A Report to the Convocation of the Province of Canterbury on the Ecclesiastical Records of the Diocese of Bath and Wells to Which Is Attached a Short Account of the Church Plate Now in the Custody of the Dean and Chapter of Wells and of the Parochial Cler

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Excerpt from A Report to the Convocation of the Province of Canterbury on the Ecclesiastical Records of the Diocese of Bath and Wells to Which Is Attached a Short Account of the Church Plate Now in the Custody of the Dean and Chapter of Wells and of the Parochial Cler My Lord Bishop, In February 1905 the joint committee of the two houses of Convocation of the province of Canterbury, which had been formed a year before, made its first report on Ecclesiastical Records, and their Custody and the first of the Resolutions adopted by both Houses of Convocation at that Session was as follows: - That it is advisable that a Commission should be issued by the Bishop of each Diocese charged with the duty of ascertaining of what records the several officers of the Church in the Diocese are at present custodians. In July of that year your lordship was requested in pursuance of this object to appoint in this diocese a commission to report as the two Houses of Convocation had desired, and shortly after you selected as the members of this commission the Rev. Canon Church, Subdean and Canon Residentiary of Wells, the Rev. C. Taylor, Vicar of Bauwell, the Rev. F. W. Weaver, Vicar of Milton Clevedon, and myself. Mr. Church did not feel able to accept your invitation, and so the work, if it was to be undertaken at all, fell upon Mr, Taylor, Mr. Weaver and myself. On three occasions we three therefore met and discussed methods by which the information desired could be procured and when procured tabulated in the form of a report. But it was obvious to us all that such information could not be obtained without considerable expense and where to find these funds we could not imagine. We made various suggestions but met with no response and the project collapsed or hung fire until these funds were forthcoming. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.