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much Rent as is by this Act required to be reserved for the same Tenements or Hereditaments respectively in case of a Lease not exceeding One and thirty Years or Three Lives as aforesaid and not otherwise Any thing herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding

to the Intent the Inheritance which Her Majesty hath of and in the said Hereditary Duties of Excise upon Beer Ale and other Liquors and of and in the said Revenue arising in the said General Letter Office or Post Office and in the small Branches of Her Majesties Revenue herein after mentioned (that is to say) The First Fruits and Tenths of the Clergy the Fines for Writs of Covenant and Writs of Entry payable in the Alienation Office the Post Fines the Revenue of the Wine Licences and the Revenue arising by Sherifs Proffers and Compositions in the Exchequer and by Seizures of uncustomed and prohibited Goods may be preserved in the Crown for the future Benefit thereof Be it further enacted and declared by the Authority aforesaid That the said Hereditary Duties of Excise and the said Revenue arising in the said General Letter Office or Post Office and the said small Branches of Her Majesties Revenue last mentioned or any of them or any Part thereof shall not hereafter be alienable or grantable by Her Majesty Her Heirs or Successors for any Estate or Term whatsoever to endure longer than the Life of Her Majesty or of such King or Queen as shall make such Alienation or Grant respectively and that all Gifts Grants Alienations Leases and Assurances whatsoever to be had or made of any the said Manors Messuages Lands Tenements Rents Tithes or other Hereditaments or of any the said Revenues or Branches or any Part [thereof ] contrary to the Provisions of this Act or any of them shall be null and void without any Inquisition Scire facias or other Proceeding to determine or make void the same

always That this Act or any thing therin contained shall not extend to disable Her Majesty Her Heirs of Successors to make such Leases Copies or Grants as She or They may make hy virtue of an Act of Parliament made and passed in the Twelfth Year of the Reign of His said late Majesty King William for making Leases or Copies of Offices Lands or Hereditaments Parcel of the Dutchy of Cornwall or annexed to the same or to alter or prejudice any the Powers Matters or Things therein contained or to be done in pursuance thereof or to disable Her Majesty Her Heirs or Successors to make any Grant or Restitution of any Estate or Estates hereafter to be forfeited for any Treason or Felony whatsoever or to disable Her Majesty Her Heirs or Successors to grant demise or assign any Lands Tenements or Hereditaments which shall be taken or seized into Her or Their Hands upon any Outlawry at the Suit of Her or Their Subjects as hath been usual or any Estate whatsoever which is or shall be seized extended or taken in Execution for any Debt owing or to be due to the Crown as She or They shall think fit or to make any Grants or Admittances which of Right or Custom ought to be made of any Copyhold Lands Tenements or Hereditaments Parcell of any Mannor or Mannors of Her Majesty Her Heirs or Successors or to disable the Trustees for Sale of Fee Farm and other Rents to execute any the Trusts Powers or other Matters or Things by them to be executed done or performed in pursuance of the several Acts of Parliament concerning the Sale of the said Rents or the making of such Reprizes as ought to be made by them Any thing herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding

always to all and every Person and Persons Bodies Politick and Corporate their Heirs and Successors Executors Administrators and Assigns other than to our said Sovereign Lady Her Heirs and Successors all such Rights Titles Estates Customs Interests Claims and [Demands] whatsoever of in or to or out of the Revenues Hereditaments and other the Premisses aforesaid or any of them as they or any of them had or ought to have had before the making of this Act as fully to all Intents and Purposes as if this Act had never been made Any thing herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding

CHAPTER II.

An Act for explaining a Clause in an Act made at the Parliament begun and holden at Westminster the Two and twentieth of November in the Seventh Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord King William the Third intituled An Act for the better Security of His Majesties Royal Person and Government

HEREAS by an Act of Parliament made at the Parliament begun and holden at Westminster the Two and twentieth Day of November in the Seventh Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King William the Third intituled An Act for the better Security of His Majesties Royal Person and Government It was among other Things enacted That no Commission either Civil or Military should cease determine or be void by reason of the Death or Demise of His said Majesty or of any of His Heirs or Successors Kings or Queens of this Realm but that every such Commission should be continue and remain in full force and vertue for the space of Six Months next after any such Death or Demise unless in the mean time superseded determined or made void by the next and immediate Successor to whom the Imperial Crown of this Realm according to the Act of Settlement in the same recited Act mentioned is limited and appointed to go remain or descend And forasmuch as some Doubt may be concieved concerning the extent of that Clause therefore for the avoiding of any Dispute or Question that may arise concerning the Construction thereof be it declared and enacted by the Queens most excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the