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 dominions, the King our sovereign lord, his heirs and successors, may grant to the prior and convent, or the dean and chapiter of the cathedral churches or monasteries where the see of such archbishoprick or bishojDrick shall happen to be void, a licence under the great seal, as of old time hath been accustomed, to proceed to election of an archbishop or bishop of the see so being void, with a letter missive, containing the name of the person which they shall elect and choose : (2) by virtue of which licence the said dean and chapiter, or prior or convent, to whom any such licence and letters missive shall be directed, shall with all speed and celerity in due form elect and choose the same person named in the said letters missive, to the dignity and office of the archbishoprick or bishoprick so being void, and none other. (3) And if they do defer or delay their election above twelve days next after such licence or letters missive to them delivered, that then for every such default the King's highness, his heirs and successors, at their liberty and pleasure shall nominate and present, by their letters patents under their great seal, such a person to the said office and dignity so being void, as they shall think able and convenient for the same ; (4) and that every such nomination and presentment to be made by the King's highness, his heirs and successors, if it be to the office and dignity of a bishop, shall be made to the archbishop and metropolitan of the province where the see of the same bishoprick is void, if the see of the said archbishoprick be then full, and not void ; and if it be void, then to be made to such archbishop or metropolitan within this realm, or in any the King's dominions, as shall please the King's highness, his heirs or successors : (5) and if any such nomination or presentment shall happen to be made for default of such election to the dignity or office of any archbishop, then the King's highness, his heirs and successoi's by his letters patents under his great seal, shall nominate and present such person as they will dispose to have the said office and dignity of archbishop- rick being void, to one such archbishop and two such bishops, or else to four such bishops within this realm, or in any of the King's dominions, as shall be assigned by our said sovereign lord, his heirs or successors.

V. And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That when- soever any such presentment or nomination shall be made by the King's highness, his heirs or successors, by virtue and authority of this act, and according to the tenor of the same ; that then every archbishop and bishop, to whose hands any such present- ment and nomination shall be directed, shall with all speed and

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Por default of election by the dean andchapiter, the King shall nomi- nate a bishop by his letters patent.

Consecra- tion of a bishop.