rected.

Edward II. also spent much of his time at York, and in 1318 another
Parliament met there. After Bannockburn the Scots made continual inroads
into Yorkshire. In 1319 an army of Scots, 15,000 in number, advanced to
the very gates of York. Melton, the archbishop, hastily got together
10,000 men and fell in with the Scots at Myton, on the Swale, where he
was utterly routed, and narrowly escaped with his life. This battle was
known in derision as the Chapter of Myton.

The quarrel between York and Canterbury was not finally settled until
the time of John of Thoresby. He was one of the most remarkable of the
archbishops of York. When he was made archbishop (1352) the diocese,
owing to the Scottish inroads, the black death, and other causes, stood
in great need of reform. Anarchy and brigandage were rife. The people
were ignorant and poor, and the chief posts about the cathedral,
including even the deanery, were held by Italian absentees appointed by
the Pope. The ecclesiastical discipline was naturally very lax. Thoresby
drew up his famous Catechism, which was translated into English verse,
in 1357, and set to work to abolish the abuses caused by pluralism and
immorality among the clergy. The question of precedence was settled by
Innocent VI., who determined that the Archbishop of Canterbury should be
styled Primate of All England, and the Archbishop of York Primate of
England.

"Thus," says the sardonic Fuller, "when two children cry for the same
apple, the indulgent father divides it betwixt them; yet so that he
giveth the bigger and better part to the child that is his darling."

It was also settled that each archbishop should carry his cross erect in
the diocese of the other, but that the Archbishop of York should send a
golden image to the shrine of St. Thomas of Canterbury.

Edward III. had been married in York Minster, and there his little son,
William of Hatfield, was buried. His is the only royal tomb in the
minster.

In 1392 the Court of the King's Bench again sat at York. Richard II.
visited the city several times. The archbishops Neville and Arundel
played a great part in politics at this period. After the deposition of
Richard II. a prebendary, by name Mandelyn, who bore a great resemblance
to the king, personated him and headed a revolt, but he was captured and
put to death. The chapter in general were strongly in favour of Richard,
and three other prebendaries were imprisoned.

In 1405 occurred