CHARLES JAMES by DIVINE PERMISSION Bishop of London.
To our beloved in CHRIST Richard Thomas Clerk, Greeting. We do by these Presents give and grant unto you in whose Fidelity, Morls, Learning, sound Doctrine and Diligence, We do fully confide our Licence and Authority to perform the Office of Stipendiary Curate in the Parish Church of Stanford Rivers in the County of Essex within our Diocese and Jurisdiction, in reading the Common Prayers, and performing other Ecclesiastical Duties belonging to the said Office, according to form prescribed in the Book of Common Prayer made and published by Authority of Parliament, and the Canons and Constitution in that Behalf lawfully established and promulgated, and not otherwise, or in any other Manner (you having first before us subscribed the Articles, taken the Oaths, and made and subscribed the Declaration, which in this case are required by Law to be subscribed, made and taken): And We do by these Presents assign unto you the yearly Stipend of Seventy Five pounds to be paid Quarterly, for serving the said Cure and we direct you to live in the Parish.
IN WITNESS whereof, We have caused our Seal which we use in this to be hereto affixed. Dated the Eighth Day of July in the Year of our Lord One Thousand eight hundred and thirty one and in the third year of our Translation.
Jn. SHEPHARD
D/ Registrar