I wonder if any of our members knows anything about the principle of the 'Rector's Ticket'. I'm sure I read once that it was customary for the Rector or incumbent to be given (or even be able to claim) the right to fish waters in his parish. Presuming that this might be an extension of the principle of tithes etc. Interested because I was discussing this with an angling member of the clergy on Sunday.

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A moustache is not a moustache unless you can see it from behind....

I've extracted the differences between 'Rector' and 'Vicar', both are priests of fairly low ranking in the CoE.
Possibly the 'Rector's Ticket', where it existed, was part of the tithe in certain parishes. As tithes have been abolished, the rector should know where to shove his cheeky ticket requests.

GENUKI: Hierarchy of the Church of England in the 1820 period and later.




RECTOR
•A parish incumbent whose tithes are not impropriate. Tithes were paid to the parson, often by the action of the lord of the manor who by this means obtained the endowment to build a church on his estate.
•When entitled to the whole tithes of the parish, the incumbent was called a Rector.

VICAR
•Vicars used to be entitled to the small tithe and a portion of the glebe. These were allocated by an appropriator. During the early 20th century, tithes were abolished.
•As a parish priest the vicar had the same spiritual status as a rector and the forms of institution and induction are identical since in both cases he holds his full spiritual jurisdiction from the bishop. He also holds the freehold of church, churchyard, vicarage and glebe.

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Say 'NO' to canoe access on the river Usk and upper Wye.

Some areas in scotland still have a ministers ticket.
Is generally issued by relevant association where church has access rights or properties adjacent to river.
Used to be that many churches in scotland owned a fair bit of land adjacent to river banks, and were indeed the riparian owners, either through position of church or associated manse, but nowadays aint so many, but custom still exists in certain areas.
regards
bert-

Ouch... They won't thank you for that. In the interests of fairness, it should be pointed out that the CofE actually has an inverted hierarchy, in that the higher up the rankings you go, the bigger the prats you tend to encounter.

Its true diamonds tend to be found among the rank-and-file, with the current Archbishop of York a glorious but once-in-a-lifetime exception.

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