From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 20
Page 6
... taken into account — did not amount , upon the most liberal calculation , to £ 1,500,000 a year . And yet , at this very period , Arthur Young , probably the most competent authority then living , estimated the income of the Church at ...
... taken into account — did not amount , upon the most liberal calculation , to £ 1,500,000 a year . And yet , at this very period , Arthur Young , probably the most competent authority then living , estimated the income of the Church at ...
Page 10
... taken notice of unconsecrated proprietary chapels . " There are cases in which the parish church is also the chapel of some establishment not strictly ecclesias- tical , and where the minister derives nearly all his support from the ...
... taken notice of unconsecrated proprietary chapels . " There are cases in which the parish church is also the chapel of some establishment not strictly ecclesias- tical , and where the minister derives nearly all his support from the ...
Page 18
... taken . measures to avoid paying his share of the poor - rates on these tithes , amounting to £ 134 . " It redounds in no small degree to the damage and dishonour of our nation , that such abominations in connexion with religion should ...
... taken . measures to avoid paying his share of the poor - rates on these tithes , amounting to £ 134 . " It redounds in no small degree to the damage and dishonour of our nation , that such abominations in connexion with religion should ...
Page 20
... taken into account in order to form a correct estimate of the actual amount of ecclesiastical revenue . There are many posts of dis- tinction and of substantial pecuniary advantage , created by zealous adherents of the Church , whose ...
... taken into account in order to form a correct estimate of the actual amount of ecclesiastical revenue . There are many posts of dis- tinction and of substantial pecuniary advantage , created by zealous adherents of the Church , whose ...
Page 22
... taken place in connexion with the renewal of leases in mineral districts , we might form some estimate of the extent to which the Church has been impoverished by those who were entrusted with the guardianship of its rights . It is fresh ...
... taken place in connexion with the renewal of leases in mineral districts , we might form some estimate of the extent to which the Church has been impoverished by those who were entrusted with the guardianship of its rights . It is fresh ...
Common terms and phrases
a-year amount annual value annum Archbishop Archdeacon Asaph average attendance Bangor benefices Bishop Bishop of London BLACKFRIARS blishment British Anti-state-church Association cathedral chapels Church Establishment CHURCH IN WALES Church of England Church of Scotland Church property Church-rates Churchmen clergy clerical Commissioners Commutation congregations connexion David's Dean deanery Denbighshire dignitaries diocese of Llandaff diocese of St Dissent ecclesiastical revenue endow English episcopal Established Church Establishment in Wales estates estimated F. W. Newman four Free-church glebe glebe-houses incumbents Ireland Irish Church Kirk land leases liberty Llandaff London Lord Luxmoore ment Merioneth Merionethshire MIALL AND COCKSHAW ministers moral nett income parishes parishioners Parliament Parochial Benefice patronage pew-rents places of worship population prebend Prelate Presbytery present princes purposes quoad sacra quoad sacra churches religion religious rent-charges Report returns Sir Thomas Philips sittings spiritual State-church tion tithes town TRACTS voluntary principle voluntaryism Welsh whole
Popular passages
Page 28 - For it is easier for a camel to go through a needle's eye, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
Page 11 - ... whatever to the production. When years perhaps, of care and toil have matured an improvement; when the husbandman sees new crops ripening to his skill / and industry; the moment he is ready to put his sickle to the. grain, he finds himself compelled to divide his harvest with a stranger. Tithes...
Page 6 - According to the usual form of procedure, this is the time for making up the roll ; but in consequence of certain proceedings affecting our rights and privileges, — proceedings which have been sanctioned by Her Majesty's Government, and by the Legislature of the country, and more especially in respect that there has been an infringement on the liberties of our constitution, so that we could not now constitute this court without a violation of the terms of the union between Church and State in this...
Page 29 - Ireland and to the three articles of the thirtysixth canon of 1603, and to all things contained in them, and having also before us subscribed a declaration of your conformity to the Liturgy of the United Church of England and Ireland as is now by law established. In testimony,
Page 8 - Commissioners therein named to make a full and correct Inquiry respecting the Revenues and Patronage belonging to the several Archiepiscopal and Episcopal Sees in England and Wales to all Cathedral and Collegiate Churches, and to all Ecclesiastical Benefices (including Donatives, Perpetual Curacies and Chapelries), with or without Cure of Souls, and the Names of the several Patrons thereof, and other circumstances therewith connected...
Page 9 - The Parliament is the temporal head of the Church, from whose acts, and from whose acts alone, it exists as the National Church, and from which alone it derives all its powers.
Page 5 - Church ;— and further declare that no person shall be held to be entitled to disapprove, as aforesaid, who shall refuse, if required, solemnly to declare, in presence of the Presbytery, that he is actuated by no factious or malicious motive, but solely by a conscientious regard to the spiritual interests of himself or the congregation.
Page 6 - ... into a perpetuity ; and partly from a tax levied on all ecclesiastical dignities and benefices, according to a scale of taxation specified in a schedule to the act ; in consideration of which tax all first-fruits are abolished. The commissioners are invested with extraordinary powers by the act. Thus, they have authority to disappropriate benefices united to dignities, and to unite them to vicarages in lieu thereof. They have also the power of suspending the appointment to benefices which are...