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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A71341	The Parliamentary intelligencer [no.33 (6 Aug-13 Aug 1660)] comprising the sum of forraign intelligence with the affairs now in agitation in England, Scotland, and Ireland : for information of the people.	Muddiman, Henry, 1628 or 1629-1692, editor.; Dury, Giles, editor.; Macock, John, publisher.; Newcomb, Thomas, d. 1681 or 2, publisher.	1660 (1660)	Thomason E186_27; ESTC P1015	8,674	18

Numb. 33. THE Parliamentary Intelligencer COMPRISING The Sum of Forraign Intelligence with the Affairs now in Agitation in England Scotland and Ireland For Information of the People Published by Order From Monday August 6. to Monday August 13. 1660. WE shall begin this week with acquainting you with His Majesties most Gracious Letter and Declaration to all Bishops Deans Prebendaries c. in behalf of poor Vicars and Curats who want sufficient maintenance which Letter we the rather here communicate because by another hand it crept into the world by an imperfect Copy before it was published as of right it ought by His Majesties own Printers CHARLES R. AS nothing is more in Our desires then to provide that the Church of England under Our Reign might be furnished with a Religious Learned Sober Modest and Prudent Clergy so we are ready to give encouragement to their labours and study in their several degrees and stations that they may give check to all Prophaneness and Superstition and as zealously affect to remove all scandals and reproach from them and their Callings conceiving therefore a competent maintenance to be a necessary encouragement And that all other persons who have power to dispose of Tythes may be invited to cherish Learned and Godly Ministers We do resolve That because whore Tythes have been appointed for the support of Bishops Deans and Chapters Collegiat Churches and Colledges And other single persons that have not taken due care to provide and ordain sufficient maintenance for the Vicars of their respective places or for the Curats where Vi●arages were not endowed to settle for the future some good addition and encrease on such Vicarages and Curats places Our Will therefore is That forthwith provision be made for the augmentation of all such Vicarages and Cures where your Tythes and profits are appropriated to you and your successors in such maner that they who immediately at●●nd upon the performance of M●nisterial Offices in every Parish may have a competent portion out of every Rectory impropriate to your See And to this end our further Will is That no lease be granted of any Rectories or Parsonages belonging to your See belonging to you or your successors until you shall provide that the respective Vicarages or Curats places where are no Vicarages endow'd have so much Revenue in Glebe Tythes or other emoluments as commonly will amount to 80 l. per annum or more if it will bear it and in good form of Law settle it upon them and their successors and where the Rectories are of small value and cannot permit of such proportions to the Vicar and Curat Our will is That one half of the profit of such a Rectory be reserved for the maintenance of the Vicar or Curat And if any Leases or grants of such so enamed Rectories have been made by you since the first day of Iune last past and you did not ordain competent Augmentation of the Vicarages or Cures in their respective places Our will is That out of the Fines which you have received or are to receive you do add such encrease to the Vicar and Curat as is agreeable to the Rates and Proportions formerly mentioned And our further will is that you do employ your Authority and power which by Law belongeth to you as ordinary for the Augmentation of Vicarages and stipends of Curates and that you do with dilligence proceed in due form of Law for the raysing and establish●ng Convenient maintenance of those who do attend holy duties in Parish Churches and if any Prebendary in any Church the Corps of whose Prebend consists of Tythes shall not observe these our Commands then we require you or the Dean of the Church to use all due means in Law where you or he hath power to compel them or that otherwise you report to the Bishop of the Diocess where the said Corps doth lye that they may interpose his Authority for fulfilling this our Order and if any Dean or Dean and Chapter or any that holdeth any dignity or Prebend in the Cathedral Church do not observe these out Commands that you call them before you and see this Our will be obeyed And if you or any Bishop do not your duty either in their own grants or seeing others to do it then We will that upon complaint the Arch Bishop of the Province see all performed according to this Our Declaration Will and Pleasure And whereas there are divers rurall Prebends where the Vicarages are not sufficiently endowed we require you to see these Our Commands be fully observed by them And we do declare our Will and Pleasure in all the particulars fore cited to be that if you or any of your successors or any Dean or Dean and Chapter of that our Cathedral Church or any other person holding any Office Benefice or Pretend in the same do or shall refuse or omit to observe these our Commands we shall judge them unworthy of our future favour whensoever any preferment Ecclesiastical shall be desired by them from us And lastly Our Will and Comand is that you and your Successors at or before the first day of October in every year render an account to the Archbishop of 〈…〉 how these our Orders and Commands are observed That the Archbishop afterwards may represent the same unto us By his Majesties Command EDWARD NICHOLAS Whitehal August 8. 1660. This day Tho Tompkins and Herbert Perrot Esqs elected Burgesses to serve in Parliament for the Borough of Weebly in the County of Hereford having taken the Oathes of Allegiance and Supremacy were admitted into the House of Commons This day his Majesty was graciously pleased to confer the Honor of Knighthood on John Stapeley a Member of Parliament for Lewis in Sussex a Person that hath given sufficient evidences of his Loyalty by his early appearing in the several Engagements that tended to the setling of his Majesty in his Kingdoms The same day the Mayors and Bayliffs of his Majesties Cinque-Ports two antient Towns humbly applied themselves to his Highness the Duke of York Lord Chancellor and Warden of the Cinque-ports in this their humble Petition To the most Illustrious James Duke of York Lord High-Admiral of England Lord Warden Chancellor and Admiral of the Cinque ports two antient Towns and their members The humble Petition of the Mayors c. Sheweth THat next unto that never to be forgotten mercy of restoring your Petitioners the Breath of their nostrils and Joy of their lives His Sacred Majesty their gracious Soveraign your Petitioners are filled with joy in the sense of their extraordinary favor which His Majesty hath been graciously pleased to confer on your Petitioners in granting your Highness the office of Lord Warden of the Cinque-Ports c. Whereby so great a door of hope is opened to your Petitioners that in their own thoughts they seem to be in actual possession of their antient but of late infringed Liberties and Priviledges and dare not let a dist●ustful thought su●prise