Publications


 

Sciant Presentes Number 1 - 1976



Chairman's Foreword

John Saunders
Building Recording Section (report by David Michelmore on Quarmby Hall).  
Brief notes on activities  

 

 

Sciant Presentes Number 2 - Jan 1977



Chairman's Foreword

John Saunders

Earth Works Surveying Group (work at Colton near Leeds and Clayton near Bradford).

 
Building Recording Section (report by David Michelmore on Quarmby Hall).  
The Calverley Charters (brief description).  

 

 

Sciant Presentes Number 3 - July 1977



Chairman's Foreword

John Saunders

Medieval Agriculture (description of the section's booklet prepared by Rachel Hellier and Steve Moorhouse; this is now out of print)

 
Field Walking at Collingham (short report) Ann Clark
Building Recording Group (includes timber framed building at Carr Moorside, Hunslet) K. Fairdough
Lees Hall "dovecote", Thornhill John Saunders
Earthwork Surveying Group (work at Colton near Leeds and Thornton near Bradford).  
A "Mini-Chartulary" of Kirkstall Abbey (describes M.S. in Paley Baildon Collection now in Bradford District Archives and some relevant published documents) Stephen Moorhouse
Wakefield Court Rolls Transcripts (description of unpublished material) Stephen Moorhouse
Yorkshire Boundary Project (describes new survey)  
A Bibliography of Medieval Archaeology in Yorkshire (describes project)  

 

 

Sciant Presentes Number 4 - Feb 1978



Chairman's Foreword

John Saunders

Secretary's Report

Mary Hall
Kirkstall Abbey Documents (supplementary to No. 3) Stephen Moorhouse
Chadwick Hall: an Interim Report (describes house near Mirfield) D.J.H. Michelmore
Aerial Archaeology Committee Stephen Moorhouse
Wakefield Court Rolls Series (publications project) D.J.H. Michelmore
The Conservation of Historical Buildings B.S. Donaghey

 

 

Sciant Presentes Number 5 - Sept 1978



Chairman's Foreword

John Saunders
The Baker's Dozen - Great Yorkshire Show 1978 (making bread there) Rachel Hellier
Excavations in West Yorkshire (comments on human remains from Rothwell and Dalton Parlours) Keith Manchester
Notes on the Medieval Park at Emley, West Yorkshire Stephen Moorhouse
At Work in the Backyards (archaeology in Ripon) Rachel Hellier

 

 

Sciant Presentes Number 6 - Spring 1979



Chairman's Foreword Bob Yarwood.
Out of Olde Bookes ... (projected Index of Middle English Prose) B.S. Donaghey
Denholme Park Kevin Fairdough
Pottery Kiln Fired at Bolton Percy (experiment at Medieval Fair) Stephen Moorhouse
The Wharram Percy Research Project - An Evaluation (experiences of a volunteer) John Saunders

 

 

Sciant Presentes Number 7 - Autumn 1979



Chairman's Foreword Bob Yarwood.
Medieval Colton - Interim Report R.E. Yarwood
The Medieval Pottery Research Group (describes aims) S. Moorhouse
Vernacular Architecture Group (describes aims) D.J.H. Michelmore
Review of Discovering Timber-framed Buildings by Richard Harris, D.J.H. Michelmore

 

 

Sciant Presentes Number 8 - Spring 1980



Medieval Archaeology in Yorkshire (lists excavation projects in North and West Yorkshire) Bob Yarwood.
Medieval Brickmaking (mainly at York) Jennifer Kaner
Bibliographies of Vernacular Architecture (describes new project) D.J.H. Michelmore
Council for British Archaeology - Group 4 (describes symposium at Leeds) Ann Alexander
Kirkstall Abbey Guest House - Provisional Summary J. Thorp
Charcoal Burning at Bolton Percy (experiment at Medieval fair) Stephen and Celia Moorhouse

 

 

Sciant Presentes Number 9 - Autumn 1980



A Water-Course at Monk Fryston (documentary evidence and mill stream from detached part of township) Ann Clark
One Warm Place ... (charcoal burning at the Great Yorkshire Show) Rachel Hellier

 

