William Wake, as bishop of Lincoln, invented a new way to conduct his triennial visitations: he sent round to the clergy a printed list of questions which needed written answers. His enquiries covered not just clergy incomes and church services, but also the number of families in each parish; schools; charities; the number of nonconformists, with their teachers' names: a cross-section of life in Bedfordshire parishes.
- ISBN10 0851550614
- ISBN13 9780851550619
- Publish Date 31 October 2002
- Publish Status Inactive
- Out of Print 28 May 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Bedfordshire Historical Record Society
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 272
- Language English