Note 128 — Book IV.

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.)