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HUGH, BISHOP OF LINCOLN

London : Edward Arnold : 1901


HUGH
BISHOP OF LINCOLN

A SHORT STORY OF ONE OF THE MAKERS OF MEDIAEVAL ENGLAND

by

CHARLES L. MARSON
Curate of Hambridge
Author of "The Psalms at Work," Etc.


                  Tua me, genitor, tua tristis imago
      Saepius occurens, haec limina tendere adegit.
      Stant sale Tyrrheno classes. Da jungere dextram
      Da, genitor; teque amplexu ne subtrahe nostro.

      AEN. VI. 695.







London
Edward Arnold
37, Bedford Street, Strand
1901




CONTENTS

CHAPTER                                   PAGE

      INTRODUCTION                         vii

   I. THE BOY HUGH                           1

  II. BROTHER HUGH                          12

 III. PRIOR HUGH                            26

  IV. THE BISHOP ELECT AND CONSECR