Public Worship Regulation Act, when the fee is only 21. 2s. Faculties or licenses authorizing any matter relating to a consecrated building or ground, or anything to be set up or altered therein or removed therefrom, are exempt from stamp duty (q. v.). Other faculties, as a rule, must bear a 10s. or 21. stamp (r). FASTING and FAST-DAYS. Fasting is total (not partial) abstention from food and pleasure for a certain period. There are no definite directions for fasting given by our Church, but the Homily of Good Works and Fasting lays down the general rule that we should "endeavour ourselves, both inwardly in our hearts and also outwardly with our bodies, diligently to exercise this godly exercise of fasting in such sort and manner as the holy prophets, the apostles, and divers other devout persons for their time used the same." Fasts are either private (of an individual) or public (as of a city or the whole country). A long list of the days recommended by the Church for private fasting will be found in the Prayer Book just after the Calendar. Lent has always been considered an appropriate period, and Fridays and Saturdays the most suitable days (s). Days of public fasting and humiliation are fixed by royal proclamation as occasion requires. FEES (t). As a general rule no rite of the Church is to be withheld because the fee is not paid (u). The clergyman can take steps afterwards to recover his fees. Customary fees, called surplice fees (q. v.), are payable on marriages and burials, but none now on baptisms. It seems that where the offices of sexton and deputy clerk (r) 54 & 55 Vict. c. 39. And see LICENSE. (s) See 5 & 6 Edw. 6, c. 3, s. 4. (t) Various notes as to fees and stamp duties will be found scattered throughout the book. (u) Lynd. 278. are unnecessary and in abeyance, the fees customarily payable to them may be assigned to the incumbent (u). A table of fees must be exhibited in every Consistory Court and Diocesan Registry (x). The fees on presentations, &c. to livings, &c. were fixed by an order gazetted 24th July, 1857, as follows: £ s. d. the duty. Collation to a canonry (not honorary) or a benefice Collation to an hono These fees include all charges for correspondence, making searches, and preparing and engrossing deeds or other documents, and for attendances, and making returns where necessary (z). The following list of fees was settled by the Archbishops of Canterbury and York and the Lord Chancellor, in pursuance (z) This order is set out in full in the St. Alban's Diocesan Calendar. of 30 & 31 Vict. c. 135, and duly gazetted March 19, 1869 The above fees include all necessary citations, attendances, and correspondence, approving the plans and draft Act, and preparing and registering the necessary documents, save that the apparitor's fee in the case of a faculty does not include one shilling a mile for travelling expenses if the citation is to be personally served in the country. The secretary's fee on ordination includes the preparation of the letters of orders (a). In addition to the above, it would seem that various other fees are charged, but it is not known under what authority unless by custom (b). The fees and stamp duty payable by a bishop on his appointment amount to about 4007. The following has been recently published (c) as being paid by the new Bishop of Bangor : Secretary of State.... 66 Royal assent Restitution of Temporalities. Election, Confirmation, Consecration and Installation.. Licence of alibi.... £ s. d. Return as to Ecclesiastical Business (c) Standard, Oct. 12th, 1891. The fees paid on the last translation to London amounted to 4147. 1s. 8d. In the new sees the fees are much lower; thus the Bishop of Wakefield is said to have paid only 721. 08. 2d. (See BURIAL, MARRIAGE, &c.) FIRST FRUITS. Primatae, or annates, the first year's whole profits of a spiritual preferment. They are, however, not payable on the present value of the living, but according to a valuation made in the sixteenth century, known as the King's Books" (d). They arose out of the claim of the Pope of Rome to be the feudal lord of the Western Church, and were first introduced in the reign of King John. These papal usurpations (like tenths (q.v.)) were vigorously resisted by Parliament (e), but the English clergy foolishly insisted on satisfying them, either secretly or openly, and it is estimated that in fifty years 800,000 ducats had been sent to Rome for first fruits only; consequently, when Henry the Eighth became head of the Church, he somewhat humorously took it for granted that the clergy would be just as anxious to make the payments to the new head of the Church as to the old. They were thus annexed to the Crown (ƒ), and were received by the sovereigns of England down to Queen Anne, who gave them up, and formed them into a trust called. "Queen Anne's Bounty" (q. v.), for the benefit of the poorer clergy. The treasurer of Queen Anne's Bounty is now the collector, with power to enforce payments (g). The following preferments are exempt from payment of both first fruits and tenths (1) livings under 507. per annum (h); (2) dean and canons of Windsor (i); (3) certain hospitals, schools, and universities (). No tenths are paid for the first year, as then first fruits are due (7). First fruits are paid three months after institution, tenths usually at Christmas (m). If an incumbent (d) See 1 Bla. Com. 285, by Kerr. A transcript is given in Ecton's Thesaurus and Bacon's Liber Regis. (e) See 6 Hen. 4, c. 1. (f) 1 Bla. Com. 285; 26 Hen. 8, c. 3 ; 1 Eliz, c. 4. (g) 1 & 2 Vict. c. 20, s. 3. |