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Church. Earl of Harrowby's Speech, on &c.
Heads of the Bill
1. Incumbent Non Resident
and Non-duty-doing
shall within a year
name a Curate to be
licensed — penalty, forfeiture
of exemption or licence
No Curate so nominated
Bishop to nominate,
with Salary as per Act.
2. Bishop may appoint
Commissioners to licence
Curates.
☞ This in case of Bishops
, laziness or
sickness
3. In the licence, Bishop
to appoint Curate's salary
this conclusive evidence
of the amount, Difference
between Incumbent & Curate
as to amount payment
3— arrears to be determined
by Bishop Summarily.
on non-payment,
benefice sequestered.
Licence not specifying
salary, void.
4 Incumbent non resident 6
months. Power to Bishop to
assign to Curate Parsonage
and Garden. No house,
licence to specify which
Curate shall reside in
the church, or where
else — Distance not to
exceed 5 miles
☞ From what month?
5. Of every licence or
revocation copy to be
filed in Bishop's Registry
kept in book open to
inspection (except as
excepted p.9.) do to Church
warden, within a month.
6. Salaries which the
Bishop shall appoint
Incumbents not residing
nor duty-doing:
1. Minimum £80 or
whole value.
2. Population 500 persons
salary not less than
£100 or whole value.
3. Population 1.000
salary not less than
£150 or whole value.
7. For licensing Incumbent
or Curate of one Parish
to serve another
(depart not more than
5 times) Power to Bishop
to appoint salary
less by £30 than
as above
8.4 Population 500, Value
£400, Power to
Bishop to assign up
to £50 more.
9. Incumbent, after
residing 3 years, or ever since
induction, non-resident
or incapable from "age,
"sickness, or other sufficient
reason — a free poverty
allowance of full salary
"or great hardship, power
to Bishop to assign to
Curate a "reasonable
salary.
Evidence, sale of one
or more Clergyman.
Licence has to contain
substance of the ",
and Bishop's
reasons. Book separate,
not inspectable but by
leave of Bishop or order
of Court.
Ch
Copies of such licences
not to contain the
substance of the Certificates
10 Act not to extend to
encrease salary to Curates
1. Of Incumbents holding
living, before passing
this Act
2. or do perpetually
annext to any dignity.
3. Mastership of College.
4. Professorship a University.
☞ All useless honours
11. Agreements on derogation
void: difference
recoverable by Curate
or his representative.
viz. of Incumbent, but
not of his do.
Payment enforceable
by sequestration
III.1
12. No licence for
more than two Churches
Or in one day: except
in special cases, &
thence Curate not to
travel more than 15
miles.
Reasons to be stated
in the licence.
III.2
13. Officiating Minister
more than one necessary
or usual. Bishop may
appoint Curates more
than one: Salary
one not exceeding
£150. nor of all
half the value of the
living.
This not to affect existing
Incumbent
14. Incumbent dividing
his Residency between
two or more livings
Bishop to "assign to the
"Curate a due proportion
"of the salaries required?
15. Sta by application
for Non Residence
Licence.
1. Salary proposed
2. Curate's proposed Residence in parsonage
in parish — or at what
distance
16. So, Incumbent
Non Resident by exemption
"Unlawful" to Bishop
to licence without such
statements, as above.
17. Act to extend to all
1. Benefices
2. Donations"
3. Perpetual Curacies.
4. Parochial Chapelries
(exempt & nonexempt)
5. Peculiars.
18. Parish exempt —
peculiars. Church-
wardens may complain
of Non Residence to Bishop of Non
Residence and want
of him provision for
Curate: on proof by
Oath, Bishop to execute.
18. Provision for p
situation in divers Dioceses.
19. Procedure Summary
20. Bishops' powers
not to be allowed by
this Act, except
when expressly so
provided.
21. Not to extend
to Ireland.
3. Any other parish
served by him as Curate
or Incumbent?
4. Duty usually performed.
5. Gross value of the
living
6. — and of any other
which the Incumbent has
Any of these statements Licence "unlawful" [not void.] Application kept in Registry: open only as above [Req.?]
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