The Bishop of Lincoln's Case, Vol. 2 A Report of the Proceedings in the Court of the Archbishop of Canterbury of the Case of Read and Others V. The Bishop of Lincoln (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Bishop of Lincoln's Case, Vol. 2: A Report of the Proceedings in the Court of the Archbishop of Canterbury of the Case of Read and Others V. The Bishop of Lincoln
In the absence of complete directions in the Prayer Book, the construction of the rubrics is not a matter on which a priest or bishop should be indicted or proceeded against as for crime, but a matter to be determined by pastoral authority. If a matter of ecclesiastical interpretation is in doubt, the Court should not be rigid in in icting punishment: Queen's Proctor v. Stone (3) Gorham Case. (4) [on the point of the interpretation of the rubrics, they also referred to Williams v. Bishop of Salisbury and Sheppard v. Bennett.
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