tent ' ac deinde usque ad in vicesimum diem Octobris proxime sequen praerogat intitulat ' An Act for the establishing and confirming of the Foundation of the Hospital of King James founded in Charter-house in the County of Middlesex at the humble Petition and only Costs and Charges of Thomas Sutton Esquire and of the Possessions thereof The Return thereof Tibi precipimus quod tenorem Actus predict cum omnibus illum tangerd nobi in cancellariam ' nostram sub Sigillo tuo distincte aperte sine dilatione mittas hoc breve T. meipso apud Westm ' xxviiio. die Junii Anno Regni nostri quarto Cesar Ra. Executio istius brevis patet in Scedula hinc annexat ' H. Elsyinge Cler ' Parl. Inspe'ximus etiam predict The time of the begining and continuance of the Parliament viz. from the 17. day of March in the third of King Charles the First until the 26. of June next following Scedulam eidem brevi annexat ' in Filaciis dict Cancellarie nostre de Recordo similiter residen in in haec verba In Parliamento inchoat ' tent ' apud Westm ' Decimo septimo die Martii Anno Regni Serenissimi Excellentissimi Domini nostri Caroli Dei gratia Anglie Scotie Francie Hibernie Regis Fidei Defensor ' c. tertio ibidem continuat ' usque in Vicesimum sextum diem Mensis Junii tunc propter sequen communi omnium Dominorum tam spiritualium quam temporalium Communium consensu Regie Majestatis assensu inter alia fancitum inactitatum stabilitum fuit hoc sequens Statutum The Title of the Act. An Act for the Establishing and Confirming of the Hospital of King James founded in Charter-house in the County of Middlesex at the humble Petition and only Costs and Charges of Thomas Sutton Esquire and of the Possessions thereof Cujus quidem Statuti tenor sequitur in haec verba viz. The Act. Whereas our late Soveraign Lord King James of blessed memory at the humble suit of Thomas Sutton late of Balsham in the County of Cambridge Esq deceased Recital of the Letters Patents by his Highness Letters Patents under the Great Seal of England hearing date the Two and twentieth day of June in the Ninth year of his Majesties Reign of England did give and grant unto the said Thomas Sutton full power licence and lawful authority to erect and establish at or in the late dissolved Charter-house besides Smithfield in the County of Middlesex an Hospital and Free School in such sort as in and by the said Letters Patents is expressed And did further by the same Letters Patents nominate ordain assign constitute limit and appoint certain persons in the same Letters Patents named to be Governours of the Lands Possessions Revenues and Goods of the said Hospital And did by the same Letters Patents Incorporate the said Governours and their Successors to be a Body Politique and Corporate to have continuance for ever by the Name of the Governours of the Lands Possessions Revenues and Goods of the Hospital of King James founded in Charter-house within the County of Middlesex at the humble Petition and only Costs and Charges of Thomas Sutton Esquire And did further by the same Letters Patents give licence to the said Thomas Sutton to give grant and assure to the said Governours the Mansion-house commonly called Charter-house besides Smithfield in the said County of Middlesex and divers and sundry other Mannors Messuages Lands Tenements and Hereditaments mentioned in the said Letters Patents as in the said Letters Patents more at large appeareth And whereas the said Thomas Sutton Recital of the Founders Deed of Bargain and Sale minding the performance of the said Charitable Work by his Indenture of Bargain and Sale bearing date the First day of November in the Ninth year aforesaid and enrolled in his said late Majesties High Court of Chancery did according to the said licence to him in that behalf given for the consideration in the same Indenture mentioned give bargain sell grant confirm and convey to the said Governours of the Lands Possessions Revenues and Goods of the Hospital of King James founded in Charter-house within the County of Middlesex at the humble Petition and only Costs and Charges of Thomas Sutton Esquire and to their Successors for ever the said Mansion-house commonly called Charter-house besides Smithfield in the said County of Middlesex and divers and sundry other Mannors Messuages Lands Tenements and Hereditaments in the same Indenture mentioned and expressed upon especial trust and confidence that all and singular the Rents Issues Revenues Commodities and Profits of all and singular the said Mannors Houses Lands Tenements and Hereditaments should be for ever truly faithfully and wholly distributed converted and imployed to and for the maintenance and continuance of the said Hospital and Free School and other the Charitable uses in the said Deed indented mentioned as by the said Deed indented more at large appeareth Recital of the