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Ministers serving rural Virginia congregations were required to provide their own books for professional support and assistance. Access to printed volumes was essential for the continuing study of the biblical languages, literature, theology, history, and pastoral care. Each parson was responsible for acquiring his own books either before travelling to Virginia or while in residence. Two significant seventeenth-century library inventories survive that illuminate and provide a glimpse of the books owned by an Anglican and a Nonconformist minister serving in the province.
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Bell, J.B. (2013). The Libraries of Two Seventeenth-Century Ministers. In: Empire, Religion and Revolution in Early Virginia, 1607–1786. Studies in Modern History. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137327925_9
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