EPISCOPAL REFERENCE BOOK OF EDMUND GIBSON

A compilation of ecclesiastical and secular materials made apparently by Edmund Gibson, Bishop of London (1723), and partly in his hand, for use in connection with his episcopal and parliamentary duties. The contents are as follows:

List [by Gibson] of the Heads of Oxford and Cambridge Colleges and Halls (f. 1r& suphyp;v).

Index [by Gibson] of the Thirty-nine Articles and of the Constitutions and Canons of 1603 (ff. 2-3v).

Index [by Gibson] of the 'Remembrances for Order and Decency to be kept in the Upper House of Parliament.' See ff. 96-117 (ff. 4-6).

Acts of Uniformity of 1 Eliz. 1 and 13 Chas. II extracted from a Prayer Book (ff. 7-9v).

'An Act for the Ministers of the Church to be of sound Religion. 13 Eliz. Cap. 12'. In Gibson's hand (ff. 9v-10).

Extracts [by Gibson] from An Act for the better maintenance of curates (12 Anne Cap. 12), and An Act for rendering more effectual an Act made in the third year of King James the First (12 Anne Cap. 14) (f. 10v).

Table of moveable feasts, 1700-39 (f. 11), and various rubrics extracted from the Prayer Book (ff. 11v-15v).

The Thirty-nine Articles and the Constitutions and Canons of 1603 (ff. 16-60).

Table of the Kings of England to George II (ff. 60v-61), and table of regnal years to 1726 (ff. 61-4).

A new review of London, [1721]. Missing all before p. 5 (ff. 66-83v).

Pages from a directory containing the number of towns and parishes English and Welsh dioceses and details of parliamentary representation of counties; post roads; distance of Oxford from various towns (printed) (ff. 84-7).

List [by Gibson] of the occupants of sees in England and Wales. The latest entry is dated 1744 (ff. 88-95).

'Remembrances for Order and Decency to be kept in the Upper House of Parliament by the Lords when his Majesty is not there ...' See ff. 4-6 (ff. 96-117).

List of incumbents, lecturers, and curates for each parish and of preachers in chapels in the diocese of London, c. 1730 (ff. 118v-123v).

List [by Gibson] of Chaplains in Ordinary, 1726 (ff. 124-125v).

List [by Gibson] of the Deans and Canons of Canterbury, Westminster, Windsor, Worcester, and Christ Church, Oxford (ff. 125v-127).

List [by Gibson] of the value of bishoprics and deaneries in Ireland (ff. 127v-128v).

Old shelfmarks 17.D.22 and No.44.Cf. MSS/1741-3. Given by W. O. P. Rosedale through the Friends of Lambeth Palace Library, 1968.

Vii + 136 ff.