[246] See canon in Latin in Selden, c. viii. s. 26, pp. 233, etc. [247] See Johnson, “Laws and Canons,” ii. 387, ed. 1851. [248] 45 Ed. III. c. iii. [249] See Selden, pp. 237-240; also Rot. Parlt., 17 Ed. III., art. 28; 18 Ed. III., art. 9; 21 Ed. III., art. 48; 25 Ed. III., art. 37. [250] 23 Henry VIII. c. x. [251] Alienated priory property given to Magdalen by Henry VI. [252] See 43rd Report, 1891. [253] “Cartularium Saxonicum,” edited by Birch. Vol. i. No. 14, p. 21. [254] _Idem._ [255] “Hansard’s Debates,” House of Lords, 1840. [256] The confiscated monastic property. [257] Coke’s “Reports,” part ii. p. 44 (b). [258] “Commentaries,” bk. ii. c. iii. p. 27, ed. 1765. [259] See chap. xi. p. 297 in Selden’s “History of Tithes,” ed. 1618, for a full explanation of “arbitrary consecrations,” as he called them. [260] Kennett, p. 65. [261] 15 Rich. II. c. vi. [262] “Defence of the Church,” etc., 4th ed. 1888, p. 155. [263] See p. 43. [264] Johnson’s “Laws and Canons,” ii. 364. [265] It is important to note (1) that Edgar’s law gave the manorial priests a legal right to one-third part of the tithes; (2) that the bishops in apportioning the permanent endowment of the vicar-perpetual, by 4 Hen. IV., ch. xii. (1402), were guided by Edgar’s law in appropriating one-third part and selecting the small tithes, to which, if insufficient, they added a portion of the great tithes; (3) that the vicar, who previously held his position at the will of the patron, had by this Act obtained a freehold permanent position for life; (4) that 8,500 vicars now beneficed have been so circumstanced by Acts of Parliament. [266] Selden, “History of Tithes,” pp. 406, 407; Philimore, 493. [267] Selden, p. 166. [268] 3 and 4 Vict., c. cxiii. [269] “Hansard’s Debates,” House of Commons, 31st March, 1882. [270] 43rd Report of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners (1891), p. vii. [271] Selden: “History of Tithes,” p. 291. [272] See Hasted’s “History of Kent,” ed. 1778, under the above parishes. [273] “Monasticon,” vol. i. [274] Letter Book K., 32 Henry VI. [275] 27 Henry VIII. c. xxi. [276] 37 Henry VIII. c. xii. [277] 22 & 23 Charles II., c. xv. [278] These parishes are united to other parishes. 41 parishes out of the 86 are united thus— (1) Numbers 1, 6, and 23 = 4 parishes, are united under one rector, whose net aggregate annual income = £800; total population, 481. (2) Numbers 2, 29, 40, and 47 = 7 ditto; rector’s ditto = £1,060 and house; population, 661. (3) Number 3 and Bridewell = 2 ditto; rector’s ditto = £450 H; pop., 2,163. (4) Number 4 and S. Peter-le-Poer = 2 ditto; rector’s ditto = £1,000; pop., 1,200. (5) Numbers 5 and 30 = 3 ditto; rector’s ditto = £582 and house; pop., 432. (6) Numbers 8 and 43 = 3 ditto; rector’s ditto = £680 H; pop., 474. (7) Numbers 12 and 44 = 3 ditto; rector’s ditto = £568; pop., 1,200. (8) Numbers 16 and 39 = 5 ditto; rector’s ditto = £810; pop., 272.