No. 20. 1 Geo I. c. 10. The Certificate for chester, remaining in the Exchequer. shall be as effect ual as if it had been returned in due Time. such Agreement with the said Governors of the Bounty of Queen ANNE for the Augmentation of the Maintenance of the poor Clergy; It shall and may be lawful to and for the said Governors to refuse such Augmentation, and to apply the Money arising from the late Queen's said Bounty, which ought to have been employed therein, for augmenting some other Cure, according to the Rules then in Force. XVIL. And whereas the before-mentioned Acts of Parliament, of the fifth and sixth Years of the Reign of her said late Majesty, were, for the Diocese of Chichester, not executed in due Time, and in many Dioceses not with that exact Certainty of the yearly Values and Distinction of Medieties in the Certificates, as regularly ought to have been; and some small Prebends in Cathedral Churches were, by Reason of their being Dignities, omitted in some Certificates, although they have the Čure of Souls thereunto annexed, and are therefore Livings with Cure of Souls within the Words and Meaning of the said Acts: For supplying the Defects in the • Execution of the said former Acts of Parliament;' Be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That the Certificate for the Diocese of Chichester, dated the Twenth-fourth Day of December, One Thousand Seven Hundred and Eight, which was received in the Court of Exchequer at Wesminster, and is now remaining there, shall be as effectual, to all Intents and Purposes, as if the same had been sealed and returned into the said Court of Exchequer, within the Times limited by the said respective Acts of Parliament in that Behalf made; and also that all and every the Churches, Vicarages, and Livings, in and by the said Certificate, or in and by the Certificates made and returned in due Time, or any of them, certified to be under fifty Pounds per Annum, and each Mediety therein, shall be entitled to, and have the Benefit of the said respective Discharges by the said several Acts of Parliament, as fully, to all Intents and Purposes, as if the precise yearly Value had been expressed, and the Medieties distinguished in such Certificate and Certificates: And further, that uors may certify it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Governors of the into the Excle Bounty of Queen ANNE for the Augmentation of the Maintenance of quer the Frebends the poor Clergy, under their common Seal, to be affixed at a Court Value of 501. tho' of the said Governors, and under the Hands of the Governors then not named in any present, to certify into the Court of Exchequer the Names of such Prebends in Cathedral Churches, under the yearly Value of fifty Pounds, the Prebendaries whereof have the immediate Cure of Souls of the respective Parishes whereof such Prebends are denominated, although the same were not named in any former Certificate; and such Certificate and Certificates of the said Governors, being returned into the said Court of Exchequer, shall be as effectual to all Intents and Purposes of the said two before-mentioned Acts of Parliament, as if the Prebends therein named had been duly certified within the Times in the said Acts limited, and by the Persons, and in the Manner therein directed. And the Gover. under the yearly former Certificate. XVIII. And whereas notwithstanding the utmost Diligence of the Bishops to inform themselves of, and certify into his Majesty's Court of Exchequer, all the Livings in their respective Dioceses under the clear improved yearly Value of Fifty Pounds, in pursuance of the said Acts, the several Livings within the respective Dioceses ⚫hereafter named, though supposed to be under the Value of Fifty Pounds per Annum, have either not been certified, or, if certified, the Certificates of them have been lost, or not duly entered, or by some other Mistakes it has so happened that the said Livings have not yet had the Benefit designed them by the said Acts;' Be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That it shall and may be law No. 20. 