 

Sciant Presentes Number 10 - 1981



Medieval West Yorkshire (describes West Yorkshire: an Archaeological Survey to A.D. 1500) D.J.H. Michelmore
The Yorkshire Boundary Project (progress of Survey) May Pickles and Ann Alexander
A Collection of Stones (boundary crosses) Ann Alexander

 

 

Sciant Presentes Number 11 - 1982



Chairman's Report Margaret L. Faull
Yorkshire Theses 400-1600 A.D. (A-C).  
Medieval Yorkshire Articles in the Agricultural History Review.  
York Mayne Bread Fact and Fiction

N. Hobson and Jennifer Kaner

A Tale of Two Bakers Eileen White
Review of Medieval York by R.A. Butler
Anon.
Review of Medieval Buildings of Yorkshire by Peter Ryder Ann Alexander.
Review of Inland Fisheries in Medieval Yorkshire 1066-1300 by J. McDonnell Stephen Moorhouse.
Buildings and Earthworks (list of surveys made).  

 

 

Sciant Presentes Number 12 - 1983



Chairman's Report Margaret L. Faull
Churches and the Medieval Landscape (Report on day-school in Flowering of Yorkshire in the Middle Ages series) Marie Stinson
Life in a Medieval Household or Four Thousand Red Herrings (Robert Waterton at Methley 1416-7) Michael Collinson
Earthworks Surveyed by Members of the Medieval Section: Past, Present and the Future

Stephen Moorhouse

Building Recording Valerie A. Hall
Review of Yorkshire Through Place Names, by R.W. Morris
Margaret L. Faull
Review of the De la Poles of Hull by Rosemary Horrox Lorraine C. Attreed
Review of the York Cordwainers' Company from circa 1395 by F.C. Margetts Rita Freedman
Medieval Yorkshire articles in Speculum  
Yorkshire Theses 400-1600 AD (continued D-K)  

 

 

Sciant Presentes Number 13 - 1984



Chairman's Report Margaret L. Faull
Obituary - Rachel Hellier  
Evidence for Main Roads in the Vale of York During the Medieval Period Barry Harrison
Review of Kirkstall Abbey Guest House (West Yorkshire Archaeology Unit)

Peter Armstrong

Medieval Yorkshire articles in the Journal of Historical Geography A Bibliography of the City of York (a computer project at York University Library) Margaret Evans
The Lost Hamlet of Scalwra (near Ilkley)
Moira H. Long
Archaeology in Beverley - Excavations in Eastgate Peter Armstrong
Yorkshire Theses 400-1600 AD (continued, K-R)  

 

 

Sciant Presentes Number 14 - 1985



Chairman's Report Stuart Wrathmell
The Development of Township Boundaries in Yorkshire and Beyond (Report on 1984 Symposium) Ann Alexander
Buildings Recording Group (Report)  
Recording Medieval Houses in North Yorkshire

Barbara Hutton

By the Grace of God (Royal Style of Henry II) P.E. Brookman
A Fourteenth Century Manor Site at Methley with a Note on the Contemporary Landscape
Bob Yarwood and Jeny Marriott
Recent Work at Fountains Abbey Judith Roebuck
Kirkstall Abbey Guest House H.B. Duncan and P. Kennedy
Recording Work at Jervaulx Abbey, N. Yorks, 1984 Andrew Davison
The Thorner Parish Clerk Dispute (1602) Martin Ecclestone
Yorkshire Theses 400-1600 AD (continued R-W)  

 

 

Sciant Presentes Number 15 - 1986



Chairman's Report Stuart Wrathmell
Windmill and Water (Patrington Accounts 1426-7) M. Pickles, M. Hall, M. Habberjam, F. Casperson, A. Alexander
Nathaniel Johnston: Yorkshire Antiquarian and Doctor of Physick A. Nicholson
A Discovery on the Domesday Trail (Tournai Fonts)

P. Brookman

Township Boundaries in West Yorkshire Stephen Moorhouse
Staincliffe Hall
A. Ineson
The Archbishop of York's Otley Estate in Domesday Book Moira H. Long
Yorkshire Theses compiled by J. Kaner (additional)

