Church document details

Source:

The London Gazette.

Title:

Rudgwick, Holy Trinity - Arrangements for payment of land tax.

Date:

9 Jul 1880.

Body:

WE, the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England, acting in pursuance of the Act of the twenty-ninth and thirtieth years of Her Majesty, chapter one hundred and eleven, section five, do hereby, subject as hereinafter mentioned; grant and convey to the Incumbent of the vicarage of Rudgwick, in the county of Sussex, and in the diocese of Chichester, and to his successors, Incumbents of the same vicarage, all that yearly sum or payment of seven pounds and sixteen shillings, heretofore payable by the Incumbent for the time being of the said vicarage in respect of certain land tax of like amount redeemed by the Bishop of the said diocese of Chichester, under a certificate of contract bearing date the fifteenth day of July, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, which said yearly sum or payment has been lately receivable by us, the said Ecclesiastical Commissioners : To have and to hold the said yearly sum or payment to the use of the said Incumbent and his successors for ever : Provided always, that the Incumbent for the time being of the same vicarage shall be entitled to receive from us, or on our account, the net amount of the said yearly sum or payment for and in respect of the period intervening between the twenty-fifth day of December, in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine, and the date of the publication of these presents in the London Gazette.

In witness thereof, we have hereunto set our common seal, this first day of July, in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty. (L.S.)

Transcription details

Transcribed by: Michael Metcalfe.

Church(es) covered:

Holy Trinity.

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