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BISHOPRICS ACT 1878 - SECT 5

The number of bishops sitting in Parliament not to be increased.

5. The number of Lords Spiritual sitting and voting as Lords of Parliament
shall not be increased by the foundation of a new bishopric in pursuance of
this Act; and whenever there is a vacancy among such Lords Spiritual by the
avoidance of any of the sees of Canterbury, York, London, Durham, or
Winchester, such vacancy shall be supplied by the issue of a writ of summons
to the bishop acceding to the see so avoided; and if such vacancy is caused by
the avoidance of any see other than one of the five sees aforesaid, such
vacancy shall be supplied by the issue of a writ of summons to that bishop of
a see in England who having been longest bishop of a see in England has not
previously become entitled to such writ:

Provided, that where a bishop is translated from one see to another, and was
at the date of his translation actually sitting as a Lord of Parliament, he
shall not thereupon lose his right to receive a writ of summons to Parliament.

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