KESIDENCE. 



a deputy clerk thereol, or as a chaplain general of his ma- 

 jefty's forces, or brigade chaplain on foreign fervice, or 

 chaplain on board any of his majefty's (hips, or of his ma- 

 jefty's dock yards, or in any of his majefty's garrifons, or 

 chaplain of his majefty's corps of artillery, or as chaplain to 

 any Eritifh faftory, or in the houfehold of any Britifh am- 

 baffador or public minifter refuling abroad, or as chancellor 

 or vicar-general, or in his abfence the principal furrogate or 

 official in any ecclefiaftical court of any diocefe, or as minor 

 canon, or vicar choral, or pried, vicar, or any fuch other 

 public officer in any cathedral or collegiate church, or as 

 deans, fub-deans, priefts, or readers in his majefty's royal 

 chapels at St. James's and Whitehall, or as reader in his 

 majefty's private chapel at Windfor, or elfewhere, or as 

 chaplain at the royal military afylum at Chelfea, or royal 

 military college at High Wycombe, or teacher at the royal 

 military academy at Woolwich, or chaplains at the royal 

 hofpitals at Greenwich and Chelfea, or as chaplains to the 

 royal hofpitals for feamen at Haflar and Plymouth, or as a 

 preacher or reader in any of the inns of court, or at the 

 rolls, or as burfar, dean, vice-prefident or public tutor or 

 chaplain, or other fuch public officer, in any college or hall, 

 in either of the univerfities of Oxford or Cambridge, or as 

 public librarian or public regiftrar, or proftor, or public 

 orator, or other fuch public officer, in either of the faid uni- 

 verfities, or as fellow of any college in either of the univer- 

 fities, or of Eton or Winchefter college, or as warden or 

 provoft of Eton or Winchefter cellege, or as fchoolmafter 

 or ufher in the fame, or as fchoolmafter or ufher of Weft- 

 minfter-fchool, during the period that they fhall refpeftively 

 be required, by reafon of any fuch office, to perform 

 the duties of the fame, and actually fhall perform the 

 duties of the fame, fhall be liable to any of the pains, pe- 

 nalties, or forfeitures in the laid lirft recited aft or this aft 

 contained, for or on account of any non-refidence on any 

 dignitv, prebend, benefice, donative, or perpetual curacy. 