Heirs Suit in Law against the Foundation And whereas since the death of the said Thomas Sutton one Simon Baxter the Heir of the said Thomas Sutton hath attempted and endeavoured to impeach and overthrow the Incorporation and Foundation of the said Hospital and the endowments thereof and so to obtain and get to himself the Mannors Lands Tenements and Hereditaments that were the said Thomas Suttons and by him conveyed to the Governours of the said Hospital for maintenance of the poor there Howbeit the said Heir drawing the same in question in his said Majesties Courts of Kings Bench and Chancery and the Case being adjorned by the then Iustices of the Kings Bench into the Exchequer Chamber after solemn argument and deliberate advice of all the then Iustices of both Benches and Barons of the Exchequer it was clearly resolved That the said Foundation Incorporation and Endowment of the said Hospital was sufficient good and effectual in the Law And Iudgment was thereupon given accordingly in the said Court of Kings Bench and also a Decree agreeing with the said Iudgment was had in the said Court of Chancery upon consideration whereof and for that the said Foundation and Endowment doth daily maintain Fourscore poor men some maimed in the Wars some undone by Shipwrack and Misfortune on the Seas and Forty poor Scholars with a Master Preacher Teachers and Attendants and other Officers in very ample manner with good and sufficient allowance in all things It is most humbly desired in the behalf of the Governours and poor People of the said Hospital That it may be enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the Authority of the same The body of the Act. And be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid that the said House called the late dissolved Charter-house besides Smithfield The place of the Hospital and
continuance for ever by the name of the Governors of the Hospital of King James founded in Hallingbury in the County of Essex at the humble petition and at the only cost and charges of Thomas Sutton Esquire and that they the said Governors may have a perpetual succession and that by that name they and their Successors may for ever hereafter have hold and enjoy the Mannors Lordships Messuages Lands Tenements and Hereditaments hereafter mentioned without any licence or pardon for any alienation of them or any of them and without any licence of or for Mortmain or any other Law or Statute to the contrary notwithstanding That is to say your Suppliants Mannors and Lordships of Southminster Norton Little Hallingbury alias Hallingbury Bouchers and Much Stambridge in the County of Essex with all their and every of their Rights Members and Appurtenances whatsoever And also all those your Suppliants Mannors and Lordships of Buslingthorpe and Dunnesby in the County of Lincoln with their and either of their Rights Members and Appurtenances whatsoever And also all those your Suppliants Mannors of Salthorpe alias Saltrop Chilton and Black-grove with their and every of their Rights Members and Appurtenances in the said County of Wilts And also all those your Suppliants Lands and Pasture Grounds called Blackgrove containing by estimation two hundred Acres of Pasture with the Appurtenances in Blackgrove and Wroughton in the said County of Wilts And also all that your Suppliants Mannor of Mihenden otherwise called the Mannor of Mâ—hunden in the Parishes of Wroughton Lydgerd and Tregoce in the said County of Wilts And all that your Suppliants Mannor of Elcombe and the Park called Elcombe Park in the said County of Wilts And all that your Suppliants Mannor of Wattlescote otherwise called Wigglescote otherwise called Wiglescete otherwise called Wikelscete in the County of Wilts And all that your Suppliants Mannor of Wescote otherwise called Wescete with the Appurtenances in the said County of Wilts And also all those your Suppliants Lands and Pastures containing by estimation one hundred Acres of Land and threescore Acres of Pasture in Wiglescote and Wroughton in the said County of Wilts And also all that your Suppliants Mannor of Uffcote with the Appurtenances in the said County of Wilts And all those your Suppliants two Messuages and one thousand acres of Land two thousand acres of Pasture three hundred acres of Meadow and three hundred acres of Wood with the Appurtenances in Brodehinton in the said County of Wilts And also all those your Suppliants Mannors and Lordships of Campes otherwise called Comps otherwise called Campes-Castle otherwise called Castle-Campes scituate lying being and extending in the Counties of Cambridge and Essex or in either of them or elsewhere within the Realm of England And also all that your Suppliants Mannor of Balsham in the County of Cambridge with all and singular the Rights Members and Appurtenances thereof whatsoever And also all that your