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1 .   Register 5A f.69 (recto) entry 4
Entry Type: Licence
Section Type: Register, Vacancy, Archdeaconry of York, Register, Sede Vacante
Summary: Licence for Walter [Langton], bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, to perform the benediction of Brother Simon de Miggele [Midgley] as the newly-elected abbot of Jervaulx [Jerovallis].
Language: Latin
Subjects: Benedictions, Abbots
Note: This entry is repeated almost identically on fol 79r, although the marginal heading there calls it a commission rather than a licence.
References: Brown, William, and A. Hamilton Thompson. (eds.). 1925. The Register of Thomas Corbridge, Lord Archbishop of York 1300-1304 Part II. Surtees Society 141, 166.
Dates: Document date: 1304/10/17 (certain)
People and Groups: Addressee: Langton, Walter, d 1321, Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield (bishop)
New office holder: Midgley, Brother, Simon, fl 1304, Abbot of Jervaulx (abbot); written as Simon de Miggele
Places: Place of dating: York Minster Chapter House, York, York, England (chapter house)
2 .   Register 5A f.79 (recto) entry 2
Entry Type: Commission
Section Type: Register, Vacancy, Register, Sede Vacante
Summary: Commission to Walter [Langton], bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, to perform the benediction of Brother Simon de Miggele [Midgley] as the newly-elected abbot of Jervaulx (Jerovallis).
Language: Latin
Subjects: Benedictions, Abbots
Note: This entry is repeated almost identically on fol 69r, although the marginal heading there calls it a licence rather than a commission.
References: Brown, William, and A. Hamilton Thompson. (eds.). 1925. The Register of Thomas Corbridge, Lord Archbishop of York 1300-1304 Part II. Surtees Society 141, 166 and notes 1-2.
Dates: Document date: 1304/10/17 (certain)
People and Groups: Addressee: Langton, Walter, d 1321, Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield (bishop)
New office holder: Midgley, Brother, Simon, fl 1304, Abbot of Jervaulx (abbot); written as Simon de Miggele
Places: Place of dating: York Minster Chapter House, York, York, England (chapter house)
3 .   Register 5A f.79 (recto) entry 5
Entry Type: Election, Mandate
Section Type: Register, Vacancy, Register, Sede Vacante
Summary: Mandate to an unnamed man to go to Whitby Abbey and call anyone opposing the election of the new abbot of Whitby, whose election they have received, to appear in the chapter house at York on the following Thursday.
Language: Latin
Subjects: Abbots, Elections
Note: Neither the recipient of the letters nor the newly-elected abbot is named.
References: Brown, William, and A. Hamilton Thompson. (eds.). 1925. The Register of Thomas Corbridge, Lord Archbishop of York 1300-1304 Part II. Surtees Society 141, 176.
Dates: Document date: 1304/10/26 (certain)
People and Groups: Elector/s: Whitby Abbey, Benedictine (prior and convent); written as Whiteby
Mentioned: Pope, Boniface VIII, c 1235-1303, Pope (pope)
Places: Place of person role: Whitby Abbey, North Riding of Yorkshire, England (abbey); written as Whiteby
Meeting place: York Minster Chapter House, York, York, England
4 .   Register 8 f.229 (verso) entry 1
Entry Type: Mandate
Section Type: Register, Vicar-general, Intrinseca camere
Summary: Mandate from Robert de Pickering, vicar-general, to the abbot of Kirkstall, ordering him to maintain Brother Robert de Sheffield [Shefeld], Knight Templar, who, for lack of maintenance, left the monastery.
Subjects: Maintenance, Knights Templar, Abbots
References: Brown, William, and A. Hamilton Thompson. 1940. The Register of William Greenfield Lord Archbishop of York 1306-1315 Part V. Surtees Society 153, 1-3.
Dates: Document date: 1311/00/00 (uncertain, inferred) - 1312/00/00 (uncertain, inferred)
People and Groups: Addressee: Birdsall, John, fl 1304-1312, Abbot of Kirkstall (abbot)
Sender: Pickering, Master, Robert, d by 1 January 1333, Dean of York (vicar general, canon)
Subject of document: Sheffield, Brother, Robert, fl 1311-1312, Former Knight Templar (brother (religious))
5 .   Register 8 f.230 (verso) entry 1
Entry Type: Mandate
Section Type: Register, Vicar-general, Intrinseca camere
Summary: Mandate of Robert de Pickering [canon of York and vicar-general] to the abbot of Fountains ordering him to deliver a monition to Brother Thomas de Staunford (also written as Staumford), a Knight Templar, requiring him to behave well towards the abbot and convent.
Subjects: Knights Templar, Abbots, Religious Houses
References: Brown, William, and A. Hamilton Thompson. 1940. The Register of William Greenfield Lord Archbishop of York 1306-1315 Part V. Surtees Society 153, 5.
