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Power to Persons seised of Ecclesiastical Benefices impropriate to present competent Clerks for such Benefices.
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XL. That it shall be lawful for any Person or Persons, being under no legal Disability or Incapacity, and for any Body Politic or Corporate, seised of an Estate of Inheritance in possession of any Parsonage, Vicarage, or other Ecclesiastical Benefice impropriate in Ireland, by Writing under his Hand and Seal, or under the Corporate Seal, to present to the Bishop of the Diocese in which such Benefice shall be situate a lawful and competent Clerk for such Parsonage, Vicarage, or Benefice, who shall thereupon be admitted, instituted, and inducted into the Church or Benefice, which Presentation, Admission, Institution, and Induction shall be entered and enrolled in the Rolls Office of the High Court of Chancery in Ireland; and from and after such Presentation so made and enrolled as aforesaid the said Impropriation shall be for ever dissolved, and the said Rectory, Vicarage, or other Benefice shall thenceforth become presentative for ever by the Donor thereof, his or their Heirs, Successors, and Assigns, in such Manner and Form, and subject to the like Enactments as to Plurality, Non-residence, and Lapse, as other Churches presentative are.
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