Suppliants Messuage and Lands scituate and being in the Parishes of Hackney and Tottenham in the County of Middlesex or in either of them with their and either of their Rights Members and Appurtenances whatsoever which said Messuage was lately purchased of Sir William Bower Knight and the Lands in Tottenham now or late in the tenure or occupation of William Benning Yeoman and also all and singular the Mannors Lordships Messuages Lands Tenements Reversions Services Meadows Pastures Woods Advowsons Patronages of Churches and Hereditaments of your Suppliant whatsoever scituate lying or being within the said Counties of Essex Lincoln Wilts Cambridge and Middlesex or any of them with all and every their Rights Members and Appurtenances whatsoever And also all your Suppliants Letters Patents Indentures Deeds Evidences Bonds and Writings concerning the Premisses or any of them And all such Conditions Warranties Vouchers Actions Suits Entries Benefits and Demands as shall or may be had by any person or persons upon or by reason of them or any of them except those your Suppliants Mannors or Lordships of Littlebury and Hadstock in the said County of Essex And except all your Suppliants Lands Tenements and Hereditaments in Littlebury and Hadstock aforesaid or in either of them And that the said Governors and their Successors by the same name shall and may have power ability and capacity to demise lease and grant their Possessions and Hereditaments and every of them And to take acquire and purchase And to sue and be sued And to do perform and execute all and every other lawful act and thing good necessary and profitable for the said incorporation in as full and ample manner and form to all intents constructions and purposes as any other incorporations or body politique or corporate fully and perfectly founded and incorporated may do And that the same Governours and their Successors for the time being may have and use a common Seal for the making granting and demising of such their demises and leases and for the doing of all and every other thing touching or in any wise concerning the said Incorporation In which Seal shall be ingraven the Arms of the said Thomas Sutton your Suppliant And also that it may he further enacted by the Authority aforesaid and be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid That your Suppliant during his life and the said Governors and their Successors for the time being or the most part of them after his decease shall and may have full power and lawful authority to break alter and change the said Seal And that your said Orator during his life and the said Governors and their Successors for the time being or the most part of them after his decease shall and may have full power and authority to nominate and appoint and shall and may nominate and appoint when and as often as he and they shall think good such person and persons as he and they shall think meet to be Master Preacher Schoolmaster Vsher poor Men poor Children and Officers of the said Hospital And when any of them by death resignation deprivation or otherwise shall become void shall and may within one month next after such avoidance by writing under their said Common Seal nominate and appoint one or more learned godly discreet and meet men and persons to be Master Preacher Schoolmaster Vsher poor Men poor Children and Officers in the places of them and every of them so deceasing resigning or otherwise becoming void And that in case the said Governors and their Successors for the time being or the most part of them shall not within one month after such avoidance make such nomination and appointment as aforesaid That then and so often and in every such case from and after the decease of your said Orator it shall and may be lawful to your Majesty your Heirs and Successors by your Letters Patents under the Great Seal of England to nominate and appoint some meet godly and learned men in and to the places void by such default of the said Governors and their
all the said Houses Edifices Buildings Orchards Gardens Lands Tenements and Hereditaments within the Scite Circuit and Precinct of the same was is and shall be for ever hereafter an Hospital in deed and in name and is and shall be called by the name of the Hospital of King James The name of the Hospital founded in Charter-house within the County of Middlesex at the humble Petition and only Costs and Charges of Thomas Sutton Esquire and that such of the said Governours named or mentioned in the said Letters Patents as are yet living The Governours incorporated by what Name together with such others now living as have sithence been named or elected or mentioned to be elected into the room or place of such of them as are since dead or are removed or have relinquished their places and are now esteemed Governours now are and they and their