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patronage of the same, or of the person or one of the persons for whom the Patron or Patrons shall be a trustee or trustees, or of the person or one of the persons by whose direction such presentation, collation, gift, or bestowing shall be intended to be made, or of any married woman whose husband in her right shall be the Patron or one of the Patrons of such spiritual office, or of any other person in whose right such presentation, collation, gift, or bestowing shall be intended to be made.

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III. And be it further enacted, That no presentation, No precollation, gift, or bestowing to or of any such spiritual office sentation to of or upon any spiritual person, to be made after the pass-ritual office ing of this Act, nor any admission, institution, investiture, shall be or induction thereupon, shall be void, frustrate, or of no effect in law for or by reason of any such engagement so to be made, given, or entered into by such spiritual person, or to resign. any other person or persons, to or with the Patron or Patrons of such spiritual office, or to or with any other person or persons, for the resignation of the same as aforesaid; and that it shall not be lawful for the King's most excellent Majesty, his heir or successors, for or by reason of any such engagements as aforesaid, to present or collate unto, or give Persons or bestow such spiritual office; and that such spiritual per- making son, and patron or patrons, or other person or persons re- ment not spectively, shall not be liable to any pains, penalty, for- to be feitures, loss, or disability, nor to any prosecution or other liable to proceeding, civil, criminal, or penal, in any court, ecclesi- penalty. astical or temporal, for or by reason of his, her, or their having made, given, or entered into, or accepted or taken such engagement as aforesaid; and that every such pre- Such presentation or collation, or gift or bestowing, to be made after sentations the passing of this Act, and every admission, institution, to be valid. investiture, and induction thereupon, shall be as valid and effectual in the law to all intents and purposes whatsoever as if such engagement had not been made, given, or entered into, or accepted or taken; any thing in an Act passed in the thirty-first year of the reign of her late Majesty Queen Elizabeth, intituled An Act against Abuses in Elections of 31 Eliz. Scholars and Presentations to Benefices, or in any other c. 6. Act, Statute, or Canon, or any Law, to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding.

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IV. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That no- Not to exthing in this Act shall extend to the case of such enany gagement as aforesaid, unless one part of the deed, instru- engagement, or writing by which such engagement shall be made, less the given, or entered into, shall, within the space of two calen- deed be ed

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dar months next after the date thereof, be deposited in the within two office of the Registrar of the diocese wherein the benefice months with cure of souls, dignity, prebend, or living ecclesiastical, Registrar for the resignation whereof such engagement shall be made, of the dio- given, or entered into as aforesaid, shall be locally situate, cese or pe- except as to such benefices with cure of souls, dignities, risdiction prebends, or livings ecclesiastical, as are under the peculiar wherein the jurisdiction of any Archbishop or Bishop, in which case benefice is such document as aforesaid shall be deposited in the office

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spectively deposit and preserve the same, and shall give and Deed to be sign a certificate of such deposit thereof; and every such open to in- deed, instrument, or writing, shall be produced at all proper spection; and usual hours at such registry to every person applying fied copy to to to inspect the same; and an office copy of each such deed, be admitted instrument, or writing, certified under the hand of the Reas evidence. gistrar, (and which office copy so certified the Registrar shall in all cases grant to every person who shall apply for the same,) shall in all cases be admitted and allowed as legal evidence thereof in all Courts whatsoever; and every such Registrar. Registrar shall be entitled to the sum of two shillings, and no more, for so depositing as aforesaid such deed, instrument, or writing, and so as aforesaid certifying such deposit thereof; and the sum of one shilling, and no more, for each search to be made for the same; and the sum of sixpence, and no more, over and besides the stamp duty, if any, for each folio of seventy-two words of each such office copy so certified as aforesaid.

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V. And be it further enacted, That every resignation to be made in pursuance of any such engagement as aforesaid shall refer to the engagement in pursuance of which it is made, and state the name of the person for whose benefit it is made; and that it shall not be lawful for the Ordinary persons for to refuse such resignation, unless upon good and sufficient cause to be shown for that purpose; and that such resignResigna- ation shall not be valid or effectual, except for the purpose tion to be of allowing the person for whose benefit it shall be so made to be presented, collated, nominated, or appointed to the person be spiritual office thereby resigned, and shall be absolutely presented null and void, unless such person shall be presented, colwithin six lated, nominated, or appointed as aforesaid within six calendar months next after notice of such resignation shall have been given to the Patron or Patrons of such spiritual office.

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VI. Provided also, and be it further enacted, That no- Nothing thing in this Act shall extend to any case where the presentation, collation, gift, or bestowing to or of any such spiritual office as aforesaid shall be made by the King's tions made most excellent Majesty, his heirs or successors, in right of by the his crown, or of his duchy of Lancaster; or by any Arch- King, &c. bishop, Bishop, or other ecclesiastical person, in right of his Archbishopric, Bishopric, or other ecclesiastical living, office, or dignity; or by any other body politic or corporate, whether aggregate or sole, or by any other person or persons, in right of any office or dignity; or by any company, or any feoffees or trustees for charitable or other public purposes; or by any other person or persons not entitled to the patronage of such spiritual office as private property.

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ABSENCE from living, p. 99. 113. and see the Digest, p. i.
Acceptance of resignation, form of, 585.

Acres, number of to be held by Incumbent, 97.
Action for nonresidence, 117.

Admission to a benefice, 183.

Every person admitted must subscribe the Articles, 184.
And read and declare his assent thereto within two months,
190. 193.

Unless there be some lawful impediment, 193.

The lawful impediment allowed for not reading the declara-
tion, 187.

And for not reading the Articles and making the declaration
under stat. 13 Eliz. cap. 12. p. 188.

Qualifications of person to be admitted to, 184. 189. 197.
and see Canons, 33, 34.

See Presentation. Benefice.
Admonition, Archbishop Parker's, 88.
Advowson. See Benefice. Presentation.

Age of Deacon or Priest, 189.

Of Minister to administer sacraments, 184. see Orders.

Agreement.

Respecting Curates' salaries, 127.

Corrupt as to presenting to benefices, 151.

As to accepting, 152.

To resign a living, 175. 599. and see Digest, p. xviii.
Alehouses, 395-

Annuity, raising money by, under new church Acts, 480.
Apportionment of charities under the new church Acts, 483.
Of glebe and tithes, 491.

Archbishop, powers and duties of, under consolidated Clergy Act,
passim, 97-134.

As to Papists' benefices, 167.

As to appointing Chaplains, 147.

As to special ordination for the colonies, 206.

Under the parsonage house Acts, 209—272.
As to making leases, 276.

As to Queen Anne's Bounty, 285. 296. 301.
Under the new church Acts, passim, 419—505.
Articles, 3.

Subscription to, 184. 190. 193.

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