A. D. 1 53+. Anno vfcciiitio t KtQ Hi MUfci VIII. ('. J5. 217 ir. Aiid 1' an y of the ' " ' ,; "' '■ , " v III. And aftei fuchTitle, Stile and Majefty fa.;!! pri ... 1 itlc l>c wiiliin tbe Province of Canterbury, and likewifc i" the Archbifliop . I . he hath his Title be within the Provin i ol York* fignifyinj ring by the fame 1 ■ Name of the Perfon prcfentod, and the Stile and 'l >ity <>( the Bifhoprick unto he fhall be nominated, requiring the fame Ai hbiflii i to whom fuch nts (hall b minate and | , Title, Stile and 1 >p, that he fhall be nominated and prcfented unto, and to giv< him all fuch Confederations, . nl Ceremonies, as to the Degree and Office of a Bifhop in (ball be requifite. I v . And be il alio enacted by Authority aforefaid, That all and every fuch Perfon and Perfons as fhall Within what be nominated, elected, prefented and confecrated as is afbre rehearfed, fhall be taken, accepted and re- / putcd, in all Dei n cs and Places, according to the Stile, Title, Name and Dignity that he fhall be fo pre- , KmB ' ? e D lentcd unto, and have fuch Capacity, Power and Authority, Honour, Preeminence and Reputation, in as biOiop Hull con- md ample manner, in anil concerning the Execution of Inch Commillion, as by any of the faid Arch- (Vcrau * Bifhops within their Dioccle fhall be given to the laid Suffragans, as to Suffragans of this Realm gan. >re hath been ufed and accuftorri d. V. And be it further enacted by Authority aforefaid, That every Archbifliop of this Realm, to whom any the King's Letters Patents, in the Cafes afbre rehearfed, (hall be directed, having no lawful Impedi- ment, fhall perform and accomplifh the Effects and Contents of this Act within the Time of three Months next after Inch Letters Patents fhall come to their Hands ; any Ufages, Cuftoms, foreign Laws, Privileges, Prescriptions, or other Thing or Things heretofore ufed, had or done to the contrary hereof notwith- Jtanding. VI. Provided always, That no fuch Suffragans, which (hall be made and confecratc by Virtue. and Au- thority of this Act, fhall take or perceive any manner of Profits of the Places and Sees whereof they fhall be named, nor ufe,.have or execute any Jurildiction or Epifcopal Power or Authority within their faid Sees, nor within any Dioccle or Place of this Realm, or clfc where within the King's Dominions, but only fuch Profits, Jurifdiction, Power and Authority, as fhall be licenced and limited to them to take, do and exe- cute by any Archbifliop or Bifliop of this Realm, within their Diocefc to whom they fhall be Suffragans, by their Commiffion under their Seals ; (2) and that every Archbifhop and Bifhop of this Realm, for their what Awhontj own peculiar Diocefc, may and fhall give fuch Commillion or Commiflions to every fuch Bifhop Suffragan and Ben as fhall be fo confecratc by Authority of this Act, as hath been accullomed for Suffragans heretofore to ( "P*s rtuil have, or clfe fuch Commiffion as by them fhall be thought requifite, reafonablc and convenient; (3) and D avc '" cir that no fuch Suffragan fhall ufe any Jurifdiction Ordinary or Epifcopal Power, otherwife, nor longer Time, than fhall be limited by fuch Commiffion to him to be given as is aforefaid, upon Pain to incur into the Pains, Lofles, Forfeitures and Penalties mentioned in the Statute of Provifions, made in the fixteenth Year of King Richard the Second. VII. Provided always, That the Bifliop that fhall nominate the Suffragan to the King's Highnefs, or a Suffrage's 1 the Suffragan himfelf that fhall be nominate, fhall provide two Bifhops or Suffragans to confecrate him Redden ■ with the Archbishop, and fhall bear their rcafonable Cofts ; (2) Provided alfo, That the Refidence of ,ne Diocefe out him that fhall be Suffragan over the Diocefe where he fhall have Commiffion, fhall ferve him for his Re- jj* f "" 1,:, " rt wc i fidence, as fufficicntly as if he were rcfident upon any other his Benefice ; any Act heretofore made to the contrary notwithstanding. VIII. Be it further enacted, That all fuch Suffragans as fhall hereafter exercife the Offices aforefaid, by A SuffVapm may the Commiffion of the Bifhop, for the better Maintenance of his Dignity, may have two Benefices with h»e two Bene- Cure ; any former Act made to the contrary notwithstanding. ficcs with Cure> ' . . Rep. i & 2 Ph. CAP. AV. revived b) 1 E • c. :. To avoid Exactions taken by Spiritual Men in the Archdeaconry of Richmond.
- TTOrafmuch as divers and many the King our Sovereign Lord's Subjects, inhabited within the Arch-
c JT deaconry of Richmond, in the County of Tori, be, and of long Time have been, fore and grievcrufly ' exacted and impovcrifhed by the Parfons, Vicars and others, fuch as have Benefices and Spiritual Pro-
- motions within the fame, as by taking of every Perfon, when he dieth, in the Name of a Ponlion, or of
1 a Portion, fometime the ninth Part of all his Goods and Chattels, and fometinie the third Part, to the ' open and manifeft impoverifhing of moft Part of all the King's poor Subjects inhabited, and decealing ' within the fame :' 'H. Wherefore be it ordained, enacted and eftabliflied by the King our Sovereign Lord, the Lords Spi- ritual and Temporal, and the Commons, in this prefent Parliament alTemblcd, and bv the Authority of the fame, That from the Feaft of S. Mark the Evangcliit next coming, no manner of Spiritual Perfon or y;-.- t D others, now having or that from the faid Feaft fhall have arty mtfnrier'of Benefice or other Spiritual Pro- (piritnai Me motion within the (aid Archc' or Perfons, the fame, upon Pair Provifors, made the five and twentieth Year of the Reign or your molt ttowe Froge Third; (;) but that alt and every the King's Subjects of the faid Archdeaconry-, and their Exectrl I 2 Ed. ^ fta Adminiftrators, from henceforth fliall be ordered, intfeated and ufed for therr "Goods and Ghati fe, in like Manner, Form, Order and Condition, as is combined in the Statute made - H. 8. c. one and twentieth Year of your moil noble and victorious Reign, for Probate of Teftaments, and none VOL. II. Ff other.
