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Description: | It will be seen from the following lists that the books of different courts were not kept separate. This seems to be the result of the practice of giving two or more offices to the same person. The most useful combination of offices was that of episcopal Commissary within an archdeaconry with that of Official of the Archdeacon: on occasion the Official Principal and Vicar-general seems also to have been Official of the Archdeacon of Lincoln. By the early seventeenth century, the office of Chancellor was held by the Official Principal, though there seems to be no instance at that date of his using both titles together. The Registrar, particularly after about 1630, not infrequently omitted to state for whom a surrogate was acting when he held a court.
The condition of many of the Court Books, in spite of skilled repair, is very bad. Many were extensively damaged by damp, but they will repay careful study especially in the sixteenth century when they are much more detailed than later on.
There are in addition, numerous loose sheets, 1702-1805, some of which duplicate the entries in the Court Books, while others cover the years for which the Court Books have not survived. | Subjects: | Diocese Of Lincoln Religion & Beliefs | Temporal: | 1446-1912 | Source: | Lincolnshire County Council | Identifier: | http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/Re... | Go to resource |
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