Yorkshire Almanac 2026

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A COMMISSION FROM ARCHBISHOP CORBRIDGE TO JOHN DE CAVE AND RALPH, BAILIFF OF BEVERLEY.
(Reg. archiep. Corbridge, 77 a.)
T., Dei gratia, etc., dilectis in Christo filiis Johanni de Cave et Radulpho, ballivo nostro Beverlacensi, salutem, gratiam et benedictionem. Sciatis quod constituimus vos justitiarios nostros in libertate nostra Beverlacensi ad inquirendum super his quæ emptores et venditores cum mala moneta contra defensionem regiam et ipsam monetam contingunt; de illis etiam qui electi ad guerram Scotia non iverunt, seu ierant et de exercitu regio fraudulenter sine licentia captis vadiis recesserunt; eisque in præmissis consilium, auxilium, vel favorem præbentibus, clam vel palam; necnon ad fines ratione delictorum petendum et recipiendum, et ad faciendum secundum tenorem originalis brevis regii inde facti circa prædicta omnia et ea contingentia, quod secundum legem et consuetudinem regni Angliæ et libertatis nostræ prædictæ fuerit faciendum. Et ideo vobis mandamus quatenus in præmissis et ea contingentibus quod ad justitiam pertinet faciatis, salvis nobis amerciamentis inde provenientibus. In cujus rei testimonium, etc., literas nostras, etc. Data apud Cawod, quarto nonas Novembris, anno gratiæ Mº.CCCº., et pontificatus nostri primo.

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Edward I agreed a truce on 30 October.

I think nocturnal incursions by the infant may have affected my translation – corrections welcome.

I’m guessing the monetary challenge was debasement rather than counterfeiting.

Another John de Cave, 97 years later.

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• Archbishop of York (18) W/G ·
• Beverley Minster (7) W/G ·
• Beverley (22) W/G ·
• 📌Cawood (Selby) (5), West Riding, now North Yorkshire W/G ·
• Cawood Castle (4) W/G ·
• Coin (1) W/G ·
• Commodity money (2) W/G ·
• Counterfeit money (3) W/G ·
• Debasement (2) W/G ·
• Edward I of England (4) W/G ·
• First War of Scottish Independence (4) W/G ·
• Liberty (2), a medieval area in which rights reserved to the king had been devolved into private hands W/G ·
• Methods of coin debasement (3) W/G ·
• Robert the Bruce (2) W/G ·
• Scotland (38) W/G ·
• 📌York (165) W/G ·

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Edward I agreed a truce on 30 October.

I think nocturnal incursions by the infant may have affected my translation – corrections welcome.

I’m guessing the monetary challenge was debasement rather than counterfeiting.

Another John de Cave, 97 years later.

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The clarification of the original asterisks comes from Samuel Pegge:

The asterisks in Drake’s Eboracum, p. 416, are intended for Archbishop Lancelot Blackburne; intimating that his Grace would never have died a martyr to his chastity. But quære, whether Mr. Drake was a proper person to make this observation (Pegge 1818).

Malcolm Redfellow suggests that Drake resented Blackburne’s refusal to subscribe to Eboracum.

Who is Drake’s source? Hugh the Chanter aka Sottovagina in his Historia ecclesiae Eboracensis (History of the Church of York) simply says that Thomas was not known to have had sex with a woman (Hugh the Chanter 1990).

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