INDUCTION

This may be compared to livery and seisin of a freehold, for it is putting a minister in actual po e ion of the Church to which he is presented, and of the glebe land and other temporalities thereof; for before induction he hath no freehold in them. The usual method of induction is by virtue of a mandate under the seal of the bishop, to the archdeacon of the place, who either himself, or by his warrant to all clergymen within his archdeaconry, inducts the new incumbent by taking his hand, laying it on the key of the church in the door, and pronouncing these words, “I induct you into the real and actual po e ion of the rectory or vicarage of H——, with all its profits and appurtenances.” Then he opens the door of the church, and puts the person in po e ion of it, who enters to offer his devotions, which done he tolls a bell to summon his parishioners.