Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Content
- Editor's Note
- Introduction
- Pre-Reformation Statutes
- The Book of Spiritual Laws and Customs, 1577
- Spiritual Ordinances of 1594
- The Customary Laws Of 1598
- Early Seventeenth-Century Convocations
- Spiritual Ordinances and Customary Laws, 1643
- The Injunction of 1658
- The Instructions of Bishop Barrow, 1663
- The Accustomed Unwritten Ecclesiastical Laws, 1667
- The Convocations Of 1680
- The Convocation Of 26 July 1683
- The Convocation Of 17 August 1685
- The Proclamation of Bishop Levinz, 1690
- The Act Against Non-Residence, 1696
- The Convocation of 3 February 1704
- The Convocations Of Bishop Thomas Wilson, 1704-54
- Bishop Mark Hildesley (1755-72)
- Bishop Richard Richmond (1773-80)
- Bishop George Mason (1780-3)
- Bishop Claudius Crigan (1784-1813)
- Bishop George Murray (1814-27)
- Bishop William Ward (1828-38)
- Bishop James Bowstead (1838-40)
- Bishop Henry Pepys (1840-1)
- Bishop Thomas Vowler Short (1841-6)
- Bishop Walter Augustus Shirley (1846-7)
- Bishop Robert John Eden (1847-54)
- Bishop Horatio Powys (1854-77)
- Bishop Wilson's Parochial Libraries
- Bishops in the Isle of Man
- Lords of Man
- Governors and Lieutenant-Governors of the Isle of Man
- The Parishes and Chaplaincies of the Isle of Man
- Chronological List of the Clergy by Parishes
- Index of the Clergy (Alphabetical)
- Bibliography
- Index of References to Holy Scripture
- Index of Persons and Places
- Index Of Subjects
Bishop Wilson's Parochial Libraries
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 January 2024
- Frontmatter
- Content
- Editor's Note
- Introduction
- Pre-Reformation Statutes
- The Book of Spiritual Laws and Customs, 1577
- Spiritual Ordinances of 1594
- The Customary Laws Of 1598
- Early Seventeenth-Century Convocations
- Spiritual Ordinances and Customary Laws, 1643
- The Injunction of 1658
- The Instructions of Bishop Barrow, 1663
- The Accustomed Unwritten Ecclesiastical Laws, 1667
- The Convocations Of 1680
- The Convocation Of 26 July 1683
- The Convocation Of 17 August 1685
- The Proclamation of Bishop Levinz, 1690
- The Act Against Non-Residence, 1696
- The Convocation of 3 February 1704
- The Convocations Of Bishop Thomas Wilson, 1704-54
- Bishop Mark Hildesley (1755-72)
- Bishop Richard Richmond (1773-80)
- Bishop George Mason (1780-3)
- Bishop Claudius Crigan (1784-1813)
- Bishop George Murray (1814-27)
- Bishop William Ward (1828-38)
- Bishop James Bowstead (1838-40)
- Bishop Henry Pepys (1840-1)
- Bishop Thomas Vowler Short (1841-6)
- Bishop Walter Augustus Shirley (1846-7)
- Bishop Robert John Eden (1847-54)
- Bishop Horatio Powys (1854-77)
- Bishop Wilson's Parochial Libraries
- Bishops in the Isle of Man
- Lords of Man
- Governors and Lieutenant-Governors of the Isle of Man
- The Parishes and Chaplaincies of the Isle of Man
- Chronological List of the Clergy by Parishes
- Index of the Clergy (Alphabetical)
- Bibliography
- Index of References to Holy Scripture
- Index of Persons and Places
- Index Of Subjects
Summary
There is a list extant (in Dr Wilson's hand) giving the titles of forty books which he or his friends gave to parochial libraries in the diocese.600 It has recently been printed in M. Perkin, A directory of the parochial libraries of the Church of England and the Church in Wales (London: Bibliographical Society, 2004) p. 443. All but two of these books are mentioned in the convocation records, which also give the dates of acquisition by the libraries. Items 1-27 and 29-34 are in the inventoried list produced in 1725 and printed on pp. 159-61 above. Wilson's handlist is reproduced here with the corresponding numbers in the 1725 inventory (where applicable) and the year of acquisition. More detailed information is provided for the others.
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- Records of Convocation , pp. 409 - 410Publisher: Boydell & BrewerFirst published in: 2024