Clerical Poll-Taxes in the Diocese of Lincoln 1377-81

The clergy of England, like the laity, were subjected to a series of poll-taxes within a short space of time. This volume prints the surviving assessments made of the clergy of the diocese of Lincoln in the years 1377, 1379 and1381. Most of the material relates to the old county of Lincoln (now Lincolnshire and South Humberside) but there are also surveys of Leicestershire, Rutland, most of Bedfordshire, and parts of Huntingdonshire and Hertfordshire. These poll-tax asessments represent what was virtually a census of the clerical population whose members were listed parish by parish. The documents show us not only that the number of clergy was very great, but that most were without benefices, and that they tended to gather in areas of high prosperity. Publication of this material offers the opportunity to make a reassessment of the clergy and, hence, church of late medieval England. Dr A.K. McHARDY is lecturer in history at the University of Nottingham and has edited The Church in London 1375-1392 for the London Record Society.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-901-50354-1

Price:  £25.00

Derbyshire, Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire 1822 Pigot's Directory

Three books on one CD this is a very early example of Pigot's famous Trade Directories.    

Price:  £9.79

First minute book of the Gainsborough III monthly meeting

  hardback   ISBN 978-0-901-50344-2

Price:  £25.00

Forgotten Lincoln.

A history of the city from the earliest times. Great for local and family historians alike.    

Price:  £9.79

General View of the Agriculture of the County of Lincoln

An incredibly comprehensive agricultural survey of the county which contains the names of farmers in the county and the sizes and functions of their farms.    

Price:  £15.11

Grantham during the Interregnum

Grantham had considerable local importance as a garrison town for both sides during the first Civil War. Its situation on the Great North Road gave it additional military and strategic significance. The Hallbook contains the recorded minutes of Grantham Corporation; it reflects the fates of successive aldermen who joined the Royal forces, went as hostage to Lincoln, and suffered imprisonment in Nottingham castle, and it provides a fascinating glimpse intothe lives of the townspeople during this time of crisis. Householders were forced to pay taxes to both sides in the war, as well as shouldering their normal burden of taxation. Besides contributing to poor relief, their time and talents were also in demand for many tasks, including paving the streets, reinforcing the banks of the Witham, maintaining the town wells, doing watch and ward, paying quarteridge, and removing refuse from the streets. This latest volume of the Lincoln Record Society provides much evidence about the local impact of hostilities on the social and economic life of the town.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-901-50356-5

Price:  £25.00

Grimsby & Cleethorpes 1871 and Grimsby 1877 Directories

Superb directories with house by house, street by street listings of all households, showing the householder and his or her occupation.    

Price:  £9.79

Grimsby & Cleethorpes Directory 1896

An incredibly detailed and comprehensive local directory covering the Grimsby & Cleethorpes area of North Lincolnshire.    

Price:  £11.50

Grimsby & Cleethorpes Directory 1898

An incredibly comprehensive localised directory. Includes an historical account of Grimsby, with lists of local institutions and a complete street-by-street directory.    

Price:  £11.50

Grimsby & Cleethorpes Directory 1906

Includes a complete street by street, house by house listing of all households, plus an alphabetical directory of residents and a classified trades directory.    

Price:  £12.13

Grimsby & Cleethorpes Directory 1922-23

Includes a complete street by street, house by house listing of all households, plus an alphabetical directory of residents and a classified trades directory.    

Price:  £12.13

Grimsby and Cleethorpes Directory 1902

A typical directory, packed full of peoples names and trades. Essential for those researching their Grimsby or Cleethorpes families.    

Price:  £11.50

Grimsby and Cleethorpes Directory 1910-11

Packed full of peoples names and trades. It includes a Grimsby, Great Grimsby and Cleesthorpe street directory. Essential for those researching their Grimsby or Cleethorpes families.    

Price:  £12.13

Grimsby and Cleethorpes District Directory 1935-6

This directory has an incredibly useful street map of Grimsby that is indexed to make each place easy to find. It is full of historical information about the area in the 1930's and earlier.    

