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'lawn-, to recttpt their' Cl aplain fmr 'the penat-
fir% regard to the Chhplain Central of
lis Mejsets's forces, the Chaplains em hoard
his hiajesty'e ships, the Chaplains it. M.tjesty'
thek s aids, of the corps of artillery. end eerie others
enunteratedin the clause. the naming them was al-
tegether uiniecessary, becanseAry .:her exem. ted
already by an Mt of Het Ty die Eighth, -.pro-nets 1
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to :lc iassilig the 2 A of chet-King.
The ie)ItD•CHANCItiLLOR read the clause of"
the AR to which the Biehot referred,. Lo sheer him,
that it will, by no means 1k to coyer arty one of the
'description of the persons 'etrumerated to the clause.
Lord ALVANI.F.I" nrgtied to the same effhfl.•
The Bishop of T. ASAPH reasoned again.; ft-
*teeing C.!iaplaies of Factories abroad, and Minor -
Canons ; the latter, generally speaking, had good
though that wile not, the case in the colle-
giate church dflrestminst.t, since by the regula-
' tenis of tbe Chapter the Minor' Canons were v holly
shut out from any share of the patronage of that
-cathedral. With regard to chaplains in Fafteries
abroad, if that circumstance was, to entitle men
•lerssessed (..f benefices in England to gsemptlon from
the peeelty on N'on-residence, a clengyman with a
lis'i.sg laird nothing to do but to accept of a chap-
lainship of a Wary abroad, to secure exemp-
tion.
The LORD CHANCELLOR contended, it was
-of the umhet in:pert:ince to the interests and pre-
servation of the Christian religion, that in countries
where a different religion prevailed, the British fee-
+tories should have a Protestant clergyman among
them, to do the duties of the Protestenechach, to
•celebrete divine set vice, and to atiminisur all the
offices of a religious nature to the Paitish subjeas
which censtitu:ed the tettory, as well as other Pro-
testants, 5:14) night by et the piece when the faftory
was established. Instead of vexing and harrassing
elergyir.en of this description, they were entitled to
every possible consideration and eecourayernent,
and there.ectre they ought to'be' favoured with the
•exemption the clause extruded to them. Beside,
•several of them had small livings, but insufficient
to enab'.e their incumbents to maintain their fami-
lies; • they therefo:e accepted of cheelainsi!ips to
fa lurks abroad, meter it a hope that they might in
ti.ne actotirehufficient to usable them to hewn to
ehe.gland, g rraiJe urtin their liri: S. 4
ALVANLEY said, it was a most extra-
-ordinary cenjectnre of the lieu. Trelate, to suppose
.that a man with a good living would accept di the
clieplair.ship to a factory, merely to obtain an ex-
-emotion from the penalties for hen-residence.
The Bishop of LONDON said, let had hitherto
ta'een but little Share in the discussion :if the clauses,
but be was friend to the enumeration el the spi.
ritual persens to be exempted, 'and he meant to in-
crease their ie.:reser, by rr.oving an emend:trent to
-ieslute others, siz. the 'Masters of threa established
corporate Schnols, St. Peel's school, the Chatter
liousa, and Merchant Taylors, which be moved
-to have inserted, carried.
The Bishop i f WINCHESTER also moved to
insert, the Chaplain of the 'Military Asylum at
('helsea, and of the Royal Hospital for &Whirs,
hick was put and agreed to.
Lord AUCKLAND said, it waswhinasicai enough
to see their Lordships, who came down to the
louse to thjea to the enumeration of spiritual rcr-
s Ins to be exempted frdm the penalties, themselves
a idieg to the nue.hets. His Lordship concurred
with w hat had fallen from the Rev. Prelate
behind him, via. that some of the Prebends of
1. ford had beuer be away from the University
than in it, as they did no good there.' Ile had
himself been a Member of Christ Church, and
etthile there, sonic of the Fellows of different Col-
leges did little more than read the newspapers at
the coff.e-liousrs in the morning, and at and after
dinner soak port, and perhaps play a game at chess
or drafts in the evening ; others certainly werestu-
siious men. There was a Chaplain, which it be-
hoved Lim as one of the Direaors of that hospital
.ior upwards of thirty years, to move to have in-
' serteti, via. the Chaplain or Chaplains of Green-
wich Hospital. 'fircse gentlemen had a very severe
efuty to perf.iri» at the Hospital, and having, he
.helieveti, small livir.gs, ought in fairness to be ex-
ithrpted them the Fenalties fur non-residence, He
therefore melted it. J t was put and agreed to.
