Borthwick Microfilms: External collection (MFE) (microfilm copies of manuscripts where the originals are not held in the Borthwick Archive)
Index
NATIONAL RECORDS
ECCLESIASTICAL RECORDS National Provincial Diocesan Capitular and Collegiate Monastic Chantry Records Roman Catholic Records Quaker Records Records of modern religious communities Records of peculiar jurisdictions
EDUCATIONAL RECORDS
RECORD ON YORKSHIRE IN GENERAL
RECORDS RELATING TO YORK CITY
RECORDS RELATING TO INDIVIDUAL PLACES IN YORKSHIRE
RECORDS RELATING TO FAMILIES, INDIVIDUALS & CORPORATIONS
ANTIQUARIAN COMPILATIONS
THESES
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NATIONAL RECORDS
COUNCIL OF THE NORTH Book of instructions, notes, misc. items 1537 – 1637 MFE 290 (Cumbria Record Office D/Lons/L.13/2)
COURT OF REQUESTS
1 Registers from 1494 MFE 420-423 (The National Archives Req. 1)
CORONERS’ ROLLS Bedfordshire Coroners’ rolls temp. Rich.II & Edw III MFE 392 (The National Archives, TNA JUST 2/10 – 2/13)
ANCIENT PETITIONS Ancient petitions temp. Hen. III – Jas I MFE 572-642 (The National Archives, SC 8)
Note: for the sake of convenience, some national or ‘state’ records have been placed within the related categories below, e.g. clerical subsidy records under the appropriate diocese; recusant rolls and returns under Roman Catholic records.
ECCLESIASTICAL RECORDS
1. National
PENSIONS AND ANNUITIES (ENGLAND) 2-3 Philip and Mary I MFE 301-2 (The National Archives E164/31)
ECCLESIASTICAL CENSUSES 1563, 1603 MFE 490 (British Library Harley MSS. 594 – 5)
CATALOGUE OF COMMONWEALTH ECCLESIASTICAL RECORDS A Presentation Deeds MFE 3 B Augmentation Books C Parliamentary Surveys
RELIGIOUS CENSUS RETURNS York Registration District MFE 433 (The National Archives HO 129/515)
Doncaster Registration District, 1851 MFE 484 (The National Archives HO129/510)
1603 Census of Lincoln Diocese MFE 569 (British Library, Harley Ms. 618)
Diocesan Returns associated with MFE 570 1603 survey for Gloucester and Bangor (British Library, Harley Ms. 594)
Diocesan Returns associated with 1603 survey for MFE 570 Norwich and Winchester. First folios include a
2 certificate of impropriation for the diocese of Llandaff. (British Library, Harley Ms. 595)
2. Provincial
ROYAL VISITATION OF THE NORTHERN PROVINCE 1559 MFE 29 (The National Archives SC.12/10)
‘COMPTON CENSUS’ 1676 (Northern Province) MFE 26 (Bodleian Library Tanner Ms. 150)
3. Diocesan
See also Antiquarian Compilations
BANGOR DIOCESE Registers of the bishops 1408 – 1637 MFE 287 (National Library of Wales)
Diocesan Returns associated with MFE 580 1603 survey for Gloucester and Bangor (British Library, Harley Ms. 594)
CANTERBURY DIOCESE Registers of the archbishops 1279 – 1645 MFE 51 – 69 (Lambeth Palace Library)
Cartulary of the See MFE 50 (Lambeth Palace Library MS. 1212)
Register of the See MFE 477 (British Library Cotton MS. Cleopatra E1)
Letter of St Anselm, Archbishop of Canterbury MFE 512 (Lambeth Palace Library MS 1131 pt. 2)
Notifications of the elections of bishops to MFE 512 Archbishops Anselm and Ralph of Caterbury (Lambeth Palace Library Carte Misc. II, 35 and 35A)
Archbishop Whittlesey concerning a church given to MFE 512 Leeds Priory, 1368/74 (Lambeth Palace Priory Carte Misc V. 110)
CARLISLE DIOCESE Bishop’s Register 1292 – 1349 MFE 75
3 (Excludes register of Halton whch is printed) (Cumbria Record Office, Carlisle DRC/1/1)
Bishop’s Register 1352 – 1392 MFE 75 (Cumbria Record Office, Carlisle DRC/1/2)
Registers of the bishops 1292 – 1656 MFE 220 (Cumbria Record Office)
Clerical subsidies 2-3 Richard II MFE 247 (The National Archives E179/60/1-2a)
Carlisle Synodal Statutes 1259 MFE 557 (Lambeth Palace Library ms. 4504)
CHESTER DIOCESE Registers of the bishops 1541 – 1686 MFE 221-3 (Cheshire Record Office)
CHICHESTER DIOCESE Registers of the bishops 1396 – 1675 MFE 120-32, (West Sussex Record Office) 272-4
Instance Books(1506 – 1696); Deposition Books MFE 353 - 390 (1556/7 – 1694); Taxation Books (1605 – 1607) Detection Books (1538 – 1700); Register of Churchwardens’ Presentments 1571-1682+); Church inspection books (1602 – 1636); Ex-communication papers (1612 – 1665);Churchwarden’s presentments (1537 – 1698) (West Sussex Record Office)
Significations of Excommunication MFE 497 (The National Archives C.85/43/1 – end)
COVENTRY AND LICHFIELD DIOCESE Registers of the bishops 1296 – 1632 MFE 215-219 (Lichfield Record Office)
DURHAM DIOCESE Registers of the bishops 1311 – 1683 MFE 84, 224- (Durham University Archives) 226, 247
