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* Abbats of Beverley, list of;
* Abbat of Meaux, dispute with,
* arbitration of the, relative to tolls
* Accord of prior of Watre and burgesses, (2)
* Account of charges in the civil wars, (6)
* Accountant general, appointed for life,
* Act relative to shopkeepers,
* Affeerers of the Brewster's gild,
* Agincourt, battle of;
o attributed to the merits of St.John,
o feast of his translation, in commemoration of, to be celebrated for ever
* Agister,
* Agistment not to be made in Westwood,
* Ake, John de, obit of,
o hospital of,
* Ake, Thomas de, obit of,
o chapel of
o will of,
* Alcock, Dr.John, bishop of Ely,
* Aldborough, the ancient Isurium,
o further allusions to,
* Aldermen of gilds,
o vicissitudes of the title of,
o list of,
* Aldred, archbishop,
* Alfric, archbishop,
* Almshouses, corporation,
* Als Fre, &c.
o these general words explained,
* Altar screen restored,
* Alured, or Alfred of Beverley, short account of;
* Amerciaments, claimed by the archbishop,
* Anglo Saxons, arrival of the,
o conversion of;
o further remarks on, (2)
o erected the first Christian church,
o privileges of the A.S.proprietors,
o time they occupied Britain,
* Antiphonars,
* Archers, horse,
o foot,
o dress of the,
o burgesses form a body of,
o cost of silver shields used by the,
o list of, sent by knights' service,
o employed to guard the town,
* Archbishop, tenants of the, fee of the, free from toll,
* Armour used by the levies, description of,
* Arms, men at, equipment of;
* Army, Charles's, part of, occupy Beverley,
* Array, commission of,
o Edw.III.
* Arrest, burgesses and their goods free from,
* Arrears of the provostry,
o of the fabrick,
* Arrows, quantity of, purchased, price of,
* Artificers, &c.justices to inquire of,
* Articles, esteemed as suitable presents to great men.
* Arundel, archbishop, statutes of,
* Aske, rebellion of,
o persons excepted in the pardon of the,
o oath of rebels,
* Assembly rooms.
* Assessment, in civil war, the
o Charles I.
o amount raised
* Assize, recognitions of:
* Assize of bread and ale—quo warranto against the archbishop of York,
o the corporation, by charter
o Eliz.to have the assize of bread, ale and wine, &c.;
o charter of James II.
* Athelstan, first king of the English,
o causes of visiting Beverley,
o pledges his knife,
o takes the standard of St.John, (2)
o repairs again to Beverley,
o dales assigned to his charter,
o poetical version of,
o supposed date of,
o general words als free, &c.explained in a charter of Henry VIII.to the archbishop,
o further account of,
* Auditor, provost's claim of,
* Augustine, St.landing of,
* Bailiffs,
o archbishops,
o provosts, foreign,
o home,
* Bailiffs and lords of liberties,
* Bakehouse, the queen Margaret's at Beverley,
* Bank for savings,
* Bardolph, lord,
* Barges and balingers, Beverley, to build,
o writs relative to,
o petition against building,
o exemption from building of,
o to build,
* Bars, number of,
o amount of tolls received at each,
o Henry VI.
* Barton upon Humber, Edw.I.crosses at,
* Basilicae, the Roman,
* Basso relievos under the seats in the choir of the minster,
* Bearwards, the earl of Northumberland's at Beverley,
o duke of Suffolk's,
o lord Dudley's,
* Beck, Beverley, infangy at
o charge of dressing,
o Warburton's proposals,
o objections to the same,
o Lelham's estimate,
o tolls and duties at,
* Beckwith, Mr.letter of,
* BEDERN, chapel of;
o payments to be made in,
o collections to be made in,
o distribution of alms in,
o court of,
o gaol of,
o vicar's residence at,
o corn delivered at,
o napkins bought for,
* Bedford, John, duke of, son of Henry IV.visits Beverley,
o presents made to him, (2)
o further account of,
* Beggars' justices, to inquire of;
o dress, account of the,
o licensed
* Bellman, first appointment of,
* Bells, account of,
o number in minster,
* Bentley, rental of,
* Benefices, value of provostry.
* Beverley, antiquity of,
o grant of free burgage to,
o confirmed by archbishop William,
o may buy and sell dyed cloths,
o weavers established in,
o scarlet cloths made at, (2)
o burnt,
o trade to the continent,
o depot for wools,
o laid under contribution.
o population of,
o a maritime town,
o pillaged
o engages on the side of Lancaster,
o swears fealty to Edward IV.
