jan 1, 1509 - questor

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A pardoner, an official appointed by the Pope or a bishop to grant indulgences. In the York Mystery plays they were linked with the scriveners and limners (OED) and enrolled in the city’s register of freemen: 1419 <i>Rogerus Whetely, questor</i>; 1436 <i>Thomas Gosberkirk, questour</i> (SS96/129,151). Other references are also to York men: 1470-1 <i>Et de Johanne Kirkeby questour quia utlagatur xxd</i> (SS192/134); 1509 <i>William Smyth, questor</i> (YRS6/154).

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