These chapters are but part of a larger work on the Elizabethan Parish designed to cover all the Aspects of Parish government.
The material already in print for such a study is very voluminous, the accumulation of texts having progressed more rapidly than the use of them by scholars..
Webb deals in the main with the Parish subsequent to the year 1688. and Mrs.
The work of Toulmin Smith was written to defend a theory, while the recent history of Mr.
There is need of a comprehensive study of the Parish institutions of this period, owing to the fact that no modern work exists that in any thorough way pretends to discuss the subject.
These chapters are but part of a larger work on the Elizabethan Parish designed to cover all the Aspects of Parish government
