Excerpt from Memorials of the Church of Ss, Peter and Wilfrid, Ripon, Vol. 2

This volume consists of two distinct parts, viz. the extracts from the Archbishop's registers at York, and the Fasti Riponienses. The former were undertaken some time ago at the suggestion of Canon Raine, whose intimate acquaintance with the registers enabled him to say with confidence that much might be found in them which would be of great interest in connection with the Church of Eipon. To go through all the likely portions of the registers, and extract the portions that seemed suitable for our purpose, was a work of some weeks of close application day by day, and after all it is quite likely that some matters of great interest may have been missed. It is hoped, however, that what is here presented will be thought by many members of the Surtees Society to fully justify all the labour and expense of collecting and printing. To attempt any complete analysis of the miscellaneous materials for Ripon history now made public for the first time would be almost superfluous. Anyone running his eye along the side-notes or the columns of the index, both of which have been made as complete as possible, may see that we have here much that throws additional light not only on Ripon Church history and social life, but is of interest in connection with the history of the Church of England and even of the country. In judging, however, of the moral and religious condition of the clergy and people the same kind of caution must be observed as was recommended in the Preface to the Chapter Acts.

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