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5. Before the bishop admits a clerk to a vacant benefice, he must send to the churchwardens in a registered letter a formal notice of his intention so to do, with a statement of the ecclesiastical preferments which the clerk has held, and a direction that the notice is to be fixed for one month on the principal door or notice-board of the church; after which it is to be returned to the bishop with a certificate, signed by the churchwardens, that the direction has been complied with.[59] The object of this proceeding is to give to the parishioners the opportunity of communicating to the bishop the existence of any fact known to them which would constitute a valid and legal ground for the bishop to refuse the presentee.