, 27770. 1573

The Gazette.

FRIDAY, MAKCH 3, 1905.

' At the Court at Buckingham. Palace^ the 27th , is vested as to one moiety thereof in day of February, 1905. Your Majesty, Your Heirs and Successors in right of the Crown, and is exercised on behalf of Your PRESENT, Majesty by the First Lord of Your Majesty's The KING'S Most Excellent Majesty in Council Treasury for the time being, and as to the other inoiety in the Bishop of the said diocese of Exeter HEREAS the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for the time being. W for have in pursuance of the " And whereas the Right Honourable Arthur Act of the sixteenth and seventeenth years of James Balfour, now First Lord of Your Majesty's Her late Majesty Queen Victoria, chapter fifty, Treasury, and the Right Reverend. Archibald, and of the Act of the twenty-third and twenty- now Bishop of the said diocese of Exeter, have fourth years of Her said late Majesty, chapter respectively signified to us their..desire that the one hundred and twenty-four, duly prepared and patronage of the said two benefices of Saint laid before His Majesty in Council a_. scheme Mary Magdalene, Barnstaple, and Sernpringham bearing date the uinth day of February, in with Pointoii and Birthorpe, may be re-arranged the year one thousand nine hundred and five, in by way of exchange, in the manner which is the words and figures following, that is to say:— hereinafter recommended and proposed. "We, th,e Ecclesiastical Commissioners for "And whereas we have made due enquiry England, in pursuance .of the Act of the and calculation as to the circumstances and sixteenth and seventeenth years of Her late relative value of the said two benefices and of the Majesty Queen Victoria, chapter fifty, and of the patronage thereof respectively and we do hereby Act of the twenty-third and twenty-fourth years certify. to Your Majesty in Council that the of Her said late Majesty chapter one hundred circumstances and present values of the said two and twenty-four, have prepared and now humbly benefices and vicarages are as set forth in the lay before Your Majesty in Council the. follow- schedule hereunto annexed. ing, scheme for effecting an exchange of the " Now therefore with the consent of the said alternate patronage of the benefice (being- a Arthur James Balfour, acting on behalf of Your vicarage) of Saint Mary Magdalene, Barnstaple, Majesty as such alternate patron of the said situate in the county of Devon, and in the benefice of Saint Mary Magdalene, Barnstaple diocese of Exeter, for the alternate patronage (in testimony of which consent he the said of the benefice (being, a vicarage) of Sempring- Arthur James Balfour has signed and sealed this ham with the chapelries of and Birthorpe scheme), and with the consent of the said annexed, situate in the county of Lincoln, and in Archibald Bishop of the said diocese of Exeter, the . acting as such owner of one moiety of the said " Whereas the patronage of the said benefice advowson of the benefice of with of Saint Mary Magdalene, Barnstaple, is under Pointon and Birthorpe (in testimony of which the twenty-first section of the Act of the sixth consent he the said Bishop has signed this scheme and seventh years of Her said late Majesty, and affixed his episcopal seal to the same) we the chapter thirty-seven, exercised by Your Majesty said Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England and by the Bishop of the said diocese of Exeter humbly recommend and propose that upon and alternately. from the day of the date of the publication in " And whereas the advowson or perpetual .the London Gazette of any Order cf Your right of patronage of and presentation to the Majesty in Council ratifying this scheme and said benefice of Sempringham: with Po.inton and without my conveyance., or assurance in .-the