Note on the Text

Data underlying all tables and figures is collected from depositions across the period c.1530–1649 and the five diocesan courts of Bath & Wells, Exeter, Gloucester, Hereford, and Winchester unless otherwise stated.

Plate 2 is reproduced with the kind permission of the Chapter of Gloucester Cathedral. All images in Chapter 2 are reproduced with the kind permission of Devon Heritage Centre, Gloucestershire Archives, Hampshire Record Office, Herefordshire Archive and Records Centre, and Somerset Heritage Centre.