KNIGHTON, C(harles) S(tephen Richard) 1950-

PERSONAL:

Born May 20, 1950, in Market Harborough, Leicestershire, England; son of Charles Freeman (a printer) and Mary (Hopewell) Knighton. Education: Magdalene College, Cambridge, B.A., 1971, M.A., 1975, Ph.D., 1976; Magdalen College, Oxford, M.A., 1976, D.Phil., 1976. Religion: Church of England.

ADDRESSES:

Home—Thatched Cottage, The Common, Lavenham, Suffolk, England

CAREER:

Public Record Office, London, England, editor, 1974—. Cambridge University, deputy editor of the catalog of the Pepys Library at Magdalene College, 1997—.

MEMBER:

Society of Antiquaries (fellow), Navy Records Society (member of council, 2001—).

WRITINGS:

(Compiler) Catalogue of the Pepys Library at Magdalene College, Cambridge, Volume 5: Manuscripts, Part 2: Modern, Rowman & Littlefield (Totowa, NJ), 1981.

(Editor, with David Marcombe) Close Encounters: English Cathedrals and Society since 1540, Department of Adult Education, University of Nottingham (Nottingham, England), 1991.

(Editor) Calendar of State Papers: Domestic Series of the Reign of Edward VI, 1547-1553, Her Majesty's Stationery Office (London, England), 1992.

(Editor) The Acts of the Dean and Chapter of Westminster, 1543-1609, Boydell & Brewer (Woodbridge, England), Series 1: The First Collegiate Church, 1543-1556, 1997, Series 2: 1560-1609 1999.

(Editor) Calendar of State Papers: Domestic Series of the Reign of Mary I, 1553-1558, Public Record Office (London, England), 1998.

(Editor, with D. M. Loades) The Anthony Roll of Henry VIII's Navy, Ashgate Publishing (Aldershot, England), 2000.

(With D. M. Loades) Letters from the Mary Rose, Sutton Publishing (Stroud, England), 2002.

(Editor, with R. Mortimer) Westminster Abbey Reformed: 1540-1640, Ashgate Publishing (Aldershot, England), 2003.

(Supervising editor) Calendar of Inquisitions Miscellaneous, VIII, 1422-1485, Boydell & Brewer (Woodbridge, England), 2003.

Pepys: A Naval Life, Sutton Publishing (Stroud, England), 2003.

Contributor to books, including Princes and Paupers in the English Church, 1500-1800, edited by F. M. Heal and R. M. O'Day, Leicester University Press (Leicester, England), 1981; Law and Government under the Tudors, edited by M. C. Cross, D. M. Loades, and J. J. Scarisbrick, Cambridge University Press (Cambridge, England), 1989; Chronicles of the Tudor Kings, edited by D. M. Loades, Garamond (London, England), 1990; Samuel Pepys and the Second Dutch War: Pepys's Navy White Book and Brooke House Papers, edited by R. Latham, Scolar Press (Aldershot, England), 1995; and Faith and Fabric: A History of Rochester Cathedral, 604-1994, edited by W. N. Yates and P. A. Welsby, Boydell & Brewer (Woodbridge, England), 1996. Contributor to periodicals, including Antiquaries Journal and Mariner's Mirror.

WORK IN PROGRESS:

Editing Acts of the Dean and Chapter of Westminster, 1609-1642, for Boydell & Brewer (Woodbridge, England); editing Documents of the Legateship of Cardinal Pole, with V. M. Murphy and T. F. Mayer, for Paul Watkins Publishing (Donington, Lincolnshire, England); editing Fragments of Ancient English Shipwrightry, with R. A. Barker and S. A. Johnston, for Navy Records Society.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

English Historical Review, June, 2000, Penry Williams, review of Calendar of State Papers: Domestic Series of the Reign of Mary I, 1553-1558 and Calendar of State Papers: Domestic Series of the Reign of Edward VI, 1547-1553, p. 716; April, 2002, C. S. L. Davies, review of The Anthony Roll of Henry VIII's Navy, p. 467.

Journal of Ecclesiastical History, April, 2000, J. F. Merritt, review of The Acts of the Dean and Chapter of Westminster, 1543-1609, p. 416.