Appendix 1: Westminster Abbey: Statutes and similar relevant documents
|
| 1560 |
Foundation Charter |
| ?1560 |
Statutes (unsigned, unsealed and undated) |
| 1709 |
Opinion of Sir James Montague (Attorney General) and
Sir Gilbert Dolben that the Statutes have no legal authority |
| 1667 |
Royal Letter (allocation of official houses) |
| 1746 |
Royal Letter (on residence and attendance at services
by the Dean and Prebendaries) |
| 1836 |
Royal Letter (quorum of three for Chapter meetings) |
| 1840 |
Ecclesiastical Commissioners Act (title of Prebendary
changed to Canon and the number reduced from twelve to six) |
| 1841 |
Ecclesiastical Commissioners Act |
| 1842 |
Order in Council (Deans and future Canons to pay a proportion
of their incomes to those mentioned in the 1840/41 Act) |
| 1843 |
Order in Council (number of Minor Canons fixed at six)
|
| 1852 |
First Report of Her Majesty's Commissioners (refers to
Visitor as Her Majesty by virtue of Royal Letter) 1853 Order in Council
(further regulation of stipends) |
| 1854 |
First Report of Cathedral Commission, Westminster Abbey
Submissions: State and Condition of the Cathedral and Collegiate Churches
in England and Wales |
| 1855 |
Third and Final Report of Her Majesty's Commissioners
|
| 1867 |
Returns of Collegiate Churches, pp.461-87 |
| 1868 |
Royal Letter (the authority of the Sub-Dean to summon
Chapter meetings and the affixing of the seal in the absence of the
Dean) |
| 1868 |
Ecclesiastical Commission Act (transfer of property to
Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England in consideration of annual
money payment) |
| 1868 |
Public Schools Act (Board of Governors constituted for
Westminster School) |
| 1869 |
Order in Council (ratifies Dean as ex officio Chairman
of Governors, and right of Dean and Chapter to nominate two members)
|
| 1888 |
Westminster Abbey Act (provision for the restoration
and repair of the Abbey. One canonry suspended) |
| 1888 |
Order in Council |
| 1910/11 |
Questions as to the Custom of Abbey in relation to the
Dean and the Dean and Chapter submitted to The King as Visitor and referred
to the Lord Chancellor |
| 1926 |
Visit to the Abbey by the Sub-Commission of the Cathedrals
Commission (recommendations about stipends, and that a Register of Customs
should be drawn up) |
| 1927 |
Report of the Sub-Commission of the Cathedrals Commission
(the Abbey governed by Custom and by Royal Letters) |
| 1929 |
Report of the Ecclesiastical Committee |
| 1929 |
Westminster Abbey Act (further provision for apportionment
of income) |
| 1931 |
Order in Council (re-apportionment of income) |
| 1934 |
Church House (Westminster) Act (exchange and sale of
properties in Dean's Yard) |
| 1935 |
Order in Council (extended 1929 apportionment for a further
five years. Full audited capitular accounts of the Dean and Chapter
to be sent annually to the Church Commissioners) |
| 1940 |
Order in Council (apportionment extended for a further
five years) |
| 1942 |
Order in Council (stipend of Deanery or Canonry vacant
for three months to be credited to the Fabric Fund) |
| 1945 |
Order in Council (extended apportionment for a further
five years) |
| 1950 |
Order in Council (extended again for five years) |
| 1950 |
St. John's no longer annexed to the Canonry of Westminster
|
| 1951 |
Supplemental Charter (freeholds in inferior offices abolished)
|
| 1952 |
Order in Council (preparations for a Coronation and handing
over of the Abbey) |
| 1955 |
Order in Council (apportionment extended for three years)
|
| 1957 |
Order in Council (apportionment extended for five years.
Stipend of Deanery or Canonry vacant for six months to be credited to
the Fabric Fund. Stipend of vacant fifth Canonry to be distributed among
the Canons) |
| 1958 |
Supplemental Charter (extending investment powers) |
| 1962 |
Order in Council (apportionment extended for five years.
Stipend of Deanery or Canonry vacant for six months to be credited to
Maintenance of Services. Increase in distribution of stipend of vacant
fifth Canonry among the Canons) |
| 1967 |
Order in Council (apportionment extended for one year)
|
| 1970 |
Collegiate Churches (Capital Endowments) Measure (enabled
an agreement for the appropriation by the Church Commissioners for England
of a capital sum in return for payment of annual sums to the Dean and
Chapter) |
| 1972 |
Westminster Abbey and St. Margaret's Act |
| 1975 |
Westminster Abbey Act (investment powers of the Dean
and Chapter) |
| 1977 |
Royal Letter (academic qualifications) |
| 1981 |
Supplemental Charter (retirement at 70 and abolition
of freehold tenure in the office of Dean and Canons) |
| 1986 |
Royal Letter (Architectural Advisory Panel) |
| 1997 |
Last revision of the Red Book |
| 2000 |
Minor Canons Petition (Minor Canons to be appointed initially
for five years, with the first year as probationary, save that they
may be extended and the Dean may appoint them initially for any period)
|
| 2000 |
Westminster Abbey Fabric Commission Petition |
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