York Archbishops' Registers

1 . TNA - E 135/8/18

Summary:	Report into sums charged against Adam de Kirkham relating to testaments and administrations of people who died during the plague in Amounderness deanery. Records the numbers who died in each parish, those who left wills and those who died intestate, and periods when churches and chapels were vacant.
Language:	French
Dates:	1349/00/00
People and Groups:	Person/s: Henry de Walton, archdeacon of Richmond, William Ballard, dean of Amounderness, Adam de Kirkham, dean of Amounderness;
Places:	Ribchester, Lancashire, England, Cockerham, Lancashire, England, Lytham, Lancashire, England, Amounderness Deanery, Richmond Archdeaconry, Lancashire, England, Poulton le Fylde, Lancashire, England, Goosnargh, Lancashire, England, Garstang, Lancashire, England, Stalmine, Lancashire, England, Preston, Lancashire, England, St Michael's on Wyre, Lancashire, England, Kirkham, Lancashire, England, Bispham, Lancashire, England, Lancaster, Lancashire, England

2 . TNA - CPR 1348-50, p.418

Summary:	Presentation of Cestre to the church of Scrayingham, in the king's gift while he has custody of the lands formerly of Joan [recte Margaret], countess of Kent, deceased.
Language:	Latin
Note:	The reference to 'Joan' is presumably an error for Margaret Wake, countess of Kent and widow of Edmund of Woodstock, who had recently died of the plague. See the presentation, four days earlier, of Thomas de Brembre to the rectory of Cottingham, by the king as keeper of Margaret's lands (CPR 1348-50, p. 417).
Dates:	1349/11/10
People and Groups:	Addressee/s: John de Cestre [Chester], clerk; Sender/s: Edward III, king of England; Person/s: [Margaret Wake,] countess of Kent;
Places:	Westminster, Middlesex, England, Scrayingham, East Riding of Yorkshire, England

3 . Register 10 f.127 (verso) entry 2

Entry Type:	Dedication, Letter/s, Licence
Section Type:	Archdeaconry of Nottingham
Summary:	Letter to the perpetual vicar and parishioners of the church of Newark (Newerk), granting permission for any bishop to dedicate the new cemetery which they have purchased there, as the growing number of deaths from plague has made the old one insufficient (details given).
Dates:	Document date: 1349/05/15 (certain)
Places:	Place of dating: Cawood, West Riding of Yorkshire, England (none given); written as Cawode

4 . Register 10 f.261 (recto) entry 5

Entry Type:	Commission
Section Type:	Diverse letters
Summary:	Memorandum of a commission to Hugh, archbishop of Damascus, to dedicate the cemetery of the chapel in Thorpe le Street [Thorp in strata], within the bounds and limits of the parish church of Brunn' [Nunburnholme], with the consent of Roger de Styandeby [Stainby], now rector.
Subjects:	Plague
Note:	This entry is annotated: 'and this during the current mortal pestilence', that is, the Black Death.
Dates:	Document date: 1349/08/15 (certain)
Places:	Subject of notification: Nunburnholme, East Riding of Yorkshire, England (church) Place of dating: Bishop Burton, East Riding of Yorkshire, England (none given) Subject of notification: Thorpe le Street, Market Weighton, East Riding of Yorkshire, England (chapel)

5 . Register 10 f.36 (verso) entry 1

Entry Type:	Institution, Induction
Section Type:	Archdeaconry of York
Summary:	Institution and order for induction of Brother Thomas de Stodeley [Studley], canon of Nostell, to the perpetual vicarage of the church of Tickhill (Tikill), vacant on the death of Hugh de Derfeld [Darfield], the previous vicar, making an exception to the fact that this church should have a secular vicar, on account of the lack of such vicars due to the plague, patron: prior and convent of Nostell (two entries).
Dates:	Document date: 1349/09/08 (certain)
People and Groups:	Appointee: Nostell Priory, Augustinian Canons (canon)
Places:	Place of dating: Bishop Burton, East Riding of Yorkshire, England (none given); written as Burton iuxta Beverl' Benefice: Tickhill, West Riding of Yorkshire, England (vicarage)

6 . Register 10A f.38 (verso) entry 2

Entry Type:	Papal Bull
Section Type:	Ordinations
Summary:	Papal bull of Pope Clement VI, granting the petition of the archbishop to give him authority to hold ordinations at times other than those prescribed, on account of mortality from the plague in his province, resulting in a lack of priests to serve the church.
Dates:	Document date: 1349/10/12 (certain)
Places:	Place of dating: Avignon, Vaucluse department, France (none given)

7 . Register 10 f.287 (verso) entry 1

Entry Type:	Commission, Notarial Subscription, Papal Bull
Section Type:	Suffragans
Summary:	Commission to Brother Hugh, archbishop of Damascus, to carry out ordinations on the Saturday following the conversion of St Paul 1349 [30 January 1350] in York Minster, reciting a bull of pope Clement VI, dated at Avignon on 12 October 1349, authorising the archbishop to carry out four extra ordinations in the year following its date, to make good losses to the plague, and with a notarial subscription by John de Aldefeld [Aldfield], clerk of the diocese of York and notary public (witnesses named).
Note:	The marginal heading for the notarial subscription is decorated.
Dates:	Document date: 1349/10/12 (certain) Document date: 1350/01/27 (certain)
Places:	Place of dating: Cawood, West Riding of Yorkshire, England (archbishop's manor); written as Cawode

8 . Register 10 f.287 (verso) entry 2

Entry Type:	Commission, Memorandum, Ordination (person)
Section Type:	Suffragans
Summary:	Memorandum of a commission to Brother Hugh, [archbishop of Damascus], to carry out ordinations in York Minster, or any other church, chapel or monastery in York that he chooses, on the Saturday before the feast of St Mark the Evangelist [24 April 1350], under the terms of the papal bull authorising the archbishop to carry out four extra ordinations this year, to make good the losses to the plague.
Dates:	Document date: 1350/04/20 (certain)
Places:	Place of dating: Ripon, West Riding of Yorkshire, England (none given); written as Ripon

9 . Register 10 f.287 (verso) entry 3

Entry Type:	Commission, Memorandum, Ordination (person)
Section Type:	Suffragans
Summary:	Memorandum of a commission to Brother Hugh, archbishop of Damascus, to carry out ordinations in York Minster or any other church in York that he chooses, under the terms of the papal bull authorising the archbishop to carry out four extra ordinations this year, to make good the losses to the plague.
Dates:	Document date: 1350/06/03 (certain)
Places:	Place of dating: Cawood, West Riding of Yorkshire, England (none given); written as Cawode

10 . Register 11 f.204 (verso) entry 5

Entry Type:	Mandate, Monition
Section Type:	Archdeaconry of the East Riding
Summary:	Mandate to the dean of Harthill for a monition to Adam de Brantingham, anniversary chaplain, to serve as parochial chaplain in the church of Hotham at a suitable salary, or to show why he should not be compelled to do this, according to an ordinance issued by Archbishop Zouche upon the complaint of John, rector of Hotham, (Hothom), that the plague was ravaging his parish and death has taken away all of his chaplains, and that Brantingham has refused to serve, to the manifest danger to the souls of his parishioners.
Dates:	Document date: 1362/01/20 (certain)
Places:	Place of dating: Cawood, West Riding of Yorkshire, England (archbishop's castle); written as Cawode Subject of mandate: Hotham, East Riding of Yorkshire, England (church)