statute, or any claufe, matter or thing contained therein to the contrary notwithstanding. f. 185. . X. And whereas in and by an act of parliament made and passed in the tenth year of her Majesty's reign, for laying duties upon foap, and other matters therein mentioned, it was amongst other things enacted, That it should and might be lawful to and for the respective treasurers of the navy and ordinance, and the refpective paymasters of Claufe to enathe guards, garrisons and land forces for the time being, or any other ble the bank officers or perfons, who then were or afterwards should be entitled (for of England, and others, to the publick ufe and benefit) to any parts or fhares of the capital flock of advance mothe corporation erected by the name of the governor aud company of ney on South merchants of Great Britain, trading to the South Seas and other Sea stock. parts of America, and for encouraging the fishery (not being abfo10 Ann. c. 19. lutely fold, applied or difpofed for fome of the publick uses in that att mentioned) from time to time, by any warrant or warrants in writing from the high treasurer of Great Britain then being, or the high treafurer of Great Britain, or any three or more of the commiffioners of the treasury for the time being, (and not otherwife) to borrow any fum or fums of money, from any person or perfons, natives or foreigners, bodies politick or corporate, who were or should be willing to advance or lend the fame upon credit of the faid publick flock, or any part thereof, and to allow intereft, not exceeding the rate of fix pounds per cent. per ann. for the forbearance thereof, as is therein mentioned, and to affign, mortgage, and transfer fuch respective shares Jo lent, to the respective lenders thereof, or fuch as they feverally and of the faid ftock, whereupon fuch fums of money should be agreed to be Jo tene, flock, onders thereof, or as refpectively fhould appoint, and to their executors, adminiftrators, fucceffors and affigns respectively, upon fuch conditions of redemption, and under fuch agreements for the fale of the flock fo mortgaged, for making default in the repayment of the money to be borrowed thereupon, or for non-payment of the intereft thereof, and subject to fuch other conditions, and in fuch manner and form, as in fuch warrant and warrants respectively should be prescribed in that behalf; and that all the money which should be borrowed upon credit of fuch stock, as aforefaid, fhould be applied and difpofed by the faid treasurers, paymafters, or others refpectively chargeable therewith, to fuch publick uses whereunto the said stock so to be mortgaged would have been applicable by or in pursuance of another act in the faid recited act mentioned, if no fuch mortgage, affignment or transfer had been made, and to no other ufe, intent or purpose whatsoever; and that the faid treafurers, paymasters, and other officers, borrowing the faid monies, fhould be anfwerable for the application thereof accordingly; and that the faid company should not be refponsible for permitting the flock to be Jo transferred, as if the fame were unduly transferred; and that the lenders of fuch money should not be chargeable with the application thereof to the faid uses, as by the said act of the tenth year of her Majesty's reign may more fully appear: and whereas fome doubt hath been made, whether the governor and company of the bank of England (with regard to certain restrictions contained in former acts of parliament) might lawfully lend money upon credit of the faid publick Stock, pursuant to the faid act in that behalf: for obviating of 6 which 10 Ann, c. 19. ་་ཐཱ ་་ ་ which doubt, it is declared and enacted by this prefent act That it fhall and may be lawful, as well to and for the governor and company of the bank of England, as to and for any other perfon or perfons, natives and foreigners, bodies politick or corporate, to advance and lend fuch fum and fums of money, as they, or any of them, fhall think fit, to the faid treasurers, paymasters, and others, or any of them, upon credit of the publick stock before mentioned, or any part thereof, at fuch intereft, and upon fuch affignments, mortgages or transfers, fubject to fuch conditions of redemption, and with fuch agreements for felling the stock so mortgaged, in cafe of non-payment of the principal or intereft, and in all other refpects according to the forms prescribed in the said recited act of parliament in that 10 Ann. c. 19. behalf; any former act or acts of parliament, or any restrictions, prohibitions, penalties, forfeitures, claufes, matters or things therein contained to the contrary in any wife notwithstanding. 10 Ann. c. 19. L. 33. CAP. IV. An act for the better regulating the forces to be continued in her Majesty's fervice, and for the payment of the faid forces, and of their quarters. EX P. CAP. V. An act for taking away the new additional duty of thirty pounds per centum ad valorem, impofed upon all books and prints imported into Great Britain, by an act made in the tenth year of the reign of her prefent majesty Queen Anne. WH HEREAS by divers acts of parliament heretofore made, several duties have been laid upon all books and prints imported into Great Britain: and whereas by an act made in the tenth year of the reign of her present majesty Queen Anne, a further duty of thirty pounds per centum ad valorem was laid upon all books and prints imported into Great Britain; which faid additional duty of thirty pounds per centum has been found, by experience, to have tended very much to the difcouragement of learning, and to have been prejudicial to the other duties formerly laid: be it therefore enacted After 24 June by the Queen's moft excellent majefty, by and with the advice 1714, the duty and confent of the lords fpiritual and temporal and commons, of 30l. per in this prefent parliament affembled, and by the authority of cent, ad valothe fame, That from and after the four and twentieth day of rem, laid on books and fune one thousand feven hundred and fourteen, the faid duty of prints imthirty pounds per centum ad valorem fhall not be charged, levied, ported, by or collected upon any books or prints imported into Great 10 Ann. c. 19. Britain, but the faid duty is hereby abfolutely difcharged and taken away; and the faid act, fo far only as it relates to the faid duty of thirty pounds per centum ad valorem, fhall be and is hereby abfolutely repealed. taken away. CAP. CAP. VI. An alt for taking away mortuaries within the dioceses of Bangor, Landaff, St. Davids, and St. Afaph, and giving a recompenfe therefore to the bishops of the said reSpective diocefes: and for confirming several letters patents granted by her Majesty, for perpetually annexing a prebend of Gloucester to the mastership of Pembroke college in Oxford; and a prebend of Rochester to the provoftship of Oriel college in Oxford; and a prebend of Norwich to the maftership of Catharine hall in Cambridge. WHEREAS by an act of parliament passed in the one and 2x H. 8. c. 6) twentieth year of the reign of the late King Henry the fect. 7. Eighth, intituled, An act where mortuaries ought to be paid, for what persons, and how much, and in what cafe none is due, and by a provifo or clause therein contained, it is provided (among other things) That it shall be lawful to the bishops of Bangor, Landaff, St. Davids, and St. Afaph, to take fuch mortuaries of the priests within their diocefes and jurifdictions as thentofore had been accustomed; and the bishops of the faid diocefes 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 faid diocefes and jurifdictions; which faid mortuaries confifting of feveral of the best goods of the deceafed, do oftentimes amount to a very confiderable part of his eftate, and the payment thereof does very much leffen that small provifion which generally the clergy of thofe diocefes are able to make for the Jupport of their families, and tends to the great impoverishing of the fame: for the remedying whereof for the future, and for abolishing and taking away all mortuaries or corfe-prefents, and the custom or ufage of taking and paying mortuaries or corfe-preJents upon the death of clergymen within the faid diocefes and jurifdictions: and to the end a reasonable recompenfe and fatisfaction for the fame may be provided and established for the bishops of the faid diocefes for ever: be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most ex- The clause in cellent majefty, by and with the advice and confent of the the recited lords spiritual and temporal and of the commons, in this prefent act, fo far as it parliament affembled, and by the authority of the fame, That relates to the taking any the faid provifo or clause in the said act, and all and every mortuary in provifo or clause in the same act, fo far as the same do or doth the dioceses of relate to the taking any mortuary or corfe-prefent upon the Bangor, Landeath of any clergyman within the faid refpective diocefes or vid's, and daff, St. Dajurifdictions, fhall immediately, from and after the refpective St. Afaph, re times herein after mentioned, that is to fay, within the faid pealed. 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 faid diocefe of Bangor, immediately from and after fuch time any rectory fine cura fhall next happen to be void and be in the collation of the prefent bishop of the faid diocese of Banger, or of any of his fucceffors; and within VOL. XIII. F the Recompenfe fors, for fuch the faid diocese of Landaff, immediately from and after fuch time as the treasurerfhip, with the prebend thereto annexed, founded in the cathedral church of Landaff, fhall next happen to be void, fuch treafurerfhip and prebend being in the collation of the bishop of the faid diocefe of Landaff; and within the faid diocefe of St. Davids, immediately from and after fuch time as the prebend of Langamarch, founded in the collegiate church of Brecon, now enjoyed by John Medley, archdeacon of St. Davids, fhall next happen to be void, the fame being in the collation of the bishop of St. Davids, ftand and be abfolutely repealed, annulled, and void, and all and every, and any custom, and usage of and for paying, demanding, or taking any mortuary or corfe-prefent, or any goods, thing or things, for or in the name of a mortuary or corfe-prefent, upon the death of any clergyman within the faid refpective diocefes or jurifdictions, fhall, from the refpective times aforefaid, for ever, be abfolutely abolished and void; and no mortuary or corfe-prefent, or fum or fums of money for or in lieu of the fame, or in the name thereof, fhall be yielded, paid, anfwered or fatisfied, or be due or payable by any perfon or perfons, to any bifhop of either of the faid diocefes, or other perfon or perfons claiming by, from, or under any fuch bishop: and that from and after the refpective times aforefaid, it fhall not be lawful to or for the respective bishops of the faid diocefes, or any of them, their, or any, or either of their fucceffors, farmers, bailiffs, or leffees, or any of them, or any other perfon or perfons whatfoever, claiming by or under fuch bishops, or any or either of them, to take, receive, or demand of any perfon or perfons, any manner of mortuary or corfe-prefent, or any fum or fums of money, or other thing, for or in the name, lieu or stead of any mortuary or corfe-prefent, or to convene, cite, fue or profecute any perfon or perfons before any judge fpiritual, or in any of her Majesty's courts of law, or other court whatsoever, for the recovery of, or for, touching or concerning any mortuary or corfepresent, or any thing in lieu thereof, for or by reason or on account of the death of any prieft or clergyman within the said refpective dioceses or jurifdictions, at any time after the respective times aforefaid; any thing in the faid recited act, or any law, custom or ufage whatever, to the contrary notwithstanding. II. And be it further enacted by the authority aforefaid, That in recompenfe and fatisfaction to the bishop of St. Asaph and his fucceffors, for fuch mortuaries as might arise or become due or payable to the faid bishop of St. Asaph, or his fucceffors, by virtue of the faid recited act, upon the death of any prieft or clergyman, the rectory fine cura, which shall first after the faid four and twentieth day of June one thousand seven hun"dred and fourteen, happen to be void, and be in the collation of the bishop of the faid diocefe of St. Alaph, or any of his fucceffors, fhall immediately upon fuch vacancy, and from thenceforth be annexed and united to the faid bifhoprick of St. Afaph for ever, and all and every the profits, rights, dues, benefits and and advantages whatsoever of the fame rectory, or thereto in any wife belonging or appertaining, fhall or may be had, received, taken and injoyed by the bishop of the faid diocefe and his fucceffors for ever. III. And be it further enacted by the authority_aforefaid, Recompenfe That in recompense and satisfaction to the bishop of Bangor and to the bishop his fucceffors, for fuch mortuaries as might arife or become due of Bangor,&c, or payable to the said bishop of Bangor, or his fucceffors, by virtue of the said recited act, upon the death of any priest or clergymen, the rectory fine Cura, which shall next happen to be void, and be in the collation of the bishop of the faid diocese of Bangor, or any of his fucceffors, fhall, immediately upon fuch vacancy, and from thenceforth be annexed and united to the said bishoprick of Bangor for ever; and all and every the profits, rights, dues, benefits and advantages whatsoever of the fame rectory, or thereto in any wife belonging or appertaining, fhall or may be had, received, taken, and enjoyed by the bishop of the faid diocese of Bangor and his fucceffors for ever. IV. Provided always, That nothing in this act thall extend The bishops of to enable any bishop in either of the faid dioceses of St. Asaph St. Asaph and and Bangor, to demife, let, or fet; and that it fhall not be law- Bangor, fhall ful to or for the bishops of either of the faid dioceses, or any of not lease the their fucceffors, to demife, lease, set, or let to farm, or other- ed to their rectories unitwife, either of such rectories fine Cura, annexed and united to bishopricks for the respective bishopricks of St. Asaph and Bangor, as aforemen- any longer tioned, or any the rights, dues, benefits, or profits thereof, for term than any longer time than fuch bishop, by whom any lease of either bishops. of the laid rectories fine Cura fhall be made, fhall continue bishop of the said diccefe; any ftatute, law, or usage whatsoever to the contrary notwithstanding. they continue V. And be it further enacted by the authority aforefaid, That Recompenfe in recompense and fatisfaction to the bishop of Landaff and his to the bishop fucceffors, for fuch mortuaries as might arife or become due or of Landaff: payable to the said bishop of Landaff, or his fucceffors, by virtue of the said recited act, upon the death of any priest or clergyman, whenfoever the treasurership, with the prebend thereto annexed, founded in the cathedral church of Landaff, thall next happen to be void, the faid treasurership and prebend fhall, immediately upon fuch vacancy, and from thenceforth be annexed and united to the faid bishoprick of Landaff for ever; and all and every the profits, rights, dues, benefits, and advantages whatsoever, of the faid treasurership and prebend, or thereto in any wife belonging or appertaining, fhall or may be had, received, taken and enjoyed by the bishop of the faid diocese of Landaff and his fucceffors for ever. VI. And be it further enacted by the authority aforefaid, To the bishop That in recompence and fatisfaction to the bishop of St. Davids of St. Davids. and his fucceffors, for fuch mortuaries as might arife or become due or payable to the faid bishop of St. Davids, or his fucceffors, by virtue of the said recited act, upon the death of any priest or clergyman, whenfoever the faid prebend of Langamarch shall next F 2 happen |