Official Correspondence of Thomas Bekynton

Secretary to King Henry VI, and Bishop of Bath and Wells

By:

Thomas Beckington

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Cambridge Library Collection - Rolls

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Thomas Beckington (c.1390–1465), Bishop of Bath and Wells, was hugely influential in Church affairs and government during the reign of Henry VI. He had become the king's secretary by 1438 and played an important role in an embassy appointed to negotiate peace with France in 1443. His intimacy with the king undoubtedly aided his compiling of the vast array of documents and letters - many from Beckington himself - presented in this two-volume work. It was edited for the Rolls Series in 1872 by George Williams (1814–78), a Church of England clergyman and Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, who, like Beckington, had close links to Eton College. The collection as a whole, presented in the original Latin, illuminates the foreign, diplomatic and domestic affairs of fifteenth-century England. Volume 2 also contains an appendix of illustrative documents, a glossary of rare words and a biographical index.

Release date Australia

November 15th, 2012

Author

Thomas Beckington

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Contributor

Edited by George Williams

Illustrations

Worked examples or Exercises

Pages

476

Series

Cambridge Library Collection - Rolls

Dimensions

152x229x27

ISBN-13

9781108048972

Product ID

20913291

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