(Court of), is a branch of, and annexed to, the court of arches. It has a jurisdiction over all those parishes dispersed through the province of Canterbury in the midst of other dioceses, which are exempt from the ordinary's jurisdiction, and subject to the metropolitan only. All ecclesiastical causes, arising within these peculiar or exempt jurisdictions, are originally cognizable by this court; from which an appeal lay formerly to the pope, but now by the stat. 25 H.VIII. c. 19, to the king in chancery.

PECTULUM, the stock or estate which a person, in the power of another, as a slave, may acquire by his industry.

In the Romish church, peculum denotes the goods which each religious reserves and possesses to himself.

PEDALS, the largest pipes of an organ, so called because played and stopped with the foot. The pedals are made square, and of wood; they are usually 13 in number. They are of modern invention, and serve to carry the sounds of an octave deeper than the rest. See Organ.