THE TOWN OF RYE. 1S9 



for ever hereafter belonging to the said church one rector of the Church of Eng- 

 land as by law established, duly qualified for the cure of souls, two church- 

 wardens, and eight vestrymen, who shall conduct and manage the affairs and bus- 

 iness of the said church and corporation in manner as hereafter is declared and 

 appointed. And for the more immediate carrying into execution our royal will and 

 pleasure herein, we do hereby assign, constitute and appoint Peter Jay and Elisha 

 Budd to be the present church wardens; and John Thomas, Joshua Purdy, Chris- 

 topher Isinghart, William Sutton, John Adee, Caleb Purdy, Anthony Miller and 

 Timothy Wetmore to be the present vestrymen of the said church, who shall hold, 

 possess, and enjoy their said respective offices until Tuesday in Easter week, 

 which shall come and be in the year of our Lord one thousand, seven hundred 

 and sixty-six ; and for the keeping up the succession in the said offices, our royal 

 will and pleasure is, and we do hereby establish, direct and require that on the 

 said Tuesday in Easter week in the said year of our Lord one thousand, seven 

 hundred and sixty -six, and yearly and every year thereafter for ever, on Tuesday 

 in Easter week in every 3'ear, the rector and inhabitants of the parish of Rye in 

 communion of the Church of England as by law established, shall meet at the 

 said church, and there by the majority of voices of such of them as shall so meet, 

 elect and choose two of their members to be church-wardens and eight others of 

 their members to be vestrymen of the said church for the ensuing year, which 

 said church-wardens and vestrymen so elected and chosen shall immediately enter 

 upon their respective offices, and hold, exercise and enjoy the same respectively 

 from the time of such elections for and during the space of one year, and until 

 other fit persons shall be elected and chosen in their respective places — and in case 

 the church-wardens or vestrymen, or either of them, by these presents named and 

 appointed or which shall be hereafter elected and chosen by virtue of these pres- 

 ents, shall die or remove from the said parish of Rye before the time of their re- 

 spective appointed services shall be expired, or refuse or neglect to act in the office 

 of which he or they is or are herein nominated and appointed, or whereunto he 

 or they shall or may be so elected and chosen, then our royal will and pleasure is 

 and we do hereby direct, ordain and require the rector and inhabitants of the par- 

 ish of Rye in communion as aforesaid for the time being to meet at the said " 

 church, and choose other or others of their members in the place or stead of him 

 or them so dying, removing or refusing to act within thirty days next after such 

 contingency ; and in this case for the more due and orderly conducting the said 

 elections and to prevent any undue procedings therein, we do hereby give full 

 power and authority to, and ordain and require that the rector and the said church- 

 wardens of the said church for the time being, or any two of them, shall appoint 

 the time for such election and elections, and that the rector of the said church, 

 or in his absence one of the said church-wardens for the time being, shall give 

 public notice thereof by publishing the same at the said church, immediately af- 

 ter divine service on the Sunday next preceeding the da}- appointed for such elec- 

 tion, hereby giving and granting that such person or persons as shall be so chos- 

 en from time to time by.the rector and inhabitants of the said parish of Rye in 

 communion as aforesaid, or the majority of such of them as shall in such case 

 meet in manner hereby directed, shall have, hold, exercise and enjoy such the 

 office or offices to which he or they shall be so elected and chosen from the time 

 of such election until the Tuesday in Easter week thence next ensuing, and until 



