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 A. D. 1747* Anno vlcefimo Georgii II. " C, 52. 81 ■ IIL Provided always, That in every fuch Cafe, the Monies paid as the Price of fuch Lands, Ihall be Purchafc-money laid out and fettled to the fame Ufes, and with the fame Limitations and Reftridions, as fuch Lands were °* ^"J'^ ^P" fettled before the Sale thereof, or {hall be applied for the Payment of Debts that are effedlual to charge fuch "^''" Tailzied Eftate, not contra6led by the Vendor himfelf, or the Ellrate of fuch Infant, Pupil, Miitor, Ideot, Lunatick, fatuous or furious Perfon ; and the faid Monies fhall be paid into the Hands of Truftees, who lliall be appointed by his Majefty, his Heirs or Succefibrs, by Sign Manual, and the Vendor or Vendors refpeftively (which Payments fhall be good Difcharges to his Majefty, his Heirs and Succefibrs, of and from fuch Purehafe-money) and fuch Truftees, and the Survivor and Survivors of them, and the Executors and Adminiftrators of fuch Survivor, fhall layout the Monies arifing from fuch Sale, in the Purchafe of other Lands or Heretages, and fettle the fame, or procure them to be fettled, as aforefaid, or the Monies applied for the Payment of Debts, in the Manner herein before direfted ; and till fuch Purchafe can be found, or Debts paid, they fhall place out the Monies, or fo much thereof as (hall be unapplied, from time to time, as there fhall be Occafion, upon good Security, at Intereft; and fuch Intereft fhall go in the Seefanhci-^x iame Manner, as the Profits of the faid Lands, if purchafed, fliould have gone. Gei. z. c. 34. CAP. LIL An A61 for the King's moft Gracious, General and Free Pardon. GEORGE R, THE King's moft Excellent Majefty having already fhewed his Royal Inclination to Mercy, by many particular Inftances of Grace to fuch as had rendered themfelves obnoxious to the Laws, and fub- jeiSt to the higheft Penalties, by being concerned in the late unnatural Rebellion ; and his Majefty being defirous of quieting the Minds of his Subjects in general, hath, upon mature Deliberation, reiblved and determined to grant his general and free Pardon, in a large and bountiful Manner ; not doubting but that, however it may be received by thofe who are obftinately bent on the Ruin of their Country, it will raife a due Senfe of Gratitude in all who have been artfully mifled into treafonable Praift ices againft his Per- fon and Government, and preferve them and others from ftaoding in Need of the like Mercy for the future, ■when fuch Clemency may not be fo expedient for the publick Welfare, as it would be agreeable to his Majefty's Inclinations ; and hoping that all his Subjefts, by this AS of Grace, will be induced henceforth more carefully to oblerve the Laws, and live in a loyal and dutiful Obedience to his Majefty, therefore his Majefty is well pleafed and contented, that it be enadled by the Authority of this prefent Parliament i n i >■ And be it enafled by the Authority of the fame, in Manner and Form following (that is to fay) That all hfsMavTr's and every his Majefty's Subjefts, as well Spiritual as Temporal of this his Majefty's Realm of drat BrI- Genera'i'a'nd iein, their Heirs, SuccelTors, Executors and Adminiftrators, and every of them, and all and fingular Bodies f"e Pardon to Politick and Corporate, and their Succefibrs, and all Cities, Boroughs, Shires, Stewartries, Ridings, Hun - ^" P^^ns '"d dj-eds, Lathes, Rapes, Wapentakes, Towns, Villages, Hamlets and Tythings, and every of them, fhall ^'^'"."jT'^d"'* be, by the Authority of this prefent Parliament, acquitted, pardoned, releafed and difcharged againft the b"ilion/ ** King's Majefty, his Heirs and Succefibrs, and every of them, of, and from all, and all Manner of Trea- fons, Mifprifions of 'I'reafons, Felonies, treafonable and feditious Words or Libels, Leafing-m.aking, Mif- prifions of Felony, feditious and unlawful Meetings and Conventicles, and all Offences, whereby any Perfon may be charged with the Danger and Penalty of Premunire ; and alfo of and from all Riots, Routs, Offences, Contempts, Trefpaffes, Entries, Wrongs, Deceipts, Mifdemeanors, Forfeitures, Penalties and Sums of Money, Pains of Death, Pains Corporal and Pains Pecuniary, and generally of and from all other Things, Caufes, Quarrels, Suits, Judgments and Executions, in this prefent Acf hereafter not excepted or foreprized, which may be, or can be by his Majefty in any wife or by any Means pardoned, and have been had, made, done, committed, omitted, perpetrated, incurred or forfeited, before and unto the fifteenth Day of June in the Year of our Lord one thoufand feven hundred and forty-feven. II. And alfo the King's moft Excellent Majefty is contented, that it be enacted by the Authority of this prefent Parliament, and be it enadled by the Authority of the fame. That this his Majefty's Free Pardon „■ ihall be as good and efiedfual in Law to every of bis faid Subjefts, Bodies Corporate, and others before Free'paid'*'' t rehearfed, in, for and againft all Things aforefaid, and not hereafter in this prefent Acft excepted and fore- extend ^oTu prized, as the fame Pardon would have been, if all fuch Offences, Contempts, Forfeitures, Caufes, Mat- Persons and ters. Suits, Quarrels, Judgments, Executions, Penalties and other Things not hereafter in this Ail parti- '^^""ssn'tp^"'- cularly excepted and foreprized, had been particularly, fingularly, fpecially and plainly named, rehearfed '"^"'"'i' ^^' and fpecified, and alfo pardoned by proper and exprefs Words and Names j and that his faid Subjects or "^'' any of them, the Heirs, Executors or Adminiftrators of any of them, or the faid Bodies Corporate, and others, before named and rehearfed, or any of them, be not, nor fliall be fued, vexed or unquieted in their Bodies, Goods, Chatties, Lands or Tenements, for any Matter, Caufe, Contempt, Mifdemeanor, Forfei- ture, Trefpafs, Oftcnce, or any other Thing, fufFered, done, or committed, or om.itted, before the faid fifteenth Day of June one thoufand feven hundred and fcrty-feven, againft- his Majefty, his Crown, Dio-- irity, Prerogative, or the Laws or Statutes of this Realm, but only for fuch Caufes, Matters and Offences as be rehearfed or mentioned in the Exceptions of this prefent AsSl:, to be excepted an<l foreprized, and for none other ; any Statute or Statutes, Laws or Cuftonis h.retofore had, made, or ufed to the contrary in any wife notwithftanding, III. And the King's Majefty, of his boupteous Liberality, gnd by the Authority of this prefent Parlia- Penahie-; anj ment, doth grant, and freely give to every of his Subjects, every of the faid Bodies Corporate, and others Fcr'jviu.rcs le- before rehearfed,^ and every of them, all Goods, Chatties, Debts, Fines, Iftues, Profits, Ameiciaments, miuc.i. Forfeitures and Sums of Mgney by any of them forfeited, which to his Majefty do or ihall anpcrfiin, bv Vol. VII. ■ M ' reafo/^