No. 9. c. 4. Manner of making, ordaining, and consecrating of Bishops, Priests and Deacons, shall at the Costs and Charges of the Parishioners of 13 & 14 Car. I. very Parish Church and Chapelry, Cathedral Church, College and Hall, be attained and gotten before the Feast-day of St. Bartholomew, the Year of our Lord One Thousand Six Hundred Sixty and Two; pou Pain of Forfeiture of Three Pounds by the Month, for so long Time as they shall then after be unprovided thereof, by every Parish or Chapelry, Cathedral Church, College and Hall, making Default therein. XXVII. Provided always, and be it enacted by the Authority Proviso for the aforesaid, That the Bishops of Hereford, St. David's, Asaph, Bangor, Bishops of Hereand Landaff, and their Successors, shall take such Order among tord, &c. themselves, for the Souls Health of the Flocks committed to their Charge within Wales, that the Book hereupto annexed be truly and exactly translated into the British or Welsh Tongue; and that the rime so translated, and being by them, or any Three of them at the least, viewed, perused and allowed, be imprinted to such Number at ast, so that one of the said Books so translated and imprinted, mav ce 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 mprinting 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 Tongue is commonly used, in the British or Welsh Tongue, in such Manner and Form as is prescribed according to the Book hereunto annexed to be used in the English Tongue, differing nothing in any Order or Form from the said English Book; for which Book, so translated and imprinted, the Churchwardens of every the said Parishes shall pay out of the Parish Money in their Hands for the Use of the respective Churches, and be allowed the same on their Account; and that the said Bishops and their Successors, or any Three of them at the least, shall set and appoint the Price for which the said Book shall be sold: And one other Book of Common Prayer in the English Tongue shall be bought and bad in every Church throughout Wales, in which the Book of Common Prayer in Welsh is to be had by Force of this Act, before the First Day of May, One Thousand Six Hundred Sixty and Four, and the same Books to remain in such conveient places within the said Churches, that such as understand them may resort at all convenient Times to read and peruse the same, and also such as do not understand the said Language, may, by conferring both Tongues together, the sooner attain to the Knowledge of the English Tongue; any Thing in this Act to the contrary notwithstanding: And until printed Copies of the said Book so to be transhated may be had and provided, the Form of Common Prayer, established by Parliament before the making of this Act, shall be used 33 formerly in such Parts of Wales where the English Tongue is not commonly understood. 13 how to te had and XXVIII. And to the end that the true and perfect Copies of True Copies of this this Act, and the said Book hereunto annexed, may be safely kept and Act, and the Book perpetually preserved, and for the avoiding of all Disputes for the Time of Common Prayto come; be it therefore enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That the by whom, and respective Deans and Chapters of every Cathedral or Collegiate Church kept. within England and Wales shall, at their proper Costs and Charges, before the Twenty-fifth Day of December, one thousand six hundred isty and two, obtain under the Great Seal of England a true and perfect printed Copy of this Act, and of the said Book annexed hereanto, to be by the said Deans and Chapters, and their Successors, kept and preserved in Safety for ever, and to be also produced and 13. & 1 Car. II. shewed forth in any Court of Record, as often as they shall be thereun No. 9. Proviso for the to lawfully required; and also there shall be delivered true and perfect Provided also, That this Act nor any Thing thercin Kings Professor contained, shall not be prejudicial or hurtful unto the King's Professor of Law in Oxford of the Law within the University of Oxford, for or concerning the Prebend of Shipton within the Cathedral Church of Sarum, united and annexed unto the Place of the same King's Professor for the Time being by the late King James of blessed Memory. Proviso concern cle agreed in the ing the 36th Arti Convocation. XXX. Provided always, That whereas the Six and Thirtieth Article of the Nine and Thirty Articles agreed upon by the Archbishops and Bishops of both Provinces, and the whole Clergy, in the Convocation holden at London in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Five Hundred Sixty-two, for the avoiding of Diversities of Opinions, and for establishing of Consent touching true Religion, is in these Words following, viz. 46 "That the Book of Consecration of Archbishops and Bishops, "and Ordaining of Priests and Deacons, lately set forth in the Tine "of King EDWARD the Sixth, and confirmed at the same Time by Authority of Parliament, doth contain all Things necessary to such "Consecration and Ordaining, neither hath it any Thing that of itself "is superstitious and ungodly: And therefore whosoever are conse"crated or ordered according to the Rites of that Book, since the "Second Year of the aforenamed King EDWARD unto this Time, or "hereafter shall be consecrated or ordered according to the same "Rites, We decrée all such to be rightly, orderly and lawfully con"secrated and ordered;" XXXI. It be enacted, and be it therefore enacted by the Autho rity aforesaid, That all Subscriptions hereafter to be had or made unto the said Articles by any Deacon Priest or Ecclesiastical Person, or other