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As to Purchase of Residences.
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XXXVI. That it shall be lawful for any Ecclesiastical Person having no House of Residence belonging to his See, Benefice, or Preferment, or a House of Residence unsuitable or inconveniently situate, by and with the Consent of the Person or Persons hereby empowered to entertain Memorials in that Behalf, to be certified under his or their Hands and Seals, upon a Memorial to be presented in like Manner and Form (so far as the Circumstances of the Case may admit) as in the Case of building of Residences as aforesaid, by any Deed or Deeds to be registered and enrolled in the Manner herein-after mentioned, to purchase to him and his Successors for ever any House of Residence already built within or convenient to his See, Benefice, or Preferment, with suitable Lands and Conveniences thereto belonging, or any Lands or Tenements fit for such Buildings and Conveniences for the Residence of such Ecclesiastical Person and his Successors, such Lands to be from thenceforth Part of the Demesne, Mensal, or Glebe Lands of such Ecclesiastical Person and his Successors for ever; and the Purchase Money for the same, and the Charges and Expenses of building or improving the said Residence (not exceeding in the whole Two Years net Income of such See, Benefice, or Preferment), shall be ascertained and certified in like Manner as herein-before provided in respect of Buildings erected pursuant to Memorial, and such Certificate shall be of the like Force and Effect, and the Amount therein mentioned shall be paid and recovered in like Manner: Provided always, that no such Certificate shall be given in respect of the Purchase of any House, Building, Office, or Lands, unless the same shall be purchased by such Ecclesiastical Person in Fee Simple or in Fee Farm, subject to such Rent as shall be mentioned in the said Memorial, and approved of as aforesaid.
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