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CAP. XVII.

An act to vest in the commiffioners for building fifty new new churches in and about London and Westminster, and fuburbs thereof, as much of the street near the MayPole in the Strand in the county of Middlefex, as fhall be fufficient to build one of the faid churches upon; and for refloring to the principal and scholars of King's Hall and college of Brazen Nole in the university of Oxon, their right of prefentation to churches and chapels in Stepney parish.

WHEREAS by an act of parliament passed in the ninth year 9 Ann. c. 22. dow of her Majesty's reign, intituled, An act for granting to her Majesty several duties upon coals, for building fifty new churches in and about the cities of London and Westminster, and fuburbs thereof, and other purposes therein mentioned, it is (among ft other things) enacted, That it should and might be lawful to and for her Majefty, by letters patent under the great feal of Great Britain, to nominate, conftitute and appoint fuch perfons as her Majesty Should think fit, to be commissioners, to enquire and inform themselves in what parishes the faid new churches (except one for Greenwich) were most neceffary to be built, and of proper places for the fites of the faid refpective new churches; and alfo a cemetery or church-yard for each of the faid churches; and alfo which of the chapels within the faid parishes are fit to be made parish churches; and that they should afcertain the feveral houfes, lands, tenements, and bereditaments, and the bounds and limits which in their judgments or opinion might be fit to be made diftinét parishes: and whereas her Majefly, by letters patent under the great feal of Great Britain, bearing date at Westminster the one and twentieth day of September in the tenth year of her reign, did nominate, conftitute, authorize and appoint Thomas lord archbishop of Canterbury, John lord archbishop of York, John lord bishop of Bristol, Henry lord bishop of London, Jonathan lord bishop of Winchester, Nathaniel lord bishop of Durham, and divers other perfons, to be commissioners for the purposes aforefaid: and whereas by another act of parliament paffed in the tenth year of her Majesty's reign, intituled, An act for 10 Ann. c. 11 enlarging the time given to commiffioners appointed by her Majesty, pursuant to an act for granting to her Majesty several duties on coals for building fifty new churches in and about the cities of London and Westminster, and suburbs thereof, and other purposes therein mentioned; and for giving the faid commillioners further power for better effecting the fame; and for appointing monies for rebuilding the parish church of St. Mary Woolnoth in the city of London, it is, among ft other things, enacted, That the commissioners, or any five or more of them, fhould proteed to do and perform all and every the matters and things in and by the faid acts intended to be done and performed: and it is thereby provided and enacted, That it should and might be lawful to and for

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her Majefty, her heirs and fucceffors, at any time before the twenty ninth day of September one thousand feven hundred and twelve, by letters patent under the great feal of Great Britain, to nominate conftitute and appoint fuch perfons to be commiffioners to execute all and every the powers in the first recited act, and in the faid last at mentioned, as her Majefty should think fit: and whereas her Majefty did, in pursuance of the faid laft recited act, by letters patent under the great feal of Great Britain, bearing date the feven and twentieth day of September one thousand feven hundred and twelve, nominate, conflitute and appoint Thomas lord archbishop of Canterbury, John lord archbishop of York, Simon lord Harcourt, then lord keeper of the great feal of Great Britain (now lord high chancellor of Great Britain) John duke of the county of Buckingham and Normanby, Henry viscount Bolingbroke, the right reverend father in God William lord bishop of Chester, and the right reverend father in God Philip then lord bishop of St. Davids (now lord bishop of Hereford) and divers other perfons, to be commiffioners; and that they, or any five or more of them, fhould do, perform, and execute all and every the powers, matters and things, in and by the faid recited acts, and either of them, appointed to be done and performed: and whereas the vacant piece of ground at and about the May-Pole in the Strand in the county of Middlelex, is a proper place for the building one of the faid fifty new churches upon, which cannot be appropriated to that ufe, without the aid of parliament; be it therefore enacted, &c.

The wafte ground in the Strand on which the new church is to be built, vested in the commiffioners appointed by letters patent bearing date 27 Sept. 1712. Such church to be deemed one of the fifty new ones. A ftreet way and paffage to be left on the north fide and east end of the faid church.