Price:  £15.11

Highways and Byways in Lincolnshire

This book is always popular with those having Lincolnshire ancestors. Absolutely fascinating reading, and great background information for your family history. Lots of excellent illustrations too.    

Price:  £12.13

Historic Town Plans of Lincoln, 1610-1920

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 scientific techniques 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.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-901-50369-5

Price:  £30.00

Letters and Papers Concerning the Establishment of the Trent, Ancholme and Grimsby Railway, 1860-1862

  paperback   ISBN 978-0-901-50373-2

Price:  £25.00

Letters and papers of the Banks Family of [The] Revesby Abbey, 1704-1760

Alterations to Revesby - buildings, furnishings, estate management - and family business in Lincoln, London and elsewhere.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-901-50320-6

Price:  £25.00

Letters from John Wallace to Madam Whichcot

The steward reports to Madam Whichcott from Harpswell, c.1721-27; Transaction of the church's legal business at Lincoln, 1802-05.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-901-50305-3

Price:  £25.00

Lincoln & Neighbourhood 1946 Kelly's Directory

This directory is very comprehensive and has the enormous benefit of not only including a trades section, villages section and commercial section but also a private residents section and street section.    

Price:  £9.79

Lincoln Wills, 1532-1534

Lincolnshire has an extensive archive of sixteenth-century probate material, preserved in the registers of the consistory and archdeaconry courts of Lincoln, the peculiar court of the Dean and Chapter of Lincoln Cathedral, and the archdeaconry court of Stow. Unlike the wills proved by the archiepiscopal probate courts of Canterbury and York, those from Lincolnshire reflect a population of lower social status. The overwhelming majority come from the ranks of husbandmen, yeomen, or tradesmen, rather than the gentry. In this respect the wills offer a valuable source for the cultural and religious preoccupations of the 'middling sort' and those lower in the social spectrum on the eve of the Reformation. Equally, the detailed bequests of property, livestock and land provide an insight into the material culture and prosperity of the testators, as well as extensive genealogical and topographical information of interest to local, regional and family historians.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-901-50366-4

Price:  £50.00

Lincolnshire & Hull 1922 Kelly's Directory

With a coloured map and plan of Hull. Incredibly detailed information about the county and places. Excellent, comprehensive lists of residents with their trades.A fabulous resource for family historians    

Price:  £15.11

Lincolnshire 1818 Poll Book

Lists of all those who voted in the 1818 general election in Lincolnshire. Particularly useful for locating people as this was many years before the first censuses.    

Price:  £9.79

Lincolnshire 1828-9 Pigot's Directory (with map)

A very early and rare directory which covers the market towns and principal villages of the county (Please note that smaller villages and hamlets are not included).    

Price:  £9.79

Lincolnshire 1841 Pigot's Directory

A really excellent early county directory, complete with its original map of 1841. Describes the villages and towns in the county, together with all people with trades.    

Price:  £9.79

Lincolnshire 1842 White's History Gazetteer & Directory

The White's directories are quite simply the very best available. Full of the tiniest details of the history and facilities of each and every town, village and hamlet within the county.    

Price:  £15.11

Lincolnshire 1849 Post Office Directory

Every place in the county is well described with details of schools, churches, hospitals etc. and directories of the traders there.    

Price:  £9.79

Lincolnshire 1850 Slater's Directory

A directory of the market towns and the larger villages in the county but not the hamlets and small villages.An excellent finding aid for those researching the 1851 census.    

Price:  £9.79

Lincolnshire 1856 White's Directory

The White's directories are quite simply the very best available. Full of the tiniest details of the history and facilities of each and every town, village and hamlet within the county.    

Price:  £15.11

Lincolnshire 1863 Directory and Gazetteer, Morris & Co.

Listings of thousands of Lincolnshire people with descriptions of the place they lived. Each person is also listed with their trade and address.    

Price:  £12.13

Lincolnshire 1872 White's Directory

The White's Directories are superb. Not only do they have full details of every village and town, with their inhabitants with trades, etc., but they also include historical information on each place.    

