[316] Archbishops' Hearing at Lambeth (1900) _Times_, May 2. The Prayer Book of 1549 directed that if on the same day there was a celebration in church, the priest should reserve (at the open Communion) so much of the Sacrament of the body and blood as should serve the sick person and so many, if any, as should communicate with him, and so soon as convenient after the open Communion should go and minister the same first to any appointed to communicate with the sick person, and last of all to the sick person himself, after having previously made the general confession and added the absolution and the comfortable words of Scripture as in the Communion Office; and after the administration he was to say the Collect "Almighty and everliving God, we most heartily thank," &c. But if the day were not appointed for the open Communion, then the curate should come and visit the sick person afore noon and celebrate the Holy Communion according to the Order for the Communion of the Sick. But these directions were omitted in 1552, and have not since been restored. CHAPTER IX TEMPORALITIES 1. The legal possessions and revenues of the benefice of an ancient parish consist of (i.) the church and churchyard (subject to the use of both for the benefit of the people), (ii.) the parsonage house and glebe lands and buildings, (iii.) the tithe, (iv.) any modern endowments, including perpetual annuities granted by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, (v.) ordinary dues and offerings, (vi.) mortuaries, and (vii.) fees; and some of these possessions and revenues are also attached to the benefice of a new ecclesiastical parish, which has, moreover, in certain cases a further source of revenue in (viii.) pew-rents. 2. The incumbent for the time being, whether of an ancient or new parish, has a freehold interest for his life, if he so long remains incumbent, in the possessions of the benefice, and for the purpose of holding them is a corporation sole, with a continuous succession in himself and all future incumbents. As such, he is subject to the general laws respecting corporations, and also to those which regulate the acquisition and holding of landed property for charitable purposes, except so far as the law has made special exemptions in his favour. Accordingly, except to the extent expressly permitted by statute, he cannot in his corporate capacity, with perpetual devolution to his successors in office, (_a_) acquire or hold additional landed property without a licence in mortmain or in a manner inconsistent with the provisions of the Mortmain and Charitable Uses Acts, 1888 and 1891,[317] or (_b_) hold landed property upon any trust or for any purpose other than as part of the possessions of the benefice.[318]