Dates: Document date: 1311/08/28 (uncertain)
People and Groups: Addressee: Rygton, William, d 1316, Abbot of Fountains (abbot)
Sender: Pickering, Master, Robert, d by 1 January 1333, Dean of York (none given)
Subject of document: Staunford, Brother, Thomas, fl 1311, Former Knight Templar (brother (religious))
Places: Place of dating: York City, York, York, England (city)
6 .   Register 8 f.229 (verso) entry 2
Entry Type: Letter/s
Section Type: Register, Vicar-general, Intrinseca camere
Summary: Letter of John of Nassington, official of the court of York, to the abbot of Sallay, regarding sending Brother John de Epreston (or Ebreston), Knight Templar, to the monastery (reciting a mandate to Nassington from Master Robert de Pickering, canon of York [vicar-general], dated at London, 20 August 1311).
Subjects: Maintenance, Knights Templar, Abbots
References: Brown, William, and A. Hamilton Thompson. 1940. The Register of William Greenfield Lord Archbishop of York 1306-1315 Part V. Surtees Society 153, 3-4.
Dates: Document date: 1311/08/28 (certain)
People and Groups: Addressee: Howden, John, fl 1303-1318, Abbot of Sawley (abbot)
Issuer: Pickering, Master, Robert, d by 1 January 1333, Dean of York (canon)
Sender: Nassington, Master, John, fl 1306-1315, Official Principal of Archbishop of York (official)
Subject of document: Ebreston, Brother, John, fl 1311, Former Knight Templar (brother (religious))
Places: Place of dating: York City, York, York, England (city)
7 .   Register 8 f.245 (verso) entry 1
Entry Type: Order to deliver
Section Type: Intrinseca camere
Summary: Order to Roger de Thornton, archbishop’s receiver of York, to pay the abbot of York, St Mary, or Peter Bonaiuncta, merchant of the Society of the Bardi of Florence, £100 for a tenth imposed in the time of the archbishop's predecessor, John le Romayn (perhaps the six papal tenths of 1289, the 'Taxatio' of Pope Nicholas IV).
Subjects: Clerical Tenths, Taxation, Abbots, Merchants, Money, 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, 30.
Dates: Document date: 1313/10/25 (certain)
People and Groups: Addressee: Thornton, Roger, d 1317, Receiver of Archbishop of York (receiver)
Former office holder: Romeyn, John, c 1230-1296, Archbishop of York (archbishop)
Payee: Bonaiuncta, Peter, fl 1313, Merchant of the Society of Bardi of Florence (merchant)
Payee: Ness, Alan, d 1331, Abbot of York, St Mary (abbot)
Places: Place of dating: Laneham, Nottinghamshire, England (none given)
Place of person status: York City, York, York, England (city)
8 .   Register 8 f.246 (verso) entry 6
Entry Type: Order to deliver
Section Type: Intrinseca camere
Summary: Order to Roger de Thornton, archbishop’s receiver of York, to pay the abbot of York, St Mary, collector of the papal tenth imposed by Pope Clement, perhaps the fourth of four papal taxes initially granted in 1309, 100 marks for the second collection; and 100 marks before 1 April, for the second collection of the first year of the six papal tenths imposed in 1312 by Pope Clement at the council of Vienne (two separate entries).
Subjects: Taxation, Abbots, Money, Receivers, Papal Tenths, Papal Taxation, Tax collectors
References: Brown, William, and A. Hamilton Thompson. 1940. The Register of William Greenfield Lord Archbishop of York 1306-1315 Part V. Surtees Society 153, 34.
Dates: Document date: 1314/03/08 (certain)
Places: Place of dating: Cawood, West Riding of Yorkshire, England (archbishop's castle)
9 .   Register 9B f.632 (recto) entry 5
Entry Type: Letters patent
Section Type: Diverse letters
Summary: Appointment by archbishop of Sir Nicholas Makerell', bailiff of Churchdown, as his proctor for receiving arrears of pensions due from the abbot of Winchcomb and the Prior of Coventry and to quitclaim them.
Subjects: Pensions, Abbots, Priors, Bailiffs
References: Hill, Rosalind M. T. (ed.). 1988. The Register of William Melton, Archbishop of York, 1317-1340. III. Canterbury and York Society 76, 12.
Dates: Document date: 1319/05/27 (certain)
Places: Place of dating: Bishopthorpe, West Riding of Yorkshire, England (archbishop's manor)
10 .   Register 16 f.118 (verso) entry 2
Entry Type: Licence
Section Type: Diverse letters
Summary: Licence for the abbot of Thornton, Lincoln diocese, not to appear to synods, but to be represented by proctors
Language: Latin
Subjects: Proctors, Synods, Abbots
References: R. N. Swanson (ed.), A Calendar of the Register of Richard Scrope, Archbishop of York, 1398-1405, 2 parts, Part 1 Borthwick Texts and Calendars: Records of the Northern Province 8 (York, 1981), Part II Borthwick Texts and Calendars: Records of the Northern Province 11 (York, 1985), 2, 7.
Dates: Event date: 1400/05/07 (certain)
People and Groups: Subject of licence: Moulton, Wiliam, d 1418, Abbot of Thornton (abbot); written as abbot of Thornton
Places: Place of event: Bishop Burton, East Riding of Yorkshire, England (archbishop's manor)


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