ABSTRACT
The historian always hopes to find new evidence, and even well-worked fields do not disappoint him. Often the advance is made by turning from chronicles, letters, and legal documents to new kinds of sources. The account books of government and business, the service books of the Church, the armorials and genealogies of heraldry, scholastic learning in all its forms, and inscriptions on coins, seals, and monuments all supply new types of written evidence. The most detailed and reliable source for the history of the Council of Bourges is a lengthy eyewitness account that survives in several independent versions, all of English provenance. Two aspects of the Council of Bourges are reported in the annals of the Au-gustinian priory at Dunstable, about thirty-five miles north of London. The archbishops, bishops, and abbots present at Bourges are enumerated with apparent exactitude in a brief notice on the council which was published from an old chronicle by Devic and Vaissete.
