2719. Memorials of Beverley minster: the chapter-act book of the collegiate church of S. John of Beverley, 1286-1347, ed. A. F. Leach. Vol. i. [1286-1322]. Surtees Soc. Durham, etc., 1898.

Soc.

For records of the Beverley sanctuary, see No. 2347; other records, No. 613. 2720. Beverley town documents, ed. A. F. Leach.

Will be published in 1900.

Fountains Abbey, Guisbrough, and Harwood.

Selden

2721. Cartularium prioratus de Gyseburne [Guisbrough] ordinis S. Augustini [ed. William Brown]. Surtees Soc. 2 vols. Durham, etc., 1889-94.

Contains mainly grants to the priory; extracts from the registers of the archbishops of York, ii. 358-411; and a rent roll of the priory, circa 1300, ii. 412-50. Valuable.

2722. Harwood evidences: Redman of Harwood and Levens, ed. George Duckett. Yorksh. Archeol. and Topog. Assoc., Journal,

iv. 85-113. London, 1877.

Extracts from charters, wills, etc. Henry II.-Henry VIII.

2723. Memorials of the abbey of St. Mary of Fountains, ed. J. R. Walbran. Surtees Soc. 2 vols. Durham, etc., 1863-78.

Memorials of the origin and history of the abbey (two brief Latin chronicles, to about 1442; one of them written about 1207), i. 1–155.

Documents relating to the history of the abbey, 1132–1574, i. 156–418; and to the franchises of the abbey, 1135-1508, ii. 1-80. Valuable.

Kirkstall Abbey.

2724. Charters relating to possessions of Kirkstall abbey, ed. F. R. Kitson and others. Thoresby Soc., Miscellanea, i. 42-59, 81116.

Leeds, 1891.

Contains sixty-four charters, 1210-1525.

2725. Coucher book of Kirkstall abbey. Thoresby Soc., Publications, vol. viii. pt. i. [Leeds, 1896.]

Contains charters, final concords, papal bulls, pleas, etc., mainly of the 13th century.

2726. Foundation of Kirkstall abbey [from a manuscript of the fifteenth century], ed. E. K. Clark. Thoresby Soc., Miscellanea, [ii.] 169-208. Leeds, 1895.

2727. Rent roll of Kirkstall abbey [1459], ed. John Stansfeld. Ibid., i. 1-21. Leeds, 1891.

Knaresborough, Marrick, and Melton.

2728. Abstracts of deeds in the possession of James Montagu of Melton-on-the Hill, near Doncaster, ed. Charles Jackson. Yorksh. Archeol. and Topog. Assoc., Journal, v. 227-40. London, 1879.

They are of the 13th and 14th centuries.

2729. Charters of St. Andrew's priory in the parish of Marrigg [Marrick, Henry II.-Henry VIII.] Collectanea Topog. et Genea

logica (No. 820), V. 100-124, 221-59. London, 1838.

2730. Notes from the Knaresborough court rolls, 1332-1731, ed. G. W. Marshall, Miscellanea Marescalliana, ii. pt. i. 84-96. [Exeter, 1885.]

Middleham, Pickering, Pontefract, and Ribston.

2731. Chartulary of St. John of Pontefract, ed. Richard Holmes. Vol i. [circa 1090-1258]. Yorksh. Archeol. Soc., Record Series, vol. xxv. [Leeds], 1899.

Valuable.

2732. Documents relating to the foundation and antiquities of the collegiate church of Middleham [1477-1786], ed. William Atthill. Camden Soc. [London], 1847.

For the statutes of this church, 1478, see the Archæological Journal, 1857, xiv. 160-70.

2733. *Honor and forest of Pickering, ed. R. B. Turton. North Riding Record Soc., Records, new series, vols. i.-iv. London, 1894

97.

A valuable collection of charters, eyre rolls of the forest, inquests post mortem, pleas coram rege, petitions in parliament, lay subsidies, ministers' accounts, etc., chiefly of the 13th and 14th centuries. Many of the documents are taken from the Coucher Book of the duchy of Lancaster.

2734. Ribston and the knights templars, ed. R. V. Taylor. Yorksh. Archæol. and Topog. Assoc., Journal, vii. 429-52, viii. 25999, ix. 71-98. London, 1882-86.

A collection of documents made up largely of charters granting lands to the templars, 1227-1504.

H H

Richmond, Rievaulx, Ripon, and Roche Abbey.

2735. Acts of chapter of the collegiate church of SS. Peter and Wilfrid, Ripon, 1452-1506 [ed. J. T. Fowler]. Surtees Soc. Durham, etc., 1875.

2736.*.

Memorials of the church of SS. Peter and Wilfrid 3 vols. Durham, etc., 1882-88. Fasti Riponienses, 1272-1885, ii. 184– 354.

[ed. J. T. Fowler]. Surtees Soc. Excerpts from chronicles, etc., grants to the church, papal bulls, etc., 6571571, i. 1–332.

Extracts from the archbishops' registers at York, 1216-1538, ii. 1-182.

Fabric rolls, 1354-1542, iii. 88–206. Treasurers' and chamberlains' rolls, 1401-1560, iii. 207-330.

2737. Cartæ xvi. ad abbatiam Rupensem spectantes: xvi. charters of Roche abbey, ed. S. O. Addy. Sheffield, 1878. pp. 34.

Most of them seem to belong to the 14th century.