IV. And whereas by an act made in the first session of this present a private act. parliament, intituled, An act for confirming to the principal and icholars of King's Hall and college of Brazen Nofe in the univerfity of Oxon, the purchase of the advowfons of Stepney and other churches, and for fettling the fame to the benefit of the faid college, it is provided, That it shall and may be lawful to and for the faid principal and scholars, and their fucceffors, upon every vacancy, from time to time, to nominate and appoint refpectively fit clerks to officiate in the chapel of Stratford-Bow, and in all other churches or chapels that then were or fhould be built, within the parish of Stebunheath alias Stepney in the county of Middlefex, and to receive the profits belonging to the fame: and whereas by a claufe in an act made in the fecond feffions of this prefent parliament, inti10 Ann, c. 11. tuled, An act for enlarging the time given to the commiffioners appointed by her Majefty, pursuant to an act for granting to her Majefty feveral duties on coals, for building fifty new churches, in and about the cities of London and Westminster and fuburbs thereof, and other purposes therein mentioned; and alfo for giving the faid commiffioners further powers for better effecting the fame, and for appointing monies for rebuilding the parish church of Saint Mary Woolnoth in the city of London, it is enacted, That in every new church and parish iq be erected or

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conftituted purfuant to the fame alt (other than fuch chapels as, according to the fame act, should be converted into parochial churches) the first rector should be nominated and appointed by her Majesty, of and in fuch new church and parish; in which act there being no exprefs faving to the faid principal and scholars, and their fucceffors, of their right upon every vacancy, from time to time, to nominate or prefent refpectively fit clerks to officiate, as aforefaid, it may happen to be controverted, whether the first rector in every new church and parish, to be erected or conftituted pursuant to the fame act, in the faid parish of Stebunheath alias Stepney, and alfo in fuch chapels within the fame parish as fhould be converted into parochial churches, purfuant to the fame act, might belong to the faid principal and scholars, and their fucceffors, to nominate and appoint: now for the preventing of all fuch controverfies, it is hereby enacted, &c.

The principal and scholars of Brazen Nofe in Oxford, fhall nominate the firft rector in every new church or chapel turned into a church in Stepney parish. Nothing in this act shall prejudice the right, &c. of Jolin Walker, &c.

CAP. XVIII.

An all for making perpetual the act made in the thirteenth and fourteenth years of the reign of the late King Charles the Second, intituled, An act for the better relief of the poor of this kingdom; and that persons bound apprentices to, or being hired fervants with perfons coming with certificates, fhall not gain fettlements by fuch fervices or apprenticeships: and for making perpetual the act made in the fixth year of her prefent Majesty's reign, intituled, An act for the importation of cochineal from any ports in Spain, during the prefent war, and fix months longer: and for reviving a clause in an act made in the ninth and tenth years of the reign of the late King William, intituled, An act for fettling the trade to Africa, for allowing fareign copper bars imported, to be exported.

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years of the reign of the late King Charles the Second, inti- c. 12. tuled, An act for the better relief of the poor of this kingdom, was enacted, to have continuance (except what related to the corporations therein mentioned, and thereby confiituted) only until the twenty-ninth day of May one thoufand fix hundred fixty five, and from thence to the end of the first feffions of the next parliament; which faid act, by an act made in the first year of the reign of the late King James the Second, (except what related to the corporations therein mentioned, and thereby conflituted) was enacted to be in force Jac. z. c. 17. from the first day of May one thousand fix hundred eighty-five, and fo to continue for the space of feven years, and from thence to the end of the next feffions of parliament; and by an act made in the third and fourth years of the reign of King William and Queen Mary,

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3 & 4 W. & M. the faid at (as to what therein related to the fettlement of the poor) was enacted to be in force from the firft day of March one thoufand fix hundred ninety-one; but no proviften was thereby made for continuing divers other parts of the faid act, which faid alt, intituled, An act for the better relief of the poor of this kingdom, as to all parts thereof, not mentioned and continued in and by the faid act made 4 & 5 W. & M. in the third and fourth years of their late Majefties (other than and C. 24. f. 11.

except what relates to the corporations mentioned in the faid at, [For the better relief of the poor of this kingdom,] and thereby confituted) was, by an act made in the fourth and fifth years of the reign of their late Majefties, continued only for the space of feven years, from the thirteenth day of February one thousand fix hundred ninety-two, and from thence to the end of the next feffion of parlia ment; which faid act afterwards by an act of the eleventh and twelfth 11 & 12 W. 3. years of the reign of the late King William the Third, intituled, An act for continuing feveral laws therein mentioned, was continued -only for seven years, from the twenty-ninth day of September one thousand seven hundred; and which faid act of the thirteenth and 5 Ann. c. 34. fourteenth years of the reign of the faid late King Charles the Second,

