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A74555 An ordinance for the better maintenance and encouragement of preaching ministers, and for uniting of parishes.; Orders in Council. 1654-09-02. England and Wales. Lord Protector (1653-1658 : O. Cromwell); England and Wales. Council of State. aut 1654 (1654) Thomason E1064_35; ESTC R210353 6,783 16

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AN ORDINANCE For the better Maintenance and Encouragement of Preaching Ministers And for uniting of PARISHES Saturday September 2. 1654. ORdered by his Highness the Lord Protector and His Council That this Ordinance be forthwith Printed and Published Henry Scobell Clerk of the Council London Printed by William du-Gard and Henry Hills Printers to His Highness the Lord Protector 1654. AN ORDINANCE For the better maintenance and encouragement of Preaching Ministers and for Uniting of PARISHES Wheras many Parishes in this nation are without the constant powerful preaching of the Gospel through want of competent maintenance and encouragement unto able and godly Ministers in such places Some Parishes in regard of their smalness and of their propinquity and neighborhood hood and the situation of their Churches or places of meeting being very convenient to be united and other Parishes are so populous and of so great an extent that all the Inhabitants thereof cannot with conveniency resort to their respective Parish Churches To the end some provision may be made herein and the publique maintenance set apart for Ministers and other pious uses may be managed improved and distributed for the future so as may be most for the advancement of the Gospel and encouragement of Publique Preachers in all the Places of this Common-wealth And that the Augmentations granted or which shall be granted out of the same may be more orderly issued and certainly paid and the Revenue not overcharged And whereas some doubts have been made whether the Rents Profits and Revenues of all Rectories Impropriate Appropriate Tyths Donatives Oblations Obventions First Fruits Tenths Pentions Portions of Tyths appropriate and other things vested and settled in the Trustees named in one Act of Parlament Intituled An Act for providing maintenance for preaching Ministers and other pious uses and in one other Act of Parlament Entituled An Additional Act for providing maintenance for Ministers and other pious uses or either of them for the uses therein mentioned ought not by force of the Ordinance Entituled An Ordinance for bringing the publique Revenues of this Common-wealth into one Treasury to be paid into the Receipt of his highness Exchequer Be it Ordained and Declared by the Authority aforesaid That the said Ordinance or any thing therein contained shall not extend or be construed to extend to any the Rents Profits or Revenues by the said Acts or any or either of them vested in the said Trustees But it is hereby Ordained by the Authority aforesaid That all and every the Rectories Impropriate Appropriations Tythes appropriate Donatives Oblations Obventions First Fruits Tenths Pentions Portions of Tyths and other the premisses by the said Acts or either of them vested in the said Trustees and not exposed to sale by one other Act Intituled An Act for sale of the Mannors of Rectories and Gleab-lands late belonging to the Arch-Bishops Bishops Deans Deans and Chapters shall from henceforth be vested and settled in the possession and seisin of William Steel Esq Serjeant at Law Recorder of the City of London Sir John Thorowgood of Kensington Knight George Cowper Richard Young John Pocock Ralph Hall Richard Sydenham Edward Hopkins John Humfry and Edward Cresset the Survivor and Survivors of them and their heirs to the uses and upon the Trusts in the said Acts expressed and to such further uses as are hereafter expressed And that they or any five or more of them shall have use exercise and enjoy all and every the powers and authorities by the said Acts or any or either of them given and committed to the Trustees in the said two first recited Acts named to all intents and purposes And that they the said Trustees or any five or more of them shall or may by Action Distress Information or by any other lawful waies or means whatsoever from time to time sue for recover receive collect and gather and cause to be received collected and gathered the Rents Issues and Profits therof as lawfull and rightfull Owners thereof in trust as aforesaid and mannage the said Revenue in such way and manner as shall be most conduceable for the carrying on of this service And shall have the same and the like powers for removing such Obstructions as they shall meet with concerning the said Revenue that any Commissioners have for removing Obstructions concerning the sale of Bishops or Dean and Chapters Lands and to compound for all Corn rent or other provision rent reserved upon any Lease of any part of the premisses for an yearly rent in money And whereas several Delinquents being seized possessed and interessed of and in several Rectories and portions of Tyths or Impropriations respectively have had an abatement in their Compositions in respect of them or in lieu of so much of their Composition money as amounted unto the full value thereof did convey or agree to convey the same unto several Trustees for Augmentation of Ministers maintenance in the Conveyances thereof mentioned or the same are otherwise settled and disposed of which Trustees do many of them altogether neglect the trust in them reposed and the said Revenue is in no part of it under any certain account Be it further Ordained That all Trustees that stand seized or possessed of any Impropriate Rectories or Tyths or any estate wherewith the same stand chargeable respectively by virtue of any such conveyance order or agreement as aforesaid be from henceforth devested of the possession seisin interest and estate which they have in the premisses respectively by virtue of the said conveyances or any agreement or order in that behalf and of all Trusts concerning the same And that the said William Steel and the rest of the said Trustees hereby appointed their heirs Executors and Assigns shall stand seized and shall have hold and enjoy the said Tythes Estates and premisses so reserved or settled or agreed ordered to be settled and all arrears thereof and all Evidences and Writings concerning the same to the same uses and they are by authority hereof vested and possessed thereof and of all arrears thereof upon the same trusts as they the said Trustees had or ought to have the same by virtue of the said Conveyances Orders or Agreements respectively and to such other uses as are hereafter expressed And that they the said William Steel and the rest of the aforenamed Trustees or any five or more of them shall enquire into and make search for the several Grants made by the said Delinquents as aforesaid and settle the same so as the Ministers that ought to receive the benefit and advantage thereof shall and may enjoy the same and all arrears thereof with the least charge And all persons imployed about the contracting for and settling of the same or in whose hands any of the said writings or Conveyances Counterparts Orders or other writings concerning the same are are hereby required upon the request of the said Trustees under the hands of them or any three of them to shew and produce as there shall