Successors for ever hereafter shall be and continue And shall be adjudged deemed and taken to be a Body Corporate and Politique by the name of the Governours of the Lands Possessions Revenues and Goods of the Hospital of King James founded in Charter house within the County of Middlesex at the humble Petition and only Costs and Charges of Thomas Sutton Esquire and by that name shall have The Governours capacity and may have and enjoy all and singular such and the like capacity power and ability to all intents constructions and purposes as any other Corporation lawfully Incorporated may or ought to have And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the said Governours Power given to the Governours to make laws and orders under their Common Seal and their Successors for the time being or the most part of them from time to time and at all times hereafter as to their or the most part of them shall seem fit and convenient shall and may have full power and authority by writing under their Common Seal to make ordain set down and prescribe as occasion shall require such Rules Statutes and Ordinances as they shall from time to time and at all times think fit as well for and concerning the naming and electing of such person and persons as shall succeed into the place and room of any the said Governours when and as often as any of them shall dye or be removed from such place or places of Governour or Governours or voluntarily shall relinquish their places As also for and concerning the Election Order Rule and Government of the Master Preacher Schoolmaster Vsher poor Men poor Children and all other Members Officers or Servants of the said Hospital in their several places offices and rooms and for their and every of their Stipends and Allowances And that the same Rules Orders Statutes and Ordinances so from time to time to be made set down and prescribed as aforesaid shall be and stand in full force and strength in Law and be executed in all things according to the true intent and meaning thereof under the several pains forfeitures and penalties as shall be expressed and contained in the same Ordinances Statutes and Rules respectively Provided always that the said Rules Ordinances and Statutes or any of them be not repugnant or contrary to the Laws or Statutes of this Realm of England nor against the purport or true intent of the recited Letters Patents The Governours henceforth to take the Oaths of Supremacy Allegiance And be it enacted and established by the Authority aforesaid That every person that shall from henceforth be Elected a Governour of the said Hospital shall before he exercise the place of a Governour take the several Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance which any two others of the said Governours for the time being The Master to take the same Oathes henceforth shall have power and authority by this Act to administer unto them And that the Master from henceforth to be elected shall before he exercise or take any benefit of the said place take the said several Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance The Masters other oath And shall also take an Oath that neither he nor any other for him with his privity allowance or consent hath given or shall give directly or indirectly any mony or other gratuity or reward for or in respect of the having or enjoying of the said place All which said Oaths to be taken by such Master any two of the said Governours for the time being shall have power and authority by this Act to administer And that the Preacher Minister Schoolmaster Vsher The oaths of the Preacher Schoolmaster Usher Officers and poor men Officers and poor men and every of them from henceforth to be elected and admitted shall before he exercise or take benefit of any such place take the said several Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance And shall also take an Oath that neither he nor any other for him with his privity allowance or consent hath given or shall give directly or indirectly any mony or other gratuity or reward for or in respect of the having or enjoying of the said place All which said Oaths by the said Preacher Minister Schoolmaster Vsher Officers and poor Men to be taken any one of the said Governours and the said Master for the time being shall have power and authority by vertue of this Act to administer The Governours to hold for ever the Hospital against the King and others And be it further enacted and established by the Authority aforesaid That the said Governours and their Successors shall and may for ever hereafter have hold and enjoy according to the purport true intent and meaning of the said Indenture of Bargain and Sale the said Hospital House and all Buildings Gardens Courts Orchards and Backsides thereto belonging and all and singular the Mannors Messuages Lands Tenements