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Yorkshire Hundred and Quo Warranto olls 1274-1294 At midsummer 1274 Edward I returned to England from crusade, and ordered a major investigation of matters that concerned the crown, in particular encroachments upon his rights and the misconduct of local government officers. The inquiries were made hundred by hundred, and wapentake by wapentake (the local government divisions of the south and the north). Subsequently the king sent justices into the English shires, who required claim- ants to prove by what authority they held delegated royal powers: they were summoned by the writ quo warranto (by what warrant). The two sets of records became known as the hundred rolls and the quo warranto rolls. Such inquiries had been made before, but the investigations made between 1274 and 1294 were particularly searching. The only edition of the English hundred and quo warranto rolls was published at the beginning of the nine- teenth century in specially created type, designed to reproduce the appearance of the original manuscripts; it contains a number of errors and omissions. For the present edition, the surviving manuscripts in the Public Record Office for the Yorkshire hundred and quo warranto inquiries have been collated, edited and translated; the text provides a valuable source for many aspects of late thirteenth-century Yorkshire society, in particular the government of the shire. The present edition is the first published translation of the records for any English county. Dustjacket illustration: Design incorporating drawings from the Yorkshire hundred rolls. Text is Public Record Office JUST 1/1076, m.76d and SCs5/8/3,m.8d (Crown copyright). peute ciarnaeatetnear ttaaR RR n L i HS aus 4 i a)i htt i : uersaeunnsa s it et aitte Ht ets Ht tii sane H jana [et t Gl Sete :! en auntie i ans cnt Pcoeeta ECEEERELESEeeeELEEREERt auaaauenccatuaunacastauaneecutta waniny 7 LE it ti abauoyuogenas ae a cea bot raat it ae rt { aa sara eee a nanan Ceife raa t i: if + yt a eaeeaa neera u aa eaHtC H ine tehH i ET Aare i aeit aa pinnrtiat oe Ht rte tat tha a a i My one sc=sSe e eadeess: a ae Hy tt rtH Loy it ti B3e=ste ee; iaSSsaeeSBSeS‘ esaeqs: o eSSese!sse stns aps7 eaesSa=SrBgs2e scse meesE:s ss tn es2eesr se5eszsBsSs2Smtie s ac3c3tae!aSseD cs e2 nSaeesog:se3 :se esc ss s ssSye sssczetscsess sssestsesieeatsssessers ses ssesace moaaa + Se enna LrAoTaHsEc hi ei f=. *vare GILLING ’ - mG pc anene = leet ALLERTON “*-. ens : ‘-SHIRE* . EWCROSS HANG NORTH a “fNorthallerto - BIRDFG e hirsk STAINCLIFFE CLARO baa oe TH & WEST Knatesbarcuah ooh RI Br NG a 'SKYRACK ae a. i AGBRIGG ‘ - Pontetferfarai OSGOL ° e oe e Aee eC eo* ®t eee TICKHILL - = aed Res Ac. SOS E=SRNyN SoO eSsr oat Sltate ae eR oC Wa eS ss, NSN Se We SSS _ANGBARGH eee Way a ee 2 P00 6 eee 6 0 6 OO wee 6 oe ff e : PICKERING .\\.. ." Scalby Wo. FRYEDALE Ve Scarborough e Heimsley Pic ickering ee3 Ze:| foee r =~ ~ @ Sy eae : DICKERING NES LMER BUCKROSE : Ei THE BAST} Bers ierelens eDtittield . myY ORK j Pa ckiinigten RI 1 [D) | Ny@ i — < » DUSE HARTHILL : = yNoey AND : O ee DERWENT o. Ne i. Beverley = ‘a fos @ Selby ees ; ‘ } oS ‘. “% 2) mo Se ees ; “Hedon 4 Qo OWDENSHIREa: aa aL e 4 edSS N ba eiai’ ; oO” We aa S oe pe eaith Soa ig Ne Se = OS S§ Aa 55 S = Wiss A, \ SsE ES NGien 4 Nae Sas ree pe 58 New Ce eS ve ve SSS \ qummmmm = County Boundary oe §$Riding Boundary Se Ree Wapentake Boundary Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2022 with funding from Yorkshire Archaeological & Historical Society https://archive.org/details/YASRS151 YORKSHIRE aUNDIVED AND QUO WARRANTO ROLLS Cinta oe Above: Extract from the Yorkshire hundred rolls of 1274-1275 for Howdenshire, relating to Henry de Normanton and others who had abused their official powers. See text pp. 103-4. (PRO SC 5/8/3, m.8d.) Below: Extract from the Yorkshire quo warranto proceedings of 1279-1281 against Thomas de Furnivalle, relating to his claims in Sheffield and Hallamshire. See text p. 124 (JUST 1/1076,m.76d.) Illustrations and text are Crown copyright material in the Public Record Office, reproduced by permission of the Controller of H. M. Stationery Office. THE YORKSHIRE ARCHAEROLOGICAL SOCIETY FOUNDED t867, INCORPORATED 1893 RECORD SERIES VOLUME CLI FOR. THE YEARS 1993 AND 1994 TORK Shine FUNDRED AND QUO WARRANTO ROLLS EDITED BY BARBARA ENGLISH PRINTED FOR. THE SOCIETY 1996 Editorial matter © Professor Barbara English 1996 Hon. General Editor SYLVIA THOMAS RECORD SERIES COMMITTEE Mr G. C. F. Forster (Chairman) Mr W. Bentley Der L. As -S. Butler Dr R. M. Butler De W. Ro Childs Dr N.. A; Cookson Professor M. ‘G; Cross Mr P. B. Davidson Professor R. B. Dobson Mie Py Wrench Professor D. Palliser Dr G. Redmonds Dr E. Royle Professor D. M. Smith Dr K.. T. Spence MrJ . Taylor ISBN: © 002122 75 4