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My subject was suggested to me by Professor Vincent, to whom as well as to Professor Andrews I am indebted for advice and assistance throughout this work. In England I have to thank Messrs. Sidney Webb, Hubert Hall and George Unwin, of the London School of Economics, for reading manuscript and suggesting improvements. For similar help and for reference to new material my acknowledgments are due to Mr. . Firth, Regius Professor of Modern History, Oxford, and to Mr. . Fletcher, of Magdalen College. At the British Museum I found the officials most courteous, while the librarians of the Peabody Institute, Baltimore, have given me every. | The Elizabethan Parish in its Ecclesiastical and Financial Aspects 1 The Elizabethan Parish in its Ecclesiastical and Financial Aspects The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Elizabethan Parish in its Ecclesiastical and Financial Aspects by Sedley Lynch Ware This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title The Elizabethan Parish in its Ecclesiastical and Financial Aspects Author Sedley Lynch Ware Release Date May 11 2004 EBook 12324 Language English Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ELIZABETHAN PARISH Produced by Juliet Sutherland Keith M. Eckrich and PG Distributed Proofreaders 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 . . 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 year 1688. The material already in print for such a study is very CHAPTER I 2 voluminous the accumulation of texts having progressed more rapidly than the use of them by scholars. My subject was suggested to me by Professor Vincent to whom as well as to Professor Andrews I am indebted for advice and assistance throughout this work. In England I have to thank .