the Mastership thereof, or the Prebends of Burgham, Bursalis, Exceit, and Wyndham, in the Cathedral Church of Chichester. Estates. LII. Provided nevertheless, and be it enacted, That so much Proviso respectand such Parts of the Lands, Tithes, or other Hereditaments ing the separate annexed or belonging to or usually held and enjoyed with the respective Deaneries or. any of the Dignities or Canonries of the Cathedral Churches of York, Chichester, Exeter, Hereford, Lichfield, Salisbury, and Wells respectively, or belonging to the Prebends not residentiary in such Churches, as may be deemed proper, shall, by the Authority herein-after provided, be from Time to Time, upon the Vacancies of the said respective Deaneries, Dignities, Prebends, or Offices, transferred to and vested in the Chapters of the said last-mentioned Churches respectively, so as to augment the divisible Corporate Revenues of such Chapters, or be applied by the like Authority to make such Provision for the Deans of the said Cathedral Churches respectively as by the like Authority shall be deemed just and proper. in certain Cases, LIII. Provided also, and be it enacted, That in any Cathedral Commissioners Church on the old Foundation in which any Contribution to the may contribute, Fabric Fund of such Church has heretofore, either usually or to Fabric Fund. occasionally, been made out of the Rents, Profits, or Proceeds of any Lands, Tithes, or other Hereditaments so vested or to be vested in the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England, it shall be lawful for the said Commissioners to contribute to such Fund such Sum as they shall deem necessary, out of the Rents, Profits, or Proceeds of the same Lands, Tithes, or other Hereditaments, not exceeding in Amount the Proportion of such Rents, Profits, or Proceeds which has usually been applied to like Purposes. es vested in Commissioners. necure Recto sinecure Rec tories. LIV. And be it enacted, That upon the Suppression of any Endowments of Ecclesiastical Rectory without Cure of Souls all the Estate and suppressed siInterest which the Rector thereof, or his Successor, has or had, or would have or have had, as such Rector, in any Lands, Tithes, or other Hereditaments or Endowments whatsoever, shall, without any Conveyance thereof, or any Assurance in the Law other than the Provisions of this Act, accrue to and be vested in the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England and their Successors for the Purposes of this Act. LV. And be it enacted, That if in any Case it shall appear As to certain to be expedient, on account of the Extent or Population or other peculiar Circumstances of the Parish or District in which any such Rectory without Cure of Souls shall be situate, or from the incompetent Endowment of the Vicarage or Vicarages, or Perpetual Curacy or Curacies, dependent on such Rectory, to annex the Whole or any Part of the Lands, Tithes, or other Hereditaments or Endowments belonging to such Rectory to such Vicarage or Vicarages, Curacy or Čuracies, such Annexation may be made, and any such Vicarage or Curacy may be constituted a Rectory with Cure of Souls by the Authority herein-after provided; and that wherever any Rectory heretofore deemed a Rectory without Cure of Souls has been held together with the Vicarage dependent thereon for the Period of [No. 59. Price 2d.] Twenty 3 N deaconries missioners. Twenty Years last past, the same shall not be construed to be a Rectory without Cure of Souls within the Meaning of this Act, but such last-mentioned Rectory and Vicarage shall continue and be permanently united, and shall be a Rectory with Cure of Souls; subject nevertheless to all the Provisions of the thirdlyrecited Act, and to the Provisions of this Act which relate to the Division of Benefices or the Apportionment of the Incomes thereof. Estates of newly LVI. And be it enacted, That upon the Endowment of any endowed Arch- Archdeaconry by either of the Modes of Endowment herein vested in Com- provided, and with the Consent of the Bishop of the Diocese and of any Archdeacon in Possession at the Time of the passing of this Act, all Lands, Tithes, and other Hereditaments (except any Right of Patronage) belonging to such Archdeaconry at the Time of such Endowment may, by the Authority hereinafter provided, be vested in the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England, and their Successors, for the Purposes of this Act; and any Benefice annexed to such Archdeaconry may be, by the like Authority, disannexed therefrom, and the Patronage of such Benefice shall thenceforth revert to the Patron to whom it belonged before such Annexation, subject to any Transfer of Patronage provided by this Act. Commissioners Powers of enforcing Pay ments, &c. LVII. And be it enacted, That the Ecclesiastical Commisto have all legal sioners for England shall, for the Purpose of enforcing Payment of all Profits and Emoluments to be paid to them, and of obtaining Possession of all Lands, Tithes, or other Hereditaments vested in or accruing to them as aforesaid, and of recovering the Rents and Profits thereof, have and enjoy all Rights, Powers, and Remedies, at Law and in Equity, which belonged or belong, or would belong or have belonged, to the Holder of the Deanery, Canonry, Prebend, Dignity, or Office, or the Rector of the Rectory, in respect of which such Profits and Emoluments, Lands, Tithes, and other Hereditaments and Endowments respectively, are by or under the Provisions of this Act to be paid or to accrue to and be vested in the said Commissioners. Appropriation of Residence Houses not wanted. 