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Omnis Gallia … or, the Roles of the Archdeacon

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 July 2008

T. Hughie Jones
T. Hughie Jones
Affiliation:
Archdeacon of Loughborough: Vice-Chairman of the Society
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A recent biography of Enoch Powell quotes him as using an interesting metaphor to illustrate the way in which the House of Commons can control the Treasury:

Many churches contain an old chest with three locks. The keys to those locks were held by the parson and the two churchwardens, and they were all different. Only, therefore, by the co-operation of all three could anything be extracted from the parish chest.

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Research Article
Information
Ecclesiastical Law Journal , Volume 2 , Issue 9 , July 1991 , pp. 236 - 240
Copyright
Copyright © Ecclesiastical Law Society 1991

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