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1716.

PART I. their respective dioceses under the clear improved yearly CLASS value of fifty pounds, in pursuance of the said Acts, the seVI. veral livings within the respective dioceses hereafter named, Stat. 1 though supposed to be under the value of fifty pounds per G. 1. c. 10. annum, have either not been certified, or, if certified, the certificates of them have been lost, or not duly entered, or may certify before by some other mistakes it has so happened that the said livMarch 25, ings 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 lawful 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 Dwygyfylche: 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 Beatæ Mariæ in Westout Lewis, the rectory of Chalton, the rectory of Winchelsea, the vicarage of Bernehill: in the diocese of Saint Davids, 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 Darleigh, 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 Melton Parva, the rectory of Repham medietas et 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 Dunwich Johannis, the rectory of Pakefields, the rectory of Melford Longa, the vicarage of Finborow Parva, the rectory of Willingham alias Ellough,

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and they

of 5 Ann.

the rectory of Bromeswell in Wilford: in the diocese of PARTI. Oxford, the vicarage of Stanton Harcourt: in the diocese CLASS of Peterborough, the vicarage of Cransley: in the diocese of Winchester, the vicarage of Shalford, and the vicarage of Stat. 1 Ellingham and the said livings so certified, shall have the G. 1. c. 10. benefit of the two fore-mentioned Acts of Parliament, as effectually, to all intents and purposes, as if they had been shall have duly certified within the time limited by the said Acts. the benefit XIX. And be it further enacted by the authority afore- of the Acts said, That the courts and committees of the said Governors c. 24. and of the Bounty of Queen Anne for the augmentation of the 6 Ann. c. maintenance of the poor Clergy, shall have power and au-27. thority, and are hereby authorized and empowered, from The Gotime to time, to administer an oath to such person and per-powered to sons as shall at any time give them information, or be ex- administer amined of or concerning any matter or thing relating to the oaths. execution of this or the said former Acts of Parliament, or any way concerning the trust in them reposed.

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to be en

tered, and

XX. And be it further enacted by the authority afore- Augment. said, That all the augmentations, certificates, agreements, ations, &c. and exchanges hereafter to be made, by virtue of or in pursuance of this Act, shall be carefully examined and entered the entries in a book to be provided and kept by the Governors for to be taken that purpose, the said entries being approved at a Court of as records; the said Governors, and attested by the Governors then ed copies present, shall be taken to be as records, and the true copies thereof thereof, or of the said entries, being proved by one or more good evicredible witnesses, shall be deemed, taken, and adjudged to' be good and sufficient evidence in law, touching the matters contained therein, or relating thereto.

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dence.

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XXI. And to the end that churches and chapels may at Lands, &c. all times be capable of receiving augmentations for the allotted to maintenance of the Ministers thereof; be it enacted by the any church, authority aforesaid, That if the Governors of the Bounty of under the Queen Anne for the augmentation of the maintenance of Governors' the poor Clergy, shall by any deed or instrument in writing seal, shall under their common seal, allot or apply to any church or cession, &c. 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 shall declare, 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

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PARTI. or chapel, for which such augmentation is intended, be then CLASS full or vacant of an Incumbent or Minister; provided such deed or instrument be enrolled in the High Court of ChanStat. 1 cery within six months after the day of the date thereof. G. 1 c. 10. [Vide 3 Geo. 1. cap. 10.]

No. 2.

such deed being enrolled in

six months.

No. 3.

1 Geo. 1.

Anno 36 GEO. III. Cap. 83. Sect. 3, 4.a

An Act for the further Support and Maintenance of Curates within the Church of England, and for making certain Regulations respecting the Appointment of such Curates, and the Admission of Persons to Cures augmented by Queen Anne's Bounty, with respect to the Avoidance of other Benefices. [14th May 1796.]

III. AND whereas by an Act, passed in the first year of st. 2. c. 10. his late most gracious Majesty King George the First, it was enacted, That all churches, curacies, and chapels, which should be augmented by the Governors of the late Queen Anne's Bounty, should be from thenceforth perpetual cures and benefices and whereas it is expedient that such augmented churches, curacies, and chapels should be subjected to the same rules as benefices, with respect to the avoidance Churches of other benefices; be it further enacted, That such augaugmented mented churches, curacies, and chapels, shall be considered by Queen Anne's in law as benefices presentative, so as that the licence thereto Bounty, to shall operate in the same manner as institution to such benebe deemed fices, and shall render voidable other livings, in like manner as institution to the said benefices; and that it shall be lawative, and ful for the Bishop or Ordinary, within whose jurisdiction the offici- such augmented church, curacy, or chapel shall lie, to apating Curate may point, under his hand and seal, any stipend or allowance have a like for the officiating Curate to be nominated or employed by stipend.

benefices

present

Benefices

the perpetual Curate or Incumbent thereof, not exceeding seventy-five pounds per annum, for which payment the said Curate shall have the same and like remedies as are hereinbefore given to the Curates of Rectors and Vicars.

