John Thoresby

The main sections of the register (by folio) are as follows:
1r-80r: chapters and officiality, August 1352 - July 1373
82r-172r: archdeaconry of York, May 1354 - October 1373
173r-193r: archdeaconry of Cleveland, May 1354 - August 1373
194r-233r: archdeaconry of the East Riding, [May 1354] - October 1373
234r-279r: archdeaconry of Nottingham, May 1354 - October 1373
280r-285r: Howdenshire and Allertonshire, July 1356 - October 1373
286r-294r: archdeaconry of Richmond, January 1356 - October 1373
295r-298v: 'Lay folks' catechism'
299r-307r: ballive, July 1354 - October 1373
308r-314r: diverse letters, April 1356 - November 1373
315r-327r: [intrinseca de camera], February 1360 - September 1373
329r-393r: ordinations, December 1356 - September 1373
393v-394r: election and benediction of John, abbot of Whitby, June 1374
396r, 397r: admission of friars as penitentiaries etc. and homages
396v-397r: articles for a rural visitation and a visitation of nuns
398r-399v: suffragans, March 1357 - December 1359
400r: 2 licences and an oath 1366-1369
The register of the vicar-general (in existence in the late 17th century and which covered the years 1353-8 and 1361) is missing.

* The register has been indexed and the index can be searched on the [York Archbishops Registers website](https://archbishopsregisters.york.ac.uk/home_page/index)
* The ordination lists have been calendared and indexed in [York Clergy Ordinations 1355-1373](https://www.york.ac.uk/borthwick/publications/lists-and-indexes/), ed. DM Smith (2021)

* A digitised copy of the register is available online at https://archbishopsregisters.york.ac.uk/browse/registers?register_id=xw42n925d
* A microfilmed copy of the register is available to view in the Borthwick's microform room (reel reference MFB/1983).

Bound in hide-covered wooden boards.

* The Lay Folks' Catechism, ed. T. F. Simmons & H. E. Nolloth (Early English Text Society, original series 118, 1901).
* R.N. Swanson, 'The origins of the Lay Folks' Catechism' in Medium Aevum LX (1991), pp. 92-100.
* D.M. Smith, 'A reconstruction of the lost register of the vicars-general of Archbishop Thoresby of York' in Borthwick Institute Bulleting 3 (1983-86), pp. 29-61, 102-13.

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