San 
‘eimth Cure ; 
1804.] 
fhall not have been fo o¢cupied by any 
fpiritual perfon, fach perfon fhall remain 
liable to tuch oo unlefs he fhall have 
‘obtained the licence of the Bifhop. § 8. 
Clergyman licenfed or exempted from 
refidence may Occupy, where he refides, 
fuch lands as the Bifhop may allow. § 9. 
day 3 13 Eliz. €. 20, and 14,78, 644%; 
Eliz. touching ecclefiaftical leafes, are re- 
Lc Leds Gp. m 
But the A& is not to deprive fpiritual 
perfons of any privilege they now enjoy. 
From and after the 7th ry 1803, fo 
tien of the Art Aét as impofes the pe- 
nalty of ten pounds on any Ipiritu al per- 
fon who thali not Keep re dence; thall be 
yepealed; and from and after the 3th of 
July, 1803, every fpiritwal began who 
fhall, (without fudictent cafe, and who 
fhall not have any fuch licence or exemp- 
tion as isin this Act eect wilfully 
abfnt himfelf therefrom for three months 
together, or to be accounted at feveral 
times in one year, and make his refidence 
at any other place, except at fome other 
benefice of which he may be pofiefled, 
fhall, when fuch abfence fhall exceed fuch 
period, and not fix months, forfeit one- 
third of the annual value, (dedudting 
therefrom all outgoings, except any (ti- 
pend paid to any curate); and when vit 
thall exceed fix monshs, and not eight 
months, one half; when it fhall ekeekd 
eight snore, tw thirds; and when fuch 
fabfence fhall have heen for the whole of 
the year, three fourths of fach annual 
value 5 to be recovered by aéticn in any 
court of record: the’ whole to ‘go to the 
perion who fhall fue, together with colts. 
But vo parfonage’ that hath a vicar en- 
dowed, or perpetual curate, and having no 
cure of fouls, thall be comprehended under 
the name of Benefice, within this “Act, 
§ 12. 
2) Phe court, in which any action fhal] 
be depending, may require the diocelan to 
certify the reputed annual value of ben e- 
fices, &c. ei: 
"No perfon who has refided a year, with- 
out abfence for more than.three ntonths, 
fhall be liable for any previous n: n-ref- 
dence, unlefs: the aétion ‘he commenced 
‘before he has fo refided. § 14. | 
No {piritual perfon having any office, 
in fuch manner as the fame under any re 
the provifions of the firlt recited Act, 
of an A&, paffed in the 25 Hen. Vilt. 
An A& that every Fudge of the High 
Courts may have One Chaplain beneficed 
or of another Act cf 28 
Hen. VIEL. int:tuled, Fhe - Bill for Nen- 
Now Aéis of the Britifh Legiflature. 
177 
réfidence of Spiritual Men and their Be. 
nefices; or ‘of another Aét, in 33 
Hen. VIII. intituled, An Act for the 
‘Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancafter and 
others, to bawve ade would exempt 
fuch fpiritual perfons from refidence, or 
trom the penalties in the faid. A&s cone 
tained for non-refidence—or actually 
ferving as a Chaplain of the Houle of 
Commons—or as Clerk of His Majelty’s 
Clofet—-cr as a Deputy Clerk thereof, 
during the time of their refpe@ive attends. 
ance—or as a Chaplain General of His 
Majetty’s Forces, or Brigade Chaplain on. 
Foreign Service, or Chaplain on board 
any of Fis Majeiiy’s ‘thips, or of His 
Majefty’s dock-yards, or in any of His 
Majefty’s garrifons, or Chaplain «f His 
Majefty’s corps of ‘Autill lery, during the 
times of attending the duties of fuch ‘of: 
fices refpe eftively, or as Chaplain to an 
Britith factory—or in the houfehold. of 
any Britith ambaffador or public minifter 
refiding abroad, duting the time of bis 
attually redding : in fuch factory or houfe- 
held, and performing there at all due 
times the dutics of fuch his office—or as 
Chancellor ot Vicar General, or in his 
abfence the Principal Surrogate or Official 
in any ecclefiattical court of any diocefe, 
whilit they are refiding i in the places where 
their refpeciive offices are exercifed—or as 
Minor Canon, or Vicar Choral, or Priett 
Vicar, or any fuch other puthe officer 
in any cathedral or collegiate charch, du- 
ring thetimes for which they may be re- 
quired by the canons or local ftatutes 
thereof to refide at fuch cathedral or col- 
legiate church, and. actually reide and 
perform duty at the fame—or as Deans, 
Sub- deans, Priefis, or Readers in His Ma. 
jefty’s Royal Chapels at St. James’s and 
‘Whitchall, or as Reader in His Majefty’s 
private shape at Wind(or or elfewhere— 
or as Chaplain at the Royal Military Afy. 
lum at Chel'ea, 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 Che] fea, or as Chaplains to 
the Royal Hoipitais tor Seamen &t Haflar 
and Piymouth, whit they fhall refpec. 
tively refide and perform the duties of 
their refpeStive ofices—or as a Preacher 
or Reader in any of the Inns of Court of 
at the Rolis—or as Burfar, Dzan, Vice: 
. prefident, or public Tutor or Chaplain, 
or other fuch public officer in any Collere 
or Hall in either of the Univerfities of 
Oxford or Cambridge, during the per 10d 
for which he may relpectively be required, 
by reafon of any fuch office, to ‘perform 
the 
