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Volume 2

Lincoln Episcopal Records in the time of Thomas Cooper, S.T.P., Bishop of Lincoln A.D. 1571 to A.D. 1584

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LRS-Vol-2
This volume was part of an endeavour to calendar the Episcopal records at Lincoln for the period 1545 to 1660. Unfortunately the act books of the bishops during the greater part of that time have been lost and the chronicle of events which they recorded has had to be reconstructed from other sources. A volume dealing with the years 1547 to 1570 had been intended to be the first of a series, but it was found impossible to collect the necessary materials. The sources from which this volume has been compiled are listed above. The original intention was to print no more that the bishop’s Act Book and Register, with the Libri Cleri of 1576 and 1580, but it soon became clear that the Act Book was by no means complete, and other records were included with a view to supplement its deficiencies.
Adapted from the Introduction to the volume.
LRS-Vol-2
Volume 2 Lincoln Episcopal Records in the time of Thomas Cooper, S.T.P.,
Bishop of Lincoln A.D. 1571 to A.D. 1584
Editor C.W. Foster , M.A., F.S.A., Vicar of Timberland and Canon of Lincoln
Date For the year ending 30th September 1911
Publication Date 1912
Size 260 x 160 mm
Language English. The text uses the original spelling set in a modern typeface. Entries originally in Latin are translated into English.
Printer W.K. Morton & Sons Ltd., Saltergate, Lincoln
Content Frontispiece: Plate: Buckden, the principal residence of the Bishops of Lincoln prior to 1838. From a drawing by B. Rudge
Contents, 3 pages
Introduction, 12 pages
Abbreviations, 2 pages
Additions & Corrections, 2 pages
Plate: Facsimile of Bishop Cooper’s signature, 19 Jan 1581-2, from Clerical Subsidy Roll 40/835 in the Public Record Office, London
Bishop Thomas Cooper’s Act Book, 101 pages
Bishop Thomas Cooper’s Register, 54 pages
Liber Cleri, A.D. 1576, 83 pages
Grants of Advowson, 16 pages
Presentation Deeds, 18 pages
Crown Presentations, 8 pages
Institution Bonds, 4 pages
Resignations, 17 pages
Register of Archbishop Parker at Lambeth, 3 pages
Additional Admissions to Benefices, 22 pages
Additional Ordinations, 2 pages
Appendix I, Statistics from the Liber Cleri, 1576, 3 pages
Appendix II, Itinerary of Bishop Cooper, 3 pages
Appendix III, Bishop Cooper’s Last Will & Testament, 4 pages
Appendix IV, Abstract of the Will of Dr. John Belley, LL.D., 1 page
Appendix V, Suffragan Bishops in the Diocese of Lincoln in the Sixteenth Century, 4 pages
General Index, 81 pages
Index of Counties, 10 pages
Index of Subjects, 7 pages
Plate, Seal of Bishop Cooper
Plate, Facsimile of Bishop Cooper’s Signature.
Description This volume was part of an endeavour to calendar the Episcopal records at Lincoln for the period 1545 to 1660. Unfortunately the act books of the bishops during the greater part of that time have been lost and the chronicle of events which they recorded has had to be reconstructed from other sources. A volume dealing with the years 1547 to 1570 had been intended to be the first of a series, but it was found impossible to collect the necessary materials. The sources from which this volume has been compiled are listed above. The original intention was to print no more that the bishop’s Act Book and Register, with the Libri Cleri of 1576 and 1580, but it soon became clear that the Act Book was by no means complete, and other records were included with a view to supplement its deficiencies.
Adapted from the Introduction to the volume.
LRS-Vol-2
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