A Practical Guide to the Duties of Churchwardens (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II. ON THE DUTIES OF CHURCHWARDENS WITH REFERENCE TO THE UTENSILS, ETC. OF THE CHURCH AND THE REPAIRS OF THE CHURCH AND CHURCHYARD. SECTION I. Of the Goods and Utensils of the Church which the Churchwardens are bound to supply, and of the Repairs of the Church and Churchyard which it is their Duty to superintend. As soon as the churchwardens are admitted by the ordinary, they are in the full power of their office; and although the parish stands in several counties, their authority is the same in every part of it, as if it had all stood in the same county. That it is otherwise as to constables, overseers of the poor, and other parish officers, is from the difference which is between the civil and ecclesiastical jurisdiction. For they being officers of the civil jurisdiction, must follow the divisions of that, which is into counties, hundreds, and tithings; and, therefore, where there are different tithings, different hundreds, and different counties, there must be different constables, and different overseers of the poor, although in the same parish. But the churchwardens, being officers in ecclesiastical affairs, must follow the division of the ecclesiastical jurisdiction, which is into dioceses, archdeaconries, deaneries, and parishes; and, therefore, where there is thesame parish, the same deanery, the same archdeaconry, and the same diocese, the same churchwardens must serve for the whole parish, and they have the same power of executing their office in every part of it, in how many different counties or different hundreds soever it be, and must at the same visitation, whether of the bishop or archdeacon, or other ordinary, account for the discharge of it. And because the church is that, wherein all the members of it are united, of that deanery, and of that...