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Bishop Wake's Summary of Visitation Returns from the Diocese of Lincoln 1706-15
John . Ed(S): Broad
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Description for Bishop Wake's Summary of Visitation Returns from the Diocese of Lincoln 1706-15
Transcriptions of the summary returns illuminate the life of the Archdeaconries of Huntingdon, Bedford, Leicester and Buckingham in the early eighteenth century, providing detailed information about the villages: their population, religious affiliations, schooling, charities, and church attendance. Editor(s): Broad, John. Series: Records of Social & Economic History. Num Pages: 520 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JF; HBJD1; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 170 x 243 x 41. Weight in Grams: 1130.
The Visitation returns of William Wake, Bishop of Lincoln 1705-16, shed light on the history of over 1200 villages and the people who lived in them in six counties of England in the early years of the eighteenth century. Covering Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, Leicestershire and Lincolnshire, they contain detailed information about the population, religious affiliations, schooling, charities, church attendance, and much besides. Many individuals are named, particularly non-conformist preachers and those who transgressed church laws or were baptized as adults. Bishop Wake's Summary of Visitation Returns from the Diocese of Lincoln 1706-15 is published in two parts. Part ... Read more
The Visitation returns of William Wake, Bishop of Lincoln 1705-16, shed light on the history of over 1200 villages and the people who lived in them in six counties of England in the early years of the eighteenth century. Covering Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, Leicestershire and Lincolnshire, they contain detailed information about the population, religious affiliations, schooling, charities, church attendance, and much besides. Many individuals are named, particularly non-conformist preachers and those who transgressed church laws or were baptized as adults. Bishop Wake's Summary of Visitation Returns from the Diocese of Lincoln 1706-15 is published in two parts. Part ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
520
Condition
New
Series
Records of Social & Economic History
Number of Pages
520
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780197265192
SKU
V9780197265192
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99-29
About John . Ed(S): Broad
John Broad is Chair of the Buckinghamshire Record Society, Editor of Records of Buckinghamshire, and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Current projects include a history of English rural housing since the late medieval period, and (with Richard Hoyle and Leigh Shaw-Taylor) a project to re-evaluate the 1798 Land Tax and the structure of landholding and tenancy c.1800. He ... Read more
Reviews for Bishop Wake's Summary of Visitation Returns from the Diocese of Lincoln 1706-15
John Broad is to be congratulated on publishing these two volumes of Bishop Williams Wake's summary of his visitation returns while Bishop of london (1705-1716). This is a monumental piece of work for anyone, particularly given the size of the diocese of London in the eighteenth century ... a monumental work of scholarship and much be commended.
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