The Registrum Antiquissimum is the earliest complete cartulary of Lincoln Cathedral. It was written mainly in the third decade of the thirteenth century. It was prepared from the original texts, many of which have not survived. Canon Foster noted that its writer ‘copied with literal accuracy. As a consequence his texts may be relied upon’.
The period originally proposed to be covered extended from the year 1061, the date of the only pre-Conquest document to the death of Bishop Hugh of Wells in 1235. However it was found convenient, and indeed necessary, to print many documents which are later in date.
The charters illustrate the history of an English secular cathedral church in respect of its organisation and personnel, its endowments and its franchises. The Introduction notes that the texts of 7,826 charters have survived of which 4,200 are the original documents. There are 1,073 charters in the Registrum Antiquissimum. Volume I contains the texts of 308 documents.
The documents in the Registrum Antiquissimum include charters of the possessions not only of the common of the canons, and of the prebends, but also of the see of Lincoln. These possessions lay dispersed throughout the diocese of Lincoln which, as constituted by William the Conqueror, stretched, until the middle of the sixteenth century, from the Humber to the Thames. It comprised the counties of Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, Rutland, Huntingdon, part of Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Oxfordshire. Outside the diocese, the charters relate to land in London and in the counties of Berkshire, Derbyshire, Hampshire, Kent, Nottinghamshire, Surry, and Yorkshire. But it is for the history of the Northern Danelaw that the Lincoln charters are of first-rate importance.
Adapted from the Introduction
This volume contains three hundred and fifty-seven charters relating to the West and North Ridings of Lindsey. The documents in this volume are far less varied in subject than those of volume III. With few exceptions they record the small gifts, often only of a few acres only, by the lesser gentry and the free peasantry of Lincolnshire. There are many grants of pasture rights and a few mills, generally water-mills, but once a wind-mill. The two field system was evidently the normal form of cultivation – no charter gives any hint of a three field village.
Adapted from the Preface
The period originally proposed to be covered extended from the year 1061, the date of the only pre-Conquest document to the death of Bishop Hugh of Wells in 1235. However it was found convenient, and indeed necessary, to print many documents which are later in date.
The charters illustrate the history of an English secular cathedral church in respect of its organisation and personnel, its endowments and its franchises. The Introduction notes that the texts of 7,826 charters have survived of which 4,200 are the original documents. There are 1,073 charters in the Registrum Antiquissimum. Volume I contains the texts of 308 documents.
The documents in the Registrum Antiquissimum include charters of the possessions not only of the common of the canons, and of the prebends, but also of the see of Lincoln. These possessions lay dispersed throughout the diocese of Lincoln which, as constituted by William the Conqueror, stretched, until the middle of the sixteenth century, from the Humber to the Thames. It comprised the counties of Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, Rutland, Huntingdon, part of Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Oxfordshire. Outside the diocese, the charters relate to land in London and in the counties of Berkshire, Derbyshire, Hampshire, Kent, Nottinghamshire, Surry, and Yorkshire. But it is for the history of the Northern Danelaw that the Lincoln charters are of first-rate importance.
Adapted from the Introduction
This volume contains three hundred and fifty-seven charters relating to the West and North Ridings of Lindsey. The documents in this volume are far less varied in subject than those of volume III. With few exceptions they record the small gifts, often only of a few acres only, by the lesser gentry and the free peasantry of Lincolnshire. There are many grants of pasture rights and a few mills, generally water-mills, but once a wind-mill. The two field system was evidently the normal form of cultivation – no charter gives any hint of a three field village.
Adapted from the Preface
Volume 32 The Registrum Antiquissimum of the Cathedral Church of Lincoln. Volume IV. With a memoir of Canon Foster by F.M. Stemton
Editor The late C.W. Foster M.A., Hon.D.Litt., F.S.A. Canon of Lincoln and Prebendary of Leicester Saint Margaret and Kathleen Major M.A., B.Litt. Archivist to the Bishop of Lincoln, Research Fellow of St. Hilda’s College, Oxford
Date For the year ending 30th September, 1935
Publication Date 1937
Size 255 x 155 mm
Language The documents are in Latin with summaries in English
Printer The Hereford Times Limited, Hereford
Content Frontispiece, photographic portrait with facsimile autograph of C.W. Foster, 1 page
Dedication in English to Charles Wilmer Foster, 1 page
Preface by Kathleen Major, 4 pages
Memoir of Charles Wilmer Foster by F.M. Stenton, 6 pages
Contents, 6 pages
Illustrations, 1 page. There are facsimiles of 21 documents.
Abbreviations and Notes, 4 pages
List of Charters, 4 pages
List of Additional Charters, 7 pages
Corrections for Volumes II, III and Index, 1 page
Registrum Antiquissimum documents 1101-1457, 279 pages
Appendix I The Succentors, Sacrists and Provosts of the Cathedral during the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries, 4 pages
Appendix II Letter from Bishop Wake to his Registrar, 1 page
Index of Persons and Places, 46 pages
Index of Counties and Countries, 4 pages
Index of Subjects, 8 pages
List of Subscribers to the Canon Foster Memorial Fund, 2 pages
Description See the Description for Volume I, LRS Volume 27.
This volume contains three hundred and fifty-seven charters relating to the West and North Ridings of Lindsey. The documents in this volume are far less varied in subject than those of volume III. With few exceptions they record the small gifts, often only of a few acres only, by the lesser gentry and the free peasantry of Lincolnshire. There are many grants of pasture rights and a few mills, generally water-mills, but once a wind-mill. The two field system was evidently the normal form of cultivation – no charter gives any hint of a three field village.
Adapted from the Preface
Editor The late C.W. Foster M.A., Hon.D.Litt., F.S.A. Canon of Lincoln and Prebendary of Leicester Saint Margaret and Kathleen Major M.A., B.Litt. Archivist to the Bishop of Lincoln, Research Fellow of St. Hilda’s College, Oxford
Date For the year ending 30th September, 1935
Publication Date 1937
Size 255 x 155 mm
Language The documents are in Latin with summaries in English
Printer The Hereford Times Limited, Hereford
Content Frontispiece, photographic portrait with facsimile autograph of C.W. Foster, 1 page
Dedication in English to Charles Wilmer Foster, 1 page
Preface by Kathleen Major, 4 pages
Memoir of Charles Wilmer Foster by F.M. Stenton, 6 pages
Contents, 6 pages
Illustrations, 1 page. There are facsimiles of 21 documents.
Abbreviations and Notes, 4 pages
List of Charters, 4 pages
List of Additional Charters, 7 pages
Corrections for Volumes II, III and Index, 1 page
Registrum Antiquissimum documents 1101-1457, 279 pages
Appendix I The Succentors, Sacrists and Provosts of the Cathedral during the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries, 4 pages
Appendix II Letter from Bishop Wake to his Registrar, 1 page
Index of Persons and Places, 46 pages
Index of Counties and Countries, 4 pages
Index of Subjects, 8 pages
List of Subscribers to the Canon Foster Memorial Fund, 2 pages
Description See the Description for Volume I, LRS Volume 27.
This volume contains three hundred and fifty-seven charters relating to the West and North Ridings of Lindsey. The documents in this volume are far less varied in subject than those of volume III. With few exceptions they record the small gifts, often only of a few acres only, by the lesser gentry and the free peasantry of Lincolnshire. There are many grants of pasture rights and a few mills, generally water-mills, but once a wind-mill. The two field system was evidently the normal form of cultivation – no charter gives any hint of a three field village.
Adapted from the Preface