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John de Wythington and Margary his wife demise to Robert de Conyers all the lands &c. in Norton, Hoton, Hoigne (?), Orden, Sall, Heton, Skales, and Armeley, with rents and services of Melmorby, of which the said Margery was seised as dowry, paying £18 yearly during the lives of the said John and Margery. Dated at Hoton the Friday next before Palm Sunday, 1340.

Inquisition taken on the death of Robert Tailler son and heir of John Tailler at Rothwell, dated 7 April 3 Elizabeth. Held lands at Lofthouse in Rothwele, for which he paid 10s. yearly to two almshouses at Leeds. His heirs are his three sisters, Sibella, Elizabeth and Margaret).

BRAMLEY and HEDINGLEY. Letters patent of Queen Elizabeth , dated at Westminster, 1 April, 34 of her reign, granting to John Savile and Thomas Hynchclyffe for 13s. 4d. a licence of alienation of 23 acres of certain lands in Bramley and Hedingley to Robert Walshe and Robert Crowther . [Mutilated.]

East Allerton, Bramley, West Headingley etc, Linley, Mickley. 1154.

Leeds. 1164-1175.

Leeds. 1240.

Leeds. 1250.

Leeds. 1254-1255.

Leeds. 1290.

Leeds. 1297.

Bilbrough, Hooton Pagnell, Leeds etc. 1312.

Leeds. 1205.

Notification by William [Greenfield], archbishop of York, of definitive sentence in favour of the claim of the priory of Holy Trinity, York, to the churches of Leeds, York St Trinity, Bilbrough, and a moiety of Hootton Pagnel, pensions from Leeds, Adel, and Wintringham, and tithes in Aberford and Barton-le-Street. Dated at Bishop Burton, 5 kal. Apr. [28 March] 1311.

Award by Dr Hugh Weston, Dr William Cliff, and Mr William Grinestede, in arbitration between the dean and chapter of Christ Church, Oxford, and John Thorneton, vicar of Leeds, concerning £10 annual pension from the church of Leeds, parcel of the possessions of the dissolved priory of Holy Trinity, York, granted by Henry VIII to Christ Church on 11 Dec. 1546. John to pay the pension from henceforth with arrears of £16. Dated 24 Nov. 1 Mary [1553].

Leeds.. The Dean and Chapter of S. Peter’s, York, confirm to the monastery of Holy Trinity, York, everything that Jordan Paganel , his sons William and Jordan , and their men, may have granted, particularly the church of Leeds. ⟨c. 1170–90.⟩

Leeds.. R[ichard] abbot of Selby , H. treasurer, and L. canon of York , at the command of Pope Innocent III ([9] Dec. [1204]) have passed judgment in a dispute between the priory and the Abbey of Kirkstall over an agreement by which the Abbey was to pay 20/- for the tithes of 4 carucates of land in West Hadinglai, ½ ploughland in East Hadinglai, 2 carucates in West Allerton, and 1 bovate in East Allerton, and to pay tithe for any further land acquired in that parish (Leeds). The Abbey, accused of withdrawing the 2 ploughlands in East Allerton, objected that they had received the tithes and paid the rent for 50 years with right unshaken. It is now decreed that the Priory shall grant to the Abbey the tithes of grain and vegetables from the 2 ploughlands in East Allerton, in exchange for the tithes of 2 ploughlands of land in West Allerton, and that the Abbey shall pay 3/- more, and shall remit the tithes of 18 acres and one oxgang in East Allerton.. ⟨1204–5.⟩

Leeds.. Alan the clerk of Thornton, vicar of the church of Adel , is bound to the prior of Holy Trinity, York, in 10 marks a year, and if any controversy is moved against them by A. fitz- Hugh de Wit ’, or by Hugh himself, by reason of a charter which the prior &c. asserts they sought (‘inpetraverunt’) from them in the lifetime of A. the archdeacon and rector of Adel, to have the church on the rector’s death, Alan will undertake the action at his own cost. Witnesses: H. treasurer of York , master W. archdeacon of Nottingham , master G. canon of York , master Alan de Claxton , master Martin de Semar , master John de Hamerton , Hugh de Botend ’, John fitz-Wido , Henry Bustard , Robert de Essai , Herbert the janitor , Peter de Ardene , Henry de Tikil , William Fit ’. ⟨1204–14.⟩