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A37577	An Act for the better propagation and preaching of the Gospel in VVales, and redress of some grievances. Die Veneris, 22. Februarii, 1649. Ordered by the Parliament, that this Act be forthwith printed and published. Hen. Scobel, Cleric. Parliamenti.; Public General Acts. 1650-02-22.	England and Wales.	1650 (1650)	Wing E1099; ESTC R210495	7,482	24

in the counties aforesaid which heretofore abounded in Ignorance and Prophaneness And that fit persons of approved Piety and Learning may have encouragement to employ themselves in the education of Children in piety and good literature Be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the said Commissioners or any five or more of them be and are authorized and enabled to grant Certificates by way of approbation to such persons as shall be recommended and approved of by Henry Walter Walter Cradock Richard Simonds Roger Charnock Jenkin Lloid Morris Bidwel David Walter William Seaborn Edmond Ellis Jenkin Jones George Robinson Richard Powel Robert Powel Thomos Ewen John Miles Oliver Thomas Doctor John Ellis Ambrose Moston Stephen Lewis Morgan Lloid William Jones Richard Edwards Vavosor Powel Richard Swain Rowland Nevet Ministers of the Gospel or any five or more of them for the preaching of the Gospel in the said Counties as well in settled Congregations and Parochial Charges as in an Itinerary course as the said Commissioners by the advice of such the said Ministers as shall recommend and approve of the said persons respectively shall adjudge to be most for the advancement of the Gospel or for the keeping of Schools and education of Children And to the end that a fitting maintenance may be provided for such persons as shall be so recommended and approved of as also for such others approvedly godly and painful Ministers now residing within the said Counties for whose support and maintenance there is little or no settlement made or provided Be it therefore Enacted and Ordained by the Authority aforesaid That in order to the said maintenance and in the regulating ordering disposal thereof they the said Commissioners or any twelve or more of them are hereby authorized and enabled by themselves or others deriving authotity from them to receive and dispose of all singular the Rents Issues and Profits of all and every the Rectories Vicarages Donatives sine Cura's Portion of Tenths and other Ecclesiastical Livings which now are or hereafter shall be in the disposing of the Parliament or any other deriving Authority from them as also to receive and dispose of the Rents Issues and Profits of all Impropriations and Gleab-lands within the said Counties which now are or hereafter shall be under Sequestration or in the disposal of the Parliament by vertue of any former Statute or any Act or Ordinance of this present Parliament And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the said Commmissioners or any twelve or more of them shall and may out of the said Rents Issues and Profits of the said Rectories Vicarages Donatives sine Cura's Portion of Tenths and other Ecclesiastical Promotions as also out of the Rents Issues and Profits of the said Impropriations and Gleab-lands order and appoint a constant yeerly maintenance for such persons as shall be recommended and approved of as aforesaid for the work of the Ministery or the education of Children as also for such other Ministers as aforesaid now residing within the said Counties provided that the yeerly maintenance of a Minister do not exceed one hundred pounds and the yeerly maintenance of a School-master exceed not Forty pounds and that godly Ministers who have or shall have Wife or Children may not too much be taken off from their duties in the Ministery with the care and consideration of maintenance for their Wives and Children after their decease but that some care thereof may be had by others whereby a greater encouragement may be given to them to set themselves the closer to the work of the said Ministry Be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the said Commissioners or any twelve or more of them are hereby enabled and authorized to make such yeerly allowance to the Wife and Children of such godly Minister after his decease as to the said Commissioners or any twelve of them shall seem reasonable for the necessary support and maintenance of the said Wife or Children or any of them Provided always That such allowance so to be made to such Wife and Children do not exceed the yeerly sum of thirty pounds And if any person or persons being Tenant or Occupier of any Lands Tenements or Hereditaments lyable and subject to the payment of any Tenths or other Duties in right payable or belonging to any Parsonage Vicarage or any the abovesaid Ecclesiastical Promotions shall refuse payment thereof Then the said Commissioners or any two or more of them are hereby authorized and enabled to put in execution against every person and persons so refusing the powers and authorities vested and setled by this present Parliament in the Justices of the Peace for the relief of Ministers from