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1 .   TNA - SC 8/323/E564
Entry Type: Petition
Summary: The dean and chapter of York request clarification of their charters, as the king's ministers wrongfully enter their lands to make distraint. They also request confirmation as to where pleas involving them, the canons and their men may be held, as the city bailiffs interpret their charter to refer only to their villeins and not their other tenants. They request confirmation of Henry III's charter granting them and the archbishop the right to have a coroner in the city of York, and that none of their men or tenants be dealt with before the seneschal, marshal or clerk of the market unless their own bailiff has failed to do right. They also request licence for a pillory and tumbrel within York, to punish their tenants who breach the assizes of bread and ale.
Language: French
Note: Dated to the reign of Edward II, as it refers to King Henry, the king's grandfather.
Dates: 1307/07/08, 1327/01/20
People and Groups: Addressee/s: King and Council; Sender/s: Dean and chapter of York;
Places: York City, York, York, England
2 .   TNA - CPR 1330-4, p.575
Summary: Commission of oyer and terminer to Twenge, Shardlowe and Parnyng, on complaint by Archbishop Melton, that whereas the archbishops had assize of bread and ale in Beverley, Manby and many others [named] have forcibly prevented him from having the amends of breaches of the assize, and his officials from making examination, for which he has lost his profit, and have assaulted his officials, so that he now struggles to find people to serve him.
Language: Latin
Dates: 1334/04/12
People and Groups: Addressee/s: William de Twenge [Thwing], John de Shardlowe, Robert Parnyng; Sender/s: Edward III, king of England; Person/s: William [Melton], archbishop of York, John de Manby;
Places: Rockingham, Northamptonshire, England, Beverley, East Riding of Yorkshire, England
3 .   TNA - CPR 1340-3, p.188
Summary: Licence for Marton to alienate in mortmain to the master and brethren of St Leonard's four messuages and 7s rent in York, to find bread for the poor and sick in the hospital every Thursday.
Language: Latin
Dates: 1341/04/18
People and Groups: Addressee/s: William de Marton, clerk; Sender/s: Edward III, king of England;
Places: Westminster, Middlesex, England, York, St Leonard's Hospital, York, York, England
4 .   TNA - C 260/67/9
Entry Type: Court Proceedings, Writ of certiorari
Summary: Writ summoning all records relating to the liberties of the archbishop of York in Nottinghamshire. Attached to a copy of a quo warranto plea held before Herle at Nottingham on 13 November 1329, where Archbishop Melton was summoned to show by what warrant he claimed various liberties in Southwell and Laneham with soke, including infangthief and furcas, a fair at Southwell on Pentecost and four days following, and on the vigil, feast and morrow of St Thomas the Martyr, and a market on Saturdays, fines for breaches of the assize of bread and ale in Southwell and Laneham, pillory and tumbrell, and free warren in their lands in Southwell and its soke, Laneham, Scrooby, Askham, Sutton and Plumtree, and to have their three parks at Hockesgrave, Hockerwod and Northwod in the manor of Southwell, and one in Scrooby. Archbishop, by attorney William de Suwell. Concerning most Melton claimed that the archbishops them as lords of the manor form time immemorial; and for free warren, Edward II granted and confirmed that free warren in Southwell, etc., provided the lands were not in the royal forest, showing charter dated 16 November 1323. The archbishops have held the parks from time immemorial as pertaining to their manors. Jury come and say that all the liberties except the free warren have been held as pertaining to the manors, and the free warren is taken into the king's hands. Archbishop pays a fine of 5 marks, and recovers his liberties.
Language: Latin
Note: For the original quo warranto record, see TNA JUST 1/684, rot 19d.
Dates: 1356/02/26
People and Groups: Addressee/s: Treasurer and Chamberlains of the Exchequer; Sender/s: Edward III, king of England; Person/s: William [de Melton], archbishop of York, William de Herle, justice itinerant, John [Thoresby], archbishop of York;
Places: Westminster, Middlesex, England, Southwell, Nottinghamshire, England, Laneham, Nottinghamshire, England
5 .   Register 7 f.297 (verso) entry 12
Entry Type: Memorandum
Section Type: Intrinseca camere
Summary: Memorandum of a letter to the bailiff of Sherburn to provide the archbishop's baker with six or seven quarters of good corn to have bread at Cawood on 11 August; and to provide ten or twelve quarters of oats within the same time.
