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. 1855 Excerpt: ...bis posterity a slave for ever, and paying a yearly poll-tax of. fourpence.--Bot. Pat. 55.
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. 1855 Excerpt: ...bis posterity a slave for ever, and paying a yearly poll-tax of. fourpence.--Bot. Pat. 55. by the chapters of choosing their prelates. It was a right, however, which the prince viewed with jealousy, and which he invaded without difficulty. The bishoprics offered the cheapest means of remunerating the clergymen in his service; and, as the baronies annexed to them gave their possessors considerable influence in the state, his interest demanded that they should not be bestowed on his enemies. Hence, while he permitted the form of election to exist, he was in general careful to retain the real nomination in his own power. It was required that the choice of the chapter should be preceded by the royal license, which afforded the king the opportunity of recommendation; and that it should be followed by the presentment of the bishop elect for his approval, which allowed him in reality the exercise of a veto. Thus far, however, the practice in England was conformable to the practice of most Christian countries; in one point it differed from that of all others. Several of the cathedral churches had been originally settled in monasteries, and still continued to be served by monks, who claimed and exercised all the rights of the chapters; a singular and incongruous institution, since it referred the choice of the bishops to men who, by their utter seclusion from the world, were the least calculated to appreciate the merits of the candidates, or to judge of the qualifications requisite for the office. With respect to the other sees, this interference of the monks was perhaps of minor importance; but the archbishop of Canterbury enjoyed so elevated a station in church and state, that his election interested both the king and the prelates. The latter, grounding their pret.
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- غلاف الكتاب: غلاف عادي
- لغة الكتاب: الانجليزية
- الكاتب: John Lingard
- الناشر: Rarebooksclub.com
- رقم ال ISBN: 9781130488791
- عدد الصفحات: 188
- لأبعاد (الارتفاع*العرض*العمق): 9.69 x 7.44 x 0.4 inches