Memoirs Illustrative of the History and Antiquities of the County and City of York: Communicated to the Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Held at York, July, 1846, with a General Report of the Proceedings of the Meeting, and Catalogue of the Museum Formed on that Occasion, Volumes 1-2Royal Archaeological Institute (Great Britain), Royal Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland J. Murray; (etc., etc.), 1847 |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
abbey abbot acres of meadow advowson aisle altar Andrew Luterel appurtenances arch archbishop archbishop of York barony Beelsby Belesby bishop of Lincoln bovates bovates of land canons carucates of land chapel charter choir church of St count of Mortain crypt daughter deceased demesne Drax earl entry escheator fief four frankalmoign Gamston Geoffrey Luterel granted half Hawisia heir held Henry the Third Holy Trinity Hooton Hugh inquisition Irnham jurors King Edward King Henry king in chief king's knight Lincolnshire lord the king marks Maurice de Gaunt moost nave Norman ornaments Pagenel parish pier Pipe roll ploughs pounds prior Ralph Paynell reign of King renders accompt Richard Robert de Gaunt Roger roll Saltby scutage sheriff shew shillings six bovates soke subject to Danegeld Thimelby Thomas tower transepts Trinity of York tumulus tythe unto villains wapentake Westminster wife William Paynell window Witness worth annually writ Yorkshire
Popular passages
Page 226 - May, in the sixteenth year of our Reign, of England, France and Ireland; and of Scotland the one and fiftieth.
Page 15 - A statute, also, passed 15 Edwd. II. (1322), declares that ' the matters to be established for the estate of the king and of his heirs, and for the estate of the realm and of the people, should be treated, accorded, and established in parliament, by the king and by the assent of the prelates, earls, and barons, nnd the commonalty of the realm, according as had been before accustomed.
Page 15 - Crown, shall be void and of no avail or force whatever; but the matters which are to be established for the estate of our lord the King and of his heirs, and for the estate of the realm and of the people, shall be treated, accorded, and established in Parliaments, by our lord the King, and by the assent of the prelates, earls, and barons, and the commonalty of the realm; according as it hath been heretofore accustomed.
Page 137 - Aquitaine, to archbishops, bishops, abbots, priors, earls, barons, justices, sheriffs, reeves, ministers and all his bailiffs and faithful, greeting. Know ye that we have granted and by this our charter confirmed to our beloved...
Page v - Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, for the Encouragement and Prosecution of Researches into the Arts and Monuments of the Early and Middle Ages.
Page 112 - Archbishops, &c., greeting. Know ye that I have granted, and by this my present charter, have confirmed to God and the Holy Church of St.
Page 219 - Edward, by the grace of God, king of England, lord of Ireland, and duke of Aquitaine, to all those that these present letters shall hear or see, greeting.
Page 20 - The contract for glazing the great west window, is dated 1330, and none of the glass probably is later than 1350. The general arrangement and execution of the designs throughout this part of the building are well worthy of notice, as evincing the attention paid by .our ancestors to general effects in these matters. The west windows of the nave and aisles, of which distant views may be obtained, have their lower lights filled with large figures and canopies ; while the windows of the aisles, with...
Page 219 - ... of good and lawful men of your bailiwick, by whom the truth of the matter may be better known, you diligently enquire...
Page 22 - The lights above the transom are glazed, and constitute the real window, but the lights below the transom (if the phrase can be applied to openings so perfectly dark) are open, and as the roof of the side aisle abuts against the transom, the space behind them, and to which they communicate, is the interval between the stone vault of the aisles and its wooden roof; they thus serve the purpose of a triforium.