CH/20/44/14

CH/20/44/14

File

Items 152 to 154

1843

3 sheet

Items 152-154: the ninth "sub-bundle". 152. 17 Feb 1843. Letter, presumably to Archdeacon William Macdonald, from John Haworth, Registrar and Chapter Clerk of Lichfield Cathedral. Haworth writes, at the request of the Dean and Chapter of Lichfield, about proposed changes to ecclesiastical courts and jurisdictions in a parliamentary Bill. "The Offices of Chapter Clerk and Registrar are generally invested in the same person and . . . the emoluments of the former are insignificant and trifling while those of the latter are adequate for a fair remuneration for the performance of the duties of both. The proposed Bill however abolishes the Registrarship and leaves the more arduous duties of Chapter Clerk without any visible means of compensation or income". Haworth suggests that "a representation from the several Chapters of the Cathedral Churches . . . should not be forwarded to the Gentlemen who have the Management of the Bill". 153. 22 Feb 1843. Letter to J L Alford from [L K?] Murray of 5 Whitehall Place, London. "I have not yet been furnished with the copy of the Accounts of your Chapter required by my Circular letter of the 12th March last". (5 Whitehall Place was the address of the office of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners). 154. 25 Feb 1843. Letter to Archdeacon William Macdonald, as "Canon in Residence", from John Haworth, Registrar and Chapter Clerk of Lichfield Cathedral. The answers to his letter of 17 February (item 152 above) show that "a great difference exists in the several Chapters both as to the appointment and the duties of Chapter Clerks and Registrars"; "the dean and Chapter of Lichfield deem it expedient to call upon the Chapters generally to bring the first part of my previous Letter under the Condsideration of the Promoters of the Bill [and] would invite those who are similarly circumstanced with themselves to lay their case before Dr Nicholl or Parliament in such a way as may ensure an early and equitable consideration of the question." "With respect to the second point I am requested to state that in almost all the answers the Deans and Chapters fully concur in the necessity of some alteration being effected to protect the Cathedrals from the proposed Archidiaconal Visitation " so the Dean and Chapter of Lichfield suggest that "a provision should be introduced" to the Bill to the effect that "the Cathedral Churches the Clergy Members and Officers thereof of the several Dioceses should be subject solely to the Visitation of the Bishop according to the ancient Custom". With a cover sheet addressed to Archdeacon Macdonald, "Canon in Residence" wiith a fragment of an impressed seal with heraldic motif in red wax.

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