A system of tithe- proctors established all over England (as it is in Ireland), would produce general disgust and alienation from the Established Church.
In the first year of Edward VI (1547) it was enacted that all “leprouse and poore beddred creatures” who were inmates of charitable houses should continue in the places appointed, and be permitted to have proctors to gather alms for them.
The practice of each diocese in this matter is the law of the convocation, and the practice varies indefinitely as regards the election of proctors to represent the beneficed clergy.
Windows were broken, proctors jostled; books were burnt by order of Parliament; young Puritans from New Inn Hall or Lincoln were forced to eat their words.
In the face of such provocation the Proctors sent their bedels about the town, forbidding the students to leave their inns.
On Monday, the 16th April, the Vice-Chancellor and proctors met at Exeter College and thence went to the Divinity School, there to dispute with the bishops on the nature of the Eucharist.
And over the northern and southern Masters of Arts presided northern and southern Proctors respectively, chosen by a process of indirect election, like the rectors of Bologna and Paris.
A charter followed in 1248, which authorised the Chancellor and proctors to assist at the assaying of bread and beer by the mayor and bailiffs.
The Chancellors andProctors resigned their office.
If the Proctors failed to restrain them, the mayor was equally powerless to restrain his townsmen.
Forty pence out of this offering were to be given by the proctors to forty poor scholars, and the remainder to the curate.
The two proctorsare present as assessors, and these three constitute the court.
Proctors or the Heads of his College, on account of his infirm health, or some other reasonable cause (nisi cui propter infirmam valetudinem aut rationabilem aliquam causam licentia, &c.
I will take care that their protestation is duly ratified by their proctors at Rome.
Since Cifuentes and he had been there the process had been pushed on, but the Advocates and Proctors had not received a real.
The Bishop of Gloucester sat as president, Doctors Story and Martin appeared as proctors for the queen, and Cranmer was brought in under the custody of the city guard, in a black gown and leaning on a stick.
The objection was set aside, and the subject of oaths was an opportunity for a taunt, which the queen's proctors did not overlook.
When the bishop ceased, the crown proctors rose, and demanded justice against the prisoner in the names of the king and queen.
Moreover, the proctors for holidays among us think to make advantage of the practice of other reformed churches, and the judgment of modern divines.
At Oxford, "the proctors act as university magistrates; they are appointed from each college in rotation, and remain in office two years.
In the English universities, an officer appointed to assist the proctors in that part of their duty only which relates to the discipline and behavior of those persons who are in statu pupillari.
The Proctorswear gowns of prince's stuff, the sleeves and facings of black velvet; to the left shoulder is affixed a small tippet.
The proctors are easily recognized by their full dress gown of velvet sleeves, and bands-encircled neck.
They form a distinguishing mark in the costume of the proctors of the English universities, and at Cambridge, the questionists, on admission to their degrees, are by the statutes obliged to appear in them.
At Oxford, "the two proctors were formerly nearly equal in importance to the Vice-Chancellor.
The proctors would have a very dull time if they did not catch men sometimes.
In the administrative life, at least the proctors and the freshman advisers are each in charge of separate bodies of undergraduates.
The government was limited to the vice-chancellor, the proctors, and the heads of houses, and the vice-chancellor and the proctors were elected in sequence by each of the colleges from its own members.
We hear of the clerical proctors being occasionally present in the House of Commons in the earlier part of our history; and we may reasonably infer that they would not have been so present unless they had a right to have been there.
Thereupon the two Proctors proceeded first of all to take the votes of the Doctors on their benches; and, when this was done, they took their station at the doors labelled Placet and Non-placet.
Proctors attended for the Archbishop of Dublin, and for the Bishops of Limerick, Emly, and Killaloe.
The means were easily found--the proctors were forbidden to vote.
In spite of wigs and ruffles they sped like hares down back alleys and scaled the high college walls like monkeys to avoid a conversation with the Proctors and their bulldogs.
At the end of that time both the proctors concerned had retired, and the Merton man, upon applying to the proctor then in office, was informed that nothing could be done until both Holt and White had been consulted.
The proctors had the appointment of the examiners, and once now and again they paid a surprise visit in their official capacity to the schools, when the examinations (such as they were) were in progress.
Wrapped in the safe embrace of trencher and gown it was possible to watch the great Proctors ".
Having fought the almighty proctors thus far Meadowcourt was not, however, the man to give in to such an absurdly overwhelming piece of indignity as that proposed.
Amhurst explained that the Black Book into which the Proctors put anybody "at whom, whether justly or not, they shall take offence .
In his dealings with the river-side barmaids, the local tradesmen, and the proctors he pursued much the same ingenuous methods which are used with equal success to-day.
And if you do cheat, why, of course, proctors are necessary.
There are always a lot of proctors prowling up and down the room, ready to jump on anybody who has suspicious-looking bits of paper on his desk, or who seems to be unduly interested in his lap or the condition of his cuffs.
The stated fees of Proctors are as follow, and with them I shall close an Appendix, which, I humbly trust, will prove of general benefit.
The Pope, in the same document, took the claim of Edward to the Scottish crown under his own discussion, and authoritatively commanded Edward I to send proctors to Rome to plead his cause before his holiness.
Thereupon the officers exchanged glances and the proctors whispered together.
As Philip Marsham watched her hard face, so very old and crafty, he paid little heed to the low voices of the proctors and the Judge.
Such a hullabaloo of talk as then burst forth among the spectators, and such learned argument as passed between the proctors and the Lieutenant of Admiralty and His Lordship the Judge, surpass imagination.
His Lordship frowned and the proctorsshook their heads; the prisoners sighed and breathed more freely.
The proctors of the dioceses were in a worse humour than when they first came up to Westminster.
The most considerable name that I perceive in the list of proctors chosen by the parochial clergy is that of Dr.
Only forty-four proctors were elected by the eight thousand parish priests of the twenty-two dioceses.
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