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A42925	Repertorium canonicum, or, An abridgment of the ecclesiastical laws of this realm, consistent with the temporal wherein the most material points relating to such persons and things, as come within the cognizance thereof, are succinctly treated / by John Godolphin ...	Godolphin, John, 1617-1678.	1678 (1678)	Wing G949; ESTC R7471	745,019	782

The Statute of 13 El. cap. 12. Ordained That the Articles agreed by the Archbishop and Bishops of both Provinces and all the Clergy in the Convocation held at London c. shall be read by the Incumbent otherwise he is ipso facto deprived Or admitting all these Requisites have had their due performance so that he is a compleat Parson to all intents and purposes of Law whatever yet he may not under pretence of this or that Custome extend the Lines of his Parsonage beyond its due limits or bounds out of an Avaricious design to advance the perquisites of his Parsonage 5. Edward Topsall Clerk Parson of St. Botolphs without Aldersgate London and the Churchwardens of the same Libelled in the Ecclesiastical Court against Sir John Ferrers and alledged that there was a Custome within the City of London and specially within that Parish That if any person being Man or Woman die within that Parish and be carried out of the Parish to be Buried elsewhere that in such case there ought to be paid to the Parson of this Parish if he or she be buried elsewhere in the Chancel so much and to the Churchwardens so much being the Sums that they alledged were by Custome payable unto them for such as were buried in their own Chancel And then alledging that the Wife of Sir John Ferrers died within the Parish and was carried away and buried in the Chancel of another Church and so demanded of him the said Sum. Whereupon for Sir John Ferrers a Prohibition was prayed by Serjeant Harris and upon debate it was granted For this Custome is against Reason That he that is no Parishioner but may pass through the Parish or lie in an Inne for a night should if he then die be forced to be Buried there or to pay as if he were and so upon the matter to pay twice for his Burial 6. The words Parsonage Church and Rectory are frequently in the Law used Synonymously and promiscuously but the word Advowson is another thing and distinct from each of them And as to some Parsonages there are certain Rents due and payable so out of some Parsonages or Rectories there are issuing certain Rents or Pensions which Pensions are not suable at the Common Law but in the Ecclesiastical Court as was said in Crocker and York's Case against Dormer against whom they had a Recovery in a Writ of Entry in the Post among other things of a yearly Rent or Pension of four Marks issuing out of the Church or Rectory of F. In which Case it was agreed by Clench and Fenner that a Pension issuing out of a Rectory is the same with the Rent of which Popham seemed to make some doubt for there being in that Case a Demand for Rent in the Disjunctive viz. a Rent or Pension he moved that the greatest difficulty in the Case was the Demand made in the Disjunctive viz. of an Annual Rent or Pension for if a Pension issuing out of a Rectory shall be said to be a thing meerly Spiritual and not to be demanded by the Common Law or meerly of another nature than the Rent it self with which it is there conjoyn'd by the word or that then it is Erroneous 7. B. brought an Action of Debt against W. upon an Obligation of 600 l. the Condition was That if W. Resign a Benefice upon Request that then the Obligation should be void And the Condition was Entered the Defendant Demurred and Judgment in B. R. pro Querente And upon Error brought Judgment was Affirmed in the Exchequer for this Obligation is not voidable by the Statute of 14 Eliz. which makes Obligations of the same force as Leases made by Parsons of their Glebes viz. per Non-Residency And it doth not appear by the Plea of the Defendant that it was not an Obligation bona fide which might be lawful As if a Patron which hath a Son which is not yet fit to be presented for default of Age and he present another with an Agreement that when his Son come to the Age of 24 years he shall Resign it it is a good Obligation And this Case viz. an Obligation with Condition to Resign had been Adjudged good in the Case of one Jones An. 8 Jac. And the Counsel said That he who is presented to a Church is Married thereto and it is like as if a man who hath married a Wife should be bound to be divorced from her or not cohabit with her these Conditions