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Capitula ruralia

Capitula ruralia, assemblies or chapters, held by rural deans and parochial clergy, within the precinct of every deanery; which at first were every three weeks, afterwards, once

Cathedral

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;

Convocation

an upper and a lower house. In the upper sit the bishops and in the lower all the deans, the senior archdeacons, and the proctors of the clergy. A canon made in 1922 provides in detail for

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Episcopalia, or onera episcopalia

other customary payments from the clergy to their bishop or dioceasan, which were formerly collected by the rural deans, and by them transmitted to the bishop, Dugd. Mon. tom,. iii. P. 61.

Synodales testes

Synodales testes, synods-men (corrupted into sidesmen), were the urban and rural deans, now the churchwardens. See SIDESMEN.

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