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the 18th ofJprsl enfuing, to this effect, That King Edn,
IV, by Letters Patent, had Ere&ed this Office of Chau!cellor, and did then grant the fame to Richard Beauchamp,Bifhopof Salisbury, and his Succefforsfor ever, incon-fideration that the Chapel of St. George was withintheir Diocefs; that thofe Bifhops had enjoyed the fame,according to the Charter, which Charter had been con-firmed under the Great Seal of England, by fome otherKings and Queens, and laftly by the King himfelf. Butthat the ufe and exercife of that Office had for manyYears been difeontinued from them, praying thereforean Hearing, and Examination, that the right of thefaid Church might be preferved and reftored. To thefubftance of which it was objected.
Firft, That the Great Seals of England did not workwithin, or upon the Statutes and Rules of the Orderof the Garter.
Second, That no Grant could preferibe the prefentSovereign, it being a Law Fundamental within the Or-der, Suprema Lex was Suprema Voluntas .
Third, That it did not appear by the Records of'theOrder, that the Office of the Chancellor was any other-wife conferred upon Richard Beauchamp, Bilhop of Salis-bury, than quam diu Regiie celptttdini complacent.
To the Firjl, It was anfwered by way of Exception,as to the Grant of Offices, forafmuch as the Great Sealof England was took into, and became legal within theOrder in like cafes ; and not any Patent for an Office,had pafl: under the Seal of the Order, but under theGreat Seal of England, and in particular the Office ofthe Chancellor-Blip, which had not been tranfafted, ifany legal defedl had been therein.
To the Second, granting it was fo as was Objected, itappeared that the Sovereign was as much at liberty toreftore this Office to the See of Salisbury, as continue itto fecular Dignities.
To the Third, what was alledged out of the Recordsof the Order, related only to the time of deliveringthe Seals to Bifhop Beauchamp : But afterwards whenthe Office was Eredled by Letters Patent, it was thengranted to him during Life. Something was repliedfrom the Judges Opinions, even in this cafe, Jnnljac.
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