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11. 10 Anne, c. 5 -An Aot to repeal the Act of the seventh

Year of her Majesty's Reign, intituled, An Act for natural-

izing Foreign Protestants (except what relates to the Chil-

dren of her Majesty's natural-born Subjects born out of her

Majesty's Allegiance.)

12. 1 Geo. I. Stat. 2.-An Act to explain the Act made in the

twelfth Year of the Reign of King WILLIAM the Third,

intituled, An Act for the further Limitation of the Crown,

and better securing the Rights and Liberties of the Subject.

13. 4 Geo. II. c. 21.-An Act to explain an Act made in the

seventh Year of the Reign of her late Majesty Queen ANNE,

For naturalising Foreign Protestants, which relates to the

Children of the natural-born Subjects of the Crown of Eng-

land, or of Great Britain.

14. 13 Ġeo. II. c. 7.-An Act for naturalizing Foreign Protes-

tants, and others therein mentioned, as are settled, or shall

settle, in any of his Majesty's Colonies in America.

15. 20 Geo. II. c 44.-An Act to extend the Provisions of an

Act made in the thirteenth Year of his present Majesty's

Reign, intituled, An Act for naturalizing such Foreign

Protestants, and others therein mentioned, as are settled, or

shall settle in any of his Majesty's Colonies, in America, to

other Foreign Protestants who conscientiously scruple the

taking of an Oath.

16. 2 Geo. III. c. 25.-An Act for naturalizing such Foreign

Protestants as have served, or shall serve for the Time therein

mentioned, as Officers or Soldiers in his Majesty's Royal

American Regiment, or as Engineers in America.

17. 13 Geo. III. c. 21.-An Act to extend the Provisions of an

Act, made in the fourth Year of the Reign of his late Ma-

jesty King GEORGE the Second, intituled, An Act to explain

a Clause in an Act made in the seventh Year of the Reign of

her late Majesty Queen ANNE, for naturalizing Foreign

Protestants, which relates to the Children of the natural-born

Subjects of the Crown of England, or of Great Britain, to the

Children of such Children.

18. 14 Geo. III. c. 84.-An Act to prevent certain Inconveni-

ences that may happen by Bills of Naturalization.

[*56 Geo. III. c. 86.-An Act for establishing Regulations
respecting Aliens arriving in or resident in this Kingdom, in
certain Cases, for Two Years from the passing of this Act,
and until the End of the Session of Parliament in which the
said Two Years shall expire, if Parliament shall be then
sitting.].

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PART I-CLASS II.

STATUTES RELATING TO THE CLERGY.

1. 21 Henry VIII. c. 13.-Spiritual Persons abridged from hav-

ing Pluralities of Livings, and from taking of Ferms, &c.

2. 25 Henry VIII c. 16.-An Act that every Judge of the

High Courts may have one Chaplain beneficed with Cure.

3. 28 Henry VIII. c. 11.-For the Restitution of the First Fruits

in Time of Vacation to the next Incumbent. ..

4. 28 Henry VIII. c. 13.-The Bill for Non-residence of spiri-

tual Men on their Benefices.

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5. 33 Henry VIII. c. 28.-An Act for the Chancellor of the

Duchy of Lancaster, and others, to have Chaplains.

6. 13 Eliz. c. 12.-An Act for the Ministers of the Church to

be of sound Religion.

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45.

7. 31 Eliz. c. 6.-An Act against Abuses in Election of Scho-

lars, and Presentation to Benefices.

& P. 3 Jac. I. c. 5.-An Act to prevent and avoid Dangers

which grow by Popish Recusants.t

9. 13 and 14 Car. II. c. 4.-An Act for the Uniformity of pub-

lick Prayers, and Administration of Sacraments, and other

Rites and Ceremonies; and for establishing the Form of mak-

ing, ordaining, and consecrating Bishops, Priests, and Dea-

cons, in the Church of England.

10. 25 Car. II. c 6-An Act for Relief of such Persons as

by Sickness, or other Impediment, were disabled from sub-

scribing the Declaration in the Act of Uniformity; and Ex-

planation of Part of the said Act.

11. 27 Car. II. c. 3.-An Act for uniting Churches in Cities and

Towns Corporate.

12. 29 Car. II. c. 8.-An Act for confirming and perpetuating

Augmentations made by Ecclesiastical Persons to small Vi-

carages and Curacies.

15. 1 Wm. and Mary, c. 16-An Act that the Simoniacal Pro-

motion of one Person may not prejudice another.

14. 1 Wm. and Mary, c. 26.-An Act to vest in the Two Uni-

versities the Presentations of Benefices belonging to Papists.

15. 4 Win. and Mary, c. 12-An Act to make Parishioners of

the Church United Contributors to the Repairs and Orua-

ments of the Church to whom the Union is made.