1 Geo. I. c. 10. ful for the Bishops of the said Dioceses, at any Time before the Twenty-fifth Day of March One Thousand Seven Hundred and Sixteen, to certify into the Court of Exchequer the Livings following, or such of them as shall appear to the respective Bishops to be under the Value of Fifty Pounds per Annum, (viz ) In the Diocese of York, the Rectory of Saint Michael apud Pontem de Ouze in the City of York, the Vicarage of Skipwith, the Vicarage of Kilham, the Vicarage of North-Leverton, the Vicarage of Norwell Overhall: In the Diocese of Bangor, the Vicarage of Lanunda, the Vicarage of Llanfair Isgaer, the Vicarage of Llanor, the Vicarage of Nevin, the Vicarage of Abererch, the Vicarage of Conway, the Vicarage of Dwygy fylche: In the Diocese of Carlisle, the Rectory of Kirkbride, the Rectory of Dufton, the Vicarage of Edenhall: In the Diocese of Chichester, the Vicarage of Sela, the Rectory of Beata Maria in Westout Lewis, the Rectory of Chalton, the Rectory of Winchelsea, the Vicarage of Bernehill In the Diocese of Saint David's, the Vicarage of Merchir alias Mathre, the Vicarage of Saint Winnock alias Saint Twinnells: In the Diocese of Litchfield and Coventry, the Vicarage of Hartington, the Vicarage of Saint Mary's in Litchfield, the South Mediety of Derleigh, the Vicarage of Glossop: In the Diocese of Lincoln, the Rectory of Bellew alias Hellow, the Vicarage of Elsham, the Rectory of Normanby, the Rectory of Snarford, the Vicarage of Buckingham, the Rectory of Okeney, the Vicarage of Mentmore, the Vicarage of Missenden Magna, the Vicarage of Swanburn: In the Diocese of Norwich, the Vicarage of South Walsam, the Rectory of Framlinghams, the Vicarage of Burnham-Overy, the Vicarage of Scarning, the Vicarage of Nectons, the Vicarage of Mellon Parva, the Rectory of Repham Medietas & altera Medietas, the Vicarage of Thurston, the Vicarage of Colkirke, the Rectory of Catfields, the Vicarage of Henly, the Rectory of Newborn, the Rectory of Culpho, the Rectory of Dunich Johannis, the Rectory of Pakefields, the Rectory of Melford Longa, the Vicarage of Finborow Parva, the Rectory of Willingham alias Ellough, the Rectory of Bromeswell in Wilford. In the Diocese of Oxford, the Vicarage of Stanton Harcourt: In the Diocese of Peterborough, the Vicarage of Cransley: In the Diocese of Winchester, the Vicarage of Shalford, and the Vicarage of Ellingham: and And the said Livings so certified, shall have the Benefit of the Two have the Beuefit fore-mentioned Acts of Parliament, as effectually, to all Intents and of the Acts of 5 Purposes, as if they had been duly certified within the Time limited Ann, c. 24. and by the said Acts. XIX. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That the Courts and Committees of the said Governors of the Bounty of Queen ANNE, for the Augmentation of the Maintenance of the poor Clergy, shall have Power and Authority, and are hereby authorized and impowered, from Time to Time, to administer an Ŏath to such Person and Persons as shall at any Time give them Information, or be examined of or concerning any Matter or Thing relating to the Execution of this or the said former Acts of Parliament, or any way concerning the Trust in them reposed. they shal 6 Aone, c. 27. The Governors impowered to ad minister Oat is. be taken as Re XX. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That Augmentations, all the Augmentations, Certificates, Agreements, and Exchanges &c. to be entered, bereafter to be made, by Virtue of or in pursuance of this Act, shall and the Entries to be carefully examined and entered in a Book to be provided and kept cords; and attest. by the Governors for that Purpose, the said Entries being approved at ed Copies thereof a Court of the said Governors, and attested by the Governors then present, shall be taken as Records, and the true Copies thereof, or of the said Entries, being proved by one or more credible Witnesses, shall be deemed, taken, and adjudged to be good and sufficient Evi M good Evidence. No. 20. 1 Geo I. c. 10. lotted to Governors shall go in Succession, &c. dence in Law, touching the Matters contained therein, or relating thereto. XXI. And to the End that Churches and Chapels may at all Times be capable of receiving Augmentations for the Maintenance Lands, &c. al-' of the Ministers thereof;' Be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid, any That if the Governors of the Bounty of Queen ANNE for the AugDeed under the mentation of the Maintenance of the poor Clergy, shall by any Deed Seal, or Instrument in Writing under their common Seal, allot or apply to any Church or Chapel, any Lands, Tithes, or Hereditaments, arising from the said Bounty of her said late Majesty, or from private Contribution or Benefaction, or from all or any the Ways aforesaid, and shalldeclare, That the same shall be for ever annexed to such Church or Chapel, then such Lands, Tithes, and Hereditaments, shall from thenceforth be held and enjoyed, and go in Succession with such Church and Chapel for ever; and such Augmentation so made shall be good and effectual, to all Intents and Purposes whatsoever, whether such Church or Chapel, for which such Augmentation is intended, be such Deed being then full or vacant of an Incumbent or Minister; provided such Deed or Instrument be inroiled in the High Court of Chancery within_Six Months after the Day of the Date thereof. Vide 3 Geo. I. c. 10.] inrolled in Months. Six p. 11 Geo. II. c. 17. Sec. 5. 