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Visitations of Devonshire churches [1301-30]

Trans. Devon. Assoc. 42 (1910), pp. 446-474.

by

H.M. Whitley

Prepared by Michael Steer

Visitations are the means by which Bishops can gather information about their diocese, and monitor the performance of their clergy. Canon law decrees that visitations are to be undertaken every three years. At Exeter, for example, the process involved months of planning before the Bishop could embark on a tour of his diocese. In an oft-quoted remark, visitations have been described as, 'The keystone of the arch of ecclesiastical administration... upon which to a considerable degree the good estate of the church depends'. Google with the Archive Organization has sponsored the digitisation of books from several libraries. The Internet Archive makes available, in its Community Texts Collection (originally known as Open Source Books), books that have been digitised by Google from a number of libraries. These are books on which copyright has expired, and are available free for educational and research use. This rare book was produced from a copy held by the New York Public Library, and is available from the Internet Archive.