2738. Cartularium abbathiæ de Rievalle ordinis Cisterciensis [ed. J. C. Atkinson]. Surtees Soc. Durham, etc., 1889.

Contains charters of Rievaulx abbey, 1132-1539. Valuable.

2739. *Registrum honoris de Richmond [ed. Roger Gale]. London, 1722.

Extent of lands in Richmondshire, 30

Hen. II., 20-27.

Inquisitiones feodorum, 15 Edw. I., 37-64.

Extenta feodorum, 11-12 Edw. II., 64-75.

Charters, pleas, etc., 89–106.

Extenta honoris de Richmond, 8 Edw.
I., app. 28-56.

The appendix also contains many charters and other records.

Selby, Swine, and Whitby.

2740. Cartularium abbathiæ de Whiteby ordinis S. Benedicti [1078-1547, ed. J. C. Atkinson]. Surtees Soc. 2 vols. Durham, etc., 1879-81

Valuable.

2741. Charters of the priory of Swine in Holderness, ed. George Duckett. Yorksh. Archeol. and Topog. Assoc., Journal, vi. 113-24. London, 1881.

They are of the 12th and 13th centuries.

2742. *Coucher book of Selby, ed. J. T. Fowler. Archeol. and Topog. Assoc., Record Series, vols. x., xiii. [Durham], 1891-93.

Yorksh.

2 vols.

A chartulary of the abbey, 1070-1434. It also contains the Historia Selebiensis Monasterii, written in 1184, i. 1-54; see Freeman, Norman Conquest, iv. 794-8. For an account roll of Selby abbey, 1397-98, see Yorksh. Archæol. Soc., Journal, 1900, xv. 408-18.

2743. Presentments of the juries at the courts of the abbot of Selby [1472-1533, ed. James Raine], English Miscellanies, 22-34. Surtees Soc. Durham, etc., 1890.

York.

2744. Discovery of the register and chartulary of the mercers' company, York [with extracts from these records, 1420-1523]. By Charles Kerry. Antiquary, xxii. 266-70, xxiii. 27-30, 70-73. London, 1890-91.

2745. Extracts from the municipal records of the city of York, during the reigns of Edward IV., Edward V., and Richard III., ed. Robert Davies. London, 1843.

Valuable extracts from the chamberlains' accounts and from the minutes of proceedings of the city council.

2746. Fabric rolls of York minster [1360-1639, with an appendix, 1165-1704, ed. James Raine]. Surtees Soc. Durham, etc., 1859.

2747. Register of the freemen of the city of York [ed. Francis Collins]. Vol. i., 1272-1558. Vol. i., 1272-1558. Surtees Soc. Durham, etc., 1897.

Christi in the city of

2748. Register of the guild of Corpus York [1408-37], with an appendix of illustrative documents [ed. R H. Skaife]. Surtees Soc. Durham, etc., 1872.

2749. The register of Walter Gray, archbishop of York [1225-55, with illustrative documents, ed. James Raine]. Surtees Soc. Durham, etc., 1872.

For extracts from other episcopal registers of York, see No. 2223.

2750. + The statutes, etc., of the cathedral church of York [ed. James Raine]. London, 1879. pp. 109.

§ 58. MISCELLANEOUS: POETRY, ETC.

a. Poetry, Nos. 2751-62.

b. Household Books and Letters, Nos. 2763-70.

c. Wills and Deeds, Nos. 2771-8.

d. Universities and Inns of Court, Nos. 2779-96.

e. Commerce, Industry, and Agriculture, Nos. 2797-2801.

a. POETRY.

In the second half of the twelfth century the poems of Nigel Wireker, John de Hautville, and those ascribed to Walter Map (Nos. 2751, 2761) throw light on the corruptions of the church and the manners of the age. In the fourteenth century Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and Langland's Piers Plowman illumine all sides of religious and social life; Laurence Minot sings of the wars of Edward III., while Gower and the author of Richard the Redeless devote much attention to the government of Richard II. The political poems from John to Richard III. (Nos. 2754-6) reflect the popular sentiments of the times concerning political and religious questions. Some of them--for example, the Song of Lewes (No. 2755)—are of considerable historical value; but after the reign of Edward III. their importance wanes.

See the histories of English literature by Ten Brink and Morley (Nos. 35, 49); J. J. Jusserand, Histoire Littéraire du Peuple Anglais, Paris, 1894 (translated under the title, A Literary History of the English People, London, 1895); Gustav Körting, Grundriss der Geschichte der Englischen Litteratur, Münster, 1887 (2nd edition, 1893). Many metrical biographies are included in §§ 48, 56 d. See also Nos. 1829, 2800.

General: Political Poems, etc.

2751. Anglo-Latin satirical poets and epigrammatists of the twelfth century, ed. Thomas Wright. Rolls Series. 2 vols. London, 1872.

Nigelli Speculum stultorum, i. 3-145; Tractatus Nigelli contra curiales et officiales clericos, i. 146-230. Both are dedicated to William Longchamp, bishop of Ely, and satirise the follies of the age, especially the corruptions of the church. The author, Nigel Wireker, was precentor of Canterbury. His principal work is the Speculum Stultorum. See Immanuel Weber, De Nigello Wirekero, Leipsic, [1679].

Johannis de Altavilla Architrenius, i. 240–392. Written about 1184; the 'Archweeper' laments over the vices of mankind; the author, John de Hautville, is said to have been a monk of St. Albans.