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A. D. 1558. many of the said Rectories, Parsonages and Benefices impropriate, Glebe Lands, Tithes, Oblations, Pensions, Portions and other Profits and Emoluments, Ecclesiastical and Spiritual aforesaid, and the Reversion and Reversions thereof, and all Rents, Emoluments and Profits incident to the same, as were in the Hands and Possession of the said late Queen Mary, at and before the said eighth Day of August, shall from the Feast of St. Michael the Archangel last past be vested, adjudged and deemed, actually and really in the Seisin and Possession of our said Sovereign Lady Queen Elizabeth, her Heirs and Successors, to all Intents, Constructions and Purposes, of and in such like and the same Estate, Interest, Order, Degree, Quality, Sort and Condition, and as fully, wholly, largely and beneficially, as the same were in the Seisin and Possession of the said late Queen Mary, at and before the same Eighth Day of August: (3) And that as well the said Firſt-fruits and Tenths, and the Order thereof, as also the said annual Rents reserved nomine Decimæ, and the said Rectories, Parsonages, Benefices, Glebe Lands, Tithes, Oblations, Pensions, Portions and other Profits and Emoluments, Ecclesiastical and Spiritual aforesaid, and every of them, and the Reversion and Reversions of them, and of all Rents and Profits unto the same or any of them incident or belonging, shall be within the said Order, Survey, Rule and Governance of the faid Court of the Exchequer, in every Degree, Sort and Condition, as they were at and before the said eighth Day of August; the said Act made in the said second and third Years, or any other Matter or Thing, to the contrary thereof notwithstanding.

XXIV. And that so much of all and every the said Acts and Statutes first recited, or of any other Act or Statute touching or concerning the Order, Levying, true Answering and Payment, or Qualification of the said First-fruits and Tenths, and of the said Rectories, Parsonages and Benefices impropriate, and of the Rents, Revenues, Emoluments and Profits thereof, and of all other the Premisses, and also the Charge, Discharge or Alteration of them or any of them, or any Matter or Thing in any wise sounding or tending thereunto, which were standing and being in Force, Effect and Unrepealed, at and before the said eighth Day of August (except only the said Acts of the Erections of the Courts of Augmentations, and First-fruits and Tenths) shall be, remain and continue in their full and perfect Strengths and Forces, and be observed and put in due Execution, according to the Tenours and Purports of the same and every of them.

XXV. And that the Queen's Majesty, her Heirs and Successors, by Authority of this present Parliament, shall from the said first Day of this present Parliament have, hold, possess and enjoy for ever, the Advowsons, Gifts and Patronages of all Vicarages belonging or incident to any of the said Rectories and Parsonages impropriate, in the same Sort, Quality, Condition and Degree, to all Intents and Purposes, as the same were in the Person and Possession of the said late Queen Mary, at and before the said eighth Day of August; any Thing or Act done by the same late Cardinal, or any Grant or Grants by Letters Patents made by the said late Queen Mary, of the said Advowsons and Patronages or any of them, to any Ecclesiastical or Spiritual Person or Persons, or any Spiritual Corporation, to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding:

XXVI. Saving to all and every Person and Persons, Bodies Politick and Corporate, and their Heirs, Executors, Successors and Assigns and every of them, (other than such Persons as be mentioned and named in any Letters Patents made by the said Queen Mary the said eighth Day of August, or at any Time sithence, or claiming only by or under the Authority and Strength of the same Act or Letters Patents or any of them) all such Right, Title, Interest, Estate, Offices, Leases, Grants, Annuities, Pensions, Fees, Corodies, Rents and other yearly Profits and Commodities, as they or any of them ought or should have had, perceived or enjoyed, of, in or by Reason of any the Parsonages, Rectories or of any other the Premisses, in case the said former Act now repealed, and this present Act of Repeal, had never been had ne made; any Thing in the same Acts or either of them contained or sounding to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding.

XXVII. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That from and after the said Feast of St. Michael the Archangel last past, and so from thenceforth from Time to Time, the said Pensions, Annuities, Rents, Corodies, Fees and other yearly Payments, shall be paid and payable only by our said Sovereign Lady, her Heirs and Successors, at the Receipt of the Exchequer, or in such other Places, as the Queen's Majesty, her Heirs and Successors shall appoint, to all and every Person and Persons that ought to have and enjoy the same, in such Sort, Order and Form, as the same should or ought to have been paid and payable, in case the said Act now repealed had never been had ne made; any Thing therein, or else in this Act contained to the contrary thereof, in any wise notwithstanding.

XXVIII. And be it further enacted by Authority aforesaid, That all and singular Incumbents, Proprietaries, Tenants, Farmers, Lessees and Occupiers of the Premisses or any Part thereof, their Heirs, Executors and Assigns, which the said first Day of this present Parliament were behind, or in any Arrearages of and with the Rents, Farms, Tenths or other Revenues, Profits or Duties, by them or any of them due and payable, for or by Reason of the Premisses or any of them, shall and may be by the Authority of this Act severally chargeable, accountable and answerable to the Queen's Majesty, her Heirs and Successors, in and at the said Court of the Exchequer, of and for the same Arrearages and Duties as other Accomptants be and shall be in the same Court; any Thing in the said Act} now repealed, in this Act, or any other Matter or Cause to the contrary thereof, in any wise notwithstanding.

XXIX. And yet nevertheless the Queen's most excellent Majesty, at the humble Request of her said Subjects, of her abundant Grace and Bountifulness, is pleased and contented that it be enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That all and singular Vicarages not exceeding the yearly Value of ten Pounds, after the Rate and Value upon the Records and Books of the Rates and Values for the first-fruits and Tenths now remaining in the Exchequer, or that shall hereafter come and remain in the same Court; and also all and singular Parsonages not exceeding the yearly Value of ten Marks, after the like Rate and Valuation, and the Incumbents thereof and of every of them, their Executors, Administrators, Successors and Sureties and every of them, from the said Feast of St. Michael the Archangel last past, shall be free and clearly discharged and