"2dly. That the clergy of the lower house of Convocation may be admitted _to sit in Parliament with the House of Commons_ according to antient usage." In support of this, the clause _Præmunientes_ in the writ directing the elections of Proctors was appealed to. This "Præmunitory Clause," which at a later period of the history of Convocation was the cause of much discussion, ran thus:-- "The Bishop was commanded to 'give notice to the (Prior or) Dean and Chapter of his Cathedral Church, and to the Archdeacons and all the clergy of his diocese, that the Prior, Deans, and Archdeacons, in their own persons, the chapter by one, and the clergy by two, proper proxies, sufficiently empowered by the said chapter and clergy, _should by all means be present at the Parliament with him_ to do and to consent to those things, which, by the blessing of GOD, by their common advice happened to be ordained in the matters aforesaid, and that the giving this notice should by no means be omitted by him.'" "The clergy _thus summoned to Parliament_ by the King and Diocesan, met for the choice of their proxies; for this purpose the Dean or Prior held his chapter, and the Archdeacon his synod. The representatives being chosen in these assemblies _were sent up to Parliament_, with procuratorial letters from the chapter and clergy to give them an authority to act in their names, and on the behalf of their electors."--Collier's _Eccles. Hist._, Part II. book iv. Also-- "All the members of both Houses of Convocation have the same privileges for themselves and their servants as _the members of parliament_ have, and that by statute."--Chamberlayn's _Mag. Brit. Notitia_, p. 94. It may be reasonably doubted, whether a little research would not afford further reasons for thinking that there was some ground for applying the phrase "assembled in Parliament" to Convocation.