The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Elizabethan Parish in its Ecclesiastical and Financial Aspects, by Sedley Lynch Ware This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: The Elizabethan Parish in its Ecclesiastical and Financial Aspects Author: Sedley Lynch Ware Release Date: May 11, 2004 [EBook #12324] Language: English *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ELIZABETHAN PARISH *** Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Keith M. Eckrich and PG Distributed Proofreaders SERIES XXVI NOS. 7-8 JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY STUDIES IN HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL SCIENCE Under the Direction of the Departments of History, Political Economy, and Political Science THE ELIZABETHAN PARISH IN ITS ECCLESIASTICAL AND FINANCIAL ASPECTS BY SEDLEY LYNCH WARE, A.B., LL.B. Fellow in History. PUBLISHED MONTHLY July-August, 1908 PREFACE These chapters are but part of a larger work on the Elizabethan parish designed to cover all the aspects of parish government. There is need of a comprehensive study of the parish institutions of this period, owing to the fact that no modern work exists that in any thorough way pretends to discuss the subject. The work of Toulmin Smith was written to defend a theory, while the recent history of Mr. and Mrs. Webb deals in the main with the parish subsequent to the ...
Title: The Elizabethan Parish in its Ecclesiastical and Financial Aspects Author: Sedley Lynch Ware Release Date: May 11, 2004 [EBook #12324] Language: English
*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ELIZABETHAN PARISH ***
SERIES XXVI NOS. 7-8 JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYSTUDIES IN HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL SCIENCE Under the Direction of the Departments of History, Political Economy, and Political Science
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THE ELIZABETHAN PARISH IN ITS ECCLESIASTICAL AND FINANCIAL ASPECTS BY SEDLEY LYNCH WARE, A.B., LL.B. Fellow in History.
PUBLISHED MONTHLY July-August, 1908
Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Keith M. Eckrich and PG Distributed Proofreaders
PARISH FINANCE. ENDOWEDPARISHES EXPEDIENTS FOR RAISINGMONEY CHURCH-ALES,PLAYS,GAMES,ETC OFFERINGSANDGATHERINGS COMMUNIONDUES SALEOFSEATS, PEW RENTS PARISH TARIFFS FOR BURIALS, MARRIAGES, ETC. INCOMEFROM FINES AND MISCELLANEOUS RECEIPTS RATESANDASSESSMENTS INDEPENDENCEOFPARISH AS A FINANCIAL UNIT SIGNIFICANCEOFTHIS IN COUNTYGOVERNMENT
THE ELIZABETHAN PARISH IN ITS ECCLESIASTICAL AND FINANCIAL ASPECTS.
CONTENTS. CHAPTER I.
THE ECCLESIASTICAL GOVERNMENT OF THE PARISH. ITS IMPORTANCEIN LOCAL GOVERNMENT ARCHDEACONS'COURTS ILLUSTRATIONS FROM ACT BOOKS OFJUDICIAL ADMINISTRATION CHURCHWARDENS'DUTIES MINISTERS'DUTIES OBLIGATIONSEXACTEDFROMALLALIKE CONTROL OFCHURCH OVER EDUCATION AND OPINION HOW COURTS CHRISTIAN ENFORCED THEIR DECREES EFFECTIVENESSOFEXCOMMUNICATION EVILS AND ABUSES OFTHESYSTEM JURISDICTIONOFQUEEN'SJUDGESINECCLESIASTICALMATTERS