March, 1646
[28 March, 1646.]
Six Preaching Ministers to be named for Hereford.; Three for Cathedral.; Three for parish churches.
Whereas there is great want of able Preaching Ministers in the
County and City of Hereford, much occasioned by the small and
inconsiderable Livings in the said City and County, which the
Lords and Commons now assembled in Parliament taking into
their pious consideration, are very desirous in some measure to
supply, Do Order, and it is hereby Ordered and Ordained by the
said Lords and Commons, That there shall be six able, godly
and learned Divines, named by the Committee of Plundered
Ministers, to be approved of by the Reverend Assembly of
Divines at Westminster, placed in the City of Hereford, three
of the said Divines to Preach in turn in the Cathedral Church
there on the Lords days, each of them in his turn to Preach both
Morning and Afternoon; and those two which do not Preach in
the said Cathedral on the Lords day, shall Preach the same Lords
day in some Churches in the Countrey. And also both of them
shall Preach one Sermon weekly on two several days, as shall
be appointed by the Committee of the said County, and the other
three Divines shall every Lords day, Morning and Afternoon,
Preach and Officiate in the three other Parish Churches of the
said City: viz.
Cathedral Preachers each to have £150 yearly.; Habitation.; Houses and Salaries of Preachers in Parish Churches.
One of them in the Parish Church commonly called St. Peters
Parish, one other of them in the Church of Alhallows Parish, and
the third in the Parish Church of Nicholas within the said City,
by the appointment likewise of the said Committee; each of
which Preachers to Preach in the said Cathedral Church, shall
have the yearly maintenance of One hundred and fifty pounds to
be paid unto him out of the Possessions of the Dean, Dean and
Chapter of the said Cathedral Church, the same to be paid Quarterly, the first payment to begin the Five and twentieth day of
March, 1646. And shall have a convenient place of Habitation
unto him appointed in some of the Dean or Prebends houses in
the said City Rent free, which the said Committee or any five or
more of them are hereby Authorized and required to provide for
the said Preachers accordingly; And each of the said Divines
that shall be appointed to Preach and Officiate in the said Parish
Churches of the said City, shall have the House and yearly Profits
belonging and of right due to the Minister of the said several
Parishes respectively: viz.
The House Rent free; which yearly Profits respectively, if they
shall not arise to the sum of One hundred pounds, then to be
made up out of the Possesions of the said Dean, Dean and
Chapter, the full sum of One hundred pounds per annum, to be
paid Quarterly as aforesaid to the said last three mentioned
Divines appointed to Preach and Officiate in the said Parish
Churches: All which the said Committee, or any five or more
of them, are hereby Authorized and required to see from time to
time duly performed, for which this present Ordinance shall
be to them and every of them a sufficient Warrant in that behalf;
all which several and respective alowances are to be made and to
continue until both Houses shall take further Order.