o a living in the English Church may be performed by any patron to whom the advowson of the church belongs, by offering his clerk to the bishop of the diocese to be instituted. The bishop, however, has the power of refusing the said clerk: this on many accounts, as,—1. If the patron be excommunicated, and remain in contempt forty days; or 2. If the clerk be unfit, which unfitness is of several kinds: first, with regard to his person, for he may be an outlaw, an excommunicate, an alien, under age, or the like; next, with respect to his faith or morals,—as for any particular heresy, or vice that is malum in se; or, finally, the clerk may be unfit to discharge the duties of the pastoral office by reason of his want of learning. If the bishop, however, have no objections, then the care of the souls of the parish is committed to the charge of the clerk, who enters on the parsonage-house and glebe, and takes the tithes.