16. 2 and 3 Anne, c. 11.-An Act for the Making more effectural

her Majesty's gracious Intentions for the Augmentation of

the Poor Clergy, by enabling her Majesty to grant in Perpe-

tuity the Revenues of the First-fruits and Tenths; and also

for enabling any other Persons to make Grants for the same

Purpose.

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17. 7 Anne, c. 18 —An Act to preserve the Rights of Patrons to

Advowsons.

18. 12 Anne, c. 12.-An Act for the better Maintenance of

Curates within the Church of England, and for preventing

any Ecclesiastical Persons from buying the next Avoidance

of any Church Preferment.

19. 12 Anne, c. 14-An Act for rendering more effectual an Act

made in the third Year of the Reign of King JAMES the First,

intituled, An Act to prevent and avoid Dangers which may

grow by Popish Recusants; and also of one other Act made

in the first Year of the Reign of their late Majesties King

WILLIAM and Queen MARY, intituled, An Act to vest in

the two Universities the Presentations of Benefices belonging

to Papists; and for vesting in the Lords of Justiciary, Power

to inflict the same Punishments against Jesuits, Priests, and

other trafficking Papists, which the Privy Council of Scotland

was impowered to do by an Act passed in the Parliament of

Scotland, intituled, An Act for preventing the Growth of

Popery.

20. 1 Geo. I. c. 10-An Act for making more effectual her late

Majesty's gracious Intentions for augmenting the Mainte-

nance of the poor Clergy.

+ Presentation of Benefices.

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62

ib.

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65

68

ib.

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21. P. 11 Geo. II. c. 17.-An Act for securing the Estates of

Papists conforming to the Protestant Religion, against the

Disabilities created by several Acts of Parliament relating to

Papists; and, For rendering more effectual the several

Acts of Parliament made for vesting in the two ani-

versities in that Part of Great Britain called Eng

Iand the Presentation of Benefices belonging to

Papists.

23. 23 Geo. II. c. 28. An Act to explain Part of an Act passed

in the thirteenth and fourteenth Years of the Reign of King

CHARLES the Second, for the Uniformity of Public Prayers,

and Administration of Sacraments; and also Part of an Act

passed in the thirteenth Year of the Reign of Queen ELIZABETH,

for the Ministers of the Church to be of sound Religion.

23. 17 Geo. III. c. 53.—An Act to promote the Residence of the

Parochial Clergy, by making Provision for the more speedy

and effectual building, rebuilding, repairing, or purchasing

Houses, and other necessary Buildings and Tenements, for

the Use of their Benefices.

24. 21 Geo. III. c. 66.—An Act to explain and amend an Act,

made in the seventeenth Year of the Reign of his present Ma-

jesty, intituled, An Act to promote the Residence of the Pa-

rochial Clergy, by making Provision for the more speedy and

effectual building, rebuilding, repairing, or purchasing

Houses, and other necessary Buildings and Tenements, for

the Use of their Benefices.

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25.*24 Geo. III. c. 35.-An Act to impower the Bishop of Lon-

don for the Time being, or any other Bishop to be by him

appointed, to admit to the Order of Deacon or Priest, Persons

being Subjects or Citizens of Countries out of his Majesty's

Dominions, without requiring them to take the Oath of Al-

legiance as appointed by Law.

26. 26 Geo. III. c. 84.-An Act to impower the Archbishop of

Canterbury, or the Archbishop of York, for the Time being,

to consecrate to the Office of a Bishop, Persons_being sub-

jects or Citizens of Countries out of his Majesty's Dominions. ib.

27. 36 Geo. III c. 83-An Act for the further Support and

Maintenance of Curates within the Church of England, and

for making certain Regulations respecting the Appointment

of such Curates, and the Admission of Persons to Cures aug-

mented by Queen ANNE'S Bounty, with Respect to the

Avoidance of other Benefices.

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ib.

28. 43 Geo. III. c. 84-An Act to amend the Laws relating to

Spiritual Persons holding of Farms; and for enforcing the

Residence of Spiritual Persons on their benefices in England. 107

29. 43 Geo. III. c. 107.-An Act for effectuating certain Parts of

an Act, passed in the second and third Years of the Reign of

her late Majesty Queen ANNE, intituled, An Act for making

more effectual her Majesty's gracious Intentions for the Aug-

mentation of the Maintenance of the Poor Clergy, by enabling

her Majesty to grant in Perpetuity, the Revenues of the First

Fruits and Tenths; and also for enabling any other Persons

to make Grants for the same Purpose, so far as the same re-

late to Deeds and Wills made for granting and bequeathing

Lands, Tenements, Hereditaments, Goods and Chattels, to

the Governors of the Bounty of Queen ANNE, for the Pur-

No.

poses in the said Act mentioned, and for enlarging the Pow-

ers of the said Governors.

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30. 43 Geo III. c. 108. An Act to promote the building, re-

pairing, or otherwise providing of Churches and Chapels, and

of Houses for the Residence of Ministers, and the providing

of Church Yards and Glebes.

