The rolls of Bishop Hugh of Lincoln are perhaps the earliest known Episcopal record. No other diocese is known to possess any earlier continuous series of Bishop’s registers, except those of the See of York which are said to commence in 1214. Bishop Hugh was also called Secundus to distinguish him from his predecessor, Saint Hugh of Lincoln, who was Bishop of the diocese from 1186 to 1203. This volume contains the following transcripts: Roll relating to all the Archdeaconries previous to the tenth year of the Episcopate which began in 1209. Roll relating to all the Archdeaconries in the tenth year of the Episcopate, about 1219. Vicarages ordained in the Archdeaconries of Oxford, Bedford, Huntingdon, Buckingham, Stow and Northampton. Institutions of the Archdeaconry of Stow. Matriculus of the Archdeaconry of Leicester. Rotulus Taxationis of the Archdeaconry of Leicester. Adapted from the Contents and Introduction to the volume. LRS Archive copy contains a tipped in obituary of the editor from the Yorkshire Post Monday April 14th 1913
This volume was part of an endeavour to calendar the Episcopal records at Lincoln for the period 1545 to 1660. Unfortunately the act books of the bishops during the greater part of that time have been lost and the chronicle of events which they recorded has had to be reconstructed from other sources. A volume dealing with the years 1547 to 1570 had been intended to be the first of a series, but it was found impossible to collect the necessary materials. The sources from which this volume has been compiled are listed above. The original intention was to print no more that the bishop’s Act Book and Register, with the Libri Cleri of 1576 and 1580, but it soon became clear that the Act Book was by no means complete, and other records were included with a view to supplement its deficiencies. Adapted from the Introduction to the volume.
Gervase Holles, M.A. & M.P., roalist Colonel of Foot, and above all “a learned and judicious Antiquary,” to whom we are indebted for the following Notes on our Lincolnshire Churches as they were before the Great Rebellion, was born at Great Grimsby on 9 March, 1606-7. This volume commences with a full account of Grimsby and the adjoining parishes of Little Cotes and Humberstone. Following theis description there comes, rather irrelevantly, the Chronicon de Allerdale post Conquest Anglia, relating to Cumberland. Holles next gives a long series of documents illustrating the history of the ancient family of Clifton, of Clifton, Notts. The remainder of the volume records the monuments and coats of arms in some 200 of our Lincolnshire churches. He only diverges from the county to include Mansfield, Haughton and Tuxford in Nottinghamshire and Staveley in Derbyshire. [Adapted from the Introduction to the volume.]