Price:  £15.11

Lincolnshire 1873 Return of Owners of Land

Lists every person in the county who owned 1 acre of land or more, with name, place, extent of land and its value.    

Price:  £8.94

Lincolnshire 1876 Kelly's Directory

A large and comprehensive directory typical of the Kelly's of the period.    

Price:  £15.11

Lincolnshire 1883 White's Directory

The White's are always the very best, and this is no exception, having a tremendous amount of detail about the county and its history, and the history and current facilities of every town, village and hamlet within the county.    

Price:  £15.11

Lincolnshire 1892 Kelly's Directory

A typical Kelly's directory but with the added bonus of a large (A3 size) map of the county. Contains descriptions of each town and village, statistical information, an alphabetical list of people, their addresses and their trades.    

Price:  £12.13

Lincolnshire 1900 Kelly's Directory

An excellent directory for those hoping to find a lead which will help with researching their ancestors in the 1901 census.    

Price:  £15.11

Lincolnshire 1913 Kelly's Directory

A huge book! A very comprehensive county directory, that not only includes the usual trades directory, but street by street listings of the householders in the major towns. A wonderful resource.    

Price:  £15.11

Lincolnshire 1926 Kelly's Directory

A comprehensive directory typical of the later Kelly's publications.    

Price:  £15.11

Lincolnshire 1930 Kelly's Directory

A very comprehensive directory with desciption of places and directories of private residents and commercial traders, plus county-wide private residents and classified trades directories.    

Price:  £15.11

Lincolnshire and Hull 1826 White's History and Directory

It is rare to find a White's directory this old. They are typically comprehensive for their time and include alongside the alphabetical lists of residents with their trades. A great resource!    

Price:  £9.79

Lincolnshire Assize Roll for 1298 (PRO Assize roll no. 505)

  hardback   ISBN 978-0-901-50318-3

Price:  £25.00

Lincolnshire Church Notes made by William John Monson, FSA, 1828-1840

  paperback   ISBN 978-0-901-50372-5

Price:  £25.00

Lincolnshire Domesday and the Lindsey Survey

  hardback   ISBN 978-0-901-50310-7

Price:  £25.00

Lincolnshire Notes & Queries - April, January & July 1890

Notes and Queries was a journal, published quarterly, devoted to the antiquites, parochial records, family history, traditions, folk-lore and customs of the county. Fascinating reading for local and family historians alike.    

Price:  £9.79

Lincolnshire Parish Correspondence of John Kaye, Bishop of Lincoln 1827-53

The 532 letters that are published in this volume come from the extensive correspondence that was received from people in Lincolnshire parishes by John Kaye, Bishop of Lincoln between 1827 and 1853. They are important because they express the opinions and reflect the attitudes of lay people as well as clergymen: Kaye's correspondents ranged from members of the landed gentry to people who would usually have little direct contact with the bishop.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-901-50379-4

Price:  £30.00

Lincolnshire Parish Registers - Marriages (11 Vols)

The complete set of 11 volumes for the county of Lincolnshire.    

Price:  £15.00

Lincolnshire Pedigrees

An incredibly important set of books for those researching Lincolnshire ancestors they were originally compiled in the 19th century by the Richmond Herald, Arthur Staunton Larken.    

Price:  £17.87

Lincolnshire Returns of the Census of Religious Worship, 1851

  hardback   ISBN 978-0-901-50348-0

Price:  £25.00

Maps - Vol. 6 - Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire & Lincolnshire

An incredibly useful resource! Really high quality digitised maps that you can zoom in and in to see the finest detail.    

Price:  £9.79

Minute-Books of the Spalding Gentlemen's Society, 1712-1755

Facsimile of record of matters and items discussed by this society, modelled on the meetings of the Royal Society.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-901-50349-7

Price:  £25.00

Old Lincolnshire - A Pictorial Quarterly Magazine

Edited by George H Burton, published by the Old Lincolnshire Press Stamford. This periodical ran only from 1883-5, so this is the complete run. There are book reviews and articles, a series of sections on Lincolnshire freeholders in 1561, transcripts of ancient documents, and articles about local dignitaries, such as Sir Joseph Banks by Henry Winn, and William Logsdail, local painter, etc. A great chance to acquire a CD copy of a unique publication.    

