The Bishop of Chester's charge in his primary visitation at Chester, May 5, 1691
A visitation charge printed in London in 1692 by Nicholas Stratford, Bishop of Chester, addressed to the clergy of his diocese on Church of England matters and Puritan dissent. The single picture is a small woodcut tailpiece of three stylised flowers on leafy stems above a shaded mound, a typical printer's ornament of the period. A designer might take from it the crisp black-line vocabulary of early modern woodcut flowers, with cross-hatched leaves and simple five-petalled blooms that suit historical borders or dividers.
