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Definition of Archdeaconries
1. archdeaconry [n] - See also: archdeaconry
Lexicographical Neighbors of Archdeaconries
Literary usage of Archdeaconries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Beauties of England and Wales, Or, Delineations, Topographical by John Britton, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees, Thomas Hood, John Harris, Edward Wedlake Brayley (1814)
"The archdeaconries arc those of London, Middlesex, Essex, ... in? is to «isit
the several cures within their respective archdeaconries, and to enquire into ..."
2. The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland [1807-1868/69] by Great Britain, George Kettilby Rickards (1840)
"And be it enacted, That, so soon as conveniently Provision for may be, and by
the Authority herein-after provided, subject to the archdeaconries. ..."
3. The Ecclesiastical Law by Richard Burn, Robert Phillimore (1842)
"... there are archdeacons who have jurisdiction in their archdeaconries, as in
most places they have, there the office of commissary is superfluous (i). ..."
4. Wharton's Law-lexicon: Forming an Epitome of the Law of England : and by John Jane Smith Wharton, John Mounteney Lely (1892)
"... of every bishop's jurisdiction ; it is divided into archdeaconries, each
archdeaconry into rural deaneries, and rural deaneries into parishes. —Co. LiU. ..."
5. Record Series by Yorkshire Archaeological Society, Yorkshire Archaeological and Topographical Association (1907)
"They, however, also contain transcripts of Wills proved in the Courts of the
archdeaconries of York and the East Riding, ..."
6. Memoirs of Archbishop Temple by Ernest Grey Sandford (1906)
"CHAPTER V DIOCESAN ORGANISATION The principle of self-government—Rural Deaneries—Lay
Conferences—archdeaconries—Central Diocesan unity—Formation, ..."
7. Proceedings by Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and Natural History (1903)
"0f THE CONDITION OF THE archdeaconries OF SUFFOLK AND SUDBURY IN' THE YEAR.
IN Volume vi.. page 361, of the Proceedings, there is a paper bearing the above ..."
8. London and Middlesex: Or, An Historical, Commercial, & Descriptive Survey of by Edward Wedlake Brayley, James Norris Brewer, Joseph Nightingale (1814)
"... respective archdeaconries, and to enquire into the reparations and move- ables
belonging to them; to reform slight abuses in ecclesiastical matters, ..."
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