o decayed state of,
o carnage at,
o plundered,
o defences at,
o overawed by Hull,
o wealth of;
o manor of, passes to the crown,
* Beverley, church of,
o monastery of,
o destroyed by the Danes,
* Beverley, John of,
o where born,
o where educated,
o death of,
o miracles of,
o his standard borne in battle,
o carried into Scotland,
o canonized,
o offerings at shrine of,
o amount of,
o festival of translation of,
o bearing of,
o inscription to memory of,
* BEVERLAC, BEVERLEY, so called,
* Beverley Parks, common of pasture therein released by the commonalty of Beverley,
o to whom granted,
o present account of (2)
* Biscopdynges, grant of, with a meadow called Utengs,
o letter to deliver seizin of;
o confirmation of;
* Bitterns,
* Blue coat School,
* Bondsmen, grant of, to Adam Copendale,
* Bonner, bishop, rector of Cherry Burton,
* Books burnt, account of;
* Botanical plants, list of,
* Boundaries
o exemplification of,
* Bounds of parishes,
* Bowett, archbishop, petition of,
* Boy Bishop, corrody of,
o full account of,
o inventors of a,
* Boy, early account of one sent with a letter to London,
* Bread, deficiency in weight of;
o weighing of,
* Bream,
* Brewster, Baxter, &c.feminine appellations of,
* Brigantes, the people so called,
* British village, site of a,
* Brough, Roman coins found at,
* Bryneich, or Bernicia,
* Bucks given to the governors,
* Bull baiting, price of hulls for,
o charge of fetching one,
* Bull of pope Honorius,
* Burgage, grant of free,
o confirmed by archbishop William,
* Burgesses, a description of,
o grant of privileges to, by king.John,
o or their goods free from arrest,
o first returned to parliament,
o wages of,
o implicated in a quarrel,
o sent to quell the Kentish rebellion,
o engage on the side of Lancaster, (3)
o at the battle of Towton,
o swear fealty to Edward IV (2)
* Burials, testamentary, in minster,
o in St.Mary's,
* Burying, licence of,
* Burton, Bishop, tenants of, to have paunage in Westwood,
* Burton, North, rental of,
* Cade, Jack, rebellion of,
o burgesses assist to subdue it,
* Calais, writ to supply provisions to,
* Capitation tax, account of the,
* Carlisle, defensible men marched to,
* Carnage at Beverley,
* Castle intended at Beverley,
* Celts, where found,
o described,
* Certificate of exemption from toll, a burgess's,
* CHAPELS, ancient : Molescroft, Hullbridge, Woodmansey, Thearne,
* CHAPELS, Dissenting Independent :
o Wesleyan Methodists,
o Primitive Methodists, Church Methodists, (2)
o Baptists,
o Quakers, (2)
* CHARITIES particular to the parishes of St.John, and St.Martin: Leake's,
o Graves's,
o Popple's, (2)
o Nelthorpe's, (2)
o Routh's, (2)
o Elliot's,
o Wilson's,
* CHARITIES particular to the parish of St.Mary: Altmare's, alias Snail's,
o Smith's, (2)
o Read's, (2)
o Darcey's, (2)
o Doyle's, (2)
o Jackson's, (2)
o Michael Warton's,
o Ellinor's,
o Davies's and Pinkney's,
o Brogden's, (2)
o Bradley's (2)
o Wride's, (2)
o Simpson's,
o Myres', (2)
o Marshall's and Wilson's,(2)
o Tessyman's,
o Bell's (2)
o Sykes's, (2)
* CHARITIES general:
o Ferrer's,
o Dymokes's,
o Buck's, (2)
o Nelthorpe's, (2)
o Sir Ralph Warton's,
o Ashmole's, (3)
o Grayborne's, (2)
o Archer's,
o Wilson's,
o Hall's, (2)
o Dalton's,(2)
* Charity of Beverley, a vessel so called,
* Charges of defending burgesses indicted of felony, account of the,
o and seq.
* CHARLES I.reign of,
o his first visit to Yorkshire,
o proceeds to Beverley,
o again at York,
o repulsed from Hull,
o returns to Beverley,
o proof adduced he began the war,
o petitions presented to,
o pamphlet concerning,
o stores landed at Kayingham,
o makes Beverley his head quarters,
o his queen arrives at Burlington,
o his iter,
o another pamphlet relative to,
o his troops repulsed by colonel Boynton,
o another pamphlet concerning,
o sir Thomas Fairfax beaten from Beverley by the marquis of Newcastle,
o the town plundered,
o siege of Hull commenced,
o defences made in Westwood,
o order of committee at York to the burgesses,
o coffin of;opened, account of,
* Charles II.reign of,
o proclamation of,
o fee farms restored to,
o charters surrendered to,
* Chamber clerks,
* CHARTERS TO THE BURGESSES;
o of arch bishop Thurstan,
o of archbishop William,
o of Henry II.(2)
o of Richard I.
o of John,(2)
o of Henry III.(3)
o for pavage,(3)
o of Edward I.
o of Edward II.
o of Edward III.(4)
o commission of array,(2)
o of exemption from building barges,
o charter of,
o of Richard (2)
o provisional commission of the peace,
o of Henry IV.
o of Henry V.
o commission of the peace,
o of Henry V.annulled,
o of Henry VI.(2)
o for pavage,(2)
o for ditto,
o of Edw.IV.(2)
o of Henry VIII.
o of Edward VI.
o of queen Mary,(2)
o of Elizabeth,(2)
o of Incorporation,
o of exemplification of boundaries,
o of Charles I.
o of Charles II.
o all former charters surrendered to the crown,
o of James II.
o particular provisions of,
* CHARTERS TO THE ARCHBISHOPS AND TO THE CHURCH;
o of king Athelstan,
o of Edward the confessor,
o of William the conqueror,
o of Wm.Rufus,
o of king Stephen,(2)
o of William de Ramaura,
o of Henry I.
o of Henry II.
o of Henry IV.
o of Henry V
o of Edward IV.
o of Henry VIII.(2)
o of Edward VI.to the tenants and resiants on the fee of the archbishop,
* CHARTERS TO THE PROVOSTS;
o of king John,
o of Edward (2)
o of Edward (2)
o pleas of quo warranto of Edward III.
o of Edward III.(2)
o a writ of; to the justices itinerant, to respect the liberties of the provostry,
o of Richard II.(2)
o of Henry VI.
