York Archbishops' Registers

1 . TNA - CPR 1327-30, p.201, entry 2

Summary:	Protection for Edenestowe, and ratification of his estate in the prebend of Oxton and Crophill in Southwell, in the patronage of the archbishop of York, and the parsonage of Swineshead, in the patronage of John la Warre and his wife Joan.
Language:	Latin
Dates:	1328/01/10
People and Groups:	Addressee/s: Henry de Edenestowe [Edwinstowe], king's clerk; Sender/s: Edward III, king of England; Person/s: [William Melton,] archbishop of York, John la Warre, Joan la Warre;
Places:	Clipstone, Nottinghamshire, England, Swineshead, Lincolnshire, England, Southwell Minster, Crophill and Oxton Prebend, Nottinghamshire, England

2 . TNA - CPR 1330-4, p.194

Summary:	Ratification of the estate of Edenestowe in various places, including prebends in Lincoln; the prebend of Oxton and Crophill in Southwell, of the archbishop's patronage; a prebend in Llandaff; and as parson of Warsop, of the patronage of Roos.
Language:	Latin
Dates:	1331/10/28
People and Groups:	Addressee/s: Henry de Edenestowe [Edwinstowe], king's clerk; Sender/s: Edward III, king of England; Person/s: [William Melton,] archbishop of York, Thomas de Nevill [Neville], John de Roos, knight;
Places:	Windsor, Berkshire, England, Southwell Minster, Crophill and Oxton Prebend, Nottinghamshire, England, Southwell, Nottinghamshire, England, Warsop, Nottinghamshire, England

3 . TNA - CPR 1330-4, p.519

Summary:	Ratification of the estate of Smale as prebendary of Studley in the church of Ripon, by the collation of Archbishop Melton.
Language:	Latin
Dates:	1334/02/26
People and Groups:	Addressee/s: Master John le Smale, king's clerk; Sender/s: Edward III, king of England; Person/s: William [Melton], archbishop of York;
Places:	York City, York, York, England, Ripon Minster, Studley Prebend, Yorkshire, England

4 . TNA - CPR 1338-40, p.13

Summary:	Grant in mortmain to Archbishop Melton of a void place called Patrick Pool in York [details given], the site of a former church of St Benedict but now waste and covered in refuse, to build rentable houses to fund chantries for the estate and soul of the king and the souls of Melton, Greenfield and all faithful departed.
Language:	Latin
Note:	For the preceding inquisition ad quod damnum, see TNA C 143/243/16. For a later grant allowing Archbishop Thoresby to build on the site and grant it to the vicars of York Minster, see CPR 1358-61, pp. 267-8.
Dates:	1338/02/14
People and Groups:	Addressee/s: William [Melton], archbishop of York; Sender/s: Edward III, king of England; Person/s: William de Grenfeld [Greenfield], archbishop of York;
Places:	Westminster, Middlesex, England, Patrick Pool, York, York, England

5 . TNA - CPR 1345-8, p.205

Summary:	Licence, following an inquisition and £10 paid to the king, for the executors (named) of Cestria, canon of York, to alienate two messuages in York to a chaplain to celebrate daily in York Minster for the souls of Archbishop Greenfield, Cestria and his parents, for the good estate of Archbishop Zouche and the canons of York, and their predecessors and successors. Valued at £4 13s 4d.
Language:	Latin
Note:	For the related inquisition, see TNA, C 143/282/25.
Dates:	1346/11/06
People and Groups:	Addressee/s: Executors of Richard de Cestria; Sender/s: Edward III, king of England; Person/s: William de Grenefeld [Greenfield], archbishop of York, William [Zouche], archbishop of York, Richard de Cestria, canon of York, Margery de Cestria, Vivian de Cestria;
Places:	Windsor, Berkshire, England

