Official Correspondence of Thomas Bekynton
Secretary to King Henry VI, and Bishop of Bath and Wells

Published in 1872, this two-volume work presents an edited collection of letters and documents from the reign of Henry VI.

Thomas Beckington (Author), George Williams (Edited by)

9781108048965, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 15 November 2012

552 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 3.1 cm, 0.8 kg

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 1 contains a chronological table of all the material included, as well as an extensive introduction.

Introduction
Appendix to introduction
Chronological calendar of contents
Notes to chronological table
Supplement to the introduction
Comparative table of documents
Lambeth volume.

Subject Areas: British & Irish history [HBJD1]