York Archbishops' Registers

1314 1
1546 1
1561 1
1562 1
1563 2
1564 4
1565 2
1572 1
1574 1
1575 1
1576 2
1577 3
1578 7
1579 3
1580 8
1581 3
1582 4
1583 3
1584 5
1585 3
1586 8
1587 3
1588 5
1589 2
1590 6
1591 3
1592 2
1593 1
1594 1
1595 4
1596 1
1598 3
1599 4
1600 3
1601 3
1602 4
1603 4
1604 4
1605 3
1606 1
1608 1
1609 1
1610 2
1611 1
1612 4
1613 2
1614 2
1615 6
1616 3
1617 4
1618 5
1619 5
1620 8
1621 4
1622 1
1623 1
1624 3
1625 3
1626 4
1627 4
1628 3
1629 2
1631 1
1632 4
1633 1
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1637 1
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1640 2
1643 1
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1646 1
1647 2
1648 1

1 . Register 30 f.23 (verso) entry 1

Entry Type:	Last Will and Testament, Grant of Probate, Will
Section Type:	Testamentary business, Wills and Probate
Language:	English, Latin
Subjects:	Wills, Plate, Servants, Household equipment, Probate, Clothing, Tuition, Women, Leases, Rectors, Money, Last Wills and Testaments, Paupers, Cows
Note:	Initial letter 'I' of 'In Dei nomine Amen' ('In the name of God Amen'), the opening of the will, is enlarged and decorated.
References:	YAS 93, p.82
Dates:	Probate date: (certain) Will date: 1564/04/05 (certain)
People and Groups:	Testator: Williamson, George, d 1564, Prebendary of Husthwaite (clerk)
Places:	Place of person status: Long Marston, West Riding of Yorkshire, England (rectory)

2 . Register 8 f.246 (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 following: John of Sandwich, money for winter clothes and fur for the use of W. de Melton (presumably William de Melton, later archbishop of York); and 40s of the archbishop's alms each to the Dominican and Franciscan friars and 20s each to the Austin and Carmelite friars, and to ask each convent on the archbishop's behalf to celebrate a mass in their house for the soul of Robert de Greenfield, the archbishop's brother lately deceased.
Subjects:	Furs, Alms, Relatives, Carmelite Friars, Austin Friars, Dominicans, Clothing, Masses, Nuns, Friars, Money, Receivers, Franciscans, Brothers, Women, Convents
References:	Brown, William, and A. Hamilton Thompson. 1940. The Register of William Greenfield Lord Archbishop of York 1306-1315 Part V. Surtees Society 153, 33.
Dates:	Document date: 1314/02/20 (certain)
People and Groups:	Addressee: Sandwich, John, fl 1308-1315, Donzel of Archbishop of York (none given) Deceased: Greenfield, Robert, d 1314, Brother of Archbishop Greenfield (brother (family relation)) Recipient: Melton, William, d 1340, Archbishop of York (none given)
Places:	Place of dating: Cawood, West Riding of Yorkshire, England (archbishop's castle) Place of person status: York City, York, York, England (city)

3 . Register 31 f.175 (recto) entry 2

Entry Type:	Will, Grant of Probate, Last Will and Testament
Section Type:	Archbishop Matthew
Summary:	Will of Ralph Kay, clerk, [vicar] of Topcliffe (legatees, executors and witnesses named), with grant of probate (commences on fol. 175r and ends on fol. 177v).
Language:	Latin, English
Subjects:	Debt books, Probate, Vicars, Annuities, Pains, New Testament, Gates, Debts, Churchwardens, Foals, Seals, Servants, Wills, Women, Lands, Bibles, Leases, Last Wills and Testaments, Manorial juries, Psalms, Presentations, Bills, Tutors, Godsons, Daggers, Amercements, Advowsons, Notaries Public, Riding equipment, Household equipment, Furniture, Money, Friends, Deeds, Paupers, Pious preambles, Swords, Horses, Furnishings, Repairs, Hay, Apprentices, Schools, Mortgages, Clothing
Note:	In a very long preamble, the testator quotes verses from various books of the New Testament (Luke, Ephesians, Matthew, Romans, Timothy, Corinthians, Acts) and the Psalms, also quoting from John and Acts later in the will and ending the will with the first line of the Nunc Dimittis in Latin (Luke 2:29). He states that he had 52 godchildren.
References:	YAS 93, p. 42
Dates:	Birth date: 1546/03/15 (certain) Will date: 1605/02/06 (certain) Probate date: 1613/10/02 (certain)
People and Groups:	Testator: Kay, Ralph, d ? 1613, Vicar of Topcliffe (clerk)
Places:	Place of person status: Topcliffe, North Riding of Yorkshire, England (vicarage) Birthplace: Dalton, North Riding of Yorkshire, England

