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7. The First Fruits or Annates, were the ^ addition profits of the /addition first Year deletion & profit /deletion of the Spiritual preferment according to a rate made in the +38th of Henry III. This was afterwards note +1292 /note ^ addition increased /addition in the 20th of Edward these were computed in Henry VIII. time to have amounted in the compass of 50 Years to 800,000 Ducats.

The tenths or Decimæ, were part of the Annual profits of each living by the same Valuation.

note *C.3 /note By the 26th* Henry VIII this Revenue was annexed to the Crown, which Act was confirmed by note symbol C.4 /note the symbol 1st of Elizabeth, at the same time a new rate was made which the Clergy have gone by ever since;

By these Statutes all Vicarages under £10 a Year, & all Rectorys under 10. Marks, are exempted from symbol note & 2d C.11 /note payment of First Fruits or Tenths; Queen Anne symbol also vested the Revenue of First Fruits deletion & /deletion addition and /addition Tenths in Trustees forever, to form a perpetual Fund for encreasing poor Livings, this goes Commonly by the name of Queen Anne’s Bounty; deletion We now come to the addition The /addition underline Ordinary Civil Revenue of our /underline /deletion