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may be honestly instituted without any such 

 revocation, I humbly desire you will be pleased 

 to admit him, and send your meti^opolitical man- 

 date to the chapter for his instalment." 



And this the Archbishop was very much in- 

 clined to do, knowing that Dr. Atterbury would 

 never submit to have new terms imposed upon him^ 

 which Wie law did not require him to comply with ; 

 nor did he think the bishop had reason to insist 

 upon them ; and therefore would have made no 

 scruple himself of giving the doctor institution 

 at York. But he considered that the significa- 

 tion of the bishop's consent by letter, was not 

 sufficient to empower him to perform this act ; 

 for that there ought to be an instrument of re- 

 mission under the episcopal seal, by which the 

 bishop should refer the whole affair to his me- 

 tropolitan, and thereby give him authority to 

 institute at York, and issue out his metropoli- 

 tical mandate for such AUation by the chapter of 

 Carlisle. On the other hand, when the bishop 

 consented, in compliance with the Archbishop's 

 own proposal, that the doctor should be insti- 

 tuted at York, he meant no more than that his 

 Grace should determine this matter originally, 

 and at the first instance, which otherwise was 

 too likely to be brought before him by way of 

 appeal. And this he apprehended a metropolitan 

 might do, consentiente ordinario. 



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