Creation of E. Howard, Archdeacon, to be Official of Durham (3 Feb.,
1344)
Dispensation for illegitimacy of W. of Faloudon (28 Feb., 1344)

Licence to the Monks of Durham to celebrate mass in private houses
(30 Feb., 1344)

Appointment of proctors to enter and occupy the Church of Leek (12 Mar., 1344)

Commission to Bishop of Bisaccia to ordain (23 Mar., 1344)

Inquiry to be made as to state of Leek Church and Manse (two documents) (23 Mar., 1344)

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Letter addressed to a Cardinal as to the appropriation of Bamborough
Church to the Priory of Nostell (24 Mar., 1344)

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Letter of Edward III to J. of Montgomeri, etc., for arrest of certain ships at Great Yarmouth (20 Aug., 1344)

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Commission for execution of this letter (8 April, 1344)
Appointment of proctors for Parliament (10 April, 1344)
Charter of Pardon for T. of Gray for his father's transgression (10 April,
1344)

Letter of protection for T. Gray, Kt. (25 April, 1344)
Commission to Archdeacon of Northumberland to inquire into the
'provision' of P. Kilnese to Neuton-in-Glendale (2 May, 1344)
Licence of absence for Mansero Marmyon, Rector of Houghton, from
his church (11 May, 1344)

Commission to R. of Blaikeston and W. of Alverton as to the Vicar of Neuton (11 May, 1344)

Commission to Bishop of Bisaccia to ordain (25 May, 1344)

Commission to him to examine (25 May, 1344)

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Mandate of the Pope's (Clement VI) Penitentiary (Avignon, 3 April, 1344)

Execution of said Mandate (fragment)

HEADINGS OF A PART OF BISHOP BURY'S REGISTER, PRINTED IN
THE REG. PAL. DUN.

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DOCUMENTS RELATING TO THE EPISCOPATE OF BURY (1334–1345):

Petition of Bury to be relieved of a yearly payment to Newcastle-on-
Tyne (in French) (1334)

Indulgence for all who helped to build the Cathedral or to ornament
St. Cuthbert's shrine (7 June, 1334)

Evidence as to a holding in Beaurepaire (28 June, 1334)

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Three documents bearing on the rights of the Prior of Durham :—

(1) Letter to the same (12 July, 1334)

(2) Letter to the Sheriff of Norham (26 June, 1334)

(3) Proclamation by the Sheriff (undated)

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On the delivery of the Great Seal (20 Sept., 1334)

Permission to the Cathedral Convent to appropriate xx librates of land (1 Feb., 1335)

Another document (undated) on the same

Bury on the affairs of Bedlington (22 Sept., 1335)

Charter for lands in Stanhope (29 Oct., 1335)

Agreement on exchange of Hunstanworth Church with Pittington tithe (12 Feb., 1336)

Confirmation of the same (7 Feb., 1336)

Receipt by Edward III for 1,000 marks as a fine from the Community of the Bishopric (2 June, 1336)

Action of Alicia del Slade against the Prior of Durham, and Bury's letter on the case, and the Assize held on the same (from 26 July, 1334, to post clausum Pascha," 1336).

Letter from Bury on Collection of Money and his Indulgence
(22 Sept., 1343)
Assize at Durham on the Common of Beaurepaire (25 July, 1334)
Assize at Durham as to a Tenement belonging to St. James'
Chapel (Jan., 1345)
Assize held on the claims of the Prior against Alice o'th' Slade
(26 July, 1334)

Edward III on the expenses of Bury as ambassador (4 Nov., 1336)
Edward III on the expenses of messengers (4 Nov., 1336) .
Four Inquiries and Assize, “Ad quod dampnum" (Monday after
S. Peter ad Vincula, 1336)

Bury on his proposed Visitation (16 May, 1337)

Mandate for Visitation of the Cells (16 May, 1337)

Edward III on the Bishop's Liberties (18 Mar., 1338) .

Grant of Office of Bailiff to Adam Scott (31 Mar., 1338)

Edward III sends orders for the safe crossing of his Ambassadors (Archbishop of Canterbury and Bury) (23 June, 1338)

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The King gives orders for their protection (23 June, 1338)
Pleas and inquiry as to Billingham lands (July, 1338)

Benedict XII on Bury as an Ambassador (20 April, 1339)

Brief of Benedict XII to Bury on German affairs (12 Oct., 1339)
Permission granted to Prior and Convent of Durham to hold certain
tenements, etc. (10 Jan., 1340)
Permission to elect a Prior (12 Mar., 1340)

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139

Mandate of Edward III as to Bishop's Liberties (10 April, 1340) .
Order for a Thanksgiving for the victory at Sluys (3 July, 1340) .

