Church document details

Source:

The London Gazette.

Title:

Copthorne, St John the Evangelist - Setting of stipend and grant for purchase of parsonage.

Date:

4 Aug 1882.

Body:

WE, the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England, in consideration of a benefaction, consisting of a moiety of the value of a certain house and premises which are about to be permanently secured to the vicarage or benefice of Saint John the Evangelist, Copthorne, in the counties of Sussex and Surrey, and in the diocese of Chichester, and in consideration also of a further benefaction, consisting of a sum of three hundred and fifty pounds sterling, which has been paid to us in favour of the same vicarage or benefice, and in respect of which we have agreed to pay to the Incumbent of the said vicarage or benefice, and to his successors, a yearly sum of eleven pounds thirteen shillings and four pence, 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 or benefice of Saint John the Evangelist, Copthorne, and to his successors, Incumbents thereof, to meet the said benefactions, one other yearly sum or stipend of eleven pounds thirteen 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. 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: 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 or benefice of Saint John the Evangelist, Copthorne, one capital sum of one thousand one hundred and fifty pounds sterling, to be paid by us as the consideration for the conveyance in fee of the house and premises above mentioned, as a parsonage or house of residence for the said vicarage or benefice of Saint John the Evangelist, Copthorne : Provided always, that if at any time lands, tithes, or other hereditaments, sufficient, in our opinion, to produce the secondly above-mentioned yearly sum or stipend of eleven pounds thirteen shillings and four-pence, so payable as aforesaid out of our common fund, or any part thereof, shall be annexed by us to the said vicarage or benefice, 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 twenty-seventh day of July, in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty-two. (L.S.)

Transcription details

Transcribed by: Michael Metcalfe.

Church(es) covered:

St John the Evangelist.

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