Church document details

Source:

The London Gazette.

Title:

Crowborough, All Saints - Benefaction.

Date:

12 Nov 1880.

Body:

WE, the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England, in consideration of a benefaction, consisting of a clear yearly rent-charge of one hundred pounds upon the revenues of the rectory of Rotherfield, in the county of Sussex, and in the diocese of Chichester, which said yearly rent-charge has been permanently secured to the district of All Saints, Crowborough, in the parish of Rotherfield aforesaid, as an endowment, for the said district, do hereby, in pursuance of the Act of the twenty-ninth and thirtieth years of Her Majesty, chapter one hundred and eleven, section five, grant to the Minister or Incumbent of the said district of All Saints, Crowborough, and to his successors, to meet such benefaction, one yearly sum or stipend of twenty-three pounds six shillings and eight pence, such yearly sum or stipend to be payable out of the common fund under our control, and to be calculated as from the day of the publication of these presents in the London Gazette, and to be receivable in equal half-yearly portions, on the first day of May and on the first day of November in each and every year : Provided always, that if at any time lands, tithes, or other hereditaments sufficient, in our opinion, to produce the said yearly sum or stipend, or any part thereof, shall be annexed by us to the said district, in substitution for such yearly sum or stipend, or for such part thereof, our liability for the payment of such yearly sum or stipend, or of such part thereof, as the case may be, shall thereupon and thereafter cease and determine.

In witness whereof, we have hereunto set our common seal, this fourth day of November, in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty.

(L.S.)

Transcription details

Transcribed by: Michael Metcalfe.

Church(es) covered:

All Saints.

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