whom such Tenths and Duties are detained and substracted And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the said Commissioners or any twelve or more of them out of the said Tenths Rents and Profits by them receiveable by force of this Act shall and may allow such moderate Salary or Wages to such person or persons who shall be imployed in the receiving keeping and disposal thereof or any part thereof as they shall conceive to be necessary and reasonable And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and every person and persons qualified and approved of as abovesaid for the preaching of the Gospel as aforesaid who shall be vested and setled by the said Commissioners or any twelve or more of them in any Rectory Vicarage or Parochial Charge which the said Commissioners or any twelve or more of them have hereby power to do shall be deemed and adjudged to be seized of the same as fully and amply to all intents and purposes as if such person and persons were presented instituted and inducted to and in the same according to former Laws in such cases used and provided And whereas the remoteness of the said Counties from the Courts of Justice at Westminst occasioneth many acts of high Misdemeanors Oppression and injury to be committed there which often times escape unpunished and the parties agrieved therby for want of means to seek relief by due course of Law left remediless To the end therfore that such Misdemeanors Oppressions and Injuries may the better be enquired after and the parties grieved thereby without much expence of monies or loss of time may be in some way of relief Be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the said Commissioners or any five or more of them shall have and hereby have full Power and Authority to receive all Complaints which shall be brought before them of any such Misdemeanors Oppression or Injury committed by any person or persons within the said Counties or any of them and by Warrant directed to the party complained of under the Hands and Seals of the said Commissioners or any five or more of them to appear before them at a certain day and place in the said Warrant mentioned requiring an Answer to the said Complaints and after

answer made then with the consent of both parties testifie under their Hands and Seals to proceed to hear and determine the same And whereas sufferings of that nature generally fall upon persons well-affected to the Parliament and such as have acted in and for their service which said persons are not of ability to travel to London to be relieved by the Committee of Parliament commonly called The Commitee of Indempnity Be it therefore Enacted and Ordained by the Authority aforesaid That the said Commissioners or any five or more of them shall be and are hereby made and constituted a Committee of Indempnity to all intents and purposes within the Counties aforesaid for the hearing and determining of all matters and things properly relievable and determinable by the said Committee of Indempnity Provided alwayes That if any person or persons shall find him or themselves agrieved at the proceedings of the said Commissioners acting as a Committee of Indempnity then the said person or persons so agrieved shall and may prosecute his and their Petition or Appeale for relief in such manner and form as in and by this Act is prescribed in the cases of ejected Ministers and bring the same to a final determination before the said Committee of Indempnity sitting at Westminster which said Committee are hereby authorized to hear and determine the same as they shall see just cause And be it further Enacted That all Power and Authority formerly vested in any Committee within the said Counties or of any thē for the placing of Ministers in Ecclesiasticall Livings or Promotions be from henceforth determined And that no person or persons shall be from henceforth vested and setled in any Rectory Vicarage or Ecclesiasticall Promotion within any of the said Counties unless such person or persons so to be vested or setled be recommended and approved of for the work of the Ministery according to the tenor and true meaning of this Act And that this Act shall continue and be in force for the space of Three years from the Five and twentieth day of March One thousand six hundred and fifty and no longer Die Veneris 22. Februarii 1649. ORdered by the Parliament That this Act be forthwith printed and published Hen. Scobel Cleric Parliamenti Die Sabathi ult Decembr 1642. Mr. Sollicitor c. THis Committee or any four of them are to consider of the fittest way for the relief of such godly and well affected Ministers as have been plundred and likewise to consider what Malignant Parsons have Benefices here in and about this Town whose Livings being Sequestred there may others supply their Cures and receive the profits and are to meet on Munday next at two of the clock in the Exchequer Court Die Iovis 27. Iulii 1643. ORdered by the Commons assembled in Parliament that the Committee for plundred Ministers shall nominate none to any Parsonage or Benefice but such as shall be first examined by the Assembly of Divines or any five of them and. approved of by Certificate under their Hands And the Assembly is desired to appoint a Committee for this purpose Ordered that the Committee for plundred Ministers shall have power to consider of the Informations against scandalous Ministers though there be no Malignancy proved against them and shall have power to put out such as are of scandalous life their scandals being proved against them Septem 6. 