Clergy JPs in England and Wales, 1590-1640
In the 1621 parliament members of the House of Commons clashed with the kind over the issue of clergy as JPs: there were suggestions that no clergyman should sit as a JP, or that only bishops and deans should be appointed. Why were there complaints at that time, and were they justified? Was the nomi...
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Cambridge University Press
2004
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