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The Diocese of Carlisle, 1814-1855 - Chancellor Walter Fletcher's `Diocesan Book', with additional material from Bishop Percy's parish notebooks. (Cumbria Archive Centre, Carlisle, MSS DCHA 11/14/1 and 11/15/1-2) (Hardcover)
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The Diocese of Carlisle, 1814-1855 - Chancellor Walter Fletcher's `Diocesan Book', with additional material from Bishop Percy's parish notebooks. (Cumbria Archive Centre, Carlisle, MSS DCHA 11/14/1 and 11/15/1-2) (Hardcover)
Series: Publications of the Surtees Society
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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
knowledge relating to the condition of the Church in the first half
of the nineteenth century, providing a unique record of livings in
the Carlisle diocese prior to its expansion in 1856. In particular,
they illuminate the concerns of two significant clerical figures.
In 1814 the newly installed chancellor, Walter Fletcher, set about
recordinghis primary visitation, updating his notes frequently
until the year before his death in 1846. In 1828 the newly
consecrated bishop, Hugh Percy, created his own diocesan record,
utilising Fletcher's material while adding matter of his own. The
popularity of Anglican ritualism since the advent of Tractarianism
has made it commonplace for the Georgian Church to be viewed with a
certain amount of disdain. The notebooks allow us a more objective
view ofthe period. Fletcher's notes on the 130 churches he visited
are particularly valuable in presenting a diligent, hard-working
clergyman, loyal to the Tory high-church traditions into which he
had been born, with a vision for the diocese which, above all, was
one of orderliness and obedience to canon law. The documents are
presented here with introduction and notes. Dr Jane Platt is an
honorary researcher in history at Lancaster University.
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