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on the key of the chinch, which muft be then in the door, 

 and t > fay, " By viiiiie of this inftniir.ent, I induft you 

 in tlie real, actual, and corporal pofTcfSon of the rectory 

 or vicarage of - , with all its fruits, profils, members, 

 and appurtenances." — This done, he opens ihe door, and 

 puts the clerk in potfeffion of the churc';, and fliuts the 

 door upon him; who, after he hath tolled a bell (if there 

 be any) to give the parifliionevs due notice and fiifScient 

 certainty of their new miniftcr, comes out, and delires the 

 iuduftor to indorfe a certificate of his induclion on the arch- 

 deacon's warrant, and that all prefent will lignify it under 

 their hands. If the church-key cannot be had, it is fuf- 

 ficient that the clerk lays hold of the ring of the door, 

 the latch of the church, gate, &c. and, witliin two months 

 after this, the clerk mult read the thirty-nine articles, 

 and a'l the (ervice of the day, both at morning and evening 

 prayers, in the pariih church of his benefice, and in the time 

 of common prayer, and declare his aflent and confent ; he 

 mull alfo then read the ordinary's certificate, in which is 

 the declaration of his conformicy, together with the fame 

 declaration, and of all this he mull have two or three 

 good witnefies, who muil lign that they heard hini do it, 

 and be ready to attell it, I'iva -voc^, if required ; and, 

 within fix months after induction, he mud alfo take the 

 paths of allegiance, fupremacy, and abjuration, at the quar- 

 tcr-feflions, or in fome one of the courts at Weilminller- 

 hal'. 



Induftion makes the parfon complete incumbent, and fixes 

 the freehold in him. When a clerk is thus prefented, iulli- 

 tuted, and inducted into a rectory, he is then, and not before, 

 called in law, pirjXna imptrfotmla, or parfon iniparfonee. 

 ij Ehz. c. 12. 13 and 14 C. 11. t. 4. i Geo. Hat. 2. c. 13. 

 o Geo. II. c 26. 23 Gee-. II. c. 2S. 



INDULGENCE, in the Romj/L Theology, the remiflion 

 of a puniihment due to a fin, granted by the church, and 

 fuppofed to fave the finner from purgatory. 



The Romaniils found their indulgences on the infinite trea- 

 fure of the merits of Jefus Chrill, the Holy Virgin, and all 

 the faints ; which they fuppofe the church has a right of 

 diftributing by virtue of the communion of faints. See 



SuPEREnOt;.\TION. 



Thefe indulgences were firft invented in tlie eleventh cen- 

 tury by popes Gregory VII. Victor, and Urban II. as a 

 recompence for thofe who went in perfon upon the wild en- 

 tcrprize of conquering the Holy Land. See CliOlS-iDE 



They were afterwards granted to thofe who hired a fol- 

 dier for that purpoie, and in procefs of time were bellowed 

 on fuch as gave money for accomp'ilhing any pious works en- 

 joined by the pope. In the beginning of the twclfih cen- 

 turv, the biiliops, whenever they wanted a fupply of money 

 for their private pleafures, or the exigencies of the church, 

 recurred to the fcandnious traffic of indulgences; and when 

 the Ron:<:in pontiffs fa.v that imraenfe treafures were thus ac- 

 cumidated by the inferior rulers of the church, they thought 

 proper to limit the powers of the birtiops in remitting the 

 penalties impofed upon traufgreflbrs, and «{fumed it, almoll 

 entirelv, as a proh.able traffic to theinfeUes. They began 

 with granting a plenary remiflion of all th.- temporal paint and 

 penalli-S whicli the church hath annexed to certain tranf- 

 greflioMS ; and then proceeded to abohfli even thepuniihments 

 which are referved in a future ftaie for the workei-s of 

 iniquity. 



The Roman jubilee, firft inflituted by Bonifnce VIII. 

 A.D. r300, carries «ith it a plenary, or full iudidgencc, for 

 all the crimes committed therein. 



