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Report of the Working Party on Ecclesiastical Visitations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 July 2008

M. G. Smith  and
P. M. Smith
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Ecclesiastical Law Journal , Volume 2 , Issue 11 , July 1992 , pp. 347 - 358
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Copyright © Ecclesiastical Law Society 1992

References

1. Delivered at the annual conference of the Society at Cardiff, April 1991. For a more detailed history of ecclesiastical visitations and discussion of the law surrounding them, see Smith, , “Points of Law and Practice Concerning Ecclesiastical Visitations”, (1991) 2 Ecc. L.J., 189.Google Scholar

2. See Appendix.

3. Ayliffe, , Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani (London, 1734), p. 514.Google Scholar

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5. Dean of York's Case (1841), 2 Q.B. 1 at 39Google Scholar; The Reconciliation Sentence & Service in St. Paul's (1891), 7 T.L.R. 276 at 277Google Scholar; Phillimore, , Ecclesiastical Law of the Church of England (2nd ed., London, 1895), II, 1046, 1050.Google Scholar

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7. 3 & 4 Viet. c. 86, s. 23.

8. Decretum Grat., C. 10, q. 1, cc. 10, 11Google Scholar; Council of London, 1200, c. 5, Cum inter ea (Wilkins, , Councilia Magnae Britanniae et Hiberniae (London, 1737), I, 505–6Google Scholar); Council of Oxford, 1222, c. 16 [11] (Powicke & Cheney, Councils and Synods, with other Documents relating to the English Church (Oxford, 1964), pp. 110–1Google Scholar); Stats, for an Eng. dioc, 1222 X 1225?, c. 52 (ibid., p. 148); Consits. Reynold, c. 4, Sint rectores ( Wilkins, , Concilia, II, 512–3).Google Scholar

9. See Canons of the Church of England, canon G 5, para. 1 (quoted below).

10. See Canons of the Church of England, canon G 5, para. 1.

11. See Canons Ecclesiastical (1603), c. 137.

12. e.g. the Archbishop of York's visitation of his diocese in 1969.

13. Stephens, , An Historical Discourse, Briefly setting forth the nature of Procurations (London, 1661), p. 5Google Scholar; Godolphin, , Repertorium Canonicum (3rd ed., London, 1687), pp. 34–5Google Scholar; Blackstone, , Commen taries on the Laws of England (14th ed., London, 1803), I, 382.Google Scholar Grosseteste was emphatic that a bishop could not be a pastor to his flock without visiting it: Roberti Grosseteste Episcopi quondam Lincolniensis Epislolae, ed. Luard, H.R. (Rolls Series, 25), ep. cxxvii, pp. 373–5.Google Scholar

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15. Decretum Grat., C. 10, q. 1, c. 10.

16. Lunne v Dodson (1661), 3 Salk. 201, approved R. v Sowter [1901] 1 K.B. 396Google Scholar; Gibson, , Codex Juris Ecclesiastici Anglicani (2nd ed.Oxford, 1761), II, 958Google Scholar; Phillimore, , Eccl. Law, II, 1050.Google Scholar

17. See below.

18. An annual visitation is required by the Canons of the Church of England, canon C 22, para. 5.

19. Canons of the Church of England, canon G 6, para. 1.

20. Wake, , The Bishop of Lincoln's Charge to the Clergy in his Diocese in his Primary Visitation, Begun at Lincoln, May the 20th, 1706 (London, 1707), pp. 4, 17Google Scholar, 20. See Decretum Grat. C. 10, q. l, cc.9, 12Google Scholar; Extra, 1, 31, 15Google Scholar; ibid., 3, 39, 23; Sext, 3, 20, 1, § 4.

21. Huntley's Case (1628), Palm. 521.Google Scholar

22. Ayliffe, , Parergon, p. 515.Google Scholar

23. See Canons of the Church of England, canon E 1, para. 2.

24. Parochial Church Councils (Powers) Measure. 1956 (4 & 5 Eliz. 2, No. 3), s. 4 (1) (ii).

25. See Canons Ecclesiastical (1603), c. 137.

26. At page 349.