Edmund was the fifth son of Edward III; he
was born in 1341 and died in 1402. Edmund was created earl of
Cambridge in 1362 and was made duke of York in 1385. He acted
as regent in 1394-5 when his nephew, Richard II (1377-99), was
in Ireland, and again in 1399 when Henry of Lancaster arrived
to claim the throne.
Roche Abbey Charters, ed. S. O. Addy(Sheffield, 1878), no. XI. Also published as 'Roche Abbey
charters: transcripts with an introduction and notes', Transactions
of the Hunter Archaeological Society, 4:3, pp. 226-48.
Addy, Roche Abbey Charters, no VIII.
Aggacroft, Armthorpe, Barnby, Barnoldswick,
Kirk Bramwith, Brancliffe, Dunscroft (?), ‘Eilrichetorpe’
(?), Lambcote, Marr, Newsome, One Ash (Derbyshire), Roxby (Lincs),
Thurnscoe (?), Thurstonland, known then as 'Tymberwood' (?),
Todwick, Wellingley.
J. W. Aveling, The History of Roche Abbey
from its Foundation until the Dissolution (Worksop, 1870),
p. 34.
W. P. Baildon, ed., Notes on the Secular
and Religious Houses of Yorkshire, Yorkshire Archaeological
Society Record Series 17 (1895), p. 186.
Dugdale, Monasticon, V, p. 505, no.
XIII; Aveling, Roche Abbey, pp. 31-2.
Dugdale, Monasticon, V, no. XIII.
See P. Donkin, The Cistercians: Studies
in the Geography of Medieval England and Wales, Studies and
Texts: Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies 38 (Toronto, 1978),
p. 134.
Roche had a turbary at Styrrup, Nottinghamshire,
and during Henry III’s reign the community was granted the
right to cut turf in Richard of Barnby’s woods.
A charter of 1377 reveals that the abbey
had its own fulling mill; a document of 37 Henry VIII refers
to the
abbey’s water mill at Barkhouse Mill, see Aveling, Roche
Abbey, pp. 126-8. For the corn mill at Abbey Mill Farm,
see D. Hey, Medieval South Yorkshire (Bath, 2003), p. 97.
Baildon, Notes on the Secular and Religious
Houses of Yorkshire, p. 185.
Aveling, Roche Abbey, pp. 111, 120;
F. Mullin, A HIstory of the Work of the Cistercians in Yorkshire
(1131-1300) (Washington, 1932), p. 48.
A. H. Smith, Place-names of the West
Riding of Yorkshire I, English Place Name Society XXX
(Cambridge, 1961),p. 139.
Smith, Place-names of West Riding of Yorkshire
I, p. 86.
Smith, Place-names of West Riding of Yorkshire
I, pp. 147-8.
Richard de Busli's supplementary grant of
common pasture in Maltby for 300 sheep and other animals suggests
that there was a grange here; might this have been the abbey's
home grange?
A. Goodall, Place-Names of SW Yorkshire
(Cambridge, 1913), p. 134.
Smith, Place-names of West Riding of Yorkshire
I, p. 175.
J. E. B. Glover et al., The Place-names
of Nottinghamshire, English Place Name Society (Cambridge,
1940), p. 80.
See Aveling, Roche Abbey, p. 117.
Smith, Place-names of West Riding of Yorkshire
I, p. 130.
Smith, Place-names of West Riding of Yorkshire
I, p. 142.
A. H. Smith, The Place-names of the East
Riding of Yorkshire, English PLace Name Society XIV (Cambridge,
1937),p. 181.
Smith, Place-names of Yorkshire West Riding
I, p. 21.
Smith, Place-names of Yorkshire West Riding
I, p. 1.
Smith, Place-names of Yorkshire West Riding
I, p. 22.
For reference to a grange at Thurnscoe, see
Aveling, Roche Abbey, p. 148, for his translation of Hugh,
son of Hugh, de Lacey's charter (Dodsworth VIII, fol. 32A); the
rent of a grange here is 7 Edward VI (see Aveling, Roche Abbey,
p. 149).
See M. Faull and S. Moorhouse, West Yorkshire:
an Archaeological Survey to 1500 (1981), 3, pp. 793-4;
many thanks to David Shore for pointing this out.
Aveling, Roche Abbey, p. 159.
Smith, Place-names of Yorkshire West Riding
I, p. 5.
Smith, Place-names of Yorkshire West Riding
I, p. 171.
Smith, Place-names of Yorkshire West Riding
I, p. 31.
