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S.A. Peyton

Minutes of Proceedings in Quarter Sessions for the parts of Kesteven in the County of Lincoln 1674-1695 Volume II

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Minutes of Proceedings in Quarter Sessions for the parts of Kesteven in the County of Lincoln 1674-1695 Volume II

Loreen L. Giese

London Consistory Court Depositions, 1586 - 1611: List and Indexes

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London Consistory Court Depositions, 1586 - 1611: List and Indexes

C.W. Foster

Registrum Antiquissimum of the Cathedral Church of Lincoln [4]

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Registrum Antiquissimum of the Cathedral Church of Lincoln [4]

Pauline Croft

The Spanish Company

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R. E. G. Cole

Lincolnshire Church Notes made by Gervase Holles, AD 1634-1642

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Lincolnshire Church Notes made by Gervase Holles, AD 1634-1642

Nicholas Bennett

Wonderful to Behold

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The growth and development of the Lincoln Record Society in its first hundred years highlights the contribution of such organisations to historical life.

In 2010 the Lincoln Record Society celebrates its centenary with the publication of the hundredth volume in its distinguished series. Local record societies, financed almost entirely from the subscriptions of their members, have made an important contribution to the study of English history by making accessible in printed form some of the key archival materials relating to their areas. The story of the Lincoln society illustrates the struggles and triumphsof such an enterprise. Founded by Charles Wilmer Foster, a local clergyman of remarkable enthusiasm, the LRS set new standards of meticulous scholarship in the editing of its volumes. Its growing reputation is traced here througha rich archive of correspondence with eminent historians, among them Alexander Hamilton Thompson and Frank Stenton. The difficulties with which Kathleen Major, Canon Foster's successor, contended to keep the Society alive duringthe dark days of the Second World War are vividly described.

The range of volumes published has continued to expand, from the staple cartularies and episcopal registers to more unusual sources, Quaker minutes, records ofCourts of Sewers and seventeenth-century port books. While many of the best-known publications have dealt with the medieval period, notably the magnificent Registrum Antiquissimum of Lincoln Cathedral, there have also beeneditions of eighteenth-century correspondence, twentieth-century diaries, and pioneering railway photographs of the late Victorian era. This story shows the Lincoln Record Society to be in good heart and ready to begin its secondcentury with confidence.

Nicholas Bennett is currently Vice-Chancellor and Librarian of Lincoln Cathedral.

C.W. Foster

Registrum Antiquissimum of the Cathedral Church of Lincoln [8]

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Registrum Antiquissimum of the Cathedral Church of Lincoln [8]

A. Mary Kirkus

Records of Commissioners of Sewers in Parts of Holland, 1547-1603 II

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The introduction describes the physical conditions which led to the setting up of the courts of sewers, and considers the history and constitution of those courts.

Records of Commissioners of Sewers in Parts of Holland, 1547-1603 II

A.K. McHardy

Royal Writs addressed to John Buckingham, Bishop of Lincoln, 1363-1398

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Royal Writs addressed to John Buckingham, Bishop of Lincoln, 1363-1398

Heather Creaton

Unpublished London Diaries

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A. Hamilton Thompson

Visitations in the Diocese of Lincoln 1517-1531

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The sources of the records in these three volumes are three volumes in which the Late Canon Foster collected and arranged the reports of visitations held by the last two pre-Reformation bishops of Lincoln and their officers. These, including visitations of rural deaneries as well as of monasteries and colleges, cover a wider ground than the three volumes of Visitations of Religious Houses (LRS Volumes 7, 14 & 21), which belong to the first half of the previous century. The records for the whole diocese are incomplete. Out of seventy-one religious houses of any importance visited by either Bishop Atwater or Bishop Longland, records remain for thirty-three which were visited by both. Those of Longland's episcopate refer to only five archdeaconries, omitting those of Lincoln, Stow and Leicester, while from those of Atwater's episcopate returns from the Archdeaconry of Northampton are missing. Nevertheless, it is doubtful whether any English diocese can supply an equally valuable source of information for the state of parochial and religious life at this highly critical period in the history of the Church.
The first volume contains the visitations of rural deaneries from the Atwater manuscript.
Adapted from the Preface

Visitations in the Diocese of Lincoln 1517-1531

Emma Mason

Westminster Abbey Charters, 1066-c.1214

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Edward Whymper

The Apprenticeship of a Mountaineer

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In 1865, when just twenty-five years of age, Edward Whymper achieved the fame of which he had dreamt as a teenager by making the first ascent of the Matterhorn, the last great unclimbed summit in the Alps. With renown came notoriety and lasting sorrow, though, due to the catastrophic accident on the descent, which cost the lives of four of his party.

Whymper's life was marked by the conquest of the Matterhorn, but his mountaineering achievements have overshadowed his distinction as a wood engraver and book illustrator. Before he had ever thought about the Alps, while a teenager fulfilling his apprenticeship in the family engraving studio, Whymper kept a diary for six years, detailing his daily life in Lambeth. Showing frequent glimpses of the dry and sardonic humour so characteristic of the older Whymper, the diary is written with a developing style which looks forward to his classic works on mountaineering, Scrambles amongst the Alps and Travels amongst the the great Andes of the Equator.

Providing a rare picture of the workings of a wood engraving studio during the heyday of this reproductive medium, the diary also reveals the world of his father, Josiah, and those London-based artists seeking to make a living from their water-colour painting. An avid reader of The Times, the young Whymper's diary follows the events of the day - the Crimean War, trhe Indian Mutiny, the affairs of Parliament, notorious trials, business scandals - and also the many fires and daily catastrophes so prevalent in Victorian London.

This edition reproduces the complete text of Whymper's first diary for the first time.

Ian Smith is a librarian, who is writing a biography of Edward Whymper. He is a member of the Alpine Club and has climbed many of Whymper's first ascents. He is from south London and lives in Kennington.

Donna T. Andrew

London Debating Societies 1776 - 1799

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Ida Darlington

London Consistory Court Wills 1492 - 1547

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London Consistory Court Wills 1492 - 1547

Henry Horwitz

London and Middlesex Exchequer Equity Pleadings, 1685-6 and 1784-5: A Calendar

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London and Middlesex Exchequer Equity Pleadings, 1685-6 and 1784-5: A Calendar

Elisabeth G. Kimball

Records of some Sessions of the Peace in Lincolnshire, 1381-1396

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Records of some Sessions of the Peace in Lincolnshire, 1381-1396

Rosalind M.T. Hill

Rolls and Register of Bishop Oliver Sutton 1280-1299 [VIII]

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This large and important register of the diocese of Lincoln includes institutions and promotions of heads of religious houses for the archdeaconries of Stow, Bedford, Leicester, Huntingdon, Buckingham and Oxford. Calendared in English with full transcripts and English summaries of unusual entries.

Rolls and Register of Bishop Oliver Sutton 1280-1299 [VIII]

Patricia Malcolmson, Robert Malcolmson

A Woman in Wartime London

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Kathleen Tipper's diary, kept for Mass-Observation from July 1941 till peace in 1945 and beyond, offers a unique personal insight into one young woman's war.

