And it is hereby Enacted and Declared, That all Grants or Leases of any Glebes or Titles belonging to any Parsonage or Vicarage with Cure of Souls within the Counties aforesaid, made by the Patron and Incumbent since the Two and twentieth day of February One thousand six hundred forty nine to any person or persons whatsoever, shall be absolutely void to all intents and purposes against the Successor of such Incumbent, such Successor coming in upon Death, Cession, Sequestration or otherwise.
And be it further Enacted, That where upon the Certificates of the said Commissioners, there shall appear any Profits of Livings within the Counties aforesaid, to be remaining in the hands of any person or persons. That the Council is further impowered to allow and dispose of the same to the present or succeeding Incumbent, allowing for the serving of the Cure during the Vacancy what they shall think fit.
Friday, March 16, 1659. Ordered by the Parliament That this Act be forthwith printed and published.
Book of Common Prayer to be Translated into the Welsh Tongue.
27. Provided always, and be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid that the Bishops of Hereford, St. Davids, Asaph, Bangor and Landaff, and their Successors, shall take such Order among themselves, for the Souls Health of the Flocks committed to their Charge within Wales, that the Book hereunto annexed be truly and exactly translated into the British or Welsh Tongue; and that the same so, translated, and being by them, or any Three of them at the least viewed, perused and allowed, be imprinted to such Number at least, so that one of the said Books so translated and imprinted, may be had for every Cathedral, Collegiate and Parish Church, and Chapel of Ease, in the said respective Dioceses and Places in Wales, where the Welsh is commonly spoken or used, before the first Day of May one thousand six hundred sixty-five; and that from and after the imprinting and publishing of the said Book so translated, the whole Divine Service shall be used and said by the Ministers and Curates throughout all Wales within the said Dioceses where the Welsh
