Lecturers. No. 6. No. 3. public place of colleges therein mentioned, and the Governors thereof must subscribe to the Articles, and assent to the Book of Common Prayer, and comply with certain other provisions P. But the right of the Universities, and certain Colleges, and of Convocations, to use the Service in Latin is saved 9. No Lecturer shall preach without a licence, nor unless he reads the Articles, and declares his assent to them; he must on the first day he preaches read the Service before the Sermon, and declare his assent, and must do the same upon the first lecture day of every month afterwards, upon pain of being disabled to preach : an exception however is made as to Lectures in cathedral or collegiate churches s. The Common Prayer must be read before every Lecture or Sermon, and the Lecturer must be present; but an exception is made as to the University Sermons . The former Statutes of Uniformity are confirmed ". The Prayers, Litanies, &c. relating to the Royal Family, may be altered to suit the existing occasion*, and a provision is made that the Bishop of Hereford and the Welch Bishops may permit the use of the Welch Liturgy Y. Stat. 15 CAR. II. Cap. 6. This Statute declares, that persons prohibited to preach by the former Act are in the same condition as to penalties as persons disabled to preach 2. Stat. 23 GEO. II. Cap. 103. The allowance of a lawful impediment for not reading the prayers and assenting to them within the time limited, already given, or thereafter to be given, shall extend to not reading the certificate and declaration mentioned in Stat. 13 and 14 Car. 2. cap. 4. and the allowance of lawful impediment is extended to the not having read, or thereafter not reading the Articles, and to the not having made, or thereafter not making the declaration within the time limited, rendered necessary by Stat. 13 Eliz. cap. 12a. Ps. 17. p. 198. * s. 22. 23. Y s. 27. ib. 4 s. 18. ib. ts. 22. 23. p. 201. * s. 7. p. 206. a s. 19. p. 200. and see Canons 36. 37. " s. 24. p. 201. * s. 25. p. 202. * p. 187. 188. Stat. 44. GEO. III. Cap. 43. No person shall be admitted to be a Deacon until he is three and twenty years of age complete, nor to be a Priest until he is four and twenty complete, and any admission contrary to the Act is void, and the person admitted is incapable of holding any preferment: but the right of granting faculties by the Primates is saved c. Stat. 59 GEO. III. Cap. 60. No. 4. No. 7. for the co The two English Archbishops and the Bishop of London, Ordination or a Bishop specially appointed by either of them, may admit lonies. into Orders any persons duly qualified for the purpose of officiating in the colonies d; but a person so ordained is not capable of holding preferment in the united kingdoms without the consents mentioned in the Acte. Persons ordained by certain colonial Bishops, therein mentioned, are not capable of officiating in any church or chapel, or holding any preferment in the United Kingdoms, without the consents mentioned f. Persons ordained by colonial Bishops of the description mentioned, are not capable in any way of officiating or holding any preferment in his Majesty's dominions g. Admissions contrary to the Act are declared to be void, but a saving is made as to stat. 26. Geo. 3. cap. 84 h. PART I. CLASS IV. Stat. 14 ELIZ. Cap. 4. Statutes relating to Parsonage-houses and Glebe lands. No. 1. tions. ALL sums recovered for dilapidations are to be laid out Dilapida within two years on buildings or repairs, upon pain of forfeiting double the sum received, and not so laid out i. Stat. 17 GEO. III. Cap. 53. The Incumbent of a living, where there is no house, or Building or where it is so ruinous that one year's income will not rebuild repairing parsonage houses. fs. 3. p. 208. or repair it, may, after a survey and estimate made according to the Act, borrow money under certain restrictions and with certain consents, and may mortgage his glebe, tithes, &c. for the term of twenty-five years as a securityk. The mortgagee is to execute a counterpart, to be kept by the Incumbent, and a copy of it is to be registered, which copy shall be evidence in case the original is lost. The mortgagee is at liberty to distrain, where the proportion of principal and interest is in arrear for forty days m. The money borrowed is to be paid into the hands of a person nominated by the Ordinary, Patron, and Incumbent, and the nominee is to apply the money and keep accounts as in the Act is specified, and may apply any balance in lasting improvements, as the Ordinary, Patron, and Incumbent, or two of them, (of which the Ordinary must be one,) may think fit ". But the Ordinary, before he gives his consent, must make inquiries as to the state of the buildings at the time when the Incumbent entered on them, how long he has enjoyed the living, whether he has received or is