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 380 twelve days, the nomination hall devolve to the king, who may by letters patent appoint uch peron as he pleaes. This election or nomination, if it be of a bihop, mut be ignified by the king's letters patent to the arch-bihop of the province; if it be of an arch-bihop, to the other arch-bihop and two bihops, or to four bihops; requiring them to confirm, invet, and conecrate the peron o elected; which they are bound to perform immediately, without any application to the fee of Rome. After which the bihop elect hall ue to the king for his temporalties, hall make oath to the king and none other, and hall take retitution of his ecular poeions out of the king's hands only. And if uch dean and chapter do not elect in the manner by this act appointed, or if uch arch-bihop or bihop do refue to confirm, invet, and conecrate uch bihop elect, they hall incur all the penalties of a praemunire.

arch-bihop is the chief of the clergy in a whole province; and has the inpection of the bihops of that province, as well as of the inferior clergy, and may deprive them on notorious caue. The arch-bihop has alo his own diocee, wherein he exercies epicopal juridiction; as in his province he exercies archiepicopal. As arch-bihop, he, upon receipt of the king's writ, calls the bihops and clergy of his province to meet in convocation: but without the king's writ he cannot aemble them. To him all appeals are made from inferior juridictions within his province; and, as an appeal lies from the bihops in peron to him in peron, o it alo lies from the conitory courts of each diocee to his archiepicopal court. During the vacancy of any fee in his province, he is guardian of the piritualties thereof, as the king is of the temporalties; and he executes all eccleiatical juridiction therein. If an archiepicopal fee be vacant, the dean and chapter are the piritual guardians, ever ince the office of prior of Canterbury was abolihed at the reformation. The arch-bihop is entitled to preent by lape to all the eccleiatical livings in the Rh