LINDA CLARK is Editor Emeritus at the History of Parliament. DES ATKINSON spent his career in the IT industry before studying for an MPhil in Medieval History from the University of Cambridge and a doctorate from the University of Exeter. His research focuses on the prelates of the late medieval English Church, in particular Dr John Morton, cardinal archbishop and chancellor to Henry VII. He supervised the publication of John Norden's 17th-century survey of Devon manors for the Friends of Devon Archives and is now working for the Victoria County History of Somerset. He is also completing a database of 15th-century ordination records for the Salisbury diocese.

• Changes in Monastic Historical Writing Throughout the Long Fifteenth Century - Claire Macht'Such Great Merits': The Pastoral Influence of a Learned Resident Vicar, John Hornley of Dartford - David N LepineGetting Connected: the Medieval Ordinand and his Search for Titulus - Desmond AtkinsonThe Political Career of William Ayscough, Bishop of Salisbury, 1438-50 - Samuel LaneEdward IV's Charta de Libertatibus Clericorum - Daniel GoslingA Playground of the Scots? Gaelic Ireland and the Stewart Monarchy in the Late Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries - Simon EganAn English Gentry Abroad: the Gentry of English Ireland - Brian ColemanIdentity Theft in Later Medieval London - Zosia EdwardsDying on Duty: A French Ambassador's Funeral in London in 1512 - Charles Giry-Deloison