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A. D. 1540. Anno triccfimo fccundo IT r nrici VIII. C. 23 — 28. 291 the fame Tenth, and thereupon to charge the laid Accomptants to make, levy and anfwer thorn I from henceforth, fo that the King's Highnefs may be truly anfwered thereof from Time to Time, accordme p ; ! to his lawful Title in that Beh , 3 i fS^l 4 »n< revived %>y I El. C. 4. Furfjrtber Prwiftont cor.car.in^tcr.tbt, fte z /Inn. c. II. 5 Ann. c. 24. 6 Ann, c. 27. 1 Ceo. 1. Jlat. %. c. 10. ard 3 Ceo. 1, r. 10. C A P. XXIII. A Confirmation of a Subfidy to be paid within two Years, of four Shillings in the Pound granted to the King by the Clergy of the Province of Canterbury, and of fuch Sums of Money which after (hall be grant- ed to him by the Clergy of the Province of Tori. EXP, CAP. XXIV. An Act concerning the PolTeffions of St. John of Jcrufaktn in England and Ireland. See Appendix. CAP. XXV. The Marriage folcmnized between the King and the Lady Anne of Cleves, by the Judgment of the Clergy of England, in their Convocation, is adjudged and pronounced to be void, and alio by her own Conleht ; and that the King fhall be at Liberty to marry any other Woman, and fhe any other Man. It (hall be High Trcafon, by Word or Deed, to accept, take, judge, or believe the faid Marriage to be good, or to procure or do any Thing t<» the Repeal of this Act. EXP, CAP. XXVI. Ml Decrees and Ordinances, which according to God's Word, and Chrift's Gofpel, by the King's Advice and Confirmation by his Letters Patents, fhall be made and ordained by the Archbifhops, Bifhops and Doctors appointed, or to be appointed, in and upon the Matter of Chriftian Religion and Chriftian Faith, and the lawful Rites, Ceremonies and Obfervations of the fame, fhall be in every Point thereof believed, obeyed and performed to all Intents and Purpofes, upon the Pains therein comprised. Provided, that no- thing fhall be ordained or defired, which fhall be repugnant to the Laws and Statutes of this Realm. REP. i Ed. 6. C. 12. CAP. XXVII. !S. Rcfumption of extraordinary Grants and Licences made by the King to certain Perfons, of Abfence, and Rcvei fions in the Town of Calais, and the Marches of the fame, and in Berwick, and of the Sheriff- wicks for Life in Wales. E X P. CAP. XXVI II. LefTees to enjoy the Farm againft the Tenants in Tail. WHERE great Number of the King's Subjects have heretofore taken Leafes of Lands, Tenements teafes T.ade by and other Hereditaments, for Term of Years, and divers of them for Term of Lives, and have Tenant* in Fee ' given and paid great Fines and great Sums for the fame, and alfo have been at great Cofts and Charges, "J' F ".""' I n ' as well in and about great Reparations and Buildings upon their faid Forms, as othcrwife concerning their 'their Wives or ' faid Forms ; (2) yet notwithstanding the faid Fermors, after the Deaths or Refignations of their LeiTbrs, church ' have been and be daily with great Cruelty expulfed and put out of their faid Forms and Takings, by thetc r ood > wWch ' Heirs or Succeffors of their faid LeiTbrs, or by fuch Perfons as have Intereft therein after the Deaths or vo " J, 1 ' Refignations of their faid Lefibrs, by reafon of Privy Gifts of Intail, or for that the Leffors had nothing 1 . 1 ^ -' ' in the Lands, Tenements or other Hereditaments fo letten, at the Time of the Leafes thereof made, ehitJavilge. only in the Right of their Wives, or fuch other like Caufe, to the great Impoverishment, and in manner Hutton 84. utter Undoing of the faid Fermors :' (3) For Reformation whereof, be it ordained, eftablifhed and en- 1 Leon . 59. '4S. iCicd by the King our Sovereign Lord, the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the Commons, in this pre- ~j Lc _ cn - 'i 6, !cnt Parliament affembled, and by Authority of the fame, That all Leafes hereafter to be made of any Ma- T-naniin Tv'1 aors, Lands, Tenements, or other Hereditaments by Writing indented under Seal for Term of Years, or /l>y him which ior Term of Life, by any Perfon or Perfons being of full Age of twenty-one Years, having any Eftate ofisfeifedinthe Inheritance either in Fee-fimple or in Fee-tail, in their own Right, or in the Right of their Churches "or Ri P ntof - nis Wives, or jointly with their Wives, of any Eftate of Inheritance made before the Covertue or after, fhall Wife.orCharrh, 3e good and effectual in the Law againft the Leffors, -their Wives, Heirs and Succeffors, and every of them, , l ct< „, according to fuch Eftate as is comprifed and fpecified in every fuch Indenture of Leafe, in like Manner and d-o. Uc. Aj. S'orm as the fame Should have been, if the Leffors thereof, and every of them, at the Time of the makings Co. 34. ^f fuch Leafes, had been lawfully fcifed of the fame Lands, Tenements and Hereditaments comprifed in 1° Cc - 6o - Cuch Indentuie, of a good, perfect and pure Eftate of Fee-fimple thereof to their own only Ufes. Co. Lit, 44. Kcb. 204, Cc'. El i .-. P p a II. Pro-