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PARISH PRIESTS AND THEIR PEOPLE.
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FROM THE XV. CENT. MS., EGERTON 2019, f. 142.
PARISH PRIESTS
AND THEIR PEOPLE
IN THE
MIDDLE AGES IN ENGLAND.
BY THE
REV. EDWARD L. CUTTS, D.D.,
AUTHOR OF “TURNING POINTS OF ENGLISH CHURCH HISTORY,”
“A DICTIONARY OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND,”
“A HANDY BOOK OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND,” ETC.
PUBLISHED UNDER THE DIRECTION OE THE TRACT COMMITTEE.
LONDON:
SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE.
NORTHUMBERLAND AVENUE, W.C.
43, QUEEN VICTORIA STREET, E.C.
BRIGHTON: 129, NORTH STREET.
Nŧ΅ YLjǡƫ: E & J. B. YOUNG AND CO.
1898.
PREFACE.
A great mass of material has of late years been brought within reach of the student, bearing upon the history of the religious life and customs of the English people during the period from their conversion, in the sixth and seventh centuries, down to the
Reformation of the Church of England in the sixteenth century; but this material is still to be found only in great libraries, and is therefore hardly within reach of the general reader.
The following chapters contain the results of some study of the subject among the treasures of the library of the British Museum; much of those results, it is believed, will be new, and all, it is hoped, useful, to the large number of general readers who happily, in these days, take an intelligent interest in English Church history.
The book might have been made shorter and lighter by giving fewer extracts from the original documents; but much of the history is new, and it seemed desirable to support it by sufficient evidence. The extracts have been, as far as possible, so chosen that each shall give some additional incidental touch to the filling up of the general picture.
The photographic reproductions of illuminations from MSS. of various dates, illustrating ecclesiastical ceremonies and clerical costumes, are
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