OF Edmund Lacy, BISHOP OF EXETER (A.D. 1420-1455). PART II.—THE REGISTRUM COMMUNE. TRANSCRIBED AND SUMMARISED FROM THE ORIGINAL MS. BY THE REV. CHARLES GORDON BROWNE, D.D., RECTOR OF LYMPSTONE, DEVON, AND ANNOTATED AND EDITED BY THE REV. OSWALD J. REICHEL, B.C.L. & M.A., F.S.A., 66 66 AUTHOR OF ELEMENTS OF CANON LAW," A COMPLETE MANUAL OF CANON LAW," ETC. EXETER: PUBLISHED BY THE DEVON AND CORNWALL RECORD SOCIETY IN CONJUNCTION WITH MESSRS. WILLIAM POLLARD & CO. LIMITED, EXETER. 1915. Inv. 81 DD45ES · R194 PRELIMINARY NOTE. The late Prebendary Hingeston-Randolph-cujus anime propicietur Deus-had only completed the first volume of Lacy's registers the Register of Institutions at the time when he was taken from among us. The second and third volumes containing the Registrum Commune, now bound in one volume and containing 600 folios, were still left untouched. The publishers and subscribers were alike anxious to continue the publication. The difficulty was to find any one willing to do the work. In this strait, the indefatigable Honorary Secretary of the Devon and Cornwall Record Society, Mr. H. TapleySoper, came to the rescue and induced the Rev. Dr. Browne, Rector of Lympstone, to undertake the work of transcribing, and the Rev. Oswald J. Reichel, B.C.L. and M.A., F.S.A., of Alaronde, near Lympstone, that of editing the transcript subject to extra facilities being afforded for consulting the MS. The Bishop when approached kindly acceded to the Society's application subject to the usual safeguards. The present volume contains the Bishop's Acts from the year 1420 to 1441. Two more volumes will be required to complete the whole work, which, besides the Bishop's Acts, contains a large number of wills and other interesting documents. In the last volume when issued will be included a full index covering both the Register of Institutions and the Registrum Commune. The editor regrets that a few errors have passed into print before he became cognisant of them, and suggests with many apologies that before using the volumes subscribers will be pleased to correct them. |