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Edward III's Mandate to Bury for arraying his men (1 Sept., 1341) . 141
Mandate of Edward III to Bury (in English) (16 Oct., 1341) .
Edward III on Bury's indemnity (4 Dec., 1341)

Confirmation of the Election of John Fossor as Prior of Durham
Monastery (31 March, 1342)
Order by Bury as to Mikelbenton Church (25 June, 1342)
Arrangements for a Vicarage for Chatton (30 Sept., 1342)
Confirmation of the same by Prior and Convent (undated)
Paper on the Visitation of 1342 and 1343 (27 Jan., 1343)
On an Array of men, after the Winchester Statute (20 Feb., 1343)
A bribe for a truce with the Scots (25 Feb., 1343)

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SERIES OF DOCUMENTS ON ST. MARGARET'S CHURCH, DURHAM (1343):Indulgence for all who have helped it (22 Feb., 1343)

A further document on the Indulgence (Sept., 1343)
On the removal of St. Margaret's Font (14 Feb., 1343)
Instrument telling the inhabitants that they have no right to
receive Sacraments in that Chapel (11 Mar., 1343)

Arrangements for Alverton Hospital (9 April, 1343)
Edward III on whales and sturgeons caught in Palatinate waters
(15 May, 1343)

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Edward III restores to Newcastle-on-Tyne its Liberties (20 May, 1343)
Three letters as to Laysingby Church (10 July, 1343)

Clement VI sends permission to Bury to give flesh to his guests (8 Aug., 1343)

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Letter of Bury bidding the Prior not to attend the Benedictine Chapter (20 Aug., 1343)

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On the offices of Butler, Gauger, etc. (22 Aug., 1343)

180

Confirmation of Bishop Beaumont's order as to rights of Durham
Convent over certain churches (13 Sept., 1343)

180

Confirmation of position, etc., of Prior and Convent of Durham at a
Visitation (13 Sept., 1343)

Confirmation of an order by Bishop Kellowe (14 Sept., 1343)
Permission to the Convent of Durham to elect a Prior (4 Mar., 1340) 188
Instrument as to Prebend of Thorpe (25 Sept., 1343)
Seizin of lands of Roger o' the Hall (24 Nov., 1343)
Commission for inquiry on obstructions in River Tyne (? 1343)
Documents bearing on the Bishop's Visitation (19 Feb., 1344)
Charter for Thomas de Gray, Kt. (10 April, 1344)

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Seizin of manor of Hart and town of Hartilpol (19 May, 1344) . Protestation by Bury as to his way of holding his Visitation (1 June, 1344)

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Brief from Bury, granting the Prior of Durham his half of the fines on his lands (8 Dec., 1344)

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Appointment of Sheriff and Escheator for Durham and Sadberge
(26 Jan., 1345)
Leave to Prior Fossour to hold lands to the value of £20 (20 Feb., 1345)
Proclamation as to arrest of ships (1 April, 1345)

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Note of claim of Richard de Sthuteforth, Vicar of Kellow, as to tithe
of coals (9 April, 1345)
Revocation of letters patent for Murage" (13 April, 1345)

Agreement (with an Indenture) between Bury and the Prior and
Convent of Durham (undated)

Bury to the Sheriff of Durham, with a royal letter (undated)
Order as to the horses carrying the body of Bury to Durham
(20 April, 1345)

Claim by Prior and Convent for robes lent to Bury (21 Sept., 1345) 219 On the books given and sold to Bury by St. Alban's Abbey (undated) 220 Papal Provision for Bury's successor (10 June, 1346) .

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Papal Provision for Canonry of Hurst, in Chichester Diocese (11 June, 1334)

Papal Provision for the Deanery of Wells (6 Aug., 1334)

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Charter of Edward III on Bury's claims on the navigation of Tyne and Tees (20 April, 1335)

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Letter to Bury from the Bailiffs, etc., of Great Yarmouth (in French)
(28
1335)

Two letters from Henry of Percy (1336) (in French) (13 Mar., 1336, and 3 April, 1336)

Papal Provision for U. de Zennetis to be Rector of Egglescliffe (7 May, 1338)

A Papal brief on the election of Lewis of Bavaria as Emperor (13 Nov., 1338)

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A brief of Benedict XII addressed to the Bishops of Winchester,
Chichester, and Durham (7 July, 1341)

Letter from Clement VI to Bury, authorising him to appoint four
Tabelliones (11 Nov., 1342)

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Papal Provision for a Canon of Chichester (12 Dec., 1342)

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Bull of Clement VI on a rearrangement of the income of Houghton
Church (23 Oct., 1343)

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Compotus of Bernard de Sistre, Papal Nuncio (1335-1343)

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Of the unhappy moral state of Durham Diocese (in French) (26 July, 1344)

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Order for arranging a Vicarage at Leek (the Rectory being appropriated ad mensam Episcopi) (27 July, 1344)

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Letter from John Fossor, the Prior, to Bury (2 Jan., 1345)

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On the relations between the Bishop as Bishop and as Abbot (undated) 263 On the founding of Durham College at Oxford, from A.-a-Wood

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