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A, D. 1670. Anno vkefimo fecunclo Caroli II. G. 7, 8. 329 fioners of the Treafury, to contrail, within fix Months after tlie pafiing of the faid Patent, and Notice "*" Puicbafc. thereof publiflied by his Majefty's Proclamation, and perfed: his Contradl:, and pay or fccurc iiis Mo- '^X'"'" "=' ney as aforefaid, within fix Months after, at fuch Rate as fhall be agreed, not exceeding twenty Year$ ^g^ t'7/jff *■ Purchafe. . ...^ ° ^ '-^ :' • 6. If the immediate Tenant, or fome on his Behalf do not tender, and perfeil his Contraft, as in the ' ' ' ■ ■ ' laft precedent Article, all Benefit of Preference or Pre-emption. is to be lofc. 7. The Purchafer may have his Conveyance in the Names of any Perlbn or Perfona he ffiall defire. ■ ^ ^ 8. If any Fee-Farm Rent or other Rent, be fubje6t to or charged with any Payment or other Incum- incuinbrance. ■' brance, Confideratipn fliall be had of it at the Time of the Contract, and Reprize allowed for it accor- dingly ; and where fuch Reprize is allowed, the Purchafer is to covenant to take upon him fuch Incum- brance fo reprized. _ 9. The Truflees are to hold the Rents conveyed to them for the Benefit of his Majefty, his Heirs and Succeffors, until Sale. 10. The Truftees in all Conveyances to be made by them fhall covenant with the Purchafers in ufual Covenant. Form, to free the Premiffes, and fave the Purchafer harmlefs, from any Act done or fuffered by them, which may any way incumber the Premiffes. XIII. Provided always, and be it further enafted by the Authority aforefaid, That all Fee-farmers of Fee-hrmers of any Mills formerly belonging to the Crown or Parcel of his Majefty's Duchy of Lanca/fer, fhall have the Mills. Protection and Privilege of his Majefty's Courts of Exchequer and Duchy of Lancajier, and all Suits to Mill, and Aids of thefaid Courts, and enjoy all other former Privileges and Advantages, notwithftanding the Sale of the faid Fee-Farm Rents iffuing out of the faid Mills, to all Intents and Purpofes, and in as large and beneficial Manner, as when the faid Fee-Farm Rents, or any of them, were payable to his Ma- jefty, his Heirs and Succelfors. aIV. Provided aKvays, and be it enafted by the Authority aforefaid. That fuch and fo much of the faid All Sums of Fee-farm P-ents and Premiffes, and fuch Sums of Money, Rents refolute, Penfions, Stipends, Salaries, An- ^""•^V' "•'^"'Sj nuities. Alms, Corodies, Profits and Allowances as are due and payable or which are chargeable upon, have f'^' '? ^^'■. been or ought to be paid or allowed to or for the Maintenance of any Grammiy School or Scholars, or for ta;„ ^ school or towards the Reparation of any Church, Chapel, Highway, Caufeway, Bridges, Schools, Alms-houfes, &c. to remain Caftles or any other Ufes, upon, out of or for the Premiffes, or any of them, to be fettled upon Truftees as heietofore. , according to this A£l as aforefaid, fhall be and continue to be paid and allowed as they were and have been heretofore, (z) And the faid Truftees are hereby authorized and required to fet out, convey and affure unto fuch Perfon and Perfons, and their Heirs, Bodies Politick and Corporate, and their Succeffors and Ailigns, as they the faid Truftees fhall think, in Truft for the Performance of the Ufes aforefaid, or any of them, fuch of the faid Fee-Farm Rents, Duties or Sums of Money payable as aforefaid as fliall amount to any of the Sums fo charged, limited or allowed, to or for the Ufes or Purpofes aforefaid ; any Thing in this Ad or Inftructions to the contrary notwithftanding. And after fuch Conveyance, the Purchafers of the Refidue of the faid Fee-Farm Rents fhall be difcharged of the faid Duties and Payments. CAP. VII. An Aft to enable the King's Majefty to make Leafes, Grants and Copies of Offices, Lands, Tenements and 13 Car. %. Slats Hereditament's, Parcel of his flighnefs Duchy of Cornwall, or annexed to the fame. All Leafes, Grants, 2. c 4, &V. of Land, £5V. in the Duchy of Cormvall made or to be made v.'ithin three Years, confirmed. The Term for fuch Leafes and Grants. Rents to be referved. Covenants, Conditions and Refervations. Provifo. Compofitions for increafed Rents. CAP. VIIL An Aft for afcertaining the Meafures of Corn and Salt. WHEREAS there is a great Variety of Bufliels and other Meafijres of different Contents and Gages Ertfnrccd by ' ufed in feveral Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Ports and other Places of this Realm, for the Mea- SAnn. c. iS. j ' Turing, Buying and Selling of all Sorts of Grain, Salt, and other Commodities ufualiy bought and fold h- *^-

' by the Bufliel, to the great Defrauding and Oppreffing of the People, contrary to the Great Charter, and 5 ^- 3- Stat, i.

' fundry of the good Laws formerly made and enacted, That there fliall be but one Meafure to be ufed ^'^r'a. .j.stat.i. ' throughout all the Realm :' ■-" c. 12.' 11. For future Redrefs whereof, Be it enafted by the King's moft Excellent Majefty, by and with the A.d- 27 Ed. 3. Stat. 2. vice and Confent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this prefent Parliament affembled, <=• '°- and by Authority of the fame, That this enfuing Claufe contained in a Statute made in the feventcenth Year lecar. i. c.iq. o.f King Charles the Firft, intituled, jIn AS for the better Ordering and regulaihig cf the Office of Clerk of the A Claui".. tln^reiu Market, allowed and confirmed by this Statute, and for the Kef ormatlon of IPalfe Weights and Meafures, (by way r'-'P*'*'^- of Provifo, vi^.) That fuch Meafure as is commonly called Water-Meafure, in any Ports, A'laritime Towns, or other Places, fhall be ftill ufed and continued as formerly the fame hath been (any Thing in this Statute contained to, the contrary hereof in any v/ife notwithftanding) fiiall from and after the nine and twentieth Day of Septernber one thoufand fix hundred and feventy, be and ftand nulled and repealed, as as to the Meafuring, Selling, or Buying of any Sort of Corn or Grain ground or unground, or Salt, within the Kingdom of England, Dominion of Wales, or Town of Berwick upon Tweed : (2) And that if any Perfon or Perfons after the Time aforefaid fhall fell any Sort of Corn or Grain, ground or unground, or any Kind of Salt, ufualiy fold by the Bufliel, either in open Market, or any other Place, by any other Vol. m. Uu Builid