It fhall be lawful for any bifhop to grant licences to fpi- 

 ritual perfons within his diocefe, to refide out of the proper 

 lioufe of refidence, or out of the parifh, and within fuch 

 diftance therefrom, as the cafe may appear to fuch bifhop to 

 require, if fuch bifhop fhall, in Ins difcretion, think the 

 fame fit and proper, in the feveral cafes hereinafter men- 

 tioned ; (that is to fay,) to anv fpiritual perfon who fhall 

 be prevented from refiding in the proper houfe of refidence, 

 or in the parifh, by aftual illnefs of himfelf, or wife or 

 ■child ; and alfo to any fpiritual perfon having any dignity, 

 prebend, benefice, donative, perpetual curacy, or parochial 

 chapelry, where there fhall be no houfe of refidence, or 

 where the houfe of refidence fhall be unfit tor the refidence 

 of Fuch ecclefiaftical perfon. fuch unfitnefs not being occa- 

 fioned by fuch ecclefiaftical perfon, Tuch fpiritual perfon 

 keeping fuch houfe in fuch repair as fhall be to the fatisfac- 

 tion of the bifhop ; and alio to any fpiritual perfon having 

 any benefice, donative, perpetual curacy, or parochial cha- 

 pelry, and having any manfion or meffuage belonging to him- 

 felf or any relative, to refide in fuch manfion or meffuage, 

 fuch fpiritual perfon keeping the houfe of refidence in good 

 repair, to the fatisfaftion of the bifhop ; and alfo to any 

 fpiritual perfon having any benefice, donative, perpetual 

 curacy, or parochial chapelry, of fmall value, and ferving 

 as a ftipendiary curate elfewhere, with licence, and pro- 

 viding for the ferving of fuch his benefice, donative, perpe- 

 tual curacy, or parochial chapelry, to the fatistaftion of 

 the bifhop of his diocefe ; and alfo to any mafler or ufher of 

 any endowed fchool duly licenfedby the bifhop, and aftually 

 employed in teaching therein, or to the rnafter of any other 



fchool who now is or fliall be, within one month after the 

 paffing of this aft, duly licenfed by the bifhop ; and alfo to 

 any matter or preacher of hofpitals or incorporated charitable 

 foundation, during the period for which he may be required 

 to refide in the fame, and fhall aftually refide and perform 

 his duties therein ; or to any perfon holding any endowed lec- 

 turefhip, chapelry, or preacherfhip, and performing the du- 

 ties thereof refpeftively ; or to any fpiritual perfon having 

 any benefice, donative, perpetual curacy, or parochial cha- 

 pelry of fmall value, and ferving as preacher in any proprie- 

 tary chapel in cities or towns, with the licence of the bifhop 

 in whofe diocefe he fhall fo officiate ; or to the librarians or 

 the Britifh mufeum, or of Sion college ; or to the truftees 

 of lord Crewe's charity, during the times of their perfonal 

 attendance on the duties of their office : provided always, 

 that for any fuch licence, the party obtaining the fame fhall 

 not pay more than the fum nf ten (hillings, exclusive of any 

 fuch ilamps as may be required by law: provided alwavs. 

 that if any fpiritual perfon, applying to any bifnop for anv 

 fuch licence, fhall think himfelf aggrieved by the refufal 

 thereof, it fhall be lawful for fuch fpiritual perfon to appeal 

 to the archbifhop of the province, who fhall confirm fuch 

 refufal, or grant a licence under this aft, as fhall feemjuft 

 and proper, f. 19. 



It fhall be lawful for any bifhop, in cafes not enumerated, 

 to grant licences to refide out ot the proper houfe of refi- 

 dence, or out of the parifh, and to affign to a curate fuch 

 falary as he fhall judge fit : provided, that in every fuch 

 cafe, the reafous that have induced fuch bifhop to grant fuch 

 licence fhall be tranfmitted to the archbifhop of the province 

 to which inch bifnop fliall belong, who fliall allow or difal- 

 low fuch licence, in the whole, or in part, or make any alter- 

 ation therein, as to the period for which the fame may have 

 been granted, or otherwife, and likewife as to the ftipend 

 affigned to the curate, as to fuch archbifhop (ball fcem fit ; 

 and no fuch licence fhall be good unlefs it fhall have been fo 

 allowed and approved by fuch archbifhop : provided alfo, 

 that no licence fliall be made void by the death or removal 

 of the bifhop or archbifhop granting the fame, but the fame 

 fhall be good and valid, unlefs the fame fhall be revoked by 

 the next or any fucceeding bifhop or archbifhop : provided 

 alfo, that any fpiritual periou may appeal againft any fuch 

 revocation by the bifhop alone : provided alfo, that the re- 

 fpeftivi' arehbifhops may, in their refpeftive diocefes of 

 which they are bifhops, grant licences in all cafes in which 

 any licences may be granted by any bifliop, either by his own 

 authority, or with the allowance and approval of the arch- 

 bilhop as aforefaid : provided alfo, that it fliall be lawful 

 for any fuch archbifhop to order reafonable fees and charges 

 to be paid by any fuch fpiritual perfon appealing : orovided 

 always, that in every cafe when any cofts and charges direfted 

 by fuch archbifhop or bifhop as aforefaid, fhall remain un- 

 paid for the period of twenty-one days after demand thereof, 

 it fliall be lawful for fuch bifhop or archbifhop to caufe the 

 famete be recovered by fequeilration. t. 21. 



Provided always, that it fhall be lawful for any bifliop or 

 archbifhop to revoke any fuch licence : provided alio, that 

 no licence for nou-rcfidence granted under this aft fliall con- 

 tinue in force for more than two years irom the granting 

 '.hereof. 



Every bifhop or archbifhop fliall caufe a copy of fuch li- 

 cence or revocation to be filed in the regiftry of the diocefe ; 

 and a lift fliall be made out by the regifter of the faid dio- 

 cefe, and entered in a book, and kept for the infpeftion of 

 all perfons ; and a copy of every fuch licence and revocarion 

 fliall be tranfmitted to the churchwardens of the parifh to 

 which the fame relates, within one month after the grant 



thereof, 



