A general directory to all the counties, hundreds, ridings ... &c. in England

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Seite 236 - A Practical Guide to the Duty and Authority of Overseers of the Poor, with full and plain directions to them in the execution of their office : Interspersed with numerous precedents of summonses, warrants, orders, &c. relating to the Poor's Laws and Parish matters in general.
Seite viii - At first they made use of any old British churches that were left standing, and afterwards, from time to time, in successive ages, churches were built and endowed by lords of manors and others, for the use of the inhabitants of their several manors or districts, and, consequently, parochial bounds affixed thereunto.
Seite ix - Northumberland, and many other counties in England and Wales, by reason of the largeness of the parishes within the same, have not, nor cannot, reap the benefit of the Act of Elizabeth for the relief of the poor...
Seite x - ... and after notice given to the officers of the several parishes and places adjoining to such lands, and to all others interested therein, may hear and determine the same on the appeal of any person interested, and may cause the same to be equally assessed ; whose determination therein shall be final. But this shall not determine the boundaries of any parish or place, other than for the purpose of rating such lands to the relief of the poor, and other parochial rates§1,2.
Seite viii - ... churches, the parochial bounds were at first much larger, and by degrees contracted. For as the country grew more populous, and persons more devout, several other churches were founded within the extent of the former, and then a new parochial circuit Was allotted in proportion to the new church and the manor or estate of the founder of it. Thus certainly began the increase of parishes, when one too large and diffuse for...
Seite viii - ... manor or estate of the founder of it. Thus certainly began the increase of parishes, when one too large and diffuse for the resort of all inhabitants to the one church was by the addition of some one or more new churches cantoned into more limited divisions. This was such an abatement to the revenue of the old churches, that complaint was made of it in the time of Edward the Confessor.
Seite viii - ... occasional going from place to place was found very inconvenient, because of the constant offices that were to be administered, and the people not knowing to whom they should resort for spiritual offices and directions. Hereupon the bounds of parochial cures were found necessary to be settled here by those bishops, who were the great instruments of converting the nation from the Saxon idolatry. At first they made use of any old British churches that were left standing, and afterwards, from time...
Seite viii - ... authority of Archbishop Parker ; but Mr. Selden seems rightly to understand the expression " provinciam suam in parochias divisit," of dividing his province into new dioceses : and this sense is justified by the author of the Defence of Pluralities. The like distinction of parishes which now obtains, could never be the model of Honorius, nor the work of any one age. Some rural Churches there were, and some limits prescribed for the rights and profits of them.* But the reduction of the whole country...
Seite ix - A chapelry is the same thing to a chapel as a parish to a church, being the precinct and limits thereof. It is mentioned in the Act of Uniformity, 1662 (14 Car. 2 c. 4), s. 22 (Jacob's Law Dictionary, sv "Chapelry"). (e) Jacob's Law Dictionary, sv "Chapel.
Seite ii - Dock, 1820, 2 vols. 41 n, vol. ii. pp. 351-8, there is a list of sheriffs of Cornwall from 1139 to 1819, inclusive. W. SANDYS. PARISHES OF ENGLAND (3rd S. iii. 494.) — A General Directory to the Counties, ifc. in England, by Thomas Whillier, 8vo, 1 825, professes to be a complete directory to every parish or district in England which maintains its own poor, comprising nearly 14,000 places. There is no Shilling Green, or Milling Green ; there is a Shilling Okeford, or Shillingstone, in Dorsetshire,...

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