* Charter to the burgesses annulled,
* Charters, causes of frequent confirmation of,
* Chapter of the collegiate church, loan of the,
* Chancellor, appointment of the,
o account of the,
o corrody of,
* Chantries, account of,
o list of,
* Chaplains, salaries of the,
* Chevage,
* Chiminage,
* Choristers, salaries of the,
o liveries of the,
* Choral vicars, salaries of the,
* CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE,
* Chronological Index, extracts from Warburton's,
* Church at Beverley, an early,
* Church lands sold,
o hospitality to be continued by the purchasers of,
* Clergy, ignorance of,
o dissolute lives of,
o benefit of,
o contests between the and the crown,
o effects of,
o increasing riches of,
* Clerk, Peter, M.A.
* Clerks, seven, salaries of the,
o a number of, common in churches,
* Cleveland, archdeacon of;becomes a burgess,
* Clifford, lord de, at Beverley,
o cruelty of,
o carps and wine presented to,
o again at Beverley,(2)
* Cloths dyed to be sold in Beverley,
* Coal, early use of;
o charcoal, general use of;(2)
o price of,
* Cockpit,
o a fashionable amusement,
o where situated,
* Coffins, stone,
* Cerffi, high priest of Northumbria,
* Coins, Roman, where found,(3)
o one of Vespatian,
o numerous found, described,
* Collegiate society of St.John's at the conquest,
o in the reign of Stephen,
* Comes listoris Saxonici,
* Commission of the peace granted to the governors, (2)
* Commission of array,
* Commonwealth, money raised by the,
* Common clerks,
* Commutation to the burgesses of biennial fifteenths,
* COMPOTUS of Thomas Barton, the,
o of Robert Flee,(2)
o of Rich.Hall,
* Conduct, letters of safe, granted to two burgesses,
* Contribution, Beverley laid under,
* Constables, list of the chief;of the East Riding,
* Constable, Marmaduke, knight, steward of the provostry,
* Copendale, Adam, a commissioner,
o commands the forces,
* Copendale, John, giant of bondmen to,
o a commissioner, (3)
* Copyndale, Edmund, exempted by writ from being a collector of the fifteenths,
* Corn, annual account of, delivered to the vicar's choral,
o to the prebendaries,
* Corn exchange,
* Coroner, Athelstan's grant of a,
o arch bishop's claim of a,
o provost's claim of a,
* CORONER, escheator, and clerk of the market, the mayor to he,
* Coroners of the East Riding, list of;
* Corrodies,
o payments of;
* CORPORATION, first ordinance of the,
o and laws of the,
o resign their charter,
o members of the, removed,
o insignia of the,
o list of the present,
* CORPUS CIIRISTI PLAYS, expenses at the feast of,
o particular account of the,
o Pageants at,
o trades contributing to,
o Coventry play described,
o held at North bar,
o transgressions at the,
* Council and president of;the north inquisitions and presentments, made by the,
* Counsellors,
o elected to assist twelve governors,
* COURT of BEDERN,
o proceedings in the,
o pleas and processes of the,
* Court of the archbishop,
* Court leet,
* Court of record,
o table of fees of the,
* Court of requests,
o table of fees of the,
* Cromwell, character of;
o in Yorkshire,
* Cross fair, dispute about the,
o corporation entitled to toll at,
* Cross bridge, alms house adjoining the,
o site of the old gaol,
o Trinity hospital built on the,
* Cross Monday, expenses at celebration of;
* Crosses boundary,
o inscription on one,
* Cross, silver paid for carriage of a,
* Crusades, effect of the,
* Cuckstool pit,
o discipline of the,
o further item of;
* Danes, devastation of the,
o period of its continuance,
* Decanus,
* Deira, called Deifyr, situation of;
* Degovitta, conjectures relative to, (2)
* Dentrix,
* Derventio, supposed site of;
* Deserters imprisoned in York castle,
* Dispute, account of a, between members of the Northumberland family,
o burgesses engage in it,
o between the provost and archbishop Thoresby,
* Dissolution, commencement of the,
o continues,
o of collegiate church, the,
* Dispensary,
* Ditch, town's, course of the, (2)
* Domesday record of the lands of St.John and the church,
* Dousyng, Richard, a commissioner,
* Drains, Walkergate, the,
o formerly open,
* Drapers, ordinance of the gild of,
* Dreg,
* Driffield Manor, letters patent relative fo,
* Droitt de Gite,
* Dudley, sir Robert, account of,
o receives the fee ferms of the town,
* Dugdale's visitation,
* Dyeing trade established,
* Dyngs, rental of the,
* East Riding, arms of the,
o sessions house
o gaol,
o hospital,
o cost of prisoners of,
o dress,
o employment,
o treadmill,
o visitors,
o chapel,
o school,
o diet tables,
o officers of;
* EDWARD the confessor, reign of;
o Saxon charter of
o Edward I.reign of;
o joins his army,
o visits Beverley,
o with his queen,
o third visit,
o charter of;
* Edward II.reign of,
o letter of in favour of burgesses,
o at Beverley,
o again in
o of his reign,
o levies of (4)
o petition to, to repair the walls,
o charter of,
* Edward III.reign of (2)
o levies of (2)
o visits Beverley,
o levies of (2)
o writ of, directed to certain burgesses,(2)
o to repair to York,(4)
o charter of pardon of;
o to felons who should join the standard of Edward Baliol,
o new form of raising men,
o writ of;to the justices itinerant to respect the liberties of the provostry,
* Edward IV.
o proclaimed king,
o reign of,
o council of
o treasurer of, at Beverley, (2)
o deposed,
o marches to Beverley,
o restored,
o expenses Incurred during the wars of York and Lancaster in the reign of,
o and seq.
