The Kings Majesties most gracious letter and declaration to the bishops, deans and prebends &c.

The Kings Majesties most gracious letter and declaration to the bishops, deans and prebends &c.

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HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE

THE KINGS MAJESTIES Most Gracious LETTER and DECLARATION To the Bishops, Deans and Prebends &c.

CHARLES R.

AS nothing is more in[?] our desires then to provide that the [...] [...]ngland, under our Reign might be furnished with a Religious, Learned, Sober, Modest, and Prudent Clergy [...] we are ready to give incouragement to their labours and study in their severall degrees and stations, that they may give Check to all Prophaneness and Superstition, and as zealously affect to remove all scandalls, and reproach from them and their callings, conceiving therefore a competent maintanance to be a necessary encouragement: And that all other persons who have power to dispose of Tythes, may be invited to cherish all Learned and Godly Ministery. We do resolve that because where Tythes have been appointed for the support of Bishops, Deans, and Chapters Collegiate Churches, and Colledges: And other[?] single persons that have not taken due care to Provide, and ordaine sufficient maintenance for the Vicars of their respective places, or for the Curates where Vicarages were not endowed, to settle for the future some good addition and encrease on such Vicarages and Curats places. Our will therefore is that forthwith provision be made for the augmentation of all such Vicarages, and Cures, where your Tythes and profits are appropriated to you and your successors, in such manner that they who immediately attend upon the performance of Ministeriall Offices in every Parish may have a competent portion out of every Rectory impropriate to your See. And [...] this end our further will is, That no lease he granted of any Rectoryes or Parsonages belonging to your See, belonging to you [...] [...]uccessors, untill you shall Provide that the respective Vicarages or Curats places, where are no Vicarages endow [...] Tythes, or other emoluments, as commonly will amount to 100 or 80 l. per annum, or more [...] it will bear [...], settle it upon them and their Successors and where the[?] Rectoryes are of small value, an [...] cannot permit of such pr [...]ortions [...] vicar and Curate, Our will is that one half of the prof [...]t of such a Rectory b [...] reserved for the maintenance of the V [...]ar or [...] Curate. And if any Leases or grants of such fore-named Rector [...] have been made by you since the f [...]rst day of June last past, & [...] you did not ordaine competent Augmentation of the Vicarages or Cures in their respective places, our will is, That out of the Fines which you have received, or are to receive, you do add such encrease to the Vicar and Curate as is agreeable to the Rates and Proportions formerly mentioned.

And our further will is, that you do employ your Authority and power, which by Law belongeth to you as ordinary for the Augmentation of Vicarages, and stipends of Curates, and that you do with diligence proceed in due form of Law, for the raysing and establishing Convenient maintenance of those who do attend holy dutyes in Parish Churches; And if any Prebendary in any Church (the Corps of whose Prebend consists of Tythes) shall not observe these our Commands, then we require you, or the Deane of the Church, to use all due meanes in Law, where you or he hath power to compel them, or that otherwise you report to the Bishop of the Diocess, where the said Corps doth lye, that they may interpose 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 these our Commands, that you call them before you, and see this our will be obeyed; And if you or any Bishop do not your, duty, either in their own grants, or seeing others to do it then we will that upon complaint, the Arch-Bishop of the Province see all performed according to this our Declaration, Will and Pleasure: And whereas there are divers rurall Prebends, where the Vicarages are not sufficiently endowed, we require you to see those our Commands be fully observed by them. And we do declare our Will and Pleasure in all the perticulars fore-cited to be, that if you or any of your Successors, or any Dean, or Dean and Chapter, of [...] our Cathedrial Church, or any other person holding any Office, Benefice or Prebend in the same, do or shall refuse or omit to observe these our Commands, we shall judge them unworthy of our future favour, whensover any preferment Ecclesiastical shall be desired by them from us.

And lastly our Will and Command is, that you and your Successors do at or before the first day of October in every year, render an account to the Arch-Bishop of [...] how these our Orders and Commands are observed, That the Arch-Bishop afterwards may represent the same unto Us,

By his Majestyes Command. EDWARD NICHOLAS.

This is a true Copy of the King Letter, shewed in the House of Commons by Sir Allin Brawdriff the 7th of August 1660.

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LONDON, Printed for John Jones. 1660.

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The Kings Majesties most gracious letter and declaration to the bishops, deans and prebends &c.

England and Wales. Sovereign (1660-1685 : Charles II)

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1660

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Thomason 669.f.25[69]

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ESTC R212560

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99897915

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— The Kings Majesties most gracious letter and declaration to the bishops, deans and prebends &c., England and Wales. Sovereign (1660-1685 : Charles II), Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685., Church of England..

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printed for John Jones,. London :: 1660.. ("The clergy must be paid sufficiently. No leases of rectories or parsonages to be signed unless the vicarages or curacies have at least £100 or £80 per annum.... Prebendaries are to comply with this order, which is to be enforced by Deans, Bishops, and Archbishops, on pain of displeasure." -- Steele.) (Dated at end: 7th of August 1660.) (Arms 11; Steele notation: a maintenance afterwards.) (Annotation on Thomason copy: "Aug 11".) (Reproduction of original in the Henry E. Huntington Library.)

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