Books The Restoration of the Church of England: Canterbury Diocese and the Archbishop’s Peculiars (Church of England Record Society, 27)  by Tom Reid (Editor)

"The Restoration of the Church of England: Canterbury Diocese and the Archbishop’s Peculiars," edited by Tom Reid, is a scholarly work focused on the re-establishment and challenges facing the Church of England in the period following the English Restoration (1660–1663). This era marked the reinstatement of Charles II and the re-establishment of the Church of England by law in 1662 after nearly two decades of suppression during the Commonwealth period under Cromwell.

The book concentrates on the Canterbury Diocese and the Archbishop's Peculiars (special jurisdictions exempt from the bishop's authority directly under the archbishop). It sheds light on the difficulties faced at the local level, including low church attendance, persistence of dissenting sects, nonconformity, damaged clerical infrastructure, itinerant preachers, pluralism, and inadequate clerical income.

The work is based in part on the "Sheldon survey," a contemporaneous cataloging of benefices and parish conditions, providing invaluable insight into the fractured state of the Church at the parish level. It documents how church courts, local governance, and royal support struggled to restore orthodox Anglicanism amid political and religious complexities.