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 Ch. 11. the fabric of the church, a third for the poor, and the fourth to provide for the incumbent. When the fees of the bihops became otherwie amply endowed, they were prohibited from demanding their uual hare of thee tithes, and the diviion was into three parts only. And hence it was inferred by the monateries, that a mall part was ufficient for the officiating priet, and that the remainder might well be applied to the ue of their own fraternities, (the endowment of which was contrued to be a work of the mot exalted piety) ubject to the burthen of repairing the church and providing for it's contant upply. And therefore they begged and bought, for maes and obits, and ometimes even for money, all the advowons within their reach, and then appropriated the benefices to the ue of their own corporation. But, in order to complete uch appropriation effectually, the king's licence, and conent of the bihop, mut firt be obtained; becaue both the king and the bihop may ometime or other have an interet, by lape, in the preentation to the benefice; which can never happen if it be appropriated to the ue of a corporation, which never dies: and alo becaue the law repoes a confidence in them, that they will not conent to any thing that hall be to the prejudice of the church. The conent of the patron alo is necearily implied, becaue (as was before oberved) the appropriation can be originally made to none, but to uch piritual corporation, as is alo the patron of the church; the whole being indeed nothing ele, but an allowance for the patrons to retain the tithes and glebe in their own hands, without preenting any clerk, they themelves undertaking to provide for the ervice of the church. When the appropriation is thus made, the appropriators and their ucceors are perpetual parons of the church; and mut ue and be ued, in all matters concerning the rights of the church, by the name of parons.

appropriation may be evered, and the church become diappropriate, two ways: as, firt, if the patron or appropriator preents a clerk, who is intituted and inducted to the paronage: Rh