cessary in order to enable me to fix my own judgment. They
relate to the two points of episcopal jurisdiction and
superintendence, and residence of parochial clergy.

My notion is to strengthen, if necessary, the legal powers of the
bishops, so as to give them effective means, both of suspension and
deprivation, in all cases, both of improper life and manners, and
of remissness in the execution of certain _stated duties_ which
they are to be required to exact from all their parochial clergy.
To enable them, from the chapters in their dioceses, at their own
choice, to augment the number of their archdeacons or _visitants_,
under whatever name may best suit the old constitutional forms of
our Church. To require them, or in their absence, the archdeacon,
or other proper person, to hold fixed and invariable annual
visitations; at which, calling, if necessary, to their assistance a
certain number of their beneficed or dignified clergy, they should
receive the reports of their archdeacons and other visitants, and
should _at such visitation_, or at furthest at the next visitation,
proceed by sentence either of suspension or deprivation against all
persons who should appear on such reports to be of scandalous life
or conversation, or to have published irreligious, immoral, or
seditious books, or to have been remiss in the performance of such
_stated duties_ as above. Lastly, to compel the bishops to return
these reports, and their proceedings thereon at their visitations,
to their metropolitans, by whom they should be annually laid before
the King, with their observations thereon.

As to parochial residence, the idea would be to require that no
person shall on any pretence be non-resident on his living, without
appointing a curate to be there _constantly_ resident in his room.
And to charge on the consolidated fund a sum sufficient to make up
every living throughout the kingdom to the amount of L70 per annum,
with the single exception of such parishes as, being adjacent to
each other, it might be fit to _conjoin_ for this purpose, by the
act of proper commissioners to act with the bishop, &c.

When, therefore, the living fell short of L70, the parson would
receive the difference from the public, but would be compelled to
personal and constant residence, (