12 Anne, stat. 2. c. 14. st. 1. c. 26. No. 21. 11 George II. c. 17.-An Act for securing the Estates of Papists conforming to the Protestant Religion, against the Disabilities created by several Acts of Parliament relating to Papists; and, for rendering more effectual the several Acts of Parliament made for vesting in the two Universities in that Part of Great Britain called England the Presentation of Benefces belonging to Papists. V. And whereas by an Act made in the twelfth Year of the Reign of Queen ANNE, for rendering more effectual an Act made in the third Year of the Reign of King JAMES the First, intituled, 'An Act to prevent and avoid Dangers which may grow by Popish and 1 W. and M. Recusants; and also one other Act made in the first Year of the Reign of King WILLIAM and Queen MARY, intituled, 'An Act to vest in the two Universities the Presentations of Benefices belonging to Papists; it was enacted, That every Papist or Person making Profession of the Popish Religion, and every Child, not being a Protestant, under the Age of one and twenty Years, of every such Papist or Person professing the Popish Religion, and every Mortgagee, Trustee, or Person any ways intrusted, directly or indirectly, mediately or immediately, by or for any such Papist or Person making Profession of the Popish Religion, or such Child as aforesaid, whether such Trust be declared by Writing or not, should be disabled and made incapable to present, collate, or ' nominate to any Benefice, Prebend, or Ecclesiastical Living, School, Hospital, or Donative, or to grant any Avoidance of any Benefice, Prebend, or Ecclesiastical Living, and that every such Presentation, Collation, Nomination, and Grant, and every Admission, Institution, and Induction to be made thereupon, should be utterly void and of no Effect to all Intents, Constructions, and Purposes what No. 21. tical Living, etc. 'soever; and that in every such Case the Chancellor and Scholars of the University of Oxford, and the Chancellor and Scholars of the 11 Geo. II. c. 17. 'University of Cambridge, should respectively have the Presentation, 'Nomination, Collation, and Donation of and to every such Benefice, 'Prebend, or Ecclesiastical Living, School, Hospital, and Donative, 'set, lying, and being in the respective Counties, Cities, and other 'Places and Limits in the said Act of the third Year of King JAMES 'mentioned, as in and by the said Act is directed and appointed in the Case of a Popish Recusant Convict: And whereas for the better 'Discovery of all secret Trusts and fraudulent Conveyances made by 'Papists or Persons making Profession of the Popish Religion, of 'their Advowsons and Right of Presentation, Nomination, and 'Donation to any Benefices or Ecclesiastical Living, several Provi'sions were made by the said Act of the twelfth Year of the Reign of 'Queen ANNE, which have been fraudulently evaded by Persons obtaining from such Papists, without a full and valuable Consideration, Grants of such Advowsons and Right of Presentation, Nomination, and Donation, upon Confidence only, that such Grantees will, at the Request of such Papists, present to such Benefices or Ecclesiastical Livings, Clerks nominated by such Papists, who have been presented accordingly, contrary to the true Intent and Meaning of the said Acts, and to the great Hurt of the Protestant Interest of this Kingdom;' Be it therefore enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That every Grant to be made from and after the Every Grant made sixth Day of May, One Thousand Seven Hundred and Thirty-eight, after 6 May, 1738. of any Advowson or Right of Presentation, Collation, Nomination, of any Ecclesias or Donation, of and to any Benefice, Prebend, or Ecclesiastical by any Papist, etc. Living, School, Hospital, or Donative, and every Grant or any void, Avoidance thereof, by any Papist, or Person making Profession of the Popish Religion, or any Mortgagee, Trustee, or Person any ways intrusted directly or indirectly, metliately or immediately, by or for any such Papist or Person making Profession of the Popish Religion, whether such Trust be declared by Writing or not, shall be null and void, unless such Grant shall be made bona fide, and for a full and valuable Consideration to and for a Protestant Purchaser or Protestant unless made for a Purchasers, and merely and only for the Benefit of a Protestant or ation to a ProtestProtestants; and that every such Grantee, or Person claiming under ant Purchaser, etc. any such Grant, shall be deemed to be a Trustee for a Papist or Person professing the Popish Religion as