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Vouchers of Rent and Mortgage Instalments to be produced to Bishop.
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LI. That every Incumbent, Chaplain, or Curate of any Church, Parochial Chapelry, or Perpetual Curacy having any Glebe House or Lands appertaining thereto subject to a Rent or Mortgage, shall, so often as he shall be thereunto required by the Bishop of the Diocese, exhibit to the said Bishop, or to any Person by him deputed in Writing to demand the same, a sufficient Aquittance in full for all Rents and Instalments of Mortgage Money or Interest due in respect of the said Glebe House or Lands up to the last Gale Day or Day of Payment before such Demand, and prove, if required, the Perfection of such Acquittance by Oath or otherwise (which Oath the said Bishop and his Deputy appointed as aforesaid is hereby authorized to administer); and in case such Acquittance shall not be exhibited and proved, on such Demand as aforesaid, the said Bishop is hereby authorized and required to sequester the Profits of such Benefice, Chapelry, or Curacy until out of the Issue thereof the said Bishop shall be enabled to pay all Rent, Instalments, and Interest in arrear, together with the Costs of such Sequestration, which said Rent, Instalments, and Interest and Costs he is hereby required to pay and satisfy.
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