1&2 Vict. c. 23., LVIII. And be it enacted, That, so soon as conveniently may be, Measures shall be taken by the Deans and Chapters of the several Cathedral and Collegiate Churches for the Disposal of such Residence Houses now under their Control, and Houses attached to any Dignity, Office, or Prebend in the Precincts of the respective Cathedral and Collegiate Churches as may no longer be required, in such Way as they shall deem fit, according to Plans be from Time to Time prepared by the respective Chapters, and, when approved by the Visitors, be submitted to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England, and may be confirmed by the Authority herein-after provided. LIX. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the relating to Re- said Commissioners to authorize any Dean or Canon of any Cathedral Church to raise Monies on his Deanery or Canonry, for the Purpose of building, enlarging, or otherwise improving the Residence House thereof, on such Terms and Conditions sidence Houses, to apply to Deans and Canons. as the said Commissioners, with the Concurrence of the Bishop and the Chapter, shall approve; and all the Provisions of an Act passed in the First Year of the Reign of Her present Majesty, intituled An Act to amend the Law for providing fit Houses for the Beneficed Clergy, shall be applied, mutatis mutandis, to all such Cases in which any Dean or Canon shall be authorized as aforesaid to raise Monies on his Deanery or Canonry for the Purpose aforesaid. 6 & 7W.4.c.67., LX. And be it enacted, That an Act passed in the Sixth Repeal of Year of the Reign of His late Majesty, intituled An Act for 5&6W.4.c.30., protecting the Revenues of vacant Ecclesiastical Dignities, Prebends, and 2&3 Vict. Canonries, and Benefices with Cure of Souls, and for preventing the c. 55. Lapse thereof during the pending Inquiries respecting the State of the Established Church in England and Wales; and also another Act passed in the Seventh Year of the Reign of His late Majesty, intituled An Act for suspending for One Year Appointments to certain Dignities and Offices in Cathedral and Collegiate Churches, and to sinecure Rectories; and also so much of another Act passed in the last Session of Parliament, intituled An Act to suspend until the First Day of August One thousand eight hundred and forty certain Cathedral and other Ecclesiastical Preferments, and the Operation of the new Arrangement of Dioceses upon the existing Ecclesiastical Courts, as relates to the Two last-recited Acts of the Reign of His late Majesty, be and the same are hereby repealed, except only as to the Dioceses or Cathedral Churches of Saint Asaph and Bangor, and as to all Matters and Things done under the Authority of the said Three last-recited Acts, or either of them, all which Matters and Things shall remain in full Force and Effect as if the said Acts were not repealed; and the said Acts, so far as they relate to the said Two lastmentioned Dioceses and Churches, shall be continued and remain in force until the First Day of August in the Year One thousand eight hundred and forty-one, and, if Parliament shall be then sitting, until the End of the then Session of Par- . liament; but, notwithstanding any thing in the said Acts contained, it shall be lawful for the Bishop of Bangor for the Time being to collate to any vacant Canonry, Prebend, Dignity, or Office not having any Estate or Endowment belonging thereto; and that within One Calendar Month after the passing of this Treasurer of Act the Treasurer of the Governors of the Bounty of Queen Queen Anne's Anne shall deliver to the said Ecclesiastical Commissioners for Bounty to England a full and particular Account of all Monies received and paid by him under and by virtue of the said Acts or any of them, and of all Things done by him, and of all Proceedings then pending in respect thereof, except so far as concerns the said Two last-mentioned Dioceses and Churches; and that within such Time after the Delivery of such Account as shall be specified in any Order made upon him for that Purpose by the said Commissioners, he shall pay and deliver, or cause to be paid and delivered, to the said Commissioners, or into such Bank as shall be named in such Order, to their Account, for the Purposes of this Act, all Monies then remaining in his 3 N 2 Hands account. Hands or to his Account, and all Exchequer Bills and other Securities for Money, and all Books of Accounts, Papers, and Writings in his Possession or Power in respect thereof, except as last herein excepted; and that it shall be lawful for the said Commissioners to allow to the said Treasurer in his Accounts such Sum of Money as shall appear to them to be just and reasonable in compensation for his Pains and Trouble, and also all proper Costs, Charges, and Expences incurred in the Execution of the Trusts reposed in him by the said Acts; and that the Receipt in Writing of the said Commissioners, under their Common Seal, shall be an effectual Discharge to the said Treasurer for all Monies and other Things therein expressed to be received by them; and this Act shall not in any other Manner than herein or in the first-recited Act expressly provided extend or apply to either of the said Two last-mentioned Dioceses and Cathedral Churches or the Chapters of such Churches. LXI. And be