Item Y/COU/1/1/2 - Minute book, 1480-1485

1 volume

Minute and memoranda book, principally covering the period April 1480 to December 1485, but also including some entries for 1486, 1488, and 1489, and some undated entries. There do not appear to be any entries dating from 1487. 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, however at least one other foliation notation is present on the pages, many of which do not seem to have retained their original order. William Giles, writing in the later 19th and early 20th century has recorded that some of the pages from his foliation are missing.

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 those described by Darcy Preston (later Town Clerk from 1719) in 1699 as Liber 2 and Liber 4, possibly leading to the naming of this volume as 2/4. There does not appear to have been a volume 3 included with these papers, however Giles has labelled this volume as B2 B3 and B4, and this has also been written on the spine of this volume. The dates on the spine of the volume are not correct. When the volume was described in 1699, and possibly also when examined by Robert Davies c1830s-1840s, the dates were given as 1461-1483 and 1479-1485, however the volume no longer contains any entries dating earlier than 1480.

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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).