Selected quad for the lemma: land_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
land_n	estate_n	hereditament_n	tenement_n	1,902	5	10.2775	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A74297	An act prescribing certain times to delinquents for perfecting their compositions effectually, under several penalties. Die Lunæ, 9 April, 1649. Ordered by the Commons assembled in Parliament, that this Act be forthwith printed and published. Hen: Scobell, Cleric. Parliament'.; Laws, etc.	England and Wales.	1649 (1649)	Thomason E1060_20; ESTC R205486	6,296	15

Solicitor or Solicitors for Sequestrations in the several counties of England and Wales to prosecute the seizing sequestring and securing the Real and Personal Estates of such Defaulters as aforesaid and every of them and shall and may appoint a Collector or Collectors for the gathering and receiving of the Rents Issues and Profits of the Lands Tenements and Hereditaments of the said persons so making default as abovesaid Which said Solicitors and Collectors shall from time to time observe such Orders and Directions as they shall receive from the said Commissioners or the said Committees for the said respective counties in such case where the said Commissioners shall not have given former Directions And it is further Enacted and Ordained That the said Solicitors for Sequestrations respectively shall return unto the said Commissioners according to his or their best knowledge Duplicates of the Rent-Rolls of the Lands Tenements and Hereditaments appointed to be sequestred as aforesaid within six weeks after the Sequestration thereof and shall take and return Inventories of the Personal Estate of such as shall be sequestred as aforesaid within six weeks after the Sequestration thereof and in default thereof such Solicitor shall lose the benefit of his Salary by this Act to him appointed and after such return made shall and may with the advice approbation and direction of the respective Committees of the county or any three of them sell the Goods of such person and persons at the best rate or value he or they can get for the same And to the end that the Commonwealth may receive the benefit of the Sequestrations It is Enacted and Ordained That the said Commissioners or the said Committees for the said counties respectively or any three of them shall and may and are hereby authorized and enabled to make a Lease or Leases by Deed Indented of any the Manors Lands Tenements or Hereditaments of such person and persons as shall make default as aforesaid or any part thereof for such number of years as they shall conceive most advantagious to the Commonwealth reserving the best Rent they can get for the same Provided always the Lease or Leases so to be made do not exceed the term of three Years nor be made to the Delinquent or to any to his use and benefit And in case any such Lease shall be made unto or to the use of such Delinquent or Delinquents then such Lease to be meerly void and upon information and proof thereof made to the said Commissioners the said Commissioners or any three of them shall have power to make a Lease thereof at the same Rent for the like number of years to him or them that shall make such information being of ability to pay the Rent reserved And it is further Enacted That all such Rents Issues and Profits as shall be received by reason of the Sequestrations of such Defaulters shall be paid to the said Treasurers of Goldsmiths-hall to be disposed of to such uses as the Parliament shall hereafter appoint And whereas divers Delinquents have submitted to a Composition and brought in their particulars but have neglected to prosecute the same It is therefore Enacted and Ordained That all such Delinquents shall within twenty eight days after the seventh of April 1649. effectually prosecute their said Compositions and in default thereof shall lose the benefit of Composition and their Estates to be finally confiscate and to be disposed of to the use of the Commonwealth Provided always That this Act nor any thing therein contained shall extend to take away the benefit of any Articles not forfeited nor to restore the benefit of any Articles forfeited And because divers of those who are intrusted in the execution of the Ordinances relating to Sequestrations do suffer divers Delinquents to dwell in their houses and themselves or some to their uses do Rent of the Sequestrators their Lands and Tentments at low and easie rates by reason whereof and because such Delinquents are allowed the fifth part for their wives and children and are thereby encouraged to forbear and delay their Compositions It is therefore Enacted That the said Commissioners or the said Committees for the respective counties or any three or more of them shall remove out of the possession of their Houses and Lands such Delinquents or any others intrusted for them unless they and every of them shall come in and compound at or within the days above limited for the effecting whereof all Governors of Garisons and Soldiers in the service of Parliament are required to be aiding and assisting to the said Commissioners and Committees respectively And it is further Enacted by the authority aforesaid That the several and respective Solicitors for Sequestrations imployed by the said Commissioners shall take the same Oath that Solicitors for Sequestrations are by a former Ordinance appointed to take Which said Oath the said Commissioners or any three of them are hereby authorized to administer And that the said Committees for Sequestrations of the respective counties for the Leasing out of Delinquents Estates and the said Solicitors and Receivers may have encouragement effectually to prosecute the said service It is hereby Enacted That the said respective Committees shall have for every twenty shillings Rent reserved upon every Lease Sealed and Delivered by the said Committees as aforesaid six pence in the pound and every respective Solicitor shall be paid for his or their Salary for every twenty shillings that shall be paid in to the said Treasurers by reason of the said Sequestration the sum of three pence in the pound and the respective Collectors shall have and receive for his and their Salaries the sum of two pence in the pound for every twenty shillings paid in to the said Treasurers Which said several sums the said Treasurers are to allow and make payment of accordingly And it is further Enacted That the said Treasurers shall have take and receive out of all such Moneys as shall be paid in to them by vertue of this Act the like Salary as they have for other Compositions Moneys paid in to them And whereas the Parliament out of their desire to establish Maintenance for a Preaching Ministery have given way That the said Commissioners should buy in Impropriations and Tythes of Delinquents that should compound with them at such rates as they should contract for the same In pursuance whereof the said Commissioners have contracted with several persons for Tythes and Impropriations of the value of Ten thousand pounds per annum or thereabouts for which the said Commissioners have abated in the whole out of the several Compositions the sum of One hundred thousand pounds the greatest part of which Impropriations and Tythes are not as yet setled according to order in that behalf made It is therefore hereby Enacted and Declared That all such persons as have been ordered by the said Commissioners or any Committees there for that purpose authorized to setle any Rectory or Maintenance out of any Rectory Parsonage or