This excellent book by Justin Lovill published by Bunbury Press 2022 is perfect for understanding the role of the parish church in the life of the village after the Civil War. It puts into context many of the records that the Milton Abbas Local History Group have transcribed, especially the Churchwardens Accounts, It includes the ritual year, the communion (wine and bread!), the bells (always being repaired), the feasts and festivals, catching vermin and much else besides. An essential resource for local history, and at 600 pages, sufficiently detailed and comprehensive.

For the period of the Reformation I would recommend Eamon Duffy ‘The Voices of Morebath’ and Ronald Hutton ‘Stations of the Sun’ and ‘The Rise and Fall of Merry England’.