The Bishop's Letter and Queries
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 February 2024
Summary
London, February 20th, 1821.
Reverend Sir,
INTENDING, by God's Assistance, to hold my Primary Visitation in the Summer of the present Year, I submit the following QUERIES to your Consideration, desiring you, after due Inquiry, to give PLAIN and DISTINCT ANSWERS to them, that I may become better acquainted with the present State of my Diocese, and, consequently, be the better enabled to provide for the due Administration of it.
I request you to return the Answers, signed with your Name and Direction, at length, to the Register of your Arch deaconry at the ensuing Archidiaconal Visitation, who will forward them to my Secretary, at Exeter. I heartily commend you to the Blessing of Almighty God, and remain,
REVEREND SIR,
Your Affectionate Brother,
W. Exeter.
N.B. It is desired that these Queries may be understood as addressed to the Incumbent of the Living, and not to the Curate, who should forward them to the Incumbent, in case he is not resident, accompanied by such Information as the Curate may think necessary, to enable the Incumbent to answer the several Enquiries; but, if it should happen that the Curate be uninformed of the Incumbent's Residence, or if he should, by Age or Infirmity, be disabled from giving the necessary Answers: in either of these Cases, they may be given by the Curate.
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- The Diocese of Exeter in 1821Bishop Carey's Replies to Queries before Visitation, pp. 1 - 2Publisher: Boydell & BrewerFirst published in: 2024