Church document details

Source:

The London Gazette.

Title:

Chichester, St Paul, Funtington, St Mary, and Hadlow Down, St Mark - Determination of stipend.

Date:

22 Aug 1843.

Body:

AT the Court at Buckingham Palace, the day of June 1843,

PRESENT,

The QUEEN's Most Excellent Majesty in Council,

WHEREAS the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England have, in pursuance of an Act, passed in the session of Parliament held in the third and fourth years of Her Majesty's reign, intituled "An Act to carry into effect, with certain modifications, the fourth report of the Commissioners of Ecclesiastical Duties and Revenues;" and of another Act, passed in the session of Parliament held in the fourth and fifth years of Her Majesty's reign, intituled "An Act to explain and amend two several Acts relating to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England," duly prepared and laid before Her Majesty in Council a scheme, bearing date the eleventh day of April one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, in the words and figures following, that is to say :

"We, the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England, in pursuance of an Act, passed in the session of Parliament held in the third and fourth years of your Majesty's reign, intituled "An Act to carry into effect, with certain modifications, "the fourth report of the Commissioners of Ecclesiastical Duties and Revenues," and of an Act, passed in the session of Parliament held in the fourth and fifth years of your Majesty's reign, intituled "An Act to explain and amend two "several Acts relating to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England," Have prepared, and now humbly lay before your Majesty in Council, the following scheme, for making additional provision for the cure of souls in certain parishes where such assistance is most required.

"Whereas, under the authority of the said recited Acts, we prepared and laid before your Majesty in Council a scheme, bearing date the nineteenth day of April, and a scheme, bearing date the sixteenth day of August, in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, in which we recommended and proposed, that certain grants should be made, in augmentation of the incomes of certain benefices and churches, in certain classes, and subject to certain limitations therein mentioned; and the said schemes were ratified by Orders of your Majesty in Council, bearing date, respectively, the twenty-seventh day of the same month of April, and the twenty-seventh day of the same month of August; which Orders have been duly gazetted :

"And whereas it appears to us, upon further considering the amount of the funds now applicable to the purposes of the said recited Acts, to be expedient, that the limitations in the first of the said Orders mentioned, should be varied, so as forthwith to extend the first class therein mentioned to benefices and churches having a population amounting to one thousand and an average annual net income below one hundred and twenty pounds, and to the raising such income as nearly as may be to that amount and so as forthwith to extend the second class therein mentioned to benefices and churches haying a like amount of population, and an average annual net Income below one hundred and fifty pounds:

"And whereas we have satisfied ourselves, after due inquiry; that the benefices and churches described in the Schedule hereunto annexed, marked A. 1, fall within the first of such classes, subject to the limitations in the said first Order mentioned; and that the benefices and churches described in the Schedule hereunto annexed, marked A. 2, fall within the game class, subject to the same limitations, so proposed to be extended as aforesaid; and that all the said benefices and churches are fit and proper to be forthwith augmented, by the respective annual amounts stated in the last column of the said Schedules respectively :

"And whereas application had been made to us, before the said nineteenth day of April, on Behalf of the seventeen of the said churches hereinafter particularly named, and before the said Sixteenth day of August, on behalf of the thirteen of the said churches hereinafter also particularly named, as then respectively coming within the said first class, in all respects, except that the proceedings for legally assigning districts thereto were not fully completed, and such proceedings are now completed :

"And whereas by an Order of your Majesty in Council, bearing date the sixth day of October, in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-one, the income of the then united benefice of Saint Paul and Saint James, in Norwich, was augmented by an annual grant of eighteen pounds out of the monies vested in ns; and the said benefice has since been disunited, and formed into two separate benefices, and both the said benefices now fall within the said first class, and are fit and proper to be augmented, by the respective sums set opposite to their names in the said Schedule marked A. 1.

"And whereas, from the source set opposite to the name of each of the benefices and churches described in the Schedule hereunto annexed, marked B., in the sixth column of such Schedule, the benefaction staged in the seventh column of the same Schedule has either been paid to us on account of such benefice or church, or permanently secured to the incumbent thereof, as therein respectively specified;, and we have satisfied ourselves that the said last-mentioned benefices and churches fall within, the second of such classes, as limited by the said first Order, so extended as aforesaid, and are fit and proper to be forthwith augmented, by the respective annual amounts stated in the last column of the same Schedule; and the benefaction to the perpetual curacy of Guisborough, in the same Schedule mentioned, was paid to us previously to the passing of the said second-mentioned scheme, but was not included therein :

