...and duties of the Church and 1 The Article is as follows (Johnson, np 52, Oxf. 1551) : — If appeals arise they ought to proceed from the archdeacon to...bishop, from the bishop to the archbishop, and lastly to the King (if the archbishop fail to do justice), so that the controversy be ended in the archbishop's...

...interdict, without application to the King, or to his Justiciary. 8. That appeals in spiritual matters proceed from the Archdeacon to the Bishop, from the Bishop to the Archbishop, and then to the King ; but be carried no further without the King's consent. 9. Disputes between ecclesiastics...

...the dignified clergy should not go out of the realm without the king's licence ; that appeal* should proceed from the archdeacon to the bishop, from the bishop to the archbishop and then to the king; that the kin^ should hold vacant bishoprics or abbeys and receive all the rents thereof....

...guilty were not to be screened by the Church from suffering condign punishment. Appeals were to lie from the archdeacon to the bishop, from the bishop to the archbishop ; and, on failure of justice, in the last resort to the king, who would see to the case being fairly reheard...

...guilty were not to be screened by the Church from suffering condign punishment. Appeals were to lie from the archdeacon to the bishop, from the bishop to the archbishop ; and, on failure of justice, in the last resort to the king, who would see to the case being fairly reheard...

...great persons were forbidden to leave the realm without the king's permission. 6. Appeals were to be from the archdeacon to the bishop, from the bishop to the archbishop, from the archbishop to the king, and no further ; that, by the king's mandate, the case might be ended...

...the gradation of appeals, as far back as the history of our ecclesiastical courts can be traced, was from the archdeacon to the bishop, from the bishop to the archbishop, and lastly, from the archbishop, " if he should be wanting in justice" (si defuerit in justitid exhitenda), to...

...his own discretion ; from which there generally lies an appeal, in the several stages and gradations, from the archdeacon to the bishop, from the bishop to the archbishop, and from the archbishop to the delegates. If the decree be not appealed from in fifteen days it is final....

...a century later, in the Constitutions of Clarendon, in which it was enacted that appeals should go from the archdeacon to the bishop, from the bishop to the archbishop, " and if the archbishop failed in ministering justice, resort was to be had finally to the lord King, that...

...kingdom, notwithstanding any appeals to Rome, or inhibitions, or bulls from Rome. Appeals were to be made from the archdeacon to the bishop, from the bishop to the archbishop, or the Dean of the Court of Arches, where the matter was to be settled ; but in cases affecting the...