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Pascha rents

Pascha rents, yearly tributes paid by the clergy to the bishop or archdeacon at their Easter visitations.

Parish Clerk

Parish Clerk. This office is of extreme antiquity--next indignity to the clergy, says Leland; but it is a temporal office, Lawrence v. Edwards, (1891) 2 Ch 72. He is now

Onus episcopale

Onus episcopale, ancient customary payments from the clergy, to their diocesan bishop, of synodals, pentecostals, etc.

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Emblements

maxim in the law that actus Dei nemini facit injuriam. The advantages of emblements are extended to parochial clergy by 28 Hen. 8, c. 11, but a person who resigns his living, or forfeits it by his

Chrismati denarii

Chrismati denarii chrisom pence, paid to the diocesan or his suffragan by the parochial clergy about Estate. It is otherwise called quadragesimals, or paschals, or Easter-pence. Obsolete

Disme

Disme [fr. decima, Lat., a tenth, the tenth part], tithes due to the clergy, the tenth of all spiritual livings, 2 & 3 Edw. 3, c. 35.

Gallican

Of or pertaining to Gaul or France Gallic French as the Gallican church or clergy

Prelate

A clergyman of a superior order as an archbishop or a bishop having authority over the lower clergy a dignitary

Plymouth Brethren

which first appeared at Plymouth England about 1830 They protest against sectarianism and reject all official ministry or clergy Also called Brethren Christian Brethren Plymouthists etc The Darbyites are a division of the Brethren

Nonage

The ninth part of movable goods formerly payable to the clergy on the death of persons in their parishes

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