Price:  £9.79

Papal Decretals relating to the Diocese of Lincoln in the 12th Century

Editions (in Latin and translation) of papal letters expressing some principal of law, culled from collections of legally important documents which served the universities and the medieval church as law and text books.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-901-50321-3

Price:  £25.00

Port Books of Boston, 1601-1640

The introduction deals with customs administration and trade at Boston, and with port books as historical sources.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-901-50322-0

Price:  £25.00

Probate Inventories of Lincoln Citizens, 1661-1714

Sixty inventories selected from the 590 that survive for the thirteen parishes of the City and County of Lincoln between 1661 and 1714. The parishes chosen are those in which urban occupations and residences rather than agricultural predominate. Probate inventories were drawn up to protect the heirs to an estate and to facilitate the distribution of bequests. This selection, together with an comprehensive introduction which includes a survey of the City of Lincoln and chapters on a wide range of occupations - butchers, farmers, gardeners, millers, bakers, goldsmiths etc., as well as a glossary of terms and an index of people and place names, makes fascinating reading, bothfor the serious scholar and for the armchair social historian. There is much here to study and to dip into.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-901-50353-4

Price:  £25.00

Records of Commissioners of Sewers in Parts of Holland, 1547-1603

  hardback   ISBN 978-0-901-50338-1

Price:  £75.00

Records of Commissioners of Sewers in Parts of Holland, 1547-1603

The introduction describes the physical conditions which led to the setting up of the courts of sewers, and considers the history and constitution of those courts.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-901-50300-8

Price:  £25.00

Records of Commissioners of Sewers in Parts of Holland, 1547-1603

  hardback   ISBN 978-0-901-50312-1

Price:  £25.00

Records of Some Sessions of the Peace in Lincolnshire, 1360-1375

  hardback   ISBN 978-0-901-50313-8

Price:  £25.00

Records of Some Sessions of the Peace in Lincolnshire, 1381-1396

These records show how major political events, as well as the aftermath of the Black Death, affected the local community.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-901-50314-5

Price:  £75.00

Records of some Sessions of the Peace in Lincolnshire, 1381-1396

    ISBN 978-0-901-50377-0

Price:  £25.00

Records of some Sessions of the Peace in Lincolnshire, 1381-1396

  hardback   ISBN 978-0-901-50380-0

Price:  £25.00

Register of Bishop Philip Repingdon 1405-1419

The introduction summarizes the `clear picture of diocesan administration and the state of religious life in the see of Lincoln' given by the Memoranda.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-901-50347-3

Price:  £25.00

Registrum Antiquissimum of the Cathedral Church of Lincoln [10]

  hardback   ISBN 978-0-901-50306-0

Price:  £25.00

Registrum Antiquissimum of the Cathedral Church of Lincoln [3]

  hardback   ISBN 978-0-901-50329-9

Price:  £25.00

Registrum Antiquissimum of the Cathedral Church of Lincoln [4]

  hardback   ISBN 978-0-901-50330-5

Price:  £25.00

Registrum Antiquissimum of the Cathedral Church of Lincoln [5]

  hardback   ISBN 978-0-901-50331-2

Price:  £25.00

Registrum Antiquissimum of the Cathedral Church of Lincoln [6]

  hardback   ISBN 978-0-901-50332-9

Price:  £25.00

Registrum Antiquissimum of the Cathedral Church of Lincoln [7]

  hardback   ISBN 978-0-901-50334-3

Price:  £25.00

Registrum Antiquissimum of the Cathedral Church of Lincoln [8]

  hardback   ISBN 978-0-901-50335-0

Price:  £25.00

Registrum Antiquissimum of the Cathedral Church of Lincoln [9]

  hardback   ISBN 978-0-901-50304-6

Price:  £25.00

Registrum Antiquissimum of the Cathedral Church of Lincoln [facs 5-6]

