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1 .   TNA - CPR 1405-8, p.482, entry 1
Summary: Commission to Gascoigne and others [named] to enquire into various conspiracies amongst certain stone-cutters and other evil-doers in Yorkshire to hinder the work on the fabric of York Minster and to main Colchestre and the masons taken by him for the work.
Language: Latin
Note: See also CPR 1405-8, p. 383.
Dates: 1408/07/24
People and Groups: Addressee/s: William Gascoigne; Sender/s: Henry IV, king of England; Person/s: William Colchestre [Colchester], mason;
Places: Westminster, Middlesex, England, York Minster, York, York, England
2 .   Register 8 f.309 (recto) entry 4
Entry Type: Writ of venire facias
Section Type: Register, Vicar-general
Summary: Royal writ ordering the archbishop to ensure that Adam de Middelton [Middleton], his clerk, appears before the justices assigned at Westminster for hearing pleas concerning Walter de Langeton [Langton], bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, treasurer of Edward I, on Monday, the morrow of the quindene of Trinity, to answer William, son of Alan de Knapton alongside the bishop, Henry de Lichef' [Lichfield], Richard de Barkeston [Barkston] and John de Stalyngbourne on a plea of trespass and conspiracy. The sheriff informed the justices on Monday the morrow of the quindene of Easter that Middleton was a clerk and had no lay fee by which he could be attached. Witnessed by Roger le Brabanzon [Brabazon]. Response noting that this was done.
Note: Relates to the trial of Bishop Langton between 1307 and 1312. For details, see TNA JUST 1/1344, and Beardwood, A. (ed.). (1969). Records of the Trial of Walter Langeton, Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, 1307-1312. Camden Fourth Series 6.
References: Brown, William, and A. Hamilton Thompson. (eds.). 1934. The Register of William Greenfield Lord Archbishop of York 1306-1315 Part V. Surtees Society 153, 188.
Dates: Document date: 1309/04/16 (certain)
Places: Place of dating: Westminster, Middlesex, England (none given)
3 .   Register 8 f.309 (recto) entry 3
Entry Type: Writ of venire facias
Section Type: Register, Vicar-general
Summary: Royal writ ordering the archbishop to ensure that Adam de Middelton [Middleton], his clerk, appears before the justices assigned at Westminster for hearing pleas concerning Walter de Langeton [Langton], bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, treasurer of Edward I, on Monday, the morrow of the quindene of Trinity, to answer John de Sutton alongside the bishop on a plea of trespass and conspiracy. The sheriff informed the justices on Monday the morrow of the quindene of Easter that Middleton was a clerk and had no lay fee by which he could be attached. Witnessed by Roger le Brabanzon [Brabazon]. Response noting that this was done.
Note: Relates to the trial of Bishop Langton between 1307 and 1312. For details, see TNA JUST 1/1344, and Beardwood, A. (ed.). (1969). Records of the Trial of Walter Langeton, Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, 1307-1312. Camden Fourth Series 6.
References: Brown, William, and A. Hamilton Thompson. (eds.). 1934. The Register of William Greenfield Lord Archbishop of York 1306-1315 Part V. Surtees Society 153, 188.
Dates: Document date: 1309/04/16 (certain)
Places: Place of dating: Westminster, Middlesex, England (none given)
4 .   Register 9B f.643 (recto) entry 4
Entry Type: Papal Bull
Section Type: Diverse letters
Summary: Papal bull; John XXII to the archbishops of Canterbury and York and Roger [Northburgh], bishop-elect of Coventry and Lichfield, issued at the request of Edward II, ordering them to pronounce null and void all oaths of conspiracy sworn against Hugh le Despencer the elder and Hugh le Despencer the younger.
Subjects: Papal Bulls, Conspiracy, Oaths
References: Hill, Rosalind M. T. (ed.). 1988. The Register of William Melton, Archbishop of York, 1317-1340. III. Canterbury and York Society 76, 45.
Dates: Document date: 1322/05/05 (certain)
Places: Place of dating: Avignon, Vaucluse department, France (papal palace)
5 .   Register 9A f.153 (recto) entry 3
Entry Type: Request
Section Type: Archdeaconry of York
Summary: Request to the prior and convent of Drax that since Brother Ralph de Chollerton, born in the archbishop's jurisdiction of Hexham (Hextildesham), a monk of the abbey of Jedburgh (Geddeworth), and several of his English brethren are not suspect persons but have been cast from their house by the conspiracies of their Scottish brethren and are now vagrants and forced to beg, they are to accommodate Brother Ralph and his fellows in their house at the supplication of [Thomas of Lancaster] the earl of Lancaster, until further ordinance can be made for their estate.
Dates: Document date: 1318/01/26 (certain)
Places: Place of dating: Cawood, West Riding of Yorkshire, England (archbishop's castle); written as Cawod


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