AN AUTHENTIC Alphabetical List OF THE NOBILITY, CLERGY & GENTRY, WHO BALLOTED AT WAKEFIELD, ON MONDAY THE TWELFTH OF MAY, 1817, FOR A REGISTER FOR THE WEST-RIDING OF THE COUNTY OF YORK, ACCOUNT OF THE REGISTERSHIP, TO THE DEATH OF J. 4. BUSFEILD, ESQ. FORMING AN USEFUL AND AUTHENTIC RECORD For future REFERENCE. ARRANGED FROM THE SCRUTATORS' AND POLL CLERKS' BOOKS: 16491 CANDIDATES, FRANCIS HAWKSWORTH, ESQ. AND WILLIAM LISTER FENTON SCOTT, ESQ. BIBLIO WAKEFIELD: Printed by Rowland Hurst, Journal Office; AND SOLD BY ALL THE BOOKSELLERS IN THE WEST-RIDING OF YORKSHIRE. PRICE, Two Shillings and Sixpence. Gough Adds York 8248 From the mode of conducting the Ballot, it would be presuming too much to Jay claim to perfect Accuracy on behalf of this Publicatton; but the authentic Sources from whence the Information it contains is drawn, justifies the hope, that the Errata will not be numerous. *Those Gentlemen who voted for Mr. Hawksworth are distinguished by the figure 1; and those for Mr. Scott by the figure 2. AN ACT For the public registering of all deeds, conveyances, and wills, that shall be made of any honors manors, lands, tenements, or hereditaments, within the West-Riding of the County of York, after the nine and twentieth day of September, one thousand seven hundred and four. WHEREAS the West Riding of the County of York is the prin cipal place in the North, for the cloth manufacture, and most of the traders therein are freeholders, and have frequent occasions to borrow money upon their estates, for managing their said trade, but for want of a register, find it difficult to give security to the satisfaction of the money lenders (although the security they offer be really good) by means whereof the said trade is very much obstructed, and many families ruined for the remedying whereof may it please your most excellent Majesty, at the humble request of the justices of the peace, gentlemen, and freeholders of the said West Riding, that it may be enacted; and be it enacted by the Queen's most excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the lords spiritual and temporal, and commons, in the present parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, that a memorial of all deeds and conveyances, which from and after the nine and twentieth day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and four, shall be made and executed, and of all wills and devises in writing, made or to be made and published, where the devisor or testator shall die after the said nine and twentieth day of September, of or concerning, and whereby any honors, manors, lands, tenements, or hereditaments, in the said West Riding, may be any way affected in law or equity, may, at the elec tion of the party or parties concerned, be registred in such a manner as is hereinafter directed; and that every deed or conveyance that shall, at any time after any memorial is so registred, be made and executed of the honors, manors, lands, tenements, or hereditaments, or any part thereof, comprised or contained in any such memorial, shall be adjudged fraudulent and void against any subsequent purchaser or mortgagee for valuable consideration, unless such memorial thereof shall be registred as by this act is directed, before the registring the memorial of the deed or conveyance under which such subsequent purchaser or mortgagee shall claim; and that every devisee by will of the honors, manors, lands, tenements, or hereditaments, or any part thereof, mentioned or contained in any memorial so registred, as aforesaid, that shall be made and published after the registring of such memorial, shall be adjudged fraudulent and void against any subsequent purchaser or mortgagee for valuable consideration, unless a memorial of such will be registred in such manner as is hereinafter directed. II. And for settling and establishing a certain method, with proper rules and directions for registring such memorials, as aforesaid, be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that one public office for registring such memorials of and concerning any honors, manors, lands, tenements, and hereditaments, that are situate, lying, and being B |