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Ecclesiastical persons may with approbation purchase in their diocese houses &c. or lands fit for building for perpetual residence, to be part of their demesne, unalienable.
to be certified, and repaid by successor, as before.
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II. And because it may happen that more convenient houses, or more commodious situations, may be found for the residence of some archbishops, bishops, and other ecclesiastical persons, than do yet belong to them; be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall and may be lawful to and for any archbishop, by and with the approbation of the chief governor or governors of this kingdom for the time being, and for any bishop, by and with the approbation of the archbishop of his province, and for any other ecclesiastical person, by and with the consent of the bishop of his diocess, certified in writing under their respective hands and seals, to purchase to them and their successors respectively, within their respective diocess, houses already built, with conveniencies thereunto belonging, or lands and tenements fit for such buildings and conveniencies, for the habitation and residence of them and their successors for ever, thenceforth to be part of their demeasne, glebe, or mensal land respectively, unalienable, and not to be let or disposed of to any other use whatsoever; and that the purchase money for the same, and the charges and expence of buildings, additions, and repairs as aforesaid, being ascertained and certified as aforesaid, shall be repaid, as to two thirds thereof, by the next immediate successor, who shall have and receive from his next successor one moiety or half of what he pays in like manner, and with like remedy, as aforesaid.
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