York Archbishops' Registers

1 . TNA - CPR 1301-7, p.383, entry 1

Summary:	Letters of protection until Easter for Pykering, going overseas in the king's service, and for Award, Chileham, Neuwerk and Kernetby, going with him.
Language:	Latin
Dates:	1305/10/14
People and Groups:	Addressee/s: Master Robert de Pykering [Pickering], canon of York; Sender/s: Edward I, king of England; Person/s: Robert Award of Seamer, Master John de Neuwerk [Newark], parson of Oswaldkirk, Master John Kernetby [Carnaby], Nicholas de Chileham, clerk;
Places:	Westminster, Middlesex, England, Seamer, North Riding of Yorkshire, England, Oswaldkirk, North Riding of Yorkshire, England

2 . TNA - SC 8/196/9764

Entry Type:	Petition
Summary:	The abbot and convent of Whitby complain that they are greatly impoverished by the infertility of their lands, disease of their livestock, and the destruction of their church and lands of Crosby by the Scots, and ask that the King ask the Pope that they be allowed to appropriate the church of Seamer, or order the archbishop of York to allow them to do this.
Language:	French
Note:	Formerly enclosed with C 81/118, no.6062, dated at Bishopthorpe on 19 June 1322.
Dates:	1322/00/00
People and Groups:	Addressee/s: [Edward II,] king of England; Sender/s: Abbot and convent of Whitby;
Places:	Crosby Ravensworth, Westmorland, England, Whitby, North Riding of Yorkshire, England, Seamer, North Riding of Yorkshire, England

3 . TNA - CPR 1321-4, p.331, entry 2

Summary:	Licence to the abbot and convent of Whitby to appropriate in mortmain the church of Seamer. On the information of Baldock.
Language:	Latin
Dates:	1323/08/15
People and Groups:	Addressee/s: Abbot and convent of Whitby; Sender/s: Edward II, king of England; Person/s: Master Robert de Baldok [Baldock];
Places:	Pickering, North Riding of Yorkshire, England, Seamer, North Riding of Yorkshire, England

4 . TNA - CPR 1327-30, p.482

Summary:	Exemption, at the instance of Percy, of the chaplains of the chapel of St Mary in his manor of Seamer, celebrating for the soul of his mother Eleanor, from all clerical, lay and papal taxes.
Language:	Latin
Dates:	1330/01/29
People and Groups:	Addressee/s: Chaplains of St Mary, Seamer; Sender/s: Edward III, king of England; Person/s: Eleanor Percy, Henry de Percy;
Places:	Eltham, Kent, England, Seamer, North Riding of Yorkshire, England

5 . Register 9A f.324 (verso) entry 2

Entry Type:	Forewarning
Section Type:	Archdeaconry of the East Riding
Summary:	Forewarning to vicar of Scarborough (Scardeburgh) of a visitation by the archbishop of York of the hospital of St Thomas and St Nicholas, Scarborough (details given).
Language:	Latin
Subjects:	Women, Nuns, Visitations, Hospitals, Archbishops' Visitations
Note:	Document issued in the name of Archbishop Melton.
References:	Robinson, D. B. (ed.). 2011. The Register of William Melton, Archbishop of York, 1317-1340. VI. Canterbury and York Society 101, 9-10.
Dates:	Document date: 1318/05/14 (certain)
People and Groups:	Addressee: Perpetual vicar of Scarborough (vicar) Subject of mandate: Scarborough, Hospital of St Nicholas (warden, brothers and sisters) Subject of mandate: Scarborough, Hospital of St Thomas (warden, brothers and sisters)
Places:	Place of dating: Seamer, North Riding of Yorkshire, England (none given)

