The Register of Gilbert Welton: Bishop of Carlisle, 1353-1362

Register of capable ecclesiastical administrator shows him imposing order on impoverished war-ton Carlisle diocese.

Gilbert Welton was an eminent ecclesiastical administrator who won papal favour when visiting the Curia at Avignon. He recruited qualified staff before settling in the impoverished, war-torn diocese of Carlisle, which had not beenaccustomed to a resident bishop or to a high standard of episcopal government. His professionalism is reflected in the professional quality of his register. Among its contents are a dozen records of matrimonial causes (one Carlisle woman was divorced twice in six weeks); of further social interest are the 59 wills of laymen and beneficed clergy, many of them victims of the second visitation of the Black Death in 1362.
This volume offers a calendarof the whole manuscript, with an appendix of full Latin texts of entries of special interest.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0907239595
• ISBN13: 9780907239598
• Release Date: December 1999
• Publisher: Canterbury & York Society
• Length: 221 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 9.2"