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APPENDIX.

No I.

A Form of PRESENTATION to a Vacant Benefice.

Everendo admodum in Chrifto Patri, & Domino, Domino G. Permiffione Divina, Epifcopo, ejufve in abfentia Vicario fuo in Spiri tualibus generali, aut alii cuicunque in hac parte fufficientem Authoritatem habenti: Prænobilis A. C. Baro de F. verus & indubitatus Patronus Rectoriæ [Vicariæ, if it be a Vicarage] Ecclefiæ Parochialis de M. Salutem in domino fempiternam. Ad Ecclefiam Parochialem [or Vica riam Ecclefiæ Parochialis, if it be a Vicarage] de M. prædictæ veftræ Diocefcos modo per mortem naturalem N.P. ultimi Incumbentis ibidem vacantem, & ad meam Prefentationem pleno jure fpectantem; delectum mihi in Chrifto S. R. Artium Magiftrum, [or Baccalaureum] Clericum, Paternitati veftræ præfento, humiliter fupplicans, ut præfatum S. R. ad dictam Re&toriam [or Vicariam admittere, ipfumque in Rectoriam [or Vicariam] ejufdem Ecclefiæ inftitui, & induci facere cum fuis juribus, & per tinentiis univerfis, cæteraque omnia, & fingula peragere, & adimplere in hac parte, quæ ad veftrum munus Epifcopale pertinere videbuntur, digneminicum favore. In cujus rei Teftimonium, his præfentibus, Sigillum ineum appofui.

Date

Datæ die O. Anno Regni Dominæ noftri Geor gii, Anglia, Scotia, Francia, & Hiberniæ Regis, Fidei Defenforis, &c. primo, Annoq; Dom. 1730.

And if the Bishop be Inhibited, or the See void, yet this Prefentation is good, which cannot be faid of the common Forms.

No II.

A Form of a Teftimonial, that the Incumbent bath performed all things, after bis Inducti on, according to the Act of Uniformity.

WE

E whofe Names are underwritten, do hereby certify, that C. B. Rector of F. within the Diocese of E. or County of S. on the Day of in the Year being a Lord's-Day, did read in his ParishChurch aforefaid, openly, publickly and folemnly, the Morning and Evening-Prayer, appointed to be read by, and according to the Book entitled, The Book of Common-Prayer, &c. at the time thereby appointed; and after fuch Reading thereof, did openly and publickly, before the Congregation there affembled, declare his unfeigned Affent and Confent to the Ufe of all things therein contained and prescribed, ac cording to this Form, viz. I C. B. do bere de clare my unfeigned Affent and Confent to all, &c. (writing the Form verbatim) also that he did publickly and openly, on the Day and Year aforefaid, in his Parish-Church aforefaid, in the Prefence of the Congregation there affembled,

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in the time of Divine Service, read a Certificate, under the Hand and Seal of the Right Reverend Father in God, G. Lord Bishop of (inferting the very Words of the Certificate) and after the Reading thereof, did, at the fame time, and in the fame place, the Congregation being prefent, read the Declaration or Acknowledgment contained in the faid Certificate, viz. I will conform to the Liturgy of the Church of England, as it is now by Law established. And lastly, that on the Day and Year aforefaid, he did read the Articles of Religion, commonly called, The Thirty Nine Articles agreed upon in Convoca tion, in the Year 1562. in his Parish-Church aforefaid, in the time of Common-Prayer there; and did declare his unfeigned Affent thereto. And these things we promife to testify, upon our corporal Oaths, if at any time we shall be duly called thereunto. In witnefs whereof, we have hereunto fet our Hands, this

in the Year of our Lord

Day of

7.B. T.D. N.F

No III.

A Qualification for a Nobleman's Chaplain.

UN

Niverfis & fingulis præfentes Literas infpe&uris, five quos infrafcripta tangunt feu tangere poterint in futurum, Willielmus Dom' H Baro de S Salutem: Noveritis me præfat' W. Dom' H. &c. de vitæ probitate, morum integritate, & Sacrarum Literarum fcientia, de quibus Georgius Duke, Clericus, mihi commendatus exiftit, ipfum Georgium Duke in numerum Capellanorum meorum Domefti.

corum,

corum, ad deferviendum mihi circa divina Of ficia, infra Edes meas celebranda, affumpfiffe, aggregaffe, afciviffe, & admififfe: eumque in Capellanum meum domefticum affumere, aggregare, afcifcere, & admittere per præfentes. Quarum vigore libere liceat & licebit eidem Georgio Duke, Capellano meo, omnia & fingula Privilegia, Beneficia, Libertates, Præhe minentias, & Immunitates Capellanis Baronumr & Procerum in Statutis & Legibus hujus inclyti Regni Anglia quomodocunque conceffa & elar. gita confequi pariter & obtinere ad omnem juris effectum inde fequi valentem, illudque Univerfitati veftræ atteftandum fore, duxi opportunum, ficque atteftor per præfentes. Dat' fub manu, figilloque meo ad arma, vicefimo die Aprilis, Anno Domini 1715. Annoque Regni Regis Georgii, Dei Gratia, Anglia, &c. Secundo.

No IV.

A Grant of an Advowson, for one Turn.

"O all to whom thefe Prefents fhall come :: G. S. the true and undoubted Patron of the Rectory of the Parish-Church of F. in the County of K. and Diocese of C. Greeting in our Lord everlasting. Know ye, That I the faid G.S. have given, granted, and by this my prefent Writing have confirmed unto M.G. of, &c. Efq; the firft and next Advowfon, Nomination, Prefentation, and free Difpofition of the afore faid Rectory of the Parish-Church of F. with allthe Members and Appurtenances whatsoever, willing, and by this prefent Writing granting, That it fhall and may be lawful, to and for the faid

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faid M.G. his Executors and Adminiftrators, to the faid Church, with all Rights and Ap• purtenances whatsoever, whenfoever, and how. foever, by Death, Refignation, Deprivation, Ceffion, Permutation, Difmiffion, or any other way, the fame Church firft and next fhall hap pen to be void, any honeft and learned Clerk to prefent, and all other things which to the faid Charge or Office belonging, to do and fulfil, for the first and next Avoidance only, as fully, Bc. as I my felf might do, &c.

No V.

A Donation of a free Chapel.

TO all, &c. T. B. of, &c. Greeting. Whereas the Free Chapel of Y. in the Diocese of H. is known to be void, and of Right doth belong to my Gift. Know ye, That I the faid T. B. the faid Chapel, with all its Rights and Ap purtenances whatfoever, have given and granted to my well-beloved in Chrift, F. W. Clerk, an honeft and learned Man. And by virtue of these Prefents the faid F.W. in bodily poffeffion of the faid Chapel have inducted. In witness, &c.

This

No VI.

A Leafe of a Rectory Impropriate.

His Indenture, &c. between C. W. of, &c. of the one Part, and D. C. of, &c. of the other Part, witneffeth, That the faid C. W. for and in confideration of the Sum of, &c. the Receipt whereof the faid W. acknowledgeth, and thereof, and of every part thereof, doth