A transcript of the original cartulary of Lincoln cathedral, compiled during the 13th and 14th centuries, with additional charters, a comprehensive introdution and two volumes of facsimiles.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-901-50333-6

Price:  £25.00

Registrum Antiquissimum of the Cathedral Church of Lincoln [facs 8-10]

  hardback   ISBN 978-0-901-50307-7

Price:  £25.00

Registrum Antiquissimum of the Cathedral Church of Lincoln [set]

A transcript of the original cartulary of Lincoln cathedral compiled during the 13th and 14th centuries, with additional charters, a comprehensive introduction and two volumes of facsimiles. LRS 27, 28, 29, 32, 34, 41, 42, 46, 51,62, 67, 68.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-901-50337-4

Price:  £295.00

Rolls and Register of Bishop Oliver Sutton 1280-1299 [I]

  hardback   ISBN 978-0-901-50360-2

Price:  £25.00

Rolls and Register of Bishop Oliver Sutton 1280-1299 [II]

  hardback   ISBN 978-0-901-50361-9

Price:  £25.00

Rolls and Register of Bishop Oliver Sutton 1280-1299 [IV]

  hardback   ISBN 978-0-901-50346-6

Price:  £25.00

Rolls and Register of Bishop Oliver Sutton 1280-1299 [VII]

  hardback   ISBN 978-0-901-50308-4

Price:  £25.00

Rolls and Register of Bishop Oliver Sutton 1280-1299 [VIII]

This large and important register of the diocese of Lincoln includes institutions and promotions of heads of religious houses for the archdeaconries of Stow, Bedford, Leicester, Huntingdon, Buckingham and Oxford. Calendared in English with full transcripts and English summaries of unusual entries.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-901-50340-4

Price:  £25.00

Rotuli Hugonis de Welles [II]

Rolls of Hugo of Wells, Bishop of Lincoln, 1209-1235   paperback   ISBN 978-0-903-49198-3

Price:  £19.99

Rotuli Hugonis de Welles [III]

Rolls of Hugo of Wells, Bishop of Lincoln, 1209-1235   paperback   ISBN 978-0-907-23900-0

Price:  £19.99

Rotuli Hugonis de Welles 1209-1235 [I]

Rolls of Hugo of Wells, Bishop of Lincoln, 1209-1235   paperback   ISBN 978-0-903-49183-9

Price:  £19.99

Rotuli Ricardi Gravesend 1258-79

Rolls of Richard Gravesend, Bishop of Lincoln, 1258-1279   paperback   ISBN 978-0-903-49186-0

Price:  £19.99

Royal Writs addressed to John Buckingham, Bishop of Lincoln 1363-1398

The many commands which the crown addressed to bishops represent a rich source of information about the history of government, law, and lay society, as well as about the church itself. The writs collected in this volume touch on many aspects of life in the later fourteenth century, including tax gathering, political upheaval, property disputes, Lollardy, and foreign warfare.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-907-23958-1

Price:  £30.00

Stow Church Restored

Stow Church in Lincolnshire is one of the most interesting Anglo-Saxon Churches in England. These documents record its restoration in the mid-nineteenth century.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-901-50339-8

Price:  £25.00

The 1341 Royal Inquest in Lincolnshire

This volume is a calendar edition of the 1341 royal inquest into official misconduct and local disorder in Lincolnshire, held in the aftermath of extended periods of military campaigning, heavy taxation, purveyance and wool levies. It reflects the constant problems of official misconduct and the negative impact of the growth of royal government.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-901-50351-0

Price:  £25.00

The Acta of Hugh of Wells, Bishop of Lincoln 1209-1235

The diocese of Lincoln was the largest in medieval England, extending over nine counties, and the early thirteenth century saw considerable development in episcopal government and evident concern over Church reform in the aftermath of the Fourth Lateran Council of 1215. Hugh of Wells brought to his diocese his experience as a royal official in the chancery of King John, and his tenure of the see was marked by transition and innovation, with particular emphasis on pastoral responsibilities at local level. This edition of his collected acta - over 450 - assembled from cathedral, monastic, and governmental archives, supplements the surviving summary enrolments and reveals Hughas an active and innovative diocesan at an important point in the history of the English Church.
DAVID M. SMITH is Director of the Borthwick Institute of Historical Research, University of York.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-901-50365-7

