Rev. George Augustus Middleton, Snr, Free Settler "Prince Regent" 1820

Proclamation in "The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser" of Thursday 18 December 1823:

"Proclamation, By His Excellency Sir THOMAS BRISBANE Knight Commander of the Most Honorable Military Order of the Bath, Captain General, Governor and Commander in Chief in and over His Majesty's Territory of New South Wales and its Dependencies, &c. &c. &c. WHEREAS it would greatly tend to promote the public Attendance at Divine Service in the Church of England, and the decent and orderly Performance of the same, if a Committee were appointed to manage the Temporalities of each Church in the Territory, with Power to raise a Fund for that Purpose, by letting the Pews and Seats thereof :— BE IT, AND IT IS HEREBY ORDERED AND DIRECTED BY THE AUTHORITY AFORESAID, That the Reverend Samuel Marsden, Principal Chaplain, and Donald McLeod and Morris Barlow, Esquires, be appointed such Committee for the Church of St. John, Parramatta ; the Reverend William Cowper, and Barron Field and Edward Riley, Esquires, for the Church of St. Philip, Sydney ; the Reverend Robert Cartwright, and Thomas Moore and Henry Colden Antill, Enquires, for the Church of St. Luke, Liverpool ; the Reverend Henry Fulton and Archibald Bell and John McHenry, Esquires, for the temporary Churches of Castlereagh and Richmond ; the Reverend Richard Hill, and John Oxley and James Bowman, Esquires, for the Church of St. James, Sydney ; the Reverend John Cross, and William Cox and John Brabyn, Esquires, for the Church of St. Andrew, Windsor ; the Reverend George Augustus Middleton, and Edward Charles Close and Henry Gilman, Esquires, for Christ Church, King Town, Hunter's River ; and the Rev. Thomas Reddall, and William Howe and William Browne, Esquires, for the Church of St. Peter, Campbell Town ;

—And that the said respective Committees, or any two Members of the same, whereof the Chaplain to be one, do, from and after the First Day of January next ensuing, meet from Time to Time in the Vestry of their respective Churches, and have then and there the Power to contract with any of His Majesty's Subjects for the Hire of Pews or Seats in the said Church, for themselves and their Families, at reasonable Rents by the Year, according to the Nature of the Accommodation ; Provided always, that there be left in each of the said Churches sufficient Pew Accommodation, Rent- free, for His Majesty's Commissioned Officers of the Colony, both Civil and Military; and suf- ficient Bench Accommodation, Rent-free, for as many of His Majesty's Troops, and for as many transported Convicts in the Service of Govern- ment, or assigned to that of private individuals, as usually attend the said Church, and sufficient Room for Strangers, and the Poor, and those who do not think proper to hire Pews or Seats.

AND BE IT, AND IT IS HEREBY FUR- THER ORDERED AND DIRECTED BY THE AUTHORITY AFORESAID, That the said respective Committees, or any two Members of the same (of whom the Chaplain to be one), shall have the further Power of contracting with any of His Majesty's Subjects, for Permission to build Vaults, or dig Graves, in the several Churchyards or Cemeteries belonging to the said respective Churches, and also to erect Monuments or place Tomb or Grave Stones in the said Cemeteries, upon the Payment of reasonable Sums of Money, according to the Space occupied in the said Grounds:

—Provided always, that nothing be payable for the Burial-ground of any of His Majesty's, Commissioned Officers of the Colony, whether Civil or Military, or of His Majesty's Troops, or transported Convicts in the Service of Government, or assigned to that of private Individuals.

AND BE IT, AND IT IS HEREBY FURTHER ORDERED AND DIRECTED, That the said respective Committees shall, as they shall from Time to Time collect the said Rents, pay the same immediately into the Hands of the Trea- surer of the Colonial Fund for the Time-being, deducting only such reasonable Percentage as they may have paid for collecting the same ; and shall have the Power to draw upon the said Treasurer for the same, from Time to Time, by the Signatures of any two of them, whereof the Chaplain to be one, for the Payment of the current Expenses of conducting Public Worship in their respective Churches (that is to say), of the Making and Repairing of the Pews and Benches, of the Lighting and Adorning of the Church, of the Service of the Altar, or the Wages of Singers, Musicians and Servants, of the Repairs of the Church, and of the Enclosure of the Burial Ground.

— The said Colonial Treasurer implicitly to answer the aforesaid Draughts of the respective Committees, as far as he shall have Funds belonging to their Church; and the said several Committees to account annually with the Secretary to His Majesty's Colonial Government, for the Time-being, for all Receipts and Payments, upon Oath, if required.

PROVIDED ALWAYS, AND BE IT, AND IT IS HEREBY ORDERED AND DIRECTED, That Minutes of the Proceedings of the said Committees shall be (if required), from Time to Time, transmitted to His EXCELLENCY the GOVERNOR of this Territory, for His Approbabation ;

—And that if any Person shall feel him or herself aggrieved by any Act of either of the aforesaid Committees, he or she shall have the Power of complaining forthwith to the said GOVERNOR for Redress.

PROVIDED ALSO, AND BE IT, AND IT IS HEREBY FURTHER ORDERED AND DIRECTED, That nothing in this Proclamation shall interfere with any Fees, due by the Orders of this Government, to any of the Chaplains of this Territory, or to their respective Clerks, Sextons, Bell-ringers, or Grave-diggers.

GIVEN under my Hand and Seal, at Government House, Sydney, this Seventeenth Day of December, in the Year of Our Lord One thousand eight hundred and twenty-three,

" THOMAS BRISBANE." (L. S.) GOD SAVE THE KING!"

Published in "The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser" of Thursday 19 February 1824:

"MARRIED-On Thursday last, at Liverpool, by Special Licence, the Rev. G. A. MIDDLETON, B. A. of St. John's College, Cambridge, Assistant Chaplain of New South Wales, to SARAH, second daughter of the late ROBERT ROSE, Esq. of London. The Rev. R. CARTWRIGHT, performed the ceremony,"

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