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6. or to have a provision allowed Him untill the Bishop, Abbot, or Prior, promoted Him to a benefice, but this is fallen into disuse.

The third Branch are the Tythes the King is entitled to from Extra Parochial places, though indeed these being held under trust that the King might distribute them for the good of the Clergy, hardly comes within the Idea of Revenue, any more than the last Article, which was intended for the support of His Chaplains.

One other Branch of Ecclesiastical Revenue belongs at present to the Crown that before the Reformation was levied by the Popes viz. the First Fruits deletion & /deletion addition and /addition Tenths, they were first instituted by the Legate Randolph in the See of Norwich during the Reigns of John deletion & /deletion and Henry III deletion & /deletion add and /add attempted to be made universal by Clement V. & John XXII. in the beginning of the XIVth Century, but this ever met with great resistance from Parliament, deletion & /deletion add and /add notwithstanding many Acts passed against it, the Clergy either openly, or in private continued to levy it.