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intituled, An act for the better relief of the poor of this kingdom, by an aɛt made in the fifth year of the reign of her present Majefly, intituled, An act for continuing the laws therein mentioned relating to the poor, and to the buying and felling of A cattle in Smithfield, and for fuppreffing of piracy, was enacted to be in force from the twenty-fifth day of March one thousand feven hundred and feven (except what relates to the corporations therein mentioned, and thereby conftituted) only for feven years, and from thence to the end of the next feffions of parliament; which faid act of the thirteenth and fourteenth years of the reign of the faid late King Charles the Second, intituled, An act for the better relief of the poor of this kingdom, being found to be a very useful and neceffary law, and being near expiring; be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most excellent majefty, by and with the advice and confent of the lords fpiritual and temporal and commons, in this prefent parliament affembled, and by the authority of the fame, That the faid act, made in the thirteenth and fourteenth years of the faid late King Charles the Second, intituled, An act for the better relief of the poor of this kingdom, fhall be and is hereby made perpetual.

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II. And whereas by an act made in the eighth and ninth years of the 8 & 9 W. 3. reign of the late King William the Third, intituled, An act for fupplying fome defects in the laws for the relief of the poor of this kingdom, It was amongst other things enacted, in the words following, (viz.) That if any perfon or perfons whatsoever, that from and after the first day of May one thousand fix hundred ninety-feven shall come into any parish, or other place, there to inhabit or refide, fhall, at the fame time, procure, bring, and deliver to the churchwardens or obierJeers of the poor of the parish or place where any fuch perfon foll come to inhabit, or to any or either of them, a certificate under the bands and feals of the churchwardens and overfeers of the poor of any other parish, township or place, or the major part of them, or under

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the hands and feals of the overfeers of the poor of any other place, where there are no churchwardens, to be attefted refpectively by two or more credible witnesses, thereby owning and acknowledging the perfon or perfons mentioned in the faid certificate, to be an inhabitant or inhabitants legally fettled in that parish, tow ship or place, every fuch certificate having been allowed of and fubfcribed by two or more of the justices of the peace of the county, city, liberty, borough, or town corporate, wherein the parish or place, from whence any fuch certificate ball come, doth lie, fhall oblige the faid parish or place to receive and provide for the perfon mentioned in the faid certificate, together with his or her family, as inhabitants of that parish, whenever he, she, or they shall happen to become chargeable to, or be forced to afk relief of the parish, township or place, to which fuch certificate was given; and then, and not before, it shall and may be lawful for any fuch perfon, and his or her children, though born in that parish, nat baving otherwife acquired a legal fettlement there, to be removed, conveyed, and fettled in the parish or place from whence fuch certificate was brought: and whereas many perfons obtaining and bringing fuch certificates, do frequently take apprentices, bound by indenture, and.. hire and keep jervants by the year, who, by reason of such apprenticeships and fervices, do gain Jettlements in, and become a great burthen to fuch parifbes, townships and places, though fuch mafters coming with fuch certificates have, by virtue thereof, no fettlements in fuch parishes, townships or places: for remedy whereof, it is de- After 24 June clared and enacted by the authority aforefaid, That if any per- 1713. any perfon bound apson whatsoever, who, upon or after the four and twentieth day prentice, or of June one thoufand feven hundred and thirteen, fhall be an being a hired apprentice, bound by indenture to, or fhall, upon or after the fervant, to one faid four and twentieth day of June one thoufand feven hun- who came into dred and thirteen, be a hired fervant to or with any perfon what- a parish by certificate, foever, who did come into or fhall refide in any parifh, town- thall not gain fhip or place, in that part of Great Britain called England, by a settlement means or licence of fuch certificate, and not afterwards having there by reagained a legal fettlement in fuch parish, township or place, fuch fon of fuch apprenticeship, apprentice, by virtue of fuch apprenticeship, indenture or binding, and fuch fervant by being hired by, or ferving as a fervant, as aforesaid, to fuch perfon, fhall not gain or be adjudged to have any fettlement in fuch parish, township or place, by reafon of fuch apprenticeship or binding, or by reason of fuch hiring or ferving therein; but every fuch apprentice and fervant hall have his and their fettlements in fuch parith, township or place, as if he or they had not been bound apprentice or apprenfices, or had not been an hired fervant or fervants to fuch perfon, as aforefaid; any act or acts of parliament to the contrary notwith@anding.

III. And whereas cochineal being of the growth of the Spanish Weft Indies, is of principal ufe in dying of clothes, and other the woollen manufactures of this kingdom, fearlets, purples, and other colours called grain colours, to the great improvement thereof, and imploying of great numbers of her Majefty's fubjects, in finifbing and perfetting fuch woollen manufacture: and whereas before the act

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