* Edward VI.reign of;
o grant of,
* Egremont, lord, at Beverley,
o slain at Northampton,
* Election day, riot at,
o special commission to inquire of rioters, (2)
* Election, right of,
* ELIZABETH, queen, reign of;
o grant of lands,
o munificent addition,
o exonerates the town from the payment of tenths and fifteenths,
* Ellerker, sir John, leads soldiers into Scotland,
* England, joyous character of;
* Ermyn street road, course of the,
* Escheator, feodar and warrener, provosts claim of;
* Estates compounded for during the protector ate, list of the,
* Estreats claimed by the archbishop,
* Etton, rental of;
* Excommunication of persons disputing Thurstan's charter,
o thraves to be delivered at the door of the granges, on pain of,
o freedom from toll to provostry tenants to be allowed, on pain of;
* Exenium,
* Fabrick lands, account of,
* FABRICK of the church,
o expenses of,
o arrears of;
o oblations and obits of;
o farm of indulgences,
o licence of bury ing,
o legacies to,
o stallage and herbage,
o making of graves,
o ad mission of parsons
o vacation of stalls,
o sale of stock,
o money of ministers,
o repayments,
o salaries of chaplains,
o livery of choristers,
o fees of,
o repairs of,
* Faggots sold in Westwood, number of;
* Fairs reserved to the archbishop,
o held in, church yards,
o he claims four in the year,
o Cross fair,
o tolls received at,
o at Sigglesthorne,
o origin of;
o articles sold at,
* Fairfax, sir Thomas, driven from Beverley,
* Feasts, the eve and morrow of,
* FEAST OF FOOLS,
o king of;
o pope of
* Feast of the outgoing governors, account of a,
* Fee ferms paid by burgesses,
o not in creased by the crown,
o annual amount of,
o paid to lord Dudley,
o crown put in possession of,
* Fees, ancient, paid to officers of the town,
o to the officers of the church,(3)
* Felons, chattels of, claimed by the archbishop,
* Felonies, jurisdiction of, claimed by the arch bishop,
o burgesses indicted of;
* Feld kirks,
* Female brewers, bakers, weavers, spinsters, exemptions in favour of;
* Foodars, vide Escheator.Ferry bridge, battle at,
* Fifteenths, biennial commutation of,
* Figham and Swinemoore, early allusion to,
* Fines, heavy, for a charter,
o for improper measures,
o enormous for a charter of pardon,
o levied by the governors,
o for pavage,
o to be received by the justices to their own use,
o various,
o a particular one,
o of different trades,
* Fools, King of,
* Fosse, course of the old,
* Frankpledge, view of,
* Freedom fines, ancient,
o increased,
o present,
* Free masons,
* FRIARS OF BEVERLEY,
* Friars, Dominicans,
o house of the, founded,
o lord Darcy's obit in the convent of;
o site of the,
* Friars, Franciscans, house of the,
o Kelk's chantry in the church of,
o site of,
* Free warren claimed by the archbishop,
o again,
o by the provost,
* Free quarter,
* FRIDSTOOL, account of the,
o inscription on, (2)
o further account,
* Fymmar, rental of;
* Gallows, archbishop, claims a,
o and gibbet,
o provost claims a,
o and gaol delivery,
* Galtry's, forest of, archbishop seized in the,
* Gaol, archbishop claims a,
o delivery of,
o town's,
o East riding,
* Gas works,
* Gate, used as an adjunct,
* Gentz.d'armes,
* Gentilmen yeomen,
o not to be admitted a burgess without paying the charge of livery,
o found a pageant in corpus Christi plays,
* GILDS, secular,
o antiquity of,
o list of,
o regulations of;
o aldermen of,
o new appointment of a,
o further account of,
* Gild, religious, of St.John,
o of St.Mary's,
* Gilda mercatoria to hold pleas,
o early regulation of the,
* Glastonbury abbey, traditions relative to,
* Gloucester, duke of;at Beverley,
* Glendower, Owen,
* Godale, vessel called the,
* Godwin, Mary, short account of,
* Goodmanham, early references to,
o ancient pagan temple at,
* Goods, burgesses', free from arrest,
* GOVERNORS, early list of,
o yearly election of;
o new order of electing of;
o late list of,
* GRAMMAR SCHOOL,
o fellowships, list of,
o scholarships and exhibitions,
o masters of, list of the,
o inscriptions in,
* Graves's school,
* Graves, making of,
* Green, Dr.John, bishop of Ely,
* Grimsby, Gilbert de, wages of, for carrying the standard of St.John,
* Grithmen, assigned to Edward Baliol, a number of,
o account of a number resorting, for sanctuary to Beverley,
* Groos, John de, grant of, to Adam Copendale
* Grovehill,(2)
* GUILDHALL,
* Gunpowder plot,
* Hagge wood, burgesses quit of paunage,
* Hall of the archbishop,
* Hall Garth,
o extent of the liberty of,
* Halifax, causes of increasing trade of;
* Halimote,
* Hanshus, (2)
* Hanse house, the,
o remarks on,
* Hats and liveries, those who wore, hunters, and hostelers, justices to inquire of;
* HENRY I.reign of;
o Beverley becomes a free burgh in the,
* Henry II.reign of,
o trade increases in the,
* Henry III.reign of;
o first charter of pavage in the,
* Henry IV.reign of;
o visits Beverley,
o again with his son,
o further account of;
* Henry V.reign of,
o visits Beverley with his queen,
o received at Leconfield castle,
o preparations to receive him in Bever ley,
o particular account of expenses at tending the present made to him,
* Henry VI.reign of;
o deposed,
* Henry VII.reign of,
* Henry VIII.reign of;
o visits Beverley,
* Hercules, man of war, proceedings of the,
* Hermit's house, a,
o where generally placed,
o Richard, a hermit, employed in repairing Hull bridge,
* Heron selves,
o various names of;
* Hessle, a compensation made to Philip Lardner, of;
* Hobelers,
* Holderness, early appearance of,
o hunt,
* Hollym, rectory of;
* HOLME CHURCH, see St.Nicholas's
* Holme, Thomas de, a commissioner,
o appointed leader,
o accused of negligence, &c.
