1. Law of Property Act, 1969, Ch. 59, Part II (sections 16–22). The process was begun by the Registration of Title (Teesside, Leeds and Sheffield) Order, 1970.
2. Sheppard F., Belcher V. ‘The Deeds Registries of Yorkshire and Middlesex‘,Journal of the Society of Archivists, 6 (5) (April 1980), 274–86; see also W. E. Tate, ‘The Five English Statutory Registers of Deeds’,Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research, 20 (1943–5), 97–105. An earlier account may be found in ‘An Historical Account of the Progress of Registration in England, so far as respects Assurances of Land’ [1535–1830] in theFirst Report of the Royal Commission on Registration and Conveyancing, xxxii [1261] (1850), pp. 232–44. For the archives of the West Riding registry, see B. J. Barber,A Guide to the Quarter Sessions of the West Riding of Yorkshire 1637–1971 and Other Official Records, 2nd ed., Yorkshire Archaeological Society, Occasional Paper No. 8, 2011 (hereafterWRQS Guide), pp. 13–14 and 37–8.
3. West Yorkshire Archive Service (hereafter WYAS), Wakefield, QD1/324,The Ballot-Book…for the Office of Register, for the West Riding of the County of York in the year 1809(Leeds, 1809) (hereafterBallot Book), p. 61.
4. Smith E.A. ‘The Yorkshire Elections of 1806 and 1807: a Study in Electoral Management’,Northern History, II (1967).
5. West Riding Registry Act, 2 Anne c. 4; East Riding Registry Act, 6 Anne c. 35; and North Riding Registry Act, 8 Geo II. c. 11. For copies of the registries Acts, see WYAS, Wakefield, QD5/9/10.