Letter to the Right Hon. Lord Stanley, M.P. for North Lancashire, on the Law of Church Rates

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James Ridgway, 1837 - 39 páginas
 

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Página 2 - At the first • establishment of parochial clergy, the tithes of the parish were distributed in a fourfold division ; one for the use of the bishop, another for maintaining the fabric of the church, a 385 ] third for the poor, and the fourth to provide for the incumbent.
Página 19 - That the churchwardens (if the parish were summoned and refused to meet or make a rate) might make one alone for the repairs of the church, if needful ; because that if the repairs were neglected, the churchwardens were to be cited, and not the parishioners.
Página 34 - Seek not to be judge, being not able to take away iniquity; lest at any time thou fear the person of the mighty, and lay a stumblingblock in the way of thy uprightness.
Página 8 - England whatsoever. (1) Every inhabitant dwelling within the parish, is to be charged according to his ability, whether in land or living within the same parish, or for his goods there ; that is to say, for the best of them, but not for both.
Página 18 - In Viner's Abridgment, and in Bacon's Abridgment, title " Churchwardens," it is said that if the parishioners upon notice refuse to come, or being assembled, refuse to make any rate, the churchwardens may make one without their concurrence, on the ground that being liable to be punished in the Ecclesiastical Court for not repairing the church, it would be unreasonable that they should suffer by the wilfulness and obstinacy of others.
Página 29 - ... of repairs. But the Bishop cannot direct a commission to rate the parishioners, and appoint what each one shall pay. This must be done by the churchwardens and parishioners, and the Spiritual Court may inflict spiritual censures till they do.
Página 29 - Rates for the reparation of the Church are to be made by the Churchwardens, together with the parishioners assembled upon public notice given in the Church. And the major part of them that appear shall bind the parish : or, if none appear, the churchwardens alone may make the rate, because they, and not the parishioners, are to be cited and punished in default of repairs.
Página 12 - ... any such church or chapel if the whole expense is proposed to be defrayed by rates, or to borrow any such sums upon the credit of any such rates; and in every such case to make rates for the payment of the interest of any monies advanced for the building any such church or chapel upon the credit of the rate...
Página 32 - ... those motives of conscience and religion to which alone the Spiritual Courts appeal ; he says — "It is this which makes the marked difference between rates and tithes, which some persons, for purposes best known to themselves, seem anxious to confound. Rates up to this hour are a voluntary contribution on the part of a parish, to which, if they refuse, there is no earthly power to compel them. But tithes are a distinct property ; the only thing voluntary here, is, whether a man will cultivate...
Página 6 - ... cope, and all its appendages, a frontal for the great altar, with three towels, three surplices, .one rochet, a cross for processions, cross for the dead, a censer, a lanthorn, an hand-bell to be carried before the body of Christ in the visitation of the sick...

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