XII. When an archbishopric, bishopric, abbacy, or priory in the gift of the lord king shall be

vacant, it ought to remain in his hands, and he to receive the rents and issues thereof, as of his demesnes. And when he pleases to provide for that church, the lord king ought to send for the chief persons of that church, and the election ought to be made in the king's chapel, with the assent of the lord king and with the advice of such persons of his realm as he shall call thereto; and the person elect shall then, betore his consecration, do homage and fealty to the king as his liegeman of life and members and earthly honour, saving his order. (Condemned.)