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John Cade, Writs, Attachments, Safe Conducts, etc. Act 1452

As Enacted Cited in Amendments 2 Related
Vincent
JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1452 c. 5
Year1452
Statutes made at Reading, Anno 31 Hen . VI. and Anno Dom. 1452 No Customer, Comptroller &c. shall have any Estate certain in his Office.

(31 Hen. 6) C A P. V.

‘I T E M, Whereas it was ordained by a Statute made in the Time of King Richard the Second, That no Searcher, Gauger of Wines, Aulneger, Finder a, Weigher, Collector of Customs and Subsidies, or Comptroller, shall have Estate in his Office for Term of Life, or for Term of Years, but that the said Officers shall remain under the Government of the Treasurer ofEngland for the time being; (2)

a Tronour.

and where it was ordained by the Statutemade in the Time of King Henry the Fourth, That the Anlnage of Cloths within this Realm may be committed to Ferm, or in Approvement, according to the Direction of the Treasurer ofEngland for the time being, as in the said Satutes more fully is declared (3) yet that notwithstanding divers Persons have obtained the King's Letters Patents of the said Offices and Aulnage, some for Term of Life, and some for Term of Years, to the great Prejudice of the King and of his People, and contrary to the said Statutes:’ '(4) Our said Lord the King considering the Premisses, hath ordained by the Authority aforesaid That all Letters Patents made of any of the said Offices or Aulnage to any Person, against the Effect of the said Statutes. shall be void. and of no Force; (5)and that no Letters Patents of any of the said Offices, or Aulnage, shall be made hereafter, but by Warrant of Bill sealed by the Treasurer ofEngland for the time being, sent by him into the Chancery as it hath been accustomed before this Time.
S-II Inst. 112.

II Inst. 112.

II. And that all Letters Patents made, or to be made hereafter, of the said Offices or Aulnage, by other Warrant than by Bill of the Treasurer, shall be void, and of no Effect. (2)...

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