THE LAWS CONCERNING RELIGIOUS WORSHIP; ALSO MORTMAIN AND CHARITABLE USES. BY JOHN JENKINS, A DISTRICT REGISTRAR OF THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE: Author of "Observations on Law Reform, 1845;” “A Treatise on National Education, 1848;" London: WATERLOW BROS. & LAYTON, 24 & 25, BIRCHIN LANE; 28 & 29, LIME STREET; BROKEN WHARF; AND MDCCCLXXXV, LONDON: PRINTED BY WATERLOW BROS. AND LAYTON, 24 & 25, BIRCHIN LANE; 28 & 29, LIME STREET; BROKEN WHARF, UPPER THAMES STREET, E.C. PREFACE. THE writer of this little Volume is of opinion that it supplies a want. Chapter I. contains a chronological narrative of Ecclesiastical Legislation in England, with Abridgments of the Statutes on the subject, from the Conquest to the present time. Chapter II. is a Compendium of the Law of Mortmain and Charitable Uses. Chapters III. and IV. contain Summaries of the Law concerning Ministers of Religion and Trustees of Charities. The writer, during a professional practice of more than forty years, experienced frequently and constantly the want of a Compendium on the subjects treated of in this little Book. TABLE OF CONTENTS. Exercised the exclusive religious dominion, and a considerable share PAGE Continued till A.D. 1176, when, at a great Council held at Northamp- ton, they were so far altered that the clergy should not be tried by the Temporal Courts except for offences against the Forest Laws, and that no Bishopric or Abbey should remain in the |