Church document details

Source:

The London Gazette.

Title:

Hammerwood, St Stephen - Determination of stipend.

Date:

23 Jul 1880.

Body:

WE, the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England, in consideration of a benefaction of nine thousand pounds sterling, which has been paid to us in favour of the consolidated chapelry and benefice of Saint Stephen, Hammerwood, in the county of Sussex, and in the diocese of Chichester, and in respect of which we have agreed to pay to the Incumbent of the same consolidated chapelry and benefice, and to his successors, a yearly sum of three hundred pounds, do hereby, in pursuance of the Act of the twenty-ninth and thirtieth years of Her Majesty, chapter one hundred and eleven, section five, grant to the Incumbent of the said consolidated chapelry and benefice of Saint Stephen, Hammerwood, and to his successors, to meet such benefaction, one yearly sum or stipend of fifty pounds, such yearly sum or stipend to be payable out of the common fund under our control, and to be calculated as from the day of the publication of these presents in the London Gazette, and to be receivable in equal half-yearly portions, on the first day of May and on the first day of November in each and every year: Provided always, that if at any time lands, tithes, or other hereditaments sufficient, in our opinion, to produce the yearly sum or stipend so payable out of our common fund as lastly herein mentioned, or any part thereof, shall be annexed by us to the said consolidated chapelry and benefice, in substitution for such yearly sum or stipend, or for such part thereof, our liability for the payment of such yearly sum or stipend, or of such part thereof, as the case may be, shall, thereupon and thereafter cease and determine.

In witness whereof, we have hereunto set our common seal, this fifteenth day of July, in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty.

Transcription details

Transcribed by: Michael Metcalfe.

Church(es) covered:

St Stephen.

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