are void But these resemble not our Case 8. It was said in Johnson's Case That if a Parson Leases his Rectory for years or parcel of his Glebe reserving a Rent and dies if his Successor accepts the Rent that Acceptance does not make the Lease good because by his death the Franktenement is in Abeyance and in no Man And also a Parson cannot Discontinue And by consequence That that he did without Livery is determined by his death And it is not like to the Case of an Abbot Prior or Tenant in Tail 9. Hendon moved for Dr. Clay Vicar of Hallifax That a Prohibition might be granted to the High Commissioners of York for that that these Articles by one Smith were exhibited against him viz. 1. That he read the Holy Bible in an irreverent and undecent manner to the scandal of the whole Congregation 2. That he did not do his duty in Preaching but against his Oath and the Ecclesiastical Canon had neglected for sundry Mornings to Preach 3. That he took the Cups and other Vessels of the Church consecrated to holy use and employed them in his own House and put Barm in the Cups that they were so polluted that the Communicants of the Parish were loath to drink out of them 4. That he did not observe the last Fast Proclaimed upon the Wednesday but on the Thursday because it was an Holy-day 5. That he retained one Stepheson in one of the Chappels of Ease who was a man of ill Life and Conversation viz. an Adulterer and a Drunkard 6. That he did not Catechize according to the Parish-Canon but only bought many of Dr. Wilkinson's Catechisms for every of which he paid 2 d. and sold them to the Parishioners for 3 d. without any examination or instruction for their benefit And that he when any Commissions were directed to him to compel any person in his Parish to do Penance he exacted money of them and so they were dismissed without inflicting any penalty upon them as their Censure was And that he and his Servants used divers Menaces to his Parishioners and that he abused himself and disgraced his Function by divers base Labours viz. He made Mortar having a Leathern-Apron before him and he himself took a Tithe-Pigg out of the Pigsty and afterwards he himself gelded it And when he had divers Presents sent him as by some Flesh by some Fish and by others Ale he did not spend it in the invitation of his Friends and Neighbours or

Corporate as hath a Bishop and a Cathedral Church Yet Crompton in his Jurisdictions in his Computation of our Cities doth omit Ely though it hath a Bishop and a Cathedral Church Thus Westminster is called a City and accordingly there is mention made of a Bishop of Westminster in a Statute made during the Reign of King Henry 8. But by Letters Patents dated 21. May 2 Eliz. in pursuance of an Act of Parliament of 1 Eliz. not printed the Revenues of that late Monastery were vested in the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of Westminster which hath caused Errors in the Pleadings of some Cases by styling it the Cathedral for Collegiate Church of Westminster Cassanaeus who wrote as well De Gloria Mundi in general as of the Customes of Burgundy in particular saith That France hath within its Territories 104 Cities and gives this Reason Because there are so many Seats of Archbishops and Bishops Yet Sir Edw. Coke observes Cambridge to be a City by ancient Record although it does not evidently appear that it ever was an Episcopal See And in the Stat. of 11 H. 7. c. 4. it is there called the Town of Cambridge 4. In England and Wales there were Anciently three Provinces and over them Three Archbishops whose Archbishopricks were founded above 1500 years since For soon after the Conversion of King Lu●ius who began his Reign over the Britains An. 170. being prevailed with to embrace the Christian Faith by the perswasions of Elvanus who had been brought up at Glastenbury and of Medwanus both Britains and therein confirmed by the Divines which Eleutherius who became Pope An 177. sent into Britain for that end and purpose The said King being by them baptized the False Religion of the Druids with their Idols was soon abolished Heathen Temples purged and then consecrated to the service and worship of the True God and in the place of twenty eight ●lam●ns were Bishops consecrated the Three Archbishops whereof were founded in the Three chief Cities of the then Three Provinces erected by the Romans where Arch-Flamins had formerly been maintain'd viz. at London the Metropolis of Britannia Prima at York the Metropolis of Maxima Caesariensis and at Caerlegion in Wales which is said to be