it enacted, That the Rectory and Five Prebends of the Church of the Parish of Chulmleigh in the County of Devon shall immediately become and be permanently annexed and united, and form One entire Rectory and Benefice (subject and without Prejudice to any existing Lease or Leases of the Prebendal Houses, Glebes, and Tithes, or any of them); and that the Reverend George Hole, the present Incumbent of the said Rectory and Prebends, and also all future Incumbents of the said Rectory, shall henceforth hold the same Rectory, with all and every the Emoluments, Rights, and Privileges of the said several Prebends attached thereto, as One Benefice to all Intents and Purposes; and that the Rector for the Time being of the said Parish of Chulmleigh may grant such and the same or the like Leases of the Houses, Lands, and Tithes of the same Prebends Prebends respectively as have been heretofore granted, save and except that no such Lease shall henceforth be granted of the House in which the present Rector resides or of the Gardens attached thereto; but such House and Gardens (subject to any such existing Lease as aforesaid) shall henceforth be deemed and used as the Residence of the Rector for the Time being of the said Parish, and shall be repaired accordingly. LXII. And be it enacted, That, if it be deemed fit, any Part of the Lands, Tithes, or other Hereditaments, or of the Rents and Profits thereof, which shall be vested in or accrue to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England from or in respect of the Cathedral Church of Saint David or the Collegiate Church of Brecon, may by the Authority herein-after provided be transferred to the College of Saint David's at Lampeter, in Exchange for Benefices with Cure of Souls which are now connected with the said College; and the said College is hereby empowered upon the Completion of any such Arrangement to convey any such Benefices to such Person or Body Corporate, and in such Manner, as shall by the like Authority be directed. LXIII. And Cathedral Endowments LXIII. And be it enacted, That out of the Endowments How Proceeds belonging to the suspended Prebends in the Cathedral Church of Prebends in of Lichfield, after setting apart so much of the Rents and Church of Profits of the Prebend of Sawley as hath been heretofore applied Lichfield, and as an Addition to the Fabric Fund of the said Cathedral Church, of Wolversuch Provision as shall be deemed fit shall by the like Authority hampton, Heybe made for the Rector of the Church of Saint Philip and tesbury, and for the Perpetual Curate of Christ's Church in Birmingham for Middleham, to be applied. the Time being respectively; and that out of the Endowments, of whatsoever Kind, belonging to the Collegiate Churches of Wolverhampton, Heytesbury, and Middleham better Provision shall be made by the like Authority for the Cure of Souls in the Districts or Places with which the said Churches are respectively connected. Minster to be LXIV. And be it enacted, That so much of the Property Endowments belonging to the Collegiate Church of Wimborne Minster in the of Wimborne County of Dorset as shall upon due Inquiry be found legally applied to Care applicable thereto, shall, by the like Authority be applied of the Parish. to the Purpose of making a better Provision for the Cure of Souls in the Parish of Wimborne Minster in the said County. were Promo the Eighth. LXV. And be it enacted, That so soon as conveniently may Inquiry into be the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England shall inquire, Hospitals which and report to Her Majesty in Council, respecting the State of tions Spiritual all such Hospitals as were returned as Promotions Spiritual in in the Reign of the Reign of King Henry the Eighth; and in those Cases in King Henry which it may appear, upon such Inquiry, that the Endowments of such Hospitals are capable, after satisfying the Objects of the Founder's Bounty, of affording a better Provision for the Cure of Souls in the Parishes with which they are connected, the said Commissioners may in their Report make such Suggestions as they may deem advisable for effecting such Provision. er Dignities LXVI. And be it enacted, That so soon as conveniently Augmentation may be, and by the Authority herein-after provided, and subject of certain smallto the Provisions herein contained respecting the University from surplus of Durham and the Canonries in the Collegiate Church of West- Revenues of minster annexed to the Rectories of Saint Margaret and Saint certain larger Dignities. John, such fixed annual Sums shall be determined on to be paid. and shall accordingly be paid to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England, by the Deans and Canons of the Cathedral Churches of Durham and Saint Paul in London, and the Collegiate Churches of Westminster and Manchester, as, after due Inquiry, and a Calculation of the present average annual Revenues of the Chapters of such Churches respectively, shall leave to the Dean of Durham an average annual Income of Three thousand Pounds, and to the Deans of Saint Paul's Westminster and Manchester respectively an average annual Income of Two thousand Pounds, and to the Canons of the said Four lastmentioned Churches respectively the average annual Income of One thousand Pounds; and such other annual Sums shall be determined on to be paid, and shall be accordingly paid, by , the said Commissioners, or such Deductions shall be allowed to 3 N 3 be |