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As with other series shelfmarked MS. Ch. and MS. Rolls, this is an artificial collection created from a range of archival sources, and the provenance of individual items is not always known.

The collection catalogued in 1878 comprised MSS. Ch. Yorks. 1-344 and MSS. Rolls Yorks. 1-19. The bulk seems to have formed the collection of the Yorkshire antiquarian Ralph Thoresby, briefly described in his Ducatus Leodiensis (1715). This collection passed to Thoresby’s nephew, Thomas Wilson (schoolmaster of Leeds and antiquarian), was acquired from him by Richard Rawlinson, and was given by Rawlinson to the Bodleian.

It is not always possible to identify the provenance of individual items, and Rawlinson also obtained charters from the collections of Thomas Hearne and Peter le Neve. B. J. Enright, 'Richard Rawlinson: collector, antiquary, and topographer' (DPhil thesis, Oxford, 1957), appendix D, lists charters in all the Bodleian collections then identifiable as Rawlinson’s; a few others can be added from Thomas Wilson’s papers and a transcript of some of Wilson’s papers (MS. Top. Yorks. e. 2).

The main later accessions are as follows:

  • Ch. 358-365: papers of the Hussey family (see the collection overview for Lincolnshire), presented in 1920-5 by the trustees of the Marquis of Waterford’s estate (see also New Summary Catalogue nos. 54418-503 and cf. Bodleian Quarterly Record vol. 3 p. 5).
  • Ch. 367-516: part of the collection given by Miss M. Miss Peacock, 1921 (see the collection overview for Lincolnshire)
  • Ch. 549-573: bought from Miss J. Ratcliffe, 1968

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1. MS. Ch. Yorks. 30

Date Range:
1190 - 1200
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RIEVAL (Abbey of). Thomas, son of Paulinus, canon of the church of St. Peter of York , quit-claims to the church and monks of St. Mary, Rievall, all the claim he has upon the bounds (divisas) of Welleburn near his land of Nagelt[on] and Wimbelt[on], viz. the bounds contained in the charters of Roger de Molbrai and Nigel his son; which bounds, the same Roger with his men and neighbours (vicinis) perambulated and affirmed by oath to be the right bounds of Wellebr', because the said Thomas's men falsely suggested to him that they belonged to his land of Nagelt[on] and Wimbelt[on]; and being unwilling unjustly to vex the said monks, he therefore, after full enquiry, makes this quit-claim, which is attested by Robert Paulini, his nephew, John de Hereford his cousin, and Robert son of Rainer Puer . (c. 1190-1200.) .