| Summary: | Appointment of Gaveston as lieutenant in Ireland. Writ of aid to Burgh. Gaveston to present to churches in Ireland in the king's gift. Memorandum that these were sealed before the king, who commanded that they be sealed in the presence of Richmond, Percy, Despenser, Melton and Osgodby. |
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| Language: | Latin |
| Dates: |
1308/06/16
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Addressee/s: Piers de Gaveston, earl of Cornwall; Sender/s: Edward II, king of England; Person/s: John de Britannia [Brittany], earl of Richmond, Richard de Burgh, earl of Ulster, Henry de Percy, Hugh le Despenser, William de Melton, Adam de Osgodby;
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| Places: |
Reading, Berkshire, England
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| Summary: | Melton states that the £200 recently sent to him has been spent on household expenses and the wages of the Berwick garrison, and he asks that more be provided speedily to More and Grisnyak. |
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| Language: | French |
| Note: | No year given, and day lost. A note on the dorse refers to a payment made on 13 December 1314, suggesting that the letter was sent shortly before that date. The king spent early-December 1314 in Berkhamsted, Kings Langley and Windsor, so Melton may have based himself in Reading. |
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1314/12/01, 1314/12/14
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| People and Groups: |
Addressee/s: Walter de Norwyz [Norwich], Treasurer; Sender/s: William de Melton, [keeper of the Wardrobe]; Person/s: Bertrand de la More, sergeant at arms, Bernard Grisnyak, sergeant at arms;
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| Places: |
Reading, Berkshire, England, Berwick upon Tweed, Northumberland, England
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| Summary: | Summons to Archbishop Melton to attend parliament at Westminster on 19 September 1334. |
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| Language: | Latin |
| Dates: |
1334/07/24
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| People and Groups: |
Addressee/s: William [Melton], archbishop of York; Sender/s: Edward III, king of England;
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| Places: |
Reading, Berkshire, England
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| Summary: | Grant to le Smale of the wardenship of the Hospital of St Mary Magdalene, Ripon, in the king's gift due to the late vacancy in the archbishopric. |
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| Language: | Latin |
| Dates: |
1345/12/22
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| People and Groups: |
Addressee/s: John le Smale, king's clerk, Philip de Weston, king's clerk; Sender/s: Edward III, king of England; Person/s: William [Zouche], archbishop of York;
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| Places: |
Isleworth, Middlesex, England, Reading, Berkshire, England, Ripon, Hospital of St Mary Magdalene, West Riding of Yorkshire, England
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| Summary: | Exemplification of an undertaking by the abbot and convent of Wellow, dated 7 November 1330 and confirmed by Archbishop Melton on 9 November 1330, to maintain a chaplain in Newark church for the soul of Maud Saucemere (details given). |
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| Language: | Latin |
| Dates: |
1347/02/10
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| People and Groups: |
Sender/s: Edward III, king of England; Person/s: William [Melton], archbishop of York, Thomas [of Wellingore], abbot of Wellow;
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| Places: |
Reading, Berkshire, England, Wellow Abbey, Lincolnshire, England, Newark on Trent, Nottinghamshire, England
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| Summary: | Presentation of Launde to the vicarage of St Mary, Nottingham, in the king's gift due to the priory of Lenton being in his hands during the war, as an exchange with John Cosyn. |
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| Language: | Latin |
| Dates: |
1347/03/15
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| People and Groups: |
Addressee/s: John de la Launde, parson of Arnold; Sender/s: Edward III, king of England; Person/s: John Cosyn, vicar of St Mary, Northampton;
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| Places: |
Reading, Berkshire, England, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England, Arnold, Nottinghamshire, England, Lenton Priory, Nottinghamshire, England
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| Summary: | Presentation of Clipston to the church of East Leake, in the king's gift due to the vacancy in the Repton Priory. |
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| Language: | Latin |
| Dates: |
1347/03/15
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| People and Groups: |
Addressee/s: Robert de Clipston; Sender/s: Edward III, king of England;
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| Places: |
Reading, Berkshire, England, Repton Priory, Nottinghamshire, England, East Leake, Nottinghamshire, England
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| Summary: | Assurance to the residents of the archbishop's fee in Beverley that, regardless of a recognisance made by Gard at the Exchequer, by which they have been charged £100 towards the fifteenth since the grant of 8 Edward III, despite only paying £40 20d in 6 Edward III, they should not be charged more than £50 in the future. Mandates to the treasurer and barons of the Exchequer, and to the last collectors in the East Riding, and (16 May) to the assessors and collectors of the wool subsidy. |
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| Language: | Latin |
| Note: | Printed in full in Poulson, History of the Town of Beverley, vol. i (London, 1829), pp. 108-10. |
| Dates: |
1347/04/06
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| People and Groups: |
Addressee/s: Residents of Beverley; Sender/s: Edward III, king of England; Person/s: Stephen de Gard;
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| Places: |
Reading, Berkshire, England, Beverley, East Riding of Yorkshire, England
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| Summary: | Grant to Archbishop Zouche, for 20 marks payable to the king, of the marriage of Bernard, son and heir of John de Bruys, a minor in the king's wardship. Vacated and surrendered, as the wardship and marriage was granted to Grey. |
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| Language: | Latin |
| Dates: |
1347/04/20
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| People and Groups: |
Addressee/s: William [Zouche], archbishop of York; Sender/s: Edward III, king of England; Person/s: John de Grey of Ruthin, Bernard de Bruys, John de Bruys;
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| Places: |
Reading, Berkshire, England
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| Summary: | Licence for Robert, son of William de Hale, to grant to Giffard and Holt 10d of rent in Hale, and the reversion of a messuage there after the deaths of the daughters of John Claver. Pardon also for acquiring other lands and rents (details given) from Hale and entering without licence. |
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| Language: | Latin |
| Note: | For a related inquisition, see TNA, C 143/283/2. Althorpe church belonged to the hospital of St Leonard in York, of which Giffard was master, and Holt's family came from the area of the now-deserted village of Hale. Giffard himself presented Holt to Althorpe in January 1339. LAO, Register IV, fol. 108r, calendared in N. H. Bennett, 'The Beneficed Clergy in the Diocese of Lincoln during the Episcopate of Henry Burghersh, 1320-1340', DPhil thesis, University of York (1989), 2 vols, ii, p. 90. |
| Dates: |
1347/05/06
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| People and Groups: |
Addressee/s: Robert de Hale; Sender/s: Edward III, king of England; Person/s: John de Holt, parson of Althorpe, John Giffard, canon of York, Wiliam de Hale, Elizabeth Claver, Margery Claver, John Claver, Anne Claver, Joan Claver;
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| Places: |
Reading, Berkshire, England, Althorpe, Lincolnshire, England, Hale, Apethorpe, Northamptonshire, England
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