History of the Priory and Peculiar of Snaith, by C.B. Robinson (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1861. Excerpt: ... HISTORY OP THE PECULIAR OF SNAITH. A Very singular anomaly has, for many centuries, existed in the Church of England. Certain parishes and places have obtained exemption from the jurisdiction of the bishop in whose diocese they are locally situate. They have refused to attend the archdeacon's visitation, or to recognize him as their ordinary. They acknowledged obedience to the ecclesiastical law of the land; but it was dispensed by a spiritual judge, appointed by the proprietor of the peculiar. There are no less than six of these exempt jurisdictions, comprising one hundred and ten churches and chapels, within the limits of the ancient diocese of York, as it subsisted previous to the erection of the see of Itipon: --the dean and chapter's court, the deanery court, the peculiar court of Southwell, the peculiar court of Selby, the peculiar court of Snaith, and the peculiar court of Alne and Tollerton. To which may be added the peculiar court of Acomb. B (Vid. Lawton's Collectio. p. 46.) There are also three peculiar courts locally situate within the county of York, but belonging to the cathedral church of Durham: --the peculiar episcopal court of Allerton and Allertonshire; the peculiar court of the dean and chapter of Durham, (which claims jurisdiction over the parishes of Brompton, Deighton, Kirkby Sigston, Northallerton, West Rounton, and Worsall;) and the peculiar court of Howden, Howdenshire, and Hemingbrough. And there is at Middleham the royal and exempt jurisdiction of the deanery of that place. There were also certain prebendal and other courts, thirty-one in number, which by custom had respectively the right of granting probates and administrations within certain towns and villages, where they also held visitations; but the contentious jurisdiction ...