Extract from the Registry of the Consistory Court
of Llandaff.
[1808.]
Richard by Divine permission Lord Bishop of Llandaff To all
Christian People whom these Presents shall or may in anywise
concern Health Grace and Benediction Whereas it appears by the
return made to the Commission lately held and executed by virtue of
our Authority that the Parish Church of Saint Mary in the Town of
Cardiff in the County of Glamorgan and our Diocese of Llandaff
having been for a great number of years destroyed by a violent
inundation that the Parishioners and Inhabitants of the said Parish
have ever since been permitted to attend Divine Service in the Parish
Church of Saint John in common with the Parishioners of the same,
that they have also ever since been permitted to use the Burial
Ground belonging to the said Parish Church of Saint John in common with the Parishioners of the said Parish of Saint John, that there
neither is nor has been from time immemorial any Vicarial House
belonging to the said Vicarage of Saint Mary, that the yearly income
arising from both these Vicarages doth not together exceed the sum
of One hundred and ten Pounds per annum, and that the uniting and
consolidating these Vicarages will not be detrimental to either of the
said Parishes. Therefore we Richard by Divine permission Lord
Bishop of Llandaff by and with the consent of the Dean and Chapter
of the Holy and Indivisible Trinity in Gloucester the true and undoubted patrons of the Vicarages of Saint John and Saint Mary
aforesaid and of the Corporation of the Town of Cardiff first had and
obtained Do by these Presents Ordain and Decree that the said
Vicarage and Parish of Saint Mary in the said Town of Cardiff now
is and from this time shall for ever remain united and consolidated
with the Vicarage and Parish of Saint John in the said Town of
Cardiff and that the Inhabitants of the said Parish of Saint Mary shall
from hence be at liberty to assemble in the said Parish Church of
Saint John and enjoy all the priviledges of the said Parish in common
with the Parishioners of Saint John. We do also Ordain and decree
that the said Vicarages shall in future be presented to under the name
and description of the United Vicarage of Saint John and Saint Mary
in the Town of Cardiff. Saving always to ourselves and our successors Bishops of Llandaff as also to the Archdeacon of Llandaff and
his successors all procurations and synodals and all other dues that
have been hitherto legally paid, as if this union and consolidation had
never taken place. And by virtue of the powers vested in us by an
Act made in the 4th and 5th of William and Mary we do Ordain and
decree that as often as the said Parish Church of Saint John in the
said Town of Cardiff shall stand in need of repair or of decent
ornaments for the performance of Divine Worship the Parishioners
of the said Parish of Saint Mary so by these Presents united to the
said Parish of Saint John shall bear and pay an equal share and
proportion towards the charges of such repairs and decent ornaments
with the Parishioners of the said Parish of Saint John. In Testimony whereof we have caused our Episcopal Seal to be hereunto
affixed. Dated the sixteenth day of December in the Year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and eight, and of our Consecration
the twenty-seventh.
L.S. R. Landaff.