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Report of the Royal Commission on Ecclesiastical Discipline
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1126

Report of the Royal Commission on Ecclesiastical Discipline

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1906
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Report of the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 384
The Rise and Fall of the English Ecclesiastical Courts, 1500-1860
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 173

The Rise and Fall of the English Ecclesiastical Courts, 1500-1860

Tracing the history of growth and then the slow disappearance of English law and social regulation.

A Dictionary of the Church of England
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 694

A Dictionary of the Church of England

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1895
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Church Courts, Sex and Marriage in England, 1570-1640
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 436

Church Courts, Sex and Marriage in England, 1570-1640

This is an in-depth, richly documented study of the sex and marriage business in ecclesiastical courts of Elizabethan and early Stuart England. This study is based on records of the courts in Wiltshire, Cambridgeshire, Leicestershire and West Sussex in the period 1570-1640.

The Catholic Presbyterian
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 976

The Catholic Presbyterian

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1883
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The History of the Ecclesiastical Laws of England, and Their Procedure, Etc
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 40
Church Courts and the People in Seventeenth-Century England
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 269

Church Courts and the People in Seventeenth-Century England

  • Categories: Law
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2022-09-15
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  • Publisher: UCL Press

Religion meant far more in early modern England than church on Sundays, a baptism, a funeral or a wedding ceremony. The Church was fully enmeshed in the everyday lives of the people; in particular, their morals and religious observance. The Church imposed comprehensive regulations on its flock, such as sex before marriage, adultery and receiving the sacrament, and it employed an army of informers and bureaucrats, headed by a diocesan chancellor, to enable its courts to enforce the rules. Church courts lay, thus, at the very intersection of Church and people. The courts of the seventeenth century – when ‘a cyclonic shattering’ produced a ‘great overturning of everything in England’ ...