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1 .   TNA - CPR 1307-13, p.204, entry 1
Summary: Grant to Cornubia of the prebend of North Newbald, in the king's gift on account of the late vacancy in the see of York. Mandate to Archbishop Greenfield.
Language: Latin
Dates: 1310/01/07
People and Groups: Addressee/s: Richard de Cornubia [Cornwall], king's clerk; Sender/s: Edward II, king of England; Person/s: William [Greenfield], archbishop of York;
Places: Grovebury, Bedfordshire, England, York Minster, North Newbald Prebend, Yorkshire, England
2 .   TNA - CPR 1307-13, p.204, entry 2
Summary: Exemption for life, at the instance of William de Melton, king's clerk, of Henry de Melton, William's brother, from all the king's prises, tallages, contributions and aids, and from wakes, in the City of London and elsewhere; and from being made mayor, sheriff, coroner, alderman, etc, from being on assizes, juries, etc. With protection for him and his men and merchandise.
Language: Latin
Dates: 1310/01/12
People and Groups: Addressee/s: Henry de Melton; Sender/s: Edward II, king of England; Person/s: William de Melton, king's clerk;
Places: Grovebury, Bedfordshire, England, City of London, London, England
3 .   TNA - CPR 1313-17, p.165, entry 2
Summary: Grant to the abbess of Elstow that, when the abbey next falls vacant, the nuns may keep the issues of the abbey and its temporalities, without interference by the king's ministers, saving to the king the knights fees, advowsons, wards, reliefs and escheats. Granted on the information of Melton.
Language: Latin
Dates: 1314/08/16
People and Groups: Addressee/s: Clementia [de Balliol], abbess of Elstow; Sender/s: Edward II, king of England; Person/s: Isabella [of France], queen of England, William de Melton;
Places: York City, York, York, England, Elstow Abbey, Bedfordshire, England
4 .   TNA - CPR 1313-17, p.342, entry 1
Summary: Acquittance, on the information of Melton, to the men of Northampton for £10 delivered to Melton at Rockingham on 22 August by John Waydour and Sampson son of Gervase, bailiffs of Northampton, for the escape of Cock and Gate, who had been indicted for felony and delivered to them by the steward and marshals of the Household.
Language: Latin
Dates: 1315/08/23
People and Groups: Addressee/s: Men of Northampton; Sender/s: Edward II, king of England; Person/s: William de Melton, king's clerk, keeper of the Wardrobe, Sampson son of Gervase, bailiff of Northampton, John Waydour, bailiff of Northampton, John atte Gate of Shillington, Elias Cock;
Places: Market Overton, Rutland, England, Rockingham, Northamptonshire, England, Shillington, Bedfordshire, England, Northampton, Northamptonshire, England
5 .   TNA - C 81/1791/8
Entry Type: Request
Summary: Request for the arrest of Coleman, Gilbertine canon professed at Watton, who has left his house and wanders in secular habit.
Language: Latin
Dates: 1316/05/30
People and Groups: Addressee/s: Edward II, king of England; Sender/s: Brother John [de Hamilton], prior of Sempringham; Person/s: Brother John Coleman of Hoton, canon of Watton;
Places: Chicksands Priory, Bedfordshire, England, Watton Priory, East Riding of Yorkshire, England
6 .   TNA - CCR 1333-7, p.109, entry 3
Summary: Order to the sheriff not to take for the king's use the horses and carts used for bringing stone for the building of York Minster, at York, Tadcaster or elsewhere, following a complaint by the keeper of the fabric.
Language: Latin
Dates: 1333/05/08
People and Groups: Addressee/s: Sheriff of Yorkshire; Sender/s: Edward III, king of England;
Places: Bedford, Bedfordshire, England, Tadcaster, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, York Minster, York, York, England
7 .   TNA - CCR 1333-7, 189
Summary: Richard, abbot of Calder, acknowledges that he and his convent owe Archbishop Melton £40, leviable in Cumberland.
Language: Latin
Dates: 1334/01/17
People and Groups: Person/s: William [Melton], archbishop of York, Richard, abbot of Calder;
Places: Dunstable, Bedfordshire, England, Calder Abbey, Cumberland, England
8 .   TNA - CCR 1333-7, p.292
Summary: Colvill acknowledges that he owes Archbishop Melton 10 marks, leviable in Yorkshire. Cancelled on payment.
Language: Latin
Dates: 1334/01/25
People and Groups: Person/s: William de Melton, archbishop of York, Thomas de Colvill, knight;
Places: Dunstable, Bedfordshire, England
9 .   TNA - CPR 1340-3, p.387
Summary: The king previously appointed de la Mare, Metham, Bokelond and Lound as custodians of the temporalities of the archbishopric of York after Melton's death, to answer for the issues to the chamber, but he now discharges Bokelond, as he is too busy auditing the accounts of the chamber, as well with the king's great suits at the Exchequer and other secret business.
Language: Latin
Dates: 1342/02/12
People and Groups: Addressee/s: Nicholas de Bokelond [Buckland]; Sender/s: Edward III, king of England; Person/s: Master William de la Mare, provost of Beverley, William de Lound, Thomas de Metham, William de Melton, archbishop of York;
Places: Dunstable, Bedfordshire, England, Beverley, East Riding of Yorkshire, England
10 .   TNA - CPR 1396-9, p.57
Summary: Commission to Archbishop Arundel, Bishop Stafford, Bishop Scrope and others (named), reciting that by an agreement made before Arundel, then archbishop of York, chancellor, and Thirnyng, justice of the Common Bench, Bishop Fordham had caused the churches of Shillington and Therfield, in the abbot's patronage, to be appropriated to them, but the abbot has since alienated them, contrary to the agreement, and thus ordering the commissioners to compel both parties to observe the agreement, regardless of any royal interest following the judgment in Parliament against Haxey, to whom the advowson of Therfeld had been granted.
Language: Latin
Dates: 1397/02/09
People and Groups: Addressee/s: Thomas [Arundel], archbishop of Canterbury; Sender/s: Richard II, king of England; Person/s: Richard [Scrope], bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, Edmund [Stafford], bishop of Exeter, Richard Lescrope, William Thirnyng, Walter Clopton, John Markham, John Lovell, John [Fordham], bishop of Ely, Abbot and convent of Ramsey, Thomas Haxey;
Places: Westminster, Middlesex, England, Shillington, Bedfordshire, England, Therfield, Hertfordshire, England


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