A. D. ryo^' Anno quinto Ann^ Reginas. C. 25. 249 clearly difcharged and acquitted for ever of and from the faid Firft Fruits and Tenths, and of and from all Arrears of the fame. II. And for the afcertaining of the clear improved yearly Valuations of the faid Ecclefiaftical Benefice^ Bi/hops.&c. bs- •with Cure of Souls, intended by this Aft to be difcharged from Payment of Firft Fruits and Tenths ; fare^z^ March Be it further enafted by the Authority aforefaid. That the refpeftive Bifhops of every Diocefe, or the ?'°^' '° "'■^V Guardians of the Spiritualties fede Vacante, and the Ordinaries of Peculiars, and Places of exempt Jurifr Jhe'clear v^arW diiStions, fhall and are hereby impowered and required, as well by Oaths of two or more credible Witr Value of fmall nefies (which they or others duly commiflioned by them, under their Hands and Seals, are hereby im- Benefices with powered to adminifter) as by all other lawful Ways and Means, to inform themfelves of the clear im- Cure of SouU proved yearly Value of every Benefice with Cure of Souls within their refpeftive Diocefes and Jurifdic- ^"" ^^ tions, the clear improved yearly Value whereof doth not exceed fifty Pounds ; and on or before the five '"" "' *" . and twentieth Day of March which fhall be in the Year of our Lord one thoufand feven hundred and eight, under their refpective Hands and Seals, or Seals of their refpeftive Offices, to certify into her Ma- ielty's Court of Exchequer at IVeJlminJler^ the clear improved yearly Value of every fuch Benefice with "Cure of Souls, the clear improved yearly Value whereof doth not exceed fifty Pounds, and fuch Certi- ficate being made, and filed in the faid Court of Exchequer, fhall afcertain the clear yearly Value of 'the Benefice with Cure of Souls, intended by this Aft to be difcharged from, Firft Fruits and Tenths. III. Provided always, and it is hereby declared. That this Aft, or any thing herein contained, fliall Not to difcharge not extend to difcharge any Benefices with Cure of Souls, the Tenths whereof were granted away by any J*^" °f ^™=- of her Majefty's Predeceflbrs to any Perfon or Perfons, Bodies Politick or Corporate, in Perpetuity, be'- ^^"^ E""'" f"' fore the faid third Day of November in the third Year of her Majefty's Reign. ' IV. And whereas the faid former Aft was intended for the Augmentation of the Maintenance, not ' only of Parfons and Vicars, but alfo of Curates, and other Minifters officiating in Churches or Chapels, ' as is therein mentioned ; now for the preventing all Doubts touching the Capacity of fuch Minifters to ' take any certain Eftate to them and their Succellbrs of or in any Part or Portion of the Firft Fruits and
- Tenths, as ftiall to them be allotted or applied ;' Be it enafted and declared by the Authority aforefaid.
That when any Part or Portion of the Firft Fruits or Tenths remaining to be applied or difpofed of by Firft Fruits once virtue of the faid former Aft, fhall be annually, or otherwife applied or difpofed of, for or towards the applied, &c. to Maintenance of any Minifter officiating in any Church or Chapel as aforefaid, fuch Part or Portion fhall <^°""""^ *" f'"' from t'tienceforth for ever be in like Manner continued to the Minifter from time to time fo officiating in ^^^' the fame Church or Chapel ; and every fuch Minifter, whether Parfon, Vicar, Curate, or other Minifter Minifter, Uz. to for the time being, fo officiating in fuch Church or Chapel, fhall and may from time to time take and re- receive the feine. ceive, and by virtue hereof is and fhall be intitled to have and injoy the fame for ever. V. And be it further enafted and declared by the Authority aforefaid, That this Aft fhall be taken and Aft to be a accepted in all Courts and Places whatfoever, as a publick Aft. publick Aft. VI. Provided neverthelefs. That this Aft, or any thing herein contained, fhall not extend or be con- Not to diminilh ftrued to extend to avoid or diminifh any annual Sum, Stipend, Penfion, or Annuity now in Being, which Penfions, &c. hath heretofore been granted to any Perfon or Perfons, Body Politick or Corporate, and charged upon "^"°^' Sfan'- the faid Revenues of Firft Fruits and Tenths, or any Part thereof; but in cafe it fhall fo happen that by pj"" ^ difcharging fuch fmall Livings, or Benefices with Cure of Souls, as afore-mentioned, of the Payment of Firft Fruits and Tenths, and all Arrears thereof, the Firft Fruits and Tenths which hereafter fhall he collefted in any Diocefe or Diocefes, fhall not be fufficient to pay and fatisfy fuch annual Sums as they now ftand refpeftively charged with, then the whole Revenues arifing from the Firft Fruits and Tenths, Wl^o's Reye- throughout the Kingdom of England, Dominion of Wales, and Town of Bsnvick upon Tzveed, fhall be "o^p^ ^' '"'*i* liable to make good all fuch Deficiences, and the faid Deficiencies fhall, out of the faid Revenues (during ruch!&c." the Continuance of fuch Grants, from time to time as any fuch annual Payments fhall become due) be Seefanter ■^Gn. paid and fatisfied to all fuch Perfon and Perfons as fhall in any wife be intitled to receive the fame, in fuch '• '■• 'o. tvhiA Proportions as are limited and appointed in fuch refpeftive Grants. appown a CoUcc- ^ tor ofthi ferpe- C A P XXV tualycarlylemhs. An Aft for making the Ads more eflfeftual for appropriating the forfeited Impropriations in Ireland., for the building of Churches, and augmenting poor Vicaridges there. ' I. "W THEREAS by an Aft of Parliament made in the eleventh and twelfth Years of the Reign of u & i» w. 3, ' VV his late Majefty King William the Third, intituled. An ASi for granting an Aid to his Ma- ■=• -• ' jejly by Sale of the forfeited and other Ejiates and Interejls in Ireland, and by a Land Tax in England, _/crr ' the feveral Furpofes therein tnentioned, the faid forfeited and other Eftates and Interefts were vefted in the ' Truftees therem named for the Purpofes in the faid Aft mentioned : And whereas by the faid Aft it was Recital of Aft, ' provided and enafted. That the faid Truftees, or any feven or more of them, fhould and might, and ' they were thereby recjuired, as foon as conveniently might be, after the twenty-fifth Day of March
- one thoufand feven hundred and one, by Bargain and Sale, to be inrolled as therein mentioned, to con-
' vey all and every the Reftories impropriate, with the Tythes, Oblations, Obventions, Glebes, Ad- ' vowfons of Vicaridges, and other things thereunto feverally and refpeftively belonging or appertaining, ' forfeited by reafon of the faid Rebellion, and therein before vefted in the faid Truiirees, to fuch Perfon
- or Perfons, and their Heirs, as the Bifhop of each refpeftive Diocefe, wherein fuch Reftories impro-
- priate refpeftively were, fhould nominate, upon Truft neverthelefs, and to the Intent and Purpofe that
' the Profits thereof fhould be difpofed aiid employed, from the fecond Day of November one thoufand fix Vol.. IV. K k ' hundred
