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When he came to the governor’s and inquired for him, he was told he was walking in the garden; while he was waiting for his coming out, in came the proprietor and his brother; and, going into the garden, they represented his case to the governor, who, coming in, inquired where he was born, &c.; he told him, as he had before done the proprietor, and added, that he had married Betty Larkey, parson Griffy’s maid, of Wales, and that the parson had a son at Bishop’s Nympton, in Devon: the governor replied he knew the parson very well, and likewise Betty Larkey; and after he had asked him some questions about them, which Mr.
Cessation from labour, for prayers or preaching on those appointed days of the week, at some occasions may be omitted; but the rest and commemoration appointed by the church, to be precisely observed upon the anniversary festival days, must not be omitted, in the Bishop’s judgment. 3.
On his release he retired to the convent of his order at Ludlow, where he died in May, 1474. He was buried at Hereford, near his own Chantry Chapel, which still bears his name. He gave land from the garden of the bishop’s palace for building a dwelling-house for the vicars choral, which was completed in 1475. *Thomas Mylling*, A.D. 1474-1492, the next Bishop, was Abbot of St.
Henry Egerton*, A.D. 1723-1746, fifth son of the third Earl of Bridgewater, was chaplain to George I. He is chiefly to be remembered for an attempt to destroy the early Norman building adjoining the Bishop’s Palace, and thought to have been the parish church of St. Mary, each of its two stories containing a chantry founded by Bishop Hugh Foliot.
The bishop also had a gaol for the incarceration of offenders against his rights during fair-time. Tolls were levied at each gate of the city. The suspension of civic authority during fair-time was for centuries a source of frequent quarrels. As late as the eighteenth century a ballad-singer was punished by the bishop’s officers.
Bobbet and Scott, churchwardens of Bungay, for non-payment of 17s. 6d. demanded of him as a Church-rate, and subsequent refusal to obey a citation for appearance at the Bishop’s Court.’ Naturally the writer remarked: ‘It will soon be seen whether proceedings so well in harmony with the days of fire and faggot are to be tolerated in this advanced period of the nineteenth century.’ When, in due time, Mr.
That is a long road if he has set out without the blessing of God. I have heard that he has already incurred the bishop’s curse;220 all this is——” Here Maciej dipped some bread in his soup, munched it, and did not finish his last phrase.
In a dispute concerning the chace of Colwall, near Malvern Forest, from which was derived the Bishop’s supply of game, he maintained successfully the episcopal rights. He was also triumphant in a more important quarrel with the Welsh King Llewellyn about the wrongful appropriation of three manors.
Would to God that these things were observed by all who desire the worthy office of a pastor; for neither the patron’s presentation, nor the clergy’s nomination, examination and recommendation, nor the bishop’s laying on of hands and giving of institution, nor all these put together, can make up to a man’s calling to be a pastor to such or such a particular flock, without their own free election.
Afterward bishops began to appropriate to themselves that power which pertained unto them jure devoluto, as if it had been their own jure proprio. The canon law ordaineth that, in giving of ordination, presbyters lay on their hands, together with the bishop’s hands. That which maketh them grant so much is, because they dare not deny that presbyters have the power of ordination jure divino.