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Enforcement of 15 Ric. 2 c. 6 Act 1402

As Enacted Cited authorities 1 Cited in Amendments 3 Related
Vincent
JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1402 c. 12
Year1402
Statutes made at Westminster, Anno 4. Hen . IV. and Anno Dom.1402. In Appropriations of Benefices Provision shall be made for the Poor and the Vicar.

(4 Hen. 4) C A P. XII.

'ITEM, it is ordained, That the Statute of Appropriation of Churches, and of the Endowment of Vicars in the same, made the fifteenth Year of King Richard the Second, be firmly holden and kept, and put in due Execution; and if any Church be appropriated by Licence of the said King Richard , or of our Lord the King that now is, sithence the said fifteenth Year, against the Form of the said Statute, the same shall be duly reformed according to the Effect of the same Statute, betwixt this and the Feast ofEaster next coming. (2) And if such Reformation be not made within the Time aforesaid, that the Appropriation and Licence thereof be made void, and utterly repealed and adnulled for ever; (3) except the Church of in the Diocese ofEly , which, for to eschew divers Damages, Discords, and Debates, that have been before this Time betwixt the Bishop of Ely and the Archdeacon of Ely , upon the Exercise of their Jurisdiction (as it was openly declared by the same Bishop in Presence of the King, and of the Lords in Parliament) was of late appropried, by the Licence of the King our Lord, to the Archdeacon and his Successors, to do divine Service, keep Hospitality, and to support other Charges as pertaineth. (4) Moreover it is ordained and stablished, That all the Vicaragesunited, annexed, or appropried, and the Licences thereof had after the first Year of the said King Richard , how well soever that they which have united, annexed, or appropried such Vicarages, be in possession of the same Vicarages, or by the Virtue of such Licences may in any wise be in possession of the...

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