A Charge to the Clergy and Churchwardens of the Diocese of Salisbury: At His Triennial Visitation, in August, 1864

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Excerpt from A Charge to the Clergy and Churchwardens of the Diocese of SalisburyThe answers to the questions which I addressed in the month of February to 'the Rural Deans and the Officiating Ministers of the Diocese have given me very many details of the state of that part of our Church of which I am the Overseer. The declarations made by the Churchwardens and Sidesmen are no less satisfactory, except in the case of those articles of visitation and inquiry which regard the morals of their fellow parishioners. In these excepted and most important particulars, the Presentments are not always, I am well aware, a full representation of all the facts of the case. But it could not, under present circumstances, have been otherwise.