* Homage, the performance of;alluded to,
o account of performance of,
* Homicides and robbers return from the army,
* Hopgarth, persons excommunicated buried in the,
* Horse and foot archers raised,
* HOSPITALS, ancient : St.Nicholas's,
o St.Giles's,
o site of,
o St.Trinity's,
o Inventory of;
o site of,
o Kynewaldgrave's
* HOSPITALS, present:
o Fox's,
o Charles Warton's,
o Routh's, (2)
o Sir Michael Warton's,
o Tymperon's,
* Hotham, sir John, elected M.P.,
o order and direction of,
o governor of Hull,
o his conduct there,
o his escape from,
o seized in Beverley,
o executed on Tower hill,
o son of;executed the day before,
* Houses, decayed, account of;
* Humber street, course of the,
* Hubbart, lord, answer to a letter of, soliciting a burgess's place for his son,
* Hull, siege of,
* Hull river, rights of the archbishop in the,
* Ill words spoken against the twelve governors,
o referred to the archbishop,
* Indulgences, farm of;
* Infangethef;
o explained,
* Inglebert, Robert, receives the tolls of Lincoln as a marriage portion with his wife,
* Inglebert, Philip, or Philip of Beverley, a grant of lands of, to maintain two scholars at the university,
* Ingram, rev.Robert,
* Inquisitions of the lord president, the,
* Itineraries, stations marked in the,
* difficulties with regard to the,(2)
* JAMES
o reign of;
* James II.reign of;
o attempts to restore poperty,
* INTERREGNUM,
o rolls of accounts during the,
* John, reign of;
o visits Beverley,
* Jugglers, early visits of,
* Justice, early administration of,
* Justices, first provisional appointment of,
* Justices of peace of the East Riding not to have jurisdiction in the town,
o commission appointing them for Beverley,
* Justices of assize and in Eyre to come to the boundary only to sit as assistants to the archbishop's justices,
o form of sitting,
o not to have rolls,
* Kayingham creek, stores landed at,
* Kentish rebellion,
* Kitchen,
* Knight's fee, a,
* knight's service, list of archers sent by those holding lands by,
o service explained,
* KNIGHTS HOSPITALLERS, commandery of the,
o site of,
* Knights of St.John, two at Beverley,
* Kynewaldgraves, hospital of,
o annuity paid to the sisters of,
o alms distributed to the,
o site of the hospital, (4)
* Lagan, lastage, lene,
* Lands, account of the parish of St.Mary's,
* Lands, various, attached to temporals,
o to spirituals,
* Language, English, began to be used,
* Lardner, Philip, receives a compensation from king Edward,
* Leckonfield castle, governors of Beverley visit king Henry V.at,
o invitation to,
* Lections,
* Legacies of devout persons,
* Legio sextra victrix,
* Leland, John, visits Beverley,
o his account of the place,
* Lepers' house, without Keldgate,
o with out North bar, (2)
o in the Trinities,
* Les Fulles, custom of, to continue to be ob served,
* Letherwyte,
* Letters of marque granted to two burgesses,
* Leven, rental of,
* Levies, see reigns of Edward II.and III.Lincoln, tolls paid at withdrawn,
o reasons assigned,
* Loan to king Richard II
* Lockington, rental of,
* Londoners, benefactions of the, to St.Mary's,
* Londoner's street, why so called,
o Cross fair, held in,
o received for standings in,
* Londesborough,
o discoveries at, (2)
* Lord of misrule, expenses of treating the,
* Lords and chief bailiffs of liberties,
* Lucius, king, supposed existence of;
* Lying in charity, account of,
* Magistrates, East Riding, list of,
* Magna Charta, making a writing, of,
* Maidensisters, verses on the,
* Malt, seizure of,
* Manbie, Robert, mayor, carries away the mace and plate,
* Manor of Beverley, the archbishop claims as given to him by king Athelstan,
o ex change of the, with king Henry VIII.
* Manorial rights of the provostry, estreats of land in ward, fines for entry, escheats, recoveries, surrenders, admissions, &c.
