The Elizabethan Parish in its Ecclesiastical and Financial Aspects

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Title: The Elizabethan Parish in its Ecclesiastical and Financial Aspects
Author: Sedley Lynch Ware
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Language: English
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SERIES XXVI NOS. 7-8
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY STUDIES
IN
HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL SCIENCE
Under the Direction of the Departments of History, Political Economy, and Political Science
THE ELIZABETHAN PARISH IN ITS ECCLESIASTICAL AND FINANCIAL ASPECTS
BY
SEDLEY LYNCH WARE, A.B., LL.B.
Fellow in History.
PUBLISHED MONTHLY
July-August, 1908
PREFACE
These chapters are but part of a larger work on the Elizabethan parish designed to cover all the aspects of parish
government. There is need of a comprehensive study of the parish institutions of this period, owing to the fact that no
modern work exists that in any thorough way pretends to discuss the subject. The work of Toulmin Smith was written to
defend a theory, while the recent history of Mr. and Mrs. Webb deals in the main with the parish subsequent to the ...