Lincoln Episcopal Records in the time of Thomas Cooper, S.T.P.,
Lincoln Episcopal Records, Bishop Cooper 1571-1584
Edited by C.W. Foster , M.A., F.S.A., Vicar of Timberland and Canon of Lincoln
This volume was part of an endeavour to calendar the Episcopal records at Lincoln for the period 1545 to 1660. Unfortunately the act books of the bishops during the greater part of that time have been lost and the chronicle of events which they recorded has had to be reconstructed from other sources. A volume dealing with the years 1547 to 1570 had been intended to be the first of a series, but it was found impossible to collect the necessary materials. The sources from which this volume has been compiled are listed above. The original intention was to print no more that the bishop’s Act Book and Register, with the Libri Cleri of 1576 and 1580, but it soon became clear that the Act Book was by no means complete, and other records were included with a view to supplement its deficiencies.
Adapted from the Introduction to the volume.
Contents
- Frontispiece: Plate: Buckden, the principal residence of the Bishops of Lincoln prior to 1838. From a drawing by B. Rudge
- Contents, 3 pages
- Introduction, 12 pages
- Abbreviations, 2 pages
- Additions & Corrections, 2 pages
- Plate: Facsimile of Bishop Cooper’s signature, 19 Jan 1581-2, from Clerical Subsidy Roll 40/835 in the Public Record Office, London
- Bishop Thomas Cooper’s Act Book, 101 pages
- Bishop Thomas Cooper’s Register, 54 pages
- Liber Cleri, A.D. 1576, 83 pages
- Grants of Advowson, 16 pages
- Presentation Deeds, 18 pages
- Crown Presentations, 8 pages
- Institution Bonds, 4 pages
- Resignations, 17 pages
- Register of Archbishop Parker at Lambeth, 3 pages
- Additional Admissions to Benefices, 22 pages
- Additional Ordinations, 2 pages
- Appendix I, Statistics from the Liber Cleri, 1576, 3 pages
- Appendix II, Itinerary of Bishop Cooper, 3 pages
- Appendix III, Bishop Cooper’s Last Will & Testament, 4 pages
- Appendix IV, Abstract of the Will of Dr. John Belley, LL.D., 1 page
- Appendix V, Suffragan Bishops in the Diocese of Lincoln in the Sixteenth Century, 4 pages
- General Index, 81 pages
- Index of Counties, 10 pages
- Index of Subjects, 7 pages
- Plate, Seal of Bishop Cooper
- Plate, Facsimile of Bishop Cooper’s Signature.
Language: English. The text uses the original spelling set in a modern typeface. Entries originally in Latin are translated into English.
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