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1 .   TNA - C 85/182/59
Entry Type: Signification of excommunication
Summary: Request for secular assistance in pursuing Rybstan, an obdurate excommunicate.
Language: Latin
Note: Filed in error with the documents for 1338. Enrolled in BIA, Register 7, fol. 135r
Dates: 1308/07/20
People and Groups: Addressee/s: Edward II, king of England; Sender/s: William [Greenfield], archbishop of York; Person/s: Alice de Rybstan [Ribston];
Places: Rievaulx Abbey, North Riding of Yorkshire, England
2 .   TNA - C 85/178/30
Entry Type: Signification of excommunication
Summary: Request for secular assistance in pursuing Buntyng and other lay brothers of Rievaulx, obdurate excommunicates.
Language: Latin
Dates: 1309/03/24
People and Groups: Addressee/s: Edward II, king of England; Sender/s: William [Greenfield], archbishop of York; Person/s: Brother Peter de Beriby, lay brother of Rievaulx Abbey, Brother Hugh Mytaynmuth, lay brother of Rievaulx Abbey, Brother John Buntyng, lay brother of Rievaulx Abbey;
Places: Bishop Burton, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, Rievaulx Abbey, North Riding of Yorkshire, England
3 .   TNA - CCR 1330-3, p.111
Summary: Order to the treasurer and barons of the Exchequer to make payment or assignment of 20 marks to the abbot of Rievaulx if, as the abbot has claimed in his petition to the king and council in parliament, the abbot loaned that sum to Edward II, by the hands of Melton, which was then given to Weston for the king's affairs.
Language: Latin
Dates: 1330/12/22
People and Groups: Addressee/s: Treasurer and barons of the Exchequer; Sender/s: Edward III, king of England; Person/s: Master John de Weston, chamberlain of Scotland, William de Melton, king's clerk, Abbot of Rievaulx;
Places: Westminster, Middlesex, England, Rievaulx Abbey, North Riding of Yorkshire, England
4 .   TNA - C 81/1788/40
Entry Type: Request
Summary: Request for the arrest of Kyrkeby, who has left Rievaulx abbey and wanders in secular habit.
Language: Latin
Dates: 1332/11/19
People and Groups: Addressee/s: Edward III, king of England; Sender/s: Brother William [de Ingelby], abbot of Rievaulx; Person/s: Brother John de Kyrkeby, monk of Rievaulx;
Places: Rievaulx Abbey, North Riding of Yorkshire, England
5 .   TNA - C 270/14/15
Entry Type: Certification
Summary: Response to a royal writ, certifying that convocation met on 25 April 1388, and granted the king half of one tenth, payable at the Nativity of St John the Baptist next, with exemptions for those benefices and temporalities in Northumberland, Cumberland and Copeland devastated by Scottish incursions and English armies, Egglestone Abbey, whose goods had been burnt in a fire, and all poor nuns. Collectors were the abbot of St Mary's, York, the priors of Newburgh and Bridlington, and the abbots of Rievaulx and Rufforth.
Language: Latin
Dates: 1388/05/12
People and Groups: Addressee/s: Richard II, king of England; Sender/s: Richard de Conyngeston, doctor of law, official of the court of York, vicar-general in spirituals of Alexander, archbishop of York; Person/s: Abbot of Rufforth, tax collector, Abbot of Rievaulx, tax collector, Abbot of St Mary's, York, tax collector, Prior of Bridlington, tax collector, Alexander [Neville], archbishop of York, Prior of Newburgh, tax collector;
Places: York City, York, York, England, Egglestone Abbey, North Riding of Yorkshire, England, Newburgh Priory, North Riding of Yorkshire, England, York, St Mary's Abbey, York, York, England, Bridlington Priory, Bridlington, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, Rievaulx Abbey, North Riding of Yorkshire, England, Rufford Abbey, Nottinghamshire, England
6 .   TNA - C 270/21
Entry Type: Visitation
Summary: Record of an enquiry investigating alleged abuses committed by William Botheby, master of St Leonard's Hospital, York. Membranes 1-11 relate to the visitation of 1399, and include a royal writ dated 11 December 1398; copies of inquests held on 20 January 1399; and various accounts and other subsidiary material relating to the investigation. Membranes 12-13 relate to a further visitation in 1402, and comprise the king's writ, dated 16 November 1399, and the text of the inquest held on 31 May 1402.
Language: Latin
Note: See also Borthwick Papers, no. 79.
