Nos autem cionem fidelium per vos volumus puplicari. XV. 6 nonas Julii (July 2), 1301. Salley. Commission Huntington. to Master John de Nassington, archb.'s official, to act in the matter of the church of Huntyngton, which was vacant, and to institute and take the vow of obedience from Sir William Mortimer (de Mortuomari), who was in possession. "Proviso quod competens securitas vobis fiat de domibus et edificiis ecclesie predicte dirrutis et ruinam minantibus infra terminum statuendum a vobis competenter et debite reparandis." official. ordered Pickering Masters A. and W. of The must meet chancellor at XVA. 6 kal. Augusti (July 27), 1301, anno 2. Roderham. Fo. 8*. Officiali nostro Ebor. Receptis nuper in vigilia beate Marie To his Magdalene (July 21) proximo preterita apud Hanepol litteris we have regiis, quorum transcriptum presentibus est annexum, Masters W. scripsimus statim magistris W. et R. de Pikering' quod alter or R. of eorum, qui posset comodius, una cum magistro Ada de with Coupland vel magistro W. de Wirkesale, quibus similiter of Coupland scripsimus, ad dominum regem juxta formam et effectum Worsall to litterarum ipsarum quamtocius properarent, nosque eis de king. expensis per eos in itinere factis faceremus, prout moris est, Pickerings cum redirent, debite provideri. Set iidem magistri W. et say they R. de Pikering' nobis postmodum rescripserunt quod per the breve regium apud Eboracum specialiter erant vocati, ad York on tractandum cum domino cancellario Anglie2 et aliis de con- business. silio domini nostri regis ibidem super negociis arduis ipsum regem contingentibus que tractatum et deliberacionem maximam requirebant, propter quod ad domini regis presenciam accedere nequiverant, sicut eis per nos fuerat demandatum, licet, ut asserebant, ab eodem domino cancellario ad hoc faciendum licenciam petivissent. Unde nos, considerantes per dilacionem hujusmodi posse periculum iminere, scripsimus protinus prefato domino cancellario quod, cum nullum ita sufficientem in hoc casu sicut eorum alterum pro We have domino nostro rege ad presens invenire possemus, placeret ei, the sicut regium comodum diligeret et honorem, eorum alteri, let one of the altero si oporteret propter tractatum quem in manibus tunc 18 kal. Junii (May 25, 1303). Otteley. The official ordered to act on the archb.'s behalf against Mortimer, claiming possession of this church (fo. 11d). See nos. 45, 48. important written to chancellor to Pickerings go with either Coupland or Our could not of the two latter and we do not know what the chancellor and the habebat retento, licenciam concedere, quin pocius eorum alterum cogere, ut, altero de predictis magistris A. de Coupland et W. de Wirkesale secum assumpto, statim versus regem arriperet iter suum, ne idem dominus rex petito careret consilio clericorum, maxime cum ipsum prius certificaverimus quod juxta mandati sui tenorem ad ipsum duos clericos mitteremus. Quia vero nec magistrum A. nec messenger magistrum W. de Wirkesal nuncius noster potuit ut asserit find either invenire, et nos quid inter dominum cancellarium et dictos germanos super premissis actum fuerit ignoramus, ne erga prefatum dominum regem in hoc casu periculosius involvamur, qui dies aduent . . . . . . clericorum, vobis mandamus Pickerings quatinus, receptis presentibus, quid super predictis actum. fuerit diligencius inquiratis, vestre prudencie vices nostras nichilominus committentes, ad inducendum, injungendum et compellendum cohercione canonica clericos nostros, quos ad hujusmodi negocium regium videritis apciores, si prius nominati ita fuerint impediti quod nullo modo illud negocium possint explere. Ipsos tamen sic nominatos a nobis nullo modo, si labores subire poterunt, quiescere permittatis. Si autem duos ex illis quatuor nominatis habere possitis, sufficit. Si vero unum solummodo, cum omni celeritate provideatis de altero, ita quod duo celeriter vadant. Et hoc faciatis cum tanta celeritate quantum videtis negocium illud desiderare, et quantum perpenditis periculum iminere. Valete. have arranged. Try and find out and send suitable clerks but preferably from the four named. Fo. 6d. XVI. 8 kal. Sept. (Aug. 25, 1301). Thorpe by York. Confirmation by the archb. of two indulgences in favour of St. Helen's, the chapel of the Blessed Helen of Drifeld, one from Peter, Driffield. Criminous clerk. archbishop of Arborea, dated at Orvieto, 1291, I pope