parish of Dale which is commonly called or known by the name of Mead, and being bounded on the north and east by the adjoining parish of Booking, on the northwest, and west by the forest or woodland commonly called or known by the name of the Bushes, and on the south by the road or lane called Water Lane, running from the high road to the town or village of Dale; and also all, so much, and such part of all oblations, obventions, and other profits belonging to the said rectory of Dale, or hereafter to arise or become due or payable within the limits of the said rectory, and not being tithes, moduses, or compositions for tithes, as shall from time to time hereafter arise or become due or payable within such part of the said parish of Dale as aforesaid, to the intent that the said E. F. and his successors, perpetual curates of the said chapel of Saint John, may henceforth receive and enjoy the said premises expressed to be hereby annexed to the said chapel, and may have and exercise all the same remedies for recovering and enforcing payment thereof as the said A. B. and his successors, rectors of Dale aforesaid, might have had if these presents had not been made; and the said A. B. doth hereby declare, that it is intended that these presents shall be forthwith deposited in the registry of the peculiar jurisdiction aforesaid, conformably with the provision in that behalf contained in the said Act of his late Majesty. In witness whereof, the said parties to these presents have hereunto set their hands and seals the day and year first above written.

No. XI.

FORM of a Deed of Grant by the Incumbent of a Vicarage to the perpetual Curate of a Chapel, of an annual Sum to be charged on the Glebe Land of the Vicar, with Powers of Distress and Entry to enforce Payment. 1 & 2 Wm. 4, c. 45, sect. 21.

day of

THIS INDENTURE, made the in the year of our Lord 18-, between the Reverend A. B., clerk, the vicar of the parish church of Dale, in the county and diocese of Chester, of the first part; the Right Reverend ——, Lord Bishop of Chester, of the second part; C. D., of, Esquire, the patron of the vicarage of Dale aforesaid, of the third part; and the Reverend E. F., clerk, perpetual curate of the chapel called East End Chapel, (which said chapel is situate within the limits of the said vicarage of Dale), of the fourth part Witnesseth, that in pursuance and exercise of the power in this behalf given or created by an act passed in the first and second years of the reign of his late Majesty King William the Fourth, intituled [here set out the title of the statute 1 & 2 Wm. 4, c. 457] and of every other power enabling him in this behalf, the said A. B., with the consent of the said Lord Bishop of Chester (as the bishop in whose diocese the said vicarage of Dale is situate), and of the said C. D. (as the patron of the said vicarage of Dale), testified by their respectively executing these presents, doth hereby grant unto the said E. F. and his successors, perpetual curates of the said chapel, the annual sum of £40 of lawful money of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, to be charged upon and payable

7 If a consolidated chapelry is the subject of augmentation, refer to the act 1 & 2 Vict. c. 107.

out of all and singular the glebe lands belonging to the said vicarage of Dale and their appurtenanees, and to be payable by equal half-yearly payments, the first half-yearly payment thereof to become due and be paid at the expiration of six calendar months from the day of the date of these presents, to hold and receive the said annual sum of money hereby granted, or expressed so to be, unto the said E. F. and his successors, perpetual curates of the said chapel, for his and their own use and benefit absolutely; and in order to specify and determine, pursuant to the provisions of the said act of his late Majesty, the remedies of the said E. F. and his successors, perpetual curates of the said chapel, for recovering and enforcing payment of the said annual sum of money, it is hereby provided and declared, that in case the said annual sum of money, or any part thereof, shall at any time be in arrear and unpaid, it shall, in every such case, be lawful for the said E. F. and his successors, perpetual curates of the said chapel, thereupon to enter into and upon all or any part of the said glebe lands and premises hereby charged with the said annual sum of money as aforesaid, and to dispose of the distress or distresses there taken, or otherwise to act in the premises as in the case of a distress taken for rent reserved upon a common demise, to the intent that the said E. F. and his successors, perpetual curates of the said chapel, may be fully paid and satisfied the said annual sum of money, or such part thereof as shall be in arrear as aforesaid, and all costs and expenses occasioned by the non-payment thereof: And further, that in case the said annual sum of money, or any part thereof, shall at any time be in arrear and unpaid by the space of twenty-one days, it shall in every such case be lawful for the said E. F. and his successors, perpetual curates of the said chapel, to enter into and upon, and to hold all or any part of the said glebe lands and premises hereby charged with the said annual sum of

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money, and to receive the rents and profits thereof for his and their own use, until therewith or thereby, or otherwise, the said annual sum of money, or such part thereof as shall be so in arrear as aforesaid, and all costs and expenses occasioned by the non-payment thereof, shall be fully paid and satisfied: And, lastly, the said A. B. doth hereby declare, that it is intended that these presents shall be forthwith deposited in the registry of the diocese of Chester aforesaid, conformably with the provision in that behalf contained in the said act of his late Majesty. In witness whereof, the said parties to these presents have hereunto set their hands and seals the day and year first above written.

No. XII.

SUMMARY of the PROVISIONS of ACT 17 & 18 VICT. c. 84.

By an act of 17 & 18 Vict. c. 84, an incumbent may, with consent of bishop and patron, annex land belonging to any church within the parish in which the land is situate; and the 13th sect. of the act 1 & 2 Wm. 4, c. 45, in regard to the apportionment of rent, is made to apply to such a case.

By this act also an incumbent to whom a rentcharge may have been granted under any of the provisions of the acts 29 Car. 2, c. 8; 1 & 2 Wm. 4, c. 45; and 17 & 18 Vict. c. 84, is enabled, with consent of patron and bishop, to release any portion of the property charged.

APPENDIX.

17 CHARLES II. cap. 31.

Part of an Act for uniting Churches in Cities and Towns

Corporate.

VII. AND be it further enacted, by the authority aforesaid, Owners of impropriathat every owner or proprietor, owners or proprietors, of any tions, &c., impropriation, tithes, or portion of tithes, in any parish or may annex chapelry within the kingdom of England or dominion of the same. Wales, is, are, and shall be, by virtue of this act, enabled and empowered to give or bestow, unite and annex the same, or any part thereof, unto the parsonage or vicarage of the said parish church or chapel where the same do lie or arise, or settle the same in trust for the benefit of the said parsonage or vicarage, or of the curate and curates there successively, where the parsonage is impropriate, and no vicar endowed, according to his or their respective estates, without any licence of mortmain, any law or statute to the contrary notwithstanding.

vicars may

VIII. And be it further enacted, that if the settled main- What partenance of such parsonages, vicarages, churches, and chapels, sons and so united, or of any other parsonage or vicarage, with cure, purchase, in the kingdom of England or dominion of Wales, shall not &c., lands, amount to the full sum of one hundred pounds per annum, out' licence &c., withclear and above all charges and reprises, that then it shall of mortbe lawful for the parson, vicar, and incumbent of the same,

1 The act 17 Car. 2, c. 3, was repealed by the act 1 & 2 Vict. c. 106, but revived, as to the above two clauses, by the act 6 & 7 Vict. c. 37, s. 25.

main.