Book 9780461898613

"A Collection Of All The Ecclesiastical Laws, Canons, Answers, Or Rescripts Concerning The Government, Discipline And Worship Of The Church Of England, From Its First Foundation To The Conquest, That Have Hitherto Been Publish'D In The Latin And Saxonic Tongues. And Of All The Canons And" by John Johnson. This is a scholarly edition (1720) translated into English with explanatory notes and excerpts from Lyndwood, Spelman, Athone, and Somner, presenting a monumental canon-law corpus on the governance, discipline, and worship of the English church. It compiles Anglo-Saxon and early Norman canons, penitentials, and legatine material, with extensive marginal notes, glosses, and textual variant discussions. Core topics include church immunities, church lands, and protections; church–state relations; taxation, tithes, and sanctuary; ecclesiastical governance in Canterbury and York; penalties, excommunication, and oaths; crimes and clerical discipline; and debates about papal authority versus English independence. The edition includes Addenda, a substantial index, printer material, and editor’s commentary meant to illuminate transmission, authenticity, and reform. The work stands as a crucial source for scholars of medieval English ecclesiastical law.