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7. The First Fruits or Annates, were the ^add profits of the /add 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 ^add increased /add 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 Decimae, 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 symbol1st 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 add

                                                  and /add 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 add The /add underline

            Ordinary Civil Revenue of our /underline /deletion