Bedford Level Act 1663

XVI. Recital that the Persons who are in Possession of the said Lots pretend that they have laid out Monies in respect thereof.

The Chief Justice of the King's Bench and others constituted a Judicature to hear and determine Differences in respect thereof.

And whereas the Persons, now in Possession of the said last mentioned Shares Lotts Parts and Proportions of the said nynety five thousand Acres, whereof pretended Estates and Conveyances were taken contracted for or accepted of as aforesaid doe pretend that they or those under whom they doe respectively claime and derive their Right Title or Pretensions [X1 to the said Shares Lotts Parts and Proportions] respectively have laid out and disbursed for Taxes for and towards the Maintenance Preservation and Repaire of the Workes of the said Great Levell heretofore erected by the said Earle Francis and his Participants and for and towards their erection of new and necessary Works for the better and more effectuall Dreyning of the said Great Levell, and for building upon the said Shares Lotts Parts and Proportions more moneyes then the cleere Rents Issues and Profitts of the said Shares Lotts Parts and Proportions have amounted to since the said respective pretended Estates and Conveyances were first taken contracted for or accepted as aforesaid Bee it therefore enacted by the Authority aforesaid and it is hereby enacted That the Cheife Justice of the Court of Kings Bench, the Cheife Justice of the Court of Co[m]mon Pleas, the Cheife Baron of the Court of Exchequer, and the Justices of the said Court of Comon Pleas for the tyme being or any Two or more of them are hereby constituted appointed and erected a Judicature or Co[m]missioners to heare order judge decree and determine upon Bills and Answers to be exhibited or otherwise as they shall thinke fitt betweene the said Persons who are now in the Possession, of the said respective Shares Lotts Parts and Proportions and the respective Heires and Assignes of the said Persons now in Possession as aforesaid and the said Sir Richard Onslow and other the said Assignees and Trustees of the said Henry late Earle of Arundell and Surrey deceased [X1 Arthur Earle of Anglesey Thomas Lord Culpepper] the said Samuell Sandys the Elder or his Trustees S^r William Terringham Robert Phillips Robert Scawen, and the said other Persons Participants of the said Earle Francis and their respective Heires and Assignes who are now out of the Possession of the said Shares Lotts Parts and Proportions respectively and to whom respective Estates are by virtue of this Act to bee executed of the same as aforesaid And the said Judicature or Comissioners or any Two or more of them are hereby authorised out of the said Shares Lotts Parts and Proportions to order adjudge decree and determine to either of the said Partyes respectively such Recompence and Allowance as they the said Judicature or Comissioners or any Two or more of them shall see Cause.

Editorial Information

X1 interlined.