30 October 1559 A.D.
Bishop John Jewel Completes His Diocesan Visitations—Sarum, Bristol, Bath and
Wells, Goucestshire, & Devonshire http://reformationanglicanism.blogspot.com/2013/08/mr-rtrev-john-jewel-bishop-of-salisbury.html “The
commissioners intrusted with the visitation were chiefly laymen. The kingdom
was apportioned among several committees, in each of which there was one
clerical member. Jewell held this place in the committee appointed to visit the
dioceses of Sarum, Bristol, Bath and Wells, and Gloucester—a district including
Devonshire, his own native county." The method of visitation was by
progress through the district, holding sittings at every principal town, and
making the requisite examinations and inquiries relative to the neighboring
parishes, both in writing, and by personal inspection. Jewell's committee began
this progress on the 1st of August, 1559, and were occupied in its prosecution
until the 30th of October; travelling more than seven hundred miles in the
interval.”
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