Episcopal Visitations in Bedfordshire, 1706-1720 (Publications Bedfordshire Hist Rec Soc)

by Patricia Bell

William Wake, as bishop of Lincoln, invented a new way to conduct his triennial visitations: he sent round to the clergy a printed list of questions which needed written answers. His enquiries covered not just clergy incomes and church services, but also the number of families in each parish; schools; charities; the number of nonconformists, with their teachers' names: a cross-section of life in Bedfordshire parishes.

272 pages, Hardcover

First published October 31, 2002

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