The abilities of Henry Burghersh as an administrator were recognised in his tenure of some of the highest offices in the government of King Edward III: Treasurer, Chancellor, and subsequently a diplomatic envoy overseas. The register of his memoranda as Bishop of Lincoln from 1320 to 1340 reveals the exercise of his talent in an ecclesiastical sphere. The huge quantity of business relating to the clergy and people of the most populous diocese in the country prompted the division of the register into classified sections. The first five of these are included in this volume. There are dispensations under the papal constitution Cum ex eo, permitting rectors of parishes to be absent from their duties while studying at a university. There are licences allowing incumbents to be non-resident for other reasons: to go on pilgrimage, to seek recreation, or to serve in the household of a great lord. There are commissions dealing with testamentary business, to grant probate, audit the accounts of executors, or protect the interests of minors. Among these are six copies of wills, the earliest to be preserved in the Lincoln registers, providing a wealth of incidental detail of medieval life. There is a lengthy series of letters dimissory, permitting clerks from the diocese to be ordained by bishops elsewhere. A short section interpolated into this deals with the issue of licences granted to those permitted to hear confessions, an issue that aroused not a little ill-feeling between the friars and the secular clergy.
Volume 101
The Registers of Henry Burghersh 1320-1342: Vol. III Memoranda Register, Dispensations for Study Cum ex eo, Licences for non-residence, Testamentary Business, Letters Dimissory, Appointment of Penitentiaries
Editor
Nicholas Bennett, Vice-Chancellor and Librarian of Lincoln Cathedral
Publication Date
2011
Size
235 x 155 mm
Language
English and Latin
Publisher
A Lincoln Record Society publication published by the Boydell Press an imprint of Boydell & Brewer Ltd PO Box 9, Woodbridge, Suffolk, IP12 3DF and of Boydell & Brewer Inc. 668 Mt Hope Avenue, Rochester, NY 14620, USA
Website: www.boydell.co.uk
Printed and bound
CPI Group (UK) Ltd, Croydon, CR0 4YY
Papers used by Boydell & Brewer ltd are natural, recyclable products made from wood grown in sustainable forests (confirmed as acid free paper)
ISBN
978 0 901503 93 0
Content
Contents, 1 page
Acknowledgements, 1 page
Editorial Practice, 1 page
Abbreviations, 2 pages
Preface, 1 page
Introduction, 18 pages
Dispensations under the Constitution Cum ex eo, 62 pages
Licences for absence to visit Rome, stare in obsequiis, or any other cause, 60 pages
Testamentary business, 56 pages Letters Dimissory to unbeneficed clerks, 167 pages
Appointments of Penitentiaries, 32 pages
Letters Dimissory to unbeneficed clerks, 10 pages
Index of Persons and Places, 94 pages
Index of Subjects, 6 pages
The Registers of Henry Burghersh 1320-1342: Vol. III Memoranda Register, Dispensations for Study Cum ex eo, Licences for non-residence, Testamentary Business, Letters Dimissory, Appointment of Penitentiaries
Editor
Nicholas Bennett, Vice-Chancellor and Librarian of Lincoln Cathedral
Publication Date
2011
Size
235 x 155 mm
Language
English and Latin
Publisher
A Lincoln Record Society publication published by the Boydell Press an imprint of Boydell & Brewer Ltd PO Box 9, Woodbridge, Suffolk, IP12 3DF and of Boydell & Brewer Inc. 668 Mt Hope Avenue, Rochester, NY 14620, USA
Website: www.boydell.co.uk
Printed and bound
CPI Group (UK) Ltd, Croydon, CR0 4YY
Papers used by Boydell & Brewer ltd are natural, recyclable products made from wood grown in sustainable forests (confirmed as acid free paper)
ISBN
978 0 901503 93 0
Content
Contents, 1 page
Acknowledgements, 1 page
Editorial Practice, 1 page
Abbreviations, 2 pages
Preface, 1 page
Introduction, 18 pages
Dispensations under the Constitution Cum ex eo, 62 pages
Licences for absence to visit Rome, stare in obsequiis, or any other cause, 60 pages
Testamentary business, 56 pages Letters Dimissory to unbeneficed clerks, 167 pages
Appointments of Penitentiaries, 32 pages
Letters Dimissory to unbeneficed clerks, 10 pages
Index of Persons and Places, 94 pages
Index of Subjects, 6 pages