Clerical Subsidies 2-4 Richard II MFE 247 (The National Archives E179/62/4-6)
Composition book of first fruits 1541-7 MFE 247 (The National Archives E135/10/33)
ELY DIOCESE
4 Registers of the bishops 1337 – 1619 MFE 280-283 (Cambridge University Library)
Court Presentments and Proceedings 1600-1606 MFE 289 (Cambridge University Library MS B2/20-1; D2/23)
Survey of the Bishop of Ely’s demesne manors, 1222 MFE 546 (British Library, Cotton Tiberius E II)
Ely Diocesan Records – Court Records MFE 547- 548 (Cambridge University Library B2/27-28, 30; D2/32; F5/37-40)
Ely Cathedral Records MFE 549 - 550 (Cambridge University Library ms. G.3.28, Ely Liber M; EDC: 1/A/2)
EVREUX DIOCESE Cartulary of the See MFE 442 (Archives Dep. de’l’Eure, Evreux, G.6)
GLOUCESTER DIOCESE Registers of the bishops 1541 – 1681 MFE 275–276 (Gloucestershire Record Office)
Diocese of Gloucester returns of 1563 MFE 568 (Contemporary copy) (Bodleian Library, Oxford)
Diocesan Returns associated with MFE 570 1603 survey for Gloucester and Bangor (British Library, Harley Ms. 594)
HEREFORD DIOCESE Gilbert Foliot letter book fragments MFE 415-416 (BL Cotton MS. Claudius B II; BN, MS. Lat.5320)
LINCOLN DIOCESE Registers of the bishops c. 1217 – 1663 MFE 195 – 214 (Lincolnshire Archives Office)
Appeal case about the exercise of vacancy MFE 349 jurisdiction in the diocese 1253 - 61 (Lincolnshire Archives Office Dij/62/4)
Pensions and annuities 1553 (Lincolnshire) MFE 301 (The National Archives E101/76/18-19, 23-4, 26)
Lincoln Ecclesiastical Collection MFE 243 (Bodleian Library, Oxford, ms. Gough Lincoln I)
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1603 Census of Lincoln Diocese MFE 579 (British Library, Harley Ms. 618)
LLANDAFF DIOCESE Vacancy registers 1287 – 1627 MFE 287 (Lambeth Palace Library)
LONDON DIOCESE Registers of the bishops 1304 – 1660 MFE 248 - 256 (Guildhall Library)
Gilbert Foliot letter book fragments MFE 415 - 416 (B L Cotton MS. Claudius B II; BN, MS. Lat 5320)
Ecclesiastical Formulary, diocese of London MFE 553 (Oxford, Queens College MS. 54)
NORWICH DIOCESE Registers of the bishops 1299-1631 MFE 82, 86-88, (Norfolk Record Office) 126-128
Bishop’s Register 3/6 fos. 126v – 127r MFE 558 (omitted from original film of bishop’s register) (Norfolk Record Office)
Register of Anthony Bek, dean of Lincoln and bishop MFE 472 of Norwich (BL Harley MS 3720)
Consistory Court probate registers 1370 – 1408 MFE 496 (Norfolk Record Office, Heydon/Harsyk)
PETERBOROUGH DIOCESE Peterborough Diocesan Records - MFE 551 Snappe’s formulary (Cambridge University Library MS. Bk. BB1)
OXFORD DIOCESE Registers of the bishops 1542 – 1663 MFE 284 (Bodleian Library)
RIPON DIOCESE Religious Census 1851 MFE 103 (The National Archives HO.129)
ROCHESTER DIOCESE Registers of the bishops 1319 – 1683 MFE 277 - 279 (Kent Archives Office)
6 ST ASAPH DIOCESE Registers of the bishops 1536 – 1670 MFE 286 (National Library of Wales)
ST DAVID’S DIOCESE Registers of the bishops 1389 – 1705 MFE 285
SALISBURY DIOCESE Registers of the bishops 1297 – 1689 MFE 227 – 236 (Wiltshire Record Office)
Cartulary of the See MFE 138 (Salisbury Cathedral Liber Evid. B)
WINCHESTER DIOCESE Registers of the bishops 1323 – 45, 1405 – 1528 MFE 123-125, (Hampshire Record Office) 393-395
Register of Bishop John Stratford (1323 – 33) MFE 393 (Hampshire Record Office, Winchester 21M65/A1/5)
Registers of Bishops Adam Orleton (1333 – 45), MFE 394 Henry Beaufort (1405 – 47), Peter Courtenay (1437 – 92), Thomas Langton (1493 – 1501) (Hampshire Record Office, Winchester 21M65/A16-7, 12, 15 – 16)
WORCESTER DIOCESE Registers of the bishops 1303 – 1543 MFE 317-323, (Hereford and Worcester Record Office) 461-466
YORK DIOCESE Cartulary of the See MFE 43 (BL Lansdowne MS 402)
Clerical Subsidies 2,4 Richard II MFE 247 (The National Archives E179/63/10 – 12, 28-9, 31)
Formulary Books 15th Century MFE 7 (Cambridge University Library Add MS 3115f)
Composition book of first fruits 1541- 7 MFE 247 (The National Archives E135/10/33)
Valuation and inventory of diocesan properties MFE 41 1535/6 and survey of archbishop’s farms (The National Archives SC.11/766, 12/17/58)
Pensions and Annuities 1553 (Yorkshire) MFE 301 (The National Archives E101/19-19, 23-4, 26)
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Certificates of ministers in the diocese temp. MFE 35 Archbishop Piers 1589-94 (Lambeth Palace Library Cart. Misc. XII no.9)
