[128] Advocationibus. “Advocatio,” says Sir Wm. Blackstone, “signifies in Clientelam recipere, the taking into protection, and therefore is synonymous with Patronage, Patronatus.” (2 Comm. 21.) With this concurs Lord Coke—“Advocatio signifying an advowing, or taking into protection, is as much as jus patronatûs.” Again “In Britton Cap. 92. The Patron is called avow, and the Patrons advocati, for that they be either founders or maintainers, or Benefactors of the church, either by building, donation, or increasing of it, in which respect they were also called patroni, and the advowson jus patronatûs.” His Lordship cites Bracton L. 4. fol. 240. Fleta L. 5. c. 14. (see Co. Litt. 17. b. and 119. b. Cowell ad voc. and Spelm. Gloss. ad voc.)
[129] Personam, a Parson. (Vide Co. Litt. 300. a. b. Bl. Comm. 1. 383.) Cowell derives the word from the French personne.
[130] L. 13. C. 18. et seq.
[131] That is, according to the Cottonian and Dr. Milles’s MSS. the person who has deforced the advowson of the church.
[132] The Advowson, Bodl. and Cotton. MSS.
[133] During the 15 days, Cotton, and Dr. Milles’s MSS.
[134] “Replegiare is compounded of re and plegiare, as much as to say, to redeliver upon pledges or Sureties.” (Co. Litt. 145. b.).
[135] Mr. Madox informs us, when speaking of the King’s Debtor, “If he was a Clergyman, and had no lay Fee, whereby he might be distrained, writs were wont to issue to the Bishop of the Diocese, commanding him to distrain such Debtor, by his Ecclesiastical Benefices. Many of these writs had in them a clause importing, that if the Bishop failed to make due Execution, the King would cause the Debt to be levied on the Bishop’s Barony.” (Madox’s Excheq. c. 23.)
[136] He should not lose his church, according to the Regiam Majestatem, (L. 3. c. 33.)
[137] The unsuccessful party.