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268 HISTORY OF
prosecuted in the Star Chamber, by Archbishop Laud, in the year 1638, had been
thought a fit person to receive the favour and indulgence of the parliament.
The deserted church, however, became the care of both houses of parliament,
as appears by an ordinance, dated November 18, 1645, made by them, wherein its
government was consigned to a committee of eleven lords and twenty-two com-
moners*. By this instrument, they were restricted from letting leases of the
estates belonging to the church for more than three years ; and were also di-
rected to establish regular preaching in it. They accordingly allowed ,£200 a
year for sermons on Sundays in the abbey, and fifty pounds each to seven persons,
besides a prebendal house, for a daily morning lecture. The other manors be-
longing to the church, were let; and among their tenants was the notorious Presi-
dent Bradshaw, who occupied the deanery, for which he had a regular lease,
and where he died October 31, 1659. By a subsequent ordinance, the term for
granting leases was extended to twenty-one years..
In September 1649, the House of Commons passed an act for the con-
tinuance and support of the school and almshouses of Westminster. It also
ordered, that the management of the college should be entrusted to fifty-six go-
vernors, of whom two or three alone were peers. The annual charge of the
school, the almshouses, the weekly poor, the preachers or lecturers, the main-
tenance of the buildings, &c. was computed to amount, at this time, to one
thousand nine hundred pounds. The estates vested in these governors were
particularly specified, or rather their reserved rents; as the fee or inheritance of
several of them was afterwards sold, and the old rents only continued to the col-
lege. The church remained subject to the controul of this committee till the
restoration, in 1660.
* Appendix, No. XIII.
prosecuted in the Star Chamber, by Archbishop Laud, in the year 1638, had been
thought a fit person to receive the favour and indulgence of the parliament.
The deserted church, however, became the care of both houses of parliament,
as appears by an ordinance, dated November 18, 1645, made by them, wherein its
government was consigned to a committee of eleven lords and twenty-two com-
moners*. By this instrument, they were restricted from letting leases of the
estates belonging to the church for more than three years ; and were also di-
rected to establish regular preaching in it. They accordingly allowed ,£200 a
year for sermons on Sundays in the abbey, and fifty pounds each to seven persons,
besides a prebendal house, for a daily morning lecture. The other manors be-
longing to the church, were let; and among their tenants was the notorious Presi-
dent Bradshaw, who occupied the deanery, for which he had a regular lease,
and where he died October 31, 1659. By a subsequent ordinance, the term for
granting leases was extended to twenty-one years..
In September 1649, the House of Commons passed an act for the con-
tinuance and support of the school and almshouses of Westminster. It also
ordered, that the management of the college should be entrusted to fifty-six go-
vernors, of whom two or three alone were peers. The annual charge of the
school, the almshouses, the weekly poor, the preachers or lecturers, the main-
tenance of the buildings, &c. was computed to amount, at this time, to one
thousand nine hundred pounds. The estates vested in these governors were
particularly specified, or rather their reserved rents; as the fee or inheritance of
several of them was afterwards sold, and the old rents only continued to the col-
lege. The church remained subject to the controul of this committee till the
restoration, in 1660.
* Appendix, No. XIII.