Duties of the Trea surer. Duties of the Soli citor. Duties of the Secretary. have business relating to Queen Anne's Bounty to transact. Attention to the following account of the separate duties of these officers, will save trouble to all parties concerned. When information is wanted by the Incumbent of an augmented living as to the money remaining appropriated to it,-to the interest thereof,-to instalments and interest due on mortgages under Gilbert's Acts, to the remittance of benefaction money, after a living shall be approved by the Governors as qualified to be augmented by benefaction, or as to the payment and receipt of money by the Governors generally, application should be made to the Treasurer. And as to the completion of purchases and exchanges of land, after the same shall have been approved by the Governors,-loans of money under Gilbert's Acts for building, rebuilding, &c. of glebe houses, -the preparation of stipend deeds and others, and on all law business connected with the Bounty Board; application should be made to the Solicitor, to whom abstracts of title are to be sent, but not till after Incumbents shall have been duly informed that the purchases, exchanges, or other transactions to which they relate, have been approved by the Governors. And as to the future augmentations of livings entitled thereto,-proposals of benefactions, and of pur * It is very convenient to explain for what purpose money is remitted to the Treasurer-and to state the name of the Living, County, and Diocese.-And as to Benefactions, to state the name of the Benefactors, and whether they are to be met with Augmen tations out of the Royal Bounty Fund, or out of the Parliamentary Fund. chases and exchanges of estates,-for laying out money appropriated to livings in building, rebuilding, or improving houses for the residence of the Incumbents thereof,-for reference to the deeds and other documents relating to estates purchased by the Governors for the augmentation of livings, and to other records relating to Queen Anne's Bounty-and generally on all subjects to be submitted to the consideration of the Governors, other than those included in the beforementioned duties of the Treasurer and Solicitor, application is to be made to the Secretary by the Incumbents of livings, and not by their Curates, Solicitor, or Agents. G APPENDIX. 83 2, 3 ANNE, ch. 11. An Act for the making more effectual her Majesty's gracious Intentions for the Augmentation of the Maintenance of the poor Clergy, by enabling her Majesty to grant in perpetuity the Revenues of the First Fruits and Tenths; and also for enabling any other Persons to make Grants for the same Purpose. 3. WHEREAS at a Parliament holden in the six and twentieth 26 H. 8. c. year of the reign of King Henry the Eighth, the first fruits, revenues, and profits for one year, upon every nomination or appointment to any dignity, benefice, office, or promotion spiritual, within this realm, or elsewhere within the said King's dominions, and also a perpetual yearly rent or pension, amounting to the value of the tenth part of all the revenues and profits belonging to any dignity, benefice, or promotion spiritual whatsoever, within any diocese of this realm, or in Wales, were granted to the said King Henry the Eighth, his heirs and successors; and divers other statutes have since been made touching the First Fruits and annual Tenths of the Clergy, and the ordering thereof: And whereas a sufficient settled provision for the Clergy, in many parts of this realm, hath never yet been made; by reason whereof divers mean and stipendiary Preachers are in many places entertained to serve the Cures, and officiate there; who depending for their necessary maintenance upon the good-will and liking of their hearers, have been, and are thereby under temptation of too much complying and suiting their doctrines and teaching to the humours rather than the good of their bearers, which hath been a great occasion of faction and schism, and contempt of the Ministry: and forasmuch as your Majesty, taking into your princely and serious consideration the mean and insufficient maintenance belonging to the Clergy in divers parts of this your kingdom, has been most graciously pleased, out of your most religious and tender concern for the Church of England, (whereof your Majesty is the only supreme head on earth,) and for the poor Clergy thereof, not only to remit the arrears of your Corporation erected. 1 Ann. Stat. 1.c.7. Statutes, &c. relat Tenths due from your poor Clergy, but also to declare unto your most dutiful and loyal Commons your royal pleasure and pious desire, that the whole revenue arising from the First Fruits and Tenths of the Clergy might be settled for a perpetual augmentation of the maintenance of the said Clergy, in places where the same is not already sufficiently provided for; we your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Commons of England, in Parliament assembled, to the end that your Majesty's most gracious intentions may be made effectual, and that the Church may receive so great and lasting an advantage from your Majesty's parting with so great a branch of your revenue, towards the better provision for the Clergy not sufficiently provided for; and to the intent your Majesty's singular zeal for the support of the Clergy, and the honour, interest, and future security of the Church, as by law established, may be perpetuated to all ages, do most humbly beseech your Majesty that it may be enacted; and be it enacted by the Queen's most excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, that it shall and may be lawful for the Queen's most excellent Majesty, by her Letters Patent under the Great Seal of England, to incorporate such persons as her Majesty shall therein nominate or appoint, to be one body politic and corporate, to have a common seal, and perpetual succession; and also at her Majesty's will and pleasure, by the same, or any other Letters Patents, to grant, limit, or settle, to or upon the said Corporation, and their successors for ever, all the revenue of First Fruits, and yearly perpetual Tenths of all dignities, offices, benefices, and promotions spiritual whatsoever, to be applied and disposed of, to and for the augmentation of the maintenance of such Parsons, Vicars, Curates, and Ministers, officiating in any Church or Chapel within the kingdom of England, dominion of Wales, and town of Berwick upon Tweed, where the liturgy and rites of the Church of England, as now by Law established, are or shall be used and observed, with such lawful powers, authorities, directions, limitations, and appointments, and under such rules and restrictions, and in such manner and form, as shall be therein expressed; the statute made in the first year of her said Majesty's reign, intituled, An Act for the better support of her Majesty's household, and of the honour and dignity of the Crown, or any other law to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding. II. Provided always, and it is hereby declared, that all and every ing to First the statutes and provisions, touching or concerning the ordering, Fruits and levying, and true answering and payment, or qualification of the continue in said First Fruits and Tenths, or touching the charge, discharge, or Tenths to force. |