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A29453 William and Mary ... whereas we are credibly informed ... that on Monday, the eleventh day of September last the greatest part of the parish church of Towyn ... fell down and sunk ... we ... have given and granted ... full power, licence and authority to ask, gather ... and take the alms and charitable benevolence of our loving subjects ... England and Wales. Sovereign (1689-1694 : William and Mary); William III, King of England, 1650-1702.; Mary II, Queen of England, 1662-1694. 1694 (1694) Wing B4595; ESTC R170804 2,408 1

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WILLIAM and MART By the Grace of GOD King and Queen of England Scotland France and Ireland Defenders of the Faith c. To all and singular Archbishops Bishops Arch Deacons Deans and their Officials Parsons Vicars Curates and all other Spiritual Persons And also to all Justices of the Peace Mayors Sheriffs Bayliffs Constables Church-Wardens Chapel-Wardens Headboroughs Collectors for the Poor and their Overseers And also to all Officers of Cities Boroughs and Towns Corporate and to all other Our Officers Ministers and Subjects whatsoever they be as well within Liberties as without to whom these Presents shall come Greeting VVhere as We are Credibly Informed as well by the humble Petition of the Minister Church-Wardens and Inhabitants of Towyn in the County of Merioneth and Diocess of Bangor as also by a Certificate made at the General Quarter Sessions of the Peace holden at Bala in and for the said County on Thursday the Eleventh Day of January last past under the Hands and Seals of our Trusty and Welbeloved Reger Price John Lloyd Edmond Meyrick and John Vaughan Esquires Justices of the Peace for our said County and under the Hands of Our Trusty and Welbeloved Sir John Wynne Knight and Baronet Thomas Bulkley Sir William Williams Baronet Price Deverux Edward Vaughan Edward Brereton and Robert Price Members of Parliament for North Wales That on Monday the Eleventh Day of September last the greatest part of the Parish Church of Towyn aforesaid being one of the greatest Churches within the Diocese of Bangor together with the Steeple and Ring of Bells by casualty and great mischance fell down and Sunk to the great Grief of the poor disconsolate Parishone●s who are thereby destitute of a suitable and decent Place to meet and celebrate the Worship of Almighty GOD in according to their Duty and earnest Desire and not being able to Rebuild the same without the Assistance and Relief of Pious and Charitable Christians have therefore humbly besought Us to Grant unto them Our gracious Letters Patents under Our Great Seal of England to License and Authorize them to Ask and Receive the Charitable Benevolence and Contributions of all Our Loving Subjects in the Counties and Places in these Our Letters Patents mentioned towards Rebuilding the said Church VVe being willing to forward all Good Works especially wherein the Worship of GOD is concern'd have Condescended to their humble Request and have Given and Granted and by these Our Letters Patents under Our Great Seal of England do Give and Grant to the said Parishioners of Towyn and to their Deputy and Deputies the Bearer and Bearers hereof Authorised and Deputed in this behalf as afterwards in these Presents is Appointed full Power Licence and Authority to Ask Gather Receive and Take the Alms and Charitable Benevolence of all Our Loving Subjects not only Housholders but also Servants Strangers and Others in all and every the Counties Cities Boroughs Towns Corporate Priviledged Places Parishes Chapelries Towns Villages Hamlets and all other Places whatsoever within Our Dominion of Wales and in the Counties of Salop Stafford Warwick Worcester Glocester Hereford Chester and Monmeuth and in all Cities Towns Parishes and Places within the said Counties and not elsewhere for and towards the said Pious and Charitable Use VVherefo● We Require and Command you and every of you that at such time and times as the said Deputy and Deputies the Bearer and Bearers hereof shall come or repair to any your Churches Chapels or Assemblies for Religious Worship to Ask and Receive the Alms and Charitable Benevolence of Our said loving Subjects quietly to permit and suffer them so to do without any manner your Letts or Contradictions And you the said Parsons Vicars and Curates upon some Lords Day soon after that these Our Letters Patents shall be produced and the true Copies thereof tendred unto you or the said Church-Wardens or Chapel-Wardens respectively and before the expiration of these Presents deliberately and affectionately to publish and declare the Tenor of these Our Letters Patents unto Our said Loving Subjects and earnestly exhort perswade and stir them up to extend their Liberal Contributions towards the Rebuilding of the said Church and Steeple And you the said Church-Wardens Chapel-Wardens Collectors for the Poor and their Overseers to Collect the Alms of Our said Loving Subjects and the Sums of Money Collected by Virtue hereof to Endorse upon these Our Letters Patents or the said Copies in Words at length and not in Figures together also with the Names of the Counties Cities Towns Par●hes Chape●ries and Places respectively wherein and the time when such Sums were gathered which Endorsements are to be subscribed by the Ministers and your selves and also to be enter'd into your Books of Accompts for the said Parish Chapelries and Places respectively And you are also to deliver the said Monies with all the said Copies unto the said Bearer and Bearers hereof Authorised as herein is appointed whensoever you shall be by them or any of them thereunto required but to no other Person or Persons whatsoever whose receiving thereof together with their or any of their Acquittance or Acquittances shall be your sufficient Discharge for so doing Which said Bearer and Bearers hereof are hereby Willed and Required upon Receipt of the said Monies forthwith to pay the same and deliver all the said Copies unto the Right Reverend Fathers in GOD William Lord Bishop of Litchfield and Coveniry Humphry Lord Bishop of Bangor the Lord Bishop of St. Asaph Our Trusty and Welbeloved Sir John Wynne Knight and Baronet Sir Robert Owen Kt. Edward Vaughan Griffith Vaughan Colonel Hugh Nanney William Pugh Roger Price John Lloyd Vincent Corbet Richard Owen Owen Anwill Robert Price John Vaughan Esquires John Vaughan Gentleman and William Lewis Vicar of Towyn aforesaid whom We do hereby Constitute and Appoint Commissioners and Trustees of all such Money as shall be Collected by Virtue hereof with full Power to them or any Five or more of them whereof the Bishop of the Diocese of Bangor for the time being to be always one as well to Depute and Appoint such Person or Persons as they shall think fit to Collect the said Money as also to dispose of the same towards the Rebuilding of the said Church and Steeple and to or for no other Use whatsoever And Lastly Our Will and Pleasure is That no Person or Persons whatsoever shall Collect or Receive the said Monies of or from the said Church-Wardens Chapel-Wardens Collectors for the Poor and their Overseers or any other but such only as shall be Appointed and Authorized so to do by Deputation under the Hands and Seals of the above-named Commissioners and Trustees or any Five or more of them In VVitness whereof We have caused these Our Letters to be made Patents and to continue for One Year from the day of the Date hereof and no longer VVitness Our Selves at Westminster the Sixth day of November in the Sixth Year of Our Reign GOD Save the KING and QUEEN Fall In the SAVOY Printed by Edward Jones for William Fall dwelling in Weld-str●et 1694.