Today sees the publication of the second title from OCMCH Reprints, a series of publications which draws on the historical collections of the Oxford Centre for Methodism and Church History to provide high quality reproductions of out-of-copyright books that are scarce, inaccessible, or otherwise unavailable in digital formats elsewhere.
This reprint volume compiles two works by the Rev. Arthur A. R. Gill (1868-1937); The Archdeacons of the Diocese of York, and The Dean and Chapter of York, both originally published in 1915 and long since out of print.
A native of Devon, these works were compiled when Gill was vicar of Market Weighton in the East Riding of Yorkshire, a living he held from 1910 to 1925. He was subsequently appointed to All Saints, Pavement, and St. Saviours in York, and he was made a canon of the cathedral there in 1932. Gill’s historical interests found outlets through his membership of the Yorkshire Archaeological Society, and he was a contributor to the East Riding Antiquarian Society’s transactions. His writings are now preserved in York Minster Archives.
The works presented here represent an early attempt to compile an authoritative list of the dignitaries of the cathedral of York, occasionally peppered with Gill’s characteristic remarks. Against the entry for the last Treasurer of York (the post was dissolved under Henry VIII), he notes that ‘as the Treasures had been filched, there was no need for a Treasurer’.
The volumes were originally published by St. William’s Press in Market Weighton, the printing works of local the Catholic Reformatory School. In the 1890s, the boys of the school produced over a million pamphlets a year from their presses.
‘The Archdeacons of the Diocese of York; with, The Dean and Chapter of York’ is available now to purchase in paperback and hardback. Click here to order.
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