[41] Ordinary is that ecclesiastical magistrate who has regular jurisdiction over a district, in opposition to judges extraordinarily appointed. At common law a bishop was taken to be the ordinary in his diocese, and so he was designated in some acts of Parliament. But as a matter of fact 'ordinary' signifies any judge authorized to take cognizance of causes by virtue of his office or by custom. Such were pre-eminently the archdeacons. These officers, at first merely attendant on the bishops at public services, were gradually entrusted by the latter with their own jurisdictional powers, owing to the vast extent of dioceses, so that "the holding of General Synods or Visitations when the Bishop did not visit, came by degrees to be known and established Branches of the Archidiaconal Office, as such, which by this means attained to the dignity of Ordinary instead of delegated jurisdiction." Edmund Gibson, _Codex Juris Ecclesiastici Anglicani_, or the _Statutes, Constitutions_ (etc.) _of the Church of England_, ii (1713), 998. Cf. Richard Burn, _Eccles. Law_, ii, 101-2. As the ordinary in practice entrusted his office of judge to an official, I have used the two terms interchangeably. In some places exempted from the archdeacon's jurisdiction commissaries acted as judges, Burn, i, 391. [42] That is, services and sacraments (except baptism) were suspended in it. The words of Burn (_Eccles. Law_, i, 616, quoting Gibson, 1047) are misleading. He says: "But this censure hath been long disused; and nothing of it appeareth in the laws of church or state since the reformation." Of course interdiction _temp_. Elizabeth was no longer the terrible punishment it used to be. [43] At Shrewsbury. [44] _Shrop. Arch, and Nat. Hist. Soc. Tr_., i (1878), 62. [45] R.W. Goulding, _Records of the Charity known as Blanchminster's Charity_ (1898), Stockwardens Acc'ts, 68. For other examples of interdiction of churches or excommunication see Hale, _Churchwardens' Prec_., 111-12 (Shoreham Vetera interdicted. 1599/1600), _et passim_. [46] Except in the city of London and some few other places, the chancel was at the charge of the rector or other recipient of the great tithes. Sidney and Beatrice Webb, _English Local Government_ (1906), 20, _note_. Also W.G. Clark-Maxwell in _Wilts Arch_. etc. _Mag_., xxxiii (1904), 358. H.B. Wilson, _History of St. Laurence Pountney_ (London, 1831), 73. [47] _Canterbury Visit_., xxvi, 21. [48] _Ibid_. [49] _Ibid_., 32. In 1599 the wardens of this parish inform the archdeacon that both church and churchyard need repairs "which we mean shortly to do." The next year, too, they make a report in almost identical words. _Ibid_., 33. [50] See p. 15 _supra_. [51] _Dean of York's Visit_., 341.