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Ecclesiastical persons suffering mansion house or improvements to decay, successor may sue them, their executors, &c. in ecclesiastical court.
Or recover by action of deb:. sufficient to put into such good repair as at any time during incumbency of predecessor.
In default of so laying out the sum recovered in six months, the benefice to be sequestred.
If the person so recovering dies before the sum luid out, successor to recover double from his exeoutors, &c. by action of debt, unless they voluntarily pay.
Successor to lay out the same under like penalty.
Colourable conveyances of personal estate to defraud successor of said remedy, void
13 Eliz 10. Eng.
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VI. And for preventing dilapidations for the future; be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if any archbishop, bishop, or other ecclesiastical person whatsoever, shall suffer or permit his or their mansion house, or any or either of them, or any of the buildings, out-houses, gardens, orchards, or other improvements, that now are or hereafter shall be built, made, or erected on their respective demeasnes, glebes, or mensal lands, to decay; go to ruin, or be out of repair, that then his next and immediate successor or successors shall and may commence his or their sute in the ecclesiastical court, against such archbishop, bishop, or other ecclesiastical person, his or their executors or administrators, and have the full benefit of the ecclesiastical laws now in force in this kingdom in that behalf, or at his or their election may recover by action of debt against such archbishop, bishop, or other ecclesiastical person, his or their executors or administrators, in any of his Majesty’s courts of record at Dublin, such sum or sums as shall be sufficient to put such houses and improvements in such good repair as they were in at any time during the incumbency of his or their predecessor, so suffering or permitting the same to go to ruin and decay; which sum or sums of money, so recovered, levied, and paid to such successor or successors, shall forthwith be laid out and expended in the amendment and reparation of the respective houses and improvements, for the which the same shall be recovered as aforesaid, and in default thereof by the space of six months after recovery and payment as aforesaid, the archbishoprick, bishoprick, or other ecclesiastical living, or benefice of such ecclesiastical person, shall be sequestred in such manner and by such persons as is before herein expressed, until such ecclesiastical person shall expend and lay out all such sums, so recovered and paid as aforesaid, in the reparation and amendment of their respective houses and improvements as aforesaid: and if the archbishop, bishop, or other ecclesiastical person, so recovering as aforesaid, shall happen to dye before the sum recovered and paid to him be laid out in reparation and amendment as aforesaid, that then his next and immediate successor or successors shall and may recover from the executors and administrators of the person so dying double the sum, so recovered and paid as aforesaid, by action of debt in any of his Majesty’s courts of record at Dublin; unless such executors or administrators shall, and do voluntarily and without sute pay the same to such successor or successors, who is to expend and lay out the same in manner aforesaid, and under the like penalties and forfeitures as aforesaid: and if any archbishop, bishop, or other ecclesiastical person, that already hath or hereafter shall suffer dilapidations or decay in his manse house or improvements contrary to this act, shall hereafter make any deed, devise, conveyance, grant, lease, bequest, colourable sale, or gift (without full consideration) of his personal estate, or any part thereof, with intent to defraud his successor of the remedy intended him by this act; that all such deeds, devises, conveyances, grants, leases, bequests, sales, and gifts, shall be null and void, and of none effect, against such successor or successors; any former act, law, matter or thing, to the contrary notwithstanding,
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