Church document details

Source:

The London Gazette.

Title:

Roffey, All Saints - Transfer of Patronage.

Date:

29 Apr 1910.

Body:

At the Court at Scant James's, the 22nd day of April, 1910.

PRESENT,

HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALES.

Lord President.

Lord Steward.

Sir Fleetwood Edwards.

Colonel Seely.

WHEREAS His Majesty was pleased, by His Commission dated the fifth day of March, one thousand nine hundred and ten, to nominate and appoint His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales, in His Majesty's absence from His Realm in Foreign Parts, to hold on His Majesty's behalf, His Privy Council, and to signify thereat His approval of any matter or thing whereunto His Royal Highness should be authorized by writing under His Majesty's Sign Manual, and to do further on His Majesty's behalf any matter or thing for the purposes of the said Commission whereunto His Royal Highness should be authorized in manner aforesaid.

And whereas the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England have in pursuance of the Act of the thirty-third and thirty-fourth years of Her late Majesty Queen Victoria, chapter thirty-nine, and of the Acts therein mentioned, that is to say, the Act of the third and fourth years of Her said late Majesty, chapter one hundred and thirteen, the Act of the fourth and fifth years of Her said late Majesty, chapter thirty-nine, and the Act of the thirty-first and thirty-second years of Her said late Majesty, chapter one hundred and fourteen, duly prepared and laid before His Majesty in Council a scheme bearing date the twentieth day of January, in the year one thousand nine hundred and ten, in the words following, that is to say:

"We, the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England, in pursuance of the Act of the thirty-third and thirty-fourth years of Her late Majesty Queen Victoria, chapter thirty-nine, and of the Acts therein mentioned, that is to say, the Act of the third and fourth years of Her said late Majesty, chapter one hundred and thirteen, the Act of the fourth and fifth years of Her said late Majesty, chapter thirty-nine, and the Act of the thirty-first and thirty-second years of Her said late Majesty, chapter one hundred and fourteen, have prepared and now humbly lay before Your Majesty in Council the following scheme for effecting a transfer of the ownership of the advowson or perpetual right of patronage of and presentation to the church and cure (hereinafter called 'the said benefice') of All Saints, Roffey, in the county of Sussex and in the diocese of Chichester.

"Whereas the advowson or perpetual right of patronage of and presentation to the said benefice of All Saints, Roffey, is vested for an estate in fee simple in possession free from incumbrances in Gertrude Smith, wife of Arthur George Smith, of Roffey House, Horsham, in the county of Sussex, a Captain (retired) of Your Majesty's Army.

"And whereas the said Gertrude Smith is desirous that the whole advowson or perpetual right of patronage of and presentation to the said benefice of All Saints, Roffey, vested in her as aforesaid, should be transferred to and be vested in her, the said Gertrude Smith, the said Arthur George Smith, and the Right Reverend Charles John, now Bishop of Chichester, to hold as joint tenants for the term of the natural life of her, the said Gertrude Smith, and thereafter should be transferred to and be vested in the Bishop of Chichester and his successors Bishops of Chichester for ever.

"And whereas the said Gertrude Smith, Arthur George Smith, and Charles John, Bishop of Chichester, are consenting jointly to accept the transfer to them of the said advowson or perpetual right of patronage for the said estate for the life of the said Gertrude Smith and the said Charles John, Bishop of Chichester, is consenting to accept the transfer to him and his successors, Bishops of Chichester, of the said advowson or perpetual right of patronage for such estate in fee simple expectant upon the death of the said Gertrude Smith as aforesaid and as Bishop of the diocese wherein is situate the said benefice of All Saints, Roffey, is as required by the Acts in the hereinbefore mentioned Act recited or some or one of them consenting to the transfer herein before described, and hereinafter recommended of the whole advowson or perpetual right of patronage of the said benefice.

"And whereas the transfer of the patronage of the said benefice of All Saints, Roffey, which is hereinbefore mentioned and hereinafter recommended and proposed will render the same benefice more eligible for augmentation out of funds under our control, and this circumstance will in our opinion tend to make better provision for the cure of souls in the parish or district in or in respect of which the right of patronage or advowson so recommended and proposed to be transferred as aforesaid arises or exists, that is to say, in the new parish of All Saints, Roffey.

"Now therefore with the consent as aforesaid of the said Gertrude Smith (in testimony whereof she has signed and sealed this scheme), with the consent as aforesaid of the said Arthur George Smith (in testimony whereof he has signed and sealed this scheme) and with the consent as aforesaid of the said Charles John, Bishop of Chichester (in testimony whereof he has signed this scheme and sealed the same with his episcopal seal), we, the said Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England, humbly recommend and propose that upon and from the day of the date of the publication in the London Gazette of any Order of Your Majesty in Council ratifying this scheme and without any conveyance or assurance in the law other than such duly gazetted Order the whole advowson or perpetual right of patronage of and presentation to the said benefice of All Saints, Roffey, now vested in her the said Gertrude Smith, shall be transferred to the said Gertrude Smith, the said Arthur George Smith, and the said Charles John, Bishop of Chichester, to hold as joint tenants for the term of the natural life of the said Gertrude Smith and as from the decease of the said Gertrude Smith shall be transferred to and vested in the said Charles John, Bishop of Chichester, and his successors, Bishops of Chichester, for ever.

"And we further recommend and propose that nothing herein contained shall prevent us from recommending and proposing any further or other measures relating to the matters aforesaid or any of them, in accordance with the provisions of the said Acts or of any of them or of any other Act of Parliament."

And whereas the said scheme has been approved at a Council held by His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales under the authority of the said Commission:

Now, therefore, His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales, being authorized thereto by writing under His Majesty's Sign Manual, doth hereby, by and with the advice of His Majesty's Privy Council, on behalf of His Majesty, ratify the said scheme, and order and direct that the same and every part thereof shall be effectual in law immediately from and after the time when this Order shall have been duly published in the London Gazette pursuant to the said Acts ; and His Royal Highness doth further, on behalf of His Majesty, by and with the like advice, direct that this Order be forthwith registered by the Registrar of the said diocese of Chichester.

Almeric FitzRoy.

Transcription details

Transcribed by: Michael Metcalfe.

Church(es) covered:

All Saints.

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