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A46594 The royal charter of confirmation granted by His Most Excellent Majesty King James II, to the Trinity-House of Deptford-Strond for the government and encrease of the navigation of England, and the relief of poor mariners, their widdows and orphans, &c. England and Wales. Sovereign (1685-1688 : James II) 1685 (1685) Wing J381; ESTC R2580 74,522 223

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purpose shall and may demand levy and receive all Impositions Fines Forfeitures and Payments imposed or to be imposed by the said Master Wardens and Assistants and their Successors or payable or demandable by and from any Person or Persons by Vertue of these Presents at all times hereafter for ever In consideration of the growing Poverty of Seamen they have power of purchaseing in Mortmain to 500 l. per Annum And for as much as the Poverty of Mariners and Seamen belonging to the said Corporation is now much more encreased then hath been in former time and not able to be relieved from the Revenues of the Lands and Possessions of the said Corporation which now they have or were enabled to have purchased being so small in yearly value Therefore to the end that the said Master Wardens and Assistants and their Successors may be from henceforth the better enabled from time to time to bear and sustain their Charges and Expences drawn and occasioned by reason of their Corporation We of our Especial Grace certain Knowledge and meer Motion have given and granted and by these presents for Us our Heirs and Successors do give and grant unto the said Master Wardens and Assistants of the Guild Fraternity or Brotherhood of the most glorious and undivided Trinity and of St. Clement in the Parish of Deptford Strond in the County of Kent and their Successors full free especial and lawful License Power and Authority not only to retain possess and enjoy to their own proper use and behoof without any Accompt to be rendred made or given to Us Without account our Heirs or Successors in that behalf all and singular such Lands Tenements and Hereditaments Goods and Chattels as they have heretofore obtained purchas'd or had and do at present possess and enjoy by force and vertue of any other Letters Patents or Grant had and made to them by the name of any former Corporation by or from the said late Kings and Queens and according to the purport and true meaning thereof or otherwise howsoever But also to have receive and Purchase further to them and their Successors for ever of Us our Heirs and Successors or of any other Person or Persons whatsoever Manors Messuages Lands Tenements Rectories Tithes Rents Reversions and Services or any of them or any part or parcel of them or any of them and any other Possessions and Hereditaments whatsoever without License or Writ of ad quod dampnum so always as the said Manors Messuages Lands Tenements Tithes Rectories Rents Reversions Services Possessions and Hereditaments or such parts or parcels of them or any of them by the said Master Wardens and Assistants and their Successors so to be purchased obtained or had so as aforesaid do not exceed the clear yearly value of five hundred pounds by the year above all Charges Deductions and Reprises the Statute of not puting Lands and Tenements into Mortmaine or any other Statute Act Ordinance Provision or Restraint thereof heretofore had made ordained and provided or any other Cause thing or matter whatsoever to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding And we do further by these presents for Us our Heirs and Successors With Power to others to be benefactors to them in Mortmain to that Value give and Grant to all and every our Subject and Subjects whatsoever full Power License and Authority that they and every of them may at their Wills and and Pleasures give grant bargain set alien convey and assure unto the said Master Wardens and Assistants and their Successors Manors Messuages Lands Tenements Rectories Tythes Rents Reversions and Services or any parts or parcels of them or any of them and any other possessions and Hereditaments whatsoever so always as the said Manors Messuages Lands Tenements Rectories Tythes Rents Reversions Services Possessions and Hereditaments or any of them do not exceed the clear yearly Value of five hundred pounds above all Charges Deductions and Reprizes the said Statute of not putting Lands and Tenements in Mortmain or any other Act Statute Ordinace Provision or restraint to the contrary notwithstanding And further of our more especial Grace Certain Knowledge A Confirmation of all former Grants of Liberties Estates c. and meer Motion We have granted and confirmed and by these presents