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These Acts of Parliament relate to the Church of England, its officials and clergy, lands and properties, operation and services. To ease your search for specific topics, keywords in each act are highlighted in red. By simply scanning through the chronological list, you should easily be able to narrow in on desired items. Through the reign of George II, acts are listed by the year in which the Parliamentary session ends ; from George III on they are by date of passage . Local and Personal Acts, and Private Acts are identified by "Cap." numbers in green.

The Acts are listed according to the reigns of the British Kings and Queens.
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Commonwealth 1642-1660

Charles II 1660-1685

James II 1685-1689

William & Mary 1689-1702

Anne 1702-1714

George I 1714-1727

George II 1727-1760

George III 1760-1820

George IV 1820-1830

William IV 1830-1837

Victoria 1837-1901

Reign of Charles II

• [Anno 12*, p.121-22]. ... for Confirmation of Marriages. $50

* Dated from the death of Charles I

Reign of William and Mary
(Later William III)

• [Anno 7&8, p.283-92]. ... for the more Easie Recovery of Small Tythes. $35
• [Anno 7&8, p.731-39]. ... for the Inforcing the Laws which Restrain Marriages without Licence or Banns, and for the better Registring Marriages, Births and Burials. $30

• [Anno 10&11, p.271-72]. ... for Continuing the Act of the more easie Recovery of Small Tythes. $25

Reign of Anne

• [Anno 2&3, p.219-24]. ... for the Making more Effectual Her Majestys Gracious Intentions for the Augmentation of the Maintenance of the Poor Clergy, by Enabling Her Majesty to Grant in Perpetuity the Revenues of the First Fruits and Tenths; And also for Enabling any other Person to make Grants for the same Purpose. $45

Reign of George II

• [Anno 2, p.491-92]. ... to impower His Majesty to visit the Collegiate Church of Manchester ... $15
• [Anno 2, p.495-510]. ... making the Hamlet of Wapping Stepney, in ... Middlesex, a distinct Parish ... $18

• [Anno 9, p.247-55]. ... better regulating the Nightly Watch and Bedels within the Parish of Saint Paul, Covent Garden ... $25
• [Anno 9, p.299-310]. better regulating the Nightly Watch and Bedels within the Parishes of Saint Margaret and Saint John the Evangelist within ... Westminster. $25
• [Anno 9, p.319-26]. ... better regulating the Nightly Watch and Bedels within the Parish of Saint Anne ... Westminster. $25

• [Anno 12, p.187-99]. ... to enable the Parishoners ... of Ealing, in ... Middlesex, to raise Money by Rates upon themselves for finishing the Church ... $18

• [Anno 23, p.511-14]. ... to explain Part of an Act ... for the Uniformity of Publick Prayers, and Administration of Sacraments; and ... for the Ministers of the Church to be of Sound Religion. $18

Reign of George III

• [Anno 5, Cap.17]. ... to confirm all Leases already made by Archbishops and Bishops ..., of Tythes and other Incorporeal Hereditaments, for One, Two or Three Life or Lives, or Twenty one Years; and to enable them ... to bring Actions of Debt for Recovery of Rents reserved and in Arrear on Leases ... $25

• [Anno 38, Cap.35*]. ... to alter and enlarge the Powers of ... An Act for dividing the Parish of St. James, in the City ... of Bristol, and County of Gloucester; and for building a Church, and providing a Cemetery of Church Yard, and Parsonage House ... (Cap. number in Arabic numerals). $15
  * Private Act

• [Anno 55, Cap 147]. ... enabling Spiritual Persons to exchange the Parsonage or Glebe Houses or Glebe Lands ... for others ... and for annexing such Houses and Lands ... $20

• [Anno 56, Cap 6]. ... to continue ... an Act ... relating to Spiritual Persons holding Farms, and for enforcing the Residence of such Persons on their Benefices ... $15

• [Anno 56, Cap 52]. ... to amend ... and Act ... for enbling Spiritual Persons to exchange their Parsonage Houses or Glebe Lands ... $12