Kathleen Tipper was just twenty years old in September 1939. Her parents had met while making munitions in the Woolwich Arsenal during the Great War and Kathleen lived with them and her younger brother and sister at the family'scouncil house in Appleton Road. Eltham. Grammar-school educated, she worked as a clerk for a shipping company near the Strand. Like so many of the young women around her she was poised to take advantage of the new opportunities for work and leisure that London in the thirties offered as never before.

But Kathleen's life - indeed, the lives of all Londoners - would change for ever in the six years after declaration of war on 3 September. This was a moment of quite extraordinary drama. And Kathleen's diary, kept for Mass-Observation from July 1941 till peace in 1945 and beyond, offers a unique personal insight into one young woman's war. We keep her company through the daily comings and goings of family, friends, work and relaxation - all played out against a backdrop of cataclysmic events brought home through cinema, radio and the daily press. We travel on buses and trains and listen tothe conversations going on about her. We hear the opinions of 'blonde glamour girls', of disgruntled civil servants, of the men and women working the barrage balloons that sway like tipsy bluebottles in the London sky. We witness the effect on her of newsreels and Information Ministry films. We hear her wishing she'd been born a boy so that she could share more fully in the risks and excitements of warfare at the front. We see her disillusionment with people in 'positions of authority', especially those there by virtue of class inheritance, and she helps us understand better some of the forces that shaped Labour's victory in 1945.

It is, perhaps, the ordinariness of this extraordinary time in London's history that comes through most strongly from this fascinating document. Keeping hold of ordinary things was the best way to make sense of a world gone mad. Kathleen Tipper lays bare thesefibres of endurance in the greatest crisis to face London and the Londoner in modern times.

H. Anstey

Epistolae Academicae Oxon Part 2

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Martyn Beardsley, Nicholas Bennett

`Gratefull to Providence': The Diary and Accounts of Matthew Flinders, Surgeon, Apothecary, and Man-Midwife, 1775-1802

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Diaries and account books provide rich evidence for daily life at the time - and the early years of Matthew Flinders, credited with naming Australia.

This volume presents [and completes] the edition of the diary and account books of Matthew Flinders, surgeon and apothecary of Donington in south Lincolnshire. His son, also Matthew, who later won renown as the first circumnavigator of Australia, appears here as a schoolboy, choosing not to follow his father as an apothecary but pursuing instead a career at sea.

The diary records the social life of Donington - magical deceptions at the Bull and the visit of a theatre company - and the joys and sorrows of family life. Flinders's success in business led to investments in land and government securities, yet his fear of poverty was never far away and his wish to sell up and retire was never realised. The war with France is a recurring theme, both in the ever-increasing taxes imposed to pay for it, and in the local patriotism evoked by Nelson's victory at the Nile, and that of the 'Glorious First of June' in which the young Matthew took part. Other national events shown to impinge on country life and mentioned in the diary include the king's recovery from madness in 1789 [celebrated by the illumination of the whole town]. Overall, it affords a rare glimpse into everyday life at the time.

`Gratefull to Providence': The Diary and Accounts of Matthew Flinders, Surgeon, Apothecary, and Man-Midwife, 1775-1802

Caroline M Barron

The London Jubilee Book, 1376-1387

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Edition and translation of a copy of a vastly significant document for our understanding of fourteenth-century England, long believed lost.

In the summer of 1376 a spirit of reform was abroad in the city of London. A number of measures were taken to make those who were elected to govern the city more responsible to its citizens as a whole. A committee was set up to examine the ordinances at the Guildhall and present to the Commonalty those that were "profitables" and those that were not. Two years later, the committee produced a volume known officially as the Liber de Ordinancionibus, but popularly as "The Jubilee book", because it had been initiated in the jubilee year of Edward III's reign. But the reforming measures introduced in the book caused so many controversies and disputes that eventually, in a bid to restore order in the city, in March 1387 the "Jubilee Book" was taken outside the Guildhall and publicly burnt.
Historians have long debated the possible contents of this contentious but hugely significant volume, widely believed to be lost. However, recently a fifteenth-century copy of the "Jubilee Book", possibly of an earlier draft put together in the course of the two years, but superseded by the final version, was discovered in a manuscript held at Trinity College Cambridge (Ms O.3.11).

Rosalind M.T. Hill

Rolls and Register of Bishop Oliver Sutton 1280-1299 [III]

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Rolls and Register of Bishop Oliver Sutton 1280-1299 [III]

C.E Doble

Remarks and Collections of Thomas Hearne Vol. I

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Remarks and Collections of Thomas Hearne Vol. I

Harold W. Brace

The First Minute Book of the Gainsborough Monthly Meeting of the Society of Friends, 1669-1719

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The First Minute Book of the Gainsborough Monthly Meeting of the Society of Friends, 1669-1719

A. Mary Kirkus

The Records of the Commissioners of Sewers in the Parts of Holland, 1547-1603 I

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The Records of the Commissioners of Sewers in the Parts of Holland, 1547-1603 I

C.E. Doble

Remarks and Collections of Thomas Hearne vol. VIII

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Remarks and Collections of Thomas Hearne vol. VIII

Peter Clark, Jennifer Clark

Boston Assembly Minutes, 1545-1575

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The first thirty years of the first minute book of the Boston Assembly.

The first thirty years of the first minute book of the Boston Assembly,of interest for its illumination of the economic history of an important port and centre for puritanical activity.

Diana Honeybone, Michael Honeybone

The Correspondence of William Stukeley and Maurice Johnson, 1714-1754

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Edition of the correspondence of the notable antiquarians William Stukeley and Maurice Johnson, presenting vivid details of life at the time.

Both sides of a correspondence, stretching over forty years, between two remarkable Lincolnshire friends, the antiquaries William Stukeley (1687-1765) and Maurice Johnson (1688-1755), are brought together in this volume. Beginningwhen the writers were in their twenties, the letters cover Johnson's work as a lawyer and the development of his cherished Spalding Gentlemen's Society, and Stukeley's career as a physician, his ordination in 1729, and eventual return to London in 1747. The two friends wrote on a wide range of topics, including current affairs, political scandals, financial disasters like the South Sea Bubble and the threat of Jacobite invasions. The letters reflect cultural life: the founding of the British Museum, operatic performances, the activities of the Royal Society and Society of Antiquaries. They portray life in South Lincolnshire: local elections, concerts, race meetings and plays. Local gossip reveals a parade of characters, marrying for love or money, building houses, and encountering alarming accidents. Naturally, the letters also illustrate the lives of the two friends, their financial concerns, their marriages, children and pets, their friendships, difficulties with neighbours and all the minutiæ of small-town Lincolnshire life. Above all, the two men shared their passion for the study of antiquity and their enthusiasm for spreadingknowledge as widely as possible, particularly through the learned societies founded during this period.
The letters are presented with explanatory notes and a full introduction.

Diana Honeybone and Michael Honeybone taught history for the Open University and Nottingham University Department of Adult Education. They have spent many years studying and teaching the local history of the East Midlands, with special emphasis on intellectual activity in the eighteenth century.