Probate Registers I (1321 – 1493), II (1493 – 1543) MFE 330 - 331 and IV Treasureship (1547 – 1553); Probate Act Book (1560 – 1636) and Reg. of Licenses, Wills, Administrations and Tuitions (1665 – 1674); St Leonard’s Hospital Probate Registers 1410 – 1533’ Chapter Act Book (1345 – 1353); Probate Register III (1543 – 1558); Registrum Antiquum de Testamentis (1333 – 1342) (York Minster Archives L2/4; L2/5a; M2/3b; L1/1a; L1/1b; M2/6c; H1/1; L2/5b; M2/4f)
M2/1b Consistory court book 1371 MFE 259 M2/1c Consistory court book 1371-5 M2/1e Consistory court book 1426-7 M2/1g Register of proxies 1387-94 M2/1h Register of proxies 1375/6-86 P1/1/16 Hermesthorp c. Webbester (cf. Borthwick, CP.E. 119)
Visitations of the archdeaconry of Nottingham by MFE 132 The Archbishops 1590-1640 (Nottingham University Library A6, 8, 10, 11, 23-4, 46)
Correspondence and papers of Archbishop John Sharp MFE 15-20, 119 1691-1714 (Gloucestershire Record Office, Lloyd-Baker archives)
Correspondence of Archbishop Thomas Musgrave MFE 194 (1847-60) (Nottinghamshire Record Office DDE Addit. 212/1-220/46)
Parliamentary Survey of the diocese MFE 98 (Lambeth Palace Library Comm. XIIa/17-18)
Religious Census 1851 MFE 103, 111- (The National Archives HO.129) 118, 433
Herring MS 1 (ordinations at York 1743-1747) MFE 518 (Lambeth Palace Library)
4. Capitular and Collegiate
See also Peculiar Jurisdictions
AVRANCHES CATHEDRAL MFE 455 Cartulary
8 (Avranches Municipal Library MS. 206)
BEVERLEY MINSTER Cartulary of the Minster MFE 107 (Oxford University Bodleian Coll. MS 82)
CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL Registers of the Cathedral Priory (Reg A – Reg Z) MFE 523-544
Register of extents MFE 430 (BL add MS 6160)
CHICHESTER CATHEDRAL Cartularies MFE 498-501 (W. Sussex Record Office Ep. VI/1/1,2, 4-6; Cap I/12/2)
DURHAM CATHEDRAL Sede vacante Register 1406 MFE 84 (Durham University Archives)
Cartuarium I-IV (Durham Dean and Chapter Muniments) MFE 507-509 Cart. Vet. MFE 509 (Durham Dean and Chapter Muniments Misc. Ch. 7177)
Almoner’s cartulary MFE 510 (Durham Dean and Chapter Muniments)
Small Cartulary MFE 510 (Durham Dean and Chapter Muniments)
Almoner’s rental and cartulary MFE 510 (Durham Dean and Chapter Muniments)
Infirmarer’s Rentals MFE 511 (Durham Dean and Chapter Muniments)
Communar’s cartulary MFE 511 (Durham Dean and Chapter Muniments)
Sacrist’s cartulary MFE 511 (Durham Dean and Chapter Muniments)
Chamberlain’s cartulary MFE 511 (Durham Dean and Chapter Muniments)
Ushaw ms.25 MFE 511 (Durham Dean and Chapter Muniments)
ELY CATHEDRAL
9 Continuation of a general cartulary MFE 425 (Bodleian Library, Ashmole Ms 801)
EVREUX CATHEDRAL Cartulary MFE 443 (Archives Dep.de’l’Eure, Evreux, G 122)
HEREFORD CATHEDRAL Catalogue of Dean and Chapter muniments MFE 48-49 (National Library of Wales)
Cartulary MFE 487 (Bodleian Library, Rawlinson MS B329)
Cartulary MFE 488 (Bodleian Library, Jones MS.23)
LICHFIELD CATHEDRAL Cartularies MFE 154-155 (BL Harley MS 3863; BL Harley MS. 4799)
Magnum Registrum Album MFE 424 (Lichfield Cathedral)
LINCOLN CATHEDRAL Register of Anthony Bek, dean of Lincoln MFE 472 and bishop of Norwich (BL Harley MS 3720)
Lincoln Cathedral Accounts 1318 – 1339 MFE 556 (Lincolnshire Archives, Lincoln D&C Bj/2/5)
LONDON, ST PAUL’S CATHEDRAL Fragment of Register MFE 425 (Bodleian Library, Ashmole MS. 801)
NORWICH CATHEDRAL Cartularies Reg 1-2 MFE 176-178 (Norfolk Record Office)
Inventory of Muniments MFE 178 (Norfolk Record Office. R.231A)
ROCHESTER CATHEDRAL Cartulary MFE 471 (BL Cotton MS Domitian A X)
Ecclesiastical formulary MFE 554 (Kent Record Office, DRb/010)
10 ROUEN CATHEDRAL Cartularies MFE 448-451 (Archives Dep. de la Seine-Maritime, Rouen, G. 2087; Rouen Municipal Library MS 1193 (Y44)
SALISBURY CATHEDRAL Cartularies, register of St Osmund, Liber Evid. C MFE 137-139 (Salisbury Cathedral)
SOUTHWELL MINSTER Liber Albus MFE 150 (Southwell MS 1)
WARWICK, ST. MARY’S Black book of Woodcote MFE 426 (Warwickshire Record Office, CR 26/4)
Cartulary MFE 427 (The National Archives E164/22)
Collegiate church of St Mary Cartulary MFE 417 (The National Archives, E 164/22)
WINCHESTER CATHEDRAL Cartulary MFE 403 (BL Add MS 29436)
WORCESTER CATHEDRAL Sede Vacante Register 1301-1435 MFE 83 (Worcester Cathedral)
YORK MINSTER Sede Vacante Registers 1396-7, 1500 MFE 43 (BL Cotton MS. Galba E X)
Cartularies MFE 99, 131 (BL Cotton MS. Claudius B III; Cotton MS. Vitellius A II)
Ecclesiastical Formulary (York, Lincoln) MFE 555 (Belonged to Lord Fairfax and Thomas Thompson, keeper of the records at York) (York Minster Library, Add. MS 22)
Vicar’s Choral Accounts MFE 567 (York Minster Archives)
5. Monastic
See also Antiquarian Compilations below.
