Crown Lands, Forfeited Estates Act 1698

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Anno Regni Gulielmi III. undecimo & duodecimo. An Act for granting an Aid to his Majesty by Sale of the forfeited and other Estates and Interests inIreland , and by a Land-Tax in England , for the several Purposes therein mentioned, 2 s. in the Pound.

(11 Will. 3) C A P. II.

'W H E R E A S soon after your Majesty and your late Royal Consort of ever blessed Memory were graciously pleased to accept the Crown and Royal Dignity of this Kingdom, and the Dominions thereunto belonging, many of your Majesty's Subjects, contrary to their Duty and Allegiance, traiterously adhering to your Majesty's Enemies, levied and maintained, within your Realm ofIreland , a desperate and bloody War and Rebellion against your Majesties, who by the Blessing of God upon your Majesty's Royal Conduct and Courage, and the Assistance and very great Expence of your Majesty's English Subjects, were reduced unto their due Obedience to the Crown of England: And whereas it is highly reasonable, that the Estates of such Rebels and Traitors should be applied, in ease of your Majesty's faithful Subjects of this Kingdom, to the Use of the Publick:' We your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal Subjects, the Commons in Parliament assembled, most humbly beseech your Majesty, that it may be enacted; And be it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That all and every the Honours, Manors, Baronies, Castles, Messuages, Lands,Tenements, Rents, Reversions, Services, Remainders, Possessions, Royalties, Franchises, Jurisdictions, Privileges, and Appurtenances thereunto belonging, or in anywise appertaining, Rights of Entry, Rights of Action, Titles, Conditions, Uses, Trusts, Powers, and Authorities, Leases for Life, Lives, or Years, Pensions, Annuities, Rent-charges, and Hereditaments, whether Freehold, Copyhold, or of what Nature or Kind soever they be, within the said Realm ofIreland , whereof any Person or Persons, who stand convicted or attainted of the said High Treason or Rebellion, or other Treason committed in foreign Parts since the thirteenth Day of February one thousand six hundred eighty-eight, or who shall be convicted or attainted of any such Treason as aforesaid, by or before the last Day of Trinity Term, which shall be in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and one, or who stand convicted or attainted of High Treason, by reason of being found by Inquisition to have died or been stain in actual Rebellion,since the said thirteenth Day ofFebruary one thousand six hundred eighty and eight, was or were seised or possessed, or interested in, or intitled unto, on the thirteenth Day of one thousand six hundredeighty-eight, or at any Time since, in their own Right, or to their own Use, or whereof any other Person or Persons was or were seised or possessed, or interested in, to the Use of or in Trust for them, or any of them, on the said thirteenth Day ofFebruary , or at any Time since, or whereof the late KingJames the Second, or any in Trust for him, or to his Use, was seised or possessed, or interested in, at the Time of his Accession to the Crown of England , and all Judgments, Statutes, Recognizances, Extents, Mortgages, and Securities for Money, Right of Redemption of Mortgages, or other Securities, Debts of Record, and other Debts, Specialties, Obligations, Goods, and Chattels, of what Nature or Kind soever, which any of the said Persons so convicted or attainted, or to be convicted or attainted, were possessed of, or interested in, in their own Right or any other in Trust for them or any of them, stood possessed of, or interested in on the said thirteenth Day of February one thousand six hundred eighty-eight, or at any Time since, shall be, and are hereby vested and settled, and adjudged, declared, and taken to be in the actual and real Possession and Seisin of Sir Cyril Wiche Knight, Francis Annesley Esquire, James Hamilton Esquire, John Baggs Esquire, John Trenchard Esquire, John Isham Esquire, Henry Langford Esquire,James Hooper Esquire, John Cary Gentleman, Sir Henry Sheeres Knight, Thomas Harrison Esquire, William Fellowes Esquire, and Thomas Rawlins Esquire, (Trustees nominated and appointed for putting in Execution the Powers and Authorities herein after enacted relating to the said forfeited and other Estates and Interests in Ireland ) and their Heirs, Executors, Administrators and Assigns respectively, from the second Day of November one thousand six hundred ninety and nine, according to the several Estates and Interests, which the said Persons convicted or attainted, or to be convicted or attainted, or any in Trust for them, or any of them, or to their or any of their Use or Uses, had therein on the said thirteenth Day of February one thousand six hundred eighty-eight, or at any Time afterwards, or the said late King, or any in Trust for him, had in any of the Premisses at the Time of his Accession to the CrownofEngland , to the End the same may be bargained, sold, disposed of, and applied by the said Trustees, and the Survivors of them, to and for such Uses, Intents and Purposes, as are herein after expressed, mentioned and declared; and where any of the Person or Persons aforesaid were seised of an EstateTail only in the said Honours, Manors, Baronies, Castles, Messuages, Lands, Tenements, Hereditaments, or other the Premisses, either in Possession, Reversion or Remainder, the same are hereby enacted and declared to be vested in the said Trustees and their Heirs, in Fee-simple, to the End the same may be absolutely sold and disposed of as aforesaid; any thing herein before contained to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding.

S-II All Grants, &c. since the said 13 Febr. 1688. under the Great Seal, &c. or by Act of Parliament in Ireland, of any of the said forfeited Estates, or of the Estate of the said late K. James II. declared null and void.

II All Grants, &c. since the said 13 Febr. 1688. under the Great Seal, &c. or by Act of Parliament in Ireland, of any of the said forfeited Estates, or of the Estate of the said late K. James II. declared null and void.

II. And for the avoiding all Grants, Alienations and Dispositions, at any Time since the said thirteenth Day ofFebruary one thousand six hundred eighty-eight, made or granted of the said forfeited or forfeitable Estates or Interests, or of any other the Premisses, or any Part or Parcel thereof, or of all or any the Quit-Rents, Crown-Rents, Composition-Rents, or Chiefries belonging to the Crown of Ireland ; Be it enacted, That all and every Grant, Demise, Surrender, Release, Custodiam, Lease, Confirmation, or other Alienation or Disposition whatsoever, at any Time since the said thirteenth Day of February one thousand six hundred eighty-eight, made or granted, or mentioned to be made or granted under the Great Seal of England or Ireland , or Seal of the Exchequer in Ireland , or by any...

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