During the interdict John's sheriffs seized the properties of the Archbishop of York who had left England following the interdict. The vast York archiepiscopal estates in Yorkshire were a major prize. Royal officials occupied archiepiscopal manors from Beverley to Ripon. The revenues were redirected to royal purposes. Yorkshire as a whole suffered significant disruption as the interdict was enforced and church functions suspended.
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