York Archbishops' Registers

1 . TNA - CPR 1377-81, p.289

Summary:	Licence for Michael, son of William de la Pole the elder, to alienate to Archbishop Neville a yearly rent of 13s 4d from his manor of Sculcoates, part of lands worth 200 marks which his father had licence from Edward III to alienate for the foundation of the Carthusian priory of Hull.
Language:	Latin
Dates:	1378/11/08
People and Groups:	Addressee/s: Michael de la Pole; Sender/s: Richard II, king of England; Person/s: Alexander [Neville], archbishop of York, William de la Pole;
Places:	Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England, Sculcoates, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, Kingston upon Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, England

2 . TNA - CPR 1381-5, p.454

Summary:	Licence for Bishop Buckingham, Waltham, Hynton, Kele and Kele to alienate half an acre of land in Hogsthorpe and the advowson of the church to the prior and convent of the Carthusian house of St Michael by Hull, for finding a chaplain to celebrate daily in the priory church for the souls of the grantors.
Language:	Latin
Dates:	1384/08/28
People and Groups:	Addressee/s: Prior and convent of St Michael by Hull; Sender/s: Richard II, king of England; Person/s: Thomas de Hynton, parson of a moiety of the church of Theddlethorpe, Walter de Kele, vicar of Sculcoates, John son of Robert de Kele, clerk, John [Buckingham], bishop of Lincoln, Master John de Waltham;
Places:	Westminster, Middlesex, England, Theddlethorpe, Lincolnshire, England, Kingston upon Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, Sculcoates, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, Hogsthorpe, Lincolnshire, England

3 . TNA - E 328/426

Entry Type:	Licence
Summary:	Licence of Archbishop Scrope, reciting bulls of Pope Urban VI, dated at Genoa on 3 December 1386, and Pope Boniface IX, dated at St Peter's, Rome on 1 October 1396, allowing Thomas, earl of Nottingham to transfer ownership of the priory of Monk's Kirby, formerly a cell of the priory of St Nicholas, Angers, to his new Carthusian foundation at Axholme, Lincolnshire.
Language:	Latin
Note:	For the copy in Scrope's register, see BIA, Register 16, fol. 117. For the foundation charter of Axholme (Epworth) charterhouse, see TNA, E 211/714.
Dates:	1398/11/19
People and Groups:	Addressee/s: Children of the Holy Mother Church; Sender/s: Richard [Scrope], archbishop of York; Person/s: Thomas [Mowbray], earl of Nottingham, Pope Benedict IX, Pope Urban VI;
Places:	Cawood, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, Angers, Maine-et-Loire department, France, Monks Kirby Priory, Warwickshire, England, Axholme Priory, Lincolnshire, England

4 . Register 11 f.240 (verso) entry 3

Entry Type:	Memorandum, Demise
Section Type:	Archdeaconry of Nottingham
Summary:	Memorandum that the prior and convent of Beauvale (Bella Valle), of the Carthusian Order, have demised the churches of Greasley (Grellay) and Selston (Seleston') in the archdeaconry of Nottingham in the same form in which a similar demise is granted to the abbot and convent of Sallay [in Craven] in the Archdeaconry of York in the present register.
Marginalia:	Bella vallis [17th-century hand]
Dates:	Document date: 1357/08/03 (certain)
Places:	Place of dating: Southwell, Nottinghamshire, England (archbishop's palace); written as Suthwell' Benefice: Greasley, Nottinghamshire, England (rectory) Benefice: Selston, Nottinghamshire, England (rectory)