Nicholas iv; and the other from John, archbishop of Lund1 and other bishops, dated at Rome, 1297, 3 pope Boniface viii. XVII. 6 kal. Sept. (Aug. 27, 1301). Cawode. Commission to the official to receive the purgation of Edmund de Wateby, clerk, accused of theft in a secular court. The compurgators to be clerks and laymen from the deanery of Craven whence he is said to have come (ubi dicitur traxisse originem).2 1 Arborea is in Sardinia. Gams (Series Episcoporum, p. 838) says Peter occurs in 1289 and 1295. John Grand was archbishop of Lund from 1289 till 1308 when he was trans lated to Bremen (ibid., p. 330). For another instance of relations with Scandinavia see no. 490. 2 See nos. 864A, 1003. Archb. XVIII. 1301. Wylton. Commission to the same, Arc and Sir William de Jafford and Walter de Harum, to audit the accounts of the executors of Henry, late archbishop of York. Wilton. Commis- Fo. 11. Holy XIX. 7 kal. Oct. (Sept. 25), 1301. sion to the official to inspect and examine the privileges and Prior of muniments of the prior and convent of the monastery of Trinity, the Holy Trinity, York, on the morrow of Michaelmas York. (Sept. 30). John son of Skipton. XX. 2 nonas Oct. (Oct. 6), 1301. Munketon. Mandate Purgation of to the official of York to give notice in the deaneries of Adam of Cateriz, Pontefract and Craven, of the coming purgation of John, son of Adam de Skipton, priest, accused of theft in a secular court, and long in the archb.'s prison, who had proved himself at an inquisition made by the archdeacon of York's official to be of good repute and conversation, and innocent of the charge against him. clerks. XXI. 12 kal. Dec. (Nov. 20), 1301. Cawode. Com- Criminous mission to the official of York, Sir Roger Swayn, canon of Ripon, and the dean of the same, to proceed to the purgation of certain criminous clerks whose names are not given.1 Ellerker. XXII. 5 idus Sept. (Sept. 9), 1301. Burton. Com- Mr. Nich. de mission to the official to proceed and act on the articles touching Master Nicholas de Ellerker which the archb. had discovered in his visitation of the city of York. XXIII. Wednesday, St. Luke's day (Oct. 18), 1301. Ordination. Manerium de Thorp. Noverint universi quod nos, Thomas, Dei gracia, etc., dilectum nobis in Christo Philippum Gerardini de Florencia per manuum nostrarum imposicionem caractere insignivimus clericali." XXIV. 8 kal. Nov. (Oct. 25), 1301. Cawode. Com- Gargrave. mission to the official to act in the cause between Sir Adam de Osegodby, rector of Gergrave, and the abbot and convent of Furnes, and also between the same Adam and the abbot 1 On fo. 9* is another copy of this document with this endorsement: Mem. quod ista commissio de purgacione clericorum incarceratorum Ripon' admittenda fuit innovata, nunciante domino officiali curie Ebor., et emanavit sub forma que registratur hic in quaterno cui annectitur ista cedula. 2 Wednesday, St. Luke's day (Oct. 18), 1301. Manor of Thorpe. Letters testimonial from the archb. that Philip Gerardini of Florence had received the first tonsure (fo. 39). Gerardini was a partner in the firm of the Spini of Florence (C.P.R., 1292-1301, p. 528). He is called Philip Gerardi in no. 162. Fo. 8d. to the official the and convent of Salley about tithes coming from lands and meadows within the parish of Gergrave.1 XXV. 4 kal. Nov. (Oct. 29), 1301. Cawode. Commission to the official to reform certain special articles, discovered in the visitation of the city and archdeaconry of York. XXVI. Idibus Nov. (Nov. 13), 1301. Cawode. Commission to the same in the matter of the case promoted by the archb. against William de Sireston, clerk. Eisdem die et loco. Suo officiali Ebor. Cum nos nuper ad Commission recipiendum purgacionem quorumcumque clericorum, super to receive quibuscumque criminibus diffamatorum et nostre carcerali custodie mancipatorum, de quibus videritis expedire, vobis per nostras litteras, que penes vos resident, commiserimus vices nostras, nostreque intencionis existat quod in ecclesia nostra Ripon' propter viarum pericula purgaciones hujus purgation of certain criminous clerks at Ripon. 