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Archdeacons courts peculiar courts etc.Bishops trancript.s
Any others that you can think of as I am making a list for my own reference. Anyone else enjoying this please let Stan know that you appreciate his help.
Josie.
Hi Josie,
About Bishop's Transcripts. From 1598 incumbents were required to provide their diocesan bishop, or his equivalent, usually at Easter, with copies of the entries in the parish register covering the previous year. However in some cases the order was observed only sporadically, or they were not scrupulously maintained.
The Consistory Court was the Bishop's court concerned with diocesan ecclesiastical administration. At a lower level the Archceacon's Court was held by the Archdeacon in places where he had jurisdiction within his archdeaconry, either concurrently with the Bishop, or exclusively. These were Ecclesiastical Courts for the hearing of judicial cases under Canon Law. In the Archdeacon's Court either the archdeacon or his Official Principal presided as judge.
A peculiar jurisdiction was where a bishop exercised powers in churches or manors which lay within the jurisdiction of a fellow bishop. For example the Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction of the parishes of Hexham, Allendale and St. John Lee was the Peculiar Court of the Archbishop of York in Hexhamshire.
Stan
