York Archbishops' Registers

1 . TNA - CPR 1307-13, p.376

Summary:	Power to Kendale to punish anyone interfering in the passage of Archbishop Greenfield from London to Dover, as he travels to the General Council on the Pope's summons.
Language:	Latin
Dates:	1311/07/25
People and Groups:	Addressee/s: Robert de Kendale, constable of Dover Castle; Sender/s: Edward II, king of England; Person/s: William [Greenfield], archbishop of York;
Places:	Berwick upon Tweed, Northumberland, England, Dover, Kent, England

2 . TNA - CPR 1307-13, p.378, entry 1

Summary:	Letters of protection and safe-conduct for one year to Archbishop Greenfield, to travel to the General Council on the king's business. Letters nominating Bluntesdon and Thorntoft as his attorneys.
Language:	Latin
Dates:	1311/07/26
People and Groups:	Addressee/s: William [Greenfield], archbishop of York; Sender/s: Edward II, king of England; Person/s: Master Robert de Bluntesdon [Blunsdon], William de Thorntoft;
Places:	Berwick upon Tweed, Northumberland, England

3 . TNA - CCR 1330-3, p.366

Summary:	Notification to Melburn that he may travel to the Roman Curia to defend a suit brought against him by Fieschi concerning the prebend of Strensall, despite the king's earlier prohibition.
Language:	Latin
Dates:	1331/10/15
People and Groups:	Addressee/s: John de Melburn; Sender/s: Edward III, king of England; Person/s: William de Flisk [Guglielmo Fieschi];
Places:	Westminster, Middlesex, England, York Minster, Strensall Prebend, Yorkshire, England

4 . TNA - CCR 1333-7, p.354

Summary:	Order to the [un-named] collector of the clerical tenth in the diocese of York (and other dioceses) to travel and collect the sums due, as the king is in great need of money for the war in Scotland.
Language:	Latin
Dates:	1334/11/15
People and Groups:	Sender/s: Edward III, king of England;
Places:	Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, England

5 . Register 7 f.297 (verso) entry 5

Entry Type:	Order to deliver
Section Type:	Intrinseca camere
Summary:	Order to William de Jafford [Yafforth], archbishop's receiver of York, to deliver £10 to Richard de Wystowe [Wistow] for the purchase of animals as a gift for the king, if he should travel across the archbishopric on his way to Scotland.
References:	Brown, William, and A. Hamilton Thompson. (eds.). 1938. The Register of William Greenfield Lord Archbishop of York 1306-1315 Part IV. Surtees Society 152, 270.
Dates:	Document date: 1309/07/21 (certain)
Places:	Place of dating: Birkin, West Riding of Yorkshire, England (none given); written as Birkin

6 . Register 7 f.307 (verso) entry 4

Entry Type:	Letter/s
Section Type:	Intrinseca camere
Summary:	Letter of Deodatus [Dieudonne], abbot of Lagny and Sicard de Vaur, papal chaplains and auditores causarum, concerning the inquiries into individual members of the order of the Knights Templar, requesting the archbishop to summon the bishop of Lincoln, fellow commissioner to inquire, and informing him of their intention to travel to Lincoln, then York (details given).
References:	Brown, William, and A. Hamilton Thompson. (eds.). 1938. The Register of William Greenfield Lord Archbishop of York 1306-1315 Part IV. Surtees Society 152, 301-302.
Dates:	Document date: 1309/11/09 (certain)
Places:	Place of dating: City of London, London, England (none given); written as London

7 . Register 8 f.230 (verso) entry 3

Entry Type:	Order
Section Type:	Intrinseca camere
Summary:	Order from the archbishop to William of Wintringham (Wyntringham), rector of the church of St George, York, and archbishop's receiver at York, to pay to Robert of Blunsdon (Bluntesdon), steward of the archbishop's household, two hundred pounds for the expenses of the household, for the archbishop's return to England.
Subjects:	Stewards, Travel, Archbishop's Household, Receivers
References:	Brown, William, and A. Hamilton Thompson. 1940. The Register of William Greenfield Lord Archbishop of York 1306-1315 Part V. Surtees Society 153, 6.
Dates:	Document date: 1312/05/10 (inferred)
People and Groups:	Addressee: Wintringham, William, fl 1309-1314, Dean of Christianity, York (rector) Recipient: Blunsdon, Robert, fl 1309-1313, Steward of the household of the Archbishop of York (steward)
Places:	Place of person status: York, St George, Fishergate, York, York, England (parish) Place of dating: Lyon, Rhone department, France (none given)

8 . Register 8 f.232 (recto) entry 5

Entry Type:	Licence
Section Type:	Intrinseca camere
Summary:	Licence from the archbishop to William de Grafton senior, a former Knight Templar, to leave the monastery in Selby for one month to travel in the dioceses of York, Lincoln and London on his business.
Subjects:	Licences, Knights Templar
References:	Brown, William, and A. Hamilton Thompson. 1940. The Register of William Greenfield Lord Archbishop of York 1306-1315 Part V. Surtees Society 153, 7.
Dates:	Document date: 1312/08/15 (certain)
People and Groups:	Addressee: Grafton, William, fl 1312, senior, Former Knight Templar (knight templar)
Places:	Place of dating: Cawood, West Riding of Yorkshire, England (archbishop's castle) Place of residence: Selby, West Riding of Yorkshire, England (monastery)

9 . Register 8 f.215 (verso) entry 8

Entry Type:	Licence
Section Type:	Archdeaconry of Richmond
Summary:	Licence for Dame Petronilla de Neyville [Nevill], to have an oratory in the manor of Rudham, because of the distance between Rudham and the parish church of Danby Wiske, and because it was difficult for Dame Petronilla to travel to the church, owing to the weakness and powerlessness of her body.
Subjects:	Infirmity, Women
References:	Brown, William, and A. Hamilton Thompson. (eds.). 1936. The Register of William Greenfield Lord Archbishop of York 1306-1315 Part IV. Surtees Society 152, 216.
Dates:	Document date: 1312/09/13 (certain)
Places:	Place of dating: Bishop Monkton, West Riding of Yorkshire, England (none given)

10 . Register 9A f.276 (verso) entry 4

Entry Type:	Commission
Section Type:	Archdeaconry of Cleveland
Summary:	Commission to Master J [John] Gower, rector of Wheldrake (Queldrik, corrected from Escrik), to hear confessions in the deanery of Bulmer of those who could not travel to the penitentiary of York; with a memorandum of the similar appointment of a confessor in the deaneries of the archdeaconry of Cleveland; the archdeaconry of York; the archdeaconry of the East Riding and the archdeaconry of Nottingham.
Subjects:	Nuns
Note:	A manicule in the margin points to the heading for this entry.
References:	Robinson, D. B. (ed.). 1978. The Register of William Melton, Archbishop of York, 1317-1340. II. Canterbury and York Society, 71, 41-42.
Dates:	Document date: 1319/03/10 (certain)
Places:	Place of dating: Bishopthorpe, West Riding of Yorkshire, England (none given)