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in gross value to 3004. per annum, having a population of 300 persons, or have a population of 1000 per sons, whatever be its value, such curate shall be required by the bishop to reside within the parish; unless the bishop shall be satisfied that great inconvenience would arise from such requisition.

In cases where it shall appear to the satisfaction of the diocesan, (either upon his own knowledge, or proof by affidavit) that the eccle, siastical duty is inadequately performed, by reason of the number, or distance of churches or chapels from each other, or from the residence of the person serving the same, or by reason of the negligence of the incumbent, if the incumbent do not, within three months after the bishop's requisition, nominate for licence a curate with sufficient stipend, the bishop may appoint a curate or curates with any salary not exceeding the allowance of this Act, nor, except in case of negligence, exceeding one balf of the gross annual value, although the incumbent may reside or do his own duty; but with a right of appeal to the archbishop.

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such allowance; and, in case of
ich
wilful neglect of payment, is em
powered to sequester for the same...
Twenty shillings, over and above
stamp duty, to be paid for such,
licence, in lieu of all fees for licence,
declaration, or certificate; and one
certificate to be sufficient for any
number of curacies in the diocese.
In cases of incumbency prior to
20th July, 1813, the bishop may
not, except in case of neglect 19
appoint a proper curate, assign
more than 751. per annum, and 154.
additional where no house is
is al
lowed. But in all cases of bene-
fices to which institution has been
given since 20th July, 1813, where
the incumbent is non-resident,
less with licence or exemption and
doing duty thereon, the bishop
shall appoint for the licensed,
rate 807. at the least, if the gross
annual value thereof be so much;
100l. where the population is 300;
1207. where it is 500; and 150l.
where it is 1000. The value, where
it does not exceed 150 per an
num, is to be taken from the re
turn to the governors of Queen
Anne's Bounty. In cases where
the actual income of the benefice,
clear of all deductions, shall ap
pear, to the satisfaction of the bi-
shop, to exceed 4007. he may assign
to the curate, being resident, and
having no other cure, 100, per
annum, although the population do
not amount to 300; and where
the population amounts to 500, he
may, to resident curates, having no
other cure, augment the salaries
allowed in this Act by any sum
not exceeding 501. The bishop
may, however, assign smaller
laries, when it is made out to his
satisfaction, that, from special cir
cumstances of age, sickness, and
other unavoidable cause, great
hardship would arise to the incum-
bent from the full allowance; but
the licence to the curate must state
the existence of special reasons;
and the particulars must be regis-
tered, in a separate book, not open
ag
to inspection but with leave of the

The diocesan may, where he sees proper, enforce by monition and sequestration, the performance of both Morning and Evening Service, or any other service required by law in any church or chapel, or extra-parochial chapel.

Bishops are not to grant licence for curates to non-resident incumbents without a statement of all such particulars as are required on an application for licence for nonresidence: such statement to be filed, and disclosed only in such manner as directed in statements for non residence,

Bishops are required (subject to the restrictions of this act) to ap: point to every licensed curate such stipend as is therein allowed, and to insert the amount of salary in the licence; and the bishop may, on application,, summarily determine any dispute arising out of

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diocesan, as in the case of nonresidence. The bishop may, in the case of a curate serving two or more cures interchangeably with the incumbent dividing his residence of nine months between his benefices, assign a salary not exceeding the allowance for the largest, nor short of the allowance for the least, of such benefices; and in the case of a curate permanently attached to either of them, such lesser salary as he sees fit, provided the incumbent be bona fide residing as aforesaid.

Curates are not to serve more than two churches, &c. in one day, unless, from special causes, the bishop sees fit to allow the same where the churches, &c. are not distant more than four miles from each other, and where the duty may be performed without travelling more than sixteen miles in the whole but the licences are not valid unless they specify the reason for such allowance. The bishops are authorised to diminish, by any sum not exceeding 307., the salary of any beneficed person licensed to another cure, or of any curate licensed to two curacies.

