The many commands which the crown addressed to bishops represent a rich source of information about the history of government, law, and lay society, as well as about the church itself. The material previously neglected, offers rich rewards to scholars in a variety of disciplines, and the writs collected here touch on many aspects of life in the later fourteenth century, including tax gathering, political upheaval, property disputes, Lollardy, and foreign warfare.
The bishop is seen swearing in local officials, setting up commissions of enquiry, organising the attendance of the clergy in parliament and the saying of patriotic prayers, and consulting episcopal archives to answer queries from the lay courts. There is also a vivid series of vignettes of family life among the gentry class from Yorkshire to Hampshire.
An extensive introduction places the writs in their historical and archival contexts, and suggests further lines of research.
The bishop is seen swearing in local officials, setting up commissions of enquiry, organising the attendance of the clergy in parliament and the saying of patriotic prayers, and consulting episcopal archives to answer queries from the lay courts. There is also a vivid series of vignettes of family life among the gentry class from Yorkshire to Hampshire.
An extensive introduction places the writs in their historical and archival contexts, and suggests further lines of research.
Volume 86 Royal Writs Addressed to John Buckingham Bishop of Lincoln, 1363-1398. Lincoln Register 12B: A Calendar
Editor A.K. McHardy, senior lecturer in medieval history, University of Nottingham
Publication Date 1997
Size 235 x 155 mm
Language English, Latin, Medieval French
Publisher A joint publication of the Canterbury and York Society and the Lincoln Record Society published by the Boydell Press an imprint of Boydell & Brewer Ltd PO Box 9, Woodbridge, Suffolk, IP12 3DF and of Boydell & Brewer Inc. PO Box 41026, Rochester, NY 14604, USA
Printer St. Edmundsbury Press, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
Printed on acid-free paper
ISBN Lincoln Record Society 0 901503 63 0
Canterbury and York Society 0 907239 58 7 Volume LXXXVI
Content Contents, 1 page
Dedication: To PAT CRIMMIN for twenty years of supportive friendship
Abbreviations, 2 pages
Introduction, 19 pages
Royal Writs, 158 pages
Appendix A: Some writs addressed to John Buckingham now in the Public Record Office, 13 pages
Appendix B: Select writs addressed to Bishop Buckingham which were copied into his other registers, 2 pages
Appendix C: Attesting Judges, 4 pages
Index of Persons and Places, 17 pages
Index of Subjects, 2 pages
Dust jacket blurb The many commands which the crown addressed to bishops represent a rich source of information about the history of government, law, and lay society, as well as about the church itself. The material previously neglected, offers rich rewards to scholars in a variety of disciplines, and the writs collected here touch on many aspects of life in the later fourteenth century, including tax gathering, political upheaval, property disputes, Lollardy, and foreign warfare.
The bishop is seen swearing in local officials, setting up commissions of enquiry, organising the attendance of the clergy in parliament and the saying of patriotic prayers, and consulting episcopal archives to answer queries from the lay courts. There is also a vivid series of vignettes of family life among the gentry class from Yorkshire to Hampshire.
An extensive introduction places the writs in their historical and archival contexts, and suggests further lines of research.
Review Demonstrates, as the editor rightly points out in a learned introduction, the variety and importance for students of English law of much of the material kept in episcopal archives. LEGAL HISTORY
Editor A.K. McHardy, senior lecturer in medieval history, University of Nottingham
Publication Date 1997
Size 235 x 155 mm
Language English, Latin, Medieval French
Publisher A joint publication of the Canterbury and York Society and the Lincoln Record Society published by the Boydell Press an imprint of Boydell & Brewer Ltd PO Box 9, Woodbridge, Suffolk, IP12 3DF and of Boydell & Brewer Inc. PO Box 41026, Rochester, NY 14604, USA
Printer St. Edmundsbury Press, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
Printed on acid-free paper
ISBN Lincoln Record Society 0 901503 63 0
Canterbury and York Society 0 907239 58 7 Volume LXXXVI
Content Contents, 1 page
Dedication: To PAT CRIMMIN for twenty years of supportive friendship
Abbreviations, 2 pages
Introduction, 19 pages
Royal Writs, 158 pages
Appendix A: Some writs addressed to John Buckingham now in the Public Record Office, 13 pages
Appendix B: Select writs addressed to Bishop Buckingham which were copied into his other registers, 2 pages
Appendix C: Attesting Judges, 4 pages
Index of Persons and Places, 17 pages
Index of Subjects, 2 pages
Dust jacket blurb The many commands which the crown addressed to bishops represent a rich source of information about the history of government, law, and lay society, as well as about the church itself. The material previously neglected, offers rich rewards to scholars in a variety of disciplines, and the writs collected here touch on many aspects of life in the later fourteenth century, including tax gathering, political upheaval, property disputes, Lollardy, and foreign warfare.
The bishop is seen swearing in local officials, setting up commissions of enquiry, organising the attendance of the clergy in parliament and the saying of patriotic prayers, and consulting episcopal archives to answer queries from the lay courts. There is also a vivid series of vignettes of family life among the gentry class from Yorkshire to Hampshire.
An extensive introduction places the writs in their historical and archival contexts, and suggests further lines of research.
Review Demonstrates, as the editor rightly points out in a learned introduction, the variety and importance for students of English law of much of the material kept in episcopal archives. LEGAL HISTORY