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1 .   Register 10 f.261 (recto) entry 5
Entry Type: Commission
Section Type: Diverse letters
Summary: Memorandum of a commission to Hugh, archbishop of Damascus, to dedicate the cemetery of the chapel in Thorpe le Street [Thorp in strata], within the bounds and limits of the parish church of Brunn' [Nunburnholme], with the consent of Roger de Styandeby [Stainby], now rector.
Subjects: Plague
Note: This entry is annotated: 'and this during the current mortal pestilence', that is, the Black Death.
Dates: Document date: 1349/08/15 (certain)
Places: Subject of notification: Nunburnholme, East Riding of Yorkshire, England (church)
Place of dating: Bishop Burton, East Riding of Yorkshire, England (none given)
Subject of notification: Thorpe le Street, Market Weighton, East Riding of Yorkshire, England (chapel)
2 .   Register 12 f.15 (verso) entry 5
Entry Type: Licence, Vacated entry
Section Type: Diverse jurisdictions, Archdeaconry of York
Summary: Special licence of the archbishop for the prior and convent of Gloucester, St Oswald, in the archbishop's jurisdiction, to admit four clerks to the house, because many fellow canons had died of the plague in those parts (vacated entry).
Subjects: Plague, Religous Houses, Male
Dates: Document date: 1374/10/24 (certain)
People and Groups: Addressee, licensee: Gloucester, St Oswald Priory, Augustinian Canons (prior and convent)
Places: Place of dating: City of London, London, England (none given); written as London'
3 .   Register 16 f.16 (verso) entry 6
Entry Type: Mandate
Section Type: Archdeaconry of York
Summary: Mandate to the official of the archdeacon of York to hold processions every Wednesday and Friday in all churches in the archdeaconry, with litanies and special prayers during mass, for the safe deliverance of the king, people and church in the realm from the plague and other misfortunes, with an indulgence of 40 days for all who take part; with a memorandum of similar mandates to the officials of the archdeacons of the East Riding, Cleveland, Nottingham and Richmond (two entries).
Subjects: Processions, Plague, Indulgences, Prayers
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), 1, 12.
Dates: Document date: 1398/09/10 (certain)
Places: Place of dating: Rest Park, Sherburn in Elmet, West Riding of Yorkshire, England (archbishop's manor)


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