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Popular Religion in Sixteenth-Century England pp 1–26Cite as

Introduction

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Between 1462 and 1479, the inhabitants of villages in the deanery of Wisbech (Isle of Ely) made their presentments to the bishop’s consistory court, responding to official requests for information on local misdemeanours of a moral or religious nature. This was a routine procedure, and the evidence is unusual only in that it has survived. Detailed records of ecclesiastical visitations in the fifteenth century are rarely found. The evidence is extremely valuable, and enables us to form an impression of the state of religious affairs at the parish level, from the viewpoint of the parishioners themselves (or at least of their chosen representatives, the churchwardens).1

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Introduction

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  1. Queen’s University of Belfast, UK

    Christopher Marsh (Lecturer in History)

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Marsh, C. (1998). Introduction. In: Popular Religion in Sixteenth-Century England. Social History in Perspective. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-26740-8_1

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