I beg to inform your correspondent J. H. M. that this is often done at Bray, near Maidenhead.
Newburiensis.
The custom observed at Olney Church after the morning service, I have heard, is to apprize the congregation of a vesper service to follow.
W. P. Storer.
Olney, Bucks.
Archpriest in the Diocese of Exeter (Vol. ix., p. 185.).—Besides the archpriest of Haccombe, there were others in the same diocese; but, to quote the words of Dr. Oliver, in his Monasticon, Dioc. Exon., p. 287.,
"He would claim no peculiar exemption from the jurisdiction of his ordinary, nor of his archdeacon; he was precisely on the same footing as the superiors of the archpresbyteries at Penkivell, Beerferris, and Whitchurch, which were instituted in this diocese in the early part of the fourteenth century. The foundation deed of the last was the model in founding that of Haccombe."
In the same work copies of the foundation deeds of the archipresbytery of Haccombe and Beer are printed.
One would suppose that wherever there was a collegiate body of clergymen established for the purposes of the daily and nightly offices of the church, as chantry priests, that one of them would be considered the superior, or archipresbyter.
Godolphin, in Rep. Can., 56., says that by the canon law, he that is archipresbyter is also called dean. Query, Would he then be other than "Primus inter pares?"