Category: History - British
The fact that a Second Edition of this Manual has been called for within a few months of its first publication, shows, I think, that it has met a want which was previously felt by Clergy and Churchwardens. The whole of the Manual has been revised, and additions made with speci...
In our canons, which date from 1603, no fewer than eighteen refer to the duties of Churchwardens. One canon enjoins them to present to the ordinary those guilty of notorious cri...
3. Chapter 3It is not, however, in the case of new Churches that difficulties arise, except when these new Churches take the place of old ones. Then it may be that the old abuses of faculty...
1. Chapter 1The fact that a Second Edition of this Manual has been called for within a few months of its first publication, shows, I think, that it has met a want which was previously felt...
4. Chapter 4Sec. 3.--And be it further enacted that in all such Vestries every inhabitant present, who shall by the last rate which shall have been made for the relief of the poor have been...