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The TITLES of the STATUTES. Williams, Esq; deceased, by letting Leases, and otherwise, for the more speedy Payment of his Debts.

21. An Act to enable Thomas Sheaf to sell Lands, for Payment of Debts, and making Provision for his Wife, according to an Agreement for that Purpose.

22. An Act for the settling a Charity given by Robert Ask, Esq; to the Company of Haberdashers, London.

23. An Act to enable Thomas Earl of Ailesbury, and Elizabeth Countess of Ailesbury his Wife, to make Provision for Payment of Debts, and to make Leases of their Estates.

24. An Act for incorporating the Proprietors of the Waterworks in York Buildings, and for the encouraging, carrying on, and settling the said Waterworks.

25. An Act for vesting certain Lands (the Estate of Thomas Mainwaring, Gent.) in Trustees, to be sold for Payment of Debts.

26. An Act to enable John Rosseter, Esq; to sell Lands for Payment of Debts.

PUBLICK ACTS.

Anno 3 W. & M.

1. AN Act for granting to their Majesties certain Impositions upon Beer, Ale, and other Liquors, for one Year.

2. An Act for abrogating the Oath of Supremacy in Ireland, and appointing other Oaths.

3. An Act for the better ascertaining the Tithes of Hemp and Flax.

4. An Act for preserving two Ships Lading of Bay Salt, taken as Prize, for the Benefit of their Majesties Navy.

5. An Act for granting an Aid to their Majesties of the Sum of sixteen hundred fifty-one thousand seven hundred and two Pounds eighteen Shillings, towards the carrying on a vigorous War against France.

Anno 3 & 4 W. & M.

6. An Act for raising Money by a Poll payable quarterly for one Year, for the carrying on a vigorous War against France.

7. An Act for raising the Militia of this Kingdom for the Year one thousand six hundred ninety-two, although the month's Pay formerly advanced be not repaid.

8. An Act for the Encouragement of the breeding and feeding of Cattle.

9. An Act to take away Clergy from some Offenders, and to bring others to Punishment.

10. An Act for the more effectual Discovery and Punishment of Deer-stealers.

11. An Act for the better Explanation and supplying the Defects of the former Laws for the Settlement of the Poor.

12. An Act for the better repairing and amending the Highways, and for settling the Rates of Carriage of Goods.

13. An Act against corresponding with their Majesties Enemies.

14. An Act for Relief of Creditors against fraudulent Devises.

15. An Act for the better ordering and collecting the Duty upon Low Wines and Strong Waters; and for preventing the Abuses therein.

PRIVATE ACTS.

Anno 3 & 4 W. & M.

1. AN Act for making a twelve Years Lease, made by the Earl and Countess of Ailesbury, for Payment of Debts (which was determinable on their Deaths) to have Continuance absolutely for those twelve Years.

2. An Act for the settling a Fee-Farm Rent of one hundred Pounds per Annum upon the Bishop of Ely, and his Successors, to be issuing out of Hatton Garden, in the County of Middlesex, and the Messuages thereupon erected; for the settling and alluring the same, subject to the said Rent, upon Christopher Lord Viscount Hatton, his Heirs and Assigns for ever.

3. An Act to enable the Executors and Trustees of Sir Thomas Putt, Bart. deceased, to lease several Messuages, Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments, during the Minority of Sir Thomas Putt, Bart. Son and Heir of the said Sir Thomas Putt, towards the Payment of 500l. apiece Legacies to his three Sisters, Margaret, Ursula, and Susanna Putt; as also the Debts of the said Sir Thomas Putt, the Father.

4. An Act for naturalising Sir Martin Beckman, and others.

5. An Act for Sale of the Manor of, and Lands in Wittering, in the County of Northampton, and the advowson of the Church of Wittering aforesaid, and late the Inheritance of William Stydolph, Esq; deceased, late Father of Sygismond Stydolph, Esq;

6. An Act for settling a jointure on Jane the Wife of Colonel Edward Matthews, Daughter of Sir Thomas Armstrong deceased.

7. An Act for the vesting and settling diverse Lands in glou cestershire, in Trustees, to be sold for the Payment of the remaining Portions to the Children of George Montague, Esq; deceased.

8. An Act to vest certain Messuages, Lands, and Tenements, in Thorp Langton, and elsewhere, in the County of Leicester, in Trustees, to be sold for Payment of the Debts of Richard Roberts, Esq; and for raising Portions for his Daughters.

9. An Act for the Sale of the Manor of Manworthy, with its Appurtenances, in the County of Devon, being the Lands and Estate of Nicholas Martyn, Esq; by Trustees herein after named, for the Payment of the Debts of the said Nicholas Martyn.

10. An Act to vest the Estate late of Henry Drax, Esq; deceased, in Thomas Shatterden, Gent. and to enable the said Thomas Shatterden, and others, to whom the said Estate is devised, to make a Jointure.

11. An Act for enabling Sir Dudley Cullum, Bart. to raise Monies to pay his Brothers and Sisters Portions.

12. An Act to enable the Sale of several Lands, for the Payment of the Debts and Legacies of Maurice Shelton, and others; and for settling other Lands instead of them.

13. An Act to enable Trustees to sell the Estate of Edward Smith, Esq; deceased, to raise Money for the Payment of his Debts, and to make a Provision for his Children, who are Infants.

14. An Act for the enabling of Sir Thomas Burton, Bart. to sell Lands for Payment of Debts.

15. An Act to enable William Davile to sell some Lands for Payment of Debts.

16. An Act for the enabling the Right Honourable Charles Earl of Winchelsea to settle a jointure upon any Wife he shall marry during his Minority.

17. An Act for the better enabling the Trustees and Executors of Richard Campion, deceased, to perform his Will.

18. An Act to enable the Trustees of the Right Honourable James Lord Waldgrave to make Leases, and grant Copyhold Estates, for the Payment of the Arrears of Annuities of Henry Lord Waldgrave, his Father, deceased.

19. An Act for enabling Francis More, Esq; to sell the Manor of Bayhouse, and Lands in West Thorocke in the

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