IV. And whereas doubts have been lately entertained, held with, whether the acceptance of such augmented churches, curaaugmented cures to be cies, and chapels has rendered voidable in law such other held by the benefices as the Incumbents possessed before their accept

present In

cumbents.

The Statute 57 Geo. 3. c. 93. repeals the two first sections of this Statute, being so much as relates to the maintenance and appointment of Cu

rates.

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No. 3.

ance of the same: and whereas it is fit that many Incum- PART I. bents who have accepted such churches, curacies, and cha- CLASS pels, should be quieted in the possession of the benefices they enjoyed before the acceptance of the same; it is hereby Stat. 36 enacted and declared, That all such benefices as were held G. 3. c. 83. in conjunction with augmented cures before the passing of this Act, shall continue to be held by the present Incumbents therewith; and that it shall not be lawful to present to the said benefices until they shall become void or voidable by death or cession, or by other lawful cause of avoidance, arising after the passing of this Act.

Anno 43 GEO. III. Cap. 107.

An Act for effectuating certain parts of an Act, passed in the second and third Years of the Reign of her late Majesty Queen Anne, intituled An Act for the making more ef fectual her Majesty's gracious Intentions for the Augmentation of the Maintenance of the Poor Clergy, by enabling her Majesty to grant in perpetuity, the Revenues of the First Fruits and Tenths; and also for enabling any other Persons to make Grants for the same Purpose, so far as the same relate to Deeds and Wills made for granting and bequeathing Lands, Tenements, Hereditaments, Goods, and Chattels, to the Governors of the Bounty of Queen Anne, for the Purposes in the said Act mentioned; and for enlarging the Powers of the said Governors. [27th July 1803.]

No. 4.

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to grant

WHEREAS by an Act, made in the second and third 2 & 3 Anne, years of the reign of her late Majesty Queen Anne, inti- c. 11. tuled An Act for the making more effectual her Majesty's reciting gracious Intentions for the Augmentation of the Maintenance sons were of the Poor Clergy, by enabling her Majesty to grant, in empowered Perpetuity, the Revenues of the First Fruits and Tenths; estates, &c. and also for enabling any other Persons to make Grants for in their own the same Purpose; after reciting, amongst other things, right to the that for the encouragement of such well-disposed persons of the as should, by her Majesty's royal example, be moved to Bounty of contribute to so pious and charitable a purpose, and that Queen such their charity might be rightly applied, it was amongst wards the other things enacted, that all and every person and persons augmentahaving in his or their own right any estate or interest, in tion of the possession, reversion, or contingency, of or in any lands, nauce of

Governors

Anne, to

mainte

the Clergy.

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PART I. tenements, or hereditaments, or any property of or in any CLASS goods or chattels, should have full power, licence, and auNo. 4. thority, at his, her, and their will and pleasure, by deed Stat. 43 enrolled in such manner and within such time as is directed G.3.c. 107. by the Statute made in the twenty-seventh year of the

reign of King Henry the Eighth, for enrolment of bargains and sales, or by his, her, or their last will or testament in writing, duly executed according to law, to give and grant to and vest in the corporation thereby authorized, and since erected under the name of The Governors of the Bounty of Queen Anne, and their successors, all such his, her, or their estate, interest, or property in such lands, tenements, and hereditaments, goods, and chattels, or any part or parts thereof, for and towards the augmentation of the maintenance of such Ministers officiating in such church or chapel where the Liturgy and Rites of the said Church were or should be so used or observed, as in the same Act were mentioned, and having no settled competent provision belonging to the same, and to be for that purpose applied according to the will of the said benefactor, in and by such deed enrolled, or by such will or testament executed as aforesaid expressed, and in default of such direction, limitation, or appointment, in such manner as by her Majesty's letters patent should be directed or appointed as aforesaid, and such corporation and their successors, should have full capacity and ability to purchase, receive, take, hold, and enjoy for the purposes aforesaid, from such persons as should be so charitably disposed to give the same, any manors, lands, tenements, goods, or chattels, without any licence or writ of Ad quod damnum, the Statute of Mortmain, or any other statute or law to the contrary notwithstanding: and it was by the same Act provided, that that Act, or any thing therein contained, shall not extend to enable any person or persons being within age, or of nonsane memory, or women covert without their husbands, to make any such gift, grant, or alienation, any thing in that Act contained to the contrary in anywise notwithstanding: and whereas the beneficial effect and operation of the said Act have been considerably obstructed and retarded by an Act, passed in the ninth year of the reign of his late Majesty King George 9 Geo. 2. the Second, intituled An Act to restrain the Disposition of Lands, whereby the same become unalienable: for remedy thereof be it enacted by the King's most excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament

c. 36.

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