York Archbishops' Registers

1 . Register 8 f.255 (verso) entry 12

Entry Type:	Order to deliver
Section Type:	Intrinseca camere
Summary:	Order to Roger de Thornton, archbishop's receiver of York, to pay 40s to the prioress and convent of York, St Clement Priory, from the archbishop's alms out of piety because of the dearth of the time; and to pay 2s to a poor man who digs drainage ditches in the garden of the archbishop's palace.
Subjects:	Piety, Famine, Alms, Prioresses, Gardens, Poverty, Religious Houses, Female, Women, Nuns, Money, Ditches, Drainage, Receivers, Palaces
References:	Brown, William, and A. Hamilton Thompson. 1940. The Register of William Greenfield Lord Archbishop of York 1306-1315 Part V. Surtees Society 153, 49.
Dates:	Document date: 1315/08/31 (certain)
People and Groups:	Addressee: Thornton, Roger, d 1317, Receiver of Archbishop of York (receiver) Payee: York, St Clement Priory, Benedictine (prioress and convent)
Places:	Place of dating: Bishop Wilton, East Riding of Yorkshire, England (none given) Place of person status: York City, York, York, England (city)