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ABbot was y• soueraigne head, or chiefe of those houses, which when they stood were called Abbies, & this Abbot together wt ye monks of ye same house, who were called y• couent made a corporation: such a soueraigne of any such house shal not be charged by y• act of his predecessor,
if it be not by cōmon seale or for such things which commeth to the vse of his house. Also an abbot shall not be charged for the det of his Monke before his entre in religion, though the creditor hanc an espe∣cialtie thereof, except that it haue come to the vse of his house, but the execu∣tors of the Monke shalbe charged therewith.
Look for this in the A∣bridgments the same ti∣tle vnder which you shall sée that some of thē were electiue, some presētatiue, And how they were made gouernors, and their au∣thoritie, and in this title are also comprehended all other corporations spiri∣tual, as Prior and his co∣uent friers and Canons, Deane & Chapter.