The pope alio grants bulls of plenary indulgence to feveral 

 chuichcs, cionalleries, aiid even to private perfons ; and it is 



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a frequent thing to have general indulgences for the time of 

 the principal feallsof a year. Their cafuifts fay that aple- 

 nary indulgence does not always prove effectual, for want of 

 complying with the conditions whereon it was granted. 



For the extirpation of heretics, it has been a common 

 pradtice with the popeb to grant indulgences. Thus Cle- 

 ment XII. " That we may Itir up and encourage the faith- 

 ful to extirpate this ungracious crew of forlorn wretches, 

 (the Cevcnois, when in armdagainll Lewis XIV.) we fully 

 gi-ant and indulge the full lemifiiou of all fins, whatever they 

 may be (relying upon that power of binding and loofing, 

 which our Lord conferred upon his chief apoftle), to all thofe 

 that fnall lift themfelves in this facred mditia, if they (hall 

 happen to fall in battle." See Ar.soLUTiox. 



Julius II. had bellowed indulgences on all who contri- 

 buted towards building the church of St. Peter at Rome, 

 and pope Leo X. in order to carry on this magnificent 

 llrutiure, pubhfhed indulgences, and a plenary remifhon on 

 the fame pretences. Finding t he project take, he granted 

 the riglit of promulgating thefe indulgences in Germany, 

 together with a (hare in the profits arifing from the fale of 

 them, to Albert, elector of Mtntz, and archbifliop of Mag- 

 deburg, who emg^Ioyed Telzcl, a Dominican friar, as his 

 chief agent for retailing them ; and he farmed out thofe of 

 other countries to the higheft bidders, who, to make the 

 befl of their bargains, procured the ableil of their preachers 

 to extol the value of the ware : " Happy times for finners," 

 fays a modern writer, " their crimes were rated, and the re- 

 milTion of them fet up byauftion. The apoftolic chamber 

 taxed fins at a pretty reafonable rate ; it coll but ninety 

 livres and a few ducats, for crimes which people on this fide 

 the Alps puiiiflicd with death." 



Thefe are fpecified in a book of rates called the Tax-Boek 

 of the Holy Apoftohc Chancery, firft printed at Rome in 

 the year 1514. and afcribcd by feme to pope Innocent VIII. 

 From a correct edition of this book, printed by L. Banck, 

 profefTor at Norkopin, in Gothland, in 1 651, it appears 

 that the price of abfolution for fornication, attended with 

 the moft heinous circumftances, was fix groffi or groats ; 

 for a layman's murderino a layman, five groats ; for laying 

 violent hands on a pricft, without ihedding blood, nine 



froats ; for committing inceft, five groats ; for a prieft's 

 eeping a concubine, feven groats ; for forging the pope's 

 hand-writing, levenieen or eighteen groats. See the Taxa 

 S. Cancellarix Apoftclicae, a L. Banck. Franequerae, 165 1, 

 p. 1 26, &c. It was this great abufe of indulgences, that 

 con'r;buted not a little to the firtt reformation of religion 

 in Gerrrfhny ; wherein Martin Luther began firll to declaim 

 againll the preachers of indulgences, and afierwards againil 

 indulgences themfelves : but lince that time, the popes have 

 been more fparing in the cxercife of tlii.'i power ; however, 

 they afterwards carried on a great trade with them in the 

 Indies, where they were purchafed at two reals a-piece, and 

 fometimes more. See Rekok.m.vj'iu^-. 



Indulgence, or Induho, fignifies alfo a fpecial favour, 

 or privilege, conferred either on a community, or a parti- 

 cular perfon, *iy the pope's bulls ; in virtue whereof the 

 party is lieenfed to do or to obtain fomething contrary to the 

 iiitentbn and difpofition of the common laws. 



There are two kinds of indultos : the one adive, which 

 confills in a power of nominating and prefenting freely, and 

 without referve, to benefices that are otherwife limited, and 

 reltrained by the laws of the apollolical chancery ; fuch are 

 thofe ordinarily granted to fecular princes, cardinals, bilhops, 

 &c. 



Ptt/five indultos confill in a power of receiving benefice?, 



and 



