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Some Observations on the History of and the Role and Duties of the Manx Vicar General, Chancellor & Official Principal

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 July 2008

P. W. S. Farrant
P. W. S. Farrant
Affiliation:
Vicar General, Chancellor and Official Principal of the Diocese of Sodor and Man.
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The first statutory reference to a Vicar General in Man appears in an Act of Tynwald (the ancient Manx Legislative Assembly and which stil exists and operates today as a modern and democratically elected body) namely section 3 of ‘a book of spiritual laws and customs of the Island’.

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Ecclesiastical Law Journal , Volume 3 , Issue 17 , July 1995 , pp. 410 - 419
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Copyright © Ecclesiastical Law Society 1995

References

1. A Book of Spiritual Laws and Customs of the Island 1417.

2. Manx Spiritual Laws by Canon E. H. Stenning, M.A., – Isle of Man Natural History and Antiquarian Society publications.

3. Ecclesiastical Law Journal number 10 January 1992 at page 273 and onwards.

3a Report of the two Archbishops Commission on Ecclesiastical Courts 1954.

4. Spiritual Courts of the Isle of Man – paper delivered by Miss Anne Ashley M.A., to the Isle of Man and Natural History Society in 1957.

5. History of the Isle of Man by Moore Esq, A. W.., M.A., Trinity College Cambridge and Speaker of the House of Keys (the Lower Branch of Tynwald) volume 2 at page 845 published in 1900.Google Scholar

6. Isle of Man Constitution Amendment Act 1919 (Act of Tynwald).

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7a Duties of Church Wardens in Sodor and Man address by Vicar General Farrant delivered to Sodor and Man Chapter Court 1994.

8. Mananans Isle by D. Craine Esq., M.A.C.P. published by the Manx Museum and National Trust in 1955.

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11. Miss Anne Ashley's paper on ‘Historic Relations of Church and State in the Isle of Man considered as the background of Bishop Wilson's controversy’ delivered to Isle of Man and Natural History and Antiquarian Society in November 1955.

12. A short view of the present state of the Isle of Man humbly submitted to the consideration of the Right Honourable the Lords of His Majesty's Treasury by an impartial hand printed in the year 1767.

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17. Opinion of Sir James Gell, Attorney General of the Isle of Man addressed to the Lieutenant Governor dated 9 December 1896 and filed in the Diocesan Registry.

18. Halsburys Laws of England 4th Edition Volume 14 paragraph 546.

19. The Judicature Amendment Act 1921 (an Act of Tynwald).

20. Journal of the Manx Museum March 1932.

21. Incumbents (Vacation of Benefices) Measure 1977 as amended by the 1993 Measure of General Synod.

22. The Incumbents (Vacation of Benefices) Measure 1977 Church Legislation Procedure Act 1993 an Act of Tynwald.

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