York Archbishops' Registers

1 . TNA - CPR 1301-7, p.103

Summary:	Presentation of Bedwyn to the church of Steventon, Salisbury diocese.
Language:	Latin
Dates:	1303/01/12
People and Groups:	Addressee/s: Walter de Bedewynde [Bedwyn], clerk; Sender/s: Edward I, king of England;
Places:	Odiham, Hampshire, England, Steventon, Berkshire, England

2 . TNA - CPR 1307-13, p.83

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.
Language:	Latin
Dates:	1308/06/16
People and Groups:	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;
Places:	Reading, Berkshire, England

3 . TNA - CPR 1307-13, p.192

Summary:	Safe conducts to Chaddesworth, Bandinelli and Balla, deputies of the patriarch of Jerusalem, archbishop of York and others, appointed by the Pope to enquire in Ireland into the Templars and their Grand Preceptor.
Language:	Latin
Dates:	1309/09/29
People and Groups:	Addressee/s: Thomas [de Chaddesworth], dean of Dublin, Bindus de Bandinelli, of St Paul's in the diocese of Florence, canon, John Balla of Clonfert, canon; Sender/s: Edward II, king of England; Person/s: [Deodatus (Dieudonne),] abbot of Lagny [Lagny-sur-Marne], Master Sicard de Vauro [Vaur], canon of Narbonne, [William de Greenfield,] archbishop of York, [Antony Bek,] Patriarch of Jerusalem, [John Langton,] bishop of Chichester, [John Dalderby,] bishop of Lincoln;
Places:	Windsor, Berkshire, England, Lagny Abbey, Seine-et-Marne department, France

4 . TNA - CPR 1307-13, p.411, entry 1

Summary:	Memorandum that here, in York Castle, the king re-delivered the great seal to Adam de Osgodby, Robert de Bardelby and William de Airmyn, which they had delivered to him at Windsor.
Language:	Latin
Dates:	1312/01/20
People and Groups:	Person/s: William de Ayremynne [Airmyn], Robert de Bardelby [Barlby], Adam de Osgodeby [Osgodby];
Places:	York City, York, York, England, Windsor, Berkshire, England

5 . TNA - CPR 1307-13, p.429

Summary:	Mandate to Bacon, to whom the king has committed custody of the castle and honours of Wallingford and St Valery, to deliver the issues and all things therein to Gaveston, to whom the king has restored the castle and honours. On the information of Melton.
Language:	Latin
Dates:	1312/02/10
People and Groups:	Addressee/s: Edmund Bacon; Sender/s: Edward II, king of England; Person/s: Piers Gaveston, earl of Cornwall, William de Melton;
Places:	York City, York, York, England, Wallingford, Berkshire, England

6 . TNA - CPR 1307-13, p.500

Summary:	Grant to Giovenzano of the prebend of Wistow, in the king's gift on account of the vacancy in the archbishopric of York in the time of Edward I. Mandate to Archbishop Greenfield.
Language:	Latin
Note:	Jovenzano was a Savoyard who held various ecclesiastical offices in England, including the church of Cheshunt, Hertfordshire.
Dates:	1312/10/11
People and Groups:	Addressee/s: Master Aymon de Jovenzano [Aimone de Giovenzano], king's clerk; Sender/s: Edward II, king of England; Person/s: William [Greenfield], archbishop of York;
Places:	Windsor, Berkshire, England, York Minster, Wistow Prebend, Yorkshire, England

7 . TNA - CPR 1313-17, p.13

Summary:	Mandate to Eure to restore the temporalities of St Mary's, York to Ness, confirmed as the new abbot. Similar to Abel.
Language:	Latin
Dates:	1313/09/02
People and Groups:	Addressee/s: John de Eure, escheator beyond Trent; Sender/s: Edward II, king of England; Person/s: Alan de Nesse [Ness], abbot of St Mary's, York, John Abel, escheator this side of Trent, William [Greenfield], archbishop of York;
Places:	Windsor, Berkshire, England, York City, York, York, England

8 . TNA - SC 1/63/189

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.
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.
Dates:	1314/12/01, 1314/12/14
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;
Places:	Reading, Berkshire, England, Berwick upon Tweed, Northumberland, England

9 . TNA - CPR 1313-17, p.649

Summary:	Mandate to the archdeacon of Richmond to re-assess the current values of the churches in his archdeaconry, as it was agreed in the recent tax grant that the clergy of the archdeaconry would be taxed on the current value rather than the customary value, on account of the destruction caused by the Scots. Mandate to the abbot of Selby, collector there, to levy the tax according to the new valuation.
Language:	Latin
Dates:	1317/05/12
People and Groups:	Addressee/s: archdeacon of Richmond; Sender/s: Edward II, king of England; Person/s: Abbot of Selby, collector;
Places:	Windsor, Berkshire, England, Selby Abbey, West Riding of Yorkshire, England

10 . TNA - CPR 1317-21, p.44, entry 1

Summary:	Presentation, sent to the archdeacon of Richmond, of Cardinal Jean to the church of Brigham. On the information of Damory.
Language:	Latin
Dates:	1317/11/08
People and Groups:	Addressee/s: Archdeacon of Richmond; Sender/s: Edward II, king of England; Person/s: Gaucelinus Johannis [Gauscelin de Jean], cardinal priest of SS. Marcellino e Pietro, papal vice-chancellor, Roger Dammory [Damory];
Places:	Windsor, Berkshire, England, Brigham, Cumberland, England