entitled to any sums for dilapidations, how he has applied them, and whether and to what amount he has wilfully suffered the buildings to become dilapidated; and the Incumbent, if the Ordinary require it, must pay into the nominee's hands that amount towards defraying expenses, before the Ordinary gives his consent o. The directions for the mode of repayment of the mortgage money under this Act having been found in one provision to be unsatisfactory, the stat. 21 Geo. 3. cap. 66. was passed, wherein further directions are given P. Enactments are then made as to the proportion of payments, in case of the avoidance of the living, and for settling any differences thereon 9. Where a living worth 1007. per annum has no house of residence, or is in a state of decay, and the Incumbent s. 2. p. 211. ms. 3. p. 211. " s. 4. p. 212. Ps. 1. p. 231. and see 5 Geo. 4. cap. 89. p. 257. 9 s. 7. does not reside in the parish twenty weeks in the year, the Ordinary may proceed in the execution of the Act in the manner therein specified, and the Incumbent will be liable to his due proportion of the repayment of the money borrowed. All sums recovered for dilapidations, and not laid out, shall go in part of payments under the estimate, or of the money borrowed; or in case the money borrowed shall have been paid off, they shall be paid into the hands of the nominee, to be applied as the Act directs $. If new buildings are necessary, the Ordinary, Patron, and Incumbent may purchase, or authorize the nominee to purchase, a house, in a situation convenient for the residence of the Incumbent, as well as lands, under certain restrictions, and such house or lands shall for the future go along with the living; and the purchase money for the land may be raised by sale of part of the glebe or tithes, or an equivalent may be given by exchange ". The Governors of Queen Anne's Bounty are empowered to lend money, according to certain proportions, and colleges may lend money to Incumbents of livings under their patronage, upon the principles of the Act, without exacting interest y. It then concludes with certain provisoes as to special circumstances, and giving liberty to ecclesiastical corporations, being lords of manors, to make grants of parts of the waste; and contains in the schedule the forms, the use of which however is not necessary 2. Stat. 21 GEO. III. Cap. 66. Corrects a mistake in the former Acta. Stat. 43 GEO. III. Cap. 108. Persons are permitted, upon compliance with certain forms, to give or grant by deed or will lands not exceeding five acres, or goods not exceeding in value 500l. towards building, repairing, or purchasing a church or chapel, a house of residence, offices, churchyard, or glebe; and the trustees are impowered to receive or purchase them b. rs. 8. ib. y s. 13. p. 217. $ s. 9. p. 215. 's. 10. p. 216. " s. 11. ib. * s. 12. ib. a 2 p. 217. 218. 219. p. 230.231. bs. 1. p. 233. 234. No. 3. No. 4. No. 5. No. 6. No one person shall make more than one such gift or devise, and if he gives more than that which is limited, it shall be good to the extent allowed, and the Court of Chancery may reduce the gift or devise to the legal extents. No glebe exceeding fifty acres shall be augmented with more than one acre d. Small plots of ground held in mortmain lying convenient to a church, chapel, churchyard, or house of residence, may be granted by way of exchange or benefaction to the extent of an acre: and the statute concludes by directing, that in all churches thereafter erected, suitable accommodation shall be provided for all ranks of people, and saves the existing rights of giving or devising. Stat. 51 GEO. III. Cap. 115. The King may vest lands to the extent of five acres in any person towards building, repairing, or purchasing a church, chapel, house of residence, churchyard, or glebe; and such person is enabled to receive them f; and lords of manors having the fee simple are empowered to grant waste lands to the extent of five acres, for the purposes of the Act 5. Stat. 55 GEO. III. Cap. 147. Incumbents are permitted, under certain restrictions, and subject to certain consents, to exchange the parsonage house and glebe for another house and landsh: the premises given in exchange are subject to the same tithes, or benefited by the same exemptions, as the premises taken in exchange i. A power is then given to Incumbents to annex premises belonging to manors before grantable and demisable by copy of Court-roll for lives or terms of years, to the benefice or parsonage, as glebe land k, and to persons and corporations to give or grant a parsonage house and garden, or either of them, subject to certain provisions, and to the Incumbent, upon such grant being made, to take down the parsonage e s. 2. p. 235. d s. 3. p. 235. e s. 4. ib. without restriction i s. 2. p. 242. fs. 1. 237. 238. as to the quanks. 4. p. 243. |