With one voucher concerning farm at Gamlingay (Blythe Farm), c. 1720-1726
Copies of Acts for:
1763 - ''An Act... to alter the benefaction... in the augmentation of the vicarages of Everton with Tetworth and Great Gransden...''
1825 - ''An Act... to repeal an Act... to vary the benefaction...''
1825 - ''An Act... to repeal an Act... to vary the benefaction...'' with Royal Assent
1866 - ''An Act for the better regulation...''
1866 - ''An Act for the better regulation...'' with Royal Assent
1922 - ''An Act for the better regulation...''
1922 - ''An Act for the better regulation...'' with Royal Assent
Papers relating to an Act of Parliament to alter the purposes of the Blythe Benefaction and augment vicarages of Everton (Beds) and Great Gransden.
Papers concerning attempt to settle income from Blythe Benefaction to augment benefices, after passing of Mortmain Act prevented purchase of more advowsons.
Includes petition from vicars (James Plumptre and Henry Freeman) and inhabitants of Great Gransden and Everton (Beds) against repeal of 1763 Act, 1824, and drafts of Parliamentary Bill preceding 1825 Act
Includes manuscript copy of 1763 Act; Legal opinion on proposed augmentation of benefice of Wrawby (Lincs), 1879 based on the 1866 Act; Copy of 1902 report on Benefaction, nd, and legal opinion on need for further Act of Parliament, 1918 based on 1866 Act; Notes made 1903 on 1866 Act;