The Bishop of OXFORD objected to the exemp-
tion of .Fellows of Colleges, and detailed a history of
the practice of the Fellows ut Oxford ; these men
-cans to College livings at some distance (nun the
71;niversity, but some re them preferring an indolent
and ease life, chose to re Side at the University, not to
,assist it. the good works of education and scieme,
that were going on there, but, in raft, contsihtitieg,
sby their Q:.or:ple,-:plc, reterd. He 6.1 not mean to
say, that all et the renews of CeDeges toed in this
•improperrnarizter, but sclera' did. Very many Fel-
• lows of -Colleges, he must do tl.'tn the justice thsav,
led exernriery Jives, and were worthy, studious, ar.d
-learned glen; but lie thought those proposed at lie-
+les would do more service to their parishioners, if
• r.
They resided' less :tt the University and more in their
cwn parishes. The pretest of a desire to comply
-with the statutes of their respeftive colleges, was but
a shallow cover for the practice of those who ne-
gleaed the duty of their offices as Pastors of Flock,
eo live in the University, and be useless members of
it. The, had better be away.
Earl GROSVENOR gave an account of the prat- *
tice of the Fellows of the King's College, Cant-
bridge; he stated the number of them, and the re-,
ruletions that had obtained within these ten years
to speaing their livings, which they .had .restrained
themselves to, nanitly, le inns within twenty Miles
ti:staet lean the University. His Lordship sup-
petted ale worth of the cause.
Th..: Bishop of NORWICH circumstantially enu-
merated thc.aumber of Fellows belonging to each
college in Cambridge, and described the sort of
livings that fell to their lot, shewing that the col-
le.es, had very thw good livings in their gift, and
that most of 'them were, as the Noble .Lord had
stated, restrained ,to within twenty miles Of the
Univehity. . His Lordship gave a high charaSer of
the conduit of all its officers of every description,
and said, for regularity, keening, and every branch
of seiessee, lie was persuaded the University of Cam-
Iridge never stood higher.
The' '.1.020 tHANCELLOR said, he -differed
entirely from a Riv. Prelate who had lately spoken
Biehop of Oxford; revisiting the Prelsendseetitling
in their colleges. -.The Rev. Prelate eras fur driving
as many of .ttiem as he could from the University. ..1 "
Nose wi.h Was to keep them as much' as pos-
sihle
at the University. Thce more learning and
science there could be -colleted at -each, that of

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CaMbritire Ind ikat r ads
ugegus AA it tor* of lily u
and ,loriour4st. :ions. I
TA Biehip. ST, AS APH ..J cts-tainlv, if
the • karcs ofeollegts did spend their time in Col-
lege merely in ‘oaking port and reading the news-
TaLiers,, as 114 been Eiud, it was extrtrae!y wrong ;
buil& &tad hove like, praake was not general.
- . rarioty -of olher observatiOns were made upon
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IMPITIMIS rani (Yll Inc c-rnaw•
The Dish' p DURHAM said, he had been.
an Fetoiiian, and he welt knew the present master,
and could ;answer for his being an excellent and
most respeaable chara.ter, well entitled to the
be-
nct Of the-clause.
• The Bishop of ST. ASAPH said, he had no.ob-
jection, to exempting the Master of Westminster-
school, but lie had, to exempting the Usher. The
former was ap;,obted by the I.:aan, but be had no
power or authorite over the Ushers ; and it was not
impossible for a Master of Weetminster-school, w:to
himself appointed his Usl•ers or A.sistants, to abuse
that power, and make nominal Ushers, merely to
entitle those nominal Caters to exemption from non-
res.dence.
It was answered, that it was not probable that any
Master of Westminster-schOol, who must himself
be a respectable, and nnqueStionable character, would
be guilty of so gross an abuse of hit office and his
power.
' All the Bisheps fobjetted to the diXerert per-
sons, who they theught ought not to be among the
list of positive exemptions, but to be obliged to ob-
tain licences from their Diocesans, anti by that means
sttli,jeft the grounds on which they requested such
license to the cognizance and discretion of their .
Bishops.
