No. 27.

5 William & Mary, c. 6.-An Act to prevent Disputes and Controversies concerning Royal Mines.

[Inserted ante Class I. No. 19. See 55 Geo. III. c. 134, post.]

No. 28.

1 Anne, Stat. 1, c. 7.-An Act for the better Support of her Majesty's Household, and of the Honour and Dignity of the Crown.

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P.

Clown, no Grant

V. And whereas the necessary Expences of supporting the Anue, st. 1, c 7. Crown, or the greatest Part of them, were formerly defrayed by a Land Revenue, which hath from Time to Time been impaired and diminished by the Grants of former Kings and Queen's of this Realm, so that her Majesty's Land Revenues at present can afford very little towards the Support of her Government; nevertheless from Time to Time, upon the Determination of the particular Estates, whereupon many Reversions and Remainders in the Crown do now depend or expect, and by such Lands, Tenements, and • Hereditaments as may hereafter descend, escheat, or otherwise accrue ⚫ or come to her Majesty, her Heirs or Successors, the Land Revenues ⚫ of the Crown, in Fines, Rents, and other Profits thereof, may here⚫ after be increased, and consequently the Burthen upon the Estates of the Subjects of this Realm may be eased and lessened in all future • Provisions to be made for the Expences of the Civil Government : To the End therefore, that the Land Revenues of the Crown may be preserved, improved, and increased for the best Advantage thereof, Be it enacted and declared by the Authority aforesaid, That all and every Grant, Lease, or other Assurance, which from and after the For preserving. Five and Twentieth Day of March in the Year of our Lord One &c the Land Thousand Seven Hundred and Two, shall be made or granted by her Revenue of the Majesty, her Heirs or Successors, Kings or Queens of this Realm, shall be made under the Great Seal of England, Exchequer Seal, Seals of the Duchy of any Maois, and County Palatine of Lancaster, or any of them, or by Copy of longing 10 the Court Roll or otherwise howsoever, of any Manors, Messuages, Crow., unless for Lands, Tenements, Rents, Tithes, Woods, or other Hereditaments, 3 Years or three Lives, &c. (Advowsons of Churches and Vicarages only excepted), within the Kingdom of England, Dominion of Wales, or Town of Berwickupon-Tweed, or any of them, or any Part thereof, now belonging or hereafter to belong to her Majesty, her Heirs or Successors, or to any other Person or Persons in Trust for her Majesty, her Heirs or Successors, in Possession, Reversion, Remainder, Use or Expectancy, whether the same be or shall be in Right of the Crown of England, or as Part of the Principality of Wales, or of the Duchy or County Palatine of Lancaster, or otherwise howsoever, to any Person or Persons, Body Politick or Corporate whatsoever, whereby any Estate or Interest whatsoever, in Law or Equity, shall or may pass from her Majesty, her Heirs or Successors, shall be utterly void and of none Effect, unless such Grant, Lease, or Assurance be made for some Term or Estate not exceeding One and Thirty Years, or three Lives, or for some Term of Years determinable upon one, two, or three Lives; and unless such Grant, Lease, or Assurance respectively, be made to commence from the Date or making thereof; and if such Grant, Lease, or Assurance, be made to take Effect in Reversion or

Lands, &c. Je

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Expectancy, that then the same, together with the Estate or Estates 1 Anne, st. 1, c 7. in Possession of and in the Premisses therein contained, do not exceed

for Waste.

served, &c.

three Lives, or the Term of One and Thirty Years in the Whole; and Tenant punishable unless such Grant, Lease, or Assurance respectively be so made, that the Tenant be liable to Punishment for Waste; and unless there be Aucient Rent re reserved upon every such Grant, Lease, or Assurance respectively, the ancient or most usual Reut, or more, or such Rent as hath been reserved, yielded, and paid for such of the said Manors, Messuages, Lands, Tenements, Rents, Tithes, or other Hereditaments, as shall be therein contained, for the greater Part of Twenty Years before the making thereof; and where no such Rent shall have been reserved or payable, that then upon every such Grant, Lease, or Assurance, there be reserved a reasonable Rent, not being under the third Part of the clear yearly Value of such of the said Manors, Messuages, Lands, Tenements, Tithes, or other Hereditaments, as shall be contained in and payable to the such Lease or Grant; and unless such respective Rents be made payable to her Majesty, her Heirs or Successors, during the whole Term or Time of the Continuance thereof respectively.

Queen, &c.

