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Our Youtube site contains a number of video presentations to help you learn more about both the registers and The National Archives material.

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Presentations

Presentation one - Introduction

Presentation two - Medieval Ecclesiastical Administration

Presentation three - Archbishops as Patrons and Builders

Presentation four - Chantries and Communities

Presentation five - The Collections of The National Archives

Presentation six - Church and State part 1 (Chancery)

Presentation seven - Church and State part 2 (Exchequer)

Presentation eight - Visitations and Joan of Leeds

Presentation nine - Local places

Presentation ten - Reading the Registers

Reading the Registers: Dates and Numbers, Weights and Measures (Opens in Google Drive - please download the file to listen to the audio commentary)

Books and articles

Contextual works

  • C. J. Offer, The Bishop’s Register (London, 1929)
  • A. Hamilton Thompson, ‘The Registers of the Archbishops of York’, Yorkshire Archaeological Journal 32 (1936), 245-6
  • J. S. Purvis, An Introduction to Ecclesiastical Records (London, 1953)
  • D. M. Owen, The Records of the Established Church in England, British Records Association, Archives and the User, No. 1 (British Records Association, 1970)
  • D. Robinson, ‘Bishops’ Registers’, in Short Guides to Records, 2nd series: Guides 25-48, ed. K. M. Thompson, The Historical Association (London, 1997), pp. 44-49
  • D. M. Smith, A Guide to Bishops’ Registers in England and Wales: a Survey from the Middle Ages to the Abolition of the Episcopacy in 1646, Royal Historical Society, Guides and Handbooks series, 11 (London, 1981) and Supplement to the ‘Guide to Bishops’ Registers…, CYS (York, 2004)
  • H. Watt, ‘Archbishops’ Registers Revealed: Church, State and Society in the Registers of the Archbishops of York, 1225-c.1650’, in ed. C. Taylor and G. Dodd, Monarchy, State and Political Culture in Late Medieval England: Essays in Honour of W. Mark Ormrod (University of York, York Medieval Press, 2020), 188-209
  • E. F. Jacob, The Medieval Registers of Canterbury and York: Some Points of Comparison (London, 1953)
  • W. A. Pantin, The English Church in the Fourteenth Century (Cambridge, 1955)


