JB/006/127/001

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5 Jany 1813
Church

Ch. 16. Simony

2

23.
The 1st. 2. (or 4) are
scarce distinguishable
as to effect and
tendency — their
innoxiousness it
is supposed, already
appears. p.8

24
3. As to the 3rd. if it
be in the power of
incumbent by collusion
with the patron
or any one else, to
diminish the value
of the benefice, it
must either arise
from defects of the
law, or be an offence
against the law.
In both cases it

injures the successors,
& is essentially
different from issues
1. & 2. where no
determinate injury
is committed.
p.8.

25
This (per Paley) is
the worst simony,
as it robs the successors
to pay for it.
p.8

26.
With propriety it
may be called fraud,
but if the 2 others are
called simony, it
creates confusion
to lumpt this mischievous
with those innoxious acts. p.8.

27.
However it may be
in these two other
cases, what resemblance
is there between
what is done in this
case, & what was done
by Simon Magus.
p 8

28
With propriety it may
be termed an act of
fraud — but it is that
sort of fraud which
through the whole establishment
has been
carried to the utmost
length viz. by length of
leases — fires &c. It has
naturally been the endeavour of every man to enrich himself at his successors expence. p. 9

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29
To combat this propensity,
has not a little
occupied the Legislature.
p.9

30
If the gain to the patron
comes out of the gains
of the incumbent only
in question only, it
belongs to the 4th species.

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or 1.
4. The object of the
institution by which
the fourth species
of offence is constituted
is to guard
parish priests against
their patron's rapacity.
p.10

or 2.
For this part of the
law, a short & undistinguishing

judgement will not
serve. p.10

or 3.
Supposing the pecuniary
provision
well adapted to its
ends, the practice would
be simply pronounced
mischievous; since
the effect would be to
diminish it by a
course of defalcation
the extent of which
cannot be estimated.
p.10

or 4.
The maximum of
it's effects is, reduction
of the stipend to that
for which a Curate
is obtainable. p.10

or 5
This effect, & consequently
the practice, is decidedly
reprobated.
Of this reprobation,
the ground is various.
p.11.

or 6.
This compact (says he)
is independantly of
the oath, a pernicious
condescendence
on the part of the
clergy — as it tends to
introduce the practice
of giving revenues to
lay patrons, & supplying
patrons, or supplying
the duty by
indigent stipendiaries.
p.11.

Identifier: | JB/006/127/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 6.
Date_1	1813-01-05	Marginal Summary Numbering	23-30, or 1 - or 6
Box	006	Main Headings	church of englandism
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