The Elizabethan Parish in its Ecclesiastical and Financial Aspects

by Sedley Lynch Ware

[6] See p. 18 and p. 20 infra. For the duty to read the injunctions or the articles based on them see p. 32 infra.

[7] See 5 Eliz. c. 3. Stats. of the Realm, iv, Pt. i, 411. Also Visitation of Warrington Deanery in 1592 by the Bishop of Chester in Lancashire and Cheshire Historic Soc. Trans., n. s., x (1895), 186 et passim. Hereinafter cited as Warrington Deanery Visit. Cf. also Grindal's Injunc. for the Province of York (1571), art. 17, Remains of Grindal, Parker Soc., 132 ff.

[8] See Visitations of the Archdeacon of Canterbury, Archaeologia Cantiana, xxvi (1904), 24 (1602). Mr. Arthur Hussey has published copious extracts from the act-books of these visitations extending over a considerable period in vols. xxv-xxvii of the Arch. Cant. Hereinafter cited as Canterbury Visit., xxv (etc.). For perambulations see p. 27 infra.

[9] Cordy Jeaffreson, Middlesex County Records, i, 100-1 (Indictment reciting that John Johnson had had due notice in his parish church, yet had not sent his wain, etc., 1576). Cf. provisions of the statutes 5 Eliz. c. 13, and 18 Eliz. c. 10, Stats. of Realm, iv, Pt. i, 441-3, and 620-1 respectively.

[10] Brownlow v. Lambert, C.B., 41 Eliz., I Croke Eliz. Rep., Leache's ed. (1790), Pt. ii, 716.

[11] Canterbury Visit., xxvi, 23 (1599); ibid., 20 (1591). W.H. Hale, A Series of Precedents in Criminal Causes from the Act Books of the Ecclesiastical Courts of London, 1475-1640 (pub. in 1847), 190 (Schoolmaster of Stock presented in court for defacing the church "in makinge a fire for his schollers," 1587). This work hereinafter cited as Hale, Crim. Prec.

[12] Constables Acc'ts of Melton in Leicester Architec. and Archaeol. Soc. Trans., iii (1874), 72-3. Chelmsford Churchwardens Acc'ts in Essex Archaeol. Soc. Trans., ii (1863), 225 ff.

[13] Stratton (Cornwall) Churchwardens Acc'ts, Archaeologia, xlvi, 200 ff. s. a. 1565 and editor's note.

[14] "Sir W.. A.. and I with divers other justices, being met together at Sondon church" (1582). Strype, Annals of the Reformation, iii, Pt. ii, 214. This meeting here may have been in the churchyard.

[15] See in the Antiquary, xxxii (1896), 147-8, the inquest held at St. Botolph Extra Aldgate (1590), and the coroner's judgment delivered in the church that a suicide should be buried at cross-roads with a stake through her breast.