behalf. He accepted the offer and spent most of his time searching the mediaeval Papal Registers in order to find all the dealings between the Papacy and Great Britain and Ireland. This job required Bliss to spend nine months of each year in Rome and this became Bliss' habit until he died at the Via Delphini in 1911. His wife raised the children in England and remained an Anglican. At first the Papal bureaucrats were suspicious of an Englishmen. He won them over and by 1886 he was the English Tutor to Victor Emmanuel, heir to the Italian crown. He enjoyed cordial relations with the Italian Royal family. In the Vatican Bliss produced a series called the Calendar of The Entries in the Papal Registers Relating to British Isles Volumes I and II. These were entirely Bliss's work. He edited volumes III, IV, and V with collaborators. Other work Bliss also studied the transcripts of manuscripts in Milan and Stockholm. His work from these cities is still available in the Public Record Office. Overall, his output is an important source of material for mediaeval historians. Bliss is buried in Rome. His papers are kept at Downside Abbey. Publications 1867 The Canons of the First Four General Councils 1894/95 Calendar of The Entries in the Papal Registers Relating to British Isles Volumes I and II 1896 Calendars of Petitions to the Pope Volume I, 1342–1419 1897 Calendar of The Entries in the Papal Registers Relating to British Isles Volume III (with C. Johnson). 1902 Calendar of The Entries in the Papal Registers Relating to British Isles Volume IV (with Jesse Alfred Twemlow) 1904 Calendar of The Entries in the Papal Registers Relating to British Isles Volume V (with J. A. Twemlow) 1913 Calendar of State Papers and Manuscripts Existing in the Archives Collections in Milan, Volume I 1385–1618 References Martin Murphy. "From Oxford to Rome" Bliss Vol. 2 No 16, December 2005. 1835 births 1909 deaths People from Bath, Somerset 19th-century English historians 19th-century English Anglican priests Alumni of Magdalen College, Oxford English Roman Catholics Anglican priest converts to Roman Catholicism