[1].Spiritual, ecclesiastical, and civil status of the clergy. [2]. Sources of Church law. [3]. Written and unwritten law—Foreign Canon law—Pre-Reformation Canons—Acts of Parliament—Canons of 1603—Canons of 1640—Other canons. [4]. Decisions of Church courts—Distinction between judicial and legislative action. [5]. Legal status of the ancient Parish—Rector or Parson—Patronage or Advowson—Vicar—Perpetual curate. [6]. Dissolution of the Monasteries—Impropriate rectories—New churches and ecclesiastical parishes—Assistant parochial clergy—Titular vicars—Incumbent—Curate. [7]. Minister in charge—Lecturer. [8]. Status of clergy ordained elsewhere than in England or Ireland, or ordained for service in the colonies or foreign countries—Scottish clergy. [9]. Benefices—Beneficed and unbeneficed clergy. [10]. Bishops, their relation to the clergy—Suffragan bishops—Chancellors. [11]. Archdeacons. [12]. Rural Deans. [13]. Judicial procedure—Church Discipline Act, 1840—Public Worship Regulation Act, 1874—Clergy Discipline Act, 1892. [14]. Abstinence of Clergy from secular pursuits. [15]. Civil exemptions—Municipal and Parliamentary qualifications and disqualifications. [16]. Restrictions as to labour, business, and trade—Lawful exceptions—Penalties for unlawful trading. [17]. Protection in performance of religious rites—Act against brawling. [18]. Indelibility of Orders—Relinquishment of clerical status pages [1-24]
[CHAPTER II]
Beneficed Clergy
[1]. Admission by bishop on presentation of patron—Lapse to bishop, archbishop, or Crown. [2]. Transfers of advowsons or rights of presentation—Next presentations—Power of patron to present himself—Restrictions under Benefices Act, 1898. [3]. Qualification for admission—Grounds for refusal by bishop—Testimony as to fitness. [4]. Procedure in case of refusal by bishop. [5]. Publication of notice of intended admission. [6]. Mode of admission—Institution—Licence—Collation—Declarations of assent and against simony—Oaths of allegiance and canonical obedience—Reading of Thirty-nine Articles. [7]. Effect of admission—Induction. [8]. Fees on admission. [9]. Cure of Souls—Duties laid down in Ordination Service—Residence—Divine service—Marriages—Burials—Private ministrations. [10]. Exclusive right of administration—Superior right of bishop—Modern comity as between town parishes. [11]. Private ministrations—Service in unconsecrated buildings—Meetings for worship. [12]. Private chapels—Chapels of institutions—Unconsecrated proprietary chapels. [13]. Formation of new parishes—Approval or otherwise of incumbent. [14]. Holding of two benefices. [15]. Neglect of duty—Commission of inquiry—Procedure on adverse report of Commission. [16]. Residence on benefice—Forfeitures for non-residence—Bishop's licence of non-residence—Grounds for licence. [17]. Monition, sequestration, and avoidance of benefice for non-residence. [18]. Performance of duties where incumbent is non-resident. [19]. Restrictions on interfering with duties during period of non-residence. [20]. Reckoning of time as to residence. [21]. Vacation of benefice by death, resignation, admission to other preferment, or deprivation. [22]. Resignation; unconditional except upon an exchange—Engagement to resign illegal except under Clergy Resignation Bonds Act, 1828—Corrupt resignations and exchanges—Pensions under Incumbents Resignation Acts. [23]. Vacation of benefice on admission to other preferment. [24]. Deprivation ipso facto—Declaration of vacancy by bishop on conviction of incumbent in certain cases—Sentences of deprivation under Acts of 1840 and 1892 pages [25-54]
[CHAPTER III]
Unbeneficed Clergy
[1]. Classes of unbeneficed clergy—Bishop's licence—Declaration of assent—Examination and admission by bishop—Discretion of bishop—Revocation of licence. [2]. Curates or ministers in charge—(a) On vacancy of benefice—(b) On sequestration of benefice for incumbent's bankruptcy or debt—(c) On incumbent's non-residence—(d) On incumbent's neglect of duties—(e) On formation of Peel district. [3]. Assistant curates—Stipend—Notice to quit or relinquish curacy—Discretion of incumbent as to employment—Appointment where duties are inadequately performed; or where circumstances of parish require it. [4]. Performance of duty by other clergy—Discretion of incumbent—Licence of bishop—Production of licence and entry of names of preachers in a book. [5]. Lecturers and preachers—Performance of other ministerial duties pages [55-64]
[CHAPTER IV]
Laity of the Parish
[1]. Relations between incumbent and lay officials. [2]. The vestry—Constitution, meetings, and voting in ancient parishes, and in new parishes—Vestries Act, 1818—Present functions—Select vestries. [3]. Churchwardens—Election in ancient and new parishes—Admission. [4]. Parson's or vicar's and people's wardens—Duties: (a) Care of fabric and ornaments of the church and of the churchyard—(b) Seating of parishioners—(c) Provision of requisites for service—(d) Maintenance of order in church and churchyard—(e) Collection and concurrence in disposal of offertory money—(f) Charge of church and benefice during vacancy, if appointed sequestrators—Restrictions on powers. [5]. Sidesmen. [6]. Church trustees. [7]. Parish clerk—Appointment and removal. [8]. Sexton. [9]. Beadle. [10]. Organist and choristers. [11]. Officiating of lay readers and other laymen. [12]. Other lay work—Visiting of poor and sick—Sunday schools—Church elementary schools. [13]. Parochial church councils pages [65-79]