Item Y/COU/1/1/1 - Minute book, 1476-1480

1 volume

Minute and memoranda book, principally covering the period February 1476 to January 1480, but also including a memoranda from May 1483 and some undated entries. Entries are broadly, but not strictly, in chronological order. The volume has been conserved several times, and it is not clear whether the pages have retained their original order. The current foliation was added in the early 20th century.

Dates in this catalogue have been given in the new style. Many of the original entries use regnal dating to record the year.

This volume matches that described by Darcy Preston (later Town Clerk from 1719) in 1699 as Liber 3. Earlier entries from Preston's Liber 1 (1461-1465) and Liber 2 (1461-1479) seem to have been lost between the time they were described by Preston in 1699 and 1831, when they were described by the then town clerk, Robert Davies.

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• English
• Latin

A calendar of this minute book is available from a member of staff.

A complete edited transcription of this volume, with a translation of Latin entries, can be found in Attreed, Lorraine C., The York House Books 1461-1490, Volume One (Alan Sutton Publishing Inc, 1991).

Transcriptions of extracts from this house book can be found in Raine, A., Yorkshire Archaeological Society Record Series, volume XCVIII: York Civic Records, volume I (Yorkshire Archaeological Society, 1938).