4 . Register 30 f.24 (recto) entry 1

Entry Type:	Last Will and Testament, Grant of Probate, Will
Section Type:	Testamentary business, Wills and Probate
Language:	English, Latin
Subjects:	Wills, Parish Churches, Prayers, Servants, Household equipment, Corn, Probate, Husbandmen, Clothing, Rye, Wagons, Wheat, Wool, Sheep, Hemp, Money, Lambs, Furniture, Last Wills and Testaments, Parishioners, Paupers, Coins, Wages, Godchildren, Agricultural equipment, Flax, Godsons, Cows, Travel, Clergy, Yarn, Housekeepers, Fabrics, Furnishings, Women, Horses, Copes, Debts, Oxen
Note:	Initial letter 'I' of 'In the name of God Amen', the opening of the will, is enlarged and decorated.
References:	YAS 93, p. 5
Dates:	Will date: 1561/10/03 (certain) Probate date: 1565/03/20 (certain)
People and Groups:	Testator: Barnes, Thomas, d ? 1565, Rector of Sessay (clerk)
Places:	Place of person status: Sessay, North Riding of Yorkshire, England (rectory)

5 . Register 30 f.20 (recto) entry 2

Entry Type:	Last Will and Testament, Grant of Probate, Will
Section Type:	Testamentary business, Wills and Probate
Language:	English, Latin
Subjects:	Wills, Annuities, Rents, Manors, Servants, Flax, Lands, Doles, Probate, Legacies, Bullocks, Hats, Sheep, Rectors, Money, Parish clerks, Malt, Last Wills and Testaments, Paupers, Calves, Cows, Bellringers, Clothing, Hemp
Note:	The initial letter 'I' of 'In the name of God Amen', the opening of the will, is enlarged and decorated.
References:	YAS 93, p. 70
Dates:	Will date: 1562/08/13 (certain) Probate date: 1562/10/08 (certain)
People and Groups:	Testator: Stanley, Thomas, d 1562, Rector of Sutton Bonington St Ann (parson)
Places:	Place of person status: Sutton Bonington, St Anne, Nottinghamshire, England (rectory)

6 . Register 30 f.20 (recto) entry 1

Entry Type:	Last Will and Testament, Grant of Probate, Will
Section Type:	Testamentary business, Wills and Probate
Language:	English, Latin
Subjects:	Wills, Oats, Deans (Rural), Corn, Probate, Clothing, Barley, Sheep, Last Wills and Testaments, Paupers, Cows, Debts
Note:	Initial letter 'I' of 'In the name of God Amen', the opening of the will, is enlarged and decorated.
References:	YAS 93, p. 25
Dates:	Probate date: 1563/00/00 (certain) Will date: 1563/10/12 (certain)
People and Groups:	Testator: Elso, Henry, d 1563, Rector of Burnsall, one moiety (parson)
Places:	Place of person status: Burnsall, West Riding of Yorkshire, England (rectory)

7 . Register 30 f.22 (recto) entry 1

Entry Type:	Last Will and Testament, Grant, Will
Section Type:	Testamentary business, Wills and Probate
Language:	English, Latin
Subjects:	Wills, Caps, Parish Churches, Repairs, Probate, Bibles, Surplices, Books of sermons, Rectors, Money, Parish clerks, Injunctions, Last Wills and Testaments, Paupers, Household equipment, New Testament, Clothing, Lay Patrons, Psalters
Note:	Initial letter 'I' of 'In the name of God Amen', the opening of the will, is enlarged and decorated.
References:	YAS 93, p. 71
Dates:	Will date: 1563/11/19 (certain) Probate date: 1564/04/27 (certain)
People and Groups:	Testator: Stockley, John, d ? 1563, Rector of Cotgrave, second moiety (parson)
Places:	Place of person status: Cotgrave, Nottinghamshire, England (rectory)

