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Volume 64

The Rolls and Register of Bishop Oliver Sutton 1280-1299. Volume VI Memoranda, May 19, 1297 – September 12, 1299

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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.

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Volume 64                   The Rolls and Register of Bishop Oliver Sutton 1280-1299. Volume VI Memoranda, May 19, 1297 – September 12, 1299

Editor                          Rosalind M.T. Hill, M.A., B.Litt., F.S.A.. Reader in Mediaeval History, Westfield College, University of London

Date                            For the years ending 31st August 1969 and 31st August 1970

Publication Date         1969

Size                             245 x 150 mm

Language                     Latin with English commentary

Printer                         J.W. Ruddock & Sons Limited, Lincoln

There is no colophon

Note                            On the reverse of the title page: This volume has been produced with the assistance of grants from the British Academy and Westfield College, University of London.

Content                       Acknowledgement, 1 page

Contents, 1 page

Abbreviations and Notes, 1 page

The Memoranda 1290-1299, 205 pages

Index of Persons and Places, 19 pages

Index of Subjects,  3 pages

Index of Counties and Countries, 6 pages

Description                 See Notes under Volumes 39 and 52

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Date                            2005 Paperback edition

Size                             235 x 155 mm

Publisher                     A Lincoln Record Society Publication published by the Boydell Press an imprint of Boydell & Brewer Ltd, PO Box 9, Woodbridge, Suffolk IP12 3DF, UK and of Boydell & Brewer Inc. 668 Mt. Hope Avenue, Rochester, NY 14620, USA

Web site: www.boydellandbrewer.com

ISBN                            0 901503 70 3

Printer & Binder         Anthony Rowe Ltd., Eastbourne

On acid-free paper
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