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ALNWICK ABBEY Cartulary MFE 180 (BL Harley MS. 3897)
ALVINGHAM PRIORY Cartulary MFE 93 (Bodleian Library Laud misc. 642)
BARDNEY ABBEY Cartulary (BL Cotton MS. Vespasian E XX) MFE 71
BARLINGS ABBEY Cartulary MFE 46 (BL Cotton MS. Faustina B 1)
BATH PRIORY Cartulary MFE 566 (British Library Egerton Ms. 3316)
BATTLE ABBEY Cartularies MFE 412, 492 (California, Henry Huntington Library, San Marino, Battle Abbey Papers, vols. 29-30; Lincoln’s Inn Library MS 87)
BAYHAM ABBEY Cartulary MFE 481 (BL Cotton MS Otho A II)
BEAUCHIEF ABBEY Cartulary MFE 149 (Sheffield City Archives)
BEAUVALE PRIORY Cartulary MFE 237 (BL Add MS 6060)
BEC ABBEY Cartulary fragment MFE 444 (Archives Dep de’l’Eure, Evreux, H. 91)
BIDDLESDEN ABBEY Cartulary MFE 240 (BL Harley MS. 4714)
BLYTH PRIORY Cartulary MFE 419 (BL Harley MS. 3759)
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BOLTON PRIORY Extracts from lost cartulary MFE 105 (Bodleian Library, Dodsworth MS. 144 fos.1-77)
BOXGROVE PRIORY Cartulary MFE 482 (BL Cotton Claudius A VI)
BOXLEY PRIORY Citations etc concerning a dispute between the MFE 512 Prior and convent of Leeds and the abbey of Boxley (1292/3) (Lambeth Palace Library Carte Misc. III, 116 – 20)
BRADWELL PRIORY Abstracts of Charters MFE 350 (The National Archives SC. 11/75)
BRIDLINGTON PRIORY Cartulary MFE 257 (BL Add. MS. 40008)
BROMHOLM PRIORY Cartulary MFE 391 (Cambridge University Library MS Mm 2.20)
BRUTON PRIORY Cartulary MFE 480 (BL Egerton MS. 3772)
BURTON ABBEY Cartulary MFE 474 (BL Loans MS. 30)
BURY ST EDMUNDS St John’s Hospital Cartulary MFE 482 (BL Arundel MS 1)
Abbots’ Registers 1302 – 35, 1309-1446 MFE 514-516 (BL Harley MS 230; Cotton MS Tiberius B IX; Add. MS. 7096; Add MS. 14848)
BYLAND ABBEY Cartulary MFE 92 (BL Egerton MS. 2823)
CANONSLEIGH ABBEY Cartulary MFE 565 (British Library Harley MS. 3660)
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CANTERBURY, ST AUGUSTINE’S ABBEY The ‘Red Book’ MFE 482 (BL Cotton MS Claudius D X)
CARISBROOKE PRIORY Cartulary MFE 403 (BL Egerton MS. 3667)
CASTLE ACRE PRIORY Cartulary MFE 81, 157 (BL Harley MS. 2110)
CHATTERIS PRIORY Cartulary MFE 306 (BL Cotton MS. Julius A 1)
CHESTER ABBEY Cartulary MFE 476 (BL Harley MS. 1965)
CHRISTCHURCH CATHEDRAL PRIORY, CANTERBURY Registers of the Cathedral Priory (Reg A – Reg Z) MFE 523-544
CHRISTCHURCH see TWYNHAM
COLCHESTER ABBEY Cartulary MFE 411 (Essex Record Office, Colchester branch)
Annals, obits MFE 486 (Bodleian Library, Gough MS Essex 1)
CONCHES ABBEY Fragment of a transcript of a cartulary MFE 445 (Archives Dep. de’l’Eure, Evreux, H. 262)
CROWLAND ABBEY Cartulary MFE 45 (Spalding Gentleman’s Society, Lincolnshire Archives Office)
DARLEY ABBEY Cartulary MFE 475 (BL Cotton MS. Titus C IX)
DAVENTRY PRIORY Cartulary MFE 238 (BL Cotton Claudius D XII)
14 DEEPING PRIORY Cartulary MFE 520 (BL, Harley MS 36580
DEREHAM, WEST ABBEY Cartulary MFE 239 (BL Add. MS 46353)
DRAX PRIORY Cartularies MFE 70 (Bodleian Library MS. Top. Yorks c.72)
DUNMOW, LITTLE, PRIORY Cartulary MFE 311 (BL Harley MS. 662)
DURFORD ABBEY Cartulary MFE 312 (BL Cotton Vespasian E XXIII)
EASBY ABBEY Cartulary MFE 104 (BL Egerton MS. 2827)
EDINGTON, BONHOMMES’ HOUSE Cartulary MFE 473 (BL Lansdowne MS 442)
EVESHAM ABBEY Register of R. Bromesgrove, abbot 1418-35 MFE 431 (BL Cotton MS Titus C IX)
EVREUX, ABEY OF ST TAURIN Cartularies MFE 446-447 (Archives de’l’Eure, Evreux, H. 793; H 794)
EYE PRIORY Cartulary MFE 78 (Essex Record Office, D/DBy.Q.19)
FECAMP ABBEY Cartularies MFE 449, 452 (Rouen Municipal Library, MS. 1207 [Y51]; Archives Dep de la Seine-Maritime, Rouen, 7 H. 9)
FELLEY PRIORY Cartulary MFE 152 (BL Add. MS. 36872)
FERRIBY, NORTH, PRIORY
15 Cartulary MFE 97 (Bodleian Library. Add. C.51)
FLAMSTEAD PRIORY Cartulary MFE 74 (Hertfordshire Record Office MS. 17465)
FOUCARMONT PRIORY Cartulary MFE 453 (Rouen Municipal Library. MS. 1224 [Y13])
FOUNTAINS ABBEY Cartularies MFE 129-131, (Bodleian Library, Univ. Coll MS.167; 262-265 Bodleian Library, Univ. Coll. MS. 170; Bodleian Library, Rawlinson MS. B. 449; BL Egerton MS. 3053; BL Cotton MS Tiberius C XII; BL Add. MS 40009; BL Add. MS. 37770)
Inventory and abstract of deeds 1509 MFE 266 (British Library Add. Ms. 18276)
GARENDON ABBEY Cartulary MFE 308 (BL Lansdowne MS. 415)
GLOUCESTER ABBEY Cartularies MFE 80, 405 (Gloucester D/C, register A; Gloucester D/C, register B; The National Archives C150/1)
Chronicle of St Gregory of Caerwent, 13th MFE 399 century monk of Gloucester, 16th century copy (BL Cotton MS. Vespasian A V)
GODSTOW ABBEY Cartulary MFE 300 (The National Archives E164/20)
GUISBOROUGH PRIORY Cartulary MFE 419 (BL Cotton MS. Cleopatra D II)
HAUGHMOND ABBEY Cartulary MFE 478 (Shropshire Record Office, MS . 6001/6869)
HEALAUGH ABBEY Cartulary MFE 478 (BL Cotton MS. Vespasian A IV)
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HEREFORD, ST GUTHLAC’S PRIORY Cartulary MFE 410 (Balliol College, Oxford, MS. 271)
HOLM CULTRAM ABBEY Cartulary MFE 267, 458 (BL Harley MS 3911; Cumbria Record Office, Carlisle)
HOSPITALLERS, KNIGHTS Cartulary MFE 468 (BL Cotton Manuscript, Nero E VI)
HUNTINGDON PRIORY Cartulary (BL Cotton MS. Faustina C I) MFE 307
IPSWICH, ST PETER AND ST PAUL PRIORY Cartulary MFE 483 (Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich HD.226)
JUMIEGES ABBEY Cartulary MFE 450 (Archives Dep. de la Seine-Maritime, Rouen, 9 H. 4)
KENILWORTH PRIORY Cartularies MFE 95, 158 (BL Harley MS. 3650; BL Add. MS. 47677)
KIRKHAM PRIORY Cartulary MFE 91 (Bodleian Library, Fairfax MS. 7)
Maurice, Prior of Kirkham: contra Salomitas MFE 291 (Bodleian Library, Hatton MS. 92)
KIRKSTEAD ABBEY Cartulary MFE 181 (BL Cotton MS. Vespasian E XVIII)
KNIGHTS HOSPITALLERS see HOSPITALLERS, KNIGHTS
LANCASTER PRIORY Cartulary MFE 476 (BL Harley MS.3764)
LANERCOST PRIORY Cartulary MFE 170 (Cumbria R.O., Carlisle, JAC.295)
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LANGDON ABBEY Cartulary MFE 351 (The National Archives, E164/29)
LANGLEY ABBEY Register MFE 430 (BL. Add. MS. 5948)
Register MFE 564 (Bodleian Library MS 242)
LANTHONY PRIORY Cartularies MFE 134 - 136 (The National Archives C115/KA.9; K1/6681; K2/6683; K2/6686; L1/6687; L1/6689; L1/6690)
LEEDS PRIORY Citations etc concerning a dispute between the MFE 512 Prior and convent of Leeds and the abbey of Boxley, 1292/3 (Lambeth Palace Library Carte Mis. III, 116 -20)
Archbishop Whittlesey concerning a church given MFE 512 to Leeds Priory, 1368/74 (Lambeth Palace Library Carte Misc. V. 110)
Royal Letters Patent to Leeds Priory concerning MFE 512 advowson of Sutton Valance, 1442 (Lambeth Palace Library Carte Misc. XI, 51)
Extract of a plea etc. regarding a disputed adowson MFE 512 between Leeds Priory and Robertsbridge Abbey, 1279 (Lambeth Palace Library Carte Misc. XI, 52)
LESSNESS ABBEY Cartulary MFE 494 (Bodleian Library, Rawlinson MS.B.461)
LEWISHAM PRIORY Cartulary MFE 76 (Ghent State Archives, St Peter’s Abbey, 1st series, no.7, pt. i)
LILLESHALL ABBEY Cartulary MFE 475 (BL Add. MS. 50121)
LIRE ABBEY Lenoir Transcripts of cartulary MFE 140 (Archives Dep. De l’Eure, Evreux)
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MAIDEN BRADLEY Cartulary MFE 305 (BL Add. MS. 37503)
MALMESBURY ABBEY Cartularies MFE. 429, 473 (BL Add. MS. 38009; BL Lansdowne MS. 417)
MALTON PRIORY Cartulary MFE 44 (BL Cotton MS. Claudius D XI)
MEAUX ABBEY Cartularies MFE 153 (BL Cotton MS. Vitullius C VI; Lansdowne MS 424)
MERTON PRIORY Cartulary MFE 403 (BL Cotton MS Cleopatra C VII)
MISSENDEN ABBEY Abbot’s register 1440 - 1506 MFE 513 (BL Sloane MS. 747)
MONKS HORTON PRIORY Cartulary MFE. 313 (BL Stowe MS. 935)
Fragment of Cartulary MFE 430 (BL Add. MS 5316)
MONTACUTE PRIORY cartulary MFE 564 (Trinity College Ms. 85)
MONTEBOURG ABBEY Cartulary MFE 414 (Bibliotheque Nationale, MS. N.A. Lat. 2433; Francais 18953)
MONT ST MICHEL ABBEY Cartulary MFE 456 (Avranches Municipal Lib., MS 210)
MOTTISFORT PRIORY Cartularies MFE 395 (Hampshire Record Office, Winchester 13M63/1-2)
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MUCH WENLOCK PRIORY Extracts from lost memorandum book MFE 460 (Bodleian Library, Phillipps Robinson MS e 77)
NEWBURGH PRIORY Copies of charters MFE 304 (Bodleian Library, Dodsworth MS. 91)
