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A new unused book.

About the book >.>.> There follow two main parts. Part II describes the posts and offices and names the ministers who filled them with some circumstances of the association. Much of this is not new material though it is hoped that it will be convenient to have it all in one place. But the treatment of parish ministry over the period of the Civil War and Interregnum is I believe new and needed. What with ejections sequestrations and intrusions not to mention the neglect or destruction of records any historian may struggle to pin a named minister to his living or find who was ministering at a given parish. Thus Latimer and Lyon Turner describe Matthew Hassard as having been at St Mary Redcliffe in 1639 while Sacks has him as minister of St Philip’s; a position filled until 1650 according to Mortimer (following Wood) by Thomas Speed; and all of them are wrong. This is offered as the first full and correct guide to parish ministry and lecturers in this awkward period. (LL)