Augmentation of Benefices Act 1677

III. Augmentation Leases where to be entered.

Fee for entering. Such Entry how to be attested ; to be a Record and Evidence at Law.

And to the end the said Vicars and Curates may the better make appeare the certainty of the said Augmentations Bee it enacted by the authoritie aforesaid That every Arch-Bishop Bishop Deane and Chapter respectively on or before the nine and twentyeth Day of September next comeing shall cause every Lease or Grant whereon any such Augmentation is made to be fairely entred in a Booke of Parchment to be kept by their respective Registers for that purpose. And every Deane Arch-Deacon Prebendary or other Ecclesiasticall person respectively shall cause every Lease or Grant whereon any such Augmentation hath beene made by himselfe his Predecessor or Predecessors to be entred in the said Booke to be kept by the Register of the Bishop of the Diocesse, for the entering whereof noe Fee shall be paid nor any thing demanded save onely a reasonable Reward to the Clerke for entering the same not exceeding five shillings, which said Entry being examined by the respective Arch-Bishop Bishop or Deane and by them respectively attested in the said Booke to be a true Copy of the Originall Lease or Grant and that the Augmentation in the same was intended for such use shall be as a Record a true Copy whereof proved by Witnesses to be a true Copy shall be deemed taken adjudged and expounded to be good and sufficient Evidence in the Law whereupon the said Vicars and Curates respectively shall and may by vertue of this Act from time to time recover the benefitt of such Augmentation.