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Edward Storey, Bishop of Chichester, 1422-1505: A Study in 15th Century Ecclesiastical Administration, by F. C. Walden-Aspy, 1951 at University of London (M.A. thesis)

Bishop Edward Story and the Chichester Cross, by Francis W. Steer, F.S.A., published 1955 (Chichester Papers no. 1, Chichester City Council) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries

The first in the official series to be known as "Chichester Papers" suggest a future bright with promise. The general editor, Mr. Steer, County Archivist for both East and West Sussex, knows intimately the material available for historians, antiquarians and others, the extent to which it has been utilised, and the most recent results obtained. He begins the first Paper with the remark "Chichester is a city of surprises." It is, indeed, in many senses. When Paper 1 was on its way through the press, for example, definitive evidence as to the exact date of Bishop Story's death suddenly emerged - just in time to be printed as a postscript. The monographs are uniform in size, printed in good type on good paper, and easy of reference because the stout paper cover is in each case of a different colour. There is plenty still to discover, and every hope of conditions favourable to such further additions to knowledge.

The Register of Edward Story, bishop of Chichester 1478-1503, edited by Janet Stevenson, published 21 April 2016 (365 pp., Canterbury & York Society, ISBN-10: 090723979X & ISBN-13: 9780907239796)

Edward Story, fellow of Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, and later master of Michaelhouse, was also, in two terms as chancellor, a university administrator. But it was as a royal servant that he rose to eminence from about 1460 to servesucceeding monarchs with the impartial efficiency of a career civil servant. Bishop of Carlisle from 1468, he was translated in 1478 to Chichester, which, although conterminous with the county of Sussex, contained several exemptjurisdictions, notably the archbishop of Canterbury's deanery of South Malling. The register begins with Story's primary visitation of his diocese. The full record reveals both the shortcomings of the cathedral chapter and of those religious houses subject to episcopal jurisdiction. Besides purely diocesan matters such as ordinations, collations and institutions, clerical indiscipline and the exercise of his judicial authority, the extraordinary actions required of the bishop are reflected not only in reports of local suspicions of heresy, but also in matters of national importance such as summonses to convocation, clerical taxation, natural disasters such as plague, and external threats to the kingdom. The documents are presented here with full notes and introduction.