"And whereas the benefices and churches described in the Schedule hereunto annexed, marked C., are situate within the places set opposite to the names thereof, respectively, in the fifth column of the same Schedule; and certain tithes or lands now vested in us arise or are situate in such places, respectively; and, after due inquiry and consideration, we have satisfied ourselves that the same benefices and churches are fit and proper to be forthwith augmented, by the respective annual amounts stated in the last column of the same Schedule :

"And whereas your Majesty's Commissioners for building new churches, in proceeding to assign districts to certain new churches, mentioned in the said Schedules, marked A. 1. and 2., have appropriated to the incumbents thereof, respectively, the fees arising within such districts, whereby the emoluments of the incumbents of the several benefices mentioned in the Schedule hereunto annexed, marked D., will be diminished by the amounts of the annual sums, respectively, set opposite to the names of such, benefices in the last column of the same Schedule; and it is, in our opinion, expedient, that compensation should be made to such last-mentioned incumbents for the loss so sustained:

"We, therefore, humbly recommend and propose, that there shall be paid by us, in each and every year, to the incumbent for the time being of each of the benefices and churches so described in the said four several Schedules, the fixed annual sum set opposite to the name thereof in the last column of the said Schedules, respectively, by equal, half-yearly pay merits, on the first day of May and the first day of November in each year ; and that the first such half-yearly payment shall be made on the first day of May next, except in the cases of the churches of Saint Thomas Bedford, Saint John Bradshaw Ovenden, Brierley-hill, Holy Trinity South Crosland, Trinity Darlington, Saint John the Evangelist Dukinfield, Saint John Golcar, Saint David Holmbridge, Saint Stephen Lindley, Linthwaitej Saint Matthias Liverpool; Immanuel Lockwood, Saint Mark Longwood, All Saints Paddock, Saint Andrew Stainland, Christ Church Stannington, and Saint Mark Witton, contained in the said Schedule A. 1., the incumbents of which churches, respectively, shall on such last-mentioned day receive three such half-yearly payments; and except also in the cases of the churches of Barrowford, Saint Andrew, Saint James, Saint Peter, and Saint Philip Bethnal- green, Saint Mary Birch, Saint James Brierclifle, Saint Paul Buttershaw, Saint Peter Coventry, Monk Bretton, Netherthong, Saint Ann Newcastle, and Saint George Sowerby, contained in the same Schedule, and in the case of Guisborough aforesaid,, contained in the said schedule B., the incumbents of which churches, respectively, shall on such last-mentioned day receive two such half-yearly payments ; and that the payments so proposed to be made to the respective benefices of Saint Paul and Saint James in Norwich, shall be in lieu of and in substitution for the annual grant of eighteen pounds herein before mentioned; and that in case of a vacancy in any of the benefices or churches contained in the said four schedules having already happened during the period over which the payment recommended and proposed extends, or hereafter happening on any other day than the first flay of May or the first day of November, the amount payable shall be duly apportioned between the incumbent making the vacancy, or his representatives, and the incumbent succeeding to the benefice or church so becoming vacant:

"And we further recommend and propose, that nothing herein contained shall prevent us from recommending and proposing any other measure for making better provision for the cure of souls, in conformity with the provisions of said recited Acts, or either of them,"

SCHEDULE A. 1.

Population 2000 and upward, Income raised to £150 per Annum:

Name of Benefice or Church., Quality., Diocese., County., Annual Grant (£)

Chichester St. Paul, District Church, Chichester, Sussex, 40

SCHEDULE A. 1.

Population 1000 and below 2000, Income raised to £120 per Annum:

Name of Benefice or Church., Quality., Diocese., County., Annual Grant (£)

Funtington, Perpetual curacy, Chichester, Sussex, 10

Hadlow Down St. Mark (in Buxted), Perpetual curacy, Chichester, Sussex, 23

And whereas the said scheme has been approved by Her Majesty in Council; now, therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice of Her said Council, is pleased hereby to ratify the said scheme, and to 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 Her Majesty, by and with the like advice, is pleased hereby to direct, that this Order be forthwith registered by the Registrars of the several, dioceses of Bath and Wells, Canterbury, Carlisle, Chester, Chichester, St. David's, Durham, Exeter, Gloucester and Bristol, Lichfield, Lincoln, Llandaff, London, Norwich, Oxford, Peterborough, Ripon, Rochester, Salisbury, Winchester, Worcester, and York.

Wm. L. Bathurst.

Transcription details

Transcribed by: Michael Metcalfe.

Church(es) covered:

St Mark, St Mary, St Paul.

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