Price:  £30.00

The Beauties of Lincolnshire

This is one book from a series of very rare volumes published in 1807 entitled "The Beauties of England and Wales". This volume, for Lincolnshire, describes the county, its history & antiquities, and places in great detail. It also contains some exquisite engravings of towns and churches, etc.    

Price:  £9.79

The City of Lincoln Directory 1867

This slim volume contains alphabetical lists of all the principal householders, a classified trade and professional list, a complete street directory and a list of carriers etc. Published in 1867 by Charles Akrill, Lincoln.    

Price:  £9.79

The Diaries of Edward Lee Hicks Bishop of Lincoln 1910-1919

Bishop Edward Lee Hicks' diary offers an honest picture of the daily life of a bishop in the period immediately before and during the first world war, a portrait of church and society in a largely rural diocese in the last phase before the radical transformation which the `Great War' hastened. The diary presents a largely church-centred picture; but it is also valuable as a personal view of such matters as Lincolnshire social life including the impact of war on the county, conditions of travel at the beginning of the era of the motor car, characteristics of the clergy, and frequent comment on items of archaeological and antiquarian interest.
Canon GRAHAM NEVILLE was Canon andPrebendary of Lincoln Cathedral from 1982-1987.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-901-50355-8

Price:  £25.00

The Gentleman's Magazine Library 1731-1868, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Middlesex & Monmouthshire

The original Gentleman's Magazine contained articles on a vast array of subjects, including lots of wonderful topographical pieces. In 1891 George Gomme republished all of these topograhical articles but edited and indexed them into county specific order. Each of Gomme's works contains between two and four separate counties. An absolute goldmine of information about the county, its people and its places.    

Price:  £12.13

The History of the Lincolnshire Regiment

1914 - 1918. Although a Lincolnshire regiment, men from all over the country will have served with them. Superb account of the regiment's experiences throughout the First World War with maps, plans, battle details, campaigns and offensives. Also details of battle honours but the most poignant is the Roll of Honour (89 pages), listing those killed in what was supposed to be 'the war to end all wars'.    

Price:  £15.11

The Letter Book of Sir Anthony Oldfield, 1662-1667

The threat of a Dutch invasion, the fear of challenges to the restored monarchy by supporters of the Interregnum regimes, and defiant Quakers were among the problems Sir Anthony Oldfield of Spalding had to face as a deputy lieutenant of the Lincolnshire militia. In the first decade of the Restoration the county militias were responsible for the internal defence of the realm and became the most important institution of local government.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-901-50368-8

Price:  £30.00

The Lincolnshire Domesday and the Lindsey Survey

  paperback   ISBN 978-0-901-50375-6

Price:  £25.00

The Medieval Lindsey Marsh: Select Documents

This edition of almost 100 documents pertaining to the marsh district of Lindsey in Lincolnshire derives mainly from collections in the Lincolnshire Archives Office, the British Library and the Public Record Office. They are of particular interest for the history of land drainage and the upkeep of the sea defences. Other topics dealt with include charters concerning the keeping of sheep outside the sea banks; material on local religious houses; extracts from manor court rolls; and will abstracts. Dating from the late 12th century to the first years of the 16th, with a few exceptions they have never previously been published.
A.E.B. OWEN is former Keeper of Manuscripts at Cambridge University Library.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-901-50358-9

Price:  £40.00

The Overseas Trade of Boston in the Reign of Richard II

In the fourteenth century, Boston was not only the outport for the major city of Lincoln, but one of the largest and wealthiest English towns in its own right; but because the townsmen of medieval Boston lacked formal powers of self-government there is no local borough archive for the period before its incorporation in 1545.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-901-50374-9

