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he entitled to the patronage hoth of the Vicarage and Chapels : but 

 by such a reservation, the Archbishop's right is secured, which 

 right by his Grace's presentation devolved upon the Vicar, he 

 being instituted and inducted to all and singular the rights, 

 privileges, &c., thereunto belonging. This I apprehend to be the 

 situation of all livings impropriate. I know no instance of an 

 Incumbent not nominating to the Cha]jels under him, except 

 where his right has been legally alienated. 



" I would not presume to make the least encroachment on your 

 Grace's right ; and it gives me great uneasiness that there should 

 be any doubt, at this day, to whom the nomination belongs, &c., 



\V. Johnson." 



" TO THE BISHOP OF CHESTER. 



" My Lord, — As, probably there may never again be a Vicar of 

 Whalley in circumstances to assert his rights, I would willingly fix 

 them on such a footing as to put them out of the power of dispute. 



" If your Lordship's pretensions have no other foundation than 

 the Decree supposed to be passed in the Duchy Court, I am per- 

 suaded that the rights and privileges of the Rectory of Whalley are 

 in no danger, as that Decree contains nothing that can affect them ; 

 and for this plain reason, because neither Patron nor Incumbent 

 are parties ; and therefore nothing foisted into the Decree, by 

 artifice or iniquity, can operate so as to vest a right in your Lord- 

 ship against the Vicar. W. Johnson." 



The correspondence between the disputants ended with the 

 following Letter from Dr. Keene, the Bishop of the Diocese :— 



" Rev. Sir, — The contest between you and me, concerning the 

 .patronage of the Church in Rossendale, took its rise accidentally 

 from some papers being found while my officers were searching 

 into the claim of the Archbishop. 



" When the different foundations of my right were drawn together 

 they did appear to me, and others whom I consulted, to be of 

 validity enough to form a pretension to the nomination of that 

 Chapel, and I then acquainted you with such my intention. 