Liberties Franchises and Hereditaments by the aforesaid Letters Patents by the said Indenture of Bargain and Sale given granted conveyed and assured or meant mentioned or intended in or by the said Letters Patents or Indenture to be given granted conveyed or assured to the said Governours against our Soveraign Lord the King's Majesty his Heirs and Successors and against all other Person and Persons of whom the said Hospital House Mannors Lands Tenements and Hereditaments or any of them were holden at the time of the said Indenture made and against their Heirs and Issues notwithstanding any Title accrewing for or by any Alienation in Mortmain And also against all and every other person and persons of whom the said Thomas Sutton did purchase the said Hospital House Mannors Lands Tenements and Hereditaments or any of them respectively and against their Heirs Issues and Assigns And also against all and every other person and persons claiming or that shall claim any Estate Right Title or Interest of in out or unto the said Hospital Mannors Lands Tenements and Hereditaments or any of them by from or under any person or persons of whom the said Thomas Sutton
are less capable of Learning and sittest to be put to Trades He and the Usher shall be diligent in the daily attendance on their Charge and shall not Journey into the Country without the Masters leave Nor shall they take into their Tuition above Sixty other Scholars unless they entertain another under Usher out of their own Means and to be dyeted and lodged out of the Hospital Nor shall they receive for teaching those of the Foundation any Fee or Wages from their Friends They shall be careful and discreet to observe the Nature and Ingeny of their Scholars and accordingly instruct and correct them In Correction they shall be moderate in Instruction diligent Correcting according to the quality of the Fault in matter of Manners and according to the capacity of the Fault in matter of Learning All other Duties of their place they shall faithfully perform namely to see that the Scholars be of modest and mannerly behaviour well and decently clothed orderly and seasonably dyeted cleanly and wholesomly lodged And that the Matron Butler Taylor and Groom perform their duties to these purposes otherwise their Tutors to be censured by Us the Governours and their Servants to be punished by the Master of the Hospital Schoolmasters 1. Mr. Nicholas Grey 2. Mr. Robert Grey his Brother 3. Mr. William Middleton 4. Mr. Robert Brooks 5. Mr. Samuel Wilson 6. Mr. John Bonchee 7. Mr. Norris Wood. 8. Mr. Thomas Watson Vshers 1. Mr. Bagley 2. Mr. Robert Grey 3. Mr. Middleton 4. Mr Brooks 5. Mr. Anthony Andrews 6. Mr. John Byrch 7. Mr. Samuel Wilson 8. Mr. John Martyn 9. Mr. Norris Wood. 10. Mr. John Stephens 11. Mr. Edmund Sly 12. Mr. Thomas Watson 13. Mr. Rowland Buckeridge 14. Mr. Thomas Walker Officers of the Revenues Steward of Courts NO Steward of Courts shall take any greater Fee than Five shillings for his Copy and entring it into the Roll unless it express uses made over by Will in which Case his Fee shall be Ten Shillings All Stewards of Courts shall bring or send into the Charter-house within three months after the Court holden the Roll thereof fairly written in Parchment with the Fine set down in the Margent and signed with his own hand They shall also deliver the Tenant his Copy within forty days after the Court holden if the Tenant demand it and pay for it according to the Rate aforesaid Stewards 1. Mr. John Mocket 2. Mr. Joseph Ward 3. Mr. Abell Allen. This Office is now turned into the Manciple's Auditor HE Shall quarterly examine the Receivers Book of Receipts of the Revenues and Disbursments for the Hospital to see if the one agree with the Rental and the other be disbursed by the Masters warrant and upon proof by Examination under his hand of every particular the Book shall be signed by the Master He shall weekly examine the Manciple's Book of Disbursments for Dyets and what else he lays out to see if the one agree with the Establishment and the other be done by warrant and upon due Examination to approve them under his hand before they be signed by the Master Upon Balancing all Accompts of Receipts and Disbursment at the years end he shall draw the Declaration by us formerly enjoyed in these our Orders that at the Assembly in Decemb. a perfect and yearly view may be taken of the state of the Hospital Auditors 1. Mr. John Wotton 2. Mr. Henry Wotton 3. Mr. Henry Playford 4. Mr. Spour Bailiffs NO Bailiff shall be chosen of any Mannor or Mannors unless he dwell there or within five miles distance at the farthest All Bailiffs shall put in Bond of Two hundred pounds apiece with two Sureties for paying in the monies by them levied either for free Rents or Profits of Courts and they shall not meddle with the Receipt of any Farm-rents upon