8 . Register 30 f.24 (verso) entry 1

Entry Type:	Last Will and Testament, Grant of Probate, Will
Section Type:	Testamentary business, Wills and Probate
Language:	English, Latin
Subjects:	Wills, Friends, Plate, Books, Household equipment, Doles, Probate, Clothing, Furnishings, Barley, Tuition, Leases, Sheep, Steeples, Rectors, Money, Lambs, Furniture, Last Wills and Testaments, Paupers, Bills, Servants, Razors and shaving equipment, Cows, Brewing equipment, Horses, Debts
Note:	Initial letter 'I' of 'In the name of God Amen', the opening of the will, is enlarged and decorated.
References:	YAS 93, p. 84
Dates:	Will date: 1564/01/12 (certain) Probate date: 1565/05/10 (certain)
People and Groups:	Testator: Wright, Richard, d ? 1564, Rector of a moiety of the church of Thwing (parson)
Places:	Place of person status: Thwing, East Riding of Yorkshire, England (rectory)

9 . Register 30 f.22 (verso) entry 1

Entry Type:	Last Will and Testament, Grant of Probate, Will
Section Type:	Testamentary business, Wills and Probate
Language:	English, Latin
Subjects:	Wills, Schoolmasters, Servants, Heifers, Lands, Probate, Clothing, Churchwardens, Money, Stipends, Vicars, Schools, Last Wills and Testaments, Paupers, Cows, Debts
Note:	Initial letter 'I' of 'In Dei nomine Amen' ('In the name of God Amen'), the opening of the will, is enlarged and decorated.
References:	YAS 93, p. 31
Dates:	Will date: 1564/02/15 (certain) Probate date: 1564/11/09 (certain)
People and Groups:	Testator: Green, Richard, d 1564, Vicar of Burton Agnes (vicar)
Places:	Place of person status: Burton Agnes, East Riding of Yorkshire, England (parish church)

10 . Register 31 f.11 (recto) entry 1

Entry Type:	Codicil
Section Type:	Register, Vacancy, Register, Sede Vacante
Summary:	Codicil of the will of James Pilkington, bishop of Durham, not proved.
Language:	English
Subjects:	Furnishings, Women, Sheep, Servants, Godfathers, Coal, Dilapidations, Wages, Horses, Clothing, Houses, Books, Paupers, University of Cambridge, Weapons, Codicils, Schools, Foals, Wood, Oxen, English Books, Goddaughters, Furnaces, Plate, Brewing equipment, Libraries
Note:	Legacy to Mr Banks includes 'Arnaldus de Villa Nova' (title not given).
References:	YAS 93, p. 58
Dates:	Codicil date: 1572/02/04 (inferred) - 1576/01/23 (inferred)
People and Groups:	Testator: Pilkington, James, 1520-1576, Bishop of Durham (bishop) Legatee/s: Banks, fl 1576, legatee of James Pilkington, Bishop of Durham (master) Legatee/s: Kingsmill, Sir, William, c 1557-1618, Sheriff of Hampshire (son) Legatee/s: Pilkington, Deborah, c 1564-0000, daughter of James Pilkington, Bishop of Durham (goddaughter, daughter) Legatee/s: Pilkington, Francis, fl 1576, brother of James Pilkington, Bishop of Durham (brother (family relation)) Legatee/s: Pilkington, George, fl 1576, brother of James Pilkington, Bishop of Durham (brother (family relation)) Legatee/s: Pilkington, John, fl 1561-c 1602, Archdeacon of Durham (brother (family relation)) Legatee/s: Pilkington, Leonard, 1527-1599, Canon of the 7th Prebend, Durham Cathedral (brother (family relation)) Legatee/s: Pilkington, Margaret, fl 1576, sister of James Pilkington, Bishop of Durham (sister/s) Legatee/s: Shaw, George, fl 1576, legatee of James Pilkington, Bishop of Durham (unknown) Legatee/s: Shaw, Thomas, fl 1576, legatee of James Pilkington, Bishop of Durham (nephew) Legatee/s: Swift, Robert, c 1603, Canon of the 1st Prebend of Durham Cathedral (master) Mentioned: Russell, Francis, c 1526-1585, 2nd Earl of Bedford (godfather, earl) New office holder: Barnes, Richard, ? 1532-1587, Bishop of Durham (bishop)

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