| Description | Requesting that Harefield parish should continue a Peculiar and Exempt Jurisdiction and be exempt from the operation of the Bill to inquire into the practice and jurisdiction of the Ecclesiastical Courts of England and Wales.
'The Parish and Parish Church of Harefield are a Peculiar and exemped jurisdiction of Great Antiquity which has belonged to the present patron (Charles Newdigate Newdegate Esq.) and his ancestors from the reign of Edward the Third'. |