pain of forfeiting their Bond. All Bailiffs shall bring in all free and customary Rents within forty days after the Quarter day also all Profits and Perquisits of Courts within the said time of forty days after the day assigned by the Steward for payment thereof Leases UPon a Lease hereafter to be granted no Tenant shall have respit for payment of his Rent above Forty days after the Quarter-day wherein he ought to pay it by his Lease All Lease Rents shall be paid by Tenants at the Charter-house so shall all free and customary Rents with Profits and Perquisits of Courts be there likewise paid by the Bailiffs All Lessees shall be tied by Covenant to dwell upon their Farms and not to put them over but to Wife and Children without Licence procured by Petition at the Table and signed by the Major part of the Governours there present and no Licence shall be granted them but for the remainder of years limited by the former Lease and at the same Rent and enjoyning the under Tenants to dwell thereupon In every Lease hereafter to be granted of any of the Hospital Lands or Tenements in any Mannor where a Court Baron is used to be kept there shall be comprised in every such Lease a Covenant on the Lessees part To do suit of Court there and to be obedient to the Orders therein to be made touching or by reason of the Lands and Tenements No Lease shall be made till within Three years before the expiration of the old Lease unless it be upon surrender of the old Lease Nor shall it be granted for Lives or longer time than One and twenty years No Fine shall be taken upon letting or renewing any Lease but such an Improvement of Rent as shall seem best to the Governours and for the good of the Hospital Surveys THere shall be two Surveys made of all such Lands belonging to the Hospital as are not already surveyed and the same shall be faithfully transcribed into a Book expressing the yearly Rent now paid and the yearly value by Survey which Book shall be brought to the Table at every Asssembly that upon the expiring or renewing of Leases the Governours may increase or abate the Rents as to their Wisdoms shall seem best for the good of the Hospital An Establishment for the Dyets Liveries Stipends Wages and other Charges and Expences of the Hospital of King JAMES founded in Charter-house in the County of Middlesex at the humble Petition and only costs and charges of Thomas Sutton Esquire to be strictly observed and not any way exceeded viz. For weekly Dyet  l. s. d. EIght at the Master's Table allowed for Bread Beer Dyet and Detriments iiii   Fourscore at the Brothers Table allowed for Bread Beer Dyet and Detriments vii xiii iiii Forty two at the Scholars Table allowed for Bread Beer Dyet and Detriments vi xviii iii. ob Ten at the Manciples Table allowed for Bread Beer Dyet and Detrements  xliiii ii Two of the Kitchin and one Porter  xiii  Five Attendants for the Masters Table for Bread and Beer  v. x. For weakly Beavors  l. s. d. Eight
did purchase the same unless such other person and persons do pursue their Title Claim or Interest by way of Action or lawful Entry within ten years after the end of this present Session of Parliament Saving to the King's Majesty Exceptions and Savings his Heirs and Successors all such Estate Right Title and Interest as his Majesty had or might have had unto any the said Mannors Lands Tenements and Hereditaments before the said Indenture made other than for or by reason of any Alienation in Mortmain And saving to all and every other person or persons Bodies Politique and Corporate and their Heirs and Successors other than the Heirs of the said Thomas Sutton and other than such person and persons from whom the said Thomas Sutton purchased the said Hospital House Mannors Lands Tenements or Hereditaments or any of them their Heirs Issues and Assigns and Persons claiming by from or under them respectively and other than such Person and Persons as shall claim the title of Alienation in Mortmain of any the said Mannors Lands Tenements and Hereditaments all such Estate Right Title Claim Custome Interest and Demand whatsoever as they or any of them have or shall have in as large and ample manner and form to all intents and purposes as if this Act had never been had nor made The Governours disabled to convey the Hospital House or Lands to the King And be it further enacted and established by the Authority aforesaid That the said Governours and their Successors shall be from and after the end of this present Session of Parliament for ever wholly and utterly disabled in Law to make do levy or suffer any Act or Acts Thing or Things whereby or by means whereof the said Hospital House Mannors Lands Tenements or Hereditaments or any part of them or any of them shall or may be aliened assured given granted demised charged or in any sort conveyed or come to the possession