Official Correspondence of Thomas Bekynton
Secretary to King Henry VI, and Bishop of Bath and Wells
2 Volume Set
Part of Cambridge Library Collection - Rolls
- Author: Thomas Beckington
- Editor: George Williams
- Date Published: November 2012
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- format: Multiple copy pack
- isbn: 9781108048989
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Thomas Beckington (c.1390–1465), Bishop of Bath and Wells, was hugely influential in Church affairs and government during the reign of Henry VI. He had become the king's secretary by 1438 and played an important role in an embassy appointed to negotiate peace with France in 1443. His intimacy with the king undoubtedly aided his compiling of the vast array of documents and letters - many from Beckington himself - presented in this two-volume work. It was edited for the Rolls Series in 1872 by George Williams (1814–78), a Church of England clergyman and Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, who, like Beckington, had close links to Eton College. The collection as a whole, presented in the original Latin, illuminates the foreign, diplomatic and domestic affairs of fifteenth-century England.
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- Date Published: November 2012
- format: Multiple copy pack
- isbn: 9781108048989
- length: 956 pages
- dimensions: 231 x 152 x 58 mm
- weight: 1.496kg
- availability: Temporarily unavailable - available from TBC
Table of Contents
Volume 1: Introduction
Appendix to introduction
Chronological calendar of contents
Notes to chronological table
Supplement to the introduction
Comparative table of documents
Lambeth volume. Volume 2: Lambeth volume (cont.)
Appendix of documents
Glossary of rare words and index of places less commonly known
Biographical index
General index.
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