6 . Register 11 f.227 (verso) entry 4

Entry Type:	Cause, Commission
Section Type:	Archdeaconry of the East Riding
Summary:	Commission to Master John de Waltham, official of York, Master John Heriz, rector of St Michael, Spurriergate, York, Master John de Burton, rector of Huggate (Hugat), and Thomas Wiles, dean of Christianity of York, to view and examine all instruments that Robert Frankish (Frankiss, Frankys) will show them concerning his right to the vicarage of Seamer (Semer), into which he had intruded some time ago and during which time he had taken and received the appurtenant fruits, rents and issues, disposing of them at his own free will, and had exercised the cure of souls there, and to proceed, determine and execute in this business, the archbishop having recently convicted Robert of malicious detention of the vicarage when he appeared before him in the chapel of his manor of Bishopthorpe and did not care to prove his title; with order to certify the archbishop of their findings and actions by letters patent.
Dates:	Document date: 1371/11/15 (certain)
Places:	Place of dating: Bishopthorpe, West Riding of Yorkshire, England (archbishop's manor); written as Thorp' iuxta Ebor' Subject of commission: Seamer, North Riding of Yorkshire, England (vicarage)

7 . Register 11 f.233 (recto) entry 7

Entry Type:	Institution
Section Type:	Archdeaconry of the East Riding
Summary:	Institution of Thomas de Scardeburgh [Scarborough], priest, to the vicarage of Seamer (Semer), vacant by the death of John de Caunton, the previous vicar, patron: the abbot and convent of Whitby.
Note:	A marginal note in a 17th century hand reads 'Semer'.
Dates:	Document date: 1371/05/24 (certain)
Places:	Place of dating: Bishopthorpe, West Riding of Yorkshire, England (archbishop's manor); written as Thorp' iuxta Ebor' Benefice: Seamer, North Riding of Yorkshire, England (vicarage)

8 . Register 10 f.268 (recto) entry 9

Entry Type:	Order to deliver, Pension
Section Type:	Intrinseca camere
Summary:	Order to the receiver at York to deliver an annual pension of 8 marks from the church of Seamer (Semere), being 5 marks to John de London and 3 marks to Richard de Raundes [Raunds], archbishop's clerks, granted to them by the archbishop during pleasure.
Dates:	Document date: 1346/01/07 (certain)
Places:	Place of dating: Cawood, West Riding of Yorkshire, England (none given); written as Cawode Benefice: Seamer, North Riding of Yorkshire, England (rectory)

9 . Register 7 f.74 (recto) entry 9

Entry Type:	Licence
Section Type:	Ballive
Summary:	Licence to Henry de Sutton and Adam de Middelton [Middleton], royal justices of assize in Yorkshire, to take the assize of novel disseisin brought before them by royal writ by Christiana, widow of Nicholas de Meynill [Meynell], against Nicholas son of Nicholas de Meynill and others concerning a tenement in Seamer near Stokesley in Cleveland (Semer iuxta Stokesley in Cliveland).
Subjects:	Women, Widows
References:	Brown, William, and A. Hamilton Thompson. (eds.). 1931. The Register of William Greenfield Lord Archbishop of York 1306-1315 Part I. Surtees Society 145, 178.
Dates:	Document date: 1306/11/23 (certain)
Places:	Place of dating: Cawood, West Riding of Yorkshire, England (none given); written as Cawod Place mentioned: Seamer, North Riding of Yorkshire, England (property)

10 . Register 10 f.157 (verso) entry 3

Entry Type:	Commission to confirm
Section Type:	Archdeaconry of Cleveland
Summary:	Commission to Master John de Burton, rector of Sigglesthorne (Syglesthorne), Master William de Burton, vicar of Kirkbymoorside (Kirkebymoresheved) and Master Roger de Ake, vicar of Seamer (Semer), all learned in the law, to confirm or annul the election of a new prioress of Yedingham, following the death of Margaret de Lutton, the former prioress of Yedingham.
Subjects:	Prioresses, Religious Houses, Female, Women
Dates:	Document date: 1345/05/12 (certain)
People and Groups:	Yedingham Priory, Benedictine
Places:	Place of dating: Cawood, West Riding of Yorkshire, England (none given); written as Cawode Place of person role: Sigglesthorne, East Riding of Yorkshire, England (rectory) Place of person role: Seamer, North Riding of Yorkshire, England (vicarage) Place of person role: Kirkbymoorside, North Riding of Yorkshire, England (vicarage)