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1 .   Register 11 f.286 (verso) entry 5
Entry Type: Order
Section Type: Archdeaconry of Richmond
Summary: Order to Master John de Crakall, doctor of decrees, canon of Ripon, to inquire into the circumstances of homicide by Hugh Knyght [Knight], priest, who was attacked by armed laymen and killed one in self-defence.
Note: Marginal note in a later hand: 'In causa homicidii ad sui defencionem'.
Dates: Document date: 1357/08/28 (certain)
Places: Place of dating: Westminster, Middlesex, England (archbishop's manor)
2 .   Register 8 f.253 (recto) entry 1
Entry Type: Appointment of proctor/s
Section Type: Intrinseca camere
Summary: Appointment of proctors to attend the Parliament to be held at Westminster on 20 January 1315.
Subjects: Proctors, Kings, Rectors, Parliaments
References: Brown, William, and A. Hamilton Thompson. 1940. The Register of William Greenfield Lord Archbishop of York 1306-1315 Part V. Surtees Society 153, 42.
Dates: Document date: 1315/01/04 (certain)
People and Groups: Addressee: Edward II, 1284-1327, King of England (king)
Appointee: Rothwell, Master, William, fl 1313-1315, Rector of Normanton (receiver)
Appointee: Snainton, John, d by 25 March 1317, Canon of Howden; Archbishop's clerk (rector)
Places: Place of event: Westminster, Middlesex, England (meeting place)
Place of dating: Cawood, West Riding of Yorkshire, England (archbishop's castle)
3 .   Register 9B f.688 (verso) entry 1
Entry Type: Writ, Return of writ
Section Type: Diverse letters
Summary: Writ of Edward III to the archbishop requiring a list of benefices held by aliens or in patronage of alien priories, vacant since 6 July 1337, with a note of a return compiled from records of the dean and chapter and official of the Court of York. No returns were then available for the archdeaconry of Nottingham or the spiritualities of Allertonshire.
Subjects: Vacancies, Alien Priories, Patrons, Aliens, Benefices
References: Hill, Rosalind M. T. (ed.). 1988. The Register of William Melton, Archbishop of York, 1317-1340. III. Canterbury and York Society 76, 183-184.
Dates: Document date: 1339/10/28 (certain)
People and Groups: Issuer: Edward III, 1312-1377, King of England (king)
Places: Place of dating: Westminster, Middlesex, England
4 .   Register 9B f.640 (verso) entry 2
Entry Type: Prohibition
Section Type: Diverse letters
Summary: Prohibition from the king to the archbishop or his official principal or their commissaries from holding in the ecclesiastical courts cases relating to lands of former Templars, since these were properly cases for the royal court (7 documents; cases mostly against the Prior of the Hospitallers; other parties named, including Thomas, earl of Lancaster)
Subjects: Lands, Knights Templar, Knights Hospitaller
References: Hill, Rosalind M. T. (ed.). 1988. The Register of William Melton, Archbishop of York, 1317-1340. III. Canterbury and York Society 76, 40-41.
Dates: Document date: 1321/03/12 (certain)1320/10/28 (certain) -
Places: Place of dating: Westminster, Middlesex, England (palace)
Place of dating: Windsor, Berkshire, England (castle)
Place of dating: Sheen, Surrey, England (palace)
5 .   Register 8 f.248 (verso) entry 1
Entry Type: Writ
Section Type: Intrinseca camere
Summary: Royal writ ordering Sir Alexander de Cave and Robert de Amecotes, lately keepers of the lands and tenements of the former Knights Templar in Yorkshire, to pay out of the proceeds of those lands and tenements to the Archbishop of York for arrears of wages of William de Grafton, (former) knight templar, doing penance in the monastery of Selby, namely 4d per day from the time in which the keepers had the lands and tenements in their possession.
Subjects: Wages, Knights Templar, Arrears, Penances, Money, Abbeys
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, note 1.
