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I. Acta Episcoporum1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 December 2011

F. M. Stenton
F. M. Stenton
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Reading University
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It has probably occurred to many people that a slight air of unreality overhangs our conception of the relations between church and state in England in the twelfth century. We know the main questions at issue, and something at least of the personalities engaged upon them. We possess much correspondence—ill edited, on the whole, but still illuminating. We have also much biographical matter. Above all, in the Constitutions of Clarendon we have an official statement of what the king claimed, and his bishops could not deny to be the ancient customs of the realm. It is not surprising that the twelfth-century church in England has sometimes been treated by modern writers in a way which would suggest that little more remains to be learned about it.

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Cambridge Historical Journal , Volume 3 , Issue 1 , 1929 , pp. 1 - 14
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1929

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page 2 note 1 Egerton MS 3031.

page 3 note 1 This impression agrees very closely with the facts set out by Mr Brooke in his article “The Effect of Becket's Murder on Papal Authority in England,” Cambridge Historical Journal, II, 223–4.

page 3 note 2 Maitland, Canon Law in the Church of England, p. 128. Mr Brooke also has noted the frequency with which Baldwin and Roger appear as recipients of decretals.

page 3 note 3 Northmoor, Oxfordshire.

page 3 note 4 Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire.

page 4 note 1 Egerton MS 3031, f. 50. The “concordia” recorded here must have been made between 1141 and the beginning of 1148.

page 4 note 2 Harl. MS 1708, f. 30.

page 4 note 3 MS Reg. II B ix, f. 21 b. The Thorp of this writ is Kingsthorpe by Northampton.

page 5 note 1 Ibid. f. 29 b.

page 6 note 1 Cott. Vesp. E xx, f. 36 b. Norhalia and Dagehal' are now represented by the hamlets of Northall and Dagnall in Edlesborough parish. “Wiceb'” has not been identified.

page 6 note 2 Harl. MS 3697, f. 43 b (Walden cartulary). Kingham, like Aynho in Northamptonshire of which also Ralf became rector, belonged to the Mandeville fee.

page 6 note 3 E.g. Harl. MS 3697, f. 39. The date at which William became treasurer has not yet been determined. I do not know whether it has been noticed that Philpott, in his Catalogue of the Chancellors of England, the Lord Keepers of the great Seale, and the Lord Treasurers of England (1636), quotes a charter by Bishop Richard granting to William of Ely his kinsman, then treasurer, his houses in Westminster “Anno domini 1196, being the seventh yeere of the raigne of Richard I, and the said number of yeares of the governement of the said Richard in the Bishoppricke of London.” It is probable that Philpott saw the original text of this charter, of which an abbreviated copy is preserved in the Westminster cartulary, Cott. Faust. A iii, f. 248. The original may still exist among the muniments of the dean and chapter of Westminster. In any case, the elaborate note of date cannot be an invention by Philpott.

page 7 note 1 P.R.O. Ancient Deeds, AS 351.

page 7 note 2 Cott. Titus, C ix, f. 163 b.

page 8 note 1 Essays in History presented to Reginald Lane Poole, pp. 246–60.

page 8 note 2 Cott. Faust. B i, f. 44 b.

page 10 note 1 Cott. Vesp. F xv, f. 171.

page 10 note 2 Ibid. F xv, f. 169.

page 11 note 1 MS Reg. ii B ix, f. 24 b.

page 11 note 2 The two styles of Archbishop Thomas can be seen by comparing his confirmation to the nuns of St Radegund, printed in The Priory of St Radegund (Cambridge Antiquarian Society), p. 77, with his confirmation to the nuns of Ivinghoe in the Monasticon, iv, 269.

page 12 note 1 MS Reg. II B ix, f. 30. Of the officials who are addressed by the bishop, the decanus must be the rural dean of Northampton, and the justice is presumably the local justiciar of Northamptonshire. For such officers see Cambridge Medieval History, v, 584. This document therefore gives another illustration of the close connexion between ecclesiastical and royal justice in the early part of Henry II's reign. It cannot be later than 1166.

page 13 note 1 Cott. Vesp. E xvii, f. 257 b. This memorandum may be compared with a charter (Egerton MS 3031, f. 55) in which Gilbert Foliot, as bishop of Hereford, records that he has consecrated a burial ground at Hampton near Leominster, at the request of Gilbert of Hampton, and ad refugium hominum Roberti.