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.
- ISBN10 0907239595
- ISBN13 9780907239598
- Publish Date 23 December 1999
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Imprint Canterbury & York Society
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 221
- Language English