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A new unused book.

About the book >.>.> The documents selected for this collection form only a tiny fragment of the vast mass of material on the churches and religious life of eighteenth- century Bristol. They have been chosen to illustrate some of the less well-known types of material including collections held outside Bristol such as those of the SPCK and Dr Williams Library in London and the Methodist Archives at John Rylands University Library Manchester but also the largely untapped riches of the Moravian archives held in Bristol University Library. Other significant collections not represented here are the Quaker sources in the Bevan-Naish Collection at Woodbridge College Selly Oak in Birmingham and at Friends’ House Library in London or the Baptist materials in the Angus Library Regents Park College Oxford. In Bristol itself there are the rich resources of Bristol Baptist College Wesley College the New Room and the Bristol Collection in Bristol Reference Library as well as those of Bristol Record Office with its holdings for Lewins’ Mead Presbyterians the Tabernacle and other Independent congregations the Broadmead Baptists and the Quakers not to mention most of seventeen or more Anglican parishes and the diocesan records. As this extensive list suggests Bristol had the liveliest and most varied religious experience of any eighteenth-century English town (save London) although this history is for the most part unexplored by recent historians. (LL)