INSTRUCTIONS for obtaining Institution or Collation to a Benefice. [As to Stamp, see page 27.] THE following papers are to be sent to the bishop by the clergyman who is to be instituted. 1. PRESENTATION to the benefice, executed by the Presentapatron; if the person to be presented is to hold the tion. benefice under an engagement to resign, he is referred to Instructions, in this work, for Resignations of Benefices and Engagements to resign; such engagement must be completed before the execution of the presentation. When the bishop is patron of a benefice in his own diocese, the form of appointment of a clergyman thereto is called a collation; and when the patron of a benefice intends to hold it himself, the course is for him to send a petition to the bishop to institute him. No stamp is required on the petition. In the case of collation, and also of institution proceeding upon the petition of the patron, the certificate of yearly value must be written upon, and the stamp affixed on, the instrument of collation or of institution respectively. In order to procure the certificate of value from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, application should be made to them in the following form, addressed to their secretary, 10, Whitehall Place. Application for Certificate of Value. TO THE ECCLESIASTICAL COMMISSIONERS FOR mitted thereto, the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England are requested to certify the net yearly value thereof, according to the provisions of the act 27 Victoria, c. 18. Letters of orders. (Address) In answer to this application, a form of certificate will be sent from the office of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, which is to be indorsed on the instrument of presentation, &c., and then transmitted to the same office for signature; after which, the presentation, &c., will, on being taken to the Stamp Office, be properly stamped. 2. LETTERS of Orders, Deacon and Priest. Testimo- 3. LETTERS Testimonial by three beneficed clergymen, in the following form: nial. , To the Right Reverend, Lord Bishop of . We, whose names are hereunder written, testify and make known, that A. B., clerk, A.M. (or other degree), presented (or to be collated, as the case may be) to the rectory or vicarage (as the case may be) of, in the county of- in your lordship's diocese, hath been personally known to us for the space of three years last past; that we have had opportunities of observing his conduct; that, during the whole of that time we verily believe that he lived piously, soberly, and honestly; nor have we at any time heard any thing to the contrary thereof; nor hath he at any time, as far as we know or believe, held, written, or taught any thing contrary to the doctrine or discipline of the United Church of England and Ireland; and, moreover, we believe him in our consciences to be, as to his moral conduct, a person worthy to be admitted to the said benefice. If all the subscribers are not beneficed in the Counterdiocese of the bishop to whom the testimonial signature. is addressed, the countersignature of the bishop of the diocese wherein their benefices are re spectively situate is required. 4. A short statement of the title of the patron, in Patron's case of a change of patron since the last incumbent was title. presented. tions and oaths. The same declarations are to be made and subscribed Subscripand oaths taken, on institution and collation, as by a clergyman on being licensed to a lectureship; with the addition, in the case of a cathedral preferment, of an oath to observe the statutes of the cathedral. On the first Lord's day on which he officiates in the church, the new incumbent thereof is publicly and openly, in the presence of the congregation there assembled, to read the Thirty-nine Articles of Religion; and immediately after reading the same he is to make the Declaration of Assent, adding, after the words "articles of religion" in the said Declaration, the words, "which I have now read before you." Reference In case the clergyman presented, or to be collated', to the subis already a pluralist, and intends to retain either a ject of pluralicathedral preferment, or a benefice of which he may be ties," in in possession, with that which he is about to take, he is recommended to refer to the subject of "Pluralities," treated of in this work, before he is instituted or collated, take some and to attend to the instructions there given. 7 Or if nominated to a cure not stipendiary. [See p. 26.] the case of a pluralist who may be about to other benefice or cathedral preferment. mandate. INSTRUCTIONS as to Induction to a Benefice. Induction THE clergyman is to take or send the bishop's mandate of induction to the proper office, for the purpose of procuring the archdeacon's mandate, directed to all and singular rectors, vicars, &c., in order to obtain induction. But if the bishop's mandate is directed in general to all and singular rectors, vicars, &c., any clergyman in the diocese may induct by virtue of that mandate only. Induction. The usual Form of Induction is this: The person empowered to induct, taking the hand of the person to be inducted, lays it on the key of the church in the church-door, or on the ring of the door; or, if the church be ruinated, it is done by laying his hand on the wall or the fence of the church-yard, and saying, "By virtue of this mandate I induct you into "the real, actual, and corporal possession of the rectory [or vicarage] of —, with all its fruits, members, "and appurtenances." He then puts the new incumbent into possession of the church; who, when he has tolled the bell, comes forth, and the inductor indorses and signs a certificate of such induction on the mandate, attested by those who witnessed the same. FORM of Certificate of Induction. Certificate MEMORANDUM, That on the day of of induc tion. 18-, by I, M. N., rector [vicar, or curate, as the case may be] session of the within-mentioned rectory [or vicarage] of with all the rights, members, and appurtenances , INSTRUCTIONS as to Reading in. ON the first Lord's day on which he officiates in the church, the new incumbent thereof is publicly and openly, in the presence of the congregation there assembled, to read the Thirty-nine Articles of Religion, and immediately after reading the same he is to make the declaration of assent, adding after the words "Articles of Religion," in the said declaration, the words, "which I have now read before you." The incumbent should be careful to obtain from the Certificate of reading churchwardens, or some other inhabitants of the parish, in. a certificate as here set forth, a printed form of which is usually supplied by the bishop's secretary at the time of institution or collation. The incumbent should keep the certificate. MEMORANDUM, That on Sunday, the day of in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred D |