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Bishop Sutton and his Archives: a study in the keeping of records in the thirteenth century1
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 March 2011
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In the course of his work a medieval bishop was bound to collect a great number of archives. In the thirteenth century these included his register (the official record of his out-going letters and institutions), his visitation-rolls and lists of the persons whom he had ordained, as well as incoming letters which ranged in importance from papal bulls to complaints about the depredations of poachers. In the see of Lincoln it was the custom to classify the institutions and memoranda separately. Oliver Sutton is the first bishop whose memoranda survive, but we have the institution-rolls of the bishops from Hugh of Wells to Richard of Gravesend. Moreover Canon Foster has shown, from MSS. now in the munimentroom of the Dean and Chapter of Lincoln, that records of institutions were kept for the periods between the death of St. Hugh and the consecration of William of Blois, and between the death of Hugh of Wells and the consecration of Robert Grosseteste. The MSS. now existing, which Canon Foster dated about 1240, are not the original records made at the time of the institutions, but it appears probable, to judge by the care generally taken of the official rolls of the see, that such originals still survived in the time of Oliver Sutton. It is quite certain, from a reference in Sutton's register, that he possessed the memoranda of Bishop Gravesend, a MS. which is now lost.
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page 43 note 2 Foster, C. W., ‘Institutions to benefices in the diocese of Lincoln,’ Associated Architectural Societies' Reports, vol. xxxix, pp. 170–89Google Scholar.
page 43 note 3 f. iiv.
page 44 note 1 Register, f. 3.
page 44 note 2 E.g., MS. Cambridge Dd. vii, 6.
page 44 note 3 Register, f. 3.
page 44 note 4 It is now in the Diocesan Record Office at Lincoln.
page 45 note 1 MS. Cambridge Dd. vii. 6.
page 45 note 2 E.g., Register, f. 156v.
page 45 note 3 Lincoln Roll, m. 20.
page 45 note 4 Register, fos. 3, 44v, 87V, 117v.
page 45 note 5 Ibid., f. 212.
page 46 note 1 Yorkshire Archaeological Journal (1934), 249.
page 46 note 2 Register, f. 212–212v.
page 47 note 1 Ibid., f. 2.
page 47 note 2 T.R. Hist. Soc., 4th series, xxxi 1–16.
page 47 note 3 Register, f. 276–276v.
page 47 note 4 Ibid., f. 44.
page 47 note 5 Ibid., f. 159.
page 48 note 1 Ibid., f. 61.
page 48 note 2 Ibid., f. 47V.
page 48 note 3 Ibid., f. 161.
page 48 note 4 Ibid., f. 94.
page 48 note 5 Ibid., f. 105.
page 48 note 6 Ibid., f. 204.
page 48 note 7 Ibid., f. 174.
page 48 note 8 Ibid., f. 179v.
page 48 note 9 Ibid., f. 174.
page 48 note 10 Ibid., f. 179v.
page 48 note 11 Ibid., f. 190.
page 48 note 12 Ibid., f. 11V.
page 48 note 13 Ibid., f. 276V.
page 48 note 14 This article was written before the publication of Professor Cheney's book English Bishops' Chanceries, 1100–1250.
page 49 note 1 Their handwritings appear in the register.
page 49 note 2 Bodleian MS. Land. Misc. 642, f. 147V.
page 49 note 3 Cambridge MS. Dd. vii. 6.
page 50 note 1 Register, f. 22v
page 50 note 2 Stow Court Rolls, 1663–79, f. 1.
page 50 note 3 Register, f. 44.
page 50 note 4 Lincoln Record Society, xxxix. 37.
page 50 note 5 Register, f. 95.
page 50 note 6 Ibid., f. 34.
page 50 note 7 Stow Court Rolls 1663–79, f. 1v.
page 50 note 8 Associated Architectural Societies' Reports, xxiv. 313.
page 51 note 1 Lincoln Record Society, xxxix. 37.
page 51 note 2 Stow Court Rolls 1663–79, f. 1.
page 51 note 3 Lincoln Record Society, xxxix. 51.
page 51 note 4 Ibid.
page 51 note 5 Ibid.
page 51 note 6 Register, f. 25V.
page 51 note 7 Ibid., f. 164.
page 51 note 8 Ibid., f. 203V.
page 52 note 1 Ibid., f.267–9v.
page 52 note 2 Ibid., f. 193v.
page 52 note 3 Ibid., f. 197V–8.