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city_n	borough_n	esq_n	william_n	48,827	5	11.3827	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A74365	An act for selling the fee-farm rents belonging to the Commonwealth of England, formerly payable to the crown of England, dutchy of Lancaster, and dutchy of Cornwal. Die Lunæ, undecimo Martii, 1649. Ordered by the Parliament, that this act be forthwith printed and published. Hen: Scobell, Cleric. Parliamenti.	England and Wales.	1650 (1650)	Thomason E1060_87; ESTC R208827	4,244	11

AN ACT For selling The Fee-farm Rents Belonging to The Commonwealth of ENGLAND Formerly payable to the Crown of England Dutchy of Lancaster and Dutchy of Cornwal Die Lunae undecimo Martii 1649. ORdered by the Parliament That this Act be forthwith printed and published Hen Scobell Cleric Parliamenti London Printed by Edward Husband and John Field Printers to the Parliament of England 1649. AN ACT For selling the Fee-farm Rents Belonging to the Commonwealth of England Formerly payable to the Crown of England Dutchy of Lancaster and Dutchy of Cornwal FOr supply of the Assessments lated abated by Parliament preventing of Free-quarter carrying on of the War of Ireland and for supplying the extraordinary expences of the Navy this present year and other emergent Affairs of this Commonwealth Be it Enacted by this present Parliament and by Authority thereof That all the Fee-farm Rents Tenths or Rents reserved Dry-rents Hundreds Liberties Bailywicks Reservations Conditions Franchises and Pentions other then such Tenths and Pentions as are setled upon Trustees by the Act entituled An Act for providing Maintenance for Preaching Ministers and other Pious Uses issuing out of any Manors Lands Tenements or other Hereditaments being within England Wales and the Town of Berwick upon Tweed belonging to the Common-wealth of England and heretofore due and payable unto any King or Queen of England Prince of Wales Duke of Lancaster Duke of Cornwal Earl of Chester or any of them and not lawfully granted away from them or by them according to the Laws of this Nation at or before the First day of January Anno Dom. One thousand six hundred forty and one be and are hereby vested setled adjudged and deemed to be and are hereby in the real and actual possession and seisin of Thomas Coke of Pedmarsh in the County of Essex Esq William Bosevile Esq John Sparrow of Gestrop in the County of Essex Esq William Kenrick of _____ in the County of Kent Esq Ralph Harrison of the City of London Esq William Scot of the Inner-Temple London Esq William Steel Esq Recorder of London Silvanus Taylor of Westminster Esq Thomas Hubbard of Moorfields in the County of Middlesex Esq Cornelius Coke of the Borough of Southwark Esq Sir Henry Holcroft of Longacre in the County of Middlesex John Hunt of London Gent. Sir Edward Barkham Baronet Sir William Roberts John Humphreys Esq Thomas Ayres Esq John White Esq James Stockal Esq Edward Cresset Gent. Sir Richard Saltonstal Knight Daniel Searl Merchant Nicholas Lampriere Esq Nicholas Bond Esq Richard Sidenham Esq and Robert Fenwick Esq the Survivors and Survivor of them their Heirs and Assigns Any Law Statute Vsage or Custom to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding Nevertheless upon trust and confidence that the said Thomas Coke and other the persons aforenamed or any five or more of them shall have hold and enjoy all and singular the premises and every of them subject to such trust and uses as by this Act is and by the Authority of Parliament further shall be declared and appointed and shall dispose of the same accordingly And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Thomas Coke and other the persons beforenamed as Trustees or any five or more of them to put to sale contract sell and convey all and every the premises unto any person or persons Bodies Politique or Corporate their Heirs Successors and Assigns as shall be Purchaser or Purchasers thereof or of any part or parcel thereof by such Deed or Deeds Writing or Writings Conveyance or Conveyances under their Hands and Seals as shall be convenient to the several Cases and Titles of such Purchaser or Purchasers their Heirs Successors and Assigns respectively upon such particular or certificate and value as shall be certified unto them from and by the Clerk of the Pipe and the respective Auditors before whom the same or any part thereof is in charge respectively Provided That the said Trustees shall not Treat or Contract with any person or persons Bodies Politique or Corporate other then with the immediate Tenant or Tenants of the premises which he or they hold for the space of Thirty days to be accounted from the First day of April One thousand six hundred and fifty And it is further Enacted That the said Trustees shall not sell any of the premises under the rate of Eight years Purchase according to the Certificate made unto them as aforesaid and that all sums of Money so contracted for shall be paid in maner following that is to say Three pence upon every pound so contracted for presently at the making of the said Contract which shall be allowed in part of the sum contracted for to be distributed amongst the said Trustees Contractors Treasurers Register and Comptroller in lieu of their Salaries for themselves and their Clerks appointed by this Act in such proportion as the Committee for Obstructions constituted by this Act shall appoint and one moyety of the remainder within Thirty days after the said Contract and the other moyety within two moneths after the said Thirty days And if any default be made in any the said payments then the said Contract to be Null and void and the former sums paid to be forfeited for the benefit of the Commonwealth and if any shall pay in their whole sum within Thirty days Then to discount to such person after Eight pounds per Centum for the same And it is further Enacted That all person or persons Bodies Politique or Corporate that shall purchase any of the premises except before excepted shall have all lawful ways and means to come by the same as any King or Queen of England might have formerly recovered distrained or come by the same be it by distraining in all such Lands as the King might have distrained for the same if the same had been then in arrear and due unto the King or by the ways and means of the Exchequer or otherwise in any lawful way or maner whatsoever and shall have the benefit of all forfeitures Nomine penae's advantage of distresses liberties and powers to distrain and to detain sell or dispose of the same as fully and as largely as any King might have had or done if the same had been then in arrear or due unto him and shall have the like Action Suit and means for recovery of the same by reason or pretext of any Grant Covenant Reservation Provision or Condition for recovery and levying of the same as any King might have had if the same had been then in arrear and due unto such King And all Officers are hereby authorized and required to award and allow process and proceedings therein accordingly And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That Henry Colbron shall be Register and have the custody and keeping of all Certificates and Particulars upon which any Contract shall be made and the Contract thereupon made and the Counterpart of such Conveyance which