The English Parish in Law, Commerce, and Religion, 1350-1550
by
Robert C. Palmer
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2003
In the years of expanding state authority following the Black Death, English common law permitted the leasing of parishes by their rectors and vicars, who then pursued interests elsewhere and left the parish in the control of lay lessees. But a series of statutes enacted by Henry VIII between 1529...