The register of John Waltham, Bishop of Salisbury, 1388-1395

by Catholic Church. Diocese of Salisbury (England). Bishop (1388-1395 : Waltham)

John Waltham's register, 235 folios; letters, dispensations and letters dimissory, institutions; parochial visitations, and judicial acta; the bishop is recorded as resolving, a longstanding dispute with his chapter, resisting metropolitical visitation, using canon law to excuse his failure to levy papal taxes and statute law to safeguard patronage from papal provisions, and uncovering details about Lollard masses.