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1 .   TNA - C 270/14/4
Summary: Response to a royal writ of 15 April 1348 (recited), asking that, given the king's urgent need, the payment of the two clerical tenths recently granted (in January 1347) be moved forward to the feasts of St Barnabas (11 June) in 1348 and 1349. The clergy of York and Carlisle, meeting on 13 June 1348, agreed to move the payment dates to 15 August 1348 and Michaelmas 1349, but the bishop and clergy of Durham refused to do so.
Language: Latin
Note: Badly damaged and incomplete. This letter, without the text of the recited writ, is enrolled in Archbishop Zouche's register; BIA, Register 10, fol. 247v. The text of the writ is contained in an earlier letter to the bishop of Durham (op. cit., fol. 247r), and is enrolled on the Close Roll (TNA C 54/183, m. 26d; CCR 1346-9, p.508).
Dates: 1348/06/25
People and Groups: Addressee/s: Edward III, king of England; Sender/s: William [de la Zouche], archbishop of York;
Places: Cawood, West Riding of Yorkshire, England
2 .   TNA - E 328/140
Summary: Ordinances issued by Bishop Skirlaw of Durham for his chantry chapel at Swine (details given). Recites royal letters of 18 November 1399 and 23 November 1402, and letters of Archbishop Scrope of 5 January 1404. Confirmation added by prioress and convent of Swine, 26 April 1406, and by the chapter of York, 8 June 1406.
Language: Latin
Note: For the royal charters, see CPR 1399-1401, p. 130; CPR 1401-5, pp. 177-8. For Archbishop Scrope's confirmation, see BIA, Register 16, fol. 127v.
Dates: 1404/05/02
People and Groups: Sender/s: Walter [Skirlaw], bishop of Durham; Person/s: Richard [Scrope], archbishop of York;
Places: Swine, East Riding of Yorkshire, England
3 .   Register 7 f.307 (verso) entry 3
Entry Type: Memorandum
Section Type: Intrinseca camere
Summary: Memorandum of a letter of the official of the court of the bishop of London, which was sent to the official of York together with the contents of the papal bull ordering inquiries into the order of Knights Templar in the city and diocese of Canterbury; with a note of the letter from the papal commissioners (named) to inquire into the order, and a mandate for the citation of the order, registered in the preceding folio of the register.
Note: A manicule in the margin points to this memorandum.
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; referring to the document mentioned on p. 292, note 1.
Dates: Event date: 1309/11/04 (certain)
Places: Place of event: Harewood, West Riding of Yorkshire, England (none given); written as Harewode
4 .   Register 7 f.302 (verso) entry 15
Entry Type: Letter/s
Section Type: Intrinseca camere
Summary: Letter of the bishops of London and Lincoln, principal collectors of the subsidy for the Holy Land imposed by Pope Clement V and deputed to King Edward I for three years [final three of the seven papal tenths imposed in 1305], to the abbot and convent of Gloucester, subcollectors in the diocese of Worcester, requesting that collection of the tenth from the archbishop of York in Worcester diocese be stayed. The registers of the taxation made by John [of Pontoise], bishop of Winchester and Oliver [Sutton], bishop of Lincoln, have shown that the archbishop was charged 2000 marks for all his goods throughout the realm, payable to the abbot of St Mary's, York, and no goods were taxed in the diocese of Worcester.
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, 278-279.
Dates: Document date: 1309/12/07 (certain)
Places: Place of dating: City of London, London, England (none given); written as London
5 .   Register 5A f.215 (recto) entry 3
Entry Type: Mandate
Section Type: Chapters
Summary: Mandate to the dean and chapter of York from Walter, archbishop of Canterbury, and John, bishop of Winchester and John, bishop of Ely, papal executors, ordering them to pronounce in coastal towns, markets or elsewhere letters of Pope John XXII, dated at Avignon on 29 March 1317 (recited in full), pronouncing excommunication against anyone entering England, Wales or Ireland against King Edward II and anyone assisting them, and to certify this before Michaelmas next.
Note: For the equivalent mandate to the bishop of Durham, see Durham Cathedral Archive, Register II, fol. 57.
References: Brown, William, and A. Hamilton Thompson. 1940. The Register of William Greenfield Lord Archbishop of York 1306-1315 Part V. Surtees Society 153, 286-287.
