Records of Convocation VII: Canterbury, 1509-1603 (Records of Convocation, 7)

The convocation records of the Churches of England and Ireland are the principal source of our information about the administration of those churches from middle ages until modern times. They contain the minutes of clergy synods,the legislation passed by them, tax assessments imposed by the king on the clergy, and accounts of the great debates about religious reformation; they also include records of heresy trials in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries,many of them connected with the spread of Lollardy. However, they have never before been edited or published in full, and their publication as a complete set of documents provides a valuable resource for scholarship. This volume reconstructs the history of the convocation in the early years of Henry VIII and reproduces the abstracts made of the records from 1529 onwards, which were burnt in the great fire of London in 1666. Of particular interest arethe notes of Peter Heylyn, which were only rediscovered in 1999, and have never been printed before. Also included are the canons and articles of religion passed by convocation in the sixteenth century. Twain scanned image with FUJITSU,FUJITSU fi-5750Cdj (Driver version Copyright(C) PFU LIMITED 2005),Parameters : Memory,BW (Thresh Front cover 1 Table of contents 7 List of abbreviations 9 The Convocations 13 Henry VIII (1509–47) 13 Edward VI (1547–53) 301 Mary I (1553–8) 321 Elizabeth I 409 Appendixes 619 1. Forma sive descriptio convocationis 619 2. Directory for orders to be observed 621 3. Forma elegendi et praesentandi proluctorem 622 4. Two proxies for convocation 623 5. Precedence in the convocation 624 6. Table of fees 625 7. Persons entitled to be summoned to a convocation 626 Index of sources 631 Index of references 643 Index of names and places 661 Index of subjects 703