NEWENT PRIORY Cartularies MFE 309-310 (BL Add MSS. 15668, 18461
NEWHOUSE PRIORY Cartularies MFE 521 (Lincolnshire Archives, Yarb.3/3/1/1)
NEWNHAM PRIORY Cartulary MFE 565 (British Library Harley MS 3656)
NORTH FERRIBY see FERRIBY, NORTH
NORTHAMPTON, ST ANDREW’S PRIORY Cartularies MFE 85, 94 (BL Royal MS. 11 B IX; BL Cotton Vespasian E XVII)
NOSTELL PRIORY Cartulary MFE 96 (BL Cotton MS. Vespasian E XIX)
Act Book and Coucher Book MFE 407 (West Yorkshire Archives Service, Leeds NP/C1 &C3)
NUNCOTHAM PRIORY Cartulary MFE 242 (Bodleian Library MS. Top. Lincs. D1)
NUNEATON PRIORY Charter Rolls MFE 402, 404 (BL Add. Roll 47398 & Add. Ch. 47573)
OWSTON ABBEY Fragment of cartulary MFE 391 (Cambridge University Library, MS. Dd.3.87 no 20)
PENTNEY ABBEY Fragment of Cartulary MFE 495 (Norfolk Office, MS. Fel. 30)
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PETERBOROUGH ABBEY Cartulary MFE 72 (Cambridge University Library, Swaffham’s Register)
Registers MFE 413 (BL Cototn MS. Vespasian E XXI; E XXII)
Prior Pytchley’s Book of Fees MFE 473 (BL Egerton MS. 2733)
PIPEWELL ABBEY Cartularies MFE 332 - 337 (BL Add. MS. 37022; Stowe MS. 937; Cotton MS. Caligula A XII – XIII; Cototn MS. Otho B XIV; Cotton MS. Julius A I)
Chronicle MFE 472 (BL Cotton MS. Caligula A XII)
PLYMPTON PRIORY Extracts from Lost Cartulary MFE 242 (Bodleian Library Tanner MS. 342)
RAMSEY ABBEY Surveys and rentals 13th Century MFE 43 (BL Cotton MS. Galba E X)
Cartulary MFE 431 (BL Cotton MS: Vespasian E II)
RIEVAULX ABBEY Cartulary MFE 428 (BL Cotton MS. Julius D I)
ROBERTSBRIDGE ABBEY Extract of plea etc. regarding a disputed advowson MFE 512 between Leeds Priory and Robertsbridge Abbey, 1279 (Lambeth Palace Library Carte Misc. XI, 52)
RONTON PRIORY Cartulary MFE 431 (BL Cotton MS. Vespasian C XV)
ST ALBANS ABBEY Cartulary MFE 481 (BL Cotton MS Otho D III)
21 ST-ANDRE-EN-GOUFFERN ABBEY Cartulary MFE 441 (Archives Dep du Calvados, Caen, H.6510)
ST FLORENT, SAUMUR see SAUMUR, ST FLORENT
ST GEORGES-DE-BOSCHERVILLE Cartulary MFE 454 (Rouen Municipal Library, MS. 1227 [Y52])
ST NEOT’S PRIORY Cartulary MFE 156, 81 (BL Cotton MS. Faustina A IV)
ST RADEGUND’S ABBEY Cartulary MFE 493-494 (Bodleian Library, Rawlinson MSS. B.336; B.461)
ST TAURIN, EVREUX see EVREUX, ST TAURIN
SAUMUR, ST FLORENT ABBEY Charter rolls MFE 439-440, (Archives Dep. de Maine-et-Loire, Angers, H. 3711, 457 H.1838, H. 1836)
SAWLEY ABBEY Cartulary MFE 432 (BL Harley MS. 112)
SELBY ABBEY Lease Register MFE 258 (West Yorkshire Archives Service, Leeds, SA Towneley transcripts)
Register of abbots MFE 260-261 (BL Cotton MS. Cleopatra D III; Vitellius E XVI)
Cartulary MFE 429 (BL Add. MS. 37771)
SEMPRINGHAM, ORDER OF Institutions and General Chapters of the Order MFE 398 (Bodleian Library Douce MS 136)
SHEEN PRIORY Inventory of charters MFE 481 (BL Cotton MS Otho B XIV)
22 SHERBORNE ABBEY Cartulary MFE 473 (BL Cotton MS Otho B XIV)
SHREWSBURY ABBEY Cartulary MFE 89 (National Library of Wales, MS. 7851)
SOUTHWARK PRIORY Cartulary fragment MFE 404 (BL Add. MS. 6040)
SOUTHWICK PRIORY Cartularies MFE 79 (Hampshire Record Office, Regs 1-3)
SPALDING PRIORY Cartularies MFE 109, 110 (BL Add. MS. 35296; BL Harley MS. 742)
STIXWOULD PRIORY Cartulary MFE 179 (BL Add. MS. 46701)
STONE PRIORY Charter Roll MFE 477 (BL Cotton Roll XIII 6)
STUDLEY PRIORY Misc. Records MFE 244 (Oxfordshire Record Office, MS. d. d. Henderson c.9)
THELSFORD PRIORY Extracts from lost cartulary MFE 460 (Bodleian Library, Phillipps Robinson MS. e 77)
Register MFE 491 (Bodleian Library, Rawlinson MS B.444)
THORNEY ABBEY Cartulary (Red Book) MFE 339 (Cambridge University Library Add. MS. 3020-1)
THORNTON CURTIS ABBEY Chronicle MFE 485 (Bodleian Library Tanner MS 166)
THROWLEY PRIORY Cartulary MFE 77 (St Omer, bibl. publ. MS. 746)
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THURGARTON PRIORY Cartulary MFE 151 (Southwell, MS 3)
TILTY ABBEY Transcript of lost register MFE 352 (Essex Record Office, T/B. 3)
TITCHFIELD ABBEY Extracts from a register MFE 395 (Hampshire Record Office, Winchester 46M48/109 (part))
TORRE ABBEY Cartulary MFE 338 (The National Archives E164/19)
TWYNHAM, CHRISTCHURCH PRIORY Cartulary MFE 404 (BL Add. MS. 29436)