The Correspondence of William Stukeley and Maurice Johnson, 1714-1754

Kenneth D. Brown

John Burns

$95.00

A fresh look at Labour's `lost leader', exploiting the the opening of government records and the private papers of his most important contemporaries.

B.J. Davey, R.C. Wheeler

The Country Justice and the Case of the Blackamoor's Head

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Legal documents from eighteenth and nineteenth-century Lincolnshire provide fascinating insights into life at the time.

The legal system in eighteenth-century England has generally been viewed as an instrument of class justice, imposed by magistrates drawn from the gentry and aristocracy, and weighing harshly on the labouring and servant classes. The rare survival of the justicing notebooks of Thomas Dixon of Riby, as a working farmer an unusual recruit to the magistrates' bench, make it possible to draw a more nuanced picture. The only Lincolnshire magistrate to leave records of his work "out of sessions", his books detail those cases he heard and resolved alone, often "in my house at Riby", between his appointment in 1787 and his death in 1798; they provide an illuminating glimpse of the justice system in operation at its lowest level, where stealers of ducks and absconding servants were brought before a country justice - and reveal procedures frequently not found in other published accounts. The detail furnished by thesevolumes is amplified with extracts from other records, including those of quarter sessions and parish constables. Edited by B. J. Davey.
The second part of the volume presents papers from an arbitration of 1838 between the licensee of a remote beer house ("The Blackamoor's Head") and the son of the local squire, with the former pressing the latter for repayment of a debt. The near-verbatim evidence describes the behaviour of the "bankers" - the localterm for navvies - engaged in deepening the adjoining river. The inn also provided hospitality to drovers who stopped overnight with their beasts en route from Scotland, and their bills provide rare quantitative evidence of the final years of this trade. Edited by R. C Wheeler.

B.J. Davey taught History at the Immingham School and the University of Lincoln; R. C. Wheeler has written widely on cartographic and local history.

The Country Justice and the Case of the Blackamoor's Head

Nicholas Bennett

Lincolnshire Parish Clergy, c.1214-1968: A Biographical Register

$60.00

The first volume in what will be a complete biographical record of all parish priests in Lincolnshire.

The parish churches of Lincolnshire are justly celebrated. The spires of Grantham and Louth, and the famous Boston Stump, provide a focal point from the surrounding landscape of fen, wold and marsh. The charms of remote country churches along the byways of the county have been extolled in prose and verse by writers such as Henry Thorold and Sir John Betjeman. Their architecture, their stained glass and sculpture, furniture and fabric, have all been carefully recorded. Yet little is known of the people who served these churches, the rectors and vicars who, in word and sacrament, taught the Christian faith to successive generations of parishioners.
This volume forms the first part of a much-needed survey of Lincolnshire parish clergy. The starting point is 1214, when Bishop Hugh of Wells introduced the earliest system of episcopal registration in Western Europe. The magnificent series of Lincoln bishop'sregisters provides a framework for the parish lists, setting out the succession of rectors or vicars for each church. Brief biographical sketches demonstrate the rich variety of the county's parsons - pastors, scholars, travellers and writers, soldiers and schoolmasters; while some, like John Wycliffe, achieved a wider fame. This biographical register gives to each of them their place in the history of Lincolnshire.

Dr Nicholas Bennett is General Editor of the Lincoln Record Society. Prior to retirement, he was Vice-Chancellor and Librarian of Lincoln Cathedral, where he was responsible for the historic collections of books and manuscripts.

Lincolnshire Parish Clergy, <I>c</I>.1214-1968: A Biographical Register

C.W. Boase

Register of the University of Oxford, vol I

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Register of the University of Oxford, vol I

Nicholas Bennett

The Registers of Henry Burghersh 1320-1342

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Burghersh revealed as conscientious diocesan; new light on his involvement in invasion of Isabella and Mortimer in 1326.

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 ofbishop solely as a result of family influence and royal intervention, but who subsequently betrayed the monarch who had favoured him, lending support to the rebellion of Thomas of Lancaster in 1322 and plotting with Queen Isabellato 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. The volume includes the first part of Burghersh's institution register, comprising admissions of clergy to parochial benefices, appointments of heads of religious houses, and ordinations of vicarages and chantries in the archdeaconries Northampton, Oxford, Bedford, Buckingham and Huntingdon.

Dr NICHOLAS BENNETT is Vice-Chancellor and Librarian of Lincoln Cathedral.

The Registers of Henry Burghersh 1320-1342

Neil Stacy

Cartae Baronum

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A key point of reference for all political and social historians of twelfth-century England.

Early in 1166, Henry II sent out orders via his sheriffs to all his tenants-in-chief, instructing them to send him returns (subsequently referred to as the cartae baronum) that listed the number of knights enfeoffed upon their estates in 1135 (when Henry I died); the number of knights they had enfeoffed since 1135; how many knights were charged on their demesne; and the names of their knightly tenants. The returns submitted by his tenants-in-chief are therefore indispensable records for the nature of tenurial lordship as it operated under King Henry II. The cartae were instrumental in their own day in confirming ligeance from rear tenants, and providing up-to-date lists of honorial knights from whom the king might collect such feudal incidents (wardships and reliefs as well as scutages and aids) as fell during a period of royal custody. They also laid the groundwork for a possible revision ofknightly quotas owing to the crown. Due to the sheer level of detail within the returns, they are also a key source for those scholars who are interested in tracing the histories of individual honors and identifying comital, baronial and knightly landholders in twelfth-century England.
This important volume brings together all the extant cartae baronum for the first time. In addition to these, there are notices, mostly from the early thirteenthcentury, of those cartae which are now lost. Each individual cartae here is accompanied by a detailed note that identifies the individual tenant in chief, briefly discusses the history of his barony or holding, anddefines the nature of his obligations to the crown under Henry II. The editor has also corrected a number of long-established textual errors, and identified as many subtenants as possible and located their toponyms.

NEIL STACY gained his DPhil from Oxford. His publications include books on the estates of the abbeys of Glastonbury and Shaftesbury.

C W Foster

Registrum Antiquissimum of the Cathedral Church of Lincoln [10]

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Registrum Antiquissimum of the Cathedral Church of Lincoln [10]

H.E. Salter

A Cartulary of the Hospital of St John Baptist vol.I

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A Cartulary of the Hospital of St John Baptist vol.I

C.E. Doble

Remarks and Collections of Thomas Hearne voL. II

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Remarks and Collections of Thomas Hearne voL. II

C.E. Doble

Remarks and Collections of Thomas Hearne vol. XI

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Remarks and Collections of Thomas Hearne vol. XI

Mark Spurrell

Stow Church Restored

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Stow Church in Lincolnshire is one of the most interesting Anglo-Saxon Churches in England. These documents record its restoration in the mid-nineteenth century.

M.G. Hobson

Oxford Council Acts (1752-1801)

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Harold W. Brace

First minute book of the Gainsborough III monthly meeting

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First minute book of the Gainsborough III monthly meeting

M. Burrows

Collectanea, 4th Series

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Revd H.E. Salter

A Cartulary of the Hospital of St John the Baptist. Vol III

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A Cartulary of the Hospital of St John the Baptist. Vol III

Dorothy M. Owen, S.W. Woodward

Minute-Books of the Spalding Gentlemen's Society, 1712-1755

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Facsimile of record of matters and items discussed by this society, modelled on the meetings of the Royal Society.