Dates: Document date: 1314/01/09 (certain)
People and Groups: Addressee: Amcotts, Robert, fl 1311-1313, Keeper of lands of the Knights Templar in Yorkshire (keeper)
Addressee: Cave, Sir, Alexander, fl 1311-1320, Knight, Royal justice; Keeper of lands of the Knights Templar in Yorkshire (keeper, knight)
Issuer: Edward II, 1284-1327, King of England (king)
Subject of document: Grafton, William, fl 1312, senior, Former Knight Templar (knight templar)
Places: Place of residence: Selby Abbey, West Riding of Yorkshire, England (abbey)
Place of dating: Westminster, Middlesex, England (none given)
6 .   Register 11 f.313 (verso) entry 2
Entry Type: Restitution, Letters patent
Section Type: Diverse letters
Summary: Letters patent of Edward III relating to arrears of the clerical subsidy of £50,000 granted to him in 1371; a writ to take into the king's hands the goods, chattels and other temporalities of the archbishop on account of the arrears of the subsidy was sent out inadvertently and is revoked, so that the possessions of the archbishop should be restored to him, but that the arrears of the subsidy should be paid as soon as possible.
Note: For the letters patent, see CPR 1370-4, 190.
Dates: Document date: 1372/08/04 (certain)
Places: Place of dating: Westminster, Middlesex, England (none given)
7 .   Register 9B f.650 (recto) entry 2
Entry Type: Writ
Section Type: Diverse letters
Summary: Royal writ of Edward II containing an acquittance of the archbishop for a debt of £220 16s 8d arising from tax collection, presumably relating to the papal tenth of March 1317.
Subjects: Taxation, Acquittances, Writs, Papal Tenths
References: Hill, Rosalind M. T. (ed.). 1988. The Register of William Melton, Archbishop of York, 1317-1340. III. Canterbury and York Society 76, 59.
Dates: Document date: 1323/10/14 (certain)
Places: Place of dating: Westminster, Middlesex, England (palace)
8 .   Register 31 f.19 (recto) entry 2
Entry Type: Acts for confirmation of election of bishop, Royal assent
Section Type: Archbishop Sandys
Language: Latin
Subjects: Bishops, Royal assents, Court Proceedings, Elections
Dates: Document date: 1577/04/29 (certain)
People and Groups: Elector/s: Durham Cathedral, Dean and Chapter (dean and chapter)
Former office holder: Pilkington, James, 1520-1576, Bishop of Durham (deceased, bishop)
New office holder: Barnes, Richard, ? 1532-1587, Bishop of Durham (bishop)
Recipient: Sandys, Edwin, ? 1519-1588, Archbishop of York (archbishop)
Sender: Elizabeth I, 1533-1603, Queen of England (queen)
Places: Place of dating: Westminster, Middlesex, England (city)
9 .   Register 8 f.244 (verso) entry 5
Entry Type: Certification
Section Type: Intrinseca camere
Summary: Certification by the archbishop to the king of appointment of proctors at the parliament to be held at Westminster, Sunday, 23 September 1313.
Subjects: Proctors, Parliaments
References: Brown, William, and A. Hamilton Thompson. 1940. The Register of William Greenfield Lord Archbishop of York 1306-1315 Part V. Surtees Society 153, 28.
Dates: Document date: 1313/09/11 (certain)
People and Groups: Addressee: Edward II, 1284-1327, King of England (king)
Appointee: Bardelby, Robert, fl 1305-1321, Prebendary of Dunnington (none given)
Appointee: Bedwyn, Walter, fl 1301-1330, Treasurer of York (none given)
Appointee: Osgodby, Adam, d 1316, Master of the Rolls (none given)
Places: Place of dating: Bishop Monkton, West Riding of Yorkshire, England (none given)
Place of future event: Westminster, Middlesex, England (meeting place)
10 .   Register 12 f.101 (verso) entry 1
Entry Type: Mandate
Section Type: Diverse letters
Summary: Mandate to the official of the court of York to summon the archdeacons and clergy of the diocese of York to a Parliament to be held at Westminster on 12 February 1376.
Dates: Recited document date: 1375/12/28 (certain)
Document date: 1376/01/09 (certain)
People and Groups: Sender: Edward III, 1312-1377, King of England (king)
Places: Place of dating of recited document: Kings Langley, Hertfordshire, England (king's manor); written as Langeley
Place of future event: Westminster, Middlesex, England (meeting place)
Place of dating: Cawood, West Riding of Yorkshire, England (archbishop's castle)


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