Gilbert Scott for restoration at the Minster including the Hotham and Warton tombs and manorial records of the chapter of Beverley (1690-1858). Papers for other counties include documents relating to Ann Brooke's Buckinghamshire estate at Beachampton with a 1787 inventory of her effects and a copy of her will (1784) and papers for Denby colliery in Derbyshire. The Crust Todd and Mills collections have many separate groups of landed family papers embedded within them and these are listed elsewhere on these pages. In addition, there are pedigrees of the Raines and Dawson families, seventeenth-century lists of baptisms, marriages and deaths in the Crompton family, and assorted papers of the Dunning family of Beverley, the Gee and Watt families of Bishop Burton, the Blaydes and Stephenson families of Hull, some papers of the Reverend Mark Sykes of Roos and Sledmere,and Drax manorial records for the Constable family. The collection also contains the full records of the East Riding Clergy Charitable Society (1781-1963). There are interesting account books such as the ledger of a Beverley brewer (1853-1867), the Dalton Holme estate rental and account book (1876-1877), the rent account books of Thomas Grimston (1770-1792), the account and day books of Matthew Empson, Beverley solicitor (1823-1841), the household account book of Jane Conyers (1768-1786), the account books of the trustees of John and Dorothy Richardson (1794-1804) and the farm books of John Boyes (1820). [DDCV; DDCV(2)]