Person whatsoever, who by this Act, or any other Law now in Force, is required to subscribe unto the said Articles, shall be construed, and be taken to extend, and shall be applied (for and touching the said Six and Thirtieth Article) unto the Book containing the Form and Manner of Making, Ordaining and Consecrating of Bishops, Priests and Deacons, in this Act mentioned, in such Sort and Manner as the same did heretofore extend unto the Book set forth in the Time of King EDWARD the Sixth, mentioned in the said Six and No. 9. c. 4. Thirtieth Article; any Thing in the said Article, or in any Statute, 13 & 14 Car. II. Act or Canon heretofore had or made, to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding. liament, XXXII. Provided also, That the Book of Common Prayer, and The Common Administration of the Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies of Prayer used by this Church of England, together with the Fort and Manner of Authority of Par ordaining and consecrating Bishops, Priests and Deacons, heretofore Eliz. c. g. Use, and respectively established by Act of Parliament in the First 8 Eliz. c. 1. and Eighth Years of Queen ELIZABETH, shall be still used and ob- to be used until served in the Church of England, until the Feast of Saint Bartho- 1662, EXP. lomew, which shall be in the Year of our Lord God One Thousand Six Hundred Sixty and Two. EXP. as to this last Clause. Bartholomew Day No. 10. 25 Car. II. c. 6.-An Act for Relief of such Persons as by Sickness, or other Impediment, were disabled from subscribing the Declaration in the Act of Uniformity; and Explanation of Part of the said Act. թ. VII. And whereas some Doubt hath arisen, whether Persons 25 Car. II. c. 6, c. 4. Sec. 7 prohibited to preach by the said Act are in the same Plight as to Persons prohibited Punishment, with Persons disabled by the said Act to preach; be to preach declared and enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That the Penalties 13 & 14 Car. II. by the said Act to be inflicted upon any Person disabled by the said Act to preach, for any Offence against the said Act, shall in like Manner be inflicted upon every Person so offending, that is prohibited be the said Act to preach; any Thing, Doubt, or Ambiguity in the said Act to the contrary notwithstanding. No. 11. 27 Car. II. c. 3.-An Act for uniting Churches in Cities and Towns Corporate. to the Humour rather than Good of their Auditors, 27 Car. II. c. 3. for by 4th and 5th FORASM ORASMUCH as the settled Provision for Ministers in most Cities and Towns Corporate within this Realm is not sufficient 27 H. VIII. c. 21. for the Maintenance of able Ministers fit for such Places, whereby Farther provided mean and stipendiary Preachers are entertained to serve the Cures w. and M. c. 19. there; who, wholly depending for their Maintenance upon the Good-will and Liking of their Auditors, have been and are thereby under Temptation of too much complying and suiting their Doctrine and Teaching which hath been a great Occasion of Faction and Schism, and of the Contempt of the Ministry: The Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled, being deeply sensible of the ill Consequence thereof, and piously desiring able Ministers in such Places, and a competent settled Maintenance for them by the Union of Churches; which is also become necessary, by reason of the great kuin of many Churches and Parishes in the late ill Times, and otherwise;' do therefore most humbly beseech your most Excellent Majesty that it may be enacted; and be it enacted by the King's most excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the Commons, in this present Parliament assem ་ Towus, and how ted. Vin. V. 21. No. 11. bled, and by the Authority of the same, That in every City or Town 27 Car. II c. 3. Corporate, and their Liberties, within the Kingdom of England and In what Cities and Dominion of Wales, which have a Mayor and Aldermen, and partiChurches and Cha- cular Justices of the Peace by Charter or Commission, or Bailiff or pels may be uni- Bailiffs, or other chief Officer or Officers, and other Assistants, by like Charter; and where two or more Churches or Chapels, or a 591, &c. Church and a Chapel, and the Parishes thereunto belonging, do lie within the said Corporation or Liberties thereof, convenient to be united In such Cases the Bishop of the Diocese where such Parish and Parishes are, with the Consent of the Mayor, Aldermen, and Justices of the Peace, Bailiff or Bailiffs, or other chief Officer or Officers, or the major Part of them, and of the Patron or Patrons of such Church or Churches, Chapel or Chapels, shall or may, according to due Form of Law, unite the said Churches or Chapels, or Church and Chapel, or any of them; and shall appoint at which Church or Chapel, Churches or Chapels, the said Parishioners and Inhabitants of the said Parishes or Places, to which the said Churches or Chapels, or Church and Chapel do belong, shall usually meet for the Worship of God, and which of the said Churches or Chapels, or Church or Chapel, shall be united and annexed unto the other, which shall be the Church presentative, unto which all Presentations shall thereafter be only made, and unto which the Parishioners shall resort Mod. Cases in as their proper Church, and after such Order made, the said Churches or Chapels, or Church and Chapel, shall accordingly for ever stand united: And the Parishioners, Landholders, and Inhabitants of the said Parishes and Places belonging to such Churches or Chapels, or Church and Chapel, so united and annexed, shall, as they or any of them become void, and from thence forward pay all