Review of Michael Gladwin, Anglican Clergy in Australia 1788-1850: Building a British World (Royal Historical Society/Boydell Press, Woodbridge, 2015).
Michael Gladwin, Anglican Clergy in Australia 1788-1850: Building a British World (Royal Historical Society/Boydell Press,…
Using the Clergy Database and the Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae, 1541–1857: problems of ‘career modelling’ and some potential solutions
This paper examines the difficulties inherent in tracing a clergyman in the records of the established church in early modern England. It describes the problems faced by the compilers of the Fasti series and the Clergy Database in determining whether multiple records refer to a single individual or two or more contemporaries sharing the same names, and describes, for the first time, the methodologies followed by Fasti editors. For times when these secondary sources cannot resolve the issue, the researcher is directed to certain classes of primary sources that may do so.
Sussex Clergy Inventories 1600-1750, ed. Annabelle Hughes (2009)
Citation Information To cite this review: W. M. Jacob, ‘Review: Sussex Clergy Inventories 1600-1750, ed….
James Mayne [cce-id 70753], curate of Bethnal Green
The story of James Mayne, curate of Bethnal Green between 1823 and 1842, has been highlighted by Patsy Kensit in the BBC1 programme Who Do You Think You Are? It provides a fascinating insight into the problems posed for the Church of England in the East End of London by rapidly expanding population and the consequent social problems in the first half of the nineteenth century. Mayne was also a literate, one of the non-University educated clergy, and he provides an example of the careers of a group of clergy often neglected in the history of the Church.
George Pretyman, bishop of Lincoln, and the University of Cambridge 1787-1801
Abstract This article examines the role of George Pretyman, bishop of Lincoln, as church appointments…
Bishops and their dioceses: reform of visitation in the Anglican church c.1680–c.1760
Abstract After the upheavals of mid century the restored episcopate was faced with rebuilding the…
Samuel Reveley [cce-id 6229], vicar of Crosby Ravensworth, Westmorland 1757-1809: an exiled cleric
Abstract Ralf Lawson Reveley researched the history of the Reveley family for twenty years, and…
Clergy lists, chapels and curates: some observations made and problems defined from Derbyshire 1558–1662
Abstract This paper examines some of the problems involved in creating full and accurate lists…