Diocese at the county town

The diocese and bishop over the march. Bishop's faculties and reconsecrations come from here. Faculty applications go through the priory to the county town and are considered at a chapter. The bishop keeps a closed archive at the county town.

The bishop's see at the county town, with the Church's courts to which the assize defers questions of haunting. Its papers speak of disused chapels, closed burial grounds and interdicted ground, and exorcism requires the bishop's leave.

Named with it

• the bishop · unnamed

Ties

• exorcism leave passes through Harrowgate Priory
• correspondence with the priory runs back a century unread
• applications reach it through Harrowgate Priory
• orders men from the Harrowgate infirmary to the county town

At the table

Two unaccountable prisoners of Harrowgate Gaol were sent to the county town at the bishop's order, purpose unrecorded. Its instruments call the reed creatures 'infernal issue' without elaboration. The archdeaconry pays for suppressions where a parish cannot. A faculty takes a season to a year, and eleven have been granted in the record. Only a bishop in person can lift an interdict or deconsecrate. The diocese moved at unusual speed only once, to reconsecrate Crowdyke's burial ground. It cannot spare a priest for the march's lesser troubles, and it neither authorises nor suppresses the practitioners.