Facsimile of record of matters and items discussed by this society, modelled on the meetings of the Royal Society.

Minute-Books of the Spalding Gentlemen's Society, 1712-1755

Revd H.E. Salter

The Oseney Cartulary. Vol III

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Margaret Archer

Register of Bishop Philip Repingdon 1405-1419

$36.95

The introduction summarizes the `clear picture of diocesan administration and the state of religious life in the see of Lincoln' given by the Memoranda.

Register of Bishop Philip Repingdon 1405-1419

A.K. McHardy

Clerical Poll-Taxes in the Diocese of Lincoln 1377-81

$36.95

Poll-tax records indicate the surprisingly large number of clergy in late-medieval England and suggest the need for a reassessment of the church at that time.

The clergy of England, like the laity, were subjected to a series of poll-taxes within a short space of time. This volume prints the surviving assessments made of the clergy of the diocese of Lincoln in the years 1377, 1379 and1381. Most of the material relates to the old county of Lincoln (now Lincolnshire and South Humberside) but there are also surveys of Leicestershire, Rutland, most of Bedfordshire, and parts of Huntingdonshire and Hertfordshire. These poll-tax asessments represent what was virtually a census of the clerical population whose members were listed parish by parish. The documents show us not only that the number of clergy was very great, but that most were without benefices, and that they tended to gather in areas of high prosperity. Publication of this material offers the opportunity to make a reassessment of the clergy and, hence, church of late medieval England.

Dr A.K. McHARDY is lecturer in history at the University of Nottingham and has edited The Church in London 1375-1392 for the London Record Society.

Clerical Poll-Taxes in the Diocese of Lincoln 1377-81

Revd H.E. Salter

Formularies Which Bear on the History of Oxford, c.1204-1420. Vol I

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Formularies Which Bear on the History of Oxford, c.1204-1420. Vol I

A. Clark

The Life and Times of Anthony Wood Antiquary of Oxford 1632-1695 Described by Himself vol. IV

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The Life and Times of Anthony Wood Antiquary of Oxford 1632-1695 Described by Himself vol. IV

D. Mary Short

A Bibliography of Printed Items Relating to the City of Lincoln

$36.95

Supplementary to material contained in Corns'Bibliotheca Lincolniensis (1904).

This bibliography builds on material contained in Corns'Bibliotheca Lincolniensis, published in 1904, since which time the main contributions to the bibliographic coverage of the city have been commercial auction and booksellers' lists, the Lincolnshire section of the regional lists formerly produced by the library association, and the East Midlands Bibliography. The bibliography is based on the collections of Lincoln Central Library.

A Bibliography of Printed Items Relating to the City of Lincoln

Rosalind M.T. Hill

Rolls and Register of Bishop Oliver Sutton 1280-1299 [I]

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Rolls and Register of Bishop Oliver Sutton 1280-1299 [I]

A.E.B. Owen

The Medieval Lindsey Marsh: Select Documents

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Mainly unpublished records on land drainage and sea defences between the Humber and the Wash, 12c-16c.

This edition of almost 100 documents pertaining to the marsh district of Lindsey in Lincolnshire derives mainly from collections in the Lincolnshire Archives Office, the British Library and the Public Record Office. They are of particular interest for the history of land drainage and the upkeep of the sea defences. Other topics dealt with include charters concerning the keeping of sheep outside the sea banks; material on local religious houses; extracts from manor court rolls; and will abstracts. Dating from the late 12th century to the first years of the 16th, with a few exceptions they have never previously been published.

A.E.B. OWEN is former Keeper of Manuscripts at Cambridge University Library.

The Medieval Lindsey Marsh: Select Documents

C.E. Doble

Remarks and Collections of Thomas Hearne vol III

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Remarks and Collections of Thomas Hearne vol III

David Hickman

Lincoln Wills, 1532-1534

$75.00

Wills from lower social status shed light on religious, social and cultural history.

Lincolnshire has an extensive archive of sixteenth-century probate material, preserved in the registers of the consistory and archdeaconry courts of Lincoln, the peculiar court of the Dean and Chapter of Lincoln Cathedral, and thearchdeaconry court of Stow. Unlike the wills proved by the archiepiscopal probate courts of Canterbury and York, those from Lincolnshire reflect a population of lower social status. The overwhelming majority come from the ranks of husbandmen, yeomen, or tradesmen, rather than the gentry. In this respect the wills offer a valuable source for the cultural and religious preoccupations of the 'middling sort' and those lower in the social spectrum on the eve of the Reformation. Equally, the detailed bequests of property, livestock and land provide an insight into the material culture and prosperity of the testators, as well as extensive genealogical and topographical information of interest to local, regional and family historians.

Nicholas Bennett

The Registers of Henry Burghersh 1320-1342

$39.95

Burghersh revealed as conscientious diocesan; new light on his involvement in invasion of Isabella and Mortimer in 1326.

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 ofbishop solely as a result of family influence and royal intervention, but who subsequently betrayed the monarch who had favoured him, lending support to the rebellion of Thomas of Lancaster in 1322 and plotting with Queen Isabellato 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. The volume includes the first part of Burghersh's institution register, comprising admissions of clergy to parochial benefices, appointments of heads of religious houses, and ordinations of vicarages and chantrys, in the archdeaconries of Lincoln, Stow and Leicester.

Dr NICHOLAS BENNETT is Vice-Chancellor and Librarian of Lincoln Cathedral.

Peter Holmes

Caroline Casuistry

$75.00

Edition of theological debates and discussions, giving an intriguing and unusual insight into the English catholic community in the seventeenth century.

How did English Catholics come to terms with living in an alien state? Could they, for example, practise equivocation to avoid arrest, possible imprisonment and execution? Could they use force against their captors? What contact could they maintain with Protestants in order to survive and carry on a normal life? In such a context it is not surprising that a training in casuistry, the science of resolving difficult cases of conscience, was an important aspect of the education of English Catholic missionary priests.
A number of the manuals used in that training have survived, largely in manuscript versions only. This volume, a companion to Dr Holmes' selection from Elizabethan materials (Elizabethan Casuistry, 1981), contains discussions and debates dating from the reign of Charles I. Their author was Thomas Southwell, a professor at the English Jesuit College in Liège, a respected scholar and teacher. He focuses on the problems facing Catholic priests and laymen under persecution in England, discussing, for example, attitudes to the Oath of Allegiance, the Roman Index of Prohibited Books and the Church's laws on fasting.In addition, there are cases here about witchcraft, astrology, duelling, usury, monopolies and bills of exchange. An important section contains over sixty cases dealing with betrothal and marriage, both from the point of view ofEnglish Catholics and in more general terms.
The documents are accompanied by a full critical introduction, setting them in context, and elucidatory notes.

