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As to Endowment of Lands not convenient to be exchanged for suitable Glebe.
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XXV. That it shall be lawful for any Archbishop, Bishop, Archdeacon, Dean, Dean and Chapter, Dignitary, or Prebendary, with such Consents as are herein-after mentioned, and for any Person or Persons being a Tenant in Fee Simple or Fee Tail or Fee Farm in possession, and for any Body Politic or Corporate having Lands or Tenements in Fee Simple or Fee Farm, and having legal Capacity to dispose of the same without any Licence of Alienation or in Mortmain, and without any Deed disentailing or destroying any such Estate Tail, to grant any such Lands or Tenements not exceeding Ten Acres for Glebe to any Church, Parochial Chapelry, or Perpetual Curacy, at whatever Distance the same may be therefrom, to the Intent that such Lands may be afterwards exchanged for other Lands lying near the Church, Chapelry, or Curacy, and more convenient for the Residence of the Incumbent, Chaplain, or Curate thereof: Provided always, that any such Grant by any Archbishop or Bishop shall be with the Consent of his Dean and Chapter respectively, or, where there is no Dean and Chapter, with the Consent of the Archdeacon and Six beneficed Clergymen of the Diocese; and any Grant by any Archdeacon, Dean, or Dean and Chapter, Dignitary, or Prebendary shall be with the Consent of the Archbishop or Bishop of the Diocese, such Consent to be signified in all Cases by a Certificate in Writing, attested by the Hand and Seal of such Ecclesiastical Person or the Corporate Seal of such Corporate Body.
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