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1 .   TNA - CPR 1307-13, p.437
Summary: Safe conduct to Toulouse, on the information of Melton, as he is going to Spain to buy horses for the king.
Language: Latin
Dates: 1312/03/04
People and Groups: Addressee/s: William de Tholosa [Toulouse]; Sender/s: Edward II, king of England; Person/s: William de Melton;
Places: York City, York, York, England
2 .   TNA - SC 8/319/E386
Entry Type: Petition
Summary: Salisbirris requests sustenance for himself and his family as he has served the king and his father for many years, been captured twice and ransomed, and is indebted to a Lombard merchant. He requests the payment of his outstanding wages and the replacement of his horses, as he has been promised.
Language: French
Note: Dated to c. 1318, after the capture of Berwick by the Scots.
Dates: 1318/00/00
People and Groups: Addressee/s: King and Council; Sender/s: John de Salisbirris [Salisbury]; Person/s: William de Melton, archbishop of York, former treasurer of the Wardrobe, [Thomas of Lancaster,] earl of Lancaster;
Places: Stirling, Stirlingshire, Scotland, Berwick upon Tweed, Northumberland, England, City of London, London, England
3 .   TNA - SC 1/34/63
Summary: Letter from Melton to the king stating that he has received royal letters ordering payment of £488 to William de Roos from the money raised from the first year of the sexennial tenth, for his stay on the Scottish border and the replacement of lost horses. This was to be paid by the abbot of York and the prior of Thurgarton, the collectors.
Language: French
Note: See writ in Reg. 9B fol. 627r, and Reg. 9A, fol. 85v. See also SC 1/37/65.
Dates: 1318/07/19
People and Groups: Addressee/s: Edward II, king of England; Sender/s: William de Melton, archbishop of York; Person/s: William de Ros [Roos], [lord of Helmsley], [Alan of Ness], abbot of St Mary's, York, [John of Rudston], prior of Thurgarton;
Places: Bishop Burton, East Riding of Yorkshire, England
4 .   TNA - SC 8/48/2391
Entry Type: Petition
Summary: Giffoun seeks payment from the men of Grey and Hardeshull who broke into his house at Potterton on the Sunday before Palm Sunday last, without deed or warrant from the king (who was at Pontefract) or his ministers, and took various goods (listed) and refused to pay for them when asked. Response that Giffoun was to have a writ of trespass.
Language: French
Note: The day given and the reference to the king being at Pontefract would date the events concerned to March 1322.
Dates: 1322/00/00
People and Groups: Addressee/s: King; Sender/s: Richard Giffoun, clerk to the archbishop of York; Person/s: Gilbert de Haumle, purveyor and farrier of horses for Nicholas de Grey, John de Hardeshull, Nicholas de Grey, William [de Hardeshull], brother of John de Hardeshull, Thomas Isherman, purveyor for John de Hardeshull, Clement, servant of Nicholas de Grey, Richard, servant of Nicholas de Grey, Hugh, servant of Nicholas de Grey, John, servant of Nicholas de Grey, Walter le Hontman;
Places: Potterton, Barwick in Elmet, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, Barwick in Elmet, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, Pontefract, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, York City, York, York, England
5 .   TNA - CCR 1327-30, p.118
Summary: Summons to Archbishop Melton (and the archbishop of Canterbury and many other bishops and lords) to be at Newcastle with horses and arms on Monday before Ascension next [18 May 1327] to protect the realm against Brus.
Language: Latin
Dates: 1327/04/05
People and Groups: Addressee/s: William [Melton], archbishop of York; Sender/s: Edward III, king of England; Person/s: Robert de Brus [Robert I, king of Scots];
Places: Ramsey, Huntingdonshire, England, Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, 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, p.146
Summary: Order to the sheriff of Yorkshire to restore the lands and goods of Oddesthorp, taken into the king's hands following his indictment before Percy and other justices of oyer and terminer in Yorkshire of the theft of goods of Whitewell worth 13s 4d, a heifer of Leher and a horse of Whitewell, as he has made purgation before Archbishop Melton.
Language: Latin
Dates: 1333/10/22
People and Groups: Addressee/s: Sheriff of Yorkshire; Sender/s: Edward III, king of England; Person/s: Thomas de Oddesthorp, clerk, William de Whitewell, Henry de Percy, Robert Leher, William [Melton], archbishop of York;
Places: Hereford, Herefordshire, England
8 .   TNA - CPR 1367-70, p.353
Summary: Commission of oyer and terminer to Ingelby and others (named) on complaint by Cottyngham, executor of the will of Nevill, that Aynestanes, Coksyde, Baty, Neuton, Fuller and others (not named) broke into a chest of Nevill's in York Minster and stole jewels worth £500 and £300 in cash there and at Pickhill, Fearby and Leeming they drove away 60 horses, 200 oxen and 200 cows worth £500, all in the keeping of Cotyngham.
Language: Latin
Dates: 1369/12/04
People and Groups: Addressee/s: Thomas de Ingelby [Ingleby]; Sender/s: Edward III, king of England; Person/s: Master Thomas de Nevill [Neville], archdeacon of Durham, Ellis de Aynestanes, vicar in York Minster, John de Cotyngham [Cottingham], clerk, Thomas de Neuton [Newton], chaplain, William Baty, chaplain, John Fuller, chaplain, Thomas de Coksyde;
Places: Westminster, Middlesex, England, Fearby, Masham, North Riding of Yorkshire, England, Pickhill, North Riding of Yorkshire, England, Leeming, North Riding of Yorkshire, England, York Minster, York, York, England
9 .   TNA - SC 1/42/137
Entry Type: Petition
Summary: Request for letters of safe passage from Dover for Denby and Stapleton, their horses, servants and expenses, who are going to Rome on their own and the archbishop's business. The archbishop promises that they will do nothing prejudicial to the king.
Language: French
Note: Dated to 12 January, but no year given, though the reference to Carew as keeper of the privy seal dates it to between 1372 and 1377. The TNA catalogue suggests 1375-1376; if correct, it can only be 1375 - Neville was at Bishopthorpe in mid-January 1375, but at Cawood in 1376.
Dates: 1375/01/12
People and Groups: Addressee/s: Nicholas Carreu [Carew], keeper of the privy seal.; Sender/s: Alexander Neville, archbishop of York; Person/s: Peter de Stapilton [Stapleton], clerk, William de Denby, clerk;
Places: Bishopthorpe, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, Dover, Kent, England, Rome, Rome, Rome, Italy
10 .   TNA - CPR 1377-81, p.97
Summary: Commission of oyer and terminer to Greystoke and others on complaint by Archbishop Neville, Auncell and Middelton that Fairefax and others broke their close and houses at Ripon, and stole horses, cows, etc.
Language: Latin
Dates: 1377/11/28
People and Groups: Addressee/s: Ralph, baron of Greystoke; Sender/s: Richard II, king of England; Person/s: Alexander [Neville], archbishop of York, John de Middelton [Middleton], clerk, John Auncell, knight, Thomas Fairefax [Fairfax];
Places: Westminster, Middlesex, England, Ripon, West Riding of Yorkshire, England
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