Robert Holgate and Nicholas Heath

The registers of Robert Holgate (1545-1554) and Nicholas Heath (1555-1559). The main sections of the register (by folio) are as follows:
iir-iv verso: index (16th-17th century)
Register of Robert Holgate
12r-14v: Convocation business, September 1547 - January 1548
17r-67r: general acts (institutions, collations, commissions, inquisitions, visitation), all archdeaconries, October 1545 - October 1553
69r-71r: Convocation business, September - October 1553
73r-74v: testamentary business, September 1540 - January 1541
75r-109v: testamentary business, October 1545 - October 1553
Register of Nicholas Heath
111r-114r: papal bulls concerning Heath's appointment and patents for diocesan officials, June 1555 - January 1556
114r-122v: institutions, all archdeaconries (no collations of prebends and dignities), October 1555 - July 1558
123r-136r: [diverse letters], July 1555 - October 1557 (mostly dispensations and material relating to advowsons, including copies of earlier documents)
Holgate/Heath
138r-167v: testamentary business (a section in considerable confusion, the probate dates ranging from March 1547 to March 1559, the bulk of the material (fos. 145-167) dating from Holgate's pontificate but crossing with Heath's. Some wills have no probate date).
168r-169r: index of wills (17th century)

* A digitised copy of the register is available online at https://archbishopsregisters.york.ac.uk/browse/registers?register_id=9k41zf643
* A microfilmed copy of the registers is available to view in the Borthwick's microform room (reel reference MFB/1991).

Parchment register, modern binding.

* J. S. Purvis, 'The registers of Archbishops Lee and Holgate', Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 13 (1962), pp. 186-94.
* Holgate's injunctions for York Minster in 1552 (fos. 57r-60r) are printed, The Statutes etc., of the Cathedral Church of York (2nd edn., Leeds, 1900), pp. 67-78.
* For institutions performed during the Royal Visitation of 1559 see The Royal Visitation of 1559: act book for the Northern Province, ed. C. J. Kitching (Surtees Society 187, 1975), pp. 57-61.

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