So far, your Bishop is only partly made. He is “elected by Dean and Chapter.” Thereupon, through the Crown Office, the assent of the Sovereign to the choice himself has made through his Prime Minister, is graciously signified, and the original costs are reimposed, plus 10_s._ The chapter-clerk of the Bishop’s own cathedral then requests fees totalling £21 6_s._ 8_d._ A technical form of procedure, known as “restitution of temporalities,” has then to be enacted, not without its attendant fees, which include £10 for a warrant, £31 10_s._ 6_d._ for a certificate, £30 for letters patent, and 2_s._ for another “docquet.” Next comes the Home Office, clamouring for Exchequer fees: £7 13_s._ 6_d._ for the original _congé d’élire_, and the like for letters recommendatory, Royal assent, and restitution of temporalities. The oath of homage costs £6 6_s._ 6_d._ The new Bishop has then to reckon with the Board of Green Cloth, with its homage fees to the Earl Marshal and the heralds, totalling £15 0_s._ 2_d._ Your Bishop is not yet, however, out of the wood of expenditure. When he takes his seat in the House of Lords the Lord Great Chamberlain’s Office wants £5—and gets it. When he is enthroned the precentor pockets £10 10_s._, and the chapter-clerk £9 14_s._ 8_d._, the bell-ringers of the Cathedral ring a merry peal—fee £10 10_s._ The choir then chorify at a further expense of £6 17_s._ 4_d._ Have we now done? Not at all. The clerk of the Crown Office is tipped half a guinea, plus two guineas for “petty expenses”; and takes £14 when the Bishop takes his place among his brethren in the House of Lords. When all these various officers of Church and State are busily picking the new Bishop’s pockets, in advance of their being filled, as an Irishman might say, the Archbishop himself is not behindhand. His turn comes when the archiepiscopal fees for confirmation are demanded; and they are heavy, costing in all £68 4_s._ 10_d._ These imposts are made up of the following items: Secretary, with Archbishop’s fiat for confirmation, £17 10_s._, Vicar-General, £31 0_s._ 10_d._, fees at church where confirmation is made, £10 5_s._, and to Deputy Registrar, for mandate of induction, £9 9_s._ To the Bishop’s own secretaries a sum of £36 5_s._ is then payable. The Bishop may then, surveying these devastations, at last consider himself elected, and in every way complete.