At length the Committee divided on the words
a or Usher." Contents (that it stand part. of the
Clause) 19. Not Contents 19.
atving gone through the clause, the Bishop of
LONDON proposed a proviso to he annexed to the
clause, or to follow it, the elial of which was, that
each nen-resident was to state to the Bishop, that
during; his nori-residence a Curate or Curates would
he resident cn his beneEce to perform all the clerical
duties of the parish, and that he or they were to re-
ceive an adequate cnmpensetion out of the income
et the living, of which adequacy the Bishop was
to judge, and such Curate or Curates was noato be
absent from the cure or non-resident, but in such
cases, as the Lida.? should OA sufficiently satis-
. faCtery.tojustify his consent to his or their non-resi-
dence.
lota AUCKLAND, and Lord ALVANLEY
sue sorted this Amendment, deelai kg severally,
dlatthey could have been satisfied in agreeing to the
whole of the clause just gone through, if they had
not believed it would have been followed by some •
such proviere as the Rev. Prelate had proposed...
The LORD CHANCELLOR said he had, rex
doubts whether such a proviso would ultimately be
necessary. He knew that there' was a Bill in
preparation on the express subjeft of establishing a
better provision for the inferior clergy, and respeCt-
in- curates and tbeit residence. With regard to the
proviso, he might, after due time for his coosidering
it, bring his naiad on an.other day to agree to it, and
be would endeavour to do so, but it had not been
heard of before that clay, and to press it now would
be to take the Committee by surprize. Besides
it need not come in just in that part of the Bill, but
after some enbsequent clauses, which it would more
PrlPeril folkw ; he requested, therefore, that the
Right Rev. Prelate, who had done himself the
highest honour in enforcing residence in his -own
diocese, would consent to withholding it for the
present.
The Bishop of LONDON said, be took no
credit for his conduct in the respea to which the
Noble and Learned Lord referred ; he had merely
done his duty ; and he had not the smallest deolo,
but that every one of his reverend and leer:ter! bre.
thren would bare acted in the same manner under
the same circumstances. It certaiuly had been 1
cacious, and produced beneficial advantages, its
there scere at present one hundred mare resident in-
cumbents in iris diocese, than he found when he first
was appointed to it. With regard to the proviso,
out of respect to the Noble and Learned Lord, under
the idea that it was hereafter to be attended to, he
would rea.lity withhold it for the present.
The Clause was they agieed to.
.The next clause was to ens sr, that per inns en-
titled under 23 Henry the Eighth; to privileve of
non-residence, until forty years of age, are not to
be entitled till after twenty-six.
The Bielop of ST. ASAI'fl objelled, to this on
the ground, that men of only otventy-six, who had
livings, cni:ld not et threage be supposed to have a
sufficient share of thaological learning, to qualify
them for a due.reiforktunce of their sacred duties of •
their clerical cliaraair, and that they eoighz to be
allowed to continue longer resident at the Unisn- •
s:ty, where they might at much theology trout
the Yalu:ile volismes to be read in the vairtuts pttb
Sic libraries. 11 they wets to their livings, they -
would perhaps take no books with them, but a Latin
pillion:ire, is 1.e7,ic,,n, •st• Conan-Jac:7e; and sonic
hodge-poage popular expvition of the Bible. They
could :;::quire no ;;;cire tikoloppical liter.irl
knowledge, than they carried with them•eto. at;
when they went to their livings at a distance,- .
At the Universitiet they had every assistance
and improvement, he the:cf.:re wott:d move to omit
the words, o twenty-six years" in order to insert the
words " thirty years," and then their Lordships
would have cut off
.ten years out of the forty,
granted by the old Apt of 1-eurt the ILightli. Idis
Lordship moved accordingly.
Lord AI.VieN LEY said, four years were not
worth contending for, and therefore the clause Lad
better stared as it did. • • -• • •
The Amendment Wes nenatived.
u The Committee
went through the .next clauses. That, eotine
" that no penalty shall be recovered be ezecuteett;
against the person of a Spiritual Percor, ;-hire the.yl
can be recovered by sequestration of the profits cf
the benefice ; and that enacting, " that Archbishops
nod Iliallops may, CAI petition and.such proof at may
be required by such Archbishop, &c. grant licences
in C:Leienumeratedin this AO," with but few °fuer-.
vations; and as thenext clause, enacting, " that 1 icences
may begranted in certain cases, aad that Spiritual Per-
suns argrieved by aefusal, may appeal to the Archbi-
shop,' was li kel yto occupy a good deal nf.remark and
time, it was agreed on thesnggestion of the L ordChan-
ccltor to yn-der the Chairman.to report progress, and
adjourn till to-morrow at Threoo'CloCka--Orderede
As on as the Hoese %vas -resumed, the Chair- •
• man reported progress, and asked leave to sit again.
Ordered. —.Adjourned at Heil after Nino. • •