Category: History - British
The ecclesiastical administration of the English parish from the period of the Reformation down to the outbreak of the great Civil War is a subject which has been much neglected by historians of local institutions. Yet during the reign of Elizabeth, at least, the church courts...
Speaking generally of the average parish, Elizabethan churchwardens accounts and vestry minutes show that for the purposes of raising money amongst themselves to meet every-day...
3. Chapter 3The ecclesiastical administration of the English parish from the period of the Reformation down to the outbreak of the great Civil War is a subject which has been much neglected...
5. Chapter 5see _ibid_., p. ciii (George Reyd's will, 1559). _Ibid_., p. cx ff. (William Birche's will of 1575 in which are many bequests to poor artificers, to prisoners--a very frequent b...
2. Chapter 21. Chapter 1