Inhaltsangabe
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER X. Report Of Commission On Ecclesiastical Courts. Tour In Auvergne. Speech At Oxford On Granting Money For A Physiological Laboratory. Appointed Regius ProFessor Of Modern History. Inaugural Lecture. Opinions On Social Life And Educational Work In Oxford, Home Rule, And Imperial Federation. Broken Health. Visit To Sicily. Begins History Of Sicily. Correspondence. A.d. 1883-1890. THE Report of the Royal Commission on Ecclesiastical Courts was issued in 1883. Freeman's attendance at the sittings of the Commission had been far from regular, owing partly to his visit to America in 1881-2, partly to his broken health, and partly also to his excessive dislike to London. But he was too conscientious not to give the subject of inquiry much careful thought and attention, and on some points connected with it he held very clear and positive views. On March 12, 1883, he wrote to Mr. Stubbs:--'... I am getting interested on one point. I am getting near to a real opinion about the Final Appeal. My difficulty throughout has been that I have objected to everything that everybody else proposed, and had nothing better to propose myself. But here I have a very distinct view. Henry VIII most assuredly did not mean everything to be tried thrice. He did not mean that there should be an appeal from the archbishop's court as a matter of course; he wished merely to provide a remedy in S any special case where the archbishop's court had clearly not done its duty. Could not we put somewhere a power of judging whether there is any ground for an appeal or not? The lawyers themselves do something of the kind that I mean when a man moves for a " rule" or a new trial. Then again, the delegates must not be wholly any kind of people, above all, not wholly lawyers. There should be ...
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