This talk is about the Court of Arches, the ancient appeal court of the Archbishop of Canterbury, and its rich archive in Lambeth Palace Library. It outlines court procedure and […]
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Current Exhibitions Previous Exhibitions Moral & Material DecayFour centuries of the Court of Arches Moral & Material Decay invited you to peer into the courtroom of the Province of Canterbury’s […]
Clerical Misdemeanours Clergy were expected to set an example to their flock and to elicit the respect of parishioners for the established church. It did not always work that way. […]
Questions of Matrimony In early modern England, options for settling marital disputes were limited. The first divorce with permission to remarry was obtained by a private act of Parliament in […]
Introduction As the most senior Church court in England, the Court of Arches has exercised its jurisdiction far and wide over an 800-year history. Little is known about the foundation […]
Moral & Material Decay Four centuries of the Court of Arches Lambeth Palace Library invites you to peer into the courtroom of the Province of Canterbury’s most senior ecclesiastical court. […]
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– A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z – The following […]
– A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z – The following […]