* Marchet,
* Margaret, queen, in the north,
o bakehouse of, at Beverley,
* Maritime town, Beverley, considered a,
* Markets, archbishop claims two,
* MARKET PLACE and Cross,
* Market Wednesday,
* Martin, St.oratory of;
o parish of, united to St.John's,
* MARY'S, ST.CHURCH OF,
o foundation of,
o made parochial,
o religious guild of,
o augmentation of the endowment of, (2)
o chantries in
o union of St.Nicholas' with,
o present edifice described,
o west end,
o nave,
o inscription on a pew in,
o transept de scribed,
o tower, (2)
o east end,(2)
o inscriptions on roof, &c.
o font,
o organ,
o old font, (2)
o communion plate,
o parochial concerns, (2)
o registers,
o curious particulars inserted in,
o bells,
o list of vicars,
o testamentary burials in,
o monuments,
o in the chancel, (2)
o north chapel,
o transept, (2)
o south porch,
o south aisle, (2)
o north aisle, (2)
o nave,(2)
o charities,
o church lands,
* Mary, queen, reign of,
* MAYOR, etymology of,
o election of, an nulled,
o list of,
* Meadows, profits of;
* Members of parliament, list of,
* Mercenaries different from stipendiaries,
* Messarius,
* Middleton, rental of,
* Milcross, Molescroft cross at, boundary of the archbishop's jurisdiction,
* Military force of England,
* Millington, antiquity of,
* Mills mentioned in Domesday,
o in West wood,
* Ministers, scandalous,
o plundered,
* MINSTRELS, early account of,
o order of the fraternity of,
o dress of,(2)
o pillar of the, in St.Mary's.,
* MINSTER old conventual church,
o style of building,
o archbishop Puttock builds a shrine in,
o archbishop Kinsius, a tower,
o places bells in it,
o archbishop Aldred builds a new choir,
o burnt,
o porch, meaning of a,
* Minster,
o present description of the,
o entrance of the,
o east end,
o lady chapel,
o choir,
o great transept,
o south entrance,
o nave,
o north porch,
o west front,
o alterations,
o restorations,
o stone used in,
o centre tower of,
o cupola taken down,
o choir of the, fitted up,
o organ, ac count of,
o oratorio in the, (2)
o altar table, (2)
o font, (2)
o vestry,
o communion plate belonging to the,
o fridstool in the,
o inscription on, (2)
o bells in the,
o divine service in the,
o curates of the, list of,
o assistant ditto, (2)
o monuments in the,
o Percy shrine, (2)
o described,
o removal of a body entombed under the,
o claimants to the tomb,
o Percy chapel,
o Lady chapel,
o Percy, George, monument of,
o north lesser transept,
o south lesser transept, (2)
o north aisle of the choir,
o south aisle, (2)
o great south transept, (2)
o great north transept,
o curious epitaph in, (2)
o painting in, (2)
o maiden sisters' tomb,
o naves,
o testamentary burials in, (2)
o burials in minster garth,
o registers
o estates and funds,
o old minster fund,
o new,(2)
o dimensions of;
* MISCELLANEA,
* MONASTERY of Beverley,
o further account of,
* Monasteries and old places,
* Monasteries, double account of,
o disadvantages of, at the conquest,
* Mort d'ancester, writ of,
* Mortuaries,
* Mortmain, lands not to be put into,
* Morris dance, account of the,
* Murdac, archbishop, visits Beverley,
o further account of,
* Murage and pavage, burgesses quit of,
* Names, ancient, of places, absurd derivations of;
* Names of those who compounded for their estates,
* Napkins, annual charge of, for washing and finding for vicars in Bedern,
o for vicars' choral,
* National school,
* Neville, archbishop, grant of Westwood,
o short account of;
o seized at Newcastle,
* Neville, lord, messenger sent to Raby, to speak with,
o letter sent to,
o a messenger sent to,
o John Redsam returns from the camp with,
* Neville, lady Eleanor,
* Neville, William lord Fauconberg,
o at Beverley, (2)
* Neville, archbishop George, enthronation of,
* Nesse, the rev.Christopher, M.A.
* News, welcome from Beverley, a pamphlet so entitled,
* NlCHOLAS, St.church of,
o visitation of,
o vicars, list of,
o demolition of,
* Non user, burgesses to enjoy privileges, not withstanding,
* Normans invade England, the,
* North bar, lepers' house at,
* Northampton, battle of,
* Northumberland, first earl of, slain at Bramham moor,
o Henry Percy, second earl of, receives Henry V.at Leckonfield,
o cause of complaint against,
o governors claim his protection,
o burgesses engage in a family quarrel of,
o order restored,
o joins the Lancastrian party,
o presents made to him,
o orders burgesses to the south,
o presents made to the countess of,
o sits on an inquisition for a subsidy,
o killed at the battle of St.Alban's,
o Henry Percy, third earl,
o presents made to the earl and countess of,
o messengers sent to the burgesses by,
o wine presented to,
o slain at Towton,
o Henry Percy, fourth earl,
o Henry Percy, fifth earl,
o invited governors to Leckonfield,
o visits Beverley with his countess to see the corpus christi plays,
o presents made to, at Beverley parks,
o a further one made by him,
o title of duke of conferred on John Dudley, earl of Warwick,
* Nurseries, Tyndall's,
* OATH, sanctuary,
o ancient, of the twelve governors,
o ancient, of a burgess,
* Oath, mayor's,
o as justice of peace,
o as escheator of the market,
o as coroner,
o deputy,
o alderman's,
o as justice of peace,
o of a capital burgess,
o of recorder,
o of town clerk,
o of sergeant,
o of constable,
o of a burgess,
