Catalogue description LEGAL PRECEDENTS

Copies of legal opinions on miscellaneous points of ecclesiastical law. They are numbered 1-36 (27-8 lost):

Opinion of Maurice Swabey (civilian) on whether the incumbent of a Chancellor's living worth £10 per annum may accept an augmented curacy under 36 Geo.III c.83 without a dispensation, 10 October 1805 (f.1r-v).

Opinion of William Wynne (civilian; kt., 1788) on whether two livings may be held with a chapel donative or perpetual curacy, 27 February 1787 (ff.1v-2v).

Opinions of Edward Simpson, Sir Dudley Ryder, and George Lee on whether curacies augmented by Queen Anne's Bounty are voidable in the absence of a dispensation on the curate taking institution to a presentative benefice, 1749-50 (ff.2v-6).

Opinion by Sir William Scott (Baron Stowell, 1821) on whether an incumbent may refuse burial to a person baptized by a Dissenter, 4 April 1798 (ff.6-9v).

Opinion by Sir John Nicholl (civilian) on whether a beneficed clergyman may preach in a barn in another parish, 11 September 1799 (f.10).

Opinions by George Harris (civilian) and another on a reversionary grant of the office of registrar of the diocese of Gloucester, 1770-1 (ff.10-12v, 39v-40).

Opinion by P. Johnson, of York, on the validity of the sale of an advowson to a relative who makes an avoidance thereof, 12 May 1780. Refers to the rectory of Wensley, Yorks. (ff.13-14).

Opinion by John Madocks concerning the division of church leases, 21 May 1787 (f.14r-v).

Opinion by Stafford and Bulkeley concerning a legacy, 3 February 1750 (ff.14v-15v).

Opinion by William Wynne concerning the appointment by Alexander Malet, Archdeacon of Gloucester, of his own apparitor contrary to canon 138, 3 February 1770 (ff.15v-17).

Opinion by Richard Richards (barrister; kt., 1814) concerning tithes on a newly erected corn mill, 28 April 1808 (f.17r-v).

Opinion by William Wynne on whether the Bishop of Sodor and Man possessed the right to qualify chaplains in the same manner as English bishops, 18 February 1773 (f.18).

Opinion by James Mansfield (Chief Justice of Common Pleas and Kt., 1804) on whether the Bishop of Ely may grant a patent for the office of receiver at a higher salary than the antient salary and allowances, 6 May 1784 (ff.18v-20v).

Opinion by George Harris (civilian) on the enforcement of a claim for dilapidations on a vicarage under sequestration for twenty years, 10 February 1787 (ff.20v-22v).

Legal opinions by William Wynne and W. Dickes on a proposal by Christ's College, Cambridge, to consolidate the livings of Toft and Caldecote, Cambs., 1785 (ff.23-5).

Opinion by Sir John Nicholl on a faculty for a monument, 12 October 1802 (f.25v).

Statement on the practice in granting dispensation to hold two livings thirty computed miles apart, 14 January 1801 (ff.25v-26v).

Opinion concerning the sale of a presentation, no date (ff.26v-27).

Order by Robert Hay Drummond, Archbishop of York, for altering the incorrect entry in the baptismal register of St. Crux, York, for the baptism of Cyril Jackson, subsequently Dean of Christ Church, Oxford (1783), 25 June 1763 (ff.27v-28).

Opinion on dispute whether the rector of a parish is competent to execute the office of churchwarden, no date [18th century] Refers to the rectory of Cotleigh, Devon (ff.28-29v).

Opinion by Sir William Scott (Baron Stowell, 1821) on whether proposals for uniting the livings of Graveney and Goodnestone, Kent, are simoniacal, no date [18th century] (ff.29v-30v).

Opinions by William Wynne, James Mansfield, and George Harris concerning the retention of a living by Claudius Crigan on appointment as Bishop of Sodor and Man, 1784 (ff.30v-35v).

Opinion by George Hay (Civilian; Kt., 1773) on whether presentation to Hitchin, Herts., belonged to Trinity College, Cambridge, or to the crown, the incumbent Mark Hildesley having been appointed Bishop of Sodor and Man, 10 March 1756 (ff.35v-37).

Opinion concerning a patent granted by Thomas Gooch, Bishop of Ely, of the office of bailiff of Ely, [1759] (incomplete) (f.37r-v).

Opinion by John Dunning, 1st Baron Ashburton (1782), on the liability of the curate of Paddington (Middlesex) to Land Tax, 20 July 1780 (f.38r-v).

Opinion by Sir John Nicholl on the presentation of a clerk before his ordination, 1 July 1802 (ff.38v-39).

Memorandum on a patent by William Markham, Bishop of Chester, and (1776) Archbishop of York, for a registrar in the diocese of Chester for three lives instead of for one, no date [18th century] (f.40).

Opinion by George Crompton on the recovery of arrears of tenths belonging to James Yorke, Bishop of Ely, 4 February 1783 (ff.40v-41).

Opinion by Henry Dampier [kt., 1813] on whether creditors of the late incumbent of Hanwell, Middlesex, may sell moveables in the parsonage and also fixtures such as a bath with water-pump and brick wine bins for 500 dozen bottles of wine, 11 November 1809 (f.41r-v).

Opinion by Sir William Scott (Baron Stowell, 1821) on the authority of a diocesan to require the incumbent of a sinecure rectory to perform duty, 8 February 1794 (f.42).

Opinion by Richard Richards (barrister; kt., 1814) on angling rights in the river Wandle, 20 April 1808 (ff.42v-43).

Opinion on the legality of the sale of an advowson under the expectation of a vacancy, no date (incomplete) (f.43v).