Volumes relating to the state of the diocese

The records consist of the following:

• Volumes 1-3: Archbishop Sharp's manuscript compilations on the archbishops of York, the metropolitan church of York and the parishes in the diocese. c.1700.
• Volume 4:Liber archiepiscopi Ebor: Statuta etc. 1697 (includes extracts from chapter acts 1504).
• Volume 5: Thomas Lamplugh's book of the diocese. 1713.
• Volume 6: book of the diocese, temp. Blackburn.
• Volume 7: Diocese of York. Annotation in Drummond's hand, 1761.
• Volume 8: volume on Southwell. 1777.
• Volume 9: an account of all the benefices in the diocese. 1839.
• Volume 10: Archbishops of York, 622-1909, compiled temp. Herring (entries from 1743 onwards are in handwriting of each archbishop).
• Volume 11: Diocesan Statutes (summaries of church work and finance). 1891-1938.
• Volume 12: Archdeacon Hayter's copy of volume 3 for the archdeaconry of York, excluding the Doncaster deanery. 1730-49.

These are a collection of personal volumes owned (and often written) by the archbishops. They contain lists of archbishops, parish surveys, accounts of estates and revenues, details of livings, incumbents and patrons, memorabilia statutes of York Minster and extracts from chapter acts. There are also 44 volumes of statistical returns of church work and finance, compiled from enquiries recommended by the Convocations of Canterbury and York in 1889.

A detailed list of the contents of volumes 1-3 and volume 11 is available at the Borthwick Institute.

Bound and unbound volumes.

Volume 1 was one of the sources used by John le Neve, Lives and Characters of the protestant archbishops (London 1720).