Excerpt from The Register of Edmund Stafford, (A. D. 1395-1419): An Index and Abstract of Its Contents The remainder of the volume is taken up with a complete and valuable Register of all the Ordinations held by Bishop Stafford and by his Suffragans (ff. 249 followed by a very interesting series of Wills, sixty. In number (ff. 300 The back of folio 334 and a fly - leaf at the end are occupied by a rude attempt at an Index, - Notanda in 'hoc Registro - written at different times and by several hands, and of no value whatever. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Diocese of Exeter includes the counties of Cornwall and Devonshire.

Translated shortly before 1400, the Bible became the most popular medieval book in English. Prevailing scholarly opinion calls it the Wycliffite Bible, attributing it to followers of the heretic John Wyclif, and claims it was banned in 1407. Henry Ansgar Kelly disagrees, arguing it was a nonpartisan effort and never the object of any prohibition.

The first systematic study of the financing and management of parish church construction in England in the Middle Ages.