Henry Burghersh, Bishop of Lincoln from 1320 until 1340, has not been treated kindly by historians. The largely hostile view expressed by early fourteenth-century chroniclers gives us a portrait of a man promoted to the office of bishop solely as a result of family influence and royal intervention, but who subsequently betrayed the monarch who favoured him, lending support to the rebellion of Thomas of Lancaster in 1322 and plotting with Queen Isabella to overthrow her husband. This edition of Burghersh’s episcopal register reveals a different character.
The bishop emerges as a conscientious diocesan and an administrator of considerable ability, while the evidence of his itinerary throws new light on the question of his involvement in the invasion of Isabella and Mortimer in 1326. This volume includes the second part of Burghersh’s institution register, comprising admissions of clergy to parochial benefices, appointment of heads of religious houses, and ordinations of vicarages and chantries, in the archdeaconries of Northampton, Oxford, Bedford, Buckingham and Huntingdon, together with collations of dignities and prebends in Lincoln Cathedral.
The bishop emerges as a conscientious diocesan and an administrator of considerable ability, while the evidence of his itinerary throws new light on the question of his involvement in the invasion of Isabella and Mortimer in 1326. This volume includes the second part of Burghersh’s institution register, comprising admissions of clergy to parochial benefices, appointment of heads of religious houses, and ordinations of vicarages and chantries, in the archdeaconries of Northampton, Oxford, Bedford, Buckingham and Huntingdon, together with collations of dignities and prebends in Lincoln Cathedral.
Volume 90 The Registers of Henry Burghersh 1320-1342: Vol. II Institutions to Benefices in the Archdeaconries of Northamoton, Oxford, Bedford, Buckingham and Huntingdon, and Collations of Cathedral Dignities and Prebends.
Editor Nicholas Bennett Vice-Chancellor and Librarian of Lincoln Cathedral
Publication Date 2003
Size 235 x 155 mm
Language English
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. PO Box 41026, Rochester, NY 14604-4126, USA
Website: www.boydell.co.uk
Typesetter Joshua Associates Ltd, Oxford
Printer St. Edmundsbury Press, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
Printed on acid-free paper
ISBN 0 901503 67 3
Content Contents, 1 page
Abbreviations, 3 pages
Preface, 1 page
Archdeaconry of Northampton institutions, 63 pages
Archdeaconry of Oxford institutions, 35 pages
Archdeaconry of Bedford institutions, 26 pages
Archdeaconry of Buckingham institutions, 32 pages
Archdeaconry of Huntingdon institutions, 33 pages
Collations of Dignities and Prebends, 17 pages
Appendix: Ordination of Cotterstock College, 8 pages
Index of Persons and Places, 92 pages
Index of Subjects, 8 pages
Dust jacket blurb Henry Burghersh, Bishop of Lincoln from 1320 until 1340, has not been treated kindly by historians. The largely hostile view expressed by early fourteenth-century chroniclers gives us a portrait of a man promoted to the office of bishop solely as a result of family influence and royal intervention, but who subsequently betrayed the monarch who favoured him, lending support to the rebellion of Thomas of Lancaster in 1322 and plotting with Queen Isabella to overthrow her husband. This edition of Burghersh’s episcopal register reveals a different character.
The bishop emerges as a conscientious diocesan and an administrator of considerable ability, while the evidence of his itinerary throws new light on the question of his involvement in the invasion of Isabella and Mortimer in 1326. This volume includes the second part of Burghersh’s institution register, comprising admissions of clergy to parochial benefices, appointment of heads of religious houses, and ordinations of vicarages and chantries, in the archdeaconries of Northampton, Oxford, Bedford, Buckingham and Huntingdon, together with collations of dignities and prebends in Lincoln Cathedral.
Review Dr Bennett has maintained the high standards of his first volume; his labours will be much appreciated, and his work much used. LINCOLNSHIRE HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY
Editor Nicholas Bennett Vice-Chancellor and Librarian of Lincoln Cathedral
Publication Date 2003
Size 235 x 155 mm
Language English
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. PO Box 41026, Rochester, NY 14604-4126, USA
Website: www.boydell.co.uk
Typesetter Joshua Associates Ltd, Oxford
Printer St. Edmundsbury Press, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
Printed on acid-free paper
ISBN 0 901503 67 3
Content Contents, 1 page
Abbreviations, 3 pages
Preface, 1 page
Archdeaconry of Northampton institutions, 63 pages
Archdeaconry of Oxford institutions, 35 pages
Archdeaconry of Bedford institutions, 26 pages
Archdeaconry of Buckingham institutions, 32 pages
Archdeaconry of Huntingdon institutions, 33 pages
Collations of Dignities and Prebends, 17 pages
Appendix: Ordination of Cotterstock College, 8 pages
Index of Persons and Places, 92 pages
Index of Subjects, 8 pages
Dust jacket blurb Henry Burghersh, Bishop of Lincoln from 1320 until 1340, has not been treated kindly by historians. The largely hostile view expressed by early fourteenth-century chroniclers gives us a portrait of a man promoted to the office of bishop solely as a result of family influence and royal intervention, but who subsequently betrayed the monarch who favoured him, lending support to the rebellion of Thomas of Lancaster in 1322 and plotting with Queen Isabella to overthrow her husband. This edition of Burghersh’s episcopal register reveals a different character.
The bishop emerges as a conscientious diocesan and an administrator of considerable ability, while the evidence of his itinerary throws new light on the question of his involvement in the invasion of Isabella and Mortimer in 1326. This volume includes the second part of Burghersh’s institution register, comprising admissions of clergy to parochial benefices, appointment of heads of religious houses, and ordinations of vicarages and chantries, in the archdeaconries of Northampton, Oxford, Bedford, Buckingham and Huntingdon, together with collations of dignities and prebends in Lincoln Cathedral.
Review Dr Bennett has maintained the high standards of his first volume; his labours will be much appreciated, and his work much used. LINCOLNSHIRE HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY