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198 of the said dioceses for the time being have accordingly used to demand and take and continue to demand and take mortuaries upon the death of any clergyman within their said dioceses and jurisdictions which said mortuaries consisting of several of the best goods of the deceased do oftentimes amount to a very considerable part of his estate, and the payment thereof does very much lessen that small provision which generally the clergy of those dioceses are able to make for the support of their families, and tends to the great impoverishing of the same: for the remedying whereof for the future, and for abolishing and taking away all mortuaries or corse presents and the custom or usage of taking and paying mortuaries or corse presents upon the death of clergymen within the said dioceses and jurisdictions; and to the end a reasonable recompense and satisfaction for the same may be provided and established for the bishops of the said dioceses for ever: Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal, and of the Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, that the said proviso or clause in the said Act, and all and every proviso or clause in the same Act, so far as the same do or doth relate to the taking of any mortuary or corse present upon the death of any clergyman within the said respective dioceses or jurisdictions, shall immediately, from and after the respective times herein after mentioned, that is to say, within the said diocese of St. Asaph from and after the four and twentieth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and fourteen and within the said diocese of Bangor, immediately from and after such time any rectory sine curâsine cura [sic] shall next happen to be void and be in the collation of the present bishop of the said diocese of Bangor, or of any of his successors and within the said diocese of Landaff, immediately from and after such time as the treasurership, with the prebend thereto annexed, founded in the cathedral church of Landaff, shall next happen to be void, such treasurership and prebend being in the collation of the bishop of the said diocese of Landaff: and within the said diocese of St. Davids, immediately from and after such time as the prebend of Langamarch founded in the collegiate church of Brecon now enjoyed by John Medley arch deacon of St. Davids shall next happen to be void the same being in the collation of the bishop of St. Davids stand and be absolutely repealed annulled and void and all and every and any