VI. Provided always, and it is hereby enacted and declared by Tenements want the Authority aforesaid, That from Time to Time, where the greatest ing Reparation, &c. Queen may Part of the yearly Value of any Tenements or Hereditaments, belonggrant for 50 Years ing, or hereafter to belong, to her Majesty, her Heirs or Successors, or three Lives, &c. doth or shall, at the Time of making any Lease or Grant thereof,

consist of the Building or Buildings thereupon, which may want to be repaired or re-edified, in all and every such Case and Cases, to encourage the Rebuilding or Reparation thereof, it shall and may be lawful to and for her Majesty, her Heirs and Successors, at any Time after the said Five and Twentieth Day of March, in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Two, to demise or grant such Tenements or Hereditaments to any Person or Persons for any Term or Estate, so as such Term, or Estate do not exceed Fifty Years, or three Lives, and so as such Lease or Grant be made to commence from the Date or making thereof; or if such Grant or Lease be made to take Effect in Reversion or Expectancy, that then the same, together with the Estate or Estates in Possession, of and in the same Tenements or Hereditaments, do not exceed Fifty Years, or three not dispunishable Lives, from the Date or making as aforesaid, and so as the same be not made dispunishable of Waste, and so as there be reserved and and Rent reserved payable upon every such Lease or Grant, during such Term, not

Waste;

Lo be paid,

Duties, &e here by granted not not alienable by

the Crown, &c.

exceeding Fifty Years, or three Lives, as much Rent as is by this Act required to be reserved for the same Tenements or Hereditaments respectively, in case of a Lease, not exceeding One and Thirty Years, or three Lives, as aforesaid, and not otherwise; any Thing herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding.

VII. And to the Intent the Inheritance, which her Majesty hath of and in the said Hereditary Duties of Excise upon Beer, Ale, and other Liquors, and of and in the said Revenue arising in the said general Letter Office or Post Office, and in the small Branches of her Majesty's Revenue herein after mentioned (that is to say) The First Fruits and Tenths of the Clergy, the Fines for Writs of Covenant and Writs of Entry, payable in the Alienation Office, the Post Fines, the Revenue of the Wine Licences, and the Revenue arising by Sheriffs Proffers, and Compositions in the Exchequer, and by Seizures of uncustomed and prohibited Goods, may be preserved in the Crown, for the future Benefit thereof; Be it further enacted and declared by the Authority aforesaid, That the said Hereditary Duties of Excise, and the said Revenue arising in the said General Leuer Office or Post Office, and the said small Branches of her Majesty's Revenue last mentioned, or any of them, or any Part thereof, shall not hereafter

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be alienable or grantable by her Majesty, her Heirs or Successors, for any Estate or Term whatsoever, to endure longer than the Life of her 1 Anne, st. 1, c. 7. Majesty, or of such King or Queen as shall make such Alienation or

this

Grant respectively; and that all Gifts, Grants, Alienations, Leases, Grants &c. made and Assurances whatsoever, to be had or made of any the said Manors, contrary to Act void, Messuages, Lands, Tenements, Rents, Tithes, or other Hereditaments, or of any the said Revenues or Branches, or any Part thereof, contrary to the Provisions of this Act, or any of them, shall be null and void, without any Inquisition, Scire facias, or other Proceeding to determine or make void the same.

an Act, 12 W. III.

restore

taken

in Execution, and

tates.

VIII. Provided always, That this Act, or any Thing therein Queen may make contained, shall not extend to disable her Majesty, her Heirs or Suc- Leases, &c. in her cessors, to make such Leases, Copies, or Grants, as she or they may Duchy of Cornmake by virtue of an Act of Parliament made and passed in the wall by virtue of Twelfth Year of the Reign of his said late Majesty King WILLIAM, & 13, and grant for making Leases or Copies of Offices, Lands, or Hereditaments, Par- away or Estates forfeited cel of the Duchy of Cornwall or annexed to the same, or to alter or for Treason, &c. prejudice any the Powers, Matters, or Things therein contained, or to or seised on Outbe done in pursuance thereof, or to disable her Majesty, her Heirs or lawry, or Successors, to make any Grant or Restitution of any Estate or Estates customary Grants hereafter to be forfeited for any Treason or Felony whatsoever, or to of Copyhold Es disable her Majesty, her Heirs and Successors, to Grant, Demise, or Assign any Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, which shall be seized or taken into her or their Hands upon any Outlawry, at the Suit of her or their Subjects, as hath been usual, or any Estate whatsoever, which is or shall be seized, extended, or taken in Execution for any Debt owing or to be due to the Crown, as she or they shall think fit, or to make any Grants or Admittances, which of Right or Custom ought to be made, of any Copyhold Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, Parcel of any Manor or Manors of her Majesty, her Heirs or Successors, or to disable the Trustees for Sale of Fee Farm and other Rents, to execute any the Trusts, Powers, or other Matters or Things by them to be executed, done, or performed, in pursuance Trust, &c. of the several Acts of Parliament concerning the Sale of the said Rents, or the making of such Reprizes as ought to be made by them; any Thing herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding.

