Records of Convocation XVIII: Ireland, 1690-1869, Part 2: Lower House: 1703-13; Both Houses: 1714-1869 (Records of Convocation, 18)

The convocation records of the Churches of England and Ireland are the principal source of our information about the administration of those churches from middle ages until modern times. They contain the minutes of clergy synods,the legislation passed by them, tax assessments imposed by the king on the clergy, and accounts of the great debates about religious reformation; they also include records of heresy trials in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries,many of them connected with the spread of Lollardy. However, they have never before been edited or published in full, and their publication as a complete set of documents provides a valuable resource for scholarship. This volume contains the [incomplete] acts of the lower house of convocation in the reign of Queen Anne, as well as all the material dealing with the institution's survival after 1713. Of particular interest are the correspondence surrounding the act of union in 1800 and the political manoeuverings leading up to disestablishment in the 1860s. The volume also contains extensive appendixes, including the Nova taxatio of Pope Nicholas IV for Ireland, the Valor ecclesiasticus of Henry VIII and the surviving evidence of Irish clerical taxation from the middle ages to the late seventeenth century. Front cover 1 Table of contents 7 List of abbreviations 9 Anne (1702–14) 11 George I (1714–27) 193 George II (1727–60) 199 George III (1760–1820) 203 George IV (1820–30) 215 William IV (1830–7) 217 Victoria (1837–1901) 219 A table of proportions to be paid by the archbishops and bishops 257 Prolocutors of the Irish national convocation 1615–1869 258 Membership of the convocation of the Church of Ireland 259 Irish bishops in the house of lords, 1801–70 261 Records of the clerical taxation 265 The Nova Taxatio of Pope Nicholas IV in Ireland 265 The Valor in Hibernia 381 Irish clerical taxation 449 Guide to source material 455 The Irish convocation controversy, 1708–11 461 Index of sources 465 Index of references 471 Index of names and places 473 Index of subjects 485 Bibliography 489 Contains the (incomplete) acts of the lower house of convocation in the reign of Queen Anne, as well as the material dealing with the institution's survival after 1713. This book also contains appendixes, including the Nova taxatio of Pope Nicholas IV for Ireland, and the Valor ecclesiasticus of Henry VIII.