5 . Register 12 f.62 (verso) entry 1

Entry Type:	Proceedings, Papal Bull
Section Type:	Archdeaconry of the East Riding
Summary:	Archbishop's recitation of a papal bull of Pope Gregory VI [recte Gregory XI] regarding the foundation of the Carthusian house at Hull by William and Michael de la Pole and the appropriation of the church of 'Fenton' [recte Foston on the Wolds]; with note of confirmation by Pope Urban VI.
Note:	This appears to be supporting documentation for entries earlier in this register relating to the foundation of the Carthusian priory near Hull. However, it contains various copying errors: the pope concerned is clearly Gregory XI (1370-76), not Gregory VI [1045-46], and the church, named as 'Fenton', is evidently Foston on the Wolds. See also Register 12, fols 47-50.
Dates:	Recited document date: 1376/06/28 (certain)
Places:	Place of dating: Villeneuve-les-Avignon, Gard department, France (none given)

6 . Register 12 f.47 (recto) entry 1

Entry Type:	Commission
Section Type:	Archdeaconry of the East Riding
Summary:	Commission to Master Walter de Skirlagh [Skirlaw], archdeacon of the East Riding, doctor of decrees, John de Waltham, canon of York, and John de Clifford, archbishop's chancellor, following receipt of letters of Pope Gregory XI (recited), dated at Villeneuve-les-Avignon, 28 June 1376, to Sir Michael de la Pole, knight, altering the intentions of William, his father, to found a religious house of the order of St Clare, and instead to found a religious house and hospital of the Carthusian order by Hull, to view and measure the site, review the endowment assigned to the hospital, and to make inquiries into the appropriation of the church of Foston on the Wolds (details given).
Dates:	Document date: 1379/03/27 (certain)
Places:	Place of dating: Cawood, West Riding of Yorkshire, England (none given); written as Cawode

7 . Register 12 f.47 (verso) entry 1

Entry Type:	Certification of execution of mandate
Section Type:	Archdeaconry of the East Riding
Summary:	Certification by Walter de Skirlagh [Skirlaw], archdeacon of the East Riding, and John de Waltham, canon of York, to the archbishop of the execution of the archbishop's commission to them and John de Clifford, archbishop's chancellor, relating to the proposed foundation by Sir Michael de la Pole, knight, of a religious house and hospital of the Carthusian order by Hull, including their report on having measured the site, the assignment to the house by Michael of the reversion of the manor of Sculcoates, and the endowment to be made to the house from the appropriation of the church of Foston on the Wolds (details given).
Dates:	Document date: 1379/04/13 (certain)
Places:	Place of dating: Kingston upon Hull Priory, East Riding of Yorkshire, England (hospital); written as [Carthusian house, Hull], in loco hospital'

8 . Register 12 f.48 (recto) entry 1

Entry Type:	Ratification, Notification
Section Type:	Archdeaconry of the East Riding
Summary:	Notification of the ratification by the archbishop of the foundation of a religious house or hospital of the Carthusian order by Hull, the institution of the prior and convent and the appropriation to the house of the church of Foston on the Wolds (details given).
Dates:	Document date: 1380/07/31 (certain)
Places:	Place of dating: Cawood, West Riding of Yorkshire, England (archbishop's manor); written as Cawode

9 . Register 12 f.50 (recto) entry 1

Entry Type:	Commission
Section Type:	Archdeaconry of the East Riding
Summary:	Commission to the dean of Beverley to make inquiries into the proposed appropriation to the prior and convent of the Carthusian house by Hull of the church of Sculcoates (details given).
Dates:	Document date: 1381/05/06 (certain)
Places:	Place of dating: Beverley, East Riding of Yorkshire, England (archbishop's manor); written as Beverlaci

10 . Register 12 f.50 (recto) entry 2

Entry Type:	Certification of execution of mandate
Section Type:	Archdeaconry of the East Riding
Summary:	Certification to the archbishop by the dean of Beverley of execution of the archbishop's commission to him to make inquiries into the proposed appropriation of the church of Sculcoates to the prior and convent of the Carthusian house by Hull (details given).
Dates:	Document date: 1381/05/09 (certain)
Places:	Place of dating: Sculcoates, East Riding of Yorkshire, England (none given); written as Sculcotes