A very fine book - learned, lucid and wide-ranging. * The English Historical Review * ...impeccably scholarly study... * David Hempton, Times Literary Supplement * ...for specialist as well as general readers Jacob has compiled a substantial and interesting body of evidence from a wide range of primary and secondary sources. * Graham Gould The Journal of Theological Studies * an informative and highly readable study of the clergy of the Anglican Church... * Nothern History * Like all good books, William Jacob's exceptional study of eighteenth century clergy fills a gap that, until it had been written did not seem so significant; yet after its publication it is clear that historians of the eighteenth century Church have long needed such a book...Jacob has written the definitive scholarly study not just of the clergy in the long eighteenth century, but of the Church as a whole. The book is well-written, persuasively argued and elegantly evidenced. It will be required reading for all serious scholars of eighteenth century religion. * William Gibson, Southern History * This is a wonderful work of original synthesis. Based on a wealth of primary and secondary sources, clearly structured, and well written, it tells us so much that students and their teachers have wanted to know, but cannot easily discover other works, about the life and role of the ordinary parish clergy of the Church of England and their relations with their parishioners throughout the very long eighteenth century...I have learnt a great deal from this very fine work of scholarship and exposition. * H. T. Dickinson, Expository Times * This book is like a well-built Georgian church or refectory: neat, well planned, exact, imposing, and satisfying to visit. * Nicholas Orme, Church Times * At last! Here is a work of scholarship which uses Parson James Woodforde's Diary as an important source, providing details about clergy in the Church of England in the second half of the eighteenth century...important historical work...it deserves a place in every academic library, will be much appreciated by historians and theologians, and enjoyed by many others. * Parson Woodforde Society *
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