Queen Anne's Bounty Act 1706
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1706 c. 24 |
| Year | 1706 |
(6 Ann.) C A P. XXIV. Anno Regni A N N Regin quinto.
An Act for discharging small Livings from their First Fruits and Tenths, and all Arrearsthereof.
I & 3 Ann, c. 11.
'I. W H E R E A S pursuant to An Act of Parliament made in the second Year of her Majesty's Reign, intituled,An Act for the making more effectual her Majesty's gracious Intentions for the Augmentation 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 ; the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by Letters Patent, bearing Date the third Day of November in the third Yearof her Majesty's Reign, did make, appoint, nominate, constitute and establish certain Persons and Officers therein named, to be one Body Politick and Corporate, by the Name ofThe Bounty of QueenAnne , for the Augmentation of the Maintenance of the poor Clergy ; and did thereby give and grant to the said Governors all the Revenues of First Fruits and yearly perpetual Tenths of all Dignities, Offices, Benefices, and Promotions spiritual whatsoever, payable to her Majesty, her Heirs and Successors, by virtue of an Act of Parliament made in the twenty-sixth Year of the Reign of King Henry the Eighth, or by virtue of an Act of Parliament made in the first Year of the Reign of the late Queen Elizabeth , for Restitution of First Fruits and Tenths to the Crown, or by virtue of any other Act or Acts of Parliament whatsoever, and all Arrears of the said First Fruits and Tenths then due and undischarged (except as therein is excepted) to be applied and disposed of to and for the Augmentation of the Maintenance of such Parsons, Vicars, Curates, and Ministers, officiating in any Church or Chapel within the Kingdom ofEngland , Dominion of Wales , and Town of Berwick upon Tweed , where the Liturgy and Rites of the Church of England , as now by Law established, shall be used and observed, under such Rules, Restrictions and Directions, and in such Manner and Form, as should be established pursuant to those Letters Patents: And whereas it is thought that the Payment of First Fruits and Tenths for small Livings with Cure of Souls, is a very heavy Burden upon the poorer Clergy, for whom her Majesty's unparalleled Bounty was designed; and that the immediate discharging of the said First Fruits and Tenths, and the Arrears thereof, of the said small Livings, will be a present proper Augmentation of the same (several whereof by reason of the said...
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