\'The Patriarch \' is the final volume of text of \'The Complete Diary of a Cotswold Parson\', the diary of Francis Edward Witts 1783-1854.
Francis Witts was a Gloucestershire magistrate and well connected in county society..
From his first jottings as a precocious 15 year old to his final entry in 1854, the diaries extend to more than 2.5 million words. \'The Patriarch \' is the final volume of text of \'The Complete Diary of a Cotswold Parson\', the diary of Francis Edward Witts 1783-1854