Of the original rights of church patronage in this

kingdom

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In the earliest Saxon times, government of

churches exclusively in the bishop

Who lived with his clergy

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And placed all offerings in one common treasury

Origin of lay foundations

Bishops began to restrain the profits of churches

On the foundations of churches, right of ad-
vowson passed with the demesnes of a

manor

Definition of an advowson appendant

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The right of patronage passes under the word

appurtenances

Except in the case of the king

Advowsons might have been appendant to

earldoms and honors

The nature of the subject to which an advow-

son may be appendant

How presentative advowsons originally ap-
pendant to manors, became appendant to
other divisions of corporeal property, and
how the appendancy is affected by the sub-
sequent changes in the subject to which the
appendancy belongs

Lease of advowson for life

Sect. II. On presentative Advowsons in gross.

Definition of an advowson in gross

Some advowsons originally in gross

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But most advowsons in gross originally ap-

pendant

Created advowsons in gross by severance

1. By exception in the grant of a manor

2. By grant of the advowson alone

When an advowson is once severed by act of
the parties, it can never be again appendant

But the severance must be complete, and not

conditional

Mortgage

Disappendancy may be temporary, or there

may be a suspension

Created by wrongful act

Created by operation of law

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Sect. III. On presentative Advowsons, partly appen-

dant, and partly in gross.

An advowson may be partly appendant and

partly in gross

Fine levied

Second presentment granted

One joint tenant releases

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Where advowson appendant and in gross are

united

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CHAP. II.

On Advowsons donative.

Definition of an advowson donative

History of advowsons donative

Requisites to be observed by a clerk on taking a

donative

1. Must be a priest

2. Must read the proper prayers

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7. Must read the thirty-nine articles if a

place with cure

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8. Must read the ordinary's certificate of his

subscription of thirty-nine articles

Donative may be with cure

But when once presented to, no longer a donative

Unless presentation be by a stranger

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Donatives never lapse; herein of the jurisdiction

of the ordinary

Parish officers

Where issue joined, whether benefice, donative, or

presentative

Donatives not confined to any particular class of

ecclesiastical preferments

Bishopricks

Deaneries

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Deans of the old foundation

Deans of the new foundation

Welch deaneries

Irish deaneries

Deaneries subject to episcopal jurisdiction

Prebends and perpetual curacy may be donative

Wherein these differ from donatives properly so

called

Right of donation descends to the heir

Donatives freed from procurations and visitations

Presentation never devolves to the king, when in-

cumbent made a bishop

Resignation of a donative

Donatives augmented by Queen Anne's bounty

Within the acts of uniformity when with cure

Within the statute against simony