Dates: Recited document date: 1317/03/29 (certain)
Document date: 1317/05/24 (certain)
Places: Place of dating: Lambeth, Surrey, England (none given); written as Lambhith iuxta London
6 .   Register 5A f.181 (recto) entry 1
Entry Type: Mandate
Section Type: Chapters
Summary: Mandate to the dean and chapter of York from Walter, archbishop of Canterbury, and John, bishop of Winchester and John, bishop of Ely, papal executors, ordering them to pronounce in coastal towns, markets or elsewhere letters of Pope John XXII, dated at Avignon on 29 March 1317 (recited in full), pronouncing excommunication against anyone entering England, Wales or Ireland against King Edward II and anyone assisting them, and to certify this before Michaelmas next.
Note: For the equivalent mandate to the bishop of Durham, see Durham Cathedral Archive, Register II, fol. 57.
References: Brown, William, and A. Hamilton Thompson. 1940. The Register of William Greenfield Lord Archbishop of York 1306-1315 Part V. Surtees Society 153, 286-287.
Dates: Recited document date: 1317/03/29 (certain)
Document date: 1317/05/24 (certain)
Places: Place of dating: Lambeth, Surrey, England (none given); written as Lambhith iuxta London
7 .   Register 9B f.664 (recto) entry 3
Entry Type: Writ
Section Type: Diverse letters
Summary: Writ of Edward II to the executors of the late bishop of Lincoln requesting examination of the register of the taxation of Pope Nicholas IV (the Taxatio) to determine if certain possessions of the archbishop of York had been included in the assessment of the archbishop's possessions or if a payment which they had made came under a separate assessment.
Subjects: Assessments, Archbishop's Estates, Taxation of Pope Nicholas IV
References: Hill, Rosalind M. T. (ed.). 1988. The Register of William Melton, Archbishop of York, 1317-1340. III. Canterbury and York Society 76, 94-95.
Dates: Document date: 1323/05/11 (certain)
People and Groups: Deceased: Dalderby, John, d 1320, Bishop of Lincoln (bishop)
Issuer: Edward II, 1284-1327, King of England (king)
Places: Place of dating: York City, York, York, England (city)
8 .   Register 9B f.619 (recto) entry 3
Entry Type: Memorandum, Appropriation
Section Type: Diverse jurisdictions
Summary: Memorandum that the letter concerning the appropriation of the church of Leake (Leek) to the bishop of Durham, which should have appeared at this point in the register, had been registered in the quire of the register kept when the archbishop was treasurer for the second time.
References: Hill, Rosalind M. T. (ed.). 1977. The Register of William Melton, Archbishop of York, 1317-1340. I. Canterbury and York Society, 70, 150.
Dates: Document date: 1330/00/00 (uncertain)
People and Groups: Subject of letter: Beaumont, Louis, d 1333, Bishop of Durham (bishop)
Places: Subject of letter: Leake, North Riding of Yorkshire, England (church)
9 .   Register 9B f.738 (verso) entry 13
Entry Type: Homage
Section Type: Homages and fealties
Summary: Homage of Thomas, rector of Tetford, Lincoln diocese, for lands in Tetford.
Note: David Smith notes that the rector may be identified with Thomas de Skendleby, instituted to the rectory of Tetford on 9 October 1322 (Bennett, N. (ed.). 1999. The Registers of Bishop Henry Burghersh 1320-1340, 1. Lincoln Record Society 87, 9, no. 54. An identical entry appears in Reg 9B, f.739v, entry 8, except that the date appears in the present entry as 13 Kalends of July, and in the entry below as 13 Kalends of June.
Dates: Event date: 1332/06/19 (certain)
Places: Place of event: Bubwith, East Riding of Yorkshire, England (none given)
10 .   Register 9A f.148 (verso) entry 3
Entry Type: Collation, Induction
Section Type: Chapters
Summary: Collation and order to the chapter of Southwell for the induction, by his proctor, of Robert de Kildesby [Kilsby], chaplain, to the prebend of Halloughton (Halughton) in Southwell Minster, by exchange with Terricy [Terricus] de Capella for the chapel of Swineshead (Swynesheved), Lincoln diocese (two entries).
Note: The induction refers to the chapel of Swinstead (Swynestede), but the register of Bishop Burghersh confirms that this is Swineshead.
References: Timmins, T. C. B. (ed.). 2002. The Register of William Melton, Archbishop of York, 1317-1340. V. Canterbury and York Society 93, 174.
Dates: Document date: 1339/01/08 (certain)
Places: Place of dating: Cawood, West Riding of Yorkshire, England (none given)


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