b'Willelmo le Storur, serventi manerii nostri de Wylton 7 .The Merciless Parliament, FebJune 1388, tried Another from Wylton in 1289, describes the provisionand forfeited in absentia Robert de Vere, Michael de made for the worship of God. Archbishop Wickwainela Pole and Archbishop Neville. A number of the kings was there in 1283 8and Romanus 9in 1289. A letterother friends were tried and executed. Neville fled, from Archbishop Greenfield dated 16th Sept. 1310,and the Pope, pitying his case, translated him to the in capella de Wylton, talks about election of churchScottish See of St. Andrews in 1388. But the Scots officials. 10 would not receive him and, for three years (until his In 1311 Archbishop Greenfield ordained the firstdeath in 1392), he served as a parish priest in Louvain recorded priest, Richard de Wilton 11 , and two yearsin France, where he was buried in the Church of the later he witnessed the building of the parsonage,Carmelites.probably on the site of the Old Vicarage (No. 94In 1388 all of Alexander Nevilles lands and goods Bishop Wilton). were seized. An inventory 14was taken which includes The Palace at Wilton seems to have been useda long list of personal items such as clothes and linen, all year round: Archbishop Greenfield in 1309 spentbut there is no mention of the Palace at Bishop Wilton. Christmas at the Palace, as well as being there in Jan- It is likely, but there is no proof, that the Palace was Feb, Mar - April, and August of that year. 12 destroyed at this time by the Northern Earls. Further Archbishop Alexander Neville was an abrasiveevidence of the ransacking of the village exists from a character who made many enemies even within thevisitation record in 1388.church. He would make pronouncements on the strictExtent of Wylton 1388 15 : Lands forfeited by running of the church and make sudden visitationsAlexander, late Archbishop of York. (Extract)on the local Bishops to catch them out. In BeverleyThere is a manor there in a very ruinous he upset the local Bishops so greatly that theystate and almost fallen down. It is of no pronounced he was no longer welcome in Beverleynet value. The herbage and fruits of the Minster 13 . He spent much money on the building andgarden are worth 5/- yearly. There is an renovation of his Palaces. enclosed wood and an adjoining pasture Accounts of his extensions at Cawood exist. Onin one enclosure of which the underwood old maps a section of Braygate lane to Youlthorpeand herbage are worth 20/- yearly. There was known as Nevilles Row. is a pasture called Hallecliff worth 6s. 8d. In 1387 Archbishop Alexander Neville becameyearly another called Grenewyke where involved in political intrigue which eventually led to800 sheep can be supported in summer the destruction of the Palace. Alexander supportedand 500 in winter the pasturage of each the unpopular Richard II, who stayed at Cawood assheep being worth 1d. and the total value a guest of Alexander many times. In 1387 Richard II108/- 4d. and another called le Wolde was suffering severe political pressure and abandonedsupporting 3000 sheep, the pasturage London and went on a gyration of the realm, inbeing worth at the same rate as above order to gain favour with the local gentleman of12 10/-, if the lord has so many sheep power and military forces. During this tour Richard IIthere. There are 3 mills there almost fallen procured a verdict from a bench of justices that it isdown and no net value and a common treasonable to act against the kings will, or to dismissoven worth 20s. yearly. Perquisites of or prosecute his councillors. This caused much angercourt with fines in average years are 10.and resentment amongst the Earls, and Richard IIsThere is a further link to Alexander Neville from an youngest uncle, Thomas Duke of Gloucester, and theentry in the Yorkshire Archaeological Journal 16which Earls of Arundel, Warwick, Nottingham and Derby (thequotes Allen who described a church window prior son of John of Gaunt) accused as traitors Robert deto the church restoration started by Tatton Sykes in Vere, Michael de la Pole, Archbishop Neville of York,1857.Sir Robert Tresilian and Sir Nicholas Brembre, in Nov.According to Allen there was to be seen 1387. until lately a shield in a window of the 7 Surtees SocietyArchbishop Greenfields Register Vol 1. 1931 Ref. 478 8 The Historians of the Church of York and its ArchbishopsJames Raines iii, p.210 9 Ibid, iii, p. 215 10 Ibid,iii, p.214 11 Bishop Wilton ChurchList of Vicars 12 Surtees SocietyArchbishop Greenfields Registervarious Vols. 1 & 2 13 Thoresby SocietyMiscellanea IX. 1928. Notes on Clerical Strikes. 14 Yorkshire Archaeological Journal 15 Unknown sourcecirca 1970s 16 Yorkshire Archaelogical JournalAncient heraldry of deanery of Harthill p. 104 66 BULLETIN 5'