Peter Holmes holds a doctorate in History from the University of Cambridge, where his research focused on the political thought of the Elizabethan Catholics

Revd H.E. Salter

Oxford Council Acts (1626-66)

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W.A. Pantin, W.T. Mitchell

The Register of Congregation, 1448-63

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Revd H.E. Salter

Oxford Council Acts (1583-1626)

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The Oseney Cartulary. Vol II

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D. R. Mills, R. C. Wheeler

Historic Town Plans of Lincoln, 1610-1920

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This book collects together early maps of Lincoln, and demonstrates their importance in describing the changing geography of this historic city, and also the development of cartography and its increasing application of scientifictechniques for improved accuracy and precision. Speed published the earliest surviving map of the area in 1610; his work was followed in 1722 by that of William Stukeley, whose map concentrates on historical features. The nineteenth century saw Lincoln mapped a number of times, by William Marrat (1814-17) and shortly afterwards by James Sandby Padley and the Ordnance Survey. It was the electoral reforms of the 1830s that drove the next map-makers to defineward and parish boundaries, the details of which required a larger scale than previous works. Then in 1842 Padley published his remarkable Large Map of Lincoln. The collection ends with the OS map of 1920, a detailed record of the city scaled at six inches to the mile, where modern Lincoln is clearly visible.

Historic Town Plans of Lincoln, 1610-1920

S.R Wigram

The Cartulary of the Monastry of St Fridewide at Oxford vol II

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Margaret Archer

The Register of Bishop Philip Repingdon 1405-1419

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The Register of Bishop Philip Repingdon 1405-1419

R.C. Wheeler

Maps of the Witham Fens from the Thirteenth to the Nineteenth Century

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Reproduction of 48 maps from Lincolnshire's past sheds new light on the county's history.

The low-lying parts of Lincolnshire are covered by an array of maps of intermediate scope, covering a greater area than a single parish but less than the whole county. Typically produced in connection with drainage or water transport, and considerably predating the Ordnance Survey, to which many are comparable, they go back as far as the medieval period, with the remarkable Kirkstead Psalter Map of the West and Wildmore Fens [c.1232-39], and continue to the late nineteenth century.

. This volume covers the Witham Valley, with the East, West and Wildmore Fens north of Boston, but extending as far as Grantham and Skegness, reproducing the most important of the maps and listing the less useful ones. The history of the drainage of the area is unusually dramatic. By 1750 the Witham was a failed river: the winter floods were worse than they had been for centuries and navigation from Boston to Lincoln had ceased. Over the following sixty years, local interests, aided by some able engineers, brought both navigation and drainage to a state of perfection that made Lincolnshire prosperous and fed the industrial north. These maps, reproduced here to a very high quality and in both colour and black and white, are an essential tool for understanding this history, and the volume thus illuminates certain episodes that have previously been opaque. They are accompanied by a cartobibliography and introduction.

Maps of the Witham Fens from the Thirteenth to the Nineteenth Century

E.H. Cordeaux

A Bibliography of Printed Works Relating to Oxfordshire (excluding the University and City of Oxford); Supplementary Volume (to second series, no 11, 1949-50)

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A Bibliography of Printed Works Relating to Oxfordshire (excluding the University and City of Oxford); Supplementary Volume (to second series, no 11, 1949-50)

Diana Honeybone

The Correspondence of the Spalding Gentlemen's Society, 1710-1761

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Annotated edition of erudite letters from the eighteenth-century sheds light on intellectual life at the time.

One of the more remarkable survivals from sociable eighteenth-century England is the Spalding Gentlemen's Society. Founded in 1710 in Spalding in the south Lincolnshire Fens by the local barrister Maurice Johnson, to encourage thegrowth of "friendship and knowledge", it received hundreds of letters from correspondents across Britain and overseas. Concerned with such matters as antiquities, natural philosophy, numismatics, mathematics, literature and the arts, they were collated by Johnson to provide material for the Society's weekly Thursday meetings.
This detailed calendar brings together the 580 letters to survive, from some 154 correspondents. 119 were members of the Spalding Society, including well-known figures of the intellectual world: Martin Folkes, Roger Gale, William Stukeley, many Freemasons and three secretaries of the Royal Society and the Society of Antiquaries. The letters are fully annotated and indexed; fifty-four are transcribed in full. They provide a vivid picture of the interests of the "curious" and demonstrate how knowledge spread during the eighteenth century.

The Correspondence of the Spalding Gentlemen's Society, 1710-1761

G. Lambrick, C.F. Slade

Two Cartularies of Abingdon Abbey, Vol II

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Two Cartularies of Abingdon Abbey, Vol II

Philippa M. Hoskin

Robert Grosseteste as Bishop of Lincoln

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First modern edition of medieval ecclesiastical documents illuminates the career of a senior prelate.

Robert Grosseteste, teacher, scholar and pastor, remains one of the dominant figures of the medieval English church. A major influence on the early history of Oxford University, his writings on a wide range of theological and scientific subjects have been widely studied. His concern for pastoral care is also well attested; as bishop of Lincoln from 1235 until his death in 1253, he had the opportunity to exercise the pastoral office in the largest diocesein western Europe. But how did Grosseteste's theories of pastoral care work out in practice?
The study of Grosseteste's career as a diocesan bishop has been hampered by the relative inaccessibility of the records of his episcopate, published in an unsatisfactory edition in 1911 and long out of print. This completely new edition of Grosseteste's episcopal rolls makes it possible to take a fresh look at how he tackled the vexed issues of clerical ignorance, pluralism and non-residence in the aftermath of the reforms of the Lateran Council of 1215. They are presented here with an introductory study and elucidatory notes.

Dr Philippa M. Hoskin is Reader in medieval history at the University of Lincoln

H. Anstey

Epistolae Academicae Oxon Part 1

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R.H. Darwall-Smith

Early Records of University College, Oxford

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Edition - with English translation where appropriate - of crucial documents from the early history of Oxford's University College.

University College claims to be the oldest College in Oxford, tracing its origins to an endowment of 1249. This book brings together the great majority of pre-1550 documents, other than its account rolls, from the College's archives, providing a sourcebook for its early history. The first part contains editions of texts with facing translations into English, including the College's medieval statutes, and documents about its early buildings; the second deals with medieval deeds relating to the College's properties in Oxfordshire, provided as calendars, since they are considerably more formulaic. The volume also includes full notes and an introduction.

Robin Darwall-Smith isArchivist of Magdalen College; he has made extensive contributions to the history of both University College and Magdalen College.

Early Records of University College, Oxford

C.E. Doble

Remarks and Collections of Thomas Hearne vol. VII

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Remarks and Collections of Thomas Hearne vol. VII

Alan Crossley

Oxford City Apprentices, 1513-1602

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Edition of records of Oxford apprentices provides valuable evidence for historians.