6 . TNA - CPR 1391-6, p.692

Summary:	Licence for Swanland and Halton to found a chantry in St Peter le Willows, with the assent of Archbishop Arundel and the prior and convent of Holy Trinity, Kirkham, who hold the church, and the parishioners; and to build on the churchyard (details given) and alienate those buildings in mortmain to the chaplain, to celebrate for their estate and their souls after death.
Language:	Latin
Note:	For a related inquisition, see TNA C 143/426/10.
Dates:	1396/04/04
People and Groups:	Addressee/s: Nicholas Swanland, chaplain, Robert Halton, chaplain; Sender/s: Richard II, king of England; Person/s: Prior and convent of Holy Trinity, York, Thomas [Arundel], archbishop of York;
Places:	York City, York, York, England, Kirkham Priory, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, York, St Peter le Willows, York, York, England

7 . TNA - CPR 1405-8, p.35, entry 1

Summary:	Grant for life to Flynt of the office of parker of Healaugh, forfeited because Marchal, the previous parker, rose against the king with Archbishop Scrope and the Earl Marshal.
Language:	Latin
Note:	The calendar does not identify 'Helley', but it is identified with the Percy estate of Healaugh in P. McNiven, 'The Betrayal of Archbishop Scrope', Bulletin of the John Rylands Library, 54 (1971), pp.173-213.
Dates:	1405/07/11
People and Groups:	Addressee/s: Thomas Flint; Sender/s: Henry IV, king of England; Person/s: [Thomas Mowbray, earl of Norfolk,] Earl Marshal, John Marchal [Marshal], parker of Healaugh, [Richard Scrope,] archbishop of York;
Places:	Westminster, Middlesex, England, Healaugh, West Riding of Yorkshire, England

8 . TNA - CPR 1405-8, p.395

Summary:	Licence for Parker, Boxe, Willenhale and David to found a chantry at the altar of St Katharine in the church of St Chad, Lichfield (Stowe), for the good estate of Parker, Marjory, widow of Richard Walton, and the souls of them, Walton and Archbishop Scrope, and to grant land in Lichfield in mortmain to the chaplain.
Language:	Latin
Dates:	1408/01/23
People and Groups:	Addressee/s: Thomas Parker, clerk, William Willenhale, clerk, Robert Boxe, clerk, John David, clerk; Sender/s: Henry IV, king of England; Person/s: Richard [Scrope,] archbishop of York, Marjory [Walton], Richard Walton;
Places:	Westminster, Middlesex, England, Lichfield, St Chad, Lichfield, Staffordshire, England, Lichfield, Staffordshire, England

9 . Register 5A f.91 (recto) entry 1

Entry Type:	Appointment of proctor/s
Section Type:	Chapters
Marginalia:	Appointment by the dean and chapter of York of Robert de Valoignes [Waleyns or Valognes], canon of York, and Master Ralph de Yarewell, official of the archdeacon of Nottingham and rector of Cotham, and Mater William de Langeton [Langton], advocate of the court of York, as proctors to discuss with the king's chancellor and treasurer the lands and temporalities of the vacant archbishopric of York according to the statute made in the parliament at Westminster, 16 April 1340 (the Wednesday after Sunday in mid Lent last).
Subjects:	Archbishop's Estates, Vacancy of the See
Places:	Benefice: Cotham, Nottinghamshire, England

10 . Register 5A f.91 (recto) entry 2

Entry Type:	Letters patent
Section Type:	Chapters
Marginalia:	Letters patent of King Edward III, issued following deliberation in the parliament held at Westminster on Wednesday in mid Lent, and at the petition of John [Stratford], archbishop of Canterbury and all the clergy of England, protecting ecclesiastical property and tenure, particularly during voidances where the heir is a minor, and rights of presentation, from unjust seizure of temporalities of the archbishop of York during a vacancy and creation of waste by royal ministers.
Language:	French
Subjects:	Archbishop's Estates, Vacancy of the See
References:	This appears to refer to 'A statute for the clergy made at Westminster 16 April 1340, 14 Ed. 3 Stat. 4, 'How the temporalities of Bishops shall be used in Time of Vacation'.