of our said Soveraign Lord the King All conveyances to the King of any the Hosâ—ital Lâ—â—… us to be vâ—â—…d his Heirs or Successors And that all Alienations Assurances Gifts Grants Leases Charges and Conveyances whatsoever from and after the end of this present Sâ—ssion of Parliament to be done sufferâ—â— or made to our said Soveraign Lord the King his Heirs or Successors by the said Governours or their Successors of or out of the said Hospital House Mannors Lands Tenements or Hereditaments or of or out of any part or parcel of them or any of them shall be from and after the end of this present Session of Parliament utterly void and of none effect to all intents constructions and purposes any former Law Statute Act Ordinance or other matter or thing to the contrary notwithstanding The Governours disabled to make any Estates but for 21 years or under or for one two or three lives or for any years determinabâ—e upon one two or three lives by Indenture in possession and not in Reversion at the usual Rent or more or the tâ—ue yearly value thereof And be it further enacted and established by the Authority aforesaid that the said Governours and their Succesors and every of them be also from henceforth for ever wholly and utterly disabled in Law to make do levy or suffer any act or acts thing or things whereby or by means whereof the said Hospital-house Mannors Lands Tenements or Hereditaments or any of them or any part of them or any of them shall or may be aliened assured given granted demised charged or in any sort conveyed to any Person or Persons Bodies Politique or Corporate other than Leases and Demises by Indenture of the said Mannors Lands Tenements and Hereditaments and every or any of them other than the said Hospital-house Orchards Gardens Backsides or any of them or any part of them or any of them now used for the habitation or use of or for the Master Preacher Schoolmaster Vsher poor Scholars and poor People of the said Hospital or any of them for the term of One and twenty years or under in possession and not in reversion or for one two or three lives or for any number of years determinable upon one two or three lives in possession and not in reversion and whereupon such yearly rent or more shall be reserved to the Governours of the said Hospital and their Successors during the continuance of every such Lease as is now reserved upon any demise thereof or otherwise the true yearly value thereof and other than Grants by Copy of Court Roll according to the Customes of the several Mannors respectively An Exception by granting by Copy of Court Roll. Provided nevertheless that it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Governours and their Successors to grant reasonable and convenient Annuities Rents or Fees to such person or persons as shall be Officers Ministers or needful Attendants concerning the affairs of the said Hospital only for life or at will So as the number of the Officers Ministers or needful Attendants be not increased above the Number which now is as fully and amply as they should or might have done as if this Act had never been had or made A Proviso for the Lord North. Provided always and be it enacted that this Act or any thing herein before contained shall no way extend to give any title to the said Hospital in or unto the Mansion-house now in possession of the Right Honourable Dudley Lord North or of his Assigns at or near the East end of the said Hospital nor unto any the Buildings Edifices Courts Gardens Orchards or Grounds thereunto belonging or therewith used or enjoyed nor unto any other the Messuages Tenements or Hereditaments of the said Lord North being within or near the Scite or Precinct of the said Hospital But that it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Lord North his Heirs Tenants and Assigns for ever hereafter to hold and enjoy against the Governours Master and other the Owners or Possessors of the said Hospital in the Charter-house now and for the time being the said Mansion-house and Premises and all ways and passages by Cart or otherwise Easements Waters Water-courses Chanels Pipes Conduits Cocks Liberties Profits and Hereditaments to the same or any of them belonging or therewith or with any of them now used or enjoyed or the which by the true meaning of any Grant Covenant Clause or Agreement contained in one Deed of Feoffment made by Edward Lord North unto Sir William Peter Knight and others bearing date the Sixth day of November in the Fifth year of the Reign of the late Queen Elizabeth and in one other Deed made by Roger late Lord North and others to the Right Noble Prince Thomas late Duke of Norfolk bearing date the last day of May in the Seventh year of the Reign of the said late Queen Elizabeth were meant and intended to belong unto or to be enjoyed with the said Mansion-house or any other the