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The benefit of the vacancy of any Bishop some Kings have used to their best advantage, making a Circular remove of as many as in reputation and profit were inferiour to the place void,
Concurrent Jurisdiction as the Pope had in former times.
Besides these there are two of no mean Commodity.
〈…〉〈…〉The one is grounded upon a concurrent Jurisdiction with every Ordinary in the Diocesse with the King by having the power Papall in that point invested in him by Act of Parliament, may exercise by his Commission or otherwise remit to the Ordinary for some valuable respect. Thus did Cardinall Wolsey with Wareham the Arch-Bishop of Can∣terbury and all other the Bshops of the Kingdome after hee had got his Legative power. And this if it were put in pract∣ise would draw to the King two hundred thousand pound into his Coffers.
The other is the short accompt yeelded the King of such Ecclesiasticall Tenths and duties as were often or annually paid unto the Pope in former times. And now by Statute in∣vested in the Crowne, for in former times the Sea of Rom•• received them not as onely out of the meere Spiritualties of Spirituall persons, which Lands being now divided from the Church into the hands of the Laitye, yet ought they to pay this duty, since they were setled in the Crowne by a former Law, and no subsequent ever hath discharged them.
Ex. Compos••t. Orig. inte••. Wolser & Arch. Cant. dat. 14. H. 8.
Tenths of the Church Lands now in the Lai¦tie.