RECORDS FROM THE REGISTERS OF THE EARCHBISHOP OF YORK.
 
Register 5A f.69 (recto) entry 4
Entry Type: 	Licence
Section Type: 	Register, Vacancy, Archdeaconry of York, Register, Sede Vacante
Summary: 	Licence for Walter [Langton], bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, to perform the benediction of Brother Simon de Miggele [Midgley] as the newly-elected abbot of Jervaulx [Jerovallis].
Language: 	Latin
Subjects: 	Benedictions, Abbots
Note: 	This entry is repeated almost identically on fol 79r, although the marginal heading there calls it a commission rather than a licence.
References: 	Brown, William, and A. Hamilton Thompson. (eds.). 1925. The Register of Thomas Corbridge, Lord Archbishop of York 1300-1304 Part II. Surtees Society 141, 166.
Dates: 	Document date: 1304/10/17 (certain)
People and Groups: 	Addressee: Langton, Walter, d 1321, Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield (bishop)
New office holder: Midgley, Brother, Simon, fl 1304, Abbot of Jervaulx (abbot); written as Simon de Miggele
Places: 	Place of dating: York Minster Chapter House, York, York, England (chapter house) 


 Register 5A f.79 (recto) entry 2
Entry Type: 	Commission
Section Type: 	Register, Vacancy, Register, Sede Vacante
Summary: 	Commission to Walter [Langton], bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, to perform the benediction of Brother Simon de Miggele [Midgley] as the newly-elected abbot of Jervaulx (Jerovallis).
Language: 	Latin
Subjects: 	Benedictions, Abbots
Note: 	This entry is repeated almost identically on fol 69r, although the marginal heading there calls it a licence rather than a commission.
References: 	Brown, William, and A. Hamilton Thompson. (eds.). 1925. The Register of Thomas Corbridge, Lord Archbishop of York 1300-1304 Part II. Surtees Society 141, 166 and notes 1-2.
Dates: 	Document date: 1304/10/17 (certain)
People and Groups: 	Addressee: Langton, Walter, d 1321, Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield (bishop)
New office holder: Midgley, Brother, Simon, fl 1304, Abbot of Jervaulx (abbot); written as Simon de Miggele
Places: 	Place of dating: York Minster Chapter House, York, York, England (chapter house)


 Register 5A f.79 (recto) entry 2
Entry Type: 	Commission
Section Type: 	Register, Vacancy, Register, Sede Vacante
Summary: 	Commission to Walter [Langton], bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, to perform the benediction of Brother Simon de Miggele [Midgley] as the newly-elected abbot of Jervaulx (Jerovallis).
Language: 	Latin
Subjects: 	Benedictions, Abbots
Note: 	This entry is repeated almost identically on fol 69r, although the marginal heading there calls it a licence rather than a commission.
References: 	Brown, William, and A. Hamilton Thompson. (eds.). 1925. The Register of Thomas Corbridge, Lord Archbishop of York 1300-1304 Part II. Surtees Society 141, 166 and notes 1-2.
Dates: 	Document date: 1304/10/17 (certain)
People and Groups: 	Addressee: Langton, Walter, d 1321, Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield (bishop)
New office holder: Midgley, Brother, Simon, fl 1304, Abbot of Jervaulx (abbot); written as Simon de Miggele
Places: 	Place of dating: York Minster Chapter House, York, York, England (chapter house)

SIMON MIDGLEY'S SUCCESSOR:
 Register 8 f.216 (recto) entry 1
Entry Type: 	Oath of Obedience
Section Type: 	Archdeaconry of Richmond
Summary: 	Oath of obedience to the archbishop of Brother Thomas de Gristhwayt [Gristwaite], abbot of 
                                   (insert, undated); Jervaulx with a note of the abbot's benediction by the archbishop on the 21 January
                                    1313 in the archbishop's chapel at Cawood (election verified by three monks (named)).
References: 	Brown, William, and A. Hamilton Thompson. (eds.). 1936. The Register of William Greenfield, Lord Archbishop of York 1306-1315 Part IV. Surtees Society 152, 217.
Dates: 	Document date: 1313/01/21 (certain)
Places: 	Place of dating: Cawood, West Riding of Yorkshire, England (archbishop's chapel)
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