Edition of the first complete cartulary of Lincoln Cathedral,
comprising over 1,000 documents. The Registrum Antiquissimum is the
earliest complete cartulary of Lincoln Cathedral. It was written
mainly in the third decade of the thirteenth century, and prepared
from the original texts, many of which have not survived. Its
editor, Canon Foster, noted that its writer "copied with literal
accuracy. As a consequence his texts may be relied upon". The
charters illustrate the history of an English secular cathedral
church in respect of its organisation and personnel, its endowments
and its franchises. The Introduction notes that the texts of 7,826
charters have survived of which 4,200 are the original documents.
There are 1,073 charters in the Registrum Antiquissimum. The
documents in the Registrum Antiquissimum include charters of the
possessions not only of the common of the canons, and of the
prebends, but also of the see of Lincoln. These possessions lay
dispersed throughout the diocese of Lincoln which, as constituted
by William the Conqueror, stretched, until the middle of the
sixteenth century, from the Humber to the Thames. It comprised the
counties of Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, Northamptonshire,
Rutland, Huntingdon, part of Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire,
Buckinghamshire, and Oxfordshire. Outside the diocese, the charters
relate to land in London and in the counties of Berkshire,
Derbyshire, Hampshire, Kent, Nottinghamshire, Surry, and Yorkshire.
But it is for the history of the Northern Danelaw that the Lincoln
charters are of first-rate importance.
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