JB/006/207/001

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15 April 1813
Church

IV
Ch. Non

1
False plea

Necessity to maintenance
this not considered in
fact: not temp. Elizabethæ.
Accumulation allowed
to an unlimited amount
— All the limitation was
to enumerate the classes
of persons allowed allowed
to accumulate without
limits, by exemption from
residence — viz in 12
instances without licences,
in other 12 with.
p.1

2
Such exemptions (no
limitation being applied)
disapproved per J. B.
Suppose limitation, &
for the second benefice
there is nothing to do —
this is not reason for not
residing in the first.
p.1

3
Where there is something
to do at the second benefice
— is the making up
of the requisite income
a sufficient reason for
non residence at the
first, during all or a
part of the year. p.2

4
Even on received grounds
a condition should be
necessary to non-residence
viz. that in the Parish
in question there
could be found no unexceptionable
priest
to accept the office &
reside. If any man
would accept it, the
maintenance would
be sufficient in the opinion
of the best judge.
p.3.

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5
Objector — A man with so
small an income must be
unfit — his poverty exposes
him to contempt.
Answer — this principle
is not acted on: if your
minimum be £50 per
annum — there are 1061
at or below this mark —
all unfit unless they
procure a second benefice.
p 3.

6
If they are fit, the pretences
end — if not — the
means of preventing
livings from being occupied
by unfit incumbents
are ineffectual.
What security is there
for any of them getting
the 2d benefice on which
their fitness depends.
p.4

7
Livings from £40 to £50
— 433 — from £30 to £40 —
353 — from 20 to 30 —
191 — from £10 to 20 — 72 —
not exceeding £10 — 12.
Yet from their smallness
of value these are
never vacant — in 1810
only 74 vacancies in 10261
livings — in 1811 96 vacancies
— in 10,801 —
not more than what
the usual deaths and
promotions will account
for. p.4

8
These poor livings served
by incumbents or curates
— & what is a poor curate
fitter than a poor incumbent
for the duty. p.4.

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9
In case of deficiency of
ecclesiastical income,
no objection if the deficiency
be made up
from private income.
This taken into account
in the return of Curates
incomes — viz. in order
to encrease ecclesiastical
income not taken into
account in the other
occasion — in order that
it may not be diminished.
p.5

10
Conceditur — the two
occasions at different
times — but from the
same school — Not
likely that this circumstance
did not suggest
itself to such acute and
experienced eyes. p.5

11
Conceditur that by
the curates bill, no
new burden on the
people — all that is given
to one class, is taken
from another — The
reason was, that new
and large burdens
had already been imposed
— viz the £100,000
per annum It was
hence concluded, that
further burthens
would not meet acquiescence.
The class
burthened, the opulent
and idle — and thence those
naturally favoured by
the ruling few, as appears
from the non-residence act.
But the decay of the establishment
being seen,
an endeavour was made
to support it. The burthened
class was the
idlers, unknown to their
flocks but by the burthens
imposed upon them, uninfluential except by means
of terror. The class benefited was the working class
by whom all the influence except that of terror was
exercised. p.7

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12
Had salvation or morality
been the object,
when two benefices were
united, the residence
would be secured on the
parish where it would
be of most wanted use.
The contrary rule adopted.
Examples will be
brought to view. p.8

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