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Nineteenth-century parochial sources
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 March 2016
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Ecclesiastical history of the nineteenth century, and of other periods where records are plentiful, can be written on three main levels. It can and has been studied at national level in broad movements and through the activities of prominent churchmen. It can and has been studied, though less often and less successfully, at diocesan level, in an analysis of visitation returns, in the activities of diocesan bishops and in the work of lesser churchmen. And it can and should more often be written from parochial sources, since it is from them that the effects of national movements can be traced and their success or failure assessed. The task may seem, on the face of it, to be daunting, but the survival of useful material has, in fact, been poor in every diocese, and the total task becomes therefore much more manageable.
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- Studies in Church History , Volume 11: The Materials Sources and Methods of Ecclesiastical History , 1975 , pp. 301 - 308
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- Copyright © Ecclesiastical History Society 1975
References
1 S[omerset] R[ecord] O[ffice], D/P/h.ep. 2/5/1.
2 DNB, article by S. L. Ollard.
3 Ibid.
4 Ibid.
5 SRO, D/P/she.b. 2/5/1.
6 DNB.
7 SRO, D/P/she.b. 9/1/1 (1822-1921).
8 Ibid 4/1/1 (1705-1828), 4/1/2 (1894-1954).
9 Ibid 2/5/7.
10 She also took classes for girls at Barrington and with her mother was actively interested in the schools of both villages.
11 Bath and Wells Diocesan Kalendar, 1887.
12 DNB.
13 SRO, D/P/barr 2/5/1.
14 Ibid 9/1/1 (1862-1923).
15 Ibid 4/3/2.
16 SRO, D/D/V returns 1815.
17 PRO H.O. 129/317/3/11/17.
18 Victoria History of Somerset ii. 348.
19 The population in 1891 was 416: Victoria History of Somerset ii. 348.
20 SRO, D/P/much. 23/4.
21 278 in 1871, 256 in 1881, 240 in 1891: Victoria History of Somerset ii. 348.
22 The journal survives as extracts made by Toogood’s grandson, the reverend P. L. Snowden, now in the custody of the vicar of North Petherton, the reverend B. A. A. Whiting.
23 A ‘Preachers’ Book’ survives from 1851.
24 SRO, D/P/barr. 2/5/1.
25 SRO, D/P/pitn. 23/1.