A. D. 1542-3. Anno xxxiv St xxxv Tip. nrici VIII. C. 18, 19. 3 + 5 . 1 May to I"- had or fucil out ol th W y „f tnc faid R E&op newlj dandi nccrning only any year I. Tenths, refcrved upon or by any of thc faid Lcttci ind be clearly oid to all Jnteitl IBdPurpofes. 1/ 1 l', Vt) : ■:i,netrnirg Ttnllx, fit » Sf J Ann. t. II. ^Ann...i;. tAkt.C.tJ. l'....i.t. I C A P. XVIII.
Confirmation of all I il
jn of all Liberties granted by the King, or any of his Progenitors, to the Mayor and Al nun of Canterbury, which thc King may refume upon Caufe. No Fori igner, no) City, fhall buv or fell an) Mcrchandifc (faving Vi tual) to anoth rl rj nor {ball keep ; nor ufe any Myftery within thc faid City, or the Lib rti n the Licei [ayor and Aldermen, or th< m joi Part of them, in Writirt j.J, for every Offence to the faid Mayor and Aldermen, to be recovered by Action or Diftreft, dsV. '" '<• C A P. XIX. An Act for the Payment of Pcnfions granted out of thc late Abbies. ' X7 HERE the Archbifhops, Bifliops, Archdeacons, and thc other EcclefiafHcal Pcrfons, of both thc a p.- 1 W Provinces of Canterbury and York within this Realm of England, have heretofore, in thc Right ol ' their Churches, had and received out of the late Monafteries, Abbaihies, ftriories, Nunneries, Colleges, l»H.8. t.13. 1 Hofpitals, Houfcs of Friers, and other Religious and Ecclcfiaftical Houfes and Places now diffolved, and jyjf|!L , Hf ' out of the Manors, Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments belonging to the fame, divers Pcnfions, Por- Moxuftericr" ' tions, Corrodies, Indemnities, Synodies, Proxies, and other Profits: (z) And where alfo in the Parli- ' anient begun and holdcn at JVeftminJler thc twenty-eighth Day of April in the thirty-firft Year of the ' Reign of our Sovereign Lord Henry the Eighth, by thc Grace of God King of England, France and Ire- 4 haul, Defender of the Faith, and of thc Church of England, and alfo of Ireland, the Supreme Head, it ' was ordained and enacted by thc Authority of the fame Parliament, That as well thc faid late Mona- ' fteries, Abbathics, Priories, Nunneries, Colleges, Hofpitals, Houfes of Friers, and other Religious and ' Ecclefiaftical Houfes and Places, with thc Manors, Lands, Tenements, Hereditaments, and other Pro- ' fits bi longing unto the fame late Monafteries, Abbathics, Priories, and other Religious and Ecclcfiaftical ' Houfes and Places as then were, or then hereafter fhould come unto the King's Highnefs Hands, fhould
- be vcfted, deemed, and adjudgcJ in the actual and real Pofleffion and Seifin of thc King's Highnefs, his
Heirs and Succcflbrs.
II. Saving to all and every Perfon and Pcrfons, and Bodies Politick, and their Heirs and SuccelTors, and A Rehcarfil of ' thc Heirs and Succcflbrs of all and every of them, other than the late Abbots, Priors, Abbeffes, Prio- 'h-S^'ngm ' relTes, and other Ecclefiaftical Governors and GovernelTcs of the faid late Monafteries, Abbathics, Prio- ^V,""^ "'"el
- rics, Nunneries, Colleges, Hofpitals, Houfes of Friers, and other Religious and Ecclefiaftical Houfes c ;
' and Places, and their Succeffors, and the SuccefTors of every of them, and fuch as pretend to be Foun- ' ders, Patrons, or Donors of fuch Monafteries, Abbathies, Priories, Nunneries, Colleges, Hofpitals,
- Houfes of Friers, and other Ecclcfiaftical Houfes and Places, or of any Manors, MciTuages, Lands, Te-
' ncments, or other Hereditaments, belonging to the fame, or to any of them, their Heirs and SuccefTors, ' and the Heirs and SuccefTors of every fuch Founder, Patron or Donor, and the then Abbots, Priors, Ab- ' belles, Prioreflcs, and other Ecclcfiaftical Governors and GovernefTes of fuch Monafteries, Abbathies, ' Priories, Nunneries, Colleges, Hofpitals, Houfes of Friers, and other Religious and Ecclcfiaftical Houfes
- and Places, which then hereafter fhould happen to be diflblved, fupprelTed, renounced, relinquifhcd, for-
' feited, given up, or come to the King's Highnefs, and fuch as pretend to be Founders, Patrons, or D"-
- nors of fuch Monafteries, Abbathies, Priories, Nunneries, Colleges, Hofpitals, Houfes of Friers, and
' other Ecclcfiaftical Houfes and Places, or of any Manors, MefTuages, Lands, Tenements, or other He- ' reditaments to the fame belonging, or to any of them, their Heirs and SuccefTors, and the Heirs and
- Succcflbrs of every of them, (2) all fuch Right, Title, Claim, Intereft, PoiTelTion, Rents, Charges,
', Annuities, Leafes, Farms, Offices, Fees, Liveries, Livings, Portions, Penfions, Corrodies, Commons ' Synodies, Proxies, and other Profits, which they or any of them have, claim, ought, may, or might ' h ive had in or to the PremilTes, or to any Part or Parcel thereof, in fuch like Manner, Form and Con- ' dition, to all Intents, F„efpefts, Conftruftions and Purpofes, as if the fame Act; had never been had ne ' made (Rcnts-fervices, Rents-feck, and all other Services and Suits only except) as by the fame At., L among divers other Things therein contained, more plainly is fhewed, and may appear. ' III. And yet notwithstanding thc faid general Saving contained in the faid Aft, the faid Archbifbops, Persons,
- Bifbops, Archdeacons, and other Ecclefiaftical Pcrfons of both the faid Provinces of Canterbury and Y:rk Synodies,
' be, and fithen the making of the faid Aft have been, difturbed and denied of the having, receiving, and e ' ""' ' gathering of the faid Penfions, Portions, Corrodies, Indemnities, Synodies and Proxies, with other Pro- ' fits belonging unto them, by clivers of the Farmers and Occupiers of great Part and Parcel of the faid ' Manors, Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments of the faid late Monafteries, and other Ecclefiaftical ' Houfes and Places, or being Parcel of the PofTcflions of them, and have no dirt ft Mean to obtain, re- 1 cover, or come to the fame, not only to their great Hurt and Damage, but alfo like to grow and be to ' the great Los and Difherifon of the King's Majefty, concerning his Firft-fruits and Tenths :' JV. For Reformation whereof, be it ordained, eftablifhed and enafted by the King's Highnefs, with the Penfions, &c. AlTent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the Commons, in this prefent Parliament aflembled,'and ^^"^j," Authority of the fame, That if any Perfon or Perfons being Farmer or Occupier of any Minor.-, d '^- c i vcJ ,7,^1 Vol. II. Yy Lands,
