'The Law of the Church of England, and its History, are to be deduced from RIVINGTONS WATERLOO PLACE, LONDON Oxford and Cambridge MDCCCLXXVI ик PHI PREFACE. I ACCEPTED the office of Judge of the Arches Court of Canterbury in 1867. I resigned it in 1875. The Court of Arches has great powers and privileges of jurisdiction. It is the only Ecclesiastical Court which has the power to pass sentence of Deprivation. It is practically the Court in which the Archbishop sits when exercising jurisdiction over a suffragan Bishop. It is the Court of Appeal from all the Diocesan Courts of the Province of Canterbury. Moreover, a recent decision of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council has decided that it is bound to take cognisance in the first instance, and without the advantage which the Appellate Court enjoys of the previous sentence of a competent Court, of every case which the Bishop of a Diocese may send, by what are called Letters of Request, to be tried before it. The office was, during my tenure of it, one of much honour, but really of no emolument. I do not think that in 1872 I had received enough to pay the expenses incident to my appointment in 1867. The emolument was, in fact, a very few pounds a year. I accepted it at the earnest request of Archbishop Longley, resigning for this purpose the Chancellorships of Chichester, Oxford, and Salisbury, which I |