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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.
Bishop Sutton's ordination-lists, in common with the rest of his register, were kept on rolls for the first ten years of his episcopate. None of these rolls has survived, and the records therefore begin with the Whitsun ordinations of the eleventh year of Sutton's episcopate (which ran from May 19, 1290, to May 18, 1291) and continue until his death on November 13, 1299.
The key theme of the Hall Book remains Borough Governance. The town's charters and rights were confirmed and extended in 1664 by the Charter of Charles II.
Burghersh revealed as conscientious diocesan; new light on his involvement in invasion of Isabella and Mortimer in 1326.
Key texts by the antiquarian William Stukeley offer fascinating insights into rural England at the time.
Legal documents from eighteenth and nineteenth-century Lincolnshire provide fascinating insights into life at the time.
A complete record of all the maps of Lincolnshire from 1576 to 1900, with full description and bibliographical notes for each entry.
Edition of the first complete cartulary of Lincoln Cathedral, comprising over 1,000 documents.
Volume 1 of the three volume transcription of the minutes covers the period from 1669 to 1689. It opens with the following statement A booke of records for the monthly meeting on the North West Parts of the County of Lyncolne wherein for the information of such as are concerned is recorded severall things as well of publique as of particular concernment in relation to the pretious truth & those that make profession thereof. In these volumes are recorded in detail the activities of the Friends including their income, charitable giving, marriages and admonition of those not meeting their high standards.
Accounts of Tattershall Castel, which has been described as "the finest piece of medieval brick-work in England"
Diaries and account books provide rich evidence for daily life at the time - and the early years of Matthew Flinders, credited with naming Australia.
Reproduction of 48 maps from Lincolnshire's past sheds new light on the county's history.
Includes letters from the correspondence received from people in Lincolnshire parishes by John Kaye, Bishop of Lincoln between 1827 and 1853. These letters express the opinions and the attitudes of lay people as well as clergymen, reflecting Kaye's work as a Church reformer, and the significance of the Church in the lives of local communities.
Record of the institutions performed in the archdeaconry of Lincoln by Oliver Sutton, Bishop of Lincoln from 1280 to 1299
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.
Wills from lower social status shed light on religious, social and cultural history.
Hugh of Wells brought to the diocese of Lincoln his experience as a royal official in the chancery of King John, and his tenure was marked by transition and innovation. This edition of his collected acta supplements the summary enrolments, and reveals Hugh as an active and innovative diocesan at an important point in the history of English Church.
This is the sixth of eight volumes containing the record of the institutions performed in the archdeaconry of Lincoln by Oliver Sutton, bishop of Lincoln from 1280 to 1299. As a scholar he appears to have been competent rather than distinguished; but he was 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. Among other fascinating details, his register describes incidents in the course of which clerks were maltreated and sometimes killed, rights of sanctuary violated and churches desecrated by bloodshed.
Diaries and account books provide rich evidence for daily life at the time - and the early years of Matthew Flinders, credited with naming Australia.
Mainly unpublished records on land drainage and sea defences between the Humber and the Wash, 12c-16c.
The minutes of the Corporation provide fascinating detail of the local impact of hostilities on the social and economic life of the town.
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