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Consulenda Provisions

Consulenda

1. Widdobuous[?] Bill

2. Ld Stanhopes list of persecuting laws in the [blank] of [blank] 1789

3. New Courts’ In[…?]

{4. Dr Watson’s Pamphlet}

{5. D. of Crofton’s Hists.}

6. Burns’ Eccles Law

7. Welsh livings[?] how they came to be so small inquire of Parry & Poole

8. Of Dr Pr[…?], the general amount of dissenting benefices.

{9. Of in Butler do of Catholics – to show the quantum stuff.}

10. Book showing the Ecclesiast. polity of Scotland.

11. Do of Prussia, Denmark – Sweden, Geneva, Bern

12. Of Ld. L. differences of hire per acre between Tishable lands and Tethe free.

1. 2/3 of the purchase money may lay on the land as a mortgage.

2. Fetters – Tenants for life &c. may charge the purchase money upon the estate.

3. Guardians and […?] of manors[?] may purchase

4. Forms of conveyance to be given in the Act.

5. Rights of presentation belonging to patrons […?] office to lapse to the parishioners on the first vacancy of the office: Ex.g. Chancellor and Bishops

6. A value to be fixed for the Advowson at so many years purchase, and for the next presentation /of the value of the living/ presentation at so many years purchase

7. Bishopricks & {other} sine cure benefices to be at the disposal of the Crown to be extinct at the death of the two present possessors.

8. Money, to be received and disbursed by the receivers of the Land Tax in each county.

9. Upon the vacancy of a Benefice the emoluments of which consist in a share of an amount of that share of an aggregate fund as a Prebend or Fellowship the amount of that share to be made […?]-charge and paid annually to the Crown.

10. Upon the lapse of the greater part in number and value of the Co. beneficiaries the tenenants to be put up to sale subject to life annuities to the Incumbents.

11. Impropriations consisting of mod[…?] to be purchasable at any time at the option of person liable, at a fixed rate

12. Profit arising from the suppression of Tithes to be divided between the public and the tithe player where he occupies the land by he occupies the land by his being at liberty to purchase at an under price.

13. Like division between the landowner and the farmer, according to tables to be formed {…?} calculated from the number of years to come of the lease

14. Provision to be made where the land is hand in lives, and under let to tenants for years.

15. To where there are several ranks of tenants.

N.B. The twin of the scale may be given to the landlord, prudentially, theirs being the most powerful interest.

Manorial Reform Vextatiuos manorial rights of no assignment value to be abolished

Dividends

Hero of custom.

Treasture Trove.

Royal Fish

Wasp and Strays

Wrecks

Things jetsam flotsam and ligan

Copyholds to be enfranchisable at the option of the copyholders at a fixed price.

16. Rights of Election to livings to be in the Majority of the Vestry paying to the poor.

17. Provision for the juncture of small parishes where no part of the […?] is more than 2 miles distant from the Church

18. – division of any parish which has any House more than 3 miles distant from the church

19. New liturgy to be received every where by a certain day unless a dissent be signed by a majority of the inhabitants paying parish taxes.

20. If then rejected, a Vestry to be held every year at a certain day to put it to the vote

21. If received at 5 successive annual meetings, at the 5th to be received finally.

22. Promise not to preach nothing uncomfortable to the Liturgy.

23. Liberty expressly reserved to write against it.

24. Declaration that a man’s attends the service and joining in the office does not imply an approbation of every part of it without exception.

25. An advowson with an incumbent of the youngest age presumed in good health to be valued at [blank] years purchase

26. An advowson with an incumbent of 100 years old or upwards at [blank] years purchase.

27. […?] with an immediate resignation at [blank] years purchase

28. The intermediate values to be settled by Tables.

29. The game to the nation by the purchase would be the difference between the price of an advowson, the […?] price to sell the tithes &c at, and the real value of the purchases

Say 16, 20, and 28.

30. Impropriations

Land owners to hand the right of purchasing in at {…?} such a price as if they borrow their money will not diminish their income viz: 25 years purchase to 4[?] cent. The differences betwixt that and the market price say 28 years purchase to be made good by the nation out of the fund produced by sale of the Tithes of Rectories. In Ecclesiastical hands

31. Qu. The proportion of the value of […?]-proporatious to livings?

32. The farmers/tenants/ du[…?] their beans to pay the composition money (as valued) to the landlord instead of the parson.

33. Tenant for a life or lives renewable to have […?] power of changing the reversion.

34. Reversions to have like power of purchasing in the Tithes on default of the life-holders and to charge the life holder with a proportionable rent or augmentation of fine.

35. Mortgage for purchase of Tithes to have the priority of all other Mortgages – and to be registered.

36. Ministers oath to secure residence. Church wardens to sign their belief of it or mention[?] to be made of their refusal or hindrance.

Constant residence swoon to except as excepted – list of non-resident days allow’d exclusive of accidental detention by illness.

For every other day of absence, that days salary to be deducted.

Signed copy of the Oath of Residence to be enter’d in a Church Book and another stuck up against the door.

Two months non-residence in any year over and above the allowance, a ground for deprivation within 2 years.

The Parish vestry to have the power of displacing the Minister without reason assigned, but only in terms of allowing him at least ¾ of his income {2/3of the} 2/3 of the Parish in numbers and value to join in this?