Price:  £30.00

The Printed Maps of Lincolnshire, 1576-1900: A Carto-Bibliography with an Appendix on Road-Books, 1675-1900

This volume provides a detailed catalogue of all the maps of Lincolnshire that show the county as a whole, from the first, issued by Christopher Saxton, in 1576, to 1900, by which time the provision of maps of the county was largely in the hands of the Ordnance Survey. A detailed general essay outlines the history of the map-making in Lincolnshire, with reference to geographical changes in the county, such as the drainage of the fens, the building of canals and the coming of the railways. Town plans, geological and other natural history maps are touched on and references are provided to many local surveys and the work of their surveyors. This is followed by a complete recordof all the county maps in chronological order, with detailed catalogue entries. Notes on the circumstances of publication contribute information on the ramifications of early publishing and the book and print trade. R.A. CARROLL is a former County Librarian of Lincolnshire, 1980-1984.   paperback   ISBN 978-0-901-50371-8

Price:  £25.00

The Records of the Commissioners of Sewers in the Parts of Holland, 1547-1603 I

    ISBN 978-0-901-50378-7

Price:  £25.00

The Register of Bishop Philip Repingdon 1405-1419

  hardback   ISBN 978-0-901-50381-7

Price:  £25.00

The Register of Richard Fleming, Bishop of Lincoln, 1420-31, I

  paperback   ISBN 978-0-907-23937-6

Price:  £19.99

The Registers of Henry Burghersh 1320-1342

Henry Burghersh, bishop of Lincoln from 1320 until 1340, has not been treated kindly by historians. The largely hostile view expressed by early fourteenth-century chroniclers gives us a portrait of a man promoted to the office ofbishop solely as a result of family influence and royal intervention, but who subsequently betrayed the monarch who had favoured him, lending support to the rebellion of Thomas of Lancaster in 1322 and plotting with Queen Isabella to overthrow her husband.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-901-50364-0

Price:  £30.00

The Rolls and Register of Bishop Oliver Sutton (1280-1299): VI

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.   paperback   ISBN 978-0-901-50370-1

Price:  £25.00

The Rolls and Register of Bishop Oliver Sutton [1280-1299]: V

  paperback   ISBN 978-0-901-50376-3

Price:  £25.00

The Victoria History of the County of Lincoln, Volume II

The volume was published more than eighty years ago, and its reissue makes available what is virtually an antiquarian book; it is nevertheless a work of reference that in many respects has not been replaced. Half the volume is devoted to Ecclesiastical History and separate histories of the religious houses of the county, numbering no less than 125 and including Lincoln cathedral and Crowland abbey; several of those histories were written by Rose Graham andthe accounts of the seventeen friaries by A. G. Little. The second half of the volume contains chapters on Political History (by C. H. Vellacott), Social and Economic History (including a table of population summarizing the firsteleven national censuses), Industries, Agriculture, Forestry, Endowed Schools, and Sport.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-712-91045-3

Price:  £60.00

Visitations in the Diocese of Lincoln 1517-1531

Returns from rural deaneries; records of visitations to monasteries and colleges; visitations to 34 religious houses.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-901-50342-8

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Visitations in the Diocese of Lincoln, 1517-1531

  hardback   ISBN 978-0-901-50341-1

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Visitations of Religious Houses in the Diocese of Lincoln [III]

  paperback   ISBN 978-0-907-23909-3

Price:  £19.99

Visitations of Religious Houses in the Diocese of Lincoln A.D.1420-1436 [I]

This edition, with English translation of episcopal visitations, offers many valuable details of monastic life in the 15th century, from practical details on mundane matters - such as the state of buildings - to spiritual attitudes and the measures taken by the bishop to resolve problems.   paperback   ISBN 978-0-907-23905-5

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Women in Thirteenth-Century Lincolnshire

This book offers the first regional study of women in thirteenth-century England, making pioneering use of charters, chronicles, government records and some of the earliest manorial court rolls to examine the interaction of gender, status and life-cycle in shaping women's experiences in Lincolnshire.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-861-93285-6

Price:  £50.00