• [Anno 58, Cap 69]. ... for the Regulation of Parish Vestries. $15

Reign of George IV

• [Anno 11, Cap.18]. ... to render valid Marriages solmenized in certain Churches and Chapels. $20

Reign of Victoria

• [Anno 1, Cap.20]. ... for the Consolidation of the Offices of First Fruits, Tenths and Queen Anne's Bounty. $18

• [Anno 1, Cap.23]. ... to amend the Law for providing fit Houses for the beneficed Clergy. $10

• [Anno 1&2, Cap.29]. ... to supply an Omission in an Act ... to amend the Law for providing fit Houses for the beneficed Clergy. $8
• [Anno 1&2, Cap.31]. ... for facilitating the Sale of Church Patronage belonging to Municipal Corporations ... $15

• [Anno 1&2, Cap.106]. ... to abridge the holding of Benefices in Plurality, and to make better Provision for the Residences of the Clergy. (55 p.) $25

• [Anno 1&2, Cap.107]. ... to amend and render more effectual the Church Building Acts. $15
• [Anno 1&2, Cap.108]. ... for suspending ... the Appointment to certain Dignities and Offices in Cathedral and Collegiate Churches, and to Sinecure Rectories. $10

• [Anno 8&9, Cap.70]. ... for the further Amendment of the Church Building Acts. $20

• [Anno 14&15, Cap.29]. ... for further continuing certain temporary Provisions concerning Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction in England. $8

• [Anno 14&15, Cap.60]. ... to prevent the Assumption of certain Ecclesiastical Titles in respect of Places in the United Kingdon. $20

• [Anno 14&15, Cap.71]. ... to repeal certain Statutes relating to the Irish Branch of the United Church of England and Ireland. $15
• [Anno 14&15, Cap.72]. ... to consolidate and amend the Laws relating to the Erection and Endowment of Churches and Chapels and Perpetual Curacies in Ireland. (26 p.) $20
• [Anno 14&15, Cap.73]. ... to consolidate and amend the Laws relating to Ecclesiastical Residences in Ireland. (46 p.) $20
• [Anno 14&15, Cap.74]. ... to amend an Act ... relating to Poor Rate Poundage and the Valuation of Ecclesiastical Property in Ireland; and to provide for the Renewal of Leases of Lands disappropriated from Bishoprics. $10
• [Anno 14&15, Cap.97]. ... to amend the Church Building Acts. $15

• [Anno 14&15, Cap.104]. ... to facilitate the Management and Improvement of Episcopal and Capitular Estates in England. $10

• [Anno 17, Cap.11]. ... to amend the Laws relating to Ministers Money, and the Church Temporalities (Ireland) Act. $15
• [Anno 17, Cap.14]. ... to continue Her Majesty's Commission for building new Churches. $10

• [Anno 17&18, Cap.32]. ... to facilitate the Apportionment of the rent when Parts of Lands in Lease are taken for the Purposes of the Church Building Acts. $8

• [Anno 17&18, Cap.47]. ... to alter and improve the Mode of taking Evidence in the Ecclesiastical Courts ... $8

• [Anno 17&18, Cap.65]. ... for further continuing certain temporary Provisions concerning Eccelsiastical Jursidiction ... $10
• [Anno 17&18, Cap.70]. ... to enable the Trustees of Portland Chapel, Oxford Chapel, and Welbeck Chapel, in the Parish of Saint Marylebone, to augment the Salaries of the Ministers ... $10

• [Anno 17&18, Cap.84]. ... to extend the Provisions of the Acts for the Augmentation of Benefices. $10

• [Anno 17&18, Cap.116]. ... to continue and amend an Act to facilitate the Management and Improvement of Episcopal and Capitular Estates ... $10

• [Anno 24&25, Cap.125]. ... to enable Overseers in populous Parishes to provide Offices for the proper Discharge of Parochial Business. $8

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