 

 

Sciant Presentes Number 16 - 1987



The Wharram Project Paul Stamper
Medieval Mortality (Coroners' Inquests and farm stock 1376) J.M. Collinson
Kilton Castle R. Daniels, B. Hamilton, H. Swain
The Easter Sepulchre at Cowthorpe Church, N. York

Lawrence Butler

Some Fishy Business at the University of York (archaeological study of latrine pits) Andrew K. G. Jones, Purlwell Hall, Batley A. Ineson
The Early Development of Dewsbury
Christopher M. Scargill
Review of Kirkstall Abbey: the Guest House by Stuart Wrathmell H.E. Jean le Patourel

 

 

Sciant Presentes Number 17 - 1988



Chairman's Report Stephen Moorhouse
The Field Archaeology of Bolton Priory Moira H. Long
The Wood Hall Moated Farm Project D. Heslop
Yorkshire Theses (continued from No. 15)

J. Kaner

Review of Kirkstall Abbey vol. I, The 1950-64 Excavations: A Reassessment by Stephen Moorhouse and Stuart Wrathmell Lawrence Butler
Review of Monastery and Society in the Later Middle Ages; Selected Account Rolls from Selby Abbey, Yorkshire 1394-1537 by J.H. Tillotson
Stephen Moorhouse
Review of Early Tudor Craven: Subsidies and Assessments 1510-1547 by R.W. Hoyle Michael Collinson

 

 

Number 18 - 1989



Justices of the Peace in the West Riding 1386-1413 Simon Walker
East Yorkshire History: Printed Sources (computer project at Hull University) Barbara English
History in the Making: A Public Enquiry (Knaresborough by-pass through medieval wood) J. Kaner
West Yorkshire Archive Service: Sources for the Middle Ages in the Bradford District Archives

Christopher Marsden

Obituary? Pontefract Friary (archaeology and the present Infirmary site) Ian Roberts
Review of the North Yorkshire Moors, Landscape Heritage by D.A. Spratt and B.J.D. Harrison
Jennifer Kaner
Review of Fountains Abbey and its Benefactors by Joan Wardrop Anon

 

 

Number 19 - 1990



The Wakefield Court Rolls: A Plea for their Computerized Analysis Helen M. Jewell
Borrowby: Some Landscape Evidence of Early Village Planning Barry Harrison
Excavations at St Giles Hospital, Brompton-on-Swale, North Yorkshire 1988-1990 Peter Cardwell
The Fountains Abbey Closer Estates: A Case Study

Judith A. Roebuck

A Fifteenth Century Tax List (description of roll for Osgoldcross 1472) Margaret Turner
The Building Recording Group
Jack Sugden
Review of Pontefract Castle by Ian Roberts Lawrence Butler
Review of Churches in the Landscape by Richard Morris Margaret L. Faull

 

 

Number 20 - 1991



Editorial Note  
Some Yorkshire Borough Records Brian Barber
Hemsworth Court Roll 1373 Sylvia Thomas
School History: An Edwardian Version

Editor

A Compendium of Recent Works on the East Riding Dave Evans
BOOK REVIEWS
 
Angus Winchester, Discovering Parish Boundaries May Pickles
Frank Musgrove, The North of England Helen M. Jewell
Glyn Coppack, The English Heritage Book of Abbeys and Priories

Stephen Moorhouse

A.J. Pollard, North East England During the Wars of the Roses Helen M. Jewell
A new magazine, Medieval World, Editor

 

 

Number 21 - 1992



Editorial Note  
Pilgrims and Pilgrimage: Some Late Medieval Evidence P. J. P. Goldberg
Battleburn, East Riding: A Planned Village of the Thirteenth Century Barry Harrison
Temple Newsam Preceptory Excavations 1989-1991

Graham Eyre Morgan

Medieval Dogs in Yorkshire Churches H.E. Jean le Patourel
Addingham, West Yorkshire: New Evidence and Future Research,
Max Adams& Kate Mason
Lees Hall, Thornhill: Report for the Building Research Group Jack Sugden
Yorkshire Boroughs D.M. Palliser
The Borough, Market and Fairs of Harewood

