Bedford Level Act 1663

LII. Acre Tax for the said 12,000 Acres not to compel or conclude Corporation to lay an Acre Tax on the said 83,000 Acres.

And it is further declared That the assessing laying and levying of Taxes upon the said tenn thousand Acres or upon the said two thousand Acres or any Part thereof after the said first Day of August which shall bee in the [X1 said] Yeare of our Lord one thousand six hundred sixty and eight by the Way of an Acre Tax shall not extend nor be interpreted or construed to extend to compell or conclude the said Corporation to assess lay or leavy any Tax or Taxes upon the said eighty three thousand Acres hereby vested in the said Corporation or upon any Part thereof by the Way of an Acre tax.

ITEM quedā Petitiones privatas Personas concernentes (in se formā Actus continentes) exhibite fuerunt p[re]dicto Domino Regi in Parliamento p[re]dicto quar? Tituli subscribuntur.

1. An Act for setleing the Proffitts of the Post Office and Power of granting Wine Licences on his Royall Highnesse the Duke of Yorke and the Heires Males of his Body.

2. An Act for the setleing of the Lands of the Earle of Kent and the Lord Lucas on the Marriage of the said Earle with the Daughter and Heire apparent of the Lord Lucas

3. An Act for the setleing of a Free Schoole in Witney in the County of Oxon being erected and endowed by Henry Box Citizen and Grocer of London deceased.

4. An Act to enable the Bishop of Winchester to lease out the Tenements now built upon the scite of his Mansion House in the Parish of Saint Saviours in Southwarke in the County of Surrey and the two Parkes and other Demeasnes at Bishops Waltham and other Lands in the County of Southampton.

5. An Act for repairing and better p[re]serveing the Key of the Port of Wells in the County of Norfolke.

6. An Act for the governing of the Hospitall of S^t Oswalds in the County of Worcester.

7. An Act to enable Sir Francis Boynton Baronet and Richard Robinson Esq[uire] to sell certaine Lands of John Robinson Esq[uire] for Payment of Debts, and leasing of other Lands for makeing Provision for his younger Children

8. An Act for makeing void certaine Conveyances made by Carill Lord Mollineux in the late times.

9. An Act for setleing the draining of the Great Levell of the Fennes called Bedford Levell.

10. An Act to confirme a Deed made by Charles Pitcarne Esq[uire].

11. An Act for the Naturalization of Dame Elizabeth Jacob and others.

12. An Act for the Naturalizing of George Willoughby and others.

13. An Act for confirming an Act for naturalizing of Peter de la Pierre alias Peters and John de la Pierre al[ia]s Peters.

14. An Act for repaireing the Highwayes within the Countyes of Hertford Cambridge and Huntington.

15. An Act to enable Edward Marquesse of Worcester to receive the benefitt and proffitt of a Water co[m]manding Engine by him invented one Tenth part whereof is appropriated for the benefit of the Kings Majestie His Heires and Successors.

16. An Act for setling an Annuity of Three hundred pounds per Ann? upon Charles Earle of Portland, and for the benefit of Willoughby Whitlocke Bulstrode Whitelocke and Carleton Whitelocke Infants and for confirming of Agreements made to compose Suites in Law against them.

17. An Act for setleing the Charitable Gift of John Guest.

18. An Act to enable Sir John Packington and his Trustees to sell or otherwise dispose of certaine Lands for the payment of his Debts and raiseing Portions for his younger Children.

19. An Act to enable Edward Chaloner Esq[uire] to make provision for Anne his Wife and his younger Children.

20. An Act for the Naturalizing of Charlotte Hessen Killigrew and others.

21. An Act to impower Sir John Drake and others to make sale of Lands for payment of the Portion of Ellen Briscoe Widdow.

22. An Act to enable the Sale of some of the Lands of Richard Senior and Anthony Senior deceased for payment of some of their Debts.

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