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form, referring, for her authority, to the afore- 

 said act in the first year of her reign ; ju:cta 

 quendam Actum Parliamenti anno i20stri 7'egm 

 prirno. 



Now, by these statutes, all the lands and 

 possessions belonging to the Church were vested 

 in the chapter, and leases were to be granted 

 onli/ by a certain number of prebendaries. The 

 number of vicars choral was reduced from sixteen 

 to six, and the ancient pensions payable by the 

 prebendaries, quasi vicarii ante hac vel habuerunt 

 vel vindicaverunt , were restored to the vicars, 

 yet not so fully, but that the Archbishop of 

 York for the time being might diminish them 

 at discretion. By these statutes, likewise, the 

 vicars' houses in their college were allotted to 

 them at the sole discretion of the archbishops* ; 

 or they were permitted to enjoy them only so 

 long as the Archbishop did not appropriate 

 them to other uses. 



To these statutes, as decisive in all the points 

 that had been before disputed, submission was 

 paid, and the Church was afterwards wholly 

 governed by them, at least in all matters per- 

 taining to the right and property of the several 



* Habeant vero dicti vicarii sibi cantoribus et choristis do- 

 mos ad eosdem vicarios retroactis temporibus pertinentes nisi 

 dictus Archieplscopus quern visitatorem ecclesiae constituiraus 

 aliter ordinaverit. Stat. Eccl. Southwell, c. 2. De Vicariis, &c. 



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