The Register of Philip Repingdon, bishop of Lincoln from 1405 to 1419, is in two volumes, the Institutions and the Memoranda., both in the Lincolnshire Archives. The Memoranda volume contains the miscellaneous business of the see. The Memoranda gives a clear picture of diocesan administration and the state of religious life in the See of Lincoln between 1405 and 1420. The Memoranda lacks, perhaps, the richness of material found in earlier Episcopal registers, and in some respects it may be a little disappointing. The selection of entries was determined by the registrar; thus, much space is given to the transcription of formal and sometimes repetitive documents, and inevitably much that would be of greater interest to us is omitted. Despite its shortcomings and omissions, however, the Memoranda is a fascinating and valuable record of ecclesiastical administration and religious life, not only in the diocese of Lincoln but in the English Church as a whole in the early fifteenth century.
Adapted from the Introduction.

Volume 58                               The Register of Bishop Philip Repingdon 1405-1419 Vol. II Memoranda 1411-1414

Editor                                      Margaret Archer M.A. (Liverpool), B.Litt (Oxon) Lecturer in Medieval History, University of Birmingham

Date                                        For year ending 31^st August 1963

Publication Date                     1963

Size                                         255 x 155 mm

Language                                 Mainly Latin with some entries in Medieval French and English; with English commentary

Printer                                     The Hereford Times Limited, Hereford

Content                                   Contents, 1 page

Notes Concerning the Method of Transcription, 3 pages

Principal Abbreviations Used in the Footnotes, 2 pages

Memoranda 1411-1414, 381 pages

Index of Persons and Places, 45 pages

Index of Subjects, 5 pages

Index of Counties and Countries, 7 pages

Description                             See Volume 57

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