TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface INTRODUCTION 1. The papal chancery: Avignon and beyond Select Bibliography PETITIONS AND REGISTERS 2. Petitions to the Pope in the Fourteenth Century 3. Fiat A: the Earliest Known Roll of Petitions Signed by the Pope (1307) (with P. A. Linehan) 4. The Origins of the Registration of Petitions in the Papal Chancery in the First Half of the Fourteenth Century 5. Inextricabilis curie labyrinthus: the Presentation of Petitions to the Pope in the Chancery and the Penitentiary During the Fourteenth and First Half of the Fifteenth Century 6. Changes in the Registration of Papal Letters Under the Avignon Popes (1305-1378) THE CHANCERY AND ITS PRODUCTION 7. Some Early Letters of Pope Clement V (1305-14) in the National Archives 8. The Office of Notary in the Papal Chancery in the Mid-Fourteenth Century 9. At the Point of Death: Licences to Choose a Confessor in mortis articulo issued by the Avignon Popes THE ROLE OF THE POPE 10.The Personal Role of the Pope in the Production of Papal Letters in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries 11. The Political and Administrative Correspondence of the Avignon Popes, 1305-1378: a Contribution to Papal Diplomatic 12. Autograph Letters of the Avignon Popes PAPAL LETTERS AND ENGLISH HISTORY 13. The Letters of the Avignon Popes (1305-1378): a Source for the Study of Anglo-Papal Relations and of English Ecclesiastical History 14. Proctors Acting for English Petitioners in the Chancery of the Avignon Popes (1305-1378)…