Trustees for Fee-farm Rents may execute their

IX. Saving always to all and every Person and Persons, Bodies Saving of Right, Politick and Corporate, their Heirs and Successors, Executors, Ad- &c. ministrators, and Assigns, other than our said Sovereign Lady, her Heirs and Successors, all such Rights, Titles, Estates, Customs, Interests, Claims, aud Demands whatsoever, of, in, or to, or out of the Revenues, Hereditaments, and other the Premisses aforesaid, or any of them, as they or any of them had or ought to have had before the making of this Act, as fully, to all Intents and Purposes, as if this Act had never been made; any Thing herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding.

No. 29.

10 Anne, c. 18.-An Act to give further Time for inrolling such Leases granted from the Crown, as have not been inrolled within the respective Times therein limited; and for making the Pleading of Deeds of Bargain and Sale inrolled, and of Fee-farm Rents, more easy.

P.

IV. And for as much as the Fee Farm Rents, and other Rents 10 Anne, c. 18.. purchased under an Act of Parliament made in the Twenty-second Year of the Reign of King CHARLES the Second, intituled An Act for

No. 29.

10 Anne, c. 18.

Where any Fee farm Reats, sold Car. II. c. 6, and 22 and 23 Ca. II. in any Deeds, &c.

pursuant to 22

the advancing the Sale of Fee Farm Rents, and other Rents, and one other Act made in the Twenty-second and Twenty-third Years of the same Reign, intituled, An Act for vesting certain Fee Farm Rents, and other small Rents in Trustees, cannot always be so fully and particularly described, as may be requisite for conveying or pleading the same: For the better deriving and pleading the Title to such Rents, from the Trustees appointed for the selling thereof, pursuant to as they were in the either of the said Acts, and clearing all Doubts relating to the naming Indentures of Bar or describing thereof; Be it enacted and declared by the Authority the Trustees, such aforesaid, That where any Rent or Rents, intended by the said Acis, Descriptions shall or either of them, to be sold, and sold pursuant thereto, is, are, fir

c. 24, are described

gain and Sale by

seive.

Not to extend

shall be named or described in any Deeds, Fines, Recoveries, or other Assurances, or in any Declaration, Bar, Avowry, Replication, or other Pleading whatsoever, by such or the like Names or Descriptions, as the same were named or described by the Indentures of Bargain and Sale made by the Trustees for Sale thereof, pursuant to the said Acts, or either of them, such Names or Descriptions may serve, and are and shall be sufficient for the conveying, deriving, or pleading the Title to such Rent or Rents from or under the said Trustees, and shall be at all Times deemed, judged, and allowed so to be, in all Courts of Law, or elsewhere.

V. Provided always, That nothing in this Act contained, shall to Hent which has extend to give or allow any Benefit or Advantage in pleading or denot been paid in riving Title to any Rent which hath not been paid or levied within twenty Years next before the Time of such pleading or deriving Title to the same.

20 Years.

9 Geo. III. c. 16. Act. 21 Jac. 1, c. 2.

No. 30.

9 George III. c. 16.-An Act to amend and render more effectual an Act made in the Twenty-first Year of the Reign of King JAMES the First, intituled, An Act for the general Quiet of the Subjects against all Pretences of Concealment whatsoever.

