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‖ præmunientes Law.|priːmjuːnɪˈɛntiːz|
[L. præmūnientēs (med.L. for præmonentēs, pr. pple. pl.) ‘admonishing or warning’ (see præmunire), occurring in a clause of the writ of Edw. I, 1295, summoning the spiritual estate to Parliament; hence applied attrib. to this clause and to the writ.]
præmunientes clause: the clause of the writ of 1295, in which the bishops and abbots summoned to parliament are ordered to summon representatives of the minor clergy to attend with them. So præmunientes writ.
The words of the clause are ‘praemunientes decanum (vel priorem) et capitulum ecclesiae vestrae, archidiaconos, totumque clerum vestrae diocesis, facientes quod..dictum capitulum per unum, idemque clerus per duos procuratores idoneos,..una vobiscum intersint’ [etc.]: see Stubbs Const. Hist. xv. II. 195 note.
1700Atterbury Rights Convoc. (1701) 226 The Præmunientes in the Bishops Writ is not an Idle Useless Clause..but a Real, and..Effectual Summons of the Clergy to Parliament. 1710J. Harris Lex. Techn. II, Præmunientes, are writs sent to every Particular Bishop to come to Parliament, Præmunientes, or warning him to bring with him the Deans and Arch-Deacons within his Diocess, one Proctor for each Chapter, and two for the Clergy of his Diocess. 1888Q. Rev. July 140 The part of the writ described as the Præmunientes Writ was not disused, and the Clergy are still summoned to attend Convocation, by what may be termed the Parliamentary form. 1899Dict. Nat. Biog. LVII. 181/2 The movement led by Atterbury..for the revival of Convocation and the execution of the Præmunientes clause. |