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ARCH I EPISCOPAL COINS. 
A document c. 1080 1 recites the privileges of Thomas of Bayeux, 
the first Norman Archbishop of York, and amongst them are 
mentioned : the bishop has two mints in York.” 
Thomas was succeeded by Gerard, whose right to hold a Court 
of Moneyers, for the trial and punishment of his moneyers, thieves 
or false coiners, or others committing offences in his own mint, 
was disputed by Odo, Sheriff of Yorkshire. The King confirmed 
the privileges of the Archbishop and the Church of St. Peter, of 
York. A penny showing Stephen’s sceptre with an annulet top, 
and minted by Ulf, of York, is considered to have been issued by 
Archbishop Fitz Herbert (St. William of York) about the year 
1140. The ‘ annulet,’ as representing the Archbishop’s ring, being 
considered a stamp of his mint. 3 
Walter de Gray obtained from Henry III. mandates to the 
Sheriff of Yorkshire and to the Mayor of York to cause the Arch¬ 
bishop to have fully and freely his money dies in York, in the 
same manner as his predecessors. His mint master was Hugh de 
Sampson. 
Edward I. to Henry VIII. 
1279 Wickwaine. 
1286 Roman us. 
1296 Newark. 
1300 Corbridge. 
1304 Greenfield. 
Edward II. 
1317 Melton. 
Edward III. 
1342 Zouche. 
1252 Thoresby. 
1374 Alex Neville. 
Richard II. 
1388 FitzAlan. 
1397 Waldby. 
1398 Scrope. 
Archbishops— 
Henry IV., V., VI. 
1407 Bowet. 
1426 Kemp. 
1452 Win. Booth. 
Edward IV. 
1464 Geo. Neville. 
1476 Lawrence Booth. 
1480 Rotherham. 
Edward V., Richard III., 
Henry VII. 
1501 Savage, Thos. 
1508 Bainbridge, Christ. 
Henry VIII. 
Wolsey, Thos. 
1531 Lee, Edward. 
William Wickwaine, Archbishop, was in 1279 required to show 
by what authority he claimed to have two dies in the King’s city 
of York. He also alleged that all his predecessors used to have 
1 Y.A.J. 1905. 
2 B.N.J. vol. Yii. 
