Ashton-under-Lyne Tithes Act 1831
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Citation | 1831 c. iv |
| Year | 1831 |
ANNO PRIMO & SECUNDO
GULIELMI IV REGIS.
***###********•******##******************####*#***#**
Cap.iv.
An Act for settling disputed Rights respecting
Tithes within the Parish of Ashton-under-Lyne
in the County Palatine of Lancaster, and for
fixing certain annual Payments in lieu
thereof.
[30th July 1831.]
W
HEREAS the Right Honourable George Harry Earl of
Stamford and Warrington, and his Son the Right Honour-
able George Harry Grey commonly called Lord Grey,
claim the Perpetual Advowson of the Rectory and Parish Church of
Ashton-under*Lyne in the County Palatine of Lancaster; and the
Reverend George Chetwode Clerk is the Rector of the said Parish
and Parish Church ; and the said Parish is situate in the Diocese of
Chester: And whereas the said George
Chetwode,
as such Rector,
claims to be entitled to all the Tithes and Dues, both Great and
Small, growing, renewing, arising, or becoming due within the said
Parish ; but in respect of certain Parts thereof the Owners and Occu-
piers of Lands in the said Parish claim to be exempt from the Pay-
ment of such Tithes and Dues, or some of them, by virtue of certain
Moduses, Compositions, or small annual Payments in lieu
thereof;
and Disputes and Differences have arisen between the said Rector
and certain of the Owners and Occupiers of Lands in the said Parish,
respecting the Tithes claimed by the said Rector, and the Moduses,
[Local.~] C c Compositions,
1°&2°GULIELMI IV. Cap.iv.
Compositions, or annual Payments set up by such Owners and Occu-
piers in lieu of the same ; and it is desirable, in order to prevent5'Liti-
gation and Expence, that such Disputes and Differences should be
settled: And whereas it hath been proposed, on behalf of the Owners
and Occupiers of Lands and Tenements within the said Parish, that
certain yearly Rents or Sums of Money should from henceforth be
paid to the said Rector and his Successors by way of Commufatioh
and in lieu arid full Satisfaction of and for all Maitner of Tithes>
both Great and Small, and all other Tithes, Dues, Moduses, Com-
positions, and prescriptive Payments in lieu thereof (except as herein-
after is particularly mentioned and excepted,) which of Right belong
to,
or which have or might have been received by, the said Rector or
any of his Predecessors, Rectors of the said Parish : And whereas
the said Earl of Stamford and Warrington and Lord Grey as Patron
of the said Rectory, the said George Chetwode as such Rector, and
also the Right Reverend Father in God John
Bird,
by Divine Per-
mission, Lord Bishop of the said Diocese of
Chester,
do approve of
such. Proposal, and are willing and desirous that the said Commuta-
tion should be established and confirmed ; but such beneficial Pur-
poses cannot be effected without the Aid and Authority of Parlia-
ment
:
May it therefore please Your Majesty that it may be enacted ;
and be it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with
the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and
Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Autho-
rity of the same, That the several yearly Rents or Sums of Money
mentioned and set forth in the First Schedule to this Act annexed
shall for ever hereafter be payable and paid unto the said George
Chetwode
and his Successors, Rectors for the Time being of the Parish
of Ashton-under-Lyne aforesaid, for or in respect of the Tithes and
Dues hereby intended to be commuted ; and the same several yearly
Rents-rof Sums of Money- shaH for ^ver hereafter be respectively
charged upon and payable and paid out of all and evefy the Mes-
suages, Farms, Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments mentioned and
particularized or referred unto in the First Schedule to this Act an-
nexed, immediately before or opposite to the same several and respec-
tive yearly Rents or Sums of Money ; and that the same several Rents
or Sums shall respectively become due to the said Rector and his Suc-
cessors on the Twenty-ninth Day of
September
in every Year for ever
hereafter^and shall be paid to him and his Successors for the Time
beiag at
the,
Rectory House of Ashton-under-Lyne, or such other Place
as heshall apppiut within the Town of Ashton-under-Lyne, by One
annual Payment, on the First Monday in November in every Year for
ever, free and clear of and from all Taxes, Rates, Dues, Impositions,
and Assessments whatsoever, Parliamentary or Parochial
$
th6fi*st'of
the said several yearly Rents to become due on the Twenty-ninth
Day of
September
in the Year of our Lord One thousand eight hurt-
dred and thirty-one, and the first Payment thereof respectivelytd
be made on the First Day of November in the said Year One thousand
eight hundred and thirty-one; and every such annual Payment shall
be taken to be for or in respect of the Year ending with the Day
whereon such Payment became due, to -wit, on the Twenty-ninth
Dayof
September
prior to the Time such annual Payment is hereby
directed to be made.
9 II. And
To continue reading
Request your trial