fame, any thing in the faid recited Act to the contrary thereof notwithstanding; and all contracts, agreements, and leafes, made by words, or otherwife, before the paffing of this Act, by any fpiritual perfon, either by himself or any other, to or for his ufe, which if made after this Act would, according to the provifions thereof, be good and valid, fhall, notwithstanding the faid recited Act, or any Act, or law or laws to the contrary, be and be deemed to be as good and valid in the law, to all intents and purposes, as if the fame had been made after the paffing of this A&t.

2. And be it further enacted, That, immediately from and after the paffing of this Act, it fhall be lawful for any perfon or perfons, against whom any original writ, fuit, action, bill, plaint, or information, fhall have been fued out, commenced, or profecuted, before the paffing of this Act, for any pecuniary penalty or penalties, or any forfeiture or forfeitures, incurred or alleged to be under the faid recited Act, to apply to the Court in which fuch original writ, fuit, action, bill, plaint, or information, fhall have been fued out, commenced, or profecuted, if fuch Court fhall be fitting, or to any Judge of any fuch Court when not fitting, for an order that fuch writ, fuit, action, bill, plaint, or information, fhall be difcontinued, upon payment of the fum of ten pounds, in every cafe where a verdict fhall be obtained, together with the cofts; and where no verdict fhall have been obtained, upon payment of the cofts incurred up to the time of fuch application being made, all fuch costs to be taxed as between attorney and client, according to the practice of fuch Court, and every fuch Court or Judge is hereby authorized and required, upon fuch application, to make fuch order as aforefaid; and upon the making fuch order, and payment of fuch cofts as aforefaid, fuch writ, fuit, action, bill, plaint, or information, fhall be forthwith difcontinued; and in every cafe, until fuch application fhall be made as aforefaid, it shall be lawful for the plaintiff or plaintiffs, in any fuch original writ, fuit, action, bill, plaint, or information, to proceed therein, as if this Act, or an Act, paffed in the forty-first year of the reign of his prefent Majefty, intituled, An Act to stay, until the twenty-fifth day of March one thoufand eight hundred and two, Proceedings in Actions under the Statute of King Henry the Eighth, "for abridging Spiritual Perfons from having Plu"ralities of Livings, and from taking of Ferms," had not been paffed; any thing in this Act, or the faid laft recited

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Act, or in any other A&t or Acts continuing the fame to the contrary thereof notwithstanding.

3. Provided nevertheless, That in all cafes in which any fuch writ, fuit, action, bill, plaint, or information, shall have been fued out or commenced at any time on or fubfequent to the first day of July one thousand eight hundred and one, it fhall be competent to fuch Court or Judge as aforefaid, to make fuch order as aforefaid for difcontinuing the fame, without payment of any cofts; and upon making fuch order, fuch writ, fuit, action, bill, plaint, or information, fhall be forthwith difcontinued.

4. And be it further enacted, That, from and after the paffing of this Act, it fhall be lawful for any spiritual perfon to take to farm to himself, or to any perfon or perfons to his ufe, by lease, grant, words, or otherwise, for term of life, for term of years, or at will, any meffuage, manfion, or dwelling houfe, with or without orchards, gardens, and other appurtenances, although not in any city, borough, or town, any thing in the faid recited Act, or any other Act to the contrary thereof notwithstanding; and it fhall alfo be lawful for any spiritual person having or holding any donative, perpetual curacy, or parochial chapelry, not having any fufficient or convenient glebe or demefne lands annexed to, or in right of, or by reason of his benefice, or cure, or chapelry, or for any ftipendiary Curate, or any unbeneficed spiritual perfon, with the confent or approbation of the Bishop of the diocefe, fignified in writing, to take to ferm to himself, or to any perfon or perfons to his use, for a limited term of years, any farm or farms, lands, tenements, or hereditaments, that may, under all the circumstances, appear to fuch Bishop proper to be taken, held, or occupied, by any fuch fpiritual perfon, for the convenience and accommodation of his household and hospitality only, without being fubject or liable to any pains, penalties, or forfeitures, under the faid firft recited Act, or any other Act by reafon thereof, any thing therein contained to the contrary notwithstanding: Provided always, that nothing herein contained hall extend, or be conftrued to extend, to authorize any nonrefidence of any such spiritual perfon as aforefaid,

5. And be it further enacted, That, from and after the paffing of this Act, it fhall be lawful for any spiritual perfon or perfons, by himself or themselves, or any other to his or their ufe, to have, hold, ufe, or occupy in ferm, any manors, lands, tenements, or hereditaments, demifed, leafed, or granted, to fuch spiritual perfon or perfons, as

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the property or estate of such spiritual person or perfons; or to take, purchase, receive, or hold, as the property and eftate of fuch spiritual person, any leafe or leafes for life or lives, or for term or terms of years, abfolute or determinable on any life or lives, or to take any annual rent, or other annual advantage or profit, by occafion of any leafe or ferm of any manors, lands, tenements, or hereditaments, the property or eftate of any fuch fpiritual perfon or perfons belonging to him or them, either in his or their own right, or in the right of any other person or perfons, or in right or by reason of his or their having or holding any fpiritual dignity or benefice, or fo taken, purchafed, received, or held as aforefaid, as the property or eftate of fuch spiritual perfon, without being subject to any pains, penalties, or forfeitures whatever, under the faid first recited Act, or any other Act, any thing therein contained to the contrary thereof notwithstanding: Provided always, that nothing herein contained fhall extend, or be conftrued to extend, to authorize any spiritual perfon, having or holding any dignity, prebend, benefice, donative, perpetual curacy, or parochial chapelry, or ferving a ftipendiary curacy, to take, receive, or hold any fuch manors, lands, tenements, or hereditaments, after the paffing of this Act, for the purpose of occupying or to occupy the fame, for the cultivation thereof, or procuring profit therefrom, by himself, or any bailiff or bailiffs, or fervant or fervants, for his ufe, unlefs the fame shall have been taken, received, or holden under a leafe granted to fuch perfon on or before the first day of January one thoufand eight hundred and three, or unless by the confent or approbation of the Bishop, as aforefaid, fignified in writing.