aforesaid, within the true latent and Meaning of the said Act; and that all such Grantees, or Persons claiming under such Grants, and their Presentees, shall be compelled to make such Discovery relating to such Grants and Presentations made thereupon, and by such Methods, as in and by the said Act of the twelfth Year of the Reign of Queen ANNE, are directed in the Case of Trustees of Papists or Persons professing the Popish Religion; and that every Devise to be made from and after the said sixth Day of May by any Papist or Person professing the Popish made of any EcReligion, of any such Advowson or Right of Presentation, Collation, clesiastical Living Nomination or Donation, or any such Avoidance, with Intent to by a Papist, with secure the Benefit thereof to the Heirs or Family of such Papist or Intent, etc. void. Person professing the Popish Religion, shall be null and void; and that all such Devisees, and Persons claiming under such Devises, and their Presentees, shall in the like Manner, and by such Methods, be compelled to discover, whether to the best of their Knowledge and Belief, such Devises were not made with the said Intent. valuable Consider Every Devise after 6 May 1738, 23 Geo. II c. 28. 13 and 14 Car II. c. 4. sec 6. No. 22. 23 Geo. II. c. 28.-An Act to explain Part of an Act passed in the thirteenth and fourteenth Years of the Reign of King CHARLES the Second, for the Uniformity of Publick Prayers, and Administration of Sacraments; and also Part of an Act passed in the thirteenth Year of the Reign of Queen ELIZABETH, for the Ministers of the Church to be of Sound Religion. ་ WHEREAS by an Act passed in the thirteenth and fourteenth Years of the Reign of the late King CHARLES the Second, intituled, An Act for the Uniformity of Public Prayers, and Admi'nistration of Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies; and for establishing the Form of making, ordaining, and consecrating Bishops, Priests, and Deacons, in the Church of England; it was enacted, That every Person who should thereafter be presented or collated, or put into any Ecclesiastical Benefice or Promotion, within England, the Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick upon Tweed, should, in the Church, Chapel, or Place of Public Worship, belonging to his said Benefice or Promotion, within two Months 'next after that he shall be in the actual Possession of the said Ecclesiastical Benefice or Promotion, upon some Lord's Day, openly, publicly, and solemnly read the Morning and Evening Prayers appoimed to be read by and according to the Book of Common Prayer at the Times thereby appointed or to be appointed; and after such reading thereof, should openly and publicly, before the Congregation there assembled, declare his unfeigned Assent and Consent to the Use of all Things therein contained and prescribed, according to the Form therein before appointed; and that all and every such Person 'who should (without some lawful Impediment, to be allowed and approved by the Ordinary of the Place) neglect or refuse to do the same within the Time aforesaid, (or, in case of such Impediment, within one Month after such Impediment removed) should (ipso facto) be deprived of all his said Ecclesiastical Benefices and Promotions; and that from thenceforth, it should and might be lawful to and for all Patrons and Donors of all and singular the said Ecclesiastical Benefices and Promotions, or any of them, according to their respective Rights and Titles, to present or collate to the same, as though the Person or Persons so offending or neglecting were dead: And it was by the said Act (amongst other Things) further enacted, That every Parson, Vicar, Curate, Lecturer, and every other Person in Holy Orders, should, before his or their respective Admission to be Incumbent, or have Possession of any Parsonage, Vicarage, or any Curate's Place or Lecture, subscribe the Declaration or Acknowledgment therein directed, before the respective Archbishop, Bishop, or Ordinary of the Diocese; upon Pain that all and every of the Persons afore-mentioned, failing in such Subscription, should lose and forfeit such respective Parsonage, Vicarage, Curates Place or Lecture, and should be utterly disabled and (ipso facto) deprived of the sanie; and that every such respective Parsonage, Vicarage, Curate's Place, or Lecture, should be void, as if such Person so failing were naturally dead: and that after such Subscription made, every Parson, Vicar, Curate, or Lecturer should procure a Certificate under the Hand and Seal of the respective Archbishop, Bishop, or • Ordinary of the Diocese (who were thereby enjoined and required. * upon Demand, to make and deliver the same), and should publicly " |