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Oliver Sutton, Bishop of Lincoln, and the University of Oxford

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 July 2011

R. M. T. Hill
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I have chosen as the subject of this paper a study of the relations of Oliver Sutton, bishop of Lincoln from 1280 to 1299, with the University of Oxford, and I should like to begin with a quotation from the work of one of the great medievalists of our generation. In his book, Henry III and the Lord Edward, Sir Maurice Powicke says: ‘It is a great pity that we know so little about these people.’ That is profoundly true. Many of the inhabitants of thirteenth-century history are little more than names to us. We know a few facts about the chancellors of Oxford at this period, and the information that we can gain about Sutton is slight enough. Yet I think that sufficient material has survived to enable us to find out something about his dealings with the university and to understand from them what kind of a man he was.

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Research Article
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Transactions of the Royal Historical Society , Volume 31 , December 1949 , pp. 1 - 16
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Copyright © Royal Historical Society 1949

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References

1 ii. 767.

2 Snappe's Formulary, pp. 41–2.

3 E.H.R., xxvi. 501–12.

1 C.P.R., 13 H. III, 6v, and 14 H. III, 6v.

2 C.R. (1247–51), p. 263.

3 Matt. Par., Chron. Maj. (Rolls Series), v. 596.

4 Dugdale, Baronage, i. 473.

5 R. F. Treharne, Baronial Plan of Reform, p. 22.

1 C.P.R., 50 H. III, 41.

2 Dugdale, Baronage, ii. 213.

3 Sutton, Reg., fo. 78v–79.

4 Bliss, Cal. Papal Registers, i. 211.

5 Giraldus Cambrensis, Opera (Rolls Series), vii. 211.

6 Monumenta Franciscana (Rolls Series), i. 97.

7 Gir, Camb., Opera, vii, 208.

1 Oseney Cartulary, ed. H. E. Salter, i. 194, and iii. 105.

2 H. Anstey, Munimenta Academica, i. 13–14.

3 Rot. Ric. Gravesend, ed. Davis, p. 65.

4 Salter, Med. Arch. Univ. Oxford, i. 37–9.

5 Sutton, Reg., fo. 134v.

6 Ibid., fos. 75v–76.

7 Ibid., fo. 144v.

1 Ibid., fo, 118v.

1 Sutton, Reg., fo. 159.

2 Ibid., fo, 138v. and fo, 8v.

1 Ibid., fo. 176v.

2 Ibid., fo. 214.

3 Salter, Med. Arch. Univ. Oxford, i. 37–9.

4 Gir. Camb., Opera, vii. 211.

1 Registrum, ed. Trice Martin (Rolls Series), iii. 857–60.

2 Dalderby, Reg., fos. 264–5.

1 Sutton, Reg., fo. 3.

2 Ibid., fo. 114v.

3 Ibid., fo. 118v.

4 See H. E. Salter's introduction to Snappe's Formulary, pp. 41–2.

5 Salter, Med. Arch. Univ. Oxford, i. 3.

6 Univ. Archives (O.H.S.), i. 105.

1 Some information relating to the appointment of William of Kingscote appears in the Oseney Annals (Annales Monastici, Rolls Series, iv. 317–18).

1 Sutton, Reg., fos. 43 and 43v.

2 Ibid., fo. 87v.

3 Ibid., fo. 117.

1 Ibid., fo. 3.

2 Ibid., fo. 44v.

3 Ibid., fo. 87v.

4 Ibid., fo. 117.

1 Sutton, Reg., fo. 169.

2 Ibid., fo. 4.

3 Ibid., fos. 358v–359.

4 Ibid., fo. 170v.

5 Ibid., fo. 17v.