the earliest Lincoln _Register_ extant, that of
Hugh of Wells, bishop of Lincoln, 1209-1235, whose _Liber Antiquus de
Ordinatione Vicariorum_ was printed in 1888. Analogous documents are
LUARD'S _Rob. Grosseteste Epistola_ (Roll Series, 1861), and the like.

Monastic CARTULARIES are less important for general history in this
than in previous periods; large masses of monastic records of this age
have survived, not a tithe of which is to be found in DUGDALE'S
_Monasticon_. Some monastic records illustrate the domestic economy or
religious life of the house as KIRK'S _Accounts of the Obedientiaries
of Abingdon,_ 1322-1479 (Camden Soc.); J.W. CLARK's _Observances in use
at Barnwell Priory,_ 1295-1296(1897), and the like.

For this period by far the most important series of foreign records is
the magnificent collections of the papacy. A summary of many of these
is to be found in BLISS, JOHNSON, and TWEMLOW's _Calendars of Papal
Registers illustrating the History of Great Britain and Ireland; Papal
Letters_ (vols. i.-iv., 1198-1404), and _Petitions to the Pope_ (vol.
i., 1342-1419), of special importance for the fourteenth century. These
useful calendars, however, do not always dispense us from consulting
the grand series of papal records published or analysed under the care
of the French School of Rome, which has not yet sufficiently been
studied in this country. This enterprise is divided into two sections.
In the first the _Registers from Gregory IX. to Benedict XI._ are in
course of publication; in the second the letters of the Avignon popes
relating to France are printed or analysed. Portions of the letters of
John XXII, Benedict XII, and Clement VI, are already issued. PRESSUTI
has published one volume of the _Registers of Honorius III_ (1888).
From the Vatican archives also comes THEINER'S _Vetera Monumenta Hib.
et Scot. Historiam illustrantia_ (1864), beginning in 1216.

Extracts from various archives are found in such collections as RYMER's
_Foedera_ of which the Record Commission's edition in folio reaches
just beyond the end of this period; WILKINS'S _Concilia_ (1737),
containing many extracts from episcopal registers and canons of
councils; HADDAN and STUBBS'S _Councils_, vol. i. (for the thirteenth
century Welsh Church); CHAMPOLLION-FIGEAC'S _Lettres des Rois et des
Reines d'Angleterre_ (2 vols., 1847, _Doc. Inedits_); STUBBS'S _Select
Charters_ (Henry III. and Edward I.), and BEMONT'S excellent _Chartes
des L