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 386 for the incumbent o intituted and inducted is to all intents and purpoes complete paron; and the appropriation, being once evered, can never be re-united again, unles by repetition of the ame olemnities. And when the clerk o preented is ditinct from the vicar, the rectory thus veted in him becomes what is called a ine-cure; becaue he hath no cure of ouls, having a vicar under him to whom that cure is committed. Alo, if the corporation which has the appropriation is diolved, the paronage becomes diappropriate at common law; becaue the perpetuity of peron is gone, which is neceary to upport the appropriation.

this manner, and ubject to thee conditions, may appropriations be made at this day: and thus were mot, if not all, of the appropriations at preent exiting originally made; being annexed to bihopricks, prebends, religious houes, nay, even to nunneries, and certain military orders, all of which were piritual corporations. At the diolution of monateries by tatutes 27 Hen. VIII. c. 28. and 31 Hen. VIII. c. 13. the appropriations of the everal paronages, which belonged to thoe repective religious houes, (amounting to more than one third of all the parihes in England ) would have been by the rules of the common law diappropriated; had not a claue in thoe tatutes intervened, to give them to the king in as ample a manner as the abbots, &c, formerly held the ame, at the time of their diolution. This, though perhaps carcely defenible, was not without example; for the ame was done in former reigns, when the alien priories, (that is, uch as were filled by foreigners only) were diolved and given to the crown. And from thee two roots have prung all the lay appropriations or ecular paronages, which we now ee in the kingdom; they having been afterwards granted out from time to time by the crown. Rh