CHAPTER II

BENEFICED CLERGY

1. Admission by bishop on presentation of patron--Lapse to bishop, archbishop, or Crown. 2. Transfers of advowsons or rights of presentation--Next presentations--Power of patron to present himself--Restrictions under Benefices Act, 1898. 3. Qualification for admission--Grounds for refusal by bishop--Testimony as to fitness. 4. Procedure in case of refusal by bishop. 5. Publication of notice of intended admission. 6. Mode of admission--Institution--Licence--Collation--Declarations of assent and against simony--Oaths of allegiance and canonical obedience--Reading of Thirty-nine Articles. 7. Effect of admission--Induction. 8. Fees on admission. 9. Cure of Souls--Duties laid down in Ordination Service--Residence--Divine service--Marriages--Burials--Private ministrations. 10. Exclusive right of administration--Superior right of bishop--Modern comity as between town parishes. 11. Private ministrations--Service in unconsecrated buildings--Meetings for worship. 12. Private chapels--Chapels of institutions--Unconsecrated proprietary chapels. 13. Formation of new parishes--Approval or otherwise of incumbent. 14. Holding of two benefices. 15. Neglect of duty--Commission of inquiry--Procedure on adverse report of Commission. 16. Residence on benefice--Forfeitures for non-residence--Bishop's licence of non-residence--Grounds for licence. 17. Monition, sequestration, and avoidance of benefice for non-residence. 18. Performance of duties where incumbent is non-resident. 19. Restrictions on interfering with duties during period of non-residence. 20. Reckoning of time as to residence. 21. Vacation of benefice by death, resignation, admission to other preferment, or deprivation. 22. Resignation; unconditional except upon an exchange--Engagement to resign illegal except under Clergy Resignation Bonds Act, 1828--Corrupt resignations and exchanges--Pensions under Incumbents Resignation Acts. 23. Vacation of benefice on admission to other preferment. 24. Deprivation _ipso facto_--Declaration of vacancy by bishop on conviction of incumbent in certain cases--Sentences of deprivation under Acts of 1840 and 1892 pages 25-54