Oxford greatly expanded and flourished under the Tudors, as the reviving University provided a growing body of consumers and trade for shopkeepers and craftsmen. They needed apprentices - and in huge numbers, as the material inthis volume demonstrates. It calendars the enrolments of over two thousand apprenticeship contracts made during this period; they are a familiar source for social and economic history and genealogy, but the Oxford material, in both quantity and detail, is quite exceptional. Moreover, sixteenth-century enrolments are much fuller than their more familiar seventeenth-century successors, containing miscellaneous information of great interest, notably lists ofworking tools, details of journeymen's wages, and stipulations about apprentices' behaviour.
The data is discussed in an Introduction which re-examines the apprenticeship system on the basis of the unusually plentiful statistics, throwing new light on such matters as length of service, payment of premiums, and the rates of career failure and success. Oxford recruited apprentices from an astonishingly wide area; their places of origin are identified and mapped, and an analysis of their social and geographical origins breaks new ground in the field of migration studies. More prosaically the calendar provides the genealogist and local historian with the names, parentage, and places of origin of thousands of young men from all over England and Wales - crucial raw material for much-needed further research.on the later movements of qualified apprentices.

Alan Crossley is a member of the modern history faculty, University of Oxford.

Alastair J. Durie

Travels in Scotland, 1788-1881

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Journals from early "tourists" in Scotland provide a vivid record of the joys (and otherwise) of travel.

Tourist travelling changed remarkably between 1780 and 1880, and the six accounts collected here help us to see how and why. Whether by a well-off and intrepid lady, a self-important youth, a young man and his parents, or an overweight middle-aged lawyer, what they have in common is a relish for the pleasures of discovery, of holidaymaking, of finding a Scotland for themselves. The writers travel, they see, they listen (some more than others), enjoy good weather (and endure the frequently bad), take in the scenery and sights, and talk with other visitors and locals. Theirs are intimate voices - they were writing for themselves, or friends or family, not for the public - but as we eavesdrop on them a larger picture unfolds. Travelling conditions vary: the first account shows to a world of elite travel, the private coach, and the privileges enjoyed by the well-heeled, while the last is the homely and charmingdescription of a one-week holiday taken with relatives in the country. In between comes the new world of travel: the steamer, the railway and the guidebook.
A general preface by the editor sets these pieces in their historical and social context, and a selection of photographs and sketches drawn from two of the accounts complements these hitherto unpublished visitors' narratives.

Alastair J. Durie is Teaching Fellow at the University of Scotland and Associate Lecturer at the Open University.

Stephen Friar

The Heraldic Art of John Ferguson

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John Ferguson has long been recognised as one of the leading heraldic artists of his generation. This book celebrates his work and proclaims that generosity of spirit which has been an inspiration to his fellow artists.

The interpretation of heraldic symbolism in a variety of materials is an ancient and honourable craft requiring great skill and inventiveness, qualities acquired only through rigorous training, long experience and an appreciationof the 'heraldic imagination'. John Ferguson has long been recognised as pre-eminent among the heraldic artists of his generation. He was among the small band of enthusiasts who in 1987 founded the Society of Heraldic Arts which today is established as a highly respected international guild of heraldic artists, designers and craftspeople. Among his many achievements, he is a graduate of the Royal College of Art, a Fellow of the Society of Heraldic Arts andof the Heraldry Society, and a Distinguished Fellow of the American College of Heraldry.

This book not only celebrates John Ferguson's pre-eminence as an artist, it also proclaims that generosity of spirit which has beenan inspiration to his fellow artists and to those who love and admire his amazing artistry.
Features 62 full colour illustrations.

STEPHEN FRIAR is a writer and historian, specialising in medieval and architecturalhistory and heraldry. A former member of Arts Council England, he is a Fellow of the Heraldry Society and of the Society of Heraldic Arts which he co-founded in 1987. In 2000 he was awarded a Master of Philosophy degree by the University of Southampton.

Gordon Pentland

The Autobiography of Arthur Woodburn (1890-1978)

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Modern edition of the autobiography of a significant figure in the Scottish Labour Party in the mid-twentieth century.

Arthur Woodburn's autobiography provides an exceptionally rich insight into the development of labour politics in Scotland in the first half of the twentieth century, into the experience of coalition government during the Second World War and of reconstruction and the government of Scotland in its aftermath. Woodburn was prominent within the labour movement and the Labour Party, but unlike many of his contemporaries his autobiography was never published atthe time. It records his Edinburgh childhood, his route to socialism, his imprisonment as a conscientious objector during the First World War, educational and journalistic activities as well as his official roles in the Labour Party and government during the 1930s and 40s.
This volume provides a clear annotated modern edition of Woodburn's text, together with a full scholarly introduction explaining the historical significance of the autobiography and Woodburn himself.

The Autobiography of Arthur Woodburn (1890-1978)

Frans Blom

The Correspondence of James Peter Coghlan (1731-1800)

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Some 280 letters from a leading figure in the eighteenth-century Catholic community shed new light on a turbulent period.

Edited by FRANS KORSTEN, JOSS BLOM, FRANS BLOM AND GEOFFREY SCOTT James Peter Coghlan [1731-1800] was the chief English Catholic printer, publisher and bookseller of the second half of the eighteenth century. It was mainly through him that the English Catholics were provided with an extensive polemical, catechetical, pastoral and devotional literature of their own. Coghlan was also a pivotal figure in the infrastructure and logistics of the Catholic community, acting as a middleman between the various layers and segments of that community. In the turbulent days of the Catholic Committee after 1785, he found himself uneasily in the midst of the fray. He corresponded with dozens of British Catholics, at home and abroad, and his letters, pious, shrewd, dedicated, garrulous and eminently practical, yield a fascinating insight into the day-to-day working of Catholic book production as well as the behind-the-scenes life of the English Catholic community.
FRANS KORSTEN, JOSS BLOM and FRANS BLOM teach English Literature at Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
GEOFFREY SCOTT is Abbot of Douai.

The Correspondence of James Peter Coghlan (1731-1800)

Todd Gray

The Exeter Cloth Dispatch Book, 1763-1765

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Winner of the Best Books on Devon's History: Academic Award from the Devon History Society

A richly illustrated exploration of the national and international importance of the early modern Exeter cloth trade.

This book reproduces a newly discovered manuscript detailing the exports of Claude Passavant, a Swiss émigré merchant. Passavant's dispatch book comprises the most extensive surviving collection of Devon cloth with 2,475 surviving cloth samples. Thirteen chapters discuss the local and wider contexts of eighteenth-century cloth making. This study explores the quality, range, and vibrancy of cloth that lead to Exeter becoming an internationally renowned centre for the manufacture and trade of woollen cloth.

The Exeter Cloth Dispatch Book, 1763-1765

Caroline Bowden

The Chronicles of Nazareth (The English Convent), Bruges: 1629-1793

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Documents from the major convent at Bruges shed fresh and illuminating light on its life.

The English Augustinian Canonesses at Bruges kept records of daily life and key events in their convent from its foundation in 1629. Living in exile, members of the convent were well-aware of their importance to the survival of English Catholicism for women. Keeping full records served to maintain a reputation which would attract influential and wealthy benefactors and well-qualified members; but the Bruges Chronicles are far more than window-dressing. They introduce the reader to members at every level, from impressive community leaders to candidates who failed to live up to expectations and were tactfully nudged out before profession. We meet Prioresses who take on major challenges in fund-raising to pay for building projects, manage disagreements over spiritual direction and adjust to new relationships with secular authorities, the impact of the Enlightenment and finally war. There are some intense personal dramas that unfold alongside nuns who followed the monastic rule to the letter and served the community faithfully over many years. Above all, the the Chronicles reflect the wide-ranging interests of the members, and show clearly that this enclosed community was well-connected with an extensive support network.
The Chronicles edited in this volume, taking the story to the eighteenth century and a decision as to whether or not to return to England,are presented with introduction and full notes.

