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Volume 62

The Registrum Antiquissimum of the Cathedral Church of Lincoln

21 October 2011 by

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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 is the second volume of charters of Chapter property in the city of Lincoln.
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Volume 62                   The Registrum Antiquissimum of the Cathedral Church of Lincoln Volume IX

With a memoir of Sir Frank Merry Stenton

Editor                          Kathleen Major M.A., D.Litt. on the plan laid down by the late Charles Wilmer Foster

Date                            For the year ending 31st August 1967

Publication Date         1968

Size                             250 x 155 mm

Language                     Latin with English commentary

Printer                         Northumberland Press Ltd., Gateshead, Co. Durham

Note                            Note on the reverse of the title page: This volume has been produced with the assistance of a grant from the Pilgrim Trust, a grant from the Dean and Chapter of Lincoln and a legacy from the late Miss Florence Thurlby

Content                       Frontispiece, black & white photograph of Sir Frank Merry Stenton, Aetat. 70

Preface, 5 pages

Sir Frank Merry Stenton, 2 pages

Contents, 3 pages

Abbreviations and Notes, 4 pages

List of Charters, 8 pages

Corrections and Additions to Volumes III IV, V, VI and VIII, 4 pages

Registrum Antiquissimum, documents 2390 – 2666, 254 pages

Appendix,  The Archdeacons of Stow, 8 pages

Index of Persons and Places, 49 pages

Index of Counties and Countries, 11 pages

Index of Subjects, 8 pages

Description                 See the Description for Volume I, LRS Volume 27.

This is the second volume of charters of Chapter property in the city of Lincoln.
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