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sting faculties requires very tender handling. It were heartily to be wished that all legal holders of faculty pews would consent to waive their rights for the future, for the sake of peace and the avoidance of jealousies. Of course in such a case the Churchwardens would feel it an obligation which it would be their pleasure to fulfil, to provide those who give up their rights with such accommodation as their families may require. But if, as is sometimes the case, they stand exclusively upon their rights, Churchwardens have no power to abrogate the law, and can only look forward to the future with hope, either that a short Act of Parliament may be passed enacting that at the death of the present owner of a faculty pew that particular faculty should cease, and determine, only excepting (unless with the consent of the owner) cases in which under the Church Building Acts the faculty was issued in consequence of money paid down for the building of the Church with the understanding that the faculty would be granted in consequence: or if this be not done that in the lapse of time some holder of the faculty may regard the matter from an unselfish standpoint and voluntarily resign his rights. Meanwhile it is well to remember with regard to existing faculty pews that:-- 1. The form of appropriation in old faculties varies considerably. In order to ascertain the wording of a particular faculty application should be made to the Diocesan Registrar. 2. With regard to pews annexed by prescription to certain messuages the right to the pew passes with the messuage, the tenant of which for the time being has also _de jure_ for the time being the prescriptive right to the pew. {46a} 3. No faculty can be legally granted entitling a non-parishioner to a seat in the body of the Church. {46b} Any faculty so worded as to allow this is void as far as that particular point is concerned. 4. No faculty gives power either to the owners and occupiers of the house in respect of which the faculty has been issued to let such seats apart from the houses, or to appropriate them to other persons. No Churchwarden should ever allow a parishioner to repair the pew which he may temporarily occupy. Such an act, if done with the sanction of the Churchwardens, may in after years seem to give a claim to proprietorship in that particular pew. Too great care cannot be taken to avoid any future misunderstanding. The matter is too often loo
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