Published editions of the registers

  • The Register or Rolls of Walter Grey, Lord Archbishop of York, ed. James Raine, Surtees Society 56 (1872)
  • The Register of Walter Giffard, Lord Archbishop of York 1266-1279, ed. William Brown, Surtees Society 109 (1904)
  • The Register of William Wickwane, Lord Archbishop of York 1279-1285, ed. William Brown, Surtees Society 114 (1907)
  • The Register of John le Romeyn, Lord Archbishop of York 1286-1296 Part I, ed. William Brown, Surtees Society 123 (1912)
  • The Registers of John le Romeyn, Lord Archbishop of York 1286-1296 Part II, and the Register of Henry of Newark, Lord Archbishop of York 1296-1299, ed. William Brown, Surtees Society 128 (1916)
  • The Register of Thomas of Corbridge, Lord Archbishop of York, 1300-1304, Part I, ed. William Brown, Surtees Society 138 (1925)
  • The Register of Thomas of Corbridge, Lord Archbishop of York, 1300-1304, Part II, ed. William Brown, and A. Hamilton Thompson, Surtees Society 141 (1928), 165-80 (vacancy register, 1304-1306; Reg 5A, ff. 69-81)
  • The Register of William Greenfield Lord Archbishop of York 1306-1315 Part I, ed. William Brown and A. Hamilton Thompson, Surtees Society 145 (1931) (register of vicar-general, 1306; Reg 5A, ff. 83-84)
  • The Register of William Greenfield Lord Archbishop of York 1306-1315 Part I, ed. William Brown and A. Hamilton Thompson, Surtees Society 145 (1931) (chapters, Reg 7 ff. 1-45; Reg 8, ff. 1-23; officiality, Reg 7, ff. 46-56; Reg 8, ff. 24-39; ballive, Reg 7, ff. 57-108; Reg 8, ff. 40-58)
  • The Register of William Greenfield Lord Archbishop of York 1306-1315 Part II, ed. William Brown and A. Hamilton Thompson, Surtees Society 149 (1934) (archdeaconry of York, Reg 7, ff. 109-155; Reg 8, ff. 59-114)
  • The Register of William Greenfield Lord Archbishop of York 1306-1315 Part III, ed. William Brown and A. Hamilton Thompson, Surtees Society 151 (1936) (archdeaconry of Cleveland, Reg 7, ff. 156-191; Reg 8, ff. 115-135; archdeaconry of the East Riding, Reg 7, ff. 192-224; Reg 8, 136-163)
  • The Register of William Greenfield Lord Archbishop of York 1306-1315 Part IV, ed. William Brown and A. Hamilton Thompson, Surtees Society 152 (1936) (archdeaconry of Nottingham, Reg 7, ff. 225-266; Reg 8, ff. 164-211 (including miscellaneous entries); archdeaconry of Richmond, Reg 7, ff. 267-277; Reg 8, 212-223; intrinseca camere, 1306-1311, Reg 7, ff. 278-325)
  • The Register of William Greenfield Lord Archbishop of York 1306-1315 Part V, ed. William Brown and A. Hamilton Thompson, Surtees Society 153 (1940) (intrinseca camere, 1311-1315, Reg 8, ff. 223-256; suffragans, Reg 7, ff. 326-348; Reg 8, ff. 257-271; Allertonshire and Howdenshire, Reg 8, ff. 272-278; 285 (including miscellaneous entries); homages, Reg 8, ff. 279-288; registers of vicars-general, Reg 8, ff. 300-314; register of business following visitations of 1308-1309, Reg 7, ff. 142-174)
  • The Register of William Melton, Archbishop of York, 1317–1340, volume I, ed. R. M. T. Hill, Canterbury & York Society, 70 (1977), (ff. 555-621)
  • The Register of William Melton, Archbishop of York, 1317–1340, volume II, ed. D. B. Robinson, Canterbury & York Society 71 (1978) (ff. 269-320v)
  • The Register of William Melton, Archbishop of York, 1317–1340, volume III, ed. R. M. T. Hill, Canterbury & York Society, 76 (1988) (ff. 622–688v)
  • The Register of William Melton, Archbishop of York, 1317–1340, volume IV, ed. R. Brocklesby, Canterbury & York Society, 85 (1997) (ff. 400–477)
  • The Register of William Melton, Archbishop of York, 1317–1340, volume V, ed. T. C. B. Timmins, Canterbury & York Society, 93 (2002) (ff. 83–151)
  • The Register of William Melton, Archbishop of York, 1317–1340, volume VI, ed. D. B. Robinson, Canterbury & York Society, 101 (2011) (ff. 321-399).
  • A calendar of the register of Robert Waldby, Archbishop of York, 1397, ed. D. M. Smith, Borthwick Texts and Calendars: Records of the Northern Province 2 (1974)
  • A Calendar of the Register of Richard Scrope, Archbishop of York, 1398-1405, ed. R. N. Swanson, Part I Borthwick Texts and Calendars: Records of the Northern Province 8 (1981) (ff. 1-110)
  • A Calendar of the Register of Richard Scrope, Archbishop of York, 1398-1405, ed. R. N. Swanson, Part II Borthwick Texts and Calendars: Records of the Northern Province 11 (1985) (ff. 114-180)
  • The Register of Thomas Rotherham, Archbishop of York 1480-1500 Part I, ed. Barker, Canterbury & York Society 69 (1976)
  • Pontifical of Christopher Bainbridge, Archbishop of York, ed. William George Henderson, Surtees Society 61 (1875)
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