The Visitation returns of William Wake, Bishop of Lincoln 1705-16, shed light on the history of over 1200 villages and the people who lived in them in six counties of England in the early years of the eighteenth century. Covering Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, Leicestershire and Lincolnshire, they contain detailed information about the population, religious affiliations, schooling, charities, church attendance, and much besides. Many individuals are named, particularly non-conformist preachers and those who transgressed church laws or were baptized as adults. Bishop Wake's Summary of Visitation Returns from the Diocese of Lincoln 1706-15 is published in two parts. Part 1 contains a comprehensive introduction to Bishop Wake and the Visitation returns. Documents included in this volume cover parishes in the Archdeaconries of Stow and Lincoln. Transcriptions of the summaries of the Visitations in 1706, 1709, and 1712 are given, together with additional material from the original returns from those years, and from 1715. This latest addition to the Records of Social and Economic History series will be a rich source of information for social historians, local and family historians of these counties, and church historians.

About the Author
John Broad is Chair of the Buckinghamshire Record Society, Editor of Records of Buckinghamshire, and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Current projects include a history of English rural housing since the late medieval period, and (with Richard Hoyle and Leigh Shaw-Taylor) a project to re-evaluate the 1798 Land Tax and the structure of landholding and tenancy c.1800. He is currently Visiting Academic at the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure, University of Cambridge.

Reviews
John Broad is to be congratulated on publishing these two volumes of Bishop Williams Wake's summary of his visitation returns while Bishop of london (1705-1716). This is a monumental piece of work for anyone, particularly given the size of the diocese of London in the eighteenth century ... a monumental work of scholarship and much be commended. * Phillip Tovey, ANAPHORA, The Journal of the Society for Liturgical Study *
Browsing through the two volumes, the amount of work completed [...] is astounding. * Heather Falvey, Journal of Continuity and Change *



Book Information
ISBN 9780197265185
Author John Broad
Format Hardback
Page Count 420
Imprint Oxford University Press
Publisher Oxford University Press
Weight(grams) 986g
Dimensions(mm) 241mm * 164mm * 37mm