The eight volumes contain the record of the institutions performed in the archdeaconry of Lincoln by Oliver Sutton, Bishop of Lincoln from 1280 to 1299. Subsequent volumes in addition to the institutions include memoranda dealing with the administration of the see, together with an account of his life. The introduction to the first volume includes a brief description of the manuscripts from which the contents of the volumes is drawn. Sutton’s register describes incidents in the course of which clerks were maltreated and sometimes killed, rights of sanctuary violated and churches desecrated by bloodshed. There is no reason to think that in offences such as these the diocese of Lincoln had an especially bad record. Sutton was not a saint, and as a scholar he appears to have been competent rather than distinguished. He was, however, a thoroughly good man, a trained canonist who was determined to uphold the law, and an administrator at once efficient and humane. For nearly twenty years he devoted himself almost completely to his diocese, ruling it with unending patience and a determined sense of justice.
Adapted from the Preface.
The formal entries in Bishop Sutton’s memoranda consist of notes of dispensations, letters dimissory, grants of indulgences or ratifications of such grants, appointments of commissaries, licences, the reports of the benediction of abbots, and a few similar matters of diocesan administration.
Adapted from the Abbreviations and Notes
Adapted from the Preface.
The formal entries in Bishop Sutton’s memoranda consist of notes of dispensations, letters dimissory, grants of indulgences or ratifications of such grants, appointments of commissaries, licences, the reports of the benediction of abbots, and a few similar matters of diocesan administration.
Adapted from the Abbreviations and Notes
Volume 52 The Rolls and Register of Bishop Oliver Sutton 1280-1299, Vol. IV Memoranda, May 19, 1292 – May 18, 1294
Editor Rosalind M. T. Hill M.A., B.Litt., F.S.A. Reader in Mediæval History, Westfield College, University of London
Date For the year ending 31st August 1957
Publication Date 1958
Size 255 x 155 mm
Language Latin with English commentary
Printer The Hereford Times Limited, Hereford
Content Contents, 1 page
Abbreviations and Notes, 1 page
Correction for Volume III, 1 page
The Memoranda, 192 pages
Index of Persons and Places, 20 pages
Index of Subjects, 4 pages
Index of Counties and Countries, 5 pages
Description See the description for Volume I, LRS Volume 39.
The formal entries in Bishop Sutton’s memoranda consist of notes of dispensations, letters dimissory, grants of indulgences or ratifications of such grants, appointments of commissaries, licences, the reports of the benediction of abbots, and a few similar matters of diocesan administration.
Adapted from the Abbreviations and Notes
Editor Rosalind M. T. Hill M.A., B.Litt., F.S.A. Reader in Mediæval History, Westfield College, University of London
Date For the year ending 31st August 1957
Publication Date 1958
Size 255 x 155 mm
Language Latin with English commentary
Printer The Hereford Times Limited, Hereford
Content Contents, 1 page
Abbreviations and Notes, 1 page
Correction for Volume III, 1 page
The Memoranda, 192 pages
Index of Persons and Places, 20 pages
Index of Subjects, 4 pages
Index of Counties and Countries, 5 pages
Description See the description for Volume I, LRS Volume 39.
The formal entries in Bishop Sutton’s memoranda consist of notes of dispensations, letters dimissory, grants of indulgences or ratifications of such grants, appointments of commissaries, licences, the reports of the benediction of abbots, and a few similar matters of diocesan administration.
Adapted from the Abbreviations and Notes