Fragments of early printed books, comprising 1 paper leaf 'Homeric Hymn to Apollo', 1488; 1 parchment leaf 'Book of Hours', c.1500; 1 paper leaf 'Divinae Institutiones', c.1474-1478; 1 paper leaf 'Homiliary'...
Leaf from Breviary, containing portions of the offices of Lauds, Terce, Sext, None, and Second Vespers of the Feast of the Transfiguration (August 6th); most likely written after 1457 when the Feast of the Transfiguration was officially establishe...
Geoffrey Barker of Snaith and Isabella his wife; Richard Edmond of Snaith and John Osset.Moiety of a messuage at the west end of Snaith, with the messuage and garden of Edmond to the east, and the orchard of the heirs of Richard de Snayth to the w...
Richard Heton of Moss, priest; John Hastyngges, esq.A built messuage in a croft called Lyttill croft, with the messuage of John Swale to the west and a lane leading to the mill dyke to the east, together with the croft thereto adjoining.Heton appo...
The Church of England is divided into two provinces, Canterbury and York, each under an Archbishop who has personal authority and jurisdiction as the metropolitan bishop (ie the bishop over a group of sees or dioceses) and is styled ‘primate’ (or ...
Quitclaim by Alice widow of Thomas Hagh of Skirehowe in her widowhood to Nicholas Beaumont of Newsom of all right and claim in a messuage and a close of land called 'Lez Robberoyd' situated in Golcar. Witnesses: Richard Beaumont of Whit...
Richard Edmunde of Snaith and John Osset of Cowick; John Rayner, John Dylcocke, and John Fox of Snaith.Lands as YM/D/SN/6 described as a curtilage and selion of land with its buildings, with Edmunde's curtilage to the east and the other part ...
John Knapton, Thomas Gedney, Thomas Kirkeman, chaplains; George Soulby, gent., and Isabella his wife.Grantors had the messuage of the gift and feoffment of Robert Shefeld of South Cave, Esq. and Johanna his wife.Wit: John Kent, mayor of York; Rich...
These are records which have come from Bishopthorpe Palace, the residence of the Archbishop.In the medieval period the Archbishop had a number of houses, and his household was peripatetic. He had residences on his Yorkshire estates at Beverley, Ot...
1468/9Parties:Robert Forman of Croxton (Lincs.), gentleman, son and heir of Alice, daughter and heir of Joan, sister and coheir of John Duffeld of York, merchant, toRichard Holt, son of Edward Holt of Torksey (Lincs.), gentleman, husband of Alice,...
Latin with inserted single Greek words, from the 'Divinae Institutiones' of Lactantius. First line 1r: esse detectam. Hac de causa lapsacenos asellum Priapo quasi in. First line 1v: quos abstulerat aratori : eumq(ue) ipsum sibi co(n)...
17 fragments of Glorias found during conservation work on Cons AB 39 (1582-1583); conjectural reconstruction by Lisa Colton.The fragments appear to consist of parts of 3 Glorias, 2 in the Old Hall Mss and 1 unidentified. The fragments represent t...
Trustees’ minute book, 1795-1871, with copies of nominations of trustees, 1795-1872; governors’ minute book, 1875-1923; draft minute book, 1886-1958; minutes and draft minutes of annual and half-annual meetings, 1822-1929; papers relating to appoi...
22 sheets (15" x 10-1") found in the binding of the consistory court act book no. 25, 1562/3-1563/4 (formerly AB 22); conjectural requiring of the Masses by Dom Anselm Hughes, n.d.; copy of article 'The York Masses' by Hugh Bai...
Robert Wormelay of Hatfield; John Hunter of Hatfield and Alice his wife.3 tofts in west field of Hatfield, with lands of Hunter and his wife to west, land of Wormelay to east, with a headland above the gate of Hunter and his wife to south (unum ca...