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Cathedral [fr. Kaedpa, Gk., a seat], the church of the bishop and head of the diocese, in which is his seat of dignity. The Cathedral Acts and Measures are 3 & 4 Vict. c. 113, 4 & 5 Vict. c. 39, 6 & 7 Vict. c. 77, 16 & 17 Vict. c. 35, 27 & 28 Vict. c. 70, 36 & 37 Vict. c. 39, 21 & 22 Geo. 5, No. 7, and 24 & 25 Geo. 5, No. 3; and as to Wales, see 6 & 7 Vict. c. 77, and Welsh Church Act, 1914.Our cathedrals and collegiate churches have been divided into four classes:--1st, consisting of 13, being the cathedrals of the old foundation, or Ecclesi' Cathedrales Canonicorum Secularium; 2nd, consisting of eight conventual cathedrals, constituted with deans and chapters by Hen. VIII; 3rd, containing the five cathedrals founded, together with new bishoprics, by Hen. VIII; 4th, the new cathedrals constituted since that time. See Bishopric....
Cathedral preferments
Cathedral preferments, all deaneries, archdeaconries, and canonries, and generally all dignities and officers in any cathedral or collegiate church, below the rank of a bishop. Consult Stephens on the clergy....
Chancellor of a Cathedral
Chancellor of a Cathedral, one of the quatuor person', or four chief dignitaries, of the Cathedrals of the Old Foundations. The duties assigned to the office by the statutes of the different chapters vary; but they are chiefly of an educational character, with special reference to the cultivation of theology....
Magna Carta
Magna Carta, [Latin 'great charter'] The English charter that King John granted to the barons in 1215 and Henry III and Edward I later confirmed. It is generally regarded as one of the great common-law documents and as the foundation of constitution liberties. The other three great charters of English Liberty are the Petition of Right (3 Car. (1628)), the Habeas Corpus Act (31 Car. 2 (1679)), and the Bill of Rights (1 Will. SM. (1689)). Also spelled Magna charta, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 963.This Great Charter is based substantially upon the Saxon Common Law, which flourished in this kingdom until the Normaninvasion consolidated the system of feudality, still the great characteristic of the principles of real property. The barons assembled at St.Edmund's Bury, in Suffolk, in the later part of the year 1214, and there solemnly swore upon the high alter to withdraw their allegiance from the Crown, and openly rebel, unless King John confirmed by a formal charter the ancient li...
Ebdomadarius
Ebdomadarius, an officer in cathedral churches who supervised the regular performance of divine service, and prescribed the particular duties of each person in the choir....
Exeter, or Exon, Domesday
Exeter, or Exon, Domesday, the name given to a record preserved among the muniments and charters belonging to the dean and chapter of Exeter Cathedral, which contains a description of the western parts of the kingdom, comprising the counties of Wilts, Dorset, Somerset, Devon, and Cornwall. The Exeter Domesday was published with several other surveys nearly contemporary, by order of the Commissioners of the Public Records, under the direction of Sir Henry Ellis, in a volume supplementary to the Great Domesday, folio, London, 1816....
Fabric lands
Fabric lands [ad fabricam reparandam, Lat.], land given to provide for the rebuilding or repair of cathedrals and churches. Anciently, almost every person gave something by his will to be applied in repairing the fabric of all cathedral or parish church where he lived....
Hebdomadius
Hebdomadius, a week's man, canon, or prebendary in a cathedral church, who has the care of the choir and the officers belonging to it, for his own week, Reg. Episc. Hereford MSS....
Lavatorium
Lavatorium, a laundry or place to wash in; a place in the porch or entrance of cathedral churches, where the priest and other officiating ministers were obliged to wash their hands before they proceeded to divine service....
Manchester
Manchester became a municipal borough in 1838 and a county borough by the Local Government Act, 1888. Its bishopric was established by 10 & 11 Vict. c. 108; as to the cathedral, see 23 & 24 Vict. c. 69; 31 & 32 Vict. c. 114, s. 15. The 'Manchester Parish Division Act, 1850,' is 13 & 14 Vict. c. 41....
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