6. And be it further enacted, That, from and after the paffing of this Act, it fhall be lawful for any spiritual perfon, by himself, or by any other for him or to his ufe, to bargain, and buy or fell again for any lucre, gain, or profit, any manner of cattle or corn, that may be neceffary, proper, or convenient to be bought, fold, kept, or maintained by fuch fpiritual perfon, or any other perfon for him or to his ufe, for the occupation, manuring, improving, pafturage, or profit of any farms, lands, tenements, or hereditaments, that may under and by virtue of any law or laws now in force, or under any of the provifions of this Act, be lawfully held and occupied, poffeffed, or enjoyed, by fuch fpiritual perfon, or any other for him or to his ufe, without being fubject to any pains, penalties,

penalties, or forfeitures, by reason thereof, under the faid first recited Act, or any other Act, or any thing therein contained to the contrary thereof notwithstanding: Provided always, that nothing in this Act contained fhall extend, or be conftrued to extend, to authorize any fuch fpiritual perfon to buy or fell any cattle as aforefaid, or corn, in perfon, in any market, fair, or place of public fale.

7. And be it further enacted, That, from and after the paffing of this Act, it fhall be lawful for any spiritual perfon having or holding any vicarage, or perpetual curacy, or for the ftipendiary Curate thereof respectively, to Occupy by himself or by any other to his ufe in ferm, of the leafe or grant of any perfon or perfons, the impropriate parfonage, rectory, or vicarage refpectively, of the parish of which fuch fpiritual perfon fhall be the Vicar, or perpetual Curate, or ftipendiary Curate, or any part or parts thereof respectively, or to take any profit or rent out of any fuch farm, without being fubject to any pains, penalties, or forfeitures, by means thereof, under the faid firft recited Act; any thing therein contained to the contrary thereof notwithstanding.

8. Provided nevertheless, That in fuch cafes in which fuch impropriate parfonage, rectory, or vicarage, or fuch part or parts thereof as fhall be fo occupied as aforefaid, Thall not, at any time before the paffing of this Act, have been fo occupied by the fame, or any other fuch fpiritual perfon as aforefaid, fuch perfon fhall remain liable to fuch pains, penalties, and forfeitures, unless he fhall have obtained the licence of the Bishop for so occupying the fame.

9. And be it further enacted, That any Clergyman, poffeffed of any dignity, prebend, benefice, donative, perpetual curacy, or parochial chapelry, who fhall be licenfed or otherwife exempted from refidence under this or any other Act, may take to ferm and occupy in the parish where he refides, or any adjoining parith, fuch lands for the convenience and accommodation of his household and hofpitality only, as the Bishop of the diocefe in which he refides may allow by any writing under his hand.

10. And be it further enacted, That an Act, made in the thirteenth year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth, intituled, An Act touching Leafes of Benefices, and other Ecclefiaftical Livings with Cure, together with all and every explanations, additions, and alterations thereof, made by feveral statutes in the fourteenth, eighteenth, and forty

third years of her faid Majefty's reign, and alfo fo much of an Act, made in the third year of the reign of King Charles the Firft, intituled, An Act for Continuance and Repeal of divers Statutes, whereby the fame were made perpetual, be from henceforth repealed.

11. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That nothing in this Act contained fhall extend, or be conftrued to extend, to deprive any spiritual perfon of any privilege, indemnity, or permiffion, as to the taking, having, or holding any ferms or lands to which any fuch spiritual perfon was or would be entitled unto, under any of the provifions of the faid recited Act of his faid late Majesty King Henry the Eighth, or any otherwife howfoever.

12. And be it further enacted, That, from and after the paffing of this Act, fo much of the faid first recited Act as impofes the penalty of ten pounds, in the faid A&t mentioned, on any fpiritual perfon therein described, who fhall not keep refidence on one of his dignities, prebends, or benefices, but abfent himself wilfully by the space of one month together, or by the space of two months, to be accounted at feveral times in any one year, shall be, and the fame is, hereby repealed; and that, from and after the paffing of this Act, every fpiritual perfon, being poffeffed of any archdeaconry, deanery, or other dignity, prebend, benefice, donative, or perpetual curacy, or parochial chapelry, who fhall, without fufficient cause, as in the faid first recited Act, or under an A&t paffed in the twenty-fifth year of the reign of King Henry the Eighth, intituled, An Act that every Judge of the High Courts may bave One Chaplain beneficed with Cure, or under another Act, paffed in the twenty-eighth year of the reign of King Henry the Eighth, intituled, The Bill for Nonrefidence of Spiritual Men and their Benefices, or under another Act, paffed in the thirty-third year of the reign of King Henry the Eighth, intituled, An Act for the Chancellor of the Dutchy of Lancaster and others to have Chaplains, is fpecified, or fuch other fufficient caufe as would exempt fuch fpiritual perfon from any of the pains, penalties, and forfeitures under the faid recited Acts, for any non-refidence, and who fhall not have any fuch licence or exemption as is in this Act mentioned for that purpose, wilfully abfent himself therefrom for the space of three months together, or to be accounted at feveral times in any one year, and make his refidence and abiding at any other place or places, except at fome other dignity, prebend, benefice, donative, perpetual curacy, or

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