Horae decanicae rurales; an attempt to illustrate by a series of notes and extracts the name and title, the origin, appointment, and functions, personal and capitular of rural deans, with a few incidental remarks on the rise and decay of rural bishops, and on the incardination of parochial clergy, to which is added, an appendix of documents, ancient and . c.) ;—at Winchefter{ Mcccviii.), where the tieans are called Ireans of i^zarcftljcacons;—at Treves (^.7J>. mcccx.), where the title offorcnSES arcj^fprcsbyteri is applied to them, can. xxv.;— at Dublin (^.Z>. mccclxviii.),


Horae decanicae rurales; an attempt to illustrate by a series of notes and extracts the name and title, the origin, appointment, and functions, personal and capitular of rural deans, with a few incidental remarks on the rise and decay of rural bishops, and on the incardination of parochial clergy, to which is added, an appendix of documents, ancient and . c.) ;—at Winchefter{ Mcccviii.), where the tieans are called Ireans of i^zarcftljcacons;—at Treves (^.7J>. mcccx.), where the title offorcnSES arcj^fprcsbyteri is applied to them, can. xxv.;— at Dublin (^.Z>. mccclxviii.), can. x. ;—with manyothers of later date;—not omitting the council ofMalines { mdlxx.), cap. iii. De correctione clerico-rum; and the council of Trent,y^^. xxv. c. 14. From the frequent repetition of the fame inhibition,it is clear, fays Thomaffin, that the officers in queftionwere continually evading the limitation, then placed ontheir ecclefiaftical jurifdiction, and ufurping the privi-leges of their fuperiors. But fee the remarks of WhiteKennett on the beans priority of cognifance of matri-monial and other caufes, in the fecond volume of hisParochial Antiquities, pp. 350, 351. and my fubfequentobfervations at the clofe of this fection. S. II. C. IX.] ^mim^^ of J^ural ©jbaptcr^.—t^^ncficiarg M&tUx^. 91 CHAPTER IX. Beneficiary S treans of (25^Jristianit2;, we are told^ our rural ParorMai jnu-functionarks had likewife in their chapters p^ss?^*^a great fhare in the trials for the rightof advowfon, and the poffeffion of benefices;while, by orders from a fuperior judge, they were tomake inquijition into the darrein prefentment, or loft turnof prefentation; and by the verdict of fuch inquejt couldprejudge the prefent incumbent, and give poffeffion toa new clerk; till the abufe of this power occafioned a re-gulation of it in the council at Lambeth ( mcclxxxi).Such is the fummary ftatement of Bifhop Kennett; andI believe it to be correct. The whole proce


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