St. Anne's Parish Act 1707

Boundaries of the parish of St. Nicholas,

right of electing and nominating on every vacancy a curate to each parish vested in the dean & chapter of the C. church of St. Patrick’s Dublin.

X. And it is hereby declared, and enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all the rest and residue of the said parish of Saint Nicholas without, not herein before taken out and appointed for the said parish of Saint Luke’s, shall remain and be the parish of Saint Nicholas without the walls, and so for ever hereafter be called, deemed and taken; and that the said parish of Saint Nicholas without the walls, and parish of Saint Luke’s, as before described and divided, shall from the next and first avoidance of the said parish of Saint Nicholas without the walls, be two distinct parishes: Saving nevertheless, and reserving now and at all times hereafter, to the dean and chapter of the cathedral church of Saint Patrick’s Dublin, the right of electing and nominating a curate or minister to each and either of the said parishes of Saint Luke and Saint Nicholas without the walls, for and during the life of such curate or minister, as often as they or either of them shall happen to be void and destitute of a curate or minister, which the said dean and chapter now have, or of right ought to have of electing and nominating a curate or minister for the said parish of Saint Nicholas without the walls, before its division by this act, the said curates or curate, ministers or minister to be lycensed by the archbishop of Dublin, as the curate or minister of Saint Nocholas without the walls have always heretofore been.