HEREAS an Act of Parliament was made and passed in the

W Twenty-first Year of the Reign of King JAMES the First,

intituled, An Act for the general Quiet of the Subjects against all Pretences of Concealment whatsoever; and thereby the Right and Title of the King, his Heirs and Successors, in and to all Manors, Lands, Tenements, Tythes and Hereditaments (except Liberties and Franchises), were limited to Sixty Years next before the Beginning of the said Session of Parliament; and other Provisions and Regula⚫tions were therein made, for securing to all his Majesty's Subjects the 'free and quiet Enjoyment of all Manors, Lands, and Hereditaments, which they, or those under whom they claimed, respectively had, held, or enjoyed, or whereof they had taken the Rents, Revenues, Issues, or Profits, for the Space of Sixty Years next before the Begin'ning of the said Session of Parliament: And whereas the said Act is now, by Efflux of Time, become ineflectual to answer the good End and Purpose of securing the general Quiet of the Subject against all Pretences of Concealment whatsoever.' Wherefore be it enacted by &c. whe: e the the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Assent and Conor shall not first sent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the Commons, in this accrue and grow present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That within 65 Years the King's Majesty, his Heirs and Successors, shall not at any Time Lext be ore, &c. hereafter, sue, impeach, question, or implead, any Person or Persons,

The Crown dis

abled to implead for any Manors,

Right hath not,

No. 30.

Bodies Politick or Corporate, for or in any wise concerning any Manors, Lands, Tenements, Rents, Tythes, or Hereditaments what- 9 Geo. III. c. 16. soever, (other than Liberties or Franchises), or for or in any wise concerning the Revenues, Issues or Profits thereof, or make any Title, Claim, Challenge, or Demand, of, in, or to the same, or any of them, by Reason of any Right or Title which hath not first accrued and grown, or which shall not hereafter first accrue and grow, within the Space of Sixty Years next before the filing, issuing, or commencing, of every snch Action, Bill, Plaint, Information, Commission, or other Suit and Proceeding, as shall at any Time or Times hereafter be filed, issued, or commenced, for recovering the same, or in respect thereof; unless his Majesty, or some of his Progenitors, Predecessors or Ancestors, Heirs or Successors, or some other Person or Persons, 1 Bodies Politick or Corporate, under whom his Majesty, his Heirs or Successors, any Thing hath or lawfully claimeth, or shall have or lawfully claim, have or shall have been answered by Force and Virtue of any such Right or Title to the same, the Rents, Revenues, Issues, or Profits thereof, or the Rents, Issues, or Profits of any Honour, Manor or other Hereditaments, whereof the Premises in question shall be Part or Parcel, within the said Space of Sixty Years; or that the same have or shall have been duly in charge to his Majesty, or some of his Progenitors, Predecessors, or Ancestors, Heirs, or Successors, or have or shall have stood insuper of Record within the said Space of Sixty Years: And that all and every Person and Persons, Bodies Politick and Corporate, their Heirs and Successors, and all claiming by, from, or under them, or any of them, for and according to their and every of their several Estates and Interests which they have, or claim to have, or shall or may have or claim to have, in the same respectively, shall at all Times hereafter, quietly and freely have, hold, and enjoy, against his Majesty, his Heirs and Successors, claiming by any Title which hath not first accrued or grown, or which shall not hereafter first accrue or grow, within the said Space of Sixty Years, all and singular Manors, Lands, Tenements, Rents, Tythes, and Hereditaments whatsoever (except Liberties and Franchises), which he or they, or his or their, or any of their Ancestors or Predecessors, or those from, by, or under whom they do or shall claim, have or shall have held or enjoyed, or taken the Rents, Revenues, Issues, or Profits thereof, by the Space of Sixty Years next before the filing, issuing, or commencing of every such Action, Bill, Plaint, Information, Commission, or other Suit or Proceeding as shall at any Time or Times hereafter be filed, issued, or commenced for recovering the same, or in respect thereof; unless his Majesty, or some of his Progenitors, Predecessors, or Ancestors, Heirs or Successors, or some other Persons, Bodies Politick or Corporate, by, from, or under whom his Majesty, his Heirs, or Successors, any Thing hath or lawfully claimeth, or shall have or lawfully claim, in the said Manors, Lands, Tenements, Rents, Tythes, Hereditaments, by Force of any Right or Title, have been or shall have been answered, by Virtue of any such Right or Title, the Rents, Revenues, Issues, or other Profits thereof, within the said Space of Sixty Years; or that the same have or shall have been duly in Charge, or stood insuper of Record as aforesaid, within the said Space of Sixty Years: And furthermore that all and every Person and Persons, Bodies Politick and Corporate, their Heirs and Succescessors, and all claiming or to claim by, from, or under them, or any of them, for and according to their and every of their several Estates and Interests which they have or claim, or shall or may have or claim, respectively, shall, for ever hereafter, quietly and freely have, hold, and enjoy, all 'soch Mauors, Lands, Tenements, Rents, Tythes, and Hereditaments (except Liberties and Franchises), as they now have,