The Ecclesiastical Patronage of the Lord Keeper, 1558–1642 ( proxime accessit for the Alexander Prize, 1972 )
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11004258 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rosemary O'Day, Rosemary O’Day (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1973 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Pages | 89-109 |
| Publication date | 1973-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Transactions of the Royal Historical Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0080-4401 • E-ISSN: 1474-0648 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3678874 |
| OpenAlex | W2334032669 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 4 |
It is perhaps surprising that no systematic study of the lord keeper's or chancellor's ecclesiastical patronage has been produced. In 1927 Jean Wilson dealt with the office of lord chancellor in the early seventeenth century but devoted a very few pages only to the exercise of his patronage. Professor Jones scarcely touched upon the matter. Yet at the very least there is a need to establish how the lord keeper administered his ecclesiastical patronage and to assess its importance. Did the various lord keepers adopt a policy? What influenced their distribution of patronage? The sources available have imposed limitations of their own: central records of presentations exist in overlapping blocks for the years 1559 to 1603; 1596 to 1616/17; and 1627 to 1640 alone. These papers are not of uniform format and the information which they can be made to yield varies in type. The papers of lord keeper Coventry, for example, are not lists of presentations but loose docquets of presentation, and these make no mention of petitioners or commenders other than the presentee. Wherever possible, however, the somewhat barren nature of the formal documentation has been supplemented by the use of diocesan and private papers
Documentation · Petitioner · Political science · Presentation (obstetrics · Classics · Computer Science · Historical Studies of British Isles · History · Law · Medicine · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity · Scottish History and National Identity
| Citations per year | 0.02 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1975 - 1975 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |