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Rh "That there is one church belonging to the said parish of All Saints, Grimsby, affording accommodation for seven hundred persons. There is no other consecrated church or chapel of ease in the said parish, but there is a mission room in that part of the said parish proposed to be separated capable of affording accommodation for three hundred people.

"That the net annual value of the said vicarage of All Saints, Grimsby, is two hundred and eighty-five pounds arising from the vicarage of Clee, the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England, and fees.

"That the said vicarage of All Saints, Grimsby aforesaid, is in my patronage in right of my Bishopric.

"That a portion of the said parish of All Saints, Grimsby, containing an estimated population of about three thousand persons, is severed from the remaining portion of the said parish by a line of railway, and is therefore practically detached there from and can be more readily visited by the clergy of the church of Saint James than by those of All Saints.

"That it appears to me that the said severed portion of the said parish of All Saints, Grimsby, which is shown upon the plan hereto annexed and thereon coloured red may under the provisions of the Pluralities Act, 1838, be advantageously separated from the said parish of All Saints, Grimsby, and annexed to the said parish of Grimsby Saint Mary and Saint James to which it is contiguous.

"That pursuant to the directions contained in the twenty-sixth section of the above mentioned Act of Parliament I the said Bishop of Lincoln have drawn up a scheme in writing appended to this representation describing the mode in which it appears to me that the alteration above proposed may be best effected and how the changes consequent on such alteration in respect to ecclesiastical jurisdiction, glebe lands, tithes, rent-charges and other ecclesiastical dues, rates and payments and in respect to patronage and rights to pews may be made with justice to all parties interested. And I do submit the same to your Grace together with my consent thereto in writing as the Patron of both the said benefices and also the consents of the Reverend Algernon Augustus Markham, Vicar of the said vicarage of Grimsby Saint Mary and Saint James, and the Reverend Arthur Watts Ballachey, the Vicar of the said vicarage of All Saints, Grimsby, to the intent that your Grace may if on full consideration and inquiry you shall be satisfied with the scheme certify the same and such consents to His Majesty in Council."

And whereas the said scheme drawn up by the said Bishop and the consents of the Patron and Incumbents of the said benefices respectively are as follows:—

"That the portion of the parish of All Saints, Grimsby, which is shown on the plan hereto annexed and thereon coloured red and more particularly described in the schedule hereto be separated from the said vicarage and parish of All Saints, Grimsby, and annexed to the contiguous vicarage and parish of Grimsby Saint Mary and Saint James for ecclesiastical purposes and that it shall be and remain under the same ecclesiastical jurisdiction as the said vicarage and parish of Grimsby Saint Mary and Saint James now are.

"That the Incumbent of Grimsby Saint Mary and Saint James shall have exclusive care of souls within the limits of the said portion of the parish of All Saints, Grimsby, so to be annexed to the said parish of Grimsby Saint Mary and Saint James.

"That baptisms, churchings, marriages and services for the burial of the dead in respect of the inhabitants of the said portion of the parish of All Saints, Grimsby, shall be performed and shall take place in the church of Grimsby Saint Mary and Saint James or the chapel of the cemetery or burial ground of the said parish and that the fees for the same and for other ecclesiastical offices and all ecclesiastical dues and offerings arising from or in respect of the said portion of the said parish of All Saints, Grimsby, so to be annexed to the said parish of Grimsby Saint Mary and Saint James and usually payable to the incumbent of a benefice shall belong and be paid to the Incumbeut of the said parish and benefice of Grimsby Saint Mary and Saint James.

"That the inhabitants of the same portion of the said parish of All Saints, Grimsby, shall be exonerated from all liability to repair the church of the said parish of All Saints, Grimsby, or any other church or chapel now or hereafter to be erected in the said parish but shall be liable subject to the provisions of "The Compulsory Church Rates Abolition Act, 1868," to repair the said church of Grimsby Saint Mary and Saint James.

"That the said inhabitants of the said portion of the said parish of All Saints, Grimsby, shall be entitled to resort to and attend the said church of Grimsby Saint Mary and Saint James as their parish church and to be accommodated with sittings therein but shall not henceforth be entitled to any accommodation in the church of the said parish of All Saints, Grimsby, or in any church or chapel now or hereafter to be erected in the said parish except nevertheless any person or persons (if any) possessing a legal right by faculty or otherwise to any pew or sitting in the said parish church of All Saints, Grimsby, and who may not be willing to relinquish and give up the same.

"That nothing herein contained shall affect the endowments of either of the said vicarages of Grimsby Saint Mary and Saint James and All Saints, Grimsby, or the rights of patronage to either of the said benefices of Grimsby Saint Mary and Saint James and All Saints, Grimsby.

"Ah that part of the parish of All Saints, Grimsby, delineated on the said map or plan hereto appended and thereon verged red and which is bounded on the east by the Great Northern Railway and south by the parish of Clee and on all other sides by the said parish of Grimsby Saint Mary and Saint James.

"I, the Right Reverend Edward, Bishop of Lincoln, in right of my Bishoprick the Patron or person entitled to present or nominate to the vicarage of Grimsby Saint Mary and Saint James in case the same were now vacant and also to the said vicarage of All Saints, Grimsby, in case the same were now vacant; I, the Reverend Algernon Augustus Markham, the Incumbent of the said vicarage of Grimsby Saint Mary and Saint James; and I, the Reverend Arthur Watts Ballachey, the Incumbent of the said vicarage of All Saints, Grimsby, do hereby severally and respectively signify our consent to the scheme