A HISTORY OF YORKSHIRE 



In the north Thomas consecrated and received professions of obedience 

 from not only the Bishop of Durham," but Bishops of St. Andrews and 

 Orkney.'* The metropohtan right of York over the Scottish bishops was 

 insisted on by Paschal II, after the death of Thomas.*' In his own diocese 

 Thomas found sufficient difficulty in combating the nine years' paralysis 

 which followed the harrying of Northumbria. The Norman grantees were 

 unready to take possession of fees in a country which was a solitude, preyed 

 upon by wild beasts and sparsely peopled by savages.'" The evil name of the 

 district made the acquisition of new possessions for the church of York an 

 unprofitable task. Thomas's great achievement was the rebuilding of his 

 cathedral, the restoration of the canons' buildings, the foundation of the four 

 chief dignities of the church, and among them of the office of magister scolarum 

 or chancellor, and the establishment of the prebendal system. He died at 

 Ripon, but was buried in his cathedral church.'^ 



In the Domesday Inquest the ecclesiastical property in the county 

 amounted to over twelve hundred carucates, of which about 950 were held by 

 the archbishop as tenant in chief. In York he had the regalities of his scyra^^ 

 where his curia was, and held a third part of one of the remaining five scyrae 

 into which the city was divided after the building of the castle.''' His most 

 important manor in the county was Sherburn-in-Elmet, which with its bere- 

 wicks contained 96 carucates and 352 acres of meadow-land.'* Next in size 

 came Otley, with 60 carucates 6 bovates,'^ in great part waste. The liberty 

 of Ripon, in addition to St. Wilfrid's league '" and two bovates in Aldfield, 

 included 43 carucates distributed over fourteen berewicks." Twenty-one and 

 a half more carucates were in the soke of Ripon.'* All the berewicks 

 except Markington lay waste." Patrington, with four berewicks, contained 

 35 carucates 6| bovates.^"" In Bishop Wilton, with five berewicks, were 

 30 carucates 7 bovates.* There were 32 carucates in Weaverthorpe, in- 

 cluding two berewicks, and six carucates in Helperthorpe. The soke of 

 Weaverthorpe included 26 carucates 4 bovates.' 



" He consecrated William of St. Carilef at Gloucester, 2 Jan. 1080-1, and Ranulf Flambard in St. Paul's, 

 5 June 1099 ; Stubbs, Htst. Ch. York (Rolls Ser.), ii, 363. His confirmation of the privileges of the church 

 of Durham {Hist. Ch. York [Rolls Ser.], iii, 17 seq.) carries, as Raine noted, very little evidence of its 

 authenticity. ' 



p- K '^ ^r"u'''^^"'' ^\ ^"'^ i?°"' ^"■^' "' 3^^' ™<="f'°°5 Foderoch, Bishop of St. Andrews, and Ralph, 

 Buhop of the Orkneys ; but see D.xon and Raine, op. cit. 1 67. The obedience of Scotland to York was agreed 

 upon by the king the legate, and the English bishops and abbots at Windsor in 1072. This council fixed 

 he Humber and the northern boundary of the diocese of Lichfield as the dividing line between the 

 two provinces ; Malmesbury, Geit. Reg. (Rolls Ser.), ii, 353 ^ ciwccu uic 



" Bull in Hist. Ch. York (Rolls Ser.), iii, 22. 



itiner!n',;W f,^^'^''"" " ^""=^°'>^"l' ""^^"^"^ ""^ inhabitata ; bestiarum tantum et latronum latibula magno 

 itinerantibus fuere timori ; Symeon of Durham, Hist. Regum (Rolls Ser ) ii 188 



Hu.h Shh^'/h ^^' ^f Fi^° w^"-^' "' '°7 ^t1- ' Stubbs, ibid, ii, 362 s'eq. Thomas died 18 Nov. 1 100. 

 Se ptce. Worcester, says that he died at York. Stubbs, ibid, ii, 364, gives Ripon as 



« JiTvT' ^^s '^^f' '°'- ^- ' ^° ^' ''^'' ^^^^' archiepiscopus quantum rex habet in suis scyris.' 

 ^ bid. fo. 298^, col. I. "Ibid.fol. 302^,C0l. I. ^ 



« bid fol \l\h \ '■ t^*''° "^''''' ,"' mentioned, lying for the most part in Wharfedale. 



Ibid. fol. 303/J, col. 2. 'Totum circa ecclesiam i leuga ' 

 „ Ibid. 98 ibij_ 



T.R.E. X ll ;'-?• R W. Hi'ub ^'^""^ "^^ "''■' '^°^° '" ^'^- " ^ '°^' ^™''"'^ ^°' O^'^^y '^^ ^^^"^° " = 



™ Ibid. fol. 302,7,' col. 2." 



' Ibid. fol. 302^, col. 2 ; 34 carucates 7 bovates, according to the recapitulation. 

 Itid. fol. 303,2, col. I. 



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