Stephen C Taylor 
From Cranmer to Davidson 
A Church of England Miscellany

Important texts in the Church’s history collected together in one volume.


This first miscellany volume to be published by the Church of England Record Society contains eight edited texts covering aspects of the history of the Church from the Reformation to the early twentieth century. The longest contribution is a scholarly edition of W.J. Conybeare’s famous and influential article on nineteenth-century ‘Church Parties’; other documents included are the protests against Archbishop Cranmer’s metropolitical powers of visitation, the petitions to the Long Parliament in support of the Prayer Book, and Randall Davidson’s memoir on the role of the archbishop of Canterbury in the early twentieth century.


Stephen Taylor is Professor in the History of Early Modern England, University of Durham.


Contributors: PAUL AYRIS, MELANIE BARBER, ARTHUR BURNS, JUDITH MALTBY, ANTHONY MILTON, ANDREW ROBINSON, STEPHEN TAYLOR, BRETT USHER, ALEXANDRA WALSHAM

Table of Content

Thomas Cranmer and the metropolitical visitation of Canterbury province 1533-1535 – Paul Ayris

Edward Brocklesby: `The first put out of his living for the surplice’ – Brett Usher

Richard Montagu: `Concerning Recusancie of Communion with the church of England’ (with Dr Anthony Milton) – Alexandra M Walsham

Richard Montagu: `Concerning Recusancie of Communion with the Church of England’ (with Dr Alexandra Walsham). – Anthony Milton

Petitions for episcopacy and the Book of Common Prayer on the eve of the civil war, 1641-1642 – Judith D Maltby

Bishop Gibson’s proposals for church reform – S J C Taylor

Samuel Horsley: `Thoughts on civil government’ – Andrew Robinson

W.J. Conybeare: `Church parties’ – R.A. Burns

Randall Davidson on the role of the archbishop – Melanie Barber