The ancient Statute of Provisorshad forbidden the introduction of Bulls from Rome, and the statute was awake again.
With the help of the revived Statute of Provisors he was able to raise the whole question of the Pope's authority in England without fresh legislation on present points of difference.
NOTES: [480] The English archbishops were embarrassed by the statutes of provisors in applying for plenary powers to Rome.
Sidenote: Statute ofprovisors forbidding the attempts of the popes to present to benefices in England.
Morton had gone beyond the limits of the statute of provisors in receiving powers from Pope Innocent to visit the monasteries.
The chapter must have secretly sympathized with Martínez, for it elected him one of the provisors of the diocese sede vacante, thus clothing him with increased power, and we hear nothing more of the trial for heresy.
Neither the law of Provisorsnor of Praemunire was strictly enforced until Henry VIII's reign.
The statutes of provisors and præmunire were as little executed as were the statutes of labourers, or as some elaborate sumptuary legislation passed by the parliament of 1363.
Provisors who had accepted appointments from Avignon were to be arrested.
These remonstrances had little effect, and at last, in 1351, the statute of Provisors was enacted, on the petition of the lords temporal and the commons.
New statutes of Provisors and Praemunire were promulgated in the next reign.
The victories of England find their ecclesiastical significance in the legislation against papal oppression, in the statutes of Provisors and Praemunire.
From some motive, not clearly apparent, a custom arose to some extent of appointing episcopal Ordinaries or provisors as inquisitors.
The Statute of Provisors might forbid Papal provisions, but it was never strictly kept; nor did the Statute which followed it, called from its first word in the original Latin, the Statute of Praemunire, prove more successful.
From that moment the supremacy of the Papal law over the law of the land became a great question in which the lesser question of provisors merged.
Those of Provisorsand Præmunire settled the relations of England to the Roman Court.
The Parliament declared "that they neither could nor would tolerate such things any longer"; and the general irritation moved slowly towards those statutes of Provisors and Praemunire which heralded the policy of Henry the Eighth.
Biting words," which it was thought wise to suppress, were used in the debate which followed, and the statutes against provisors and appeals were solemnly confirmed.
By a general rule, the provisors of the respective dioceses are directors of the conciliar seminaries; but that is not the case with the provisor of this archbishopric, who is at present dean of the cathedral.
Afterward, when the suffragan bishoprics were created, and that of Manila was erected to the dignity of a metropolitan, with the archiepiscopal hierarchy, the appointment of provisors was regulated.
The provisor or vicar-general of this diocese holds the title of judge of chaplains, but that title is not held by the provisors of the other bishoprics.
But the archbishop of Méjico, considering himself empowered to appoint ecclesiastical judges (who were to be the vicars and provisors of these dominions), sent two clerics with authorization to exercise the said offices.
In the latter class are included the persons employed in the metropolitan cathedral; to the same class belong the four provisors of the other dioceses.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "provisors" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
