Thanks dobfarm
According to two other Wills around this period, a Hood at Malton is linked to a Hood at Scarborough (and vice versa).
Unchecked, but expect you have seen it ...
Hannah Hood and John Liddell, York, 16 November 1761.
Hannah Hood and John Liddel, Kirby Misperton, 17 November 1761.
York Herald, 16 July 1831
On Monday the 11th inst. at Little Habton, in this county, in the 67th year of his age, Mr. Richard Liddell, farmer and grazier. ... husband, an affectionate father, ...By 1840 a Richard Liddell of Habton, near Malton, was in money trouble.
In 1841 Richard Liddell of Habton, near Malton
was again brought up, and remanded for 15 months from the date of the vesting order, for making away with his property.I managed to buy three Yorkshire Deeds (which were part of a larger collection), which indicate that in 1760 Richard Hood was of Great Habton and was one of the parties holding lands at Slingsby in Trust for Thomas and Mary Jackson.
I put my best price in for the Indenture Quadripartite 1767 doc, but was outbid on that one

Some lands at Slingsby transferred to the Peacocks of Nunnington / Stonegrave and then it seems in 1781 to Chris'r Spink (1780s). Two more surnames that crop up in the William Hood of Selby and Jane Hood (nee Casson) of Selby & Brayton papers (Peacock Estate and Spink was their Solicitor regarding Byefield, Selby).
Regards Mark
EDITED: regarding Richard Hood, it seems he was one of the parties holding lands at Slingsby in Trust for Thomas and wife Mary Jackson.
A Thomas Jackson in the document was of West Nifs [West Ness] County of York.