Dr Caroline Bowden is a Senior Research Fellow, Queen Mary, University of London.

The Chronicles of Nazareth (The English Convent), Bruges: 1629-1793

Francis Young

The Gages of Hengrave and Suffolk Catholicism, 1640-1767

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Account of an important Catholic family in early modern East Anglia, demonstrating their influence upon their wider community.

For almost 250 years the Gages of Hengrave Hall, near Bury St Edmunds, were the leading Roman Catholic family in Suffolk, and the sponsors and protectors of most Catholic missionary endeavours in the western half of the county. This book traces their rise from an offshoot of a Sussex recusant family, to the extinction of the senior line in 1767, when the Gages became the Rookwood Gages. Drawing for the first time on the extensive records of the Gage familyin Cambridge University Library, the book considers the Gages as part of the wider Catholic community of Bury St Edmunds and west Suffolk, and includes transcriptions of selected family letters as well as the surviving eighteenth-century Benedictine and Jesuit mission registers for Bury St Edmunds. Although the Gages were the wealthiest and most influential Catholics in the region, the gradual separation and independent growth of the urban Catholic community in Bury St Edmunds challenges the idea that eighteenth-century Catholicism in the south of England was moribund and "seigneurial". The author argues that in the end, the Gages' achievement was to create a Catholic community that could eventually survive without their patronage.

Francis Young gained his doctorate from the University of Cambridge.

The Gages of Hengrave and Suffolk Catholicism, 1640-1767

H.E. Salter

A Cartulary of the Hospital of St John the Baptist vol. II

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A Cartulary of the Hospital of St John the Baptist vol. II

Martin John Broadley

Bishop Herbert Vaughan and the Jesuits

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First published edition of documents and letters from a highly-significant incident within the nineteenth-century Catholic church.

The row between Bishop Herbert Vaughan of Salford and the Jesuits became a cause celebre in the 1870s and was only settled eventually in Rome after the personal intervention of the pope. While the immediate issue was the provision of secondary education, at stake were key questions of authority that had troubled the English Catholic community for centuries; the solution played a major part in determining the relationship between the newly restored bishops and the Religious Orders.
This volume brings together for the first time all the relevant English and foreign archival sources and enables the reader to take a balanced view of the whole issue. The documents and letters [including Vaughan's private diary] paint an intriguing and not always flattering picture of the principal combatants. Bishop Vaughan [later Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster] was a determined champion of his own and his fellow-bishops' rights as diocesan bishops. Against him stood the leaders of the Jesuit Order, jealous of their traditional privileges and heirs to centuries of service to the English Catholic community. By the 1870s that community wasbeginning to develop a commercial and professional middle class who demanded secondary education for their children. Many of them looked to the Jesuits to provide it and they claimed the right to do so, irrespective of the wishesand rights of the bishop.
The source material is accompanied by an introduction placing them into their social and historical context, and explanatory notes. It forms an important addition to an understanding of the nineteenth-century English Catholic Church.

Father Martin John Broadley is a priest in the Catholic diocese of Salford; he also lectures at the University of Manchester.

Dr Jack P Cunningham

Essay on the Life and Manners of Robert Grosseteste

$75.00

Philip Perry's Essay on the Life and Manners of the Venerable Robert Grosseteste presents us not only with a high standard of biographical scholarship but also a fine example of English eighteenth-century polemical writing. Grosseteste was a formidable thirteenth-century bishop of Lincoln who, because of his insistence upon the primacy of Scripture and his apparent wrangling with the papacy, had long been claimed as a type of proto-Protestant in the English post-Reformation historical tradition. Perry sets out in his Essay a vivid account of Grosseteste's life and achievements to advance his cause as a worthy saint and to recover his reputation as a loyal son of the Roman Church. His frank discussion of the abuses that Grosseteste opposed and the controversies in which he engaged put his text beyond the limits of what a Catholic priest could advisably print in eighteenth-century England. The manuscript remained unpublished for fear of causing scandal, and now sees its first printed edition.

Essay on the Life and Manners of Robert Grosseteste

M.G. Hobson

Oxford Council Acts (1701-1752)

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A. Clark

The Life and Times of Anthony Wood Antiquary of Oxford 1632-1695 vol. V

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The Life and Times of Anthony Wood Antiquary of Oxford 1632-1695 vol. V

Michael Richter

Canterbury Professions

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Kathleen Edwardes, Dorothy Owen

The Registers of Roger Martival, Bishop of Salisbury, 1315-1330, IV

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The Registers of Roger Martival, Bishop of Salisbury, 1315-1330, IV

W.T. Mitchell

Epistolae Academicae Oxon, 1508-97

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R.H. Darwall-Smith

Account Rolls of University College, Oxford, Vol I (1381-1471)

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Account Rolls of University College, Oxford, Vol I (1381-1471)

J.M. Fletcher

Registrum Annalium 1521-67

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Geoffrey Neate

Memoirs of the City and University of Oxford in 1738

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A delightful and often witty description of the Oxford colleges in the eighteenth century.

Shepilinda's Memoirs of the City and University of Oxford is a light-hearted but valuable manuscript account of the Oxford colleges in 1738, written by a lively and engaging young woman who had a measure of social access to many of them. Elizabeth Sheppard (pen-name "Shepilinda") was accompanied on her visits by a friend and confidante with the nickname "Scrippy", for whom the resulting memoir and appended collection of poems are intended as a gift. Elizabeth clearly had a facility for getting people to talk to her quite freely, together with a quick grasp of the information she received; she also had a lively, sometimes mischievous, sense of humour. The work, frequently unflattering to the dons (the wife of one is described as "ever a Moving Dumpling"), is entertaining, informative, and also unusual, in that women's voices are rarely heard at that date.
The Memoirs are presented here with anintroduction and notes, providing information on the people involved and setting them into context.

Until his retirement GEOFFREY NEATE worked at the Bodleian Library, Oxford, with particular responsibility for computerising the catalogue entries for books published before 1920.

Memoirs of the City and University of Oxford in 1738

W.T. Mitchell

Register of Congregations, 1505-17, Vol I

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Register of Congregations, 1505-17, Vol I

Keith Edward Beebe

The McCulloch Examinations of the Cambuslang Revival (1742): A Critical Edition. Volume I

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First published edition of what has been described as "one of the most remarkable testimonies of eighteenth-century piety ever compiled".