"All contracts contrary to this act, and all agreements to accept less than the stipend stated in the licence, are void; and the curate and his representatives shall, notwithstanding any acquittance he may have given, remain entitled to the sum short paid; and on proof to the satisfaction of the bishop, within twelve months of the death or removal of the curate, the pay ment of the full sum with treble costs shall be enforced.

Where the salary assigned by the bishop is of the full value of the benefice, the curate is to be liable to all legal outgoings. The bishop may also allow a deduction, for actual expenditure to prevent dilapidation.

Where the incumbent does not reside four months in the year on any benefice, the bishop may assign the residence-house thereunto be.

longing in whole or in part to the curate. The curate, when licensed at the full gross annual value of the benefice, shall pay all rates and taxes on the house and residence, if the same be assigned to him by the bishop. The incumbent may not dispossess a curate, to whom the residence house has been as sigued, without three months' notice, and permission in writing, from the bishop; nor, in the case of a new incumbency, till within three months after institution, and one month's previous notice. Licensed curates shall not quit their curacies without three months' notice to the incumbent, and to the bishop, unless with the consent of the bishop, under the penalty of a sum at his discretion, not exceeding half a year's stipend; to be retained out of their salary, of recovered by the incumbeut, as are other penalties by this Act.

The bishop may, without any nomination from the incumbent, licence any curate actually employ ed by him and may summarily revoke any licence, and remove any curate, for what shall appear to him good and reasonable cause; subject,however, to an appeal to be summarily determined by the archbishop.

In all cases where the term Benefice is used in this Act, it is te be taken to mean benefice with cure, and no other; and to include all donatives, perpetual curacies, and parochial chapelries. The Act extends to all peculiars, exempts, &c.; and for the purposes of the Act, all (except such as belong to any archbishoprick or bishoprick, which continue subject to their peculiar diocesan) are placed under their local diocesan; and peculiars, &c. situate in more than one diocese, or between the limits of two, are placed within the jurisdiction of the bishop, whose cathedral is nearest to the church, &c. of such peculiar, &c.'

'The Act is not to extend to Ireland.

OBITUARY.

THE REV. HENRE WILLIAM

COULTHURT, D. D.

DIED, December 11, the Rev. Henry William Coulthurst, D.D., Vicar of Halifax, in the sixty-fourth year of his age. His father was of a respectable family in Yorkshire, but had settled at Barbadoes, where the subject of this obituary was born; who was educated in England, first at Hipperholme, near Halifax, and afterwards at St. John's College, Cambridge. He took his B. A. degree in 1775, and was the second wrangler; and, soon after, obtained one of Dr. Smith's prizes for his proficiency in mathematics and natural philosophy. In 1777, being a senior bachelor, he obtained one of the prizes given by the members for a dissertation in Latin prose. He was afterwards elected a Fellow of Sidney College, where he resided till he became vicar of Halifax. He held the office of Moderator in the years 1784 and 1785; and, in the latter part of his residence in the university, he was tutor of his college. He was very conspicuous for his brilliant, but innocent, wit; and many instances of this are remembered at Cambridge and elsewhere. He was also much esteemed and followed at Cambridge, as an excellent preacher; having been the minister of St. Sepulchre's in that town.

He was inducted, December 1790, to the vicarage of Halifax; and, in 1791, he took his degree of D. D. On Dec. 10, 1817, he rode from Halifax to the house of his friend, J. H. Smyth, Esq. M. P., at Heath, near Wakefield, with the design of attending a meeting of magistrates at the court house, Wakefield, the following day, to choose a director and matron for the New Pauper Asylum for Lunaties. On his arrival at Heath, he complained of being CHRIST. OBSERV. APP.

unwell from the extreme coldness of his ride but nothing serious was apprehended, either by himself or his friends; though it is probable that his having been so long on horseback, on a very cold day, accelerated his dissolution, On the 11th, his servant went to call him at the appointed hour of seven o'clock, when he received orders to come again at eight. He did so, and was then told by the Doctor that he would be ready for him in ten minutes. At his return, after the lapse of this short period, he found his master apparently lifeless. Medical assistance was immediately sent for, but in vain: the spark of life was totally extinct! It is pro bable, from the posture in which he was found, that he was seized with an apoplectic fit when attempting to rise.

