The Diocese of Carlisle, 1814-1855: Chancellor Walter Fletcher's `Diocesan Book', with Additional Material from Bishop Percy's Parish Notebooks. (Cumb

By: Platt, Jane

The notebooks of bishops of Carlisle reveal a wealth of detail concerning clerical life at the time.

The volume presents three nineteenth-century manuscripts originally created for the use of bishops of Carlisle: Walter Fletcher's Diocesan Book, written between 1814 and 1845, and Bishop Hugh Percy's two parish notebooks, compiled between 1828 and 1855. Based on visitations, and on articles of enquiry now lost, they add to a growing body of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0854440747
• ISBN13: 9780854440740
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: Surtees Society
• Length: 520 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.4" x 8.7"