North Yorkshire History

I'm revisiting The People behind the Plaques: memorials in All Saints', Hutton Rudby  to add my most recent research.  This is a sli...

With Wentworth now the King's closest adviser and soon in virtual command of his armies, Mr Wandesford became Lord Deputy of Ireland on ...

Until the Duke of Buckingham – who was all-powerful as King James' favourite and then as King Charles' adviser – was assassinated in...

I wrote this version of the old story a long while ago for schoolchildren and had quite forgotten it until I came upon it recently. I hav...

Sir Thomas Layton (1597?-1650) was the son of Charles Layton of Sexhow (d1617) and his wife Mary Milner of Skutterskelfe (c1568-1633). Sir...

In order to make the preceding piece about Thomas Milner readable, I have moved a good bit of the detail into these notes.  Here you will f...

Thomas Milner of Skutterskelfe, a gentleman of about sixty-four years of age, made his will on 28 June 1589, the year after the Spanish Arma...

More from the old parish magazines.  The variation in the amount given to the church offertory over the weeks must indicate the absence of...

... from my working notes ... accuracy not guaranteed ... for explanatory note, see post of 14 Feb 2013 Williams 23 Nov 1808:  Jane Will...

... from my working notes ... accuracy not guaranteed ... for explanatory note, see post of 14 Feb 2013 Taylor Palliser Taylor, flaxdres...