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Description: | A list of eleven complaints relating to: excessive fees for wills and administrations; fees for passing administration accounts; ministers compelled to pay extreme fees for their exhibits every visitation; exaction of 12d. for every certificate of christening or burial; persons summoned to court and made to pay fees when nothing presented against them or when they have been dismissed; the episcopal jurisdiction confounded with the Archdeacon's; wills belonging to the Archbishop's prerogative proved by the Ordinary; 3s. or 4s. taken as fees from churchwardens of every parish at visitations; the oath ex officio and the form of proceeding by libel; rejection by judge of presentments of churchwardens at visitation; "and the Register would urge men to present thinges against theire will & put thinges into theire bill they knewe not of".
"Sir Adrian Scroope did promise at Lincoln to give a true coppie of such grievances as hee had conceived against the Ecclesiastical Court, but denyed to doe so at thee meetinge aforesaid. Sir Frances South did promise Doctor Parker that hee would send a Coppie of such matters as hee gathered together but afterward by letter excused himself and sent none."
"Sir Adrian confessed that Doctor Hills, Surrogate at the Visitation last Easter did signifie unto the Countrie that if any thought them selves wronged the Ordinarye was ready to see it redressed, & that his said Surrogate did in particuler expresse the due fees to such as had then any busines there".
Endorsement: "The Complainte of the Justices of Lincolnshire concerninge abuses in ecclesiasticall jurisdiction". | Subjects: | Diocese Of Lincoln Religion & Beliefs | Temporal: | [c1613] | Source: | Lincolnshire County Council | Identifier: | http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/Re... | Go to resource |
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