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Restoring of Ministers Act 1660

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XI.Persons having Benefice, &c. who have petitioned to bring the late King to Trial, &c. not to remain, and Patron may present.

Provided alsoe and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if any Minister or other such Ecclesiasticall Person as aforesaid haveing any Ecclesiasticall Benefice or Liveing with Cure of Soules who is before in and by this Act declared adjudged and enacted to continue the reall and lawfull Incumbent thereof which hath petitioned to bring the late King Charles of blessed memory to Tryall, or which hath by writeing preaching printing or any other open Act procured endeavoured [X1or] justified the murder of the late King, or which hath by preaching printing writeing or constant refusall to baptize declared his judgement to be against Infant baptisme, that then such Minister or other Ecclesiasticall person shall not remaine continue and be or be taken to be the reall and lawfull Incumbent of the Ecclesiasticall Benefice or Liveing, but the same shall become and is hereby declared to be void to all intents and purposes as if the said Minister or other Ecclesiasticall Person were dead, and that the Patron who hath the next and immediate right to present unto the same shall and may present unto the said Ecclesiasticall Benefice or Liveing as in case of vacancy or avoidance by death of the Incumbent. Any thing in this Act contained to the contrary thereof notwithstanding.

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