York Archbishops' Registers

1308 1
1310 1
1311 2
1314 1
1315 1
1316 1
1317 2
1318 2
1325 1
1330 2
1333 1
1341 1
1342 3
1343 3
1344 5
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1346 1
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1348 3
1349 5
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1351 8
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1354 3
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1356 1
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1358 1
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1362 7
1363 3
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1366 5
1367 2
1368 2
1369 2
1370 5
1371 2
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1373 2
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1375 2
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1378 3
1379 6
1380 1
1381 2
1384 1
1385 1
1386 10
1387 13
1388 3
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1390 1
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1399 1
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1 . Register 8 f.252 (recto) entry 3

Entry Type:	Appointment of proctor/s
Section Type:	Intrinseca camere
Summary:	Appointment of Master Thomas de Cobham, precentor of York, clerk, and Master Robert de Sigillo, clerk, as the archbishop's proctors and special nuncios at the Roman Curia for his triennial visit and to present the Pope, if he had been created, and the college of cardinals with 300 marks sterling, calculated at four florins to the mark.
Subjects:	Foreign currencies, Papal Curia, Cardinals, Proctors, Exchange rates, Popes, Money, Precentors, Clerks (Ecclesiastical)
References:	Brown, William, and A. Hamilton Thompson. 1940. The Register of William Greenfield Lord Archbishop of York 1306-1315 Part V. Surtees Society 153, 41.
Dates:	Document date: 1314/12/02 (certain)
People and Groups:	Appointee: Cobham, Master, Thomas, c 1265-1327, Precentor of York (clerk, precentor) Appointee: Sigillo, Master, Robert, fl 1314, Clerk (in Holy Orders) (clerk)
Places:	Place of dating: Cawood, West Riding of Yorkshire, England (archbishop's castle) Place of person status: York Minster, York, York, England (minster)

2 . Register 12 f.103 (verso) entry 1

Entry Type:	Commission
Section Type:	Diverse letters
Summary:	Commission for Master Geoffrey Scrope [Lescrope] and Master Richard de Winwick [Wynwyk] to proceed in the cause of the chapter of Lincoln against vicars, farmers and proctors of the churches of Orston, Edwinstowe [Ednestowe] and chapel of Staunton, also of Stoke [Stok], Farndon and Scarle, and prebendaries, with powers for three years.
Subjects:	Churches, Benefice Causes, Chapters, Prebends
Note:	Cause not found in Cause Papers database so far.
Dates:	Document date: 1377/02/07 (certain)
People and Groups:	Addressee: Master Richard de Wynwyk (canon) Addressee: Scrope, Geoffrey, fl 1401, Clerk of the archbishop's household (canon); written as Master Geoffrey Lescrop
Places:	Place of person status: York Minster, York, York, England (church) Place of dating: City of London, London, England (none given)

3 . Register 8 f.256 (verso) entry 3

Entry Type:	Order to deliver
Section Type:	Intrinseca camere
Summary:	Order to Roger de Thornton, archbishop’s receiver of York, to pay the following amounts of money to the following persons or groups: £14 to the keeper of the fabric of York Minster, out of a fine levied on the archdeacon of the East Riding, in the archbishop's recent visitation of the archdeaconry; to lend £20 to the prioress and convent of Nun Appleton, with a bond, and to pay 40s to the prioress and convent of Nunburnholme out of the archbishop's alms.
Subjects:	Prioresses, Fabric, Fines, Religious Houses, Female, Women, Archdeacons, Keepers, Visitations, Bonds, Money, Archbishops' Visitations, Receivers, Nuns, Minsters
References:	Brown, William, and A. Hamilton Thompson. 1940. The Register of William Greenfield Lord Archbishop of York 1306-1315 Part V. Surtees Society 153, 50.
Dates:	Document date: 1315/11/22 (certain)
People and Groups:	Addressee: Thornton, Roger, d 1317, Receiver of Archbishop of York (receiver) Borrower: Nun Appleton Priory, Cistercian (prioress and convent) Payee: Nunburnholme Priory, Benedictine (prioress and convent)
Places:	Subject of visitation: East Riding Archdeaconry, Yorkshire, England (archdeaconry) Place of dating: Cawood, West Riding of Yorkshire, England (archbishop's castle) Subject of document: York Minster, York, York, England (minster) Place of person status: York City, York, York, England (city)

4 . Register 9B f.651 (verso) entry 1

Entry Type:	List of names, List of subjects
Section Type:	Diverse letters
Summary:	An undated document, written on the dorse of an insert, containing an injunction to parish priests to emphasise the benefits to benefactors of York Minster, with a list of pardoners.
Subjects:	Pardoners, Fabric funds, Minsters
References:	Hill, Rosalind M. T. (ed.). 1988. The Register of William Melton, Archbishop of York, 1317-1340. III. Canterbury and York Society 76, 63.
Dates:	Document date: 1325/00/00 (inferred)
Places:	Subject of document: York Minster, York, York, England (minster)

