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 432 C. 4—6. Anno tertio 8c quarto Edwardi VI. A. D. 1549 continue in like Knd the fame Form and Degree as it now doth; and that the Overplus of the faid thre f Acres fo enclofed as is aforefaid, (hall and may be laid open by the Owner or Owners of the fame WaiV, any Thing in this A&, or in any of the faid former Ads to the contrary in any wife notwithstanding. CAP. IV. An Act concerning Grants and Gifts made by Patentees out of Letters Patents. ExpU'ned by 13 ' ~K7 HERE the right noble and famous King of full worthy Memory, King Henry the Eighth Father El. c.6. ' V V to our molt dread and now natural Sovereign Leige Lord, fithence the fourth Day of February Grants made by m the xxvij. Year of his late Reign, and alfo the King's molt excellent Majefty, by their feveral Letters F^TLube «?% ents? ^ Ve # v, en ' ^ e6 >£ 3 *& 1 ned > , fo ' dand exchanged, to and with divers and fundry the Sub- good. J ects of thls Realm, bodies Politick and Corporate, in .free-Ample and Fee-tail, for Term of Life or < Years, divers Honours, Caftles, Manors, Lands, Tenements and other Hereditaments and Offices • ( z ) ' after and" fince which Grants, Bargains, Sales and Exchanges, divers of the faid Patentees, their Heirs ' Succeffors or Affigns, have bargained, fold, given, exchanged or demifed divers particular Parts Parcels or Portions of rhe laid Honours, Caftles, Manors, Lands, Tenements, Hereditaments and Offices or « other Things thereutito appertaining or belonging, to other Perfon or Perfons, Bodies Politick and Cor- porate; that is to fay, to fome of them in Fee-fimple, to fome others in Fee-tail, for Term of Life or Years, or otherwife; (3) and after the fame Patentees, for Confiderations them moving, have furrendred and given up their faid Letters Patents into the Chancery, or otherwife the fame Letters Patents have been forfeited by Attainder, loft, cancelled imbefled, or by other Ways or Means have come to the Hands of the Kings Majefty his late Father; (4) And thereupon oft-times the Enrollment of the fame hath been made void and fruftrate, fometime in Part, and fometime in the Whole, (5) by Reafon whereof ' fuch Perfons, Bodies Politick or Corporate, as have had Intereft or Title in or to the fame Caftles Ma- nors or particular Portions or Parcels of the fame fo to them given and granted, have be-n in Time paft, and in Time to come are like to be, difherited, or in Danger of Lofs of their Intereft in or to the fame, to their no little Hindrance and Peril.' 3 Leon. 165. - II. For Remedy whereof be it ordained, eftablifhed and enacled by the Authority of this prefent Parlia- AnExernpMr ment, That all and every Perfon or Perfons, Bodies Politick or Corporate,' which lawfully mall or mav Klnrs°Lette e rs ' T - Y ^ V°" ^^T 0I J*gW ™t fo^ce the &d fomthDiy of February, or hereafter to be Patents under made by the King s Majefty, his Heirs or Succeffors, Kings of this Realm, or by any of them; (2) and the Great Seal all other that now have or hereafter fhall happen to have any good or lawful Eftate, Right Title Rent fell be of as Profit, Intereft or Pofleffion, of, in, to (3) or out of any Honours, Manors, Lands, Tenements, Heredi- fhefamTLeuers v^T or *P ffi f: es ' °/, of other Thi "§* t0 *?? of the Families appertaining or belonging, or to any Part, PatentTwere terS ^ or Member of them or any of them, by, from or under any fuch Patentee or Patentees, or Ly of Ifcewed. them, or by, from or under the Heirs, Succeffors or Affigns of them or of any of them, (4.) or by from s Co. 53. or under the Urate of any others which had, have or hereafter fhall have the Eftate, Title 'or Intereft of Dy« 167, 179. any fuch 1 atentee or Patentees, or by any other Means under the Date of fuch Letters Patents, (c) fhall and Br. Surrender ma „ at all Times hereafter, in any the King's Courts, his Heirs or Succeffors, and elfewhere, by Virtue Co". Lit. 225 . b. ° f thls P re [ ent Act, make and convey unto himfelf Title by Way of Declaration, Plaint, Avowry, Title. Bar or otherwife, as well againft the King's Highnefs, his Heirs and Succeffors and every of them, a againft any other Perfon or Perfons, unto the faid Honours, Caftles, Manors, Lands, Tenements Offices and other the Premi lies or any Part or Parcel of the fame, unto them or any their Predeceffors or Anceftors, or others whofe Eftate they have in the fame, by, from or under the faid Patentees or any of them or the Heirs, Anceftors or Affigns of any of them, or otherwife under the Date of the faid Letters Patents compnfed and contained in any Exemplification or Conjlat thereof made or to be made, by the fhewine forth of the faid Exemplification or Conftat of the Roll, or of fo much thereof as fhall ferve for the Matter in Variance under the Great Seal of England: (6) And the fame Exemplification or Conftat of the faid Enrollment fo as is aforefaid pleaded and mewed, fhall be of like and the fame Force and Effect to all In- tents and Conltruaions in the Law, as the faid firft Letters Patents were and mould be of, if the fame were or fhould be pleaded or fhewed. ' CAP. V. zUalcP.C. It mall be High Treafon for tvvelve Perfons or above, being affembled together, to attempt to kill or im- 191. prifon any of the King's Council, or to alter any Laws, and to continue together by the Soace of an Hour, being commanded by a Jultice of Peace, Mayor, Sheriff, &c. to return AnS'itfoau'be Felony for twelve Perfons or above to pradife to deftroy any Park, Pond, Conduit or Dove-houfe o -to K Common or Way many Ground, or to pull down any Houfes, Barns or Mills, or to burn any Stack of Corn, or to abate the Rents of any Lands, or the Prices of any Vitftual, and to continue toSr an ^^^^RB^^^ 8 ^ ****<• ^ P-lamation to returnr EXP? CAP. VI. All Artificers ufing the cutting of Leather, may buy and fell all tanned Leather, fo that they convert the fame into made Wares, notwithstanding the Statute of 2 & 3 Ed. 6. c. 9. EXP. CAP?