| Description | Containing notes relating to: 'The Teutonic settlement of Northern England'; 'The Viking century in East Yorkshire'; place names of the East Riding; early Yorkshire charters; Yorkshire Domesday; the battle of Stamford Bridge; Yorkshire pipe rolls; Halias Paganel, Abbot of Selby, and the new castle and war at Selby; miracles performed by St John of Beverley; persons drowned in the Derwent; Archbishop Gray's register; calendar of inquisitions 1250-1367; rebellion in Holderness 1260; Yorkshire assize rolls; Kirby's inquest and knights' fees and knights of King Edward I; translation of William Brown's transcript of Yorkshire assize roll for octave of the purification of the Virgin 1293-1293; Archbishop Corbridge's register 1300-1303; Archbishop Greenfield's register 1305-1315; Scots in the East Riding; coroners' rolls 1361-1369; presentments of assaults, homicides and the sale of wool 1361-1362; extractions by ferrymen 1362-1394; medieval Beverley; calendar of patent rolls 1399-1401; the Civil War in Yorkshire; the life of John Shaw 1608-1661; depositions 1640-1685; the abbey of Rievaulx with list of abbots 1131-1538; Fountains Abbey with list of abbots 1132-1537; houses of Cistercian monks; abbots of Byland 1142-1381; Meaux Abbey and abbots; Abbey of Roche and abbots 1147-1438; visitation of Swine Priory 13 Jan 1267; visitation of Kirkham Abbey 4 Feb 1279; visitation of Drax Priory 10 Aug 1280.
Also including transcripts of wills: Adam Correy of Hull 1393, Sir John Bygod 1388, John de St Quintin 1397, Sir Thomas Ughtred of Kexby 1398, Sir Thomas de Malton 1400, Guild of the Blessed Thomas of Lancaster 1401, Sir Peter de Maulay 1413, Robert de Playee of Brompton 1345, John de Wodhous 1345, Hugh de Tunstede rector of Catton 1346, Sir William de Erghum 1346, Sir William de Fauconbergh chaplain of Catfoss 1347, Agnes widow of Sir Walter Percehay 1348, Thomas de Nevyll Bishop Elect of Ely 1360, Thomas de Bucton prebendary of Weighton 1366, Sir Marmaduke Constable of Flamborough 1376, John Constable of Holm in Spaldymore 1377, Sir John de Meaux of Bewik 1377, John Ferriby of Beverley 1470, William Ecopp rector of Heslerton 1472, Nicholas Mold of Hull 1475, John Lourance mariner of Hull 1488, Robert Twyer of Ganstead 1478, Sir Robert Hilton of Swine 1429 and his widow Joan 1432, John Ellerker the elder of Rouley 1438, John Brompton of Beverley 1444, Sir John Constable of Holderness 1449, Robert Goldyng of Hull 1453, John Garton of Hull 1455, Lady Elena widow of John Portyngton 1457, Margaret widow of Richard Aske of Aughton 1465. |