Restoring of Ministers Act 1660

VII. The Party to be restored may confirm the present Possessor's Right.

Party removed to pay Tenths, and answer for Dilapidations; and pay Fifths, or money in lieu thereof.; Bond for the same, and on refusal, Action for Minister retored.

And bee it likewise Enacted that where the Person or Minister formerly sequestred or ejected shall declare his consent in writeing before the Commissioners appointed by this Act that the present Possessor being not scandalous ignorant or insufficient shall be and continue in such sequestred Benefice Liveing or Promotion that in such case the present Possessor shall be hereby setled and confirmed therin as the sole and rightfull Incumbent [X1 and Possessor] therof to all intents and purposes Any former Statute or Law to the contrary notwithstanding And that every Person or Minister who shall be removed by this Act shall pay all Tenthes not pardoned, and repair or make satisfaction for all wilfull or negligent Diapidations made or suffered by him of, in or upon the premisses or any of them since the twenty ninth of September last, And shall likewise pay or satisfie all Fifthes or any other summe in lieu of Fifths which were in arreare or unpaid at the Feast of Saint Michaell the Archangell last past due or payable by him, by any order or orders not reversed of any Committees or Commissioners formerly appointed and authorized by any pretended authoritie or authorities whatsoever to grant and sett out the same, or otherwise pay or satisfie all arreares then due of any summe or summes of money payable by agreement of the partyes and not since quitted by like Agreement, the same to be ascertained by the said Commissioners, For payment wherof the Minister soe to be removed before his removall shall alsoe give his penall Bond or Bonds unto the Minister to be restored to pay the same before the Five and twentyeth of December next, And if he shall refuse to give such Bond or Bonds as aforesaid for the payment therof, that then the Minister soe to be restored shall be and is hereby enabled to bring an Action of Debt at the Common Law for the said arreares, and shall recover over and above the said Debt the full value in Damages besides costs of Suite

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