Sodor and Man

Sodor and Man
Author: Arthur William Moore
Publisher:
Total Pages: 298
Release: 1893
Genre: Church and state
ISBN:

Records of Convocation: Sodor and Man 1878-2003

Records of Convocation: Sodor and Man 1878-2003
Author: Gerald Lewis Bray
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Total Pages: 512
Release: 2005
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781843831778

The convocation records of the Churches of England and Ireland are the principal source of our information about the administration of those churches from middle ages until modern times. They contain the minutes of clergy synods, the legislation passed by them, tax assessments imposed by the king on the clergy, and accounts of the great debates about religious reformation; they also include records of heresy trials in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, many of them connected with the spread of Lollardy. However, they have never before been edited or published in full, and their publication as a complete set of documents provides a valuable resource for scholarship. This volume contains the convocation records of the modern diocese, detailing day-to-day administration over the last century and a quarter, none of which has been published before. The verbatim accounts of proceedings in convocation give a clear insight into Manx social history during the period. There are also appendixes listing diocesan officials and giving an abstract of the tithe accounts from the commutation of tithes in 1839 to their complete abolition in 1946.