do for Us our Heirs and Successors grant and confirm unto the said Master Wardens and Assistants and their Successors all and all manner of Liberties Franchises Immunities Exemptions and Jurisdictions which the said Master Wardens and Assistants or any of them by what name or names so ever by Vertue of what Incorporation soever heretofore have had held used or enjoyed or ought to have had used and enioyed to them and their Successors for ever of an Estate of Inheritance by vertue or force of any Charters or Letters Patents by any of our Predecessors Kings or Queens of England or any other Person or Persons whatsoever by any manner of means heretofore made confirmed or granted or by any other means Right Custom Use Prescription or Title heretofore used had and accustomed to have and to hold to the said Master VVardens and Assistants and their Successors for ever to be held of Us our Heirs and Successors by such the same and the like Rents Services and Sums of Money as the same were formerly holden by and not otherwise Wherefore We will and do strictly Charge and Command for Us our Heirs With an Exemption from all Accounts for any thing claimed or done by them before the Date hereof and Successors that the said Master Wardens Assistants and their Successors shall and may have hold and enjoy for ever all the aforesaid Lands Tenements Liberties Authorities Jurisdictions and Franchises aforesaid according to the Tenor and Effect of these our Letters Patents without let or hindrance of Us our Heirs and Successors or of any Justices Sheriffs or other Bayliffs or Ministers of Us our Heirs and Successors whatsoever willing that neither the said Master VVardens and Assistants nor any of them by reason of the Premisses or any of them by Us our Heirs and Successors the Justices Sheriffs Escheators or other Bayliffs or Ministers of Us our Heirs and Successors whatsoever be thereof hindred molested vexed grieved or in any wise troubled Willing and by these presents charging and commanding as well our Treasurer Chancellor and Barons of our Exchequer at VVestminster and other the Justices of Us our Heirs and Successors as our Attorney and Sollicitor General for the time being and every of them and all other our Officers and Ministers whatsoever that neither they nor any of them do prosecute or continue or cause to be prosecuted or continued any Writ or Summons of Quo VVarranto or other Writ or Writs or Process whatsoever against the said Master VVardens and Assistants or any of them for any Cause Thing Matter Offence Claim or Usurpation or any of them claimed attempted used had or usurped before the making of these presents
TRINITAS IN VNITATE THE ROYAL CHARTER OF CONFIRMATION Granted by His most Excellent MAJESTY King JAMES II. TO THE TRINITY-HOUSE OF DEPTFORD-STROND For the Government and Encrease of the Navigation of England and the Relief of poor Mariners their Widdows and Orphans c. LONDON Printed Anno 1685. THE Royal Charter OF CONFIRMATION Granted by His most Excellent Majesty King JAMES II. TO THE TRINITY-HOUSE OF DEPTFORD-STROND JAMES the Second By the Grace of God of England Scotland France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith c To all to whom these Presents shall come Greeting Foundation of this Charter Whereas our well beloved Leiges and Subjects Shipmen and Mariners of this our Realm of England consisting of Master Wardens and Assistants of the Guild or Fraternity of the most glorious and undividable Trinity and of St. Clement in the Parish Church of Deptford Strond in our County of Kent are and have been of long time a Corporation and have enjoyed sundry Grants Liberties Priviledges and Immunities by force of divers Charters Former Charters and Letters Patents heretofore made unto them by several Kings and Queens of this Realm And Whereas the said Master Wardens and Assistants have humbly besought Us to Renew and Confirm their said Charters and to Grant unto them such further Authorities and Priviledges The Ends thereof as well for the good government and increase of the Navigation of this Kingdom as for the better ordering and establishing of the said Corporation and the releif of the poor Mariners their Widdows and Orphans as We in our Princely care should think meet Know ye therefore that We taking the premisses into our Royal consideration and well weighing how highly it imports the good state and welfare of this our Realm and of our good Subjects thereof and the encrease of Navigation that all disorders in the said Corporation should be redressed And out of an earnest desire that such good and decent orders may be established and practised in the said Corporation as may most tend to those ends for which the said