their lives, into his own hands: but this is guarded against by statute 1 Edw. III. st. 2. c. 2. [Footnote a: 2 Inst. 15.] [Footnote b: Stat. 17 Edw. II. c. 14. F.N.B. 32.] [Footnote c: Matth. Paris.] [Footnote d: 9 Hen. III. c. 5.] [Footnote e: 3 Edw. I. c. 21.] THIS revenue of the king, which was formerly very considerable, is now by a customary indulgence almost reduced to nothing: for, at present, as soon as the new bishop is consecrated and confirmed, he usually receives the restitution of his temporalties quite entire, and untouched, from the king; and then, and not sooner, he has a fee simple in his bishoprick, and may maintain an action for the same[f]. [Footnote f: Co. Litt. 67. 341.] II. THE king is entitled to a corody, as the law calls it, out of every bishoprick: that is, to send one of his chaplains to be maintained by the bishop, or to have a pension allowed him till the bishop promotes him to a benefice[g]. This is also in the nature of an acknowlegement to the king, as founder of the see; since he had formerly the same corody or pension from every abbey or priory of royal foundation. It is, I apprehend, now fallen into total disuse; though sir Matthew Hale says[h], that it is due of common right, and that no prescription will discharge it. [Footnote g: F.N.B. 230.] [Footnote h: Notes on F.N.B. above cited.] III. THE king also (as was formerly observed[i]) is entitled to all the tithes arising in extraparochial places[k]: though perhaps it may be doubted how far this article, as well as the last, can be properly reckoned a part of the king's own royal revenue; since a corody supports only his chaplains, and these extraparochial tithes are held under an implied trust, that the king will distribute them for the good of the clergy in general. [Footnote i: page 110.] [Footnote k: 2 Inst. 647.] IV. THE next branch consists in the first-fruits, and tenths, of all spiritual preferments in the kingdom; both of which I shall consider together.