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Enabling Grant of Lay Lands for Glebe at a Rent.
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XLVII. That it shall be lawful for any Person under no legal Disability or Incapacity, and for any Lay Corporation or Body Politic, having in his or their own Right, or Right of their Corporate Body, any House, Lands, or Tenements in Fee Simple or Fee Tail in possession, or of an Estate for Life or Lives in possession, with immediate Remainder to his own Issue, by any Deed or Deeds, to be executed under his or their Hand and Seal or Corporate Seal, such Deed to be registered and enrolled in manner herein-after mentioned, and without any Licence in Mortmain, and without barring any such Estate Tail, to grant or demise in Fee Farm any such House, Lands, or Tenements (not being a Portion of the Demesne Lands usually occupied with and appertaining to the Mansion House of any such Person being a Tenant for Life) as a Glebe House or Lands for the Incumbent, Chaplain, or Curate of any Church, Parochial Chapelry, or Perpetual Curacy, not exceeding, together with the Glebe already belonging thereto, Ten Acres, to such Incumbent, Chaplain, or Curate, and his Successors for ever, being a Body Politic or Corporate, and in all other Cases to any Person or Persons, Body Politic or Corporate, and his or their Heirs or Successors, in trust for such Incumbent and his Successors, and shall and may by such Deed reserve to such Person and his Heirs, or to such Corporate Body, and his or their Successors for ever, such yearly Rent out of the said Lands and Tenements so granted, and subject to such Rents, Covenants, and Agreements as shall be agreed upon between such Person or Body Corporate so granting the same, and the Incumbent, Chaplain, or Curate of such Church, Chapelry, or Curacy, with the Consent of the Ordinary of the Diocese and the Archbishop of the Province in which such Church, Chapelry, or Curacy is situate, to be signified by a Certificate in Writing under their Hands and Seals respectively, to be registered in the Registry of the Diocese, or by Endorsement of the said Deed of Grant.
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