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1 .   Register 5A f.100 (recto) entry 6
Entry Type: Memorandum, Commission
Section Type: Archdeaconry of the East Riding
Summary: Memorandum of a commission to Master John de Burton, rector of Huggate (Hougate) and Hugh de Tesdale [Teesdale], auditor of the chapter of York, or either of them, to absolve John son of John Mauneby of the rebellions for which he was excommunicated by Archbishop Melton, and to receive his purgation for any other offences.
Subjects: Sedition
Dates: Document date: 1340/04/26 (certain)
Places: Place of dating: York City, York, York, England (none given); written as Ebor'
2 .   Register 32 f.79 (verso) entry 1
Entry Type: Opinion, Court Proceedings, Order
Section Type: Archbishop Neale, Archbishop Neile
Summary: Order, and opinion signed by twelve judges, in Star Chamber trial for sedition of John Bastwick and William Prynne, religious controversialists and pamphleteers, in 1637, noting their challenge of the authority of ecclesiastical courts and carrying out of visitations
Language: English, Latin
Subjects: Courts, Civil, Visitations, Star Chamber, Sedition, Courts, Ecclesiastical
References: Printed in Wilkins, Concilia Magnae Britanniae, pp. 534-5 (from Archbishop Laud's register, fol. 272 a).
Dates: Enrolment date: 1637/00/00 (approximate)
Order date: 1637/05/12 (certain)
Opinion date: 1637/07/01 (certain)
People and Groups: Defendant: Bastwick, John, ? 1595-1654, religious controversialist and pamphleteer (doctor of medicine)
Defendant: Prynne, William, 1600-1669, pamphleteer and lawyer


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