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form differing from all other Commendams which 

 have been practised. 



The judges also went farther, and did promise 

 his majesty, that they would not only abstain from 

 speaking any thing to weaken his majesty s prero 

 gative of Commendams, but would directly and in 

 plain terms affirm the same, and correct the erro 

 neous and bold speeches which had been used at the 

 bar in derogation thereof. 



Also the judges did in general acknowledge and 

 profess with great forwardness, that it was their 

 duty, if any counsellor at the law presumed at any 

 time to call in question his majesty s high preroga 

 tive, that they ought to reprehend them and silence 

 them ; and all promised so to do hereafter. 



Lastly, the two judges that were then next to 

 argue, Mr. Justice Dodderidge and Mr. Justice 

 Winch, opened themselves unto his majesty thus 

 far ; that they would insist chiefly upon the &quot; lapse,&quot; 

 and some points of uncertainty, repugnancy, and 

 absurdity, being peculiar to this Commendam ; and 

 that they would shew their dislike of that which 

 had been said at the bar for the weakening of the 

 general power ; and Mr. Justice Dodderidge said 

 he would conclude for the king, that the church 

 was void and in his majesty s gift; he also said 

 that the king might give a Commendam to a bishop 

 either before or after his consecration, and that he 

 might give it him during his life, or for a certain 

 number of years. 



The judges having thus far submitted and declared 