Caerleon upon Vske formerly called Isca in Monmouthshire the Metropolis or chief City of Britannia Secunda or under Vrbs Legionum Cambria Gildas antiquissimus inter eos qui fide digni sunt Britannicarum rerum scriptor tradit Britannos ab ortu Evangelii Christianam suscepisse fidem Ant. Brit. ubi supr Ac primum Paulum ipsum cum aliis Gentibus tum nominatim Britannis Evangelium nunciasse post priorem suam Romae incarcerationem Theodoret. l. 9. de Curand Graecor affect Origenes qui proximis fuit post Apostolos seculis testatur Britanniam in Christianam consentire Religionem Orig. Hom. 4. in Ezech. Lucius Rex Britanniae An. 179. Baptizatus Ab Eleutherio Ponti●ice Romano reformationem Angliae petiit Episcop 29. ordinavit Ant. Brit. fo 4 5 7. Before the coming of the Saxons into England the Christian Britains had three Archbishops viz. of London York and Caerleon in Wales The Archiepiscopal See of London was by the Saxons placed at Canterbury for St. Austins sake where he was buried That of Caerleon being translated to St. Davids and after subjected to the See of Canterbury 5. From this time to Dioclesians Perfecution which though the Tenth and last yet the first which the Britains felt Christianity flourished in this Island which ●y that Persecution was almost extirpated out of the Land till Constantine the Great wore the Imperial Crown in whose time it revived till the beginning of the next Century when it was infected with the Pelagian Heresie till the condemnation thereof in the Council of Carthage and Mela and happily suppressed by Germanus Bishop of Auxerre and by Lupus Bishop of Troys in Campeigne who at the request of the English Catholicks were sent by the French Bishops into England as at the same time and for the same end Palladius was by Pope Celestine into Scotland And now the Christian Religion flourished again till the time of the usurping Tyrant Vortiger who after he had slain Vodinus Archbishop of London was himself burnt in a Castle besieged by Aurelius Ambrose having first surrendred Kent Suffolk and Norfolk to the Infidel He●gist who with his Saxons almost desolated the Land insomuch that Theanus Bishop of London and Theodiceus Bishop of York were forced to flie into Cornwal and Wales until St. Augustines coming hither where he then found only one Archbishop and seven Bishops being with forty others as Assistants to him sent hither by Pope Gregory to Convert the Nation whom Ethelbert King of Kent kindly received and seated him as aforesaid in a Mansion in Canterbury the Metropolis of his Kingdom and assigned him a place to erect a Bishops See who afterwards fixed his Seat at Canterbury whichever since hath continued the Metropolis of this Kingdom And thus St. Austin upon his Entrance into England by the favour and bounty of the said King Ethelbert having fixed his Seat at Canterbury the Archbishops thereof have by a continual Series or Succession continued as Metropolitans of all England 6. And whereas there were as aforesaid anciently Three Archbishopricks in Three distinct Provinces within this Kingdom whereof that of Caerleon upon Vske in Wales was one and whereof Dubritius in the year 466 was Archbishop who having his Seat at Landaff became for his integrity Archbishop of all Wales and was upon Resignation in his old Age succeeded in the Archbishoprick by his Disciple David Uncle toking Arthurn by whose consent he removed the See to Menevia of which place he still retaineth the name of Episcopus Menevensis and the Town it self thereupon called Twy Devi or Saint Davids as taking its denomination from his Name yet it afterwards so unhappily happened that Sampson a succeeding Archbishop upon a great Plague raging in Wales went to Dola in Little Britain and thither carried the Pall with him whereby St. Davids for ever after lost the dignity of an Archbishop And in the time of H. 1. both that See and the rest in Wales became subject to the Archbishop of Canterbury as at this day 7. In the time of King Lucius London had an Archbishop to whose Jurisdiction at that time the greatest part of England was subject This Archbishop was that Theanus forementioned who was the chief Founder and Builder of St. Peters Church in Cornhill London which was the Cathedral of his Diocess till King Ethelbert built St. Pauls Church In this See continued the Dignity of an Archbishop above 180 years but by reason of the Saxon Persecution stood void till that Ten years after the coming of St. Austin Melitus was consecrated Bishop of that See and so it continued ever after as a Bishoprick