This volume of essays draws together research from the twelfth to the twentieth century and across the eight counties of the ancient diocese of Lincoln, in tribute to one of its most important historians.

Illustrations Contributors Abbreviations Articles 1. The Building of the Medieval and Wren Libraries at Lincoln Cathedral Carol Bennett 2. Long-lived Lincolnshire Widows: Petronilla de Craon and her Contemporaries Louise J. Wilkinson 3. The Shining Sun of His Diocese: the Portrayal of the Ideal Bishop in Robert Grosseteste's Letter Collection Julian Haseldine 4. Depasturing in Welby, Lincolnshire, in 1259: an Early Trespass Case in the Court of King's Bench David Crook 5. Rethinking Criminous Clerks: Church/State Relations in the Late Thirteenth Century Philippa Hoskin 6. Indomitable Countesses: Katherine Swynford, Alice de Lacy and Resistance to the Crown David Stocker 7. The Estates of the Honour of Richmond in Lincolnshire at the End of the Fourteenth Century Michael Jones 8. The Wainfleet Haven Railway: Anatomy of a Failed Project R. C. Wheeler 9. Debating the Vote for Women at the Lincoln Diocesan Training School: National and Regional Testimonies to Women's Suffrage, 1909 Andrew J. H. Jackson, Claudia Capancioni, Sian Hope-Johnson, Elaine Johnson and Jasmine Mills 10. Addressing the Diocese in Wartime: Edward Lee Hicks, Bishop of Lincoln, and the Lincoln Diocesan Magazine, 1914-1919 Andrew Walker Edited documents 12. The Enthronement of Bishop Buckingham - Alison McHardy 13. The Lost Rolls of Bishop Oliver Sutton of Lincoln (1280-1299) David M. Smith† Index Tabula Gratulatoria