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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 March 2016
I have recently read through almost all the surviving medieval registers of the diocese of Lincoln, while collecting material for a book on the church in medieval Lincolnshire society. As may be imagined, a good many interesting patterns are emerging from this and other sources; this short note results from the examination of one such pattern.
John Buckingham, who like so many other bishops of the fourteenth century, had been a civil servant, ruled over the see of Lincoln, with conspicuous industry and attention to detail, for the twenty-six years between 1362 and 1398. His career is the subject of a doctoral thesis, on which Miss Alison McHardy is now engaged, and I do not propose to discuss it here. Instead, I want to consider in detail one or two incidents in his episcopate which are, I believe, of some relevance to the theme of this conference.
page no 139 note 1 Thompson, A. Hamilton, ‘The episcopal registers of Bishop John Gynwell, 1349-50’), Archaeological Journal, LXVIII (London 1911) pp 301-61Google Scholar.
page no 140 note 1 L[incoln] E[piscopal] R[egister], Reg. 7, fol 149 r; The earliest Lincolnshire Assize Rolls, ed Stenton, D.M., LRS, XXII (Lincoln 1926) p xi Google Scholar.
page no 140 note 2 Horstmann, C., Nova Legenda Anglie (Oxford 1901) pp 677-81Google Scholar.
page no 141 note 1 LER, Reg 12, fol 331 v.
page no 141 note 2 Calendar of...Papal Registers: Papal Letters, IV (London 1902) p 368.
page no 141 note 3 LER, Reg 12, fol 450 r.
page no 142 note 1 Thompson, P., History and Antiquities of Boston (2 ed, Boston 1856) pp 134, 300 Google Scholar; LER, Reg. 20 fol 8 v.
page no 142 note 2 Rolls and Register of Bishop Oliver Sutton, ed Hill, R. M. T., 111, LRS, XLVIII (1954) p 110 Google Scholar; v, LRS, LX (1965) p 140; LER, Reg. 3, fols 154 r, 291 v.
page no 142 note 3 LER, Reg 12, fols 161 r, 389 r.