1 Nov. 26, 32 Edward I (1303). Dumfermlyn. Writ of prohibition directed to the archbishop or his commissaries, forbidding them to try in the court of Christianity the claim of Adam de Osegodeby to the church of Gayregrave, to which he had been presented by Henry de Percy, the fourth part of the advowson of which church the abbot of Furneys asserted belonged to him (fo. 59*). Michaelmas Term, 21 Edward I (1293). Edmund, the king's brother, Guy Ferre and John de Skardeburgh, executors of Alianor, the king's mother v. the king as guardian of the heir of Henry de Percy under age, about the advowson of Geyrgrave. Henry de Percy presented temp. Henry III. The jury found that the manor and advowson of Geyrgrave had been in the seisin of William de Percy (Henry's father), and were a member of William's manor of Catton (probably Catton in the E.R.), and that William had alienated the manor of Geyrgrave saving the advowson, and that the advowson during the minority belonged to the executors of the queen mother under a grant from the king. This, however, was not admitted by the king's attorney (Assize Roll, no. 1085, m. 22d.). Osgod by was an ecclesiastical lawyer who rose to eminence under the pro tection of his neighbour and probably relative, William of Hambleton. Osgodby, in the parish of Hemingbrough, whence he derived his name, is not far from Hambleton. Canon Raine, in his History of Hemingbrough (pp. 304-307), gives an account of the family of Osgodby. He mentions a Jordan de Hamelton or Osgodby, almost certainly a collateral ancestor of both Osgodby and Hambleton. Adam was the son of Robert de Osgodby, who was living in 1284, and brother of Richard, vicar of Bubwith, who succeeded his brother in the prebend of Ulleskelf in 1316 (C.P.R., 13131317, P. 534). All his preferments were due to the Crown. He was inducted into Gargrave in 1293, but had not been instituted almost two years later (Reg. Romeyn, i, 134, 150). In 1298 he was Keeper of the Rolls (C.P.R., 1292-1301, p. 328), and a year later had a grant of the prebend of Ulleskelf in York Minster (ibid., p. 437). In 1307 he was appointed custodian of the conversi, the converted Jews (ibid., 13071313, p. 15). In 1310 he was presented to two parts of the church of Attleborough, in the diocese of Norwich (ibid., p. 227), and in 1312 he had a grant of the prebend of Blewbury in the church of Salisbury, which had belonged to John de modi admittantur; volumus et mandamus quod certis diebus, quibus cum convalueritis commodius poteritis interesse, factis inquisicionibus et proclamacionibus solempnibus, ut est moris, in predicta ecclesia Ripon' purgaciones hujusmodi personaliter admittatis, et primo Johannis de Thornhille et Ade de Otteley, clericorum, quibus proclamacionis litteras ad certum diem coram vobis apud Eboracum, quem matres eorum, latrices presencium, periisse deplorant ut asserunt, alias concessistis. Ad hec mittimus vobis commissionem nostram in negocio contra Willelmum de Sireston clericum, ex officio nostro moto, unacum articulis atque actis, in quo quod canonicum et justum fuerit faciatis. Item contra rectorem ecclesie de Byngham1 ad privacionem ipsius agere volumus cum senio jam frangatur, et ideo commissionem vobis non mittimus contra ipsum; set habito secum efficaci colloquio secrecius et tractatu, prout vestra circumspeccio viderit expedire, eum ad nos pro gracia que sibi hactenus defuit impetranda cum vestris litteris, quid et qualiter secum egeritis expresse continentibus, remittatis, ut secundum hoc faciamus ulterius quod expedire viderimus circa ipsum. Valete. XXVII. II kal. Dec. (Nov. 21), 1301. Cawode. Com- Fo. 11. mission to the same and Sir Roger de Mar to audit the ac Berewyk (ibid., p. 468). He was also possessed of a prebend in the church of Burford, co. Salop, worth 20li. a year (C.C.R., 1307-1313, p. 98). He was in constant association with Hambleton. He was present when the Great Seal was delivered to Hambleton in the little Exchequer at Westminster on Jan. 16, 1304-5, and after his death at Fountains on April 19, 1307, was one of those commissioned to carry the Great Seal back to Westminster (C.P.R., 1301-1307, pp. 309, 518). As one of the clerks of chancery the Great Seal was more than once delivered into his custody. In 1311 and 1312 the three commissioners were all Yorkshiremen from the south-east of the county: Adam of Osgodby, Robert of Barlby, and William of Airmyn, bishop of Norwich, 1325 to 1336 (C.C.R., 1307– 1313, PP. 393, 459). From dispensations entered on the Calendar of Papal Letters (ii, 40, 75) we learn that in addition to the benefices mentioned above he held or had p.m. was taken at York on Oct. 8, 1 Ralph de Bingham (Reg. Romeyn, |