The Historians Of The Church Of York And Its Archbishops [ Chronicles And Memorials Of Great Britain And Ireland During The Middle Ages Volume 71 ( Rolls Series ) ] [ 3 volumes complete ]

Longman & co, Parker & Co, A & C Black, Douglas & Foulis, A Thom, 1879. 1st edition.. Hardback. Quarter cloth, VG. 3 volumes, lxx+543pp, xxxii+551pp+40pp publishers catalogue, xxii+443pp+36pp publishers catalogue, index to the whole in volume III, Ex- Monastic Library [ St Augustine's Ramsgate ] with their bookplate, cardholder, small paper label to the base of the spine, all volumes un-opened, occasional foxing & with volumes II & III having some of the pages rather yellowed due to inferior paper stock being used, rear board of volume I scuffed, but still an attractive set. Latin text. A collection of papers, wills, biographies etc relating to the Episcopal history of York. - Vol I contains Alcuin's Carmen ; several lives of bishops Oswald and Wilfrid ; lives of Bishop John of Beverley, who died in 721 ; the Chronica Pontificum Ecclesiae Eboracensis, AD 601-1140, written in the first half of the 12th century. Vol II contains most importantly the history of four archbishops of York, Thomas I, Gerard, Thomas II, and Thurstan, AD 1070 - 1127, by Hugh the Chantor, or Hugh Scottovagina & a valuable account of the controversy between the archbishops of Canterbury and York, as told by an eye-witness. Vol II also contains a letter of Archbishop Ralph to the pope, 1119, concerning the same controversy ; anonymous lives of archbishops Thurstan and William Fitzerbert ; several papers relating to Archbishop Scrope and his execution in 1405 ; the Chronica Pontificum Ecclesiae Eboracensis, AD 601 - 1519. Vol III is a collection of letters, wills, and other documents, from 930 to 1522, all are connected with the history of the northern bishoprics, and are taken from the registers of the archbishops of York.