Metadata
Identifier
WRM
Title
Register of Simon de Montacute Bishop of Worcester 1334-1337
Creator
Dr. Roy Martin Haines
Publisher
Worcester Historical Society
Language
English
Publication Date
1996
Coverage
Worcester, 1331-1337
Description
The Register of Simon Montacute, Bishop of Worcester, contains the complete contents of two volumes of documents pertaining to Montacute’s tenure as Bishop of Worcester from 1334-1337, though the documents themselves date from 1331-1337. The manuscripts are bound in two volumes: Volume 1 contains the Bishop’s Register of Simon Montacute, a collection of 887 bound documents in roughly chronological order dating from 1331-1337, while Volume 2 contains Bishop Montacute’s outgoing letters dating from 1334-1337. The original documents are in Latin and are held by the Worcestershire Archive & Archaeology Service. They have not been digitized. Roy Martin Haines, professor emeritus of medieval history at Dalhousie University, summarized the original documents in English; his document summaries were published in 1996 by the Worcester Historical Society. Neither the original documents nor Haines’ edition are available digitally.
Relation to medieval source
Summaries and Translations into English
Typical content structure
Summaries, in English, of each individual document. Preceded by a document number, date, and location, and followed by manuscript folio page number.
Access
Physical copy only
Rights
Copyright Worcester Historical Society