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See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
CHURCH See also:RATE , the name of a tax formerly levied in each See also:parish in See also:England and See also:Ireland for the benefit of the parish church. Out of these rates were defrayed the expenses of carrying on divine service, repairing the fabric of the church, and paying the salaries of the officials connected with it. The church rates were made by the churchwardens, together with the parishioners duly assembled after proper See also:notice in the See also:vestry or the church. The rates thus made were recoverable in the ecclesiastical See also:court, or, if the arrears did not exceed 10 and no.. questions were raised as to the legal liability, before two justices of the See also:peace. Any See also:payment not strictly recognized by See also:law made out of the rate destroyed its validity. The church rate was a See also:personal See also:charge imposed on the occupier of See also:land or of a See also:house in the parish, and, though it was compulsory, much difficulty was found in effectually applying the compulsion. This was especially so in the See also:case of Nonconformists, who had conscientious objections to supporting the Established Church; and in Ireland, where the See also:population was preponderatingly See also:Roman See also:Catholic, the grievance was specially See also:felt and resented. The agitation against church rates led in 1868 to the passing of the Compulsory Church Rates Abolition See also:Act. By this act church rates are no longer compulsory on the See also:person rated, but are merely voluntary, and those who are not willing to pay them are excluded from inquiring into, objecting to, or voting in respect of their See also:expenditure (s. 8).
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