Michael Collinson

BOOK REVIEWS  
Peter Ryder, Medieval Cross Slab Grave Covers in Vest Yorkshire Lawrence Butler
Short Notices Editor

 

 

Number 22 - 1993



Editorial Note  
Reading Between the Lines of Silsden Documents Mary Crossley & Bette Hill
The Royal Visit: Reigning Kings in Yorkshire 900-1550 Helen M. Jewell
The Wood Hall Moated Manor Project
     I Excavations 1989-92
    II An Education and Training Facility


Vivienne M. Metcalf
Brian Minhinnick

Kirkstall Abbey's Iron Bloomery at Hazelwell A.J. Moyes
Medieval Europe 1992
   I In General,
  II Death and Burial,
 III Urbanism,

Mark Hall
Beverley J. Margerison & Christopher J. Knüsel
Ian Roberts
A Medieval Quiz  
BOOK REVIEWS  
P.J.P. Goldberg, Women, Work and Life Cycle in a Medieval Economy: Women in York and Yorkshire c 1300-1520

Helen M. Jewell

Peter Ryder, Medieval Churches of West Yorkshire A.J. McGuire
A.J. Pollard, The Wars of the Roses Helen M. Jewell
Short Notices Editor
Answers to Medieval Quiz  

 

 

Number 23 - 1994



Editorial Note  
A Case of Hindsight H.E. Jean le Patourel
Richard the Lionheart, Otto of Brunswick and the Earldom of York: Northern England and the Angevin Succession 1190-91 Alan V. Murray
Later Medieval Bridlington: Small Town or Estate Village? P.J. P. Goldberg
Primary Sources and Primary Schools: An Analysis of the Use of the Lay Subsidies of 1297 and 1301 Bernard Jennings
Yorkshire Drinkers Maria Moisà
An Attack on Sandal Castle in 1413 Lawrence Butler
The Organisation of Military Levies in Beverley 1400-1450 Neil Jamieson
The Abbot's Sheep Recalled C.A. Collinson
BOOK REVIEWS  
H.E. Jean le Patourel and others, Yorkshire Boundaries

Lawrence Butler

Helen M. Jewell, The North-South Divide: The Origins of Northern Consciousness in England Bernard Jennings
S. Payne, Fountains Abbey in the mid-fifteenth century C.A. Collinson

 

 

Number 24 - 1995



Editorial Note  
Two Branched Candlestick Fragments Bryan Sitch
Medieval Migrants to York and Beverley Hilary Arnold
Humber Shipping in the Fifteenth Century Wendy Childs
Est Panis Famelicis? Fourteenth-Century Hungry Theft in the West Riding Maria Moisà
A Data Bank of Medieval Yorkshire Prof. P. Stell
BOOK REVIEWS  
Mary O'Regan, The Medieval Manor Court of Wakefield

Helen Jewell

 

 

Number 25 - 1996



Editorial Note  
A Fourteenth-Century Document from Kirkstall Abbey Bryan Sitch
Medieval Building Materials Used at York Minster Hilary Arnold
Some Literary News: a Recent Development in the Heritage of Medieval Yorkshire Brian Donaghey & Keiko Shimonomoto
BOOK REVIEWS  
Excavations at York Minster etc,

Lawrence Butler

Jonathon Hughes, Pastors and Visionaries Brian Donaghey
Addendum  

 

 

Number 26 - 1997


Editorial Note  
The Font at St Nicholas' Church, North Grimston Veronica Fiorato
The Rotten Gift: Caro data fuit pauperibus Maria Moisà
The Moral and Spiritual Life of William of Nassington, a Fourteenth-Century Ecclesiastical Lawyer Jonathan Hughes
BOOK REVIEWS  
Plantagenet Fry, Castles of Britain and Ireland,

Lawrence Butler

Philip Stell, Medical Practice in Medieval York Lawrence Butler
L. Watts, J. Grenville and P. Rahtz, Archaeology at Kirkdale Lawrence Butler
John Friedman, Northern English Books, Owners, and Makers in the Late Middle Ages Brian Donaghey

 

