The Statutes of the Cathedral Church of Hereford, Promulgated A.D. 1637 (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. 1882. Excerpt: ... with the profits also of the greater Residence, and this next after the Dean and the Penitentiary or Prebendary of the Bishop, any custom whatever or Statute notwithstanding. 7. But if the Lecturer shall have omitted any Lecture appointed by these Statutes, unless he have been hindered either by ill-health, or other lawful impediment to be approved by the Dean and a majority of the Chapter, in which case our pleasure is that he be regarded as absent, and be-subject to the rules laid down above concerning the time and manner of his absence, he shall forfeit 13J. d. on every occasion, to be deducted from his salary, which we desire to go in equal shares to the use of the sub-Canons. 8. But our pleasure is that each one of the Canons and Prebendaries, as well as the Ministers of inferior rank in this Church, who are resident at the time in the city, shall frequent all the Lectures, unless a reason hinder them to be approved in like manner, under penalty of losing their allowances and Quotidians for the day on which they have been absent, or under a fine to be inflicted at discretion on those who are not Canons, in the manner in which it was provided in the chapter about preaching. CHAPTER X. Concerning the Immoveable Goods, or Farms and Estates of the Church. 1. Our pleasure is that the Church and every other house within the precincts of the city of Hereford, F tantes, hyeme jam exacta intra duas Hebdomadas Festum Annunciationis B. Mariae Virginis praecedentes per Decanum aut (eo absente) Hebdomarium et aliquem ex Canonicis, sive Praebendariis Residentiariis diligenter obiri volumus: quo si quid aut (non sartum tectum) cariem contraxerit, aut male materiatum sit, aut ruinam minetur; provideri possit, ut quam celerrime, vel per Praefectum Fabricae, vel per e...