Ecclesiae de feodo domini regis non possunt in perpetuum dari sine assensu et concessione ipsius.
Churches [Advowsons] of the Fee of the Lord King may not be given away in perpetuity without his assent and permission.
King's Fee just means that the estate belonged to the King. In Feudal Law, Fee means an estate in land. Anyone admitted to the patronage of a king's fee was technically enfeoffed on behalf of the king with the estate.
The Advowson of a church on the king's own estate [fee] held directly by him was exclusively in the king's gift. That no churches in fee of the king should be given away without his consent.
Canon law, however, by the 12th century, decreed that the right to present belonged to the saint to whom the church was dedicated and that only ecclesiastical courts could rule on cases involving advowsons. King Henry II's Constitutions of Clarendon held otherwise, and after Thomas Becket's murder, the king once more ruled that cases involving advowsons should be heard by secular courts [See Clause 1].
The patron saint of a church gives his or her name to the church and is technically called its titular. It has been noted that those who owned advowsons rarely bothered to mention the patron saints in the documents required for institution, and the bishops' registrars seldom cared to record them too. Papal registrars were generally more careful frequently requiring mention of the patron saints in the required documents.
Many legal documents use the wording "conveyance of the advowson and perpetual right of presentation" when transferring an advowson.
The Church was described as a perpetual corporation. Giving it anything would mean losing it forever. Later in 1279 and 290 Statutes of Mortmain were passed by King Edward I to circumscribe the church's holding of property in perpetuity for this very reason.
This principle is also found in the Common Law's Rule against Perpetuities.
From Selden's Janus Anglorum [English Janus]
Even in the Saxons times it seems it was not lawful, without the Kings favour first obtained, to give away Estates to Monasteries; for so the old Book of Abington says.
A Servant of King Ethelred's called Wulfric Spot, built the Abbey of Burton
in Staffordshire, and gave to it all his Paternal Estate, appraised at
seven hundred pounds; and that this donation might be good in Law,
he gave King Ethelred three hundred Marks of Gold for his confirmation
of it, and to every Bishop five Marks, and over and above to Alfric
Arch-Bishop of Canterbury, the Village of Dumbleton.
Amazingly the pope tolerated this clause.
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