Number 27 - 1998

Were Widows Poor? Pleas in the Manor of Wakefield 1275 - 1352 Maria Moisa
Boundaries, Woods and the Law: The Case of Beeston and Middleton Michael Collinson
The Archbishop Gets a New Transcription Brian Donaghey

Book Reviews


Mary Saaler, Edward II, 1307-1327 Barbara Wright
F. Donald Logan, Runaway Religious in Medieval England, c.1240-1540 Brian Donaghey



Number 28 - 1999


Computerisation of the Manorial Documents Register Rosalyn Bass
A Peasant Dynasty: the Wakefield Gerbots Maria Moisa
A Medieval Pottery Kiln from Stead Lane, Thorner, Leeds Chris Cumberpatch and Ian Roberts
Excavation at Venn Street, Huddersfield Richard O'Neill
Excavations at Brecks Lane, Pockley, North Yorkshire J. Kate Howell
Three Decades of the Medieval Section: a Retrospective Brian Donaghey
Report on the 1999 Section Visit to Kirkstall Abbey  



Book Reviews


Wakefield Court Rolls 1338-1340, ed Kathy M. Troup Moira Habberjam



Number 29 - 2000


Lost Villages and Lost Churches Lawrence Butler
Whose Lot was improved by the Black Death? The Wakefield Court rolls 1341-1352 Maria Moisa
Who was the Patron of Selby Abbey? Jeffrey Hass
Winn Moor in 1533 Martin Ecclestone
An Education Project at Oakwell Hall Dave Weldrake



Number 30 - 2001


A Kirkstall Abbey Bibliography Bryan Sitch
Kirkstall and the Lacys Brian Donaghey
How the Baker was Paid Maria Moisa

Book Reviews


B. Sitch, Kirkstall Abbey: A Guide to Leeds' Cistercian Monastery Brian Donaghey




Number 32 - 2003


Bolton Priory and its Household, 1295-1325 John Dixon and Simon Currie
The Quarta Pauperum, the Manorial Poor and Archbishop Pecham Maria Moisa
Why did Norton conquer Sutton? A Puzzle from West Tanfield Lawrence Butler
A Visit to Bolton Priory in 1877 Brian Donaghey

Book Reviews


Historical Atlas of North Yorkshire (2003) Steve Moorhouse

 




Number 33 - 2004


John Walworth's Chapel: Family and Religion in Bishop Thornton Catherine Collinson
Building and Construction Works in Stone by Bolton Priory 1295 - 1325 Heather Burrow, George Hothersall and John Dixon
Thornborough Henges:  A Landscape through Time Stephen Moorhouse



Number 34 - 2005


The Giggleswick Lodges of 1499 Tony Stephens and Stephen Moorhouse
The Great Barn of Bolton Priory Arnold Pacey
Sources of Timber for the Great Barn, Bolton Priory: a note Stephen Moorhouse
The Great Barn and its Setting within the Precinct Complex of Bolton Priory Stephen Moorhouse

 

 

Number 35 - 2006



Editorial  
Yorkshire Heraldry in Turkey Lawrence Butler
Yorkshire Antiquarians : 1. William Morfitt of Atwick Bryan Sitch
                                      2. Joseph Hunter David Hey
Maps and the historic Landscape David Hey
Addendum: another antiquarian

the editor

 

 

Number 36 - 2007



Editorial  
Notes on contributors  
A quest for stone: the quarrying of stone for buildings and artefacts in medieval Yorkshire Stephen Moorhouse
Burton in Lonsdale in the late medieval period Tony Stephens and Susan Gregory
Two 19th century Leeds antiquarians: James Wardell and John Holmes Bryan Sitch
Obituary - Kate Mason

Arnold Pacey

Review: David Postles, The North Through its Names Brian Donaghey

 


Number 37 - 2008



Editorial  
Notes on contributors  
Picture this! Three hundred years of images of Kirkstall Abbey Bryan Sitch
The chalice of the imagination Peter F. Ryder
Tithe barns: their names and landscape setting Stephen Moorhouse and George Redmonds
Names in the landscape: a review article, with a list of published works by George Redmonds

Stephen Moorhouse

 

 


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