PREFACE THIRD EDITION. IN this Edition E have adhered to the original plan and style of the Book. Many cases of importance have been decided since the appearance of the Second Edition, including Rex v. Areh6. isAop of Qunterbury, on objections to bishops and several Acts of Parliament on ecclesiastical matters have been placed on the statute book. A new Table of Ecclesiasticd Fees has been approved by the Privy Council. All these will be found in the proper places. The judgment of the House of Lords in the London Skeet Tramways Co. v. London County Council has again laid it down that an ultimate Court of Appeal cannot reverse its own decisions on questions of W If this rule be logically applied, the de cision in JIebbsrt v. Purchm is still good law, and the mischief caused by varying decisions of the Privy Council is removed. Thus the Eastward Position and the Mixed Chalice become illegal under all circumstances, and ecclesiastical law is simplified. B. W 2, BKICK C OURT, T EYPLE, E . G. June, 1911.MY apology for placing this book before the clergy, the pro fession, and the public, is that there appears to be a demand for a work on Church Law, which, while much less voluminous than the groat treatam on the subject, would still be comprehensive. This book, therefore, deals with the laws of England relating to advowsona, tithes including the Act of lS91, globe lands, offerings, and other Church property srch bishops, bishops, and other dignitaries thc clorgy gonerally, and the righta and duties of incumbenk, curates, and chap lains vestries and ehureh vardons, and other parish officers public w, orship church ornaments vestments and ritual in cluding the recent Lificoln cme the doctrinessanctioned by thu Church of England, in all cases where there has been any dispute the sacraments marriage, ordination, and other rites of the Church charities and mortmain including the Act of 1891 the dir ision and union of parishes feasts andfasts Church discipline and general procedure in the EccImissti cal Courts blasphmy, simony, sacrilege, c. convocations and synods Jews and Dissenters, c. The various fees and stamp dutks payable have in all casoe been given in detail also tho forms of the most important dcclarntions, notices, c. IncidlentalIy the doctrines and usages of the Greek and Roman Churches, and of the various sects of Protestants, also Church history and statistics, have been touchcd upon. The nature of establishment and the status of the Churches of Englmd and Scotland at home and abroad have been defined and I venture to think that practically the whole of the law ecclesiastical is dealt with either in outline or dotail, and that tha book comprises all the Church Law a clergyman, layman, or practising lawyer is likely to require in ordinary cases. In addition, the Bources have been indicated from which further and more detailed information may be obtained. In or to save space I have, as a rule, refrained from giving lmgthy extracts from the Articles, Canons, and other eaaily accessible authorities a and when there ia a long list of decided cases on a particular point, as a general rule, the last case only has boen cited…