1463. IT is this day Ordered by the Commons House of Parlianent that the Deputy Lieutenants and Committees of Parliament in any County of this Kingdom or any five or more of them shall have power to take the examinations of all witnesses against any Ministers that are scandalous either in life or Doctrine or any others that have deserted their Cures and joyned themselves actually with and are assistant unto the forces raysed against the Parliament and to the end that those who will appear may have the witnesses examined in their presence it is further Ordered that Summons with sufficient warning of the time and place when and where the charge against them shall be proved be either given to their persons or left at their houses and if they desire it they shall have a Copy of the Articles against them with a convenient time to give in their answers under their Hands which together with their Charge and the proofs upon every particular of it the said Deputy Lieutenants and Committees of Parliament shall send up to the Committee of this House appointed for to provide for plundred Ministers which Committee shall from time to time transmit them to the House Die Mercurii 18. Octobr. 1643. IT is this day ordered by the Commons assembled in Parliament that the Committee for plundred Ministers shall have power to enquire after Malignant Schoolmasters Die Lunae 7. Octobr. 1644. ORdered that it be referred to the Committee for plundred Ministers to consider how the poor Vicarages and Cures of the Kingdom may be raised to a competent maintenance out of the Revenues of the Deans Deans and Chapters and of Impropriate Parsonages and to report their opinions to the House Die Lunae 7. Iulii 1645. Resolved c. THat the Petition from the Committee of Middl. be referred to the consideration of the Committee for plundred Ministers they are to take into consideration all Petitions of the like nature and are to consider of some means for providing a competent maintenance for setling a good Ministry in such Counties and places as shall desire it and to present it to the House and that they begin first with this business of Middlesex It is further referred to the Committee of plundred Ministers and they have hereby power to remove out of the same Town and Parish all such scandalous Ministers as they have or shall put out of any Benefices or Livings Die Lunae 15. Martii 1646. THat it be referred to the Committee of plundred Ministers to take effectual course that no Minister that hath been Sequestred for scandal in life or Doctrine or for Malignancy against the Parliament be admitted to any Living or permitted to preach untill he hath licence from both Houses of Parliament And that they take care that such as be admitted by their order may take the Covenant before they be admitted Die Iovis 11. Novemb. 1647. Resolved c. THat the Wives and children of all such persons as are have been or shal be Sequestred by order of either House of Parliament shall be comprehended within the Ordinance that allows a fift part for Wives and children and shall have their fift part allowed unto them And the Committee for Lords and Commons for Sequestration and the Committee for plundred Ministers and all other Committees are required to take notice hereof and yield obedience hereunto accordingly Die Lunae 20. Decemb. 1647. IT is this day ordered by the Commons assembled in Parliament that power be given to the Committee of plundred Ministers so examine the Informations now given and all other of the like nature concerning such Ministers as have adhered to the enemy that have preached without authority and licence of Parliament and concerning such as have preached against the proceedings of Parliament within the City of London or late Lines of communication or elsewhere And whereas the House hath been informed that the Book of Common-prayer hath been usually read in Churches within the City of London and Lines of Communication and elsewhere to commit such as upon examination they shall find to have been guilty herein and to take care to suppress such as have adhered to the enemy that shall preach without licence by Commitment if they shall see cause and to suppress the reading of the Book of Common-prayer Die Sabathi Decemb. 25. 1647. ORdered by the Commons assembled in Parliament that power be given to the Committee for plundred Ministers if they shall see cause to commit such Church-wardens or Sequestrators or others that shall set up or countenance Delinquent-Ministers to preach It is further ordered that power be given to the Committee of plundred Ministers to put in due execution the Ordinance for abolishing the observation of Holydaies