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<HEAD>THE KINGS MAJESTIES Mo&s;t Gracious LETTER and DECLARATION To the Bi&s;hops, Deans and Prebends &amp;c.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SIGNED>CHARLES R.</SIGNED></OPENER>
<P>AS nothing is more <UNCLEAR>in</UNCLEAR> our de&s;ires then to provide that the <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 span"> <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 letter">ngland,</HI> under our Reign might be furni&s;hed with a Religious, Learned, Sober, Mode&s;t, and Prudent Clergy <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 word"> we are ready to give incouragement to their labours and &s;tudy in their &s;everall degrees and &s;tations, that they may give Check to all Prophanene&s;s and Super&s;tition, and as zea|lou&s;ly affect to remove all &s;candalls, and reproach from them and their callings, conceiving therefore a competent maintanance to be a nece&s;&s;ary encouragement: And that all other per&s;ons who have power to di&s;po&s;e of Tythes, may be invited to cheri&s;h all Learned and Godly Mini&s;tery. We do re&s;olve that becau&s;e where Tythes have been appointed for the &s;upport of Bi&s;hops, Deans, and Chapters Collegiate Churches, and Colledges: And <UNCLEAR>other</UNCLEAR> &s;ingle per&s;ons that have not taken due care to Provide, and ordaine &s;ufficient maintenance for the Vicars of their re&s;pective places, or for the Curates where Vicarages were not endowed, to &s;ettle for the future &s;ome good addition and encrea&s;e on &s;uch Vicarages and Curats places. Our will therefore is that forthwith provi|&s;ion be made for the augmentation of all &s;uch Vicarages, and Cures, where your Tythes and profits are appropriated to you and your &s;ucce&s;&s;ors, in &s;uch manner that they who immediately attend upon the performance of Mini&s;teriall Offices in every Pari&s;h may have a competent portion out of every Rectory impropriate to your See. And <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 word"> this end our further will is, That no lea&s;e he granted of any Rectoryes or Par&s;onages belonging to your See, belonging to you <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="2 words"> <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 letter">ucce&s;&s;ors, untill you &s;hall Provide that the re&s;pective Vi|carages or Curats places, where are no Vicarages endow<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 span"> Tythes, or other emoluments, as common|ly will amount to 100 or 80 l. <HI>per annum,</HI> or more <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 span"> it will bear <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 span">, &s;ettle it upon them and their Succe&s;|&s;ors and where <UNCLEAR>the</UNCLEAR> Rectoryes are of &s;mall value, an<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 letter"> cannot permit of &s;uch pr<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="2 letters">ortions <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 span"> vicar and Curate, Our will is that one half of the prof<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 letter">t of &s;uch a Rectory b<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 letter"> re&s;erved for the maintenance of the V<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="2 letters">ar or <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 word"> Curate. And if any Lea&s;es or grants of such fore-named Rector<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="3 letters"> have been made by you &s;ince the f<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 letter">r&s;t day of <HI>June</HI> la&s;t pa&s;t, &amp; <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 word"> you did not ordaine competent Augmentation of the Vica|rages or Cures in their re&s;pective places, our will is, That out of the Fines which you have received, or are to receive, you do add &s;uch encrea&s;e to the Vicar and Curate as is agreeable to the Rates and Proportions formerly mentioned.</P>
<P>And our further will is, that you do employ your Authority and power, which by Law belongeth to you as ordinary for the Augmen|tation of Vicarages, and &s;tipends of Curates, and that you do with diligence proceed in due form of Law, for the ray&s;ing and e&s;tabli&s;h|ing Convenient maintenance of tho&s;e who do attend holy dutyes in Pari&s;h Churches; And if any Prebendary in any Church (the Corps of who&s;e Prebend con&s;ists of Tythes) &s;hall not ob&s;erve the&s;e our Commands, then we require you, or the Deane of the Church, to u&s;e all due meanes in Law, where you or he hath power to compel them, or that otherwi&s;e you report to the Bi&s;hop of the Dioce&s;s, where the &s;aid Corps doth lye, that they may interpo&s;e his Authority for fulfilling this our Order; and if any Dean, or Dean and Chapter, or any that holdeth any dignity, or Prebend in the Cathedral Church do not observe the&s;e our Commands, that you call them before you, and &s;ee this our will be obeyed; And if you or any Bi&s;hop do not  your, duty, either in their own grants, or &s;eeing others to do it then we will that upon complaint, the Arch-Bi&s;hop of the Province &s;ee all performed according to this our Declaration, Will and Plea&s;ure: And whereas there are divers rurall Prebends, where the Vicarages are not &s;ufficiently endowed, we require you to &s;ee tho&s;e our Commands be fully ob&s;erved by them. And we do declare our Will and Plea&s;ure in all the perticulars fore-cited to be, that if you or any of your Succe&s;&s;ors, or any Dean, or Dean and Chapter, of <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 word"> our Cathedrial Church, or any other per&s;on holding any Of|fice, Benefice or Prebend in the &s;ame, do or &s;hall refu&s;e or omit to ob&s;erve the&s;e our Commands, we &s;hall judge them unworthy of our future favour, when&s;over any preferment Eccle&s;ia&s;tical &s;hall be de&s;ired by them from us.</P>
<P>And la&s;tly our Will and Command is, that you and your Succe&s;&s;ors do at or before the fir&s;t day of <HI>October</HI> in every year, render an account to the Arch-Bi&s;hop of <GAP DESC="blank" EXTENT="1 span"> how the&s;e our Orders and Commands are ob&s;erved, That the Arch-Bi&s;hop afterwards may repre&s;ent the &s;ame unto Us,</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>By his Maje&s;tyes Command.
EDWARD NICHOLAS.</SIGNED>
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<P>This is a true Copy of the King Letter, &s;hewed in the Hou&s;e of Commons by Sir <HI>Allin</HI> Brawdriff the 7th of <HI>Augu&s;t</HI> 1660.</P>
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<P>LONDON, Printed for <HI>John Jones.</HI> 1660.</P>
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