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THE BISHOP OF MANCHESTER AND CHURCH PROPERTY. The Bishop of Manchester has addressed a letter to the Rev. Dr. Gatty, vicar of Ecclesfleld, with reference to a statement made in that village by a liberationist lecturer. His Lordship writes "I cannot conceive what use a liberationist lec- turer, as such, could make of so obvious a truism as my statement that the Church of England is an abstract idea, and materially and legally is incapable of holding property. If anybody, I added by way of illustration, were to bequeath by will 210,000 to 'the Church of England,' it would, I believe, be a void bequest, for there is nobody, with a legal entity, of that name that could claim it. The property, I proceeded to argue, that is vaguely called The property, of the Church of England' is the property of various corporations, aggregate and sole, within the Church of England, and was either originally vested in those corporations or has been transferred to them. Of the latter class are such corporations as the Ecclesiastical Commissioners or the Governor's of Queen Anne's Bounty; of the former class are the whole body of incumbents. You will not find a single acre of land or a single pound of annual income standing in the name or paid to the ac- count of the Church ot England.' The first of my arguments was to show the origin of what is called 4 Church property,' that it is not strictly Church pro- perty at all, but property conveyed by will or gift to particular corporations by private benefactors for the spiritual benefit of particular localities; and I referred, in proof, to the preamble of the great Statutes of Provisors (25 Edward III., cap. 6), which, speaking of the 'foundation of the Church of England in the estate of prelacy within this realm,' adds, 'and certain possessions, as well in fees, lands, rents as in advowsone, vhich do extend to a great value, were assigned by the said founders (the King's grandfather, a'ld his progenitors, and the earls, barons, and other nobles of the realm and their ancestors) to the prelates and other people of the Holy Church to sustain the same charge, and especially the possessions which were assigned to archbishop3, bishops, abbots, priors, religious, and all other people of Holy Church.' I repeat I cannot see how a dry legal matter of fact statement of this kind, which was merely made to clear away vague notions which exist on the subject of Church property, can serve the purpose of a Libera- tionist lecturer. It is simply the statement of an in- disputable fact, adverse, no doubt, to the theory that the State, as such, endowed the Church, as such, but not (so far as I can see) otherwise bearing on the point at issue."

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