[59] Benefices Act, 1898 (61 & 62 Vict. c. 48), s. 2 (2); Benefices Rules, 1898, ru. 11, 12, sch. form (7).
[60] (1868) 31 & 32 Vict. c. 117.
[61] Gibs. Cod. 813.
[62] 28 & 29 Vict. c. 122 (Clerical Subscription Act, 1865), ss. 1, 5, 12; 31 & 32 Vict. c. 72 (Promissory Oaths Act, 1868), ss. 2, 8, 9, 14; 61 & 62 Vict. c. 48 (Benefices Act, 1898), s. 1 (4) sch.
[63] This may be the authority of the King in Council, under which the names of the sovereign and members of the Royal Family are changed in the prayers for them (Gibs. Cod. 280), and other forms are from time to time prescribed; or that of the archbishop or bishop, so far as they have power in the matter. See below, ch. v. § 1.
[64] See below, §22.
[65] See above, §2 (c).
[66] Clarke Proxis, tit. xci.; Gibs. Cod. 810. This oath does not mean that the clerk will obey all the commands of the bishop against which there is no law, but that he will obey all such commands as the bishop by law is authorised to impose; Long v. Bp. of Capetown (1863) 1 Moo. P. C. N. S. 411, at p. 465.
[67] (1865) 28 & 29 Vict. c. 122, s. 7.
[68] Johns, vol. i. p. 84; Wats. ch. xv. p. 155, sq.