| Richard Burn - Ecclesiastical law - 1824 - 608 pages
...said clerk shall be twenty years of age at cation. the least; known to the parson, vicar, or minister, to be of honest conversation, and sufficient for his...for his competent skill in singing (if it may be). How to be 3. All incumbents once had the right of nomination of the appointed, parish clerks by the... | |
| William Blackstone - Law - 1827 - 916 pages
...367. By can. 91. the clerk must bi> twenty years of age, known to the parson, Ticar, or minister ta be of honest conversation, and sufficient for his reading, writing, and also for his competent tkiil in singing, if it may be. Parish clerks, after having been duly chosen and appointed, are usually... | |
| Parliament acts - 1828 - 748 pages
...Clerk shall be of twenty years of age at the least, and known to the said Parson, Vicar, or Minister, to be of honest conversation, and sufficient for his...for his competent skill in singing, if it may be. And the said Clerks so chosen shall have and receive their ancient wages, without fraud or diminution,... | |
| Montagu Robert MELVILLE - 1834 - 142 pages
...Clerk shall be of twenty years of age at the least, and known to the said Parson, Vicar or Minister, to be of honest conversation, and sufficient for his...for his competent skill in singing (if it may be.) And the said Clerks so chosen shall have and receive their ancient wages, without fraud or diminution,... | |
| 1836 - 444 pages
...and that " the said clerk shall be of twenty years of age at least, and known to the said minister to be of honest conversation, and sufficient for his...writing, and also for his competent skill in singing." It would greatly promote the interest of religion, if not only parish-clerks, but all others who are... | |
| Francis James Newman Rogers - Ecclesiastical law - 1840 - 1136 pages
...that the clerk shall be twenty-one years of age at the least; known to the parson, vicar, or minister to be of honest conversation, and sufficient for his...writing, and also for his competent skill in singing. No part of this Canon, however, can bind or control a custom, where there exists one, for the parishioners... | |
| Church of England - 1842 - 468 pages
...clerk shall be of twenty years of age at1o the least, and known to the said parson, vicar, or minister, to be of honest conversation, and sufficient for his...for his competent skill in singing, if it may be. And the said clerks so chosen shall have and receive their ancient wages, without fraud or dimi- 15... | |
| Richard Burn - Ecclesiastical law - 1842 - 846 pages
...Clerke shalbe of twenty years of age at the least, and knowne to the said Parson, Vicar, or Minister, to be of honest conversation, and sufficient for his...reading, writing, and also for his competent skill hi singing, (if it may be.) And where the Minister is an English man, and many Irish in the parish,... | |
| Charles Wordsworth (bp. of St. Andrews.) - 1843 - 106 pages
...&c. According to the Canons of 1603 (Can. xci.), the Parish Clerk is required " to be of twenty years of age at the least, and known .... to be of honest...for his competent skill in singing, if it may be." See Gibson's Codex, Tit. ix. cap. xiv. p. 214. Compare the Rubric in Communion Service (first after... | |
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