[464] C. 2 — 4* Anno feptimo Edward 1 VI. CAP. II. A. D. 1553. An Ace. for the Eftabliihing, Uniting or DifTolving of certain Courts newly erected by the King that dead is. HERE in the xxvij. Year of the late King of famous Memory, King Henry the Eighth, Father to the King's Majefty that now is, there was ordained, made, eftabliflied and enacSted by the Autho- ' rity of Parliament, a certain Court, commonly called the Court of the Augjnentations of the Revenues of the ' King's Crown : (2) And where alfo in the xxxij. Year of the faid fate King, there was made and ere&ed by ' Authority of Parliament two feveral Courts, the one commonly called I the Court of the Firfi-fruits and ' Tenths, and the other the Court of the King's Wards : (3) And where alio in the xxxiij. Year of the faid ' late King there was made, eftablifhed and erected, by Authority of Parliament, one Court commonly
- d the Court of the general Surveyors of the King's Lands : (4) And whe
called lere there is one other Court The King's Power to dif- iblve or unite certain Courts erected by the late King. 47 H. 8. c. 27. 32 H. g. c. 45, 46. iwai'i!*/^. ' commonly called the Court of the Duchy a/Xancafter; ' II. After which faid feveral Courts fd erefted as is aforefaid, the faid late King did repeal and diflblve, ex- tinguifh and determine, as well the faid Court of Augmentation of the Revenues of the King's Crown, as alfo the faid Court of general Surveyors of the King's Lands, (z) and the Officers of the faid late Courts of the Augmentations of the King's Crown, and general Surveyors of the King's Lands, did fur- render their Patents and Offices into the faid late King's Hands; ' III. And after the faid late King did by his Letters Patents ere£t one other Court called the Court of Augmentation and Revenues of the King's Crown, and did by the fame his Letters Patents conftitute and appoint divers Officers and Minifters for the Supplying thereof, as by the fame Letters Patents more plainly and at large it may and doth appear.' of the firft Court of Augmentations by Letters Patents only. The King's Letters Patents for the Erection of the fecond Coutt of Augmentations (hall be good. No Orders in t'nePatent for the levying of the King's Debt fliall be prejudicial to any. The Officers of thefe Courts fliall hear and determine Caufes only ■where the King is a Party. A Saving of all Mens Offices in certain Cafes. A Saving of the Annuities, Fees, Pen/ions, &c. of others. 1 Mar, Stat. 2. c. 10. The Courts of Augmentations and general Sur- veyors were dif- folved. A fecond Court of Augmenta- tions erefted. Queftion about the Diflblution CAP. III. E.XP. 34 H. 8. 1 Ed. 6. < 3^ H. 8. 37 H- 8.. Patentees of Colleaodhius of Tenths fliall be hound for their Colleaors. 26H. 8.c. 3. 34 El. c. 7. Altered as to Collectors of the Rents by 3 G. i. c, 20. The Tenths fhall be paid the lalt Day of May. An Act for the Confirmation of Letters Patents, notwithftanding the Mifnaming of any Thing contained in the fame. Confirmation of certain Letters Patents of Bargain and Sale made by King H. 8. fince the 4th of February, Anno 27 of his Reign, and by K. Ed. 6. fince the 28th of January, Anno 1 of his Reign, notwithftanding his Minority. A Bill fhall be figned and fealed by the Patentee of thofe Lands which the King fhall after grant to him by his Bill figned. By what Means the King fhall be fatisfied for the Overplus of Lands by him fold, exchanged or given. A Confirmation of Patents, notwithftanding Mif- naming, Mifrehearfal, or other Default made by King Ed. 6. Several Inconveniences enfuing to the King's Patentees by the Statute of 34 H. 8. c. 21. and 1 Ed. 6. c. 8. A Confirmation of the Letters Pa- tents of King Hen. 8. and King Ed. 6. made and to be made during his Life. A Mean to fatisfy the King of the Overplus of the Lands fold, exchanged or given by him to others. Leafes of Lands Parcel of the Duchy of Lancajler, made in Reverfion, or whereof the old Rent is not referved. What Letters Patents only this Statute doth extend unto. A Confirmation of the King's Letters Patents, notwith- ftanding his Non-age, or any Statute made for Tenures, Rents or Tenths. CAP. IV. An Act that all Patentees of Colledtorfhips of Tenths be bound by Recognifance. HERE the Archbifhops and Bifhops of this Realm of England, are bound to the King's Mijefty for the collecting and true Payment of the Difmes or Tenths due to his Highnefs, for all and fin- ' gular Benefices and other Ecclefiaftical Promotions whatfoever, being within their feveral Diocefs: For ' the Collection whereof, divers of the Predeceffors of the faid Archbifhops and Bifhops have by their Let- ' ters Patents (confirmed with the Chapter Seal) given and granted to fundry Perfons, without Provifion of ' fufficient Bonds for the true Collection and Payment of the faid Difmes or Tenths to our Sovereign Lord, ' or otherwife to difcharge the Grantors of the faid Patents, and their Succeflbrs, whereby the King's Ma- ' jefty hath been greatly defrauded of his faid Duties, and many of the Bifhops fore troubled, to their great ■' Hindrance and utter Undoing:' II. Be it therefore enacted by our Sovereign Lord the King, with the AfTent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the Commons, in this prefent Parliament aflembled, and by the Authority of the fame, That all Collectors of the faid Tenths, under any Archbifhop or Bifhop within this Realm of England, or other the King's Dominions, having Letters Patents, or other Writings of their faid Office of Collector- fhip of the faid Tenths, fhall before the Feaft of the Nativity of St. John Baptijl next coming be bound by their fufficient Writing Obligatory or Recognifance, in the Court of the Firft-Fruits and Tenths, or in any other Court where the King's Revenues of the Tenth fhall be anfwerable, in fuch Sum or Sums of Money as fhall be due and growing yearly to our Sovereign Lord the King within their faid Collection or Office, tofave and keep the faid Archbifhops or Bifhops and every of them harmlefs, and without Hurt or Damage, againft the King's Majefty, his Heirs and Succeflbrs, of and for all Manner of Accompts and Payments of Money, which they or any of them fliall or may conveniently receive during the Time of their feveral Collections, and that may be lawfully demanded or required of the faid Archbifhops or Bifliops or any of them for or concerning the faid Tenths, by Reafon of the Statute of the Firft-fruits and Tenths, or elfe their laid Let- ters Patents;;nd other Writings to be utterly void and of none Effect. ' III. And for that the Parfons, Vicars and Curates within this Realm, for the moft part be not able to ' pay their Tenths before that they fhall have received the Profits of their Bsnefices, which yearly groweth ' and
