Clergy
121Benefit of Clergy — Privilege enjoyed by members of the clergy, including tonsured clerks, placing them beyond the jurisdiction of secular courts. However, the penalties imposed by church courts were often harsh …
122Benefit of clergy — A privilege enjoyed by members of the clergy, including tonsured clerks, placing them beyond the jurisdiction of secular courts …
123benefit of clergy — ben′efit of cler′gy n. 1) rel the rites or sanctions of a church: living together without benefit of clergy[/ex] 2) rel the medieval privilege of clerics to be tried by ecclesiastic rather than secular courts • Etymology: 1480–90 …
124benefit of clergy — noun (formerly, in Britain) the right of a member of the clergy to be tried by an ecclesiastical court instead of a secular court, later extended to anyone who could read or write …
125benefit of clergy — Date: 15th century 1. clerical exemption from trial in a civil court 2. the ministration or sanction of the church …
126Surrogate (clergy) — Surrogate (from Lat. surrogare , to substitute for), a deputy of a bishop or an ecclesiastical judge, acting in the absence of his principal and strictly bound by the authority of the latter.Canon 128 of the canons of 1603 lays down the… …
127James Yorke (clergy) — James Yorke (9 March 1730 ndash; 26 August 1808) was a British clergyman.Yorke was the son of the 1st Earl of Hardwicke and Margaret Cocks. He was Bishop of Gloucester from 1779 to 1781 and then Bishop of Ely from 1781 to 1808. On 29 June 1762,… …
128William Cowper (clergy) — William Cowper (28 December 1778 – 6 July 1858) was an archdeacon of Cumberland, and a clergyman active in Australia.Early lifeCowper was born at Whittington, England, the son of a yeoman farmer. At 17 years of age Cowper became a tutor in a… …
