Bedfordshire Chapels and Meeting Houses: Official Registration 1672-1901

Bringing together the evidence from a wide range of documentary sources, this volume provides comprehensive information on Bedfordshire chapels and meeting houses from licensing and registration records. Very well illustrated, thebook will be invaluable to students of religious history, local historians and genealogists.   paperback   ISBN 978-0-851-55058-9

Price:  £15.00

Bedfordshire Churches in the Nineteenth Century III

The third in a series of four extensively researched volumes describing Bedfordshire's parish churches in detail, this book will appeal to anyone interested in old churches. The aim is to present a detailed account of each church together with text from five important nineteenth century sources.   paperback   ISBN 978-0-851-55063-3

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Clerical Poll-Taxes in the Diocese of Lincoln 1377-81

The clergy of England, like the laity, were subjected to a series of poll-taxes within a short space of time. This volume prints the surviving assessments made of the clergy of the diocese of Lincoln in the years 1377, 1379 and1381. Most of the material relates to the old county of Lincoln (now Lincolnshire and South Humberside) but there are also surveys of Leicestershire, Rutland, most of Bedfordshire, and parts of Huntingdonshire and Hertfordshire. These poll-tax asessments represent what was virtually a census of the clerical population whose members were listed parish by parish. The documents show us not only that the number of clergy was very great, but that most were without benefices, and that they tended to gather in areas of high prosperity. Publication of this material offers the opportunity to make a reassessment of the clergy and, hence, church of late medieval England. Dr A.K. McHARDY is lecturer in history at the University of Nottingham and has edited The Church in London 1375-1392 for the London Record Society.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-901-50354-1

Price:  £25.00