Item Y/COU/1/1/4 - Minute book, 1486-1490

1 volume

Minute and memoranda book, covering the period February 1486 - July 1490. Entries are broadly, but not strictly, in chronological order. The volume has been conserved, 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. Some pages may be missing.

This first entry of this volume records this volume as 'Liber consilii', or 'the book of the council'. The volume includes entries relating to Lambert Simnell and the rebellion against the crown led by the Earls of Lincoln and Lovell. The entries include a letter sent by Simnell to the Mayor and Commonality of York, their response to this letter, and a subsequent account of the rebellion.

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 6.

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• English
• Latin

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 Two (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) and Raine, A., Yorkshire Archaeological Society Record Series, volume CIII: York Civic Records, volume II (Yorkshire Archaeological Society, 1940).