o of inspector of hides,
o of corn inspector,
o of jurors,
o of witness,
o jurors upon a writ of inquiry,
o of witness on the same,
o of an attorney,
* Obituaries, list of,
* Ocellum, the ancient,
* Oblations and obits,
* Ondyrawuda, silva Deirorum,
* Ordinance of the yeomen,
o of archbishop Lee,
* Ordinance first, of the corporation,
o and laws of the same,
* Oxonbridge, John, A.M., first mention of,
o short account of,
* Osgodby, the rev.ejected,
o restored,
* Paradise,
* Parisi, derivation of,
o extent of territory of the, (2)
o name fell into disuse,
* Paris, Peter de, mayor of Lincoln,(2)
* Particulars, curious, in the first roll of ac counts,
* Park, Beverley, enclosure of the,
* Parliament, long, the,
o members of it,
o list of members of,
* Parsons, admission of,
* Pasture masters, first appointment of,
* PASTURES, account of the,
* Patrington, claims of to antiquity,
* Paulinus, archbishop of York,
* Pauperism, causes of increase of,
* Pavements, Roman, where discovered, (2)
o old, in churches,
* Pavage, tolls collected for,
o first receipts for,
o expenses of repairs of,
o tolls, amount of,
o at the five bars,
* Pensions, amount received for,
o further account of,
* Perambulations, ancient,
o parochial,
* Percy, shrine,
* Pestilence, fatal, account of the, (2)
o cause of dissension,
* Petition of John Sproatley and other poor chaplains,
* PETUARIA PARISIORUM, Beverley so called,
o its claim to it considered, (2)
* Pews, not used in churches before the dissolution,
* Pilgrimage of grace rebellion;so called,
o oath administered by the rebels,
* Piercy, sir Joceline, conduct of;(2)
* Pillory, archbishop of York claims a,
o repairs of the town,
* Plague,
o order relative to,
o register of deaths in the,
o a second,
o apprehensions of the,
o precautions against the,
* Players, early visits of,
o and seq.Pleas, the power of holding the, archbishop claims,
o of quo warranto,
o at York,
o of excessive distress,
o of fresh force,
o of jurors,
o of the crown,
o before the king,
* Pledges, received by the governors, account of,
* Pomroy, rev.—,
* Pontage, passage, pesage,
* Population of Beverley, Richard II.
o late census of the,
* Posse comitatus, how raised,
* POST OFFICE,
* Praefectus numeri Derventionensis,
* Praepositus, antiquity of a,
o another meaning of a,
o further explanation of,
* Praetorium, where placed,
* Prebends, description of,
o number of,
* Precentor, appointment of a,
o corody of a,
* Presents to kings and magnates: To king Henry IV.and his son John, duke of Bed ford, '
o the duke of Glos'ter, brother to Henry V.
o master Graystock and Thos.de Percy, knights
o Ralph and Richd.sons of the earl of Northumberland,
o duke of Warwick,
o earl of Northumberland,
o countess of Northumberland,
o Wm.Percy, son of the earl of Northumberland,
o lord Egremont,
o sir Jno.Langstrother and Robt.Loing, knights of St.John of Jerusalem,
o lord de Clifford,(2)
o lords de Fauconburg and Grinstock,
o treasurer of the household of Edward IV.
o on a visit of the governors to Leconfield castle to Henry V.
o a considerable one to the earl of Northumberland,(2)
o to the archbishop,
* President, the lord, petition to,
o letter from the,
o inquisitions and presentments enclosed,
* Printing press established at Beverley,
* PROVOST'S REGISTER, Or Simon Russell's MS.account of,
* PROVOST, first appointment of a,
o summoned to answer the king,
o order to account for property in possession of a,
o visitation of a,
o list of the,
* PROVOSTRY, privileges of the,
o description of the,
o repairs of the,(2)
o receipts of the,(2)
o ar rears of the,(2)
o rents of as size of the,
o farm of demesne lands of the,
o shop rentals of the,
o woods of the,
o agistments of the,
o perquisites of courts of the,
o foreign receipts of the,
o fees with the fine of wapentake, of the,
o necessary expenses of the,
o allowance of rents of the,
o payments of money of the,
o value of the,
* Probates,
* Procurators, writ to arrest false, (2)
* Processions,
* Procurations,
* Protestation and vow, burgesses ordered to sign,
* Quarter sessions,
o town clerk's fees at,
* Quarrel between members of the Northumberland family,
o burgesses engage in it,
o et seq.
* QUO WARRANTO against the archbishop of York to have his lands quit of suit,
o to have a park,
o and free warren,
o gallows and gibbet,
o infangethef and outfangethef,
o market every Wednesday and Friday,
o four fairs yearly,
o pillory and tumbrel],
o return of writs of excessive distress,
o as to his claim to have free warren,
o chattels of felons,
o exemplification of claims of cognizance by the archbishop of pleas within his liberty, and allowance thereof,
* Races, Beverley, account of,
* Ravensburgh, antiquity of,
o its disappearance,
* Ravenser, Richard de, succours poor clergy,
o chantry of,
* Rebels, names of, excepted,
* Rebellion of Jack Cade, the,
* Rectors, choral, salaries of,
* Recognitions of assize,
o further account of,
o continued,
* Reddition of Wm.de Ramania,
o king Stephen's confirmation of,
* Refectory, ministration of the,
* Register office, East Riding,
* Registers : St.John and St.Martin, commencement of,
* St.Mary's,
* Repairs of the provostry, account of the,
* REPRESENTATIVE HISTORY,
* Reynolds, Henry Revel, M.D.
