County or diocese: York. Grant: Clerical moiety, 1294 Sept 23 x 30. Document type:...

County or diocese: York.

Grant: Clerical moiety, 1294 Sept 23 x 30.

Document type: Certificates of payment.

Folios or pages: 2.

This bundle of two parchment membranes comprise the following documents: (1) A certificate (m. 1) sent to W[illiam], bishop of Bath and Wells, treasurer of England, and the barons of the Exchequer by John, abbot of Selby and his convent, responding to Edward I's letter to them, as collectors of the subsidy granted to him by the clergy (apparently the moiety granted in 1294), which they received on 22 April 1295 and which is recited here.

This letter states that because the king had conceded that the executors of the will of Peter de Cestre, lately deceased, would render to him at the Exchequer the deceased's portion of the last two payments of the subsidy payable on the ecclesiastical benefices that had belonged to him in the said diocese, he orders the abbot and convent not to administer these payments, and that they certify the treasurer what the value of these benefices is and that they have complied with this instruction by the morrow of the close of Easter next coming. The letter is dated 23 February 1295.

In their response they certify the following, that as for the first payment, they have been paid the subsidy payment by the provost of Beverley and that they were assessed at £40, as contained in the rolls delivered to them for the collection of the tenth. They cannot certify for all the benefices held by the deceased because they are not within their remit, but within that of the abbot of St. Mary's, York. It is dated at Selby on 24 April 1295; and (2) A corresponding certificate (m. 2) sent to the same bishop by the abbot and convent of St. Mary's, York, in response to the same letter, dated 23 February 1295 and similarly recited. They certify in response that the deceased's benefices within the places in the diocese where they are subcollectors are valued as follows: the church of Arksey, in the deanery of Doncaster, 60 marks; the church of Easington, excluding the pension of the prior of Guisborough, £20; the pension paid to the prior of Guisborough from the same church, 20s., and the church of Rudby in Cleveland, in the deanery of Cleveland, 120 marks, and that they have received the first payment and paid it into the Exchequer. It is dated at York on 11 May 1295.

Both documents are wholly legible.

This piece number was added to the E 179 series from unsorted miscellanea on 22 October 2012.