Corporation was first instituted and to the promoting of the general good Have of our Especial Grace certain Knowledg and meer Motion Given Granted The Corporation confirmed and Confirmed and by these Presents for Us our Heirs and Successors do Give Grant and Confirm unto our said trusty and well beloved Subjects the Master Wardens and Assistants of the said Guild or Fraternity of the most glorious and undividable Trinity and of St. Clement in the Parish Church of Deptford Strond in the said County of Kent That they from henceforth be and shall be called and accompted one body Corporate and Politick indeed and in name by the name of the Master Wardens and Assistants of the Guild Fraternity or Brotherhood of the most glorious and undividable Trinity and of St. Clement in the Parish of Deptford Strond in the County of Kent Their Name And them by the same name of the Master Wardens and Assistants of the Guild Fraternity or Brotherhood of the most glorious and undivided Trinity and of St. Clement in the Parish of Deptford Strond in the County of Kent We for Us our Heirs and Successors do erect make ordain constitute declare and confirm by these Presents one body Corporate and Politick indeed and in name And that by the said name of Master Wardens and Assistants of the Guild Fraternity or Brotherhood of the most glorious and undivided Trinity and of St. Clement in the Parish of Deptford Strond in the County of Kent they shall from henceforth have perpetual Succession Their Succession perpetual and that they and their Successors by the same name be and shall be at all times hereafter a body Corporate and Politick and Persons able and capable in Deed and in Law not only to have hold occupy possess enjoy and retain all and singular the Usuages Customs Liberties Old Rights continued Priviledges Jurisdictions Franchises Preheminences Benefits and Commodities whatsoever which they or their Predecessors by the same or any other name or names of like Corporation have heretofore had and enjoyed or at this present do hold and enjoy But also to have hold occupy purchase receive possess New allowed enjoy and retain any other Liberties Priviledges Jurisdictions Franchises Preheminences Benefits and Commodities of what kind nature or quality soever they shall be to them and their Successors for ever And also by the same name to have hold purchase receive take possess To hold Lands c. and enjoy And also to give grant demise alien assign and dispose Lands Tenements and Hereditaments and Goods and Chattels or any of them and to do and execute all and singular other thing and things whatsoever To plead and be impleaded And that they and their Successors by the same name may plead and be impleaded answer and be answered defend and be defended in all or any whatsoever Court or Courts Place or Places Jurisdiction or Jurisdictions and before whatsoever Judge Judges and Justices and other Persons and Officers in all and singular Actions and Plaints Pleas Suits Quarrels Causes and Demands whatsoever of whatsoever kind nature quality or sort in such manner and form and by all those ways and means and to such end and purpose as any other our Leige people of this our Realm of England being persons able and capable in Deed or Law may or can have hold purchase receive possess enjoy retain give grant demise alien assign and dispose plead and be impleaded answer and be answered defend and be defended or do permit and execute And that the said Master Wardens To have break and alter their common Seal and Assistants and their Successors or the greater part of them whereof the said Master for the time being to be always one may make or cause to be made and have for themselves a Common Seal to serve for all the Causes Business and Occasions of them and their Successors in that Corporation And that it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Masters Wardens and Assistants and their Successors the same Seal to break again and from time to time at their will and pleasure to alter change and make new when and as often as to them or the greater part of them whereof the Master or the Masters Deputy for the time being to be always one shall seem convenient And further We will To have a Master and by these Presents for Us our Heirs and Successors do Ordain That there shall be from henceforth for ever One of the said Guild Fraternity or Brotherhood to be elected and appointed in such form as hereafter in these presents touching the same is expressed which shall be called the Master of the said Guild Fraternity or Brotherhood for the time being Four Wardens And that there shall be also from henceforth for ever Four of the said Guild Fraternity or Brotherhood to be elected and