Licence to assign. Pickering (Yorkshire) (manor). Saturday on the feast of St. John Evang., 1337 (1337). . Licence from Thomas, abbot of [St. Mary at York?], to Sir William de Bruys to enable him to assign a messuage and two bovates of land in Midelton near Pikering for the foundation of a chantry in the church of St. Peter, Pikering.