He was buried in the chancel of the parish church of Halifax, on December 10th; the parish of ficers, his brother magistrates, and several of the clergy preceding the corpse, and twelve of the incumbents of benefices in that populous and extensive parish supporting the pall. Some hundreds of gentlemen and respectable inhabitants of the town and neighbourhood, voluntarily assembled to pay a sin cere tribute of respect to their lamented vicar, and formed a long procession, following the other mourners in silence and tears, A vast concourse also of persons attended as spectators, who completely filled the spacious church. The utmost decorum, however, was observed; and nothing could be more affecting, and more congenial to the best feelings of our nature, than the deep concern and regret that was manifested on every side. On the following Sunday, va rious funeral sermons were preach ed in the different churches in the parish, and others were intended.

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His loss is most sincerely and Not long before his death, he deeply regretted, not only by his expressed the pleasure he derived widow, his relatives, and his pa- from the Scriptures; and, if his rishioners; but also by a numerous avocations would allow, how happy body of friends in various parts of he should be to devote the whole the kingdom, as few persons have of his time to a perusal of them, been more beloved. He was, in and to prepare himself for heaven. deed, a benevolent man, a pa. Upon another occasion, he said he triotic citizen, a pious Christian, had no fear of death, as it was his a courteous gentleman, a sincere daily endeavour to be in a state of friend, a zealous minister, a useful readiness for it. On the evening magistrate, and one whose death before his dissolution, his mind was has made a great blank in society. in a very spiritual frame; and, in his . Whatever might have been his conversation with the respectable natural propensities and passions, friends in whose house he was, he the irregular and excessive parts expatiated upon the necessity of of them were so subdued and mor- giving the utmost attention to the tified, that he enjoyed a temperate concerns of eternity. Thus both and tranquil composure of mind, his late sermons in general, and a placid and unruffled temper, a particularly his last, shew him to placable and forgiving disposition, have been very intent upon his own an inoffensive cheerfulness, a good- spiritual improvement, and that humoured pleasantry, a uniform of others; and are an indication, urbanity and kindness of demean that he was growing in meetness our, a wish to promote the welfare for the heavenly inheritance.· of his friends and of all mankind, a zeal to encourage loyalty in the state, and pure and undefiled religion in the church: all which were much heightened and improved by springing from a truly Christian source. His first care was to discipline his own heart, by prayer, by meditation, by reading the Scriptures, by contemplating the consolatory promises of the Gospel; and it is no wonder, therefore, when an attention was thus given to rectify the fountain, that the streams which flowed from it should be so pure.

On the Lord's-day before his death he preached two very excellent sermons, and from texts that would not be unappropriate for funeral discourses for a good man. The first was, 1 Pet. iv. 18: "And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?" The second (which was his last sermon) was the fifteenth verse of the seventeenth Psalm: "As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness; I shall be satisfied when I awake with thy likeness.". 19.apre

His more opulent parishioners have determined to evince their conviction of his many amiable and excellent qualities, by erecting a monument to his memory; and a handsome subscription for the purpose has already commenced.

MRS. H. S. CAHUSAC.

J. F.

ON Tuesday evening, October 14, died, at Paddington, Hannah Sophia, wife of Thomas Cabusac, Esq. and second daughter of the Rev. Basil Woodd.

The subject of this memoir was born March 21, 1789, and fell a victim to a rapid decline in the twenty ninth year of her age. In early life she appeared to possess a good constitution. Her disposi tion was naturally very cheerful, tranquil, and affectionate; her mental powers were solid, sprightly, and attentive. When she was under ten years of age, she translated into English, with great correctness, part of St. Bernard's Latin Meditations, and soon discovered a solid