This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1854 Excerpt: ...The temporalities were restored to him 5th Jan. following" He died 8th Jan. 1741-2, aetat. 77. 1742 Nicholas Claggett, bishop of St. David's, was nomi'6 Geo. II. nated bishop of Exeter in the room of Dr. Weston, deceased. He was confirmed at Bow church 2nd Aug. 1742. He died 8th Dec. 1746. 1747 George Lavington was nominated to this see 15th,0 Geo. II. Dec 1746. and the royal assent to his election was given 8th Jan. following. He was confirmed at Bow church 6th Feb., and consecrated on the 8th of the same month at Lambeth." The temporalities were restored to him 20th Feb.1? He died 13th Sept. 1762. 1762 Frederick Keppel was nominated as bishop of Exeter 3 Geo. iII.,4th 0ct 1762, and eJected Qct firmed 5th Nov., and consecrated 7th Nov.s The temporalities were restored to him 9th Nov. following. He died in 1777. 1778 John Ross was elected 12th Jan.,778, and received '8Qeo.H1. the royal assent to his election on the 20th; he was confirmed on the 23rd, and consecrated on the 25th of the same monthTM. He died 14th Aug. 1792 1792 William Buller was nominated 8th Sept. 1792, and 33 Geo. III. elected 15th Oct.; the royal assent to his election was given 19th Oct. He was confirmed 1 st Dec, and consecrated the next day21. The temporalities were restored to him 8th Dec. following22. He died 12th Dec. 1796. 1797 Henry Reginald Courtenay, bishop of Bristol, was 37Geo.HI. elected to Exeter 21st Feb. 1797; the royal assent to his election was given on the 25th of that month, and he was confirmed 10th March. The temporalities were restored to him 15th March. He died 9th June 1803. 1803 John Fisher was nominated 22nd June 1803, and 43Geo.II1. elected 5th July; the royal assent to his election was given 8th July; he was confirmed 16th July, and consecrated the n...

The secular clergy - priests and other clerics outside of monastic orders - were among the most influential and powerful groups in European society during the central Middle Ages. The secular clergy got their title from the Latin word for world, saeculum, and secular clerics kept the Church running in the world beyond the cloister wall, with responsibility for the bulk of pastoral care and ecclesiastical administration. This gave them enormous religious influence, although they were considered too worldly by many contemporary moralists - trying, for instance, to oppose the elimination of clerical marriage and concubinage. Although their worldliness created many tensions, it also gave the secular clergy much worldly influence. Contemporaries treated elite secular clerics as equivalent to knights, and some were as wealthy as minor barons. Secular clerics had a huge role in the rise of royal bureaucracy, one of the key historical developments of the period. They were instrumental to the intellectual and cultural flowering of the twelfth century, the rise of the schools, the creation of the book trade, and the invention of universities. They performed music, produced literature in a variety of genres and languages, and patronized art and architecture. Indeed, this volume argues that they contributed more than any other group to the Twelfth-Century Renaissance. Yet the secular clergy as a group have received almost no attention from scholars, unlike monks, nuns, or secular nobles. In The Secular Clergy in England, 1066-1216, Hugh Thomas aims to correct this deficiency through a major study of the secular clergy below the level of bishop in England from 1066 to 1216.

This book investigates how bishops deployed reward and punishment to control their administrative subordinates in thirteenth-century England. Bishops had few effective avenues available to them for disciplining their clerks, and rarely pursued them, preferring to secure their service and loyalty through rewards. The chief reward was the benefice, often granted for life. Episcopal administrators' security of tenure in these benefices, however, made them free agents, allowing them to transfer from diocese to diocese or even leave administration altogether; they did not constitute a standing episcopal civil service. This tenuous bureaucratic relationship made the personal relationship between bishop and clerk more important. Ultimately, many bishops communicated in terms of friendship with their administrators, who responded with expressions of devotion. Michael Burger's study brings together ecclesiastical, social, legal, and cultural history, producing the first synoptic study of thirteenth-century English diocesan administration in decades. His research provides an ecclesiastical counterpoint to numerous studies of bastard feudalism in secular contexts.

The volumes in this series trace the process of re-organisation and reform that took place in the English cathedrals after the Norman conquest, with the building of new cathedrals, the establishment of new constitutions for their chapters, and the appointment of foreign clergy. In this period, when many documents are undated, the chronological framework provided by the careers of bishops, dignitaries, canons and cathedral priors, is an essential research tool for historians

The volumes in this series trace the process of re-organisation and reform that took place in the English cathedrals after the Norman conquest, with the building of new cathedrals, the establishment of new constitutions for their chapters, and the appointment of foreign clergy. In this period, when many documents are undated, the chronological framework provided by the careers of bishops, dignitaries, canons and cathedral priors, is an essential research tool for historians