presentee

By the same act, an appeal against the presented candidate by the congregation could only be on the basis of the qualifications of the presentee.

In 1719 Parliament passed an Act requiring any presentee to declare his willingness to take up a Patron's offer.

"If there's a presentation, I assume then I'm the presentee," he said, taming his chair sideways to the table and taking her into his lap.

The bishop, by the act of institution, commits to the presentee the cure of souls attached to the office to which the benefice is annexed.

It was not uncommon, even by Edward II's time, for a benefice to be forcefully defended against a royal presentee, or for him to be physically assaulted.

This presentee was possibly the eldest son of Thomas Rosewell, of Dunkerton, who is listed as patron in the presentation, and the living was held by him until 1627.

She wouldn't be reminded, at that table, that there was an absentee who ought to be a presentee--a word which she meant to look out in the dictionary at a calmer time.

On this occasion there was serious difficulty in settling the crown presentee, and the very real danger to the political interest of the duke lay in the fact that the Opposition and the rival candidate were set up by some of his own friends.

The congregation of a Parish could only legally object to a presentee on the grounds of his suitability, so the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland laid down increasingly stringent educational, moral and practical qualifications for candidates for the Ministry.

The third Church of Scotland minister of Inverurie, (Alexander Mill - a royal "presentee" of King James I), had the Manse transferred from the Bass to the site of the present Kirk before 1600, by the Sketry Burn.

Accordingly, Mr Park, of Old Monkland, served the edict upon the congregation, and summoned them to state what objections they might have to the life and doctrine of the presentee, at a meeting of the Presbytery to be held in the Manse of Cambuslang on 1 September 1774.

Under the early constitutions of the Church of England a bishop was allowed a space of two months to inquire and inform himself of the sufficiency of every presentee, but by the 95th of the Canons of 1604 that interval was reduced to 28 days, within which the bishop must admit or reject the clerk.