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The Register of Edward Story, bishop of Chichester 1478-1503 (Hardcover)
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The Register of Edward Story, bishop of Chichester 1478-1503 (Hardcover)
Series: Canterbury & York Society
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Edition of the register of a late-medieval bishop's register sheds
fascinating light on life at the time. Edward Story, fellow of
Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, and later master of Michaelhouse, was
also, in two terms as chancellor, a university administrator. But
it was as a royal servant that he rose to eminence from about 1460
to servesucceeding monarchs with the impartial efficiency of a
career civil servant. Bishop of Carlisle from 1468, he was
translated in 1478 to Chichester, which, although conterminous with
the county of Sussex, contained several exempt jurisdictions,
notably the archbishop of Canterbury's deanery of South Malling.
The register begins with Story's primary visitation of his
diocese.The full record reveals both the shortcomings of the
cathedral chapter and of those religious houses subject to
episcopal jurisdiction. Besides purely diocesan matters such as
ordinations, collations and institutions, clerical indiscipline and
the exercise of his judicial authority, the extraordinary
actionsrequired of the bishop are reflected not only in reports of
local suspicions of heresy, but also in matters of national
importance such as summonses to convocation, clerical taxation,
natural disasters such as plague, and external threats to the
kingdom. The documents are presented here in translation with full
notes and introduction. Janet Stevenson, formerly an assistant
editor of the Victoria History of Wiltshire, has edited The
Edington Cartulary (Wiltshire Record Society, 42, 1987) and The
Durford Cartulary (Sussex Record Society, 90, 2006).
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