WALDEN ABBEY Cartulary MFE 472 (BL Harley MS. 3967)]
WALSINGHAM PRIORY Register MFE 467 (BL Cotton MS. Nero E VII)
WARTER PRIORY Cartulary MFE 90 (Bodleian Library, Fairfax MS. 9)
WELBECK ABBEY Cartulary MFE 475 (BL Harley MS. 3640)
WEST DEREHAM see DEREHAM, WEST
WESTMINSTER ABBEY Cartulary MFE 469 (British Library Cotton Faustina A III)
WESTWOOD PRIORY Cartulary MFE 431 (BL Cotton MS. Vespasian E IX)
24 WETHERAL PRIORY Cartulary MFE 459 (Cumbria Record Office, Carlisle)
WHERWELL ABBEY Cartulary MFE 401 (BL Egerton MS. 2104A)
WHITBY ABBEY Cartulary MFE 430 (BL Add MS. 4715)
WILTON ABBEY Cartulary MFE 473 (BL Harley MS. 436)
WINCHESTER, HYDE ABBEY Cartulary MFE 404 (BL Cotton MS. 436)
WOMBRIDGE PRIORY Cartulary MFE 476 (BL Egerton MS. 3712)
WOOTTON WAWEN PRIORY Cartulary MFE 400 (Archives Dep. de’l’Eure, Evreux, II F.2463)
WYMONDHAM PRIORY Register MFE 467 (BL Cototn MS. Titus C VII)
YORK, ST LEONARD’S HOSPITAL Cartularies MFE 47, 106 (BL Cotton MS. Nero D III, Bodleian Library, Rawlinson MS. B. 455)
YORK, ST MARY’S ABBEY Cartularies MFE 100, 101 (BL Add. MS. 38816, BL Harley MS. 236)
6. Chantry Records
SIBTHORPE CHANTRY Cartulary MFE 240 (BL Add MS 27372)
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HOLME ON SPALDING MOOR Status Animarum 1766-80; registers from 1841; MFE 102, 561 confirmation register from 1866; parish papers (kept at Presbytery)
OLD BROTHERHOOD ARCHIVES Oscott College 16th-20th centuries MFE 30-33, 36-40 WESTMINSTER ROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESE Indices to the archives of the Archbishop, 1501-1793 MFE 2 (Westminster, series ‘A’, vols. 1-49)
8. Quaker Records
YORKSHIRE SOCIETY OF FRIENDS ARCHIVES (Leeds University, Brotherton Library) MFE 159 – 168 171 – 175 182 – 193
9. Records of Modern Religious Communities
COMMUNITY OF THE RESURRECTION, MIRFIELD General Chapter Minutes and chronicle from 1892 MFE 143 – 148
10. Records of Peculiar Jurisdictions
See also Capitular and Collegiate churches
ARKENGARTHDALE PECULIAR Probate Index MFE 269 (West Yorkshire Archives Service, Leeds)
HUNSINGORE PECULIAR Probate Index MFE 269 (West Yorkshire Archives Service, Leeds)
KNARESBOROUGH PECULIAR Probate Index MFE 269 (West Yorkshire Archives Service, Leeds)
MASHAM PECULIAR Probate register and act book 1576-1654; MFE 268 Probate indexes 1576 – 1857 (West Yorkshire Archives Service Leeds)
26 YORK MINSTER DEANERY PECULIAR Visitation records 1568 -1627 MFE 245 (North Yorkshire Record Office, PR.PI.4)
EDUCATIONAL RECORDS
OXFORD, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE College Registers 1509 – 1842 MFE 288, 293 (Oxford University College, Archives)
RECORDS RELATING TO YORKSHIRE IN GENERAL
DESCRIPTIONOF YORKSHIRE 16th century MFE 169 (BL. Lansdowne MSS. 116-9)
RECORDS RELATING TO YORK CITY
YORK GUILD OF BARBER SURGEONS Guild Book MFE 406 (BL Egerton MS 2572)
YORK GUILD OF GLAZIERS AND PLUMBERS Ordinance Book 1598-1742 MFE 246 (Corning Museum of Glass, New York)
RECORDS RELATING TO INDIVIDUAL PLACES IN YORKSHIRE
See also under Monastic and Roman Catholic headings
BRANDESBURTON PARISH REGISTERS 1, 2 (East Riding Archives) MFE 73
DONCASTER CORPORATION Minute Books 1559 – 1768 MFE 314 - 316 (Doncaster Archives, ‘Courtiers’ AB. 2/1)
GENT’S HISTORY OF RIPON MFE 562
PONTEFRACT, KNOLLES ALMSHOUSES Cartulary MFE 241 (Bodleian Library, Barlow MS 49)
27 SCARBOROUGH, ST MARY’S CHURCH Churchwardens’ accounts and papers 1607-1821 MFE 348 (East Riding Archives, PE/ 165/241-2)
RECORDS RELATING TO FAMILIES, INDIVIDUALS & CORPORATIONS
See also under Diocesan and York City headings
ANLABY FAMILY OF ETTON Cartulary, compiled 1450 MFE 294 (Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum)
BEAUCHAMP FAMILY Cartulary MFE 470 (BL Add MS 28204)
BERKELEY FAMILY Select Rolls MFE 324-329 (Berkeley Castle)
CONSTABLE FAMILY OF FLAMBOROUGH Cartulary of the Constable Family of Flamborough; MFE 299 John Constable’s Survey Book 1575 and cartulary (late 14th century) of Constable family of Burton Constable (East Riding Archives, DDCC. 135/2; DDCC. 141/68)
HEBDEN FAMILY OF HEBDEN IN BURNSALL Cartulary MFE 295 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, Yorks. rolls 21)
