Rental roll for Hackness, Yorkshire, manuscript for the years 1622-1639

Rental roll for Hackness in North Yorkshire for the years 1622-1639, in Early Modern English, manuscript on parchment[Northern England (Hackness), mid-seventeenth century] Single large rental roll on 3 membranes of parchment, listing the rents received from properties in and around Hackness, with columns marked up with amounts of money and years (marked with 'o' to show account settled), and noting a James Shore acting as owner or a steward for the owner, written in a late English secretarial hand, some damage to edges in places and fading in parts, else good condition, dated 29 September 1639 and with the opening line "The turffgraft is to be payd yearly upon Michell day", 2060 by 240mm. Provenance:1. Written at Hackness in the years 1622-1639, and thereafter becoming separated from the main archive of the manor at a later date (see below).2. Sotheby's 17 December 1991, part of lot 41, alongside the items in the previous two lots, evidently from a lawyer's archive.3. Schøyen Collection, London and Oslo, their MS 1563/3, acquired in Sotheby's. Text:The Manor of Hackness, in the parish of Scarborough, was recorded by Bede as early as the eighth century as the site of a double monastery, and the church there still has fragments of a cross of that date or a century later inscribed with a prayer to St. Æthelburh. In the later Middle Ages and Early Modern period it was a wealthy rural estate, and was the home of Lady Margaret Hoby, whose diary of 1599-1605 is the earliest known such work written by a woman. Early records are scarce for the region, but North Yorkshire Records Office do hold rentals for the estate for the periods 1605-22 (ZF/4/1/1 mic 1432) and 1650-51 (ZF/4/1/2 mic 1432), and the present manuscript is most probably from the same original archive.Please note: This item is subject to the Manorial Documents Rules. As such it cannot be taken out of England and Wales without the consent of the Master of the Rolls, and future owners must inform the secretary of the Historical Manuscripts Commission of their acquisition.