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ARCHIEPISCOPAL COINS. 
Fitzwarren for /20. 1336, December nth: We have received 
from our receiver at York ^842 ns iod, of our new money. 
Richard de Snoweshill was Melton’s mint master and his 
receiver. He became rector of Huntington, near York. He made 
his will 27th August, 1349, desiring to be buried near the vestry 
wall in the choir of All Saints Church, Huntington, if he die in 
the diocese of York. He gives a legend to the church, and leaves 
10s. to buy a stone coffin in which his body is to be laid. Pro. 7th 
August, 1349. 1 (Reg. Zouche). 
The Register of Archbishop Zouche records: 1345, January 21st, 
to Robert de Askeby and John de Sutton, clerk, our domestic 
chaplains, their expenses whilst absent on the business of our 
mint. 
The King, on May 2nd, 1353, allowed Archbishop Thoresby 
“duos cuneos monetales ” at York. The Archbishop’s Register 
records: 1357, February 18th, Indenture between the Archbishop 
and Laurence of Florence, about the making of sterlings in the 
palace at York. 1365, March 14th : Lease of the Archbishop’s 
mint, for two years, to Andrew de Florencia, at a rent of 20 marks 
per annum. 2 
Edward III. issued a mandate to Archbishop Alex. Neville to 
have “duos cuneos monetales pro cambio suo Eborum.” The 
mandate was confirmed by Richard II., who also granted 
Richard Scroope, on his becoming Archbishop, the rights of his 
predecessors, which included the two money dies for his exchange 
at York. 
In a compotus of the temporalities of the See of York during a 
vacancy which occurred in the 47th Edward III., the firma cunei 
monete infra palacium for one year was returned at one hundred 
shillings ; and in the same account the collector claimed 6s. 8d. 
for his fee as exaniinatov monete infra palacium. 
The Archiepiscopal coins are only distinguished from the Regal 
ones by mint marks. Those of York from Edward I. to Henry 
VI. cannot be as readily identified as those minted at Durham. 
The coins of the Prince-bishops of Durham are thus recognised : 
a cross moline for Bek, one limb of the cross formed into a crozier 
for Kellow, a lion rampant for Beaumont, a mullet for Langley, 
and interlaced rings for Neville. 
The open quatrefoil in the centre of the cross on York coin 
reverses is considered to be the mark of the Archiepiscopal mint, 
1 Raine, F. E., p. 430. 
2 Raine, F. E., p. 462. 