LEEK FAMILY Cartulary MFE 479 (Derbyshire Record Office, D1005.Z/E1)
LONDON, CORPORATION OF custumals MFE 434 - 438 (Corporation of London Record Office, Guildhall, London)
MACCLESFIELD FAMILY Cartulary MFE 471 (BL MS. Cotton Cleopatra D VI)
TOBIE MATTHEW, ARCHBISHOP OF YORK Diary and Journal 1583 – 1622 (18th century copy) MFE 8 (York Minster Library)
MOWBRAY CARTULARY British Library, Add. MS. 24688, ff. 7-50 MFE 296
28 PERCY FAMILY Feodary for Yorkshire estates, account rolls MFE 503 (Petworth Archives)
PIERREPONT FAMILY Cartulary MFE 297, 419 (BL Loans MS. 29/60)
PHYSICIAN, UNKNOWN Notebook 15th century in English MFE 409 (BL Harley MS. 1753)
SCROPE FAMILY OF BOLTON Cartulary MFE 142 (Cheshire record Office, DCH/X/15/1)
THOMAS WILLEMENT, STAINED GLASS ARTIST Ledger and Account Book 1841 – 65) MFE 133 (In private possession)
REVD. SAMUEL WIMBUSH, RECTOR OF TERRINGTON (1865 - 1908) AND MARY HIS DAUGHTER Diaries 1870 – 1908 MFE 340 - 347 (In private possession)
ANTIQUARIAN COMPILATIONS
JOHN BURTON Copies of Monastic Charters MFE 270 - 271 (Bodleian Library MS Top.Yorks e 7-12)
ROGER DODSWORTH (Bodl. Dodsworth Mss. 4 – 9, 29 – 30, 94-5, MFE 489, 502, 106 – 7, 120, 120B 504 – 6, 517 GENEALOGICAL MANUSCRIPTS RELATING MFE 545 TO YORKSHIRE (British Library Add. Ms. 29674)
GENT’S HISTORY OF RIPON MFE 562
GERVASE HOLLES Transcripts, including lost Bullington Priory MFE 519, 522 cartulary (BL Add MS 6118. Lansdowne MS. 207B)
W.W. SKEAT MFE 6 Twelve facsimiles of old English manuscripts, transcriptions and introduction 1892
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H.J. TODD Catalogue for the Archiepiscopal Mss… with an MFE 5 account of the Archiepiscopal registers and other records there preserved. London 1812. (Lambeth Palace Library)
JAMES TORRE Catalogue of Yorkshire monastic archives MFE 9-13, 270 (Bodleian Library MS Top Yorks b 14)
SAMUEL WOODFORD Collection 1636 – 1700 on the history of MFE 408 Hampshire, including copies of documents belonging to the bishop of Winchester (Yale University, Beinecke Library, Hampshire, Woodford Collections)
A.C. WYON AND A. WYON The Great Seals of England from the earliest period MFE 34 to present time; arranged and illustrated with descriptive historical notes
THESES
JOHN ADDY Ecclesiastical discipline in the courts of York, MFE 28 1559 – 1714, with special reference to the archdeacon’s court (Leeds MA thesis, 1961)
J. FINES Studies in the Lollard heresy: being an examination MFE 14 of the evidence from the Diocese of Norwich, Lincoln, Coventry and Lichfield and Ely during the period 1430 – 1530 (Sheffield University Ph.D Thesis, 1964)
N.K. HEARD Beverley Minster: government and society, MFE 21 1381 -1540 (Hull University Ph.D thesis, 1962)
D.J. HIBBERD Urban Inequalities: Social Geography and MFE 303 Demography in Seventeenth-century York (Liverpool University Ph.D thesis, 1981)
30 I.W. HOGG A Survey of the Diocese of York during the MFE 24 Archbishoprics of Samuel Harsnett and Richard Neile 1626 – 1640 (Nottingham University MA thesis, 1961)
D. LAMBERT The lower clergy in Lancashire, 1558 – 1662 MFE 25 (Liverpool MA thesis, 1964)
J.A.NEWTON Puritanism in the Diocese of York 1603 – 1640 MFE 1 (London University thesis, 1962)
R.G. RILEY The Ecclesiastical control of parochial life in the MFE 24 Nottingham archdeaconry 1590-1610 as illustrated by the causes of office (Nottingham MA thesis, 1954)
M.H. ROBINSON The Career of Archbishop Rotherham MFE 23 (Sheffield MA thesis, 1940)
C.H.N. SMITH The development of Church life in the Cleveland MFE 27 rural deanery of the diocese of York c.1850-1880 (Nottingham MA thesis, 1965)
H.K. SMITH Some aspects of the career of William Thomson MFE 42 archbishop of York 1863 – 1890 (Sheffield Ph.D. thesis, 1953)
J.Q. SMITH The origins and Development of the Keighley MFE 292 Methodist Circuit: A study of Methodism in a Yorkshire textile community 1748-1850 (Ph.D Ohio University1985)
K. WOOD Administration of the dioceses of York under MFE 22 Archbishop Greenfield (Leeds University MA thesis, 1962)
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