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england_n	lord_n	say_a	seal_n	3,083	5	9.0207	4	false

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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

said Trustees or any five of them for the making up of the maintenance of the Minister in such Church or Chappel One hundred pounds per annum any thing in this present Act to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding And to the intent and purpose that speedy care and course may be taken for providing of a competent maintenance for supply and incouragement of Preaching-Ministers in the several Parishes in England and Wales Be it likewise Ordained and Enacted That the Lords Commissioners of the great-Great-Seal of England for the time being shall by vertue of this Act have full power and authority and are hereby authorized and required to award and issue forth several Commissions under the said great-Great-Seal into all and every the counties and cities in ENGLAND and WALES to be directed unto such and so many persons as by the Parliament now assembled shall be nominated assigned and appointed thereby Authorizing and Requiring them or any five or more of them and giving them full power and authority by the Oathes of good and lawful men as by all other good ways and lawful means to enquire and finde out the true yearly value of all Parsonages and Vicarages presentative and of all other Spiritual and Ecclesiastical Benefice and Livings unto which any cure of Souls is annexed lying and being within such counties and cities and of all such particularly to enquire and certifie unto the Court of Chancery what each of them are worth truly and really by the year and the Names of the present Incumbents Proprietors and Possessors thereof and of such person and persons as receive the profits and to whose use and who supplies the cure and what he hath for his Salary and how many Chappels are belonging to Parish Churches and how scituate and fit to be united within the Limits of such Counties and Cities within which they are directed and authorized to enquire and how the several Churches and Chappels are supplyed by Preaching-Ministers that so course may be taken for providing both for preaching and for Maintenance where the same shall be found to be needful and necessary And it is hereby further Enacted That the said Trustees the Survivors and Survivor of them or the greater part of them his and their Heirs and Asssigns shall have power and are hereby authorized to name and appoint such Collectors Receivers Treasurers and other Officers as they shall think fit and convenient for collecting Levying and Receiving of all or any of the said moneys as also for issuing out of the same for the purposes aforesaid by Warrant under the Hands of the said Trustees their heirs or assigns or any three or more of them in such maner as they shall think fit and appoint and to call to an accompt from time to time upon Oath all such Collectors Treasurers and other persons who shall receive any the Rents Moneys and Profits beforementioned and to give such fitting and reasonable allowance for the same by yearly stipend respectively or otherwise as the said Trustees or the greater part of them shall think fit and so order and appoint in writing under their Hands Provided also That this Act or any thing therein contained do not at all extend to adnul or make void an Act of this present Parliament entituled An Act for the setling of the Rectory or Parsonage House of Burford in the County of Oxon and some of the Gleab-Land on William Lenthal Esq now Speaker and his Heirs or any thing therein contained but that the same shall and may remain to the said William Lenthal his Heirs and assigns for ever accordingly Any thing in this present Act contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding Die Veneris 8 Junii 1649. ORdered by the Commons assembled in Parliament That this Act be forthwith printed and published Hen Scobell Cleric Parliamenti