Dates: 1398/12/11, 1402/05/31
People and Groups: Addressee/s: Richard II, king of England; Sender/s: Thomas [Arundel], archbishop of York, Henry IV, king of England, Richard II, king of England; Person/s: Master William Feriby, archdeacon of the East Riding, Master John Neuton, Treasurer of York, Master Robert Ragenhill, Master William Cawod, Master John Harwod, Master Alan Newerk, Thomas Thurkhill, William Selby, William Frost, Prior and convent of Bolton in Craven, tax collector;
Places: Beverley, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, York City, York, York, England, Watton Priory, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, Egglestone Abbey, North Riding of Yorkshire, England, Rievaulx Abbey, North Riding of Yorkshire, England, Bolton Priory, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, Welbeck Abbey, Nottinghamshire, England, Fountains Abbey, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, York, St Leonard's Hospital, York, York, England
7 .   TNA - E 135/10/21
Summary: Collection of responses from various religious houses to Henry IV's request for money, sent on 28 April 1400. Reponses from the northern province comprise the abbeys and priories of Welbeck (m. 2a); Selby (m. 3); Beauvale (m. 14); Repton (m. 15); Warter (m. 16); Watton (m. 17); Thurgarton (m. 18); Shelford (m. 19); Pontefract (m. 20); Monk Bretton (m. 21); Worksop (m. 22); Lenton (m. 23); Blyth (m. 24); Rievaulx (m. 31); Byland (m. 32); Kirkstall (m. 33); Fountains (m. 34).
Language: Latin
Note: Undated, but presumably written shortly after the request was sent. Includes a number of partial seals.
Dates: 1400/00/00
People and Groups: Addressee/s: Henry IV, king of England;
Places: Monk Bretton Priory, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, Pontefract Priory, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, Rievaulx Abbey, North Riding of Yorkshire, England, Byland Abbey, North Riding of Yorkshire, England, Thurgarton Priory, Nottinghamshire, England, Worksop Priory, Nottinghamshire, England, Shelford Priory, Nottinghamshire, England, Lenton Priory, Nottinghamshire, England, Blyth Priory, Nottinghamshire, England, Warter Priory, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, Watton Priory, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, Selby Abbey, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, Welbeck Abbey, Nottinghamshire, England, Beauvale Priory, Nottinghamshire, England, Repton Priory, Nottinghamshire, England, Fountains Abbey, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, Kirkstall Abbey, West Riding of Yorkshire, England
8 .   Register 10 f.261 (verso) entry 3
Entry Type: Appointment of proctor/s
Section Type: Diverse letters
Summary: Appointment by the abbot and convent of Rievaulx of Brother Thomas de Burgo Sancti Petri [?Peterborough], fellow monk, as their proctor.
Dates: Document date: 1349/11/20 (certain)
Places: Place of dating: Rievaulx Abbey, North Riding of Yorkshire, England (abbey)
9 .   Register 8 f.237 (recto) entry 13
Entry Type: Absolution
Section Type: Intrinseca camere
Summary: Memorandum of absolution for Henry de Kirby, a former Knight Templar, dwelling in Rievaulx Abbey, for wearing the habit of that order after its suppression; with another similar note for John de Walpol [Walpole], dwelling in Byland Abbey.
Subjects: Knights Templar, Suppression, Absolution
References: Brown, William, and A. Hamilton Thompson. 1940. The Register of William Greenfield Lord Archbishop of York 1306-1315 Part V. Surtees Society 153, 8, note 1.
Dates: Event date: 1312/09/23 (certain)
People and Groups: Subject of document: Kirby, Brother, Henry, fl 1311-1312, Former Knight Templar (knight templar)
Subject of document: Walpole, John, fl 1312, Former Knight Templar (knight templar)
Places: Place of event: Cawood, West Riding of Yorkshire, England (archbishop's castle)
Place of residence: Rievaulx Abbey, North Riding of Yorkshire, England (abbey)
Place of residence: Byland Abbey, North Riding of Yorkshire, England (abbey)
10 .   Register 10 f.166 (verso) entry 4
Entry Type: Profession, Oath of obedience
Section Type: Archdeaconry of Cleveland
Summary: Profession and oath of obedience by Brother Richard, abbot-elect of Rievaulx (Ryevallis).
Dates: Document date: 1349/11/01 (certain)
Places: Place of dating: Cawood, West Riding of Yorkshire, England (archbishop's chapel); written as Cawode
Subject of document: Rievaulx Abbey, North Riding of Yorkshire, England (abbey)


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