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Archaeologia Cantiana - Vol. 57 1944 page 3
Sidelights on the Rectors and Parishioners of Reculver from the Register
of Archbishop Winchelsey by Rose Graham, C.B.E., D.Litt., F.S.A., F.R.Hist.S
parishioners.1 This
is an early instance of a compulsory church rate for the repair of the
fabric. |
witchcraft and usury; if
unable to establish their innocence by purgation, they were condemned to
be whipped round the church and the market place. The Archbishop issued
a mandate to the rector's commissary and to the vicar jointly to see
that the penances were performed; the names of guilty parishioners were
written on a schedule attached to the mandate, others had the
opportunity of clearing themselves by purgation.5 |
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