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A78246 The case of the dean and chapter of Bangor, about Llanddinam. 1695 (1695) Wing C1060A; ESTC R176557 2,993 1

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The CASE of the Dean and Chapter of BANGOR about Llanddinam THE Rectory of Llanddinam was Anciently divided into two equal Moyeties or Comportions as they were called besides several small Vicarages and both these Comportions being Presentative Ecclesiastical Livings were in the Gift of the Bishop of Bangor who is both Patron and Ordinary thereof One of these Comportions being in the Possession of the present Lord Bishop of London fell void by his promotion to that See and K. Charles 2d who claim'd the disposal of it for that one Turn by Virtue of his Prerogative would have Conferr'd it on Mr. Hill then or lately before a Preacher in Zealand But he being as is supposed unwilling to perform the Conditions required to obtain the Institution procured the Grant of this Comportion to be made to Mr. Spademan who had Institution to it in the year Sixteen Hundred Seventy Four not to his own Benefit but in Trust for Mr. Hill as Mr. Hill himself sets forth in his Petition to the House of Commons as is mentioned in the Votes of the Fourteenth of January last The other Comportion being fallen void in the Year 1684 Dr. Humphrey Lloyd then Bishop of Bangor took it in Commendam and considering the Cathedral Church of Bangor had not one Penny Revenue to support the Fabrick or maintain the Choir within so that it was maintained only by the Charity of the Gentry and Clergy And considering that the Vicars of Llanddinam had but very small Maintenance procured an Act of Parliament 1. Jacob. 2. to vest both the said Comportions upon the next Avoidance that should happen in the Dean and Chapter of Bangor not to their own USE but in Trust for Increase of Five Poor Vicarages upon the Place and for support of the Fabrick and Choir of the Church of Bangor which was then in great Decay and still wants very great Repairs This Comportion held by Bishop Lloyd fell void by his Death and hath been ever since Enjoyed by the Dean and Chapter and by them applyed entirely to those Pious Vses to which they were appointed by the Act of Parliament and in such Proportions as the late Arch-Bishop Sancroft and the then Bishop of Bangor directed and as they were empowered by the said Act to do The other Comportion became void by Mr. Spademan's not taking the Oaths to the King and the late Queen of blessed Memory as obliged by the Act for Abrogating the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy and appointing other Oaths c. And is by that Avoidance Legally and actually Vested in the said Dean and Chapter to the Pious and Charitable Uses aforesaid But the Possession was and still is detained from them by the Power and Interest of Mr. Hill The Dean and Chapter brought their Ejectment which coming to be Tryed at Salop there upon pretence of a Fault in the Declaration they were Nonsuited The pretended Fault was That no Lease was Sealed to the Lessee in the Ejectment whereas the Common Practice hath been that Lease Enter and Outry shou'd be Confessed but here it was denyed After this the Dean and Chapter brought a new Ejectment but this was stopped by Arts and Amusements of Mr. Hill in order to delay Proceedings at Law and to bring this Bill-in-Parliament to reinvest the Rectory of Llanddinam in Mr. Spademan for the Benefit of him the said Mr. Hill which it is Pray'd may not pass First Because he never had any Pretention to the Rectory of Llanddinam but to one Share or Moyety of it 2. Because the Transaction between Mr. Hill and Spademan for the first Obtaining and Enjoying this Comportion was by no means Fair and Legal and tends to over-throw all the Laws against Symony and for Vniformity For if one may take a Living and be Instituted to it for the Benefit of another then he for whose Advantage it is may safely pay Money for obtaining such Living and he that is Instituted may take the Oath against Symony safely for he gave no Money nor knows of none and yet the true Symoniak may enjoy the Profits If one Man may be Employed to take Institution take Oaths and make Subscriptions instead of another then any Papist Socinian or Jew c. may have the benefit of any of the Dignities or Benefices of the Church if he can procure any one that will do the same Kindness for him as Mr. Spademan did for Mr. Hill If this Secret had been known in the late Reign it is easy to imagine what had become of all our Church Preferments Since Mr. Hill never had any Legal Title to this Comportion and Mr. Spademan has forfeited his Title also if ever he had any it is hoped That such an extraordinary Method as making a new Law to give him a New Title in Law which at present he hath not will not pass It is hoped that a new Law will not be made to defeat a Charity designed for the Increase of Poor Vicarages and Maintenance of Ten or more Poor Men and Youths and for Repairing of a Ruinous Cathedral to which they have a present Right in order to increase the Riches of Wealthy Preacher in Foreign Parts who has already receiv'd the Profits without any good Right for 22 Years amounting to about Seventeen Hundred Pounds It does not appear that Mr. John Spademan that took the Oaths at Hick's Hall is the same Spademan that was Instituted to Llanddinam there being no addition to his Name in the Certificate annexed to Mr. Hill's Petition signifying either his place of Abode or Calling Nor doth it appear That the same John Spademan who was Instituted to Llanddinam is now alive he having never appeared at Llanddinam since the time of his Institution in the Year Sixteen Hundred Seventy four nor ever attended any Episcopal Visitation or Diocesan Synod which he was as much obliged to do and as lyable to Punishment for not doing as any Incumbent in the Diocese Lastly The Passing such a Bill as this to restore Mr. Spademan to what he hath forfeited by not taking the Oaths may be of dangerous consequence in the Example to the Government and to several Loyal and Worthy Persons who are preferred and Employed in such Places as others have forfeited by not taking the Oaths in due time and some that have since taken the Oaths are not Restor'd to the Livings which they so forfeited and if the said Comportion had been now a Presentative Living as it was when Spademan had it in Sixteen Hundred Seventy four it would have been disposed of soon after the First of February Sixteen hundred Eighty Nine as other Livings a●e Objection They may Object That it is hard to take advantage of Spademan's not taking the Oaths in due time he being beyond Sea Answ There is a Weekly Correspondence between England and Rotterdam no Act past here but was soon known there even to Persons of less Intelligence than Mr. Hill the Dutch Prints give Weekly Account of what passes in Parliament as they did of the Depriving of the Bishops and others for not taking the Oaths however an Act of Parliament being once past every one concerned in it is obliged at his peril to take noticeof it and so was Hill and his Trustee Spademan who did not take the Oaths 'till he Heard the Dean and Chapter were about Seizing the Comportion as forfeited by the Act and he might and no doubt did Hear as well of the Act it self Answ Secondly That the said Comportion being by the said Act 1. Jac. 2. Vested in the Dean and Chapter in Trust for the Augmentation of Five poor Viccarages maintenance of the Choir and Repairs of a large Ancient Ruinous Cathedral the Dean and Chapter could but take all the advantage the Law allowed them by Spademan's Forfeiture in Virtue of their said Trust and their Neglecting to do so or their Conniving to Divert and misapply what is by Law appointed for those Charitable and Pious Vses would have been in them a kind of Sacrilegious Attempt Such Diverting or misapplying as well as any differnce arising about the same being also by the said Act of Parliament referred to the Determination of the Lord Archbishop of Canturbury for the time being That Spademan is still as much a Trustee as ever for Hill as is owned in his Petition and mentioned in the Votes of the House of Commons of the 14th of January last tho' the Words Declaring such Trust be Omitted in the Bill as now brought up form the House of Commons 1674 1684 1685 1688 1690 1694 1695