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As to building Chapels of Ease in large and populous Parishes.
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X. That it shall be lawful for any Person or Persons, Body Politic or Corporate, with the Consent in Writing of the Bishop of the Diocese, under his Hand and Seal first had and obtained, to be deposited in the Registry of the Diocese, in any Parish, City, or Corporate Town in which the Parish Church is not sufficient to accommodate the Number of Inhabitants that might resort thereto for Divine Worship, or is at such a great Distance that any considerable Number of the Protestant Inhabitants cannot conveniently repair thereto, the same being in the latter Case more than Three Miles distant from the Parish Church, measured along the ordinary Road, to erect or set apart any Building already erected as a Chapel of Ease in the said Parish upon any Site then or previously set apart and appropriated to the Use of such Chapel for ever; and such Chapel of Ease shall, until otherwise endowed, be kept in repair in the same Manner as the Parish Church is or ought to be kept.
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