$1. 43 Geo. III. c. 109. An Act to rectify a Mistake in an Act,

made in this present Session of Parliament, intituled, An Act

to amend the Laws relating to Spiritual Persons holding of

Farms; and for enforcing the Residence of Spiritual Persons

on their Benefices in England; and to remove a Doubt res-

pecting the Title of the Statute of the twenty-first Year of

King HENRY the Eighth therein mentioned.

32. 44 Geo III. c. 48.-An Act to enforce the due Observance

of the Canons and Rubrick respecting the Ages of Persons to

be admitted into the sacred Orders of Deacon and Priest.

33. 45 Geo. III. c. 101-An Act to repeal so much of an Act

passed in the ninth Year of the Reign of his late Majesty

King GEORGE the Second, intituled, An Act to restrain the

Disposition of Lands, whereby the same become unalienable,

as restrains Colleges within the two Universities of Oxford

and Cambridge from purchasing or holding Advowsons, ex-

cept as therein is provided.

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34. 51 Gen. III. c. 115.-An Act for amending the Act Forty

third GEORGE Third, to promote the building, repairing or

otherwise providing the Churches and Chapels, and of Houses

for the Residence of Ministers, and the providing of Church

Yards and Glebes

ib.

35. 52 Geo. III. c. 146-An Act for the better regulating and

preserving Parish and other Registers of Births, Baptisms,

Marriages and Burials in England.

36, 53 Geo. III. c. 149.An Act for the further Support and

Maintenance of Stipendiary Curates

37. 54 Geo. III. c. 175.-An Act to explain and amend several

Acts relating to Spiritual Persons holding of Farms, and for en-

forcing the Residence of such Persons on their Benefices, in

England, for One Year, and from thence until Six Weeks

after the Meeting of the then next Session of Parliament.

155 Geo. III. c. 147.-An Act for enabling Spiritual Persons

to exchange the Parsonege or Glebe Houses or Glebe Lands,

belonging to their Benefices, for others of greater Value, or

more conveniently situated for their Residence and Occupa-

tion; and for annexing such Houses and Lands, so taken in

Exchange, to such Benefices as Parsonage or Glebe Houses

and Glebe Lands, and for purchasing and annexing Lands to

become Glebe in certain Cases; and for other Purposes ] ..

[56 Geo. III. c. 52.-An Act to amend and render more

effectual an Act passed in the last Session of Parliament, for

enabling Spiritual Persons to exchange their Parsonage

Houses or Glebe Lands, and for other Purposes therein men-

tioned.]

[56 Geo. III. c. 123-An Act to continue, until the Fifth

Day of April One Thousand Eight Hundred and Seventeen,

an Act of the Fifty-fourth Year of his present Majesty, for

explaining and amending several Acts relating to Spiritual

Persons holding of Farms, and for enforcing the Residence of

such Persons on their Benefices in England.].

[56 Geo. III. c. 141.-An Act for enabling Ecclesiastical

Corporate Bodies, under certain Circumstances, to alienate

Lands for enlarging Cemeteries or Church Yards.]

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PART I-CLASS III.

MARRIAGE.

1. P 25 Hen. VIII. c. 22.-An Act concerning the King's

Succession +

2. 32 Hen. VIII. c. 88-For Marriages to stand notwithstand-

ing Pre-contracts.

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3. 2 & 3 Edw. VI. c. 23-The Repeal of an Act made in the

Thirty-second Year of King HENRY the Eighth, which was

made, That Marriage contracted in the Face of the Church,

and consummate with bodily Knowledge, to be deemed law-

ful, any former Contract notwithstanding.

4. 15 Geo. II. c. 30.—An Act to prevent the Marriage of Lu-

naticks.

5. 26 Geo 11. c. 33.—An Act for the better preventing of clan-
destine Marriages.

6. 12 Geo. III. c. 11.-An Act for better regulating the future

Marriages of the Royal Family.

7. 44 Geo III. c. 77.-An Act to render valid certain Marriages

solemnized in certain Churches and publick Chapels in which

Banns had not usually been published before or at the Time

of passing an Act, made in the Twenty-sixth Year of the

Reign of his late Majesty King GEORGE the Second, intituled,

An Act for the better preventing of clandestine Marriages.

8. P 48 Geo. III. c. 127.-An Act to render valid certain Mar-

riages solemnized in certain Churches and publick Chapels

in which Banns had not usually been published before or at

the Time of passing an Act made in the Twenty-sixth Year

of the Reign of his late Majesty King GEORGE the Second,

intituled, An Act for the better preventing of Clandestine

Marriages.

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9. 51 Geo. III. c. 37.-An Act further to prevent the Marriage

of Lunatics.

1. Statute of Merton, 20 Hen. VIII. c. 9.-He is a Bastard who

is born before the Marriage of his Parents.

2. 1 Anne, c. 30.-An Act to oblige the Jews to maintain and

provide for their Protestant Children.

+ Relates to the Degrees of Consanguinity.

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