Selby

The records are divided as follows:

• Parish Register Transcripts [Pec.Other/Sel.PRT]. 1617-1812, with many gaps in the sequence. 3 boxes.
• Matrimonial Records [Pec.Other/Sel.MB]. Marriage bonds to 1823, allegations from 1664 to 1868 and a list of marriage licences granted 1735-1740, 1790-1794. 5 boxes. Some marriage bonds 1664-1710 are indexed in Yorkshire Archaeological Society Record Series 47, 200-202.
• Court Books [Pec.Other/Sel 1-2]. 1735-1857. 2 volumes. Includes much administrative material.
• Cause Papers [Pec.Other/Sel 3]. 1664, 1737, 1820. 1 bundle.
• Visitation Papers [Pec.Other/Sel 4]. 1715-1846. 2 boxes. Calls, citation mandates, presentments, declarations, correction citations and penances.
• Archbishops' Visitations, including inhibitions and relaxations [Pec.Other/Sel 5]. 1764-1868. 1 bundle.
• Administrative Papers [Pec.Other/Sel 6]. 1629-1863. 1 bundle.
• Faculties [Pec.Other/Sel 7]. 1699. 1 item.

This peculiar jurisdiction, formerly belonging to the abbot and convent of Selby, came into lay hands at the monastery's dissolution in 1539. The peculiar court came to exercise jurisdiction over Selby, Brayton, Barlow, Burn, Gateforth, Hambleton and Thorpe Willoughby.

Summary lists are available at the Borthwick Institute.

Bound and unbound volumes, bundles of parchment and papers.