An Act for the future Appropriation of the Tithe or Tenth of Lead Ores in the Parishes of Stanhope and Wolsingham in the County of Durham belonging to the respective Rectors thereof, subject to the existing Incumbencies, and for making other Provisions for the Endowment of the said Rectories in lieu thereof, and for other Purposes connected therewith.
WHEREAS by a Private Act of Parliament passed in the Nineteenth Year of the Reign of His Majesty King Charles the Second, Chapter Fifteen, after reciting that Humphrey Wharton, Esquire, was seised for the Term of his Life, by virtue of a certain Grant from John then Lord Bishop of Durham, of the Office of Moorman otherwise Moormaster of all those Lead Mines, Lead, and Lead Ures, as well opened as not opened, gotten and to be gotten, within the Two Parishes of Stanhope and Wolsingham in the Co...