5 . Register 7 f.314 (verso) entry 5

Entry Type:	Proceedings
Section Type:	Intrinseca camere
Summary:	Proceedings of the archbishop's provincial council, opened on 20 May 1310 in York Minster, for inquiries on articles in papal letters into individual members of the order of the Knights Templar and the order as a whole, continuing to 21 May, with the decision to hold another council on 24 May to discuss the matters.
References:	Brown, William, and A. Hamilton Thompson. (eds.). 1938. The Register of William Greenfield Lord Archbishop of York 1306-1315 Part IV. Surtees Society 152, 332-333.
Dates:	Event date: 1310/05/20 (inferred)
Places:	Place of event: York Minster, York, York, England (minster); written as ecclesia nostra Ebor'

6 . Register 16 f.109 (recto) entry 3

Entry Type:	Certification
Section Type:	Diverse jurisdictions
Summary:	Certification to the archbishop by the chapter of York Minster, of the receipt and execution of the archbishop's commission (partly recited), dated at Rest on 6 April 1402, for an exchange of benefices between John Grene [Green], vicar of the prebendal church of Wistow and Thomas Litster, vicar of the prebend of Skelton in the collegiate church of Howden, and the institution of Grene to the vicarage of Skelton, with reservation of his induction.
References:	Swanson, R. N. (ed.). 1981. A Calendar of the Register of Richard Scrope, Archbishop of York, 1398-1405, 2 parts. Part I Borthwick Texts and Calendars: Records of the Northern Province 8. York: University of York, 107.
Dates:	Document date: 1402/05/10 (certain)
Places:	Place of dating: York Minster, York, York, England (chapter house)

7 . Register 9B f.451 (verso) entry 1

Entry Type:	Memorandum, Purgation
Section Type:	Archdeaconry of Nottingham
Summary:	Memorandum of the purgation of John de Radeclif' [Radcliffe], son of Thomas de Radeclif' [Radcliffe], clerk, and Walter de Bucton, clerk, before Master Richard de Cestr' [Chester], canon of York and commissary general of the official of the court of York, John de Notingham [Nottingham], rector of Elkesley (Elkesleye) and Adam de Spyriden, rector of York, St Saviour, the archbishop's commissaries, concerning their conviction in the secular court at Nottingham of the abduction of Alice de Rughford [Rufford] at Carlton near Nottingham.
References:	Brocklesby, R. (ed.). 1997. The Register of William Melton, Archbishop of York, 1317-1340. IV. Canterbury and York Society 85, 144.
Dates:	Document date: 1330/09/07 (certain)
Places:	Place of dating: York Minster, York, York, England (minster)

8 . Register 9B f.461 (recto) entry 2

Entry Type:	Memorandum, Purgation
Section Type:	Archdeaconry of Nottingham
Summary:	Memorandum that Nicholas de Holm made purgation in York Minster before Master Richard de Snoweshull [Snowshill] and William de Jafford [Yafforth], following an accusation of the theft of two oxen at Hoveringham.
References:	Brocklesby, R. (ed.). 1997. The Register of William Melton, Archbishop of York, 1317-1340. IV. Canterbury and York Society 85, 171.
Dates:	Document date: 1333/10/25 (certain)
Places:	Place of dating: York Minster, York, York, England (minster)

9 . Register 9B f.451 (verso) entry 2

Entry Type:	Memorandum, Purgation
Section Type:	Archdeaconry of Nottingham
Summary:	Memorandum of the purgation of William Tussard, clerk, before John de Wodehous [Woodhouse], commissary general of the official of the court of York, Adam de Spiriden, rector of York, St Saviour, and William de Jafford [Yafforth], archbishop's penitentiary, concerning his conviction for various thefts in the secular court at Nottingham (details given); with a note of a request to the king for the restitution of his goods and chattels.
References:	Brocklesby, R. (ed.). 1997. The Register of William Melton, Archbishop of York, 1317-1340. IV. Canterbury and York Society 85, 144.
Dates:	Document date: 1330/09/05 (certain)
Places:	Place of dating: York Minster, York, York, England (minster)

10 . Register 8 f.225 (recto) entry 1

Entry Type:	Proceedings, Heading
Section Type:	Intrinseca camere
Summary:	Introductory text referring to proceedings to consider charges against the order of Knights Templar observed in the second provincial council held in York Minster ordered by the archbishop to be held on 24 May 1311.
Note:	A marginal note in a 17th century hand reads: 'Contra Templarios' (Against the Templars).
References:	Brown, William, and A. Hamilton Thompson. (eds.). 1938. The Register of William Greenfield Lord Archbishop of York 1306-1315 Part IV. Surtees Society 152, 364.
Dates:	Future event date: 1311/05/24 (certain)
Places:	Place of future event: York Minster, York, York, England (minster); written as Ecclesia beati Petri Ebor

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