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 392 our enquiries, but for the ret I mut refer myelf to uch authors as have compiled treadles exprely upon this ubject. I hall only jut mention the article of reidence, upon the uppoition of which the law doth tile every parochial miniter an incumbent. By tatute 21 Hen. VIII. c. 13. perons wilfully abenting themelves from their benefices, for one month together, or two months in the year, incur a penalty of 5𝑙. to the king, and 5𝑙. to any peron that will ue for the ame: except chaplains to the king, or others therein mentioned, during their attendance in the houhold of uch as retain them: and alo except all heads of houes, magitrates, and profeors in the univerities, and all tudents under forty years of age reiding there, bona fide, for tudy. Legal reidence is not only in the parih, but alo in the paronage houe: for it hath been reolved, that the tatute intended reidence, not only for erving the cure, and for hopitality; but alo for maintaining the houe, that the ucceor alo may keep hopitality there.

have een that there is but one way, whereby one may become a paron or vicar: there are many ways, by which one may ceae to be o. 1. By death. 2. By ceion, in taking another benefice. For by tatute 21 Hen. VIII. c. 13. if any one having a benefice of 8𝑙. per annum, or upwards, in the king's books, (according to the preent valuation ,) accepts any other, the firt hall be adjudged void; unles he obtains a dipenation; which no one is entitled to have, but the chaplains of the king and others therein mentioned, the brethren and ons of lords and knights, and doctors and bachelors of divinity and law, admitted by the univerities of this realm. And a vacancy thus made, for want of a dipenation, is called ceion. 3. By conecration; for, as was mentioned before, when a clerk is promoted to a bihoprick, all his other preferments are void the intant that he is con- Rh