such Tithes and other Duties as belong or did belong to the Incumbent of any of the said Churches or Chapels, or Church and Chapel, so united and annexed, unto the Incumbent of the said presentative Church or Chapel, unto which the said other Churches or Chapels, or Church or Chapel, shall be so united and annexed. Law, 5, 6. Carthew 238. How and when take Effect And II. And it is hereby also enacted, That notwithstanding any such Union to be made by virtue hereof, each of the Parishes so united shall continue distinct, as to all Rates, Taxes, Parochial Rites, Charges, and Duties, and all other Privileges, Liberties, and Respects whatsoever, other than what is herein-before mentioned and specified; and Churchwardens shall be elected and appointed for each Parish, as they were before such Union made. III. And it is further enacted and provided, That where one or such uniting shall more of the said Churches or Chapels, or Church and Chapel, so how several Pa- united and annexed, shall be full at the Time of making such Union, trons shall pre That then the said Union shall take Effect for every such Church or Dr and Stud. Chapel, upon the first Avoidance after such Union made: And that sent 116. b. the several Patrons of the said Churches and Chapels so united, shall and may present by Turns to that Church only which shall remain and be presentative, from Time to Time, in such Order as the said Bishop, with the Consent of the said Mayor, Aldermen, and Justices of Peace, Bailiff or Bailiffs, or other chief Officer or Officers within such Parishes, or the major Part of them, and of the Patron or Patrons of such Church or Churches, Chapel or Chapels, shall deter mine and decree, for the Preservation of their respective Rights therein, Respect being therein had to the Difference of the Values of the yearly Maintenance belonging to such Churches or Chapels, or any of them; saving unto the King's Majesty, his Heirs, and Successors, all the Tenths and First-fruits of all such Churches and Chapels so to be united, according to the Rates and Valuations at which the said Churches and Chapels are rated and valued in the Office of First fruits and Tenths in his Majesty's Court of Exchequer; and also No. 11. reserving all Procurations and Pensions to all Persons to whom they 27 Car. II. c. 3. are now and have been formerly, or shall be hereafter, due and payable; any Thing herein contained notwithstanding. IV. Provided always, That no Union of Parishes or Places to be made by virtue of this Act shall commence or be effectual in Law, until it be registered in the Register Book of the Bishop of the Diocese, which the Register is hereby required to do. V. Provided always, That no Union made by Virtue hereof, shall be good and effectual, where the settled Maintenance belonging to the Parsons, Vicars, and Incumbents of the Church or Chapel, or Churches or Chapels so united, shall exceed the Sum of One Hundred Pounds per Annum, clear and above all Charges and Reprises; unless the respective Parishioners, or the major Part of them, uuder their Hands, desire otherwise. Parishes having may not be united. 1001. Maintenance stow and annex VI. Provided always, and be it enacted, That every Minister fettled as aforesaid the Incumbent of any Church or Chapel, or Churches or Chapels, united according to this Act, shall be the full and lawful Incumbent thereof, to all Intents and Purposes, so as such Minister be a Graduate in one of the Universities of this Kingdom. VII. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That Owners of Improevery Owner or Proprietor, Owners or Proprietors, of any Impro- priations may be priation, Tithes, or Portion of Tithes, in any Parish or Chapelery Maintenance. within the Kingdom of England or Dominion of Wales, is, are, and shall be, by Virtue of this Act, enabled and impowered to give or bestow, unite and annex the same, or any Part thereof, upto the Parsonage or Vicarage of the said Parish Church or Chapel where the same do lie or arise, or settle the same in Trust for the Benefit of the said Parsonage or Vicarage, or of the Curate and Curates there successively, where the Parsonage is impropriate, and no Vicar endowed, according to his or their respective Estates. without any Licence of Mortmain; any Law or Statute to the contrary notwithstanding. Parsons not hav ing 1001 per Annum, may pur VIII. And be it further enacted, That if the settled Maintenance of such Parsonages, Vicarages, Churches and Chapels so united, or of any other Parsonage or Vicarage with Cuie, in the Kingdom of chase and annex England or Dominion of Wales, shall not amount to the full Sum Lands or Rents. of One Hundred Pounds per Annum clear and above all Charges and Reprises; that then it shall be lawful for the Parson, Vicar, and Incumbent of the same, and his Successors, to take, receive, and purchase to him and his Successors, Lands, Tenements, Rents, Tithes, or other Hereditaments, without any Licence of Mortmain; any Law or Statute to the contrary notwithstanding. No. 12. 19 Car. II. c. 8.-An Act for confirming and perpetuating Augmentations made by Ecclesiastical Persons to small Vicarages and Curacies. THEREAS divers Archbishops, Bishops, Deans and Chapters, 'Letters, bearing Date the First Day of June, in the Twelfth Year of his said Majesty's Reign, and out of a pious Care to improve poor Vicarages and Curacies, where the Endowments thereof were found too small to afford a competent Maintenance to those that serve the Cure, have, since his Majesty's happy Return, upon their renewing of Leases of Rectories, or Tithes impropriate or appropriate, made 29 Car. 11. c. 8. |