The convocation records of the Churches of England and Ireland are
the principal source of our information about the administration of
those churches from middle ages until modern times. They contain
the minutes of clergy synods, the legislation passed by them, tax
assessments imposed by the king on the clergy, and accounts of the
great debates about religious reformation; they also include
records of heresy trials in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries,
many of them connected with the spread of Lollardy. However, they
have never before been edited or published in full, and their
publication as a complete set of documents provides a valuable
resource for scholarship. This volume contains the acts of
convocation during the wars of the roses and the reign of Henry
VII. Most of this material has never been published before, and the
collection of different sources enables us to see how both Edward
IV and Henry VII modernized the institution along the lines of
their other administrative reforms. We are also able to trace the
church's reaction to the Lambert Simnel affair in the only
documents which are exactly contemporary with the events.
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