By the Rev. Canon J. FE. Jackson. 239 
“On the part of the Noble Lord, the Lorpv Watrer HuncerForD, 
Lorp or Hayrespury anD Howmet, and Patron of the Church of 
Rowtey alids WitrennamM in our diocese, it hath been by his own 
suggestion set forth unto us that the said Church of Rowtey alias 
Wrrrenuam which was wont to be governed and ordered by secular 
Chaplains,! successively thereunto admitted, taking and exercising 
the charge of the said Church and the Parishioners, hath been so 
impoverished, and the fruits, profits and emoluments thereof have 
become so poor and scanty, that, for a long time there hath been 
found no secular chaplain willing to undertake or to occupy the 
church or be admitted to the Title thereof, and thus the church itself 
and the charge of the same have long been and now continue to be 
desolate and neglected, without any one to officiate therein: And 
the said Lorp Watrer Huncerrorp is also, as we are informed, 
Patron of the Parish Church of Fartey Huncerrorp in the diocese 
of Bath and Wells, which Church is very near the aforesaid Church 
of Row.ey alids WirrennamM, the distance from the same not ex- 
ceeding one half mile, so that Divine Service and the Offices of 
religion may be performed at the said Church of Rowxey alids 
Wirrennam by the Rector of the said Church of Fartey Hunesr- 
ForD and the said Parishioners of RowiEy alias WiTTENHAM may 
conveniently go to the aforesaid Church of Fartey Hunecrrrorp to 
receive the Sacraments and Sacramentals,? and to attend Divine 
Services: Therefore the aforesaid Lord, seeing the cure of the afore- 
said Church of Rowiey alias Witrennam and the charge thereof so 
long neglected, and the parishioners deprived of the means of divine 
worship, from the causes aforesaid, as it is alleged, hath made 
earnest suit to us, that we weighing these circumstances would give 
- our consent and authority to carry into effect by force of law the 
1That is, Priests who lived ‘‘in seculo,” in society among the people, like 
parish clergymen: as distinguished from ‘‘ Regulars” who lived within the 
walls of their monasteries ‘‘ad regulas,” according to the ‘‘ Rules” of their house. 
2 Sacramentals.”—The word is used by Beza (quoted in Hooker’s Eccl. 
Polity., Lib. iv., 1,4. Edit. Keble,) to denote ‘‘ any ceremony importing sig- 
nification of spiritual things.” It is also used by H. Wharton on Burnet’s 
_ Hist. of Reformation : ‘Sacraments, Sacramentals, Dirigies.” Burn, Eccl. Law, 
1, 67, calls burials and tithes, Sacramentals. 