In recent decades scholars have rediscovered a handwritten source of historical documentation from the eighteenth-century transatlantic religious movement known as "The Great Awakening". The McCulloch Examinations manuscripts contain more than a hundred first-person conversion narratives from the Cambuslang Revival of 1742 that have never before been published in their entirety. Collected and compiled by Reverend William McCulloch in what was Scotland's first oral history project, these personal accounts open a unique window into the early modern Scottish soul and shed new light upon an important chapter of British and American history.
In this first complete, unabridged and fully annotated edition of the Examinations, the editor offers an introduction and analysis of these fascinating narratives, and provides supplementary resources that will illuminate the text for the reader. In addition to preserving the narrative accounts in their original frame, the edition includes the proposed redactions and marginal comments of four prominent Church of Scotland clergy who assisted McCulloch with the project.

Keith Edward Beebe is Professor of Church History in the Department of Theology at Whitworth University, Spokane, Washington, and an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church, USA.

The McCulloch <I>Examinations</I> of the Cambuslang Revival (1742): A Critical Edition. Volume I

W.T. Mitchell

Registrum Cancellarii 1498-1506

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O.F. Robinson

The Register of Walter Bronescombe, Bishop of Exeter, 1258-1280: I

$36.95

Introduction to and transcription of earliest surviving Exeter episcopal register, with modern translation.

The earliest of the Exeter episcopal registers to survive, Bronescombe's is a general register with a single chronological sequence of letters and memoranda on many aspects of diocesan administration. It also contains copies of charters by, among others, king Henry III and his brother Richard, King of the Romans, in his capacity as Earl of Cornwall. Volume I of this edition (which supersedes the unsatisfactory one of 1889) contains a substantial introduction and a full transcription of the Latin text of folios 2-26, with a modern translation on the facing pages; it will therefore be of value to students of medieval Latin as well as ecclesiastical and legal historians. Two further volumes are to follow.
O.F. ROBINSON is Douglas Professor of Roman Law at the University of Glasgow.

The Register of Walter Bronescombe, Bishop of Exeter, 1258-1280: I

J. R. L. Highfield

Registrum Annalium Collegii Mertonensis, 1603-1660

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This latest volume in the series of Merton Annals covers a turbulent time in the college's history, including the siege of Oxford.

This volume continues the series of Merton annals published by the Oxford Historical Society, beginning in 1483. This volume, dealing with the main part of the seventeenth century, contains both a transcript of the (mainly Latin)register, and a long introduction discussing college development in this very disturbed period, culminating in Civil War, the siege of Oxford, and the imposition of Cromwellian government on the university.

Registrum Annalium Collegii Mertonensis, 1603-1660

A.K. McHardy

Royal Writs addressed to John Buckingham, Bishop of Lincoln 1363-1398

$39.95

These writs, previously largely unstudied, prove a rich source of information on government, law and society, as well as the church.

The many commands which the crown addressed to bishops represent a rich source of information about the history of government, law, and lay society, as well as about the church itself. The writs collected in this volume touch on many aspects of life in the later fourteenth century, including tax gathering, political upheaval, property disputes, Lollardy, and foreign warfare. The bishop is seen swearing in local officials, setting up commissions of enquiry,organising the attendance of the clergy in parliament, and consulting episcopal archives to answer queries from the lay courts. It also provides a vivid series of vignettes of family life among the gentry class from Yorkshire toHampshire. An extensive introduction places the writs in their historical and archival contexts, and offers suggestions for further lines of research.

Dr A.K. McHARDY is the author of numerous articles about the relationsbetween crown and church in late medieval England, as well as an edition of the Clerical Poll-Taxes of the Diocese of Lincoln 1377-1381 (Lincoln Record Society, 1992)

Edited by Robert Falconer

The General Account Book of John Clerk of Penicuik, 1663-1674

$60.00

Edition of a wealthy merchant's accounts sheds fascinating insights into life at the time.

The household account book of John Clerk of Penicuik, a Montrose-born merchant who honed his skills in Paris and brought home to Scotland a small fortune which he used to purchase the barony of Penicuik in 1654, provides an opportunity to explore the multifaceted life of a seventeenth-century merchant, moneylender, and improving landlord. This volume presents for the first time a full scholarly edition of the accounts. A prodigious bookkeeper, Clerk maintained incredibly detailed, and personally annotated, accounts which support the contemporary assessment that held him to be "a man of great sense and great application to busines"'. Uniquely, Clerk's tendency to add emotive statements or direct commentary to his detailed accounting of household expenditures sets these accounts apart from similar account books from this period. As this volume also shows, they reveal a businessman that did not suffer fools gladly and a devoted and loving husband and father who worked tirelessly to secure a future for his children, the estate, and his family name. Showcasing the household's expenditures, Clerk's accounts list a vast array of consumables and durables, his family's material support and the cost of educating his children, as well as disbursements to labourers, domestic servants, doctors, and various factors operating on behalf of Clerk and his family. Collectively, the material found in these records can contribute to broader inquiries into domestic consumption, the improvement of landed estates, gendered spending patterns, the employment of labour, household priorities, material culture, and identities and consumer behaviour in the last half of the seventeenth century.

This edition makes accessible a full edition of the accounts themselves, as well an extensive historical and historiographical introduction placing the accounts in their wider context and helping the reader to use and interpret the accounts. It also benefits from a full glossary of terminology used by Clerk. Covering the period from 1663 to Clerk's death in 1674, this volume presents the reader with an opportunity to pull back the curtains, open the cupboards, peer into the closets, and gaze onto the fields of a seventeenth-century laird's estate.

The General Account Book of John Clerk of Penicuik, 1663-1674

T.C.B. Timmins

The Register of William Melton, Archbishop of York, 1317-1340, V

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Latest volume in the series of great medieval bishops' registers continues the records for York Diocese. Covers the cathedral chapter and the chapters of the collegiate churches of Beverley, Howden, Ripon and Southwell, and the collegiate chapel of St Mary and Holy Angels beside York Minster.

This volume contains the Capitula section, which covers the cathedral chapter and the chapters of the collegiate churches of Beverley, Howden, Ripon and Southwell, and the collegiate chapel of St Mary and Holy Angels besideYork Minster. The growth of papal provisions features prominently; tense relations with the York chapter are also in evidence. Visits are recorded - and the installation of York's west window, Melton's lasting legacy.

The Register of William Melton, Archbishop of York, 1317-1340, V

Barry Collett

The Building Accounts of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, 1517-18

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This edition of the building accounts is put into a wider context with a study of its founder, Richard Fox.

Corpus Christi College, Oxford, was founded in 1517 by Richard Fox, bishop of Winchester. He intended it to educate students in classical Greek, Latin and Hebrew, and their literature; Erasmus praised it as a scholarly achievement, and a beacon of Renaissance classical learning.
The heart of this book is an edition of the original fortnightly building site accounts of 1517-1518, giving us a window onto a late-medieval building site, with its detailsof early sixteenth-century building materials, craft techniques, project management skills and working conditions, including siesta periods and sub-contracting. The introduction describes Fox's long road to 1517: his motives far more complicated than a bishop looking for worldly fame and heavenly reward. Born into a Lincolnshire yeoman, Fox studied law at Oxford, rebelled against Richard III and became Henry VII's closest political adviser. Taken together,they provide a detailed account of the foundation of the College, both literal and metaphorical.