Miscellanea - Volume Ii

THE PUBLICATIONS OF THE 7 SURTEES SOCII-CTY ESTABLISHED IN THE YEAR .-l - i M. DCCrC. XXSIV. 1 .-VOL. CXXVII. FOR THE YEAR B, cM. XVI. MISCELL VOL. 11. COMPRISING I.-TWO THIRTEENTH-CENTURY ASSIZE ROLLS FOR THE COUNTY OF DURHAM. 11.-NORTH COUNTRY DEEDS. 111.-DOCUMENTS RELATING TO VISITATIONS OF THE DIOCESE AND PROVINCE OF YORK, 1407, 1423. ubltsl oD for t e Sortetp bp ANDREWS CO., SADLER STREET, DURHAM BERNARD QUARITCH, 15 PICCADILLY, LONDON. 1916, At a General Neeting of the SURTEE S S O CIETYh, eld in Durham Castle, on Tuesday, June lst, 1915, the Rev. Dr. GEE in the chair, It was resolved, That a volume of Miscellanies be prepared for the Society, to consist of the following Aicles -.-TWO Thirteenth-Century Assize Rolls for the County of Durham, now preserved in the Public Record Office, to be edited by Mr. K. E. BAYLEY. -. II.-North Country Deeds, from originah in the same repository, to be edited by the SECRETARY. 111.-Diocesan and Provincial Visitations in the Fifteenth Century, from the Registers of the Archbishops of York, to be edited by Mr. A. HAMILTO TH N O MPSON. CONTENTS. PAGE. I.-Two Thirteenth-Century Durham Assize Rolls -Introduction . . . . . . ... ... ... . . . ix Durham Eyre Roll, 27 Henry 111. ... . . . ... 1 Sdberge Assize Roll, 1235-6 ... ... . . . -. . 75 11.-North Country Deeds . . . ... . . . . . . . . . 107 Durham ... .. . . . . . . . . . . ... ... 109 Northumberland . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . 114 Yorkshire . . . ..-. . . S - - . . . ... ... 122 Scotland . .. . . . ... . . . ... ... . . . 124 111.-Documents relating to Visitations of the Diocese and Province of York . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . 131 Introduction ... . . . ... . . . ... . . . 133 Extracts fromthe Eegister of Archbishop Bowet, Vol. I. 152 Extracts from the Kegister of Archbishop Kempe . . . 201 Ap y endix . . . ... ... ... ... . . . ... 291 Index . . . ... . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . 303 INTRODUCTION. was during the early part of the thirteenth century that IT the Bishops of Durham consolidated those palatinate privileges which attained their fullest development at the end of that century, when Anthony Bell, of that state and greatness as never any Bishop was, Woolsey excepted, ruled the diocese. Of the origin of those privileges it is not necessa. ry to speak, but for the proper understar ding of the two Assize Rolls which form this volume it is requisite that some reference should be made to the development of those privileges during the latter part of the twelfth and the beginning of the thirteenth centuries. That the great franchise of Durham did not disappear under the centralizing movement of Henry II. s reign is due to Hugh Pudsey, Bishop from 1153 t, o 1195. A cousin of the King, he not only successfully resisted those centralizing tendencies, but obtai ledc harters con firming his jura regalia, and, on Richard I. s accession, extended their area by purchasing Sadberge, that na. rrow and ill-defined strip of territory1 which, bordering on the river Tees, until then formed part of tohe county of Northuniberland. Pudsey was succeeded by Philip of Poitou, who had to pay first 500 marks to Richard I. and then 1200 to King o l mfo r the confir nationo f the grant of Sadberge. After his death in 1208 the see remained vacant during nine stormy years of Johns rule-or misrule. The Bishopric in the capable hands of Coke, Institutes, iv., 216. t The materials for this shortsketch are mainly drawn from Lapsleys County Palatine of Durham and the Victoria County History of Durham, ii., 142 sep. f The rolls here printed enable the actual area of adberge to be identified more certainly than heretofore, b X INTRODUCTION. Robert Vipont, Philip of Ulcote, and Aimeric, Archdeacon of Durham, stood steadfast by the King, who benefited largely by the episcopal revenues...