HOW TO WRITE
THE HISTORY OF A PARISH.

HOW TO WRITE
The History of a Parish.

BY
J. CHARLES COX,
Author of “Notes on the Churches of Derbyshire,” etc.


“Every man’s concern with the place where he lives, has something
more in it than the mere amount of rates and taxes that he
has to pay.”—Toulmin Smith.


LONDON:
BEMROSE & SONS, 10, PATERNOSTER BUILDINGS;
AND DERBY.
1879.

ENTERED AT STATIONERS’ HALL.

TO THE
REV. THOMAS PRESTON NOWELL BAXTER, M.A.,
(LATE FELLOW OF ST. CATHARINE’S COLL., CAMBRIDGE.)
RECTOR OF HAWERBY, AND RURAL DEAN,
WHO FIRST SUGGESTED
THE WRITING OF THIS LITTLE HAND-BOOK,
THESE PAGES
ARE RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED.