Church document details

Source:

The London Gazette.

Title:

Burgess Hill, St John - Re-apportionment of benefaction including funding for vicarage.

Date:

19 Nov 1875.

Body:

WE, the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England, in consideration of a benefaction of six hundred and sixty pounds sterling, which has been paid to us in favour of the vicarage of Saint John's Common, in the county of Sussex, and in the diocese of Chichester, and of two further benefactions, consisting of, firstly, a piece of land comprising two thousand and seventy-seven square yards, or thereabouts, and, secondly, certain annual tithe commutation rent-charges, amounting to fifty pounds three shillings and one penny, heretofore forming part of the revenues of the rectory of Clayton-cum-Keymer, in the same county, and diocese, both of which benefactions have been permanently secured to the said vicarage of Saint John's Common, do hereby, in pursuance of the Act of the twenty-ninth and thirtieth years of Her Majesty, chapter one hundred and eleven, sections five and eleven, grant to the Incumbent of the said vicarage of Saint John's Common, and to his successors, Incumbents of the same vicarage, to meet the said benefactions, one yearly sum or stipend of thirteen pounds nineteen- shillings and four pence, such yearly sum or stipend to be payable out of the common fund under our control, and to be calculated as from the date 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: And we do also, in further consideration of the aforesaid benefactions, hereby grant and appropriate, out of our said common fund, to the said vicarage of Saint John's Common, one capital sum of nine hundred pounds sterling, to be applicable towards defraying the cost of providing a parsonage or house of residence for the said vicarage, according to plans and a specification approved or to be approved by us, such capital sum, or the balance thereof unapplied to such purpose, to remain in the meantime in our hands at interest after the rate of three pounds per centum per annum, and such interest to be paid to the Incumbent for the time being of the said vicarage of Saint John's Common: Provided always, that if at any time lands, tithes, or other hereditaments sufficient, in our opinion, to produce the said yearly sum or stipend of thirteen pounds nineteen shillings and four pence, or any part thereof, shall be annexed by us to the said vicarage, 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 eleventh day of November, in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five. (L.S.).

Transcription details

Transcribed by: Michael Metcalfe.

Church(es) covered:

St Cosmas and St Damian, St John the Baptist, St John the Evangelist.

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