Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Lichfield
This little book is not so much a personal history of the bishops, or a chronicle of the Cathedral of Lichfield, as an attempt to trace the course of religion in the diocese, and to show the various phases of feeling and the different classes of institutions in which it has blossomed forth from age to age. Materials for the work are remarkably scanty. The diocese has no great chronicle written within its borders, except that of Burton Abbey, though those of Bede, Ordericus Vitalis, and Walter of Coventry, are local in their sympathy. Our sketches of the Norman bishops have been largely drawn from fragmentary notices scattered through the public rolls, and, as such, are themselves fragmentary. The monks of Coventry have told their tale about the election struggles of the thirteenth century; whilst, for the later mediaeval period, we have found a large body of manuscript notes on the Diocesan Registers, by Bishop Hobhouse, of great service.
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