3 Archbishops to obtain her Majesty’s licence for consecration, and to ascertain the fitness of persons to be consecrated.E+W+S+N.I.
Provided always, that no person shall be consecrated a bishop in the manner herein provided, until the archbishop of Canterbury or the archbishop of York for the time being shall have first applied for and shall obtained her Majesty’s licence, by warrant under her royal signet and sign manual, authorizing and empowering him to perform such consecration, and expressing the name of the person so to be consecrated, nor until the said archbishop has been fully ascertained of the sufficiency of such person in good learning, of the soundness of his faith, and of the purity of his manners.