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Oxford chapter court
Also called the chapter court · chapter courts
The ecclesiastical court of the Oxford chapter, dealing with rite, burial and the discipline of the clergy; searchers commit accused persons to it and it prosecutes the forbidden practices villages report.
The chapter's court, sitting within Halden Close, where proctors summon clergy and matters of rite, burial, clerical discipline, forbidden practice and the house's manorial business are heard.
Named with it
- Sub-Proctor Ancel Fitch
Ties
- court of the Oxford cathedral chapter
- cooperates with the White Walls Assay Collegium on false endorsements
- grave cases shared with the Black Lantern Brethren
- court of the Oxford chapter
- receives committals from the searchers of the Oxford writ
At the table
In one matter it is never lenient: forgery of a chapter instrument or anything bearing the archbishop's style. It hears trafficking with devils (a compact without form) and works with the Collegium against forged bills of taking. Beaumont, Hartfell and Ashdown all have interests there; Beaumont's examiner keeps an office beside it. The Wanfleet mowing order has come before it eleven times since 4400, producing eleven adjournments and no finding. Its appeals are bet upon in Oxford.