The diary of James Clegg of Chapel en le Frith, 1708-1755

James Clegg (1679-1755), son of James Clegg and Ann Livesey, ". . . was a Dissenting minister . . . [who] was in demand over a wide area . . . he was in touch, either in person or by letter, with a wide cross-section of provincial society . . . [and] showed himself to be well aware of matters of concern in the nation at large . . . when religion and politics were still inextricably linked . . ."--Dust jacket.