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state_n	church_n	civil_a	commonwealth_n	1,637	5	9.2456	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A74314	An Act for providing maintenance for preaching-ministers, and other pious uses. Die Veneris, 8 Junii, 1649. Ordered by the Commons assembled in Parliament, that this act be forthwith printed and published. Hen: Scobell, Cleric. Parliament'.	England and Wales.	1649 (1649)	Thomason E1060_36; ESTC R208611	6,066	15

AN ACT FOR Providing MAINTENANCE for Preaching-Ministers And other PIOUS USES Die Veneris 8 Junii 1649. ORdered by the Commons assembled in Parliament That this Act be forthwith printed and published Hen Scobell Cleric Parliament ' London Printed for Edward Husband Printer to the Parliament of England and are to be sold at his Shop in Fleetstreet at the Sign of the Golden-Dragon near the Inner-Temple 1649. Die Veneris 8 Junii 1649. AN ACT For providing maintenance for Preaching Ministers And other Pious uses VVHereas it hath been found by long experience That the Government of the Church of England by Arch-Bishops Bishops their Chancellors Commissaries Deans Deans and Chapters Arch-Deacons and other their Officers depending on that Hierarchy hath been a great impediment to the perfect Reformation and growth of Religion and very prejudicial to the Civil State and Government of the Commonwealth And therefore hath been by authority of Parliament abolished and taken away and all their Manors Lands Tenements Hereditaments appointed to be sold for the payment of the just debts of the Commonwealth and other necessary charges occasioned by the late Civil War promoted mainly by and in favor of the said Hierarchy saving and excepting all Tythes appropriate Oblations Obventions Portions of Tythes appropriate of or belonging to the said Arch-Bishops Bishops Deans and Deans and Chapters and others of the said Hierarchy and to all and every of them all which together with Twenty thousand pounds yearly Rent belonging to the late King and Crown of England hereafter mentioned The Commons assembled in Parliament have thought fit to be reserved and setled for a competent maintenance of Preaching Ministers in such Cities Towns and places where it is wanting throughout England and Wales Be it therefore Enatted and it is Enacted and Ordained by this present Parliament and by the authority thereof That all Tythes appropriate Oblations Obventions Pentions Portions of Tythes appropriate Offerings Fee-farm Rents issuing out of Tythes of the said Archbishops and Bishops the said Deans Deans and Chapters and others of the said Hierarchy with all and every their appurtenances of what nature and quality soever they be which at any time within ten years before the beginning of this present Parliament were belonging to them or any of them which they or any of them had held and enjoyed in the right of his or their Archbishopricks or Bishopricks Deanaries Dignities Offices and Functions or places respectively together with all Charters Deeds Books Accompts Rolls and other Writings and Evidences whatsoever concerning the premises or any of them belonging thereunto shall from and after the 6th day of January which shall be in the year 1649. be vested and setled and judged and deemed to be and are hereby in the real and actual possession and seisin of Sir Henry Holcroft Knight Sir John Thorowgood of Kensington Knight William Steel Esq John Coke Esq Francis West Esq Lieutenant of the Tower Henry Danvers Esq John Brown Esq George Cooper Esq Mr. Richard Reed Mr. Richard Yong William Skinner Esq Nicholas Marten Esq and Mr. John Pocoke their Heirs and Assigns And they the said Sir Henry Holcroft Sir John Thorowgood William Steel John Coke Francis West Lieutenant of the Tower Henry Danvers John Brown George Cooper Mr. Richard Reed Mr. Richard Yong William Skinner Nicholas Marten and John Pocoke and the survivor and survivor of them and their Heirs and Assigns shall have hold possess and enjoy all the said premises to them their Heirs and Assigns without any Entry or other Act whatsoever and for themselves their Leasees Farmers and Tenants discharged and acquitted of all Titles Troubles and Incumbrances as freely and in as large ample and beneficial maner to all intents and purposes as any of the persons or Corporations whose offices or places by any Ordinance or Act of this present Parliament are taken away and abolished did hold or enjoy or of right ought to have held or enjoyed at any time by the space of ten years before the beginning of this Parliament or at any time since any Order or Ordinance Act or Acts of Parliament to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding And whereas by Act of Parliament made the Six and twentieth year of the Reign of the late King Henry the Eighth concerning first fruits of of all Ecclesiastical Dignities and Livings payable to the Crown and also concerning one yearly Rent of Pension amounting to the value of the tenth part of all the Revenues Rents Tythes and other profits as well Spiritual as Temporal belonging to any Archbishoprick Bishoprick Abbacy Monastry Priory Archdeaconry Deaconry Cathedral and Collegiate Church Parsonage Vicarage Chantry or other Benefice or Promotion Spiritual in England and Wales payable yearly to the King and his Successors which said Act of Parliament is revived and continued by another Act of Parliament made primo Elizabethae for restitution of first-fruits and tenths to the Crown with some alterations and additions and also repealing other Acts of Parliament touching the said first-fruits and tenths and by the said Statute uniting and annexing the same to the Crown Imperial of the Kingdom of England for ever which Office of Kingship is abolished by an Act of this present Parliament Be it therefore Ordained and it is hereby Ordained and Enacted by the authority aforesaid That all the said first-fruits and tenths as well Spiritual as Temporal payable or intended to be paid by vertue of the said Acts of Parliament of vicesimo sexto Henrici 8º and primo Elizabethae or either of them or by vertue of any other Act of Parliament made since that time concerning first-fruits and tenths payable unto any Kings or Queens of England other then such first-fruits and tenths as are chargeable upon or issuing out of any Lands or possessions heretofore belonging to any Archbishops Bishops Deans Deans and Chapters or other persons depending on that Hierarchy whose Offices and Titles by any Act or Ordinance of this present Parliament are abolished and taken away shall be and are hereby vested and setled adjudged and deemed to be and are hereby in the very real and actual possession and seisin of Sir Henry Holcroft and the rest of the abovenamed Trustees their Heirs and Assigns and they the said Trustees and the Survivors and Survivor of them and their heirs and assigns shall have hold possess and enjoy all the said first-fruits and tenths except before excepted with their appurtenances to them their heirs and assigns as freely and in as large ample and beneficial maner to all intents and purposes as the late King at any time during his Reign held and enjoyed the same any Act or Acts of Parliament to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding Nevertheless in trust and confidence and to the intent and purpose that they the said Sir Henry Holcroft Sir John Thorowgood William Steel John Coke Francis West Lieutenant of the Tower Henry Danvers John Brown George Cooper Mr. Richard Read Mr. Richard Yong