References: Brown, William, and A. Hamilton Thompson. (eds.). 1938. The Register of William Greenfield Lord Archbishop of York 1306-1315 Part IV. Surtees Society 152, 271.
Dates: Document date: 1309/08/05 (certain)
Places: Place of dating: Scrooby, Nottinghamshire, England (none given); written as Scroby
6 .   Register 8 f.250 (verso) entry 7
Entry Type: Order to deliver
Section Type: Intrinseca camere
Summary: Order to Roger de Thornton, archbishop’s receiver of York, to pay a goldsmith of York 69s 2d for making four silver cups and a baker of York 6s for consecrated bread lately sent to Hugh le Despenser and Ralph de Monthermer.
Subjects: Goldsmiths, Plate, Bakers, Money, Host, Receivers
References: Brown, William, and A. Hamilton Thompson. 1940. The Register of William Greenfield Lord Archbishop of York 1306-1315 Part V. Surtees Society 153, 38.
Dates: Document date: 1314/08/19 (certain)
People and Groups: Addressee: Thornton, Roger, d 1317, Receiver of Archbishop of York (receiver)
Recipient: Despenser, Hugh (none given)
Recipient: Monthermer, Ralph, c 1270-1325, 1st Baron Monthermer; Earl of Gloucester, Hertford and Atholl (none given)
Places: Place of dating: Cawood, West Riding of Yorkshire, England (archbishop's castle)
Place of person status: York City, York, York, England (city)
7 .   Register 9B f.408 (recto) entry 4
Entry Type: Memorandum, Licence
Section Type: Archdeaconry of Nottingham
Summary: Memorandum of a licence for the subprior and convent of Blyth (Blida) to sell two liveries of bread and beer.
References: Brocklesby, R. (ed.). 1997. The Register of William Melton, Archbishop of York, 1317-1340. IV. Canterbury and York Society 85, 21.
Dates: Document date: 1319/05/23 (certain)
Places: Place of dating: Bishopthorpe, West Riding of Yorkshire, England (none given)
8 .   Register 9A f.343 (recto) entry 3
Entry Type: Profession, Installation
Section Type: Archdeaconry of the East Riding
Summary: Profession and installation of Brother Robert de Scardeburgh [Scarborough], canon of Bridlington, as the new prior of that house; with marginal note that, at the prior's request, Brother Robert de Baynton [Bainton] was appointed as subprior, Brother Geoffrey de Boulton as cellarer and Brother John de Seburgham as keeper of bread and beer.
References: Robinson, D. B. (ed.). 2011. The Register of William Melton, Archbishop of York, 1317-1340. VI. Canterbury and York Society 101, 72.
Dates: Document date: 1321/09/18 (certain)
Places: Place of dating: Bridlington Priory, Bridlington, East Riding of Yorkshire, England (chapter house)
9 .   Register 9A f.46 (recto) entry 1
Entry Type: Order to deliver
Section Type: Intrinseca camere
Summary: Order to [William de Hockerton and Henry Ketel [Kettle]] the archbishop's receivers at Southwell to deliver 5 marks to the sheriff of Nottinghamshire or a fine made to the king in the eyre at Nottingham, the archbishop's bailiffs having failed to punish those breaking the assize of bread and ale in Southwell.
References: Robinson, D. B. (ed.). The Register of William Melton, Archbishop of York, 1317-1340. VII. Canterbury and York Society (forthcoming).
Dates: Document date: 1331/04/25 (certain)
Places: Place of dating: Southwell, Nottinghamshire, England (none given)
10 .   Register 9A f.136 (verso) entry 2
Entry Type: Mandate, Monition
Section Type: Chapters
Summary: Mandate to the chapter of Beverley Minster for a monition to all those infringing the liberties of Beverley Minster, by committing crimes relating to breaches of the assize of bread and ale and also disturbing the peace, on pain of excommunication (details given).
Note: A manicule in the margin points up to the heading of this entry.
References: Timmins, T. C. B. (ed.). 2002. The Register of William Melton, Archbishop of York, 1317-1340. V. Canterbury and York Society 93, 139-140.
Dates: Document date: 1333/12/07 (certain)
Places: Place of dating: York City, York, York, England (none given)
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