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 Ch. 8. for the ake of enjoying the temporalties, but alo committed horrible wate on the woods and other parts of the etate; and, to crown all, would never, when the ee was filled up, retore to the bihop his temporalties again, unles he purchaed them at an exorbitant price. To remedy which, king Henry the firt granted a charter at the beginning of his reign, promiing neither to ell, nor let to farm, nor take any thing from, the domains of the church, till the ucceor was intalled. And it was made one of the articles of the great charter, that no wate hould be committed in the temporalties of bihopricks, neither hould the cutody of them be old. The ame is ordained by the tatute of Wetminter the firt ; and the tatute 14 Edw. III. t. 4. c. 4. (which permits, as we have een, a leae to the dean and chapter) is till more explicit in prohibiting the other exactions. It was alo a frequent abue, that the king would for trifling, or no caues, eie the temporalties of bihops, even during their lives, into his own hands: but this is guarded againt by tatute I Edw. III. t. 2. c. 2.

revenue of the king, which was formerly very coniderable, is now by a cutomary indulgence almot reduced to nothing: for, at preent, as oon as the new bihop is conecrated and confirmed, he uually receives the retitution of his temporalties quite entire, and untouched, from the king; and then, and not ooner, he has a fee-imple in his bihoprick, and may maintain an action for the profits.

II. king is entitled to a corody, as the law calls it, out of every bihoprick: that is, to end one of his chaplains to be maintained by the bihop, or to have a penion allowed him till the bihop promotes him to a benefice. This is alo in the nature of an acknowlegement to the king, as founder of the fee; ince he had formerly the ame corody or penion from every abbey Rh