The Ames Foundation has been working for some time with Professor Shannon McSheffrey of Concordia University in Montreal, Québec, on what we hope will become an edition of two important collections of depositions from the consistory court of the bishop of London, dating from 1486–1497. There is also a small collection of acta of the same court dating from 1460. As explained in Professor McSheffrey’s Introduction, a transcription of the Latin and a preliminary English translation were for some time available on a website that she maintained. For inexcusable technical reasons, that website collapsed in 2021, and its contents cannot be recovered. Professor McSheffrey is working on reconstructing that site with a focus on the English translation and the social history that the translation reveals.

In the meantime, the Latin transcription with Professor McSheffrey’s Introduction, had no home. The Ames Foundation has agreed to host it. (It may also be found on the reconstructed website in a somewhat different form.) The Ames version may be reached by clicking on the link below. The entire work is subject to the Creative Commons license given at the bottom of this page.

GL 9065 and 9065B Latin transcription 2023-09-08.pdf

We have also obtained, through the kindness of Professor McSheffrey, JPEGs of the original documents. They cannot be displayed online, but we can share individual images to be used for private, non-commercial purposes only and not displayed online. Email us with the folio number, e.g. ‘LMA MS09065, fol. 15r’, and we’ll send you back the image.

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