Note 615 — Chapter IV
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West, the crown counsel in 1719, interpreted the law as leaving in the hands of the king the right to present to vacant benefices in Virginia. Chalmers’ Opinions of Eminent Lawyers concerning the Colonies, etc. London, 1814, i. p. 17. Blair was still the champion of the ecclesiastical supremacy. Cf. Spotswood’s Official Letters, ii. 292; Perry’s Church Papers of Va., pp. 199, 247.