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5. the Crown, and explain the different terms made use of for the many various Impositions laid upon the People.

The Revenue of the Crown may be divided into Ordinary, or Etraordinary, the first was of two sorts Ecclesiastical or Civil,

1.underline Ecclesiastical Revenue /underline The first species of Ecclesiastical Revenue, is the Custody of the Temporalities that is the Lay Revenues, Lands deletion & /deletion add and /add Tenements

                                      belonging to an Archbishop or

Bishop’s See upon a Vacancy, as also the Custody of the Temporalities of All Abbies & Priories of Royal Foundation during the Vacancy. This Revenue is at present reduced to nothing, though formerly very great, for during the first Reigns after the Norman Invasion, the Bishopricks were kept long Vacant, the Woods & Estates Wasted, the Temporalities seized, for the most trifling reasons, even during the Life of the Incumbent, deletion & /deletion add and

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at first, nor restored again without an extravagant price paid for them.

A Second Ecclesiastical Revenue is the ?Corody? out of every Bishoprick, this is a power vested in the King of sending one of the Chaplains into every Bishoprick, Abbey, or Priory of Royal foundation, to be maintained,