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Letter-missive
Matched in: Term Letter-missive
Missive
Matched in: Term Missive
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the benefice. It must be in writing (29 Car. 2, c. 3), and is in the nature of letters-missive to the ordinary. The sovereign, as protector ecclesi', is the patron paramount of all benefices which do not
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elect the person named by the king, accompanied, by virtue of 25 Hen. 8, c. 20, by a letter-missive, addressed to the dean and chapter; and if they fail to make election in twelve days, the king,
Confirmation of Bishop
the ratification by the arch-bishop of the election of a bishop by dean and chapter under the king's letter missive prior to the consecration of the bishop by the archbishop, as directed (see CONGE D'ESLIRE) by 25 Hen.
Conge d'Eslire, or elire
the office becomes vacant. By 25 Hen. 8, c. 20, the sovereign may grant this licence 'with a letter missive containing the name of the person whom they shall elect and choose,' and it is enacted that the
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