* Rhyming production, a curious,
* RICHARD I.reign of,
o his charter,
* Richard II.reign of,
o capitation tax levied in the,
o population of Beverley, in the,
* Richard III.reign of,
o mode of repayment to the burgesses of a loan, by,
* Riding, etymology of,
* Riding fields,
* Ridings, rental of,
* Ripon laid under contribution,
o burnt,
* Risby, rental of,
o deer killed in the park of,
* Road, Roman, described,
* Robbers, escapes of, claimed by the arch bishop,
* Rokeby, sir Thomas,
o sir Richard,
* ROLLS OF ACCOUNTS, commencement of the,
o continued,
o method of keeping of the,
o further account of,
o head of one,
* Rolleston, William de, a commissioner,
o again,
* Rolleston, Robert, chantry of,
o rental of,
* Romans, dominion of the,
* Rome pennies,
* Ross, lord,
* Roses, war of the, expenses incurred in,
o et seq.Rotuli Hundredorum, extracts from the,
* Ruston, rental of,
* Russell, Simon, manuscript register, account of the,
* Ruthven, conspiracy of,
* Sabbath, fine for non observance of the,
* Sacrist, appointment of the,
o duties of the,
o pension of the,
* Sake, sok, &c.
o to whom granted,
* Sanctuary, description of,
o oath taken on arrival at the,
o list of those who took benefit of,
* Sandal castle, duke of York at,
* Saxon charter, Edward the confessor's grant of a,
o William's grant of a,
* Scrope, archbishop,
o beheaded,
* Scrope, John, lord, letters patent of,
* Scot and lot, list of those who paid,
o meaning of,
* Sea, or sey,
* Seats, eminent, (2)
* Sequel,
* Sewers, justices of,
* Shields, silver, of the commonalty, the,
o another added,
* Shollards,
* Shops at the Dyngs, rental of,
o of the provostry, rental of,
* Shopkeepers, act relative to,
* Shrine of St.John, offerings at,(2)
* Sigglesthorne, fair at,
o rental of,
* Situation of Beverley, the,
* Skidby gate, rental of,
* Staves,
* Soil, description of the,
* Soldiers, pensions allowed to,
* South Cave, dispute with,
* South Dalton, rental of,
* Spirituals, value 'of lands belonging to,
* Spurn point, formerly larger,
* Staple,
* Stallage and herbage,
* Stallage,
* Stalls, vacant, sale of,
* Star chamber, articles exhibited in,
* Statutes of archbishop Arundel, the,
* STEPHEN, king, reign of,
* Stock, sale of the provostry,
* Stone used in building the minster, account of the,
* Stotteville, lady Johanna de, indenture of,
* Streets, cleaning of,
o in the reign of Elizabeth, the number of,
* Styles, duration of the different Gothic,
* Subsidy, particular, a,
o of benefices,
* Subsidies, burgesses not compelled to be col lectors of,
o a burgess discharged by writ from being collector of the,
* Surnames, origin of,
* Swanherd, provost claims a,
* Taxes or tallages, how levied,
o goods chargeable,
* Taxation of pope Nicholas, the,
* Taxatio totius praepostiurae, (2)
* Temporals, provostry, value of the,
o spirituals,
* Templa,(2)
* Theatre,
* Theodore, archbishop, account of,
* Thoresby, John de, a visitation of the provostry appointed by,
* Thorpe, Mr.sergeant,
* THRAVES, Athelstan's, grant of,
o delivered at the door of the granges,
o particulars of the provostry,
o further account,
* THURSTAN, archbishop, charter of,
o some account of,
* Thuribulars, pensions of the,
* Tiles, value of,
o dispute with the abbat of Meaux about,
o early use of,
* Tirwhit, Adam, a commissioner,
o leads the forces,
* Tomb of St.John,
o inscription on the,
* Tolls, particulars relative to,
o burgesses tenacious of their,
o dispute with Driffield, about,
o South Cave,
o York,
o Hull,
o Hedon,
o Ripon,
o Pomfret,
o passage of the river Hull,
o special grant of in fairs and markets, (2)
o Philip and Mary,
* Toll, tenants of the archbishop free from,
o on the fee of the provostry,
o certificate of exemption,
* Trades, account of the number of early,
o list of those who found a pageant at corpus Christi plays,
o in Warburton's time,
* Train bands,
* Treasurer, corody of the,
* Trespasses on the pavements, early fines for,(2)
* Trees in Westwood, sale of,
o in the Trinities,
* Tumbrell, archbishop claims a,
o described, (2)
o Tumuli, where situated, (2)
* Turbury, liberty of,
* Tyler, Wat, rebellion of,
* Urns, where found,
o account of one,
o remarks on,
* Utfangethef;
o explained,
* Vicars' choral, salaries of the,
* Villeins' tenants not to common in Figham,
* Villeinage,
* Visitation of the provostry,
* Volunteers, Beverley, account of the,
* Wages to representatives, account of Wakefield, battle of,
* Walls, petition of the burgesses to repair the,
* Walkyngton, rental of,(2)
* War, civil, Charles I.town's defences in the
* Wards, number of,
* Warton, Michael, petition against,
* Warwick, duke of, at Beverley,
* Warwick, earl of,
* Warwick, countess of, at Beverley sanctuary,
* Wastel bread,
* Watre, prior of, contention with the,
* Weavers, early establishment of,
* WEDNESDAY MARKET,
* Weights and measures, law for the uniformity of.
* Welwick, rental of,
* Westmoreland, Ralph, earl of,
o council of,
* WESTWOOD, burgesses to be quit of paunage there,
o agistment not to be made therein,
o boundaries to be made, and none of the pasture thereof to be converted into tillage;
o deed of covenant of conveyance of,
o license of aleniation of,
o grant of, M;
o deed of covenant of conveyance of,
o license of aleniation of,