Section XIV Ministers refused to be approved by the pretended Approvers settled in their Churches.; Proviso.

Provided alwayes and be it further Enacted That if any rightfull Patron hath heretofore presented his Clerke to any Benefice with Cure of Soules being then void unto those persons who were stiled Commissioners for approbation of publique preachers sitting at Whitehall or the Committee for plundred Ministers who sate in the yeare One thousand six hundred fifty and nine, and the same Clerke soe presented was refused to be admitted without any lawfull cause That then such Clerke shall be taken and is hereby Enacted to be X1the perfect Incumbent of such Benefice to all intents and purposes Any thing in this Act to the contrary notwithstanding Unlesse such Patron have since presented another Clerke to such Benefice who is now possessed thereof, or unlesse such Clerke soe presented and refused as aforesaid be since presented to, and setled in some other Benefice.