[ Bishop of Chichester; Maurice Swabey, legal expert ] Autograph Request for a legal Opinion, third Person, with AN Signed "JCicest." to "Dr Swabey [Maurice Swabey, legal authority, author of "Reports of Cases Decided in the Ecclesiastical Courts" ]

Three pages, cr. 8vo, bifolium, dusty but good condition. He requests Dr Swabey's opinion of some points of ecclesiastical law, as follows: "Can the dignitaries of a Cathedral, who are bound by their stautes to 3 months attendance there; and by the old Law obliged to retire for the remainder of the year [...] to their pastoral cures, claim exemption from all the penalties of non-residence under the protection of [......] & if he be, is it necessary for him, in order to fulfil such Cathedral residence, regularly & daily to attend the service of the Choir. | What power has a Bishop in the Cathedral of his Diocese [......] | How is a person who has been ordained a deacon of the Church of England [punishable?] for preaching in conventicles? | Can the Ordinary compel an Incumbent to perform Rubrical service in a church where only single [underlined] service has ever been known to be performed? | Can an Impropriator, Lay or Ecclesiastical, erect a pew (except for his own family) in the Chancel, without the consent of the ordinary? [...]". He adds an ANS: "Dear Sir | In my letter to you, by yesterday's post, I desired my Secretary to wait upon you with it &c- as it enclosed one [underlined] question, which I requested an early reply to. [[valediction at length]. Item docketed "Case for Opinion".