The Felstead Charities Act 1851
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1851 c. 20 |
ANNO DECIMO QUARTO & DECIMO QUINTO
VICTORLE REGESLE
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Cap.
20.
An Act for the Regulation and Improvement of
the Charities founded by Richard Lord Riche in
the Parish of Felstead in the County of Essex,
and for other Purposes. [7th August 1851.]
HERE AS on about the Seventeenth Day of November One
thousand eight hundred and thirty-six an Information was
filed in the High Court of Chancery by Her Majesty's
Attorney General as Informant, and which Information was afterwards
amended, and as amended was against George Finch, George Henry
Finely the Chaplain, Parochians, and Wardens of Felstead in the
County of Essex, and the Reverend Thomas Surridge, as Defendants,
for the Regulation and Improvement of the above-mentioned Charities,
and a supplemental Information was afterwards filed by the said Attor-
ney General as Informant against the said George Finch, George
Henry Finch, the Reverend Thomas Surridge, and the Chaplain,
Parochians, and Wardens of Felstead in the County of Essex, and
James Skill, John Abraham, John Jolliffe Tufnell, Jonas
Coote,
Hugh
Simons, the Reverend Jeremiah Awdry, Joseph Edwards, Thomas
Gladwin, and the Right Reverend Charles James Lord Bishop of
London, as Defendants : And whereas the said several Defendants to
the said original and amended Information duly appeared and put in
their Answers thereto, and the Causes of Attorney General v. Finch
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Decree of came on to be heard in the said Court of Chancery, and by
the.
Decree
Chancery ma(*e at such Hearing, dated the Twenty-first Day of February One
dated thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, it was amongst other things
Q 1st Feb. referred to the Master in the same Decree mentioned or referred to
to make such Inquiries and to ascertain and state to the Court such
Petition of Facts as in the same Decree mentioned in that
Behalf:
And whereas
Ge^Tal7 **er Majesty's Attorney General on the Tenth Day of February One
dated thousand eight hundred and fifty-one presented a Petition in the said.
?cc?i Feb* Causes,,praying amongst other things thatit might be referred to the.:
Master to whom the said Causes stood referred to settle and' approve.
of a proper Scheme for the future Maintenance of the Charities in thei
said Petition mentioned (being the Charities aforesaid) and for the
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proper Application of the Income thereof respectively, and that if
the said Master should be of opinion that an Act of Parliament was.
necessary for the Purpose of carrying out such Scheme then that he,.
might approve of the Draft of a Bill to be proposed to the Legislature
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Order, dated for the Purpose : And whereas by an Order of the said Court made on
!ac*t Feb *^e Hearing of the said Petition, dated the Nineteenth Day of February
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, it was amongst other things
ordered that it should be referred to the Master to whom the said
Causes stood referred to settle and approve of a proper Scheme for
the future Management of the said Charities in the said Petition men-
tioned, known as the Charities of Richard Riche Lord Riche, and for
the proper Application of the Income thereof respectively, having
regard to the Change of Circumstances, and the present Value of the
Property belonging to the said Charities ;. and it was ordered that the
said Master should inquire whether it was necessary for the Purposes
of carrying out this Scheme that an Act of Parliament should be
obtained, and the said Master was to be at liberty to report thereon in
his Report to be made pursuant to the said Decree, and if the said
Master should be of opinion that an Application to Parliament was
necessary, then the said Master was to settle and approve of the Draft
Master's
Re-
of a Bill for that Purpose: And whereas in pursuance of the said
26th June Decree and Order respectively Sir William Home, the Master to whom
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the said Causes stood referred, made his Report, dated the Twenty-
sixth Day of June One thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, and he
thereby certified and found, amongst other things, that in pursuance
of the said Decree a State of Facts had been laid before him on behalf
of Her Majesty's Attorney General, and that he had proceeded to con-
sider such State of Facts, together with the several Documents and
other Evidences produced before him in support
thereof,
and he found
Letters amongst other things that by Letters Patent of King Philip and Queen
io£ A^i^ Mary> faring Date the Tenth Day of April in the First and Second
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Years of their Reign, their Majesties granted Licence to Richard
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Mar.) Riche Knight, Lord Riche, that he might be able to found,, erect, and
establish a certain Foundation and Erection in the Parish Church
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of Felstead in the County of Essex of One Chaplain for ever, to be
appointed by the said Lord Riche and his Heirs, and of Parochians of
Felstead aforesaid, and of the "Wardens of the Works and Ornaments1
of the aforesaid Parish Church for ever, to be elected by the
Parishioners of Felstead for the Time being, according to certain
Ordinances and Constitutions of the said Lord Riche in that Behalf
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in Writing to be made, ordained, and declared, and when such Foun-
dation should have been so made, founded^ erected, and established it
should be named and called the Foundation of Richard Lord Riche
for the Support of poor Persons for ever, and that the Chaplain of the'
Foundation aforesaid, and the Parishioners of Felstead aforesaid, and
the Wardens of the Works and Ornaments of the aforesaid Parish"
Church, when the aforesaid Foundation should be so made and esta-
blished, should be a Body Corporate and Politic, and have perpetual
Succession; and that th^ said Chaplain of the Foundation aforesaid,
and the Parishioners of Felstead aforesaid, and the Wardens of the
Works and Ornaments of the aforesaid Parish Church of Felstead) and
their Successors, Chaplains of the Foundation aforesaid, and Parishioners
of Felstead aforesaid, and Wardens of the Works and Ornaments of
the aforesaid Church of Felstead, under and by the Name of " Chap-
'" lains of the Foundation of Richard Lord Riche in the Parish of
" Felstead in the County of Essex for the Support of poor Persons,
" and of the Parishioners of Felstead and the Wardens of the Works
" and Ornaments of the Parish Church of Felstead" should be able to
plead and be impleaded, and should have a Common Seal for ever, to
be appointed according to the Ordinance of Richard Lord Riche, and
that the said Lord Riche and his Heirs might grant to the said Corpo-
ration Messuages and Lands to the yearly Value of Fifty Pounds, and
that the said Corporation might receive and purchase Lands to the
yearly Value of other Fifty Pounds; and that by the said Letters
Patent it was granted to the said Lord Riche and his Heirs that all
the Chaplains of the said Foundation, when appointed by Deed sealed,
should be immediately Chaplain and really invested
thereof,
without
any Presentation to or Allowance by the Ordinary; and the said First
Deed
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Master further found that by a Deed indented under the Hand and Foundation,
Seal of the said Lord Riche, bearing Date the Twenty-sixth Day of 26th April
April One thousand five hundred and fifty-four (after reciting the said 1554-.
Letters Patient), the said Richard Lord Riche, in execution of the
said Licence, and for the Sustentation of the poor People in the said
Parish of Felstead and in the Parishes of Little Leighs and Much
Waliham in the said County of Essex, did ordain, erect, make, and
establish for ever that there should be One conscionable Person, being
a Priest, chosen by him and his Heirs from Time to Time for ever, to
be Chaplain of the same Foundation, and should be always thereunto
named and collated by him and his Heirs in Writing, and that the
same Priest so named and collated should, by virtue of the said
Writing
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